-h- 'J "V* •ST**- of. VOL- XV. NEW ULM, MINN., EB. 3, 1892. NO. 5. inancials Statement Coimty ON AN OLD SONG. Revenue Fund Ex- Isaac Gallagher 16.30 Gust A Spellbrink 9.80 Ray 1.25 Hnnrv Rollwes 2.00 penditures. Little snatch of ancient song, Frank Kuetzing 8.20 What has made thee live so long? Total. $29.70 Michel Eckert 6.00 Flying on thy wings of rhyme SALARIES OF COUNTY OFFICERS. Theodor Crone 4.00 Lightly down the depths of time, Henry Neuman 4.00 Telling nothing strange or rare. Salaries for month of December 1890, but paid in Witness fees and Mileage. Win Grimes January 1891. 2.00 Scarce a thought or imago there, OF Chas A Mueller Nothing but the old, old tale 6.20 Chas Black ).~. §1.0 0 E Bertrand county auditor $106.00 Of a hapless lover's wail. John Krueger 1.84 E Beilmann deputy auditor, Dec. Offspring of an idle hour. Total $273.50 A Blanchard fees collected for 90 & 5 days in Jan 91. 70.G0 Whence has come thy lasting power? Roland etal 24.12 By what turn of rhythm or phrase, Brown County, Minnesota, Frank Burg county treasurer 100.00 Francis Baasen fees By what subtle careless grace. Witness Fees. Ernst Brandt judgo probate 79.35 Can thy music charm our ears Helling etal 6.60 Geo Somerville county Atty. 66.74 Lars Fredrickson 4.52 After full three hundred years? Velikanje county Supt. Bal. Total. -..-.. $33.56 Augusta Kunz 4.40 of salary for 1890 19.26 Little song, since thou wert born Jesse Palmer 4.40 John Schapekahm jailor 75.00 Jn the Reformation morn, John Schapekahm 1.00 For thq Fiscal Year Ending December 31, A. D. 1891. Constable Fees. How much greut has passed away, Greene 2.80 Shattered or by slow decay. Total. $510.95 Jos Heitzinger 4.13 Gus Schwarzrock $ 9.55 Stately piles in ruins crumbled, 2S Jos. Sellner 7.88 Lordly houses lost and humbled, MFoh 3.65 Andrew Sellner 7.88 Yhrones and realms in darkness hurled, SALARIES FOR 1891. 7.88 IJpble flags forever.furled. Maggie Sellner Total. $13.20 Wisest schemes by statesmen spun, 6.80 Geo Bauer Lewis Krook county auditor $1500.00 COUNTY AUDITOR'S OFFICE, ^Timo has seen them one by one Louis Schmelz 1.00 O.C Jorgensen deputy auditor Like the leaves of autumn fair— Coroners Inquests. Brown County, Minn.. A little song outlives them all. Jan. 6 to Dec. 31 1891. 809.41 $52.68 Total 31, 1891 —W. E. H. Lecky in Academy. NE W ULM, DEC. Frank Burg county treasurer 1500.00 Ilumphery coroners fees $16.50 Davis county superintendent Dr O Strickler postmortem Miscellaneous Court- Expenses. To The Honorable Board of County Commissioners Ghosts in the Temple. of schools 916.00 coroners inquest 12.00 Of Brown-County, Minnesota:— Robertson county attorney 800.00 Jas Blatzer taking corpse from Math Mueller bailiff's fees 10.00 A strange story reaches me from one ol, Ernst Brandt judge probate 900.00 grave 1.00 Henry Rolwes 6.00 the Inns of Court. A set of chambers.had ,. GENTLEMEN:—I herewith submit for your approval a statement John Schapekahm jailor S28.40 Franz Macho ," Anton Adams 10.00 been vacant for some time indeed, they of the Financial Condition of this county, and a detailed report of grave 1.00 A Hagberg Attorney 30.00 rkably had onl been tenanted for three weeks Total. Albert Steinhausor clerk coroners Thompson 40.00 during the last six years. The rent was re- all receipts and disbursements, assets and liabilities thereof, for the r253.81 inquest 5.60 Ed Huebner interpreter 2.00 moderate and the rooms were fiscal year commencing January 1st, 1891, and ending December 31, fortable. Accordingly a young barrister 1891, both days inclusive. .Respectfully, COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COM- Total. $36.10 Total. 98.00 took them for a month or. so. Ilo never inquired why it was that they'had been sc PENSATION AND MILEAGE. LEWIS B. RROOK, Miscellaneous. Revenue fund Expenditures. long empty, nor had he any idea that they Returns of Births and Depths. Auditor, Brown Co., Minn. were supposed to be haunted. He had' Ball balance of compensation not, however, been in possession many days for 1890. $19.50 Dr Schoch Now Ulm $20.50 Morris & Co coal for Courthouse before he announced his determination to )•'••. Nic Gulden balance of compensation COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OFFICE Dr Weschcke 25.00 $126.00 'nit the rooms, though he had spent a good for 1890. 18.00 Brown County, Minnesota Mogenson Sleepy Eye 17.25 E Koch 2 cars coal for Courthouso eol of money in doing them iip and furnishing E GKoch commissioner 1st district 114.20 Dr Rothenburg Springfield 7.50 '... We, the undersigned, Commissioners of said county and state, do them. 97.00 Wilmington coal association 4 Dr Sullivan 2.00 His friends naturally asked for ah explanation, hereby approve of the said Financial Statement prepared for the Hans Sigurdson 2nd district II W Van Valkenburg Burnstown 1.75 cars coal for Courthouse 78.00 and he confessed that he had seen 75.20 fiscal year, ending December 31st, A. D. 1891, and order the same Gust Nuessle 2.75 Nagel fr't and hauling 4 cars 4 ghost, or rather a collection of ghosts, Chas Hansing 3rd district Jacob Wigal North Star 4.00 coal for Courthouse 148.55 to be published and posted, according to law. for every night, he said, the door opened of 09.80 A Walton Eden .8.25 II Nagel wood for Courthouse 64.00 tts own accord and in walked three men Dated at New "Dim, Minn., this 5th day of January, A. D. 1892. Jesse Palmer 4th dis- E Willson Stately 1.50 Scharfer 18.00 tod a woman, dressed in last century costames. trict Hilleheim Stark 8.50 Bingham Bros coal for jail 102.65 103.40 .E. Gi KOCH, Chairman Board of Co. Commissioners, They sat down at the table and Peter Moe 5th dis- Behnko oil 25.80 Peter Mertz Prairieville 8.50 commenced to talk and to drink. Eventually A N S ST&ARDSON, CO. d'ommissioner, trict 115.40 Jos Koehler janitor old Courthouse Miller Mulligan 2.50 the talk got louder and a violent Schuttt Leavenworth 4.50 24.62 CHAS..HANSINO, .••' ,, ^V,- ,, dnarrel broke out in the conrso of this the Total. $498.30 Wm Dey Home 9.25 Schmitz & Krause janitors salary woman was stabbed, after which catastrophe _. ,'•'•---JESSE-PALMER, ." •-'",,. ,, Wm Rossbach Albin 5.00 new Courthouse 284.17 the ghosts disappeared. Such is PETER''J.' MOE,^..l' ,,'K"/- \. Rollof .repairing Courthouse Martin Wentz Bashaw 3.75 the ghost story, and naturally enough it is FEES OF COUN1Y OFFICERS. pump .50 Jacob Haubrich Milford 7.75 .arousing a good deal of interest among $209.15 Scheibel Cottonwood 4.50 Chas Wagnor curtains sheriff's S A George clerk of court people fond of investigating physical phenomena.—London O Synsteby Lake Hanska 4.50 office 6.60 \Balance Sheet. A Blanchard deputy clerk of Cor. Manchester (England) Schmelz Cottonwood .50 Chas Wagner 6 pillows jail 4.00 court Courier. ,- 15.00 Halvorson Linden- 5.00 Mrs Katie Koehler scrubbing John Schmid sheriffs fees of Balance of aebpunts in. Auditor's Ledger, at the close of business floors and cleaning 1890 and paid in 1891 John Manderfeld Sigel 6.00 202.17 .' Success. windows Courthouse 10.00 Peter Mertz Prairieville .75 Louis Schmelz sheriff's fees 372.90 '••,•• TITUIiSDA^ IXECEMBER 31st, 1891: It seems as if success were a talent in itself, John Macho hauling rubbish Win Dey Home 5.00 E Bertrand board of audit 3.00 dependent, it is true, on other qualities S A George clerk of court 69.60 from sheriff's stable 1.75 Lewis Krook 6.00 in a greater or less degree, but having, Or Chris Filzen hauling rubbish Burg collecting personal prot. nevertheless, a separate and distinct individuality. Total. $236.10 from court yard 10.00 State Land Fund, •.' •." I ........ taxes at Sleepy Eye & 624 54 Some people quite wrongfully W A Krook oil and brooms for Cotiinty Revenue Fund, .•..: Soringfield 1890 call this quality "luck it is quite unjust, 1544 02 30.00 Courthouse 3.25 Burg collecting personal prot. however, for although of course in many Couuty Poor Fund, (Overdrawn) 379 83 County Revenue Fund Beusemann Bros hardware for taxes at Sleepy Eye & instances a fortuitous chain of circumstances Covinty'Coiirt House Fund,- (Overdrawn) 2833 43 sheriff's stable 5.95 may make or mar a man, as a rule County -Interestand Sinking Fund, •. Springfield 1891 12730 34 30.00 Jos Klossner jr hardware for the successful person generally Owes his or Private Redemption Fund, :'. .... A Grimmer recording bonds and Orders issued in former years but paid 224 47 boilers 12.00 her position to some intrinsic merit—to the listing mortgages General Town Fund, See detailed statement, 50.95 in 1801. 75 60 Lineh & Seitz cleaning and repairing talent, in short, of 'getting on." General School Fund, See detailod statement, 3158 46 And Eckstein $ 2.25 Courthouse well 5.00 Cm rent School Fund, Total. $979.17 It is not cleverness only it is certainly 118 35 II Behnke 1.00 II Beinhorn white washing and Tax Collections, Undistributed, Jjot genius it is not even perseverance, 1727 49 Wm Ammo 12.00 plastering jail 14.25 County Treasurer, Cash on hand. 16991 01 •».awn'«oooq,rv as that quality may be, although EXAMINATION AND COMMITMENT Albert Bogen. 5.00 Peter Scherer lumber for Courthouse mowem,, --*Aia -v,.iv \,e found OF INSANE. Bingham Bros 9.50 side walk 60.00 or that well known attribute wrticx. i- fa^.„ $20203 27 $20203 27 II Paul Klinkhammer 3.50 Fees for Commitment of insane Schapekahm Bros & Co laying erally ascribed to the. English, but which 26.00 Pioneer Press Co Gustav Schwarzrock 828.15 new oak floor in Jail 153.13 Americans certainly have their full share I 1.00 John Albert Louis Schmelz 22.85 S A George part expense of grading pf, the courage that "does not know when 1.70 Ray ^Assets. i\ and soding Edge of Greene •9.90 it is beaten." 2.90 Ray square 16.50 County Taxes of 1890 an,d'prior years uncollected, 8.68 However we may try to discover itscom.Koneht 1054 47 Schmid & Lehrer 10.17 Ernst Brant John Hirscn painting roof jail County Taxes of 1891, Q( parts, this subtle quality defies 22932 46 1 1 1.45 Dr. CJ Hirsch 6.00 building 10.50 County poor Farm, S of N E and S E of N W Sec 9 Ate analysis, and can never be eitlicr taught oi 109, FrahTTTl!'OUllJib.i, 00 Dr. Schoch 32, estimated, ". 13.20 E Koch valve for steampipos 2.00 learned, and we try in, vain to solve the 1560 00 Ball County Jaif Building, Ray 3.30 .- _,-""-*•-•3-ipn clothing mystery o£ why some 'people succeed in 8000 00 A Dehuff 1.00 New Court House, Dr. Thos Sullivan 3.30 Jos A Eckstein drawing **..» ii ,. everything they undertake and others fail. 45500 00 A Roberts 4.50 3.00 7.00 Balance-Revenue Fund, Dr.- Marcellus heating contracts -~N.ew Yojk Tribune. 1544 02 Frank Kuetzing 1.00 9.90 Dr. O Strickler Baasen canvassing election returns Balanoe.Interest and Sinking Fund, 12730 34 A Slocum 1.12 .. Green 3.60 of 1890 8.00 .?-VJr'-'- --. .•'i, .' Suits That Some Women Kring. W Wellcome 3.30 A Blanchard canvassing election Total $93321 Total. $98.09 29 -A prominent railroad lawyer, most of returns of 1890 8.00 whose time is spent in defending hit, client Liabilities. Total. E Koch canvassing election returns $132.27 District Court Expense. against negligence actions, said the other of 1890 8.00 County Bridge Bonds, •. day that the suits brought by women were 30000 00 Books and Stationery E Bertrand canvassing election County Orders Unredeemed, tpe,most:difficult to cope wnh. li a man 123 75 Grand Jurors returns of 1890 12.00 Court House Fund, overdrawn, loses a leg or an arm in an act ideut, the 2832 43 Pioneer Press Co. 8137.30 James N Montgomery $10.00 E Bertrand Postage and expressago County Poor Fund damages can be estimated \M*h a tolerable 379 83 Geo Barnard & Co. 92.30 Tosten Kiastad 9.00 4.60 Schapekahm Bros. & Co., extras for new court houso, J«gree of accuracy. Ten thousand dollars 194 75 Brown Treacy & Co. 29.77 II E Dittbenner CFRuemke 1 lamp auditor's office 3.25 11.30 George D.- Barnard & Co.. office furniture new court house, for a leg and $8,000 for an arm have been 1577 05 Ragsdale & Chassel. 32.00 Guttorm Thorson 1 Reg Deeds 9.20 3.25 held.by the courts not to be excessive. St. Paul Dispatch printing Co. 8.00 Michael Mullen Ant Olding assisting transporting 6.20 Total. A collision will occur and apparently nobody 55107 81 W Heidenian leet of Kelly's Chris Lendt Co records to new Courthouse 8.20 will be injured,'and months later a statutes 12.00 Jacob Wagner 7.40 2.25 woman will sue. To all appearances she Assets over Liabilities $58213 48 Louis Schmelz 2.62 Jacob Brust Adam Ries assisting transporting' 6.20 will'be perfect in all her members, but her John Luetgen Davis 2.06 6.20 Co records to new Courthouse lawyer will significantly hint at spinal difficulties, COUNTY REVENUE FUND. Carl Crone Andrew Eckstein 28.40 6.20 2.25 that bete noire of the railroad attorney. Nick Schmidt W Hauenstein Rep clock Aud 12.00 She will go upon the witness John Bentzin office 6.40 2.50 Beceppt8 Dr ..- stand and tell of her aches and pains, and Or O Olson 38.95 Rasmus Christian son Ed Wm Baer 2 doz iron cuspidors 8.00 her friends will bear witness how cheerful Balance cash on hand, January 1, 1891, *.." "-,Tax Carter Dinspmore & Co. 5.00 O A Dresser for Courthouse 2629 90 13.80 15.00 and.sprightly she was before the casualty, Collections, including penalties, interesfc-«nd'eosts, George Dietz '/-•••Total. Davis postage expressage $388.40 6.20 10835 34 and how downhearted and di^l vait she hits -1 Lon County jaiior.'s fees, 1889 and 1890, .7 Schumacher and stationery 12.00 10,73 293 99 been since, and a sympathetic juiy will be Rod wood County same ,„" Lorcnz Flor Lewis Krook postage freight 6.20 804 81 very generous with the corporation's money Lincoln county, same ., PRINTING AND ADVERTISING. John Cutting and expressage 10.20 31.91 and vote it away by the thousands to ihe 53 73 Murfin Ernst Brandt, Probate Fees V," 'L Velikanje postage Oct 11 '90 9.00 woman who has acted her part well.—Her 122 36 New Ulm Post $ 51.63 Old oiEico furniture and fixtures sold Peter Geschwind to Dec 29 '90 9.00 11.62 30 25 Point of View in New York Times. New Ulm Review 105.78 William Grimes S i\ George old wood shed spld,. l~ Baasen drawing jury 11.80 3.00 26 00 S A Gi'orgq, lumber from jail fence, Sleepy Eye DISPATCH Wm Pfaender insurance on jail 12 00 Sleepy Eye Herald Cost of Chinamen's Hats. 46.46 District court, jury fee's, Total. $184.50 building 60.00 9 00 Chinamen's hats merely rest on the top Springfield Advance 6.48 Chas. Cummins, terry license, "1891, ,.*-•••'_ Peter Henian filling Courthouse 5 00 of the head and are kept in place by a cord Ed Pivcht, auctioneers' license, Total. $2.18.60 Petit Jurors cistern 4.00 15 00 or band beneath the chin. The cost varies Jesse Palmer, old lumber from Lrtrrabee'bridge,« W Eckstein stenographer June 4 00 Henry Rolwes 2.00 indefinitely. The hat proper ranges from term court 80.00 Stephen Gilland 4.00 $1 to $4* the fringe from 25 cents to $3 the Expenditures:^as jper^detcCiled Statements. COUNTY BRIDGES. City of New. Ulm water rent Anton Schwerzler 4.00 peacock's feather from 30 cents to $.'2, and JBr!3srcs, County '^. Courthouse 13.50 .314 17 N Montgomery Clarence Moe work Leavenworth the button from 50 cents to 65,000" The 2.00 Rothrns of births"iind deaths, S. City of New Ulm water rent Nic Schmitt 330 10 bridge .$ 6.00 high priced buttons are cut from -rubies, 2.00 •i Fees of .county officials,. jail Henry Hillesheim 9.75 979 17 John Marihat Larabee 2,00 carbuncles and garnets, and set in handsome Commitments and examination,of io«ane/ Elias Jacobs cutting off edge of Henry Burg 132 27 bridge 9.00 cages of solid gold. Li Hung Chang, 2.00 Bonks and stationrfy.. .» ,' court square along side Matt Schneider 368 40 Geo Ross work Springfield bridge 11-00 the-Chinese premier, owns one -,aid to be 2.00 Printing and advertising, -. ^,.., [," walk 17.20 218 60 Peter Schmitz Nic Metzen Cottonwood 3.00 worth $10.000.-flatter and Furrier.' 2.00 Justice Fees, E Pope plumbing Courthouse 29 70 Anton Schmid 200.00 Schmid & Leherer hardware- 2.00 Witness fe^s and mileage, justice court, H- Schubert & Floor plumbing jail 33 56 N Montgomery Springfield bridge 3 9 4 7 1 2.00 Not Used to ft. Constables Fees _. bnilding 13 20 John Kretscb 52.95 Mich Castell Tending Springfield 6.00 The Sunday school superintendent had Coroner's inquests, '. •»36 10 Henry Weyhe Geo Boock oak lumber for side bridge 1890. 10.00 2.00 requested all the children who desired to Salarics^pf county officials, 1890, 510 95 Thomas Flynn walk steps 25.74 Geo Boock 1 car bridge planks 195.30 15.00 live'in a better world than this to rise to Salaries of county ©JBpials,* 1891 -.' «•. '-j ^-.. Anton Fischer Heinrich Lueth cleaning 7253 81 Theo Kobarsch repairing Cottonwood 14.00 their feet, and all rose except a pale, intel Co. Commissioners fees and mileage, '. Harrington chimneys jail building •/,4£8 30 3.50 bridge 7.00 11.60 lectual little fellow who had lately begun District court, Grand Jvuryb ~.. August Schultz W Penser shaving prisoners 184.50 2.40 Hillesheim work Larrabeo coming to the school. 11.20 ,, Petit ,%I ,.•" James Addyjr Schapekahm Bros & Co side walk 273 50 bridge 26.40 11.50 "Why don't you rise, my son?" inquired v-» '..". \J"Witness fees,* «.-* '52 '68 Otis A Fox court square 55.00 John Fischer Cottonwood 16.40 the superintendent. s»- 98 0b Ernst Bellman Anna Thompson penalty on Miscellaneous expanses," bridge 2.00 8.20 "They never used to ask any such ridiculous *ar*Urtr 71 Wm Hummel tax refunded 2.00 Miscellaneous Revenue expenses,' E Ilsley work Iberia & questions in Boston," replied the little 8.20 W ©8 09 Fritz Heers Jacobson Linden tax refunded .59 Ordors issued in- formec years paid, in 1891, Larrabee bridge 5.00 boy, wiping his spectacles thoughtfully 8.20 .Perry A Wolley .«- ,. ,.- Revenue Orders issued but not paid In 1891. and still keeping his seat.—Chicago Tribune. 11.20 Total E Pahi $1977.71 Total $314.17 A 8.20 R. re '""'..- _' Neils Nielson 16 50 14.60 ..,- Jac. Klossner, jr. 5 *w'-**i*: Peter Quarnstrom 3 90 f3 ..Appearances Often Deceive. 16.00 County Poor Fund Expenditures. ?.*..* '.,• Lueth ^g- mt»tii Sj#~ .y r«,J Frank Anderson 50 Mrs. Gobbs—I think it very strange that Justice Court 'Expenditures 16.00 '. -o re v^ti, -. H'^i"* ?*&. A Barr 6 30 ?V your friend Dobbs never married. 11.00 Ray, ..v,*i, & -«r»«*»«s. 25 *w Robert Rotoring Mr. Gobbs—Oh, you don't know Dobbs. AMTS PATD FOB SUPPORT DUBrNO 1891 Balance cash on hand, Ja'h'y 1892 JUSTICE FEES. 4.00 1544 02 **W- Aug Rochum He isu't half such a fool as he looks.—New 4.00 Chas Sommer Mrs Flick New Ulm $92.50 York Weekly. A Blanchard $ 3.30 4.00 Henry Beussman Mrs Maria Kosel .'* 60.00 «14872 85 ^14872 83 ttv~-J Francis Baasen 8.85 4.00 Anna Wiesner 48.00 J*"f*,#» itX /•1*"\T» tr mmmmml. '.!.: *-l 1* Z-y^mmmmmmM •iij.ni.m»iii"U—i!amg.'|.'EJ.j 'uan'im ir*i i-j-M-Li 1.....