New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-01-23
COMMUNICATED.
EDITOR REVIEW:

Please allow me little space in the
columns of your valuable paper for the
purpose of replying 20 and throwing a
little light on what appeared under the
heading of County Commissioner
Proceedings in your lastissue. Among
| the different resolutions passed by the
honorable board Of county commission
ers of this county and so published. We
find the following:
s'The Board having visited and in
spected the Jail and court-rooms, agreed
to the following, to-wit: Resolved that
the sheriff is hereby requested to keep
the Jail and court-rooms in little better
order as the same are less clean than
they might be-.
| admit that the Jail and courtroom
! Inspectors, after beng shown through
all the dark recesses of the building,
found a few cob-webs in the corner
near the ceiling of one Of the jury rooms,
which they would have entirely passed
bylon their tour of inspection, had not
! particular room.
This is Gll they found and even com.
plimented me on the condition of the
Jail and especially for the pure, fresh
air. streaming bountifully through tie
spacious corridor and well.lighed cells,
which nature provided for the inmates
thereof.
The jail and courtroom was carefully
examined and inspected by the last
grand jury, who had a perfect right to
exercise these functions, and found
everything in good order and condition,
but they most likely did not do their
work SO thoroughly as the jail and
courtroom inspectors.
/ Now as a matter of fact, the jail and
! courtroom were in just as good order
and condition at the time of the annual
inspection tour by the honorable board
of county commissioners. as they were
about a month prior thereto, when the
grand jury of the county performed
their duty. The way man performes
his duty and the good order and clean
illness which prevails in his own apart
ments, is usually good rule and guide
for his subordinates to initiate. l had
occasion during the session of the hon.
orable board of county commissioners,
when this law and order resolution was
duly passed, to appear before them on
business. There in the chamber, where
the honorable board Wasltransacting its
official business, any person with one
i eye could see cob-webs IN numbers hang
all over the hooks and corners of the
ceiling, and to common observer it
appeared as it they were placed there
as necessary ornaments.
1 The undersigned had no intimation
sr,f hod Of 1,,
ton, until he saw it in public print, and
has received no other official notifca-
ton thereof since. except, ''that the
sheriff is hereby requested, ETC., /" and
that is the reason why the sheriffis COM
PEELED hereby to answer to that appro-
pirate manner in which the request OF
the honorable board of county commits
sioners was made. A person reading
the resolution and NOT acquainted with
tho facts, would ordinarily believe, that
the sheriff of Brown County had diver
ted the use OF that notable structure
from its proper purposes, but let me. as
sure yon that tits far from it, even If q
sob-web which is liable to form within
81 tWenty-four hours, at the annual in
spection ornamented nook in one of
I the jury rooms not in use between terms
of.conrt.
j am rather charitably inclined and
], feel like pardoning the honorable board
= of county commissioners for singing
out the sheriff with their famous law
and order resolution and causing him
to feel aggrieved for their very polite
and appropriate request, although some
other and different reasons may have
prompted them to exercise their sound
discretion, because this was the first
Jail and court house inspection by them
held during the last four years to the
knowledge of the undersigned.
Dated New Ulm, Mimi, Jan. 18th, 1889.
6 JOHN b. SCHMID.
I. Sheriff of Brown County.
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