Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-03-18


GOOD.
Communication from =. c. Saunders.
I never should be drawn into a news.
paper controversy by anything they
might say about me, but when it is
alleged In the papers that another
person has treated me badly, and
think he has not, justice requires that
/ say SO through the same paper in
which the allegation was made.
This Is in regard to what has been
said Of the treatment Of me, as
|a~bstracter, by Edgar LaRue as register
Of deeds. If I have no fault to flnd
with MI. IaRue, I cannot see n good
reason why any one else should on nv
account; and I have no fault to find,
He has been very obliging and q
commodating with me, and have no
reason to complain There is no agree
n1ent existing between him and me,
that prevents him from making alb.
stracts, If he wishes to, and any one
wants him to do it, but with the
amounto of work that he has had in his
office during the past fall and winter,
IL he should wait,till his regular Office
work was done, before he made the
abstract, it would be a long time before
people would get their abstracts. To
day (March 12th) there have been nine
teen instruments: deeds, mortgages,
satisfactions, assignments, etc.) fIedsin
his office for record, which have to be
recorded at length on the real estate
records, and indexed and entered on
at leasta half dozen other books. to
say. nothing about chattel mortgage
business, and waiting on people who
come into the office. He has but one
person to help him, and it can easily
be seen how much time he has for
a~bstracting. The fees on these nine
teen instruments must be about $50,
which is to be paid into the county
treasury. Six dollars and fifty cents
will pay his salary and his deputy's,
and I suppose the chattel mortgage
and other business would pay that. If
1t does the county would make $50 out
Of that days work. Then is there any
reason to kick because he did not
make all the abstractstha were wanted
and turn the fees for making them
over to the county? II he did do.
a~bstracting, the county would have to
hire help to do it, and a competent
abstracter cannot be had for less than
S75 per month, or $500 per year. The
fees for abstracting from January 1,
~ 80 mo ~ thoa $40 :; l0' GU u.u IVY alaouhG
onv nroat tn +hn oo,, Muu ~ .nele sn ne
for ~ o olSt W tnu a ooun Ivy - Pay ~
II - IN hoe hsan se;d TIN that ~ 1.oo aor ~!
oRoa i 10 s,h;a Sait - 'n ~ ,e USE county
.ehstront;n" ata Erhnt 1 T. ~ BUSINESS sl,
mt which nfo,.nos naon,a +ha as . aaa ssI
Tu. T h..otn aaao:nls People InaC q genera
aiinos nrnofs eto o .tba %1' = h,u con ts.a,
n1 iss - ttu uo,,, 9 ~ .nae ! nave ChEee
navar maIe onr roni 1 - +sis t ~ I li ave
not fait tbot T t 10y - LIE, - aa4 Y
have said in raoarS r. tha aiIaHnt;"na
nvainaf Mr. mt So isas,aA. - q
into tha naners + m;oht oc vol re,,o
INV saw now aho,,t tho ,vholo mattn,.
III il frna hat Thave snoh n s;an UT
that If a nnrson cnn,as and wants me-
to draw nm n daad mo,+oas,a onotroat ~
make q fifnu m IanI SSart . nnmtast
or any thinr in hat line T hava aiwavS
done r. FOR tha iast aftaen voa mssG T
and NV helm have haan ~ ;yo ri -,
abstract hnpLs ,yhot snoro t;ran s un
have had for the Loot fan uaors .m ~
are nowhere near thro,1oh With. + vat
RI have had three naonia ~ .uo,I, s sor
me most If the t;ma fnr t,,a Lost ,,as,
What wo,,id ho tho s;t,.ot;on a - t yo
was a clerk of co,,rt %ara ,,,hn on' oIS
NOT do this cnts;Ga h],,s;nassS Tha' ~.
allows the clerk If cont onorm n on a%
and s25 for a denntv No dan,,tn nan
work for 25 nermnnth Con1on,Sontin
- ha hos 3 den,,tn hn ,e. H91Huent
rive the denmfhy o q na m1 ~ I lie an Save oa ~
IF he made nm fair waces no wo,,1d ,,nt
have mmch ieft. e%snac;ai1v - ho
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