The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-07
GRAIN; ! WAR IS GOOD
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DULUTH WILL SELL NO MORE
WHEAT TO THE SUPERIOR
MILLERS.
TALKING NOW OF MILITIA.
SOLDIERS MAY DE TRIED To EN-
FORCE THE WISCONSIN
WAREHOUSE LAW.
COMPROMISE NO LONGER POSSIBLE
the Knife Between the Two
Cities.
Special to the Globe.

SUPERIOR, Wis, Oct. 6.-The in
spection matter is now at an interest
ing stage and every day some new de-
velopment is added to keep the strife
going. The latest move of the Duluth
board of trade was to refuse wheat to
the Superior millers, probably intend
Ing thereby to freeze out the big grind
ers on this side of the bay entirely, SO
that the shutting down of their plants
will become an absolute necessity. They
probably figure that if the Superior
-four mills were required to close on
account of lack of wheat, the citizens
of Superior would then rise up and
call for the restoration of the Mime
sofa system of inspection on this side
OF the bay. How the scheme will work
remains to be seen, and, in the mean
time, the Superior commission men are
laboring as they never did before to
secure shipments of grain from the Da-
kotas
sy This morning five wheat buyers,
representing the Superior mills, went
over to Duluth for the purpose of buy
ing wheat to grind, but they were in
formed by the track men that no more
wheat was to come to superior from
there. unless arrangements could be
made to have ii weighed in under the
Minnesota system. They were told that
the Duluth commission men had posi-
lively refused to accept the Wisconsin
system of weights, and that it would
be useless to make any further at
tempts at buying wheat from the Du-
1uth men, because they had all agreed
to shut Off the Superior people until
they came to their senses. Then the
wheat buyers thought of going to
Sandstone to get enough wheat to keep
the mills running, but there the same
difficulty confronted them. The Du-
luth commission men also control the
wheat inspected at Sandstone, and of
course had shut off the supply from
that source. The mills have sufficient
wheat on lland 10 carry them for sew
eral days. and with what wheat they
can secure on the Superior board ex-
pect to obviate the necessity of closing
down until some settlement OF the con-
troversy can be reached. The local
commission men say they are gaining
in receipts every day, and promise that
they will be able in a few weeks to
supply the mills with all the wheat
they require for making flour, but the
millers seem disposed to believe that
the promise ifs an extravagant one and
not well founded.
The elevators have signified their in
tention of starting up their plants for
the reception of grain under the Mime
sofa inspection within ten days, and
the Minnesota warehouse commission
asserts that it is ready to act upon the
advice of Attorney General Childs. by
placing inspectors on the decks of ves-
sells within the Superior harbor line
TO inspect the grain as it is loaded into
vessels The Superior board of trade
men promise that the plan will not be
carried out, however, even If 1t is
found necessary to call upon the state
militia to enforce the Wisconsin ware
house law. The assistant attorney
general at Madison has been supplied
with statements Of the controversy
and copy of Attorney General Childs'
opinion, and is now looking into the
matter thoroughly, with the view of
rendering an opinion on the subject
s Ihe statement is attributed to Chief
Grain Inspector Clausen, of Minnesota.
that the Northern Pacific railroad will
within three weeks be bringing Mime
sofa inspected wheat to this city under
q system similar to that of the Great
Northern at this time. The Northern
Pacific, he says, will build sidetracks
enough at Carlton. Mimi, to have its
grain Inspected there, and the Omaha
will also follow suit by having inspec-
ton done in the st. Paul yards. In
spector Clausen gave out the intention
Of the Minnesota warehouse commits
sion to protect it's employees should
they be. arrested when they come to
this side Of the bay.