St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-27
WAITING FOR TIA AIMS.
Travellers Mt the Hotels and Their
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Capt. II. F. Beecher, Port Townsend;
W. T., was an early arrival at the Ryan.
He is the youngest son of the eminent
Brooklyn divine, and Is at present seeking
confirmation as collector of customs at Port
Townsend, to which position he was APP
pointed by President Cleveland last June.
He is full-faced and full-blooded young
man of 80 years and wears full dark
brown beard. He is about the average
height and weighs in the neighborhoOd of
175 pounds. He wears tall, brown hat,
neutral tinted clothes and white neektie.
He bears just a faint resemblance TO his
father, the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. He
has been in Washington for some days and
was on his way West, expecting TO reach
Port Townsend next Wednesday.
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Capt. Beecher has lived in Washington
Territory for several years. and has been a
commander of one of the Puget sound
steamers. He walked the hurricane deck of
a Hudson river steamer before leaving for
the West. Since becoming the collector of
customs at the extreme Northwestern port
of entry he has devoted much of his time
and energy TO putting a stop TO the Snug
Cling of opium and other goods into the
United States. Smuggling was carried on
quite extensively. opium being the staple
article of trade. During the seven months
of his administration of the office the
revenue from opium alone has aggregated
S93. 900. while the revenue from that drug
for the past twelve years has been S2S, 600.
For violating the laws in that particular he
assumed charge of the steamer Idaho, and
proceedings, looking TO her confscation,
will come up Oh the 10th.
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He said that he has every reason to sup
pose that his appointment would be con-
tirmed as soon as the senate could get 10 il.
lie had been on to Washington, he said, to
look after the matter and to answer charges
of embezzlement which had been preferred
against him. The charge was founded oil
transaction in which he had been given
$500 to send by mail. He gave it to mail
ing clerk and gave his receipt to the original
party. The money failed to reach its
destination, and on being asked about it in
formed the sender that he (Beecher) had
given the money to a third party, federal
mail agent. He said that some opposition
was developed to his confirmation by the
local Democrats, who thought that he had
not given out the offices under him to suit
them. He intimated that the people inter-
eSted in opium were not very friendly to
him on account of his administration of
the Office in collecting all the revenue
possible.
Gov. Sam 1. Hauser. Helena, Mont. was
a guest at the Ryan. He has been i'm Wash
ington for several weeks and was en- route
to his home. Referring to his Washington
trip, he said that he was not prepared to
say whether Montana would be admitted as
a state or not, but hoped that such action
would be taken by the present congress be-
fore final adjournment. Once or twice
during his stay at the national capital he
thought that compromise would be effected
and Dakota and Montana admitted into the
Union, He was confident that nearly every
resident of the territory favored such adj
mission, as constitution had been adopted
a year or two ago showing the people as a
unit Oh that score.
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He said that Montana was improving in
every respect Its population. he said.
reached up into the hundred thousands,
while its cattle interests were never i'm a
better condition than at the present time.
He thought that the mineral output during
the'year 1886 would amount to $50. 600. 600,
making the high water mark for mining
products, in fact ranking all mineral pro-
ducing states and territories. The chief
object of his visit to Washington was to Sc
cure reduction in area of the Blackfeet or
Northern reservation, which was on i'm
menu tract Of land containing not over
5000 Indians. BY having the reservation
reduced inisize, he said, the railroad systems
would be enabled to come into the territory
under the most favorable auspices. rs
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Gov Hansen Is Onp of the most yvaalthv
men in the territory, Davis and Cruise out
ranking him in the sums total of their re-
spective holdings. He is small man with
reddish-gray beard and hair. He said that
there was no question as to Montana's Dem
ocracy, and in the past nine elections the
Republicans had never carried the day but
once.
John Caplice. Butte City, registered at
the Ryan. He is one of the most extensive
miners in the world and owns the Lee
mountain group of mines, not many miles
distant from Helena, and directly opposite
to the celebrated Red mountain group.
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Capt, Alex Griggs, Grand Forks, was
guest at the Merchants. He is member
of the Dakota board of railway and ware
house commission and was ell route home
after attending a meeting of the commission
at Watertown. The subject of reduction
of railroad rates was under discussion,
and it was agreed to defer action on that
subject until after the crops are fully de-
veloped, when estimates can be made of the
business and rates. The depot at Redwood
and the proposed change in the center of
the town, as petitioned by the residents
thereof. was taken up and continued until
the next meeting early in April, when def
mite action will be taken.
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l.. p. White, Brainerd, announced that
the bill enabling the construction of dam
at Brainerd had passed congress. The par
ties Interested in the proposed dam, he
said, were prepared to go to work at once
and rush the thing through SO that it would
be well under way before the coming of
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