The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-05-25
AUX CENTRE HERALD
THURSDAY. NAY rs, 1898.

THURSDAY. MAY 25, 1898.
THE HERALD is talking through its
spring bonnet. The facts are that the
plats are in the custody of Register of
Deeds Emmel, though not being on file.
As reasons for this Mr.. Emmel states
that he submitted the question OF
whether or not to file them to Capt. 0.
Taylor. the then county attorney, who
rendered an opinion that they Should
not be filed. first because the work had
been decided to be illegal by the district
court and second because they had not
been properly certified to by the board
of county commissioners, the county
auditor and the county surveyor. Vi
the piats made but three have ever been
paid for, sections 9, 10 and l6, and
though the others have never been paid
for and are rightfully the property of Mr..
Chute or his assigns, they are still IN Mr..
Emmel's Office. The HERALD's article
would lead the reader to suppose that
the county officials are anxious to have
this work done. The county auditor is
the only one interested, and he has no
choice in the matter, as the statute pro-
vides that he shall have surveys made
wherever the land is known to be unsur-
yeyed. The largest land owners IN the
affected districts are not making the OBJ
lection. however; it is only a few chrome
cranks.-[Journal-Press.
Inasmuch as our spring bonnet is OF
the approved open pattern it does not
distort any statements sifted through its
elegant style, and the HERALD reaffirms
all that it said, and could say much
more than it is disposed to do. II the
plats are now in the custody OF the regis
ter of deeds they have been replaced
there recently, or else the deputy county
officer sent here recently to investigate
the matter of new survey was strangely
misinformed, for he said that none OF the
pIats were to be found, and such has
been the understanding here for some
time.
Some one has blundered-or worse.
The county paid for these surveys, and
for the work done on sections 9, 10 and
16 the county surveyor received his
money, and so far as they are concerned
the account is closed-these plats there
can be no question about. They should
be on file and properly certified to by the
county surveyor, and if they are not
there has been direliction of official
duty by some one. So far as the other
plats are concerned Mr.. Chute, the
county surveyor, received his pay so Tar
us the proper county officials, the board
of supervisors, could pay him. They
audited his bill and ordered it paid. This
they clearly had no right to do providing
the county received nothing for the
money by them ordered to be paid. 1t
was their business to see that the work |
was satisfact orily and effectively COM
pleted when they audited his bill for it.
AS between the commissioners and Mr.. |
Chute the transaction was complete, |
and they were reprehensible If they failed |
to get the work for which they audited
a claim. The appeal from this order of
The commissioners cuts no figure what |
ever. That was matter that interested |
Mr.. Chute and the taxpayers, and if he |
felt aggrieved he had his remedy other |
than carrying away the records, if he
did so. Anyhow, they disappeared.
There was nothing in the HERALD's
article to indicate that the county off,
Gals were DESTROYS of having this work
done again-but there is ground for the
suspicion that interested parties are
quite anxious that Mr.. Chute's bill
which was successfully appealed from,
should be paid.
The assumption that the largest land
owners in the affected district ars salts
fed is gratuitous and unwarranted; but
admitting that it were true, few
chronic cranks, however chronic and
however cranky, have the same rights
and as many of them as the leyel-headed,
and oleaginous millionaire,
who may perchance own every foot of
land but one. That one footed crank
can't and wont be sneered out of his
rights. And the HEAALD reitsrates, upon
that any effort to reimpose
burdens OF taxation for a second survey
OF the property in question will precipi-
tate a legal fight which may develop
facts which will not be creditabIe to
some of the parties concerned. Having
sifted this much more through the same
spring bonnet, the HERALD merely re-
marks that there is lot more of coarser
facts still left in the bonnet which would
not 60 through the ornamental trim
mings, but will be dumped into the
Journal-Press's apron when desired.