St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-06
SALTWATER NEWS.
= biggest Logging Season in the His
tory Of the st. Croix Boom.

= Biggest Logging Season in the His
! tory Of the st. Croix Boom.
g With the close of this week will end
+ the biggest season in the history of the
st. CrOix boom, the output, as ex-
planned i'll last Sundays Globe. being
I greatly III excess of any previous year.
There are, however, still nearly 15,OOO,-
600 feet yet to come in. composing the
. rear. or logs now lying between the
Movers dam and the boom. Manager
Sau ntry went TO Nevers Friday. and on
Saturday the work of bringing in the
/ rear was vigorously begun. 1t is pro-
posed to make clean drive to the
boom. in case the water holds out, and
there is every probability that the river
will be maintained at such stage as to
allow a thorough sweep of the logs,
which now remain in the limits named.
There were not many heavy log sales
during the week, that of R. J. WHEELER
d Co., of half a million to AtIee & Co..
being the more important as to logs.
while the lumber purchases OF j. E.
Joy. of ST. Louis, coupled with his pro-
posed innovation of shipping the entire
l,500.o 600 feetein bargeS. was a feature.
The shipment of RATS was fair, but
light, compared with the previous week.
The Masonic fraternity, including st.
Johns Lodge No. 1, Washington Chap
ter No. II and Bayard Commandery No.
II. have, during the last few days, been
conducting important negotiations with
Isaac Staples. looking TO the outright
purchase of the entire third story of the
Iatter'S new building, the ground di-
mansions of which are rs by 100 feet.
The negotiations will probably be sue
cessfuliy concluded to-day, and the
lodge. which meets tonight, will take
regular action in the matter. The price
to be paid is said to be $4,000. The
plan of the Masons is to have a lodge
room so by 65 feet, aud utilize the re-
naming space for dining and reception
rooms, parlorS. etc.
Capt. W. G. Bronson, the highly pop
ular gentlemen nominated by the DEM
ocratS of the district composed of the
Second and Third wards, as a candidate
Tor legislative representative, has as
yet neither accepted nor declined the
honor. He, however. authorizes the
GLOBE to say that he will make his de-
cision definitely known by the middle
of this week.
Lieut.. Edmund Butts, a West Point
graduate of the class OF 80, left yester-
day fer his assignment to Company f,
Iwenty-hrst regiment, at Fort Sidney,
Neb.
Postmaster Mccarthy returned yester-
day from West Superior, where he acted
as starting judge at the races.
c. Il. Cannon. of the union station
T ticket office. went Saturday to Chicago
to meet his wife on her return from
summers visit in the East, and will ar
rive home with her to-day.
w, A. Chambers, of r. j. Wheeler &
Co., and who is just home from the log
ging regions OF the Eau Claire lakes, re-
ports that the firm has now skidded.
Since Sept. l, about $50, 900 feet of logs.
No other concern in this part of the
country has begun to skid, but Wheeler
y Co. had certain scattering timber
| which it was advisable to harvest before
I deep snow came.
Mrs. c. K. O'Neal, of the MINNEAPOLIS
5 Central NOn-Partisan w. c. L. u, adj
4 dressed very large audience in the
opera house yesterday afternoon at the
Dontney temperance meeting. In the
evening Mrs. L. B. Walker, of Mime
apolis, spoke, explaining forcibly the
spirit and aim of the non-partisan
branch of the union. The meeting this
evening will be held at music hall.
The noted drama, "The Stowaway,n
will be produced at the opera house to-
night with the original mechanical and
scenic effects.
AT the assignee's sale of the book ac-
counts of E. j. Spindle. undertaken, at
the court house Saturday, w. E. Cooke
was the purchaser on his bid of Sos,
the face value OF the accounts being
S525.
1t IS promised that the ineandescent
electric lamps on the streets and In
many business houses, which have been
unlighted for three nights owing to
disabled dynamo, will be in operation
this evening.
Three weeks is given as the time
within which Olive street, between
Main and Second, will be opened for
regular travel.