St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-18
SALTWATER SILHOUETTES
Heavy Timber Cutting at Eau Claire
Lakes Camp.
LOGGERS IN HIGH SPIRITS.
Mrs. Mcmillan May Have Divorce
Prison City Pick
ings.
LOGGERS IN HIGH SPIRITS.

w. a. Chambers, of r. j. Wheeler &
Co., returned yesterday from Eau Claire
lakes camp and gives from the scalers'
DOCKS official figures of last week which
Will interest lumhermen, since these
figures show some wonderful feats of
hauling accomplished under the superb
conditions now existing. The resume
OF the week is as follows: Monday, Is
loads, 1880 feet; Tuesday, ID loads,
10000 feet; Wednesday, II loads, 147,-
$40 feet; Thursday, IA loads, LOG, $50
feet; Friday, IL loads, 9O.S6O feet, Sat
urdav, Is loads, $4,000 feet; making a
total of 90 loads and 7l5,S60 feet, or an
average of almost 5000 feet per load,
The biggest load hauled was IL 900 feet.
Arthur Underhill and Felix O'Brien.
teamsters, hauled each ten loads, seal
ing $4,000 feet, or $4,000 feet for both.
All this hauling was done over a six
and-a-half-mile road. Mr.. Chambers
explains that though hauling is so ex-
ceptionally good. lumbermen will not
nave banked any more logs at the end
OF the season than they started in for,
because the original arrangements were
so made that the skidding force cannot
provide for the transfers more logs
IMAM were originally counted upon be-
Ing banked.
Love unrequited on the part of a
North Main street young lady led Jaw
Bevier. popular young man, to at
tempt suicide last evening. He had
formerly been employed about the
opera house. and late the afternoon
slipped into dressing room connected
With hall above the theater audito-
rum, closed the doors. unScrewed gas
fixture from the pipe and lay OH sofa
to die. A torrent of gas poured into
the room, and when accidentally dis
covered by Stage Manager Sohmer
BeVler was apparently past hope. He
was partially resuscitated in an hour
and taken to the hospital. His condi-
ton remains critical. and he declares
that Bevier tried TO buy poison on Satur-
day night.
In the somewhat sensational divorce
case of Mrs Sarah Mcmillan against
her husband, Charles Mcmillan, the
court after long consideration. has in
timated TO the interested parties that he
hnds the grounds of plaintiffs COM
plant sufficient to warrant him in grant
Ing the divorce. On the return of Judge
McCluer from the East, the next step,
that of taking testimony in connection
with the matter of alimOny. will be
taken.
By order of the NJ. M. Sachem a grand
council fire will be kindled in the wig
VAN OF the braves (St Johns lodge, A.
+. and A. NJ. halD at the seventh and
half hour of the twenty-first day of the
moon next Friday. For this session of
the Indian rite the usual fat dog feast
will be prepared, and several braves
now abroad on the warpath will return
to participate. The notices issued state
that ten fat dogs are secured for the
feast.
Albert Annis, from Mankato. entered
Sunday evening upon his second term
at the state prison for repetition of
his first offense, attempt at rape.
Judge and Mrs. H. r. Murdoch, ac-
companied by Mrs. Ella Brown and her
daughter Edna, start this morning for
California.
W. c. Prescott. the locally weil-known
ball player, who has engaged with the
Quincy. ILL.,, club for the coming season,
left yesterday for Royal Center. Ind, in
order to act as bridegroom at his own
marriage to Miss LOrettp Kistler.
The will be a meeting to-day at the
Office of b. McSweeny, of the Lake st.
Crolx Ice Trotting association. for the
purpose OF electing officers.
Fayette Marsh starts to-day for Kan
sas City, the home of his sister, where
he expects to spend month solely in
physical regeneration.
Mrs. John Brown. an old settler of
this vicinity, died Sunday night of pneu-
mOnia. at her home in Saltwater town,
at the age of sixty-six years.
Leonard Case. who is employed under
Bob Hutchinson at one of Sauntry 81
Tozer's camps. slipped OH the icy log
ging road. dislocated his right elbow
and fractured the bone of the arm.
MyrOn McKusick sold his trotter
Antigone to Ii. III. Harrison yesterday