The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-16
HUNTED INDIANS.
A Purchase of Blood Hounds by
the County.
Relics of Early Days Uuearthed in the
County Auditors Office, Including
Ancient Assessment Roll.

Mankato was on the border of stir
ring scenes in the early days when the
white mans face was more scarce in
this vicinity than the red Indians
1t was sometimes necessary to take
steps to protect the new settlers from
the ancient inhabitants of the land,
who objected to being crowded Off In
the county auditors Office are docu-
ments that date back to those times
when mans hair was not as safe as
his pocket book is now, and some of
these relate to the purchase of blood
hounds by Blue Earth and other coun-
ties to hunt Indians.
One paper is refusal on the part of
the Nicollet county authorities to join
in the purchase of blood hounds on &C
count of the expense and the absence
of authority except as an extreme
measure. The suggestion is made that
the state government and the military
authorities be appealed to to protect the
whites from the depredations of the
Indians.
Another document is a committee
report, and is as follows:
ITO the Commissioners of Blue
Earth County: Your committee that
was appointed to make arrangements
to send south to procure blood hounds
for the use of the frontier counties
would make the following:
THE commissioners of Blue Earth,
Martin and Watonwan counties met
at the Office of the county auditor in
Mankato on the 9th day of June, 1866,
and appointed E. P. Evans their agent
and paid him the following amounts
of money: Blue Earth county $3.50,
Martin county $500, Watonwan county
$3.50, by friends in st. Paul 1886, by
friends in Boston $40, whole amount
81, 226.
1.-The funds were expended as fol-
lows: Amount paid for dogs 1896,
travelling expenses of..agent and trans
portation and feed for dog 1922 90,
salary of agent 100 days at 50 per day
5000, expenses for keeping dogs at
Mankato $23. %, total $1,O7O. go Sur
plus, $l55. 47.
1.-THE dogs and surplus fund were
distributed as follows: Blue Earth
county six dogs and $76. 70, Martin
county three dogs and $6l.03, and
Watonwan county three dogs and
$17.7O.
"Time spent in making arrange
ments, three days, SO. drew orders to
the amount of $500 and sold them at SO
cents on the dollar. -
This report was accepted Sept. Z,
1866.
Blue Earth county was not as popu-
lous nor as wealthy in 1854 as it is
now. This is shown by the assessment
roll for the third commissioner dis
trict, comprising the present towns of
South Bend, Judson. Cambria, Butter
nut Valley and Lincoln. There was
no individual ownership of real estate
then, and only personal property was
listed. The following is the document,
which is on file at the auditors office
1.-THE assessment roll for upper dis
trict mo. 81 in the county of Blue
Earth and territory of Minnesota for
the year 1854, containing all the tax
able property, real and personal, in
said district. Jeffrey T. Adams, de-
putty assessor.
~. S. Lyon $3.50, D. y. Evans $780,
Owen Herbert $40, George D. Orion
1910, Thomas Lameraux $780, Charles
Miner $40, - May $40, Hannah How'd
$125, John Randolph $50, Augustus
Tidland $15, Gustavus johnson $500,
Noah Armstrong $3.50, Lucinda Cay
wood $50, Andrew J. Myrich $500,
Elijah K. Bangs $13, diff Nelson
$40, OrIiff j. Westover $15, B. More
land $40, George W. earnings $50, Ly-
man Matthews 5000, total 50, SS3. -
The 1860 valuation of the third COM
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