St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-02
SALTWATER NEWS.
Mayor Durant Reducing the Po-
lice Force.

NJ dyO OF DuFdHl hOGuCIHS IuG To-
lice Force.
Mayor Durant sent a communication
to the city council last evening an
nouncing that he had dismissed from
the police force Patrolmen Siegler, Will
lett and Anderson, and giving as his
reason the fact that the existing situa-
ton of affairs required a reduction Of
the force. No fault has been found
with the manner in which these officers
discharged their duties. and they are
dropped for financial reasons and be
cause at this time of the year and dur
ing the winter months Saltwater af-
fords comparatively little need of police
surveillance. The retirement by the
mayor of these officers, as requested by
the council. tends to influence the latter
to now sustain the mayor in his veto of
the resolution reducing the pay of all
policemen and certain of the fire de-
partment.
Surprise, and in some quarters a
natural CONSERVATION, was caused by
the action of the state prison warden
Monday night in discharging the
matron, Mrs. CayOu, and Guards A. II.
Chase, Y. T. Cover. Frank Card and A.
G. Parsons. The places of the guards
will not be filled for the present, at
least, the warden giving as a reason
for the removal of those officers that
the force is already unnecessarily large.
and that in a few days guard duty
would be still further leSSened by the
withdrawal of Seventy-five convicts for
transfer TO st. Cloud. As to the matrOn,
he said that he had concluded to make
a change in that position, but was not
prepared to tell the reporter who would
be Mrs. CayOu'S successor. All the dis
charged guards are married men and
veteran soldiers. The warden has. thus
far, removed six guards and made one
new appointment to the ranks.
A person evidently very familiar with
the premises entered the Main street
saloon of Scully & YorkS by way of a
rear window, some time after midnight,
yesterday morning, and stole the con-
tents of the till, about IS.
The Snake River Dam company, the
dams of which virtually control the log
navigation of Snake river, and of which
Jacob Bean. E. w. Duralt David TOZer
and Sam Mcclure are directors, de
cided yesterday to make extensive re-
pairs and improvements in its dams at
once.
The police blotter shows thirty-one ar
rests during September as against fifty
Dne for August. OF the September
charges under the statutes, five were
larceny, one ineorrigibility. one indie
cent assault, and one selling mOrtgaged
property with intent to defraud.
The Daisy cleared yesterday with
logs for Dubuque, Capt. R. j. Wheeler
making the trip.
1t is expected that the prison man.
ayers will to-day close a contract
whereby the convict contract labor sys-
TEN will be. in measure, revived.
Five little boys from seven to ten
years of age, all sons of most respect
able parents, were arrested yesterday,
charged with breaking into an Omaha
freight ear and stealing therefrom
candy and cigars.
All work at breaking the log jam at
TaylorS's Falls was finally abandoned
for this year, yesterday, and the crew
of men returned to Saltwater. 1t was
reported that the st. CroiX boom would
shut down for the season tonight, but al
the boom Office it was said that the time
of suspending operations was uneer-
tain.