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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-08-30

sisting of David Tibbetts, chairman,
H. Wingett and w. H. Hawk took
hold of the county's legislation. At
that time, too, M. E. Powell was
county attorney, L. F. Robinson
was county treasurer, Thos. Nc
MILAN sheriff, David Watson sur
veyor, George W. Braley register
of deeds, and Col. E. A. Chandler
auditor. The bonds of the officials
were all approved. Of the latter
only the first three are now living,
the first two residents of this city
and Thos. Mcmillan commandant
at the Soldiers Home.
On March 18th of the same year
D. w. Paul was granted a two
years license to run ferry across
the Minnesota river at the Lower
Sioux agency, he to pay a license
fee of IS per annum.
It was some time during the
early portion of the year. 1874 that
the town ofSpringdale was organized,
and called Summit, for at the SEES
sion of Oct. I'd, 1874, the board was
notified by letter from the State
auditor that there was another town
ship in the State named Summit, and
requested change The town was
accordingly called Springdale. In
this connection it might be stated
that New Avon was originally called
Avon, and when the State auditor
communicated to the commissioners
that there was another town by
that name the commissioners decid-
ed to call the town New Avon.
The next year and three months
were dull times in the county, ac-
cording to the commissioner rec
ords, and those who resided here
during the grasshopper seasons ap-
preciate the cause. On Jan. 5, 1873,
A. NJ. Cook succeeded H. Wingett
on the board of county commission
ers, and was made chairman 1t
was during that year that the board
was changed from three to a five
member board, to commence in the
following year. D. O. King was
the first chairman of the new board,
and old settlers will remember Mr..
King as owning the farm just two
miles east of town, across the road
from the Scott farm. The other
members were Charles Porter of
Lamberton, J. M. Little of Sherman,
L. Bedal of Walnut Grove and Mat
thias Keller of Kintire.
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NOT HIS LANDS.
A. Bendam Says the Appraisers
We're Mistaken.

To THE EDITOR: AS | have been
informed, from your Office was pub
lished a paper last week containing
an article intending to scare the
people upon lands that they occupy
through me, and you mailed your
papers containing your trash to the
people, containing things in regard
to my business, which you or any
reasonable man would have inquired
about before publishing.
You failed to inquire of me or the
county treasurer. The article is
looked at as a direct thrust at me
personally and to create disturbance
with men on my lands. To give
you a chance to correct your errors,
| would state that the lands in this
county, upon which erected build
ings worth several thousand dol
lars, that the State was paid in full,
and patent issued before any build
ing was done by me. There was
over 81, 400 paid as taxes and inter-
est paid by me into the county
treasurer S Office on our lands in
this county this last spring and
nothing is due the State thereon un-
til Nov. l, 1899. The small amount
of State interest extended till then
will be taken care of. OF the
$3.50, 900 worth of business done in
this county, I have not foreclosed
upon any one and taken their homes
away from them, and no one has
foreclosed upon me or cancelled any
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POLITICS AND NEWS.
Gossip and Opinions Gathered In
the Capital City.

The fair-minded people of the great
commonwealth of Minnesota are
realizing fully the process by which
the system ofgrain inspection in this
state has been turned over to become
the mere sport and prey of politics,
and the day of retribution is only
about a year distant Gov. Lind s
political feat in this connection marks
disaster for the farmers of the COM
monwealth. It is a public misfor-
tune scarcely short of a calamity.
And all the circumstances by which
it was accompanied constitute such
a satire upon the very name of
reform" that the word can never
again pass the lips of an advocate OF
the party now in possession of the
executive office in this state without
provoking a shout of laughter.
The chief point of attack in the last
campaign was the department of
grain inspection. This was not be-
cause it was not ably and faithfully
administered; we have that now by
the confession of Gov. Lind himself.
1t was, first, to play upon the discon-
tent of the farmer voter, and, second,
to afford pretext for turning over
the department at the earliest posi-
BILE moment to the spokesman. That
these are matters of fact and not the
mere assertions of party spite, we
have now ample witness. And it is
supplied by the head and front OF
the reform party himself.
The "reformers' have decided
upon Mr.. Reishus as the most prop
er man to take charge of Transforming
the grain inspection department
from business concern into party
machine. They waited only the ex-
piration of Mr.. Clausen' S term of
Office. Then they were treated to a
surprise. For even one of the Dem
ocrats on the commission would not
be party to the betrayal of the peo-
pie S interests, and Mr.. Clausen was
reelected.
The wrath of the disappointed
spoilsmen was open and disgraceful.
Gov. Lind berated the commission.
He sought means for the removal OF
a commissioner, that he might ap-
point some one who would do his
bidding without question. Foiled
in that, he was relieved by Mr..
Clausen's voluntary resignation.
The chief grain inspector said frank
ly that his work was difficult enough
when he had the hearty cooperation
Of the executive. Without that, to
perform it properly would be out Of
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contract l have ever held. I should
consider it an injustice to the pub
lie not to hold your Office response
BILE for any loss occasioned to me
or my men from your article con-
tanning my name in your paper last
week.
You can say that men holding my
contracts on any land in this county
will get their papers when they pay
up as they have agreed.
A. BENHAM.
Redwood Falls, Aug. %.
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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 80, 1899.
KEPT THE RECORDS.
An EARLY Clerk of Court Refuses
to Turn Them Over.

Quite a number of the old settlers
of Redwood county will remember
w. G. Hayden of ST. Peter. He
came here in the early '7Os from that
town for the purpose of putting the
records of the auditor and treasurer
of the county into proper shape, the
officials at that time being unable,
on account of earlier errors, to make
the books balance Mr. Hayden
received $115 for this work, and the
commissioners accepted his report
at the next session after he made
the examination. Mr.. Hayden now
resides in Fargo.
There was little trouble in the
clerk of court S office in 1873. V.
C. Seward, then editor of the Red
wood Falls Mail, had been holding
the Office up to the commencement
of that year and evidently did not
want to give it up to his successor
who had been elected at the election
in the preceding November The
newly elected clerk demanded the
books Of the Office when he took pos
session in January, but Mr.. Seward
held out, and when the commission
ers held meeting on May 9TH, 1873,
and there were still some of the
books which had not been turned
over, they passed a resolution in
STRUGGLING the clerk of court to de-
mand of V. G.. Seward the funds
and books and. effects yet in his
hands belonging to said Office, and
in case of refusal the county attor-
ney is instructed to commence and
prosecute an action for the recovery
of the same. The books were short
ly afterwards turned over.
1t was at this meeting that the
people of the county commenced to
realize the necessity of having a
court house erected. At this time,
and prior, the county had been
renting such rooms as it could Sc
cure for the different county officials.
But on the record of this meeting it
is learned that H. Wingett, who
was then chairman of the board,
Col. E. A. Chandler, who was then
auditor, were appointed commit
tee to build a court house not to
cost over So, 200. And it was fur
Their resolved that A. NJ. Cook and
A. Dolvin, laymen, be added to the
committee on building. At meet
ing held rs days later plans were
submitted by A. Dolvin, who agreed
to erect the building for 81, $50. His
proposition was accepted. OF the
building committee all have passed
away with the single exception of
H. Wingett, who was last heard of
in St. Louis.
On Jan. 6, 1874, a new board, con-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-08-30

The quality of the blood depends
much upon good or bad digestion and
assimilation. TO make the blood rich
in life and strength giving constituents
use DIR. J. H. McLean's Strengthening
Cordial and blood Purifier; it will
nourish the properties of the blood from
which the elements of vitality are
drawn. Price so cents and 81 bottle.
Hitchcock & Co. 50-4t
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Jennie-No man can love girl with
a white face and red nose. Rocky
Mountain Tea will make them change
places-then you're all right. Hitch
cock & Co.
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az q 7 7T7
the question. Gov. Lind assured
him that he could not have it; so he
resigned and Mr.. Reishus was APP
pointed, and the work of turning out
grain inspectors to make room for
Populist and Democratic heelers will
now 60 forward merrily.
The unemployed ''idle men
looking for work" and women
and children begging for bread
are the principal subjects of the
calamity bowler, the politician out of
power and the demagogue. They
may, usually do, care precious little
for the workingman, in or out of en-
ployment; but he is the center of their
apparent concern and the subject of
most of their harangues. It is not,
indeed, many weeks since one of
these gentry put, in public speech,
the number of men in the country at
present out of employment at 3,OO0,-
900; and no doubt the same statement
would be repeated tomorrow, if a
committee of strikers somewhere
were to state the condition of their
fellows, or a political orator assault
the condition of the country under
the present administration.
But all the harangues of the dema-
gogue are now of no avail Every
branch of industry is voting the
Republican ticket and running over
time to do it.
The harvest operations in the west
and the northwest supplied perhaps
the most striking test of Republican
prosperity. tits the business of the
railroad companies to ascertain the
needs of the farming communities
along their lines in the way Of help,
and to supply them in advance if
possible. They sent out their in
quiries, received their reports. and
the result was simply a labor famine,
which still continues. There has
been a demand for from Is, 900 to %, :
600 men in the northwest that has
been but partially supplied. The
work requires no technical skill, 10
previous familiarity. Any man with
the use of arms and legs can do it.
The wages are of the best, ranging,
under pressure of this demand, from
81 a day and board up to nearly
twice that sum. This is prosperity
with hundred cents to the dollar.
One of our state papers which has
noted what sympathy and moral en-
couragement Aguinaldo receives
from Gov. Lind and his party, sug-
gests the nomination of Aguinaldo
as the Democratic candidate for the
presidency in the coming election !;
and the more this at frstsight start
ling proposition is considered, the
more, we are convinced, will it COM
mend itself to the judgment of Dem
ocrats. as most excellent thing for
the party and a rescue from the sew
eral boys beneath whose quaking
surface it at present threatens to be-
come entirely engulfed. Of course,
it will be met at the outset with the
objection that the constitution of the
United States denies the eligibility
to the presidency of any one not a
native of this country. But it was
an eminent Democrat who gave utter
ance to that noble and ever -be-re-
membered sentiment, SO applicable
at the present moment, ''What is a
little thing like the constitution be-
chune friends.''
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THE GAZETTE 81 per year.
The National tribune., 1899-07-20
TRIBUNETS.
THE SMITH FAMILY,


A favorite story with an old friend was
| that man who had always been puzzled
to account for the enormous number of
Smiths in the world, until one day he got
| off the cars in a town and saw before him
an immense building, upon which was the
sign Smith Manufacturing Company"
Whether he mad arrived at solution of the
| matter or not, there is everywhere a re.
markable supply of Smiths. No com
munity, organization, church, sect, profes
sion or calling can be without its quota
of Smiths, and it is hard to even get
coroner's jury of six men without having
| one named Smith among them. Recently,
a New York policeman named Smith ar.
rested an offender of the same name. The
clerk who called the case in court was named
smith, so was the Judge who tried it, and
the jailor who locked the rascally member
of the family up. There never has been
a Congress of the United States without
several Smiths in it. The last one had
five. The present Cabinet contains
Smith, and there was one in Lincoln's
Cabinet. A Smith signed the Declaration
of independence. There have been PA
Smiths, Smyths, and 2 Smythes officers
in the Regular Army, and 10 of them
reached the rank of General, either by
brevet or full rank. The father of one Of
them was determined that he would give
enough Christian name to Offset the Com
moness of his patrinymic, and christened
his son "Oskalwosa Minnewando." He
was Quartermaster-Se Sergeant in the 18th
Ind, became Adjutant of the 155th Ind,
and then entered the Regulars as a Second
Lieutenant. The New York directory has
80 columns Of Smiths, the London direc-
tory has SO columns; the Berlin directory
has SO columns of Schmidts; and the direc-
tory of every city in Europe has some
Smiths in it.
The National tribune., 1899-07-20
PERSONAL.

Veterans have done good work in or
ganizing and disciplining the West Vir-
gInia National Guard. Comrade John W.
NJ. Appleton. who is Adjutant-General of
the state, and Brigadier-General in COM
mand OF the troops when called into serv-
ice, was Second Lieutenant in the 54th
Mass, was promoted to Captain and Major,
and resigned in consequence of wounds
received in battle. He was subsequently
Major commanding a battalion of the tst
Mass. H. A. Comrade John ID. Hewitt.
who Is on his staff, served in Co. /, 18th Pa
Cav. Brighten. G. W. Curtin, who COM
mands the First Brigade. was private,
Corporal. Sergeant. and Orderly-Sergeant
in Pennsylvania regiment. He was n
prisoner of war in Andersonvlle for eight
months, became a Lieutenant in his OWL
regiment, and afterward received n COM
mission in the Regular Army.
Gen. John b. Clapp. n well-known mill
tary man of Connecticut, died at Hartford.
July Ia, aged 81 years. He was Adjutant
of the 18th Conn.
Lieut-Col Gilbert G. Smith. in charge of
the Quartermaster's Department at ST.
Louis, died there suddenly July ii. He
was born in New York, but was in Cali
fornia at the outbreak of the rebellion, and
becs me First Sergeant of Co. ID, 5th Cal.
He,was promoted to n Second Lieutenantcy,
and after his discharge in 1864 entered the
Quartermaster's Department. AT the time
OF his death he stood at the head of the list
OF Deputy Quartermasters-Gener with
the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
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She can't expect no man to be much gladder
of anything than the comm o the Pay
master, and that orter please her.0
"Thankee for yore kind inkwiries az to mi
helth? line glad tn say that line all rite,
and sound i'll tung, body and runnin' gear,
and
(Shorty was on the point of adding
Hope that you are enjoying the same
blessing" when a shiver passed through
him that it might be improper to allude to a
young lady's locomotory apparatus. After
deep meditation, he took safety side and
added:
sos 81. / sinserely hoap that you are
injoyin the blessin's ov helth, and the
konsolashuns ov religion"
cTm not certain about that last" thought
Shorty, but heard a preacher say it once.
and it ought to be all right to write to a
young LADY,
I'VE are still layin' in camp. but expectin'
every day orders to move out for little
SoShable with Mister Joe Johnston, whose
roostin over on Pigeon Mountain. When
we git at him, there won't be no pigeon
about it, but game ov fox-and-geese with
us for the foxes.
c'There," unused Shorty. complacently;
"that'n amuse her Girls like little fun
throwed into letters, when it's entirely
respectfully
Little Pete Skidmore is in the company,
all rite. He is wun ov the incest boys that
ever lived, Dut ne needs halI-klilll merely
every day. All real nice boys do. Woodent
give much for them if they diddent. Tel
his mother lie look out for him, and fetch
him up in the way he shood go. if hav to
break every bone in his body. She incident
worry. | no awl about boiz. THAR like
colts-need to be well-broke before THAR
emmy akount.'
c'Now," commented Shorty. as he read
what he had written. "that'll make Maria
and his mother feel easy in their minds.
They'll think they're in great luck to git a
man who'll be a second father to Pete, and
not risk spilin the child by sparin the rod. y
cGreat Jehosephat what work writing to
a young lady is. I'd much ruther build
breastworks or make roads. Now. if it
was some ordinary woman, wouldn't have
to be careful about my spellin' and gram
mar. but with sich a lady as Maria Klegg-
great Cesar's ghost a man must do the
very best that's in him, and then that ain t
half enough But must hurry and finish
The National tribune., 1899-07-20
AMERICAN STAMINA,


Our British friends can not get rid Of the
idea that Americans are, as rule, physically
inferior to the British, and they think that our
troops in the Philippines can not stand the
climate as well as the British troops would.
The London Speaker says:
Our cousins are more nervous, more dys-
peptic, and peculiarly liable to heat apoplexy,
which, indeed, during every hot spell is seri-
GUS cause Of mortality in New York.
This is reasoning from basis which was
long ago shown 10 be incorrect As people
we may be more nervous than the average
Englishman, but hardly more so than the
average Scot or Irishman, and there is much
more Scotch and Irish blood in our veins than
English Our nervousness is largely nervous
strength, which carries us through strains
under which the more phlcgmatic Engishman
would break. AS TO our capacity TO stand
heat let any one go ont into our harvest fields
and watch the men at work there And ii
was from just those fields that the splendid
volunteers went who have been showing such
grand endurance in the Philippines. A very
large proportion Of the heat mortality in New
York comes among recently arrived foreigners
who will not understand that they can not
drink beer and whisky here as they could in
their colder climates. Nearly all of the volun-
teers in the Philippines came from rigidly
temperate parentage, and while some of them
may now drink little more than is good for
them, they still have the strength and endur-
ancc Of their total abstinence parents, and do
not naturally take TO intoxicants as British
and other northern troops do. This accounts
for the fact that our sick list in the Philippines,
in spite of service more arduous than ever
known, is phenomenally low. Gen. Otis has
put his little army through campaign the
strains and hardships of which have been
unprecedented. From Feb TO July the
men were practically all the time under fire,
wading through mud and water, swimming
rivers, sleeping in malarial bivouacks, and
encountering every form of tropical miasma
There was no rest at any time for any man
from the intense strain of "the 'front.'" Yet
in spite of all this, not more than IL per cent.
OF his force was unfit for duty, from all causes
The National tribune., 1899-07-20

daddy to me? I've had one already. When
| want another. I'll pick one out to suit
myself" and Pete looked around for a
stone or club with which to defend him
self
Pete" said Shorty solemnly as he
finished trimming the switch, and replaced
the knife in his pocket. "nobody's allowed
to pick out his own daddy in this world.
He Just gifts him. It's one o. the mysteri-
Gus ways o Providence. You've got me
through one o them mysterious ways o.
Providence. and you can't git shet o. me I'm
goin to lick you still harder for swearin'
before your father, and sayin' disrespeckful
words to him. And I'm goir' to lick you
till you promise never to fetch another card
until l learn you how to play, which'll be
never. Come here. my SON.
The yells that soon rose from that thicket
would have indicated that either boy was
washed by his mother.
CTo be continue4)
The National tribune., 1899-07-20
INTER-CONTINENTAL RAILWAY.
Proposed Line Io,22l Miles In Leagth. and Estimated
Cost Sl750O0,0O0.

One of the most important acts Of the
Pan-American Conference which met in
Washington in 1889 was to arrange for a
survey of an inter-continental railway line,
as proposed by Hinton r. Helper many
years ago, from the terminus of the Mexi-
can Southern system on the Isthmus Of
Tehuantepec to the northern terminus Of
the Argentine system at Jujuy, in the
Province of Salta, near the boundary of
Bolivia. 1t is just 10 years since the action
of the conference was taken, and the re-
ports of the Commission which was ap-
pointed to supervise the survey are now
handed to the President in printed form.
They consist of four volumes of text and
three volumes of maps and profiles. The
first volume is devoted to general account
of the project and description of the coun-
try through which the line is proposed to
pass. The second volume is devoted to the
work of the surveying parties in Central
America, the third to Colombia and Ecuador,
and the fourth to Peru and Bolivia.
Alexander J. Cassatt, of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, was the Chairman Of the
Commission and had the general direction
party was in charge of Lieut.. McComb,
q. S. A. VIM. F. Skunk, Of Pennsylvania,
was in command of the second party, and
J. Imbre Miller of the third. Their de-
scriptions and notes are profusely illus
trated with maps and engravings, and are
exceedingly interesting. lI was not IN
tended to make definite location, nor even
a definite preliminary survey, but to ascer-
tain the practicability of constructing a
trunk line along the back bone of the hemi-
sphere. Mr.. Cassatt calls it "an approxi-
mate trace of a possible line with approxi-
mate estimates of the cost"
1t was determined that the total length
of a trunk line between New York and
Buenos Ayres would be 10,221 miles, OF
which 4 769 miles already in operation can
be utilized, leaving 5,462 miles to be con-
structed, which it is estimated will cost
S175, 900, 900, or about an average of S32,-
900 a mile.
The following table will show the total
length of the line in each country, the mile
age already constructed that can be utilized
and that which remains TO be built, accord
tho raranrts of the SIIrreI-.
The National tribune., 1899-07-20

FAILING to bluff Detroit into paying him
SIT 100000 for his street railroads, that pure
and unselfish philanthropist Tom L. johnson
threatens to become heartless monopolist Of
the worst kind. He says that he will squeeze
every nickel possible out of the people of De
troit, restore the rates to five cents, give no
transfers, etc The City Council ought to
have something to say about this. The tram
ways occupy public streets, and are quasi
public property, so that the Council has the
right to control them, and regulate their rates.
Let the Council do little bluffing.