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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-11
ONE AT A TIME
Is the Way in Which the Grain Commits
sioners are Giving Audience to the
Railroads.
Milwaukee & St. Paul Representatives are
the First to Have Hearing on
Excessive Rates.
Manner in Which Local Steamship
Agents are Allowed to Cut Pas
senger Rates.
Eastern Trunk Lines Refuse to Pay
Buffalo Scalpers' Commission
General Notes.

Result of Excessive Commissions.
The passenger agents Of the Eastern
trunk lines have put themselves into box,
from which they are in vain trying to ex-
tricate themselves. And they don't know
how to do it. For the past few weeks
steamship agents in St. Paul and Minneap-
oils have been making rate OF S15, and
even less, to New York, in the the face OF
1923 rate quoted on the rate sheet. Such
low rate is completely breaking up the
Eastern passenger agents, and they solemnly
swear, when in body, that they can't
imagine how such low rate is made.
But they nevertheless have very
guilty consciences when they take the
oath, for they know only too well that the
low rate is proportionate with the Western
and Eastern lines. While they know this,
they dare not state SO in public, else rate
war might be precipitated, and the one CIV
ing the case away would be blamed as the
Inauguration. 1t was stated in yesterdays
GLOBE, in special telegram from Chicago,
that the passenger agents at that place
were wrathy over the low rates from ST.
Paul to Eastern seaboard points. They did
not state, however, that the fault laid with
themselves in paying excessive commits
sions. These commissions range all the
way from SO to SIS, and when steamship
agent in st. Panl is paid this amount for
sending a passenger over certain line
from Chicago to New York, it is not for the
passenger agent of that line to dictate to
the steamship agent how this commission
should be used. 1t is the property of the
steamship agent, and if he sees fit to dis
pense with it entirely by allowing it on
ticket sold to a passenger the passenger
agent paying the commission is the one to
blame. Rates have been made to Chicago
for Sc, and some of the Eastern lines have
been paying SIS commission, which if given
as a discount ON a ticket to New York
makes rate of 81 between st. Paul and
Chicago, though the lines between these
points receive their full Sc. If the Eastern
lines were to stop paying such excessive
commissions they would soon perceive the
effect it would have.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-11
BoUNDARY MoNUMFNTs.

There has perhaps been no more impor-
tant matter recently brought to the atten-
ton of the chamber Of commerce than the
resolution introduced by Mr.. COCHRAN last
Monday, relating to the establishment of
monuments to identify the corners and
boundaries of the blocks included in the ola
city plat of st. Paul proper. 1t is by
just such omissions as are referred to in
the resolution that troubles occur regarding
titles to the real estate, and in connection
with the matter of locating streets as well
as erecting buildings. This city has a
forcible illustration of this fact in the con-
troversy which is now engaging the
attention of our people in respect
to the Sixth street jog. Why this
matter has been overlooked so long
is mystery that no one seems to be in con-
ditlon to explain. An omission of this kind
is apt to produce trouble in any city, but
more particularly so in city like st. Paul,
where improvements have progressed with
such marvellous rapidity that even the old
citizens who have all their lives been
familiar with the ground upon which the
city stands are unable to locate lines and
boundaries which but few years ago they
could have identified without trouble.
Changes occur in such rapid succession.
new streets are being constantly laid out,
the old ones being rapidly built UP, old
houses torn down and magnificent buildings
going up in their places, all these
things naturally produce confusion. Thus
it is that mistakes occur, which
are sometimes made by officials who
are presumed to know their business
In some instances at least, there is not so
much blame to be attached to the engineers
who make the surveys as is to be laid at the
door of the city government for failing to
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-11
Commissioners and Managers.

At $50 o'clock yesterday morning the
general managers, traffic managers and
general freight agents of the several Chi
cago trunk lines assembled at the capitol to
discuss fiat rates with the grain commission
ers. The latter said they thought it would
be better plan to confer separately with
the representative of each line, and the
Milwaukee & st. Paul committee was the
first one to have hearing. They talked
for some time ON the subject, the railway
officials putting their case in a clear and
comprehensive manner to the commission
ers. The grain tariffs of the Manitoba and
Milwaukee q st. Paul were compared,
and the latter were the higher by several
per cent. Then Just for fun
the tariffs on merchandise were brought
forth and the commissioners were not pre-
pared for such move. The rates of the
Manitoba were not much over 100 pei
cent. the higher. 1t is stated that deep
blush settled On the faces of the commits
sioners, though they did not show embar-
rassment in any other way. This settled
the Milwaukee & st. Paul, and the Omaha
next had hearing. At this conference
the same arguments were used as were
published in yesterday mornings GLOBE.
To-day the commissioners will give other
roads hearing, and after they are all
talked to the commissioners will announce
their places. AS yet they will have moth
ing to say, even keeping all that TRANSFERRED
at yesterdays meeting to themselves.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-11

establish and perpetuate monuments in
order that there might be no room for mis-
takes. 1t is little late in the day to COM
mence now, but il is never too late to do
good. Innocent parties have already suf-
fered from the hardness of the city, but
that is no excuse for others being subjected
to similar suffering. The fact that what
ought to have been done years ago was
omitted is no excuse for emitting any longer
what ought to be done now. The city
council will doubtless take this matter I'M
der consideration and at once take steps to
prevent repetition of the expenses and in
convenences which have been inflicted upon
some of our citizens by too long delayed
action in this matter.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-11
winPay no Com mission.

BUFFALO, Nov. 1O.-For three weeks
the passenger agents of the west-bound
lines have been trying to freeze OUT the
scalpers. The brokers refused to sell at
tariff rates, whereupon the agents dropped
the rate to New York from $3.50 to ~.
The scalpers made rate of $3.50, and
there it stayed until to-day. The New
York Central carried the matter to Com
missioner Fink on Saturday, and as re-
suit the Lake Shore, Erie and Lackawanna
went back to the So. so rate. Both the east
and west-bound lines announce that here
after they will pay Buffalo scalpers no COM
mission. The scalpers are feeling glum
over the situation, for before the fight they
were making from 81 to So ON each ticket
to New York and $6 to st. Louis They
nave nothing but purely local tickets to de-
pend on. Most of them have on hand
tickets to last six months, and they are still
SO cents under the IS. SO rate made.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-11
CHEAP WATER TRANSIT.

In reply to the question propounded by
the senate interstate commerce c0mmlttee
as to whether, in making provisions for Sc
curing cheap transportation, it is important
that the government should develop and
maintain system of water routes, MI.
THURBER of New York, whose views On
the railroad problem were published at
length in last SUNDAYS GLOBE, says that
1.-THE water lines are the salvation of this
country, and should be developed and ex-
tended in every possible way. He calls the
attention of the committee to the
fact that while enormous Improvements
have been made in railroad transporta-
ton during the past twenty years little or
no improvements have been made in our
system of American waterways. Steel rails,
more powerful locomotives improved freight
cars which will carry two tons Of paying
freight for each ton of lightweight rolling
stock, as against the old rule of ton for ton,
improved methods of handling freight, i'm
proved signals and labor-saving appliances
in every department of railroad operation,
have enormously reduced the cost of rail-
road transportation during the past
two decades, while little or moth
ing has been done to improve
our system of waterways. This is,
doubtless, largely to be attributed to the
adverse influence of railroad corporations in
states they have bought up the canals and
abolished them. Whenever river and
harbor bill is pending in congress, the rail-
road representatives will vote millions for
improvements which do not materially
affect them, but when it comes to an item
like the Hennepin canal, which promises to
be of value in extending our system of
whether Democrats Or Republicans, are
found voting solidly against it.
Can there be any better illus
tration of the necessity for the
people to insist upon the extension and i'm
provement of our country's waterways?
France has just entered upon the construc
ton of a comprehensive system of canals
designed to furnish water competition to
the chief sections OF that country. In Eng
land, where the canals have been largely
bought up by the railways and dwarfed or
closed, as has been done to some extent in
this country, the principal commercial Or
CARNATIONS are now advocating the re-es-
Enlistment of the canals, on an improved
basis, as check upon railroad extortion.
Our canals connecting the great lakes with
the ocean, which are really national high
ways, ought to be as much a recipient of
the national bounty as the isolated trout
streams, bayous and petty harbors, for
which liberal appropriations are pro-
vided each year in the river and harbor bill.
A comprehensive system of improving our
principal waterways should be undertaken
upon scale which will enable steam, the
great motive power of the world, to be adj
vantageously used, and thus reduce the cost
of water transportation in the same proper
ton that the same motor has reduced the
cost of transportation on land. If France
can expend $780,, 900, 900 in constructing
system of canals how much better can the
United States afford to undertake the same
wOrkP"
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Opened the street.

Special to the Globe.
ABERDEEN, OAK, Nov. 10.-At Pierre
yesterday Judge Smith dissolved the injunc-
ton recently obtained by the Milwaukee &c
st. Paul Railway, restraining the city coun-
Gil from opening Main street across the
company's tracks at the depot. This after
noon service was obtained upon the COM
pany and force of men was employed to
remove the platform and tear down the coal
shed. The work was completed and Main
street is now open to travel on the north
side. The company made no resistance.
1t is expected this move ends the matter.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-11
ADDITIONAL ST. PAUL NEWS.
SENATOR WILSON'S SAY.
Sioux City Road Taxation and the
Extra Session.

Sioux City Road Taxation and the
Extra Session.
There is still need of legislation on the
taxation of those st. Paul and Sioux City
railroad lands that we had the fight over
last winter" said Senator Thomas Wilson
to GLOBE reporter last evening" ''al-
though the supreme court has practically
decided that they are taxable. The problem
now will be to make them taxable directly
in the counties where they are situated. If
the owners of that special preferred stock
are taxed where they reside it will be easy
to dodge the tax. They are owned in st.
Paul. largely, and if the owners are taxed
for the stock once, when it comes time to
tax them the next year it will be found that
the special preferred stock has passed
wholly to persons without the state, where
it can't be levied ON. Yes, indeed,
there is need of legislation. The men that
made the fight last winter knew what they
were fighting for. Those men are very in
telligent men," and the senator closed one
eye and half smiled.
cit seems to be in the air-this opinion
that there is to be an extra session." he
continued, land while l should be glad to
meet old acquaintance in the senate 1
shall regret very much to learn positively
that there is to be session. But it's in the
ART is in the air.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-11
Adjusted by the Government.

DIES MONIES, Ia, Nov. 1O.-When
the land grant to the old McGregor and
Missouri railroad was resumed by the legis-
lature and given to the Milwaukee, a
reservation was made of the land occupied
by settlers who had taken lands for home
steads within the grant. Last week the
governor received from Washington the
patents for 1872, 3SS acres selected by the
governor as belonging to occupying claim
ants, and situated in Kossuth and Hum
boldt counties. By this measure all contro-
versy between the railroad company and
the settlers is avoided, and there will be no
repetition of the Des Moines river land
trouble.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-11
Western Construction.

NEW YORK, Nov. 1O.-The building of a
branch by the Northern Pacific railroad to
connection with an extension of the Pali-
SADIE branch of the Oregon Railroad & Nav
igation company, has been planned for a
long time. President Harris of the North
ern Pacific said yesterday that it had been
under consideration since 1880. He said
that the company would soon build branch
to Pennington, whether the Oregon COM
pany extended its lines or not. Surveying
parties had been sent out recently to select
route. President Smith of the Oregon
Railway & Navigation company said that
he was in favor of building the Pennington
branch, but did not know when the work of
construction would be begun.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-11
THE PRICES,

Wheat opened 14@ssc higher, influenced by
the small increase in the visible supply, de-
clined 7sc, rallied ssc, and closed 1sc higher
than the preceding day. AT st. Paul, Mime
apolis and Duluth it was very dull and
weaker. The stock market was more fever
lsh and irregular, and it is thought the
strength developed during the day was the
result of manipulation. The close shows
some gain. st. Paul was heavy in the early
dealings at reactions below SO, but it rose in
the afternoon to $50, at which it closed, a
gain of 21a per cent.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-11
Glendale.

The snow storm of Friday night and Satur-
day was as severe as any experienced here
during all last winter. The Presbyterian
church, which was blown down by the heavy
wind storm of last summer, is to be rebuilt
at once, and workmen are now engaged upon
the ruins. The telegraph should have made
9th read two instead of ten inches Of snow.
1--WE are enjoying beautiful weather once
more, after our three days snow storm.
The large volume Of business transacted by
our three banks indicate that Glendale is
quite d financial and commercial center. A
large amount of grain still remains in stock
in this county awaiting the thresher, and
only about one-half of the crop has been de-
livered up to date.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-11

In the quarrel among the Philadelphia milk
dealers one of them divulges the secrets of
the trade. He says they use boracic acid to
preserve the milk. What is left over from
each day is treated to u dose of the acid to
keep it from souring. He says black sedi-
ment settles upon the bottom of cans con-
tanning milk in which the acid has been used.
In this way the presence of the acid can be
dateata6
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-11
A RRAuE wnMAN

One wife-beater. at least, has met his
deserts, and the young woman who was the
avenger of her mother S wrongs has been
held guiltless in the eyes of the law. A
brutal wretch by the name of WILSON, who
lived in Chicago, attempted to whip his sick
wife last Saturday night, when his step
daughter thrust herself between the villain
and his helpless victim. and when his arm
was raised to strike her she thrust a pair of
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-11
MINDS UNTUTORED.
Narrow Escape From Death q
Three Indians at the Ryan.

Three Indians at the Ryan.
1t was getting to be bedtime in the
Ryan hotel night before last, when four
gentlemen and a number of ladies who
CHANGED to pass along one of the halls
smelled gas. While they stopped and
spoke of it, several others came along on
their way to bed, and they, too, noticed the
smell, and in ten minutes there were
enough congregated to make a good-sized
progressive euchre party. At length it
was traced to particular door, but all
knocks failed to arouse anyone. A bell
boy with pass-key was sent for, and the
door was opened.
Half an hour previous to the above event,
three specimens of the late noble red men
on their way East to an educational insti-
tuition had been assigned that room. They
were full-blooded Indians with all the
noble traits that have stamped their race
They were fresh from their wigwamS. They
were as untutored as their fathers who
were embezzled out Of their broad acres by
the treacherous white man. When they
locked the door that night their brains were
dizzy with the sights of a great city, and
after breathing PRAYER to the Great Spirit.
after the manner of their tribe, they blew
out the little lights that had been turned on
before they went to their room. and laid
down in the bed of the pale-face, to dream
Of the chase and the delightsome scenes
they had left behind them.
~
''If we lean them On the window sill and
pound their backs l think we may get
enough fresh air into them to bring them
to-" said prominent man to the crowd of
ladies and gentlemen who had helped pull
the three Indians from the bed. Already
their limbs had stiffened from
their inhalations. They did not
speak when questioned how they felt. That
same stoical silence that warriors have ex-
hibited since the time Of King Philip was
theirs. AS five men and three women bent
over their coppery frames and watched for
signs of returning life, they would not or
could not speak. 1t was half an hour be-
fore even grunt indicated that they were
still this side of the happy hunting grounds.
And yesterday morning when Mr.. Raymond
and his wife. in whose charge they were,
took them to the train. they were still suf-
fering from their deadly dose. Said the
gentleman who opened the window and
took the first one from bed, sin twenty
minutes more there would have been three
good Indians in that ROOM"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-11

scissors into his side, inflicting mortal
wound. Our dispatches bring the crafty
ing news that upon an investigation by a
coroner's jury yesterday the young. woman
was acquitted. All honor to the Chicago
jury which so promptly discharged her from
Imprisonment, and all honor to ANNIE
WILSON, the brave young woman who
has set an example worthy of all COM
rnan6atinp
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-11

RING the bell softly; there is Grape on BILLY
MAHoNE's door. His newspaper organ went
into bankruptcy yesterday, and there's every
evidence of general collapse of the Repub-
lican party in Virginia. In fact there seems
to be general breaking up of the G. o. P. in
every direction. Having lost the cohesive
power of public plumber there is nothing else
to keep it together.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-11
n Otes.

Charles B. Wright, T. F. Cakes and J.
T. Odell of the Northern Pacific road went
to Duluth yesterday.
E. Meeker, the pioneer hop-grower of the
Pacific coast, was q caller at the Northern
Pacific Offices yesterday.
A meeting of train dispatchers will be
held at the Minneapolis & st. Louis train
dispatcher'S Office at Minneapolis tonight.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-11

First Page-Washington Crimes and Casual
ties Political and Foreign News.
Second Page-St. Paul News.
Third Page-Mnneapolis News and Minneap-
olis-Cincinnati Romance.
Fourth Page-Editorial, Additional st. Paul,
Railroad and Dakota News.
Fifth Page-Northwest News and Minneap-
oils Police Scandal.
Sixth Page-Fnancial and Commercial.
Seventh Page-Want Advertisements.
Eighth Page-Stillwater News.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-11
Huron the Capital.

Special to the Globe
HURON, Oak. Nov. 10.-Hurons major
ity for capital will exceed $500, taking
Pierre's figures as claimed, though Pierre
claims the victory. The Beadle county
vote was canvassed to day. 1t gives Nell
cite for governor, 2,134; minority repre-
sentation, yes, 1,462; no, 747; prohibition,
yes, 1,2O1; no, 1,130; constitution, yes,
2,071; no, $50; capital, Huron ASH,
Oira,.ro
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-11
Movement OF Steamships.


DULUTH, Mimi, Nov. 1O.-Arrived: Pro-
pellers City of Fremont, from Hancock, mer-
chandise; Samuel F. Hodge, from Buffalo,
merchandise; barge John N. Glidden, coal
barge ]. H. Devereaux, from Ashtabula,
coal. Cleared: Propelers Waverly, for Buff
falo, -four; barge Hecla, for Cleveland, iron
ore; barge Hiawatha and schooner Mime
haha, for Cleveland iron ore; barge Raleigh
and schooner Lucerne, for Cleveland, iron
ore; propellers Idaho, for Buffalo, -four; City
of Duluth, for Chicago, merchandise; City of
Fremont, for Houghton, -four. The weather
is clear, with fresh northeast wind.
SUPERIOR, Wis. Nov. 10.-The steam barge
Walula arrived to-day with 500 rails.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-11

THE proper thing for young lady to do
now is to present her lover with silk hand
kerchief with his monogram embroidered by
herself in her own hair instead of embroidery
silk. This is very pretty way to testify de-
votion, and at the same time it is a more use
full way of disposing of stray hairs than the
old fashion of depositing them in the butter.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-11

terprise, and shows what good newspaper
men can do in a field where they have room
to expand. The well-tilled advertising col
umns indicate that the business men OF De-
troit have confidence in the ability of the
NIMoCKs Brothers to give them rafting
good newspaper.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-11
Intentions Unchanged.

MILWAUKEE, Nov. 1O.-Trustee Abbott
of the Milwaukee road, who has been abb
sent from the city for the past week, said
to reporter to-day that the Centrafs plans
had been in no wise modified by the refusal
of the Belt line to permit it to use the Belt
line track for a temporary terminal in Chi
cago. The proposition was only for tenn
porary terminal facilities pending the legal
struggle necessary to secure the right Of
way under the Great Western charter.
These proceedings will be pushed steadily,
and in the meantime the Central would ell
deavor to secure terminal facilities else
whpra
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-11

AS THE law upon the telephone is still in
its formative stage, the New York and Phila-
delphia courts have been wrestling with the
question whether or not to admit conversation
by telephone as evidence. Our Northwestern
courts are never troubled with such novel
questions. No man in this section could
swear that he ever heard anything through a
telephone