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n*jj4 "M .t. THE PRINCETON UNION By R. C. DUNN. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. TERMS, $1.00 Per Year in Advance. $1.25 If Not Paid in Advance. OFFICE FIRST ST EAST OF COURT HOUSE. a. 1. STAPLES, Business Manager. A. A. CASWELL, Editor. W E have licked Spain, and licked Cuba, and licked the Philippines, and what is more we are still licking rev enue stamps. IT costs us about $500,000,000 to lick Spain. Supposing that we should get into a war with a country that could fight how much would it cost us to lick ity EDITOK HnNDKRSON's plant at Vern dale citmo near being dostroyed by fire last week. Bro. Henderson has been getting out a warm newspaper, but no one anticipated such a result. DEBS seems to be attempting to break out of the "innocuous desuetude" into which he plunged a few years ago. He is heard from this week in New York where he spoke at a banquet at Delmonico'b HE beef investigation seems to have simmered down to a question of whether the worms were dead before the meat was canned or whether they died later from an inability to extract nutriment from the soldiers' bill of fare. ST PAUL, physicians are kept busy shoving \accme points under the skin of the frightened populace The pres ent epidemic of small pox is said to be due to the transmission of the germs in the Manila mail. This is one of the nice things our new possessions have brought us. Gov. LIND has discovered the need of a deficiency appropriation to enable the State to carry on its summer training schools this year and has sent a message to the legislature calling its attention to this need. Perhaps Mille Lacs will be able to secure a school after all. W. W. ERWIN, the Tall Pine of the North Star State" has moved to St. Louis, where he will take up the prac of his chosen profession, which is that of a criminal lawyer. With the raw material at hand, Mr. Erwin should have substantially the population of Missouri as his clients. HE house committee on appropria tions is bringing down upon itself the anathema of a great many individual members, by its disposition to kill everything that looks like a raid on the treasury, and by the same token is rendering itself immortally popular with the masses by course. HE board of control provided for in the bill now pending in the legislature has many admirable features, but none which will commend itself more favor ably to the public than the fact that it legislates out of existence that fos silized institution known as the board of corrections and charities. TUESDAY night the newspapers an nounced the death of John Sherman, the venerable Ohio statesman, but the news proved to be untrue. He is dan gerously ill, however, and may not be able withstand the attack. He is at present at sea, being one of the excur sionists who started for a tour of the Antilles I A. O'SHAUGHNESSY, the new in surance commissioner, appears to be quite well fitted for the duties of that position, and determinedly disposed to perform them. If he can be so fortu nate as to be the actual and absolute authority in the office, with none to molest him or make him afraid, his administration will be a credit to him self and to those who placed him there. A BILL has been introduced in the legislature requiring the use of an in dividual seal by notaries public. The seal that is now in use may be bor rowed, loaned and passed around among as many notaries as can use it, and possesses no more value than a cancelled postage stamp. A seal of any kind should carry with it some kind of responsibility, and should at least bear the name of the man who uses it. THERE must be something in the old adage that "Handsome is that handsome does" to account for some of Governor Lind's appointments. Some of the new faces at the capitol may be those of men who are honest, intelli gent and patriotic, but they certainly are not afflicted with the curse of per sonal pulchritude. Not to put too fine a point on it they are about as homely a lot as ever competed for first prize with a field of hedge-hogs. TH IS country is rapidly coming to the point where the intervention of the national government must come to the relief of the people in the suppression of trusts. State legislatures are willing enough to try it, but "when a State leg islature passes a law prohibiting deal ing in trust products it simply subjects that State to all the evils of the trust system with none of the advantages. Congress itself must step in and regu late the trust, or the first thing wo know the trust will be regulating con gress. THOSE soldiers of the Fifteenth who wore looking for trouble a few weeks ago appear to have found it. Eight of the ring-leaders in the recent mutiny have been given dishonorable dis charges and sentenced to confinement in military prisons for terms ranging from six months to eight years. Gen. Young gave the officers of the regi ments a rich brown roast for the weak ness displayed in handling these toughs, and intimated that if the regi ment had not been ordered mustered out there would bo further courts mar tial and the enlisted men would not be the victims, either. HE Populist and Democratic papers of the State are shocked almost into insensibility by the publication in a Republican papers of a series of syndi cate letters, prepared apparently for the purpose of reflecting upon the Democratic end of the State adminis tration. There are perhaps a dozen Republican papers which have pub lished these letters, and probably ten times that many Democratic papers are habitually publishing strictly edi torial correspondences from the Dem ocratic press bureau whose mission it is to boom "Lind for governor and Bry'n for 3900." As usual it all de pends upon the point of view. THERE is a good deal of discussion among the politicians and newspapers relative to the selection of a Republi can candidate for governor two years hence, and all sorts of material is be ing offered. Several members of the present congressional delegation have been mentioned in the usual flattering way, and a whole army of dark horses may be found in waiting ready to have the honor thrust upon them, but the campaign of 1900 is not going to be conducted on the grab-bag plan, where you take your chances on get ting something for nothing or nothing for something, according as your luck may run. The year 1900 will bring Republican victories with it, and it will also bring an era of getting back to first principles and down close to the people. &** QUITE a number of the papers in the State object to the bill making the railroad and warehouse commission elective upon the theory that it will then become a strictly political body. Does anybody happen to know of the time when it was not a political body? True, it must have at least one mem ber who is of a political body opposed to the administration, but the admin istration nover has had and never will have any difficulty in finding men, even in an opposite party, who will obey its mandates. The people are to be trusted with the selection of a rail road commissioner, the same as with governor and judges of the supreme cmirt, and if they could have a direct voice in the matter they would also elect to elect United States senators by the same process. IN agreeing on a compromise meas ure looking to the ultimate building of insane hospitals at Anoka and Hast ings, the house of representatives has probably gone as far as could have been expected of it at this session, though we contended that it would have been as well to have provided at once for the erection of the two hos pitals. The care of the insane is the State's burden and one which must be carried at any cost. With the hos pitals already provided and the ad ditional ones at Anoka and Hastings, all that should have been necessary, for the next 20 years is the bi-ennial provision for new buildings to accom modate the increasing population. It will probably in the end be found that the Anoka and Hastings hospitals will practically absorb the insane popula tion of Minneapolis and St. Paul, and their locations so close to the cities will meet all the requirements as to transportation and accommodation. There should be no hesitancy on the part of the senate in passing the house bill since it at least disposes of the hateful proposition of county asylums, which seems to be the only alterna tive. HE Benson Times fell victim to the wiles of one L. E. Crane, well known in this section, and presented its read ers with one of his silver quill editions. &THE ^RmCETOir UNld^P EDITOPj^ Paragraphs A Collected at Our 4 rt, Exchange 4, Table. 4V%- WE APOLOGIZE. In its last issue the Princeton ,tJNjON gives this paper credit Ipr an item opposing the proposed parole of the Younger brothers. The paragraph quoted never appeared in the Sun, for this paper has favored the measure on the ground that it would temper justice with mercy.MorHs Sun. S* WOULD TRADE. It is understood that during the con gressional recess the Minnesota mem bers will do a lot of figuring on the gubernatorial succession. Every one of the boys would be willing to ex change their congressional mantle for the gubernatorial dress suit, and give some odds.Ortonville Herald-Star. j. .j. .j. TOWNE NOT SATISFIED. The Minneapolis Journal has discov ered that many Duluth Democrats and silver Republicans are opposed to Towne's renomination for congress next year. Two defeats ought to be enough for any man but Towne, soon after the election, announced that he would again be a candidate, though he did not add the customary condition "subject to the action of the conven tion."Howard Lake Herald. $- PRINCETON'S HARVEST. The farmers in the vicinity of Prince ton are reaping a big harvest in dol lars from last year's crop of potatoes, they bringing from 40 to 60 cents a bushel in that village. That is the advantage of an established market and raising what the market wants. The farmers of Anoka, Elk River and Princeton have made big money in the past dozen years from potatoes.Si. Cloud Journal-Press. PEOPLE WOULD APPROVE. Thei'e is no longer a public senti ment that demands the further incar ceration of the Younger brothers, and the bill providing for their parole would be passed by an overwhelming majority if submitted to the people for their approval. If twenty years of penal serviture are not sufficient ex piation of their crime, their imprison ment was a too merciful sentence, and if twenty years of exemplary conduct constitutes no evidence of reform, then reform is a myth, and punishmeht the only object of incarceration.Si. Paul Dispatch. & A VILE INSINUATION. Any time Senator Stock well and. the twin cities get ready to secede from the state they can have our permis sion. But please leave the trough. Duluth News-Tribune. *J* $- OUR PATRIOTIC SOLDIERS. There is a soldier out in the Philip pines, and he hails from Kansas, who has written home to the following effect: "I do not pretend to say whether our government should keep the Phil ippines or not: I do not think it would pay me to do it, but let men appointed for that purpose decide the question. If they do, I am not one to shirk my duty in holding them against the world." Say what you like, that is the spirit that makes the American soldier the peer of any other on the face of the earth.Pioneer Press A GOOD BILL. The so-called "five-sixths jury bill" championed in the house by Mr. Wheaton and by an emphatic vote recommended to pass, is a step in the direction of jury reform that will meet with general approval. In their vote for the constitutional amendment authorizing the change the people have already expressed their wish and the passage of this bill by the legisla ture will only be in obedience to the command of the "sovereigns."' The bill provides that if, after twelve hours' deliberation a jury in a civil case can not agree, ten of its members shall be empowered to render a verdict under this law it will require three men in stead of one to hang a jury. This will prove a damper to some extent on that flourishing industry known as "jury fixing." Not only will it cost more to ''fix" three jurors than one, but there will be greater danger of exposure. But besides its advantages as a deter rent to the practice of tampering with jurors, it will serve to expedite busi ness in civil cases. A verdict by ten is just as likely to be fair as a verdict by twelve. The bill will be conducive to honesty in t,he disposition of jury cases and should speedily become a iatf.- -Mirvneaptilfc -Times. THIJBSDAWMABCH STATE LEGISLATURE. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15. ___ The entire afternoon session in the house was devoted to the insane hospital light and the question was still unset-, tied wherithat body adjourned. The Argetsinger bill, H. F. 359, which Increases the state appropriations for rural, graded, semi-graded and state high schools, and which, creates a state high school board, as well as bringing about other reforms and improvements in the pnblic school system of Mipne eota, passed the house by a vote of 82 to 30. The bill came up as a special order and, as passed, increases the annual ap propriation for state aid of schools from $80,000, the present sum, to $162,000, or a total increase of $74,000. Nearly the entire morning session of the senate was devoted to a discussion ot Mr. Daugherty's bill licensing ped dlers. As introduced the bill provided that all peddlers must pay a license of $3 a day, $20 a month or $100 a year in every township where they operate. Many amendments were offered and de feated, but one by Senator Everett, which fixes the license at $] per day, $10 per month and $50 per year, wad adopted without opposition. The bill was then recommended to pass bv a vote of 32 to i7. THURSDAY, MARCH 16. The house has settled the insane hos pital question, so far as that body is concerned, by passing the Staples com promise bill establishing a district asylum at Anoka and appropriating $15,000 for the purchase of a site at Hastings. The Gnndeland bill regulating tho business of commission men passed the senate at the morning session by a votw of 34 to 22. The fight on this bill, even to the finish, was a struggle between the country and cities. The special order for the afternoon, the insane hospital bills, was postponed until Tuesday next on motion of Sena tor Schaller. The friends of the bill which has for its object the parole of the Younger brothers brought it to the front at the afternoon sesion of the senate and de voted several hours to its discussion. Senator Wilson, its author, spoke at length on the measure and related inci dents showing the "manly conduct of the Youngers." Senator WilsOn still occupied the floor when the senate ad journed. FRIDAY, MARCH 17. The senate transacted very little busi ness, a long row over the fee system occupying most of the time. The Wil son bill, placing the office of oil inspec tor on a salary of $2,400, was finally placed on general orders. Upon motion of Senator Underleak the vote on the Chilton meat inspection bill, which, adopting the recommenda tion of the committee, was killed, was reconsidered, and the bill has a place on general orders. The senate judiciary committee killed S. P. 431, by Stockwell proposing an amendment to the constitution allowing the initiative and referendum. A long fight was caused" "over a mo tion to adjourn in order to visit the agricultural station at St. Anthony Park. It was first voted down but on reconsideration carried by a bare margin. H. F. 337, by Dwinnell of Hennepin, caused a prolonged debate in the house at the morning session. The bill pro vided that the state board of equaliza tion consist of three members from the seven congressional districts, or 21 in all, instead of one from each judicial district as now. The four senate bills by Senator Brower, relating to the state reforma tory, were placed on the calendar in the house MONDAY, MARCH 20. The Senate has recommended for pas sage the Wilson parole bill,which will, if it gets throngh both houses, release the Younger brothers from the Stillwater penitentiary. The vote was 33 to 19, with 12 members absent or not voting. Senator Stockwell made a final plea for the initiative and referendum, but the report of the judiciary committee killing the bill was adopted. Bills passed allowing incorporation of the grand lodge of United Workmen, authorizing bicycle insurance com panies and providing for purchase of municipal bonds for permanent school and university funds. The house cleared the calendar of house bills and then went to work on general orders, but only succeeded in disposing of three measures. Wheaton's five-sixths jury bill was favorably rec ommonded. Among the measures passed was one submitting to a vote of the people an amendment to the constitution provid ing for loaning state school funds on unencumbered farm lands. TUESDAY, MARCH 21. The Horton bill relating to the new capitol building, received a setback by a refusal of the house in committee of the whole to favorably report it. The opposition, however, consented to a re port Of progress. The house attendance was very small, only a few measures getting through by unanimous consent. At the morning session ot the senate 18 bills were passed, among them the following: To establish a drainage commission and to provide for the drainage of the swamp and marshy lands of the statei Establishing a probation system foi juvenile delinquents. Two senators occupied the entire aft ernoon discussing a plan for caring foi the state insane in the future. Senator Barker appeared in behalf ot a now hospital at Anoka and the pur chase of a site at Hastings. Senator Knatvold advocated the county system which is in vogue in Wisconsin, and ooth gentlemen agreed that the present hospitals were sadly overcrowded. From that point, however, they took divergent routes.* 23^ 189* T, H. Caley's new metal ceiling has received a coat 6f paint this week and now presents a very* ^finished appear ance, i **n* Mr. Etinger, who formerly conducted the stopping place at Page, has come to Princeton to remain this summer. He expects to engage in farming in this vicinity. In the list of marriage licenses is sued in Hennepin county last Tuesday appears the name of a young lady of Milaoa. E. G. Cook secured a license to marry Pearl C. McCuaig. For a few days there will be a splen did opportunity to secure bargains be yond comparison at Mark's Great Bar gain Store. A closing out sale of winter goods is in progress. Emil Fischer, another of company M's boys, has offered his services to Uncle Sam and will probably enter the hospital corps. Le reported to the recruiting officer this moraing. The attention of our readers is called to the ad of the "Burlington" on this page in which is offered a splendid map of the United States for the low price of 15 cents, which barely covers the cost of packing and mailing. The attorney for the North British Insurance company last week offered Anson Howard $400 to settle his loss which is now in litigation but Mr. Howard could not see why he should settle for 50 cents on the dollar and re fused the offer. Don't forget to vote next Tuesday. It is your duty to express yourself on the question of putting in electric lights and waterworks and your vote bhould be recorded either for or against the proposition. Don't stay at home and then blame somebody be cause things didn't go to suit you. The new lease of sleighing has given the farmers an excellent opportunity to finish thtir contracts for wood which so many of them made at the opening of the winter. Last year many were caught with their contracts unfulfilled when the snow went off and were forced to finish hauling on wheels at a great loss. Auditor Whitney reports that the county officials are experiencing con siderable trouble with the newly elected town officers. The town clerks, treas urers, assessors and justices are all re quired to file surety bonds with some of the county officers and the revenue law makes it necessary that each of these bonds should bear a fifty cent revenue stamp. Many of the officers overlook this either from ignorance of the requirements or through careless ness and the officials with whom they are to file their bonds find it necessary to return them for correction, making an aggravating delay for all concerned. i Harvey Robideau, the fourteen year old son of Louis Robideau, of Green bush, was the victim of a painful ac cident last Tuesday. He was out in the woods cutting cordwood and by a misdirected blow struck the ax into his right foot. The great toe was split beyond the third joint* the bone being cleanly cut, and Dr. Armitage, who attended him, was forced to take beveral stitches in the wound. While the doctor expressed some douot as to the ultimate result, it is hoped that no disability will occur from the cut. The young man will be laid up for re pairs for six weeks or two months if no complications set in. From a news dispatch we learn that a committee has visited Mille Lacs lake to select a site for a colony. The committee represented the Niksur Co operative Association, of Minneapolis, and the colony will be a sort of social istic community. The site which met with the rommittee's approval is situ ated on the southeast shore of the lake near Lawrence postoffice and it is said that arrangements will be made to buy the tract at once. Another community is to be located at Groundhouse by a southern society. The mills, stores and other enterprises will be estab lished and conducted by the members of the colony. United States Man. A I A copy of our handsome map, 48x38 J A inches, printed in four colois and J fr-! +m mounted on a roller, will be sent to M\Jp\PW any address on receipt of 15 cents in coin, postal or expressmoney order. We cannot well nse.postage stamps. GEO. P. LYMAN, Gen eral Passenger Agent B. & R., St. Paul, M'au.. First Publication Mar. 28,1899. STATEe OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OP Mill Lacs,ss. In Probate Court Special Term, March 83,1899. in the matter of the estate of Stephen Larson, deceased Whereas, an instrument in writing, purport ing to be the last will and testament of Stephen Larson, deceased, late of said county, has been delivered to this court and Whereas, Charles Larson, has tiled there with bis petition, representing among other things that said Stephen Larson died in said county, on the 23rd day of February, 1899, tes tate, and that said petitioner Js the executor nameft in said last will and testament, and, praying that the said instrument may be ad mitted to probate, and that letters testament ary bo to him issued thereon, It is ordered, that the proofs of said instru ment, and said petition be heard before this court, at the probate office in said county on the 1.4th day of April. A. I). 1899, at 1 clock in the afternoon, when all persons interested may appear foi, or contest the probate of said in strument. And it is further ordered, that notice of the time and place of said hearing be given to all persons interested, by publishing this order once in each week, for three successive weeks prldrtosaidday of hearing, in the Princeton Union a weekly newspaper printed and pub lished at Princeton in said county. Dated at Princeton the 22nd day of March, A. D. 1899. By the court, 4 O B. M. VANALSTBIN, [Probate Seal Judge of Probate. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. *?J c.'TArobx.'ALa, f#aF PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Member of StatEexBoard sJf Medical Examiners.offlceOT* ofmonthf KeSX ?minin Boar meetslstaa i wL?Jf?sioe aC] Princeton, inn.Vl *T L. ARMITAGE, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. (Successor to H. C. Cooney, M. D.) Undergraduate of Trinity College, Dublin Queen's College. Belfast, Royal University. Ireland, and Medico Chirurlgical College of Philadelphia. Office in Townsend's Block, Over Drug Store. Princeton. Minn. jyi L. CORMANY, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in Townsend Block. Princeton, Einn. J.A. ROSS, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in Carew Block, Main Street, Princeton. J.L. BRADY, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Offices at Princeton, Minn and 306 Globe Bldg Minneapolis, Minn. BUSINESS CARDS. *T|/ILLIAM KALIHER," BARBER SHOP & BATH ROOMS. A fine line of Tobacco and Cigars. Main Street, Princeton. A C. SMITH'S OLD RELIABLE MEAT MARKET Is the place to get choice fresh and salt meats. I deal in the best and my prices are reasonable. First door west of Citizens State Bank. First Street Princeton. R. D. BYER5, Dry Goods, Groceries, Hats, Caps, Shoes, Glassware, Crockery. {^Special Sale every Fri day. It will pay you to watch these sales. PRINCETON, MINN X++++ O H.BUCK O.J CRAVENS BUCK &. CRAVENS, Blacksmiths. All kinds of Blacksmithing neatly and promptly done. We make a specialty of HORSESHOEING and PLOW WORK. Firsi street i SLEDS AND= !CUTTERS 4 1 V} PRINCETON. I Manufactured and Repaired by. PETERSON & NELSON. 4 4 4 4 4 Satisfaction guaranteed in Woodwork as well as in Blacksmithing Horse=Shoeing a Specialty Op. Sadlej Mill. FXCURSION PATES TO WESTERN CANADA AND particulars how to secure 160 acres of the best wheat-growing land on the Continent can be secured on application to the Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to the undersigned specialty Gonducied Excursions For Mob a, Assiiioio, Alberta and Saskatchewan will leave St. Paul, Minn, on the first and third Wednes days in each month and specially low rates on all lines of railway are being quoted for the mammoth excursion leaving St Paul on April 5th Guv Ewmg, Local Agent, Princeton, Minn.' Typhoid Fever and all kindred ail ments prevented and cured by the Use of Beggs' Little Giant Pills. We keep them. Prank G. Danielson, Druggist. There is no medicine that has yet been discovered that has virtues de serving to be compared with Dr. Saw yer's Wild Cherry and Tar, for bad cases of Chronic Bronchitis, Consump tion, or any congh or cold. For sale by F. G. Danielson. *r Rubber shoes, rubber coats and macintoshes for men and w.onjen at LUDDEN'S SHOE STORE. t 4r t-a PRANK PETERSON N. M. NELSON 4* y^