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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-08
ORGANIZED A PIGEON POST.
Mail Service Between Catalina
Island and the California
Shore

So far a6 can learn the only regular
pigeon post service on this side of the
continent or the other is that which
bears messages every day in the sum-
mer season between Los Angeles and
the little town of Avalon, on Catalina
island, and bears them at a speed
which can be beaten only by the tele-
graph or telephone, says the San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
The steamers run once a day be-
tween island and mainland, and once
it has cast loose from the wharf of the
island, with a summer population Of
perhaps several thousand, is as COM
pletely cut off from the world as
though it were in midocean, and yet
the shore is a scant twenty miles away
The demand for some additional serV-
ice grew. Often there were men of
affairs among the visitors, and they
were not infrequently sore distressed
to find means of communication. I re-
member hearing one financier declare:
I'D give $500 gladly 10 get a dispat ch
to Los Angeles; it would be worth $1,000
to me easy"
1t remained for two young men Of
Los Angeles, Otto and Oswald Zahn,
to relieve the island visitors and resi-
dents from their embarrassing isola-
ton. This was accompanied by the
establishment of a carrier pigeon post
between Avalon and Los Angeles. The
service was Inaugural ted last summer
and conducted for several weeks with
unequivocal success. 1t was feared at
first that the pigeons, which are dis
tinctly land BIRDS might hesitate to
fly across so large a body of wa ter;
but, as far as known, there need have
beer no cause of anxiety on this point.
The message-bearers usually started
without delay, arriving at their desti-
nation with q certainty and prompt
ness almost incredible. The airline
distance from Avalon to Los Angeles
is about fifty miles. This was accom-
plished by some of the Catalina flyers
in fifty minutes. From three to four
hours is required to make the trip by
railroad and steamer.
Last year a considerable revenue was
earned in the forwarding of dispatches
from Catalina by the winged messen-
gers. Small bills posted conspicuously
about the town of Avalon convey the
somewhat startling information to the
irresolute islanders that private mes
sages and business orders may be for
warded at! any hour of the day, and, in
connection with the telephone tele-
graph and cable lines, to any part Of
the world
The young pigeon fanciers also add
to their income by supplying the daily
press of Los Angeles with the latest
news from Catalina.
Last year the Zahns had not more
than a dozen homers in the service and
it was found by repeated fyings at
short intervals that the birds toward
the end of the season became less re-
liable. 1t is not the fight across the
water that exhausts them, but the box
ing and shipping on the return trip.
The Zahn lofts at Avalon and Los
Angeles number this year nearly 100
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-08
LIKE WIZARDS OF OLD.
Morton Sntirizes the Silver DEM
agogues.

agogues.
TOPEKA, Kan, July w. C. Camp
bell, of Topeka, who wrote a satire
which was set to music, entitled "a
Graduate of Coins Financial School"
recently sent a copy of it to Secretary
of Agriculture Morton. Acknowledge
ing the receipt of it, Mr.. Morton says:
My Dear Sir: / hasten to thank you
for "a Graduate of Coins Financial
School," set to music, and to express
my appreciation of the satire therein
contained.
Until the money creed of these finan-
cial philosophers was evolved, men
generally supposed that it required
something more than legislation for
the aStute making, to legislata thrift
and prosperity. In the dark ages, how
ever, the alchemists, necromancers and
enchanterS with weird ceremonies pro-
fessed to transmute worthlessness into
values and to change the form and
lamentations. They sought the phil
osopher's stone, and their search for
the means of compromising gold out of
the baser metals was in vain. Cen
turtles ago they left that field of eX-
perimentation.
1t remained for Bland, Bryan. Stew
art, Teller, Sibley and their jealous
disciples by mere Wagging of their
"silver tongues to evoke from the
viewlesS vista vast volumes of value
When these financial enchanters shall
have thoroughly demonstrated and es-
tablished theories of making wealth
and prosperity through the mere "be
it enacted" of legislation, all mankind
will be at rest, an eternal holiday and
absolute WorkleSsnesS will settle down
upon this luXuriant and beautiful
globe. Then legislation will take the
place of human effort, physical and in
tellectual. Money, food, raiment, meat
and drink, board and lodging will be
secured by statutes and paradise re-
gained by enactment. Respectfully
yours. ]. STERLING MORTON.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-08
sCRIBEs, DAY OUT.
Newspaper Men From Minneapo-
lis and st. Paul Enjoy u Day ut


lis and st. Paul Enjoy a Day at
,Tonlxa.
The Minneap polls and ST. Paul news
paper men had a day off yesterday.
Fhey took the LBS p. m. train at the
Minneapolis & st. Louis depot and
fitted away to the cooling shores of
, Mipnetonka, where they enjoyed good
stories, congenial companions, rip
ping waves, a steamboat ride on the
City of st. Louis and one of the best
informal entertainments that has been
given in these parts in many moons.
After a hearty meal at the Lake Park,
they were prepared to be entertained
by the most talented members of the
New York Comic Opera company, and
fIwere delighted beyond measure with
all they saw and heard. The informal
entertainment was given in the spa
cious dining room at the Lake Park
hotel between the hours of o. M and
10.
The press clubs were particularly
fortunate in having with them yester-
day the Twin City Banjo and Mandolin
club, which accompanied the st. Paul
club, and members of the New York
opera company, now playing at Lake
Harriet, and who were the guests of
the Minneapolis Press club These
parties furnished an impromptu pro-
gramme last evening which could
hardly be excelled and their efforts in
entertaining the crowd stand out
prominently in a day crowded with
good things. The press clubs are I'M
der obligations to the ladies and gen.
tlemen who participated in, the pro-
gramme and who lent a charm to the
entire day. Their services were volun-
teered and the acquaintanceship
formed between them and the news
highly priced.
The programme which they gave
was as follows:
Mandolin club; song, 1.-THE Old
Bridge Miss Rose Baudet of the
New York Opera company; encore,
Mary" Chinese sketch and burlesque
magic, John Williams, of the New
York Opera company; Mandolin club;
song, only One Girl" John G. Bell,
of the New York Opera company, as
sisted by William Hamilton; encore,
recitation, Love and Geography"
character sketch in dress suit, Miss
George Bryton, of the New York OPP
era company; Mandolin club; song,
Irish Christening" Eddie Smith, of
the New York Opera company; encore,
I'm Jersey" tenor solo, William Ham
llton; encore; Mandolin club; recita-
tons and songs, ]. G. Bell; Mandolin
club
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-08
OFF FOR BOSTON.
ministerial Delegates to the Y. p.
:. c. E. Meeting Leave Today

"AAAiS'eTihi DeIeSateS to the Y. p.
=. [. Il. Meeting Leave Today.
Rev DR.. Wayland Hoyt, of the First
Baptist church. and Rev. Pleasant
hunter, of the Westminster Presbv-
terrain church, will leave today for Bos-
ton, to attend the annual meeting of
the Y. 2. S. c. E., which will opsn at
noon Wednesday, with business meet
ing of the officers of the United Society
IN the Hotel Brunswick. In the even
ing there will be twenty simultaneous
meetings in twenty of the largest
churches in Boston, and among the
speakers will be Rev. DR.. Pleasant
Hunter, Minneapolis; Rev Dr. John
Henry BarrowS, of Chicago: Bishop
Samuel Fallows, of Chicago: Rev. H.
Il. Grose, of Chicago; RI. Dr. Wayland
Hoyt, Minneapolis; Dsv. DIR. NJ.
rhodes, of st. Louis: Rev. NJ NJ. Bin
ford, of Rishmond, Ind; Rev. H. l..
Shupe. of Dayton, Ohio Rev. DR.. NJ.
Burnham, of st. Louis; Rev. Dr. w. J.
Darby, of Evansville, Ind, and Rev.
DR.. j. 4. Tyler, of Cleveland.
tuesday al $50 a. m. three meetings
VIII open of the same character as to
exercises and programme, but with diff
ferent speakers. These meetings will
be in Mechanics building, Tent Wilson
and Tent EndeavOr In the former
Gov. Frederick T. Greenhalge will
make the address of welcome on behalf
of the state, while Lieut. Gov. Roger
Wolcott and Mayor Edwin u. Curtis,
of Boston, are doing the same in the
two tents. Addresses on behalf of the
Boston churches, will be followed by
addresses on behalf of the committee
of 1885. Responses will then be made
by prominent visiting speakers, Rev.
DR.. Barrows, of Chicago, making that
in Tent Endeavor.
In the afternoon there will be de-
nomiaational rallies in thirty of the
leading churches of the city. The an
nual addre-S of the president of the
United society, RI. DR.. Francis T.
Clark, will be made at the evening
meetings in the Mechanics building
and in the two tents. Dwight L. Moody
will speak in the former place, Tai
Woolley, of Chicago, in Tent En-
deavor.
At the three meetings on Friday
morning among the speakers will be
Rev DIR. Hoyt. of Minneapolis; O. w.
Stewart, OF Eureka, ILL.,, and Rev. DR..
n. r. Turner, of Lincoln, ILL.,, in Me-
chanics' building: Rev. j. A Round
thaler, of Independence, in Tent Will
lt,ton, and Rev. D. O. Mears, of Cleve-
land, in Tent EndeaVor. The open
conferences of that afternoon will be
addresses, among others, by DR.. A. S.
Wilson. of Chicago, for the lookout
committee. and Miss Jennette NJ. Me-
Laren, of st. Paul, for the prayer
meeting.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-08
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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-08
MINNEAPOLIS.
MINNEAPOLIS GLOBULEs.

If the citizens committee are not
satisfied by tonight that the plant OF
the American Asphalt company is I'M
der way, another mas meeting will
be called and more vigorous steps
proposed.
The letter carriers band and ac-
QualntanCeS of the carriers and all
other friends who desire to go, will
make trip to Minnetonka July Il. The
party will do the lake in a thorough
manner, making stops at all the points
Of intere:t.
j. II. Sullivan, secretary of the JOB
berS and Manufacturers association,
has just compiled a shippers guide,
which Will prove of great value tc
shippers in Northwestern territory.
The guide is in pocket size and con-
tains about 100 pages.
Mrs. Walter Richardson desires to
express her thanks to many friends
who ministered to her in her last ter
rlble bereavement, and especially to
Chief F. L. Stetson and Mr:. Stetson.
VINO We're untiring in their effort to
comfort her. Mrs. Annie Richardson.
the mother of the dead fireman, joins
IN these expressions of gratitude.
w: H. Miller, who conducted a fire.
works store at 425 Nicollet for a few
days, will have a hearing in the NUM-
clpal court this morning on a charge
of violating the fire ordinance. He
was arrested on a warrant sworn out
by Fire Marshall Pierce, who says that
Miller has been keeping several kegs
OF powder in his store.
George D. Holt has charge of the
sale and disposition of Rev. w. W.
Wilkinscn's new book, Memories of
the Minnesota Forest Fires AS sec
rotary OF the associated charities, Mr..
Holt was deeply interested in the
Hnckley sufferers, and was able to
furnish valuable assistance to the
author in the collection of data for the
work
The waterworks committee of the
city council is investigating the
sprinkling of lawns by citizens who
use ten times more water than the law
allows. Unless a hose is held in the
hand. charge of $40 a season for
lawns is made, and the wholesale VIC
iatlons OF the ordinance will doubtless
result in the shutting off of the water
supply in many cases.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-08
AFTER THE FORGERS.
Detectives Go East for the North
western Bank SwindIers.

Detectives Doyle and Howard left
having in their possession the neces-
sary requisition papers for the men
arrested one week ago Saturday in
Baltimore by the Pinkertons, and
supposed to be the three men who
victimized the Northwestern Ma
tional bank, Of this city, some time
ago for over 81, 100, and also secured
over $1,000 from the Germania bank,
Of st. Paul. The two detectives were
accompanied by the teller of the
bank who paid the forged check,
in order that he might identify the
man to whom he paid the money, if
possible.
The details of the manner in which
the Northwestern bank was victim
lied by the smooth forgers on checks
purporting to be signed Durham &
Eastman are familiar to ALL Their
names are William Boland, alias
Charles Fisher; A M Dearborn,
alias A. NJ. Reed, and William Hart
ley. Boland is supposed to be the
man who passed the check at the
Northwestern bank, and he and
Dearborn will be brought back by
the inspectors, and possibly Hartley.
Whether the third man will be
brought back or not is to be deter
mined when the officers arrive in
Baltimore
Boland and Dearborn are two clev-
er men. Previous to the time the
check was passed on the Northwest
ern the police have learned that he
hung around the town for some time,
thoroughly familiarZing himself
with the banks he proposed to VIC
timize. He also spent considerable
of his time around Hoy's saloon, at
Third avenue south and Third street,
and travelled under the name of Err
win. AS will be remembered, the
first check was passed on the bank
Saturday afternoon, and the second
check on Monday afternoon. Mon
day night Erwin hung about the sa-
loon and spent considerable money.
The next day he disappeared, and
nothing more was heard definitely
from him until he turned up in Bait
more. The police have been con-
stantly on the track of the fellows.
however, and it is surmised that the
Northwestern is spending considera-
able money in prosecuting the case.
Not long ago Detective Doyle was
missing for period of three or four
weeks, and, although he refused to
state where he had been, it is learned
on pretty good authority that the
greater part of his time was spent
in st. Louis and neighboring cities
IN a search for the forgers, whom
the police at one time thought they
had located there.
From the information at hand. it
is surmised that all the work is the
work Of gang of four, two of whom
prepare the checks, while the re-
naming two pass them In the ma
Jor1ty of cases they succeed in get
ting the money from the banks thew
go after, and it will be peculiar if
they do not make a desperate fight
for their liberty if they are brought
back to Minneapolis. If the bank
teller who paid the check cannot
identify the man to whom he maid
1T, there will be but little use in
bringing the men back, and even if
he does, it may be that the gang
VIII escape conviction, as the circum-
stantial evidence against them is
we'll covered up.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-08

Thursday night, wherein the -firemen-
lost their lives. He recounted a num-
Der of severe fires that he had wit
messed, including the terrible cold stor-
age fire at the worlds fair, and said
that with all his experience he had
never been so startled or shocked in
his life as when he heard of the trag-
edy on First avenue south.
How close home to our hearts it
struck he said, this terrible trag-
edy wherein five of our fellow citizens
went down to sudden death i'll the
sight of their fellow men, powerless to
aid them. You all know the story.
How they fought the fire fiend reso-
lutely and bravely until they went
down to their doom. Their fate came
upon them without warning, unex-
pectedly. No prophetic warning was
sounded in their ears. They had been
in many fires before; and they thought
no differently of this one than of a
hundred other ones. But when they
faced the fire fiend, although there was
no sign, yet in their midst was the
rider of the pale horse, leading them,
as he led the forlorn hope at Water
loo. He rode at their head, and with
out a minute to say farewell to wife
or mother, those men fell before him.
In the twinkling of an eye wives were
widows, childrens were fatherless.
at impresses me especially that
these men were comparatively young.
There is a fitness in death that finds
the aged We expect it, and we weep
not long; but when the boy falls by
the roadside, the feelings aroused are
different. These we mourn today were
just poisoning into manhood. They
were just commencing the warfare of
life and we thought that before them,
brave. earnest, strong and ambitious
as they were, the weary marches of
the fight lay stretching to the future.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-08
MIR. FIELDER, TOO.
A Special Service Is Held at the
First NJ. e. Church.

An especial tribute to the dead he
roes was appropriately rendered yes
terday morning at the First Metho-
dist churSh, Rev. William Fielder de-
livering sermon on "Our Fallen He
roes." A detail of fifty firemen in
charge of First Assistant Chief Ken
ney were present and occupied the
front tier of seats during the services.
The church was filed The decora-
tons were simple and appropriate.
The American flag was hung across
the platform. The pastor took for his
text Luke xiii, and 3. He began by
declaring that he wished to emphat-
ically deny the doctrine that sudden
death was any sign or symbol of
great wickedness. His text was cited
to show that Christ Himself tried to
shatter that theory. All calamities
are not expressions of divine wrath;
there are accidents. God does not ap-
point all disasters, but He controls
them oftentimes to great and benefi-
cent public ends. The pastor then pro
ceeded to the great confederation of
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-08
Troops Ready to Act.

- CHARLESTON, w. Va, July T.
GOV, MacCorkle stated tonight that he
would try to induce the operators If,
the Elkhorn and Bluefield regions to
make an honest effort to resume work
tomorrow, and if they say they could
to protect all men who wanted to
work. The governor says he is con-
1dent the troops will have to be or
dered out tomorrow However. teIe-
grams received at the state house
that there is apparently no cause for
immediate apprehension of trouble
there.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-08
MRS. LARSON DEAD.
Death Claims Another Victim Of
July Fourth,

Two fatalities are to be recorded
for the Fourth of July, 1895. I'M
Minneapolis. The first occurred on
the afternoon of the Fourth when
Hagbert Meyer died from the effects
of injuries received by the explosion
of toy cannon. The second fatality
was the death late Saturday night
of Mrs. Rosa Larson, of 1919 Fifth
street northeast, from the effects of
a bullet wound in the abdomen re-
ceived on the morning of the Fourth
at the hands of her husband.
On the morning of the Fourth
when Mr.. Larson came home he was
fooling with his revolver when it was
accidentally discharged, the bullet
entering Mrs. Larson's abdomen.
The wound was painful one. and
one of the little children was sent
for a physician. Medical aid proved
fruitless, however, as Mrs. Larson
grew rapidly worse. and died sa Ear
day night. She Was thirty years of
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-08
Great Educational Gathering.

DENVER, Col, July IA conserva-
tive estimate places the number Of
delegates to the National Educational
convention who have arrived up to
this evening at between 1000 and 5000,
and Secretary Shepard, of the associa-
ton, has information which makes it
certain that $1,000 teachers will be in
attendance at the general convention.
Today has been devoted to short rail-
road trips to mountains and neigh
boring resorts, fully 5000 spending the
day in Manitou and on Pixies Peak,
while LOCO went over the famous
Loop" trip.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-08
PRINCESS DOLGORoUKY
n Stellar Attraction Mt Harriet
All This Week.

The present week is the final one of
the New York Comic Opera company at
Harriet. Next Monday it will leave for
Kansas City, there to commence an
eight weeks engagement. Since that
organization has visited these precincts
1t mas become as popular as ice cream
or an entertaining. beau with a summer
girl. The majority of the principal
members of the company were comparl
auvely unknown to opera lovers OF
this community previous to the Harriet
engagement, but now they are among
the greatest favorites that have ever
entertained at a comic opera engage
ment In this city. Tonight .Billee Tay-
lor will be the opera given, and. in
fact, every night during the coming
week. Princess Dolgorouky and her in,
teresung troupe of Imperial Russian
Iroubadours will make their appear
ance each evening at 9:35. and every
afternoon at o'clock. Those who wish
TO improve the last opportunity of see5
ing comic opera presented on shipboard
should visit Harriet the coming week. !
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-08
BURNED THE HARNESS.
An Early Morning Fire at DOdsOn,
Fisher s. BrOckmannss.

AT o'clock yesterday morning fire
broke out in the rear portion of the har-
ness and collar factory of Dodson,
Fisher & Brockmann at 10 and 10
Third street north, and before 1t had
been eXtinguished nearly 81 900 damage
was done to the building and the bales
of harness material stored there. The
origin of the fire is not known. 1t was
first noticed by people in the Com
mereial club, who notified fire head
quarters, and Chemical No. l was sent
to the scene. The chemical made an
attempt at putting out the fire but
as soon as the boys gained entrance
gained such Roadway that it was neces-
sary to turn in a box alarm. The fire
lasted for nearly an hour. The loss
to both building and contents is cov-
cred by insurance
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-08
Back Doors Were Sinr

NEW YORK, July 1.-The saloons
were closed today and the excise law
was enforced entirely, according to the
police. This was not, however. strict
ly true. A stranger in New York
might travel the whole city over with
out being able to quench his thirst,
put the man who knew the bartender
or the saloonkeeper or the imam at
the door had no reaEon to get thirsty
The police, however, made a deter
mined effort to enforce the laws, and
DOUBTLESS the saloons were as tightly
smut as they can be closed during the
operations of the present law.