St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-11
MEN ON THE GO.
Mondays Visitors at the Hotels and
What They said.

John T. Murphy, prominent stockman
and merchant from Helena. Mont, with
his wife and child, is in ST. Paul. Mr..
Murphy is reputed to be the largest cattle
owner i'll Helena, one of Montana'S most
successful business men. general rustler,
and about 40 years old.
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Mr.. Murphy said that on the night before
his departure from Helena he attended a
meeting of the board of trade in that city,
at which the question of stockyards in st.
Paul came up. The committee from the
Montana Stock Growers association had
then completed its work, and its work had
been known in Helena. While no definite
action Oh the matter had been taken, there
had been free discussion of st. Paul as
stock market, and the almost unanimous
opinion had been expressed that it would be
OF advantage to Montana stockmen if stock
yards could be located at st. Paul. 1t was
said that Montana cattle growers could then
dispose of their stock at probably the same
prices as at Chicago with saving of the
price of the haul from st. Paul down. Mr.
Murphy gave it as his opinion that it was
only question of time when stock mar
ket at st. Paul, to be to the Northwest
what Chicago is to the tributary country,
would be a necessity. Mr.. Murphy said
that business in his territory was fairly
good. and that the prospects were for a
good year for the stockmen.
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Il. c. ,]udson of Pennington was in the
city. lie was looking after few little
points in connection with the coming state
fair and was very busy. He was as conf
dent as ever that the exhibition in all its
departments would be more complete than
last year.
There is talk of making Joel P. Heatwole
OF Northi.eld an active member of the ST.
Paul Press club. The only thing that bars
him is that his paper is published in North
field. He is first-class sort OF man for a
member. and Judging from the frequency
with which his name appears on the register
of TIE Merchants hotel he is "a resident of
Ramsey county" Some say he calls it home
at Mortified where he edits the News, and
if he does, of course that shuts him out
from becoming an active member. Mr..
Hcatwole was here yesterday. His name
appears on the register nearly as often as
does that of r. l.. FraZee of Frazee City.
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J. B. Chaplin, Fargo, placed his name on
the Merchants register quite early yester-
day morning. He is one of the best and
most widely known of Fargo's citizens.
He always wears red necktie and has
decided liking for anything red. So insep-
arabic is he from his red tie that he is
known all through Dakota as ''Red Neck
tie'' Chaplin. He used to keep a hotel at
Fargo.
A travelling man once stopped at Mr..
han hOtn FOL in md tx-bi fba,. h.,
came well acquainted with the proprietor
He noticed the ever appearing red tie and
heard the lawyers about the rotunda speak
of him by his nickname. why don't you
streak your hotel with red to match your
tle?" he asked as he was leaving.
''fll do it," said Mr.. Chaplin. "Its a
good suggestion" The travelling man
offered to bet him $25 he wouldn't do it,
which bet MIR. Chaplin promptly covered.
saying that when next the traveller made
Fargo his hotel would be striped
with red. The drummer returned in about
a MONTH and when he sought Mr.. Chapin's
hotel to claim his stakes he found he had
lost, for all around the building, for width
of six or eight feet, had been painted
fiery red stripe. Mr.. Chaplin pocketed the
wager and the drummer said: '.Pd like to
try to paint Chicago with you, Mr.. Chaplin.
You couldn't make the stripe so wide down
there, but it might be just as red" This
was story that lounger in the Merchants
told GLOBE reporter on Mr.. Chaplin as
he walked across the rotunda yesterday.
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The Ryan was unusually lively yesterday
afternoon, owing to the arrival of so many
of the delegates to the national convention
of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. They
are tine-looking set of men, and many of
them hold positions of honor and trust in
the cities from which they come. About $50
of them will be in attendance.