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iMtt.ixi the main porch. The girl Was leaning against a post of the trel lis, as if watching the moon which ebone above the hill. Her face looked so haggard, old and weary that I halted suddenly when first I saw it among the leaves. She had not no ticed me till then, and she sprang back, startled. Perhaps she thought I could not see that she put up both hands to her face, but I could well perceive the gesture despite the screen of foliage. Upon the instant I spoke her name, but she pretended not to hear and hur ried into the house. It cat my heart to know that the poor child suffered thus, and I felt ashamed to have intruded upon her grief. She bore it so well when under observation that it seemed doubly re grettable to have surprised her in the moment of her confession to the caress ing night. The girl ought to go away. It would be much better for her to go than for Tiask. I wondered, walking down toward the lake, whether it would be possible to speak to Mrs. Witherspoon upon the subject with sufficient delicacy. Somehow she did not figme in my mind as one who would be easy to approach upon such a matter, and my own years scarcely fitted me for the role that I should have to play in the scene. It might be possible tor my father to suggest a better v\ ay. He would surely pity her, the more because it was Sibyl who had won the love that poor little Lucy Ann's heart starved for. It was incredible that "Miss Jones" should not have seen the pitiful ro mance so near her, so closely involved with her own, but she was doubtless busy with her own trouble, the dread ful peril that she might have to marry me in order to pay the lifelong debt of gratitude that she owed my father. The thought made me laugh, espe cially because I was on my way to hear her sing, to play at love with a voice and pretend I did not know whose it was. And that \iew of the matter brought me the recollection of my talk with Derringer and his asser tion that I as -v\ holly in error. I prayed to the moon that Derringer might be right as I loosed the boat from her moorings and floated out into the lake When 1 came into the range of the fire, I saw it dimmer than usual, yet that might be no more than the effect of the moonlight. At the proper dis tance I halted and then sang the first bar of the Swiss song. There was no response. I tried "Heart's Delight" with the same result, and meanwhile the fire surely waned. I looked at my watch and was sur prised to find that it was nearly 10 o'clock. The girl had given me up and returned to the apple tree lodge. Given me up? This was taking for granted that she prized these evenings as I did, and I had not the right to do it. "Miss Jones" could have no interest in sing ing with me. It would be hardly fair to Trask. Yet beyond a doubt it was the girl who sang, and Trask had sent lilies to her. If she were not "Miss Jones," why, that again was hardly fair, and if the girl were not Sibyl there could be no explanation of any thing. At this point in my mental confusion the boat's bow whirled round with a little gust and grated upon the ledge, as once before. I glanced quickly at the fire. It continued to glow There could be no one on the rocks. Instantly I conceived a deed of dar ing sweeter than all the petty larcenies and depredations of my youth in the little village where we used to spend our summers the stealing of apples from Dyar's red tree to which the bull dog was chained, the midnight alarm rung by Deacon Hobart's horse tied by his tail to the bell rope of the church, the assortment of gravestones from the I made tlic landing with great care. marble yard set up in a grewsotne and suggestive row on Dr. Westcott's lawn. The joy of all these feats and the senti ment of May baskets fastened by trem bling hands upon the doorknob of my sweetheart's housea different door knob every year, thanks to the blessed Inconstancy of boyhoodthese were re vived in my heart when I decided to go ashore. It was taboo, but I would dare it. I made the landing with great care and stepped out upon a rock with as much caution as if it had been thin ice. At the water's edge the rocks were piled as Irregularly as if they had been poured out of a giant's basket, but back of them there lay two flat topped bowlders of an even height, making a floor nearly 30 feet long, divided in a line parallel to the shore by a fissure wide as a grave and deep as half a dozen, as I guessed after dropping a little stone into it. The fire was built upon an iron grat ing laid across this fissure and secured at one side by a chain fastened to an eyebolt set into the rock. I judged that this apparatus had to do with fish din ners cooked beside the lake. It ex- plained sufficiently the sudden extine tion of the fire which had puzzled me. It needed no more than a pull upon the chain to send the fire down into the rift. Behind the rearward bowlder the ledge rose ten feet, rounded like the inside of a cup, and from its summit there was a gentle slope to meet the descending grade of the orchard. At the little cliff's foot was a singular conformation of the rocks where one might recline in great comfort, and Upon taking my place there I discov ered that it was possible to look out upon the lake without being greatly dazzled by the fire and still be almost entirely shielded from observation. This intrusion was a most agreeable sin, a thing to enjoy in the doing and be pleasantly ashamed of afters ard. I lay some minutes in this nook of the rocks, curious to reconstiuct our little romance as the girl had seen it. I saw how the firelight was screened by the rocks so that I had not been able to discern it until I had drifted into the proper field. In the same way my boat must have appeared suddenly to one sitting there. I was flattered by the idea that she had watched for it. In the midst of this thought I expe rienced a sensation familiar to every one, but almost beyond rational ex planationthe consciousness of being observed. I neither saw nor heard my own senses ga^e no tidingsthe five with which we are ordinarily credited. With what faculty we apprehend an other person's observation of us I have never been able to guess. It happens, however. It happened then. I glanced upward. The curving lip of the ledge made a clear giay line up on the sky. There was a singular illu sion of height the rock toweied above me as I lay almost prone. Then sud denly I was aA\are of something flut tering downward. It startled me be cause it seemed to be falling all the way from the sky. I thrust up my hand and caught a rose, also a very large and competent thorn, but that is a matter of no consequence. In an instant I was upon my feet, posed like the lady martyr in the fa miliar picture of "The Last Token," looking, as she did, foi my love who had flung the rose. I forget what luck she had in this matter, according to the legend. As for me, I had none. Even when I had scaled the rock I saw not so much as the flutter of a skirt among the shadows of the orchard. One thing, however, 1 saw clearly enough in the light of the moon. The rose was one of those that I had gath ered on Copperhead hill. It may have been nearly 11 o'clock when I got back to the house. There was a man sitting alone on the door steps of my segment of the structure, and when he lifted his face to the moon I recognized Scovel. "Been out on the lake, 1 suppose," said he. "Another serenade, eh?" Then he began to laugh, softly, nerv ously, as if he didn't mean to do it. A half consumed cigar fell from his fin gers, and he put his foot upon it. "Come inside," said I. "and get a fresh one." "Thank you," he replied. "I've smok ed enough." Yet he arose with alacrity and fol lowed me into my room. "Perhaps you smoke when you're nervous, as I do," said I. "For in stance, if I were wandering over that hill and had seen two or three snakes" "Two or three!" he echoed, throwing up his hands. "So you were there? I was sure of it And I know why you went." His countenance expressed increduli ty, but something that he saw in mine seemed to convince him. "Well," said he, with a faint note of defiance, "what do you think of it?" "I don't think it was quite right." I replied. "Now, look here," said he, "how long was I to go on in that way? How long was I to permit myself to be a com plete idiot about a girl without know ing whether she was black or white?" "Did you see her?" I asked. He arose from his chair and tried an other, arising again to walk to the mantelpiece for a match, though there were plenty on the table beside him in plain view. He struck the match and then forgot to light the cigar that I had given him "I've enjoyed this foolishness," he said. "That's the main tLing, after all. The emotions were given us for self deception. We were to use them wise ly to gloss over this world, for the plain sight of it would drive us away. It is love that makes woman beautiful love in us, you know. It isn't really neces sary to see them." "In that case," said I, "why did you go out on the hill wfth those fieldglass es? Your philosophy must have chang ed since morning." "Not my philosophy," he rejoined, "but there's a limit." I began to grow cold. "Scovel," I cried, "what do you toean?" "That hill's an awful place," he said, ignoring my question. "I got lost, though one would say there wasn't room enough. But the rocks are all jumbled together. It takes a man an hour to walk a quarter of a mile, and the little scrubbed trees hide every thing. If I know anything about geolo gy, that formation should be on the north side of the lake instead of on the south." "Blast geology!" said 1. "Did you see her?" "The ancient mariner shot the alba tross," he replied, "and the others by approving beoame partners in his crime. They accepted the good weather as you will accept my information. Yes," ho added, with a groan, "I saw her." "Don't tell me anything about it," said I, setting a firm heel on the neck of my curiosity. "I don't want to know." "I had noticed how she sat when she was sketching at the foot of the or* THE PRINCETON UNION: THUKSDAT, FEBRUARY 4, 1904. chard,' said he, "and I had marked out a bald rock on the hill from which one might have a good view. Well, it took me a long while, but I found it. Really I thought it was no harm. I fancied that this whole thing was a trick and that the girl came up to the house here and showed herself to us. To be frank, I thought she was the blue eyed girl who sits in our part of the dining room. She's a mysterious little creature, who goes off with a book in the forenoon and immediately vanishes off the earth's face I was sure she was the firl." "And she isn't?" He laughed in a choking fashion, breaking off to say: "When 1 was young, I used to hear the best sort of music in my father's house. They're all gone now, the sis ters and the cousins that sang to me and bred the love of song in me. Even the home's gone, but I shall build one of my own some day, please God. And somehow, when I heard that voice by the lake I dreamed that it might sing to me on many dear and blessed even ings under my own roof. I croak a tune myself once in awhilenot as you do, confound you, but if she loved me Well, that's all over." "Scovel. speak out," said I. "You're touching nearer than you know to a sore spot that troubled me all the way across the Atlantic ocean. Sheshe isn't pretty. That's the fact about it." He paused to light his cigar with a resolute manner. [TO BE CONTINUED.] The Long's Mercantile Co. will be glad to exchange goods for any kind of produce that they can handle. RECEIVERS APPOINTED. Two Large Texas Corporations in Fi nancial Difficulties. Houston, Tex, Feb. 3.The Knby Lumber company and the Houston Oil company, two of the largest corpora tions in Texas, have been placed in tbe hands of temporary receivers by the federal court at New Orleans. B. F. Bonner, who is closely associated with John M. Kirby, and N. W Mac Leod of St Louis were named as re ceivers for the lumber company, and Captain F. A. Reichardt of this city and Thomas H. Franklin of San An tonio, Te\, were appointed receivers for the Houston Oil company. The application for temporary re reivers was made at the instance of the Maryland Trust company. When the order was entered at New Orleans by Federal Judge A. P. McCormick, it is understood that the Kirby interests were present and insisted on being represented in the receiverships At the instance of the applicant the order was made a secret one for forty-eight hours. The Kirby Lumber company is capitalized at $10,000,000, of which $5,- 000,900 is preferred stock and $5,000,- 000 common The Houston Oil com pany's capital stock is $30,000,000, $10,000,000 preferred and $20,000,000 common. GROFF BROTHERS TESTIFY. Take the Stand in Their Own Behalf In Postal Trial. Washington, Feb. 3.Testifying in his own behalf in the postal trial, Dil ler Broff, a brother of Samuel A. Groff, declared that when he sought to introduce the letter box fastener into the postal service he had no idea of "reaching" Machen through Mr. Lo renz or anybody else, directly or indi rectly. He denied that Machen's name even was mentioned to him at the time Mr. Lorenz made the agree ment -in 1895 with the Groff brothers and said that had Mr. Lorenz intimat ed in any way that he would use his influence with Machen, all negotia tions would have been at an end. When ho sent checks to Mr. Lorenz in Toledo, he said he knew nothing of any remittances being forwarded by Mr. Lorenz to Machen. Samuel A. Groff, who preceded his brother, told of the various steps taken by him to interest postal em ployes and officials in the invention, before and after it was patented and testified that although he had been to see Mr. Machen, and Machen's chief clerk about the matter he was never able to see Machan, who always seemed bnsy. LUMEER CONCERNS MERGE. Purpose to Simplify Their Business Operations. Hackley, Wis., Feb. 3.A merger of three large lumbering concerns char tered under the laws of the state of Michigan has just been effected. The companies are: The Wisconsin Lumber and Bark company, the Grand Rapids Bark and Lumber company, and the Hackley Bonnell Lumber company, and the new company takes the name of the Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell company. The capitalization is $1,000,000, of which $850,000 is paid in. Officers will be elected in February. The stockholders of the three con cerns practically have been identical and the merger has been effected al most solely, it is claimed, for the pur pose of simplifying business opera tions and for economy in marketing the products of the plants, which have heretofore been conducted inde pendently Government Will Sue the Soo. Sault 3te. Marie, Mich., Feb. 3. The city council has refused to recog nize a bill of the United States govern ment for $68,500.34 for damages by the burning of Fort Brady barracks a year ago on a- -ount of lack of water. The barracks were a total loss. The coun cil's action will result in a suit against the city that will be fought to the end. Three Men Killed. Houston, Tex., Feb. 3.In a freight wreck near Findlay, east of El Paso, three men were killed. A Southern Pacific freight was derailed on a curve and was? struck by a Texas and Pacific freight. Two Girls Burned to Death. Justin, Tex., Feb. 3.- residence of Mr. J. D. Mayfield was -ned last night and two of his girls were burned to death. The mother is not expected to live. Several other children were badly burned. ^TWO FIREMEN KILLED. Crushed to Death by Falling Wall at Knoxville, Tenn. Knoxville, Tenn., Feb. 3.Fire in the heart of the wholesale district which broke out at 8:30 o'clock last night caused a loss of $400,000 and cost the lives of two firemen. The dead a e. Hose Captain Will iam A. Maxey and John J. Dunn, an ex-fireman who was assisting at the fire. The fire started In the six-story Phoenix building on Gay street. The firemen were unable to check the flames, which spread both north and south The firemen had three lines of hose on the Ross building, which is four stories high, when the wall of the Phoenix building crumbled and crash ed through the roof of the Ross build ing. The floors were carried down, but out of seven men who were in the building only two were caught, al though there aie rumors that two spectators lost their lives. At the height of the fire Chattanoo ga was called on for aid, but the com pany was jater notified not to come. RtV. ELLWOOD CAUTIONED. Punishment Decided Upon for Preach ing Lynching Sermon. Wilmington, Del., Feb. 3.The Rev. Robert A. Ellwood, pastor of Olivet Presbyterian church of this city, who was tried Tuesday by the Newcastle presbytery on charges growing out of the sermon entitled "Should the Mur derer of Miss Helen Bishop Be Lynched?" preached by him the day before George White, the negro mur derer of Miss Bishop, was burned at the stake, was found guilty last night on three of the six specifications pre sented against him A committee of five was appointed to fix punishment and recommended that the Rev. Mr. Ellwood be cautioned to be more care ful in the future. The presbytery ac cepted the recommendation and ad journed Unministrial and unchristian con duct, advocating lynching and holding judicial authorities responsible for lynching are, in effect, the specifica tions upon which Rev. Ellwood was found guilty BAD STORM IN MICHIGAN. Ten Persons Injured in Collisions Re sulting From Blizzard. Detroit, Feb. 3.Trolley lines and telephone and telegraph services have been seriously interfered with by a blizzard that swept over Michigan Tuesday. At Wayland, a rear-end collision occurred on the Grand Rapids and Indiana railway in which ten per sons were injured. It was caused by a blinding snow storm At Grand Rapids the mercury dropped from 22 above to 6 below in six hours and is still falling. Six mterurban cars are snowbound between Battle Creek and Kalamazoo. An interurban car is stalled five miles west of Ann Arbor A heavy snow storm is raging at Deckerville. That town has had no mail train for four days and supplies of fuel and flour aro exhausted. Ordered to Renew Insurrect.o". Vienna, Feb. 3A dispatch receiv ed here from Sofia, Bulgaria, says that the chiefs of the Macedonian revolu tionary movement in the interior have sent out manifestos ordering a re newal of the insurrection. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. At Boston Tuesday night John Pien lng failed throw To.m time5* Sharkey three withio an hour W. I. Buchanan, United States min ister to Panama, sailed Tuesday even ing from Colon for New York. Right Hon Sir Edward Conventer Braddock, former premier and leader of the house of assembly in Tasmania, is dead. Governor Van Sant of Minnesota was the principal speaker at the an nual banquet of the La Crosse (Wis.) board of trade Tuesday night. The shops of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad in Canton, O., were gutted by fire Tuesday evening, entail ing a loss of from $50,000 to $75,000. At Chicago Tuesday Louis Witze, saloonkeeper, was found guilty of rob bing the body of a woman victim of the Iroquois theater fire. Charles Con way and T. McCarthy were convicted of aiding Witze. MARKET QUOTATIONS. Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, Feb. 2.WheatMay, 70%c: July, 89%c Sept., 78%c. On trackNo. 1 hard, 93%c No. 1 North ern, 91%c No. 2 Northern, 88%c No. 3 Northern, 89 84%c. St. Paul Union Stock Yards. St. Paul, Feb. 2.CattleGood to choice steers, $3.70@5.00 common to fair. $3.25@3.65 good to choice cows and heifers, $2.70@3.25 veals, $2.00@ 5.00. Hogs$4.25@4.75. SheepGood to choice yearling wethers, $4.25@ 4.65 good to choice lambs, $4.85@5.35. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, Feb. 2WheatIn store No. 1 hard, 91 %c No. 1 Northern, 90%c No. 2 Northern, 87%c. To ar- riveNo. 1 hard, 91%c No. 1 North ern, 90%c No. 2 Northern, 87%c May, 90V July, 89c Sept., 78%c. FlaxIn store, on track and to arrive, $1.13% May, $1.16% July, $1.17%. Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, Feb. 2.CattleGood to prime steers, $4.60@5.30 poor to me dium, $4.00@4.50 stockers and feed ers, $2.25@4.00 cows, $1.25@3.80 heifers, $1.75@4.50 calves, $3.25@ 7.00. HogsMixed and butchers, $4.75 @5.00 good to choice heavy, $4.95@ 5.05 rough heavy, $4.75@4.95 light, $4.304.70. SheepGood to choice wethers, $4.00(^4.65 Western sheep, *4.00@5.15 native lambs, $4.00@5.90 Western, $5.10(9)5.90. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, Feb. 2.WheatMay, 91% @91%c July, 83%c Sept.,, 7874c. 78%@ CornFeb., 48%c May 51%c July, 48%@48?c Sept., 48%c. Oat* Feb., 41 %c May, 44%@45c Jul) 38%c Sept., 33i|@33%c. PorkMay. $13.45. FlaxCash, Northwestern, $1.17: Southwestern, $1.10 Feb., $1.- 10 May, $1.12. ButterCreameries, 15@22^c dairies, 13@20c. Eggs 26@28c. Poultry Turkeys, 12c chickens, llftc springs, lt%c. PRICES BREAK SHARPLY. Heavy Selling and Sensational Slump in Cotton. New York, Feb. 3.Heavy selling and a heavy break in price3 marked Tuesday's business on the cotton ex change, the day's slump being even more sensational than the recent ad vances which have steadily sent cot ton quotations upward until Monday they reached the highest level since 1878. Under the influence of a number oi causes, chief of which was the con firmed report that Daniel J. Sully, the supposed leader of the upward move ment, was about to take a vacation and enhanced by the belief of many operators that its culmination had been reached, quotations for all months collapsed to the extent of $6 to $8 per bale and utter demoraliza tion ruled in the pit. No failures were reported, but the violent fluctuations represented losses of millions dis tributed throughout the market Transactions during the day were enormous in the aggregate, the day's sales being estimated at 2,000,000 bales. The break was checked finally by renewed bull support and a rally followed. The close was about steady. New Orleans, Feb. 3 The repeated warnings and prophesies of conserva tive traders came true Tuesday and the cotton market showed a series of sharp breaks, the last and most severe of which lowered prices almost 100 points, or a cent under the closing prices of Monday, July showing a net loss of 97 points at one time at 17.10, while at the close March was 73 points lower than the close of Mon day at 16.60, May 71 points lower at 17.12, and July 67 points lower at 17.40. Unlike the two other memor able breaks of this season the slump was unattended wijh_ much excitement. Bring your dressed veal, and all of your good butter and eggs to the Long's Mercantile Co. We pay the highest market price. School District Notice. Whereas, A petition duly signed and the signatures thereto duly acknowl edged has been duly presented to the board of county commissioners of Mille Lacs county, Minnesota, at a session of said board held on the 5th day of January, A. D. 1904, asking for the formation of a new school dis trict to be composed of the following described territory, to-wit: The west half of northeast quarter (wj of ne^) and the west half (wj^) of section five (5), and the east half (e%) of section six (6), township thirty-six (36), range twenty-six (26)) the west half (w%) of section nineteen (19), the southwest quarter (sw^) and west half of southeast quarter (wj^ of se^) of section twenty-nine (29), all of sections thirty (30) and thirty-one (31), the west half of northeast quar ter (wM of nej), west half of south east quarter (w^ of se^) and west half (wj^) of section thirty-two (32), township thirty-seven (37), range twenty-six (26) and the east half of northeast quarter (e% of ne^) of sec tion thirty-six (36). township thirty- seven(37), range twenty-seven (27), in the county of Mille Lacs, State of Minneota. And the petitioners furthermore rep resent: (1st.) That there are 83 persons now residing within the boundaries of said proposed new district, and no other or greater number and that there are 24 children of school age residing therein. (2nd.) That the following school districts will be affected by the forma tion of said new school district, to-wit: Districts Nos. 1, 4, 9 and 12, Mille Lacs county. (3rd.) That the number of children of school age now residing in the said districts so affected are as follows, to wit: District No. 1, 450 children district No. 4, 93 children district No. 9, 60 children district No. 12, 94 children. (4th.) That the number of chrldren of school age to be taken by the form ation of such school district from the districts so affected, respectively, are as follows, to-wit: From district No. 1, 5 children from district No. 4, 7 children from district No. 9, 2 child ren from district No. 12, 12 children. (5th.) That the said proposed new district does not include the school building of any existing school dis trict. Now, Therefore, It is ordered that said petition be heard by this board at the session thereof commencing on the 2nd day of March, A. D. 1904, at the office of the county auditor, in the village of Princeton, in said county. And it is further ordered, That no tice of the time and place of such hear ing be given by posting a copy of this order in one public place in each of the school districts to be affected by said petition, and by the county audi tor mailing to the clerk of each of said school districts a copy of this order, at least ten days before the time ap pointed for such hearing, and that a copy of said notice be published twice in the following named newspaper, to wit: The Princeton Union. T. F. NORTON, Chairman Board of County Commis sioners of Mille Lacs County, Minn. Attest: E. E. WHITNEY, County Auditor and Ex*Officio Clerk of Board. (Auditor's Seal.) Notice of Application for Liquor License. Whereas. Everett L. Southard has on the 3rd day of February, A. D. 1904, filed an application in writing for a license to sell spirituous, vinous, fermented and malt liquors on the lower floor of that certain brick build ing located on the south-half of lot 5, block 6, of the original townsite of Princeton. Notice is hereby given, that the vil lage council, of the village of Prince ton, Minn., will meet at the office of the village recorder of said village on Monday, February 15th, 1904, at 8 o'clock p. m., to hear all arguments for or against the granting of said license, and deciding on said applica tion. Dated February 3rd., 1904. J. C. BORDEN, Village Recorder. J-^I"^liB-! i luth T^T" Better Than Gold. I was troubled for several years with chronic indigestion and nervous debility," writes F. J. Green of Lan caster, N. H., "No remedy helped me until I began using Electric Bitters, which did me more good than all the medicines I ever used. They have also kept my wife in excellent health for years. She says Electric Bitters are just splendid for female troubles that they are a grand tonic and in vigorator for weak, run down women. No other medicine can take its place in our family." Try them. Only 50c. Satisfactcion guaranteed by C. A. Jack. First Publication Jan 21,1904 Summons. STATE OF MINNESOTA. County of Mille Lacs fs In District Court, Seventh Judicial District. S Rutherford and Robert Neelv'1J Plaintiffs., vs George A Camp, Roswell P. Russell W E Jones, E A Groff and Mary Fletcher Hospital, also all other per sons or parties unknown claiming any right, title, estate, lien or interest in the reaJ estate described the com plaint herein," Defendants The State of Minnesota, to the above named defendants You and each of you are hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint of the plaintiffs in the above entitled action, which is hied in the office of the clerk of tbe district court of the Seventh Judicial District, in and for the county of Mille Lacs and State of Minnesota, at Princeton said county and State and tp serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscriber, at his office, in the village of Princeton, in said county, within twenty (20) days after the service of this sum mons upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the said com plaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff this action will apply to the court for the relief demanded the complaint Dated January 19th, 1904 Notice of Lis Pendens STATE OF MINNESOTA I County of Mille Lacs, fs In District Court. Seventh Judicial District MS. Rutherford and Robert Neelv 1 Plaintiffs, George A. Camp Roswell Russell W E Jones, E A. Groff and Mary Fletcher Hospital, also all other per sons or parties unknown, claiming any right, title, estate, lien or interest in the real estate described in the com plaint herein," Defendants Notice is hereby given, that an action has been commenced in this court by the above named plaintiffs against the above named defendants for the purpose of determining the adverse claim of the defendants, and each of them and the rights of the parties respectively herein in and to the real estate hereinafter described and asking that said adverse claim of the defendants and each of them may be adjudged by the court to be null and void and at the title to said real estate and all thereof may be decreed to be in the plaintiffs The premises affected by said action are situated in the county of Mille Lacsand State of Minnesota, and ar described as follows- ,.!?thwes Tn ter iNWM of orderevillage fSf EL. MCMILLAN, Plaintiff's Attorney, Princeton, Minn. quarteer of the southeast quar SEHsevensection of twenty^one J"*hip thirty (37) range twenty)-(21 tow SIX \JW Dated January 19th, 1004 E. L. MCMILLAN, Plaintiff Attorney Princeton, Minn. (First publication Jan. 21, 1904 GTATE OF MINNESOTA. COUNTY OF *f Mille Lacs hs In Probate Court Special Term, January 19th, 1904, In the matter of the guardianship of Henry P. Clark, incompetent On reading and filing the petition of Miohael Sausser, as guardian of the said Henry Mark, incompetent representing, among.other things, that as such g.uardian he has paid orar and delivered to the Judge of Probate the property and funds in his hands a& such guar dian and has in all things fully complied with all the terms and conditions of all the orders and decrees of said court in the matter of said guardianship and praying, that a time and place be set for hearing upon said petition, and that upon said hearing he and the suaetieson his bonds be discharged from all liability by reason of said trust and said guardianship. It is ordered, that said petition be heard at the probate courtr office at the onotice Princefo ton, in theccounty of Miile Lacs. State of Min nesota, onif Thursday the 11th. day of February A. at 2 o'clock in the afternoon of. said that 1 S & 1904, dd said hearing be given alL persons interested, by the publication of this- order once in each week for three successive weeks immediately preceding said day of hearing, in the Prince ton Union a weekly newspaper published at Princeton, in said, county and state. Dated this 19th day of January, A^. D\ 1904. B. M. VAKALSTEIN, ri) lt Judge of Probate. [Probate Sea!]i FirstF publication Jan SL1903. S TA MINNESOTA, COUNT OP O Mille Lacs.ss. In Probate Court. In the matter of the estate of Luther W Felt, deceased. The petition of Victor Hoffman bavins been duly made and filed in this, court/7 *2 ,*& repre senting, aiaong. other things, that one Anther w. Felt, who resided last prior to his death at Keene, in the State ot New Hampshire died at said Keene, in the county of Cheshire, State of New Hampshire, prior to the year 1883 seized of an estate of inheritance in. certain lands in the conty of Mille Lacs, State of Minnesota, described in said petition, and that said petitioner has an Interest in said, lands and that more than five years have elapsed since the death of said Luther W. Felt deceased and that administration has not been granted or had of said estate in this State, and praying that the descent of satd lands and of the inter est of said petitioner therein be by this court determined and said lands assigned to such persons as may be entitled thereto by law Now, therefore, it is ordered that the said petition be heard at a term of this court to be held at the probate office in the village of Princeton, in said county of Mille Lacs State of Minnesota, on Monday, the 15th day of February, A. 1904, at 10 o'clock A. It is further ordered that notice of said hear ing of said petition be given by the publication of this order once each week, for three suc cessive weeks prior to said day of hearing, in the Princeton Union, a weekly newspaper printed and published at Princeton in said county Dated January 16th, 1904 By the court, B. M. VANALSTKIN, fProbate Seal. Judge of Probate. CHAS. KEITH, Attorney for Petitioner. First publication Jan. 21,1904. GTATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF Mille Lacs.ss. Probate Court. In the of the estate of Charles T. Felt, deceasedmatter The petition of Victor Hoffman, having been duly made and filed in this court, representing among other things, that one Charles Felt who resided last prior to his death at Keene, in the State of New Hampshire, died at said Keene. in the county of Cheshire. State of New Hampshire, prior to the year I860, seized of an estate of inheritance in certain lands in the county of Mille Lacs, State of Minnesota, de scribed in said petition, and that said peti tioner has an interest in said lands, and that more than five years have elapsed since the death of said Charles T. Pelt, deceased, and that administration has not been granted or had of said estate in this State, and praying that the descent of said lands and of the inter est of said petitioner therein be by this court determined and said lands assigned to such persons as may be entitled thereto by law. Now, therefore, it is ordered that the said petition be heard at a term of this court, to be held at the probate office, in the village of Princeton in said county of Mille Lacs, State of Minnesota, on Monday the 15th day of February, A. D. 1904, at 10 o'clock A. M. It.is further ordered, that notice of said hear ing of said petition be given by the publication ot this order once in each week for three suc cessive weeks prior to said day of hearing in the Princeton Union, a weekly newspaper printed and published in Princeton, in said county. Dated January, 16th. 1904. By the court, B. M. VANALSTBXH, rProbate Seal.l Judge of Probate. CHAS. KEITH. Attorney for Petitioner. *$