The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-26
EpistAes to st. Paul.

A number OF stories have recently come
from North Dakota about the recent visit of
Sam Fullerton and Tim Byrnes, their wives,
and some other prominent Minnesotans to
North Dakota to shoot chickens. Sam and
Tim have been SO long accustomed to arrest
the sportive sportsman for premature sport
Ing that 1t occurred to G. S. Benson or some
OF the other fellows who were ahead of this
party at Cayuga, N. D., to have Sam and
Tim "pinched." So they tipped the game
warden to watch out for party of men and
women who would get off a certain train at
HankinsoD and drive across to Cayuga.
The officers took the tip. Sure enough the
party came, and drove across. They had
dogs and guns, and hired a wagon. Sam
was in fine shooting eye and Tim occasion
ally dropped a bird in the tall grass. The
| officers who were trailing the wagon watched
the birds drop with even more Joy than the
eager sportsmen, for by the time the dis
lance had half been covered the accumulated
nnes would have built railroad across the
state. and by the time the bunch reached
Cayuga there was not enough cash money in
the world to square 1t with the common
wealth.
But when they got to Cayuga, and the
game wardens quietly dropped onto Sam and
Tim and informed them that they were under
arrest, Sam and Tim flashed from their
pockets pink permits signed by Game Warden
Bowers.
| The officers admitted that 1t was on them,
but just as a matter Of precaution they in
sisted that every member of the party show
| his pink sheet.
Now the party included Col. William West
erman, of st. Cloud, who sold the first
harvester that ever trimmed the virgin prai-
| RE of Richland county, and who has been
through that region SO often that all the
| children know him in their first year at
school. OF course the officers knew him, and
knew as matter Of fact that all he needed
! to DO was to ask Warden Bowers for per-
| nit and get it. but he could not show the
pink paper and it was very embarrassing
| for Bowers was out OF town. It cost West
| erman more buying egg lemonade and other
! camp equipments for the party than it would
| have to have paid for all the chickens Full
| lerton shot on the cross-country drive.
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policeman stood on Fourth street just
at the Minnesota club corner. He was very
| erect, for out Of the corner OF his off eye
| he had observed that Col. Kiefer was ap-
| preaching up the street. He stood at atten-
| ton and winked solennly to Mr.. Parrish.
| who was standing at the court house corner.
From the opposite side of Cedar street a
man and woman approached, ON their way
| down Fourth. Just as the couple got close
| where he was standing. The copper threw
his right hand up and gave a most precise
| salute. Then he gave a little jump into
| the air and came down at right angles to his
| former position and marched off down the
| street.
Correct" said the mayor, throwing out
| his own chest in conscious pride over the
| fact that he was responsible for the military
| front of the copper. The woman had watched
f1,a ~ tha md Tho had
| evidently not heard Of Col. Kiefer's order.
| She grasped the man by the arm and said
| loud enough for the mayor to hear her:
Look! Look! That policeman's crazy"
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| Honors are heaping themselves on the
| heroic head of Hobson. He, you remember,
| is the lieutenant who ran the Merrimac into
| the mouth of Santiago harbor, sank her and
| then fioated ashore. 1t Is not considered nice
to forget these little incidents of current his
| tory, and a Minnesota street Boniface, in
order to perpetuate the name Of the Alabama
| family in the galaxy of his countrys heroes
| has hung out a sign:
"Hotel Hobson. Rooms by the night. week
| or month
| But that Is not all. Hobson's fame will
| never die. Only the other day President o.
| H. Arosin of the fire board, dropped into
| New York to the naval parade and In
| spect the New York and Brooklyn, which
were then in port.
Some enthusiastic New Yorker spied Aro-
| sin as he stood on the steps Of the Aston
| house, and pointed him out to another as
| Lieut.. Hobson, the hero of the Merrimac.
| In four minutes and fifteen seconds the crowd
| had extended half way across the street, and
| the police had to be called-to dispense the
| company which insisted giving three
cheers for Hobson. whereat the St Paul man
blushed modestiy. The Philistne.