St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-12
FIERCE FOREST FIRES,
A Big Blaze Going in the Pine
ries Along the Rum
River.
Men Fighting the Conf1agra-
tion Almost Perish From
Suffocation.
Fire Wipes Out Everything In
the Bogus Creek Logging
Region.
The Extent Of the Damage
Cannot Be Known Until 1t
Rains Again.
Special to the Globe.

forest fires threatening great losses TO
Saltwater numbering interests and i'm
mediately to the Hersey & Bean Lum-
Der company, are raging in the Ground
house river region west of Hinckley on
the line of the Eastern Minnesota rail-.
road. Jacob Bean returned from
Groundhouse, having taken means to
possibly save the camps, supplies and
the many tons of hay stacked on the
cOmpany's meadows. Men and teams
removed stuff and supplies from the
camps and from the company's ware
house at the railroad and piled the sal
wage on marsh which the fire had al
ready traversed. The fires are on all
all sides of the company's buildings,
but Mr.. Bean started out sixteen Ox
teams with plOWs, which turned six
burrows, inclosing space of twenty
acres, within which the buildings are
situated. Most of the hay stacks, Mr..
Bean thinks, are now safe, but
Lumberman N. II. Danforth and
others have lost their entire
crop. The fire Is now raging in town
50, range 25, sections II and Is, where
great quantity of unusually fine timber
is owned by the Hersey 81 Bean COM
pany. The men dare not yet go in, and
Mr.. Bean says that until rain shall put
out the fires there is no way to estimate
the damage, which must be great.
While attending to matters there the
smoke was SO dense that the men could
see but few feet ahead. and were COM
PEELED to cover their mouths and nostrils
with cloths in order to prevent suffoca-
tiOn. The origin Of the fire was on
Bogus creek, tributary of Rum river,
and that part of the Mississippi logging
region is entirely fire-swept.
GENERAL SALTWATER NEWS.
The following list of grand and petit
jurors to serve at the November term of
the district court was drawn yesterday: CO.
Grand jurors, Max Albenberg, Levi
Coon, David Carmichael, q. J.. Strom-
berg. Archie T. Parker, J. W. Bach
man, r. S. Buchanan, Emil Kruger,
George BOrrOwman, John Goodrich, B.
r. Kellogg, j. H. Bckel. B. A. Thing,
IL. M. Crandail, John Burton: petit
jurors, Otis Staples, Leonard Dahm, A.
T. Noltemeie1, G. M. Cox, Henry Strate,
J. j. Edwards, S. G. Arbuckle, Albert
Jarchow, George Robinson, j. c. Day.
William Broucher. w. II. Bromley, il.
NJ. Shelton, Edward Stevens, A. A.
Harper, Henry Gatlinger, E. S. Brown,
Harlow McIntire. Ferdinand Frederick,
A. G. YOrkS, Leonard Clark, John
O'Brlen, George l.. Whitemarsh, Burt
Lord.
The Aamold Concert company. COM
prising Herr A. Aamold, Herr Jung
Miss Yaw and Miss Beals, appear in a
concert at the First Presbyterian church
Monday evening under the management
of George 0. Haskell and W. G. Waster-
man, the proceeds going to the pipe
organ fund of the church. A pro-
gramme of exceptional attractiveness is
prepared for the occasion. Mrs. George
s. Knight appears at the Grand opera
house next Thursday evening in lively
triple bill, including Beauty Bess,"
''Crazed, or Queen of the Varieties,''
and MY Lord in Livery" McCabe e
Young's Operate minstrels, composed
of minstrels, appear at the opera house
this evening.
The AgassiZ society, connected with
the high school, is now fully organized
and at work under the following Off
GERS: Supt. L. I. Wilson, president;
i. j. Batchelder, secretary; James g.
Garland, treasurer. Tbs society has
membership OF twenty. ana is divided
into four Section-amateur photograph
and art. astronomy, natural philosophy
and ornithology, the object Of the assO-
citation being to promote study in the
natural sciences. Sessions. which are
held regularly Friday evenings, are not
open to any except members, unless by
special invitation.
g. Burkhardt, of Burkhardt's Mills,
on Willow river. in Wisconsin, has been
asked by the ThompsoD-Houston COM
pany for on option on his water priv
ilege of 1000 horse power at Burkhardt.
The idea of the company is to utilize the
power in generating electricity to be
transmitted to ST. Paul by way Of Still
water, as a motive power for the st.
Paul electric street railroad system.
Miss Ellen Hayden, manager of the
Western Union telegraph office, is pass
ing her vacation at Faribault, Miss
Terry. of Minneapolis, taking her place
here temporarily.
The man found dead under Hudson
bridge and identified yesterday by Off
Ger Walters as Car Driver Smith, of this
city, remains mystery. Mr.. Smith
continues in the uninterrupted perform
ance of his duties.
Christina Lonquist, aged nineteen
years, died Of consumption yesterdayat
921 North Fourth street. The funeral
occurs to-day at Chicago lake.