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


turesque rocks rear their vine-clad heads.
| their bases famed by waving ferns and
! draped in golden moss Winding around
/ these picturesque features of the land
scape are verdant paths leading the coy
| hooks, beSpangled with flowers of such be-
| Wildering sweetness that miSer would
fling aside his. gold and tear his hair in
1 despair at having but one nose; he would
sit down, fold up the wings of his fancy
| and weep that there was nothing left for
imagination. There are no advantages of
] location in this beautiful town. All lots
| wherever situated are $500 each and cheap
| at double the price"
Olmsted county's First Paper.
The forty-third newspaper started in
Minnesota was the Olmsted County Jour-
! nal.
The first number of this newspaper
Paul Advertiser April rs, 1857. have
search 1 can find no other record of its
| first. issue than the Advertiser gives.
Allowing five days for the Journal to get
| to St Paul and into the Advertiser, would
bring the date about April 20, and SO I
start. 1t at that 1t was independent in
! politics, backed by Evans & Robbins, and
vas the first newspaper published in
Rochester, olmsted county: After print
| ing the paper short time, Evans & Rob-
bins sold the plant to- John H Hyatt and
Martin L. Stewart. s
The st. Paul Pioneer of Nov 10, 1857,
announced its suspension on account OF
| the financial failures following~the down
\ fall Of the Ohio Life and Trust company,
Aug. "a of that year. Feb. 3, 1885, the
material of the Journal was used to start
paper called the Rochester Free Press.
cannot find any of the files of the Ohm
| sted County Journal nor can get any
more details of its brief history.
Tragic Fate of TWO Newspaper Men.
The forty-fourth newspaper was the
| Waumadee Herald -
About the 10th Of MayS1s57, two broth
ers. Joseph and Thomas A. McMasters,
ing Wabasha county. At that time is
| was thought by some of its citizens that
! Reads Landing was too proSaic and
practical to head the paper. The Nc
Masters brothers were of like mind hence
| the romantic name of "Waumadee Her
| add" On the 18th of May, a short time
| after the first issue was worked off the
press, the publication of the Herald came
| to a sudden and painful pause, for the
accidental overturn of the sailboat Chip
| pewa on the Mississippi at Reads Land
| ing. in gale of wind, drowned both of
them. Four men were in the boat, two of
whom were saved. About six weeks after
this accident, Norman Stevens, a young
printer, came to Reads Landing from
! Illinois, procured the aid of some of the
! business men of that village, bought the
Herald plant Of the father of the Nc .
Masters and renewed the publication of
! the paper: AS the st. Paul Advertiser
! of Aug. 10, 1857, quoted the Waumadee
! Herald, it must have been continued by
| Stevens under that name. for a time after
| county claims that Stevens did not con-
| tinue the Waumadee Herald, but started
the Wabasha County Herald on June
n, 1857, the date he bought the material
from the elder ~McMaSterS. Clearly the
history is wrong, for not only does the
Advertiser quote the Waumadee Herald
as above, but Vol 2, No. %, of the Wa
basha County Herald, dated jan 30, 1859,
| is in the Historical society library. Dat
! ing back from that number would bring
Vol. 1. No. l, of the Wabasha Herald to
Sept 5, 1857. which. is only twenty days
J Waumadee Herald, The truth of the
matter probably is that Stevens, firing of
! the name "Waumadee County Herald
| Wabasha County Herald on the 9Th of
| September, 1857. AS I have stated, the
Waumadee Herald. was Independent in
| politics.
Fillmore County's Third.
The forty-fifth newspaper coming into
| the territory was the Western Transcript.
The Transcript was the third paper
started in the little town of Carimona,
months. The two previously started died
in early infancy. The Transcript seems
to have followed closely the demise of the
of it that find is in the ST. Paul Ad-
vertiser of May 80, 1857. 1t says it had
Just received the first number of the
Western Transcript, published at Carl
long, as the July IL, 1857. issue of the
Advertiser announced its suspension. AS
near as 1 can find. that was the final
newspaper effort in Carimona. No num-
bers of the Western Transcript seem to be
in existence.
The difficulties attending the first
planting of newspapers and catching edi-
tors for them, in pioneer times, remind
one of the man and his pig. The pig was
small, active, wild and continually get
ting through the fence into his garden.
Finally, his owner came to the conclusion
that the best way to prevent further
depredations was to put a poke on the
pig. After considerable trouble he got
him into the woodShed where there was
small window about three feet from the
floor. The pig, seeing his master coming
for him, made dive through the win
dow, taking out corner pane slick and
clean The man watched the pig a few
seconds as he streaked across the field,
and then muttered to himself: Con sarn
y e!en Go It! n,I I've got yer measure, anyhow.
The forty sixth newspaper in my record
is the Monticello Times
The Monticello Times was the six-col-
| umn successor of the Monticello Journal
mentioned in my history of journalism
Of 1856. Its first number was dated
Thursday. May II, 1857 Its editors were
the town, and ]. F. Bradley. G. NJ Ken
| ton was assistant editor, publisher and
proprietor 1t was neutral in politics. At
| the head of the editorial column of the
first issue Creighton makes the following
unique announcement:
Apology-It may not be arniss to say
by way of apology that this number of the
Times might have been better had it not
been that while the editor was up to his
elbows in editorial responsibilities his
better half, about 9 o'clock at night, sent
him killing through one of the worst
storms of the season after doctor and
before morning he had thrust into his
arms another. responsibility in the shape
of a young editor. we may vet have
things so arranged as to resume our usual
amount of dignity by next week"
When the Editors Fell Out.
June IS, 1857. Bradley Withdrew and
Creighton and Kenton were announced as
editors In July following, Creighton and
Geo. F. Brott Of the ST. Cloud Advertiser,
got into a rather heated controversy over
the relative population of Monticello and
St. Cloud. Brott was chief promoter of
the latter town. In reply to an article
rejecting on Creighton, the latter came
| back at Bfott in a way worthy of the best
days of Goodhue and eParson Brownlow
Here is sample extract:
Mr.. Brott says something about wiring
! ing the Parsons nasal organ. We wonder
what the Parson would be doing. in the
meantime" He then winds up his arti-
ele by representing thes parson as fallen
from grace, and that the relation which he
sustained to the church in Monticello as
pastor was dissolved by mutual consent
OF the parties. AS to grace, we never did
have and have not much to brag about:
still we have a comfortable hope of wealth
erfng the storm and at last having a
home In that upper, city, equal if not SUI