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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-07-08
MONEY FOR AUTO TAGS
More Than Two Million DoIIar RS Or
the State Treasury

Collections from automobile licenses
turned into the state treasury up to
and including June % total $2,5sS, O94,
according to State Auditor r. Chase.
These collections are Incomplete
and do not include all money turned
over to the automobile department
with applications, as the money is de-
posted with the state treasurer when
the licenses are mailed out. Failure
of license manufacturers to deliver
tags according to contracts has de-
layed distribution.
M. ]. Desmond, deputy state auditor
today estimated that the automobile
licenses will not provide in excess Of
$4,500,000, in funds this year to be
used IN the construction of good roads.
as against previous estimates from 9th :
er sources that the new automobile
tax would return approximately S.
coo, 900 annually.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-07-08
YOUTH KILLED BY HORSE
William Ehler- Was Trampled
Upon While In Barn With
Animal

William Ehler, the twelve year old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Ehler, liv-
ing on the John Wigley place, near
pitfalls yesterday afternoon as the re-
suit of being kicked and trampled on
by horses. in barn on the farm men
toned.
One of the little boys brothers
found him lying unconscious in the
barn with his head badly crushed and
bruised and cuts on his body. 1t is
suspected that he was kicked and
trampled upon by the horses, The lad
was rushed to one of the local hos
pitfalls in this city, where he was given
medical attention but he died soon
afterwards.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-07-08
OUTING Fon INJURED VETS
Recreation Camp on Lake Mime
fnnka 0nAna Eor Than

Recreation Camp on Lake Mime
tonka Opens For Them e..
Minneapolis, July disabled SER
vice men Of the northwest states
started on their vacations today.
The recreational camp at Big Is
land, Lake Minaetonka, was sched :
uled to open under the guidance of
NJ. T. Northey, personal service off,
Ger for, the Federal Board for Voca-
tional Education. Approximately 900
men in Minnesota, North and South
Dakota and Montana are eligible to
spend a vacation at the camp at a
cost of one dollar a day. Only 10 dis
abled veterans can be accommodated
at time.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-07-08
FUNERAL OF C. L. SHORES
Services VIII Be FIELD at Three

Services Will Be Field at Three
O'clock Tomorrow Afternoon
The funeral of @. l.. Shores will be
held from the Kelly and Gosewich
undertaking Rarlors tomorrow after
noon at three o'clock Interment
will be made in Minneopa cemetery
at three thirty. The pallbearers will
be Matt Weir, Arthur Nelson, Claude
Nelson, Edwin and Edward Kruger
and Otto Kunkel of Rapidan. Rev.
Edward Johnson Of the Bethlehem
Lutheran church will officiate.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-07-08
THESE PAID THEIR FINES
One Half Dozen Men Who Had I'm
bibbed Too Freely.

Six men who had imbibbed too
freely yesterday of moonshine, fac
ed Judge Hiram S. Golf this morn
ing in the municipal court where they
paid good stiff fines. The guilty
parties and the fines paid by each
are as follows: Frank Maloney,
Baeke, $iS.65; Peter Hendrickson.
$18.65; John Danielson, 1885; Louis
Evans, $2365. e. Geiseke, arrested by
Deputy Sheriffs Klugnerz and Mac
beth at Garden City Saturday night
on the charge of drunkenness, paid a
fine of S23. 65.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-07-08
Case In Municipal Court.

" Tne jury case OF a, S. Kinney
against c. w. Jessup & Son was taken
up this afternoon In the municipal
SQUIRT before Judge Hiram 8. Golf.
The actio is brought by the plaintiff
to recover alleged damages to furni-
ture In transportation. Hughes &
Baker are appearing as attorneys for
the plaintiff and C. J.Laur1sch as
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-07-08
Life Lost In Lake.

George Mansfield of Redwood
Falls, twenty four years old, lost his
life in Lake Redwood Thursday ev-
ening, June 80. His body was found
in seven feet of water This is the
first fatality that has occurred for
over ten years in that lake.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-07-08
FARM HAND BROWNS.
Indiana Young Man Was Swimming
In Lake Harriet.

Madison, Wis, July flames e.
Buche. twenty two, a farm hand
from near Oregon, Wis, was drown
ed last night In Lake Harriet, while
swimming with a number of COM
panions His home was in Kirk
land, Ind. The body was recovered.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-07-08
CONTRACTS ARE AWARDED
MaAEato Concern Will Wire New
Rn;Idin1 - n.A~.

MaNEato Concern Will Wire New
Building at st. Peter.
The Beck Engineering and Con-
struction company of Minneapolis
was awarded the contract for the
the construction of the new gymna-
SUM at Gustavus Adolphus college,
St. Peter. Their bid on the work
construction was $99,391 and they
agreed to install the plumbing for
$3.50. The Mankato Electric COM
pany will do the electrical work and
wiring at $2,895. The installation
of the heating went to Conner
Brother OF Minneapolis at $13.S25.
The building will cost about SIPS, O81.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-07-08
= HoWAT FOUND GUILTY.
Kansas Miner Leader Convicted vio-
Iating Labor Court Law.
Associated Press Dtspatch.1

AcSSSkdtOu ITCob lJiSpStlCI.l
Columbus, Kans., July 1.-Alexan-
der Howat and August Dorchy, presi-
dent and vice president of the Kansas
Miners Union, were found guilty OF
violating the Kansas industrial court
law criminally by calling a strike, by
q Jury in the Cherokee. county dis
and Dorchy guilty OF misdemeanor.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-07-08
Called on Friends Here.

MICHdVI h6HHtuy, IUrM6I I6SI-
dent of this city, but now living in
Minneapolis, called on friends in this
city today.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-12-30
Explosives Place Ships Bolts.

In the performance of some govern
ment work 1t was found necessary to
find bolt or manner of placing bolt
so that II would withstand unusually
high shearing stresses. and two sue
cessful methods were devised. In or
der to make an absolutely faultless
fl of the bolt In the first case the
bolts were immersed In liquid air until
they contracted sufficiently to enter the
holes quite easily, but when they had
gained their normal temperature again
they expanded to such an extent that
the holes were filed. The other
scheme consisted of making a small
hole along the axis of the bolt and.
after 1t had been placed, the hole
filed with explosive, and when this
was discharged the bolt was expand
ed and caused to grip the plates. Sub
sequent tests proved that each Of these
methods filled the unusual demands.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-12-30
A Happy Couple.

DARBY and Joan" were an old-fash-
Toned, conservative married couple,
famous for their long life and domes-
tic felicity. They are said to have
lived, over century ago, In Hea-
laugh, village In the West Riding
of Yorkshire. Darby and Joan are
the hero and heroine of q ballad
THE Happy Old Couple" of uncer-
tain authorship, although sometimes
ascribed to Matthew Prior. Accord
ing to another authority. however, the
author was Henry Woodfail, and the
originals were John Darby, printer OF
Bartholomew Close, who died in 1880.
and his wife Joan. Woodfall was an
apprentice in the service Of John
Nelson Darby, an English theological
writer.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-12-30
DOUGH in Matchmaking.

Two barrels Of -four, or almost 100
pounds, are used every week in max
ing watches at a well-known factory
in New England, which turns out from
1000 10 1900 watches week. Since
a baker usese about three pounds Of
-four TO five iOaves Of bread, It follows
that for every watch the maker uses the
equivalent of ALMOST third of loaf.
The -four is made into dough, ami the
dough Is used to handle the screws,
rivets and other small parts. Each
man in that part Of the business has
a lump Of dough always at hand and
when he wants to examine screw he
iabs the piece Of dough on IT, Then.
turning 1t over, he has good chance
to look at II with his watchmaker's
microscopic eyeglass. Many Of the
screws are too minute TO pick up
easily with the fingers, and many
more, though .arge enough TO be
picked up, would be so covered by the
fingers or the forceps as to be al
most hidden from sight.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-12-30

pleasure to be enjoyed while in your
place. Then there is profit in so keep
ing your name before the people. Put
sales talk in your advertising talk the
same as you put in our sales CONVEX
sation and you win bring the public
into your store. Unless advertising is
regarded as a part of the sales effort
it is not being used to its best advan-
tage and fullest effect.
A store that is not an advertiser is
always dead one. Look around town
and pick out the store that does not adj
vertise and you will see a dead one.
Our readers will help us if they will
just mention the Wauwatosa News
when doing their shopping. For it is
through the advertising that a news
paper is made a success. Help make
the News a success!
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-12-30
WHY SHOULD A RETAILER ADJ
NERTISE?

Replying to this question, one might
ask why should a retailer open his
front door? Really, why should
retailer go into business if he does
not intend to advertise? Why should
retailer attempt to go into store
keeping if he does not intend for the
public to know he is in business and
what lie has to sell?
Some retailers think of letting the
public know when they have some spe-
cial bargains in goods that have been
carried long time and are somewhat
shelf worn and are out of date and
must be disposed of. 1t is then a big
splurge is made and new clerks are
added for few days and big sales are
enjoyed for a short time and when
1t is all over a rest is taken from the
unusual ten days task. But old easy
days are on again and trade has re-
sumed its normal dull routine. The
merchandise about twice a year and
advertise only to get rid of goods that
are slow sale. The idea is gained
that advertising is essential only when
something has grown stale and unsal-
able by the usual efforts. 1t is then
that advertising is put to the hardest
test and if it fails it is condemned as
being useless and unproductive sales
feature.
This is like advertising only when
business is dull, thus giving advertis-
ing an unfair test. Successful mer-
chants do not wait until business is
dull to advertise. They keep their adj
vertising going during the brisk sea-
son that there may not be any dull
periods. They carry given number
of clerks, but they can not wrap up
merchandise until folks come in and
buy, and they are not supposed to use
the telephone to bring in trade.
We have for long time heard the
adage: Keep your name before the
public" And this is why so many
names are seen on the roadside fences.
Yes, and they put names on tomb
stones and keep them there a long
time. But they do not create trade.
If the name is kept before the pub
lie in connection with real, fore-sure
craftsmanship merchandising so that
the public will think more of your
store and the goods you have for sale
than of your mere name, then some
thing is accomplished. Keep your
name before the public but hitch it
up with your merchandise and the
service to be had in your store and the
good values you have to offer and the
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-12-30
LADIES NIGHT"-DAVIDSON
THEATRE.

With Ladies' Night" for the New
Years week attraction at the David
son Theatre, Milwaukee, commencing
Sunday night, January list, play
goers viii have opportunity to visit
one of the most popular farces ever
written by Avery Hopwcod. AS "The
Bat" "Fair and Warmer" Seven
Days" 1.-THE Gold Diggers" and other
notable successes afford eloquent evil
dence, what Hopwood writes Is always
excellent entertainment. That this
gleeful novelty ran for an entire year
at the Eltinge Theatre, New York
City, indicates that it is no ordinary
amusement.
The opulently appointed production
is made by A. II. Woods, and he pre-
sents in the principal roles such pop
ular farceurs as John Arthur, Allyn
King, Evelyn Gosnell, Josephine Sake
and Edward Douglas among others,
including host of pretty girls at
tired in the most seductive of fash
ionable raiment.
The intriguing title refers to a mer-
ry escapade that mainly takes place
in a Turkish bath on ladies' night.
The hero, Jimmy Walters, modest
young benedict who cannot look at
the lingerie pages of fashion maya
zine without blushing, refuses to ac-
company his wife and friends to any
social affair on account of having to
look upon the exposed charms of ladies
in evening dress. Two of his waggish
friends decide to shock the modesty
out of him by giving him a large even
ing at very naughty dance hall. The
police raid the ball and the three gay
Adventures, in their efforts to avoid
capture, Chamber through a window
that leads into a Turkish bath. But
it is out of the frying pan into the
fire for it is ladies' night at the bath
and therefore no place for men even
if they are disguised as fair ones.
The vain efforts of the trio to escape,
what they saw and heard in this re-
treat of the briefly adorned, and how
they behaved under the extraordinary
and embarrassing circumstances, oc-
casions one of the most laughable
frolics ever staged. There will be a
special holiday matinee on Monday,
and the usual matinee on Saturday.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-12-30
WAUWATOSA NEWS
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY.

Published at wauwatOsa. Wisconsin. every
Friday by C. L. Ben0y.
Sent TO any address in the United States
or $500 a year.
Entered at the wauwatosa postofhce
econd class matter.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-03-25

Well. after the failure of the big
roundup, the biological survey sent
out Williams. His instructions were:
Get the Custer wolf and stay till
you do That was in March, 1920.
Williams first went into the hills
west Of Pringle and found that the
wolf was staying around some old
dens in the Pelgar mountains. So
Williams started operations by lay
Ing string of traps.
Williams started out by playing q
meant trick on the Custer wolf. In
stead of relying on the usual tricks
to hide his tracks and obliterate his
man smell, he scented up the soles of
his shoes. The wolf followed his trail
that night, clear around the line of
traps. And then the savage old killer
was so fused up over that scent that
he went straight to the Pelgars.
cleaned out two OLD dens and dug
new one that ran back into hill
about 90 feet. One guess as to the
scent Williams used.
The old wolf, however, soon got
over being ratified and proceeded to
play hide -and-seek with Williams.
The hunter tried to get shot at him,
but was baked by the coyotes. Then
| he shot the coyotes. Thereafter the
wolf took few chances. He back
! trailed Williams, or took to fallen
timber to hide his trail But twice
/ L,,r Mnu hn xx,.llF sta Ah1
jaws of traps, and In July he actually
rolled into one or lay down on II. II
sprang and pulled out lot of hair.
This scared him SO that he disap-
peared for a whole month--apparent
~ he left the territory. He came
back in August and announced his re-
turn by killing and mutilating right
and left. In September and again In
October he stepped on the pan Of a
trap. In each case he was caught by
the side of paw and was able to pull
loose.
The wolf that steps too often In the
trap gets caught at last. And the
Custer wolf stepped once too often.
Here's what happened as Williams
himself very modestly tells it:
'He stepped into trap in the
morning and 1t got good grip on him
He ran with it about $50 yards when
the hook caught on "a tree, but that
did not seem to stop him at all. He
broke the swivel of the trap and ran
Oh with it on his front foot. trailed
him three miles and got a shot at him
and got him. He had been so lucky
. that | expected the gun would fail to
shoot. but it worked 0. X.
J "He is smaller than the average
male wolf. weighed 90 pounds and
measured just 9 feet from tip to tip F.;
i IL inches from toe to hook, and had u
/ tail IA inches long His teeth would
be good for Is years longer He broke
some of them off on the trap, but
aside from that they were in good CON
dition. He is an old WOLF with fur
that is almost white"
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-03-25

girl passed amid group Of adoring
young men.
The diplomat nodded towards The
pretty girl and said dryly:
I'm afraid she's got a swelled head.
She doesn't believe in hiding her light
under a bushel."
AT this point the young girl threw
herself into her deck chair. crossing
her knees in such manner as to dis
play a very considerable expense q.
silk stocking.
Nor her ankles under her skirt
said Mrs. G.yn.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-03-25

The territory terrorized by the Gus
ter wolf is about 60 miles long by 40
wide. Trace an Irregular north and
south oval In about the center of Gus
ter county. with Custer in the upper,
and Pringle in the lower part Of it,
and the Pelgar mountains extending
along its western line. Anywhere in
this territory-here tonight. and the
next night at the other end Of 1.-THE
Custer wolf was at home.
During these nine years the stock
men paid tribute of about $4,000 in
live stock. When he killed for food
he picked out the choicest. At times
he killed wantonly. for the sake of
killing. Often he mutilated for sport,
breaking legs, biting off tails and in
dicting unspeakable injuries on an
imals. Says the Letter:
"He loped through every kind Of
danger and spurned them all. He
shifted at the subtlest poison and
passed it by. The most adroitly con-
cealed trap was as clear to him as a
mirror in the sunshine. Old hunters.
unerring shots, drew the bead on him
and saw him glide away unframed.
The price on his head was $500. Boun-
ty hunters sought him for profit.
Sportsmen put forth every device to
STAY him for regulations sake. And
still the old wolf went unscathed
about his work of destruction.
"Credulous people said he was a
immunity to wisdom greater than
beast ever before possessed. Still 9TH
ers said he escaped by plain luck
the mysterious thing that adheres to
some animals as to some men.
"All kinds of stories got abroad
This thing they said, was not wolf
hot merely wolf. They believed
that nature had perpetrated mon
strOsity, half wolf and half mountain
lion, possessing the craftiness of both
and the cruelty of he'll. In public
/ opinion he had all the qualities OF
the werewolf of the Old World
legends"
This may be a bit exaggerated, es
pecially in the matter of traps, but
! the fact remains that he was an eff
Gent bad wolf, so efficient that he es
capped all perils, even a great round
! up which was tried as Il last resort
Here are two instances of his efiicien
methods-the instinct school," pleas,
note.
-Four years ago his mate was killed
He did not take another, and the cred
ulous declared he had devoted him
self to revenge her death. The gra,
wolf, however, is one of the animal
that usually mates for life. He evi
IDENTIFY missed her services, for h,
soon broke in two coyotes to he'll,
him. They ate after him from hi
kills. and never came near him III
used them as bodyguards. pickets an
scouts. In travelling they ran on hi
tanks at from 100 to 200 yards dis
lance.
He developed this strategy whe
trailed. He would back trail to
point where he could watch the trail
er from cover. A bear will do this
also some other animals, but old hunt
ers say they never knew another vol
to o do il.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-03-25

the weekly News Letter, puDllSneu
by the Agricultural department. For
the Custer wolf was the bad man" of
the predatory animals Of southwest
ern South Dakota. And Ne died with
his boots on" For years he had been
an outlaw with price on his head.
And it took the better part Of year
for III. p. Williams, one of Uncle
Sans best professional hunters, to get
his scalp.
incidentally, the American gray
wolf is a marvel of animal intel
ligence. John Burroughs, who leads
the instinct school, of American nat
uralists as opposed to the reason
school, will have it that animals do
not reason and are actuated entirely
by instinct. Consider the presence in
our midst of the gray wolf and figure
out for yourself where John Bur
roughs gets off.
In the days of the red man the wolf
had only to keep outside of the range
of the arrow. Then came the pale face
with firearms. The wolf had to learn
in succession the death dealing posi-
bilities of the explorers smooth-bore,
the pioneers muzzle-loading rifle, the
bree ch-loading buffalo gun, and the
modern highpower magazine gun.
In the days of the red man the
wolf had to cope with the hand made
snare. With the white man came the
steel trap, the cunning poison capsule
and the bounty on wolf scalpS. And
wherever civilization has got foot
hold every hand has been against the
wolf summer and winter, rain and
shine, night and day.
Yet the wolf persists, Every year
the federal government appropriates
thousands Of dollars for the specific
purpose of his taking off. Every year
professional hunters and national park
and national forest rangers wage re-
lentless war. Yet the wolf persists
Every year. cattlemen and sheepr1en
combine to fight the despoiler of herds
and flocks. Yet the wolf persists.
Now, If you still have faith in Johr
Burroughs instinct" theory after
these facts, listen to the story of the
Custer wolf.
The Custer VOLTS early history /.
blank. His public career begins will
his appearance nine years ago in Gus
ter county, South Dakota. This coun
~ Is in the southwestern corner O
the state. adjoining the Wyoming line
and one county removed from the Ne
braska line II is Black Hills coun
try, but by no means wilderness
1t has towns, railroads and automo
bile highways. Why, last summer
Wind Cave national park had 1851.
visitors and $40 private automobile
and all Went through the Cusie
VOLTS huatiHg ground.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-03-25
,y JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN.

He Custer wolf Is dead
So announces the bu-
reau of biological sur
vey, Department of
Agriculture. Nor Is
Uncle Sam content
with u mere death
notice" He considers
the Custer wolf worth
an obituary writeup'
of several columns in
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-03-25

finally rose above the waters. This
stone forest lay hidden from view for
countless ages. BY slow disintegra-
tion the Embedded rock was all washed
away and the petriied trees. being
much harder and more durable. were
left scattered In dense profusion on
the surface Of the earth. where hey
had so long lain buried.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-03-25
Petrified Forest in Arizona

The petrfied forest Is In the midst
Of the great desert Of Apache. These
trees are OF coniferous. extinct spe-
eies. with the exception Of a single
cottonwood trunk. They lie prone up
on the ground as they drifted In q
prehistoric sea. Water-logged and
heavy, they sank to the bottom, and
were there covered with sand and
charged into chalcedony. The sand
lar, aned and cemented into stone and
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-03-25

Carl j. Hoops ambition. when he
was young, was to be preacher.
Now that he has reached years of dis
cretion-eleven of them-he hasn't
changed his mind. Carl isn't ordained
vet-he's little weak on. Latin.
Greek, Hebrew, vulgar and refined
fractions, and spelling for that, but
his Commute sermons have put his
home town of Roscoe. Ohio, on the
map.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-03-25

Former u. s. Senator Charles
Henderson of Nevada was shot in the
wrist in the senate Office building in
washington. The assailant, Charles
A. Brand, was recently released froD
an insane asylum. He was once a eli
emit Of henderson.