St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-01
CURRENT GOSSIP.

'iMake no mistake, the Millers' union has
not dissolved" said a prominent miller yes
terday ut has not diSbanded, either, but
has m erely suspended. Probably by the LIST
of January. but certainly within two months.
you will see it revamped and in active exist
ence again, though perhaps on different
basis"
''But why this break?''
THAT is simply little scheme to get rid of
]. H. Hiand and his stiff salary. The old
Millers association and the present Millers'
union have been paying him $4,000 year.
That may have done for the association, with
its country buying, but was no sort OF use to
the union. Some Of the members, who were
friends o. Hiland, would have oeen willing to
keep up the organization for his benefit, but
this would not suit others, AID the present
action was agreed on. You notice they Ike 4p
their Office as G. A. Pillsbury says, and they
will still buy wheat through one firm. the
mills taking what they want. This may be
denied by some of the millers, but you may
give it full credence."
What will Mr.. Hiland do?"
go back to railroading again. He is
good man. He was general freight agent OF
the Northwestern, but he can't go back there
again on account of decision he made in an
arbitration case some time ago. in which. in
his anxiety to be impartial, he leaned to the
other side"
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Tho country districts of this state are Dem
ocratic as certain as can be-" said L. b. Stet-
son, of Excelsior, at the Algonquin club
rooms yesterday. The only thing necessary
is to organize and get out the vote. The
farmers are with US from this time on. No
attention had ever been paid to the country
district of Hennepin county until this
last election and the result was that it gave
q good, round Democratic majority. Take
my own town of Excelsior, for an example.
and look at the effects of organization. Two
years ago we organized at time when there
were so few Democrats that laugh went
round when we came to the polls TO vote.
We turned out fity-four votes, which was
three times as many as we ever cast before.
This time we organized still better. The Re-
publieans two years ago cast about ninety
votes and this time los, an increase OF six
teen. We ran one vote over ninety this time,
and would actually have carried that strong
hold of Republicanism but for the damaging
reports OF the riot we received. Now, we in
tend to organize permanently, and commit
tee, consisting Of w. l.. MITCHELL j. L. Con-
ner and myself have been appointed to draw
I'D constitution. l wish the whole state
would follow our example and organize and
we would carr it sure"
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The action of the council committee in
recommending the adoption of Aid. Cooleys
ordinance to go into effect Nov.l, 1889. which
provides that electric wires shall be laid
UNDERGROUND, can be taken as meaning sim
ply that Minneapolis stands on record as op-
posed to the stringing of wires on poles in the
public thoroughfare of the city. By the time
the ordinance becomes operative the practi-
cability of underground conduits will have
been tested. and then sufficient notice will
have been served upon the telephone, tele
FIaph and electric light companies to compel
them to obey the provisions of the ordi-
nance.
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1t is likely that S. ]. Cochrane, represent
ing Il party of Eas ern capitalists who wish to
locate $500, 00U Ellison electric light plant.
has won over the o5durate committee on
gas aud will be allowed to purchase
in accordance with an ordinance providing
that the wires shall be laid underground i'll
the business portion of the city. Public feel
ing against any further effort OF the commit
tee to prevent capital and competition from
gaining foothoid in Minneapolis has become
so strong that it is hardly PROBABLE that dill
tory measures will prevail much Ion ger.
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In fact, the proposition Of DIR. Cochrane
has done much to strengthen confidence in
the conduit system. He makes a straighfor-
ward offer to lay his wires in cOnjuits, and
fire department in close proximity, so as to
test the effect of induction. will be tried. At
any rate there is a good prospect that the
committee will report in favor OF granting
Mr.. Cochrane his franchise, and as result
Minneapolis will get the third largest mean
descent electric light plant in the country.