St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-31

but Of course it will be main
talned az long as possible. This
question presents fine opportunity for
mutual concessions on the part Of this
country and England when the fisheries
question comes up for arbitration, as 1t
undoubtedly will shortly. In the case
of the Atlantic fisheries the Maine fell
lows were very much in the wrong.
Where this country made mistake was
in demanding more from England than
she asked OF us. We asked her to grant
us privileges which we would under no
that the senate rejected was far better
one than we could have expected,
and when the senate, which threw 1t
out. comes to try to make
"a new one, it will find that it will
Izbe hard to make as good one, as Eng
land will not be likely to make the lib
eral concessions she made to us. The
senate's only reason for rejecting 1t,
was to make political capital, and it
will amuse me to watch their efforts at
a new treaty. But England is in the
right, so far as the Atlantic fisheries
are concerned, and she is wrong If she
attempts to uphold the piracy in Behr-
ing sea. This whole question can only
be settled by arbitration, and there is q
good opportunity for mutual conces-
SiOnS."
T. W. Mayhem and N. Probeck, two
of the oldest residents Of Grand Marais
were sitting quietly smoking in the
Merchants yesterday afternoon. They
were discussing mining affairs which
are Of absorbing interest to all north
ck hoiv oc1yA 1,rvr nrffy
shore mining was getting along. Mr..
range is, Of course, all right, and you
all know all about that. Capt. Spalding
is taking diamond drill up to his Local
tion III his search for silver. He will
find out by next fall whether he
has anything or not. Messrs. Paul
ison and Eberts are not doing much at
the ancient diggingS so far as can
hear. but Paulison has bought 5000
acres of mining land west of Silver
mountain, in Canada. and is trying to
buy from 10000 to 10000 acres more.
He must have something pretty good.
Do you know. that away back in the
fifties my brother found iron on the
Vermilion range and took specimens to
Washington. He was simply looked
upon as either a fraud or a crank to
place like Minnesota"
-
Mr.. Mayhem then began to discuss
the Quietness of business, and his con-
clusions were to the following effect:
1.-THE farmers in the West have been
improvident. They have been growing
wheat crops for many successive years,
and this must exhaust the best of soil.
I fail to see why they do not practice
rotation Of crops, as they dom the East.
Why, know lots of farmers in New
York state who only own five acres, and
make more Off those five than many
Western farmers do off $50. know
/ men who have grown to be
wealthy men off farm of from ten to
twenty acres. The way they have done
this is by simply exercising common
sense and not growing the same crop on
sion. They also feed the ground iber-
ally, which few Western farmers do.
Instead Of laying all the blame for hard
times on the railroads, the farmers
should look at home and see if some
part of the fault does not lie at their
own DOORS"
Nv. Arnstine, the head Of the firm
aof Arnstine Bros. & Mier, manufacture
ing jewellers. who was robbed Of several
thousand dollars worth of iewelry at
{ Merrill, Wis. last Saturday night, sat in
his room in the Ryan yesterday after
noon, surrounded by vast ironclad
{ trunks, open sample cases filled with
{ differing jewels and pretty trif1es. He
gtpld the story of the robbery with good
IDEAL of humor. Said he: II left my
trunk over night in Schaefer's store,
1i,horo I bod hnnn colI:nr onO6S think.
ing it would be all right. Sunday
morning Schaefer came and told
z me the trunk was burst open and the
4 contents scattered all over the store. l
went down and Investigated. The
irbbber had evidently known what he
was looking for, as he had left
everything that was not solid
gold. He had apparently been in g
great hurry, as he had not touched
the two false drawers in the trunk.
where all my diamonds are kept. He
had gone off with handful OF rhine
stones however, which he would easily
mistake for diamonds by the light
of match. The story Of the
discovery of the goods has
been told in the papers. but there is
curious incident that has not. My room
in the hotel was No. 2, out Of which No.
L
was through my room. and found that
No. was occupied. kicked on being
assigned to No. 2, but had to take it.
being told there was no other room va
cant. / have since discovered that
West. the man who stole the stuff, occu-
pied No. /. He also slept there the night
after the robbery. That night l placed
my revolver on my hand when I went
to bed; furthermore, placed a patent
plug in the keyhole Of the door. On
getting up in the morning found the
man in No. l had gone out. and how he
took the plug from that door ! don't
know, but I found it lying unlocked on
the table. There is no doubt in my
mind that his idea was to have chioro-
formed me and then gone through my
I. trunk, but having left it at the store
escaped any ili-usage. shall be pretty
careful Of what kind of rooms occupy
in future.