St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-22
TALKS WITH TOURISTS.

c. J. Everett, of FreepOTt, H., was
among the guests at the Merchants
yesterday. MI Everett is an ardent
advocate of Chieago's suitability as
place for holding the worlds fair, and
became involved in a lengthy discussion
with a local gentleman who ventuTed
the opinion that St. Paul was infinitely
more suitable in every way, and much
more entitled TO consideration than Chi
cagO. The St. Paulite added magDani-
mOusly that for various reasons he con-
sidered it more convenient in every
way, both for Americans in general and
the thousands of foreign visitors the
fair viii bring. that it should be held in
New York city in preference to either
St. Paul or Chicago.
ii. ID. KeTsands. of London, England,
was at the Ryan yesterday, and left last
evening for the Pacific coast over the
Northern Pacific. Mr.. Kersands is a
brother of DR.. Walter KersandS, the
Frisco specialist and is visiting this
country for the first time. He is accom-
panied by Mrs. kerSands. and the twain
will visit Pacific coast points of interest
sn route.
Allan &. De Puy. of EldOra. Kan, was
q guest at the Windsor yesterday. Mr..
De Puy is the owner of 5000 acres of
Kansas soil, and had the whole patch
into corn the present season. He eSti-
mates that he will need something like
500 men to get the crop out in anything
like goo dseason, and intends taking all
the loose men he can pick up
in st. Paul, back home with him. He
says that no portion of the enormous
corn patch will 20 less than fifty bush
els to the acre, and most of it will touch
sixty bushels with ease. Noting the
surprised expression on the faces of
several bystanderS at the immensely of
his possessions Mr.. De Puy let his gun
hand wander playfully under his coat
tails and remarked that the people from
his section were noted for truthfulness
and a liar was socially OStTaciZed down
there on the first OffenSe. The corn
patch story went, as also did its owner
shortly after the incidents related, to
the intense relief of the local prevari-
Gators, who began to tremble for their
occupations.
A queer character, and it may also be
said well-knOwn character in his pat
i've state, was one of the guests at the
Merchants yesterday. His name is
DuttOn Lane, though down in Shakerag,
his native haunt. he is called Dut for
short. Dut Lane has been resident of
that neck O. the woods known by the
above queer appeilation ever since he
can remember, and tells blOOd-curdling
stories of the way the WinnebagOes and
Sioux used to butcher each other in the
timber stretches along the old Muddy.
Dut relates with considerable pride how
he ported FIVE of the varmints in
one skiTmish, and i'll the dingy
pld cabin, half dug out and
half log house, in which he has lived
the greater part of bis life and expects
to live the remainder, there being
string of musty, cracking peltS which,
at first sight. might be taken for rat
hides. They aren't, though: they are
bona fide scalps, taken from the heads
Of the Indian hunters old time gone.
Mr.. Lane is not, as might be expected
from his passion for Indian Staying, at
all ferOciOuS in appearance; on the con-
trary, he is rather a MISUNDERSTANDING
old fellow and, as he says himself, only
pots redskins on principle.
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20. S. Herman, of Rapid City, OAK,
was at the Clarendon yesterday. Speak
Ing of the condition of trade in the rush
Ing berg from which he halls, Mr.. Her
man said that things in Dakota gener-
ally. and Rapid City in particular, were
Frightening up cOnsidera ply as result
Of the splendid crop harvested this sea-
sen. rapid City isn't what she used
to be. though continued the DakOtian.
''Time was when there was a shooting
scrape every night, and one or more men
killed with praiseWOrthy regularity.
The march of the Methodist has settled
all that, though, and there are as many
police now as there are tOughs. They
talk about closing the gaming houses.
have inaugurated crusade against the
saloons. elected a Methodist for mayor,
and knocked business as cold as a
wedge. No, she'll never be what she
pnce was; the people are getting too
good to live that far West, and the town
Juffers."