St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-10
TALKn WITH TRAVELLERS.
People at the Hotels and Their
Views.

Views.
A medium-sized man, with round, full
face partially covered by huge red mus
tache and chin whiskers of the same tint.
walks down the main stairs of the Mer-
chants every afternoon at about the same
hour and, passing through the Office. de-
parts out the Jackson street door for the
capitol building. He possesses an ordinary
face with heavy eyes, and his movements
are slow and characteristic. He wears a
tall beaver except in very cold weather,
when he dons fun cap. Very few occu-
pants of the Office ever look a second time
at the passing man, and not a few of them
know that he is no less a parsonage than
Gov. Hubbard. He is a regular boarder at
the Merchants and occupies two rooms on
the second floor of the hotel fronting on
Third street. He has occupied those apart
ments ever since he was first called upon to
serve the people as their chief magistrate.
During the winter months his family come
up from Red Wing, his old home and share
his rooms In the summer the members
thereof return to Red Wing and he is left
alone.
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a Montana man at the Ryan yesterday
said that the past winter had been the most
delightful of any known in the territory for
the past twenty years. The weather
throughout, he said, had been very mild
and as a consequence the cattle on all the
various ranges were in the very best condi-
ton. He narrated the slaughter of thirty
five head Of beef cattle to show the effects
of the mild winter. The cattle were taken
directly from the range and were fat and in
excellent order. They averaged, when
slaughtered and dressed, l, 100 pounds, one
steer weighing about l. 400 pounds.
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Maj. Walker, Helena, Mont, was quite
enthusiastic yesterday over the brilliant
future OF that thriving little city. At the
Ryan he took occasion to say that a boom
was in store for Helena the coming summer
that would surprise those not acquainted
with the situation. Hitherto the place had
grown slowly, but surely, and was now i'm
a condition to develop rapidly. The build
ings already contracted for, he said, would
aggregate total of So. 900, 600, including
public and private structures, and the
amount would probably be increased after
the building season was formally open. In
his opinion new railroads would be con-
structed and Helena would fairly boom.
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DR.. d. p. Bigger. Brainerd, arrived at
the Merchants. He is surgeon of the
Northern Pacific Railroad company and is
in great demand after any serious mishap
or smash-up. His services have not been
required of late at any accident He visits
ST. Paul to return his report at the end of
every quarter. and was in the capital city
yesterday on that Grand.
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Mai. w. r. Bell. Indian Head, Assina-
boa, was an arrival at the Merchants. He
looks very much like Canadian and wears
a large fur cap. He owns one of the larg-
est farms III the world. 1t Is located in the
province OF Assinaboa, 800 miles directly
west from Winnipeg. and contains GO. 600
acres. Not more than one-fOurth of that
area is under cultivation. as fhe farm has
only been in existence as such for three
years. The cultivated portion of
the farm has been pushed every
year as much as possible The
Riel rebellion last year interfered
with such progress materially. His system
is TO divide the immense farm into smaller
divisions of 200 acres each and place this
limited farm under one man and hold him
responsible for its care aud cultivation. In
other words he maintained that the most
successful results followed from division
OF the power throughout the entire farm
rather than its concentration in the center
of the tract. The farm was plentifulIy
supplied with telephones and possessed a
Hour mill of sufficient capacity to handle
2OO 600 bushels of wheat, which he ex-
peeted to raise the coming season. The
farm had forty farmers and about 200 la
borers. The crop last year was not a sue
cess, owing TO the excitement attendant on
the Rel rebellion then in progress through
out the territory. Two years ago, although
1t was the first crop raised and was har-
vested under many difficulties, the wheat
aggregated 10000 bushels. averaging