The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-20

of the list In the largest type used on
his advertising page.
! The way they did things in social
way in those early days Is shown in this
notice Of a marriage copied from the
Reveille:
ION the Sd inst, at Watab City, Nav
Kee- Ko- Kee- Waw-Haw Dauchy Kew,
Esq, to Miss Wee Hum Kaw daughter Of
Nav Hee Hoo Shay Nav Zhee-K all Of
participated in the feast on this occasion
and was presented with the hind quarters
of fine dog"
The chief performance of "Chaskarack"
remembered by the old settlers is visit
he made to the legislature one day when
he was as full as even the customs OF
those early days permitted. In some way
he got into the speakers chair and UNDER
! took to run the house. 1t was rare fun
| for some of the members, but others
didn't like it and sent for the soldiers.
"Chaskarack" hearing of it scattered a
pocketfull of silver broadcast over the
floor, saying "Here's your pay. House is
adjourned" Vincent died in St. Paul
in March, 1852
I St. Anthony Express.
One day in April, 1851, Elmer Tyler, a
| tailor of st. Anthony, proposed to Isaac
! Atwater, young attorney, to buy a
press and start newspaper if
Atwater would edit it. His reason for
doing this was that the two sides of the
river at the falls would one day have ten
| thousand people, and he thought it was
time to make st. Anthony better known.
Atwater considered the idea preposterous
but finally consented to edit the paper
If Tyler would buy the outfit and run it.
That was the beginning of the st. Anthony
| Express, the seventh newspaper started
| in Minnesota.
Tyler got everything ready and Atwater
| began to write his editorials. It was a
four-page even-column whig paper, pub
lished weekly and its first issue was May
81 1851:
1t was the first paper printed in Mime
sofa outside of st. Paul. Tyler soon got
out beyond his depth. Atwater then had
to advance money to keep the venture
affoat. Aug. e. 1851, Woodbury. & HOLSTER
! succeeded him as publishers. May 28,
1852, George D. Bowman arrived from
Pennsylvania and Atwater arranged with
him to edit the paper SO that he could
have more time to- devote to his rapidly
increasing law business.
| Bowman was a level-headed studious
sort of man. When therefore Charles
Hoag suggested the compound of Minnse
apolis for the west side of the river at
st. Anthony Falls. instead of Albion,
which the county commissioners of Hen
nepin county had selected Bowman took
it up and advocated the change so Wig
orously that in December, 1852, at meet
ing held at the house Of Colonel John H.
Stevens, Albion was discarded and Mime
apolis adopted. It was wise, far-sighted
change. ..5
| Aug. 5, 1856, Atwater resumed control
of the Express and the politics Of the pa
per became democratic. March 20, 1856,
D. 8. B. Johnston became associate editor,
his first editorial being entitled Parties
and Factions" His name does not appear
in the paper however, until Aug. %, 1856,
his democracy being on trial. In August,
1857, D. S. B. Johnston and Charles H.
Slocum purchased the paper from Judge
Atwater, Johnston becoming editor and
Slocum retired and Johnston went on alone
Slocum retired and johnston went on alone
until the latter part of May, 1861. Then
he went under the waves of the hard
times of 1857 and since he came up Min
nesota Journalism" for nearly forty-hve
years has interested him no more"
The Express outfit was sold to Hon.
John L. Macdonald of Shakopee, who
started the Shakopee Argus with it..
Johnston says he lost nearly four years Of
time that were pretty valuable In those
about three thousand dollars short on the
venture. ,.-se .e
~.-,r Hon. Isaac Atwater. ,'s e-,-.-
Hon Isaac Atwater graduated from Yale
college and studied law in which he has
| taken high rank. He was elected asso-
ciate Justice of the supreme court at the
first election held after Minnesota be-
came a state and still resides in Mime
apolis universally respected by all who
know him. Journalism was more of a
recreation from the Onerous exactions OF
his profession than otherwise and proved
about as profitable as Horace Greeley s
farming. He was an easy, fluent, eff
fective writer and Major Hotchkiss
doubtless still feels the sting of many a
keen shaft that came across the river
from the editorial sanctum in st. An
thony.
The M1nnesOtan.
The Minnesotian was the eighth news
paper begun in the territory. The first
issue was dated Sept II, 1851. It was
owned by company. John P. Owens.
formerly associated with Major Mclean
in running the Chronicle and Register,
became editor and John G. Terry, still
! living IN S.. Paul, pubAisher. 1t was a
| four-page column paper and as in.
tensely wing as the papers of Goodhue and
Colonel Robertson were democratic in
politics.
The Issue Of Jan. 10, 1852, had George
w. Moore associated and the management
was Owens & Moore. Owens was editor
and Moore business manager The paper
was first published in the little Chronicle
office on Fifth street, corner Of Jackson
but in 1853 was removed to the northeast
corner of Cedar and Third streets. Here
; May II, 1854, the Daily Minnesotian, 8
seven colu mn paper was issued. May %
1854, H. P. Pratt became equally interest
ed with Owens and Moore in the publica-
: tion of the Minnesotian. but Pratt died
May 8, 1855. May II, 1857, the daily en-
larged to- eight columns and Oct 19tE
DR. Thomas Foster pl1rchased the interest
of Owens and the management became
Foster & Moore. Jan. 1, 1858, the daily
went back to seven columns and May It'll
following it resumed it's eight-colunn edi
, ton. Nov. rs. 1853. J. Fletcher Williams
!. afterwards secretary of the Minnesota
Historical society, became local editor Of
: the paper. Dec. II, 1859, the Minnesotiar
, and Times consolidated. the Minnesotiar
. Times Printing company being pro.
; prietors, and iNewson, Moore, Eos
ter & Co., publishers. Eight col
, umns was the size of the con-
solidated paper and the concern
, moved from the corner of Third and Min.
nesota to the old postoff1ce building or
: Bridge Square. March Is, 1850, the com.
bnation dropped to six columns because
l as it says in that Issue, thirty one demo
;; Gratis and sixteen republicans had agreed
= to give the state printing to Holly &
Brown June 81, 1850, notice Of dissolu.
tion of the combination Minnesotian ant
Times was published in the Times witt
the statement that the Times would
thereafter be published and edited by T
M. Newson. same as before the consolida-
tion, and that the Mtnnesotian Joint STOCK
company. with Thomas Foster as agen
and editor, would also continue, George
w. Moore having retired. The two paper!
= were thus separately run in the two stor.
les below the street level in the old post