New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-07-17

faction with the donation of $4,000
which New Ulm has given to the coun.
ty for the purpose Of completing the
new court house, there are some that
claim that this is not enough and say
that if Sleepy Eye is able to give $50,
600 to secure the County seat, New
Ulm could afford the same thing in or.
der to keep it. We think it unnecess-
airy to state again that New .Ulm' offer
more than balances that Of Sleepy Eye
and will only say that $40, OOOis liber-
al gift and the main object in rendering
it is to enable the county commission
ers to put the new court house under
roof this fall, to protect it from ruin
and if possible to furnish county offices
and vaults enough in which to place the
county records for safe keeping. as the
old ones are entirely unsafe. Why New
Ulm cannot afford to give 100000 is a
matter of business. It Gin not 90 into
bankruptcy for the purpose Of keeping
thing which of right belongs to it. Il
has to reserve some credit for other
purposes. We have already stated that
the two railroads are headed toward
New Ulm, and they will be built some
time and these roads are expecting to
get bonuses. Now will the farmers of
Brown County come forward and say.
Here, we have as much benefit from
these new roads as has New Ulm and
we will chip in and help to pay these
bonuses?' We don't think that thew
will and don't expect them to do it; this
little bill which will amount to more
than 100000 will have to be footed by
New Ulm alone.
The Sleepy Eye Herald thinks there is
string attached to New Ulm's propos-
al to lease the upper story of the jail
building for $4,000. It wants to know
what there is in the lease that will pre-.
vent the commissioners from refundinp
the money to New Ulm at any time
after the removal question is settled.
Well there may be nothing of such
nature in the lease but what is there to
induce or warrant the commissioners to
such an act. Before two or three
months have elapsed the $40, 900 will be
represented by county buildings, as the
commissioners will let the contract in
all probability Immediately. New
Ulm certainly does not want the money
refunded that she has given as a gift
and if the Sleepy Eye people are So
doubtful of our commissioners and so
anxious that the county suffer nothing
by the removal, what is there to pre-
vent some future board of commission.
ers with the assistance of a friendly
legislature from refunding the $50, 900
invested by Sleepy Eye, provided that
the seat Is ever removed and the money
paid in and used to erect court house
buildings at that place? It is hard to
tell what some future board may do.
The Herald gives some queer figures
to prove that it is to the advantage of
the county to remove the county seat
to Sleepy Eye. For instance it saws
that it will cost the county $4,000,
additional to the $4,000 donated
by New Ulm, to complete the new
court house now under construc.
ton. In other words they estimate the
cost of the building at something like
$4,000, considering the $15, 900 already
invested. And yetSleepy Eye proposes
to rig out a court house and jail build
ing with the paltry sum of $50, 900
which will be sufficient to the demands
Of Brown County. Remarkable figures
those and hard to comprehend.
The editor of the ST. Peter Tribune.
Mr.. P. V. Collins, in commenting on
an article of the Manbato Review of
last week, insinuated in his paper
charges of bribery and Doodle against
Senator Bowen of the Sleepy Eye Her
aid, because that gentleman had invest
ed $4,000 in Duluth property. The
article was bitter one and SO worked
up its intended victim as to cause him
to take an early train to St. Peter and
demand a written apology. This was
refused and he of the Herald CON-
menced to spread it over the weakling
Of the Tribune in pugilistic style. It
was like a Lilliput matched against a
CULVER and Bowen succeeded admirab-
~ in doing him up. After the scrap
Bowen paid his fine of 1925 and re-
turned home, no doubt contented and at
ease. It isn't likely that this is the end
of the matter however.
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