St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-24
Mr.. WOODBURY. is CONTENT,
WHILE HIS srTOwNSMEN ROMP IN
GLEE ATmHE END OF THEIR
FIGHT.
SAY THEY WILL AID HASTINGS
BY Any Means in Their Power to Sc
cure the Next Plum 1t May
e4sse Seek.

Ancka is $4,000 richer today than it was
yesterday.
John S. Woodbury. yesterday drew from the
state treasury his cash for the site selected
by the state commissioners for the fourth
Minnesota insane hospital.
The deed was done yesterday afternoon at
APO and the sun, which was slowly sink
ing In the western sky, reflected through the
clean windows of the capitol the beatffc
smile that o'erspread all faces in Anoka-
We've got 'em now,' was the concise way
In which the Anoka contingent sized up the
situation. The money was paid, and If the
Hastings people now have any recourse, the
Anokans fail to see 1t. They admit that it
might be possible for the Hastings people to
nurse their wrath and oppose the future ap-
preparations for the building itself. But, as
Editor Pease, who came in few minutes
after the thing was done, naively remarked:
They will not do that. We will show
them how magnanimous we can be. If Hast
1ngs comes before the people of the state as
bidder for any of the state institutions, We
will be their most enthusiastic supporters.
See If we DON'T
There were few formalities to be observed.
Mr.. Woodbury., with a small party of Anoka
citizens, and Harris Richardson, the attorney
for the majority sof the commission, visited
the capitol early in. the afternoon, bearing
with them the abstracts, which the auditor
in few minutes submitted to Attorney Cen
eral Childs. The latter stated that the ir-
regularities which had been objected to by
m had haar i-l&
three minutes from the time that the auditor
left the attorney generals private Office Mr..
Woodbury. was on his way to the treasurers
office with warrant for SIS, ,OeO in his hand
You can say in the G ! e in the morn
ing," said Mr.IDunn, as he stuck his pen
back in Mile. Laos county potato on his
desk, that ina signing the warrant 1 have
done only what4I have conceived all along to
be the square thing. The attaching of my
signature to that bit of paper has only been
delayed out of courtesy to the Ramsey county
district court, in which the matter has been
pending. The action of that court am con-
fdent, will be sustained by the supreme
court, if, indeed, the opponents of the Anoka
site,- push the matter in the supreme court
In their decision, the judges of the Ramsey
county court cited rulings of the Minnesota
supreme court, sustaining their position, and
GO back on these. In view of all these facts,
1 am convinced that it would be an injustice
to the men who have their money tied up
in the land which the state selected to have
delayed the payment further. sfa
+ 'sAs for the Legal regularity of my action,
the warrant iss drawn in accordance with a
proper voucher to this Office signed by four
members of the commission appointed to
select location for the hospital. 1t bears
the signatures of Commissioners Hooper,
Eastman, Merriam and Block, and is in
every respect regular and authoritative
5 State Treasurer Koerner was not in his
office when the Anokans arrived, having
taken run out to his home, at ,Litchfeld,
early in the day. Deputy Treasurer Acker-
mann, however, in his absence, accepted the
warrant, and in return gave the Anoka man
three checks for $5, 900 each Treasurer Koer-
ner having publicly withdrawn his objections
to the payment of the money, upon the
ceipt of the opinion of the attorney general
the day previous. ~
The Anoka delegation was in very happy
frame of mind when it left the capitol and
it was announced that the ending of the long
fight, which has occupied them for year and
a half, would be celebrated next Monday
night by appropriate exercises. A fatted calf
will undoubtedly be slaughtered, and gar
nishments of green peas, apollinaris and other
sparkling fluids will add to the zest of a feast
in which the soul, as well as the body, will
participate.
1t is possible that the affair will be some
what of an officiali nature. the governor and
other state officials, including the seven
members of the state insane hospital loca-
ton commission. No official formalities
however, will hamper the enjoyment of the
festive occasion il for it will be Anoka's night
out, due notice iE given.
Editor Pease Hlenies that the city at the
mouth of the RumEis as yet satisfied with its
quota of public institutions, although 1t will
not make any further demands of the state
government 1t ahas it's eye, however, on the
prospective home for aged Odd Fellows, their
widows and orphans, project which prom
ises fruition at an early date, and the city OF
Rum-soaked sawdust is after that, tooth and
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