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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-12-01
drain is necessary for said purposes.

drain is necessary for said purposes.
FOURTH-Thatt the description Of
said proposed starting point route and
terminus of said ditch and drain is
as follows: Commencing at point
600 feet West and 900 feet South of
the center of Section One (1) in
Township One Hundred and Eleven
(111) Range Thirty-seven $50 Red
wood County. Minnesota, and running
thence following the natural water
course as near as practicable South
SO Degrees West $40 feet; thence
South Is Degrees West $40 feet;
thence South Is Degrees West TAO
feet; thence South 5 Degrees and 30
minutes East 700 feet; thence South
| ID Degrees East 500 #; thence S. %
Degrees West $40 feet; thence South
| Is Degrees West 600 feet; thence
South 4 Degrees West 600 feet; thence
South II Degeers West 260 feet;
thence South "a Degrees West 100
feet; thence South II Degrees East
$40 feet, thence South so Degrees
East 700 feet to it's outlet in an open
ditch at 6 point 1920 feet East and
$50 feet North of the Southwest cor
ner of Section II, Township Ill,
Range 81.
That the legal descriptions of the
tracts of land through which said
| proposed ditch and drain will run as
| near as can now be ascertained by
your petitioner are as follows:
The North Half of the Southwest
Quarter (N1a SWA) of Section One
a..
The North Half of the Northwest
Quarter (Nk NWA) of Section
Twelve (12) and the South Half of
the Northwest Quarter (Sk NWA)
of said Section Twelve (12) and the
Southwest Quarter (SWA) of said
Section Twelve (12), all in Township
Ill, Range 81.
That for the aforesaid purposes it
will be necessary to construct La
teral ditch and drain to said main
ditch. That the starting point, route
and terminus of said lateral ditch
and drain is as follows:
LATERAL "a"
Commencing at point $50 feet
West of the Northeast corner of the
Southeast Quarter of the Southwest
Quarter (SEA SWA) of Section Two
(2) in Township Ill, Range 81, in
Redwood County. Minnesota, and run
ming thence in Southeasterly direc-
ton, following the natural water
course as near as practicable through
said Southeast Qparter Of the South
west Quarter of said Section Two
(2); thence in a Southeasterly direc-
ton following the natural water
course as near as practicable through
the North Half of the Northeast
Quarter of Section II in said Town.
ship and Range; thence in South.
easterly direction following the nat.
ural water course as near as prac.
| ticable through the Southwest Quar-.
ter of the Northwest Quarter (SWA
| NWA) Of Section Tweve (12) in sale
Township and Range to a point il
the main ditch 800 feet South Of the
North line of the South half of the
Northwest Quarter (Sh NWA) Of
said Section Twelve (12) and there
ending as its outlet.
Wherefore your petitioner pray
that said ditch and drain and sale
lateral ditch and drain be established
opened and constructed as herein de-
J scribed according to law.
], Dated July 9th, 1915.
j DAVID J. MCCONNELL,
Petitioner.
"A. c. DOLLIFF,
i Attorney for Petitioner. 17-3'
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-12-01
ng your representatives.


Don't expect the business man
to act for you. He may put
your thought into action; he has
done so many times. But don't
fall back in dependence on steal
ing some of a busy mans time
and energy. 1t is you who have
the bigger stage in civic right
eousness. The business man
needs an honest city govern
ment; but you need that and
something more-an instrument
of constructive welfare. The
business man has his income,
/ his capital, to keep him and to
do his bidding; you have only
your fellows. Linked to them
by the vote you can forge that
sword of protection, that tool of
helpfulness, the perfect city
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-12-01

The County Board of the County
of Redwood, State of Minnesota. The
undersigned petitioner represents and
states:
FIRST-That he is the owner Of
the South Half (SA) of the Soath-
west Quarter (SWA) of Section One
~ in Township One Hundred and
eleven (111) Range Thirty-seven (37)
in the County of Redwood and State
of Minnesota, which said land will
be liable to be affected and assessed
for the construction of the ditch and
drain hereinafter mentioned.
SECOND-That it is necessary
that a ditch and drain be construc-
ted substantially along the route
hereinafter described for the follow
ing reasons towit:
That along the line Of said pro-
posed ditch and drain there are large
tracts Of wet, marshy an overfowed
lands unfit for use in their present
condition. That pools Of stagnant and
poisonous waters stand upon said
lands and along and in the highways
adjacent thereto during large part
Of the summer season of each year
causing said roads to be dangerous
and impossible and causing an un-
healthy condition in the vicinity
thereof.
THIRD That the construction Of
said ditch and drain will be Of public
benefit and promote public health.
reclaim said wet, marshy and over
flowed lands and improve and drain
the roads adjacent thereto and that
the construction Of said ditch and
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-12-01

The undersigned having decided to leave the state will sell
at Public Auction at the premises the n E. of Sec
ton 81, Township liz, Range 81, located mile south
and of mile east of Seaforth and 81 miles N. W.
basso better known the Nat Martin following
scribed property,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-12-01

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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-12-01
NOTICE OF FILING OF AND
HEARING ON DITCH PETI-
TION NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that & petit
ton, of which the following is a copy
has been filed in the office of the
County Auditor of Redwood County
State of Minnesota. and that a hear
ing be had upon said petition before
the County Board, at the office of the
County Auditor Of said County, in
the city of Redwood Falls on Wed.
nesday the 18th day of December. A.
D. 1915, at two o'clock P. M.
Dated at Redwood Falls. MINI.
this 4th day of November, 1916.
Numbered as County Ditch No. Sc
L. P. LARSON,
County Auditor.
(Auditor's Seal)
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-01-07
GOVERNORS MESSAGE
MAKES some POPULAR
RECOMMENDATIONS

customary to levy three mills on the
dollar of the assessed valuation of the
property of the state for the general
fund. Then there was levied one
mill tax for the higher educational in
stitutions. Then in addition there
had been levied two-tenths of a mill
for tuberculosis in cattle, wolf bounty
and glandered horse claims. This
made a total levy of four and two
tenths of a mill and made the levy
run over the four mills authorized by
the state constitution. The legislature
two years ago raised the educational
mill levy from one mill to one and
12h-100 of a mill. They also enacted
the terminal elevator mill levy of
12h-100; then add the wolf bounty
mill levy Of 5-100, tuberculosis in cat
tie mill levy of 5-100, glandered horse
mill levy 2-100, making total mill
levy of one and 47-100. Deduct this
one and 47-100 mills from the four
mill levy and it would leave but two
and 53-100 mills that could be levied
for the general fund to conduct the
business of the state-an amount en-
tirely inadequate.
This past year, 1914, che State
Board of Equalization determined to
levy the tax at straight four mills, as
provided by the constitution and at
their meeting when the levy was made
they levied three mills for the general
fund and the remaining one mill was
divided between the various co-called
mill levies. This levy was taken into
the courts and our Supreme Court
held that the State Board of Equaliza-
,, tion could not levy tax of more than
four mills and that the four mills must
include all of the so-called mill tax
levies as we'll as the tax levy for the
general fund. The levy was finally
made at four mills and the amount of
the standing appropriations for the
executive, legislative and judiciary
branches of the government were cov-
cred in full and the so-called non-pre-
ferred claims amounting to nearly
$300,000.00 and the various so-called
mill levies were reduced by about
thirty eight and one-half per cent
| each, in order to bring the total with
in the levy that can legally oe mace.
/ 1t is apparent to everyone that if the
Legislature shall make and continue
to make mill levies for specific pur
poses and continue the present mill
levies as they now stand on our stat
utes and thereby cut down the levy
! that can be made for the general fund,
and shall continue the present nd
| ing appropriations and make further
appropriations from the general fund,
the fund that must maintain and sup
port the state government, that it will
be impossible for any administration
to meet the demands made upon the
state treasury, unless the assessed
valuation Of the property of the state
shall be very materially increased.
The State Board of Equalization
hesitated to raise the assessed valua-
tion of the property of North Dakota
for the reason that had they done s.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-01-07

the books that shall be used in every
county and every municipality, there
by lessening the work of the exam
iners and creating uniformity
throughout North Dakota in all muni-
cipalities and in all counties. I be-
lieve that the work which has been
done has been of great value to the
state and it should be carried through
to a conclusion. .....
Bonded Debt Of the state.
Two years ago the bonded indebted
ness of the state of North Dakota was
$937, 10000. During the past two years
1920, 100000 of this bonded debt has
been paid. These bonds were paid
from the sinking funds and other
funds available for the purpose and
the bonds paid have been actually re-
tired and canot be reissued. This
brings the bonded debt of the state
down to $617,0OO.0O and within the
uCAI Cdl JuClC w LII NC q lcl &c dAAOuAt.
of the remaining bonds paid. 1t is
we'll for North Dakota to retire it's
bonds. 1t makes available just that
much more money for the purpose of
taking care Of school, county, muni-
cipal bonds and for loans upon farm
mortgages. 1t is good advertise
'ment to go abroad that the state is pay
ing it's bonded debt before it is due.
The Legislature.
The House and Senate have more
members than they should have. Our
legislature is only in session for sixty
days and it takes some time for a
large body such as is our present leg
!: islature to get under way If the
membership of the legislature was re-
duced one-third or oneIhalf its eff
cheney would be largely increased and
1 would recommend that the present
Legislature consider this question in a
public spirited way and reapportion
the Senatorial districts and reduce tho
number of Senators and House men,
bers. Action of this kind will meet
with the approval of the people Of
North Dakota, for it will very mater
tally reduce the cost of each legisla-
tive session and increase it's efficiency.
Sessions of the Legislature.
l would recommend that our state
constitution be changed to provide for
a session Of the legislature once in
four years instead of two years as at
present. If for any reason it may be
necessary for the legislature to can
vene in special session, the Governor
has the right to call the legislature to-
gether in extraordinary session at any
time.
If the constitution of our state shall
be changed to provide for the legisla-
ture convening once in four years,
then l would recommend that state
senators be elected for term of eight
years and members of the House for
a term of fur years.
By electing state and county officers
once in four years and by holding
session of the legislature once in four
years, we will reduce the cost of our
elections and expenses of our legisla-
ture by many hundreds of thousands
of dollars and that money can be
used to advantage for the people of
the state. ....
CONTINUED Next Week.)
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-01-07

January 5, 1915.
Gentlemen of the Senate and House
OF Representatives of North Dakota:
The constitution OF our state pro.
,vides that the Governor at the COM
mencement of each Legislative session
shall communicate to the Assembly
by message information as to the con.
dition of the state and recommend
such measures as he shall deem ex-
pedient.
I therefore take this occasion to d.
rect your attention to the information
that has come to me since the last
session of the legislature and to rec
ommend the passage of such laws by
your honorable bodies as in my judg-
ment will be for the benefit of the peo-
pie of the state at large.
The people sof this commonwealth
have imposed upon you trust which
should be safely guarded and by
sending you here to represent your
respective districts they have dele
gated you to guard their interests and
have shown that they have confidence
in your integrity and believe that you
will exercise your best judgment in
the discharge of your duties, and that
an honest effort will be made to leg
islate for the benefit of the whole
state.
The reports from the state officers
and from the various institutions of
the state have been carefully prepar-
ed and should be given your consider
alton. ~, r..4
Finances.
I would first call your attention to
the financial condition of North Da-
kota and ask that the states finances
be given careful consideration.
Two years ago upon coming into
the Office as Governor Of the state, s.
had an examination made as to the
financial condition and found the state
owing $501, ,479.99. This floating debt
was composed Of appropriations which
had been made by previous legisla-
ture and which had not been paid, and
included $178,045.08 due the State
Normal at Mfnot, also unpaid bills,
also some outstanding warrants
against the general fund and also an
amount due the five agricultural train
ing schools. To meet this there was
cash in the state treasury to the Gre
dit Of the general fund of S71, ,496.94
and it was estimated that there would
come in from uncollected taxes due
the state for the biennial period $170,.
10000, making total of expected re-
ceipts of $241, 1864, leaving deficit
in the general fund as of January /,
1918 Of $259,9S3.O5. There was also
due for approved glandered horse
claims for which no provision had
been made the sum of $29,346.OO and
for registered and unpaid wolf bounty
warrants $S,6065O, so it was found
that the state owed altogether float.
ing debt of almost .$3OO,O00.0O over
and above any cash on hand or money
coming in from back taxes.
For a number Of years it had been
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-01-07

We are now able to give you some
thing new in Eyeglass Mountings.
Neat and dainty. We have every
style and size at Buffers.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-01-07

The quickest way to go broke is to
ry to get rich quick. m
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-04-15
What This Money Would Do.

II the estimates of the New York Jour
nal OF Commerce be anywhere near cor
rect. and the war Is costing Europe $780,
something like 1890, 5000.
OF course. a. large part of this has not
gone up entirely In smoke and has not
been wholly wasted. Much of it has
helped to keep the machinery of normal
the channels of trade at home and abroad.
But, on the other hand. II we add to the
direct outlay in money the even more
positive cost in the loss of hundreds of
thousands OF valuable lives. In the impair
ment OF national efficiency, In the destruc-
ton OF property and the impoverishment
OF millions of people, the estimate prob
ably would be increased rather than d.
unfinished.
Suppose this s7.ao,0oo,o 600 had been ap-
piled to constructive instead OF destruc-
tive purposes. What problems Of poverty
might not have been solved, what schemes
OF social regeneration might not have bcss.
~dvanced what projects of national bet
the comparatively rear future. The mem
ace and reproach OF savage and criminal
want which Liverpool and London and
other cangested centers OF population hold
Tor England might have been In a fair
might have bought her way to that place
IN tho sun which she may not be able
g reach BY fighting. How much good
i! ..dO0g,0Ol.00 Wisely and Scientifically APP
piled could have done; now much evil and
have paid much better for England, Ger
many, France and Russia to isSlles- the
loans which they have issued and TO
epends the none which they have spent
improvements. IN the construction Of rail-
Dads. In the purchase OF territory for con-
geBted population. They would have In
CURED q big debt. but they would have
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-04-15
Now FORKS East Side.
-IaTICe 15aFIsIft, III Ute NdtIOnH

Magazine.
Territorially considered, the East Side
enough to justify all the attention it has
received. 1t lies within a comparatively
small area of less than two miles square,
covering that district south of Fourteenth
street to Catherine street, and from the
Bowery east to the East river. But Of
the things that have happened within that
area, and are continually happening, vol
umes could be written. though as a mat
ter of fact they seldom are. for there are
but few who understand its life, and the
East Side is jealous and guards it's secrets
carefully from all who do not know and
understand.
Eight hundred thousand men, women
and children-oh, so many children-live
within this restricted area In this, the
most congested district in America, nearly
100000 souls are striving. working, low
best out of life before their time comes
to go; and now they work. Often success
full In Just keeping body and soul together.
There is nothing, quite. to which the
East Sid can be compared. 1t is the
melting pot of all nations. The four cor
ners of the earth contribute to 1t. 1t is
cid fashioned, like the old lawyer who
under the electric light will a typewriter
sounds as well as that same work OF art
prepared by pen and candlelight. Even to
this day, Incredible as 1t may appear.
there are still lawyers in New York who
prepare their briefs by candlelight, and
to them the electric light is an abom-
ination.
There are old families living there now
cannot. to this day. be convinced tina
the telephone is OF n great advantage
to humanity!
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-04-15
What Is Business Afraid OF?
From the New York World.

In his Philadelphia speech, lEHhu Root declared that "tbe man uho
control IN government today arr the men who have beer lighting
10 administer the governmen they cannot rio themselves IF an under
lying hostility to American enterprise"
Is this or is it mere assertion?
a about what the republican revision OF 1909 wa expected TO be- II
was vas lot raaicaL. IT a OF a more radical revision than the republ-
cans cans hemselVes "a promised In TIL 1908 campaign Nor did it in
dlcate hostility to business, fol the agricultural schedules were reduced
IN sTeater degree than the manufacturing schedules.
lheIe was no hosuhty to bushes in this revision of the tariff
unless every revision that reduces rates of duty aust be Interpreted as
hostile to business.
AS for the trusts, there has been n o adverse legislation against them
under the Wilson administration. The only legislation enacted was
adopted at the request of the business interests themselves to clarity
the aW. There h as been less rust rosecutio rnde ~ yvTon "a
political agitation against trusts and corporations since Mr.. Wilson
can president than at m time since the Sherman law was enacted
AS to the railroads. all the restrictive legislation OF the federal
statu books a adopted by republican congresses. The only i'm
Mlison became president va the granting Of permission to increase
their freight and passenger rates. The ruling Of the Interstate Com
lstraIon Ut o. the american people as a whole.
AS to finance. the only constructiv measure enacted b he limited
law, under which the United States has been able to weather the fnan..
cal storms Of the most disastrous va in history without the shadow
of a panic. Evan Mr. Bryan, who led the free silver crusade in 1886.
USED an MS influence to put this great Measure on the statute books.
Where is the hostility o. which Mr.. Root speaks. u Where ia
there disposition in, the states o r in the nation to harass or persecute
What, then, is business afraid Of? We do not now ond ua on,.
even surmise. Not in 20 years has it had SO little to fear from oyern
1t under the law. What more an it ask?
The great weakness of American business 1t this time is he great
Weakness Of Mr.. Root himself 1t refuses to trust the people. Mr.
afraid 10 submit his candidacy to a popular vote; yet h would have
been reelected by an overwhelming majority. Business seems to be
and suspicious OF popular good faith.
tile. to business The people of the United States are not hostile to
business. If business cannot SET these plain, unmistakable facts. then
business is bfnd and ignorant and weak-witted.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-04-15

garden or a grassed lawn. Is no chin.
erical or impractical dream. It has been
demonstrated because 1t has beer done on
several back stretches and partially ac-
compiished In hundreds Of instances. BY
partially accomplished we mean those In
stances where two or three or four adj
Joining h~ouseholders have thrown their
backyards into a common and developed
the enlarged spaces into flower gardens.
Ihis backyard park idea, developed to the
limit OF potentiality. would mean the tear
ing down of all fences on both sides the
midway alley and Identifying all the
yards upon some harmonious scheme Of
ornamental gardening.
tiers In which this complete scheme Of
~ornamentation can be realized, for the
reason that many owners wish to build
a garage. a stable Or some other kind Of
outbuilding in the backyard and fronting
along the alley. While the placing of rear
buildings in one or more of the
OF g block interferes with the complete
realization of the backyard parking
scheme, 1t need not prevent the partial
carrying out of the plan. And as to back
buildings, their ugliness and inharmony
can be greatly modified bv planting climb
ing roses or other climbing vines along
their sides and rear ends. There is moth.
ing SO utilitarian-not ever a stable-that
every, thought Of identification should be-
in connection with it.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-04-15
Fetishes Of Fiction.

+. G., In the New York Mai.
The clock In the tower was JUS,
striking midnight"
The streets were silent, save for the
shouts of n few late jewellers"
"unconsciously his footsteps had LED
him to the spot"
Looking warilS up and down the
deserted thoroughfare. he leaped light
" over the low wall tha screened the
house from the gaze of passersby."
THE soft strains OF a Strauss waltz
hoated to him OF the still night air"
NV figures emerged into tile moon
light. He recognized them instantly
and his breath quickened."
He tried the lock and It gave be-
meath his fingers. Cautiously raising
the sash
"All was silent as with the hush of
death. saw for the soft intake OF his
own BREATH
Tn the silver moonlight that filtered
through the shutters he could see dis
tinctly every object In the room.
"Hark! What was that? He had dis
tinctly heard a footstep. and In the
darkness he had the eerie feeling OF q
presence close beside him"
Then, close to his ear, q voice said:
Don't move! If you stir you're a dead
mani"