St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-22

si"h VI .hat o"uy' 4he first city election was
also held tnls year-David Olmsted, mayor
ihis' 100 was a year of interpretations.
ITEMS OF NEWS.
The German Reading society was incorpo-
rated; the city of st. Paul was iucornorated
embracing 2, 400 acres, divided into three
wards; the Masons were Incorporated. the
St. Paul bridge was incorporated, and society
generally was incorporated into better
condition. Public parks and the introdnc
ton of water works were recommended by
the mayor; public market rented; board of
health appointed, International hotel com
menced, Winsow house opened board OF
trade organized, police force authorized,
rotary saw mill established, SintomiDe hotel
burned, six boats with 900 passengers
arrived, immigration pouring in, Pioneer
| Hook and Ladder company organized with
| thirty-one men, Yu-ha-Zee, a Sioux Indian.
hung on st. Anthony hill, which was the
| first execution i'll the territory; city valua-
| ton, 81 800, 900.
1S54-INCoMING OF NEWSPAPERS.
This year seems to have started the news
paper men, for they appear on their high
horses, and plenty Of them. Earle s. Good
rich buys out Brown of the Pioneer, and in
May the Daily Pioneer and the Daily
| Democrat, separate journals, APP
pear; then the Daily Minnesotian, by
John P. Owens; then the Daily Times, by T.
NJ. Newson, and so the discordant elements
commenced. Up to this time matters had
been pretty peaceful but from this period
forward the greatest war of words followed
and was Kept up for series of years Here
were fourV daily papers IL full blast-and
pretty good ones, too-in a city of 1000
population. But heavens! what iargon Of
| tbnf, Il
the field nave passed out of it. Some are
dead, some are in other regions, some are
here; but We notice that even the papers of
! to day are not entirely devoid of the person.
| alities incident to an earlier period, and
which not only weaken the paper itself, but
disgrace the profession.
DEATH OF ". ". HICEOX.
| Where DR.. Days iron front building now
stands, on the corner of Third and Cedar
streets, was formerly drug store kept by a
man by the name of Hickox. A drayman
| (Peltier) brought box for Hickox, for which
he charged him twenty-five cents drayage,
but HickoX claimed it was too much, and in
his efforts to get the box off the dray, he was
struck on the head with an iron pin, by Pei
tier. from the effects of which he died. The
drayman was acquitted.
GREAT RAILROAD EXCURSION.
The first railroad excursionists who visited
St. Paul were those who came West 10 form
| ally celebrate the opening of the Chicago s.
Rock Island railroad, which was completed
to the Mississippi river in 1854, and when
once there they took steamers for st. Paul.
OF course there no telegraph in those
days and the first intimation the people had
of their coming-they had come! And such
scene! They rushed up Third street,
pitched headong into the old American
house, the starting point of the
stages, climbed on to the coaches; hired
every hack, and every carriage aud cart
they could find, at enormous figures, in
order to reach st. Anthony and see the falls
before the boat made its return trip. The
citizens were paralyzed They put every
vehicle they could find at the command of
the visitors, but the crowd was so great and
the rush so ill-timed and so inconsiderate,
and SO unexpected, that it was mixed and
hodge lodge affair, and as a consequence,
created considerable i'll feeling. However,
ON their return from st. Anthony they
were received at the capitol
and entertained as Hospitality as
the circumstances of the case would permit,
but many of them went away mad-and
among them were several reporters for the
New York papers-and they lust howled,"
as the boys say, even worse than our good
| friends of Minneapolis are now bowling
over what they claim is bad treatment
by st. Paul. Among the eycursionists
were ex-President Fillmore, Bancroft, the
historian, several eminent judges and
number of national men. This was in 1854.
Then our population was not 5000 and our
facilities for entertaining company were very
poor, especially when some $50 strangers
popped in upon us without warning. What
a contrast now! Mark the city's reception of
Willard and of President Arthur in 1883!
Hundreds of carriages were ready Thous-
ands of people checredl UnnumbeIed flags
adorned every building In our public streets.
All was orderly and our guests left delighted
with their visit and loud in their praise Of
our unstinted hospitality Then, in 1854,
the excursion alluded to was to commemoI-
ate the opening of the first railroad to the
Mississippi river In 1883 the excursion
was in commemoration of the opening of the
first road to the Pacific ocean. All Of which
has been achieved in the brief period OF
twenty-uue years. Who could have real
lied quarter Of century ago the rapid
march of eYentsi
PROSPEROUS!
The year 1854 was a prosperous one for
st. Paul. Settlers came rushing in on every
boat; farms opened; buildings were
erected, and everywhere, not only In the city
but in the territory, eastern people Aocked to
take advantage OF our rich soil and dry, in
MIGRATING climate. 1t was the beginning Of
a boom which has been kept up ever since.
CHARLES EMERSON
succeeded David OImsted as publisher of the
Democrat. Mr. Emerson was small man,
and at one time encouragement OF the ter
ritory. He was a strong Democrat and very
ambitious, and ran his newspaper In the In
terests Of Gov. German. He once owned
a residence on Summit avenue aud sold it te
Mr.. McCargar. and M"Cargar sold It TO Nc
Elrath. He was a surveyor by profession,
and at one period in the history Of the city
was quite prominent man, but his riches
took wings, his popularity disappeared, and
he became sutier in the army and finally
died of softenng Of the BRAIN, in room adj
joining one occupied by the writer in the old
international hotel, think, in the year 1858
UNSAFE CURRENCY.
This year was noted for the introduction
and circulation IF many notes Of private
banks in the East, among the rest that which
was known as the Atlantic money, put forth
by a man by the name Of George Smith. The
bills gxatly deprecated in value 50 that the
merchants organized the first board of trade
10 protect their interests against these Wild
cat schemes. Those who experienced the
trying times Of those days can well apprecl-
ate the national banks Of to-day.
FIRST EXECUTION IN MINNESOTA.
This year Witnessed the first execution In
this state, by hanging, of the Indian Yu-ba-
zee. We have already expressed ia previous
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