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A 4* 13 News Films of the Passing Show A man seven feet one inch tall mar ried a woman of four feet eleven inches in Texas. The mother of girl triplets at Wil mington, Del., has named them Jessie, Margaret and Eleanor, after the presi dent's daughters. A difference of 1 cent in the books of Tarrytown, N. caused the village clerk and village treasurer to go over tax collections amounting to $111,000. A newly elected justice of the peace of Fayette City, Pa., offered anew stove, a five dollar bill and the cere mony free to the first couple applying to him for marriage. Officials of the University of Mich igan and of the other colleges of the state urge a circular "dry zone" sur rounding each college, no saloon being permitted nearer than five miles As the culmination of a courtship of fifty years ago, William Knox and Mrs. Elizabeth Tunnell were married recently at Chincoteague, Va. The wedding is the fourth venture of each. Aroused by a fire alarm at Water bury, Conn., a retired fire horse kicked down the door of its stall, dashed out of the barn and raced across the city to his old fire station, where it whinnied for admittance. WESTON WILL WALK OLD MEN INSIX DAY MATCH.port To Pit Team Against Younger Oppo nents to Settle Question of Prowess. Edward Payson Weston, seventy five-year-old world famous pedestrian, is arranging a walking contest which will have a scientific interest for those who insist that age brings with it a general inability to perform, even aft er a fashion, those feats of an athletic nature which a few years back were easy of accomplishment. The general proposition is a test be tween youth and old age in a "go as you-please" contest on a measured track. It is stated that the veteran walker's experience has led him to be lieve that a man at forty years is to a man of sixty-five years as fifteen years is to nine years in walking capacity. Weston is about to institute a con test where, on the same track, a team of men at or beyond the sixty-five year age limit will be pitted against a similar number of men none of whom Is over forty-five years of age, with a handicapping system based on the al lowance of walking time on the track. The test is to cover a period of six days, and the younger men will be given nine hours each day in which to gain their total mileage, while the older group will have an allowance of fifteen hours during each twenty-four in which to endeavor to equal or beat the efforts of their youthful opponents. Five thousand dollars will be disand tributed among the several contestants according to the records made. While no date or place has been fixed for the proposed contest, it has tentatively been agreed upon that May of this year would be a fitting time. HER CROOKED SPINE MENDED. Bone From Shin Wedged Into Verte brae Makes Deformed Girl Erect. A marvelous double operation per formed in Cleveland, O.. has made Pauline Beil, thirteen years old, whose back was deformed from birth, an erect, healthy girl who will be able to run and play like other children. Pauline was placed on an operating table at Mount Sinai hospital and "ironed out all straight and smooth." as she says Fust of all. a slender splinter ol bone three inches long was taken from the shinbone of her right leg Then a groove was cut into the vertebrae on the inner side of theso" spine, just where it was bent Into this groove the straight splin ter of bone then was nrmly wedged. Immediately afterward the little pa tient was put into a plaster cast In tLis cast, face downward, Pauline lay for nearly two weeks without stirring. Then she was propped up in bed for the first time in five weeks, and finally she sat up, her back as straight as the cast in which she is still wrapped. YACHTSMEN'S MAGIC EIGHT. That Number of Letters Favored For Name of Vanderbilt Cup Racer. Sentiment is taking hold in the mat ter of providing a name for the Van derbilt syndicate cup yacht, designed by Nat Herreshoff, and it is a matter of public discussion about the Herre shoff boat shops at Bristol, R. I., that the new racer, yet in the initial stages of construction, will have a name of eight letters, conforming to a senti mental policy of long standing relative to cup yachts. A multitude of names has been suggested informally, but the naming of the yacht may not take place for weeks to come It is pointed out that the Reliance, Vigilant, Defender and Columbia, all successful cup yachts, had each only eight letters in their names, while the Constitution, a cup candidate in 1901. had several more letters in her name She was not selected. It is said that having eight letters in a yacht's name is a good omen AAJfi**^,^.' ii$&3&&fc4[ E TH WOULD REFORM PRISONS. Man Who Was a Train Robber Sym pathizes With First OffendersEx plains Why He Quit Life of Crime and Scores Respected Rogues Less Crude Than He Was. Jennings was a train robber in Ok lahoma and the southwest for several years before his final capture in 1897 and subsequent conviction in a federal court He served a few years in the prison at Columbus, O.. before being pardoned by President McKinley. His citizenship was later restored by Pres ident Roosevelt, and he began the prac tice of law in Oklahoma City. In 1912 he ran for the Democratic nomination as county attorney of Oklahoma coun ty against six other candidates Be fore the primaries five of the candi dates withdrew to concentrate the vote against him, but in spite of this he ob tained the nomination. At the general election he was defeated by a narrow margin by a Republican who was sup ported by both the Republican and Democratic organizations. Daniels Lauds Naval Heroes. The secretary of the navy has high ly commended Oscar Peterson, oil er, on duty on board the TJ. S. S Boston at Portland. Ore. for risking his life to save a man from drown ing in the Columbia river. Charles Zebley, seaman, and Albert D. Russell fireman, second class, have also been, commended by the secretary. An eii listed man fell overboard at Ports mouth, N. H., and Zebley jumped over board. The water was icy cold and the current so strong that both were nearly lost. Russell started to an dress and jump after the men. but was restrained. The two men were res cued by a boat. j.,lr tiff .N EX-BANDIT SEEKS SPOTLIGHTIS ON HISTORIC FAIRFAX TO BE GOVERNOR Al Jennings Tells Why He Wants to Rule Oklahoma. Al J. Jennings, ex-train robber and federal prisoner, who won the Demo cratic nomination for county attorney of Oklahoma county, Okla. in 1912, is about to announce his candidacy for tho governorship of the state of Okla homa. "I am entering the race," said Mr. Jennings in New York recently, "as a Democrat. Many of my friends have urged me to seek an independent nom ination, but I have always been a Democrat. My object is to clean up the party in Oklahoma. 1 intend to fight double dealing, political thieves, with whom no self respecting outlaw of former years' can associate. "All I want is to see absolutely hon est men at the head of the government, and after I have announced my candi dacy if some man whose integrity and uprightness are unquestioned becomes a candidate I shall withdraw and sup him with all of my ability. Why Jennings Reformed. "Some people do not seem to be able to understand how an outlaw, an ex train robber and federal prisoner can become sincerely law abiding and a re former in politics, but the explanation is simple. I made a mistake and de fied the law. I was caught and pun ishedkept five years in prisonand then saw how I had been wrong to be come an enemy of society. I decided to reclaim my place in society and set about doing it. As soon as I became a free man, living in a free community, 1 began to appreciate the differences in lawbreaking and the consequences thereof, and that made me a political reformer. "I had been a train robber, a crude, open defier of society, and I had been caught and punished. I saw all about me men who wore the best clothes and stood high in society robbing the peo ple right and left and not getting caught or being punished. They were not as primitive as I had been in the method they chose. They did things in the dark and only appeared in the open when they had on their Sunday clothes, so to speak Mr. Jennings says he will carry on the same kind of aggressive, personal campaign for the gubernatorial nom ination as he carried on for the coun ty attorneyship. He claims he hasand no money behind him and will not be able to establish headquarters "I will stump the state," he said, "and speak from the street corners halls wherever I can Mr. Jennings said that if he is elect ed governor he Mil make it his chief object to enforce the law without re spect to persons, but that from lessons derived during his own prison experi ence he will also apply himself to pris on reform in Oklahoma Pledges Aid to First Offenders. "I favor the adoption of a reforma tory parole system," he said, "by which first offenders can be given a chance to redeem themselves. 1 think that a young man who is convicted for the first time should be allowed to stay at home and work under the watchful eye of the state instead of being locked up in a prison where, in all probability, he will be made a confirmed criminal. There will be no wholesale release of prisoners if 1 become governor, but 1 will exercise the power of pardon and parole with the view of reclaiming for society every man 1 can As long as there is a chance of making a good citizen of a man we should try to do Virginia In Fight to Regain Martha Washington Will. INSISTS MORGAN GIVE IT UP Testament Cut From the Records of Fairfax County During Civil War and Discovered In Father's Library Six Years Ago Is Prized Beyond Price In the Old Dominion. The stage is being set for a bitter battle between the state of Virginia and J. Pierpont Morgan in Virginia's avowed intention of recovering "at all costs" the will of Martha Washington, which was stolen from the records of Fairfax county, Va., during the civil war. This historical document is in the possession of the New York finan cier, who has declined to accede to the request of the state that he sur render it Representative Charles C. Carlin. who represents the Fairfax district, has come forward to aid the state and county officials to recover the will. "The people of Virginia are aroused over this matter," said the congress man recently. "The will is ours, and we are going to have it restored to where it belongs." "Virginia will recover the will of Martha Washington at all costs," declared Crandall Mackey, common wealth attorney for Alexandria county. "Until Mr. Morgan persisted in his refusal to return the will to the ar chives from which it was purloined the fight was one between him and the people of Fairfax county, to whom the document belongs, but now it has become a state wide question." Will Lost For Fifty Years. The will of Martha Washington, wife of the first president of the Unit ed States, was cut from the records of Fairfax county while the war between the states was raging in that part of Virginia. Virginians believe that one of General McDowell's soldiers car ried off the Martha Washington will along with other records, but how it got into Mr. Morgan's possession no one seems to be able to guess. For more than fifty years the people of Fairfax county have searched for the Martha Washington will, which they prized very highly as a relic Not long ago some one who saw the will among Mr. Morgan's collection notified a friend in Fairfax, and an effort was made to have the document returned to where Virginians say it rightfully and legally belongs. Mrs John S. Barbour, regent of the Falls Church (Va.) chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolu tion, acting for her organization, wrote asked Mr. Morgan to return the will, which, she said, had been "taken from the records of Fairfax county. Va." An unfavorable reply was received from Mr. Morgan's librarian. Futile Appeals to Elder Morgan. The report that the Washington will was in the Morgan collection first was heard six years ago. Several letters were sent to the elder Morgan, but he never replied to any of them, so it is said. After his death the Fairfax people became interested in the will again The Daughters of the American Revo lution and the Falls Church chapter joined forces in an effort to recover the testament. When gentler means failed it was decided to enlist the aid of the state. The suit planned to recover the will is unique in that the state of Virginia sues an individual before the supreme court of the United States. It is one of the few instances where a state has sued a citizen in the supreme court Ferdinand D. Richardson, father of the present clerk of Fairfax county, was clerk of the county when the will was taken. Mrs. Washington's estate at the time the will was made was one of the largest in the south. REDFIELD ON PROSPERITY. Secretary of Commerce Makes Bright Forecast For Year. In an article in the Chicago Tribune Secretary of Commerce Kedfield fore casts prosperity for 1914 and scon's at pessimistic predictions. He says in part: The facts are such as should fill us all with hope. There Is little in them to jus tify either doubt for the present or fear for the future. The crop of winter wheat already plant ed to mature next summer is not only in finer condition than a year ago, but is of much larger extent, promising well for the future if weather conditions prove fa vorable and certainly justifying no pres ent anxiety Referring to American industries, be says. "One does not need to be wor ried by this cry of wolf, for the cry has been made before, and the wolf did not come." Asks Divorce Because He's Bald. Because be is bald and his wife sent him a comb and brush as a Christmas present, Jeremiah Schlestenberg of Midway, Pa., began an action for di vorce on the grounds of cruel and bar barous treatment. "1 can't grow hair on my head and I can't stand her jibes," says Schlestenberg. PBiyCETOK UKIOK ^raTOSDAY, JAKUABY 15, 1914jBWFEgfl^ NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL AND SANITARIUM. (BSTABU8HBD 1900) A private institution which combines all the advantages of a perfectly equipped hospital with the quiet and comfort of a refined and elegant home. Modern in every respect. No insane, contagious or other objectionable cases received Rates are as low as the most effi cient treatment and the best trained nursing will permit. H. C. COONEY, M. D., riedlcal Director, FRANCES S COONEY. Supt. NELLIE JOHNSON. Head Nurse. HIGH STRUNG HORSES can easily be spoiled by poor shoeing. If their shoes don't fit perfectly or are wrongly put on there is apt to be trouble. We shoe every horse sent here according to his individual needs. We fit him as carefully as a good shoe maker w6uld make footwear for you. Try our shoeing on your horses. They will like it and so will you. We have expert horseshoers to do the work. N. M. NELSON Princetoa, Minnesota You Should Not hold a public sale for the purpose of disposing of your horses, cattle, machinery, household goods, etc., until you see me and get my rates. T. J. KALI HER Licensed Auctioneer Princeton Minn. ANTON HANSON General Mason Work All work will receive the best of at tention and satisfaction guuranteed At L. Pierson's, Route 3, Princeton EGGS MAIL Write Today lor Our Catalogue All kinds parcel post boxes for eggs, poultry, fruit and vegetables Valuable treatise on how to eliminate the losses in the poultry flock sent free. We handle a full line of Poultry Supplies DIAMOND BOX NFG. CO. 319 No 2nd St Room 402 Minneapolis First Pub. Jan. 83t Order Limiting Time to File Claims, and for Hearing 1 hereon. Estate of Sarah Martin. State of Minnesota, County of Mille Lacs.in Probate Court. In the matter of the estate of Sarah J. Martin, decedent. Letters of administration this day having been granted to Ir a G. Stanley, I is ordered, that the time with in which all creditors of the above named decedent may present claims against her estate in this court, be, and the same hereby is, limited to six months from and after the date hereof and that Monday, the 13th day of July, 1914, at ten o'clock A. M., in the probate court rooms at the court house at Princeton in said county, be, and the same hereby is, fixed and appointed as the time and place for hearing upon and the examination, adjustment and allow ance of such claims as shall be pre sented within the time aforesaid. Let notice hereof be given by the publication of this order in the Princeton Union as provided by law. Dated January 5th, 1914. Wm. V. San ford, (Court Seal) Probate Judge. Ira G. Stanley, Attorney per se, Princeton Minn. Unclaimed Letters. List of letters remaining unclaimed at the postofflce, Princeton, on Jan uary 12, 1914: Mrs. Freda Peterson, J. F. Erick, Miss Minnie Peterson. Please call for advertised letters. M. M. 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