New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-22

Mrs. t'chmann and daughter,
Martha, visited with the family of j ohm
Eichmann in Springfield over Sunday.
Mrs. Ralph Yates of Sleepy Eye has
been spending a portion of the week
with her daughter, Mrs. Emil Mueller.
Burglars cracked the safe in Knute
Anderson's meat market in Lamberton
few nights ago and secured notes to
the value of 81 900. No clue.
Fire in the residence of George
Hanson in Sleepy Eye on Monday did
but little damage, but the free use of
water by the fire department practical
ly ruined the building.
The state association of farm ers'
mutual insurance companies closed it's
annual convention in st. Paul last
Thursday. A. D. Stewart of Redwood
county was elected president.
Creditable indeed, in his efforts to
assist the Pinkertons in ferreting out
the Walther crime, has been the work
of Sheriff Julius. The county official
has devoted nearly his entire time to
the case.
Clara, the little daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Fritsche of Lamberton,
has been taken to Minneapolis hos
pital for surgical treatment. The lit
| tie sufferer is afflicted with a peculiar
growth on one of her lower limbs.
The Review learns that the foul stuff
used as fertilizer on the court house
square is also being used on some of
the outlying four-acre tracts and that
not little sickness has resulted there
from among people compelled to live
IN the neighborhoed. Isn't it about
time that the health authorities put a
stop to the nuisance?
| The county commissioners held a
special session Saturday to take final
action on the laying out of Ditch No.
l3 in the towns of Home and Prairie
vile, but owing to objections made by
a number of interested farmers the en-
tire matter was referred back to the
engineer and reviewers, thus neces ST.
tating another meeting of the county
board.
Two Or three weeks ago Mrs. Meloy
OF Mankato, while suffering from
severe type of continent smallpox,
gave birth to a child. The child was
vaccinated the day that it was born,
and on the seventh day the vaccina-
ton worked. However, the infant had
contracted the disease before it was
born, and on the twelfth day it came
down with light attack of the dis
ease. Now both mother and child
have recovered. The father was vac
cinated and had light attack.
About nine o'clock Friday morning
an old Indian, Napiasu, appeared
with his little boy at the door of Den
mis- Doheny's cabin on Graham's is
land, near Devils Lake, and asked for
something to eat. When this was
given him he went to Doheny's gran
airy where he laid down and died.
Napiasu, who was seventy-eight years
old, belonged to the Sioux tribe and
was regarded among the Indians on
the reservation as one of their most
influential men. He is said to have
taken an active part in the massacre
of whites in and around New Ulm in
1852.
Senator Johnson, County Attorney
Olsen and other Nicollet county resi-
dents went to st. Paul last week to
consult with the state drainage board
relative to an increased appropria alton
for the judicial ditch by which it is
proposed to drain the country tribu-
tary to Rush river. The original
amount contributed by the state board
was 81, 800, but inasmucsi as the engi-
neer's figures exceed by considera-
bic sum the original estimates placed
upon the Improvement it was thought
! advisable to ask the board for another
/ lift. This it is understood will be
Forthcoming as soon as the work is
commenced.
4 Stuebe Bros. on Friday made a
shipment of two carloads of hides and
-tallow to a well-known tannery in the
east, the consignment weighing over
$4,000 pounds and representing a cash
outlay of approximately $4,000. The
business of this firm, since it's incep-
| ton less than four months ago, has
been phenomenal. and the future gives
promise of even greater strides
towards success than have been ex-
perienced in the past. The fact that
the shipments of the firm are made, as
in the case above, direct to the manu-
facturer instead of to the jobber or
packer, naturally has its effect on the
prices received for the raw material