The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-01-18

came over from Johnsonvll1e last
Monday morning, and took the noon
st. Louis train for st. Paul.
The Woman s Relief Corps will
give an entertainment on the even
ing of Feb. 18th at the G.. A. R. hall.
The program will be printed later.
Senator Somerville of this district
is a member of the senate judiciary
committee, of the taxes and tax law
committee, and chairman of the COM
mittee on towns and counties. Mr..
Somerville is also a member of the
judiciary sub. committees on con-
stitutional law, pleading and prac-
tice, real property, and on special
committee to devise some more con-
venient way of designating the Sec
tions Of the 1894 statutes.
Till Tibbetts has taken the rail
road bull by the horns, as evidenced
by county map posted in the win
dow of Geo. Houghmaster's real
estate Office, where Mr.. Tibbetts al
so has an Office. Mr.. Tibbetts has
a direct line drawn from Sanborn
northwest through the county, the
same being the line of railroad sur
vey now being made. On the line
he has two towns located. One
town is in Vail and the other is in
Vesta, the latter being on some land
in which Mr.. Tibbetts is interested.
This town, according to the map, is
named Kent, and Mr.. Tibbetts is
offering town lots for sale cheap.
Mrs. G. c. Kenney was called to
St. Peter last Friday, by telegram
notifying her of the serious illness
of her sister, Mrs. J. NJ. Peterson.
On the evening of the following day,
Mr.. Kenney received a telegram
stating that Mrs. Peterson died at
2 p. m. of that day. Death ensued
from an attack of grip, followed by
lung fever. Mrs. Peterson has Wis
tied with her sister here, and was
therefore known by a number of
Redwood Falls people. Her oldest
daughter, Miss Rhoda Peterson,
has school near Lamberton, this
county, and younger daughter is
a student of Gustavus Adolphus
college at St. Peter. The two
daughters and Mr.. Peterson are
the only surviving members of
the family.
People who are transferring real
estate should beware of the making
of the consideration named in the
warranty deed lower than one real
ly paid for the property, simply to
avoid paying the internal revenue
tax. A case has just come to light
in this county. In November of
last year Earnest Bacon of Kos
suth county, Iowa, transferred to
Julia A. Bacon, the northwest
quarter of section 30, Granite Rock,
and the consideration nsmed in the
deed was onl y 81. The matter ran
along until the latter part of De-
cember, when some person made
the discovery and the same was
reported to Internal Revenue Col
lector VonBaumbach of ST. Paul
The Bacons were taken TO task for
the illegal act, and as a result they
were obliged to pay heavy pen
atty for attempting to defraud
Uncle Sam out of some revenue.
On Jan. 9Th a certificate was
sent to Register Cobleigh to the
effect that the penalty had been
paid, and that the same should be
recorded on his transfer book, in
order that the transfer might be
declared legal one.
A Mankato special of last Satur
day says that articles of incorpora-
ton of the Mankato & New Ulm
Railway company were filed with
the register of deeds to-day. The
purpose of the company is to build
railway from Mankato to New
Ulm, a distance of thirty miles, and
the capital stock is $50, 900, with
limit of indebtedness of $500, 900.
The incorporators, who are also the
directors, are J. M. Whitman, and
J. B. Redfeld of Chicago, Ed. c.
Carter of Evanston, ILL.,, and W. A.
Scott and J. C. Stuart of St. Paul.
The following are the officers, Mar
vim Hughitt, president; NJ. M. Kirk
ham, vice-president: and treasurer;
r Radfield Secretary. and ChaS.