St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-30

never got anything, not even SILK dress,
for all the deeds she had signed. Col. King
and he had laughed concerning the pune
| tiliousness of the attorneys and he had
mentioned that he had
ADDED IN THE ELEVATOR LAND
to satisfy. some objection raised by an at
torney. Mr.. King then said that whenever
| he wanted any deeds to come and get them.
He did not see the deed signed, as the writ
ing was done in another room. He did not
| hear Col. King tell Mrs. King that the
deeds were made merely for the purpose of
correcting an informality; neither did he
hear anyone say in effect that it was deed
only to the elevator lots.
STRENGTHENING UP THE PROPERTY.
Reverting to the time when he first came
here to take charge of affairs, Col. Innes
said he found the taxes unpaid, the wood
land mortgage about to be foreclosed; re-
demption had expired ON the Ames forty;
interest was back on the $50, 900 mortgage
of the Equitable Trust company; no inter-
est had been paid on the pavilion mortgage
| judgments were due and the property was
in the bankruptcy courts. The first thing
he did was topay the interest on the mort
gage on what is now called Remington adj
dition; next to pay 900 taxes. He bor
rowed this money and kept borrowing
money up to some time in 1882, to pay the
taxes and interest on the liens. The prop
erty was then entirely unstable, at price
which would not come anywhere near paying
Remington for his investment. The first
piece of property sold was a lot and half
to Mr.. Jeffrey in the winter of 1S79-S0,
after the plats of RemingtOn's subdivision
had been put on record. He did not sell
nrnyr nrfx fnr II,
the meantime the motor line had been
established, and the cars had commenced
running. The next sale was that of the
Meeker county farm in 1880, for S24, 900.
| In 1880 he made few other sales, and in
| 1881 good many more. In 1882 he made
| the sale to l.. F. Menage. In December,
| 1881, he went to Ilion, and submitted a gen.
eral proposition of the purchase of that
property by Mr.. Menage to Mr.. Reming-
| ton. He completed the sale of 1, lat acres
| to Mr.. Menage, Jan. 81, 1882, for S446, 900.
In accordance with the agreement, Mr..
Menage took possession, had the lands
plated, erected houses and improved the
pavilion. At this point adjournment was
taken for dinner.
IN THE AFTERNOON
Col. Innes resumed his testimony and
| first pointed out on the map the lands in
Guided in the contract to Menage, giving the
valuations of the lots, which ran all the way
| from $50 to 81, 600 per acre. In November.
| 1888. Mr.. Menage desiring to have deed
| for the remainder of the property, after
selling S245, 900 worth, he made a mortgage,
| and the witness decided him the remainder
| of the land named in the contract. The
consideration named in the deed was $780,,
| 900, but the real consideration was the bal
ance due upon the S446, 900 contract. The
| S446 900 contract was almost all in mort
cages, only S93, 900 having been paid. On
the S245, 600 mortgage about S25, 900 has
been paid and assumed by Mr.. Menage.
INNEs' COMPENSATION.
| In the last of December, 1881, he was at
| lion and had with him memorandum of
the basis upon which he proposed to make
the sale to Nh. Menage and told Mr.. Reming-
ton what he was trying to do and explained
that he should hold an interest with Mr..
Menage. Returning to Minneapolis he en-
| tered into negotiations with Menage and
when concluded it was agreed that the wit
| ness should have one-third Of the profits.
The witness said there was no agreement
| with Mr.. Remington when he first came
| here as to what compensation he should re-
ceive. When he came out here in 1878 Mr..
Remington said he was pressed for means
and told the witness to get along with as
little as possible and he would make it all
right This contract remained until July
| %, 1882, when written agreement was
made.
WHAT THE PROPERTY HAS BROUGHT.
Col. lines was here asked to state the
amounts received from the sale of the King
property and replied as follows:
Amounts received from the sale of lands
belonging to w. S. King and wife up to
| Jan. 81, 1882, were $50. 230; and since that
| time up to commencement of the action
were 1929, 700; from the lands in the same
| deeds, which are now claimed by Mrs.
King. up to Jan. 81, 'S2, S35, $50; since
| that date, $4,000.
The lands not in the deed of rs sold
prior to JAN 81, 1882. brought S74, 100;
| Press stock. S29, 200. Total of all sales,
S746, $40, of which amount S421, 600 is in
mortgages still outstanding.
The aggregate amount of the advances
| made by Mr. Remington to William S.
King was also asked of the witness, but he
could not answer from the data he had
with him.
ANOTHER WITNESS CONTRADICTED.
The witness said he did not remember
the conversation sworn to by Major Brown
| in which he (Innes) is reported to have
| said that he intended to save the Pioneer
Press stock for Mr.. King and denied sew
eral other specific conversations with Mr..
| Brown. This closed the direct eXamina-
ton.
| THE INSTRUMENTATION.
II. J. Van VoOrhis, the distinguished
| counsel from Rochester, Y, Y, for the
prosecution, moved forward and took a
seat facing the witness, and proceeded to
PROFOUND interrogatories in manner cal
| culated to disconcert Col. Innes. The
court came to the rescue of the witness
number of times, and prevented the at
torney from being too rough with him.
In answer to questions Col. lines said
he had been employed by P. Remington
4 Sons for four years before coming to
Minnesota as collector He was asked
what pay he received, but the question was
ruled out, on objection from the defense,
wherupon the prosecution offered to show
that he only received 1000.
Mr.. Van VOorhiS next asked what he did
| before he worked for the Remingtons, and
lines turned appealingly to the court with
''shaIl answer that?" The court said he
need not Mr.. Voorhis then said: This
man has denied the statements of witnesses;
we want to know who he is, what his
record is and where he came FROM" The
court, hSwever, ruled the question out as
immaterial
The witness next answered if he had
charged up his salary, and said he had at
So, 900 year, up to November, 1888, when
his agency ceased. He at that time COM
menced a new set of books.
A SPECIMEN TILT.
'Have you any objection to our examin-
| ing those books?" asked Mr.. Van Voor-
| his.
Il have" answered the colonel.