St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-15
AL SORTS.

A saloonkeeper, indicted for selling on Sum
day, was asked in court yesterday: Guilty
or not guiltv?' He responded: II don
know until see my attorney"
W.D Wasburn-We have negotiated the
$4,000 600 of 500 bonds. We shall finish the
road next year. and shall have trains running
from this citp to Rhinelander by july l. 1t is
not definitely settled about the bridge or
bridges over the Sault yet, but the Canadian
Pacific the 500 and the Atlantic & South
Shore will probably build joint structure.
We shall let the contracts for the bridges and
other work on the rest of the line very soon.
Hon. ]. B. GiIfIlan has reached Washington,
and the local press speaks of cold wave
from Minnesota that has just arrived.
The city of Boston had its fill of police
commission rascality. AT first it worked sat
isfactorily but the temptations of the Office
proved irresistible. and previously upright
men we're lured into compromising felonies
In consequence, the commission became so
odious that its abolition was unavoidable.
Said an indignant citizen yesterday: THE
grand jury is doing its utmost to pave the
way for the proposed instltuting of the pO-
lice commission system. Two years ago the
very parties who are now hotly engaged in
the laudable effort to indict people by the
wholesale would have been highly incensed
had the scheme then been proposed Mime
apolis was at that time in the control of an
alleged high moral administration. But it
was then that blind pigs houriShed like the
Scriptural green bay tree. and the side doors
of saloons were easily opened Sundays. I'm
der Democratic rule, however, during the
past few months. these same blind pigs
which had been in prosperous existence since
the Inauguration of the dead-line. and which
had never before paid fines, have been ar
raigned in the municipal court and
fined in the aggregate nearly $4,000.
Yet. because of their existence. it is
no itV-
solely at the door of Mayor Ames
who has instigated this prosecution instead of
following the grecept and rule of his Illus
trious predecessor. and merely winking at
the infractiOn of the law. Now the grand
Jury, it is surmsed, upon pretty reliable
authority. will not only lndict these blind
pigs which have been paying lines, but also
all saloonkeepers whose side doors have been
so as to admit a thirsty customer on the
Sabbath. If the manipulators Of the scheme
succeed in creating public prejudice to the
end that the police commission is appointed,
then may our city, now peaceful and pros
porous, well be commiserated. The history
of police commissions in other cities teaches
us that wherever in vogue the element of cor
ruption has eventually had full sway. In
such cities it has been only question of the
amount of money required to square peo-
Dle.' "
A typographical error in yesterday GLOBTa
made it appear that the fees to be received
oy Col Kings attorneys only amount to So
300. when ten times that trihing amount will
not cover the bills.
E The guyasticutus which appears at the
dime museum next week, like the Cleopatra
of the Oral nd opera house drop-curt ain, has
elbows on its shins.
The action taken by Messrs. Nettleton,
Bracket. Anthony Kelly, ]. 7. Wyman and
others at the recent non-partisarI meeting in
regard to the police commission, has been
warmly Endorsed by Messrs. Nettleton,
Bracket Anthony Kelly, ]. L. Wyman and
others from the board of trade
Aid. Gibson is something O. an electrician
and has recently patented a combined police
and fire box which is calculated not as a sub
stitute for the present police telephone sys-
TEN, but rather as an aid, to be used in the
outlying districts. The boxes work by the
insertion of key and communicate both the
number of the patrolman and the box to
police headquarters. Calls for the patrol
wagon. or assistance in a half dozen other
emergencies, can also be conveyed instantly,
and anSwed from the central station The
boxes can be furnished for $50 each. and in
all ordinary cases will successfully take the
place of the $3.50 telephone boxes, which are
maintained at a cost of SIS each per year.
Capt. Shuler at the Franklin avenue bridge
meeting-There will be red hot contest in
tie next legislature on this bridge question
in this city. and you will want very strong
representative committee at St. Paul, and a
big petition perhaps, to help out your Frank
lin avenue project.
The board of trade has secured police
commission for Minneapolis. There are sew
eral little informalities, such as securing the
consent of the people, passing the law and a
few others, but this amounts to but little
after the board has spoken.