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IK 4 i W THE PRINCETON UNION BY R. p. DUNN Published. Every Thursday. TERMSSl.oo PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. S1.25 I NOT PAID I N ADVANCE. OFFICE- FIRST ST., EAST OF COURTHOUSE. 0. 1. STAPLES. Business Manager. GEO. P. WRIGHT. Editor,, Hearts will be trumps Sunday. The oldest inhabitant has gone way back to get warm. Clear, cold weather is the almanacs. Puck's editor is toonist still lives. all right in dead, but the car* The commercial agencies have reported the ice crop a failure. not St. Louis gets a loan of $4,500,000 from the government. This will help some. Chicago tried to have a big fire this week and stopped at half a million loss. Matrimonial bees are doing some lively buzzing about the bonnets of many old maids. Senator Hanna is a pretty sick man but he will probably be out in time for the Chicago incident. Some of the big insurance companies will probably not issue very elaborate calendars for next year. War is hell, but sometimes the world has this kind of a time civilizing itself and maintaining its equilibrium. North Dakota editors are en route to Mexico. The North Dakota bliz zard will now have to shut up shop. A Minneapolis furrier has made an assignment. How could such a thing be possible with such a favorable sea son? Duluth gets another advance in the price of beefsteakfive cents a pound. The packers and meat combine are the villians. A Chicago university professor now says that the Bible is a divine scrap book. Scrap books have been known to be interesting. The Duluth Herald has started a column of "Talks With the State Press." The Herald will have an at tentive audience. Poor little Japan. She is plucky and progressive, but she is contending against great odds in the conflict that she is engaged in. The little city of Hutchinson has adopted a new charter that will enable it to expand in an up-to-date manner. How about Princeton? Northern California has been saved by a ram storm, and Minnesota forty below but then we just enjoy this leather. It's just a bit bracing. The New York law forbidding the desecration, mutiliation or misuse of the American flag has been declared unconstitutional by the state supreme court, in so far as the law relates to advertising devices and trade labels. Cotton operators cleaned up over $300,000,000 in the recent advance. One firm of brokers was so busy that the chief clerk had not been home for three months, ton. We trust he also cot- The mayor of the city of Baltimore says: "Another and more beautiful city will rise from the ruins and we shall make of this calamity a future blessing." That is the true American spirit. The weather bureau of the State has established a new record with the aid of cold wave injections of which there seems to be no end. We have had such a long cold spell that zero weather is now considered balmy. The State prison twine plant will make the coming year 9,000,00Q pounds of binding twine and it is hoped that in 1905 that the output will be over 11,000,Q00. Pretty soon the twine trust will have to look for other fields be side Minnesota. The Baltimore conflagration lias proved that in Ja terrible cycloke of fire iron, steel, marble and stone yield readily to the fury of heat* and flame ^and many of the great fire-proof build*, ings went down in the twinkling of an eye. Go after 'em,.Japs, may the victory be yours. Wheat is putting on wings and**lisi carding pin feathers. The Missouri mule is now doing a lot of braying over the war. It seems to be the passing of the comic valentine, and it is about time. The sky-scrapers prove to be regu lar tinder boxes in a great conflagra tion. A farmer saw a robin in the woods the other day, but the bird had been dead a long time. An era of blood! We speak of war as though it was a toy! ^An age of peace! The Hague tribunal! Ah! James Stewart of Duluth has bought the Grand Rapids Magnet, and Editor Cobb will now husk all his corn at Park Rapids. Gorman's "Maryland, my Mary land" machine silpped a cog when Rayner was elected United States sen ator. Chicago real estate dealers are get ting alarmed over the removal of many maufacturing plants from that city on account of strikes. A few les sons like this and thenpresto change. A Spiritualist in Carthage, Mo., claimed he received a message from his dead wife, bidding him come to her, and he took the slow route of starving himself to death. Now"they are trying to guarantee the integrity of the Chinese territory. It's a little early in the game to try and guarantee such things. China is the great bone that will have to be picked sooner or later and it might as well come first as last. The value of the merchandise passing out of the ports of continental United States in 1903 was more than a billion and a half of dollars. Who cares a cotinental? Everybody who likes to see Uncle Sam grow rich, and this means all except anarchists and a certain kind of socialists. The timber-and-stone act has re* leased about $130,000,000 worth ok timber, for the modest sum of $13,s 000,000. A few private individuals have been benefited while the lumber barons secure a good slice of the profits. The law is only a loop-hole for big timber operators. The bald-headed foreman of the Du luth News-Tribune is said to possess one of the best baritone voices in the country. Mme. Schumann-Heink says so and it must be so. It must be a pleasure to work around the "turtles" in the News-Tribune office and receive orders in a rich baritone voice. The Dakota, the second of the Great Northern Steamship company's big steamships^ was launched at Groten, Conn., last week and will go into com mission next fall. It is the sister ship of the Minnesota which was success fully launched last year, and the two big boats will revolutionize the Paci fic-carrying trade in a short time. The supreme court in a recent de cision says tobacco is a necessity and its general use makes its sale on Sun day legal. A St. Paul grocer con tested the recent Sunday-closing law which forbids the sale of meats and groceries and allows the sale of to bacco and confectionery. The court says that it is not class legislation, and it behooves all wise husbandmen to lay in meats and groceries Satur day, and they can forage for tobacco all day Sunday if they choose. The Republican State central commit tee met in St. Paul this week and de cided to call the State convention to elect delegates to the national conven tion for March 17th, at Minneapolis, the county conventions to be held on the twelfth, or the Saturday preceding the convention. At these county con ventions delegates will be selected to attend the Minneapolis convention and also delegates to the State convention at which candidates for State officers will be named. The latter covention will be held some time in July, the' time and place to be selected by the State committee at a future meeting. Duluth and St. Paul are the candidates iot ttiis convention and the* ZeotttWSty will put up a strong fight. laMW'?-.! ASJSA* "GRIM PlSAGED WAR." "Grim visaged war" has now begun between Japan* and Russia.' iJhe latter* country has refused 'to guaran tee Japan any satisfactory status Jin Korea and has also informed Japan that the bear will stalk about Man churia about as it pleases with no guarantee to Japan at all satisfactory. In other words Russia concedes Japan nothing and the deadly conflict in the far east is now a reality, war opening last Monday night when Japanese torpedo boats attacked the Russian fleet off Port Arthur and put out of commission two of the best battle ships that Russia has and sunk a cruiser. On Tuesday the Japanese fleet attacked two Russian warships off Chemulpo and it is said that both of the warships hauled down their flags and the Japs took possession of them. War news at the present time is very uncertain and unreliable, but enough of the truth is known to warrant the statement that the little brave Japs have struck the first blow and stag gered the Russians. In this conflict Japan will be fighting against great odds as Russia has great resources and can hold out a long time, but with some of the battleships of the Russian navy damaged and a part'of the fleet in the ice at Vladivostock the Russian navy will not open any en gagements under very favorable aus pices. The Japs have not waited for the enemy to take the initiative but have faced the inevitable issue and gone at it in a manner that has won them all kinds of glory so far and let us hope that luck will be with them to the end, as Japan is fighting a nation that great as it is must be likened to a great big, burly coward. Using the standard of the survival of the fittest Japan should win. But Russia is mighty with her cunning ways and diplomatic deception and there are ties of blood which bind Russia, Ger many and England together, but such ties are sometimes sundered and cut in the clash of war. What the out come of the war will be no one can at this time predict as it may involve other nations. Creamery for Greenbush, The farmers in the vicinity of Freer have at last got a creamery seawr^d and an organization has beew per* fected which will go to work at, qnqe and make arrangements for the con struction of an up-to-date creamery, to be built of cream brick and located on the banks of Rum river on the farm, of J. A. Wetter. A meeting was recently held iat school house No. 4 and the organ ization was perfected as follows: President, Ole Uglem vice president, John Wetter treasurer, B. G. Benson. It was voted to incorporate with a capital stock of sixty shares of $50 each and already nearly fifty of the shares have been subscribed. An ice house has been built and stocked with ice for next season. The creamery will be a large one and equipped with the latest and best machinery and will be ready for business early in the spring. The president of the creamery asso ciation, Ole Uglem, has had a lot of experience in the creamery business, and has been president of two cream ery associations. It was largely through his efforts that the creamery project was a success. The farmers are feeling jubilant over the new creamery and well may they. Company Target Practice. The target-practice squad made some very good records at the armory last Thursday night. Each member of the firing squad can make a possi ble score of fifteen, firing in each posi tion, or a possible score of seventy five all told. Thefe following was the score: 's Stand- ing 22 21 20 18 16 22 19 16 18 12 15 18 19 THE PBINCETON TJlJIOlff: THUBSDAT, FEBKUABY 11, 1904. Sit- ting 22 23 24 22 20 19 81 21 20 21 16 17 19 Corp Marshal Serg Boyn Lieut Caley Priv Boyn N Marshal Priv Swain CbrpVTritch Musician Jesmer Priv Leek Priv Morehouse. Serg. WiUiams Priv. Rosin Serg. Schinn, 1 POLITICAL COMMENT: Not Prtrt of the Collins/, JJfety The failure of the State examiner to find aught wrong with the accounts and records of the State auditor's office during the tenure of office of Robert C. Dunn, after a search of several months, will not be inculcated in the Colilns campaign yell.Vir ginia Enterprise. Dunn Will Make au Able Governor. Bob Dunn made the best auditor the State ever had, and there is every rea son to believe that the governor's chair would be as ably filled by the Princeton statesman.Mallard Call. It's No Joke for the Dunn Lawyers. Some Collins papers treat it as a good joke that the judge will retain his place on the bench until April 1, although he resigned some time ago. But it is not so funny for the attor neys who will not support Collins. Lanesboro Leader. What Chtlds Sayg. Attorney General Childs says: "If any man ever earned the gratitude of the people of this State it. is Mr. Dunn."Lake Crystal Union. Nomination and Election Assured. R. C. Dunn had a good record as State auditor, and one that is suffi cient to insure his nomination and election as governor.Taylors Falls Journal. Collins' Fool Friends. Judge Collins' "fool friends" at St. Cloud and elsewhere will blunder him out of the place before the convention is called if he don't take a twist in their collars.Crookston Times. The Dunn Boom Gathers Strength. Bob Dunn's boom continues to gather strength daily despite all efforts to stay it. By convention time he will have the nomination clinched.Renville Record. Support From Country Districts. Since his formal announcement as a candidate for the Republican nomina tion for governor, R. C. Dunn is re ceiving flattering assurances of hearty support from all parts of the subur ban portions of the State.Litchfield News-Ledger. What Peterson's Support Means. Hon. James A. Peterson, the able Minneapolis jurist, is the leader of the Dunn forces in Hennepin county. Mr. Peterson was a candidate for congress at the last primary election and con trols an effective organization. His support will go far towards securing Hennepin couny for Mr pleton Tribune. Ly- ing 23 21 22 21 23 18 20 22 19 18 18 12 22 Total 67 65 64 61 59 59 ,60 '69 57 51 49 47 60 A Bad Tasting Potato. Potatoes from Washington are being imported to Minnesota arid sold in competition with the home product. '-Well, this does not seem to-lower the price very much. Per iiaps it i3 the Washington potato that has that hard-, wet bitter taste after being boiled. If so, Minne sota housekeepers will not buy them very long.Duluth Herald. This is tough on the Washington spud which evidently got badly chilled in Duluth. We tasted some hot mashed Washington's last week in Princeton that were delicious. R^imbE?t# musi^4|(| l^eriry entertairfmerie At*tiifefcfer house to morrow night. Dunn,Ap- Np Figh,V-No Fun. We a^e indebted to State Librarian Nelson for copies of the Hallbck News, in which we learn that there area few papers supporting Judge Collins for governor. It is pleasing to know that Dunn is having a little opposition, as it will help to bring out his good points.Isanti News. The Dunn Boom is Growing. There is a wave that surely seems destined to carry Hon. R. C. Dunn of. Princeton into the gubernatorial chair, and it is overwhelming his opponents and growing in power every day.Al bert Lea Enterprise. A Sure Thing for R. C. Dunn. It is about as certain as anything earthly can be that the next governor of Minnesota will be R. C. Dunn. Royalton Banner. Almost a Unit for Dunn. It is very apparent that the State press, as well as the people in general are almost a unit in favor of R. C. Dunn. He has served them as State auditor, and saved them thousands of dollars, which fact will not be over looked.Le Sueur Leader. No Brass Staff for Dunn. Bob Dunn says he will unload the brass staff if the people Want him for governor. In that event none of Bob's generals will be in line for Warden Wolfer's hospitality.Windom Re porter. Gen. Childs Ought to Know. Few State officials have enjoyed the confidence of the people to a greater extent than General Childs and as at torney general of the State he has been in a position to know Mr. Dunn thor oughly and to familiarize himself with Dunn's record.Aitkin Age. Only One Candidate In Sight. To our notion, at the present in stance of time, there is only one real Republican guberatorial candidate in sight, and his name is Dunn others may show up ere the Republican State convention assembles in battle array, but we doubt it.Houston Signal. Jim Martin Can't Dictate. Jim Martin knows the people of Isanti county too well we believe to attempt to dictate to them who they shall or shall not support.Cam bridge Independent.! tf, Not All the Lawyers for Collins!. Then another reason why the masses should never permit Collins to occupy tb.e gubernatorial Chair, is that a grafting class of lawyers all over the State, are strong supporters of Col lins, including a few in this county. Adams Review. V-fo?!** John JUlnd Bue-a-bpo. The Republican party will doubttibsff nominate Mr. Dunn for governor, arid'reasonother I might result in saving.th a wouk welcome Mr. Lind into the field as his opponent. Bob Dunn on ac count of his enviable record as State auditor can and will run neck-and-neck with.TheodorejRoosevelt. John Lind will not be a candidate.Blue Earth Post. Dunn's Ambition Will be Realized. Dunn is very popular with the masses the people have the greatest confidence in his integrity and busi ness qualifications, and it may safely be predicted, that his ambition to be come the nominee of his party for governor will be realized at the next nominating convention.Glencoe En terprise. Dunn Will be True to the People. Mr. Dunn has been tried in an im portant public station and has always stood for the people and for the strict est pfficial integrity. As governor he will meet all questions that may arise, manfully, conscientiously, patriotic ally and as in the past, will bejrue to the people. The people believe in the ability and honesty of Mr. Dunn, how ever much a certain* set of fellows might dread to see him elected gover nor of Minnesota.Kiester Courier. There Will be a Grand Exodus. The nomination and election of Bob Dunn means that the State capitol will be purged of the prbteges of Clough and Van Sant.St. Charles Union. Even His Dreams are Republican. The Collins papers are laboring as siduously to show that the Democratic papers are supporting Dunn and he is therefore not entitled to Republican support. If ever a man was a thor ough Republican, even to his dreams, that man is Bob Dunn.Brainerd Arena. Collins' Friends are too Venomous. A good many Collins newspapers are putting themselves in a position where they could not consistently sup port Dunn should he be nominated. The Democratic papers, later in the campaign, will be reprinting those articles.Heron Lake News. Dunn's "Foxy Grandpa" Opponents. Bob Dunn enjoys the confidence of the public to a greater degree than his "foxy grandpa" opponents could ever attain if they lived a hundred years and taught Sunday school every Sabbath.The Osakis Review. It Can't be Done. The administration crowd is up against a hard proposition in their efforts to find flaws in the official con duct of Bob Dunn, as State auditor. Slayton Gazette. They Want to Retain Their Jobs. Nearly all the Van Sant appoint ees are for Judge Collins for gover nor, but the farmers and other inde pendent Republican voters are nearly all for R. C. Dunn.Buffalo Lake News. Why Jump on the Empire Builder? The Wadena Pioneer-Journal, one of the "few for Collins" papers, is trying to make political capital out of the tribute paid by Bob Dunn to Jim Hill upon the occasion of the dedica tion of the Great Northern railway depot at Princeton in January, 1903. What Mr. Dunn said at that time everyone knows to be true.Chaska Review. It is Martin's Scheme. For an example of pure unadulter ated gall Van Sant and Collins are shining examples. Between the two they have established Collins' gubejv natorial headquarters in the capitol building at St. Paul. The taxpayers will have to pay for it the same as they are doing for the State appointee spell binders.Echo Enterprise. Someone Is Being Buncoed. Meantime the office holders' ring are putting up the sinews and banking on Collins' loyalty to deliver the goods to them, that Martin is prom ising to others.Rush City Post. Like all Nelson's Statements. State Librarian Nelson's statement that there is no machine behind Judgs Collins must be taken with consider able salt.Aitkin Republican. Oh! L.et the Governor Alone. There seems to be no question about itGov. Van Sant is certainly after some political office, only they can't just figure out what it is.Morris Sun. They Certainly are Strong. There are undoubtedly those on both sides who go to extremes, but when it comes to abuse and misrepre sentations the Collins papers, up to date, have certainly had the large end Of tKe corner.Preston Times. Working for His Job. State Supt. Olson is making a hus tle for Collins with the uderstanding that he will be retained in office for another term if the judge is elected governor.Lamberton Star. Its the Same all over the State. We beg to inform the callow youth who edits the Leader that Mr. Dunn has not nor never did have, to our knowledge, an enemy in Wadena county.Wadena Pioneer-Journal. I Better Attend to His Job. It would seem to the Tribune, how ever, that the public examiner would serve the State much better if from now on he Would employ his force for some "than a putfrty political money of the public from the depreda tions of dishonest bank officials. Wadena Tribun^ A Chance for Collins. About every Republican paper we take up favorable to Collins, sayi the Democratic press is for Dunn. Well, here is a Democratic paper that isn't. Long Prairie Democrat. Dunn Is the Only Live Candidate. From the present outlook the fight for the Republican nomination for governor lies between Dunn and Dunn. There is a growing feeling among the voters that Dunn is the only real live candidate in the field.Dassel Anchor. Dunn's Nomination a Certainty. It is no disparagement to the strength or ability of the candidates to say that Mr. Dunn's nomination seems almost a certainty. He has his forces well organized for effective work and has the strongest kind of newspaper support throughout the State.St. Vincent New Era. Made Railroads Pay Their Taxes. Robert C. Dunn candidate for gub ernatorial honors, was the same man who took a decided stand against the railroads and did so much to make them come to time and pay taxes". Baudette Region. Dunn Is Far In the Lead. The gubernatorial situation has not changed during the week past and al most every paper in the State has its candidate. Bob Dunn seems to be far in the lead if the newspapers can be relied upon (and of eourse they can be) and as it looks Dunn will be nom inated by acclamation.Cass Lake Times. The People for Roosevelt and Dunn. The people of Minnesota are for Roosevelt and Dunn. They are a great deal alike. Bob Dunn has the courage and the will to do right, re gardless of consequences. He is that kind of a man,Winnebago City Press. How Dunn Excels Collins. While this paper at one time favored Mr. Collins for governor as against his opponents at that time it does not favor him, and never did, as against Mr. Dunn. It concedes that both are honorable men, but it contends that Mr. Dunn excels Mr. Collins in firm ness and the courage of his* convic tions.St. Peter Free Press- Even the Poets are for Dunn. A-lack-a-day, hear while we say Poor Collins, dear Eustis and EddyT Who have been stepping so steady. Now, putting aside pun, they should never have run, Or even begun in a race that's all Dunn.Long Prairie Leader. No Crime to Tell the Truth. If anyone votes against Dunn for telling the truth, he may as Well go according to his instinct, those who believe in truth will vote according to their intelligence.Eden Valley Jour nal. Three-fourths are for Dunn. We don't know how many newspa pers have endorsed Collins but three fourths of our list are for Dunn out and out.Annandale Advocate Post. Dunn Means Every Word of It. Col. Dunn's platform appears to please the rank and file of the people, and those who know him best know that he will carry out every plank of the platform to the letter. All things hit right.Redwood Gazett^. x' Can't Blame Dunn. It is no valid objection to Dunn's candidacy, that, if nominated, lots of Democrats would vote for him and help to swell the size of his majority. Warren Register. Dunn Will Capture Hennepin. With such men as James A. Peter son in charge of Dunn's campaign in Hennepin county, it need surprise no one if Dunn captures the delegation there.Breckenridge Telegram. It's the Same Old Story. So! the Collins people are trying to befuddle the people by accusing Dunn of being a railroad candidate, while they quietly run down to Jim Hill's office and solicit boodle to run their campaign with. Great heads.Elk River Star-News. It's Awful for the Other* Fellows. Its awful to have a man run for gov ernor who has a spotless record of eight years in the State auditor's office. Nobody else will have a ghost of a chance. don't you know. Sacred Heart Journal. The Chances. The chances are that Dunn will have the fine rooms occupied by Van Sant for headquarters at, this time next year,Russell Review. A Warm Fight. Bob Dunn, the Princeton candidate for the governor's chair, is making a warm fight for the preliminary honors of the contest and is gaining friends Mr. Dunn's official record as State auditor is making friends for him by the score.Magnolia (Rock Co.) Ad vance. A House Cleaning. "With Collins as gpvernor," says the Windom Roporter,"the old Clough Van Sant regime ap the State capitol "tnci'tw!ft4Det.$Puhpuse-cleaning.-xBeddanninDunbBot,v.willaootintte li*keJEaU&.Gazette. I