St. Paul daily globe., 1889-05-15
TUESDAY AT SALTWATER.
Another Assessment on the Natural Gas
Stockholders.
DEATH OF JOHN MuLvEY.
Mayor Durant and Others Preparing to
Form q Piscatorial Organ
izati0n.

There were represented at the meet
ing of the Natural Gas cOmpany'S stock
holders meeting Monday evening 759 of
the 1000 shares, and resolution to levy
an assessment of s. per share on all the
capital stock the company was passed
unanimously. The resolution also pro-
vided that any one unwilling to pay the
assessment might return their stock
and avoid the levy; but few, if any, will
fail to pay. The work of drilling will
certainly 20 on now, and the we'll will
be sunk 500 feet deeper unless sufficient
gas is found before reaching that depth.
The lumbermen's board of trade is
preparing to make clean drive of all
the logs lying between the $500" rail
road bridge, above Marine mills, to the
boom. The board of trade drive will be
begun as soon as possible, and crews of
men are to he sent up at once. The river
above continues to fill with new logs,
which are running at lively rate.
Rev. j. L. Half went to st. Peter
yesterday to attend the annual exam
nations at Gustavus AdOlpbus college,
and next week Rev. j. III. Albert goes
to attend the Anoka conference of the
COngregationalists at Hutchinson.
The two committees appointed at the
Sawyer house meeting Monday night,
one to look up lands and prices. and to
confer with the representative of Wick
& Co. and the other to devise plan for
the organization of permanent body
that shall look after the promotion of
manufacturing and industrial interests
in Saltwater, will report at a meeting
to be called by the chairman.
Tom Hudson, the expert lineman,
while at work yesterday on Main
street electric wire, fell from the pole.
a distance of eighteen feet, to the
ground, but escaped serious injury.
Supt. Hewitt's track layers will be on
Chestnut street to-day.
The trial of the case of j. s. Keator g
Son against John Glaspie, involving a
claim of $SS,0G0, was begun yesterday
before Judge McCluer and struck jury
composed of J. L. Smith, A. Goers, J..
Harrisberger. Frank Coombs, Charles
Kern, q. w. Bennett, F. hammers, A.
Storer, Allen Huey, G. H. Berry, Will
lam Mcpherson. F. H. Lemon. The
plaintiffs claim that by false representa-
tions they were induced to buy from de-.
fendant pine lands alleged to contain
certain amount of timber. but that they
were defrauded and damaged in the
amount claimed.
Mayor Durant, Judge Nethaway, II.
P. Barclay and others are interesting
themselves in the formation Of some
sort of piscatorial organization, with
president, secretary and warden, the
special duty of the latter official being
to hunt up and punish violators of the
fishing law. A prime object of the
club will be to secure some good and
exclusive fishing grounds. but Mayor
Durant says that the energies of the as
sociatiOn will be bent to punish Offend
ers against the fishing law.
John Mulvey, father of James Null
vey, of the logging firm of Mulvey &
Carmichael. died Monday evening at the
age of seventy-six years. He had not
been in robust health for the last year,
city, and retired to his bed as usual
Sunday evening. His son, on going to
the old gentleman's room in the morn
ing, found him unconscious and suffer
ing from a stroke of paralysis, from
which he did not rally. The deceased
was born IN London, England, June 2,
1918, and had resided here with his son
for the last ten years. Another son
lives in Pennsylvania and a third in
London. Notice of the funeral will be
given hereafter.
On complaint OF Albert Jarchow,
Frank, John and Ed Wasterman were
fined $40 each yesterday for spearing
fish in Carnelian lake under the special
act of the last legislature. Half the
fines went to the complaining witness
and half to the school district in which
the Offense was committed.
The camp scene, war songs and
tableaux entertainment will be repeated
at MuSic hall thiS evening
William Reed has sold his property,
corner Myrtle and Greeley str eets, to
II. T. King.