St. Paul daily globe., 1893-02-18
Among IT,. arrivals at the Merchants

Among th> arrivals at the Merchants
Yesterday was l.. E. White. Of Cloquet,
Minn., an active young city on the banks
of the st. Louis river about thirty miles
south of Duluth. 1t was formerly called
Knife Falls, from the peculiar topo-
graphical features of the surrounding
country and the vicious sharpness of
the rocks which line the river and falls.
The Fond du Lac ludian reservation is
located within mile of the town. and
the Indians are seen in all their glory
and beastlineSS frequently.
1--WE have some wild times with them
when they get acquainted with liquor,
said MIR. White 10 reporter for the
GLOBE. However, the authorities are
careful and do not let them have the
chance. Cloquet formerly had hard
name, but it is now considered one of
lsthe most quiet and orderly towns of its
size and character in the \ orthwest.
The last real hot time they had there
was during the summer OF 1856, when
the mill hands went OH q strike. They
first struck at some of the mills and
then went to the others and compelled
the men who were working TO quit.
There was war in the atmosphere, and
it was feared that trouble would follow,
but it was all arranged after few days.
The water power company which
owned an island in the liver, placed a
barricade of thick planks on the bridge
and had gang OF men behind it. armed
with Winchesters, to guard the property.
At the other end of the island was a
boom which stretched across the river.
1t was feared that some of the men
would attempt to cross the river at
night on this boom, and for the purpose
IF inf n q
placed there.
Nothing was done that night, how
ever. and on the following day the strik-
ers met with severe defeat and were
dispersed. They went to one of the.
large mills. about 400 of them, and tried
to force an entrance, but there were a
half-doZen fearless men there who
were waiting for them. AS soon as they
tried to break in the front door the men
on the inside opened a side door and
made rush for them. They fired a
few shots in the air from their revOlvers
and the whole crowd then made run.
They scattered like sheep, and some of
them ran into the woods. The next day
the greater number of them returned to
their work, and that was the last of the
STRIKE"
81 have hunted all kinds of game III
various parts of the country" said
Charles G. Williams yesterday as he sat
with party of friends in the lobby of
the RYAN. "But the most exciting eX-
perience | had Was OF my first bear
hunt. | was spending the winter in a
logging camp in Northern Minnesota
for the purpose of recovering my health.
which had been falling for some time. |
had begun to get as fat as pig and was
feeling as tough as an Indian when L
got scare which came very near un-
doing the good which the air of the
pines had done. One night one of the
men in the camp came i'll and said that
he had found bear in hollow tree on
a little island about a half mile out of
camp. After supper it was decided
that we would 90 after the bear. | was
given permission to accompany the
party, which was to consist of three
of the men and myself. We carried
lantern, au ak and an old rifle. l was
given the custody of the lantern and
walked ahead to light the way. The
night was very dark, and even if there
had been a moon we could not have
seen it on account of the heavy tops OF
the trees. When we arrived at the
island we found that it was really moth
ing but big rock in the middle of the
river. A pine tree had fallen from the
mainland across the stream, and we
crossed over on this. single hle. The
ONLY tree on the island was an immense
pine which grew out of the rocks and
which constituted the eutire vegetation
of the island.
I'll, l don't believe there is any
bear there" said one OF the men as he
gave the tree whack with the AK.
"There was muff1ed grOWl, grum-
bling roar, and a black mass tumbled
out of the tree and started for us. was
frightened almost to death. The man
with the ak made strike at the bear.
the man with the rifle discharged it,
and we then ran for the tree. L was the
one nearest to the bear, and as | ran |
swung the lantern in the face OF the
bear. The only man who did not run
was half-breed. L suppose the reason
that he did not run was because there
was not room for him on the log. He
picked up the ak just as l struck the
bear with the lantern, and rs L hit him
the light went out. He made Swipe at
the bear and the animal fell to the
ground. He had struck him plump on
the nose.
ssThe men who were trying to cross
the tree were jammed into such mess
that | could not get on the bridge at all,
so ran back and fell over the body of
the bear. Then told them that it was
dead. We carried the bear back TO the
camp, and the men all insisted that [
had killed it with the lantern. But L
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