St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-16

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one of the leading citizens of Cincin-
natl, was announced.
A narrowing tale of how Frank San
born, of Concord, N. H., had been cap
tured In Boston at late hour at night
and taken back of Bunker Hill and
tarred and feathered was given. An
other report was of the suspension Of
bank at Pittsburg, which might have
been dangerous thing to give OUT it it
had not been that there was scarcely
any danger of it reaching as far east as
Pittsburg.
Maj. Newson also had some method
Of securing an early copy of the Pho
neer, aud he, too, got the bogus dis
patches. He was more willy, however,
than DR.. Foster, and while he put them
i'll type, he waited until the Pioneer
was absolutely sent out by its carriers
before issuing the Times, and then he
discovered that the dispatches were
bogus, and did hot print them.
DR.. Foster, however. flashed his paper
as early as possible with great hur
rah. and he has been sorry ever since.
L must say, however. that the next day
he came down rather gracefully. The
Pioneer next day crowed Justify, pub
fishing the bogus dispatches entire. as
we'll as printing the genuine kilograms
of the day. The doctor took his medi-
cine, as far as the Pioneer was con-
cerned. in good style, saying: Like
Capt. Scott's coon, we request not to
shoot. we come down." But he took
his fall out on the proprietor of the teIe-
graph line and 1.-The gentlemanly Oper-
ator," whom lie styled Jalup. instead of
Gallup, which was his real name.
In passing [ might mention that the
doctor endeavored to leave no mistake
In the mind of the public relative to
who was the editor of the paper. as his
name appeared at the head of the first
column Oh the first page. it appeared in
the line above the date line OIL the first
page. 1t appeared at the head of the first
column of the second page,it appeared at
the head of the first column of the
fourth page, and, il / could only COM
municate with the doctor, | would ask
him how it happened that the third
page escaped.
For some little time after this episode
the St. Paul daily papers were reason.
ably lively reading. Their next resort
was going to st. Anthony and getting
the Geographic news from daily paper
called the State News This mad recent
ly sprung into existence, and the result
was it was obtaining the kilograms
direct. The telegraph reports shut off
arbitrarily at II O'Clock, and when the
midnight hour struck the telegraph
operator stopped. even if he was
in the middle Of word. Probably he
was like the printer. who. when
working by the week, has been known to
leave his line unfinished in his stick
for fear he would get start Oil his
next days work if he remained after 6
O'Clock to set another word. The result
was that if telegram had been coming
announcing that the world had come to
an end and only gotten partly through
as the clock struck II the st. Paul and
st. Anthony papers would have come
out the next day with such little par
ticulars as they had. never knowing
that the entire world. including them
selves, had been blotted from existence.
By rapid riding the st. Paul papers OBJ
tanned their news from st. Anthony in
the manner described, the messenger
leaving there after midnight and reach
Ing st. Paul between and o'clock in
the morning with the kilograms.
This was very onerouS, and when
Gov. Marshall started the Press, little
after the bogus telegram incident. alb
sorbing the Times. and little later the
Minnesotian, he was confronted with a
condition and not a theory. He used to
go to st. Anthony in parSon at times to
get the kilograms, and always had a
messenger up there, but he did not O.
pose to continue this matter a great
while. He interviewed Mr.. Winslow,
but he was obdurate. Mr.. Wheeiock,
who was then an editorial writer for
Gov. Marshall OH the Press, also inter
viewed Winslow. Singing large
amount of English which was
more forcible than polite. AS
matter of fact, there had been
Enlargement between Wheelock
and Goodrich, of the Pioneer, that
when the Press came into existence it
should have the kilograms; and he.
Goodrich, should have slice of the
state printing. which was the Alpha
and the Omega of all things in the
newspaper line in those days. But man
proposes and the legislature disposes.
The consequence was that when the
state printing was given out, which was
done by election, it was divided up so
that the Press only got sllce, instead
of getting all. as it expected, and there
was not enough turkey for the Press to
enable it to give any of the dressing to
the Pioneer. Mr.. Goodrich, therefore,
considered the deal off, and he. too, was
as obdurate as Mr.. Winslow.
A WEIRD LEGEND.
There is a weird legend handed down
from the dim and misty past, which do
not vouch for as accurate history, as the
principals decline to speak upon the
subject. The legend is that Gov Mar
shall. much wrought up by the telegraph
lc imbroglio. made a business call upon
Earle Goodrich one afternoon. and, clos
ing the door Of Goodrich's sanctum,
coolly, but with sort of gentle and kind
firmness. announced that he had come
to kill him. MIR. Goodrich was as cool
as Mr. Marshall, and, according to the
legend. his first thought was that it
would not be good newspaper work to
allow the Press to score such scoop
as that on the Pioneer. Even if the
Pioneer got the particulars, it would
have to obtain them from Gov. Marshall,
the other witness being dead, and under
the circumstances Marshall might keep
the whole story for the Press.
This would have been worse for
the Pioneer than its sell was for
the Minnesotian. There was not the
slightest excitement on the surface ap-
parent on either side, and Guodrich's
GOODNESS disarmed, to some extent,
Marshalrs wrath. The result of the