The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-17
One ROUND OF RECEPTIONS
MINNESOTA EDITORS ROYALTY
WELCOMED IN CANADA
u,,cuets and Speeches the Order of
the Day From the Time the faft!
Crossed the BOrder--CEnadia
UospitaIity and the Scenic Spieh-
doris Roth Enjoyed by the io"r
lists From the States.


snecial Correspondence the ST. Paul Giope'
YARN LOOPS, B. c., July n.-From
Eost Grand Forks, where the Train
storned long enough for the EDITORS u
ooneratulate John j. Ryder on ms
nomination to the senate, TO REGINA
go cani+al of the Northwest territory
the route of the Minnesota edltors hdS
been one continual round OIL ie0ep
tions.
The Canadians have worked DAY anu
night. and have borne the rum Oh liiell
r,sns nv the hardness Of their guests
with a fortitude that is the pest Oh aii
tributes to their hospitality.
At Pembina we were told that the
fortv-ninth parallel was marked ny
q string of iron posts, but not oouiio-
ary could be distinguished. Since then
il seems that the posts were melteu
nv the heat of the explosion OF the
Maine, and ever since the most en-
tbusiastic assurances of friendship anu
sympathy have been given.
The American national air has been
played by bands of Indians, as well
as by the most aristocratic musical OF
CARNATIONS of Manitoba's capital. but
the prettiest tribute of the trip thus
far was at Griswold.
Griswold is not a large place, but 1t
& wide-awake. and when the boomers
of the town learned that it had been
overlooked in the plans of the itinerary
committee they proceeded to stop the
train anyway, long enough for some
little tots, picturesquely attired In
of
to sing the American songs they knew.
Five minutes after the train had LETT
Griswold. a movement was in progress
on the train for the organization OF
chorus, for the purpose Of singing God
Save the Queen at the various stops.
The purpose has been fulfilled thus
far, until Sunday. the general respect
for the Sabbath tacitly forbidding such
q demonstration. The expedition also
has a yell" 1t is "Rah! rah! rah!
Wales and his NAL editors. editors,
Min-ne-So-tah
SIOUX SURVIVORS.
The Griswold people. too, displayed
the survivors of the tribe Of Sioux who
participated in the war Of '62-'63 in
Minnesota, for which thirty-nine of
their compatriots suffered strangula-
ton at Mankato. This side-show was
much appreciated by the kodak faction,
which outnumbers the non-kodakists
at least two to one.
There are all kinds Of cameras in
this party, from the telescope small
bore to the intricate folder with a five
by eight view. At a conservative es-.
mate the kodak views which have been
or will be taken on this trip would. If
put altogether, paper the senate cham
Der of the new capitol.
Only at Winnipeg have the appoint
ments Of the excursion been kept with
reasonable precision. 1t took a hard
fight to get the thirteen-car train into
Winnipeg anywhere lear on time, but
Manitoba hotel a palatial institution,
built adjoining the Northern Pacific
depot, by American capital.
The Winnipeg people spent all their
energies in the entertainment Of their
guests. Mayor Andrews who lent him
self willingly to the task is "a promi-
nerft young attorney and a type Of the
ehterplisinS. aggressive men who are
developing an empire in what too
many, even as near as Minnesota, have
believed to be frozen waste.
The spear of wheat is their chief
weapon. and with it they are piercing
the envelope of conceit which wraps
miratior for their enthusiasm. They
no longer talk boom, but business. They
want settlers, and not speculative val
ues. That they are getting them is
shown by the line of red-brown eleva-
tors that parallel the C. P. r. for 500
miles west, of Winnipeg. Wheat will
grow anywhere, perhaps, but it takes
men to fill elevators with It. Winnipeg
Is the gate city to these vast fields and
1t wants to widen it's market
Portage la Prairie, the horizon Of
which includes all sout-of-doors and
some enthusiastic curling Kinks. took a
few hours Saturday morning. The
party here took Maj. w. w. Cooley as
a. hostage, but dropped him few sta
tions west, where he declared he was
about to organize a council of the
Royal Arcanum among the Assineboine
Indians.
SLIGHTLY CITY.
Brandon. a slightly city in a beauti-
fill valley, that, with it's luxuriant vege-
tation, looked almost like the panorama
pictures of the promised land. seen now
and then in the Sunday schools, was
the scene Of a long and interesting
visit. A large part of the valley owes
its beauty to the experimental farm,
with a various profusion of vegetable
wealth. Indeed, Brandon's charms,
with the incident at Griswold and the
delightful dinner at Virdan, cost the
surrender of some very interesting ma
ruevers by the mounted police at Re-
gina, the capitol of the Northwest ter
ritOry.
Virdan is not on the map in very
large letters, but it IS written in poster
letters on the memories of the Mime
sofa tourists. The women of Virdan
can cook. and they did, and they dined
the visitors on the fat of the land. If
there was a town in Minnesota that
had as many bicyclists4n proportion to
its population as turned out with flag
beGecked wheels to escort us to the
dining hall, Ovitt's Good Roads club
could Join Othello's sons of rest, for
their occupation would be gone. The
fat prairies of Western Manitoba are
the cyclists Arcadia.
1t was dark when the train reached
Regina, but the citizens' turned out to
tho almost midnight banquet with a
Bohemian spirit, and We found them
even more disappointed, if possible,
than the travellers that the lateness of
the ur forbade the exhibition by the
red-coatts The girls of the party made
up for it in part by cutting the but
tons off the coats, which might have
been less decorous by daylight.
SAGE BRUSH BET.
Sunday morning found the tourists in
the sage brush and alkali belt. Long,
level stretches of miles without a liv-
ms thing in sight were traversed at a
r. had money and it built the road, for
all time evidently. Then came occa-
sionally shallow lake. The alkali
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