St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-09
CLEANED AT STILL WATER.
Prominent Lumbermen Discuss the ST.
Croix Boom Corporation.
REVIVAL OF IT'S CHARTER.
A Thing Not Discussed by Host OF
Them---0thers Consider Boom
Unnecessary.

A meeting of representative merchant
lumbermen was held yesterday after
noon at the Office of the Ann River Log
ging company to discuss their relations
TO the st. CroiX boom corporation.
Those in attendance are exceedingly
chary about giving out any definite III
formation as to what objects in detail
they are seeking, though the session OF
Yesterday was adjourned after a brief
sitting without any business OF I'M
portance being transacted. However,
one of the most prominent of those
present said, now that the Legislative
bill to extend the boom corporations
charter, was practically and justly
killed by it's indefinite postponement,
the lnmbermen generally desired legls-
lation of a different sort. 1.-The great
majority" he said, ''are opposed to the
bill. 1t would extend a privilege that
has operated against our interests,
and any bill to revive the charter
should be greatly modified" The
i~,Nbermen, among other grievances,
say that the boom company has shown
negligent disregard of its patrons in
terests by often refusing to break jams
in the boom OF to sack the rear. to say
nothing of the company'S repeated and
useless obstruction of navigation on the
st. CroiX. The price of boomage, 80
cents, is also claimed to be eXorbitant
md results practically, it is asserted. i'll
Iumbermen paving twice for the sealing
of their logs, paying the boom company
and the surveyor general. This gentle
man also went so far as to say: No, L
don't know as boom here is str city
necessary to our convenience and wei
fare. | don't know that we could not
sort out our logs in the lake just as
WELL" No doubt another and modified
bill will be introduced, but unless it
comedies various points, will be strongly
opposed by local lumbermen.
Fire, which caught in an upper room,
occupied by the h0stler, partially de-
Stroyed the barn of DI. L. e. Clark,
ITO Third street south, early yesterday
screens, sash and doors stored OH the
second floor and uninsured, were de-
stroyed, but all other contents of value
were removed. The loss on the build
ing is covered by insurance. The fire
department reached the spot, nine
blocks distant, in three minutes after
the alarm was given.
At-the annual election of the Uniform
Rank. st. Croix Division No. 4, K. of P.
Thursday evening. the officers elected
were: L. NJ. Northam, captain; E. J.
Spildle, first lieutenant; NJ. Thon, her
aid. A committee was appointed to ar
range for proper observance Feb. 10.
of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the
establishment of the order.
Rev. III. M. Simmons. the elOouent
orator of Minneapolis, will lecture at
the Unlversalist church next Tuesday
evening on 1.-The Breath of Life"
Mrs. John Crotty left yesterday for
the South with her seventeen-year-ol
son in the hope that a milder climate
will relieve his serious lung trouble.
The legislative prison committee is
not expected to make its biennial Off
cial visit before the middle Of next
week.
Alex Johnson is at Holdridge, Neb.,
In attendance on his brother Frank, who
Is seriously i'll. ....