St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-06
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The way The senator came to Squan-
der his nickel is a trifing interesting.
Yesterday afternoon q crowd of Still
water Iumbcrmsn hearing of the arrival
I'm st. Paul of WeyeThauSer, of Rock
Island; Lamb. of Clinton, To-; MuSSer.
OF MuScatine. To-. and host of other
magnateS of the Mississippi Logging
company FASTENED to board the first
Irain for 81. Paul. After reaching the
Merchants Senator DuraHt, Jim"
O'Brien. Capt. Young and +. st. John,
Of Saltwater. and Il. c. Libby, of Hast
iHgS, while keeping an eye on the Mis-
SiSSippi Logging company magnateS
started 4 discussion as 10 the weights of
the different members of the party.
Capt. YOun-'s thirty years steamboat
life placed him ar the head Of the list,
he weighing % pounds. jim" OBri-
ems temperance leaningS placed him in
the second place. he tipping the scales
at 225 pounds. MpSsrS. Libby and ST.
John were somewhat lighter. But when
1t came 10 senator Durant's turn TO tell
his weight lie declined. and said:
I'll tell you what I'll do. boys.
Now, I've been trying TO get this crowd
10 treat for half an hour. and no one
seems to respond. I'll let the crowd
guess on my weight. the one coming
iartheSt from the correct weight t. pay
Tor the cigars for the crowd. I'll fur
rish the nickel for the slot"
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was accepted. and the following
.gueSSeS' were made: 0'Brien. 40;
Capt. Young, 1853; E. St. John, 165; K.
C. Libby. Ito. The crowd then adj
jouIned 10 the slot machine. and to the
surprise of everybody. the mayor of the
Prison city tipped the beam at lcS55.
Mr.. st. John paid for refreshments.
Senator JUDI La MOure and Alex
Mckenzie, OF North Dakota, vino have
been spending a few days recreating in
the Sanity City, left for Bismarck at
4 o'clock yesterday afternoon Oh the
Pacific express. Before leaving Mr..
Mckenzie said: Il don't believe there
was any money used in the senatorial
election in North Dakota. If it were
otherwise. how could "Gil'' Pierce have
secured a unanimous election? The
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and a division. Another thing, the fact
that johnson almost had a nomination
Ter seven days OH $50 is another re-
Iutati0D of the Doodle song"
That's right, Alex" chimed in La
MOuTe at this point. ''Of course there
was no money used in that election. |
don't believe there's any money used
in politics outside of paying speakers.
advertising, printing tickets, etc, any
way. This cry of money in politics is
all wrong
There were enough big lumbermen in
st. Paul yesterday to cause the con-
sumner of that article TO have number
less cold chills, il anticipatiOns OF COM
binatiOps and Increases in price of that
commodity can produce such things.
Among those here were Fred Weyer-
hauser. Of Rock Island. H.: Lafayette
Lamb. of Clinton. To-; Peter Musser. of
Muscatine, To-; John J. Robinson, of
saltwater. and ID. Joyce, Of Lyons, 10.
All the above named are interested in
the Mississippi Logging company. and
are the principal competitors of the
Minneapolis lumbeTmen.
The rumOr that these gentlemen, or,
rather. their company, was about to
commence operations on the upper
Mississippi was denied by them; but. be
that as it may, a big combination has
been formed with the intention of COM
mencing operations at Brdinerd OH a
large scale.
There's positively nothing in the fact
that WeYerhauSeT, MusSer. Joyce, Saun-
Try and myself are here at the same
time" said Lafayette Lamb. of
Crimson. To-, to GLOBE reporter
yesterday afternoon. 81 am the presi-
dent OF the Shell Lake Lumber com
pany, with offices in this city, of which
Mr. Joyce Is secretary, and | do not
know what called Weyerhauser and the
others here. Private business caused
me to run up. and / shall 90 back to
Clinton this evening. This weather's
all right and will allow US to get our
logs ready for hauling, and there will
be plenty OF snow for hauling later on"
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The only thing in President Harri-
sons message of any moment" said
Senator DUrant, Of Saltwater, yeSter-
day, twas in that section where he re-
peated Cleveland's recommendation
Oh the tariff question. In my opinion
the Democratic party was never stronger
than it is to-day, nor did it ever have
better prospects for the future"
Il believe we're going to elect gov
ernor next year," said ".Jim'' O'Brien.
Of Saltwater, to GLOBE reporter yes
terday. 81 don't know nor haven't
thought about the candidate yet, but
we've lots of good men. and will have
$40 difficulty on that score. Washing
ton county is a Republican county. but
l believe it will go Democratic next
year. l know it would do so were
there an election to be held now. The
ScandinayianS in our county are very
sore. They haven't received anything
from the present administration, and
they're going to divide politically. They
ought to see pretty soon that that is the
only way for them to do anything"
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Ex-Cierk of the House John r. How
ard, who has been spending few days
in the city, returned to his home at
Sank Center last evening. Mr. How
ard has been veIy i'll for nearly six
weeks with pneumonia, and this is his
first appearance since his recovery. As
soon as he is strong enough he will re-
sumo his work in the claims depart
ment of the Manitoba.
Ex-senator W. II. Greenleaf, of Litch-
field. who represented Meeker comfy
30 satisfactorily in the state senate in
the sessions of 'S3 and 'S5, was shaking
hands with his numerous friends in and
around the Merchants yesterday. Sen
ator Greenleaf is looking little older
than he did when he was making laws
for the state, but in spirits he's ''just as
young as he used to be.''
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