The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-10-31

spondent thinks it is impossible for
the hogs to contract the cholera,
unless it is brought to them.
Emil Doehring has put UP large
new double corn crib and expects to
| fill it with an extra large crop
which he has on hand
! Moline, H., Daily Dispatch: Cost
of living is not the problem in Blue
Earth county, Minnesota, that it is in
some of the large cities OF the coun-
try, when corn can be raised at the
rate of seventy-fye bushels to the
acre for a field Of thirty-five acres
Victor Wahlstrand returned a few
, days ago from an extended trip to
the North Star state during which
he paid particular attention to the
corn fields of Charley Thor, for
mer Moliner who is making good in
the fertile valley of Blue Earth river
Mr.. Wahlstrand's report is much
! like that of Caleb and Joshua cen
turtles ago. Though not with milk
and honey flowing" exactly, the Blue
Earth country is evidently very pro-
life of king" corn, the farmers gold
mine.
That part of Minnesota, according
4 to Mr.. Wahstrand who brought back
samples OF the corn to the Dispatch
office to verify his statements, lies
in one of the sections Of the corn
belt that was favored with abundant
rains '',:~' season. AS the result of
poor crops of corn in other sections,
the farmers of that county will profit
enormously, since the supply over
the entire corn belt regulates the
price.
Mr.. Thor announced his intention
of starting this week to crib his
seventy-tive bushel corn. His I'LL
nois friends, living i'll what is sup
posed to be the very center of the
corn belt, he looks upon with more
orless pity realizinii as lie does that
Illinois and Iowa are not the only
states which can raise corn.
Professor Richard II. Price, direct
or of Minnesota university extern
sion division, told the state librarians
at the twenty first annual meeting at
the state university yesterday how
they should cooperate with the ex-
tension service in Minnesota
Professor Price said that text books
for correspondence students ought to
,, be furnished by the public library,
and that they ought to have book
shelves in the reading room devoted
to the subjects included in extension
lectures.
Miss Maud van Buren,, chairman
of the department Of Junior Civic
leagues of the American Civic asSO-
citation, and a member of the Wis
consin library commission, spoke on
1.-THE Library and Civic Work." and
Miss Gratia Countryman of the Min
neapolis public library explained her
, ideas of model community studies.
At the afternoon session F. E.
Earhart of the Duluth public library
R. B. McLain of the department Of
,, education, Mrs. Flora C. Conner, Aus
tin, and Miss Minnie Bird of Fair
mont, were speakers.
DR.. E. Dana Durand, former di-
rector of the United States census
and present head of the bureau Of
statistics at the university, gave an
address on Population and the Food
Supply at a public meeting of the
association last evening.
5 Joliet, Ill.,, October 23.-William
) Seward Cox, a copper-Colored negro,
who has been sought by the Chicago
police for two weeks as a suspect in
: the murder case of Miss Ida Leeg-
D son. the former Mankato, Mimi, girl,
and art institute student, was ar
: rested yesterday by Police Captain
:. McCraney in the railroad yards at
the outskirts of Joliet.
Don't arrest me, didn't kill
anybody" Cox exclaimed to the po-
3 lice captain according to the latter,
before he was told why he had been
taken into custody.
: McCraney examined Cox for an
: hour and says the negro admitted
: leaving Chicago three weeks ago at
about the time the girls half nude
!. body was found on lonely prairie.
He had $3.50 in his coat and claimed
!. to be a Pullman cook, living on
49th and Dearborn streets, Chicago
According to McCraney, Cox told
conflicting stories about his where
abouts OH the night Miss Leegson
disappeared from her room i'll answer