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BOTH CLAIM HONOR i Dispute Over Location of First i Press in Northwest. Minnesota and South Dakota Each ' Firm in the Belief That They Are In Possession of Historio Old Relic. The location of the first printing press in the Northwest is being disputed by two states, Minnesota and South Dakota, says a dispatch to the Minneapolis Journal. The historic printing press, an old | Washington hand-press, which, it is claimed, printed the first newspaper In the Northwest, is now in the hands of - rrv,^ the -Minnesota Historical suoeij. xnc Minnesota contention as to the history of the press is substantially as follows : "Its active career began back in 1836, when John King of Dubuque purchased it in Cincinnati. He arrived in Dubuque with the new press on May 1, 1S36. after a tedious trip on a river } .steamboat. The first issue of this paper, the Dubuque Visitor, appeared on May 11. It is said that the Visitor was the only paper north of St. Louis and west of the Mississippi river at that time. "The press, in 1843, for some reason or other, was sold to three representatives of a stock concern, J. Allen Barber, Daniel Benfill and Nelson Derby, who latter was to become Wisconsin's first governor. These men took the press across the river to Lancaster, Wis., to print the Grant County- Herald, of which L. O. Schrader was the z first edifpr. "The* Herald passed finally into the hands of James M. Goodhue, a lawyer by profession and a fighting editor of the old school. Goodhue in the spring of 1849 shipped his press up the river to St. Paul, Minn., where he founded the Pioneer, which years afterward became the Pioneer Press. "In IS.")") < the press passed into the hands of Jeremiah Russell, who took It , to Sauk Rapids to use in printing another pioneer venture, the Frontiersman. After that it changed hands frequently. It printed among other publications! the Sauk Valley Press conducted by Herman Muhlenberg, state adjutant general. The material of this publication was later sold to the Lindstroin Citizen, a Swedish newspaper. Shortly after this old press found its last home in the state museum in St. Paul. "Gov. Samuel J. Albright, associate editor of the St. Paul paper, purchased the press in 185S. carried it 400 miles across the prairies to Sioux Falls. Dakota Territory, where. July 3. ISoO, he established and printed the Dakota Democrat. "During the Indian hostilities of 1862. Sioux Falls was abandoned ana the Indians took possession of the place. They found the old press and broke It to pieces. The settlers found the fragments but could not put it together again. Senator R. F. Pettigrew of Sioux Falls is understood to have secured the plate and made from It a doorstep. "The South Dakota story has been verified satisfactorily so far as the South Dakota department is concerned, by Governor Albright, who wrote in regard to it that 'it was so stated, so understood and, I believe, so published upon its removal to Dakota.' "But, on the other hand, in the Minnesota museum stands a press which IS claimed to be the one in dispute. This one is simply constructed and from its appearance might have printed every pioneer newspaper in the Northwest. Whatever the true story of the identity of the press may be, It is well worth contention." The Right Man. One day as Dan Beard was going up the elevator in the high Flatiron building in New York city at the rear of the car was a messenger boy with his arms filled with a score of bundles all of the same size. Peering over the top of the ambuscade, he fixed his eyes steadily upon Mr. Beard. 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