New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-03-30
Wants st. Paul to Paw.

with the commission at once.
Wants st. Paul to Pay.
If Minneapolis may lose it's court
house and city hall, st. Paul may be
stuck for $27, 900 worth of interest on a
So, 900 debt, running since the year of
1885,
6. T. Smith of Montreal. Canada,
claims that he holds six unpaid street
commissioners certificates against the
city of St. Paul which were issued in
1858 and bear interest at the rate of 80
per cent per annum.
The total face value of the certif-
Gates is $1,937.76. They have been rum
ming forty-six years and the accuma-
lated interest amounts to nearly $27,-
900. Mr.. Smith wants his principal
and interest and has placed the matter
in the hands of Cornwell (Ont.) law
firm.
State Buys Wolves.
Applications for wolf bounties are
being received by the state auditor at
the rate of Sc, 900 month, and if they
1904 will be a record breaker. The
state has paid during the last few
months SIG, $3.50, almost as much as
was paid in 1902 and 1903
Under the law passed by the state
Legislature there is no limit to the
amount of wolf bounties which the
state may pay year, and consequent.
ly applications are being received in
great numbers. In previous years
there was regular appropriation
usually $4,000 a year, and deficiency
appropriations were made from time tc
time.
Rural Routes.
There are eight hundred rural mail
delivery routes in operation throughout
Minnesota at present which is exactly
two hundred more than there were a
year ago. All the payments to the car.
riers are made from the ST. Paul post
office, and the monthly payroll now
amounts to more than $40, 900, as com
pared with $50, 900 March, 1903.
The average length of route is
twenty-five miles, and multiply that
figure by eight hundred routes now in
operation, the distance covered by the
rural carriers in this state approx
mates 10000 miles each day.
Satisfa Glory.
A report of the FEBRUARY logging Oh.
erations on the Chippewa reservation,
under the provisions of the Morris law,
has been made by Supt. O'Neil. There
was collected for the benefit of the In
dians from the logging operations OF
the month the sum of $1O2, 124.3s.
Logging is progressing in satisfac-
tory manner. The tops are being tax
en- care of, and the other rules are be.
ing enforced unsparingly
News Notes.
The settlement in Minnesota this
year will be heavy.
Safes and bank vaults may be man
ufactured in Minneapolis. The fac
tory will be the only one west of Gin
cinnati
e. D. Williams, Little Falls. was
found guilty of forgery in the second
degree. He passed the troublesome
checks last May. Under the name of
+. Henry. He has served several terms
in the Nebraska penitentiary.
The prohibitionists of the EIGHTH
legislative district held their conyen-
at owatonna. They will seek to go on
the primary ballot by petition
Following the lead of the st. Paul
grocers, the Minneapolis grocerymen
have decided to do all in their power to
abolish the trading stamp evil.
w. III. Gem1nell will succeed 81. A.
Fabian as secretary to President Eli
OFT Of the Northern Pacific
The Great Northern railroad paid in
to the state treasury $4,000 on it's
gross earnings tax account. This
makes 100000 that the road has paid
on the 1903 taxes.