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

stuff in even to make a lawn on the
latter site. He further stated that.
as far as the cost Of. TRANSPORTATION
was concerned, Hastings was as ad-
yantageously situated as Aneka, and
in view of the fact that there is an
asylum at Fergus Falls, he could not
understand why the people up In that
corner of the state should object to
Hastings; that even though patients
had to be taken from this section to
the hospital at Hastings, and the cost
of transportation therefore be a little
greater, this disadvantage would be
more than counterbalanced by the
other advantages Hastings had over
Anoka. All things considered, he
thought Hastings the better site, and
voted accordingly.
Aff1ant further says that, in explain
alton of the pressure THAT Jwas being
brought to bear on him, Hopper said:
"Cronkhite has been out to see me
with bundle of peutims from towns
all over the district asking me to
change my vote for Anoka and ask
ing that the hospital be located at
Anoka. 1 don't know but / believe
1t is scheme of Cronkhites to make
something out Of it, and I don't pro-
pose to be led by him. I don't know
what is the matter with those fellows
down there. We are going to have
another meeting of the commission.
and 1 am going down today and am
1 voted for Hastings because I thought
it the better site, and 1 think 80 vet"
Thomas NJ. Brown, correspondent
for a Minneapolis paper at Stephen,
Marshall county, deposes that Hoper
told him on Jan. 2, on his return
home from the meeting at Fergus
Falls, that he was still of the opinion
hot {1,0 hx,Y
the best, but that the number of petit
tions from people all along the line
caused him to change his vote.
Mayor George Parker, John c. Me-
10y and n. L. Bailey, all Of Hastings.
also make aff1davits that they met
Mr.. Hopper on Dec. IS, the day Hast
1ngs was selected. at the Merchants
hotel here. and he expressed himself
as positively preferring the Hastings
site, saying that he expected some of
the people up north would like it bet
ter II he voted for Anoka, but that he
could not help that, for he did what
was right; that he could not conscden-
tlously vote other than he did. because
1t was the best site, and the city of
Anoka had offered the commission
nothing but sand, which was wholly
unfit for the purpose; that he told
Eastman the Anoka site was no good
because 1T was nothing but sand. and
the Hastings site was worth MANY
times as much.
Frederick Busch deposed that when
he went to Crookston to serve on
Hoper the summons and complaint in
this action, he submitted to him
(HopeD an affidavit to be signed. but
Hopper refused to sign it because he
thought 1T would not look well for him
to do so, though he assured aftiant
that the language of the affidavit was
true. The substance of the affidavit
referred to was that at the Fergus
rails meeting Hopper stated that he
had voted for Hastings, believing the
site offered there to be athe best. He
believed so still. but changed because
the people in his district required
him to do so. -
Another affidavit of1tMayor Parker.
OF Hastings, denies that the site Of
tered by H. j. Duel several miles from
Hastings was the one offered by the
city of Hastings, but says that the
site offered by Hastings was described
In the plat submitted; that the com
mission fully understood it, and was in
no wise misled in the slightest degree.
Snd deponent is satisfied all the mem
bers of the commission will admit this.
Notwithstanding the allegation to the
contrary in the answer filed by the
Anoka faction of the board.
Another affidavit by H j. Duel cor
roborates that of Mayor Parker that
the site offered by Duel is not the one
offered to the commission by Hast
ings, and that Hastings had no inter
est whatever in his offer, which was
made direct to the commission