Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-12
Mr.. Case-How did Won come M aberiffp

Mr.. Case-How did you come up, sheriff?
Harrison-With the GLOBE. Let me intro
duce you.
Mr. Case-Thank you he i. an old friend;
ne is the only newspaper man who has been up
to see me here.
Reporter-The GLOBE is always on hand
where anything interesting to the people is go
ing on. Will you ride?
Mr.. Case-Thanks, if you have room, or I
will walk.
Mr.. Drake-You can ride with us. Mr.. Case:
and the GLOBE Rarus started off, leaving Mr..
Case far behind in the care of Mr. Drake. And
thus ended the second chapter of the railroad
war.
Later in the evening Deputy Sheriff Harrison
served copy of the injunction upon G. III.
Prior, superintendent of the Milwaukee & St.
Paul road, and one of the corporators of the
new Minneapolis & St. Louis line. The gentle
man politely thanked the sheriff and stated
that it was 'all right The summons accom-
panying the injunction calls for an answer
within twenty days.
What Superintendent Prior Says.
A GLOBE representative met Superintendent
G. 81. Prior late last evening and had an inter
esting interview. Mr.. Prior assured the GLOBE
that there was no intention the part of the
Milwaukee company to make war on St. Paul'
anyone. why said he, mr. Mitchell
and Mr.. Merrill propose to secure the money to
build short line of road to Minneapolis, and I
am trying to spend it for them; that is all.'
''Why should you go to work as you did ?''
the query.
Mr.. P.-There was nothing strange about
that. We have been talking of building this
road for a long time and concluded to go
ahead and we commenced work on our own
land, as we had right.
RepOrter-(Ten Rishnn eavs that Tho S;oux
City company owns it.
MIR. P.-Well, the best evidence of who owns
it is at the register of deeds office. That will
tell you who it belongs to. Some people think
we are at work on the land where the Sioux
City folks want to locate their shops, while as
matter of fact we are working three quarters
of a mile below the location of the shops. We
don t.want to interfere with their shops. We
would rather they would come to St. Paul
with their shops. We don't even propose to
run through their shop ground. We had one
line run that went through the north part of
the ground designed for their shops, and an
other line running along the river bank. and
entirely south of the contemplated shops.
This latter is the line are proposing to
build. There is not particle of occasion for
all Of this excitement.
Rep.-You don't expect to 60 ahead and
build the road this winter. do you?
MIR. P.-Yes we do. Labor is cheap in the
winter, and we expect to go ahead as quick as
this matter is adjusted. We took the men off,
in accordance with the injunction. I tele-
graphed to Mr.. Merrill, and he replied, to
obey the order of the court without question.
Rep.-When is the summons returnable?
MIR. P.-(Taking a copy of the summons
from his pocket) 1t is twenty days from this
date. We shall go ahead as soon as the court
will permit, and of course they will not forbid
our building road on our own land.
Mr.. Prior renewed his assurance that there
was no "war on st. Paul. intended. He
said Mr.. Merrill had shown his friendliness
to st. Paul by expanding $4,000 for
depot grounds, and he had offered $50, 900 for
an intermediate strip which was not worth one
fourth that sum to-day. But for that piece of
property held by the Simpson heirs st. Paul
would have fine depot to-day They had
built $l3,O depot at Minneapolis and paid
$ll0, 600 for ground in St. Paul, besides offer
ing $4,000 more to make the site complete.
He thought that did not look like discriminat-
ing against st. Paul. They wanted to give st.
Paul better accommodations, and if any one
would show Mr.. Merrill where to get
the ground at five times its actual
value he would take it at once
Mr.. Prior said they did not want the newspa
pers or the citizens under the impression that
their company was hostile to St. Paul. They
were simply working for business and they ap-
preciated and wanted the trade of St. Paul.
That was sufficient, if no other, WHY thew
would treat st. Paul fairly