The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-11

Gov. Johnson late yesterday after
noon announced three appointments;
two deputy oil inspectors for Henne-
pin county and the third an appointee
to the dairy and food commission.
Following an all days hearing of the
relative claims of Hennepin county
candidates. for the two deputy oil in
spectorships, the governor named An
drew Larson and Ambrose Lennon to
the places. The salaries are 500 per
month. Larson is Seventh ward
leader, and is said to be responsible for
the Democratic wigwam in his ward.
He had the Endorsement of Congress-
man Lind, Swan J. Turnblad, F. c.. Win
ston and other leaders in his county.
Ambrose Lennon was indorsed by Sen
ator ]. T. McGowan and Representative
R. F. Herbert. There were number
of other candidates, with more or less
strong backing. j. T. Finlayson, for
mer sidewalk Inspector; James Dwyer,
former alderman from the Tenth ward,
and Mathew Walsh were in the list.
Frank Graham of Rochester,, was
yesterday appointed cheese expert in
the dairy and food department by the
governor. He was until three years
ago practical cheesemake ker, with a
reputation for skill in the craft: He is
graduate of the Minnesota State Ag-
ricultural college. Mr.. Graham sue
ceeds Harry Vrooman, who has been
in the department for some years.
Ramsey County Plums
It is expected that the two deputy
oil inspectors for Ramsey county will
be named this week. 1t is said that one
of the places will go to T. o. Hobe,
secretary of the Hobe-Peters Land
company, brother of E. H. Hobe, who
was prominently mentioned as the
Democratic candidate for governor
prior to the state convention that NOM
mated John A. Johnson. The other
name has tyet been decided upon.
Delegations from Minneapolis yester-
day urged on the governor the respee-
tive claims of candidates for places in
the state labor bureau from that city.
Under the O'DonneI administration,
Minneapolis had deputy labor COM
missioner and two factory inspectors.
Leading Democrats of Hennepin coun-
try are urging the governor to give
their county the same representation
in the labor bureau as existed in the
past two years. There are said to be
not less than twenty applicants for the
three places. Louis Vogeler is one of
the Minneapolis men whose friends say
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After Duluth Jobs
A. C. Weiss, the Duluth Democratic
editor, was in conference with Gov.
Johnson yesterday regarding appointees
to the state departments from the
head of the lakes. A successor to j:
W. Allen, factory inspector appointed
from Duluth, will be named, and Cor
don ONeil and j. Nylander are rival
candidates for the place. Otto CAT
vert's successor as dairy and food in
spector for the Duluth district, will also
be named by Gov. Johnson. Harris
Bennett, A. M. Morrison and E. O.
Wollen are among the active candidates
for the berth.
"a very large percentage of the gov
ernor's callers today came to urge the
appointment of friends to positions in
the departments said Private Secre-
tary Frank A. Day last night The
contest for the offices has reached a
stage where the business of the gov
ernors Office cannot receive it's legiti-
mate attention. The governor has de-
termined to make his remaining ap-
pointments at once SO that he may
have time to consider other state af-
fairs. Why, today he has not had time
to read and answer a letter from the
governor of South Dakota. His entire
day has been taken up by callers who
came representing some candidate for
off