St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-11
CLEANED At SALTWATER.
The Vicks Figuring on a Branch Seed
House.
MASS MEETING ON MONDAY.
Those Who Get the City Plums---Gen-
eral Local News OF
Friday.

A formal call will be issued to day inviting
all citizens interested i'll the material prog
ress of the city to meet Monday evening lor
the purpose of considering the matters that
have developed out of the correspondence Oh
Wick & Co. the great seedsmen and hOrtlcult-
wrists of Rochester, n. Y, and saltwater
business firm relative to the establishment
here by the Nicks of branch OF their busl'
ness, the largest in their line III the world.
II is urged that whether or not such con-
Germ here would employ large
number Of men is not the
weighty question at issue, but that
il is matter of great moment TO BRING 70
saltwater an industry, the location OF when
here would be of great indirect Importance
in favorably and widely advertising the
city, and the consideration by the right men
and in the proper manner OF lhls particular
opportunity will result in Slmulatlng
spirit which only needs aronslng 10 bring 10
saltwater the capital and the men that her
unexampled advantages merit, There mas
really never been anything done by saltwater
10 induce manufacturers to come mere
A fossiliZed and self complacent ele-
ment on one hand and on the other
the lack of proper appreciation
of the situation, have operated TO run matters
along in The deepening rut until the old way
has seemed the only one in which TO move.
AS an illustration of even the advertising TO
name of the scotsman Wick with that OF
Saltwater it can be stated that since the
GLOBE some time ago merely stated tilat an
effort would be made to establish canning
best-known business meu, has been fairly
bescged with letters addressed TO
THE saltwater Canning company. THESE
were handed to HIM by the local postotlice.
for the reason that the factory has not ma
terialized. and because Mr.. Deraglsch was
one of the citizens who had talked up the
factory matter. All citizens who want OF are
even willing TO see saltwater come into her
own are invited 10 this meeting, OF Whlcn
the time and place will be announced later
Participating in its deliberations does not in
the least imply that the man taking part will
be asked 10 contribute any OF his money.
But his opinion is wanted. ard especially
the co-operation of far-seeing men, who do
not expect TO immediately rake III dollar
for every 80 cents they put out.
In the district court the indlctme nts
for burglary against Andrew Booren and for
larceny against Gust kog were demurred 10
by j. y. Searles attorney. ON the ground that
neither of them charged the prisoner with
public offense The demurrers were sus-
tanned, the defect lying in the omission to
state in the Indictment that the acts COM
planned of were ''feloniously' committed.
After attending TO those two items OF Grim
inal business, the court adjourned until this
morning.
The city council Thursday evening elected
George Low as build ng inspector on the
seventh formal ballot, the last standing;
for were William May, John Covell. S. Rich
ardson. Salaries of certain city officials
were fixed as follows: Engineers 1.S00 per
annum: attorney. 1900: assessor. $500 for
the year 1889 and $1,000 for 1890: street
commissioner $500; wharfmaster, $40 per
month. and assistant health inspector, etc,
$50 per month. Ordinances were passed en-
bodying the provisions OF the state law to pun
ish drunkenness and to prohibit dealers
from buying junk of minors. The street
its track on the established grade of Chest
nut street, and the company will pave be-
tween the tracks, uniformly with the pave
ment to be laid on that street by the city.
The chief of police was Instructed to detail
two of the present force for mounted patrol
duty on the hills and the purchasing COM
mittee was instructed to buy the necessary
horses and equipments.
C. NJ. McCluer will start to-day for aD East
ern trip covering two weeks.
John and August Booren are home from
month tour on the Pacific coast
The new board of education was to have
organized Thursday evening. and Messrs
Per Lee, Lindholm, Kitty and Sargent met
absence of eX-otficio President Clapp and
Director Goodhue an adjournment was
taken until this evening.
On the occasion of her birthday anniver-
sary, MIS- Jonn u NelS0n was unexpectedly
called upon by about fifty gentlemen and
ladies Thursday evening. who made the Mel
son mansion merry. She was presented with
handsome reminders of the occasion, one of
the gifts being a pair of richly mounted
opera glasses.
The St. Croix boom shut down yesterday,
and will probably resume next Wednesday
with at least as large crew-2GO men. In
the eight days of operation there were turned
out 5, 900 0G0 feet of logs.
Company K underwent the annual inspec-
ton yesterday.
There are now 1,4s1 pupils enrolled in the
public schools the largest number in the
history of the city.
The board Of school directors will elect
forty three teachers for the coming school
year.
Nelson & Johnson received word from
HinckIey yesterday that the forest fires in
that region were out but that there was no
water in the logging streams.