The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1936-02-13
Thursday, February Is, 1886

Later Mrs. Elsie F. Appleton claim
pointed by the court, although the
highway did not pass over her land,
allowed her $4,000 damages about
December Is, 1884. From this award
the highway department, represent
ed by the Attorney General, APP
pealed January 7th, 1885, the appeal
declaring that the award was
grossly excessive, unreasonable,
and contrary to law" and also that
Mrs. Appleton had suffered no
damages of any kind or nature
whatever of compensate ma
ture."
Nothing further was done about
the matter for several months.
About October Is, 1885, Mrs. Apple
toms attorney, Mr.. Ryerson. with
drawn from the case and having
been succeeded by Frank w. Muir
ply, a Stipulation for Settlement
was agreed to by all parties, under
which the highway department
agreed to dismiss its appeal, the
$4,000 award of damages was to be
disregarded and the highway de-
partment agreed to buy the Apple
ton property outright for $4,000, OF
which $1,000 was to be paid Mrs.
Appleton by February 1, 1885 and
the remaining $1,000 upon the sat
isfactory removal of her buildings
not later than June 1, 1886.
Vouchers were issued by the
highway department on January
14th of this year to Mrs. Appleton
and Mr.. Murphy for $1,000 and 3d.
600 respectively although the con-
dition as to removal of the build
ings was not fulfilled. The state
auditor, Stafford King, held up the
vouchers, and later taxpayers at
Redwood Falls secured temper
airy order restraining him from is
suing warrants for these amounts.
A hearing was held before Judge
Emerson in district court at Red
wood Falls February LIST. 1885, on
this restraining order. The attor-
ney generals office moved to dis
miss the restraining order, the mo-
ton was denied and the trial Of the
case on it's merits was set for Feb
ruary 18th at Redwood Falls.
Look at this picture:
From Able I. Harris, able No.
Farmer-Labor publicity mans Cap
itol News Review-"A clever bit Of
detective work by the crime bur-
| eau last week placed one of the ma
TONS most dangerous criminals be-
hind the bars. Richard Franseen,
80, of Oregon, for the last ten
years has left burglaries, train
robberies, bank holdups and coun-
terfeit bills in his wake. He has
also been accused of murder. His
career ended on Mortified farm.
Two bureau operatives arrested
him there without a struggle"
And then on this:
From the Mortified Independent
of January 23rd-"Richard c..
Franzeen, employed by Floyd
Jones on Mrs. Julia Palon's farm
three miles south of Mortified,
gave himself up to state authorit-
| les Wednesday last. Franzeen, who
had been employed by Mr.. Jones
since last July, had intimated
SHortly pcloic hiioIhAoo Ih|e hS
had led a wild life, and later he
told Mr.. Jones of charges against
him and asked that the authorities
be informed Of his presence on the
farm. He became quite insistent
that this be done, and the day be-
fore Mr.. Jones took action he had
threatened to commit suicide as an
alternative. Mr.. Jones thereupon
passed the word on to the author
tiles.
Knowing that there was ST.
900 reward offered for his appre-
hension by the postal department,
Franzeen insisted that Mr.. Jones
should turn in the report to the
authorities so as to qualify him for
the reward"