The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-06
BUT 1T WAS NOT A RoBBER,
BUT AN OFFICER OF THE LAW
WHO STOPPED THE EXCUR-
SION.
WHITE BEARS BIG SENSATION
Police Have a Hot Fight With City
Sports, but No One Is
Killed.

sensations SATURDAY night winch nave
recently been agitating Glencoe and
Hutchinson, such sensations as mid
night alarms on the town fire bell, and
the like, with accompanying visions in
awakened slumberers minds of shock
ing murder and foul crimes by night.
1t was, however, a much more paltry
sensation, the alarm was caused by a
little fracas which started in saloon
at Lake Shore, shortly before midnight
of thenatioI.'S birthday. 1t seems that
three or four st. Paul men of avowed
sporting proclivities were seeking con-
genial refreshment at the shrine Of
Bacchus, when a dispute arose as to
the size of the crowd, or some other
equally world-stirring topic, in the
midst of which arguments T~s aban-
doned for fisticuffs, and the dispenser
of liquid joy was fearful that his bar
fixtures might be damaged in the me-
lee
AT this juncture the Argus eyed
Special officer Lambert and his as
sistants appeared upon the scene and
prepared to arrest every mothers son
of the belligerents with the sang froid
of a Pinkerton posse at a puddlers'
strike. 1t happened, however, that
some discreet, and perhaps reasonably
sober denizens of the city, who were
not awed by the display Of village au-
thority, and who were fearful that in
their excitement the officers might seize
the wrong man, circumvented any such
disaster by rushing to the rescue of the
scrapping sports. Thus reinforced. the
whilom belligerents pooled issues and
tied the village marShaPs staff UP in a
hard knot. They took their clubs away
from the peoples protectors and put
them in the ice box, or some place else
that the officers have not yet discov-
cred, and after pummeling the peelers
well, convinced them that the enjoy
ment of the nations holiday was much
better out of doors.
During this excitement a friend Of
the village police telephoned in great
excitement to Marshal Daniel Ivett, at
White Bear village, six blocks away
1t must be that the man was excited,
for surely Daniel Ivett, veteran rail-
roader that he is, for a year faithful
night Waterman and used to scenes of
disorder at late hours, is not the man
to lose his head in times of great pub
lie discomfort. 1t must have been the
other man who was excited for 1t must
have been on his information that
Marshal Ivett rushed to the tiller rope
and rang the fire bell in staccato tones
In a score of homes brave men hastily
JuLlpeu IHlO IflelF jeans. on1rIS were
hastily tcked in the tops of trousers,
while trusty pistols found welcome
homes in hip pockets. Just as surely
as the outraged virtue of Wyoming of
North Branch, and of Glencoe had re-
asserted itself, just so surely must the
village of White Bear rush to the pro-
lection of its living citizens however
lowly, or the avenging Of it's dead
AS with one impulse there were a
of rI1Shino I'd fbo f,o
bell. Marshal Ivett, who, by the way,
has quite reputation as carver, and
has spent much of his day times dur
ing his service as night Waterman cut
ting large blocks of wood into minia-
ture locomotives with a key-hole saw
and Jack knife which are displayed
in leading mercantile establishments
of White Bear, hastily marshalled his
posse in platoons and marched them
toward Lake Shore, six blocks away.
The crowds that were treading the
village streets in search of the late
trains for the city were astounded at
the military precision of this ominous
midnight display, and many fell back
into the hedges as the squad marched
to its rendezvous, under the leadership
of its handsome, but none the less
doughty, captain. Arriving at Lake
Shore, IVett and his party found the
original police cooling their heels on
the outside border of the disputed ter
rltory. They were sure a minute be-
fore that they had had fighting enough,
but thus reinforced they could not re-
sist the temptation to get back in the
game. Another Sortie was made. The
saloon was surrounded with the
Stealthiness of Comanches around a
camp of prairie schooners. Marshal
E.Nett reconnoitered, and making sure
that there was not a weak point in
T11ili forax nh
the word of command. The registering
intruders from st. Paul were shut in
like rats in a trap. At least they
would have been if they had not gone
away beforehand. The chagrined
commander concealed his emotions
Well lest his troops should lose the
confidence which his martial dignity
had inspired. Hastily covering his
plans with the shrewdness of a Bona
parte, he broke his skirmish line. and.
reforming in battalion, started for the
railroad depot. With the inherent re-
sources of the born strategist, who
loses none of the available points of
attack or defense, Marshall Ivett, with
the dignity of an outraged community
at stake, ordered the ST. Paul &, Duluth
trains, about to leave for the city. held
until their passengers could be inspect
ed.
DetilS from his company passed through
q figure
stealthily dropped off on the dark side of
the train and awaited the passage of the in
vaders. No miscreants were found. Mar
shat Ivetts quick wit again asserted itself
The marauders would undoubtedly take one
OIL these trains, but instead of going through
to st. Paul, where they must run gauntlet
OF depot police and city and railroad detec-
tives they would undoubtedly disembark at
Gladstone where the train must stop for a
railroad crossing. Here in the night they
couid eiude pursult-of an ordinary thief
Leaving part of his troop to protect White
Bear, with trusty sergeant in charge Mar
shall Ivett boarded the train with the rest
and started for Gladstone
The marshal is an old railroad man He
not only knows the uses of the he'll cord
but he is familiar with air brakes and knows
the use of the curious valve and lead nine
clnch combinations which occupy inaccessible
positions in modern railway coaches such as
are In use In the St. Paul & Duluth. Had
1t not been thus the passengers would NOT
have been thrown into state of great men
tai trepidation by a dark figure leaning tn
grasp lever, and then hearing and feeling
oul grating OF the wheels upon the rails
as the ponderous train slackened its nsce
and came to dead STOP
But there were no arrests made at Glad
stone. White Bear man was arrested at
Lake Shere and locked up in the calaboose
TOT nIteen minutes when it was found that
ne was not one OF the men wanted and he
was released. Another man was suhsennsn+I
arrested and locked up. He is said IN he
from Saltwater. and his name could not iid 81
learned by the G 10 be "
In fact. the officials of the town sro ,a
Tetlcent about the whole affair. Mayor ~
King. when asked by a G o e reporter vas y.
terday about the matter. professed NOT r.
NOV s,"s 'ee names OF the people who were ar
narSnal. and, in fact manifested q great de
sire 10 Keep all mention of the sensation os,,