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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29
land MoNOPoLIES

The report made by Judge Payson, Of
Illinois, to the house of representatives, in
regard to the seizure of public lands by large
capitalists, more especially foreign capital
lists, shows a very remarkable state of things.
In some instances as many as a million
acres have been seized by a single corpora
ton, and in all instances vast bodies of land
have been enclosed with wire fences, and
mail routes and private roads have been cut
off to the great inconvenience of the public.
The report properly terms this seizure OF
lands a gross outrage which would not be
tolerated by any other nation on earth.
In Wyoming alone there are over one
hundred and fifty of these swollen corpora
tions; and in all, the amount of land which
has thus been unlawfully seized and enclosed,
is many millions of acres.
There is a bill before congress to abate
these enclosures by declaring them unlawful,
and locates power of abatement in the hands
of the citizen, placing at his disposal the as
s~istance OF the federal government, without
waiting for executive action. It would seem
to be proper that some such a bill should
become a law, not only as a rebuke
to the insolence of wealthy foreigners,
who come here and do what they dare not do
in heir own countries, but for the purpose
of carrying out the intent of the republic
with regard to the disposition of the public
lands, which is that they shall be p~arcelled
out in small quantities among the people.
At the present rate of absorption by these
wealthy capitalists the most and the best OF
the grazing lands of the west and northwest
will fall into the possession Of these adven-
turers, and tens of thousands of poor people
will be deprived of the privileges of the own
ership of land.
If Minnesota should resolve to surround
itself with a wall and should forbid any out
slider to cross its territory, and should treat
as a criminal any person who should attempt
to cross the state on his way to any other
state, there would be created a condition of
things Analogous to that existing in the areas
where these vast enclosures of public lands
have been made. The mails and the traveller
must go around them no matter what may
be the distance and, the Inconvenience.
In addition to these objections, there is
the further one that small cattle owners are
being frozen out. By a peculiar arrange
ment, the barbed fence enclosures are often
so constructed as to include all the available
water facilities of a given area, so that a man
who may have a herd within a couple of miles
in a direct line of water Is so cut off by the
barbed fence that he may have to travel fifty
or 100 miles to reach the stream.
All this is against the spirit of equity char
acteristic of the republic. It is an evil which
is already an almost intolerable one, an6
which is yearly increasing its dimensions. Il
is permitting the creation of a land aristocra.
cy, founded on a land monopoly that even
now is more oppressive and insolent thar
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29
NORTHERN PACIFIC GRANTS.
Damaging Stories Being Scattered
Broadcast About the Country.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.1

0RSN @N5Ao W ia O-OO
WASHINGTON, April 2S.-The house COM
mittee on public lands having ~re-opened the
subject of the forfeiture of the land
grant of the Northern Pacific COM
pany and given W. H. White,
of Seattle, a hearing in favor of forfeiture,
viii probably hear others on the same sub
ject this week. 1t is understood that ex-
Chief Justice w. n. Lewis, of Washington
Territory, will be here in a few days to speak
against the company. Some comment is
a over the appointment of a commission
to examine the Puyallup branch of the
Northern Pacific, constructed from Tacoma
to the Carbonole mines in King county,
Washington Territory. 1t is claimed that
in the granting act, and was completed in
1877 before the time of limitation expired.
1t is said no application for commissioners
was made until after the action of the house
committee on public lands prohibiting the
company's grant was taken, and the com
pany sought to secure the very valuable
lands along the Puyallup branch. There are
GAG, 600 acres along this branch, composed Of
the best lands in the locality, and the bulk
of the coal fields on the Pacific coast so far
recovered. The statement is made that Mr..
E. r. Wadsworth, one of the commissioners
appointed to examine this branch line, has
already been appointed by the Northern Pa
cific company as general agent, stationed at
Chicago. The enemies of the company are
making a good use Of this statement and are
sending it broadcast over the road tonight.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29

with leading, scheming Republicanleaders to
weaken the Democracy by advocating Butler
as a Presidential candidate, is a question as
yet unsolyed.
1t is said there is to be a rising of 'Inde-
pendents'' of all parties, wiah Butler as a
leader, Schurtz and others as champions.
But this movement will damage the Republic
cans more than the Democracy, if it pro-
duces any noticeable effect, which may well
be doubted.
1t Is about time to s'whistle down the
wind" this uneasy disturber and his CO.
worker Butler, as factors of any value and
reliability in any party. If his protective
programme is carried out, he will extinguish
himself as well as Butler, during this cam
paign, and both may be left to finish their
party revolts at their leisure, and will no
more be taken into account as of any posi-
BILE consequence in any future political or
party calculations
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29
CONTINUED REsE4BcH.

The investigation relative to the charge
made by Freddie against Senator Sabin is
still in progress. Gen. McLaren, who has
Window got left, has had his loyalty shaken
by the accusation. The General says he has
always tried to lead a reputable life,
outside of his connection with
the Republican party, and he does not wish to
be caught endorsing an ''octopus'' If it is any
thing very bad. The General cabled Victor
Hugo on the subjectyesterday and has kindly
furnished the GLOBE with the following re-
ply, which it will be seen was transmitted in
the style of the great novelist:
To R. N. McLaren, U. S. of America:
Versailles, April Isl have your cablegram
and salute you.
The Octupus is an animal Of the briny deep.
1t does not grow on Swedes.
1t has q round, purse like body and eight
arms united at the base by a web, by opening
and shutting which it swims backwards after
the manner of jelly fishes.
1t has no moss on its legs.
Each arm,
Has
A
Double alternate series of SUCKERS
By which they seize their prey and more them
to submarine objects.
They never eat postmasters.
The average office holder is too salty.
They are
Solitary
Active
Voracious
Seeking their food chilly at night.
%[Signed V. HUGO.
on receipt of the telegram and formally with
drew his support from Sabin He says he
shall stick to Stanford Newell as a delegate
to Chicago, though he comedies that he
NewelD has good many octopus symptoms.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29

THE bummers party had the Republicans
nominate a man named Merrill fer Alder
man in the First ward against their pet
Cummings, the imported Iowa saloon keep
er. Mr.. Merrill was only nominated to give
the man they imported from Iowa an easy
fight. He was formerly a clerk in the whole
sale grocery house of Glidden, Griggs
g. Co., and now keeps a small
tea store on Seventh street. He is a recent
conner to the city, and in no wise a repre-
sentative man. That is why he was selected
by the bummers. If he is wise he will not
allow his name to be used as a figure head
to help elect the bummers' candidate.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29
A Cow Recovered.

At the municipal court yesterday Mr..
Hans asked for the ~re-opening of a case
which came before the court last fall, in
which Mr.. Harrison replevined a COW claimed
by Hans. The defendant did not appear and
the case went by default. Hans still insisted
that the COW was his and it was discovered
near Merriam Park a few days since. a
witness testified that he had kept the COW for
Harrison near Minneapolis during the win
ter. No appearance being made by or for
Harrison the COW MaS awarded to Hans.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29

THERE are several rumors relative to
where our Freddie obtained that OCTOPUS"
One is that his partner Josef, who is abroad,
has been hunting for big words in the ruins
of Herculaneum and that he found this en-
Freddie and the first chance he had to make
a speech he used it. He would have thrown
it in at the chamber of N in discus
sing the COW question if tht had been his first
speech after hearing from Josef. 1t was
there, and had to come out even if it ruined
Sabin.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29
Handsome Residences SnId.

J. B. TarboX has sold. his handsome
grounds and residence on the corner of
Summit and Nina avenues to Ansel Open
helm for $34, 900. The grounds are 100 feet
on Summit by 200 on Nina avenue, and
contain a large and fine residence, COM
modious stables, etc. 1t is one of the finest
residences on the avenue.
Mr.. Geo. R. Finch has sold his cottage and
grounds at White Bear, to j. B. Tarbox for
49, 900.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29

that which exists in England and Ireland.
There, as here, theft Is the foundation of
these large estates, but there no one is al
lowed to cut off the public shighways and es-
tablish a public nuisance. Congress viii
meet a public requirement if it shall provide
a remedy without deiay.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29
Should Have Been Lynched.

RUssvILLE, n. Y, April 2S.-Thos. Rus
sell, a negro, has been arrested here for
breaking into the house of a family named
Golf and attempting a gross assault upon
Jenny Golf, aged nineteen. The young girl
fought him off and as h e attempted to get
out of the window she knocked him to the
ground. He was captured by the people and
hurried to jail to prevent lynching.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29

WHEN the st. Paul Chamber of Commerce
passes resolutions and sends them down to
Bill Washburn to be presented to congress,
he condescendingly replies that he will pre-
sent them, and proceeds to deliver an in
sulting lecture because they were adopted.
Think of the intellect of Bill Washburn con-
sidering a financial problem The Chamber
of Commerce not only meekly swallowed the
insult but appointed a committee to think it
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29

THE selection of delegates by the Republi-
cans of New York to their national conven-
ton, shows that the ~ delegates are divided
as follows: Blaine 30, Arthur 25, Edwards
IA, and four unclassiied, but known to be
against Arthur. Thus forty-seven delegates
go from New York to Chicago to oppose c.
A. Arthur.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29

THE colored member of Congress from
North Carolina, James E. O'Hara, is a grad
uate of Harvard. For the education of his
four children he has provided a white tutor.
If more of the members of that race would
exhibit an interest IN thus providing for
their children, the sooner would be solved
the vexing problem of civil rights. Educa-
ton is the key to legal equality.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29

THE Republicans should not %criticise the
Democrats any more. They accepted the
representatives of the First ward bummers
into full fellowship yesterday at their city
convention, and now have them in their
sweet embrace.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29
Shot Through Carelessness.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, April 2S.-At Warsaw
this morning Joseph W.. Fisher was shot by
VIM. Mouney. Fisher died in an hour.
ing was the result of the careless handling
of n TARGET n1n
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29

THE New York Star states the verdict in
regard TO President Arthur in New York in
no ambiguous terms. ''What was clearly
shown in the separate district conventions"
it says, els emphatically confirmed by the Re-
publican state convention at Utica. Chester
A. Arthur is not the Presidential choice of a
majority Of his party of his own state. It is
a significant, and to Mr.. Arthur a humiliat-
ing spcctacle.n
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29
THE Herald published at Tower City, Gas

HE HefutU puDLSneQ at lower ClGy, CaSS
county Dakota, pointedlY says:
''Dakota has more postofices than Massachu-
sets, more newspapers than Maine, more rich
land than all New England, and more population
than five of the smallest eastern states combined
and has one representative in congress-, and
that one virtually without power. Isn't 1t about
time the boosted Republican party either adj
mitted us or took in their sign?''
These five small eastern ~states'' have ten
senators and a proportionate number of
members of the lower house of congress.
The one representative of Dakota has no vote
in the House, but may speak on any matter
of interest to his constituents. Why has the
''grand old party," the party of alleged JUS
tee, and patriotisI kept this
great Territory of = Ia in a
condition of pupilage SO hen she has
been yearly and persisten aocking for
admission into the family es? The an
swer is the grand old Par been guilty
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29
Steamship Arrivals.

NEW YORK, April 2S.-Arrived: Austral,
new steamer of the Anchor line from Liv err
pool.
LONDON, April 2s.-Arrivcd out: Brit
tania, Elysia and Ontario.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29

PRINCE BISMARCK is preparing a radical re-
vision Of the constitution Of the Empire. He pro-
poses to amend the Election law, making a new
classification of of electors, and to create a per-
manent military budget. Besides this he will
impose upon the deputies of the Reichstag an
oath Of fidelity to the constitution, the object
being to exclude Socialists from membership. II
the Reichstag rejects the changes, German
princes will be convoked in accordance with the
terms of the present constitution, to frame a new
constitution embodying Prince Bismarck's ideas.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29

THERE is abundant opportunity for thoughtful
reflection in the following which is reproduced
from a cotemporary-Ihe Unity-and may be
read with profit by the multitude now suffering
more or less from political disappointments:
ga landscape appears dwarfed or distorted if we
look at it through windows of cracked or i'm
perfect glass, so each ones view of life Is re-
fracted by the mental atmosphere which sur
rounds him.. Our ideas grow hard and angular
while clouds of discomfort are around us, but
they assume rosy hues if Hope throws her spell
over them
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29
A Boat Race Arranged.

CHICAGO, April 2S.-Articles were arranged
here to-day between John Teemer, McKees-
port, Pa, and Peter Conley of Portland, Me-,
for a rowing race, one and one-half miles
with turn, at Pullman, on May 80, for 81, 1000
q side
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29

CANON BRosNAN has written a letter on the
result of his interview at Rome with the Ameri-
can Bishops regarding the proposed erection of
an Irish Memorial church to Daniel O'Connell.
The Archbishop Of Baltimore, the Canon, writes,
called it a great Catholic and patriotic work.
The Archbishop of Chicago said: 81 will send
word to Chicago to my faithful and thoroughly
Irish flock to give your great national project a
generous reception Bishop Fitzgerald and
Archbishop Ryan also warmly approved the
movement.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29

NINE. PATTI sailed for Europe last Saturday
morning. She was escorted to the steamship by
the Seventh regiment band, and of course the
band played an Italian march. Signor Nicolini
was present, and the steamer Pegasus escorted
the Guion steamship down the bay. Thus Patti
left our shores.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29
CONTENT.

THE Matthew Arnold hoax causes the PaH
NaH Gazette to express surprise that the Chica-
go Tribune and leading literary men could mis-
take an article so crude and SO full of bad taste,
for a genuine production of Matthew Arnold" OF
course it was stupid to be hoaxed, as all can now
see. but the success of the deceit was based on
the fact that Mr. Arnold's advent nowhere en-
listed any symptom of public esteem. The same
paper publishes a genuine interview with the
gentleman, who Of course states his regret at the
imposition coupled with his name. In the "gen-
uine' Mr.. Arnold says pleasant things regarding
what he saw here, though he frankly says he
came simply to make money. OF all the Ameri-
can towns Philadelphia pleased him the most,
because he found it $50 respectable, as Herbert
Spencer found the Quaker City the most sooth-
ing, as he could 'ssleep better there than any
where else.'' Speaking genuinely, Mr.. Arnold
thinks Chicago s'too new though he found
many charming people there, and intimates that
ne might have been better pleased if there had
been less parade of ''pig sticking" as
its chief industry. The avaricious poetaster al
lows himself to speak admiringly of the ''tak-
ingness'' of the ladies he met in this country,
and having paid that compliment to our fair
ones, we may well forgive him for what he hap
pens to think or say of the rest of US.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29
Sergeant. Signal Corps,

WASHINGTON, April 90, 1 a. m.-Indications
for the upper Mississippi valley, cloudy weather
and rain, east to south winds becoming variable,
slight changes in temperature, lower barometer.
Missouri valley, cloudy weather, with rains,
southeast winds becoming variable, followed dur
ing night by cooler weather; falling, followed by
rising barnmeter.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29

THE Utica Observer rather impatiently re-
marks: ''If Mr.. Andrew D. White, elected as
'a delegate at large, is really for Edmunds
why doesn't he come out and say so?n Per-
haps Mr.. White is waiting for the Utica Herald
to tell what it knows in relation to Mr.. Edmunds'
personal habits.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29

His name has been written Freddie o.
Driscol for several years but it is only within
the last few days that the middle initial has
been found to stand for Octopus.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29

of gross snd rank injustice, in this as In
numerous other cases, Influenced by sinister,
narrow and unworthy party considerations.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29

EVEN such an old time Republican as Tim
Reardon could not endure the Republican
convention yesterday, and withdrew in dis
gust. Poor Tins a cold now.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29

Between oleomagarlne and Butterine, one
scarcely knows on which side his bread is but
tered.-Eg.
1t is 6nttered on neither. tits only (soap)
greas!
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29

AN Illinois gentleman who had lived in this
hollow world long enough to reach his golden
wedding day about a year ago, appointed a big
festival at the tavern in the town he lived in, and
the landlord provided to feed two thousand peo-
pie. Either because nobody cared about eating
a tavern supper, or cared nothing about John
Hoffman's golden wedding, only five hundred
came and the fifty years married man refused to
pay for any more suppers than were eaten. The
county court at La Sale has just decided that he
must pay for the fifteen hundred that nobody
.'came for to eat.''
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29

1t is said West Virginia will adopt the New
York plan, and an Arthur dmunds com
binatiou will fight Blaine in selecting dele
gates for the Chicago convention.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29

HENRY WARD BEEcHER has a frank way of
allowing his friends to know that he is not exact
ly a Blaine man. He said to a Brooklyn reporter:
81 have no sympathy with, and would not sup
port any candidate whose sources of income have
been the money centers and monopolies Of the
country, nor would 1 counsel the nomination Of
such a man by either party. 1 cannot reiterate
my sentiments on the subject of Mr.. Blaine's
candidacy too strongly. His nomination would
be a public calamity and his election a national
disgrace. You will, however, understand that,
personally, l believe Mr.. Blaine to be an excel
lent man; but as a politician his sun has set, and
he may now devote himself entirely to the liter
airy labor in which he so much delights"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29

THE Republicans managed to get some
good candidates yesterday by accepting a
portion of the Democratic nominees.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29

The Republican primaries at Louis vile,
KY, last night were very disorderly, several
fights occurring between the Arthur and anti
Arthur men. Two sets of delegates were
elected to the convention tomorrow.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29

THE Portl and (M.) Adrertiser (Rep.) says tn
Pennsylvania Democrats would take the tax off
whisky first, and then if any revenue happened to
remain above the wants of the Government they
would readjust the tariff so as to take off apor-
ton of the tax on food and clothing.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29

COLONEL MAJENDIE, in his report on the recent
dynamite attempts in England, says that the
substance used was lignin dynamite which is
manufactured in America but not in England,
that the clocks were of American make, and the
pistols a common American pattern.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29

PERRY CARSON, the colored delegate from the
District of Columbia to the Chicago convention,
is a giant in form. He runs a saloon on Pennsyl-
wanna avenue, and will do q good deal to help the
Massachusetts college presidents keep up the
tone of the convention.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29

THE Brooklyn Eagle well says: When the
African race produces as Its type men who can
hold their own against the type of the Anglo
Saxon in intellect, physique, morals, culture and
the other qualities of manhood, then equality
will have been won, and not TILL then. When
legislation can bring about such a type, civil
rights acts will be superluous.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29

DIR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, in a letter to a
friend in England, promises that he will soon
publish a new book. He says: 81 am trying to
do some kind of justice to Ralph Waldo Emerson,
in a brief memoir, taking short time to read and
much longer to write.'
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29

EDMUNDs is tnrning out to be Blaine's
6ete nOtre.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29

CONGRESSMAN MURPHY, of Iowa, points a NOR
al, as we'll as, adorns a tale. 81 have found since
1 came to Congress- he says, 'that every mem
Der has an exalted idea of his own abilities, and
each has a theory of government different from
that of his neighbor. If all the ideas of all the
members were enacted into laws at once, there
would be no government at all"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29

THE total vote of the recent Louisiana State
election was 129, 0ss, the largest since 1876. The
Democratic majority was A. 278.