Negotiating the purchase of Minneopa State Park, October 13, 1905. Photograph by J.P Hodge, Depot Agent, on platform of Minneopa Depot, South Bend, Minnesota. Seated left to right: State Attorney General E. T. Young; State Auditor Samuel G. Iverson; Governor John A. Johnson; General James H. Baker; Orange Little; John C. Wise Jr. of Mankato Review. Standing left to right: Thomas Hughes of local committee; F. G. Cuttle of Railway Construction; Robert L. Williams, in front of Cuttle; Chairman of County Commissioners William. W. Paddock; Dr. J. W. Andrews of local committee; Joseph E. Reynolds of Mankato Free Press; William. L. Johnson, superintendent of Railway Construction Company of Winston Brothers; Charles. N. Andrews of local committee.