St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-21
TURNING THE TABLES.
How Scottie Turned a Joke OF
His Friend Scott.


His Friend Scott.
Whilst write, the wrath of the ele-
ments has aSSuaged, and the bowling
blizzard of Wednesday and Thursday is
spent. Ie Gods, but it was a terror, and
think | would rather face a SIMEON in
the great Sahara. than get caught out
IN a blizzard on any of the Dakota
pralrleS III the valley of the Missouri
river. 1t has passed, and left death,
DISSOLUTION and sickness behind it. The
ankton newspapers to-day publish a
list of SIN deaths. in this neighborhood.
with Others not heard from. and great
many eases of people being badly
frozen. The following gentlemen have
been Snow-bound since "Wednesday
at the Merchants. in Yankton:
w. *. knickerbocker, Sioux CITY:
George w. Scott, Rochester, n. Y:
John Butter, St. Paul: ID. McCurdy, St.
Paul; Judge J. {. Murphy, assistant
United States district attorney, and A.
Ayes, government contractor. and I'M
der the circumstances have put in a
very pleasant time-playing whist and
having Il series of concerts each evening
to drive away the monotony of their
five days imprisonment. The snow
piowS are busy at work with a large
gang OF workmen, and we expect to get
out tomorrow to resume our respective
callings. The item below was clipped
from the Hankton Dakotian, but have
every reason to believe their enterpris-
ing correspondent got mixed up slightly.
whether it was the effects of the blizzard
or the exquisite Mocha. at the fair
know not. but If the order of the things
IN the item were reversed | believe it
would be about right.
There is merry crowd of travelling
men showed i'll at YanktOn and two of
them, with others, are housed at the
Merchants. Last night these two, J.
Butter, of st. Paul, who sells dry goods,
and George W. Scott, of Rochester, n.
Y, who sells boots and shoes, went to
the Scandinavian fair at Turner hall.
Their genial manners and fat pocket
books made them very popular and be-
Tore the entertainment was over thew
were the lions of the evening. Finally
Mr.. Scott, who, by the way, is abso-
lutely too funny for any use, sought to
make merry at the expense of his friend
Mr.. Butter. He filched Buffers new
hat and gave it to the aUctioneer and
babe HIM sell it to the highest bidder.
MIR. Butter. in the meantime, sneaked
Mr.. Scots SealSkin head covering and
when the auctioneer had been offered 50
cents for Mr.. Buffers hat, Mr.. Butter
informed Mr.. Scott that he must either
buy that hat and return it or go home
bareheaded. 1t was a grounding case.
and Mr.. Scott bought the hat and ex-
changed it for his own SealSkin. There
was a general smile for which MIR.
Scott paid - more.
Mr.. Scott got badly stuck on one of
the fair daughters of the great Morse
Sea Kings, saw her home, and arrived
at the hotel at 4 80 a. m. in anything but
an amiable mood. He had to escort the
lady about thirty-two blocks out on the
prairie with only fine Dunlap adorn-
ing the cavity which nature intended
for brains and a two-inch velvet collar
on his oyercoat to cover his ears. Their
mometer 80 deg. below, and falling at
the time. Valor assuredly got away
with discretion that time, George.
A telegram has been received here
from Tyndall saying that poor old A.
j. Winters, who started out in a sleigh
on Thursday morning from Yankton,
had not arrived at his destination. His
BODY with that of the driver has been
found on the prairie frozen to death,
about twelve miles out. The landlord
told him a severe storm was coming,
but he said he had weathered many a
blizzard and would get through this one
all right. MIR. Winters is about fifty
years of age, general agent for the
Singer Sewing Machine company, with
headquarters in La Crosse, Wis. was
highly respected and his loss will be
mOurned by many friends OH the road