The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-23
is ON A TOUR OF INSPECTION.
GOV. TANNER AND PARTY PASS
THROUGH ST. PAUL FOR LAKE
MILTONA,
REV. It. DE WITT TALMAGE, ALSO.
Party of Visitors From the Coast
Entertained at the Fort During
the Day.


to the West on an inspection trip
which will include stop in the yell
lowstone National park, where the Of
ficers' and soldiers quarters and cav
airy stables will be looked over. This
new equipment will be this week given
over to Col. Young and two troops Of
cavalry to take the place of Capt. An
derson who has been stationed there
with one troop. The buildings have
just been completed and are now occu-
pied. Gen. Weeks will spend week
in the park when he will push on to the
new post at Seattle which is nearing
completion and which has not yet been
named by the president
Gen. Weeks is accompanied by Mrs.
Weeks, their two sons, Lieut.. George
Weeks, just graduated from the gov
eminent military school at Fort Leav-
enworth, Kan, and Merle Weeks; Maj.
D. D. Wheeler, chief quartermaster of
the department of Dakota, from st.
Paul; Mrs. Wheeler and W. c. Wether-
be, clerk Of the department. That part
Of the trip when the military men are
not busy will be devoted to the pleas
ure of the members of the party. Dur
ing Maj. Wheeler's absence the quar-
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in charge of Capt. Dudley, depot quar-
termaSter.
Gen. Weeks is a West Pointer, has
the military bearing, and has been in
the service for something like forty
years. He has long since earned the
name of being the best quartermaster
in the army and was promoted when
subordinate in the department from the
l@y~irr tor.
and has filled the position with honor
to himself for many years. He has
done duty at many of the we'll known
posts through this country.
The party left yesterday afternoon
on the Northern Pacific overland train.
On the book at the Merchants yester-
day there were several guests who
registered from that thriving little town
on the st. Paul & Duluth, Pine City.
Among these were State Senator Fred
Hodge. the author Of the railroad land
taxation bill passed at the last legis-
lature, and County Attorney L. H. Nc
Kusick. Mr.. McKusick bears the in
formation that Pine City is destined to
! be a great place. 1T has, The says,
"a brand new hotel, four brick buildings,
two steamers running up the Snake
river to Lake Pokegama, and Bede's
Budget, among it's many good points. y
AS an earnest Of what may be eX-
/ pected in the future from that section,
/ Mr.. McKusick points out that in the
/ last two years Pine county has more
! than doubled its population and has
! been beaten in this respect by Itasca
county clone. Mr.. McKusck will re urn
! home today.
! Gov. John r. Tanner, Of Illinois, &C
| companied by Mrs. Tanner and several
| other ladies, came to st. Paul Monday
! morning, on the Milwaukee road, and
after spending several hours in ST.
! Paul took the Great Northern train for
| Lake Miltona near Alexandra, where
| they will spend week fishing. The
governor and his party were met by
| a number of friends, with whom they
spent the short time before starting for
| their destination. so that they did not
visit any of the hotels.
T. De Witt Talmage, the famous pull
| pit orator, passed through st. Paul
yesterday on his way to Waterville,
where he spoke in the afternoon.
The 500 train to st. Paul yesterday
from the West had on board Frederick
! B. Tuttle, Maurice Farquahar and
Capt E. L. Peck. of the FOrty-second
| regiment Of British infantry, who have
| Japan. The first two named are New
| Workers. while Capt. Peck is a repre-
sentative of the British government on
a mission to Japan the exact nature of
which he did not disclose. The trio
reached Vancouver short month ago,
since which time they have been eX-
pl0ring the many points of interest in
the Rockies, visiting the picturesque
spots on the Columbia river, and gen
| orally looking over the KoOtena1 coun-
try. Capt. Peck says they saw signs
! Of so much silver in the West that he
is of the opinion that ere long the
| streets of Vancouver may be paved
with the white metal, while the citizens
will use it for building purposes in Brit
| iSh Columbia.
"In spite of the fact that our trip
| has of a necessity been a hurried one, .
was the Britishers comment, II should
say that this corner of her majesty s
! empire in the North, was entitled tC
/ credit for general richness and capa-
bility for development as against Africa
every time. No man who has not visit
ed at least a small portion of it, as
! have, can form any very adequate con-
ception Of its apparently limitless re-
sources. For example, a majority Of
our hest-known sportsmen, the chaps
who go in for tiger drives, elephant
beats and that sort of diversion have
gene in search of the elk and caribou
which are to be found in your North
western forests. Some of our Londor
clubs are adorned with trophies Of the
sport car ed on by some o. my country
men, and L tell you they are priZej
very highly. We had a lot Of sport il
the mOunteirs and I have several head,
and other marks of the chase to take
hCme with me. Among them is {
grizzly bear, but 1 shall have to admit
with some chagrin that it was not my
rifle which pulled the brute down. WE
had heard there were grizzlies to bt
found, and in fact, had seen theil
tracks, but could not get sight OF
one.
Zone day our guide went out, an(
after two or three hours met his game
l. was an immense female grizzly, and
although I am taking home her head
hide and claws, I would have preferred
to have shot her myself. 1 got a sho
or two at some mountain sheep, bu
either they were too far away or
am a poorer shot than I have beer
credited with being. for had the pleas
ure Of seeing them jump gaily from
rock to rock. We did not get mucl
game, but to be honest, we did no
work hard, and we had a good time"
The three gentlemen were entertainet