St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-22
A BIG SCARE.

The Minneapolis Crowd Wonder
ing Where the Bolt Will Fall
Next.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Daggett was
around Minneapolis last evening. and
there was considerable alarm mani
tested on the part of several of the
members of the so-called Business
Mems union," which had charge of the
census padding annex. Of course few
erything was lett to Ed A Stevens and
his lightning calculator, Thad s. Dick
ey, who at one time, not very many
years ago. figured very prominently in
Pennsylvania bank located in Lancas-
ter county. Mr.. Dickey was an adept
at igureS-in fact. he now advertises
his business as that of an expert ac-
cOuntant; and, as he is we'll up in his
business. Stevens showed that he was
the right man Ill the right place when
he selected Dickey as his aide-de-camp
and chief of staff, and it was generality
supposed at the time Deputy Marshal
Daggett made the raid on the annex I'M
theVandeburgh block that the tracks OF
all except those who were arrested had
been covered, and that it was
next to impossible to implicate,
any of the prominent citizens"i
of Minneapolis, who had at least loaned
their influence and acquieSced in the.
wholesale padding that was necessary
in certain districts to make the Flour
City subStantiate its claim. This was
supposed to be Dickey's work. Some
how or other the rumor got out late last
night that some one had blundered.
Some one had said more than should
have been said, and it was the talk In
the hotel corridors, land on the street
(but only in whispers) and in the
back rooms of the select sa-
looms where the politicians meet
and discuss plans, that warrants
were in the hands of the marshal for
the arrest of several prominent citizens
whose names had been mixed up with
the census imbrogliO. RumOr even had
it that Clerk AltnOw, of the municipal
court, who issued the search warrant on
which some Minneapolis policemen, a.
Well-knOwn newspaper man, Wllllam
Henry Eustis and Ed Stevens tried tol
take those ''gunny sacks" out Of
the hands of the United States
court, and were only preventedI
from carrying out their infamous
designs by the nerve of Officer
Casserly and his companions, backed
up by their revOlverS, was to be ar
rested for conspiracy. In fact, the Min
neapOliS crowd was scared. and badly
scared at that. The cry until yesterday
had been, ''Gen. Gotten is man with
out prejudice, and when he looks over
the evidence in the hands of the st.
Paul gang he will see that there is moth
ing in it, and he will order the cases
against the enumeratorS dismissed"
But Assistant Attorney General Gotten
looked over the evidence, and, after
a consultation with MesSrS. Baxter and
Hay ordered the warrants against some
of the Minneapolis crowd of padders.i
just whom warrants have been issued
against no one can tell; but that there
is "a great big scare On'' in Mlnneapo-
lis no one can deny. Commissioner
Morey went 10 his home in WinOna last
evening, but the fact that he said to a,
friend who is now at the West hotel, 81
will see you Tomorrow" is looked upon
by many as Indicating that he will be-
in Minneapolis to-day purely on buSf-l
ness, and that in connection with more
arrests for census padding.
Baltimore Enumeration Bagged.
BALTIMORE, Md, July Civ. K.
Whiting, one of the census enumeratOrs,
was arrested to-day, charged with max
ing false returns. Supervisor Rose al
leges that Whiting did about half of his
work and then made his returns. which
contained far less than the number OF
Al u.