Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-07-11

OF SteArns-ss. In District Court,
Seventh judicial District.
In the matter of the petition of Math.
Majerus, ct al, for a Judicial Ditch
in the Counties of Stearns, Pope,
Kandiyohi and Meeker, in the State
of Minnesota, DESIGNATED and num-
bered as judicial Ditch No. /.
Notice is hereby given that a petit
ton, Of which the following is a true
and correct copy, has been filed in the
Office of the Clerk of the District
Court of said County of Stearns, to-
gether with the required bond. which
has been duly approved, and q copy Of
said petition. duly certified by me, has
been fled with the County Auditor of
each of the Counties of Stearns, Pope,
kand1yohi and Meeker, which said Pc
tition was duly presented to His
Honor. John A. Roeser. one of the
Judges Of said Court, on the 30th day
OF June, A. D. 1917. and that pursuant
to the order Of said Judge, duly filed
herein, a hearing will be had on said
petition at the Court House, in the city
of st. Cloud. Stearns county, Mime
sofa, on the 31st day Of July. A. D..
1917, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day,
or as soon thereafter as the same can
be heard.
Dated st. Cloud, Minnesota, this
30th day of June, 1917.
HENRY J. LIMPERICH,
Clerk of the District Court in and for
Stearns County, Minnesota.
PETITION TO ESTABLISH A JUDI.
GAL DITCH.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY
of Stearns-ss. In District Court,
Seventh Judicial District.
TO HON. JOHN A. ROESER, Judge
of the District Court Aforesaid:
The undersigned petitioners respect
fully represent to the Court, and state
that they are liable to be affected by
or assessed for the construction of the
following ditch.
That the public health, convenience
and welfare, and the drainage and re-
clamation of wet and overflowed lands,
require the establishment and con-
structi0n of a ditch along the follow
ing described route, and that the con-
struction of the same would be of pub
lie benefit and utility. That a large
amount Of real estate, consisting of
the low lands of valuable farms, have
been made wet and overlooked lands
by reason Of the discharge into Crow
River, so-called, and connecting
waters, consisting of Rice Lake, Lake
Koronis, and other bodies of water, Of
large quantities of surface water
passing, through and out of branch
bitches into the said Grow River and
said connection bodies of water, with
no adequate means for the carrying of
of the same, causing overflow waters
in said Crow River, Rice Lake and
Lake Koronis, and other connecting
bodies of water, and greatly raising
the same outside of their natural bed
resulting In the great harm and injury
Of riparian owners, and constituting
menace to the public health, convent
ence and welfare.
A general description of the pro-
posed starting point, route and term
linus of said ditch, is as follows:
Commencing at the center quarter
corner of Section Nineteen (19),
Township One Hundred twenty-four
(124) North, Range Thirty-six (36)
West, and running thence East and
South through and across the East
Half (E1-2) of Section Nineteen (19);
across Sections Twenty (20) and
Twenty-one (21); thence Northeastern
ly, through the Southeast Quarter
(SE1-4) Of Section Sixteen (16); and
South and Easterly through and
across Sections Fifteen (15), Fourteen
(14) and Thirteen (13), and the North
half (N1-2) of Sections Twenty-Five
(22), Twenty-three (23) and Twenty
four (24), all in Township One Hun
dred twenty-four (124) North, Range
Thirty-six 1857 West, to point on the
county line between Stearns and Pope
Counties;
Thence through and across the
Northwest quarter (NW1.4) Of Section
Nineteen (19), Township One Hundred
twenty.four (124) North, Range Thir-
ty-flve (35) West; the South half (S-
1-2) and the Northeast Quarter (NE-
LAY of Section Eighteen (18); the North
half (N1-2) of Section Seventeen (1D;
the West half (WH2) of Section Six
teen (16); the Northwest Quarter NV
1-4) the Northeast Quarter (NE1-4) and
the Southeast Quarter (SE14) of Sec
ton Twenty-one (21); the South half
(S1-2) Of Section Twenty-Five (22); the
South half (S1.2) Of Section Twenty
three (23); the Northeast Quarter Of
the Northeast Quarter (NE14 NE1-4)
of Section Twenty-six (26): the North
half (N1-2) Of Section Twenty-Five
(25); the Southeast Quarter (SN-4
of Section twenty-five (25), all in
Township One Hundred twenty-four
North (124 ny, Range Thirty-fve (35)
West: thence South and East through
C.. l. SWenson. per diem and mi. as