St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-09

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IN the senate chamber minus her female
dress, drawing Rolette along by the collar,
IN very indignant manner, while from his
(Kolettesl pocket protruded the missing
capital bill! That was an innocent Lamb
10 Jump inside his wife'S garments and
leave the senate without a sergeant-at-
arms! And yet both he and Rolette were
lioniZed for their acts.
SAMUEL MEDARY, GOVERNOR.
The first governor of the territory of Min
nesota was Alexander Ramsey; the second.
Willis a. German; the third, Samuel
Medary, who arrived in st. Paul ON the
22d of April, 1857. w. w. Wheeler was
his secretary. Medary was the last terrific
rial governor. Gen. III. II. Sibley came in
as the first state governor soon after. or in
| October OF the same year. Gov. Medary
was short, well-developed man, quite
| pleasant in his address, and during the time
he was in the chair he made an acceptable
! officer. He died many years ago, and his
| secretary, Wheeler, is in Montana.
RUSSELL BLAKELEY.
One of the very first and excellent GOOD
men met with when on my way to this
city was Capt. Russell Blakeley, COM
mander of the steamer Nominee Indeed
his boat brought me to st. Paul, and have
a very vivid recollection of the man, espe-
ciallY as he gave me the first information
about this city and its surroundings. He
Is tail gentleman, very moderate in his
speech, exceedingly pleasant in his manners,
possessing heightened voice, and yet is
man well adapted to command During
the whole trip, notwithstanding he was
piled with many questions bv the passen-
gers, he was still the same mild and elegant
gentleman then as he is to-day He is one
Oh the pioneer steamboat men of the upper
| MISSISSIPPI, and was born in Massachusetts,
In 1915. At an early age his parents re-
moved to Leroy, Gennesee county, New
York, and here he grew to manhood: re-
moved to Illinois in 1886; to Galena in 1889;
| to Virginia in 1914; to Galena again in 1S47.
Williams, in his history, says:
when the Argo was put on the river in
the year 1S47 Capt. Blakeley was
engaged as tclerk, and then ON
the DR.. Franklin, running the latter part of
the time as captain. Also in 1858 he ran
| the Nominee, and in 1854 took command of
the Galena. During this period thousands,
perhaps tens of thousands. of the earlier
| citizens of our state have been brought here
by Capt. Blakeley on one or the other of
the above packets, fact which made him
more widely known, probably, at that time
than almost any other man in this region.
In 1855 he was appointed agent at Dun
leith OF the packet company, and soon
after bought out the interes,
of Charles T. Whitney in the
Northwestern Express company, the firm
then becoming J. G. Burbank & Co. Capt.
Blakeley visited st. Paul in 1S47, although
he came here to reside permanently in 1856,
and became interested in mail contracts,
stage and transportation lines, etc. Mr.
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| and the business is now continued by
BlakeleY & Carpenter. Capt 3. was also
largely interested in the old Sioux City Rail-
road company, and was at one time
director in it,"
| While Capt. Blakeley has been strong
Republican, and chairman of the state
central committee several times, yet know
! OF no political office he has held or of any
| office he has ever sought, and vet he is, in
| the opinion of the writer, one of our very
best citizens. He has long been promin-
| ent member of the chamber of commerce
from its organization; also vice president
several terms; is largely interested in our
local affairs, and is never afraid to express
his convictions as to the best interests of
our city. While he is positive in his nature
and no trimmer, yet he is not offensive in
the expression of his views. He is director
|
ance company; was president of the
old st. Paul, Saltwater & Taylor's Falls
Railroad company, and worked up the
scheme; is the vice president of the Hstori-
cal society; was on the Indian commission
to assess damages for the overflow of the
reservoirs on the upper Mississippi; has
| been, from its organization in 1877 to
the present time, president of the North
western Stage ~ Transportation company,
and is the same cOurtly gentleman, al
though somewhat older and grayer than
when | first met him, now thirty-two years
ago.
THE BONES OF THEIR ANCESTORS.
A short time afterDCapt. Blakeley had
been instrumental in getting boat to ply
on the Red River of the North, he received
a unique letter from the Indians in that
neighbOrhOOd, stating that the water foul''
disturbed the bones of their ancestors, but
the matter could be amicably adjusted if he
would send them several kegs filled with
| SO gold pieces; and although the old In
dams bones continued to rattle in their
graves as the boat pulled up and down the
river, for years afterward, yet the captain
was just hard-hearted enough to let them
rattle, and they are rattling still! for the
gold was never sent forward. | can only
add that Capt Blakeley is one of our most
valuable and respected citizens.
WILLIAM GAME.
| DR.. William Game was Slenderly-buiIt
man, with auburn hair, quick in his mo-
| tons and speech, possessing bright, pene-
trating eye, which seemed to read ones
thoughts and had an affability of manner
| which made him very popular physician
in the sick room. He was born in the Isle
of Man, in 1918; emigrated to the
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at Cleveland, Ohio, where he was educated,
and from thence he removed to Seneca
Falls, n. Y, and there studied medicine,
graduated at the Geneva Medical college
| Told SCHOOL, in 1S45, and soon after began
| investigating homeopathy, and was sc
thoroughly convinced of its truths that, in
1901, he took his diploma at the Cleve-
land Homeopathic college and located al
Ravenna, where he had previously
| practiced in the allopathic school.
In 1857 his health became broken down by
Overwork and violent attack of pneumo-
MIA LETT him in such weakened condition
that his life was despaired of, and in this
condition he started for Minnesota ON a cot
bed. Shortly after arriving in this city, in
1857, he commenced improving and gained
so rapidly that he was urged to practice
| by his friends, which he finally
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more business than he could attend to. He
was a man most thoroughly devoted to his
| profession, and died from the effects of
sunstrOlle received while conveying pa
tient from Wyoming to this city in an open
carriage.
DR.. Game was perfect gentleman, and
an excellent physician. He was well
known in the day in which he lived, and
especially in this city, and while honest and
honorable he was conscientious in the dis