The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-01-09

oerIieh. Mayor says no money for
such a project.
Permit to Zimmerman estate to
erect frame storage building.
w. n. Anderson will decorate
streets for the Development league
convention.
John c. Hagen, the South Front
street saloonkeeper, whose License
was recently taken away by the. city
council, as a result of his ghaving
been convicted OF selling liquor to
minors. pleaded in vain for some act
OF clemency ut the meeting OF that
body this morning.
Mr.. Hagen said he would be glad
TO have the license restored, for he
did not see that there was any
more reason for taking away his IL
cense than that of either OF the other
two saloonkeepers. whose cases were
under consideration ut the same
time
He said that II the license was not
TO be restored he would like to have
sixty or at least thirty days more
In which to dispose of his stock. As
IL was he had to sell IL out for what
ever he could get. and as he had 10
pay rent and heating expense every
day he was forced to sell at prices
that were unreasonably low. He thus
almost had to give his stock away.
N his license should be restored for
only n short time. he promised to
obey every law affecting his place OF
business.
Mayor Said No-Not Me.
Councilman Gerlich moved that the
matter be left in the hands OF the
mayor. with the understanding that
the time OF extension should be lin
tied TO 60 days. This motion did not
receive n second.
Mayor Meyer remarked that this
could not be left In the hands of the
mayor, for the license had been re-
voked. There would have to be an
other license granted to give permits.
sion to run the saloon at all. The
question here was not one of en-
forcing law. but the question was
whether this gentleman was ne 10
run saloon.
"Why keep me down just because
I am down? I don't see why ! am
any more deserving of punishment
than either OF the other two" was
Mr.. Hagen's final plea. but the coun-
ell adjourned without acting on his
request.
Public Strengthening Plant.
That the city ought to have a
public slaughtering plant was strong.
! ly urged by Councilman Gerlich at
the meeting of the city council this
morning. Mr.. Gerlich declared that
there was no place in the, city where
| a hog could be killed. He called at
tention to the fact that there were
such public plants at Waseca, AL
bert Lea and a dozen ether towns oil
the state. Plans for such a plant
would have to be submitted to the
state health officers and approved by
them. Under present conditions he
declared. no one could sell hogs in
Mankato. unless they were sold tc
just enc man.
/ The councilman argued that Q
public s,aushtering plant would brinl
more farmers to Mankato and hell
the farm trade greatly. The offa
and refuse OF the plant would prob
ably pay for the expense of running
It. One butcher had recently toll
him that there was profit of 81
to si2 In the killing and selling o
one hog.
A farmer could take hog Z,
, Eagle Lake or st. Clair. Mr. Gerlicl
, declared, and have II butchered, bu
I he could not get 1t done in Mankato
/ This condition was greatly hurting
, the~c city. He did not see why hog
should be shipped alive from Thu
I part of the country to Chicago
3 killed and dressed there. and the
4 shipped back in the form Of meat.
0 He suggested that the end Of Rocl