The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-08-30

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bright, sharp answers furnished much
amusement, and his remarks on mus
tard blossoms and honey we're laugh
able. When Mr.. Hughes asked him
about the quantity of mustard seed in
the sack, he tactly replied:
1Do you suppose am going to pick
the mustard seed from the pigeon
grass, barley and oats9" and there was
laughter at Mr.. Hughes expense.
did you give him the screenings
from your whole crop'"
''Ohr ye gods! no." and when the
laughter over this remark subsided,
Archie said that it was just from a
load Of wheat, and that he merely
saved the wheat to accommodate his
friend, Watson.
E. b Sommers, farmer residing
southwest of town, and Watson's IA
ther-in-law, testified that in the fall of
1898 either in September or October
he, at Watson's request, took sack
filed with something, from the Red
wood House to Watson's residence.
Watson, he said, never entertained a
very friendly feeling for Bowers. On
cross-examination Mr.. Sommers reaf-
Grmed the statement that he did not
know what the sack contained. On
redirect he said that he heard Watson
say he would like to give Bowers a
good thrashing and called Bowers a
s. of a b
'You don't know whether he called
him by the right name?" put in Mr.
Hughes, and Mr.. Sommers refused to
answer. Sommers said that Bowers
had Watson arrested and fined at the
time.
Monroe Baldwin, of the Redwood
House, testified that the screenings
we're taken away a week or ten days
after they we're brought. He noticed
that the sack contained barley and
mustard seed. Milloy turned it from
his sack into Baldwin's sack. Watson
was not present at the time, but he
had made several inquiries as to wheth.
or Milloy had left the mustard seed
This was in early summer.
George Starin, was the next witness
called. He was staying with Watson
last October. He helped SOW, what
Watson called mustard, on Bowers
farm. 1t was on Saturday evening
Oct. IA. Grant, Rohrer and Watson
asked me whether I did not want to
go to town. Replying afirmatively.
they drove west to Bowers farm, in
stead, and when we got there Grant
Watson and I sowed the mustard
Grant had rope tied around him and
the other end was tied around me and
Watson was in the center, and in this
way we walked across the land and
scattered the seed Each one of us
bad sack. I sowed it very thick
throwing double hands full. This was
about nine o'clock at night. The sack
was in the buggy when I got in. Rohr.
or remained in the buggy and drove
up and down west of the farm while
we we're sowing. On cross-examina-
ton Starin said that he understood
Grant and Rohrer to say that they
were going to town. Nothing was said
as to what was going on, when they
got into the buggy. Watson had three
or four empty sacks in his hand. On
the way out Grant and Watson were
discussing as to which was Bowers
place. When we got there I jumped
out with the rest of them, and Watson
told me that he was going to SOW some
mustard seed for his bees, and
thought so too. I think Watson tied
the rope on both of us, he said, to
keep us separated, and I believed it
was so. Watson poured the seed from
one sack into the other, and I put one
sack around my neck. Watson said
that he had a grudge against Bowers,
and that Bowers would have nice
time getting the mustard out ,and that
1--WE would haye hell and honey all
summer"
In hot cross fire Mr.. Hughs ques-
toned Starin as to whether he had
"done time" in a Kansas prison or a
Minneapolis workhouse, and as to
whether he stole an overcoat of Mr.
Burch, in Renville county, and before
Mr.. Pierce could interpose an objec-