St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-08
BREAKERS FOR BARGE.
His Minneapolis Park Enter
prises Will Be Fought
Still Further.
North Side Business Men
Voice Their Views on the
Market Question.
Aid. Grimes Makes a PROPOSE
ton on the Lowering
OF Tracks.
Receiver Appointed for Philo
L. Hatch--Crazed by a
Dog Bite.

The proceedings in the district court
and the vote of the citizens of the place
did not settle the Incorporation of Jake
Barge's Minneapolis Park. the locality
that has heretofore been known as Med
icine Lake. Soon an election will be
held at the now Minneapolis Park-an
election Of the officers of the village.
Then the case will go into the courts
again.
When the county commissioners sane
toned the incorporation of the village
of Minneapolis Park the case went into
the district court in the form of petit
ton for an injunction to restrain the
county commissioners from incorporat-
ing it. The injunction case was thrown
out. The court held that the case should
come up on a writ of certiorari.
a. I. Ankeny. attorney for
the opponents of the incorpora-
ton, was convinced that that
was not the proper manner in which to
bring the case. But he had TO submit.
Then the case went against him. The
people interested voted on the question
of incorporation. The scheme carried.
Eighty-nine votes were cast. Only
fOrty-One votes were recorded against
the incorporation. Under a ten days
notice. village election will be held.
The village officers will then attempt to
do business as government.
Now, there are two courses open to
the objectors-action in the supreme
court in quo WarTanto proceedings, and
another action in the district court.
Were the case taken immediately to the
supreme court and lost, there would be
no further remedy. 1t can, however, be
tried again in the district court In diff
ferent form, and then carried to the
supreme court. Both methods of pro-
ceedure involve practically the same
sort of evidence. The matter will,
therefore, come up in the district court,
as that gives two chances to one the
other way.
When the new village government of
Minneapolis Park undertakes to do
business as government, its acts will
be resisted OIL the ground that it is no
government. That will throw the whole
case into the courts again. Every point
of dispute, every step in the Proceed
ings, can then be tested. Whether the
petition to the county commissioners
was a proper petition; whether the
county commissioners acted IN accord
ance with the law; whether the unplat-
ted territory included in the petition
for incorporation was adjacent; whether
all legal forms were properly observed;
whether the election was proper cleo
ton. These are the points that must
then be decided.
1t will be a hot case when these points
are tested. There will be some fun
over the election matter. The census
of Minneapolis Park showed popula-
ton of only 1856. That indicated vote
of less than forty. Eighty-nine votes
were cast. indicating population of
400 at least. The Barge adherents, those
who favor incorporation, say that the
opponents of the village scheme went
out into the highways and byways to
gather votes. Each farmer out there, it
is said, hired from one to three
extra men long enough to vote
them. They come right back
with the charge that Barge did the
same thing. voting lot of men who
were working on his house and dredg-
ing the lake. But Barge was shrewd
enough to hire only single men who
would have no other place of abode.
Altogether il will be interesting.
Had the opponents of incorporation
been CUTE" they could have beaten
Barge without going near the courts.
They could have had their land plated
in town lots. Plated land could not
have been incorporated against the
owners Will.
Barge and his adherents say the in
corporation of Minneapolis Park will be
a good thing in every way. Taxpayers
won't find their taxes appreciably
higher. Then they will be able to curb
the laWlessness that has been giving
Medicine lake bad name.