INTERNATIONAL FALLS press ing defendants in the same manner as a district court summons warrants and to mark the same "not paid for want of funds." behalf of all other taxpayers of said county wftd^may wish to join vi.1 may be served. .iDated therein. That tliey h^ve no adequate remedy at law, and unless ttris 17th day of April, 1917. :V That the levy for general revenue fund purpose for the year the. defendants herein be restrained from allowing, auditing and Geo. P. Watson, 1916 to be available for the year 1917 does not exceed thirty-five paying the purported claims of persons arising out of the investigations Court Commissioner. thousand dollars, and that sum is the limit said county may levy heretofore referred to and of claims in excess of the revenue for general fund purposes, and that said amount is insufficient to provided by taxation for that purpose, these taxpavers will be irremediably pay the ordinary^ current running expenses of said county, as declared STATE OF MINNESOTA,) DISTRICT COURT damaged thereby and the funds of the county wasted by resolution of said county board under date of March 9, •and disipated by such illegal acts on the part of said defendants, a* 1917, which resolution is made a part hereof bv reference. county commissioners. Koochiching County Fifteenth Judicial District VII. William Keiver, J. R. Allen, J. C. Clark and Fred Smith, Wherefore, plaintiffs ask that judgment be entered perpetually That said county board is about to continue to carry out said Plaintiffs. restraining these defendants county commissioners from allowing attempted illegal arrangements with its special counsel, and to continue vs. any bill or claim of any kind or character against the general to allow his bills for alleged services in connection with said The County of Koochiching, M. A. Ulvedahl, Chairman revenue fund of said county or at all authorizing the payment of alleged investigation against the said revenue fund of said county, of the County Board of Koochiching, County/ John Bursack, any money to N. B. Arnold for any alleged service as special and is about to continue to increase the outstanding indebtedness William Harrigan, F. B. Green, and Geo. A. Monroe, county attorney or otherwise, or in connection with said county W of said county far beyond the tax levy for the year 1916,, as available members of the Board of County Commissioners of investigation, or at all, or to anyone of his assistants, employes, for the year 1917. That said arrangement with said special Koochiching County, R. C. Fraser, County Auditor of assignees, or to any other person by reason of any claim arising counsel and attorney and his assistants is an attempted employment Koochiching County, P. H. Fogarty, County Treasurer out of said alleged county investigation. That said county commissioners for the purposes of bringing civil actions, preparing evidence, of Koochiching County. Defendants. be restrained from authorizing the commencement of studying law, and creating in the minds of the people of said county, any action in connection with Judicial Ditch or State Rural Highway The State of Minnesota to the above, named Defendants: an impression that said county, as such, has a right to investigate matters, or paying any of the expenses of such actions, directly You, and each of you are hereby summoned and required to answer into Judicial Ditch matters at the expense of the taxpayers of said or indirectly, except out of such special funds created for the complaint of the plaintiffs in above entitled action which county, and said special attorney is using undue influence with the ditch and highway purposes. That the chairman of the county complaint is hereto attached and herewith served upon you, and said county board to the damage of said county, and to the injury board be restrained from signing any warrants heretofore or hereafter serve our said answer to said complaint upon the subscriber of the taxpayers of said county. issued in connection with the payment of bills arising out of hereof at his office in the City of International Falls, in said county, VIII. investigation matters hereinbefore set forth and charged to the within twenty days after the service of this summons upon you, That all of said warrants issued against the general revenue general revenue fund of said county. That the county auditor, hideputies exclusive of the day of such service. And if you fail to answer fund of said county for claims claimed to be due from said county and all persons acting under him be restrained from issuing, the said complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff herein by reason of said employment in connection with said investigation signing or auditing any claim or warrant in favor of any will apply to the court for the relief prayed for in said complaint. matters, are illegal and void, and in excess of any levy made for person arising out of Said investigation, and charged to the general Dated this 17th day of April, 1917. general purposes. That said purported arrangement of defendant revenue fund of said county. That the county treasurer be F. J. McPartlin, county with its purported empolyes for investigation purposes as restrained from paying or recording any warrant" issued against Attorney for Plaintiff, International Falls, Minn. aforesaid, if permitted to continue will cause a still greater amount the general fund to N. B. Arnold, or any other person employed of said illegal warrants to be issued, and unless the above named or who is claimed to be employed now or heretofore in connection DISTRICT COURT STATE OF MINNESOTA,) defendants are each restrined said illegal warrants will continue with said so-called investigation in any capicity. That said county to be issued and paid. and all of its officers herein made defendants be restrained from Fifteenth Judicial District Koochiching County IX. hereafter making any expenditure or incurring any obligation, William Keiver, J. R. Allen, J. C. Clark and Fred Smith, That said defendant county board have attempted to employ or auditing any claim, or paying any claim, or entering into any Plaintiffs. one N. B. Arnold as special attorney for all purposes of said county, contract involving an expenditure of money, except the routine, vs. and particularly for the purpose of the investigation heretofore referred current expenses, out of the poor fund, the general revenue fund, The County of Koochiching, M. A. Ulvedahl, Chairman to. That the arrangement with the said Arnold is one of and the road and bridge fund of said county, until said funds of the County Board of Koochiching, County, John Bursack, his own dictation and provides, or attempts to provide, for a per have sufficient money therein to meet the obligation, claim or William Harrigan, F. B. Green, and Geo. A. Monroe, diem wage of twenty-five dollars per day for each day spent in charge made against it. That the county treasurer be restrained members of the Board of County Commissioners of so-called investigation, and fifty dollars per day for each day that from paying or causing to be paid, or recording for payment or Koochiching County, R. C. Fraser, County Auditor of he may appear in court. That said arrangement is so made that entering upon his books any warrant against the general revenue Koochiching County, P. H. Fogarty, County Treasurer the said Arnold is his own time keeper, and is'the sole judge as to fund, the road and bridge fund or the poor fund of said county of Koochiching County. Defendants. what constitutes invetigation and what an appearance in court. issued in excess of the tax levy for said fund. The Plaintiffs, for their complaint against the defendants, and He is permitted by defendant county commissioners to tell them That a general accounting of said county be had and that the each of them, in the foregoing entitled action, complain allege what actions he thinks ought and should be brought, the ones warrants of said county issued heretofore without authority of and show to the Court. against whom said actions should be brought and he requires the law against any county fund, or in payment of any claim in excess I. board to sanction any steps he may wish td» take. He appears before of the tax levy for said year at the date of such warrant as shown That these plaintiffs are now, and during all of the time hereinafter said county boardjrt all its meetings with" previously prepared by the said books of said county be declared null, void and of no set forth ha-ve been, taxpayers of Koochiching County, Minnesota, resolutions and required said commissioners to vote affimatively effect and that the treasurer be perpetually enjoined from paying and that during all of said time said defendant county was thereon without any investigation on their part. He presents his any of such warrants so found to be void. For such other and further and is a duly organized county of the State of Minnesota, and that bill for wages and expenses and requires the county board to allow relief as to the Court may seem just and proper, and for costs the obove named defendants are the officers thereof as in the title the same without any further investigation into the reasonableness and disbursements herein. thereof set forth. of the charges or correctness of^bis accounts, and has refused to F. J. McPartlin, II. pass upon the legality of his own bills, tho arrangement is had Attorney for Plaintiff, International Falls, Mihn. That in 1915 the tax levy made by the county board of said with him to act in place of the county attorney in advising the STATE OF MINNESOTA,) county for general revenue fund purposes was the sum of $35,000.00 county board on all matters. He has dictated to the county commissioners )ss. Tk«t th tax levy for the road and bridge fund made in 1915 was the in all thiligs since January 1st, 1917, and wields an undue Koochiching County sum of $21,000.00. That the tax levy for the poor fund of said and evil Influence over said board. That unless said board is county made in 1915 was the sum of $14,000,000. That the levies W. Keiver, and Fred Smith being first duly sworn, deposes restrained from continuing said purported imployment of the said for the same funds was so made to be available for the year 1916. and says, each for himself, that he is one of the plaintiffs in the Arnold a great expense will be placed upon the taxpayers of said That the levies made by the county board of said county for the foregoing entitled action, that he has read the foregoing complaint county to which they should not be subjected. Said board will and knows the contents thereof, and that the same are true of his funds in 1916 to be available for the year 1917 was as follows: continue to allow the said Arnold to commence such actions as he own knowledge. General Revenue Fund $37,500.00, Road and Bridge Fund $24,000.00. may see fit to commence in the name of the county, and continue Poor Fund $20,000.00, and that on December 31st, 1916, all of said W. L. Keiver to allow his bills for per diem services for an indefinite time and Fred Smith funds were overdrawn, and warrants were outstanding against to the ultimate bankruptcy of said county, unless restrained by the same in the aggregate sum of about one hundred thousand Subscribed and sworn to before me this 17th day of April, 1917. order of this court. Geo. P. Watson. ($100,000.00) dollars, That in both of said years the General Revenue X. x- Court Commissioner. Fund provided by the tax levies aforesaid was for current That plaintiffs make this complaint on their own behalf and on expenses only, and no provision was made for extraordinary expenses, and the amount of said levy was and is insufficient to pay GERMAN WHO INSULTED the ordinary current expenses of said county. FLAG GETS C0-DAY TERM IH. Fargo, N. D., April 21—Otto Lehmann, That on April 1st, 1917, the General Revenue Fund of said a German, was sentenced to county was in the sum of $46,026.90. The Road and overdrawn sixty days in the Cass county jail Bridge Fund on said date was in the sum of $59,003.54. overdraAvn here today by Federal Judge C. F. The Poor Fund of said county was on said April 1st, 1917, overdrawn Amidon upon conviction of seditious One Man Horse Power action and utterances. It was the in the sum of $17,009.22. second conviction here in two days IV The most complete line of land clearing machines in the under President Wilson's recent war That said defendant county has attempted to conduct an investigation world. No matter how difficult your stump problem may be, A money The Klntia Stump proclamation. there is a Kirstin to solve it. back bond. Puller has paid fof into the manner of constructing Judicial Ditches in Horse Power Pullers, many models, for the deeply imbedded my 60 acres that are A 15-year roots of all kinds and sizes, and the big fields of many now worth {100 aa said county, and into the manner of construction of State Rural SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PRESS gnarfcntee stumps Machines that clear your land rapidly and economically—that acre. will pull anything they tackle. a a —'W. T. TOMLIN Highways in said county, and to that end has attempted to employ One Man Stump Pullers get the biggest stumps, too. One IUiaois City, 10. breakage. A can carry, set and work them with ease. Horses unnec* man special counsel at an exorbitant and unreasonable per diem fee, warranted essary come in two types, drum and dutch. saving of Mr Kirstin hat pulled Horse Power machines equipped with the new triple power and has attempted to employ for said counsel^ other assistnats, assistance, orer 500 stumps, from 10% to device which greatly increase* tho pulling power, without some of them with strain on man, norse or machine. One Man Pullers equipped engineers, accountants, detectives and to pay all of the 50% over lap-rooto 7 it. down with double leverage which gives an ordinary farm boy a all other Into granite. It core giant's power. The automatio take-up, a great time-saver, is expenses of said purported employes, all at per diem wages fixed methods. A on all machines, on* cam pulL man power and horse power. —C.S.McMILLIN arbitrarily at an unreasonable and exorbitant figure, and to pay profit shafting Send Today for Our New Free Book— Idaho Pollock, plan. all of said fees, wages and expenses out of the general revenue Tha Gold in Your Stump Land It valuable Mewatioeeeall Made«f land clearing. It teUsaD gives funds of said county, available for the years 1916 and 1917. That about O* Kbitfo Baa of Mllera-ihe moot moat complete complete ia ia the the worid-aad world—and azplaina explains Kirstin Kirstin Sernca..forever Service, free hM many photograph! of etnmpe that the Kiraba has polled, aad let toaflownersof Kirstin Machines. It taa many photcjraphe of stumps that the.r~*~ lofKinttal .1 no provisions was made in making the tax. levies to be available who palled them. Doo't bay a poller unta yon read this book. 'torn the 8MB who __ Big Money to thoee who Order Early, ftflntbaras in every locality wo offer a special opportunity to join laear profit sharing plan. No canvassing Just a willingness to show your Kirstin to your neighbors.. Doo't for said years for such extraordinary expenses or expenditures thocoopontoday. \wai aead qq2 Unas* stmKUerMaaafMtvws 3 MiiiStcf EicMiba* llidu out of said fund.. That warrants against the general revenue fund A. J. KIKSTDi COMPACT tha la Wort* have been issued in connection with said purported Employments Kintin Hon* and are now outstanding overdrafts against said fund and aggregate Tk Bnth MetM isb ill «f Map approximately twenty thousand ($20,000.00) dollars. That after (dk. Gets the aggregate amount of said expense arising out of said purported investigation conducted by said county is about four-sevenths of the total levy for general'fund purpose for the said years, St.. asemaaha. Wehlgaa V. --. Bead me a frea eopyof "Tha Gott I* Your 8ta*| That the said/ defendants, county commissioners, are continuirig to attempt to employ counsel at an unreasonable and exorbitant per diem wage, arid are continuing to furnish him expenses and stenographer service and other expenses, and are continuing assistants,, B.TJD. or P.O. Bo«_.. to attempt to authorize him to conduct investigation into 1r -*'l is, Sketched fiom hje Judicial Ditch and State Rural Highway matters, and to bring ac N tion in the name of the county in matters arising out of such in- One of the New Ones" Below are the names of some of your neighbors who have Kirstin Pullers. and wilj t»- —^i id t( ri.i\ i"n them for you. -CalLupoothem—iec their machines* cannot call* write or tetephone. They will If you cheefftdtyteUyoutlw advantages of owniqgaKiratitt. revenue fund ortaicl cotmlyf*!^ Itie said county ^jdftor^s^^htinuing LOUIS RODE, Laurel, Minn. 1 1 1 I I mm to issue warrants upon the allowance of such bills, and the i. li 11: 11 Pencil Curl said chairman of the county board is continuing to sign said warwants, Sash Band ,. treasurer and the said county is continuniigg to record sau DEFECTIVE PAGE |j