The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-04-11

Lydia WEIGH has secured divorce
from Archie Welch on the ground
of cruel and inhuman treatment.
The plaintiff is given sole control,
care and custody of the only child,
Archie WEIGH.
G. w. Root and wife, who have
residing in Minneapolis for some
time past, have returned to Red
wood Falls, and Mr.. Root has open
ed furniture repairing shop in the
building formerly occupied by Rob-
inson & Co.
New Ulm Review; Senator Somer-
vile of Sleepy Eye has purchased
a large Franklin touring car, and
will spend some of the time this
summer learning the mechanism of
\ tie concern. 1t is not known wheth-
e. i is to help him in the race for
COVE nor or for judge.
The Commercial club of Morton
will entertain the merchants of Rem
vile county at their quarterly meet
ing on Tuesday, April 18th. The
business meeting of the association
will occur at 2 o'clock in the after
noon and at six O'Clock banquet
will be rendered the members of
the association. 20
In the last issue of this paper it
was stated that the bank building
now in course of erection for the
new bank to be started at North
Redwood was being built by several
business men of that town. This
was an error as Mr.. Charles Fleisch-
er of that place is constructing the
building on his own responsibility
and is renting the same to the bank
ing parties. The building will be
of brick with stone front made
of granite from the North Redwood
quarries.
The sequel to the war widow
land scheme, which was worked in
nearly every town on the North
western west of Winona during the
summer of 1903, has just been
sprung, and the instigators are to be
tried for land fraud in the federal
court to commence in Sioux City
on the 5th of April. Mr.. Joseph
Wallace of Pierre, S. D., attorney
for the Jas. Belt Land & Abstract
Co., was the solicitor, and induced
a large number Of widows of veter-
ans of the civil war to accompany
him to South Dakota and file on
homesteads under an obsolete rul-
ing that the number of years which
their husbands served would be de-
Quoted from the five years that
must elapse before they could prove
up, at which time each was prom
ised 5000 for the REIMBURSEMENT of
her claim. They never secured the
5000 and by hook or crock the
smooth land grabbers got bogus
title to the claims.
The Indian story, about the two
year old Merrick boy, stolen at the
time of the Indian massacre from
his home near St. Peter and carried
to Winnipeg by squaw where he
was adopted into a white family,
has been weighed and found want
ing by the veteran editor of the
New Ulm News, Jim Green. Editor
Green knew all the Merricks. or
Myricks, in that neck of the woods
at the time the child was said to
have been stolen and claims the
names and facts don't justify. Any
how Jim@you must admit it is a
pretty story, showing the complex
emotions of the red mans breast.
How they were heartless enough
to butcher the entire family, ex-
cept the boy, and then tender
enough to carry the boy piggy back
from ST. Peter to Winnipeg. It was
the dramatic part of the story that
attracted Ed. Andrews attention to
it, and who gave it start in the
Mankato Free Press. Who that
knows Ed. would expect him, for
a minute, to concern himself with
such matters as mere facts where
a dramatic situation is possible?