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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-10-04
THE COMMISSIONERS.

The county commissioners held q
short session last week, commencing
Tuesday morning, and adjourning
Wednesday morning. The board
ordered the payment of $162.52 tc
Renville county, the same being
half the expense incurred by that
county in repairing the bridge
across the Minnesota river at Nor.
ton
The petition of Frederick Voll-
rath to be set off from school dis.
trict No. ga and attached to district
48, was granted, while the petition
of Benget Gullickson to be set of
from No. 10 and added to No. 5 was
denied. The petition of Eric O.
Sanders to be set off from No. 10 and
attached to No. 5 was granted. The
petition of Louisa Steffen to be set
off from No. II and added to number
l6 was denied, while the petition
for the organization of new dis
trict out of portion of Vail, Sheri.
dan and Vesta, was turned down.
District No. 50 was organized, on
petition of Thos. Murphy, the ma
jor portion of the district being in
Westline. All other applications
were laid over until the January
meeting of the board.
The Jail committee was authorized
to make a contract with Geo. A.
KEGS of St. Paul, a plumber who
has the school house contract, for
the putting in of three water closets
in the county Jail, the same to he
done at cost not exceeding $40,
which amount was appropriated by
the board to carry on the work.
Carl Berg ofSleepy Eye petitioned
for an auctioneer's license in this
county, and the petition was grant
ed, after Mr.. Berg deposited the
required fee.
Quite a large number of bills were
audited and allowed during the
short session, which was made
short on account of the desire of the
commissioners to return home and
attend to their fall work, as we'll as
dearth of work before the board.
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HOT SHOT FOR jim.
His Whiskers Have Grown at the
Expense of His Brains.

To THE EDITOR: Permit me to
make reply to Your Uncle James
Arnold, regarding some of his
statements in The GAZETTE of Sept.
goth. His only idea, if indeed he
states one in his entire harangue, is
that 'The world is controlled by
the money power. Money is very
necessary in this worlda and in these
latter days we could not dispense
with it and there would be no good
to mankind by so doing. Money
has power as we all know and al
ways will have. 1t is the lever
which moves the business world.
Through it's medium man can sup
ply most of his wants and because
of this it is and always will be
sought for.
It is necessary that we have
honest money. It does not look
well to say to our workmen after
they have borne the burden and
heat of the day and wrought well
and faithfully, I'VE will pay you in
rags; or paper which has no value
outsid. of our own land; you can
make the other fellow take it, and it
will go now because the govern
ment says you must take this, and
the future can take care of itself. .
There is day of reckoning for all
and eventually everything must
pass under the law and be judged
by the standard of truth and JUS
tice. It is no use to fill our pockets
with rags and paper and imagine
ourselves rich. We will not be any
nearer happiness by so doing. The
idea of cheap money is dead and the
present generation will not again
see another crusade on this ques.
ton. To the young man of to-day
I would say 'Get money and get
good money that will pass you any
] where and with any people. By
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-10-04
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Charles D. Gilfillan to Jens p
Hanson, sci of section 5, Morgan
So, 200.
James L. Byram to the German
Evangelical St. John s congregation
at Sheridan, lots 9 and 10, block 2,
Lamberton addition to Redwood
Falls, $1,000.
Robert Rickell, Jr., to Herbert
w. Arnold, WI of ne4 of section %,
Vesta, 81 ,3O5.26.
Frederick Stern to Albern Stern
lot 9, block 2, Lamberton, $500.
Lamberton & Sykes to George
Nigg, lot 10, block Z, Lamberton,
1926.
Pliny Terry to Herbert and John
Eykin, WI OF sci of section 80, Lam.
berton, 50, 400.
Arminda A. Moon to Charles
Henry and Myra Adelia Hardy, lots
l and 2, block 9, Watson s Sd addi-
ton to Redwood Falls, 800.
Laird Norton Co. to J. NJ. Steph-
enson. lots 81 and %, block %, Wal
nut Grove, $50.
Arson Evans to Aug. Hult, nj OF
lot 8, block 8, Walnut Grove, 81.
Arson Evans to Aug. Hult, lots
and Z, block 8, WalnutGrove, 81, 400.
August Hult to Bella Evans, LOT
Is, block 8, Walnut Grove, 5000.
August HUT to Bella Evans, lot
16, block 8, Walnut Grove, 5000
Vim. French to Agnes Currie, 81
of nw4 of section Is, Vesta, $3.50
August Knuepple to Philestel
Tiffany, ne4 of sw4 and nj of sci o
sw4 Of section Z, Paxton, $1,000
| VIM. r. Mather, administrator, t.
Henry Mather, nj of nw4 of section
II, Granite Rock, 81.
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A PRISON ERROR,
Why Mr.. OIson's Associates Will
Have to Meet a Deficiency.

The letter to Chris. Olson of
Swedes Forest to the warden of the
Saltwater prison, calling the atten-
of Mr.. Olson to the fact that $6O.7 IS
too much had been returned to him,
on account of the binding Irvine pur-
chase last summer, states that ''in
reviewing the business of this in
stitution connected with the sale of
binding Irvine during the season
just passed, there has developed in
connection with the carload of Irvine
which was consigned to you, the
following facts: The original order
as received from you was for 12,2O5
pounds of pure Manila Irvine, and
6, 125 pounds of mixed Irvine. On
or about May LIST notice was sent to
you that owing to the conditions
prevailing at that that time it would
be impossible to furnish youself and
associates with any pure Manila
Irvine, which condition was accept
ed by you in your favor dated May
Oath. On May Goth the records
show that you were duly notified
that the order was accepted and
that shipment would be made at
any time suiting your convenience,
and on this date notice was sent to
you that the consignment would
consist of Is, $50 pounds of mixed
Irvine, which at seven and a half
cents per pound would amount to
s., 1925, and enclosed Herewith
was draft payable to your order
for SCI ,O3, this being the difference
between the amount which you had
RENTED, j. e., draft for 81, 458. %,
Now, prior to the shipment of the
consignment to you it developed
that we had and would have sufi-
Gent quantity of mixed Irvine to
allow those who had ordered pure
Manila to receive a sufficient guam.
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Va
Susan Charter. It was for lots
and s, block IL. Redwood Falls, the
price being $50, and the acknowl-
edgment being taken by David Wat
son. The fifth deed was given by
the same grantors to Lewis M. Bak-
er, then register of deeds, to lot Z,
block l, Redwood Falls, for $52, and
was dated April 18th, 1865. The
sixth deed was given by Col. Nc
Phail and wife to Jacob Lybrand
and S. M. Thompson and it was
for an undivided one-third of mill
lot No. l, for 81, 900, given on April
5, 1866, and held some days before
it was placed on record. The sew
enth deed conveyed IL lots in the
city to Lybrand & Thompson, and
later several other deeds conveyed
additional lots to the same parties.
For the II lots the sum paid was $3.50.
It is well to state here that many of
these lots were afterwards sold un-
der tax title, and only recently
quite number of legal notices have
been published in this paper where
in the plaintiffs, after securing the
tax titles, perfected their title to
the lots by serving published notice
on all of the Lybrand & Thompson
heirs that the owner claimed to be
in possession of the lot or lots and
would ask the court for decree
giving them perfect title. The de-
crees were all issued without any
of the defendants appearing in per-
son or by attorney.
The eighth deed placed on record
was given bv Col. McPhail and wife
to Josephine H. Cole Flynn, late
widow of the late Birney Flynn, who
was a character in the early history
of the city, on account of his will
ingness to quit business and play
croquet on Second street, now the
main business thoroughfare, at any
time of the day during the summers
he lived here. The deed was for a
number of lots in the city, and was
dated April 25th, 1865, and was for
a consideration of $400. The next
deed conveyed to the late Edmund
G. Fosgate, for 500, portion of
the old Fosgate homes cad in
the southern portion of the city.
The tenth deed was given by Ma
than Engle of Wabasha county to
Nathan A. Vanmeter of that county,
but whom many the old settlers will
remember as having resided here at
one time, his wife and daughter
Lillian. the latter remembered by
the then young people, residing
here for some time after the demise
of Nathan. The deed was for big
tract of land in Lincoln county,
which was then part of Redwood
county. It was dated Dec. 9, 1865,
and the consideration for the big
tract was only $489. 25.
Many of the deeds following we're
given by Col. McPhail. It is we'll
to state that one small book acted
as a record for the deeds of this
county from the time the first deed
was filed in 1865, up to 1870.
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THE FIRST DEED
placed on Record In Redwood
County and Its History.

Lewis M. Baker was the first
register of deeds of Redwood coun-
ty, and the first deed placed on rec
ord was that given by j. B. and
Mary Amies Clough of Hennepin
county to John w. Griswold of the
same county. The deed, for a con-
sideration of $500, conveyed the north
half Of the southeast quarter of Sec
ton 36 and the west half of the south
east quarter of section 25, Delhi, to
Mr.. Griswold. The deed was made
out Dec. goth, 1865, and was filed
with the register of deeds of this
county at 8 clock, a. M, of Feb.
II, 1866. 1t contained a fifty cent
revenue stamp, a gentle reminder
that the people of those days just
after the civil war were obliged to
pay tax like the people of the
present day have to pay for the
-Spanish-American war.
The peculiar feature of this deed
is that while it was given by the
Cloughs the property is now nearly
all in the hands of other Cloughs,
probably direct descendants of the
parties of the first part named above,
who probably came into possession
by reason of some default or resale
on the part of Mr.. Griswold. The
Redwood paint mines are located on
this property, and one of the deeds
given out many years ago to the
land, reserved the mineral right
under the tillable soil.
The second deed placed on record
in this county was to strip of land
along the Minnesota river in Rem
eville county. 1t was given by
James Carrothers of Redwood coun-
ty to Lady Elizabeth NJ. Robinson
of Renville county, and the con-
sideration was 800. The deed was
executed on March 10, 1896, and
was recorded on March Goth, or the
day following. The signature Of
Mr. Carrothers was witnessed by
Samuel McPhail and Pomeroy An
gel, and the acknowledgment was
taken by Orange c. Martin, who
was then justice of the peace. The
third deed on record was given by
Mr.. Carrothers to Pomeroy Angel
for strip Of timber land in Rem
vile county, along the Minnesota
river, and was for the same consid-
GRAFTON.
It is pretty generally known that
Col. Sam. McPhail was the orr gi
nal owner of the present town site
of Redwood Falls. and from this
time forward the names of Samuel
McPhail and Martha McPhail, his
wife, appear frequently on the reg
ister's books as the grantors t.
village property. The fourth deco
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the world move. |"
The world can not stop in her
majestic movements to notice dis.
carded and false men and ideas.
She courts only the good and the
true more than she ever has done.
Another statement made by Your
Uncle James is ''that the 5OOmillions
OF National paper money is all that
stands between these traitors and
their complete control Of our none
tary circulation. This is too alb
surd to be serious and 1 will be
charitable enough to Uncle James
to think that he is only joking and
creating boyle story with which
to brighten children and idiots. No
possible combination of men or cor
porations could ever do this thing.
Look at the great increase in the
production of gold in all lands and
among all people and a few minutes
spent in arithmetical calculation
will convince any one of the abso-
Lutte absurdity of the idea. It is no
use trying to prove that the pro-
duction of gold is not equal to all
demands, because every day brings
proof absolute.
A Colorado man has devised a
means of distilling the gold carried
away as vapor from some kinds of
ore and secures three ounces of fine
gold per ton out of rock that assay
ers heretofore could not secure a
trace of. This means untold in
crease in production.
Edison, the electrician, has just
purchased a large tract of land here
in southern Santa Fe county, N. NJ,
paying for the same three million
dollars. He has perfected plan
of extracting gold from the grounds
and rocks by means of electricity
and they will take from these lands
alone $4,000 per week and they
have enough land that has been
tested to keep them working 100
years. This means an increase of
81, 100, 900 per year to the world S
stock of gold from this one place,
and there are at least 500 places in
New Mexico alone where the same
thing can be done. I cite these two
instances to prove that the fears of
some m N that we soon may have too
much gold is not without founda-
ton. Poor Uncle James, you con
tinue with your face turned towards
the setting sun. Your old thread
bare ideas and worn phrases remain
with you. Permit me to suggest
that you turn your face towards the
sunrise. A change of scene is good
for man even in his old age. 1t is
really pity that a man with such a
brilliant mind and such profound
knowledge of all known subjects
and great prophetic vision for the
unknown should accomplish so little
in a long, long life. The only sue
cess you ever attained seems to be
in growing beard, and that was
evidently done at the expense of
your brains. S. E. LANYARD.
Santa Fe, N. NJ, Sept. 25.
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Each package of
PUTNAM FADELESS
DYES color either silk.
wool or cotton per-
fectly. Sold by HITCHCOCK . co.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-04
OCEAN STEAMER IN DISTRESS
B1T1TI1 SIGHTED BY -ATLA NZIC
 FRANKFORT MESABA.
Asked for Assistance, but Owing to the Severe Gale Raging the Mesnba Was Unable to Give it-An Italian Steamer Wrecked on West Cornwall Coast- Eleven Men Drowned.
Eleven NTen Drowned.

London, Jan. 3-The Atlantic trans port steamer Mesaba, Captain Layland, i from New York December 24 for Lon don, passed Prawle Point to-day and reported she spoke the American steam CT Batavia, Captain Strong, from Glas- gow December F for New York; in lat itude 4S, longitude, 3S, in distress. Her decks were swept and she asked for assistance. But such severe gale was raging that the Mesaba was unable to help her. though she waited for seven hours for chance to do so.
 A dispatch to Lloyds says the Italian steamer VoorWaarts, which left Am sterdam on December 15 and touched at Cardiff on December 20, has been aban- doned near Trevoso Head on the West Cornwall coast. She went ashore in the gale that has been raging in the Irish channel Eleven members of the crew, who put off in boats, were drowned. Nine who clung to the rigging were res- cued by the coast guard life-boat. There is six feet of water in the Voor- Waarts hold
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-04
State Department Has Not Yet Heard
 the Result of It.

Washington, Jan. 3.-United States Minister Conger at Pekin has not ad- vised the state department of the re- ception accorded his protest against the proposed extension of the French set clement at Shanghai over territory claimed to belong to the American con- cession. Therefore the department feels warranted in assuming that the matter is not finally concluded and it has not been advised that the Chinese government has confirmed the French claim as reported Even if that were so, the action could not be regarded as final by our government, which has so far not had any dealings directly with the French government touching this conflict of interests, which is believed to be incident to the effort to compel commercial houses to obtain predonfi- nant advantages along the water front. It is not regarded as probable that there will be any serious difficulty ex- perienced in arriving at satisfactory settlement.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-04
NET FAST MAIL TRAINS.
Remarkable Time by Those OH BurlfnE-
 ton and Northwesterm Roads.

Omaha, Jan. 9.-The new fast mail trains on the Burlington and North western roads finished their phenome- nal runs from Chicago without special incident to-day. The Burlington train pulled into the terminal station eght miles ahead of schedule train. The Northwestern train arrived seventeen minutes ahead of schedule time. The trains had a head wind all the way and both the crews are confident that even better time can be made if they are called mon to do so. There was a large crowd present at the depots to witness the arrival of the trains, princi- pally composed of railroad men, but with a fair sprinkling of outsiders de- sirous of getting first-class look at the flyers. In addition to the sustained speed of these two trains being remark able. over fifty miles an hour for the distance, there were some remarkable bursts of speed during the trip.
 On the Burlington the best time made was from Chicago to Burlington, where severtl stretches were covered at the rate of ninety miles an hour and some miles at even better than that. The fastest on the Northwestern was made between Erie and Ottumwa, Ia. Here there is a straight level track and the mile pests were left behind at the rate of one every thirty-tive seconds. Every fast mile record, including the New York Central's record for mile in thir- ty-two seconds, or at the rate of 112.5 miles per hour, made in 1893, was brok- en on the trip. The distance from Sid ing to Arion, two miles and four-tenths, was made in one minute and twenty seconds, or at the rate of 130 miles per hour. Four stop watches caught the time, which, however, will not go on record. there being rg speed indicator on the engine.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-04
Case of Mary Pearson Foster,

Boston, Jan. 3.-A young woman who gave the name Mary Pearson Foster and who claimed to be one of the heirs of the big estate of the late George Washington Newton, Yost, the we'll known inventor when she was arrested here last Friday on charge of obtain ing $1,600 by false pretenses, is in dan ger of meeting with further trouble, as an application made for another war rant charging her with obtaining $1 200 more in the same way has been grant ed. The second warrant will not be served until Miss Foster appears in court next Friday. The young woman, who recently has opened a house at Brookline with every indication of wealth, representing herself as a Yost heir, it is claimed made loans of the sums named, but failed to meet them when they became due. This led to her arrest The friends of Miss Foster claim that she is what she represents herself to be, and that she will dis charge all claims next Friday when she receives her quarterly allowance.
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Railroad News.

Burlington, Vt, Jan. 3.-The stock and bonds of the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain railroad have been pur- chased by the Rutland Railroad conn., pany. It is expected that the Rutland road will take possession of its new property in day or two, and that steps will be instituted soon, looking to the construction of line between Bur- lington and Rouses Point, making a continuous line of about 280 miles and extending from Ogdensburg to Bellows Falls. At Ogdensburg the consolidated line will connect with lines of steamers plying to and from Chicago and other ports on the great lakes. Dr. Webb, the prime mover in the opening of this new through route, is also a director of the Fitchburg Railroad company and closer working relations between the new rail and water route from the west and the Fitchburg will follow as mat ter of course.
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MASS MEETING IN S.iNTIdGO.
Protest Against Order for CentraIiza.
 ton of Money at Hayaun.

Santiago, Jan. 3.-An enthusiastic mass meeting was held in the plaza to- day to protest against the order for the centralization of money at Havana by the sending of all customs receipts to that city. Most of the speakers declar- cd that the principle which it was now proposed to put into effect again had been fought against by them for thirty years. All were exceedingly eulosistic In this references to General Wood. i'm plor1ng him to use his influence with the Washington government against Q revival of one of the worst features of the Spanish regime. General Wood eX- presses the emphatic opinion that all customs receipts should be expended in the respective provinces in which they are taken, with the exception of such a percentage for Havana as may be nec- essary for governmental expend ture, geological surveys and other features of public business of that character. The local papers again renew their as- sertions that if such an order is en- forced it will mean, if not civil war, at least anarchy and riot in the province of Santiago, calling for a large force of United States troops
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REV. LYMAN 1BBOTT'S SUCCESSOR Committee to Recommend Rev. Newell
 Dwight Willis of Chicago.

New York, Jan. 3.-The advisory committee of Plymouth church in Brooklyn, from the pastorate of which Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott resigned re- gently, met tonight to receive the report of the subcommittee appointed to visit Chicago and hear the preaching of the Rev. Newell Dwight Willis, and to in quire into his services as clergyman there. The subcommittee reported very favorably regarding Dr. Willis and the advisory committee unanmiously resolved to recommend the name of Rev. Dr. Willis to the congregation of Plymouth church, as successor to Rev. Dr. Abbott. This report will be pre- sented to an informal meeting of the members of Plymouth church on Fri day evening next when the matter will be referred for consideration by the church at special meeting called for that purpose
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-04
VAR INVESTIG TYING COMMISSION
To Thoroughly Probe Complaints
 About Beef Furnished Army.

Washington, Jan. 3,-The war inves- tigating commission has decided to make thorough investigation of the complaints made about the beef fur nished the army in the eXpeditionary campaigns. Summons was made to-day for the appearance before the commis- sion next Friday of Major Daly, the chief surgeon at the army headquar- ters at Tampa, prior to the departure of the Shafter expedition, who made vigorous report forwarded by General Miles in condemnation of the beef. The Swift Packing company of Chicago will be heard next Monday in defense of these supplies. There was only one witness to-day, Col nel James M. Moore. ass stant quartermaster general of the army, who appeared merely to correct some errors in his previous testimonys-