*& it Mk CountyAppoints Board of Health ,* s.^ Bridge Committee Assigned ll and Salaries Fixed For New Yearv State Roods Fund Appor tioned. Will Not Exceed $10000 la All. One new fees, that of Dr. P. Graff, (raced the Co. Commissioners' table when Ibej met la regular session, Tuesday, January Tib. Tbe board duly organised by electing Hermao Poikow, Cbainnao aod Nela Erickaoo aa Vice Chairman. The, booda of the newly elected county officiate ranging from 1100 000 for tbe County Treasurer eo ffOO for the County Surveyor were approved aod ordered filed aod re corded In the offlces of the Register of Deeds and Clerk of Court. The board then examined into and counted tbe funda of tbe County Treasurer wbleb were found to be cor net, disclosing a total of 167,983 38 oatfcaad, of which ,130,000 la out on Ot*Mcw(ea of Deposit drawing interest aaaithe baiaaoe is it ip the warioas banks of the Conner on open Van) report of the grand jury was and ordered Sled and |be County waa direofed to collect two daya each aa Skjray Eye and ^apriagfeld and one day each at Com #iitf« Haaska, Evan, Joboen and nfe bounties will be offerei on crows, and blackwirds Uda year and bouaty on wvlvos' wan. agf li- The aalary of the Co. Supt. of ls was fixed at 11.500 with an •300 for traveling expenses Sheriff at 01275 Co. At- torney $1100 Deputy Register ol Deeda soOO janitor 000 per month •ftfeeeer otie4*r farm •!& per ssoatb aea't. to overseer 015 per month and tbe Judge of Probate waa allowed an additional 0300 for olerk htre. Tbe financial statement a* prepared by tbe Co. Auuiior waa read and ordered published. lu compliance with the Revised Laws a Couuty Board of Health was erarted witb Dr. J. C. Rotbeouurg of Springfield as Chairman and Com aaiMioners Sieinke and Graff as the ataer members thereof. Tue loiiowiug committees were appointed for toe ensuing two year*: Bjutsin, Al*ln, Meu«o and Kiuhanc awuigee, Couiiniaaiouera Graff aud Be*iie Larreoer, loeriaaud Wiuduom hriu«es, Ccmuiisaionere Krica»ou bnd Stetukt bpriuKtieiU, Coodeu, Burn*, Leaveu worth ana Poikow bridge*, CtfaimiMiouera Poikow and Heme Poor Farm, Couuuiaeionera Poikow, Eriokson aud Uratf Purcuaaiug low asittoe, CoinuiiMiobem Heme, Giaff ana tbe Couuty Auuiior Court-houae, Jaa ana tirouuue, (JuUitiutNiouei Seeiuke, Poikow and Heme (Jlaiuia, Ooauuiaaioueis Poiaow atiu Ei-icKaou. Juuge Koss lieu a report snowlug ahu Ou»iue»» u-ikuaauitd lu llie ProU»i« Goni-t dui-iug luo e»r auu tue over eeer ol tiie uur J'»i ai buhniitiea ui» antau»l report wuiuo a-as oruercu Co. Surveyor Minium reported on aae survey tu«de ot the DiUoeuutr farui wOiuu tbe lOuuty una uouti-Mcud to puicu»»e. lue Co, Audiiior w»a direcMMl to luruun copy ol survey to Mr. Dmueuber'e kUoruey. Ibe •euienwut oi 9&M uinde between Batue Auuereou auu WIIIIMUI Weuger, $.50 of wuioh to go to tue Oosauiaiuiug wtkuu»a ta tue U«*MUUJ proveeuitiK* auu aiuO to tbe Cyuut Was approved. Liiaia uoutMiuing the naoiea of 72 petkoub qujmDtu lor grauu jury uuty and tbe ktuue uuwoer lor yvinu juij duty aere piepafeU auu tiled wnu Uie ik ol Court. Oiuer* paid between July 1st and Devetuber 31»t 1V1Z «4tgrea«uuK in an *M »uui ot 91u7,M»oVfo Were uauuelied. Tb»t p»i-fc ol Ouuot Mo. 4,3, wiilub Uea between tbe vacated Cououwoou Street aud tbe newiy laid out Cotton wood Street tttoiug Bridge atieet waa .to *'. J. Meuuo (or the auui of On Wedneaday morning the only hia received for county printing opened and the board deaigueied tbe Springfield Advance as tue otttciitl paper ot toe County to puuli»b tbe deitnquent. tax list aod ail other ejflotal publications, the same to be paid for at legal rates. P.Uesehwas allowed tbe sum of 0C0 to publish tbe personal property tax list In tbe Volksblett and Brown, County Jour* oal The application of Hans Mo for the reduction of assessments and taxee of real property in Sleepy Eye waa favorably recoannfobed tp the State Tax Commission.^ The petition for a bridge across tbe Minnesota River in the Town of Mil ford was laid over to tbe next meeting. Telephones of tbe Northwestern Telephone Co. which were recently ordered out of the Register of Deeda offloe aid the Sberiff'a office were ordered re-Installed. Not to exceed tbe sum of 110,000 will be spent on State roada this year aa follows: No. 1, 04500 No. 2, W No. 3, MOO No. 4,1500 No. 5,01000 No. 7,1500 No. 8, 0600 No. », 0500 aod No. 11, $1000. Tbe bond of Dr. Win. Meierdlog of 8prlngfield, who bad been appointed Dupoty Coroner by Dr. O P. Reloeke was approved and ordered recorded. A contingent fund of030»waa creat ed for tbe use of the Co. Attorney to defray tbe necessary expenses of hia office. Hereafter the physicians who treat the County Poor must file a weekly written report with the Commissioner of the»r district of tbe services rend ered by tbem and the amount to be charged therefor and no medical bills will be paid for aervieea rendered uu less autborixed by the member of the County Board where such poor person resides. After auditing bills aggre gating 06000, the Board adjourned. Chui|es ll Bukli| Orcks The annual election of 4he fltata Bank of New Ulm held at their hank log house Tuesday, evening meant practical reorganicatloa of tola in atltu^on and tbe outoome waa watohed for with considerable Interest. lathe pest several months a great number of sharef of stock have changed bands and it waa not definitely known until |ha?i«sult of the election waa an nounced who would have the eon trolling Interest. The newly elected directors are John Busehers, H. P. Bastian, Ferdinand Crone, O. C. Stricklei, AndMwSaffert, FvJ. Backer a W a a P. Bastian, Ferdinand Crone, O. C. Strlckler and Cbas. Stuebe, Jr are new members of tbe board. They organized by electing Jobn Busehers, Pres. and H. P. Bastian, Vice Pres. Ed. A. Sioll and Peter Kitzberger were reelected as Asst. Cashiers. The pobition of Assistat Cashier at the Brown County Bank was made vacant by tbe resignation last week of Antony Schiller who has been with tbe bank for seven years. Mr. Schiller has been more or less interested In tbe automobile business of recent years and finally decided to give up bank work and follow the other line which gives him more opportunity to be out of doors, Mr. Schiller has set April 1st as tbe date for hia resignation to take effect but no action baa yet been taken in tbe matter as there has been no meeting of tbe directors. The mat ter will be considered by tbem at their regular meeting Thursday of tbi* week. Mr. Schiller bas purchased the Korth building and fquipment on South Minnesota Street and will take possession in the spring. He bas em ployed Wm. Gruber to look after tbe mechanical end of tbe business. Mr. Korth baft not yet announced his plans for tbe future. Activities Among Business People W. B. Greig has found more room necessary to accommodate bia grow ing tailoring and sboe business and will use part of tbe building which be now occupies as living room for his tailor establishment and will thus secure additional room for bis sboe department. After tbe first of the month he will occupy living rooms elsewhere. There were two promotions at tbe Etgle Roller Mill office recently, following their sy»tem of advancement for merit. Wm Meile who has been bead stenographer for a number of yeara baa proven himself competent for a position requiring more execu tive ability and bia emploers ad vanced him to a position in the cor respondence department where be bas charge of a pnrt of the mail. Mr. Meile is known to everyone as a trust worthy, reliable and earnest young man and bia prorr otion gratifies all who know him. Tbe other promotion is that of Miss Nettie Herxog who takes the position of bead stenograph er made vacant by Me. Meile's promo tion. Jobn Scbaefer, who bas been a member of tbe firm of R. Feaenmaler & Co. for quite a number of years, sold bis interest lo the business to bis partner. Mr. Scbaefer hsa formu lated no plans for the future as yet. VUJMB XKX1V. •,„ NEW PLM, BROWN COUNTY, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1913. $17000 Wages & Auditor's Office Draws Moat Prom Funds Report Shows $3439.l Fees Collected By Co. Officers During Year Amount Tp It may isawawt oar readem to learn what our Conoty pays out in the shape of salaries and tbe amounta actually received In the shape of salariea and perquisites during the year J012 by tbe ofHtiial family of Brown County. Under the law county officers must file with taw County Auditor a statement of salaries and fees received by them. From each atatemeota we glean the following information: Louis G. Vogel, Co. Auditor Salary...... ... 12000.00 Board of Audit Canvassing Board. Certifioatea Deputy Auditor Henry J. Berg Co. Tress. cinisry........ ....•••«. For Stats collections AJbevti..8enrexnss,Rea^ of Deeds 72 (Xi .. ooo *S5 70 02200,70 )£& O 200000 17 81 •aoildS •Salary..». »..'........ ...-i OOO^O Fees estimated.... 86000 DueftosaCowMy..,...... 10*** 20UV0V Mlai Louise Sehrvdt, Deputy Reg of Deeds.............. 90000 Geo. Ross, Judge of Probata Salary,»,.,i .. 1700.oa Clerk Blre. .............. ouOoo Certified copies a marriagea 142/ 0 W. J. Julius, Sheriff ffi'y* Salary i.. ..-... 1275 00 Bwerding Prisoners^...... .,g(km Her* in? Papers ... ^iML O O •••••. *.-• ,S^--,- ^. -. ... 17go^(jr R.B. Kennedy, Co. Supt. of bcDouU. Salary 15 0.00 Aug. Erickeun. daiary..... 11000u CbarlfH Brunt, Jailer......... 75O.U0 C. N. RoberUou,co. Surveyor Prep«riug Plats of Keeu *nd Daue .Lake* ... 10.0* Leke Heu»k» Outlet Survey 8 00 Survey of Sec 18 a 10 Stork 2ti.oo F. D. Minium, Co. Surveyor Poor Farm survey Poor Karin survey Ditch No. 6 Profiles G. F. Reineke, Coroner Total fees Herman Poikow, Chairman Salary Mileage George A. Tauer, Co. Com. Salary Mileage.. Jobn Henle, Co. Com. Salary Mileage W. C. Steinke, Co. Com. Salary Mileage 44 00 9 70 If lb 31 UJ 120 45 35.15 250.00 3eu 030 74 250.00 137 7o 377 70 250 00 44 1*0 250 00 164 9 414 yo Nela Erickaon, Co. Com. Sal .ry 250 00 Mileage t3 To 313 70 The County Attorney is also entitled to bis actual and necessary traveling expenses wbicb during the year amounted to approximately 025». Tbe total salariea and peiquiattes paid lu tbe County amounted to fully 020,000 of wbicb tbe County paid every tbiug except about I&M0 collected in tbe shape of feea. Business to Probate Court From tbe report of Judge Ross filed with tbe County Auditor it appears that the business in tbe Probate Court on the Increase. One hundred and fourteen new eases were started dur ing the year, nicety-six estates were settled up and three hundred six bear ings were held. In add tion thereto the Court conducted eight insanity cases. Eleven couples were married by the Judge at tbe Probate office dur log tbe year. Tbe State Bank of Court)and will be officered as follows during tbe ensuing year: Pres., Emil G. Hage Vice Pres., O C. Btriekler Cashier, Alfred Ouren Directors, Nick. Relobart, Jobn Reinhart, Herman Poebler, Ernst Drill, John L. Evan* and J. B. Doty. A ±0% snnnal dividend was declared, 0600 wss placed to tbe credit of the anrplaa fund and 1500 will be carried aa undivided profits. Mills' Business ShowsIncreaseithe In New Ulm to Supply City of Chicago. r*»' Shop at Eagle Mill Turns Out a Barrel Per ft#^ .-..•. iMuntte. ,-•••! tbe Mew Ulm enterprises in this branch of industry. The light crop harvested In Southern Minnesota and South Dakota in 1911 had some effect on tbe production early lo 1012 but tbe year juav closed, sccordiog to reports furnished us by the two large com panies operating here, sbowa a aub staotial increase over tbe totals of tbe preceding year. During tbe past five months the New Ulm Roller Mills ran an average of 28* daya per month, full tin»e, including half tbe Sundays in order to fill contracts while a com parison of tbe reporta of Eagle Company shows that tbe output In tftefemill was increased 100 barrels par-day during 1912 over the daily output of 1911. Thatotol amount of wheat ground in the vwc big mills amounted to 5.645.340 buabels. It is difficult to think in millions of buabels hut on the basis of JD bushels yield per acre this would quire ell the wheat grown on 177,287 heivaof Ja 4 and that amount of mod iced to townships 6 miles sqiare would make more than 12 such divisions. In other words, if all the land in the two lower tiers of town ships in Brown County were sown to wheat and yielded twenty buabels per acre that w»uId not be enough to auppy the requirements of our too gr at tailor plaoU. ^S^Siii squires more than four bushels of grain to produce a barrel' of flour tbe flour turned out amounted to 1,254,015 barrels. Tbls is more than tn«ugh to supply 450 cities of tbe size of New Ulm witb flour for a year's consumption. This gives a fair estimate of tbe vast importance of the milling industry aa carried on here. Occupation is furnished for 320 persons connected directly with the plants, hundreds upon hundreds of farmers spend a large share of their time in producing tbe grain cooaumed and the finished product forms tbe staff of life for nearly three million people. Tbe amount of feed ground at tbe Enft'e Mill was 71,500,480 lbs., nearly 6 carloada a day. At tbe New Ulm Roller Mill tbe output waa 10,109.680 lbs aod their flour output was in creased 11,089 barrels over that of tbe preceding year. At tbe Eagle Mill 17,421 tons of coal were consumed to furnish motive power. Expenses at the Engle Mill aggregated tbe sum of 1563,089.64, approximately 11800 per day, exclusive of the cost of wheat. Tbe amount of business done by them totaled «6 167 591 28. The two plants employ 201 persons in New Um. Both have traveling salesmen but at tbe Roller Mill the hulk of tbe output is sold direct from tbe office while tbe Eagle Mill employs nt-ariy 40 peraous as salesmen, branch •fflce managera and assistants. They also employ 76 agents and assistants at their 52 country elevators. Both plants have their own bake shops a here daily tests of the quality, strength and color of the pr-jducta are made. The Eagle plant baa its own cooper shop also where the barrels are made for tbe flour shipped to tbe eastern states and across the Atlantic. The average daily output of the cooper abop is from five to six buudred barrels and during the year just ended 150,000 barrels were made. The New Uim Roller Mill gets its supply of barrels from tbe Eagle Mill cooper abop. Tbe swift change of the shaped stoves into tbe completed barrel ie a most Interesting process to watch. Each operation la performed by a separate workman. Starting at one end of tbe shop two boys slip tbe staves into a frame by band and after that a number of machines operated by different men drive tbe staves into position side by side, slip the hoops over them, fit tbe hesds in aod smooth off any roughness in the lumber. All tbe operations are performed on tbe one floor and at one side Is a ware- house in which the hundreds of barrels are set up tier on tier to await filling. I tion to bis successor The complete operation of making a barrel takes but little over a minute. Twelve men are employed in tbe cooper ahop and the material used for work amounted to 60 cars of staves, 12 earn of elm hoopa, 4 cara of I wire hoopa, 16 ears of heading, 1 car m_ A |«*fcaMllawja^»ajaall board uaed to Uaonjrb Flou a a hold the aWetogether) and aookega of barrel nails. M.iim., Ku-i^-- K— fore, the totsll vote polled wss«5 less 4 S tSZ £JZLZ ISSM^j***_-?* "Af Liccase Ciiriesla Redwood Falls, For tbe first HUM to three years tie license parte carried tbe day in tie municipal election held at Redwood Falls last Tuesday. Because of tbe dose vote on the license question, tbe luteve**4| the annual etotfktote* al ways wcwkesaaod this year proved no exception. Altbo a lartwr aasabsr of voters were registered than ever be- party lost about the same number of votes, this did not affect the fiaal re sult. Julius H. Melges, a former New Ulmlte, was elected Mayor over bia opponent, Dr. E. A. Lyman, by 10 votes, C. O. Borg waa elected alder man of tbe second ward by 10 votes aod Rud. Stenavad, the other license eendldate for alderman waa defeated by 5 votes. Lmi Dispute News Close At ten o'clock Saturday evening both aldee In tbe Mueller road appeal rested and submitted the eaee.to Judge Olaenforbis decision without argu ment. This action is an appeal from tbe award of damages made by the Town Supervisors (of the Town' of Courtlaad in the matter of laying oat a cartway over Hoary Mueller's land and was originally nottoed lor trial at the November term of tbe District Court for Nien)let County but was transferred to Brown County fir tan oouvenienea of witnesses. Tbe trial began at 10 o'clock in. the morning Saturday and was not completed until 10 o'clock at night. W. L. Comstock of Mankato represented the appellant Henry Mueller, Messrs. Pfaender & Flor appeared for tbe Town Board aod Albert: Steinbsuser represented Herman Mueller for whose benefit the cartway is being laid out. -I' Tbe ease marks tbe~eiose of a loog drawo out dispute. The first steps in tbe matter of securing a cartway were taken by Herman Mueller wfaeu be filed a road petition witb tbe Town Clerk of Courtland in May, 1911. Tbe Town Board decided adversely to tbe petitioner who appealed to the District Court. The trial waa held at St. Peter and the jury impaneled to try tbe case decided that the plaintiff waa entitled to a cartway. The case was then appealed and the Supreme Court sustained the verdict of the District Court. On July 15th last yesr the Town Board met again and ordered tbe cartway laid out as directed by tbe Supreme Court aod assessed Henry Mueller's carnages at 0340 06. From this award be appealed and thia was the proceeding wbicb was tried before Judge Olsen without a jury on Satur day. On account of the survey of the cartway made by County Surveyor Daniels showing a different location than bad been assumed by all parties In tbe former trial, the question of tbe location of tbe cartway was injected iuto tbe proceeding. Upon this branch of the case Judge Olsen decided in favor of tbe Town Supervisors and then the only question left for deter mination waa aa to the amount of damages to be awarded to the ap pelIact. Here tbe testimony was widely divergent, Henry Mueller, D. L. Williams, Cbas. Johnson, Joseph Diepolder and W. F. Helm testifying to damages all tbe way from 02000 to »3000. Herman Mueller, Emil G. Hage, Henry Simmet, Luis Hulae and Julius ticbroeaer on behalf of tbe respondent placed the damages at sums varying from 00 to 9300. Judge 0»en took the case uuder advisement and a decision is expected from him In the near future. Postoffice Campaign Opens. Ever since November 0th rumors concerning tbe postmasterabip of New Ulm have been floating about town. "There'll be a new man In the White House" waa paraphrased to read "There'll be a new man in the Post Office" as early as 11 o'clock on elec tion night in New Ulm and altbo Post matter Liescb bas still more than two y*ara of bis term to aerve a number of tbe local politicises have msde known casually that the position looks good to tbem. F. W. Johnson appears tbe moat anxious for tbe iob and already tor a week past has been circulating a petition. Several others are named in connection with tbe vacancy and no doubt there will be activity enough before tbe 2nd of March, 1915, when Mr. Laie»ch expects to resiso the nosl- •^iW'-WSPTRgBJS^KS?. ?*•?," Must mmmmsmsmsiissMM-msmi' NUMBER PowerQuestion City Mus Hare Improve^ Facilities at Electric Light Plant, ''-. Franklin Street Residents Opposed To Expensive ImprovenMota. City Clerk Meyer reported that there 4s soteo swr# ^tiiajaaeilhig oa^-aeseaa^ meets due the oity for the upkeep of graves at tbe city cemetery. It ap pears that these collections have not ,5.3..,,. oeen made regularly and that some tf Jf'* tbe persons owing same have moved away leaving their whereaoouta un* Known. An investigation of the matter will be made by the cemetery committee. Toe matter of a new fence about the cemetery was also referred to tbe same ooflMBtaee. Tungsten globes have ham reduced about one-fifth lo price hy the maun facturlbg companies and Sunt. Bolstad notified the council of this matter in order that a reduction may be made in tbe price to local con sumers. The electric light committee will look after thia matter. Tbe same committee was empowered to act la the matter of appointing a auccessor to Jos. C. Hofmelster as collector. Tbey have since appointed Wa. Scbrader. Tbe Machine Gun Company thru Capt. G. Vogel and Lieut. W. H, Bierbaum asked for an appropriation from the city to pay Armorv rent for tbe company because no state aid will be available until the company baa been in existence a year. The council granted tbe request but cut the atuonnt from 0150 to 1100 Capt. Vogel re ported that all the equipment except the 16 mules for transporting tbe guna bad been received and tbey will be delivered to tbe company in tbe spring. Capt. Hofmeister Re-elected Biol Leader. Tbe yesr 1912 waa a prosperous one for tbe Second Regiment Band as was disclosed by tbe aonual report of tbe financial officers submitted at their recent annual meeting. Tbe'band haa now 28 active members sndlSJ passive members. Tbe annual dues of toe passive members are 02.00 per annum and the receipts from tbls source, altbo not very large at present, could be materially increased if our citizens generally would make application to be placed on the passive list and would by doing so make the band boys feel that their work Is being ap preciated by our citisens. Tbe following officers were elected for tbe ensuing year: Pres, Henry Stelljes Vies Pres., Jobn Friteeber ^eoy., Albert Gag Treat, Peter Kita berger Messenger, Emil Backer Leader,, Cspt. Jot. Hofmeiatsr Aas't. Leader, John Wartba. The annuel concert of the' band will be given I some time after Easier. 's^J„ M, Wi 1 -W"'A wsp ,%" President Mueller was directed aw Mmday evenlng'a special wieetlug -o» the city council to coaassunleate wish Mr. Druar of tbeClaussea Engineering Company of St. Paul and get him to come to New Ulm for consultation la regard to Increaaing tbe sapaclty of tbe city electric light plant. Tbe con ditions existing are getting serious and it is imperative that some actio* in the matter be taken soon and tbe special meeting waa called for Mon day evening In order to decide upon aomethiog definite. No other business came up at tbe session. '. i"',^fiMi The regular meeting of the counoft held last wash, Tuesday took ap various matters of straetia^rovement. A written report of the street ooav mittee advised the grading graveling of Franklin Strut Fifth and Twelfth North afreets la soring. This matter I previously brought ap hy the Board) of Public Works but aoaw of ta* nrops^ owners near Twelfth North, objected to, swing Msssiid equally., with those living near Fifth Noithv Acting oa the report ol law .stress coouaitfee aba council lastruotsd' Obp. Beginner Mtalual to saaoaa of the cost of improvesstnt in block separately, Mr. Minium will' also draw up plans and speclficsttonavS for tbe work but it is understood thatM there will again be objections fros*,'-''' tbe property owners. *3 *sf h\ *4