The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-17
SUPT. JOHN III. RENsHAw, OF U. S.
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, IN
SPECIES THE WORK.
IMPROVEMENTS GOING AHEAD.
PAUL HOLMAN SAYS THEY ARE
REMARKABLE FOR THE TIME
EMPLOYED.
THAT YELLOWSTONE HoLD-uP.
Two Men Under Arrest Believed t.
Be the Men Who Committed
the Deed.

the division of the United States geo
logical survey, and Paul Holman, in
| charge of the Dalles of the st. CroiX
survey, were in st. Paul yesterday. Mr..
Renshaw is just from an inspection
| trip of the work in and about Taylor's
Falls. Park Commissioner George H.
Hazard, at whose request Senator Da-
Wis secured the work done by the de-
partment of the interior, was with
them, They called on Maj. Jones and
Assistant Engineer Powell, who have
a crew at work at the Dalles, cleaning
the channel, repairing wing dams and
| otherwise improving the navigation On
| the st. CroiX.
| Mr.. Hazard will try to have the sem
ate committee go to the Dalles, Oct. l,
| when here in st. Paul, and will attempt
| to secure the cooperation of both
United States senators in securing an
appropria ton for the harbor of the in
terstate park at the Dalles, and for the
Improvement of the st. Croix river be-
| tween Taylors Falls and Osceola.
Mr. Holman states that the Dalles
| sheet will be the most varied sheet as
to topography, he had ever seen. It's
elevations range from 700 feet to 1,40O
feet above sea level In addition to the
trap rock, da1les, sandstone bluffs,
trout streams, ETC., one quarter of the
sheet, which is 13X17 miles, has twenty
five beautiful lakes alive with game
fish, most of which are located on high
gronud, surrounded with bluff banks;
in fact, they are spring lakes, support
ing good outlets.
Mr. T1l Z,
could hardly believe the improvements
made in the park were possible in so
short time or for so small an amount
of money as that at the disposal of
the commissioner. He does to Moso-
ria, near st. Charles, in charge of a
crew to survey a plat thirty miles
square. Mr.. Lonsdale will remain at
the dalles some two weeks, when he
will join his superior.
Mr. and Mrs. Christian Fry, of the
Hotel Ryan, accompanied by Mrs. f
r. Welz, returned last evening from q
trip through the Yellowstone park
They were at the Hot Springs hotel
when the preliminary hearing of the
two men charged with the hold-up of
the coaches in the park was being
held, large room in the hotel being
utilized as a court room.
The men were held to the United
States grand jury in the sum of $1,000
bail each. Mr.. Fry says that the peo-
pie think they have the right par
ties. Both the prisoners are young
men, the younger being only about
twenty-five, years old. The story Of
the hold-up was printed in the G l b e
at that time. The spot where the
for the purpose, the woods lining both
sides of the road. Some of the stage
coaches had seven men in, and in one
of them there was an army officer, but
the two men, alone and unaided, went
about their business coolly and cleaned
out the entire party.
The molders of public opinion were
out in force at the Windsor last ever
ing. There was a gathering of the
Minnesota newspaper boys, among
them being Joseph Leicht, of Winona !;
G. S. Pease, of Anoka; Capt C. c.
Whitney, of Marshall. and the state
capitol; Charles G. Kinds, of Shakopee;
G. w. Stanton, Of Appleton; E. A
Paradis, of Merriam Park and H. P
Hall, G. P. Slime and David Ramaiey
of St. Paul. Capt. Whitney, in his mys-
terious way, gave out that there was
some political deal in the air, but H
P. Hall intimated that it was merely
a conference of country editors to dis
cuSs ways and means of getting even
with the Josh editor" of the G / o b e.
Il
Wherever Editor Pease is you are sure to
hear something of Anoka'S potato crop. Either
the crop or the story is still growing. The
shipment from that county will probably ex-
coed half a million bushels, and they bring
from As to so cents bushel There IS no
Klondike fever in Anoka this year.
Both Charles A. Towne and ]. Adam Bede
wi "a Of act hat hQ
rumor around the Merchants. The eX-con-
gresham from Duluth rendered his services
to the free silver Democrats and j. Adam
has been secured by the National Democracy
to follow in the footsteps of his old joint
debate opponent.
c. B. Crib, of Leeds, England, registered
at the Ryan yesterday.
j. w. Mason, of Fergus Fails, president of
the state insane hospital board, was at the
Ryan yesterday.
H. L. Niedringhaus, of St Louis registered
at the Merchants yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs w. Lewis, of Anoka, are at
the Merchants.
W. E. Seelye, Of Brainerd is registered at
the Merchants.
A Merchants guest yesterday was W. W.
Willard, of Mankato.
H. G. Mcdonald, of Willmar, is guest of
the Merchants.
D. ]. Race, of Redwood Falls, is stopping
Senator A. T. Stebbins, of Rochester, is a
Windsor guest.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. c. Pierce of Zumbrota
are at the Windsor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas E. eastman, of
Owatonna, are registered at the Windsor.
]. E. Cronan, Of Fargo, United States mar
shall for North Dakota, is in the city, stop
ping at the Clarendon.
Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Stevenson of Madison,
S. D., are at the Clarendon.
Mr.. and Mrs. K. o. Void, of Austin, are
Clarendon guests.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. H. Scott, of Staples, are
registered at the Clarendon.
Two Clarendon guests yesterday were C..
]. Kelly and w. j. Mooney, of Langdon
N. D.
John Hopgood land wife, of Menominee,
Wis, are at Hotel Metropolitan.
F. E. Hart, of fWinnebago City, registered
at the Metropolitan yesterday.
Col. w. T. Jones, of New Orleans, is at
the Aberdeen.
Paul Bakerel and Fwife of ST. Louis, are
at the Aberdeen.
The Northern Pacific overland train yes
terday brought back from the Yellowstone
DR.. and Mrs Christian Fry, and Mrs. F. R.
Well, of the Ryan hotel.
Congressman Page Morris, of the Sixth
district, this state, was at the Ryan yester-
day, and left on the st. Paul & Duluth train
for the head of the lakes