St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-26
SELLING STOLEN LOGS
The Saltwater Lumbermen's
Board of Trade Investi-
gate the Matter.
They Find the Job Was Well
Put UP and Hard to Sc
cure Evidence.
White Bear Electric Motor
Line to Be Extended to the
Prison City.
Amount Of Binding Irvine
Manufactured and Shipped
This Season.

A meeting of the lumbermen's board
of trade was held yesterday in the office
| of Surveyor General Bean. The board
decided that it was nece ssary to deepen
| the channel. in the ST. CrOiX at the
boom. and William Sauntry was APP
| pointed committee of one to if possible
| secure one of the United States dredgeS
| to do the work. The Kettle river slough
boom needs repairing, and committee
of three was appointed with power to
act. The recent log depredations COM
mitted on the st. CrOiX by a teller on
the lake and his confederate came i'll
for good deal of talk. and if anything
can be done to mete out justice to the
guilty parties no stone will be left un-
turned to do so. Since the matter came
to light other lumbermen have noticed
that they have been Swindled for va
riOuS amounts by the purchase of logs
bearing log marks similar to the ones
that are Row the chief topics of CONVEX
sation in logging circles. At one time
these logs were sold at. the HerSey IL
Bean mill; they were next transferred
to the SchnienburgBOecke mill, and
later to the Hershey mill, where the
deal was accidentally discovered. A no.
ticeable fact is that the logs were al
ways sold where the suspected teller
was employed, and very few of them
have been RATED. They We're sold to
mill owners where all traces OF the
sellers guilt woLld soon be wiped
out. The actual am bunt of money
realized on these fictitious logs will
never be known. but SOlnr of the lOggerS
will know their individual shortages
when the seasons work is closed up.
While there is no doubt OF the guilt of
certain parties. the job was well put up,
and it will be tedious work To obtain
evidence strong enough to convict them.
Messrs. Stone and Morton, of the
White Bear and ST. Paul electric line,
were in the city yesterday, having driv
en- over the country traverSed by the
proposed extension of the line to this
city from Wildwood. Nothing has been
done. but it has been given out on good
authority that the road would soon he
running to Saltwater.
Ed u Brien, clerk at the prison, stated
yesterday that he had computed the
amount of binding Irvine shipped from
the prison factory this season, and that
it aggregated total of 966 1910 pounds
Warden WOlfer considers this an excel
lent showing inaSmuch as the new
machinery had been running only a few
months. The cOnvictS employed in
the factory are now thoroughly Familiar
with their work, and from this on the
factory will be kept humming, and as
much Irvine as possible will be placed OH
the market next year.
1t is currently reported that Charlie
| Staples is candidate tor mayor OH the
Democratic ticket. Mayor Durant. who
| has served the city faithfully tor four
| years, will probably accept renO,nina-
| ton if it is rendered him, but Will not dc
anything to capture it.
| Thomas Schofield. employed as a sec.
ton hand on the Wisconsin Central
road at Duluth Junction. burgiarized
| the section fOreman's residedce yester.
day, and now fingers in cell i'm the city
| Jail. Schotield secured $50 belonging to
his fellow employees, but the money was
| recovered.
| Gust Nelson, a farm hand employed
on farm few miles from this city
| fell from load of grain yesterday and
dislOcated his right shoulder. He was
| attended by DR.. Freleigh.
| The Lotus came up Yesterday from
| WinOna, bringing up small excursion
party, consisting OF Messrs. Yeomans
| and Horton, prominent lumbermen, and
their families.
The Artemus Lamb departed yester.
| day with raft of logs consigned to C.
Lamb d Sons, Clinton, 10.
ID. A. Blakeney returned yesterday
! from the East.