The Redwood gazette., 1905-03-15

J "CiC AuCu P1U cdCH duu $f.OU
costs, and given sentence of fif-
teen days in the county Jail. It ap-
pears that there were old people
working with the boys, and because
OF this and the youthfulness of the
culprits, the sentence was suspend
ed pending. the good behavior of
the boys.
/ Gov. Johnson issued an order on
Saturday reinstating Henry Rey-
nofds, the clerk of court of Waseca
county, against whom. charges had
been preferred. Attorney General
Young settled the matter by
holding that as Reynolds had paid
into the county treasury all money
withheld last December, before the
present term began, there has been
no malfeasance during the present
term of Office. The attorney gen.
eral concludes that the only remedy
is prosecution in the courts for the
past derelection.
/ The Mankato Free Press says
that it is cause of grief to the
teachers of the high school to OBJ
serve that so large a percentage of
| the boys of that school are wasting
their young vitality and dwarfing
their growing systems by cigarette
smoking. The boys are clever
enough not to smoke when the teach
ers are around, but the appearances
OF boys show that they are engaged
in the offensive habit. Not until
there is some radical legislation
along this line will the cigarette
habit be taken from the young as
we'll as the old
Ortonville Herald Star: Mime
sofa will send thousands of sight
seers to the Lewis & Clark exposi-
tion at Portland this summer, and
the Minnesota exhibit will be, or
ought to be, one of the most inter-
esting and important to be seen
there, and Minnesota owes it to
herself and to her people that rea-
sonable amount of money be ex-
pended in making this exhibit at
tractive, aud in conserving the
state pride of Minnesota visitors to
the great exposition. $4O,O or
$50, 900 for that purpose would be
money well spent.
| Ever since the construction of the
south western branch of the Mime
apolis & St. Louis that company has
been troubled with the bridge
across the Minnesota river at New
| Ulm. There appears to be a sort Of
quicksand or bed of springs that
have made the foundation of the
bridge insecure, and almost every
year new work has to be done to
make the passage of trains over the
structure safe. At the present
time the piles driven in to make the
| foundation for the bridge have set
| tied so that a considerable sagging
lis noticeable, and for the purpose
of correcting this a construction
crew has been at work for num-
Der of days and will be held there
for some time, as it is estimated the
work will require some weeks for
completion. After that the crew
will be placed at repairing the
Fritsche ravine.
A young fellow Iby the name of
Ed. Mccoy, whose home appears to
have been at Plainview, H., and
who, through reckless life, found
himself dead broke at Tracy recent
ly, undertook to secure funds from
home in very peculiar manner,
and as a consequence now finds
himself behind the bars at Mankato
with a federal grand jury to face.
He had become estranged from his
family, so did not dare ask outright
for money. So he sat down and
wrote two letters, one to his father
and the other to his brother, but
purporting to be written by a Ira
cy official, stating that he was dead
and the body would be sent home
on receipt of $40. He would have
received the money all right had he
written but one letter, but the
father and son happened to meet at
the bank where each had gone to
purchase the draft asked for. Notes
were compared, the truth suspect