The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-08

Not since the g. A. r. national en-
campment In 1896 has there been as many
strangers In the city as during the pres
ent week. All the hotels are crowded
and any kind Of accommodation at all
Is at premium. The Ryan, Merchants,
Windsor. Clarendon, Metropolitan and
Astoria all have been doing q land office
business during the last week and the
smaller hotels and boarding houses are
all full.
Senator F. A. Hodge was among the ar
rivals at the Merchants yesterday. He
ayers that Pine City is enjoying a great
season of prosperity and that every one
is looking forward to the advent Of the
completion of the Milwaukee road
through from st. Paul to Duluth If
the road is constructed in accordance
with the survey which has been made
for the proposed new line it will cross
the st. Paul & Duluth a mile and a half
from Pine City. The denizens of that
place look for some great things in case
the new road Is built, as 1t will give
them two competing roads for their
product to the market in the Twin Cities
and at the head Of the great lakes.
Among the congressman in town yes
terday were Messrs. McCleary, Heatwo,e
and Tawney All three disavow any in
tention of holding a meeting of the Min
nesota delegation. The state fair, SO
they say, is the attraction, and they are
letting politics take care of itself
Is
The other politicians in town yesterday
were Senator r. E. Thompson, Of Pres
ton; Senator A. T. Stebbins, of Roches,
ter; Senator w. A. Sperry, of Owatonna;
J. M. Diment, of Owatonna, and Samuel
Rustic Van SAINT, he with the guberna,
torial bee in his bonnet. There were
other politicians seen around town yes
terday and the doughty captain missed
not seeing a one.
Robert Crickmore, Of the State Dairy
mems association, was around the lobby
of the Merchants last night. Dec. IL, IS
and IA are the days, he says, that have
been set for the State Dairymens asso-
citation, the place will be named today
at a meeting Of the executive board,
which will be held in the dairy commits
sioner's office at the state house. Mr..
Crickmore asserts that Minnesota's dairy
interests have proSpered in an unusual
way ILLS year, anu more CI0du1GrleS nave
been organized within the last few
months than for a long season.
Oar S. Hall, of the Chippewa commits
sion, was visitor in the city yesterday
Mr.. Hall hopes to secure the early re
moval of the Mile Laos Indians to the
White Earth Agency, and also to wind
up the affairs of the commission of which
he is now the only member.
A. A Ledeboer, chief clerk at the
White Earth Agency, is down attending
the fair. Mr.. Ledeboer states that a
great many of the logs cut on the Leech
Lake Indian reservation last year, under
the dead and down act, are still tied up,
and have not been settled for by the
loggers. It was estimated that 100000
of timber was cut during the winter, of
which '30,OOO,0OO has been settled for and
the cuttings released. Mr.. Ledeboer
predicts that Capt. MERGERS proposition
to adopt the Menomonie Bank Scale"
system will ultimately be adopted to
regulate the cutting of Indian pine of
the Leech Lake Indian reservation.
Col Cal S. UHne, of Devils Lake, N
D., came down yesterday and reports
that harvesting is progressing very rapid
ly in North Dakota, and in some adj
vanced localities is completed. The crop
has been unusually satisfactory to all
sections, although it is not uniform all
over the state as to quality or quantity.