The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1901-01-09
THE COURT HOUSE.
From first page.

from the auditors Office only two
| years ago, managed the expanding
business Of his department for eight
years and lefta record worthy Of
| the traditions of the Office. Both G.
I V. Everett and w. S. Mckay were
his deputies, and the latter was
postmaster under the Harrison adj
ministration. As most of our read
ers know Mr.. Anderson is now in
the Rocky Mountain region trying
to regain the health he enjoyed
when he entered upon his official
! duties in 1891. His many friends
hope that his efforts may prove en-
tirely successful.
Our present county auditor, [. N.
Tompkins, enters upon his second
term with the unstinted confidence
Of the people who almost unanimous
ly put him there, after a first term
of the hardest service that has ever
fallen to the lot OF any of our audi
tors. For it is admitted that the
past two years have witnessed un-
precedented expansion of county
business, and most of the time Mr..
Tompkins has only had his efficient
deputy. g. V. Everett, to help him
with the clerical work.
It may be of interest to notice in
this connection, that Auditor Temp
kins is the only one of the male oc-
cupants OF the court house at the be-
ginning Of the official year, who has
not resided in the county for more
than twenty years. Treasurer Ten
ney came over with the ark in al
most prehistoric times and is only
outranked as an old settler by John
Thomas, Surveyor Bigham and a
few others. His assistant, Walter
King. came here at the beginning of
1880, and Deputy Auditor Everett
dates his residence little back Of
that. Clerk Of Court Warner was a
kid in Capt. Huntington S land
office tWenty-one years ago, just be-
fore the present writer came as a
tender-foot to these shores. Even
then he was known as aclever clerk
and not less as a clever politician.
Register Cobleigh began his career
as the lone Republican from Willow
Lake about this time, or before.
And both Probate Judge Evans and
Supt. Race are able to date their
residence back Of the twenty year
limit.
The older subscribers of The GA
zETTE at least will pardon a little
more Renaissance at this time.
When the bald headed partner Of
The GAZETTE firm arrived in Red
wood Falls in May of 1880, Judge
Robinson was register Of deeds,
VanSchaack auditor, Alpheus Will
son treasurer, j. Wilson Paxton
clerk of court, D. L. Brigham county
superintendent, and Judge Bald
win probate judge. The election
campaign Of that year was a hot
one, and more bitter personally than
most Of the succeeding ones have
been. Naturally enough the Re-
publican party managers marked
for slaughter that fall the two Dem
ocratic occupants of the old county
rookery--Clerk Of Court Paxton and
Register Robinson. Equally as a
matter Of course, those two gentle
men did not care to be slaughtered,
and they and their friends put up a
hard fight. The Republicans went
out into the western wilderness Of
Underwood, and found young fell
low named Geo, Evans, who was
known to have at least one qualiG-
cation for a good register of deeds
he was away up inc as a penman.
As he was comparatively stranger
in the county, little more was known
at that time about his qualifications.
For Clerk of Court Franklin Ensign,
an old soldier living in North Hero,
wac hrn11rhf far yunrd an,3 yu bi1n In