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

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lowing were elected to life member
ship: Capt. Edgar c. Bowen. St. paul.
Or. ii. v. Goetchius, Duluth; David d:
smith, St. Raql; john F. Stone, Rush
City; DIN d. Wheeler, st; Paul.
Charies G. Wilson, Rochester Elwood
3 Corser, of Minneapolis, was elected
to annual membership.
mere was exhibited at this meeting
for the first time in any public man
ner chaft OF the head, waters of the
mississippi, river, which has recently
been completed by the, Mississippi riv-
er commission. This chart includes the
ltasca state park and is a valuable adj
dltlen TO. the geographical. records Of
the State. ~
Minnesota's First RaiIroad. y.,a y
President Sanborn announced. in. the
course of the meeting that he had re-
Gently secured promise from Cot.
william Crooks, now of Portland. but
member OF the council and for many
years, resident of[St. Paul, that Col.
Crooks, with thes%assistance Of Gen.
George 1s.sFBeckersv will prepare pa
per on the early history of the ST.
Paul & Pacific railroad.
The, ST. Paul & Pacific was the first
railroad of the state of Minnesota. 1t
afterward became the ST. Paul, Min
neapolis & Manitoba, land is now a
part Of the Great Northern system,
COL Crooks was the fiEstc chief lengi&
neer, of the ST. Paul & Pacific, and was
prominently identified with its organ.
ization land development, Gen. Beck,
er,, who has served for some years as.
state railroad commissioner, was also.
one of the early officers of the COM
pany, and is familiar5iwith its inter-
esting history -
The November meeting of the So
ciety will be devoted to memorial adj
dresses in honor. of the late Charles E.
F1andrau, who was for a continuous
period of tWentyone years a member
of the executive council and rarely
missed a meeting. Those who will de-
liver addresses, on that occasion are
Judge GreeRleaft Clark and w. RI.
Lightner, ofsfhis city, and Maj. S. A.
Buell., of Mff1nea polls, who was Judge
Flandrau's adjutant at the time of the
New Ulm massacre.
History of Early Day Journalism.
The paper of the, evening was pre-
sented by D.tS.i B. Johnston who was
one of the eaFlM newspaper men of the
state. Mr.. Johnston was assistant ed
itor of the StssAffthonya Express, with
Judge Atwatefa from the. spring of
1856 to the falfsSo 1857. Then he pur-
chased the. Express from. Judge At
water in company with Charles H.
Slocum, who became publisher and
Mr.. Johnstom. editor of the paper. 1t
ran until the latter part of May. 1851.
when it went under the wreckage of
1857. The paper Itself was started
May 81, 1884, and was the first news
paper established outside of st. Paul.
Mr.. Johnston's subject was, Mime
sofa Journalism of the Boom Period.
From Jan. i, 1857, todthei Bursting of
the Boom, Aug. "a. 1857" He said:
The small remnant of Minnesota bust
ness men now living who were here be-
tween 1854 and 1851 still vividly recall
how 1t feels to go through the rise and
fall of boom period. Everything SEEM
ed to be in the air and moving briskIy in
those days. Not even corner lots could be
heid DOWN l remember agtown site pro-
moter of 1857 who embellished one of his
plats with churches, school houses. county
and business buildings and fine residences.
when there was only a claim shanty on
nearly bare of farm improvements for
miles around He took his town site plat
to Washington while congress was in ses-
sion, having only money enough to pay
railroad fare and about two weeks living
In cheap boarding house. Before the
close of the first week. he moved into
suite of finely furnished rooms in the best
hotel in the citys and it was said that he
returned to Minnesota in the spring with
about $4,000 realized from lots in
that town site. To make those
safes lie ndQ ldlhSu ucLlOn during the WIN
ter, but I have reason to think he hon
estly believed the millions he saw in the
air over that quarter section fully justi-
fed the felton, .sl.sg 49,
Was curedaof Town Site Fever.
was one Of a company of four who
got tangled among town sites along the
Red River Of, the North in 1857: there
fore, have charity for the men who got
boom fever into their blood j. w Prem
tiss and myself. J. G. Moulton, our agent
Pierre Bottineau and his brother Charlie
who We're our guides. with four team
sters, making a total of nine men, started
from st. Paul Jan. 2, 1857. Our destination
was the JUNCTION Of the Bots des Sioux
| and Otter Tail rivers, where Breckenridge
and Wahpetop now stand. We had two
| long sleds built for. hard usage. and five
yoke of oxen.+ Our route was by way of
st. Cloud, Lake ,Whipple, Lake Pomme de
Terre and lightning lake. We were
twenty seven days getting through. and
| six of us lived, out there through the hard
est February March and April ] have ever
| seen. After the first week out the snow
| averaged two feAt deep on the unburned
| prairie. and from six inches to foot where
| burned over! The surface of the latter.
| swept by forty degrees below zero winds.
| was covered by a sharp crust that DIT the
| legs of our cattle soreiy During the lat
| ter part of the trip they were swelled