The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1903-11-04
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE. !

bv the disclosure that there we're
| listed on the assessors returns a
little less than dozen automobiles
in Hennepin county, and less than
twice as many in Ramsey. At GER
tain hours of the day almost as many
automobiles as bicycles may be seen
on the streets of Minneapolis; and
in some localities, notably about the
Chamber of Commerce, one must
look sharp while crossing the street
to keep from being run over by one
of the putting, rampant ''red devils. "
I have counted as high as thirteen
drawn up in line about the Chamber
of Commerce. They had brought
their owners to their places of bus
mess in the morning and were wait
ing to carry them home at night.
Each machine carries in a con-
spicuous place number which cor
responds to the number of its
license, and as one can scarcely 20
a block without seeing numbers we'll
up toward 900, it is certain that
there are at least more than 800 in
the city. St. Paul has not quite so
many, but it is conservative state
ment that upwards of 400 machines
are owned and used every day in
the two cities. The fact that only
about rs were listed with the asses
sors is of itself sufficient to show
the utter incompetency of our pres
ent system of taxation.
The ipse dixsit of the business
men and street car magnates of Min,
neapolis has gone forth, and the
pavilion at Lake Harriet, which
burned last spring, must be replaced
by much larger one before summer
comes. During the summer just
past the people who wanted an
Evenings or Sundays outing had
to 60 either to Como or Minnehaha
park. It is long tedious ride to
Minnehaha. with no band concerts
or other attractions except the park
itself and it's "Zoo," while Como
not only costs double car fare, but
it is in St. Paul. No matter how
pretty or attractive a place'may be,
the average Minneapolitan is too
devoted to his city to patronize any
other city's water resorts. One
season s experience in that line has
filled the system of the Minneapolis
business man 80 full OF NORWOOD
that it will require long time to get
rid of it. Harrietshall be rehabilitated
and Como relegated. There are no
two ways about it.
The newspapers OF the country
have, almost without exception, ut
tered scorching philippics against
the South Carolina jury which re-
Gently acquitted the notorious Till
man of the charge of murder. Every
one who read the details of the nor-
rible affair knows that Tillman shot
his victim without legal cause or
provocation, and that he deserved
the punishment usually meted out
to murderers. The newspaper cas-
LEGATIONS we're amply deserved. Still
they who read the roasts admins
tered to the jury in question by the
St. Paul papers, which were not
lacking in their sulphurous features,
quite naturally turn back a few
months to the jury which acquitted
a St. Paul man of the crime of kill
ing another becauee he said he was
drunk when he did it.
The murderer in this case went
to saloon and after drinking a few
glasses of beer, borrowed revolver
from the bartender, saying there
were some persons he waited to
get even with. He started home
ward and, meeting three or four
young men on the walk, pulled the
revolver from his pocket and shot
one of them dead. It was claimed
that the murdered man had never
offended the man who had shot him,
in fact did not know him. While the
murderer seemed to know what be
was doing and saying at the time he
borrowed the revolver of the bar