The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-04-10
From Mondays Daily.

Further light that may lead to
actual determination OF the identity
OF the stranger that was found dead
on the river bank on the afternoon
OF March 20 was afforded by a con-
versation between Oscar Tillman, a
farmer. OF Decoria. and Free Press
representative during a visit that
Mr.. Tillman made TO the city last
Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. Tillman said he had no doubt
that the dead man was Ed Ochs,
who worked for him eight days this
spring. He says he asked 0chs
what the name OF his father was
and. according to the best of Mr..
Tillman's recollection II was Al
ochs or some such name as that.
, Ed Ochs said his father had an
apple farm ct Parma, New York,
/, comprising ten acres. Parma, as
indicated by the map, is a little
settlement Of 15s people in Monroe
county In Western New York. NOT
far from Rochester, and not q great
distance from lake Ontario.
Away From Home Ten Years.
Ed Ochs said he was thirty.five
years old and unmarried. He said
he had not seen his father for the
last ten years, and that his mother
died when he was fifteen years old.
He also said that he had no broth.
/ ers or sisters. Mr. Tillman is In.
A attnaa - thinL that thar x,o,,td ha ms,
! estate for ochs on the death Of his
father, II the son were living.
Why Och left home is q mystery.
Mr.. Tillman believes there may have
been some disagreement between
/ him and his father. Ochs said q
great deal OF cider and vinegar was
produced on the farm for the mar.
/ ket Ochs said he believed his health
had been injured by drinking such
cider after II had begun to change
to vinegar. Perhaps II was to get
away from the temptation of drink
so much cider that the young man
left the place.
Ochs vas a hard, faithful worker
while he was at the Tillman farm.
/ He was an excellent cow-milker
+ He said he had MIXED on the Hol.
stein farm of L. l.. Roberts In New
York state. He said he worked
eight or ten days last fall on an
important stock farm near Fargo.
The owner was an auctioneer Of
! stock. Ochs said that while he was
I there the barn, a structure 100 by
100 feet, was burned.
Acted oueeriy at Times.
Mr.. Tillman said Ochs acted some
what queerly at times and he doub-
ted whether the mans mind was
sound. Once he went so far as to
question him 10 see whether he
| had ever been at St Peter I'm the
| hospital for the insane, being sus-
picious that the man may have es.
| escaped from that institution. He
! got no answer, however, supporting
this theory.
Though faithful worker, and
clean and scrppulous in his personal
habits when sober, 0chs was by no
means q "water.wagon" man. Mr..
! Tillman heard. shortly after ochs
had left service, Of his being found
dead drunk on q sidewalk In Good
Thunder.
From Mondays Daily.
Secretary Of State Julius Schmahl
has mailed to the county auditors
sample ballots showing the form to
be used at thn state primary, June
16. They will be printed by the
counties. and Mr.. Schmahl. immedi-
ately after May Z. will certify to the
county auditors the names OF can
didates filed with him.
Each voter will get two ballots at
the primary, a party ballot giving
the names of all candidates for nom-
ination for state officers and for
congress In his party, and a nonpar.
tisan ballot containing the names Of
all candidates for supreme and dis.
trict court. legislature and county
offices. II the voter does not want
to declare his party affiliation. he
can vote only the nonpartisan ballot.
Under the new law, where there
Is no contest, the names Of the can.
didates do not 60 on the primary
ballot. When only one candidate files
for a partisan nomination. or only
two for a nonpartisan office, their
names are certified as the nomi-
nees without being voted on at the
primary. Unless new candidates
come In, only the names OF repub-
lican candidates for governor, state
auditor, treasurer and railroad COM
missioner and the democratic candi-
dates. for governor will appear on
-, the primary ballot.
Attorney General L. A. Smith has
ruled that where there are less than
three candidates for state office, no
space need be left for second choice
votes. There will be no second
choice votes on the nonpartisan bal
lot. IN ~
From Mondays Daily.
J Word was received here this
morning that Clatus Krost. the
eleven year old son Of Mr.. and Mrs
Peter Krost of St Paul was criti.