St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-01
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Congressman wakeheld.of Blue Earth City
passed calm night at the Merchants, having
come late and departed early. He seems TO
have lost all interest in politics, but he always
seemed that way, even when he knew he
owned the congressional conventions of the
Second district. Republicans used to call
Mr.. Wakefield lazy, but in this it seems they
were little mistaken, for his political career
has been long and active one, and it is by no
means sure that it is about ended. About
thirty days hence we may know more about
it. His most influential lieutenant is Senator
Goodrich, his townsman, who can do as much
as anybody in nice, quiet way.
while everybody admires him for his
honesty. Mr.. Wakefield might have Sc
| cured the congressional nomination again
| had former friends not turned against him.
! Senator Crosby, now of Luverne, became an
enemv because Wakefield did not obtain for
him federal land appointment at Duluth.
Then NJ. ID. l.. COlester and E. P. Freeman,
of Mankato, and Gen. J. II. Baker, of Rapidan,
arrayed themselves in opposition.
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| Marcus johnson, of Atwater, has just re-
turned from a trip to Duluth. He says Fred
Snow. of the Merchants, is making great
many friends for him in his struggle for the
secretaryship of the senate.
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The usual group of Dakotans was chatting
in the Merchants corridor yesterday. There
were United States Marshal Maratta, George
H. Walsh, of Grand Forks, ex-president of the
Dakota council; E. a. Williams, of Bismarck.
ex-speaker of the house; J. N. Scott, member
of the Dakota capital commission; County
Auditor Bray, of Grand Forks, and others
The talk turned on the misunderstanding be
tween Secretary Mccormack aid Attorney
General Eugle. Both Maratta and Walsh
thought Mccormack had been hasty in the
matter, but they do not overlook Engle al
together.
W. J. Macaulay, ex-president of the Peo-
pies bank Of this city, is at the Ryan, and
will soon take a trip to Winnipeg. He has
been to Chicago, having accompanied hi>
wife and children so far on their way to En-
gland, where his children will attend school
Mr.. Macauay is interested with Dennis RYAN
in the sawmills al Norman, Lake of the
Woods. He says that gold mining up there,
which has been unusually developed by the
Minneapolis and Chicago parties interested.
during the past season has PANIED out pretty
we'll.
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j. H. McTavish, of the Hudson Bay com
pany, is down from Winnipeg. Like other
gentlemen interested in what was once the
greatest monopoly on earth, he finds that
with the development OF the Northwest the
land reserved-one-twentieth part of the ter
ritory and 500 acres around each trading post
after the Dominion government purchased
the company's franchise for 81, 800, 600, con-
tinues to increase marvelously in value, so
that this fraction of soil is the finest kind OF
a gold mine He is also largely interested in
Canadian Pacific profits.
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City Attorney Murray says he has accepted
an invitation to lunch tn the Tycoon on
New Years day. but that it was upon the ex-
press condition that he could drive over the
Third street bridge.
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Hon. P. H. Kelly is now wondering how the
Washington correspondents of the Pioneer
Press and Tribune were 1le to send their pa
pers such voluminous information regarding
his movements and intentions during his
recent visit to the national capital. The cards
of the correspondents were sent up to his
room at the Arlington hotel, but he maintains
he did not see a single one of them during his
stay. There are. he discovers, different kinds
of newspaper enterprise.
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