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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-06-16
Abduction Was Alleged BY Meyer
Against Fairmont Man
RELEASED after HEARING
Refused to Give Up Right Name;
Denied the Accusation;
His Story

Abduction is the charge on which
a young man was locked up at the
police station late yesterday after
noon. He was arrested at the depot,
where he had bought a ticket for
Fairmont. The arrest was made on
the complaint of Henry c. Meyer,
employed at the Hubbard mill, who
charged that his daughter, Mildred
Meyer, had been taken by the young
man from the custody of her parents
for the purpose of marriage, and that
she was under eighteen ears of age,
being but seventeen years old. The
girl has been working at the overall
factory.
The arrest was made under the
name of John Doe. The young man
was asked his right name in the cell
this morning. He baked on giving
that but talked pretty freely about the
case otherwise. He said his home was
in Fairmont and that he had wife
living there. He said he had worked
for time in the employ of the mayor
of Fairmont, but had lately been
employed by Sheriff Carver of Martin
county, located at Fairmont, to do
some detective work for the purpose
of running down an automobile thief.
The prisoner stated that about six
weeks ago a Ford automobile, belong
ing to Will Hassing, editor of The
Armstrong Journal Of Armstrong, Ia,
had been stolen from the street in
Fairmont in broad daylight. He said
that he had been working on that
case and for that reason had made
visits to Mankato of late.
He said he picked up an acquaint-
ance with the girl because he had
understood that she knew something
about certain man whom he sus-
pected of stealing the auto, and 1t
was merely for that purpose that he
paid any attention to her.
Asked For Date.
When asked where he met the girl,
he said he first met her on the street.
He soon afterwards asked fol a "datea
and got it. He took her to a moving
picture show once, and last Sunday
the two visited for part of the day at
Minneopa park.
He said he had been told that the
girl was over at the depot at the
time he last went over there, but he
declared that he did not know of
her being over there at that time.
He said he never thought of such a
thing as getting her to go away with
him.
What would I want with that
girl" he asked 81 had bought a ticket
for Fairmont. where I am known, and
here is the ticket. had so cents then.
Now / have 40 cents, as | sent out ten
cents for package of cigarets."
The prisoner said he was twenty
four years old and had been married
about a year. He is of small build
and of a somewhat theatrical appear
ance.
The prisoner stated that the girl
had told him that she did not get
along well with her father; that she
worked hard and earned wages and
he took them from her, and that she
intended to leave him. He said he
thought such remarks by the girl made
Continued on Page Two.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-06-16
STOLE SILK FROM STORE
BURGLARY Was Committed in an Estab.
Iishment at Springfield; Some
Change Missing

Burglars entered Albert G. Neussle's
store at Springfield Monday night, or
early Tuesday morning taking with
them nearly all of the cigars, consid-
cradle tobacco, pipes, several rolls OF
silk and small quantity Of change
was missing. The safe was opened
and the contents were scattered about
the floor, but nothing of value was
found. The loss is not very great.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-06-16
MILITIA OF VARIOUS
STATES Be CALLED
Tr0ubI0us Conditions in Mexico
May Necessitate Summoning
National Guard
UNITED Press Dispatch.1

Washington, June 14.-Troublous
conditions in Mexico are worrying
the officials of the war department.
1t has been decided that in case more
troops are needed for the Mexican
service, the militia of the various
states will be called upon. There are
still regulars in the Philippines, Ha-
wall, Alaska and the Canal zone, but
practically all the regulars that can
be spared for Mexican duty have been
sent to that service.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-06-16
HOW THEY VOTE.

In the republican convention,
precedent has established that
majority vote is sufficient
to nominate. Division of state
votes is also permitted by
custom. The democratic con-
vention is governed by the
"two thirds" vote and that
unit system"-that is, two
thirds" is necessary to vote.
and the votes uf individ ,s,
stare delegations must be cast
en- nIoc. This practice dates
back to the 1882 convention.
when jackson invented It to
force Van Buren's nomination
as vice president on the ticket
with him.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-06-16

Washington, D. c., June 14.-For
the first time in the history of this
country, a president of the United
States today marched in a parade on
foot The parade, which was in sup
port of the gospel of preparedness,
took place along Pennsylvania ave-
nue. The president walked for a
mile and half, with a steady, elias
tic step. Just as he reached Penn
sylvania avenue and Fifteenth street,
he came across a large crowd of
women, who, just as he approached,
unfurled to his sight a great banner
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-06-16

New York, June 14.-Colonel Theo-
Gore Roosevelt was seized with vio-
lent pain on the left side near the
heart today, while he was preparing to
meet his son Kermit at the dock. He
clutcned with his hand near the
region of his heart and breathed rath-
er heavily. He was hurried to the
residence of his son-in-law, DR..
Richard Derby, where he remained a
short time, taking brief treatment
and then went to the docks. The
colonel was given a military salute by
$50 soldiers from Panama, as he
mounted the big transport. He re-
turned the salute in true military
style.
Mrs. Derry was later interviewed
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-06-16
COLONEL ROOSEVELT SEIZED
WITH SEzARPPALNNEAPE HEART
limited Press Dispatch.1

about her fathers brief indisposition.
She said there was nothing serious
about his condition. His pain was just
one symptom of bad cough he had
had.
New York, June 14.-John Nc
Grath, private secretary to Colonel
Roosevelt, today announced that
while the sudden attack of pain suf-
fered by the colonel in his left side
today was not considered anything
more serious than the result of a
cough, the colonel would neverthe-
less undergo an x-ray examination
tonight. An engagement that Colo
mel Roosevelt had today at the office
of the Metropolitan magazine was
called off.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-06-16
WALSH FOR THE BENCH
Montana Senator May Be Appointed to
Position Made Vacant By Resigna.
lion of Hughes
limited Press Dispatch.1

Washington, D. c., June 14.-Sena-
tor Thomas J. Walsh of Montana,
who led the successful fight for the
confirmation of President Wilson's
nomination of Louis D. Brandeis to
the supreme bench. is prominently
talked of here as the probable sue
cessor of Charles E. Hughes in the
supreme court Senator Walsh is I'M
derstood to stand high in President
Wilson's favor.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-06-16
KILLED TWO POLICEMEN
Fleeing Highway Robbers Get Away
With Jewels After Committing
Murder
UNITED Press Dispatch

Chicago, ILL.,, June 14.-Highway
robbers, while fleeing in an automo-
bile through Oak Park last night shot
and killed Captain John Malloy of the
motor cycle police squad and PATROL
man Lindhe, both of the officers be-
ing on motor cycles. The robbers es-
capped with jewels estimated in value
at $1,000.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-06-16
PLENTY OF VOTING Time
Employers Must Allow Employees to Gu
To the Polls On Primary EIec.
ton Day

st. Paul, Mimi, June 14.-All en-
ployers in Minnesota are obliged by
law to give their men enough time
off to go and vote on Monday, June
10, according to an opinion rendered
today by Attorney General Lyndon
A. Smith. The opinion was given in
response to numerous inquiries on
the subject.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-06-16

James 4. Polk, at first men,
toned only modestly as vice
presidential candidate, in the
democratic convention of 1874,
furnished the first dark horse
nominee to history. He was
proposed when the convention
was deadIocked between Van
Buren, and Cass.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-06-16
Kent to Quit Politics.

Z
Washington, June 14.-Represent-
alive William Kent, independent, of
California, stated today that he
would not be a candidate for re-
election to congress. He said his pri
vate business affairs would need his
entire time.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-06-16
WOMEN PREPARED BANNER
THAT MET GAZE OF WILSON
limited Press Dispatch.l

with the words, "Be Prepared; Sup
or the Cause of Votes For Women"
The president smiled and passed on.
The parade included many of the
employees of the various branches OF
the government service. There was
one order, however, that was not car
ried out to the letter. 1t was circu-
lated before it could be headed off.
This was the order to the employees
of the bureau of engraving, which in
cludes many women and girls. The
order read: "The only costume that
shall be worn shall consist of a flag
and a parasOl."
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-06-16
POS|ES FOR Wills )
HANDED BY NC IIDS
s
Head of the National G. & littee
Spoke His Piece Well
SLAMS FOR THE G. 0. P.
His Talk As the Curtain Raiser
For Show at St.
Louis

Political conventions original
ed in 1896, when "caucuses" were
held in various states to select
officials and candidates. The first
state nominating convention OF
regular form was called in New
York in 1924. The first real ma
tionai convention was held in
Philadelphia in 1880 by the Anti
Masonic party. Exactly a year
later, to the day, September 20,
the national republican" party
met in convention at Baltimore
and nominated Henry Clay.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-06-16
MORE men Will VOTE
Change of the Primary Date Allows
travelling Men to Participate in
This Election
United Press Dispatch. ]

ST. Paul, Mimi, June 14.-Senator
Campbell of Minneapolis today stat
ed that 10000 more travelling men of
Minnesota would be able to partici-
pate in the state primaries on June
10 than usually have participated in
state election, owing to the fact
that the primaries are to be held on
Monday and not on Tuesday
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-06-16
Transport Is Sunk.

UNITED Press D1Spatch.I
Rome, Italy, June 1.-THE Italian
admiralty today announced that the
Italian transport Principe Umberetto
had been torpedoed and sunk on June
with heavy loss of life.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-06-16
LAUDFD THE WILSON
ruling OF COUNTRY
Martin H. GIynn Gives the
President Praise
KEYNOTE AT ST. LOUIS
Preparedness, Peace and Num-
bar Of Other Live Subjects
Were Discussed
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch

ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.]
Washington, June 14.-Efforts
to insert a plank in the demo-
cratic platform favoring a law
prohibiting federal judges from
leaving the bench to accept an
elective office will not be coun-
tenanced by President Wilson.
Administration officials made it
known today that the president
had sent word to St. Louis that
he did not want any petty poll
tics played.
st. Louis, June 14.-With the asser-
ton that no president since the civil
war has had as crucial problems to
solve, and no president has displayed
grasp more sure, a craftsmanship
more profound, as President Wilson,
Hon. Martin H. Glynn. former gov
ernor of New York, opened the Demo-
Continued on Page Three.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-06-16
LACK OF PEP MAKES THE DEMOCRATIC
CONVENTION AN UNDRESSING affair
UNITED Press Dispatch.]

ST. Louis, Mo-, June 14.-The
national democratic convention is
meeting in very beautiful hall.
The interior was renovated short
ly before the convention. A new
skylight was put in, letting floods
of light down on the delegates.
Red, white and blue are the col
ors of the decorations.
st. Louis, Mo-, June 14.-There
are some indications that fight
will take place between the young
and the old members of the demo-
cratic party in the convention
over certain pIanks of the plat
form. The younger delegates, it
is said, are likely to insist on GER
tain pIanks being inserted for
the purpose of catching the pro-
gressive vote.
st. Louis, Mo-, June 1.-THE ma
tional democratic convention opened
today as very tame affair. McCoombs
chairman of the national committee
made his set speech in calling the con
vention to order. Delegates and spec
tators packed the big Coliseum. An at
tempt has been made to arouse en-
thusiasm over flag day, in order tc
put little more life into the occasion
More than $4,000 flags have been dis
tributed by order of the committee IL
charge of the convention arrange
ments. The scene when the conven-
ton opened was sea of faces ant
flags. The band played "The Star
Spangled Banner"
Women Paraded the Street
Women suffrage workers paradet
the part of Locust street from the JEFF
ferson hotel to the Coliseum TO
hours. These workers were women
dressed in white, with a yellow sasl
over the shoulders, and with yellow
parasols. This made great COLDER
scene all the way from the hotel t,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-06-16
Champ Clark Not Peeved.

defeated candidate in the battle of the
ballots -.
Champ Clark Not Peeved.
That same favorite son-Speaker
Champ Clark-as if to emphasize the
healing of the wounds dealt him by
the Baltimore gathering, was one of
the loudest in his praises of the men
who took from him the honor of lead
ing the democratic hosts.
II believe the convention can ad-
journ by Friday, if it so DESIRES
Chairman McCombs said just before
converting the assembly.
The delegates, themselves however,
indicated early in the meeting their
Continued on Page Three.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-06-16

favorite sons four years ago was a
defeated candidate in the battle of the
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-06-16
FIRST DARK HORSE.

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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-23
HOME CANNING.

The season of the year is now al
hand when the frugal housewife will
give her time and attention to the
canning of fruits and vegetables. II
is we'll that she should for in this
way can she help in reducing the high
cost of loving besides affording the best
there is for her own family use. Toe
much cannot be said in encourage.
ment of this practice of canning
fruits and vegetables for home use to
say nothing of the little money that
cen be made on the side.
This thing of going to the grocer
for all our canned fruits and vegeta-
bles is practice that is to be de-
pIored and which can be remedied, if
our good housewives will only wake
UP to the fact that they can do just as
good canning as the canneries can do
and at less cost to them.
The girls of the canning clubs all
over the country have fully demon
strated that this can be done, and it
only remains for the housewife to
avail herself of the opportunity to
have all of the nice clean pure fresh
vegetables and fruits she may need
from one season to the other.
How much nicer and more con-
yenient it is to go to your own pantry
or larder for the things you need
than to have to send out to the grocer
not knowing whether you will get il
OF not, and if you do what it is going
to be. Of course it is true, on this
point we are all agreed. Then let oul
housewives get busy and provide us
with plenty of good orchard ant
garden sass" while the opportunity
is before them.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-23
THE PRINTERS TROUBLES.

Just little over a year ago, the
metal used for casting such line OF
type as you are now reading cost s
cents pound. The Gazette Office un-
packed lot today invoiced at II IL
cents.
Newspaper is 500 ton higher than
it was in May, 1915. A blue ink used
in job printing, which cost So a pound
less 25 per cent one year ago, is now
S. pound, net.
All these are only samples. This
prosperity we are having in wartime
is certainly expensive to the printers
And so far no newspapers except a
few of the weeklies that were toe
cheap to begin with, have raised theil
prices either for subscription or ad.
vertising. The difference comes out
of their profits-and many of them
were not making money before the
war began.-Tifton Gazette.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-23

owing to the continued fall planting
for more than 220 years.
The Lookout Mountain Potato is
sound and firm, there never being any
black hearts among them; also free
from scab. They are the best to keep,
! heavy yielders, are mealy and the
! very best of table potatoes.
One of the principal reasons why
people should plant this potato ex-
tensively is because they can be Gull
| tiyated at time when labor is usually
plentiful, and not much else to do on
the farm. Furthermore, their keeping
quality is another reason why you
should plant them and you are never
bothered with the dreaded bugs with
this crop, as they do not propagate
during the cool nights of September
and October.
| If the following instructions are
carried out you can easily produce
from 100 to 200 bushels per acre on
good land. The proper way to plant
and cultivate them, for instance; after
grain crops have been harvested the
stubble land is ideal for growing these
potatoes. The ground should be first
roughly broken with 2 to 4-inch
scooter, narrowed thoroughly with a
disk harrow, and few days after this
ground should be turned deep with a
/ two-horse pillow; narrowed thoroughly
and either rolled or dragged. Every
and Z days weeder or peg-toothed
/ harrow should be run over the ground
to keep it open and moisture circulat-
ing in the seed and. Any time after
the 9Th of July to the goth of August
for middle and south Georgia is the
proper time to plant as it requires
about 80 days for them to mature
w. J. Josey has limited amount of
these potatoes on hand, put in your
order to be in time. adv.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-23
Start Tomorrow
and Keep It Up
Every Morning
Get In the habit of drinking a
glass of bot water before
breakfast.

We're not here long, so let's make
our stay agreeable. Let us live well,
eat well, digest well, work we'll, sleep
we'll, and look we'll, what a glorious
condition to attain, and yet, how very
easy it is if one will only adopt the
morning inside bath.
Folks who are accustomed to feel
Gull and heavy when they arise, split
ting headache, stuffy from cold, foul
tongue, nasty breath, acid stomach,
can, instead, feel as fresh as a daisy
by opening the sluices of the system
each morning and flushing out the
whole of the internal poisonous stag
nant matter.
Everyone, whether ailing, sick or
well, should, each morning, before
breakfast, drink a glass of real hot
water with teaspoonful of lime
stone phosphate in it to wash from the
stomach, liver and bowels the previous
days indigestible waste, sour bile
ard poisonous toxins; thus cleansing,
sweetening and purifying the entire
alimentary canal before putting more
food into the stomach. The action of
hot water and limestone phosphate on
an empty stomach is wonderfully in
MIGRATING. 1t cleans out all the sour
lamentations, gases, waste and acid
ity and gives one splendid appetite
for breakfast. While you are en-
jOying your breakfast the water and
phosphate is quietly extracting a large
volume of water from the blood and
getting ready for thorough flushing
OF all the inside organs.
The millions of people who are
bothered with constipation, bilious
spells, stomach trouble; others who
have sallow skins, blood disorders and
sickly compilations are urged to get
quarter pound of limestone phosphate
from the drug store. This will cost
very little, but is sufficient to make
anyone a pronounced crank on the
subject of inside-bathing before break
fast
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-23
BIENNIAL SESSIONS.

The conservative Savannah Morn
ing News has openly advocated BIZ
ennial sessions of the Georgia legis-
lature for some time, but of late this
prominent daily has become very
insistant in their demands. There
are many people in the state who
believe that such action should be
taken. and Editor Dick Grubbs, OF
the Darien Gazette, comes in for some
praise in regard to the sentiment.
The biennial sessions would GER
tainly lessen the number of laws
passed, and this would likely have a
beneficial result.
In this connection we have the
following editorial from the Augusta
Chronicle on freak legislation" and
it deserves consideration:
The correspondents are telling OF
freak" legislation being gotten in
readiness for the legislative session.
One must not eat snakes in Kansas
II you drive at all at night in Colorado
you must decorate the gentle beast
with light. If you are a doctor or a
dentist in Massachusetts you must run
your safety over your whiskers. These
are samples of the riot of legislation
cited by Nathan B. Williams, who
addressed the Detroit board of com
merce members recently.
Mr.. Williams is an attorney OF
Washington, D. c., and spoke on "The
Federal Trade Commission Law" He
is being quoted as he is found quoted
in the Tampa Times.
1--WE have in this country a very
riot of regulation, very real anarchy
OF law" said Mr.. Williams. The legis-
/ latures of forty-three states passed
more than $1,000 new laws last win
ter; congress added several hundred
and already nearly 10000 bills are
pending in the siXty-fourth congress.
Anarchy is absence of law, but
What is the difference if our laws are
SO yoluminious that no man can
know them and no one man can find
them out. This happy go-lucky meth
oG of aw-making and the evils which
will result from it will need co-opera-
ton of every man to counterfeit it.
Most business men are honest and
most business is honestly and fairly
conducted. Business, as whole, has
suffered at the hands of poorly in
formed legislators and i'll considered
Legislation. But you hold the remedy
for this in your own hands. You should
not permit yourselves to lie under the
opprobrium which properly belongs to
a very few"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-23
HOW TO PREPARE,
PLANT AND CULTI-
VATE IRISH POTATOES

Fall potatoes: One of the most prof
liable crops, and one of the most use
full that can be possibly be planted on
cur Southern farms, is the fall crop
of Irish Potatoes.
Many people who have tried plant
ing this crop continue to do so, and
the interest is increasing. This crop is
different from the spring crop, will
keep almost indefinitely as they can be
housed in barrels; in an ordinary cell
lar, barn or any other dry cool place,
and are convenient for use throughout
the entire winter, and will keep per-
fectly until June and July, when they
are ready for seed that perfect stand
can be secured from. Therefore, this,
the Lookout Mountain Potato has been
grown year after year strictly for fall
planting, and the seed harvested in
October and November are best for
fall planting.
A perfect stand can be secured from
this seed as they are sprouted by June,
ready to terminate Immediately after
being painted in the ground. They
will not make in the spring, as their
habits have been completely changed