St. Paul daily globe., 1891-06-08
SALTWATER NEWS.
Events of Sunday in the City on
the ST. CroiX.

Cne st. CeOlX.
The past week was an exceptionally
good one at the boom, and nearly $780,
900 feet of logs were turned out, making
a total of Sc. 800. 600 turned out so far
this spring. Nearly all of the logs in
the lake have been bought up, and the
demand is almost equal to the supply.
The quality is fair and the prices range
trifle higher, with indications of a
further rise. Ten RATS were shipped
last week, and the east side of the lake.
which has been covered with logs, is
now comparatively bare. The water in
Lake st. Cr0iX continues falling, and
Yesterday registered feet AZ inches
above low water mark, fall of ) inches
in two days.
Durant IL Wheeler's new steamboat
made its initial trip yesterday and the
owners OF the boat are perfectly salts
fed with the speed attained. Mr..
Durant intended to call the new boat
the Queen, but after making the trial
trip yesterday, he has decided to call it
the Cyclone. 1t is safe to predict that
the Cyclones speed equals that of any
other raft boat on the st. CroiX.
The matter of erecting an athletic
park on the old ball grounds, south of
Burlington street, has apparently
fallen through, owing to the inability
to secure a satisfactory lease of the
grounds. The owner does not wish to
lease the grounds for a longer period
than one year, aud the Saltwater club
and citizens who were interested in
the new venture do not feel justified in
fixing up the park for one season only.
The five-mile go-as-you-please foot
race for the amateur championship of
Saltwater, which occurred Saturday
evening at Music hall, was won by
Edmon Andrews. who defeated Harley
Davidson, of ST. Paul, in skating race
here last winter. Thirty laps were re-
quired to the mile, and the entire dis
tance was covered i'll thirty-four min
nteS.
A. L. Gillespie returned Yesterday
from Casper, Wyo., where Saltwater
parties are extensively interested in
coal and oil mines. A Pennsylvania
company who have claims near by are
working them, and are meeting with
good success, both in drilling for oil
and mining COAL 1t is not definitely
decided yet as to whether or not the
claims owned by residents of this city
will be worked this year or not.
II. |. Chatfield, a prominent hardware
merchant of this city, and Miss Veda,
the daughter of County Surveyor Myron
Will OC QHltSu Ill uldlildSG
next Wednesday evening by Rev. A. ID.
Stowe. of Ascension Episcopal church.
The ceremony will occur at the home of
the brides parents on South Third
street.
The MascotS, of this city, and a nine
composed of Hudson and Lakeland
players engaged in a game of base ball
at South Saltwater yesterday afternoon.
The MaScOtS were victorious by score
of 90 to II. A large crowd witnessed
the game, which would have been more
interesting had it not been so much one
sided.
The st. Croix Gun club held their
regular weekly shoot yesterday after
noon, John Peterson winning the badge
by Il score Of twenty out of possible
TWENTY-FIVE. All of the scores made
yesterday were high.
The city has decided to place a new
circuit of electric lights on the lower
end of South Main street. Heretofore
residents along the street have been
obliged to grope about in almost total
darkness.
The Owl club held picnic yesterday
at Lake De M0ntreville. The club went
out in bus drawn by six gray horses,
the turnout presenting beautiful ap-
pearance.
Judge Wiliiston will reconvene dis
trict court to-day, and several tax cases,
involving the legality of certain assess
ments for street Improvements, will be
heard.
r. H. Dixon, superintendent of the
Minnesota Tresher company, is at Kan
sas City, Mo-, and will be absent a
week or more.
Miss Bess Shepard, of st. Paul, spent
Sunday at home with her parents in
this city.
Mayor and Mrs. Durant left last even
ing for a weeks trip to Chicago and
Cincinnati.
Hart's Boston Vaudeville company
will appear at the Grand opera house
on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.
The Netta Durant took out raft of
logs Yesterday for the Clinton Lumber
company, Clinton. 10.