The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-08

Withdrawal of NJ. r.. Raumbach. o9
Wadena, From the Field, sInD1I-
fled to n Considerable Extent the
Situation Which Confronted the
Senatorial Observation-Disclosures
GeneraIshIp still Unsettled.
A dispatch from Washington announces
that Senators Davis and Nelson who
practically have the matter in charge
by official courtesy, yesterday agreed
upon the appointment of George G.
Power, OF ST. Paul, as national bank ex-
aminer, to succeed Simon r. FLYNN. re-
Gently elected president of the Second
National bank Senator Nelson had a
candidate In the person of w r. Baum
bach, the Wadena banker, but the latter
withdrew a few days ago. William II.
Farnham, internal revenue stamp agent.
had been mentioned as q possible an
polntee to the bank examinership. but
Mr.. Powers appointment, it has been
felt, was practically assured.
George c. Power Is forty-two years OF
age and son Of John B. Power, for
many years land commissioner of the
st. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba rail-
Merchants bank for quarter of a CEN
fury, beginning as messenger and work.
ing up through the positions of book
Keeper, teller, assistant cashier and
cashier to second vice president, which
last named position he has held since a
year ago.
He is thoroughly familiar with all the
phases of the banking business, is an ex-
pert accountant and is pronounced by
mis- banking associates a man Of excellent
Judgment, and worthy to succeed Mr.
Flynn, recently resigned to accept the
presidency Of the Second National bank.
Mr.. Power is married and his family,
living at 10 Kenwood terrace, Crocus hill,
includes five children.
The settlement of the bank examiner
ship contest leaves the sarveyor general
ship the chief position to perpIex the SEN
ators, but it is expected that this Will be
left until about the holiday season, as
Surveyor General Kirwans term mas NOT
yet expired
The Ninth Ward Prohibition club met
last evening at the residence Of Mrs Maj
rice A. Wurts. 129 Valley street. Mrs
Wurts read a paper on New York as It
Would Be in 1920 if Prohibition Carried"
The Waseca Journal predicts an enthu-
siastic Endorsement and reelection for
Senator Knute Nelson.
1t might be fair to assume that the
Fairmont News does not take kindly TO
Washington interference III Minnesota
politics. 1t suggests Two remedies, both
more or less heroic; one that the official
duties Of the Washington colony be in
creased, the other that their fingers he
burned every time they stick them into
the Minnesota pudding.
The Minneapolis Journals washing
ton correspondent sadly mixes up Fred
Won Baumbach. collector of internal rev.
enue. with a candidacy for national bank
examiner. and locates his residence in
Wadena. where the real candidate. w
r. Baumbach, really does live. The COL
lector's home Is at Alexandria.
George Bixby brother Of Tams Bixby,
present commissioner Of Indian affairs,
will accept a position under the latter
the first of the year. George has been
clerk at the Saltwater penitentiary for
some years.
A Washington dispatch to the Mime
apolis Journal says that 'Thodeus'' Dick
ey, of Minneapolis. is Loren Fletcher's
candidate for national bank examiner to
succeed Simon r. Flynn, elected to sue
coed D. A. Monfort as president of the
Second National bank CT this city.
''Thodeus" looks like q clumsy effort to
disguise the identity of Thaddeus s.
Dickey. who le&ped into fame as the as
sistant of Ed a. Stevens in the Mime
apols bureau of information" which OBJ
tanned some fame. or notoriety, during
tie summer months of 1880.
There Is quite bunch OF politicians
in this state whose fear now is that their
names will not be properly sent down the
pathways of history and several of them
recently located at War Road river.
Runor has 1t that the pcstoffice depart
nicnt has been urged to name a pOstoftice
Moody, and that this will be followed by
the naming of the northerumoSt county
of Minnesota, a chunk to be cut or
BeItrami, Berg, not because Of It's pro-
piuQuity to Hudson bay so much as the
nearness of Albert Berg's farm to its
heart Now comes the report that John
Zelch, former state boiler inspector.
whose initial letter is So far down in the
alphabet that posterity would probably
never read down to him in the list with
out extraordinary inducements, wants to
whet the public taste for information as
to his public career by a term in the
office of surveyor general.