The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-07
WEST SIDE FIRM PILES FODDER
IN STREET AND cows
EAT 1T d5a!
BOVINE is IMPoUNDED;r 3D.
HAY DEALER IN TROUBLE
Warrant Issues for Member Of the
Firm of Lotus, Hubbard Co. After
City Prosecutor Hears Tale of Mrs.
Lindebers-charse Made That Boys
Shared Animals. 7qE

The city streets, according to City
Prosecutor Keller, are not to be used
for stacking and storing hay, and the
recent order Of the municipal court di-
recting the LOTUS Hubbard Elevator
company, Plato and Custer streets, to
remove the hay the company had piled
in Custer street, will be enforced. At
ter a visit to the place yesterday after
noon, Mr.. Keller took out a warrant
for the arrest Of Charles F. Hubbard,
president of the company. The charge
is obstructing a public highway.
Trouble over the company's use Of
the street has been brewing for some
time. Many of, the residents in the
neighborhood keep cows, and the cows
regarded the hay stacked UP in front Of
the company's warehouse as a good
thing. They helped themselves to the
fodder, and finding it of excellent quail
ity, they came again and again. The
owners of the hay impounded the COWS.
The owners of the cows complained to
the police court, and the court some
days ago ordered the hay removed
from the thoroughfare
And the Cow Went Back.
Mrs. Anna Lindeberg, who has a
dairy in Florida street, near the COM
pany's establishment, came into the Of
flee Of the city prosecutor yesterday
afternoon, in company with neigh
Dor, and complained that the grain and
feed men had one Of her COWS locked
up again. 1t was only few days, she
said, since they had compelled her to
pay two of her hard earned dollars to
get that same erring COW out of their
pound.
"Now they want SO from me, and
say they will not give up the COW I'M
less pay it," exclaimed the irate wom-
an. Il want the court to protect rue.
am a poor woman, trying to make an
honest living. These rich men use the
streets as if they owned them. and other
folks had no rights in them.
How can I keep my cows from go
ing after hay when tits left on the
street, and not incloseds? If they will
put up a fence around the hay, the
cows will not be alberto get at it,
Boys on the Round Up.
The owners of the hay are making
a good thing out Of it," said Mrs.
Lindeberg'S neighbor, Mrs. Schmidt.
i skeepsa COW, too, and I caught a boy
the other night driving her over to
stheNhay. You see, the warehouse men
are offering the boys cents each for
every COW they find eating the hay.
The boys, of course, are too wise to
lose a chance like that, and if they
don't see any cows at the hay, they
hunt around the neighborhood till they
find some. They drive them over to
the hay stack, and then go after the
men in the warehouse, who at once
impound the cows.
"A number of us have to pay to
get our cows back. Some have paid
$1.50, other 50, but none of us would
had not violated the law by piling their
baled hay in the street. We look to
the court to protect us hard working
people in the possession of what lit
tie property we can get together, and
not to let us be robbed by these feed
men,"
When Prosecutor Keller had heard
the stories of the two women, he set
out on a personal tour Of investiga-
ton. Immediately on his return he
issued the warrant for Mr.. Hubbard's
arrest.
Is Soft for Bessie.
''What did I find?" said Mr.. Keller,
in answer to a question last evening.
II found a hundred tons of hay in, Gus
ter street, just in front of the LOTUS
Hubbard warehouse. 1t is baled and
stacked UP there without any protec-
ton from all the COWS in the neighbor-
hood, except such as may be furnished
by covering of tarpaulins placed
over the hay to keep the rain off it.
A few rails about the hay would keep
the cows away, but of course the COM
pany could not put up fence. That
would be too bare faced an appropria-
ton Of the highway. e''f7
81 'Swore out a warrant for Mr.. Hub
bard's arrest the moment I got back
to the court house, and he will have
an opportunity to explain the matter
in the police. court"
Mr.. Hubbard was not at the office of
the company last evening when a re-
porter called, but George Lotus, the
manager Of the warehouse, declared
that the concern was not using the
streets for private purposes.
Eyes," MI. LOTUS said I'VE have
Mrs. Lindeberg's cow, and we've got
some other peoples cows, and we are
going to get some more if their owners
don't keep them away from our hay.
mo, we have not demanded SO from
Mrs. Lindeberg, but only So. We made
her pay that sum before, and she will
have to pay it again If she wants to
get her COW back. @
"Keller says we are using the street
for storing hay, does he? Well, just
you say for me that Keller isn't tell
ing the truth THAT'S oil T boua +o