Andy put up an interesting bit of St Paul history. Here is another bit,
tho 40 years later.
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THE CENSUS WAR WITH ST. PAUL
Illustrative of the varying elements in city building was the census war
of 1890 between- Minneapolis and St. Paul. Some of the solidest citizens
of Minneapolis were involved in that conflict; some of the results of
their enterprise included invasion and counter-invasion; and linked with
forcible seizure of census schedules by St. Paul was the expedition of
Minneapolis men which culminated in recovery of the kidnaped enumerators
and stolen schedules after one of their number, he asserted, had been
"kicked sixteen feet." It was inevitahle that a recount by the Government
followed, and the conclusion which the inspector of the census drew was
that Mlinneapolis and St. Paul had each been the scene of a conspiracy of
over-zealous citizens to "pad" the returns. Minneapolis, it was
asserted, had listed 20,000 too many inhabitants, and St. Paul had shown
enterprise in proportion to its relative population total. Out of the
warfare sprang up intensity of feeling which endured for many- years;
which for a decade made united action by the two cities impossible, and
which still flares up occasionally, but quite too frequently, in
inter-city contention.
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John Ferman
Harriet Avenue
Kingfield Neighborhood
Minneapolis
Ward 10 Pct 10
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