The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-13

in the territory was the Minnesota Free
/ Press
The first number of the Minnesota Free
! Press was dated May 81, 1857 1t was
printed at st. Peter, Nicollet county. VIM.
| C. Dodge was it's editor and proprietor II
| was Republican weekly of eight columns
at the beginning, but on Nov 18, finding II
carried too much sail. 1t contracted to
seven columns. Even that spread was
found too much for the locality and times,
and soon after it was temporarily discon-
| tinued.
April 20 1859, an alliance was made
with j. K Moore, and the name changed
volume or number in the process. Dodge
and Moore seemed to be doing finely to-
| gether until Dec. 81, 1859, when the plant
surance That ended the ST Peter Free
| Press. The ST. Paul Advertiser called 1t
the Salt Petre Flea Press, showing that
| Wheelock began early to invent words to
/ fit things he didn't like.
! The forty eighth newspaper was the
Minnesota Thalbote.
! E' The Minnesota Thalbote was the second
/ German paper established in the terri
j tory Frederick Orthwein, who started
! the Minnesota Deutsche Zeitung in 1855,
the Minnesota Thalbote. 1t was a small
Democratic quarto and appeared at Chas-
ka, Carver county, during the first week In
June. 1857. The Zeitung was started by
the Democrats. Orthwein soon carried the
| paper over to the Republicans. Then he
turned back to the Democrats. The de-
Z
| thus heralded by the st. Paul Minnesotan:
THE Minnesota Zeitung has taken a rest
Ing spell by getting clear of its old editor,
OrthWeln, and is out again in fine style as
| a Republican paper"
| Shortly after the Thalbote was started
| the Democrats of the Nineteenth district,
consisting of Carver and Wright counties,
nominated Orthwein for the house of the
| minnesota legislature. He was defeated at
the 5fall election, and early in 1858 he
pulled up stakes at Chaska and returned
l.. Ia Cti
| paper, Which he called the Minnesota
| Demokrat. He gave 1t the volume and
number of the Thalbote and filed out the
unexpired subscription list of the latter
with the former paper No issues of the
| Thalbote are in the historical library, nor
can find any trace of them elsewhere.
John p. Ovens Political Shifts.
Trading his Democracy to the Republic
| ans In 1856 and then switching back again
| Infatuated John P. Owens, the rough and
! the st. Paul Republican standard bearer.
| The bitterness with which he assailed
| OrthWein reminds one of the two Dutch
men who traded horses One of them
| cheated the other and refused to make it
| good. That made the victim mad He
| squared himself and pointing his finger at
the other Dutchman, said impulsiyely:
| Now, Hans, you listen; Ply un py you un
me die. l go to heaven; you go to hell.
Some day will pc lookin' over der railin'
up dere In heaven un see you tossin' down
y
| VIII look up un say, Hans, joost send me
! down Won leetle drop of water to cool mine
tongue; un | will say, No, Ply tam. I
| Won't, you cheat me so ven we trate
hoSSeS -
| The next newspaper and the forty-ninth
IN the general course was the Mankato In
dependent.
have to go to files of other 1857 news
| papers to get the date of the beginning of
| the Mankato Independent The st. Paul
| Advertiser, that faithful chronicler of 1857
| N of Inn
| 1857, that the first number of the Mankato
| independent had arrived. The June 10,
1887, issue of the Valley Herald makes the
same announcement and the Pioneer and
| Democrat of June Is says the same there
fore volume one, number one, was prob
ably, begun some me, time during the first
The first issue that the Historical So
cfety has is dated Aug. 9, 1860, and is
volume four, number five of a semi-weekly
| published Monday and Thursday. At that
| date, Hensley and Cunning were publish
ers and proprietors, and 1t was four
page. five, column Republican sheet. The
county says Hensley and Cunning started
| the paper July 8, 1862 1t appeared Tues
| day and Friday, and Oct 4, 1862, it was
a weekly newspaper published on Satur-
| day.
Mr.. Hensley died Dec. 20, 1862. The pa
per was continued until July H. 1868,
when 1t was sold to Charles H. Slocum,
| the last publisher of the st. Anthony Elk
| press, paper whose mortuary exercises I
lad the honor to conduct in May, 1861
Slocum bought the press and material of
| the Independent, inferred the defunct with
| appropriate ceremonies and, July IT, 1868,
| began volume one, number one of a
| SeVen-column paper, called the Mankato
| Union, before the hearse which had borne
| the Independent had fairly got out of the
already crowded graveyard of early jour-
naliSm. ~
EmIerant Aid Journal.
The fiftieth of the rapidly increasing
newspapers Of Minnesota was the Emil
| grant Aid Journal This is another paper
OF which | can get no trace, except
Journals: The ST. Paul Advertiser, of
July 4, 1857, says tine second number of
the Emigrant Aid Journal has come -
middle Of June. 1t was printed at Min
| niger, Dakota county, and was indepen-
| dent, as usual, in politics. Hon. Ignatius
Donnelly was the originator and A. w.
Mcdonald, at one time connected with the
Scientific American, was its editor. 1t is
| said that the citizens of Nininger contrib
uted s.. 200 the first year to give the pa
per footing. The st. Paul Advertiser
+ quotes the paper as late as April 10, 1858.
| How long it lived after that is uncertain.
1t is generally understood, however, that
1t was about two years old when it died.
Friend of the Newspaper.
Sterling Morton. the honest and OBJ
stinately aggressive commissioner OF agri-
l
dent, was writer on the Chicago Times
In the days Of Wilbur F. Story. At din
ner OF newspaper men he was asked to
respond to the toast, 1.-THE friend of the
newspaper" he asked. 'The friend rf OF Of the the
| newspaper Is man who wants you to
| leave out something you ought to put in,
| or to put in something you ought to leave
] out. Friendship to newspaper is q dis
| aster to newspaper; friendship gets be-
| tween the newspapers feet, trips 1t and
| over 1t goes On its nose. To succeed with
q newspaper only requires that you in
| tereSt folks; you do that even more
thoroughly when you kick q man into
| the gutter than when you help him out
| My own thought is that for the best in
terestS OF the paper, your wise editor will
! list his enemies as en- asset and his
| friends as a liability.
| The ffty-hrSt newspaper started in Min
nesota was the Hokah Chief.
1t was published in Hokah, Houston
| county. have had an unusually yexa-
| tious hunt for the scattered fragments of
| this newspaper. No early files seem to be
in existence. Vol. 1, No. 81, the earliest
number that I have seen, being dated
March 81, 1858, would bring Vol /, No. !
| to date of Aug. 20, 1857. There must
have been some of the temporary suspen-
| sions usual in getting new newspapers I'M
| der way in those days, as the ST Paul Ad-
vertiser of July 10, 1857, announces the
| appearance of the first number. VOL i.
| No. l, must therefore have been issued
about July 10, 1857. It was a four-page.
seven column independent paper run IN