St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-11

had retained Aid. Haynes as his attor-
ney to obtain for him an amount of
damages for taking said land; and that
he agreed with Aid. Haynes that said
Haynes should received one-haIf the
amount of tia award for his serv-
ices, if an award should be made; hut
otherwise should receive nothing; and
that he could not deed said forty feet
for the reason that Aid. HaYner threat
ened to sue him for his said share of
$4,000; whereas before said improve
ment was made he valued the same at
only $1,000 or $1,000, and attributes said
additional value to said improvements"
The petition was cot read IN full.
Aid. Haynes knew nothing about it until
it was called to his attention. Then he
explained it, prefacing his explanation
thus:
II don't know who W. J. Bishop is.
Either he has been ill-advised or he is
deliberate liar. FL give him the bene-
fit of the doubt and assume that he was
ill-adviSed."
Mr.. Bishops lack of information on
subject which he handles so recKlessly,
is plain. He refers to August Storer,
and speaks Of that person as man.
The individual meant is Mrs. Augusta
Storer, a widow. The property on
Groveland avenue is all she owns in the
world. Aid. Haynes took up her case
over two years ago, before he enter
tanned aldermanic aspirations. He con-
Quoted it as her attorney. He carried
the case through the district court and
secured 4 big increase over the original
award. Mrs. Storer had agreed to do
nate forty feet for the widening of
Groveland avenue, provided she gets the
dirt removed. Then the plans were
changed. The city proposed to take
twice forty feet and run the street
diagonally across the land. That was
the case that went through the courts.
Mrs. StOrer won and the city abandoned
proceedings. Now it goes back to the
original proposition and wants forty
feet from Mrs. Storer. The dirt which
she was to have under the old agree
ment has been carted away. The city
now offers her much less than the orig
inal award. which the courts more than
doubled. She won't stand it, and Aid.
Haynes is handling her case as her at
toTney. That is all there is to Mr..
Bishops wild wall. He is interested in
| an artificial limb company and is also a
real estate man. There is probabl Y
SOMEONE else behind his petition. That
shows that he is not familiar with the
case.
After the council meeting Aid.
Haynes hunted up w. j. Bishop. That
gentleman heard part of the riot act
read. He affected great surprise to
hear that any one thought he was max
ing damaging insinuations against AID
Haynes. He denied stoutly that he IN
| tended to carry the impression that Aid.
Haynes had taken up Mrs. Storers' case
since taking his seat i'll the council, for
mohey making purposes. He wrote GU,
his acknowledgement on that head
| Here it is:
In the protest made to the council by me
| speak Of Aid. Haynes, as l would speak o.
any member of the council. Aid. Haynes
was elected last fall, and of course this mat
ter OF The Storer's was taken up by him some
two years before. II was not my intention
to have the public think that he took thi
case while he was alderman, nor in any wa.
| to reflect upon his official conduct.
w, j. BISHOP.