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4! S upon the floor, resisting any suggestion, of food. Through delirious eyes he saw the blaze, which Lincoln contrived to start in the chimney, interlace sticks piled there months before in readiness for a first house-warming. Lincoln was on his knees blowing it when he heard Slicky Green panti through the door: 'Are you here, Abe? You're wanted' at the tavern." "What's the matter at the tavern?" The Grove boys are coming to [throw everything out of doors if you 'don't give that Lorimer man the Span iard and her money." "How do you know?" "Martha Bell Clary slipped off on her father's horse and brought word." "Where's Dick?" "He's looking somewhere else for Sou." Lincoln stood up and glanced at Antywine, who had suffered, but was unable to fight, resting like a log at the hearth corner. "Poor Antywine!" he whispered, and carefully shut the door as he went out to settle the unconscious boy's fate. The self-appointed censors of the Grove had once wrecked a store in New Salem, and kicked the merchandise about the street. The population of the village was about 100 souls, few of -whom could be mustered as fight ing men while the Grove males were all fighting men. The night was starlit and cloudless, but there was no moon. Dull panes of oiled paper revealed candles in some houses, but a hush like expectation seemed to stretch along the unseen windings of the street. When the Grove boys mounted for a raid of any sort they usually rode at full gallop, yelling like Indians. Lincoln was ahead of, Slicky Green in the race to the tavern, when both stopped, halted by a pro cession, with lanters. There had been no noise oi shouting and no crash of destruction. The quiet approach of the company seemed worse than its ordi rary rioting. "They didn't stop at the tavern!" whispered Slicky Green. They had been to the tavern, for Dick Yates, bareheaded, was leading them peaceably away from it, walking in front ot the cavalcade and a girl's figure could be discerned sitting upon a led horse. The velvet dust of a illage road muffled the tread of hoofs. But along house fronts on each side, where footpaths were marked by daily use, sounded the uneven patter of many feet. Men, women and children of New Salem, suffered to witness what they could not prevent, were hovering around Lincoln and the little Spaniard. He thought he saw Ann Rutledge, in her short-sleeved house dress, her face showing white and anxious through the dark and Minter Grayham, whose haggardness and puny strength the Grove boys would have laughed at if opposed to them. "Here is Abe Lincoln," announced Yates and as if he had given a com mand to halt, the company halted. "Here I am" said Lincoln. "Do you want me?" Dick and Slicky stood beside him in the middle of the road. "My friends and I" spoke a voicg with a foreign accent, "have an af fair of two minutes with you. You liave somewhere a snakeskin purse belonging to my cousin, Consuelo Lorimer. Bring it and you shall not be injured." "But if I did she'd be injured!" "Don't let them take me, Mr Lin- coln!" besought Peggy from the midst of the riders. "I will not go! Where's Antywine?" "Boys, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves!" "We didn't come out for a speech, Abe," mocked Redmond Clary. "And I'm not practicing polemics." "You get the girl's money and hand it over "Yon let her out of that gang." The gang growled. "We Pave a crowd and you have just two backers. New Salem people can't do anything. We don't want to hurt you, Abe, unless we have to." "String him up like a horsethief!" cried a man at the rear. "Are you going to hand over tha Spaniard's money?" "No, I'm not," replied Lincoln. "Ride him down!" cried another, and the horses were spurred forward. Some women and children shrieked in fright as the three young fellows were driven in retreat to Antywine's cabin and sprang upon the chest of drawers, Standing close together with that short rostrum under their feet, they faced about the ring of horsemen who drew up around them. The perforated tin lanterns showered drops of yellow light on trampled grass. Behind the men's heads and shoulders were a void of trees and the starlit sky, and the ex-, cited murmur of New Salem. Lincoln towered in the midst of the circle. He could dimly see the Spanish girl, and he remembered for one instant how Antywine lay exhausted within the cabin. She was looking for tha last time at what was to have been her home, and wondering, with an ach.9 of grief worse than her terror of the ruffians, what had become of thq gentle housemate who had nevr be fore failed to take her part. "Now men, listen to me one minute,' exclaimed Dick Yates. 'We're not here to listen," ruled the leader. "These boys ought to be put out,' one man insisted. "We don't waa' them." "Let my cousin's property be rei stored to her," spoke Pedro Lorimer, "without delay." "And who are you?" demanded Yates, the beauty of his rosy youth, which had been felt rather than seen, changing suddenly to the power of a man with irresistible magnetism. His voice rolled out across the wall of rough faces. His eyes had scathing lights. His unwilling listeners raised their lanterns to look at him. "I have been gathering facts about you Cor more than a year. You are a New Or leans gambler. You ply your trade under cover of some political scheme about Cuba, a place you never saw. All you want of the poor young girl sitting on the horse beside you, is the handful of money her father contrived to hide from you. You think it is a very large sum. It is about two thousand dollars. If it hadn't been for poor old Shickshack you would have robbed her long ago. You paid Shick shack's half crazy, avaricious wife to send you word where he could be found, every time he moved to get rid of you. "These men wouldn't send a child as helpless as one of their own sisters vrith you, if they knew you. You play the grandee before them. And in the west we always have backed a man up in taking his own when his rights were denied. But the only right you have in this community is to be dipped in the Sangamon!" Lincoln, who had seen a knife thrown at Antywine's head for fewer words, kept his eye guarding the indistinct movements of the Spaniard. An un easy tremor ran around what had been a dead wall of antagonism. But un fortunately Mahala Cameron's father now lifted his voice from the back ground, and in the character of min ister exhorted Redmond Clary to draw his followers homeward and cease abetting the ungodly. Redmond Clary turned on him and told him to go home himself, or he might be neatly laid be side his daddy in the Concord burying ground. One word had swiftly followed another while Lincoln gauged the force drawn around him. His hair was rumpled over the arch of his head. His strong nose and clean-cut neck and the outward curving of his lips showed by fitful light above his shorter com panions. Some radiation from his personality made one of the men ex claim: "Abe, we know you're honest. But if you're too stubborn to hand over that money we've got a barrel at the mill all ready to roll you into the river." "Wait!" said Lincoln, stretching out a long fore finger. Pedro Lorimer hissed at him: "I do not wait while boys practice speeches! I could myself in return call my enemies names. This is not what was promised me." "What Red Clary promised you," stated Lincoln with intuition which amounted to knowledge, "was if you would cancel his gambling debts he would make me hand over the little Spaniard's money." Redmond Clary flung himself off his horse and ran at his accuser. The time for words was past. If the figure towering above them all had stood with less assurance, the raging leader might have led his mob to a cruel murder. But Lincoln's humorous eya spread a contagion of smiles as he caught the bull-bodied champion of tha Grove by the collar and flung that mus cular bulk across the ring to cool. There was to be a fight. The men drew deep inhalations of enjoyment. For ever since Abraham Lincoln ap peared in New Salem they had wanted to see him matched with Red Clary. Lincoln knew he was about to succeed or fail with the only argument which could move those to whom might was right. Eloquent and convincing words had to be backed by a man who could master his listeners. He was tired and supperless. The Spanish girl leaned down on her horse's neck, unconscious ly uttering prayers aloud for her champion. The struggle would be over in a few minutes, but if Red Clary whipped him her future lay in unknown and terrible places. That Antywine was missing seemed a token that the worst must be in store for her. She was in the grip of an evil force. Both men threw off their round abouts and vests. Lincoln faced his two companions, making them a screen, and hurriedly unfastened the belt of gold which he wore under his shirt, and put it in his hat. This he gave to Slicky Green, who held it, while Yates stood guard. "You were cut out for a banker, Slicky," said Lincoln. "I wasn't. I might burst the snakeskin and spill the money." His opponent rushed at him like a mastiff let loose, and Peggy doubled herself lower upon the horse's neck. She heard the impact of blows, which sent shudder after shudder down her body, and the panting of spent breath. The Grove boys set up a yell, and she stuffed the horse's mane into her ears. The big muscular bully who had made everybody in the Sangamon country afraid of him, and shaped public opinion for the Grove, was taking some cruel advantage of a clean wrestler, un used to sledge-hammer brutality. Then a hush penetrated even the horsehair, and Peggy looked as Lincoln knocked Red Clary flat beneath the chin of a startled animal. He fell against its hoofs, and being pulled into the clear space by one of his friends, lay still. "I reckon," said Lincoln, pulling his own shirt collar wider open, and sitting on the chest of drawers to breathe, "he has the wind knocked out of him." "Goody!" Peggy's own cry of thanks giving was the first sound heard by the vanquished man. He sat up, blink ing at those who had seen him humbled. Lincoln bent over until his body de scribed a right angle, and shook one long horizontal arm at the unim paneled jury who would have to render verdict in this first case which Yates and he had associated themselves to win. "A boy," he panted, "is like a white dress: soil him, and he can be washed and made clean again. But a girl is like a glass bottle: if you let her fall. or throw her down and break her, she is broken forever. Now, men, are you determined to have this poor little bottle destroyed?' Tfcere is often g^eecS. ^aftere titers. la BJB9HBBS no language heard and Pedro "Lorimer knew he stood by himself from that instant. He spurred his horse toward Slicky to seize the bat and break away with it But Antywine darted out of the cabin and across the open space like a stroke of light, intercepting the Spaniard. His eyes large with fever, and his high features impassioned, he had almost the beauty of an apparition. As the two encountered, Antywine seized the horse's bits and jerked it to its haunches. He and Pedro Lori mer stared at each other. Before the rider found his balance again Lincoln asked v/ith whimsical significance: "Boys, how would any of you like to get up out of chill-and-fever, and find all Clary's Grove helping a stranger rob you of your own dear gal?" A sympathetic and sheepish grin seemed to relax as much as could be seen of every rude face and Pedro Lorimer, throwing away caution, spurred over Antywine. The boy fell, and leaped up, understanding it wa3 a struggle for Peggy. A whirlpool of shouts and plunging horses, and men scrambling to mount, drove all watchers back. Even Redmond Clary's voice was heard, denouncing "AND LOOK OUT FEARFULLY FOR A DREADED FACE." the man whose part he had taken. The crowd that had come down New Salem street seeking Lincoln went back driv ing Pedro Lorimer. Horrified as New Salem people were by threatened violence, they were un able to refrain from cheering. They crowded to the chest of drawers, where, left stranded as by a stormy tide, sat Peggy and Antywine. He held the hat and snakeskin which Slicky Green thrust into his keeping before following the ebb. The pair clung together, hearkening to no voices but their own, as two robins escaping from soma peril of man, might have felicitated and comforted each other. The air was fresh like the breath of the sea after a hot land breeze has gone by. Mounted all three upon the horso from which Lincoln had flung Peggy to Antywine, Lincoln and Yates, and Slicky filling its back from mane to tail, made the best haste they could to the Sangamon. They stood at the top of the terraced bank while Pedro Lori mer was rolled down in a barrel. Three times, tradition has it, the unhappy wretch took his plunge, and came bobbing up like a buoy. Then Lincoln and Yates, and the cooling effect of the water on those who had him to pull out, succeeded in moderat ing popular rage against him. He was turned loose, and his horse whipped In the direction of Springfield, with emphatic assurance that the barrel would be kept for him, and if he ever came back would be put to its final usa as his floating coffin. Don Pedro Lorimer was never seen again in that country. When Peggy and Antywine were married, and keep ing house in their own cabin, she used sometimes to part her white curtains at night, and look out fearfully for a dreaded face. But happiness and se curity become a habit, and she loved after awhile to tell her own story. Years later the two who had steered her destinyAbraham Lincoln and Rich ard Yatesbegan to steer the destinies of a nation and a state, and the Span iard of New Salem grew to experience the grateful awe of a person who has been \isited unawares by strong angels. THE END. A Amusing- Incident. An incident during the royal visit to Edinburgh, which was the cause of a good deal of amusement at the time, occurred on the occasion of the con ferring of the accolade by the king on one of the newly made knights. The worthy citizen, when placing himself upon his knees in order to receive the all-important tap on the shoulder from the royal sword, knelt down in the flurry of the moment at such a distance from the king's chair that he was quite out of reach. A sign was made to him by some one in attendance to approach nearer, whereupon the good man, with out rising to his feet, shuffled along on his knees until he got within the required distance. His majesty ex pressed his interest by a genial smile, while his gracious consort held up to berface an enormous bouquetModern Society. Chase Brook Cemetery. The Chase Brook Cemetery associa tion has been organized. At a meet ing held on the last day of October at Chase Brook school house in dis trict No. 20 a cemetery association was organized with the following trus tees: Three years, Gust A. Hjort two years, Alfred Olson one year, Fred Aalquist. All parties who buy lots are entitled to membership in association. tn mmm, THE PBINCETCXN UNION: THURSDAY, ^OVEMBEB 12, 1903. BRITT DEFEATS SEIGER. Bloody Lightweight Boxing Match at San Francisco. San Francisco, Nov. 11.Jimmy Britt, the California lightweight, se cured the decision over Charley Sei ger oft Nee a1 1 Du a an York. no the th fourteentAt rounstage Britof had contest was the issue in doubt. In lead. He outpointed, outboxed clea outgenerallecl Sieger at every Stage of the game. Britt created havoc with Seiger's stomach with left hooks which he landed time and again. He varied during the latter stages of the contest by working his left to the face and soon had Seiger bleeding copiously from nose and mouth. Britt timed his blows to a nicety and seldom failed to reach some portion of Seiger's anatomy. Tiie fourteenth round was the only one in which Seiger had a chance. Toward the close of this IOVVA he succeeded in landing two will ...v.. gs on the Californian's jaw, izv tially flooring him and the ond sending him to his knees. The bell rang at this stage, but Britt went to his corner without showins fcic,ns of distress. He came up fresh in the fifteenth round and once more began his plan of outpointing the Easterner. From this on Britt seemed to grow fresher and as the fight advanced there was a noticeable increase in the power behind his blows. Seiger put up a game fight and his ability to take punishment was mar velous. Time and again he seemed on the verge of going out for good, but al ways came back and forced the fight ing. Britt left the ring without a mark, while Seiger presented a pitia ble aspect. His mouth, nose and eyes were badly cut and his body plainly showed the effect of Britt's left hooks. Convicted of Double Murder. St. Joseph, Mo., Nov. 11.Fred Irle, aged twenty, was given a sentence of thirty years in prison at Savannah, fourteen miles from here, by a jury, for the murder of Henry Speth and Guy Shilham of Platteville, Wis. The crime was committed July 20, 1900. All were runaway beys traveling to gether. The double murder occurred in a boxcar attached to a train. Wisconsin Postoffice Robbed. Merrimac, Wis., Nov. 11.Four burglars overpowered the only police man of this place and, after robbing him and locking him up in the town jail, blew open the postoffice safe, rifled it of its contents and fled. The burglars secured about $1,000 and val uables belonging to the postmaster. Dan Patch Paces a Mile in 2:03y4. Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 11.Dan Patch paced a mile on a half-mile track during the afternoon in 2:0314:,here lowering the only world's rec ord for pacers outstanding against him. The record previous to this was 2:03Vs. held by Prince Alert. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. A dispatch to the London Daily Mail from Tientsin says that Russian sol diers in Korea have been withdrawn. Judge Loren W. Collins of the Min nesota supreme court is a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor of that state. Sandy Ferguson was given the de cision over Joe Walcott after fifteen rounds of fast, clean fighting before the Criterion club, Boston. The condition of Commissioner General of Immigration Frank P. Sar gent is reported as very much better. A steady improvement is n~ted. Theodore Mueller, a juror in the Grand Rapids (Mich.) circuit court, collapsed during the hearing of a case and died in two minutes of fatty de generation of the heart. Cresceus failed in his effort to lower the world's trotting record of 2:08 for a mile on a half-mile track held by himself, going the distance in 2:12% on the Kansas City Driving club's track. Preliminary return to the chief of the bureau of statistics of the depart ment of agriculture on the production of corn in 190P. indicate a total yield of about 2,313,000,000 bushels, or an average of 25.8 bushels per acre. MARKET QUOTATIONS. Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, Nov. 10.WheatDec., 77y8c. On trackNo. 1 hard, 79%c No. 1 Northern, 78y8c No. 2 North ern, 76%c No. 3 Northern, 69%@74c. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth. Nov. 10.WheatTo arrive No. 1 hard, 79%c No. 1 Northern, 7814c No. 2 Northern, 75%c. On trackNo. 1 Northern, 78^0 No. 2 Northern, 75%c No. 3 spring, 72%c Dec, 74% May, 76%c. FlaxIn store, on track, to arrive, Nov. and Dec, 94%c May, 98%c. St. Paul Union Stock Yards. St. Paul, Nov. 10.CattleGood to choice steers, $3.75@5.00 common to fair, $3.25@3.65 good to choice cows and heifers, $2.75@3.50 veals, $2.00 @5.25. Hogs$4.05@4.85. Sheep Good to choice lambs, $4.25@4.50 fair to choice, $3.75@4.25 good to choice wethers, $3.25@3.50 heavy, $3.00@3.25. Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, Nov. 10.CattleGood to prime steers, $4.80@5.70 poor to me dium, $3.40@4.7o stockers and feed ers, ?2.00@4.25 cows, $1.50@4.25 heifers, $2.00@4.75 calves, $2.50@ 7.25. HogsMixed and butchers, $4.60 @5.00 good to choice heavy, $4.70@ 5.00 rough heavy, ?4.25@4.60 light, $4.50@4.95. SheepGood to choice wethers. $3.10@4.25 western sheep, $2.50@4.25 native lambs, $3.50@ 5.75 western lambs, $3.75@5.40. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, Nov. 10.WheatDec, 77%c old, 77%c May, 77%c July, 73%. CornNov., 42%c Dec, 42%c May, 42i@42%c: Jan., 42%c. Oats Nov.. 35y8c Dec, 34%c May, 35%c July, 33 %c. PorkJan., $11.75 May, $11.85. FlaxCash, Northwest, 95%c Southwest. 91c December, 91c May, 96c. ButterCreameries, 15@21%c dairies, 14@18%c. PoultryTurkeys, 12c: chickens, 9c springs, 10%c Dissolution of Partnership, Notice is hereby given that the part nership heretofore existing under the firm name of Kittilson & Ingebritson has this day been dissolved by mutual consent, and S. Kittilson will continue the business in the future in his own name. All parties knowing themselves to be indebted to the firm of Kittilson & Ingebritson will please call and set tle. Mr. Ingebritson will remain with the firm until its affairs are settled up. S. Kittilson, 48-3t E. G. Ingebritson. First Publication Nov. 12,1903. QTATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF Mille Lacs.ss. In Probate Court. Special Term, November 0th. 1803. In the matter of the estate of Lulu Myrtle Hissam, deceased. Letters of administration on the estate of Lulu Myrtle Hissam. deceased, late of the county of Mille Lacs and State of Minnesota, being granted to George McClure, It is ordered, that six months be and the same is hereby allowed from and after the date of this order, in which all persons having claims or demands against the said deceased are re quired to file the same in the probate court of said county, for examination and allowance, or be forever barred. It is further ordered, that the 12th day of May, 1904. at 10 o'clock A. M., at a special term of said probate court, to be held at the probate office in the court house in the village of Princeton in said county, be and the same hereby are appointed as the time and place when and where the said probate court will examine and ad3ust said claims and demands. x\nd it is further ordered, that notice of such hearing be given to all creditors and persons interested in said estate by forthwith publish ing this order once in each week for three suc cessive weeks in the Princeton Union a weekly newspaper printed and published at Princeton, in said county. Dated at Pi-inceton. Minn., this 6th dav of No vember. A. D. 1903 By the Court, rT^ [Probate Seal.] STATEe M. VANALSTEI N. udge of Proba te. E. L. MCMILLAN, Attorney for Administrator, Princeton, Minn. First publication Nov. 5,1903. Notice of Expiration of Redemption. Office of the County Auditor, County of Mille Lacs, Minnesota. To Frank Zins: You are hereby notified that the following described puce or parcel of land, situate in the county of Mille Lacs and State of Minne sota, and known and described as follows to-wit: Northwest quarter of northeast quar ter of stction 32. township 38. range 27, is now assessed in your name: that on the 7th day of May. A D. 1400. at the sale of land pursuant to the real estate tax judgment, duly given and made in and by the district court in and for the said county of Mille Lacs on the 21st day of March A. D. 3900. proceedings to enforce the pay ment of taxes delinquent upon real estate for the year 1898, for the said county of Mille Lacs, the above described piece or parcel of land was sold for the sum of three and ninety-four one hundredths dollars, and the amount re quired to redeem said piece or parcel of land Iroru said sale, exclusive of the cost to accrue upon this notice, is the sum of five dollars and titty-five cents, being the amount for which said tract was sold, and all subsequent de linquent taxes, penalties, interest and costs in cluding those paid by the holder of the tax certificate issued at said sale, all with interest computed at the legal rate to this date, and that the said tax certificate has been presented to me by the holder thereof, and the time for redemption of said piece or parcel of land from said sale will expire sixty (150) days after the service of this notice and proof thereof has been filed in my office. "Witness my hand and official seal this 7th day of October, A. D. 1903. E. E. WHITNEY. County Auditor. Mille Lacs County, Minn. [Official Seal.] First publication Oct. 39,1903. OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF Mill Lacs.ss. In Probate Court. Special term, October 24,1903. In the matter of the estate of Margaret Lo water, deceased. Letters testamentary on the estate of Margaret Lowater. deceased, late of the county of Mille Lacs and State of Minnesota, being granted to B. A. Bradley, and the proper affi davit having been duly made and tiled that there is no outstanding indebtedness against said deceased. It is ordered, that three months be and the same is hereby allowed from and after the date of this order, in which all persons having claims or demands against the said deceased are required to file the same in the probate court ot said county, for examination and al lowance, or be rorever barred. It is further ordered, that the 27th day of Jaruary. 1904, at 10 o'clock A M., at a special term ot said probate court, to be held at the probate office in the court house in the village of Princeton in said county, be and the same hereby is appointed as the time and place when and where the said probate court will examine and adjust said claims and demands And it is further ordered, that notice of such hearing be given to all creditors and persons interested in said estate by forthwith publish ing this order once in each week for three suc cessive weeks in the Princeton Union, a weekly newspaper printed and published at Princeton in said county. Dated at Princeton the 24th day of October A. D. 1903. By the court, B. M. VANALSTEIN. [Probate Seal .1 udge of Probate. First Publication Nov. 5, 1903. Notice of Expiration of Redemption on Assignment. To Frank Zins: You are hereby notified that the piece of land assessed in your name, situated in the county of Mille Lacs, State of Minnesota, and de scribed as follows, to-wit: The northwest quarter of the northeast quarter (nwM of nek) ot section thirty-two (3*). township 38. range 37, was, on the fifth day of May, 1898, at the tax sale under and by virtue of the judgment en tered in the district court in and for said county of Mille Lacs, on the 21st day of March. 1898, in proceedings to enforce the payment of delinquent taxes, bid in for the State for the sum of four dollars and sixteen cents, that be ing the amount of taxes, penalties, interest and costs due on said land for the vear 1896, that on May 31st, 1899. said land still remaining unredeemed, and the amount for which the same was so bid in for the State, together with subsequent delinquent taxes, penalties and in terest, amounting in all to eight dollars and seventy-nine cents, having been paid into the treasury of said county by the Mille Lacs Lum ber Co., said land was assigned and conveyed to it by the auditor of said county, pursuant to the statute in such case made and provided: that the amount required to redeem said land from said sale is thirteen dollars and thirty seven cents, being the amount for which said tract was sold, and all subsequent delinquent taxes, penalties, interest and costs, including those paid by the holder of the tax certificate issued at said sale, all with interest computed at the legal rate to this date, exclusive of the costs to accrue upon this notice and that the time for the redemption of said land from said sale will expire sixty days after the service of this notice and the filing of the "proof of the service thereof, and of the sheriff's fees there of, in my office. Witness my hand and official seal this 7th day of October, 1903. Notice of Hearing on Ditch Petition. Notice is hereby given that a petition, of wnich the following is a copy, has been filed in tne office of the county auditor of Mille Lacs county, Minnesota, and that a hearing will be nad on said petition at the next session of the Doaraof county commissioners of said county, commencing ou Wednesday, the 18th day or November, 1903. at the office of the countv audi tor, in the village of Princeton, county of Mille Lacs and State of Minnesota:caL& E. JE. WHITNE Y, A ,^jl County Minnesota. M,U,1 t0 [Auditor Seal.] To the Honorable BoardPetitionersv of Count sioners or Mille Lacs County, M?nnesot cr.T^ef,?n dersigned (3r y~ se would you spectfully represent that it will be of great public benefit and utility that your honorable board cause to be constructed a ditch*naid county as hereinafter described and set forth That the proposed ditch herein petitioned^orh"eac is necessary for the following ^r T^tthetond2*.r8everareasons" miles'on side of the proposed ditch in the townships of Princeton and Greenbush. in said county, are fertile farming lands and largely under culti vation. That in wet seasons, and especially In times of flood on Battle Brook (so called) and its tributaries, said lands are liable to overflow from flood waters and from surface waters from the surrounding country, drowning out and de stroying crops of large areas of valuable lands and renderering large tracts of valuable hav lands practically worthless. BThat in many instances and many places the town and county roads in said townships are for the same reasons flooded and for many days rendered impassable. CThat the route of said ditch is practicable and said ditch will draw off the water in wet seasons from a large territory tributary there to, conducing to the public convenience, health and welfare. DThat the benefits to be derived from the construction of such ditch will be vastly greater tnan the total cost thereof, including any dam ages that it will be necessary to award by rea son thereof. The general description of the starting point, route and terminus of the proposed ditch is as follows: Beginning at a point sixty (00) rods west and twenty-five (25) rodsd south of the center of section twenty-five (25). in township thirty-six (3b) north of range twenty-seven (27) west in Mille Lacvsencounty. Minnesota, thence north -F,t one-half (i degrees an (rfixj o) east to a point one rod south of the east and west quarter line of said section twenty nve (dS): thence in an easterly direction and parallel with said quarter section line to con nect with and empty into a small lake at or near the centre of the east half of said section twenty-five (25) aforesaid: thence from the outlet of said lake by the most practicable route to empty into the west branch of Rum river iso called.) at a point situated in the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section twenty-five (25), in the township and range hereinbefore written. The names of the owners of the lands over which said proposed ditch is to pass, are as follows- Lot two (2), section twenty-five (25). town ship thirty-six (30), range twenty-seven (27), W. B. Carter. Lot three (3). section twenty-five (25), town ship thirty-six (36), range twenty-seven (27). Clinton Slater. West half of northeast quarter of section twenty-five (25), township thirty-six (36), range twenty-seven (27), Henry Sorge. East half of northeast quarter of section twenty-five (25), township thirty six i36). range twenty-seven (27), S. A. Carew. Your petitioners present herewith their bond, conditioned to pay expenses in case you shall decline to establish said ditch, and respectfully pray that you will proceed to hear and deter mine said petition according to the law. W. B. Carter, G. H. Lamb, Frank Hurt, Frank Hutcheson, F. E McFarland, C. W. McFarland. Chas. E. Slater, Frank C. Foltz, J. E. Lofgren, Clinton Slater. Charlie Hurt, Wm. L. Buck, S. A. Crossman, C. P. Storkle Henry Moore, Nils Heylander, T. S. Gile. SALE OF School and Other Slate Lands. A nej E. E. WHITNEY. County Auditor, Mille Lacs County, Minn. [Auditor's seal.] Notice of Application for Liquor Li cense. STATE OF MINNESOTA, I BsO' County of Mille Lacs, Notice is hereby given, that application has been made in writing to the board of county commissioners of said Mille Lacs county, and filed in my office, praying for license to sell in toxicating liquors for the term commencing on the 19th day% of November, 1903, and terminat ing on the lfcth day of November, 1904, by the following persons, and at the following place, as stated in said application, respectively, to wit: By Duff & Sherman, in that certain frame building known as the "Peterson store build- ing}'' located in the southeast quarter (sel4) State of Minnesota, Land Office. St. Paul, Oct. 12. 1903. Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, the 24th Day of November, 1903, at 9 o'clock in the fornoon in the office of the county auditor at Princeton. Minnesota, I will offer for sale the following described unsold State lands: Area Parts of Sections- sw neM, sex nw eVi sw'4 nwk seJi and se!4 seM 4 ne# ny2 nw% se nwif, ne4 sw'. swJ4 sw'4, se'4 andse^seii 12 41 25 nwJi swj^ all nw}4 ne}, b'A of ne^ sek nwj-4 and ne sw^ 22 nwH seit 24 ne'4 neM, seM nwM and ne)4 swX 26 sw'A nw'/i and nw i sw .34 sw'4 lie)*, sejtf of nw'4 swj'4' and w'/ seM 16 lots 2. 8, 5,'0. 7, 8, i)', 10, ii and 13 4 43 25 ny nwi, 24 4: ^5 w'/i neif and eV4 nw,', 26 43 25 ne#. e'A nw4 sw4 n,' se^ and sw of seh 36 43 25 of fract 2 40 26 all 16 40 26 Q'/ neli, vrli 41 I MS Commisre 240.00 480.00 40.00 640.00 14 41 10 41 200.00 49.00 120.00 80.00 25 320.00 640.00 42 442.61 80.00 160.00 520.00 16.78 640.00 126.72 40.00 80.00 nw^ fract. and w^ sw^ oi fract 18 40 26 riBH&w^. 33 40 uc swj^ neld and swJ4 sw 4 34 40 26 nwJ4 nek. sei^ne^.w^ nw'i, se'4 nw^,w'/s swii,n^ sel i and se'4 seH 36 40 26 all 16 41 26 neX. lot 1, nw}4 nw'j, sl/ nwMandsM "m 41 26 all 30 42 26 ny2,nel4 swM, s1^ 400.00 640.00 634.62 C40.00 sw^ and sl/seJ4 16 40 30 40 16 41 30 41 16 42 9 39 10 39 nej-i, sYs nw^ and s^ all all all el nwJ4 and s!^ sw# andwj/ose^ 11 39 26 ne#, eX swj*, u'A seli and swJ4 se'A 12 39 26 nwj ne% an ne% all 8 40 27 n% 9 40 27 neM, sex nw'i, svrii and seii 10 40 27 all 12 40 27 n^ 13 40 27 nl of tbe northwest quarter (nwiO of section six (6), township forty-one (41), north of range twenty six (26). west of the fourth principal meridian said building being on the westerly bank of the Rum river, near the wagon bridge which crosses said river. Said application will be heard and determined by said board of county commissioners at the county auditor's office in the village of Princeton, in Mille Lacs county. State of Minnesota, on Wednesday, the 18th day of November, 1903, at 2 o'clock P. M. of that day. Witness my hand and seal of said board this loth day of Octeber, A. D. 1903. E. E. WHITNEY, SEAL County Auditor. 600.00 480.00 640.00 640.00 649.00 80.00 480.00 240.00 of nwj4 13 39 26 ue\i neM, slAdn 360.00 120.00 ne sw] 4 n'A sen and se se'A 14 39 20 a 2 280.00 80.00 640.00 640.00 320.00 nw# 35 39 26 7 4 0 2 7 440.00 192.67 320.00 A neM. n^ nw4" swif nwtf andnw} sw# 14 40 27 all except sea seX 15 40 27 ny2 17 40 27 n}i 18 40 27 swJ4 and w'/s se& 24 40 27 wYz ne'/i, nwtf and ny2 seM 25 40 27 ne#,sX nwMand sy 26 40 27 wyj seM 33 40 27 neli. se'A nw^. se'A swM and sw# seM 34 40 27 w% nwM 35 40 27 TERMS OF SALE. Fifteen per cent of the purchase price and In terest on the unpaid balance from the date of sale to June 1.1904, must be paid at the time of the sale. The balance of the purchase money can be paid at any time, in whole or in part within forty years of the time of the sale the* rate of interest on the unpaid balance of the purchase money will be four per cent per an num, payable in advance on June of each year, provided the principal remains unpaid for ten years, but if the principal is paid before the expiration of ten years from the date of the sale, the rate of interest on the unpaid balance of the purchase money will be five per cent per annum: interest is payable in advance on June 1st of each year. Holders of certificates on which the interest payments are in default can have their certifi cates reinstated on payment before the sale of the interest in full to date and the penalties thereon. All mineral rights are reserved by the State. S. G. IVBBSON. Commissioner State Land Office. 240.00 600.00 320.00 320.00 240.00 880.00 560.00 80.00 360.00 80.00