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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-12-28

settle in New Mexico permanently,
when the irrigation system becomes
general, then we will have one Of
the first territories or States in the
Union. There the finest peaches,
pears and apples grow, and there
can be grown almost everything
in the line of grain. Minerals are
found there, and tor scenic wonders
New Mexico has, her share. For
towns, she has Albuquerque, almost
entirely Americana progressive
city, beautiful Las Vegas with it's
mineral springs, and many others,
and all of them delightful places to
reside in. .
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Of the $1O2, 1883 to be raised
from real and personal property tax
es for 1897, So, 953. 30 is to 60 to the
State for revenue, soldiers relief
and funding tax funds.
OF the amount raised for school
purposes Sc, 1850 is to go to the
State as the one and 23-1OOths mill
fund, $4,974.29 is to 60 for the local
one mill tax fund, $40, 347 81 for the
special school tax fund, out of which
latter amount must come 81, SIG. %
for paying school bonds and interest
of the various distaicts holding State
loans.
Of the taxes raised for the county
$14, 927.O7 will be used for revenue,
s., 1922. 50 for interest, 1894. Sc for the
poor fund, and $2,365.47 for other
purposes.
This city should receive 50, 49, 3
as special tax, while the townships
will have S., 3O5.O9 divided among
them as a township tax, $2,272.75 as
a delinquent road tax, and So, 767. OF
for other special taxes.
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ACREAGE AND TAXES.
Valuation of Land About One Third
of Actual Value.

There are SAB, 592 98-1OO acres of
land, exclusive of town lots, in Red
wood county, according to state
ment just prepared by Auditor An
derson. This land has a valuation
of So, 1871, 1856, according to the same
authority, or a real valuation of
about three times as much. The
township having the largestacreage,
exclusive of town, village or city lots,
is Kintire, which comes Up with the
fractional acre over "a, 634 acres.
Shutdown comes next with fraction
over 23,003 acres. Brookville,
Charlestown, Johnsonville, Morgan,
North Hero, New Avon, Sheridan,
Springdale, Vail, Vesta Waterbury
and Willow Lake all have between
1000 and $4,000 acres. Granite
Rock, Lamberton, Paxton, Redwood
Falls, Three Lakes and Underwood
have between Fl, 900 and %, 600 acres.
Delhi and Westline have between
20, 900 and 1000 acres. Sherman
has II, 1877 acres, Swedes Forest H.
I'll acres, and Homer brings up the
rear of the townships with only s.
051 acres.
In the village or city lots sched-
ule Charlestown has lots with i'm
provements valued at $23, 095-this
including all ofSanborn. Delhi has
a lot valuation of So, 100; Homer, or
North Redwood, of 81, $50; Kintire,
or Belview, of 1891; Lamberton,
of S., 652; North Hero, of 81, 615; Pax
ton, of $105; Morgan village of $780,,
$50; Lamberton village of $61, 178;
Walnut Grove of $25, $40; Redwood
Falls Of 1903, 1902.
The average tax valuation per
acre of land in the different town
ships, according to the returns on
which the 1897 taxes are based, is
only aboutone- third Of the real value,
and is as follows:
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sition, although it was admitted that
the State had such right, and Mr..
Tenney then concluded to have the
company on his bond to the State
anyway. At the same time he ad-
dressed letter to Judge Weber on
the question of the rights of the
county commissioners to accept a
surety company as his surety on the
county bond, and also wrote the
different members of the board on
the proposition. Last week. he re-
ceived a letter from Judge Weber
to effect that the statutes, made
such a bond a legal document, and
if the commissioners were willing
TO accept the same, there was no
doubt of it's validity. About the
same time letters came in from the
different commissioners, and all of
them went on record as preferring
reliable surety company as surety
on such bond than a whole lot of
individuals, the financial standing
of any one ofwhom is liable to change
at any time.
AS soon as Mr.. Tenney heard from
these different parties he concluded
to release all of his promised bonds
men, and has since directed the
National Surety Co. to prepare the
bonds for both State and county.
It is understood that the premium
paid by Mr.. Tenney to the Surety
Co, for the two risks-State and
county-is only 500 per year.
The Surety Co. has for it's Board
of Directors and stockholders such
men as Hon. John A. Mccall, Presi-
dent of the New York Life Insurance
Co., Hon. VIM. B. Hornblower, a
wealthy and leading New York at
torney, Hon. Perry Belmont, a New
York capitalist, H. E. Huntington,
of San Francisco, dictator of the
Pacific coast railways, George J..
Gould, son and manager of the late
J. Gould and estate, Chauncey M.
Dephew, and many others equally
as prominent in the financial world.
If the bond of Mr.. Tenney is &C.
cepted, as there seems to be little
doubt of at the present time, it will
be the first bond of the kind direct
ly dealing with the history of Red
wood county. Italso probably means
that sooner or later about all of the
bonds of county officials, will contain
a surety company as surety, instead
of individuals, welcome relief to
both officers and citizens, and GER
tainly the county commissioners,
who now have to pass on the finan-
cial standing of every individual
who signs bond
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Two Pointed Questions Answered.

What is the use of making better
article than your competitor if you can
not get better price tor it?
Ans-As there is no difference in the
price the public will buy only the
better, so that while our profits may be
smaller on a single sale they will be
much greater in the aggregate.
How can you get the public to know
your make is the best?
If both articles are brought promi-
nently before the public both are certain
to be tried and the public will very
quickly pass judgment on them and
use only the better one.
This explains the large sale on
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. The
people have been using it for years and
have found that it can always be de.
pended upon. They may occasionally
take up with some fashionable novelty
put forth with exaggerated claims, but
are certain to return to the one remedy
that they know to be reliable, and fol
coughs, colds and Group there il
nothing equal to Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy, For sale by Hitchcock & Co.
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Competent girl wanted for general
house work at Hitchcock's. 4-tf.

THE GAZETTE 81 per year.
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REVENUE STAMPS.
An Interesting Decision by New
York Court.

It may interest some here to learn
that New York court has just de-
cided that "a failure to comply with
the war revenue law is a matter
with which the Register has moth
to do. The duty of the Register is
to record or file in his Office those
instruments or papers which by the
laws of the state are entitled to be
recorded or filed. Whether in the
making or execution Of such instru-
ments the parties thereto have made
valid instruments or not is not
his province to determine. In a
case arising under the revenue law
of 1861, it was held that it was not
in the constitutional power of con-
gress to provide for the state rule
for the state for the transfer of prop
erty, and that a deed is valid to
prove title though not stamped: and
it was held that congress cannot
make rules of evidence for state
courts.
1T is true that by sections IA and
Is of the revenue laws of 1898 it is
provided:
That hereafter no instrument,
paper or document required by law
to be stamped which has been signed
or issued without being duly stamped
or with deficient stamp, nor any
copy thereof, shall be recorded Or
admitted or used in evidence in any
court until legal stamp or stamps
denoting the amount Of tax shall
have been affixed thereto as pre-
scrihed by law, and that the record,
registry, or transfer of any such in
strument upon which the proper
stamp or stamps aforesaid shall not
have been affixed and cancelled as
aforesaid shall not be used in evil
dence.
ut is apparent that these regula-
tions apply only to records pursu-
ant to United States statutes and to
evidence admissible in courts of the
United States, as has already been
decided by the Court of Appeals Of
this State in regard to provisions Of
the previous revenue law. The
congress of the United States can
not control the rules of evidence in
courts Of this State, nor the legality
Of contracts made, executed or to be
performed within it's borders, ex-
cept such contracts as relate to sub
iects over which the United States
have jurisdiction.
'The responsibility of seeing that
the proper stamp is affixed rests
upon the parties to the instrument,
and the registeri is nomore required
to determine the validity under the
United States revenue laws of an in
strument offered for record than he
would be to determine whether
deed offered for record contravened
some statute Of the State or was Of
fered was the purpose of defrauding
creditors, or for any other reason
was invalid and void. To hold that
such duty rested upon the regis
ter would be to constitute him a
judicial instead Of ministerial
officer. =
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-12-28
MR.. TENNEY'S BONDS.
National Surety Co. Will Sign Coun-
ty and State.

In all probabilities the National
Surety Company of New York will
be the surety Of Treasurer-elect W.
P. Tenney, who, before assuming
the duties of the Office of treasurer
of Redwood county, will be required
to give bond satisfactory to the
county commissioners, in the sum
of $50, 900 for the safe care of the
county funds, and another bond to
the State in the sum Of $25, 1000 for
the proper handling of the funds be-
longing to the State, and passing
through the hands of the county
treasurer. f..t
Such action on the part of Mr.
Tenney is not because he could not
get bondsmen among the men who
have been his friends and acquaint-
ances for the past 25 years or more.
Indeed, many of them had volun-
teered to qualify on such a bond,
and two weeks ago nearly the entire
$50, 900 of the county bond had been
pledged and it was Mr.. Tenney's
desire not to be obligated to these
friends, and also to give what is un-
doubtedly a much better and easier
collectable bond to Redwood county.
About three weeks ago he received
a proposition from the National Sur
ETY. Co. to act as his surety. At that
time there was some doubt as to
whether the county commissioners
had right to accept such a propo-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-12-28
TWO People Cured.

I was helpless and on crutches when
1 came to DR.. Graham, and my wife
was suffering severely. We can't say
enough in praise of the Doctors skill
in helping us and his exceptional kind
ness to us. ISAAC REECE.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-12-28

Remember the sale of McGetrick's
livery outfit, Dec. 10Th. Everything
goes to the highest bidder. 1927.
Do you know that we make picture
frames and sell window curtains at
rock bottom prices?
37-t.f. BvRGEN Bios.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-12-28

The success that has attended the use
of DR.. J. H. McLean's Volcanic Oil
Liniment in the relief of pain and
in curing diseases which seemed be.
yond the reach of medicine, has been
truly remarkable. Hundreds supposed
to be crippled for life, with arms or legs
drawn up, crooked or distorted, their
muscles contracted by disease, have
been cured through the use of this
remedy. Price Csc, SOC and 81 bottle
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-12-28
To Our Debtors.

You asked for credit and received it
Kindly return favor by calling and
settling same at Redwood Falls Found.
~ or Commercial House.
A. GEO. DAVIS.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-12-28

Good wages paid for competent girl
to do general house work. Apply to
E. A. Pease.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-12-28

81 500 to loan on easy terms by e. E.
Harriott.. 27-tf.
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TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money If 1T fails to cure
csc, The genuine has L. B. @. on each
tablet. l4-5mo.
Evening journal., 1898-01-13
some roIIey nolaer. wm snlrsr.

BOSTON, Jan. 1S.-Judge Holmes OF
the supreme court. on an important
question of law arising in the case Of
Merrill, insurance commissioner, against
the Commonwealth Mutual Fire Insur-
ance company, has decided that the
policy holders who sustained losses by
fire between the date Of filing the bill
in the case and the time OF making the
appointment of w. ID. Stevens as re-
ceiver had no right TO share in the
funds in the hands of the receiver with
those whose claims for losses accrued
before the bill was filed. The case will
go to the full bench.
Evening journal., 1898-01-13
EXEMPT FROM DUTY.
Canadian Government VIII Not Tax Per-
sonal Effects of KIondiiSe Miners.

Canadian Government VIII Not Tax Per-
sonal Effects of KlondiIse Miners.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.-When Mr..
Sifton, the Canadian minister Of the in
terror, was in Washington, Assistant
Secretary Howell Of the treasury de-
partment brought TO his attention nu-
merous complaints that had been made
to the department to the effect that the
miners going into the Klondike were
taxed upon their personal effects car
ried in. Mr.. Sifton promised to lay the
matter before his colleagues in the Ca
madam cabinet and endeavor to remove
the causes of complaint
Mr.. Howell has now received a tele-
gram from him stating that the council
had adopted the same provision as to
the admission Of personal effects as
that contained in the United States
tariff acts In other words. wearing ap-
parel personal effects and toilet arti-
cles taken into Canada by the miners
will be exempted from duty.
Evening journal., 1898-01-13
A Curious Frenoh Law.

Owing TO the existence Of a peculiar
law in France, which exacts ahat "any
person named or referred 70 in any
periodical publication shall have the
right to reply in the nextnumber in the
same place and in the same type, pro-
viding the reply does not extend TO
more than twice the length of the
offending article" one of the fortbcom-
ing numbers Of the Revue des Deux
Mondes. the most important and in
iluential monthly review in France
win contain an article OF unusual
length, and couched in extravagant
language, which will appear in its
pages in spite of the opposition Of the
editor. It will bear the signature Of a
dramatic author, who, infuriated by
the nature of the criticism passed by
the Revue on one Of his plays, has in
voked his rights under article 13 Of the
press nws, rights which were in vain
contested by the editor.-N. Y. Sun.
Evening journal., 1898-01-13
MRS. M'cusKER FREED.
Acquitted OF tho Charge OF Numbering
Her Husband.

her Husband.
CAMDEN, N. j., Jan. 1s.-AIrs. Flor
ence McCusker, charged with the muir
der Of her husband Michael by shoot
ing him on Nov last has been ac-
quilted by the jury In Judge Garrison's
court The trial for the life Of the first
woman so jeopardized in this county
was dramatic throughout and ended
with an appropriate climax.
The jury spent 1ik hours celebrating,
and when they returned and announced
the finding the handsome young prison.
er uttered a convulsive "Oh" swayed
to and fro. while the tears rained from
her eyes. and then toppled over in a
faint. Her aged mother fell on her
knees and cried, THANK Godl" while
the crowd of friends and relatives
pressing about the dock grew so great
that it became necessary to clear the
room.
A different scene was meanwhile en-
acted few feet away, where the rela-
tives of the dead man were. When the
verdict was announced his old mother
sobbed aloud, and his sister cried out.
"She may go free, but she is a murder
ess just the same"
The defense was that the shooting
was accidental, and the result accords
with general expectation.
Evening journal., 1898-01-13
DIAMONDS IN A eRAve.
The Long search for The Hoard Left
by Jncques Dupont.

ny jacques Dupont.
Everybody who has worked in the
Maine logging camps has heard the
story of Jacques Dupont and the great
bag of glittering diamonds which he
hid away in his daughters grave some-
where along the headwaters of the
Aroostool1 river. Is is a creepy tale Of
cunning and covotousness, such as'the
residents Of Maine and Canada liked to
tell hundred years ago. Itwas related.
so often that everybody believed II, and
It was handed down from generation to
generation until Il retains all its youth
ful vigor to-day. Though few people Of
the present generation take much stock
in the narrative, at least one diamond
of the hoard has been found within 90
years. It was taken to a Boston ieweler,
who offered $500 for the gem, butJerry
Harper, the man who found It. sus-
pected the stone was worth more, and
carried ituntil he had taken a few more
glasses of liquor and then left e in q
fremont street barroom as security for
the drinks. When he called later to re-
cover his property the bartender had
gone, and taken the diamond with him.
According to all accounts-and they
agree remarkably well-Jacques Du-
pont was q gem merchant Of Paris, who
went to Quebec about 1850 TO sell
diamonds and other precious stones TO
the French army officers Of the garrl-
son. He sold n large number Of
diamonds, taking his pay in gold and
beaver skins, which were Just as good.
Later his daughter Lucy came across,
bringing more gems and a beautiful
face, which latter set all the officers half
wild with admiration. II is claimed
that Gen. Wolfe would never have
climbed to the plains Of Abraham in the
darkness Of a September morning in
1889 If the officer of the guard had not
been asleep with an overdose Of wine,
taken at a party given in Lucy's honor
the night before.
After the fall of Quebec Dupont took
his daughter and his diamonds and
struck south through the wilderness,
hoping 10 reach the Acadian settle
ments at Grand Falls and dispose of the
balance Of his stock. Though the woods
were full Of painted and warlilte Indi-
ans at the time, they were all friendly
to the French, so the party Travelled the
whole way under an escort of admiring
savages. All went well until they
reached Edmundston, where Mile.
Lucy was taken with smallpox. There
upon every redskln turned upon the old
man and daughter and drove them out
of the settlement, forcing them into the
upeNplored woods along the Aroostools
river. Six months later Dupont came
out to Grand Falls alone, saying that
Lucy had died from exposure, and that
he had buried her in a stone fomb near
waterfall and had covered her body
with gold coins, diamonds, and beaver
skins. Soon after this he returned tc
France, where he died.-Chicago Inter
| Ocean.
Evening journal., 1898-01-13
CLEVER sIAMEsE elRLs.

Those Trained fn Danoinn Can pick
UP straws with Their Eyelids.
Tho dancing girls Of Siam arc re-
marizabls Tor De ogihty and grooa q
their movemeDas. The CUP dance 80 tho
prettiest and most poetic OF an. A row
of young girls, with a tier Of cups on
their heads, take their places in the
middle Of the great hall A burst OF
Joyous music follow& On bearlng this
they simultaneously, with military pre-
cision, kneel down, foidtheir hands and
bow their heads until their foreheads
almost touch the polished marble floor,
keeping thecups steadilyon their heads
by some marvellous jerk of the neck.
Then, suddenly springing TO their feet,
they describe n succession Of rapid aud
intricate circles. keeping time to the
music with their arms, head and feet.
Next the music sweiis into a rapturous
tumult. The dancers raise their delicate
feet, curve their arms and fingers in
almost impossible flexnres, sway to and
fro like withes of willow, agitate all the
muscles Of the body like the flutter of
leaves IN the soft evening breeze, but
still keep the cups on their heads.
The dancing girls Of Bangkok are al
ways exercising in the royal gym
nasium. Their ages vary from five TO
twenty years. The curious and subtle
feat of picking up bit Of straw with
the eyelids can be learned only by the
youngest of them, who are made TO
practice it in order to render them
flexible in every part OF the body. There
are two long rows Of benches, one a lit
tie higher than the other. On the
lower is a row Of little girls and on the
upper bench are laid the polished bits
of straw. At the sound Of the drum the
little girls all together bend back the
head and neck until they touch the bits
of straw, which, with wonderful dex-
terity, they secure between the corners
of their eyelids--London Modern So
e.etv.
Evening journal., 1898-01-13
Proceedings of tho House.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-The house
has passed an urgent deficiency bill
carrying s1,741.s43. One Of the items
authorizing a further expenditure of
1920, 900 for the soldiers home at DAN
vile, Ills, for which S150.00O was ap-
propriated in the last sundry civil bill,
was used by Mr.. De Almond (Dem.,
MOI as a basis for a bitter personal
attack upon Chairman Cannon, whose
home is at Danville. He charged the
chairman of the appropriations commit
tee with having used his powers and
position 90 secure the location Of the
home at Danville. Mr. Cannon in re-
ply branded Mr.. De Almond as a COM
mon scold, who would have been duck
ed under the town pump had he lived
IN the old days. He said he would stand
or fall on his record. The house by a
vote Of 123 to "a sustained the appro-
priation.
There was also a lively debate over
the provision in the bill requiring the
owners of bullion hereafter to pay the
cost of transporting il from assay
offices to the mints. The western mem-
bers and the free silver advocates gen
orally took the position that this change
of policy on the part of the govern
ment. which now pays these charges
would discourage gold production an
preciate its value and might result in
driving the gold to foreign mints. The
Republicans and some of the Demo-
Gratis. including Mr.. Sayers of Texas.
denied that II would have any such ef-
feet and meant simply the repeal OF n
bounty granted to miners since 1879
The motion TO strike out the proviso
was defeated-110 to 1875.
Evening journal., 1898-01-13
nlrten. He snncht nenth.

LANCASTER. Pa, Jan. l3.-Christian
II. Holsinger, 10 years of age. a school
teacher. hanged himself in the barn Of
Adam Mohler at Lincoln, this county,
and. while slowly strangling. shot him
self in the head the bullet producing
instant death. In the pocket Of his coat
was a note in which the suicide said his
act was due to disappointment in love
and requested that the note be sent TO
Miss Brackbill, a young woman living
in the neighborhood. A gold ring was
wrapped in the note.