St. Paul daily globe., 1889-08-01
SALTWATER Si[H0OEf7E$
Selecting the Prisoners for the st. Cloud
RefornStory.
C0NTEsTING A CONTRACT.
judge McCIuer Declines to Sit in Judg-
ment on Grading Dis
pute.

The prison warden and the superin-
tendent of the st. Cloud reformatory
were in consultation yesterday, and de-:
cided, so far as they themselves are con-
cerned, upon the individual convicts
who shall be transferred to st. Cloud.
Their report will be submitted to the
board of managers for formal approval.
Superintendent Myers says that the
seventy-fve convicts will probably be.
taken together in one car and the latter
switched at st. Cloud into the stockade,r
which enclOSes twenty-five acres,
twelve of which will be used for gar
dening purposes and the rest as stone
quarry. In the latter and the black
smith shop most of the men will be en-
ployed, a sufficient number to raise veg
etables for the institution to be put into
the garden.
The city council on Tuesday evening
declared off the contract of Gust Mood
he for grading North Second street, for
the reason that his bondsnen were not
altogether forthcoming, and then
awarded the contract to the next lowest
bidder, Donovan Bros. Mr.. Moodhe
claims that the amount of the bonds
furnished by him was largely in excess
of that required, and says he shall con-
test the right of the council to dispose
of his contract in that manner. Those
objecting to the grading of the street
have caused notice to be served on the
city clerk not to countersign any order
on the city treasury for pay for doing
such grading.
Judge McCluer, on making the uneX-
pected discovery yesterday that his
wife owned property on Martha street,
declined to sit in Judgment on the
merits of the dispute regarding the
grading of that thorOughfare, and which
had led to motion for the granting of
a permanent injunction against the
proposed work. The attorneysin the case
thereupOn agreed to refer the matter to
the plaintiff agreeing to waive certain
points at first insisted upon and to make
the contest solely on the question as to
whether the city charter provision re-
garding the manner of assessing private
property for public improvements is
legal.
Among those who intend to take part
IN the opening of the Wisconsin chicken
season to-day are J. N. Castle, W. c.
Masterman, II. P. Barclay. RIM Ander-
son, A. A. Harper, II. J. McKusicl1,
Fred Pennington, c. W. Hitchcock, F.
Whitman. Fl. Jassoy. E. W. Durant Jr..
John Schroeder, Charles Mohr, G. P.
HoIcombe, G. II. Carli and George
Roney.
John S. Phinney, former schoolmate
of Chief of Police Shortall in New
Brunswick, IN now resident of
Tower. Minn., has been the guest for
few days of Mir. Shortall and the latter's
sister, Mrs. Burns.
South Fifth street property holders
have petitioned for the grading of that
street between Pine and Willard. and
agreed to defray the expense of such i'm
prOvement.
Rev. M. E. Murphy was at Vancou-
yer, B. c., on July "a, and was to have
started thence in day or two for San
Francisco,
The three-story Bernheimer block on
Main street is to be refitted and occu-
pied by furniture esta blishment.
S. P. ennerholm has purchased the
J. A Tenner residence on Olive street
for $3.50.