River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-04

fifty years last passed has been a resident
Of said county. That ever since 1853 he
has been the owner and IN the actuai
possession of the South West quarter OF
Township g. Range 20, in said County,
which during all Of said time has been a
part of the farm owned, occupied ana
cultivated by him. And that he has paid
all taxes assessed on said land, each and
every year during said time. That he
paid and now holds the receipt OF the
proper officer therefor, the taxes of 1865
and 1866. That he has within the last
four months, for the first, learned that
said forty acre tract was sold, as for de-
linquent tax, at the tax sale in the year
1866, and 1869 decided to one H. H. Gray;
and that said Gray quit claimed the same
to H. A. Taylor and others, who after
ward quit-claimed the same to Pierce
County, about the year 1871; and that the
record title has thus, ever since, ap-
peared as being in Pierce county. That
each and every year thereafter county,
as well as state and other taxes, has
been levied on said piece of land against
petitioner as owner; and yearly collected
of him as such owner. And said county
has never claimed or asserted any right
or title in said land adverse to petitioner
or otherwise.
And as petitioner is informed and be-
lieves, said county on discovering that
said sale was illegal because said taxes
had been paid undertook to redeem the
said land from such tax deed SO wrong
fully made to said Gray and took said
quit-claim deed for that purpOse but
through mistake or inadvertance it was
made to the county instead of to pc
titioner, the real owner.
And petitioner further claims the full
benefit of the several statutes of limfta-
ton, applicable to the facts; Of nom
assertion of claim or title by the county;
and the actual, continuous possession of
petitioner for more than ten and more
than twenty years.
Therefore petitioner prays this Honor
able Board that, as is justly his right,
proper deed of quit claim be made by and
on behalf of said county, to this pc
titioner to be recorded in the office of the
Register of Deeds, thereby clearing the
record title of the cloud thus wrongfully
appearing thereon. And your petitioner
will ever pray, &c,
LOUIS M. HARNSBERGER,
Petitioner.
STATE OF WISCONSIN,
Pierce County.
Louis M. Harnsberger being first duly
sworn on oath says that he has heard
read the above and foregoing petition and
that the same is true to his own knOwl-
edge except as to those matters therein
stated on information and belief and as
to those matters he believes it to be true.
LOUIS M. HARNSBERGET,
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
10th day of October, 1902.
J. S. WHITE,
(Notarial SeaD Notary Public
Commission expires January 26, 1903
Resolution presented by Sup. Gilman
relating to a County Pest House was read
and referred to the following special COM
mittee: Freas, Carlson, TAFT, Roatch and
Moffatt
To the Honorable Board of Supervisors Of
Pierce County:
Whereas it frequently happens that
some contagious disease appears in vari
Gus parts of this county, especially has
this been true of smallpox during the
past four years, and still not of sufficient
frequency to warrant any one town in
the county to provide a building for the
especial care of such cases, therefore be
Resolved that the County should build
a suitable Pest House for the care of such
contagious diseases when appearing in
this county and requiring the use of
Pest House to care for them. Further be
Resolved that a committee Of Ghree or
five) be appointed at this meeting to eX-
anime into the ACCESSIBILITY of erecting
such Pest House, recommending site
and to furnish an estimate of the cost of
same and report before the final closing
of this session of the Board of Super
ViSorS.
Dated this 18th day of November, 1902.
Respectfully submitted by
c. +. OTTMAN,
Chairman Town of Trimbelle.
Report of Soldiers Relief Commission
accepted and adopted.
REPORT OF SOLDIERS RELIEF
COMMISSION.
To the Honorable County Board of Pierce
County:
The Soldiers Relief Commission APP
pointed under Chapter 60 r. S. would re-
specially report that the County Clerk
did issue orders for the following
amounts, as directed by the Commits
sion, to-wit:
Mrs j. P. Wylie ...... ........ ...... $500
Bruno Hyatt .......... commencement. 1000
Mrs Mary L. Ellwood ............. 40 90
Mrs j. K.Preston Observation-Disclosures. $500
John l.. Lyon ......... ...... 72OO
n. p. Gibbs ........ ................. 72.OO
Mrs. Reona Moore ........ ............ 80 90
Mrs. Emma Gordon ............ go. 81. 90
Mrs. E. A. Harrington .......... 5000