St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-29
CLEANED IN SALTWATER.
]. S. G'Brien's Bid For st. Johns Lous
Accepted.
A P0STMASTER's PROTEST
Electric Street Railways Discussed.
Democratic Caucuses to Be
Held Tonight.

The acceptance by Receiver Nelson
OF j. S. O'Brien's bid of S51, 900 for the
st. John logs, taking them in lump as
they now lie, is confirmed by the court,
and MIR. O'Brien becomes the pur-
chaser. R. w. Anderson's bid of S.
per thousand feet would probably have
realized greater sum, but as long
and indefinite period must elapse before
the surveyor generals scale could be
completed, the O'Brien bid was consid-
cred the better of the two. He pays
$4,000 cash down and the balance in
sixty and ninety days after the logs are
in the boom. Lumbermen consider
that the sale effected by the receiver is
good one for the st. John estate. The
logs, estimated as amounting to nearly
9,OO0,OO feet, are One-fOurth long and
will average about nine logs to the
thousand feet, and two-thirds of them
are white pine, the remainder Norway
pine. They are banked OH the main st.
CrOiX. Crooked creek, Mud creek, Sand
creek and Upper Snake river.
Postmaster Lee, of South Saltwater,
is apprehensive that a move is on foot
to GUST him, land place Antoine Deragisch
in the Office, in which event the post
office is TO be removed to the St. Croix
Lumber company's store. Mr.. Lee is
now industriously circulating a petit
ton asking for his retention, and says
that he is, and has been, a good Repub-
lican, anyway. He also asserts that in
case of the removal of the office, the
government will have to pay for the
carrying of the mail from the railway
station to the Office, an expense not in
Cured under the present arrangement.
DR.. James Sinclair, who has seen the
operation of electric street railways in
various cities, says: 1.-THE city council
should not allow the line to traverse
South Third street, but compel the COM
pany to branch off at Olive street and
GO to South Saltwater by way of Fourth.
Those cars brighten horses as effectu-
ally as locomotive. Neither ought
they to be allowed on so narrow and
general thoroughfare as Chestnut
street. The line toward the prison
should be on Second street as far as
possible, avoiding Main street in its
more heavily travelled section"
Democratic caucus tonight
For the purpose of affording a pointer
to the state legislature, and particularly
to the Washington county delegation.
special election was held at Marine
Wednesday to test the sense of the peO-
pie on the repeal of the herd law.
Nearly 500 votes were polled. and the
recent action of the Washington county
delegation was condemned by a major
itY of forty-three.
The cases of The State of Minnesota
against Frank Newman and Mrs.
Carrie Fairbanks were again continued
yesterday to this morning, when the
court will reconvene at the Office of
Fayette Marsh, with Justice Secrest on
the bench.
The funeral of the late Mrs. Bridget
Donovan will be held at $50 o'clock
this morning, from st. Michael's
church.
Judge McCIuer is holding special
term of court at Red Wing and will re-
turn home tomorrow.
The revival meetings at the Metho
dist church grow nightly in interest and
attendance.