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'f*S JOFFICERSJ s. s. PETTERSON, T. H. CALEY, 1sv t4 ji *HM) J* R. C. DUNN, Publisher. Terms $1.50 per Tear. CAPITAL PAID UP, AUTHORIZED CAPITAL, M|f President Vice President. G. A. EATON, Cashier. Interest Paid on Time Deposits. Insurance. Princeton, CITIZENS STATE BANK O PRINCETON, MINNESOTA, (Incorporated.) J. L. BRADY, President J. J. SKAHEN, Cashier. BANK OF PRINCETON Paid Capital 50,000.00. Authorized Capital $100,000.00. Transacts a General Banking Business. ^mmmmm!!?!?!?!!!!!!!?!!!!!!!!!!!!?!!!!!?!!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!?!?!!!!^ 1 Agents Reed & Sherwood Lands. 1 O. H. BUCK. O. J. CRAVENS. BUCK & CRAVENS, BLACKSMITHS All Kinds oi Blacksmith Work ^Neatly and Promptly Done. We Make a Specialty of Horse Shoeing .and Plow Work. Shop Opposite Commercial Hotel Oak Street, Princeton. CUNDT & aiBHIHGS, i GEN'L MERCHANDISE.) MILLE Edith O LACS LAKE. Minnesota. We carry a complete line of Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, and Gents' Furnishings. Also a nice lren*s hoe antJ Rubbers. Also a I line of Lumbermen's Goods. Butter, Eggs, Farm Produce Wanted. Highest price paid. ^^UUttUWViMUiUiiUUiUiUUiUUUiUUiUUUiUiUiiiiU^ ^mmm!!!mn!!Hmn!n!f!!!Ht!!!tnmt!!!!!mmmn!!!!mmK j Shorts, Bran, Screenings, Etc. We will 3 undersell any dealer in this county. Re- 3 member 3 I 100 PER CENT I FLOUR is the best straight flour sold.' It received 3 I Princeton Roller Mill Co 1 ^iiuiiuiiuiuiuuiiuiuiuuuuiuiuuuiuiiiuuaiiuuuuiiiiii 0. $30,000 $100,000 A. General Banking Business Transacted Loans Made on Approved Security. Interest Pad on Time Deposits. ssa SJfe Foreign and omestac Exchange Farm and Village Loans. Collections. Minnesota. ^^**#J -*i Saturday is Picture Day! Put on a pleasant expression be with good humor, then go to ^^77^/ PHOTOGRAPHIC^ STUDIO And sit for your picture, and you will be pleased with the result Studio open Sat urday only NELSON1,ever Artis S I make duplicates from negatives taken at Princeton by Mr Rugg Send in your orders if you want some more Only $2 00 per dozen. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. C. TARBOX, M. Il,J^ PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Graduate of Bellevue Hospital Medical College and Randall's Island Hosplta" Surgeon of N & E R. L. SMAIiL, DENTIST^ Office Hours 9 to 12 A 3 to 5 P. Office Townsend Block. Ma St Princeton, Minn. s.m D. SOUR,M. D.,M. S., "VT M.COOK.M.D., Mam Street Trinceton. Minn J. A. ROSS, ATTORNEY AT LAW. ^ol Office Carew Block \$f Main Street Princeton,Minn. IT. ROGERS i ATTORNEY AT XAW. Princeton, 4a -%Jh. aLdtlgfci/ BUSINESS 0ARD8 pHAPMAN & KALIHER, PRINCETON BARBER SHOP. Main Street, Princeton A. C. SMITH'S OLD RELIABLE MEAT MARKET Is the place to get Choice Fresh and Salt Meats Ye deal in the Best and our prices are reasonable First Door West of Citizens State Bank. Princeton Minn Livery Stable, -is5^^s~Ss3Ef:a*aJW3BKa-i- NEELY& CLAGGETT, Prop. Single or double rigs, with orwithout drivers Commercial travelers and hunting parties a specialty Opposite Commercial Hotel, Mam Street Princeton Commercial Hotel, niaaaaaaaaaglBlk Princeton, Minn., H. NEWBERT, Prop. PRINCETON, MILLE LACS COUNTY, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4,18971 City ospita N rt _. E R. 8 Pension Examining Board meets every Wednesday at Office over Pioneer Drug Store Princeton, Minn. C. COONEY, D.,* "W{\^ DOCTOR OF MEDICINE AND^SUR- GERT. S Pension Examining Surgeon.,* 4 Graduate of the College of Phveicfuns and Sur geons and Cook Co Hospital Chicago. Officee and Residence in Townlend Block, Main Street. Princeton. $ PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Graduate of Jefferson Medical College Phila delphia Pa and Medical Department of Ham line University, Minneapolis Minn Treatment of Goitre and Scrofulous Glands a specialty German and English spoken Office at resi dence on Washington ave., next to E church Princeton, Minn. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Graduate of Bennett Medical College Chicago III., 1874 Milaca Minn pHAKLES KEITH, ATTORNEY AT LAW No 3 First Street West Princeton Minn pHAS. A. DICKEY, LAWYER, NOTARY PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCER. Office in Oarew Block Mam Street Princeton, Minn. J. L. BRADY, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office on First Street. }i 'Bus To and From" All Trains. tfr? Mf^-jArHDH" SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS B, Wh. J2. E COMMERCIAL HOTEL Is First Class in All Its Appointments, and the Aim of the Management is to Make the Guests Comfortable When You Visit Princeton Stop at THE COMMERCIAL HOTEL. ROWERS'C.S.REFORM Is as Simple as a Yale Lock arid as Easy as Lying, Is the Waygj^f Vulture Describes ft J bther Legislative Investigation, IThis Time Bankers and Their Methods Receive Attention. ^Special' Correspondence f\$& ^Wte 3 $- The Powers' investigation is also hanging fire. Senator Rmgdal intro duced "and secured the passage of a resolution calling for an investigation of i Mr. Powers' civil service-sound mj$iey-labo bureau, and the labor or ganizations of the State are contribut ory generously to the fund of -fuel &*i& being used to vkeep Mr." Pow wake nights. The senate was not Qge4-.tqMija3^miifth. ^tt-ention Senator Ringdal's resolution, and but for Mr. Powers, himself, it is notof likely that the investigation wou have been made. Up to the time of the Ringdal resolution no living man who knew Powers had ever read one of his reports, but when the resolution was introduced it created a passing in terest in them and one or two persons read a small part of the report. Mr. Powers has something which answers him fairly well in the place of a mind, and this instinct told him that here was the only chance of his life to get one of his reports read. If the report had to be investigated it would first have to be read, and there was such glory in the thought that the chief of the division of labor statistics and and biblical love seized his trenchant pen and demanded the investigation. H. H. Dunn, who succeeds Frank Day as senator, was made chairman of the committee, and he frankly admitted to me Monday that nothing had been done yet because he hadn't found any body whom he could bribe to read the report. He said he had spent a good deal of time and money getting to be senator, he was threatened with con sumption anyhow, and he would be damned if he was going to bring on hemorrhage by trying to wade through the sea of quotations from the patent office reports of 1873 which constitute that report. Well, a man has nothing in this world but his health, and I can't say that I specially blame Dunn. I read apart of one of Powers' first re ports, and I have had the epizootic ever since. *j $- j Powers has one of the greatest civil service schemes that ever came along. It is simple as a Yale lock and as easy as lying. He proposes to have a bill introduced to place his department un der civil service rules, and just as soon as it ie passed, and before it is signed by the governor, he will fire every one of his present clerks, put the rest of his family in to take their places and have a mortal sinch during the balance of his natural life. Powers knows a few things about the plan of atonement a few other things about the persever ance of the saints and a good deal more about the resurrection and the life to come, but if you want to tap the foun tain of his real inspiration, if you want a deep draft from the well of his per ennial genius, just drop around the back door of his office on the holy calm of a sunny Sunday afternoon when he is alone With his God and his pencil working on a civil service bill for the Minnesota legislature. When you see &fc* a, J* fust now the legislature is very much engrossed with the matter of investigations. The latest on the string is a resolution by Mr. Feig call J^g for an investigation ^into the recent hank failures, It may or may notthe come to ahead according as the author the resolution sees or fails to see the light. The resolution grew out of the Bank of Minnesota failure and the sub sffciuent failure of the Ramsey county gdind jury. The bank skinned its de-more f^itors most unmercifully and when th facts were brought to the notice 'of the grand jury that body let it severely alone. The fact that the foreman and three members oi) the grand jury were directors of the Bank of Minnesota msy or may not have had something to do with the verdict of the jury. If all thi se bank failures nre fully prose cuted this legislature will have one plain duty before it, and that is to add abfut 160 acres to seating capacity of the State prison. It is not likely that th$y will be prosecuted, however, for somehow or other these things always fall through just at the critical mo mejit, when the sheriff is getting the hand cuffs ready. Mr. Feig's resolu tion will perform for the bank breakers the same kindly service that the old-ment fashioned policeman's lantern did for the house breakersgive them warn ing that trouble is coming and plenty of iime to get out of the way and cover up thej-X.tracks. I ^'kr 3T'A. a civil service bill introduced in a State legislature or a city council you will know what it means. You will know it means that there are a lot of mangy, incompetent, lazy, scurvy knaves who begin to realize that the time is coming for them to take up their beds and walk, and that they are throwing a civil service'anchor to the windward in the hope of effecting sal vation from that quarter. The "State will never need a set of civil service rules to secure competent clerical sup port for executive offices as long as the executive officers have the nerve to se lect their help on the basis of merit, and it would be just as unfair to saddle the loafers of this administration upon next set of officers as it would "Toe to ask the next administration to devote itself to correcting the errors 'of this one. The man who first called it "snivel" service gaye it the right name, and I predict that it will take snivelling than any member of this administration can do to fix the abominable system on Minnesota. Minnesota does not furnish a good soil for the planting of an office-holding aristocracy such as that which flour ishes in Washington, and the man who attempts it here will have his number" taken for future reference and histhe measure for an early political coffin. S \Pi I make the statement without fear of contradiction that 75 per cent of the printing done by the State in the mat ter of annual or biennial reports is a wanton waste of the people's money. The railroad and warehouse commis sioners, the labor commissioner, the dairy commissioner and every little tuppenny head of a ha'penny depart must, he thinks, get out some kind of a report to show what he hasperfectly been doing, and every such report in volves the expenditure of seyeral hun dred or thousand dollars. For all prac tical purposes the reports of the audi tor, treasurer and secretary of State show what has been done in the var ious departments of the State govern ment, and the other reports, as a rule serve no other purpose than to give a printer a job and "feed the vanity of some petty official. Here is an ele gant, library-bound volume entitled "The Biennial Report of the Chief Fire Warden of the State of Minne- sota.'\ It cost as much as a good farm wd"!*" contains "tr -s^i^fcor*BSrttaiogue, between A. B. and O. D. on the subject of forest fires. There are the reports the topographical survey, which cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and which are edited by Prof. Win chell, the man who officially declared twenty years ago that there wasn't iron enough in Minnesota to make a nail for the coffin of the first explorer. And so it is clear down the line. They all want to get out a report, they want to get it in book form, as a monument to themselves. It will last longer than marble, for the book will be stored away on a shelf, it will soon be coated with dust, and when the antiquarian of 2597 turns it over with his finger and musingly remarks "I wonder what fool got this up," he will be eomembers. busy treading cinders that he will never stop to think about it. I understand there is to be an organ ized movement in the legislature look ing to a reduction of the rate charged for the transportation of passengers and ore on the two Iron Range roads, and if this is done, in connection with the bill to soak the Rockefellers for taxes on their mining property it will create something of a diversion. I am informed that the roads in question realize a net profit of about $440 a train load for shipping ore from the mines to the docks at Duluth, which is an annual profit of about 400 per cent on the capital invested. The com panies affected have always heretofore taken the whole legislature out on a junket through the mining country, and succeeded in convincing the mem bers that they were doing business just for fun. This time, however, the members appear to be rather skeptical on this subject, and it will take a good deal of sound argument to convince them. I never could quite understand how it is that you can read in the busi ness statement of these companies that their properties are worth hundreds of millions of dollars, while the tax re ceipts from the same source show only a few thousand dollars. I suppose it is all right, but I don't just under stand it. $ %i^ VULTURE. At the annual meeting of the fire department last Monday evening the following officers were elected: O. J. McCamel, chief Zimmerman, assist ant H. E. Cravens, secretary William, Bidwell, treasurer P. M. Morneau, marshal Jacob Roos, engineer com pany No. 1 J. Zimmerman, engineer company No. 2 Ira Bullis, hook and ladder company.- RSINNlESOTA VOIUME XXI.v^NO. 7. QAKlNti POWDER Absolutely Pure. Celebrated for itsgreat leavening and healthfulness1 strengthst Assure the food agains alum and all forms of adulteration common to the cheap brands BOTAL BAKING POWDER CO NEW'TOBfe MANGLED AT MIL.ACA. F, J.JLous, a G. N. Brakeman, Fell Under &AVI.^ "i the Wheels. While switching at Milaca last Fri day F. J. Long, a brakeman on the Wilmar-Sandstone run, fell in front of an engine and was frightfully mangled. The crew were at work the yard of Foley-Bean Lumber company. Long* had picked up a pin and was standing between the rails, waiting for |p|| the- approaching engine which was backing toward himv, He attempted to step on the brakebeam, catching the tender rail at the same time with his unincumbered hand, but somehow ff missed his footing and was thrown un- ^& der tne wheels. His right foot was ^f$ cut off and his left foot, leg, hand and *fe' arm were badly crushed. He lived 20 5H minutes after the accident and was conscious of his condition. a|$ His remains were taken to St. Cloud and the funeral occurred Sunday after- fK noon under the auspices of the Catholic Order of Foresters He leaves at|| widow and nine children to mourn his ^Jp untimely death, his eldest child being" 17 and the youngest a babe of a year^^-S^ 4 ^BO COMPENSATE A CRUISER, For the Loss of His Hands and Feet Two ^-\H% Tears Ago. "VK.,v|f Representative Dare a day^br^two '^J ago Introduced a bill in the' house, which will in &11 probability receive a favorable cecommendation from the committee on claims,, to whieh^ it wa$ "referred^- The measure is to%pprcrir ate $4,000 for Fred N. Corey, who two years ago, at this season of the year, and while employed as a land cruiser by the office of the State Auditor, sus tained injuries which have left him hopelessly crippled. Corey, who is a married man, living at Elk River, Mr Dare's home, was dis patched by his foreman late one after noon to a point some distance from the camp, and on account of the iron which affected his compass, lost his path and wandered about in a blinding snow storm until the next day. The ther mometer was 25 degrees below zero, and the unfortunate man had his hands and feet so badly frozen as to neces sitate the partial amputation of his Mr. Dare is responsible for the statement that the case is one where the State can consistently come to the man's assistance, and it is un derstood that the amount will be' al lowed.St. Paul Globe Mora is Awake. $ A bill is now being prepared by %&% County Attorney Pope and Auditor -?1" Rines asking for an appropriation from the State legislature, of something like $3000 to be used on the Mora and Mille 1 Lacs lake road. The bill will be intro- %^|j| duced by Hon. August J. Anderson in *S^ the house and Senator Hodge will en- ff^Ji deavor to secure its passage in the sen- W ate. This amount judiciously ex pended in such away will do a great deal in settling the northern part of our county, and will bring many set tlers residing in the lake country to this point, who now go greater dis tances to market their produce and do their trading, on account of the rough 3 road leading, to Mora.Mora Times. Buildinga Steamboat. The Foley-Bean Lumber company, v* Milaca, is building a steamboat for use next season on Mille Lacs lake. It will Good advice is given by Farm Stock & Home when it counsels farmers to 'add a few more trees to the shelter belts the coming spring or start new belts, even in a small way, if necessary, engineer The tree planter of the present" is the I benefactor of the future." *M Lg?m -i&"4.i* fflui be aside wheeler with two engines, S^,V^ 100 feet over all and eighteen foot fe^r*'"' beam. The boat will be used primarily fig for the towing of logs in the lake but #9111" will also make regular trips on the IftPflll lakes from the different villages on the SBy! lake shore. The boat will pay for it- m&w self in a short time, as traffic on the li pL lake is steadily increasing and there is *^K^ every indication that the lake is soon ^fe* to become a resort for tourists.St. fcl Cloud Journal-Press. s|t|