St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-09
ROTUNDA RfPPLES.

Gov. A. ?. Swineford arrived at the
Ryan yesterday morning from st.
Louis, and left with several cOmpan-
ions on the Northern Pacific train, for
Sitka, Alaska. The governor said that
the far-away territory would be his per-
manent home, as he was heavily inter-
ested in mining and other ventures.
His successor in the gubernatOrial Office
has not yet qualified, so he remains gov
ernor for a short while. Mr.. Swineford
is very indignant at the way congress
has treated Alaska, and said: mo
government is possible, as 10 one has
any authority to do anything. Law
cannot be enforced as there is
no one to enforce it. l have
absolutely no power. There can
ernment although it is attempted, and
local laws are enfored as well as they
can be under the circumstances, but
these laws are not necessarily binding
on any one. | am placed in a very
equivocal position by reason of being
governor without authority from con-
gresS to do anything more than draw
my salary and command the militia,
which does not exist. Congress has
passed laws for Alaska that positively
injure the country, and has refused to
pass any laws for its benefit. The only
man in authority is the collector of GUS
toms, who collects duty on goods i'm
ported at Sitka. but smuggling is car
ried on to large extent, and there Is
absolutely no way of stopping
some good. but the multitudinous
creeks and islands would still
invite smuggling with small chance of
detection. The people in every in
stance, with three or four exceptions,
are merely squatterS OIL the land, none
of them owning the land on which they
have built. The mining industries are
growing very rapidly and will shortly
make Alaska very important terri
tory" The governor is very sanguine
In his hopes for railway connecting
the United States with Europe. He
says that the Russian government will
have road built through Kamstchatka
to the Behring straits inside of few
ing road over the Aleutian islands.
whose terminus would only leave be-
tween twenty-five and thirty miles of
water to be covered.
~
Henry Johns sat on the veranda of
the Clifton yesterday. talking about the
shortcomings of Senator c. K. Davis.
~ have BEEN" said he, "a Davis man
for years, but the way the senator has
treated Ramsey county in the way of
federal appointments has thoroughly
disguised me. 1t looks now as if the
United States att0rneyship were going
to an outsider, and about the only thing
left is the pOStoffice. That will 90 to an
outsider as well, if left to 9; K. Davis.
Mark my prediction. Washburn is a
nnpaptitv. from hinS l,nfb of xxooIth opd
business, have rendered him useless.
William Window is In the cabinet, and
has more influence than WaShburn and
Davis combined. Minnesota has not yet
recognized him as her greatest states
man. The country districts like him;
and his prestige as a cabinet officer, COM
bined with the disgust of Ramsey county
Republicans at G. D. Davis, will give
him the nomination for United States
senator four years from now. There is
another man who must not be lost sight
of-Moses 3. Clapp. Watch Window
and Clapp."
II. A. Matthews sat in the Ryan yes
terday evening, talking over the rsil-
road situation. 'Railroading," said he,
us nothing but a game Of chess; re;
member years ago when Henry Willard
was president of the Northern Pacific,
number of us, knowing that the Mani
toba wanted to reach Larimore, asked
Mir. Willard if he would sell the Cassel-
ton branch of the Northern Pacific. He
gave us his word that nothing could in
duce him to sell. So we bought Lari.
more lots, calculating Oh the Manitoba
building line to that point. But Mr..
Willard sold j. j. Hill the Casselton
branch and we have our Larimore lots
STILL"
Ike Lederer stood on the steps of the
Ryan yesterday, cooling off after the
rain. Talking about st. Paul's growth,
he said: sit is strange how few out
siders will believe st. Paul is as big as
she is. Why, MIR. Adler, my boss in
Milwaukee, used to ridicule my stories
about st. Paul. At last persuaded
him to come up here. He had not been
here for nine years and was simply
paralyzed by what he saw. He could
scarcely believe it possible for a city to
grow so much in nine years."
Rice street youths have organized ball
club, to be known as the ''Invincibles, com
posed entirely of boys under fifteen years of
age. The captains name is Ed. Penhallegon,
and he expresses himself as willing to chal-