The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-07-18
County and Nearly News.

A rural mail route from Bro oten
has been denied by the government.
County Auditor P. J. Gruber is re-
ported quite ill with kidney trouble.
Long Prairie viii expend about
81, 900 in improving its water system.
Litchfeld defeated the Royalton ball
team on Sunday at st. Cloud, the score
being 8 to 3.
s. r. Smith of Round Prairie, has
been given an advance in his pension
to $1,000 per month.
John Rothstein, young farmer OF
St. Joseph, had his leg broken while
wrestling at St. Cloud on Sunday.
Charles Hartmann, the Sta Cloud
town farmer SO painfully burned by
lamp three weeks ago, is suffering
from lockjaw.
Unless 90 for an eight hour days
work is granted quarryman at st,
Cloud will quit work on August /.
They now work nine hours.
Contract for the Melrose bridge has
been awarded to L. q. johnson OF
Minneapolis at $1,000. His was the
lowest of four bids received.
John Herne, who left Long Prairie
about sixteen years ago and was sup
posed to have been murdered, returned
to that town last week. He had been
in Oregon.
Cinch bugs are doing considerable
damage in the towns of Lynden and
Fair Haven. Several fields of wheat
in Lynden have been entirely ruined
by the bugs.
Within plain view Of his mother and
his aunt, Roy Anderson, of the town OF
Reynolds, Todd county. was drowned
last Friday at Lake Minnetoaka. He
was trying to show his aunt how well
he could dye.
The township assessors of Stearns
county were able to find only three
working oxen in the forty odd towns.
They also report only fifty pianos, al
enough one ST. Cloud dealer has sold
over hundred in the past two years.
The total value of the silverware re
ported fs fifty-five dollars. And Stearns
county has As, coo people and it's PEG,
pie are exceptionally prosperous
Journal Press.
The township assessors Of Stearns
county ave make their reports on the
personal property assessments for the
county and returns have just been tab
ulated by Deputy Auditor john Car
YER. Exclusive of the cities of St.
Cloud, Sank Centre and Melrose, the
total assessments as fixed by the sew
eraI assessors aggregate 81, POS, 600, as
against 81, lis, 296 year ago, a differ
,nce of SS6,31 The assessments oil
the cities in the county will increase
this total considerably.
Brainerd and the Northern Pacific
have 'fallen OUT The company Is
yards separate the business part Of
the city from the main residence dis.
srict, and trains often block the cross.
ing Repeated complaints have beer
made to the company, and trainmer
arrested. Superintendent of Roads
and Bridges Mcfarland called on the
,ity officers on Thursday and declared
that unless the petty complaints
ceased, the company would move its
yards and depots across the Mississip-
pi river.
The firm of Buholz Bros, consist
ing of E. J. Buholz of st. Cloud, W.
A. Buholz of Winona and G.. A. Bu-
holz of Appleton, have just closed a
deal for the purchase of the bank oil
Hewitt. 1t is private bank in the
prosperous little Todd county city and
will be continued as such. The new
purchasers will take possession about
August Is and are confident they have
made a good investment. The bank
will not interfere with E J. Buholz's
position as general agent for the
CT ampion company, as it will require
only occasional visits. ournal Press.
The supreme court has reversed the
district court of Wadena county in a
case of Importance, and which was
tried in chambers before Judge Searle
in this city. The Northern Pacific is
respondent and Abner Townsend and
other are appellants. The suit was to
determine possession of a strip of 100
feet of right-of-way land il Wadena
county and was test case. The facts
we're that the company was given under
it's original land grant strip of land
200 feet wide for right-of-way purposes
but used only hundred feet OF the
land for railroad purposes. The farm
ers along the land had plowed and
cultivated the land for fifteen years,
claiming ownership under adverse
possession. The district court decided
for the railway company but the SUI
preme court decided adversely and
holds for the farmers. The case will