Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-10-17
A. A. Browns Record while
Register of the u. 8. Land
Office at New UIm.

The following extracts we clip from
the Dodge County Republican, as pub
lished in No. 10, of Volume 10, dated
Friday, August 25th, 1876:
Mr. Judd, living few miles south of
this village, has recently discovered that
his farm is not his farm, but belongs to a
man named Brown, a brother of the Reg
lister of the U. S. land office at New Ulm.
1t seems that the land occupied by Mr..
Judd was taken originally as a homestead,
and has been transferred through several
parties without the usual proving up" or
securing title. The first papers were for
warded to Washington, but never got back
to Judd. They may be in the U. s, land
office at New Ulm. 1t seems that this man
Brown, under the act of Congress, grant
ing an additional so acres to soldiers, with
i'll II. r. limits, and being in the railroad
ring, procured u soldiers certificate or war
rant and fastened the fine farm occupied
by Mr.. Judd-has a patent for it from the
U S. Governments.
Mr.. judd originally paid $700 for the
claim, has set out a large number of trees
has 60 acres broken up and was well fixed
for his declining years and now this honest,
industrious old man has to leave his hard
earned home to enrich an attache of the
land office. Verify these land offices are
worth about as much as post trader ships.
We hear that this same game has been
played In other instances, and we think
that our representative ia Congress, Mr..
Dunnell. could spend IL little time very
protitably by enquiring at the Dept. of the
Interior if Brown pays all he ought to for
the land otice.-DOdge Center Press.
The above swindle is getting too near
home for us to remain any longer silent
We learned, months ago, of number of
other swindles being perpetrated by A. A.
Brown, Register of the New Ulm land
Office. Some three years ago, a Scandina-
Wan named Wass, of Waseca county, was
swindled out of his homestead He paid
the fee of $16 to A A. Brown and took his
receipt for it. A few months after that
transaction, c. A. Brown, brother of the
put on record patent deed for
the same land, thus swindling Wass out of
his improvements as we'll as his homestead
and land Office fees of $16
Another case reported was that of Bene-
dicht Herrli, a German-American who, in
the same manner, was swindled out of 80
acres OF land and his Improvements. He
is poor man with a large family of chill
dren, and his wife has been insane for sew
eral years. This poor mans land, too,
went into the hands of G. A. Brown, broth
er of the Register.
The Waseca Radical, in commenting on
the Wass and Herrli outrages, saws:
This Brown is one of Dunnelps tools
Dunnell has been informed of these trans
actions, and yet he has taken no steps to
have him removed.
These are not the only cases by any
means. We are told that there are. many
of them in Minnesota.
These and similar disreputable trans.
actions, finally resulted in his removal
from the position which he openly dis
/ graced.
Robbing the poor is one of the mean
est and most contemplate acts O.
which any man, or set of men, can be
guilty, but it is doubly damning whel
a government official, servant of the
people, abuses the trusts repoSed il
him, takes advantage of his position
and prostitutes his official power t.
serve personal and selfish. ends. Here
we find that men have lost their farms
after spending time and money to i'm
prove them, and even motherless chill
dren have been turned out of house
and home by the acts of this one man
What principles can such man have
Is there any act, more dastardly ant
outrageous in its character than til,
robbing of these poor men. Ever,
man, woman and child in this distric
will look with scorn and righteous in
dignation, not only on A. A. Brown
but also on the men who, knowing hi
record, urge his election. Can tn
voters of this district conscientiousl
} support man who has been guilty {
such a dastardly piece of official raj
calitya Can you have any faith in th
men who, knowing of these transaction
are actively supporting him! w
think and hope not. You can have n
, guarantee that he would keep fait
/ with you, nor could he personally Civ
any assurances that would be worth col
templating. Voters. remember ths
his candidacy means something MOI
than the interests of the district; d
d pend upon It, he and his supporte,
/ have some private measures which the
wish to further. Remember, also, tn;
: you would jeopardise your own indivi,
ual interests, by placing such an unscrl
/, pulous trickster into Office. 81