St. Paul daily globe., 1893-04-19

| OuL Ill Ollc III Tic SutilD lOOu.o ob
chants, and the clothing salesman was
rubbing his hands with pleasure at the
thought that he would be able TO show
| to the merchants of st. Paul one of the
most complete lines of clothing ever
| placed on exhibition.
An old man, wearing a dllapldated
coat and hat of the vintage OF several
season sinces, looked in through the door,
Stroked his long gray beard in medl-
tative way and then addressed the
salesman:
"Sell them?' with jerk of the head
towards the piles of coats and trousers.
Yes, sir; that is my business"
"Business good?"
"Very," replied the drummer, think
ing OF prospective sales.
"Th' old woman told Inc ter git new
pair of pants," said the old man, "but
Pm afraid of them men in th' stores.
Tn III tell a feller he's got th' right
thing. but yer can't depend on 'em at
all. How much fur them?'
He picked up pair of jean trousers
out of the cheaper grades and made a
careful inspection of the goods. The
drummer replied that they sold for $3.50
per pair.
pretty Steep" said the Old man.
lacOnically. 'Mariar got me pair in
Minneapolis last spring fur a dollar.
Th' wore putty good, too. Couldn't you
make 'em dOllar?"
The drummer was in a pretty good
humor, and he finally said that he would
give the old man the pair for the
amount mentioned. The prospective
purchaser scratched his head for mo-
ment and then said:
1--WE got some buttons that I've worn
on my pants for th' past ten year.
They're made of horn and they can't be
beat. Now, eff you'll gimme pair of
them same kind for 75 cents, without
tn buttons, Mariar III sew 'em on for
me-"
The salesman replied that he had no
pair there at the time without buttons,
but he might get them from the factory.
The old man thought while, and then
replied that he guessed he would wait 4
while and come in again. He said he
wanted to look around some first.
+ But eff don't find anything cheaper
I'll come back" he said. 'I've got
plenty of time, and I'll just look in at
some of the other stores"
"Are YOU a reporter" asked Senator
DOnnelly OF GLOBE man at the Mer-
chants yesterday. "Well, Pve got
something which suppose the GLOBE
would like, and Pll tell you about it
now so l won't be walked up in the mid
die of the night to be interviewed about
it. | was up all last night, and L want
to get some sleep.
1.-The committee appointed to investi-
gate the charges Of frauds in connec-
ton with pine lands had meeting this
afternoon. and we have decided to make
the investigation in way which will be
different than anything of the kind yet
seen in Minnesota. | am the chairman
of the committee, and MI. Staples, Of
Dakota county, is the secretary.
We are going to have meet
ing in May, and then decide how
we will get the evidence. We
will investigate the matter during the
next two years and be ready to report at
the next meeting Of the legislature. You
know the charges, for StenographerS III
the wheat investigation amounted 10
5000. We will be economical, and do
our own work without the assistance of
hired stenographers. We will take the
testimony now in as the basis of our in-
Quiries and then advertise In the GLOBE
and other papers which are Wi1ely read
for persons who know something about
the affair. We will probe things to the
bottom"
Ibid you hear about that wreck we
had out. in Montana ?' asked j. e..
Duianey. of Hannibal, Mo-. at the Mer-
chants last evening. I'VE were out
there on trip to see some of the west
ern pine, and narrowly escaped being
killed. We were in Montana, near
Wofe's Point, when the train we were
on jumped the tracks, and our car was
overturned in the river. None of us
was killed. but we all got wet and lost
our clothes. We started from st. Paul
over the Northern Pacific, but when we
got to Mandan the water had washed
out the tracks, and we went back to
Jamestown and up to the Great North
ern line, taking this route to the West.
ut was O'Clock Easter Sunday when
the accident occurred. We were In bed,
as all good people should be at that
time. when the car turned over. Then
the water commenced running in, and
[ climbed out through one of the win
dOWs and helped some of the others out.
| got a door and made a bridge SO that
they would not cut their feet on the
glass. Mr.. Pettibone is very large
man. and it looked comical to see him
wrapped in one of the red blankets from
the sleeper without anything else
on. We called him Sitting Bull
Mr.. Davis waited in the car
to dress, and he came out all
dressed with white tie, and his hat as
shiny as though he had just stepped
from his dressing room. One of the
members of the party, who is strong
prohlbitiODist, got into the other sleep
er, and the first thing he asked was not
about his money or his diamonds, but
he asked whether the whisky in the
car had been saved. We lost about $500
in currency and rfumber of drafts, but
that was unavoidable. The Northern
Pacific people and the Great Northern
representatives did everything they
could to make the trip as pleasant as
possible, and tried to make us forget
that we had had auy unpleasant ex-
periences."