The Redwood gazette., 1895-07-18
A BIG SHORTAGE.

| A BIG SHORTAGE.
The Revenue Fund Is $1,000 Shy
This Year.
The county commissioners have de-
cided that it will take $4,000 to de-
fray the running expenses of the
county during the ensuing year COM
mencing January 1st next and have
ordered tax levy for that amount.
There is going to be big deficiency
in the revenue fund before March of
next year, at which time the first
money for the new tax will commence
coming in. This deficiency is esti-
mated at between $1,000 and $1,000.
At present there is only 81, 1,273.S7 in
the fund and the warrants ordered
drawn at this session of the Board
will probably more than exhaust that
fund. The overdrafts will probably
be paid out of some of the other
funds, the total of which amount to a
little over $4,000.
The Board checked up the books of
the treasurer last week and found an
actual balance on hand of $40, ,49O.S1.
Of this amount there was $l5l.3S in
the hands of the treasurer, $3,374.S3
in the hands of the :nsolvent Citizens
Bank of Redwood Falls, $,237 80 in
the Redwood County Bank, $5,2l7.63
in the Bank of Redwood Falls,
$2,O84 in the Bank of Morgan and
So, ,8O1.S7 in the Citizens State Bank
of Lamberton. The miscellaneous
expenses fund amounts to $32.O2 and
orders paid but not charged amount
to $8724O.
The commissioners have notified
the bondsmen of the Citizens Bank
deposits that they would be held re-
sponsible for any shortage caused by
the banks insolvency.
According to the proceedings the
commissioners have called for a gen.
eral revenue jack pot of $4,000.
From this fund county officers re-
ceive their salaries, the court expenses
are paid, and all incidental matters
are settled. The jack pot wanted for
the poor fund is $1,000, for the road
and bridge fund $500, for railroad
bond interest $500, and for $1,000
Jail bond and interest on the total
$1,7OO, making a total of $4,000.
Part of the $4,000 for the general
revenue jack pot is to cover the di-
ficiency for past years. The commits
sioners claim that the levy for this
fund has been too small ever since the
court house was built. During that
year and for a year or two afterwards
the pot was $4,000; later it was re-
duced to $4,000, and then raised to
$4,000. The raise this year is $1,000
over last.
One year from next January or
January 1st, 1897, the $4,000 rail-
road bonds amount lg to $4,000 for
the county and $4,000 for the village
fall due. AS yet no sinking fund has
been created to polish the eye sore
and there will probably not be one
until the bonds tall due, when they
will be refunded at lower rate of in
terest and arrangements made for
taking up one or more each year.
There is strong sentiment against
taking the bonds up as soon as posi-
BILE, and thereby wiping out the debt.
Specimen Cases.
S. H. Clifford, New Castle, Wis,
was troubled with neuralgia and rheu-
matism, his stomach was disordered,
his liver was affected to an alarming
degree, appetite fell away, and he was
terribly reduced in flesh and strength.
Three bottles of Electric Bitters cured
him.
Edward Sheppard, Harrisburg, ILL.,,
had q running sore on his right leg of
eight years standing. Used three
bottles of Electric Bitters and seven
boxes OF Bucklen's Arnica Salve, and
his leg is sound and we'll. John
Speaker, Catawba, O., had five large
fever sores on his leg, doctors said he
was incurable. One bottle Electric