The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-05-14

The return leap year dance will be
given Friday evening, May 22d.
The st. Agnes Guild was enter
tanned at the rectory last Friday after
noon by Miss Knowlton.
Late advices from the operations of
the Minnesota Gold Mining & Rein
ing Co., north of Delhi, are to the eff
feet that the stamp mill started up
Monday afternoon, under the new
system OF power. Everything ap-
pears to be working satisfactorily.
Our Redwood Falls township cor
respondent writes as follows: Chas.
Zuberbier was caller in the town the
past week, and, in an interview with
your correspondent said: eyes, The
GAZETTE is alright; it told just the
truth and nothing more about the kid
mapping affair at my honse. Other
paper told it to suit themselves"
DIR. and Mrs. w. d. Finn returned
over the Northwestern Tuesday after
noon from their extended trip through
the Southern States. DR.. Finn states
that the gubernatorial contest in
Louisiana is at fever heat, with the
prospect of the Democratic reelected
governor calling out the militia to de-
fend his reelection, which the Re-
publican candidate claims he is hold
ing by fraud.
The injunction served upon county
officers of Renville county restraining
them from moving from Olivia to
Beaver Falls will be heard by Judge
Weber in this city tomorrow. The
injunction was issued by the court
commissioner of Renville county. In
case it is dissolved by Judge Webber
the Olivia boomers will probably take
an appeal and will ask for a stay
pending the appeal.
William DuNoise, the employee on
the Gilhllan farm, who met with a
painful accident week ago dast Fri
day, is at st. Joseph's Hospital, St..
Paul. An operation was performed
upon him on the Saturday night of
his arrival and since that time his
bladder has been tapped twice. The
physician in charge of the case re-
ports that he has been doing nicely
and unless it becomes necessary to
again touch the bladder he will re-
cover.
The Minnesota Valley Historical So
ciety held meeting at the hall in
Morton on Tuesday of last week, &C.
cording to the Enterprise: The offic-
ers elected for the ensuing year were
G. D. Gilfillan president, RIB. Henton,
ST., vice-president, R. H. G. Human
secretary and F. W. Orth treasurer
President Gilfillan outlined the policy
of the society as being to collect histor-
ical facts and relics of the late war, as
we'll as otherwise, and also to place
monuments of more or less value to
mark historical points in the late In
dian war.
The case of j. F. Jones vs.. the
Northern Trust Co. as assignee of the
Citizens Bank came to an abrupt
end Monday afternoon, when Attor.
neys Smith and Bowers, for the de
tense, moved to dismiss the case on
the ground that Jones had not fur
nished a bill of particulars of amounts
claimed to be due him. Judge Web
Der granted the motion. The case
has cost Jones' father, H. F. Jones,
over $1,000, and he does not get a
cent of costs or CT the amount claimed.
Baldwin Harriet & Patterson we're
made attorneys for Jones just before
the case went to trial Monday morn
ing.
Auditor Anderson received word
from Attorney General Childs on Fri
day last to the effect that it was the
opinion of the attorney general that
the county commissioners had no right
to enter into contract with the city
whereby the commissioners, on part
of the county, we're to take the city's
certificates of Indebtedness and pay
for the construction of the sewer on
Second street from Washington av-
enue to the Jail. The opinion is rath-
or block on the commissioners, par
ticularly 80, in view OF the fact that
the grand jury last week roasted the
cess-pool system, and recommended
some other way for caring for the Jail
sewage.
At the regular monthly meeting of