The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-12-21
WHNT TO MHNDAMUS HIN
City Recorder Evans Claims that
No-LiCense People We're
Too Late.
II License Question Is Submitted
Judge Webber wifi Order
That Way.
Some Doubts as to Whether or
Not Option Law Applies
to this City.

There has been some tall hustling
over the city election during the
past week. The hustling princi-
pally was due to City Recorder
George L. Evans refusing to accept
the petition of no license people,
asking him to place the question of
license" or mo license on the
official ballot, about two O'Clock last
Friday afternoon. In this Mr.. Ev-
ans has. carried out the precepts of
other occupants Of the city record
er's Office, as we'll as his own rul-
ings in the same during the years
past, in which he has held office, he
contending that according to law,
the petition, in order to be effective,
must be filed with him at least 20
days before the election on which
the question was to be voted.
The mo license people present
ed their petition for fling last Fri
day afternoon, or just 18 days
before the election of Jan. Sd. They
had been made acquainted with Mr..
Evans intentions the day before,
however, and at once raised ''pot"
to fight the case through, they con-
tending that Mr.. Evans was inter-
preting the law applying to town
ships, where he should interpret
the law applying to villages, which,
they construe, as meaning ''cities. ;"
E. E. Harriott was Immediately en-
gagged by them as their counsel,
and the latter went to work looking
up the law, he holding that while
there was some doubt whether the
city of Redwood Falls had any local
option law at all, he believed that
Mr.. Evans was in the wrong. Mr..
Harriott, on Friday afternoon made
up his affidavits applying to the
case, and sent them to Judge Web
Der at Marshall, for the purpose of
securing temporary writ of man
damus; compelling the city recorder
to show cause at the term of court
IN Marshall to-day, as to why he
should not receive the petition and
place the question on the official
ballot.
A. c. Dolliff will represent the
city recorder in the matter. while
Your Uncle Jos. Chadderdon will
probably assist Mr.. Evans does
not care which way the matter is
decided, but proposes to have the
court tell him under law how the
city recorder is to act in the future.
Mr.. Chadderdon states that there is
not the least doubt but what Mr..
Evans has construed the proper
law, and says the mo license"
people will lose their mandamus
proceedings, as well as pay the
costs of the case. He contends that
only under the township law can
the local option question be handled
in this city.
The application for the temporary
writ Of mandamus did not reach
Judge Webber at Marshall, that
official having left for his home in
New Ulm on the day the application
arrived It followed him to New
Ulm, however, and on Tuesday
afternoon Attorney Harriott receiv-
ed an order for the issuance of the
writ by Clerk Warner, the same be-
ing made returnable in chambers,
in New Ulm, tomorrow.
Since the last issue of this paper
the hustling for city jobs has been
going on, and as result there are
three candidates for Police Judge.
H. D. Baldwin, the present incum-
bent, is candidate for reelection,
while E. E. Harriott and Jos. Chad
derdOn are also candidates. The
contest for that place will be. a
warm one. Up to the time that this
side of the paper went to press F.
W. Philbrick and VIM. Smith were
mentioned as candidates for mayor,
Dwight Bissell and H. NJ. Aune for
alderman for the first ward, and