St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-22
STREET SAYINGS.

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in the state involving the tax-title questions
settled by the recent decision of the SUI
preme COURT remarked an official at the
state auditors office yesterday. 1.-The pos
sibility of Injustice lies not so much with
county auditors as with county treasurers.
Under the ruling the treasurers may put
any mans tax in his pocket, make no entry
and turn the books over to the auditor. No
entry being made the auditor will advertise
the property Of course, the owner, know
ing that he has paid his taxes, will be apt to
give no attention to the list, and here lies
the danger Unless he can show his re-
ceiptSfrOm the treasurer the usual course
with such property will be taken"
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CSpeaking of the same subject, another
gentleman remarked: ''It seems to me
that the court should have ruled that in all
cases where taxes have been paid, and Off
Gals have neglected to make the proper en-
tries, the course of the official was fraud
ulent, and, as fraud in the beginning
vitiates the entire transaction, the tax sale
could not be considered valid"
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7Speaking of church scandals. a gentleman
the other day said that the Rev. Riddell had
written a twelve-page vindication of his
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York, accompanied with threat that if it
were not published he would stop his paper.
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On the Saturday before Thanksgiving,
a year ago, snow fell to the depth Of about
six inches in ST. Paul, and on the following
morning, corresponding with to-day, the
thermometer stood at 50 below zero. On
Saturday night occurred the fire in the
Osborn steam-heatng house.
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It has been said that there will be no
colder weather in ST. Paul this winter than
at present, just because of the ice-paiace
and winter carnival scheme. 1t is init
mated that Mai. Camp, the weather
prophet who owns property in Mime
apolis, is responsible for this. Insinuations
have been made that Maj. Camp has DELHI
erately monkeyed with the weather in the
hopes of killing out the coming entertain
ment. This Maj. Camp positively Denies
and several of his intimate friends
have offered to go on his bond. to the effect
that he will exert himself without stint in
the interests of hard winter, as he has said
on several occasions that he hopes to see
the carnival a success. This lets the major
out, but all the same it's uncommonly warm
for this season of the year.
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And the other night one of st. Paurs
most enthusiastic friends, a lady, the wife
of one of the aldermen, said she would be
perfectly willing to see the ice palace fail,
on condition that the warm weather did it,
and she believed, that if such project each
year would insure let up on the cold VIM
tiers, there would be plenty of men ready to
subscribe for the stock about Nov. l each
year. She wanted to see the carnival, but
a warm winter would make up for her dis
appointment.
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The members of the Snowshoe club figure
the cost of the uniforms at merely the price
of the raw material, because, they argue,
the young ladies' who as one of the MEM
beers said the first meeting, Twill be willing
to look sweet and watch the games, " will
make at least one suit each free of charge.
The entire piece of material, including
shoes, is thought will come not far from So
suit.
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DR.. Murphy tells an interesting little cpl
sOde of the pioneer days of Minnesota when
st. Paul just begun to put on the frlls of a
city and attract the attention of the outside
world. Down on Jackson street
a man of considerable determination
kept drug store, and one
day a red-shirted lumberman, with a strong
flavor of McBryer on his breath, came in
and proceeded to run the shop. He wound
up his demonstrations by kicking the stove
over, and while the proprietor was scratch
ing the Goals together and putting the fire
out the frisky woodchopper slid through
the door and disappeared. A few days
later the proprietor of the drug store
cav tho lurnbnrman in ctOrn
across the way, and as his thirst for re-
venge was still warm, he caught up round
ebony ruler and rushing over he jumped on
the lumberman and gave him pretty severe
pounding. Nothing more was heard of the
matter tor several days, when one after
noon the belligerent man of the pines came
into the drug store accompanied by three OF
his fellows. They were q tough-looking
crowd and were half drunk 1t could be
seen that they were bent on mischief, and
the first thing they did was to upset the
stove. The druggist had no weapons, but
he had that day received fresh lot of ST
phon bottles charged with seltzer. and
catching up one of these he turned it on the
leader of the gang, and it struck him
squarely in the face With a
yell that caused the bottles to dance on
the shelves, the fellow jumped into the air
and turning went out doors and down the
street, followed by his companions at rate
of speed. as the doctor says, THAT would
have made Fanny Witherspoon tired" and
the lumbermen never showed up in that
drug store again.
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So District Attorney Searle's resignation
has been accepted, has it? Well. we may