St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-11
COUP OF A COMPANY.
Colonnade Owners Manage to
Get Rid Of the Hotel
Incubus.
Twin City Bankers Feast
o6 and Crate as an Annual
n: Event.
&.
a "A Hitch in the Law Regu lat-
ing the Canvass Of the
Votes.
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The City Attorney Is Hope
. full Of the Park Law Out
come.

'S'sThe Seige of the Colonnaden would
not be bad title for very interesting
volume which insight be written anent
the proceedings of the past few weeks
in connection with the magnificent and
popular hotel building of that name on
st. Peter street. The details of the
trouble existing between the St. Peter
Street improvement company and
Messrs. Hopes Il Gorham. the lessees
Of the property in dispute. are: Re-
Gently these latter parties were notified
by the Improvement company to yacate
|, the premises forwith, to which notfica-
ton, however. no attention was paid,
and Hopes d Gorham continued to
transact the business of the concern as
though nothing had occurred to disturb
the even tenor of their ways. Early i'll
the week an effort was made by the
company to get possession of the build
ing. Choosing time when BoopeS
was absent from the hotel, the agents of
the company entered and took posses
sion, with the intention OF preventing
Hopes from re-enttring the place. The
latter, however, was a tribe too ,dOWnX
for the dOorkceperS on this OCCASION,
an6 managed to get i'll. when he
again took possession, and for the
n0nce had the best of the game. Since
that time Hopes d GOrham have re-
manned in possession Of the place. and
it was not until yesterday that the sec
| 0nd and successful effort was made TO
dislolge them. Early yesterday morn
ing posse of men under Deputy Shcr-
if Cole and youth claiming to- be
PlnkertOn representative, but who
roc RI nod q hot f,t
McMurran, named Leslie MoStleY. pro-
ceeded to the hotel and all exits were
guarded. W. H. Heard, tile we'll
known restauranteur, entered the place
and took possession Oh behalf of the
company, despite the protests of those
in: charge. The hour was 5 a. M, and
Landlord Hopes was still in bed.
sleeping the sleep of fancied security.
His statement of the affair is that he
was awakened by one of his employees,
who hammered on the door and
called to him that there was a
row down stairs and he HAD better come
down if he wanted alIand in it. HOPES
says he wasn't looking for gore. but
n'importe, he got it. As soon as he set
foot at the bottom of the stairs he claims
that he was requested by ali emissary of
the company to. leave the premises.
suit, administered couple OF by no
means gentle smashes on the mouth by
| said emlSsary, and then f0rcibly thrown
| out of the place. Clerk Baldwin, in the
emyloy of Hopes d Gorham, was not
mOleSted, and stII remains in the house.
I'm all interview with young MOSTLY,
that SIeuth-like individual stated that
/. lie had notified Baldwin not to enter
/ rbpm in the house on pain Of going at
once to the lookup. Jeane EDerhardt,
The ianitor OF the house under
r the defeated administration. tells a
Thrilling story of his experience with
/ Mosely. Eberhardt claims that he ap-
gproached Moseiys Without evil intent,
fFom his pocket and, poihlng it at
Eberhardt, threatened to shoot him if he
Alvanced any fHrtilaE. Alesely was in
Educed to put away thes weapon, and
what promised to end in tragedy SIM
mered down to harmless bluff a
GLOBE reporter called on MIR. Heard,
who satin the hotel Office, ana i'll reply
to question as to whether he was Ill
possession, said he was. He declined
to state whether he was there by virtue
of contract with the company for the
management of the house, or in what
capacity. President j. K. McMurran,
OF the Improvement. company, was loulu
by the reporter and questioned as to the
situation. He met all queries regard
ing the events of the day with emphatic
destinations to say a word about them.
The proceedings attracted quite a
crowd of curious people who hung
about the doors Turing the day awaiting
developments. At 5 O'clock la,teven-
ing Hopes and Gorham prOceedsd to
the hotel and demanded admission.
This being refused them foFciDle entry
was attempted, and force was applied
by one of the muscular gentry guarding
the doors to prevent either Of the
erstwhle lessees from gaining adj
mission. This ended the fun for
the day. Hopes 81 Gorham
have retained Messrs. Hine & Graves,
of st. Paul, as their attorneys. and
Messrs. Davis and Farnham.- of Mime
apolis, are attorneys for the company.
T Hopes & Gorham express. their in
tentionof trying to enter the house
every day until the case is decided one
way orthe other. In the meantime. the
popularity of the Colonpaue is still on
theshig5l tide, and its guests declare IL
is the most attractive place in the city.