The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-25
POLITICAL NEWS Of A HOLIDAY
GrohoanI and West in the field, there
ought 10 De some lively lobbying.


But the Sixth district caucus to be
neio tonight hasaother purposes than
the nomination of q speaker. Duluth
wants a normal school. 1t has the site.
NOT tnat 1t has not had number Of
conspicuous and well drained areas
since the igneous age, but commission
ers nave located this particular site and
declared 1t fit for the building of a nor
MAJ scnool. The state, too, has bought
THIS site. All that now remains is the
appropriation Of the money to build
the school. That is perhaps Duluth's
first want. But there are others.
St Louis county, Of which Duluth Is
the capital, is bigger than the two
smallest states in the Union in area,
and, while it Is not as distinguishingly
prominent In population, 1t esteems it
self quite highly. for 1t is not only
the Zenith city of the unsalted sea. but
has iron mines back on the ridge Of
which 1t Is very proud. not to mention
vast areas which have not yet even
been explored to find the good things
they may contain.
At the last session of the legislature
the people of this district secured the
passage Of a law which has since
proven irksoGne. Vast areas In the
county have been practically unpro
the reluctance of owners to make cash
deposits on land Of doubtful sale value,
so last year the county, by remission
of certain penalties. hoped to secure
a liquidation, but only the smaller
owners have been qualifying under the
new law, and its repeal is now sought.
The Sixth district, too, may be ex-
pected to stand as one against any
legislation which may be indicative of
disadvantage to the owners of min
Ing property, and to the reduction Of
iron ore rates on the roads of the Mis-
sabe. If any bill of that nature should
be submitted at the coming session.
Senator George D. Macarthur, of Blue
Earth city, was at the Windsor yes
terday. Mr.. Macarthur was chairman
Of the committee on banking at the
last session of the senate and is likely
to be reappointed to the same place
this time.
All over this state there have arisen
candidates for the place OF assistant
to the postmaster Of the legislature.
From today there will be but the one
candidate. 1t is case where human
tty will have the call on politics. Mrs
Mary Needham will probably be the
assistant postmistress. She lives in st.
Paul. She is a bright little woman and
ness capacity, but that is not the par
ticular recommendation she has for
the place. The story is rather inter-
esting. She was not taken UP by Re-
publicans or Democrats, but by st.
Paul people Who knew John Needham
and they were and are rather numer-
GUS John Needham was an engineer
on the Great Northern. For twenty
years he pulled the throttle on a train
that never lost minute and never
had an accident. One day two years
ago a train broke in two as he was
pulling out of Minneapolis. there was
a crash and John Needham was taken
out of the wreck dead. 1t was a case
where there could no blame attach to
anybody. 1t was an unavoidable acct
dent. The legal department Of the
Great Northern found that there was
no substantial claim against the road.
Mr.. Hill. president of the Great North
ern, sent for H. H. Horton, the attOr-
ney for Mrs. Needham, and told him
that it was not question Of legal La
bility. Said Mr.. Hill:
John Needham was a faithful en-
ploye of mine for twenty years. His
family shall not want How much
could you collect at the limit Of pos
sibilities in a suit?''
Mr.. Horton named the sum and Mr..
Hill wrote the check. That was two
years dSOs lie DOIlQSHlSl OI I1OLG
as administrator Of the estate of Mr.
Needham, were the Dawsons, senior
and junior, and Horton deposited the
money for Mrs. Needham in the Bank
of Minnesota. A few days later the
failure came. Mrs. Needham is now
a candidate for the place In the post
Office of the legislature and there has
been an immediate response to the call
for support. She will be supported by
the Ramsey county delegation with
out regard to party and in the country
there will be no question of the result
1t is one of the few cases where q
touch of nature makes the whole
world kin, and there will probably
be no opposition to the naming of the
widow of John Needham to the place
in the postofflce.
Alvah Eastman and James o. Mar
tin, of st. Cloud, were the center of
a chatty group Of politicians at the
Windsor hotel last night. Alvah isn't
after anything, as far as the public
has yet been able TO detect, but Mr.
Martin is a candidate for the secre-
taryship of the senate He has a live
~ field to run against, including Fred
n. Van Duzee, Nj. j. Dowlin, Sam A.
Langum and w. E. Verify. Eastman's
bowl Of happiness is trimming now, as
a matter of fact, for he was Clough
man all along and had hardly recov-
cred from the nomination of Eustis
when he saw that the Minneapolis ora
tor was doomed to defeat.
Senator Frank B. Daugherty, Of Du-
luth. was another of the Sixth district
solons who came down late last even
ing to take part in the campaigning
Of today.
Of the meeting which the Repub-
Ecan members are to hold at Mankato
next Thursday, the Mankato Review
says:
while it is not given out officially
that their object is to assist Hon. Gil
bert Gutterson, of Lake Crystal into
the speakers chair, 1t is reasonable to
suppose that the object of the meeting
is to give that gentleman a lift Mr..
GuttersOn- deserves TO be elected speak
er on his merits, at the same time ad-
vocating the claims of the Second dis
trict in the speakership fight In
speaking Of his trip about the state, he
said that ne felt encouraged, he having
been promised the support Of num-
Der of gentlemen that he had not look
ed to prior to his calling on them
Capt. D. NJ. Gilmore, of Minneapolis,
has been mentioned as a possible ad-
jutant general under Gov.-elect Lind.
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A complete and efficient cab service of ele-
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at Washington, D. c. Visitors to the national
capital over Pennsylvania lines will find the
new cab stand at the B street entrance to
the Washington station, where vehicles NAV