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VOLUME XXV. BED WOOD FALLS, MINNE£OTA#THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1894. NO. 22.

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I*OCAL DIRECTORY.

COUNTY OFFICERS. Auditor A. H, ANDERSON Treasurer EMIL KUKNZL& Kejyister of Deeds GKO. L. EVANS Clerk OF District Court J. L. BYKAM Sheriff CARPER BLETHEN Probate Judge E. D- FRENCH County Attorney M. M. MADIGAN Supt, of Schools S.J. KACE Court Commissioner GEO- HOCGHMASTER Coroner L, S, CRANDALU Surveyor D. L> UIGHAM B>ar<l of County Commissioners:

1st Dist JAS ARNor.n, Vesta 2d Dist F. SCHANDBRA, Lamberton 3d Dist.... FRANK BILJ-INGTON, Mora-an 4TT» Dist.. .F. W. PHILBKICK, Kedwood Fails FTH Dist E- A. PEASE, Delhi

CITY OFFICERS.

Mayor- • HOWARD N. Aldermen _

™ * TO J A. C. BURMEISTEFT First Ward j W.S. MCKAY

. JW. R.. CASWELL Second Ward .... J CH AS W MEAD

Recorder ..FRANK I. GLEASON Treasurer H A. BALDWIN Assessor O. L, BIGHAM Municipal Judge E. .M FRENCH

Clerk of Municipial Court S. O. MASON Street Commissioner JOHN WHITTET

CHURCHES.

PBESBYTEUIAN.— Hev. John Sinclair, pas­tor. Services every Sabbath at 10:.W

o'clock A. M. and at 8 o'clock p. M. babbath school at 12 o'clock M.

METHODIST.—ReV.L. L.Hanscome, Pastor. Services every Sabbath, at 10:30 o clock

A. M. and at 8P.M Sabbath school at 12 M. Young men's prayer meeting Wed. evening.

CHRISTIAN.—Preaching on every Lord's Day at 10:3;) o'clock A.M. and at 8 P.M.

Sunday School at 12 M, W. L, Stine, Pastor.

EPISCOPAL.—Church of The Holy Com­munion. Rev- Henry Beer. Service

every Sunday, in the morning at 10.30 and in the evening at 8-00 p. in. Sunday school im­mediately after morning service. Service is held on Friday evening at 8:00.

SEVENTH-DAY ADVENT.— S. S. every seventh day at 11 A. M. Church service

following, Missionary and teachers meeting Sun. evening, Prayer meeting Wed. evening.

(1ATHOLIC.—Divine services on the 3d J Sunday of each month at 10 30 a. m. and

at 7 30 p. m., and Saturday preceding and Monday following at 8 a. m. Also the Satui>-day before 1st Sunday, Fr. B. Vonderlage, Pastor.

CIVIC SOCIETIES.

MASONIC.—ANTIQUITY LODGE, NO. 91, A. F.& A. M.—Regular meetings on the 1st

and 3d Wednesday In each month, at 7:30 o'clock P.M. O. L. Dornberg, W. M.; G. W. Dickinson, Sec'y.

RED»VOOD CHAPTER NO 34, R. A. M.—Stated Convocations the ad. and and 4th Fridav of each month. O. L. Dornberg, M..E. H. P. S J. Race, sec.

REDWOOD FALLS COMMANDERY, NO-15; K.T. Stated conclaves tirst Monday of each month, at 8 P. M. O. L. Dornberg, E. C. Geo, Hough master Ren

1 CHARITY CHAPTER, NO. 35.0. E. S. Regular meetings 2d and 4th Wednesday evenings of each month, at 7:30 p. m. Mrs. Florence Bowers, W. M.; Miss Charlotte Schmahl, Sec.

IO. o. F.—REDWOOD LODGE, NO.68, meets « every Saturday night, at 7:30 o'clock

Brothers from a distance cordially invited to attend.A.S.Kenney, JN.G.; A C. Burmeister, R. S.

ENTERPRISE ENCAMPMENT. NO. 35. Regular meetings ist and 3d Tuesday evenings of eatih month at 7:30 o'clock at I. O. O. F: hall. A. B. Truesdell C, P. A. H. Moon. R. S,

CRYSTAL LODGE, No. 25, D. of R.—Regular meetings 2d and 4th Wednesday evenings of 'each month, at 7:30 p. m. Mrs. Julia Licht-warck, N. G. Mrs. Luella Moon, R* S.

AO. U. W.—REDWOOD FALLS LODGE, No. • 68, meets every Monday evening, at their

hall. Visiting brethren maie welcome. J L. Byram, M. W.; S. O. Mason, Recorder.

KOF P.—REDWOOD FALLS LOUXJE, NO. 42.— t meets every Tuesday evening, in Ack-

mann's Hall. Visiting brothers are cordially invited. C. W. Mead C, C.; H.M. Aune, K. R. S.

GA. K.—John S. Marsh Post, No. 85— Reg­ular meetings every lirst and third Fri­

days of each month, at its hall. At one o'clock p, M. E.D French, Com.; Geo. Buxton, Adjt.

WOMEN'S RELIEF CORPS—Meets second and fourth Tuesdays of each month' Mrs May D •Gale, President," Mrs. Bessie Newton, Sec.

ATTORNEYS.

JOHN H. BOWERS, ATTORNEY AT LAW,

Office in King-Lechner Block. Washington St. Redwood Falls, Minn.

BALDWIN, MCLEOD & FOW­LER, ATTORNEYS

AND COUNSELORS AT LAW. Over Citizens Bank, Redwood Fall8, Minn.

MM. MADIGAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW,

County Attorney of Redwood Co. Office on E. Second St., Redwcod Falls.

PHYSICIANS.

W D. FLINN, M. D. - PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.

Also United States Examining Surgeon for Pensions.

GR. PEASE, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.

Office over Peck's Drug Store. Residence corner 4th and Minnesota Sts. Hours, 9 to 12; 1 to 6.

c P. GIBSON, M. D. » PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.

Office at Residence, corner 4th and Mill Sts. alls promptly answered, day or'night.

T\R. K. J. McKENZIE, " Veterinary Surgeon.

Graduate Ontario Veterinary College.) Has located permanently at this place and

|S prepared to treat all diseases of the domestic animals in a scientific manner calls attended promptly day or night. Office at McCUntock'8 Livery.

DENTIST.

Tji L. HA WES, JCJ • DENTIST.

Qflnn over Philbrick's Store, VFasM&HM I REDWOOD FALLS, MINN.

Fx WILL PAY- YOU

To call at LEFFINGWELL'S Dental office and have your teeth fixed. I make artificial teeth, best grade, for $8 per set. All other work at reduced prices. Every job Is guaran-

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CORYSIQHT, 18933Y CAAKLE5 KIW«.

SYNOPSIS. Major Plommer. an army paymaster, is j

crossing the plains with a safe of greenbacks for the garrison troops in Arizona. His cav­alry escort is led bv a veteran sergeant : named Feeny. The party halts at Moreno's j ranch, near Gila river. A stranger giving } his name as "Ned Harvey" calls at the ranch i

and states that himself and a small party ! are escorting his two sisters across the 1

plains. Their father, a wealthy citizen of j Tucson. A.T.. was to have met them near Moreno's, bnt has failed to do so,and his children fear that he has fallen in with murderous Apaches. Half a dozen troopers, | led bv Corporal Donovan, are. sent with the j stranger as protection for his sisters. L,ater | two of the troopers return grossly intoxicat- 1 ed and bringing a note signed "Ned Harvev." j

to the effect that Indians have burned the Harvey camp and carried off the girls. Feenv scents a ruse to rob the pavmaster. Suddenly a 'beacon tire is seen at an army signal station on the crest of a distant range, a warning never displayed except the Apaches are on the warpath.

CHAPTER 11. — Late that night a scouting party of United States cavalrymen, under Lieutenant Drummond, is crossing the plains from another direction toward Mo­reno's. One of the troop is a mysterious re­cruit, a former stage driver, named Bland. The riders stumble upon the body of a dead trooper' which proves to be Corporal Don­ovan. They descry the tell tale beacon at the signal station, and shortly after a second lire lights up the sky around Moreno's.

CONTINUED.

"Yes, sir,'" was the prompt reply; "several of the men spoke of it. It's about the most welcome piece of news they could give to fellows who had four months' pay due."

In the isolation of this mountain scouting business, when, as often hap­pens, one officer is out alone for weeks with no comrades or associates but his detachment, it naturally results that a greater freedom cf intercourse and speech is develpped between the com­mander and some, at least, of his party than would ever be the case in years of garrison life; and so it happened that for the moment Drummond forgot the commander in the man.

"It is most extraordinary," he said, "that just when a paymaster is anxious to keep secret the date and route of his coming the whole thing is heralded ahead. .We .hay.ejtg .telegraph an^L yet. three flays ago we*"Itnew that Major Plumiuer was starting on his first trip. He ought to have been at Ceralvo's last night. By Jupiter! suppose he was —and had but a small escort'( What else could that signal fire mean ? Here! get those men out to the front now at once; we must push ahead for all we're worth."

And so at midnight, with steeds panting and jaded, with the pass and the Picacho only four miles ahead, the little detachment was tripping noise­lessly through the darkness, and, all alert and eager, Drummond was riding midway between his scouts and the main body so that no sound close at hand might distract his attention from hails or signals farther out. Suddenly he heard an exclamation ahead, the snort of a frightened horse, then some muffled objurgations, a rider urging a reluctant steed to approach some suspicious ob­ject, and, spurring his own spirited charger forward, Mr. Drummond came presently upon the corporal just dis­mounting in the darkness and striving to lead his boon companion, whom he could not drive, up to some dark object lying on the plain. This, too, failed. A low whistle, however, brought one of the other scouts trotting in to the res­cue.

"Hold him a minute, Burke," said the corporal, handing up the reins. "There's something out here this brute shied at and I can't get him near it again." With that he pushed out to the front while the others listened ex­pectant. A moment later a match was struck, and presently burned brightly in *the black and breathless night. Then came the startled cry:

"My God, lieutenant, it's Corporal Donovan and his horse—both dead."

And even there Mr. Drummond noted that Bland was about the first of the column to come hurrying forward to the scene.

Ten minutes' investigation threw but little light upon the tragedy. Some stomps of candles were found in the saddlebags and packs, and with these the men scoured the plain for signs. Spreading well out from the center, they closely examined the sandy level. From the north came the trail of two cavalry horses, shod alike, both at the lope, both draggy and weary. From the point where lay Donovan and his steed there was but one horse track. Whirling sharply around, the rider had sent his mount at a thundering gallop brok across the valley; then 100 yards away, in long curve, he had reined him to the southeast. The troopers who followed the hoof marks out about an eighth of a mile declared that, un-wounded, both horse and rider were making the best of their way toward Moreno's ranch. Farther search, not 50 yards to the front, revealed the fact that at the edge of a little depression mud behind some cactus bushes three

human forms had been lying prone, and from this point probably had sped the deadly bullet.

"Apaches, by God!" muttered one of the men.

"Apaches, your grandmother!" was the sergeant's fierce reply. "Will you never learn sense, Moore? When did Apaches take to wearing store clothes and heeled boots? There's no Apache in this, lieutenant. Look here, sir, and here. Move out farther, some of you fellows, and see where they hid their horses. Corporal Donovan was with C troop down the Gila last week, sir. They were to meet and escort the pay­master most like. It's my belief he was one of the guard and that the am­bulance has been jumped this very night. These are road agents, net Apaches, and God Imows what's hap­pened if they've got away with Patsy. Sure he was one of the nerviest men in the whole troop, sir."

Drummond listened, every nerve a-tingle, even while with hurried hands he cut open the shirt at the brawny throat and felt for fluttering heart beat or faintest sign of life. Useless. The shot hole under the left eye told plainly that the leaden missile had torn its way through the brain and that death must have been instan­taneous. The soldier's arms and ac-couterments, the horse's equipments, were gone. The bodies lay unmuti-lated. The story was plain. Separated in some way from the detachment, Don­ovan and his companion had probably sighted the signal blazing at the pass and come riding hard to reach the spot, when the unseen foe crouching across

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A match u as struck find burned brightly in the black and breathless night.

their path had suddenly fired the fatal shots. Now, where was the paymas­ter? Where the escort? Where the men who fed the signal fire—the fire that long before midnight had died ut­terly away ? Whither should the weary detachment direct its march ? Ceral­vo's lay a dozen miles off to the north­west, Moreno's perhaps eight or nine to the southest. Why had the escaped trooper headed his fleeir^ steed in that direction? Had there been p-assuit?

Aye, 10 minutes' search over the still and desolate plain revealed the fact that two horsemen lurking in a sand pit or dry arroyo had pushed forth at top speed and ridden away full tilt across the desert, straight as the cr?w flies, toward Moreno's well. Evei* while Drummond, holding brief consul­tation with his sergeant, was deliberat­ing whether to turn thither or to push for the signal peak and learn what he could from the little squad of blue jackets there on duty, the matter was decided for him. Sudden and shrill there came the cry from the outskirts of the now dismounted troop clustered about the body of their comrade.

"Another fire, lieutenant! Look!— out here toward the Santa Maria."

The sergeant sprang to his feet, shouldering his burly way through the excited throng. One moment more and his voice was heard in louder, fiercer tones;

"No signal this time, sir. By God, they've fired Moreno's ranch!"

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CHAPTER m. Shortly after sunset on this same hot

evening the sergeant in charge of the little signal party at the Picacho came strolling forth from his tent puffing at a battered brier root pipe. Southward and a few hundred feet below his perch the Yuma road came twisting through the pass, and then disappeared in the gathering darkness across the desert plain that stretched between them and the distant Santa Maria. Over to the east the loftiest crags of the Christobal were still faintly tinged by the last touch of departed day. Southward still, beyond the narrow and tortuous pass, the range rose high and precipi­tous, covered and fringed with black masses of cedar, stunted pine and juni­per.

North of west, on the line of the now invisible road and far out toward the Gila, a faint light was just twinkling.

There lay Ceralvo's, and nowhere else, save wh^re the embers of the cook

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Tiki KISS OF MARBLE.

Mrs. Gerraghty's Cheek Had No _ More Life In It Than f Wood.

Lawrence Gerraghty is Acquittted on the Charge of Arson— !' Rich Evidence.

_ " Th'e trial of Lawrence Gerraghty,

charged with arson in the second de­gree iu setting fire to the residence of his mother-in law, commenced before Police Judge French last Saturday, and was continued oyer Monday and Tuesday, H. D. Baldwin, of Baldwin & McLeod, appearing for the defense, and County Attorney Madigan for the State. Gerraghty was acquitted.

The first witness called to the stand was Policeman Frank French, Judge Baldwin having previously made mo­tion to compel the complaining wit­nesses to put up security for the costs of the action and for a dismissal of the case/ These motions were denied.

The policeman then told his story, with County Attorney Madigan as in­terrogator. He had heard Gerraghty say about two weeks prior to the burn ing "G—d d—mn their souls, I'll get even with thsm; I'll burn them out," Gerraghty was much under the influ­ence of liquor when he made this statement, which was brought out in the course of a conversation with the police officer and the fruit dealer. Up­on being cross-examined the police of­ficer said that Gerraghty first told him he was having trouble at the house, and counseled him as to what he should do. The officer admonished Gerraghty to brace up and be a man and his wife would not make any more trouble.

"You don't know her," was Gerragh­ty's reply. "After supper to-night I kissed my wife good-night as I always do when I leave home, and it was just like kissing that (putting his hand to the show case), or a piece of metal, there i^ngjeeling tp ' Thf* polr<fOnran's remark caused con­

siderable of laughter and the court was obliged to remind the listeners that there were ladies in the court room. His further testimony was on his discovery at the house at the time of the fire. He said that he ascertained after making an investigation,that the fire had originated in a pantry under the stairs leading to the second story, had made their ways through the stairs into the second story, and would have burned the house had they not been extinguished by the fire depart­ment. Judge Baldwin attempted to cross-examine the witness on the line of the marital trouble existing be­tween Gerraghty and his wife, but the State interposed an objection. Judge Baldwin,in a short but eloquent speech stated that he desired to show that there was an attempt on the part of Gerraghty's wife,her father and moth­er, the three having formed a conspir­acy, to drive him out of the country, and if this was true, it is one of the worst kind of blackmailing schemes known. If this family has conspired to do this the Court ought to know, the Judge insisted. But His Honor sustained the objection.

The policeman was excused and H. E. Greene called to the witness stand, on the part of the State. Greene was in the fruit store about three-quarters of an hour before the fire on the night of Jan. 2d. Gerraghty was there. The latter said that he would get even with his wife and mother-in-law, in an an­gry manner. He wanted Greene to go to New Ulm with him and get on a spree. I told him no, said Greene. "His wife came in soon after. Short­ly after that a lady came in and made a purchase, and it seemed to bother

Gerraghty to do it up. His wife con­cluded the sale, and this seemed to make Gerraghty mad, because he put on his coat and went o^t. His wife went to the money drawer and found no money there. She was sure tie had it. She asked me whether I would not go out and find him and bring him back. When he came back Mrs. Ger­raghty asked him for the keys, but lie refused to give them up.

Greene's testimony continued on the fire alarm and what he saw when he reached the burning dwelling. Fol­lowing him came Mrs. Blake, Ger­raghty's mother-in-law. She recited the length of time that she lived with the two at Austin, while her husband and son were out on a farm, and when they came here the three took up their residence in the building destroyed. She insisted that they had frequent quarrels, brought on, she says, by Gerraghty drinking, and coming home and abusing his wife. Before coming down town the night of the fire she had locked the front door,but the back door was so that one could gain an entrance. On cross-examination she partly injured her own testimony by saying that Gerraghty was very kind-hearted when intoxicated, and would bring home things to his wife that the latter would return unless they were paid for. She swore that Gerraghty set fire to the building, and said that if her statement was not true, none of the previous evidence was. Judge Baldwin then cleverly wove a net over her evidence by making herself admit that she did not see Gerraghty,or even had direct evidence to that effect, set the house on fire.

Charles Buxton, Chas. E. Lamber-ton, S. H. Bissell, Dr. Pease and Chief Buechner, of the fire department,were called by the State to corroborate the fact of a fire, and the portion of the building in which it caught. The State' also attempted to prove by these wit­nesses that the back door was open. The latter,none of the witnesses would confirm. The fact that the fire cauglii stove and under the stairs was thor­oughly corroborated. Mr. Lamberton met Gerraghty coming out of the fiont door at the time of the fire, he said, and Gerraghty told him that he could not get in there. The witness ran around to a side window. The State rested and the defense, after moving to dismiss, which motion was denied, put Gerraghty on the stand. He ad­mitted his intoxication on the night of the fire, but said that after leaving the fruit stand he crossed over to Mill street, and went up to Lawyer Mc-Leod's house, two blocks south of his residence, to see the lawyer on busi­ness. He did not go into his residence or attempt to, when passing,as he had no key. He swore that he did not set fire to the house, and that the matches he took from the fruit stand before leaving it, were merely used to light a cigar.

Attorney McLeod was next called. He testified to Gerraghty having called at his house,coming in from the kitch­en, shortly after six o'clock that night. He remained there until after McLeod had heard the alarm of fire, and ran down street to see where it was. Up­on McLeod's return Gerraghty was gone. He had called on legal busi­ness, and they were about to engage in the same when the fire bell rang.

Ed Jones and a fellow named O'Neill were witnesses for the defense. Jones and O'Neill were going up to the Canada House, according to their evidence,where Ed was going to smash a man who had jumped his board bill. They first saw Gerraghty in front of (

McKay & Race's grocery, walking southwards. Both swore that they were right behind him, and he passed his own residence, the last that they

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