The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-01

SynchrOnizing, but the Official
Announcement Made Yesterday
Troops Leave Thursday.
President Mckinley and the Thirteenth
regiment Minnesota volunteers, will ar
rive in Minneapolis the same day, Oct. u.
Their arrivals will not be prevented
from synchronizing.
When San Francisco dispatch enters
the office of Minneapolis newspaper
now the whole editorial department gets
as frisky as Grimalzin with a Christmas
present of catnip, and the office boy Is
chased down to the mayors office at once
to see whether there has been a mutiny
at the south side police station or a
riot call in fish alley.
The nervousness in the editorial rooms
OF the sister city paper is worse than it
was when Cervera was bottled up In San
tiagO bay. Even then the ebulItions of
the editorial minds could be relieved by
extras" issued every 10 minutes, each
containing a little less white paper, and
a little more black than its predecessor.
But no extra will relieve the tension
now, for it is not the safety of nation
that is at stake this time.
No; no. Some one whispered to the
editorial mind that plot was on.
And there are Vidocqs in the newspaper
business in Minneapolis who cannot
Vidocq Sherlock Holmes when it comes
to scenting plots.
They are usually found to be more or
less diaphanous, these plots, but none
the less they enshroud, for the time being
'-every movement of body, every mental
throb. every intellectual impulse in Min
neapolis journalism-whiIe they last.
The latest plot was given out in hushed
whispers Some Sophisticated term-in
those oftices-had dared-treason? No.
Murder? No. Horse stealing? No.
He had ventured to think that it would
be good idea to preventive Journal
makes the charge ''preevnt the arrival
OF the regiment and that of the president
from synchronizing. Horrors! Nicollet
avenue business men were teIephoned to
in haste. With gloomy faces they listen
sd to the revelation Of this awful charge
Finally one Of them inquired:
What is the authority for this?"
He paused for an answer.
BlaCker even than before were the faces
pr the assembled business men. This
silence was truly omnous. AT last the
editor spoke:
There isn't anything" he said, which
at this time and with the limited knOWl-
edge which we have been able to secure,
both by inquiry of our California corre-
spondent and diIigent search locally on
the part of our most trusted and alert
sleuth hounds, which [ would feel TO JUS
tify me in stating, even at so private
meeting as this, or in casting suspicion
on any individual least OF all any one in
official place, for
The curious business man who wanted
to get back to his desk and write some
letters to the Eastern jobbing trade grew
drawer. --
"'What Is there at the bottom of this,
anyway"
LAS l was about to say replied the
editor, but he remembered how long it
took him the other time, and handed the
merchant the telegram which Gov. Lind
had received from Adjt. Gen. Lambert,
as follows:
Roberts, the only member of the cities
committee left, diSclaims any authority to
take charge. of Transportation. will care
for the sick of the state but have no
power from the committee to act Tor
them; and besides numerous questions Of
detail are constantly ar sing. The regi-
mental officers are all at sea, and con-
fusion is threatened. Can you not get
committee to wire authority to some one
Immediately.
The business man read It,
'"Weu?" he said. and again paused for
an answer. He did not drop the bit of
paper on the floor and smite his hip pock-
ct with palsied hand, as a well-groomed
stage actor would in such crisis.
The editor was thunderstruck. The
other Minneapolitans were confused.
II don't see anything in there about the
charge In the indictment about 'synchron-
ling" continued the business man. II
guess I'll go back to the store. Call me
up if you hear anything more, won't
you?"
This morning Mayor Gray was called
upon by Charles S. Fee, general passen-
ger agent of the Northern Pacific, to join
with Mayor Kiefer in a wire to Col.
Ames The chief executive of Minneapo-
lis assented readily. The message was
afterwards forwarded through the North
ern Pacific officials.
This was another suspicious circum-
stance-to the Minneapolis editors. Fee
Northern Paciffc-St. Paul-Gray-Demo-
fer-Republican-St. Paul South
ern Pacific.
In vain the studious editors tried to
rearrangc these significant words so that
the key to the cipher could be detected
and made to read like I'VE have no
more chfef-of- police-silips to offer the
Paul beer" or some other message which
might be discovered by the perfect jour
nalism to be incendiary, in1an,matOry,
OF unneighborly.
Meantime there were three ways in
which they could have found out about
this fast business. If they had called up
Mr.. Fee he could have told them what
he told the Globe last night. Gov.
Lind could have told them what he told
the Clio b e last night. Or they could
have touched the wire to Frisco, instead
of writing grapevine" specials from the
imaginings of postage-prepaylng -penny-a-
liners, which had been three days on the
road, and they would have known that
the official announcement was made In
the city of the Golden Gate yesterday
that the boys Of the Thirteenth would
leave Preside Oct. 5, next Thursday, at
noon, and reach here the morning Of the
18th.
Then they could have telaphoned to the
Chicago Milwaukee & st. Paul ticket
Office, or sent the Office boy across the
block, for that matter, and ascertained
that President Mckinley would arrive In
Minneapolis at $3.50 the morning of Oct
II, not any o. s. Russian calendar ar
tilce either, but the same Oct. IL that
the BOYS OF the Thirteenth would get
here.
Then was flashed the real basis of the
charge, a cipher dispatch from It's most
trusted sleuth, H. Tins" The message
was a cipher dispatch because written
in English, the operative usually writing
in dialect or blank verse. Here was the
awful suspicion of preventing the ar
rivals from synchronizing.
What Is viewed in San Francisco as a
concerted movement on the part of the
Populist leaders of Minnesota to prevent
the return of the Thirteenth and the visit
of the president from synchronizing is
under way. During the past week, many
officers and not few privates in the