Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-09-28

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hospital building than Tor cathedral.
Members of the city council were vio-
and some Of the weak.r OF; he
papers yentured 10 remark against
the deal; but in :. due time
after many meetings o. the b ard,
committees, ETC., the deal went, and
the property was purchased for the sum
of 500, 600. Or course it was supposed
that for that exorbltant. sum the city
would actually get the property, hut
10. and behold it leaked out that THE
PROPERTY SOLD WAS COVERED
BY A HUGE MORTGAGE. lnvesti-
CATION followed and tie real tacis,
taken from the official records, are thu,
SUMMARIZED:
The property was six lots. in block
" Of Minneapolis, on Seventh Avenue
south, between Fifth and Sixth streets,
the land being $50 by $50 feet, OR
ABOUT ONE AND ONE HALF
ACRES. the Contract Tor purchase
was made about My rs, 1893. II
called for /. warranty >e,d t. 10 del.v.
cred, and such was Lnaue and deilvele I
june IL, by Brackett. It was about
this time that 1t was dist overed tina,
the property, instead of belu., clear, as
called for in the wlrran y deed, Wa
INCLUDED IN PROPERTY lHAT
HAD BEEN MCRTGAGED MARIh
z, 1898, TO THE NEW YORK LltE
INSURANCE Company FOR The
SUM Or $4,000. Fac CITY nau NJ.
YET pad any money, Toltuuate4y,
tAaC Was AROUSED, ~ was cxpvIieu
t,,
| covcry III Clne, WAS regard eu as 4nusL
| Fortunate Aowsver, those VINO MAJ
| engineered %ne ueul, lnc4 adlug MI.
Bracket, proceeded III lne ways anu
means Lest known to themselves To
get the money paid over. he urst
down payment 25,000) was covered
by a pretended Ad1ltlona. security
ueed,' Br..> kat deciding other pr. p
erly 20 The Guy and beng paid iue
sum OF $25,OUO toward las pur.ns:se
money of 500. OO0 But it was tne:l
found that THIS DECIDED PRO-
EtsIY WAS ALSO lN~LUDED IN
A4lE SAVE MORLGAoE 4HAA
W AS ON 4AE AOotlIAL IkO4~-
Eli. I. Ane AUWA wae lUuuvr ,ual
ever, ana commAtlees OF c.tlzo4.s
W..le4 o. the Guys oMcv.s Ia pro.
lost. dLo even puD..c Mettln % Were
| lic-u, VJiciA5 the pr 1LesJ 10 tlo .ilLy Oh
ANA .oard tua5 no more money shoa..l
W pAlu. TIE oracle was worked, nov.
ever, AMI BRALkErl WAS Fall
ANOTHER $26, UOJ, us g>>lA5 unol!l,.
deed AS "AuulEluu,:l se.uruy," u
IEE PROPERLY UEEDkD EkING
Al Ekt Owe, SOA /. W lie oAMk
AO1.Iu AGED rltOE hkI1.
-As sA.A VI .oo,VVv AAu NOW ueeu
kA.u auu NO AI4.~cJ4Ou Whatever ma.
IA .r.e morigaso 4nueOts d4ess Oh ali
| % tAo property lnvo-vou, aud S0J, wv
N.o sU--- w brAcketJ On Ia. plrcuA,t
| COutfAcL. vas .S .-0A Ll4L Ills ue.
| isfreu ply d II " SoI, 80 >uUulI utaW
Interest," u. v.Ao s..A4u AuCe as tho Ansur.
aAce CoMpIuyS mottsaBo Was draw.
.ns, anu, unsa!ly, ny al arrangement
| Wa. GA NIL. BraC-ietJ SI;t.oA was made
ny n.mse4l aid Mayor husrls aud C4ty
Treasurer "A. Y. Hauo gan, t. lattel
conmen ced The payments OF sucn Ill.
teresI, aausau having issued therefor
CERTIFICATES 0l indie D.ouhess for $4,000
on Tie late Washington bank. Such
payments or Interest were con-
tlnued more than u Year, OF unit
February, 1895, wAen they were dis.
continued ny l1augan, and the cer5ln.
Gales cancelled. Something like $500
WAS thus paid to Braclett. Meanwhile
INC wv YORK Lille uAu l>rcIl ,seu 49,
Whole mortgage, the lorsc.csure pro.
ceeolngs beng 8 uiv. ded, a. tina; $50.
UOO o. the total ol Sl5U, O0J sJo.u aga4us,
The hospital slle tOJs, the bal .nces BE-
Ing divided as between the Que: par.
cels which had b .en deedsd as ''audi
tlonaI security A.so as 20 one Oh tue
latter deeds, the frs it was discovered
that the lots had not been, as ST. pposed
deed ID at all, as the description placed
them ia b uck No. "llueiy," Instead
OF "nlue.y.lnree." This was corrected
by deed OF April, 1896.
All efforts by MIR. BrAckerr and by
the city itself, were ulava.l,ng to 60,
from under the New Yak Lie claim
to VII ch there WAS a.so aided further
els, mortgages, Judgments, ETC., etc.
iavoiving Bracke.., increasing the EN-
b r .4ssment and N auSlsments. Tue
upshot of the whole matter was thai
the city was out the am ut paii
Bra> k.vt, $4,000, the ,nteres
paid on the othe 1000
and had to pay the New Yorl
Liie's claim If SIS, 900, to complete tn,
clty's title.
The only defense ever ATTEMPTED foi
Mayor Eastis was that he DID MOI
ACTUALLY VOTE FOR THI
STEAL AND WAS NOT PkE>EN1
AL THE MEETING OF TEE LOARI
OF WHICH EE WAS A MEMBER
WHEN IT VOTED The IUR
LHA1E Ga TINS point 4et lr.cuo
B:acko,5 speak. Tue deal was investl
ga I'd by IL special committe, of tn,
city Council winch brorgls out the
facts q above outlined, anu before tina
com m.ttee Mr.. Bracketr himself az
peared and made full s atemanr whicI
is on file in the clerks Office in Mime
apolis. In thu course of his ss4seinen'
as if filled with Indignation that w
H. Eustis. his old political and pe,
sonal friend, should seek to avoid hi
full responsibility, Mr.. Bracket said
1T having been stated that Mayor
Eustis was not conversant with this
transaction. and did not approve it,
must here state (al,hough I, am sorry
that he is absent, for I would much