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

RIVER, MIMI, and w. A. Beach ana
George Wiedenmann of this city, who
are directors in the company, and
Mr.. G. A. Smith, resident director Of
Kellogg, Idaho, with reference to
the construction Of large reducing
plant which will be necessary for
the concentration Of the enormous
quantity of crude ore which the CON-
pany has uncovered.
From FRIDAYS Daily.
Some light has been thrown on
the mystery OF the identity of the
stranger who was found dead with
his neck broken on the river bank on
the afternoon OF March 20. II is
probably Ed. Ochs, a young man
who was employed for about two
weeks on a farm I'm Decoria by G.
Oscar Tillman, shortly prior to the
time Of the finding OF the body.
This farm Is owned by Hans and
Henry Hanson Of the Boston Cloth
ing store.
, Late yesterday afternoon Mr. Till
man happened to stop in at the store
and began talking about the dead
stranger. He said he was sure from
the picture that had been published
in The Free Press and from the
description of the man and his cloth
ing, as published. that It was the
man who worked for him. He said
when he read that the man had a
tattoo mark of flag on the inside
Of the right arm, with streak of
lightning over II, he no longer had
any doubt that It was the same
man.
Had Queer Disposition.
He said Ochs was a man OF n
queer disposition, and seemed to
have something heavily on his mind.
| At times he would be very jolly
and talkative and then he would be-
come morose and sullen and not
I care to have word with anybody.
He said Och told him that he came
from New York state, where he was
born, and that his mother was
dead, but his father might be liv-
ing at the family home yet. for aught
he knew. The young man had said
he had not heard from his father for
years. When the young man left the
Tillman farm, Mr. Tillman asked him
to stay and take dinner, but this
was declined, Ochs remarking that
he had been paid enought. II is
thought that 0chs after that went
to Good Thunder Thunder and later
came to Mankato.
Opinion Of Police.
! The police are certain that the
dead man was the same as ane who
had been at the station one or two
nights before the finding of the body,
but the record does not show any
such name as Ochs or Ok among the
dodgers. The police were inclined
at the time to believe that 1t was
the man registered as Mike Hall of
Dubuque or the one who said he
was George Murphy OF Boston. AS
men of that class often have one
or more aliases, IL would not be
surprising IL that Ed. Ochs really
was at the police station under
such other name.
Sheriff Osten is going to attempt
TO get a more definite clue TO the
actual residence of the mans parents
and send photographs of the dead
man TO the authorities Of the town,
IL 1t can be located.
from Fridays Daily.
Mrs. August Hoffman died at her
lone on Fifth avenue last night
rfter a years illness with dropsy.
Mrs. Hoffman was formerly Miss
Anna Stahl, and was born and
; brought up in Mankato. She was
thirty-nine years of age and Is sur.
vived by her husband, two sons and
two daughters, and her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Stahl.
The funeral will be held Sunday
afternoon. There will be service
at the house at two o'clock and at
the German Lutheran church. of
which she was member, at
1880 p. III.
From fridays 0ai,v.
When the special committee, APP
pointed by the county board and con-
sisting OF Commissioners j. II. Hob
: man and Evan Davis. to investigate
. alleged overcharges by County Sur
veyor Brooks, makes Its report, It
is likely that the substance of this
report will be recommendation
that Mr.. Brooks be required to re-
turn to the county all that has been
paid to him in excess Of that to
which he is legally entitled. 1t is
reported that this excess Is s2SG.32.
It is said that the report will
claim that Mr.. Brooks paid his
deputy, Mr.. Allison, s75.02, and
charged the county s225 for his
labor; that another deputy, Mr..
!, Comstock, was paid SIS and $3.50
; charged for his labor; that another,
Mr.. Ford was paid S45 and sos
charged for his labor, and that a
fourth. Mr.. Gallagher, was paid s6.16
and SIS charged for HIS labor, max.