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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-05
Order to Examine Accounts, ETC.
NTATE OF MINNESOTA, MOWER


In Probate Court, special term, 1889.
In the Matter of the Estate o. Vincent Web
Der, deceased.
On reading and filing the petition of Henry
Weber and Katherine Weber. executor and
executrlx of the estate of Vincent Weber,
deceased, representing. among other things,
that they have fully administered said estate,
and praying that a time and place be fixed for
examining and allo wing their account of
their administration. and for the assignment
of the residue of said estate to heirs,
1t is ordered that said account be examined
and petition heard by the Judge Of this Court
on Monday, the oath day of June, a. D. 1889, at
ten O'Clock in the forenoon, at the Probate
Office at the city Of Austin in said county.
And it is further ordered that notice there.
of be given to all persons interested, by pub
fishing copy OF this order for three success
sive weeks prior to said day Of hearing, in the
MOWER COUNTY TRANSCRIPT q weekly news
parer, printed and published at theS city Of
Austin in said county.
Dated a: Austin, Minnesota, the 24+h day OF
May, A. D. 1889,
BY the Court.
[SEALl w. w. RANNEY,
lila Judge of Probate.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-05

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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-05

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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-05
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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-05
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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-06-15
Mortality Statistics.
washington. d c. Ma

Washington, D. c., May l, 1889.
To the Medical Profession:
The various medical associations and
the medical profession will be glad to
learn that DR.. Jones S. Billings, Sur
geon L. 5. Army, has consented to
take charge of the Report on the Nor
tally and Vital Statistics of the Uuited
States as returned by the Eleventh
census.
As the United States has no system
of registration of vital statistics, such
as is relied upon by other civilized ma
tons for the purpose of ascertaining
the actual movement of population,
our census affords the only opportunity
of obtaining near an approximate es
innate of the birth and death rates of
much the larger part of the country,
which is entirely unprovided with any
satisfactory system of State and mum
icipal registration.
In view of this, the Census Office,
during the month,of May this year, will
issue to the medical profession
throughout the country physician s
Registers" for the purpose of obtaining
more accurate returns of death than it
is possible for the enumerators to make
1t is earnestly hoped that physicians in
every part Of the country viii cooperate
with the Census Office in this import
ant work. The record should be kept
from June / 1889, to May 81, 1880.
Nearly $4,000 of these registration
books were filled up and returned to
the Office in 1850, and nearly all of them
used for statistical purposes. 1t is
hoped that double this number will be
obtained for the Eleventh Census.
Physicians not receiving Registers
can obtain them by sending their names
and addresses to the Census office, and,
with the Register, an official envelope
which requires no stamp will be pro-
vided for their return to Washington.
If al.medical land surgical practition-
'io 'iAAO''Sho'e tLC AOulllly VIII Itlil
their aid, the mortality and vital sta
tiStlc Of the Eleventh Census will be
more comprehensive and complete than
they ever have been. Every physician
should take personal pride in having
this report as full and accurate as it is
possible to make it.
1t is hereby promised that all informa-
ton obtained through this source shall
be held strictly confidential.
ROBERT G.. PORTER.
Superintendent of Census
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-06-15
The Samoan Settlement.

Pioneer Press
Those who took any stock in the in
.ane clustering of congress or the sen
'sational reports of filibustering CORE
spondentS i'll Samoa Will be surprised
at the apparent case with which all the
questions at issue have been settled by
the Berlin conference. 1t is only the
featherpated who, in these days, pirate
of war between the nations on account
of some trivial difference or misunder-
standing. But we probably have to
thank the adjournment of congress,
and the cessation of its brag and bul-
lying, for the case with which an agree
ment with Germany has been reached.
Most Americans Will regard the Sam
oan settlement with no little pride,
for, as outlined in the reports, it is a
practically complete yielding by Ger
many OF every point in debate, and a
concession to the American view of
the question. King Malietoa is to be
restored to his throne; and this, when
it is remembered that this removal was
compaSSed by German wileS and his
rival sustained upon the throne only by
German assistance, is wonderful
yielding. Next, the German claim for
heavy money indemnity is waived.
This was essential to any adjustment.
For the people of the Islands are deep
in poverty, and heavy claim standing
against them would mean only a finan-
cial serfdom completer than any pol
itical control. The government is to
he administered by native hands, and
the only foreign share in it is the crea-
ton Of an advisory council, in which
the United States, Germany and Eng
land shall be represented equally. This
Is the plan of agreement i'll which it
would appear that Germany has grant
ed all that could be asked. and the
United States scored every point that
could be desired
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-06-15
Iron, and Steel.

David T Day, the chief of the div.
ision of mining statistics and tech
nology of the United States geological
survey, in his annual report, which
Will be out OF press in q few days, Will
give us some interesting figures on the
mineral out put of the Union for the
year. As this section of the country Is
largely interested i'll iron matters, the
following figures, taken from advance
sheets of the report, viii be of interest
to our readers:
domestic iron ore consumed, about
Il, 060, 900 long tons; value az mines,
$28, $4,000. This is an increase over
1887 in quantity of $50 600 tons but
decrease III value of 1856, 200. I'M
ported iron ore consumed, 5S7 40 long
tons; total iron ore consumed in 1888,
about 2,650,00o long tons, or 150,00
tons more than in 1887. Pig iron
made i'll 1888, 9,4S9, 63S long tons; value
at furnace, $IO7 100000. This is an in
crease over 1857 of 1880 tons in
quantity, but decrease Of $14,925, 900
in value. Steel of all kinds produced
in 1888, 2,S99, 440 long tons; value at
works, $50 10000 This is a decrease
from 1887 of ass, 63l tons IN quantity
and of s1i,Sll 900 tons in value.
Total spot value of all iron and steel
made i'll 1888, in the first stage of man
ufacture, excluding all Implications,
$l45, 900, 900, a decrease of $25, 103, 600
as compared with 1887. Limestone
used as fuX in the manufacture of
pig iron in 1883, about 5,43S, 900 long
tons; value at quarry about s., 900"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-06-15
The Fury of the Waters.

By the bursting of the South Fork
dam at Johnstown, Pa, from $4,000 to
$4,000 lives were lost and S25 900, 600
worth Of property destroyed. Corpses
aoated down the Ohio river past Pitts
burg. seventy-e eight miles west Of Johns
town. The losses In New York, Penn
sylvania. Maryland, Virginia and West
Virginia from the great rainfall and
flood will not fall short OF $40, 000, Goo
The Johnstown calamity wss the direst
disaster by food that has ever overtaken
an English speaking people.
Fifteen years ago the dam at Mill
River, Mass, burst, causing terrible ruin
and loss of lie. In China, for centuries,
the banks Of the low lying Yellow river
have been damned and diked UP, as Is
done at present with the Southern Mis-
sissippi. Higher and higher above the
heads Of the people the Ievees were built,
until two years ago, 1887, the mighty
water rose In its strength, burst the
bonds which held 1t as though they had
been paper and destroyed half million
people.
Within o year two other artificial Iesez-
voirs, similar to that ct Johnstown. nave
broken their banks and caused wide -uin
and loss of life The first was at Montreux,
Switzerland, the second In South Amer
ica- There was one feature common to
all three of these dam disasters. The
embankments were known to be unsafe.
Repeated warnings had been given,
which were needed neither by the hap
less souls who dwelt in the path Of de-
struction, nor by those whose duty it was
to see that the works We're secure. In
any case mans puny strength can never
measure itself against the nature forces.
Sooner or later, be his achievement what
Hereafter men should think twice before
damming up great reservoirs upon hills
above towns and cities.
There remains to be recalled the awful
devastation Of the waters in the Straits
of Sunda, in the volcanic eruption of
krakatoa in the summer Of 1888. Fol-
lowing that eruption, tidal waves forty
feet high swept the shores of the straits
and islands. Forty thousand persons
were drowned by these waves. Vast
ruin by food has come upon different
parts of the earth in the past seven years.
In 1888 and "a in America happened
the fearful successive floods in the Ohio
valley. In the spring Of 1889 occurred
the breaking of the leyees and the over
flow Of the Mississippi, bringing terrible
destruction, sickness and loss of life
At Jackson, Miss, the river was at one
time sixty miles wide 1t would be in
teresting to know what peculiar atmos-
pheric or planetary disturbance has been
behind it all
The strapgest feature Of all In connec-
ton with the floods and ruin in the
United States is that the storm which
wrecked Johnstown seems to have gone
around the world. Within day or two
after our great storm, q hurricane and
water spout caused great destruction
and death at Reichenhach, Germany.
The same day there came from the
other side of the world news that 10000
lives had been lost in q hurricane at
Hong Kong.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-06-15
The ". P.'s Cfnch

Duluth News,
1t comes from a very good authority
that the Duluth, South Shore Il Allan
tic will not long brook the insults that
are being heaped upon it by the North
ern Pacific and that it will build its
own line between Duluth Junction and
Iron River. Several times General
Manager Fitch has been in st. Paul
to obtain notifications of the strict
rules under which he has been compel
led to run his trains between here and
Iron River, a distance of forty miles.
The Northern Pacific has been requir-
ing the South Shore to consume two
and as high as three hours to run in
from Iron River, which distance its
own trains cover in one hour and fifty
minutes. The Duluth, South Shore &
Atlantic is also charged rate of 70
cents per mile for each and every train
1t runs over the Northern Pacific's
track
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-06-15
pERiOR, WIS.,, SATURDAY, UUiE Is. 1859
Democratic EaischoOis.

Secretary Rusk is spending a few
days very pleasantly with his old friends
in Madison. He is cordially greeted
by nearly every person he meets, and
he has kind word for all The secret
airy never looked better. His every
appearance indicates that health and
happiness reign with the powers at
Washington. If there were the WoTry,
discord and general trouble existing
between the cabinet officials that de-
mocratic papers claim there is, no
member of what cabinet could present
the fresh appearance, the contented,
happy and jolly look, that General Rusk
now presents. Everything surely goes
we'll with him. and his hosts Of friends
rejoice in his perfect restoration to
health. He says he was never i'll better
condition, and he is enjoying in high
degree his visit to his old home and
friend i'll Wisconsin.
Referring to democratic charges of a
want of harmony i'll the cabinet and diff
ferences with the president, Secretary
Rusk declares most emphatically that
there is no truth in them; that the I'M
most good feeling exists between the
president and every member of the cabi-
net; that questions Of Importance are
discussed freely and in the most friend
ly manner; that all are actuated with
Il desire to advance the interests of the
country III all possible ways, and seek
to inaugurate the surest means for the
accomplishment of that desirable OBJ
ject. These democratic falsehoods will
surely prove a bad investment to that
party, as they become known to the
people, as will certainly be the case
within short time:
Another point to which Secretary
Rusk referred was the great hue and
cry made III the democratic press about
the appointment of relatives of the
president to office He says that the
only appointment Of any one who could
claim kinship that ought TO count was
the selection of brother as marshal in
one of the Tennessee districts; that i'll
this case, the appointment was asked
for by the people of the district in large
numbers, and that there was no other
candidate presented for the place.
Under such circumstances, it would be
difficult not to make the appointment.
Candidate was especially honest and
trustworthy III every respect, and was
the one the people desired should have
the place. 1t has been insisted in de-
mocratic papers that DR.. Scott, the
fatherin-law of the president had been
appointed to Office. The facts are that
the Rev. DR. Scott had held clerk
Ship in Washington for several years
previous to the Inauguration of Pres
ident Harrison, and soon after the 4th
of March that distinguished divine
resigned his position. So much for this
falSehood.
Considering the many things that
arise to embarrass new administra-
ton during the first few months, the
present one is progressing nobly and
satisfying party friends to a degree
rarely, If ever, exceeded in the past
history of the cOuntry.-State Journal.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-06-15
A Synopsis of The Tax Laws OF Wis
cOnsin.

Taxes are due and payable to the
town treasurer Of each town on the sec
ond Monday in December of each year.
The treasurer charges two per cent
collectors fee in addition to the tax
levied. After the l0,h of January fol-
lowing, five per cent, is added as col
lector'S fees.
1t is customary for town boards to
extend the time for the town treasurer
collect taxes until about the middle of
March, after which time the taxes re-
naming unpaid are turned over to
the county treasurer with five per cent
added TO the original amount.
Thereafter. and until the third Tues
day in May, taxes are payable to the
county treasurer, adding interest there
to at the rate Of one per cent. per
month from the first day of January.
On the first Monday in April OF each
year the county treasurer adYertises
for sale all lands and lots on which the
taxes are unpaid at that date. For
advertising an additional twenty FIVE
cent fee is charged.
On the third Tuesday of May all
lands on which the taxes remain I'M
paid are offered for sale at public auc-
ton by the county treasurer. The bid
| der who pays the amount of tax, III
| terest and fees, for the smallest amount
of land offered, becomes the purchaser,
| and has 4 tax certificate issued to him
which, if not redeemed before the ex-
piration Of three years. a tax deed will
be issued
| After the tax sale-a fee of twenty
FIVE cents is added for selling, and the
| books are turned over to the county
clerk, who charges twenty-five per cent.
interest besides fee of thirty cents on
single redemptions and five cents each
for additional descriptions.
When advertised for tax deed an
other thirty cent fee is added by the
county clerk.
After tax deed has been issued and
recorded the right to redeem expires,
except in the case of minors and insane
| persons.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-06-15
Successive Ocean Steamer Records.


Fifteen days was considered very
quick time In which to cross the Allan
tic forty years ago. The steamers were
very small The iron screw propeller
was not brought into use till 1853. 1t
was not believed In at oil, being tried
first as doubtful experiment. In 1855
steamer made the ocean journey in 10
days, 6 hours and Z minutes. 1t was as
great an achievement then Us the trip of
The City Of Paris In less than six days is
now. In 1874 the Bothnia brought the
time down to nine days. In 1876 the
Britannia crossed In days, IS hours and
90 minutes. In 1887 tire Umtria crossed
the ocean in days. 4 hours. 40 minutes.
In 1888 the Etruria made the voyage in
6 days, l hour, IS minutes. In May of
this year the City Of Paris crossed Ia 8
days, 80 hours, minutes. When will
this record be beaten?
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-06-15

Several other pension cases that were
regranted by assistant secretary Bus
sey. They all turn on the question of
whether the injuries were received by
the applicant while in the Zine of
duty" Gen. BuSsey holds, substantial
~, i'll all the decisions he has made,
that any injury received by a soldier,
III any manner, except through his own
neglect or carelessnesS, between the
dates of his enlistment and discharge
may be considered as occurring in the
lime of duty" Gen. Bussey seems to
believe in giving the poor soldier, in
stead of the wealthy governments, the
benefit of amy doubt that may arise
III considering his claim for the nen-
sion. And. like Gen. Harrison, he is
opposed to using the apotheeary's
scales to measure the merits of the
union veterans.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-06-15
A Riparian Decision.

The following decision rendered by
Chief Justice Gillian, of Minnesota, is
on a Duluth case, but as some of our
people may soon be called upon to con
test some such case, it Will not be void
of interest to property holders on this
side of the bay. The decision was rem
dered last Monday and was in the case
Of II. III. Hanford ct ell, VS.. st. Paul &
Duluth railroad The order of the
lower court is reversed. 1.-The person
entitled to the exclusive rights TO pos
sess and use land abutting on a navi-
gable river or lake is also, though he
does not own the fee, entitled to enjoy
the riparian rights incident to the
land, and so where a railroad company
procured to be condemned for its use
land abutting on the bay of St Louis,
it acquired the riparian rights belong
ing to it, although the petition for con
demnation made no express mention
of such rights"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-06-15

The late Wisconsin legislature en-
acted a law prohibiting for term of
five years the setting of pound nets
ON the main shore of Lake Superior
from Montreal river to the St. Louis
river. Indian reservations occupy
about all of said shore line that is de-
sirable for fishing purposes; the Indians
refuse TO obey the law, stating, through
their eX-ageIt, that the state has no
control over the water bordering on
their reservations. The FishwarIen
has referred the matter to the attorney
general and, awaiting his opinion.
other parties are advised to go slow
Bayfield, Press.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-06-15

We hear that our city is paying
for some of the private tree planting
that was done this spring. How is
thiS2 We tried to have two or three
old dead stubs removed from in front
OF our residence and good trees put i'll
their place but could not get it done
because there was no funds, while at
the same time others are getting loads
OF trees at the public expense, some of
which went on private grounds. We
do not exactly like this kind of work.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-06-15

Secretary Rusk is the only cabi-
net officer who uses gold pen. That's
just the way with hornyhanded sons of
toll; give them chance and they are
the very first ones to &" sling on style"
Pioneer Press.
Judgment affirmed Last winter ex-
senator Burrows gave a banquet at
Madison, and among his guests weere
the Governor Of Wisconsin and the
three other aspirants for the same
position in the republican convention,
who were cut down 50 ruthlesSly in
the flower of their youth, by the grang
er scythe of Farmer Hoard. At this
banquet aforesaid, the farmer Cover
nor appeared in swallow-tail coat,
white neck-tie, and Walt Greene affi-
rmed that his mustaches were waXed;
While Ed. McFetridge was there with
one suspender, coat with two buttons
gone, and an ancient neck tie encircled
his neck. Hold Taylor was clothed in
a pair of Kentucky jeans, and shiny
frock garment that he had borrowed
from Judge Humphrey. The other sur
vivor was wrapped in a suit of Chip
pewa Falls cloth, looking as plain as a
Trempeleau sheep just after steering
time. And when the eyes of the three
| looked at the farmer Governor who
had SO uncerimoniously ''downed"
them, is it any wonder that astonish-
ment filled their souls, while each one
was heard to murmur that little refrain
of Truthful James anent the Celes-
! tial:
and he played it on William and
me in a way despise."
Again this court arisesto remark:
! The judgment of the Pioneer Press is
unanimously affirmed. - Gen. Ginty
/ in Chippewa Herald.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-06-15

The people of this town cannot
afford to put in sewers, water pipe,
grade, and pave their streets all at once.
Why not give us one good plank road
from the Court House to third street
in West End, and then plank a few of
the side streets most used. This would
last for some years, and in the mean
time the piping and grading of the
other streets could be done and the
ground gwen chance to settle for the
parementS.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-06-15

The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph
says plainly that Pennsylvanians should
make good all losses TO the survivors of
the Johnstown flood. Had the laws Of
the state properly guarded the interests
Of the Conemaugh valley the disaster
never would have occurred" says The
Telegraph. A loose dirt wall confined
vast weight of water in the artificial res
ervoir of the Pittsburg Fishing club