St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-17

other important real
estate litigation. he was employed by tn e
Beaubien heirs TO appear before the proper
committees of congress in 1878 to prevent
the city of Chicago from obtaining title to
the lake front property in that city. north
Of Madison street, valued at a million of
dollars, and to secure affirmative legislation
in favor of these heirs by reason of their
equitable rights in this land. He sue
| ceeded in defeating Chicago. but he failed
TO obtain the necessary litigation in behalf
of his own clients. Three years ago he set
tied down in Bartlett, when it was one of
the most thriving towns i'm Dakota A mis-
understanding arose between the Mani
toba railway and the town site COM
pany of Bartlett, and in July, 1883, the rail-
way company gave notice that it should take
up its station and sidetrackS, and not stop
train within four miles of the town.
Notwithstanding $50. 900 worth of lots
had been sold, and Bartlett then had ten
hotels and seventeen stores and many other
business places all open and running, no
interpositiOn was being offered by the
transit company TO prevent the railway
carrying out its purpose. and prominent
lawyers said il would be useless to intsy-
pose when the private property owners OF
Bartlett retained Mr.. Standish, who at
once secured an order of court that has
since compelled the railway to leave every
thing at Bartlett, stop all trains and keep
an agent there. InabOut six months money
considerations and other influences had
been used to draw the business men of
Bartlett TO other points. and only two
hotels and one store remained when the
prOprietors of
THE RIVAL TOWN
offered to furnish to Mr.. Standish written
authority from all his clients to dismiss the
Bartlett station suit, and to pay him a large
fee besides. Being one of the plaintiffs, he
said TO the farmers near by that if they de-
sired TO take the place of his original clients
he would still stand by them and still hold
the station, which he has since done. An
other serious difficulty here presented itself.
The Minnesota statute compelling railways
to give switch room to erect elevators by
any private party has never been adopted
i'm Dakota, and there was no elevator or
warehouse at Bartlett to receive grain. and
the railway refused to permit one to be con-
structed there, and without such permission
elevator men were unwilling to locate there.
Mr.. Standish assumed that railways. as
common carriers at common law. have no
more control over their switch room and
right of way than over their depOts, cars
and the running of trains, and that any
facilities this railway had extended to any
individual or town, il was obliged to extend
TO him at Bartlett, and he made a critical
examination of the law and found this view
correct, whereupOn he drew up brief and
submitted it to the attorney general of Da-
kOta, asking that il this railway should at
tempt TO prevent the building of an ele-
vator at Bartlett on its right of way. or
-. o ~h,N hrh .r,,~l,s
territory to seize, run, forfeit and sell what
was of it in Dakota for
wILLFUL VIOLATION
of charter obligations. Attorney General
Hughes became satisfied that the law would
require this course to be taken by the terri
tory and notified Mr.. Standish that if the
anticipated cause for its exercise should
arise the suit would be brought. The ele-
vator was built and opened, and ever since
run. and is now owned and leased by Mr..
Standish, and from its first day it has had
the very best of car accommodations. 1t is
needless TO say that the people OF this re-
gion look upon Mr.. Standish as a lawyer
that knows his business, who can neither
be bought nor bulldOZed by any one. He is
now chairman of the Republican executive
committee of mis- county (Ramsey), and all
his life he has been an earnest Republican.
Since he located in the Northwest he has
probably originated and suggested more
beneficial legislation for II than any other
person i'm or out of congress. In February,
1880. he drafted the first leave of absence
bill for prairie settlers TO leave their claims
i'm winter, that is known to have been sub
mitted to congress, which bill, with slight
notifications, was afterwards generally in
dOrSed by the registers and receivers of the
Northwest. For the past four years he has
written and caused to be published able ar
ticles that the government in granting and
conveying land should reserve all the coal
contained in the land, being conveyed with
the right to have the same
DISCOVERED AND MINED
under regulations of congress in order to
meet the fuel wants of the public for all
time TO come and also that the government
instead of selling or disposing of the pine
lands OF Minnesota to private parties for
Sl.25 an acre, as it does now, or for any
other sum, should retain and open them to
the public for numbering on the stumpage
plan. Under government management, as
shown by bill drawn by him and published
over two years ago in the Fargo Argus,
which bill was unanimously urged upon
congress for adoption by the last legisla-
ture of Dakota and is most strongly in
dorsed by the Scandinavian press of the
Northwest About six weeks since he pre-
pared and had published an address to con-
gress, the department and the president on
the foregoing questions of pine timber. coal,
and winter lQoya NJ ohcauna fn r,rairia