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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-11
CITY COUNCIL.
A Special Meeting Last Night-Last Pay
ment on the Market HOuse-Street Inn
prOvements.

A Special Meeting Last Night-Last Pay
ment on the Market HOuse-Street I'm
provements.
A special meeting of the city council
was held last night.
A communication was received from
the st. Paul city railway company &C
cepting the ordinance approved Sept. %,
1880.
The petition of Messrs Merriam and
Wilder, asking correction of assessment,
was granted, and referred to the board of
public works.
Final estimate to James S. Burris, con-
tractor on the Market House, for 81 $50,
was allowed
A petition or remonstrance was pre-
sented, signed by twenty property own
ers, Directing to the proposed extension
of Leech street through Bernheimer's
addition, because the street is only twenty
feet wide. Referred to the aldermen OF
the Fourth ward and the engineer.
A communication was received from
the city comptroller refusing to draw an
order to James S. Burris, contractor on
the market house, for S461.2S. on the
ground that the city engineer claims the
number of steps in the building are less
than required by contract. Referred to
committee on market and engineer.
Eight thousand dollars of the certifi-
Gates of Indebtedness, authorized by the
legislature, were set apart for the revenue
fund.
The petition of Richard Ireland and G.
M. Mccarthy for sewer on Fifth street,
between Washington and Franklin
streets, went to board of public warks.
A plat of Michel's Encouragement OF
| block II, of Robertson & Etten's addi-
ton to st. Paul, was presented and ap-
proved.
The pay rolls of the street and sewer
force for January were approved.
The matter of opening an alley
through block 80, of Rice & 1rvine's adj
dltion to the city, was referred to the
board of public works.
Changing grade on Lafayette avenue
from Woodward street to Collins street,
| Westminster street from Lafayette ave-
nue. to Minnehaha, was referred to the
board of public works.
One or more property owners on Spruce
street were authorized to advance fifty
per cent. Of the cost of a sewer.
| The proposed change Of grade on Jack
son street above Pearl, on Pearl, Temper
] ance, Thirteenth, ETC., was sent to the
board of public works.
Apetition was presented from num-
Der of property owners on Rice, Rondc
and Charles street, protesting against the
Como railway being allowed on these
streets on the ground of interfering will
business and making the street unsafe fol-
teams.
In the matter of opening and extending
Thirteenth street to Iglehart the board o.
public works recommended tina
Fourteenth street be extended from it!
present terminus to Cedar street. The
| council adopted the proposed change.
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New MunicipaI Court Act.

The following is copy of the act amending
the municipal court act of st. Paul:
An act to repeal section 211 of the special laws
of the State of Minnesota, approved March
1, 1876, entitled an act to amend the act re-
lating to the municipal court, st. Paul, ap-
proved March Sth, 1875.
Be it enacted by the legislature of the State
of Minnesota.
Section 1. That section1 of chapter 21f of
the special laws of the State of Minnesota, APP
proved March 1, 1876, entitled an act to amend
an act relating to the municipal court OF the
city of st. Paul, approved March s, 1875, be,
and the same is hereby repealed. Provided,
that this act shall not impair the jurisdiction
of said municipal court to proceed to final de-
termination of all actions now pending there
in, except that in all such actions where a
defendant resided outside of Ramsey county
when the summons was served upon him and
has not actually proceeded to trial upon an is
sue of fact in said court, he may
procure proc re said e chance of nI place s,d
court an affidavit made by his agent or at
torney stating that said defendant did not re-
side in said Ramsey county at the time of the
service of said summons, but resided in some
other county in the State of Minnesota, NAM
ing the same, and demanding change of
place of trial to the district court of the coun-
ty in which said defendant resided when the
summons was so served, and thereupon, with
out demanding payment of any court fees by
said defendant, the clerk of said court shall
transfer all files and papers and certify all pro-
ceedings in said action to the district court
mentioned in said affidavit, and the jurisdic-
ton of said municipal court to proceed further
in said action shall thereupon end.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after it's passage.
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GOVERNORS RECEPTION.

Arrangement for the Reception to Mem
beers of the Legislature by the Governor
and Mrs. Pillsbury at the Metropolitan
This Evening.
As stated in the cards of invitation the
reception, by the Governor and Mrs.
Pillsbury, to members of the legislature,
and citizens invited to meet the legisla-
tors, will begin at s o'clock this even
ing.
The convenient entrance for those &C
companied by ladies will be at the Wash
ington street door.
The large room at the Washington and
Third street corners will be used for the
gentlemen's cloak room and will be in
charge of a gentleman who will not al
low mistakes or accidents to occur
The ladies' cloak rooms will be No. 20
and Through No. 2O) the adjoining rooms
on the second floor.
The reception will be in the hotel par
lor on the second floor, where Governor
and Mrs Pillsbury, on receiving guests,
will be assisted by Senator and Mrs. r. B.
Langdon, Gen. H. H. Sibley and Mrs H.
NJ. Knox.
The second floor corridors will be re.
served for promenading and social greet
ings, with music by Seibert's orchestra.
The third floor main corridor will be
reserved for dancing, to begin at 10
o'clock, with music by DAMS orchestra.
The supper room, being the dining hall
of the hotel, will be opened at $50, for
those whose engagements or inclinations
require an early departure, and will re-
main open until all the guests have been
served
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MANKATO.

MANKATo. Feb. 10.-The snow blockade
still keeps up on the railroads south and
west of us. There has not been a train
through from Wells to this place since
last Thursday, and from what we can
learn there will not be any until some time
next week. Keeler's train has been taken
off the Wells branch and is working with
his crew on the Southern Minnesota from
Wells east The road is so badly blocked
up that they make little Roadway in OPEN
ing it. There has not been any train on
the Blue Earth branch of the Sioux City
line since the storm. They are at work
on the road with strong force of men,
but have not learned how soon they ex-
pect to get through. Robert Taylor, the
postmaster at Mapleton, got tired waiting
for the mails, so he started with his team
and came through to Mankato and got
the mails for his Office. He says the
wagon roads are very badly drifted
and he had great difficulty in getting
through. Mr.. Taylor is very accom-
modating postmaster, and deserves credit
for fighting his way through the snow
banks to MankatO to get the mails
of his Office. This Is the deepest snow
and drifted worse than we have had it
since 1862. Then snow WAS four feet deep
and badly drifted. The snow at the
present time is three and one-haf feet
deep in the timber, and has stopped all
operations in wood chopplng and haul
ing, the snow being too deep to get
around.
The Chicago s. Northwestern train was
on time this morning until they came
near the Mankato junction, and there
run off the track, and from last accounts
has not been gotten on, and of couse the
mails are behind.
The train from st. Paul came through
on time with the papers and mails to-
day.
The pupils in the Mankato high school
have united in an effort to build up
library of useful books. Through lee
lures and entertainments they have al
ready collected enough to purchase about
IT'S volumes of standard histories and
books of reference They have
invited Prof. Flandreau to re-
peat his very interesting
lecture, recollections of Minnesota In
dams, and from the personal popularity
of that gentleman in this part of the
State, and the deep interest felt in the
subject matter of his lecture. We ex-
pect that he will be honored by one of the
largest and most intelligent audiences
gathered in our city. The time has not
been designated yet.
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HOUSE.

There was no feature Of special inter-
est in the House yesterday unless the
resolutions offered by Mr.. Hoyt on the
railroad bond question can be so consid-
cred. There was no debate on the mat
ter, however. There was a spirited pas
sage on the spirit bill between Messrs.
Dunn and Wilson. The former wished
the rules suspended to enable his bill
granting women the right of suffrage on
questions affecting the liquor traffic to be
made the special order for Tuesday next,
and the latter insisted that the bill should
take its regular course. Mr.. Dunn be-
came slightly wroth, and intimated that
Mr.. Wilson ought to have difficulty in
procuring suspension of the rules to ad-
vance some of his own bills The House,
however, sustained Judge Wilson, though
the vote was very close. Thirteen bills
introduced and eleven passed during the
day.
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ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

Geo. Knapp & Co., proprietors Of the st.
Louis Republican, were the purchasers of the
Erening Times establishment, sold at public
sale yesterday to close it out.
The fourteenth annual reunion of the society
of the Army of the Tennessee, will be held In
Cincinnati, April 9th and 18th. The Grafton
will be delivered by Col. o. J. Dodd, Cincin-
NATL
The Erie railway have again reduced the
rates for emigrants to the West and are now
selling tickets to Chicago for IS, and TO Gin
cinnati, st. Louis and other places in proper
ton.
While party of laborers at Port Jarvis, r..
Y, were on spree last night, one man was
frozen to death, and the hands and feet of sew
eral Others were so badly frosted they will
have to be amputated.
The International Dairy Fair association has
elected Francis D. Moulton president, and
Col. MEG. Mills first vice president A reso-
luton was adopted to petition Congress to re-
duce the duty on salt, and legislation TO abol-
ish tolls on canals on West bound freight.
Three Chicago grocers, dealing in oleomar.
gerine, were arrested and incl $40 and costs
yesterday. The agent of the State butter and
cheese association, appointed to find out such
cases, is performing his duty so vigorously II
is thought the business will soon be broken
up.
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WHITE EARTH CHIPPEW.as.
Their Liberal Contribution Towards New
Mission Church---Facts Which Contra
dict the Old-Time Idea That Indians
Won't Work.

Their Liberal Contribution Towards New
Mission Church---Facts Which Contra
dict the Old-Time Idea That Indians
Won't Work.
Rev. Father Aloysius, having pur-
chased material for large brick church
for the Chippewas of the White Earth
reservation, and transported the same by
rail to Detroit, on the Northern Pacific,
distance of twenty miles from the
agency, called, a few days ago, upon the
Indians, to help transport the material to
his mission near the agency. Those be-
longing to his church volunteered to
transport, free of charge, 100 loads, each
Indian, according to his ability, agreeing
to haul from one to six loads. They are
now hard at work transporting the ma
terial to the place selected for the church.
On the White Earth reservation about
one-half of the Indians are Catholics;
but a small number have teams, although
all cultivate the soil that have facilities
for breaking the ground. Where will
you find settlement of white men that
will do as much toward building
church, according to their means, as
those poor Indians?
not work. Last fall, many for want
of employment at home, left their re-
servation and went among the white
farmers and some travelled fifty miles to
secure few days work. The great wheat
man, Oliver Dalrymple, employed several,
and he bears testimony to their being
faithful and honest.
If the good people, who are trying to
solve the Indian question, will visit
Major Ruffee, agent for the Chippewa
Indians at White Earth, they will learn
enough to enable them to work under
standinglY in the future.
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Marriage at the Police Court.

After the bull-pen had been cleared of
DRINKS at the police court yesterday
morning the sweet bells were tangled
into tune by hastily improvised but not
the less enjoyable wedding. The high
contracting parties were loving couple
named Ole Oleson and Matilda Nelson,
and melted moonshine and molasses
wasn't marker to the depth and extent
Of their affection. 1t all came of indo-
mitable will and purpose and they meant
business from the word 60. Neither of
the parties had cent, and if gopher
mines had been selling at a nickel apiece
they couldn't have bought a sage bush.
But the little blind devil had emptied
whole culver of arrows into their bleed
ing breasts and it was the most out and
out case of clear gone on each other ever
seen. He is dapper little fellow just
adolescent enough to cultivate base ball
moustache, nine to side, while she is q
rather pretty Swede with the clear,
blonde complexion characteristic of her
race. They were arrested night before
last for vagrancy and when arraigned
yesterday they stated that they wanted
to get married but had no money. The
idea of letting such stuff as dross stand
in the way of such a consumation was
out of the question. Bailiff Dowlan pass
ed round the hat and liberal collection
was taken up, all chipping in from the
judge to the reporters. Jimmy O'Brien
presented the couple with a marriage IL
cense and Judge Burr joined them in a
style to suit the queens taste and it didn't
cost them cent. Fairchild, the genial
clerk, presented the groom with a Hav-
ana, and they were given purse to help
them out of town
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NORTHFIELD.

NoRTHFIELD, Feb. 9.-Wheat s2a.6c
Potatoes soc. Eggs 35a4oc. Onions
s1.00 per bushel. Chickens, dressed, 10c.
Pork SIC.
Ira Fields had two cancers taken out
of his face the other day.
Tax payers especially the Democrats
should recollect that the 10th and 18th is
the time to pay their taxes and save the
unjust penalties.
Mrs. Adam Straler, who has been sick
for two weeks past, died Tuesday. with
diphtheria. She leaves husband and
one chile to mourn her loss.
At 11:40 O'Clock last Saturday night the
fire alarm was sounded, and investiga-
ton proved that the residence of Mr..
Richard Dickinson was in flames, and.
owing to the deep snow and inclemency
of the weather the fire company was I'M
able to reach the spot, consequently the
house burned to the ground. Loss 81 100;
insurance 5000
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Lost on the Praries Funeral Arrange
mentS Interrunted.

Two of P. H. Kelly s. Co.'S trav cling
men appear to have been "lost, strayed
or stolen'' during the recent snow storms.
They were given up for lost by the house,
and arrangements were being made to
buy Grape when the plans
were little disconnected by the re-
ceipt of telegram from one of them
over in Wisconsin, stating that he hoped
to return in thawed condition in time
to celebrate the Fourth of July. The
following is the reply:
"Sorry to receive your telegram. Ar
rangements for your funeral all complet-
ed and it is difficult to countermand.
Shall we go ahead? Answer
1t would, of course, be discourteous to
have the funeral without consulting the
wishes of the corpse, and the friends of
the absent man would not be guilty of
anything discreditable. They according
Iy hold the funeral arrangements
in allegiance, but are in hopes,
if the Wisconsin absentee objects,
to be able to make the coffin do for the
other one, WHO'S still unheard from. His
feet are so large that the coffin on hand
may require the top to be raised twenty
or thirty inches, or perhaps cut hole for
them to breathe through. Everything,
however, will be done decently and in
order, and no effort spared to utilize the
stock on hand.
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Afternoon Session.
The House re-convened at $50 O'Clock.
HOUSE BILLS PASSED.

The House re-convened at $50 O'Clock.
HOUSE BILLS PASSED.
Amending the charter of the St. Paul Gae
Light company.
Authorizing the construction of toll
bridge across the Red river at Moorhead.
Amending the law relating to immigra-
ton.
Amending the constitution so as to author
lie the levy of taxes for local improvements
without regard to the value of the real prop
erty.
Providing for the support of the poor of
Goodhue county.
Fixing the compensation of certain officers
of Hennepin county.
Changing the boundaries of school district.
in Hennepin county.
For the widening of Fort street and the
opening of Stewart avenue in st. Paul.
Authorizing the opening of a public road
In Ramsey county terminating at White
Bear.
Legalizing an election held in the village of
Murdoch, Swift county.
incorporating the city of Moorhead, Clay
county.
COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.
The House then went into committee OF the
whole, Mr.. Stone in the chair, on bills on the
clerks desk. After considering file of twenty
bills the committee rose, reported progress,
and the House adjourned.
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The Scandinavians of the State are be-
coming altogether too importunate, and it
has become necessary for the welfare of
the Republican party that they should be
depressed. They number over hundred
and fifty thousand of our population, and
cast about twenty-five thousand votes, all
of which have heretofore been given
without question to the candidates of the
Republican party. As long as they con-
fined themselves to voting the tickets
placed in their hands by their lords and
masters, they were highly esteemed, fiat
tered and cajoled. But some of them
have of late become imbued with the
preposterous idea that, in addition to
voting, they should also be accorded the
privilege of occasionally holding office.
AT first they were content with few
local positions; then some of them man.
aged to get elected to the legislature;
then they claimed one of the most lucra-
tive of the State offices, and now they
have determined to secure a Congress-
man! Such audaeity is almost without a
parallel, and it is no wonder that the Re-
publican ring stands aghast, and that en-
ergetic repressive measures have been
adopted.
The first step,taken to teach the Scan
dinavians their proper place was in the
formation of the standing committees of
the present legislature, They were
given chairmanships of three or four of
the committees that seldom or never have
a bill referred to them-committees in
name but not in fact. On the rest of the
committees they were awarded minor
positions, and always where their infu-
ence and voice would amount to nothing
by reason of the preponderance of mem
bers OF other nationalities and of greater
force of character In the appointment
of the special committees on apportion-
ment they were ignored altogether in the
House, and recognized in but a niggardly
manner in the Senate In the appoint
ment of clerks they were again ignored
until Wednesday night, when a Swede
managed to secure place that is worth
perhaps fifty dollars for the session. This
small plum, it was thought, would
allay the symptoms of re-
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PERSONAL.

1t. Jno. L. Glen, Twenty-fourth infantry,
arrived at the Metropolitan yesterday.
John Ludwig, one of the live men and true
Democrats of Winona, at the Merchants.
Hon. Leon Houde, of Little Falls, is in the
city trying to regulate matters in general.
Capt. H. A. Castle has gone to Washington,
intending to remain there until after Inaugural
ton day.
A. j. Underwood, of the Fergus Falls i'd
vocate, is among the interior newspaper men
in the city, watching the legislature.
P. S. Davidson, La Crosse, superintendent OF
the Keokuk Northern line of Mississippi river
steamers, registered at the Merchants yester-
day.
Mr.. Holdridge, of Murdoch, former secre-
tary of the Young Mems Christian association
of this city, is visiting his friends in st.
Paul.
E. o. Rudd, Rudd's Mill, Wis; R. B. Mum.
ford, Glyndon; L. Fl. Waters, Fargo, and D.
D Allen, Toronto, were among the arrivals at
the Merchants yesterday.
At the Metropolitan: Hon. Ara Barton,
Faribault; Hon. John H. Brown, Willmar;
Geo. A. Du Toit, ESQ.,, Chaska and Dr.. J. B.
McGanghey, of Winona.
Hon. Charles F. Schroth, of Winona,
dropped in upon the Legislature yesterday to
see now Tie lucIuDcTS were getting along Will
out his counsel aud reproof.
AID Jake Bargen, of Minneapolis, was in
the city yesterday, talking water to the legis-
lators of his village and nice, very nice, as he
always does, to his ST. Paul friends. :.
Maj. A. NJ. Fridley, a member of the las
legislature, was in the city yesterday and
dropped into the House in the course of the
afternoon, where he was ordialiy greeted by
his old associates.
Leave of absence for one month has been
granted Major Guido ngcs, the officer whose
winter campaign has resulted so successfully
in disarming over roo of the hostile Indians
who crossed the border with Sitting Bull.
Second Lieut.. L. D. Greene, Seventh infantry,
registered at the Metropolitan yesterday, hay
ing surrendered the unexpired portion of his
leave of absence, has been ordered to conduct
a detachment of recruits for his regiment from
Fort Smelling to Fort Lincoln, and then to
join his company at Fort Buford.
Mr.. Charles H. Fl. Smith, son of the late
Pascal Smith, left here last evening for his
Missouri river farm, opposite Fort Yates, to
arrange for leaving the farm to others care,
he having contracted a partnership with
Messrs. Craig & Larkin, wholesale crockery
dealers, Sibley street, this city. The finn will
now be Craig, Larkin & Smith, and Mr..
Smith will have an active part in the bus
mess.
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THERE is considerable opposition to the
river and harbor appropriation bill in
Congress. No doubt many improper
items have been placed upon the bill, but
for that reason the whole bill should not
be condemned. The extravagant para
graphs can be easily stricken out. There
is an urgent necessity for large expendi-
ture for the improvement of the Missis-
sjppi river. Without it the interests OF
commerce and of the producers of the
Northwest will suffer greatly, and moth
ing should be permitted to interfere with
the progress of the work.
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AN investigation having been ordered
TO ascertain if some of the railroad COM
panies were not illegally avoiding taxa
ton on their lands-such inquiry being
made on motion of member Of the leg
islature supposed to be connected with
the Winona s. st. Peter road--the other
companies have retaliated by charging
the Winona & ST. Petor with unjust dis
ordinations in freights. The company
may be guilty or it may not. At any rate
it will do no harm to make the investiga-
ton, and thus relieve the railroad COM
missioner of part of his arduous ~
duties.
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GOULD'S FANGS.

Montreal Excited Over the Fear That They
are Fastened Upon the Canadian TeIe-
graph System.
BosToN, Feb. 9.-Juurnm special from
Montreal: The Montreal stock exchange
is greatly excited to-day over the an
nouncement of heavy transfer of Mon
treal Telegraph company stock to Wilson
G.EHunt, of New York, director of the
Western Union. The movement is
thought to foreshadow the absorption of
the Montreal company by the great con-
solidation. The Montreal company has a
capital of s2,O0O,OOO. Its system covers
the Canadian Dominion.