St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-09
GOVERNORS ANNUAL.
Inaugural Address and Mes
sage Of Minnesota's
Executive.
VERY ABLE STATE PAPER.
General Review Of the Work
Of the Various Depart
ments Of State.
The GREAT HINCKLEY FIRE.
Feeling Reference to the Ca
Iamity and the Relief
Commission.
The GREAT HINCKLEY FIRE.
GOVERNMENT CT CITIES.
Attention Called to the Need
of More Uniform Muni-
cipal Laws.

The Minneapolis Tribune having
broken faith with Gov Nelson and pub
lished his inaugural address and mes
sage yesterday, other newspapers are
aosolved from pledges. Tie GLOBE,
therefore. gives below the message in
full:
Gentlemen Of the Senate and House OF
REPRESENTATIVES: CcnfOrmable to law and
custom, / communicate 10 you by this mes
sage the following information ana SugGes-
tons relative 10 the affairs and condition OF
the state. Daring the past year our state has
had lis share i'll me industrial UPresslOn ana
staguaIIOu prevailing thrOu-huG1 tAG nation
a fairly good harvest has, however 10 large
extent measureply relieved the situation. III
those parts OF The stale not coveted eN-
llusvely to wheat farming prosperity pre-
walls credit is ample ana money Tar from
scarce, ana even in the waea. farming belt
tleIe IS no actual GesutuLIO-. OF distress.
Forest Fires.
IN one limited locality only have our peo-
Die been visited with any serious calamity.
On the Isl day or last September q forest
LTe lashed into IuIy by Li-l WING. totally
DESTROYED The villages OF HlGcs4ey, sand
stone, Sandstone Junction, -l-@ysJ NIL
Ter POkeEauG. Partridge and Mission creek,
aud devastated 4 large tract OF country OC-
CUp.eQ by small farmers. More than four
hundred lives were loss. large humber
we're MANNED or crippled for life more than
2oU0 PEOPLE were left destitute and over
SL0luJ5 worth IF property was totally de-
s!rCyed. The territory raYHged by the IRE
embraced ali area Of ueady four hundred
square miles. on tie ID day of Sentemher
issued ii proclamation asking for cOutr.D--
lions fer tlc relief OF the SCrv.v0rs of the
fire. ana APPOINTED c. \. FlLSbuTy, Of Min
heaDois; Kenneth Clark and Hastings
II. Hart Of 81. Paul: Charles II.
Graves, of Duluth; Matthew G..
Norton of WiuOla, - commissioners to
collect and distribute such northumberland
to supervise he entire scheme Of relief.
These commissioners have performed their
work with great energy fairness and dill
gence They nave collected from voluntary
contributors and disbursed among The sur
vivors OF the IRE SIS, II s., and hn4ing that
still moro was urgently needed TO complete
the WORK OF relief and 10 MAKE suitable pro-
vision for The destitute, they have borrowed
Oh their own credit tue SUM OF Sl.UJA and
have disbursed or incurred the dishursal Of
rne same il CON pleung the scheme OF relief
The commissioners deserve The thanks OF our
state for procuring this extra amount OF
money SO ueeQiuLaad earnestly recommend
that YOU take early steps to suitably reimburse
them for the liability thus incurred. They
have generously given both their time and
their credit to the great work of relief. and
the least the state can do is 10 see that they
suffer no loss OF disadvantage in consequence
thereof.