The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-27
GOV. cLOUGH'S PEN
WILL 1T SIGN REQUIsITIoN FOR
THE ARREST OF
STINE?
MURRAY COUNTY CITIZENS
SEEM TO BE DIVIDED AS TO
BRINGING HIM BACK
HERE.
DEBONAIR CLERK OF COURT
Is Now Under Arrest at Knoxville,
Tenn, Where He Was Selling
Sad-IrOns.


Gov Clough will today be confronted
with the problem of whether or not he
shall issue requisition upon the gov
ernor of Tennessee for the return to
this state for trial of c. P. Slime, late
a rural editor, and incidentally clerk Of
the courts at Slayton, Murray county,
whose yeoman service for the Republi-
can party was rewarded in the last
legislative caucus by the appointment
Of Slime as assistant clerk of the house
and the incidental throwing down of
Bronson Strain, the comic opera tenor
Of the Battle Lake Review, who was
also candidate for one of the clerk
ships.
Slime is accused of a defalcation in
his office at Slayton, the sum of the
shortage being reported as high as
$4,000, although Stine's. friends say this
is an exaggerated figure. 1t appears,
however, that there are some irregu-
larities in Stine's accounts as clerk of
the courts at Slayton, and it also ap-
pears that he forgot to go home after
the close Of the legislature.
Slime is now under arrest at Knox
vile, Tenn, having been apprehended
there on information sent out by the
authorities of Murray county The for
mer chief assistant of the genial Mike
Bowling has been selling sad irons,
when he could, to the housewives of
the Tennessee city, and in his rambles
he visited a female relative of the
chief of detectives there. She at once
detected in the not unhandsome physi-
ognomy of Slayton's former prominent
citizen a familiar likeness, and fresh
ened her recollection by running down
to take a new look at the circulars in
the chiefs office. Then she tipped
off" the second districts loyal RepubE-
can worker to her plain clothes"
cousin or brother, or whatever he was,
and Slime was rudely "pinched."
Mr.. Slime is reported in the Knoxville
dispatches as stating that certain
financial difficulties, in which he was
at one time involved as clerk, have
been fixed up by his bondsmen and
that he will not return without requisi-
ton. He denies the charges of a large
shortage.
Deputy Sheriff G. H. Woodgate, of
Murray county, the man who has for
the past few months been hunting for
Slime, and who finally located him in
Tennessee, came up from Slayton yes
terday to secure from Gov. Clough a
requisition for the return of the re-
creant court clerk. In the same train
with the sheriff were H. G. Grass, ex-
county attorney, and Ole o. Holmen,
representative in the last legislature,
who will appear in opposition to the
issuance of requisition papers. Instead
of having decamped owing the county
and others $1,000, these two gentlemen
aver that the extent of Mr.. Shines
offense IS that he neglected to turn
over to the proper persons So each in
twentyfour jury cases, paid by
plaintiffs as jury fees. He was in
dicted for being short the sum of $72.
Other minor discrepancies, it is said,
will bring his shortage to something
less than $500, and it appears to be the
impression that this amount of loss will
not justify the expense of going south
and bringing him back.
Representative Holmen, who will be
remembered as chairman of the house
committee on temperance, says that the
crop this year will greatly beat that of
year ago, and that the grain is grow
ing satisfactorily all through Murray
county.