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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
SUPPLY OF F0ODsIUFF
CURTA|LED IN GERMANY
Dictator Batocki In Speech to
The Reichstag Made
Statement
UNITED Press Dispatch

Amsterdam, Holland, March g.
German Food Dictator Batocki in a
speech to the main committee of
the reichstag recently admitted that
there had been great over estimate
in the amount of Germany's food
supplies. This was stated in dis
patches received here today from
Berlin. Batocki was very frank In
his statement of the seriousness of
the. food situation in Germany. He
declared that to increase the food
production in Germany was out or
the question. Neither could the
consumption of the food In the en-
pire be properly regulated. This was
mainly on account Of a lack Of la
Dor, and also on account of a lack
of adequate transportation facilities.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
VILLAGE IN BELGIUM
TAKEN BY BRITISH
STRENGTH OF ATTACK is TOO
MUCH FOR GERMANS
Teutons Are Reported to Have Fled
Precipitately After Having Laid Trap
For the Forces That We're On the
Way; BoielIes Has Been Fortified
With Guns; General NiyeIIe Driving
Wedge Into Emperor's Line-Up

4
The southern wing of the retreat
ing German army IS slowly recoiling
along the ten mile front under the
furious onsIauehts of the French. The
first section Of the great coucy-
Stgobain forests has been complete
Iy cleared of the invaders. General
NiviIies troops are now face to face
with the last formidable natural bar
rier which lies between them and the
Laone stgobain plateau. No change
has taken place in the neiekborhood
of ST. Quentin, where the Germans
still are making desperate efforts to
wrest from the French the Essigny-
6enay plateau, the undisputed pos
session of which would, according to
military authorities, render the eity's
fall inevitable.
With the British Army On the West
Front March 28.-For the first time
Continued on Page Three.)
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
DEATH OF GEORGE RILEY

Former Resident of Mankato Passed
Away in Minneapolis.
George Riley, son of Mr.. and Mrs
Thomas Riley formerly of this city,
died at the Hopewell hospital in Min
neapolis yesterday afternoon The
body will arrive in the city tonight and
will be taken to the Landkamer
Brothers undertaking parlors. Funeral
services will be held from st. Johns
Catholic church tomorrow morning at
nine o'clock. Interment will be made
in Calvary cemetery.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
PORTER is REELECTED
Remains AS Treasures Of North
western Lawyers Association.

Remains AS Treasurer Of North.
western Lawyers Association.
The Northwestern Lawyers asso-
citation closed its two-day annual
meeting at the Radisson hotel. Min
neapolis.
Subjects of interest to lawyers were
discussed and committees were named
to appear before the state Legislature
to indorse proposed changes in gem
eral law and probate court practice
embodied in impending biiis and also
to visit large wholesale houses in the
twin cities, to confer with credit men.
The annual membership fee was
reduced from $40 to So. William A.
Marin. Crookston, president; Miles
Porter, Mankato, treasurer; Herbert
M. Birce. Winona. secretary and 9TH
er officers were re-elected.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
VILLA FORCES DEFEATED
Carranza Troops Won Victory a
Mapula. Yesterday. N
A ssoniatoa prasa nisnatoh

ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.]
Juarez, March 28.-Carranza troops
under General Murguia defeated the
Villa forces at Mapula yesterday, ac-
cording to reliable reports received
here today from Chihuahua City. Re-
ports of fighting within the city
were denied
Ell Paso, Texas, March 28.-Re-
ports were received today of clash
between outposts of the Carranza
forces guarding the city of Chihua-
hua and advance guards of the ap-
preaching Villaista forces. No gen.
eral engagement has taken place
however, as far as is known But
it is thought that a general attack
on the Carranza forces under Gener-
al Murgia is. not far off. Mexican Of
ficers have censored the news dis
patches, SO that the details that have
been received are very meager
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
NIELSEN SAYS DYKES
PREVENT OVERFLOW
Claims That North Mankato Was
In No Danger From High
Water

j. B: Nielsen, former mayor of North
Mankato, dissents from the views OF
those who think that North. Mankate
would have been flooded and great
damage done to property on that. side
Of the river, had it net been for the
dynamiting of the large ice gorge
extending three to four miles down
stream from ,Jefferson's bend. Mr..
Nielsen believes that the North Man
kato dixie would have been ample for
the protection of the north side
property, even without the dynamiting
of this gorge. He does not believe that
the gorge would. have caused the wa
ter to go so high as to have resulted
in serious consequences = in North
MankatO.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
RECORD OF THE ALIENS
PROVIDED IN MEASURE
Bill Of That Nature Put Before
Minnesota State Legisla-
ture Today
tUnited Press Dispatch

st. Paul., Mimi, March ga bill
was introduced in the state legisla-
ture today providing that at the pres
ent time and at all other times when
there is danger Of. war, all transIenIs
and aliens in the state must file their
times of arrivals and departures. This
information is to be given by all
keepers of hotels and boarding
houses, as well as by private persons
who have guests. The bill also pro-
vides for the registration of allsresi-
dent aliens in the state.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
SLOW TRAIN ORDERS
Water Has Receded and No Danger
From Floods.

Water Has Receded and No Danger
From Floods.
Orders that were recently issued
for slow train movements not ex-
ceeding five miles an hour, on the
stretch of railroad of the Milwaukee
line IN the vicinity of Indian lake, on
account of the danger of flood, were
revoked last evening. The water had
gone down, so that the situation was
no longer considered dangerous.
The portion of the Southern Min
nesota division of the Milwaukee road
in Fillmore and Houston counties,
cut off for about week by high wa
ter, especially that of the Root river
valley, was opened again for traffic
today.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
CHAMPION cow KILLED

Darning Needle Pierced the Heart
Of Pauline Parthenea.
Appleton, Wis, March 28.-Pauline
Parthenea, worlds champion Hol-
stein COW, owned by R. j. Schaefer
of Clayton, Outagamie county, is
dead. A postmortem showed that a
darning needle had pierced the heart.
Mr.. Schaefer refused any amount for
the cow as she was invaluable for
breeding purposes. Two years ago
she gave 2,SSS pounds of BUTTER She
was thirteen and had won every
prize for which she had been enter
ed for several years.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
UNITED Press Dispatch. ]

New York, March 28-The Ameri-
can liner Manchuria arrived yester-
day at her English destination. This
vessel was armed. She was the first
armed American steamer to leave an
American port to sail through the
German barred area, but she was
passed on the way by the passenger
steamer st. Louis, and thus was not
the first armed American steamer to
arrive at a British port. The White
Star liner Adriatic has also arrived.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
British May Adopt ReprisaIs.

London, March 2S.-It is assumed
by the press the sinking of the
Asturias will be met with prompt
reprisals in accordance with the decla-
ration issued by the British foreign
Office at the end of January. The sug-
gestion was made that several of the
highest ranking German officers
among the British prisoners should be
carried On a.. hospital ships,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
KAISER HAS DIABETES
REPORT FROM BERNE
Story Is That German Emperor
Is in Now Hospital in
Hamburg
UNITED Press Dispatch.I

Berne, Switzerland, March 28.-
Kaiser Wilhelm is reported to be
suffering from a mild attack of dia-
betes. He is undergoing treatment
at hospital in Hamburg. Attending
physicians say that if the monarch
gets the proper rest, he can be
cured, but they have been greatly
handicapped by the fact that the
kaiser has undermined his health by
ceaseless worry.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
Charge German Influences.

limited Press DisDa tch I
Buenos Ayres, Argentina, March 90.
Pro British newspapers here claim
that German influence has been busy
here, working on, the Argentine gov
eminent. There is a general senti-
ment. however, on the part of the
Argentine people. in sustaining the
embargo act Of the Argentine presi-
dent.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
ARRESTS OF RUSSIAN
OFFICIALS ARE BOOKED
Admiral Biren Is Said to Have
Been Killed; General AC-
CuSed of Plot
UNITED Press Dispatch.I

Berlin, Germany, March 2S.-Ar-
rests of high Russian officials con-
tinue to be made under the new re-
CINE, according to the German Off
cial press bureau. Admiral Biren is
reported to have been killed. General
Wojejkow is accused of having plot
ted to open the front of the Russian
army to German invaders, but the
car, it is said, would not stand for
this, declaring that he would not be
q traitor to his country.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
Submarines sink 100000 Tena.

London. March 2S.--Losses Of mer-
chant vessels amounting to more than
100000 tons thus far in March have
resulted from war measures Of the
central powers, Lord Charles Beres-
ford said in the house of lords.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
Militia Called Back.

ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.1
Washington, March 28.-The war
department issued orders today call
ing all national guard units which
have partially demobilized back into
the federal service.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
Victory For Railroad Men.

Minnesota travelling men cinched a
victory yesterday when Governor,
BYrnquist signed the bill authorizing
the railroad and warehouse commits
sion to order railroads to issue mile
age books good on all lines within
the state.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
stuff Ready Eor Iurv,

1t appeared today that the suit of
Marie E. Ham against C. l.. Oleson,
an action for damages on account of
alleged misrepresentation in "a real
estate deal, would go to the jury some
time this. afternoon
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
WILL ELECT MINISTER

CongregatIonaIIsts to Hold Meeting
Thursday Evening.
Next Thursday evening members Of
the Congregational church will meet
to elect a minister. Rev, A. P. Bell of
Buffalo Center, Iowa, and it appears
likely that he will be chosen.
1t is regarded as assured that Rev.
F. H. Groom of Bristow, Okla. who
has been filling the pulpit at the Chris
tian church, will be called to that
pastorate.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
Railroads In Japan.

limited Press DiSpatch.J
Toxic, March 28.TThe imperial
railway board is contemplating the
construction of twenty-eight new rail-
roads in Japan. They will total 1,135
miles and will cost the Japanese
people $89,583, 600.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
ARMORED CARS PRl ED
FACTOR IN TOWN c1 A,,7URE
FEW GERMANS CROSS LINE
Only Eighty One Go Into Mexico
and Thirty Four Returned.

Washington, March 28-Official
reports from the southern depart
ment made public today say. the re-
ports that many Germans have
crossed into Mexico since the sever
ance of diplomatic relations are with
out foundation. The border records
show that only eighty-one Germans
have crossed the international line
in the Brownsville, and Laredo dis
tricts, thirty four of whom returned
to the United States.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
GARDEN CONTEST FOR THE
BOYS TAKING ON SHAPE
WOULD WELCOME AMERICANS
Hope to See the Troops From United
States in France.

limited Press Dispatch.I
Paris, France, March 2S.-"We wish
to see American troops in France as
soon as possible" declared Jules
Cambon, former general secretary of
the minister of foreign affairs, in an
interview today. 1.-THE people of
France are confident in their expec-
tations of American aid. Active par
ticipation in the war by America
would be most enthusiastically well
coined by France. Germany is in hard
straits"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
KATO BOY TO WED IN IOWA
.TheIlcr Johnson to Marry Hazel
Price, at Des Moines.

Des Moines., Ia, March 2S.-Mr.
and Mrs. o. j.. Price announce their
daughter, Hazers, engagement to
Thellar, son of James Johnston, Man
kato.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
NICHOLAS SEEMS SATISFIED
Former Gar shoveIing Snow as 81
version.

version.
Tsarskoe-Selo. March 2S.-The for
mer czar of Russia is shoveling snow
as diversion. He and his family are
prisoners in the palace of Tsarskoe
Selo
Although sometimes given to fits Of
depression he seems not unhappy, mol
to resent the abuse heaped upon him
The former empress is in pool
health. being unabl' to walk ever
from her own apartm -nt to those o.
her children
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
ARMoRY IS UNDER GUARD:

Government and State ID Now TAX.
ing Every Precaution.
The government is taking every
precaution to protect state and gov
eminent property and Monday night
the Mankato armory was under
guard. The building viii remain un-
der guard until further orders. This
is the information received by The
Free Press from st. Paul.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
MADE VIGOROUS PROTEST
Complaint Is Made Against Sinking
Relief Ships.

!Unfted Press Dispatch.I
Madrid, Spain, March 2S.-At the
request of Chairman Herbert Hoover
of the Belgian relief commission, the
Spanish government today forward
ed to Germany a vigorous protest
against the action of Germany in
sinking the Belgian relief ships.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
AMERICAN FLAG AsCENDS
Stars and Stripes Will Float Over the
Danish West Indies.

3 - TINTED Press Dispatch1
Washington, March 28.-The DAN
ish West Indies will formally. pass
from the possession of Denmark to
that of the United States next Satur-
day, when the Danish flag on st.
Thomas island will be hauled down
and the American flag will take its
100000 will be handed over to the
Danish minister at Washington.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
SOlONS WILL AWAIT
MESSAGE OF WILSON
Then They Expect to Act in
Accordance With Presiden.
tiaI Suggestion
ASSOCIATED press Dispatch.1

Washington March eS.-Congres-
sional leaders today gave informal
consideration to the legislative pro-
gram to meet the national emergency
but it was emphasized that definite
steps to that end will not be taken
until after President Wilson delivers
his address to congress. Meanwhile
steps to put the nation in state OF
readiness to meet any eventually
went ahead actively. 1t is believed
President Wilson does not intend to
put his message in final shape until
the last minute, nor has it been decid
ed what Recommendation he will in
cllldP
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
Must Be Definite.

LIn1ted Press D1Spatch.I
Washington, March 28.-President
Wilson will have to be absolutely
definite in the authority that he asks
from congress, if he wishes congress
to give him speedy and favorable
answer. This appears to be the feel
ing of most of the members of both
houses, who happen to be in Wash
ington.
There is much speculation as to
what attitude will be token by Sena-
tor w. J. Stone of Missouri in regard
to any further warlike legislation.
The fear is expressed that he will make
big fight against any more belficose
measures, in addition to those that
have already been taken.
The Red Cloud chief., 1917-10-25

A woman's eyes never grow too dim
to detect the paint On another's face.
The Red Cloud chief., 1917-10-25
women SUFFERERS
NEED SWAMP-R0OT

Thousands upon thousands of women
have kidney and bladder trouble and
never suspect it.
Women's complaints often prove to be
nothing else but kidney trouble, or the
result of kidney or bladder disease.
If the kidneys are not in a healthy con-
dition, they may cause the other organs
to become diseased.
You may suffer a great deal with pain
in the back, headache, loss of ambition,
nervousness and may be respondent and
irritable.
Don't delay starting treatment. DR..
kilmer's Swamp Root, a physicians pre-
scription, obtained at any drug store, re-
stores health to the kidneys and is just
the remedy needed to overcome such con-
ditions.
Get a medium or large bottle immedi-
ately from any drug store.
However, If you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to Dr..
kilmer & Co, Binghamton, N. Y, for .
sample bottle. When writing be sure
and mention this paper. Adv.
The Red Cloud chief., 1917-10-25
Worlds Biaoest Fish Net.

The largest fish net in the world
will soon be In use In these waters,
saws the Avalon Islander. 1t is $500
feet long, 800 feet deep and has five
pursellke pockets made of a two-inch
REINFORCED mesh. Two S0-foot tugs
and a feet Of small boats will accom-
pany the net. The equipment will cost
almost 100000 to fish for three
months. What chance for its life will
my fish have with such a net combing
the channel day and night?
The Red Cloud chief., 1917-10-25
Lack Of Restraint.

Senator Chamberlain, defending the
food control bill, said In Washington:
How unmeasured the attacks on
this excellent bill have beenl Now.
l am like the boy Mt the movies. I
like measure and restraint.
1.-TWO boys at the movies saw a
tragic picture play, and one of them
was overcome. He took out his hand
kerchief and wept and sobbed.
"'Why, Bill, ye're blubberin' said
the other boy.
"'Well,' sobbed Bill, Il like to see
n person show n little feelin'.'
"'Feelin'! said the first boy. Feel
ms all right, but we don't need to
wash yer face In it,"
The Red Cloud chief., 1917-10-25
WOMEN SLOWER THAN MEN
Double the Number Required in New
York Banks, But They Are
More Methodical.

There Is at present no mi off,
Ger of a New York city bank. and only
one in New Jersey, but If the war
lasts long enough 1t may well be, as
II Is In Canada now, that the banks
will virtually be run by women. AL
ready, II Is estimated. 10000 women
have been taken on in the Wall street
district since the United States en-
tered the war last April, says the New
York Evening Post.
Women are slower, but more care
and Metals bank. so, although twice
as many m as men are needed
to do the same amount of work, the
bank loses no money on extra salaries,
because the women save hundreds OF
dollars which had to be paid to the
clearing house for the mems mistakes.
Each mistake costs 81 and the records
show that sometimes mems mistakes
cost $50 or $50 a week.
The average downtown bank has
lost 20 per cent of its men and taken
on 40 per cent women. The Mechan-
les and Metals bank now has 60
women and they are being taken on
by tens or twenties each week. So
far these 60 women are taking the
places Of only 80 men, which shows
the difference in rapidity, but the off,
cial of the bank pointed out that 1t
would be a serious problem when the
men came home for their jobs.
"Our hope is" he said, that the
business will be big enough then to
accommodate them ALL"
A woman's eyes never grow too dim
IN detect the paint on QnOther'S face.
The Red Cloud chief., 1917-10-25

They are there now, and the wire says
that Watrous Durham has been arrest
ed and that he has broken down and
confessed. You are a free man, John ;
you"
The grass-cropping pony had
wldened It's circle by a full yard, and
the westward.polnting shadows Of the
frs were growing shorter and more
clearly defined as the August sun
swung higher over the SUBMITS of the
eastern Timanyonis. For the two on
the house bench, time, having all its in
terspaces filed with beatiic %silences,
had no measure that was worth record
ing. In n of the more coherent in
tervals II was the man who said:
"SOme things in this world are very
wonderful, Corona. We call them hap
penlngs, and try to account for them
The Red Cloud chief., 1917-10-25

as we may by the laws Of chance. Was
1t chance that threw us together at
your cousins house In Guthrieville q
year ago last JuneT
She laughed happily. II suppose It
was-though I'd like to be romantic
enough to believe that 1t wasn't"
"Debritt would say that 1t was the
Absolute Ego" he said, half musingly.
"And who Is Mr.. DebrittT"
HE is the man I dined with on my
last evening in La~wrenceville. He had
been Joking me about my various
little smugnesses-good Job, good
clothes, easy life, and all that, and he
wound up by warning me to watch out
for the Absolute Ego"
"What Is the Absolute Ego?" she
asked dutifully.
John Montague Smith, with his curl
Ing yellow beard three weeks I'M
trimmed, with his clothes dressing the
part Of q neglected camper, and with
n steel.jacketed bullet trying to encyst
itself under his right shoulder blade,
grinned e%xultantly.
"Debritt didn't know, himself; but
I know now: it's the primitive man.
soul the II that is able to refuse to
be bound down and tied by environ
ment or habit or petty conventions, or
any Of the things we 'misname Iimita-
TONS It's asleep In most OF us; 1t
wasn't asleep in me. You made 1t sit
up and rub its eyes for n minute or
two that evening In Guthrieville, but
1t dozed Off again, and there had to
be IN earthquake Mt the last to shake
1t alive. DO you know the first thing
1t did when it took hold again and
began to driver
mo"
"Here Is where the law Of chances
falls to pieces, Corona. Without tell
ing me anything about It, this newly
emancipated man-soul Of mine made O
Decline for the only Absolute EGG
woman 1t had ever known. And II
found her."
Again the young woman laughed
happily. "Tf you are going to call me
names, Ego-man, you'll have to make
1t up to me some other way" she said
Whereupon. the moment being strict
ly elemental and sacred to demonstra
tons Of the absolute. he did.
(THE END.)
The Red Cloud chief., 1917-10-25
Diet q Matter Of Habit.

Our daily food is to a large extent
n matter of prejudice and habit. We
think we must have certain things be-
cause we always have had them. But
the war has shown us that by the ex-
ercise of intelligent planning we can
get the necessary nutriment for less
none than we have been accustomed
to spend.-Kansas City Star.
The Red Cloud chief., 1917-10-25
important Point.

She-Would you marry a woman
who had sued another man for breach
of pr0mise3'
He-How much did tne court award
your
The Red Cloud chief., 1917-10-25

as colonel-daddy and Billy Starbuck
were getting ready to steal you away,
one Of the others died. In some way
the report got out that you were the
one who died, and that made every
thing quite easy. The report has never
been contradicted, and when Mr..
Macauley reached Brewster the police
people told him that he was TOO late"
"Good heavens! Does everybody In
Brewster think I'm dead?"