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Established 1892.
Incorporated 1897.
CITIZENS STATE BANK
(INCORPORATED) OF PRINCETON, niNNESOTA.
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Retail orders solicited and
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village. Exchange work
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BANK O PRINCETON.
J. J. SKAHEN, Cashier and Manager.
Does a General Banking Business.
Collecting and Farm and
jj Insurance. Village Loans. 5
I Railroad Lands
Pine Hardwood Lands, Meadows and Open Lands, at
Low Prices and on Easy Terms, for sale by
The Great Northern and
St. Paul & Duluth Railroad Companies.
For Maps, Prices, and any other information,
write to
M. 3. RUTHERFORD, &
Land Agent. Princeton, Minn. 2?
Tea Talk.
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Most tea drinkers realize that it is economy to buy only the
best grade. The difference in price is more than saved in the
quantity used and besides this there is a flavor in the better grade
that cannot be obtained from the lower grade. There is genuine
satisfaction in every cup brewed from our new crop
at any price and.our customers are
Some of the other fellows' customers
There is no better tea sold
beginning to realize this,
are too.)
Coffee is an indispensable adjunct to breakfast for most people.
We are carrying a special line, the "Big 6 gas roasted coffees,
and this accounts for the satisfied expression on so many faces in
Princeton shortly after the morning meal.
We have Teas and Coffees of other brands and at all prices so
we are prepared to satisfy all comers.
E. B. ANDERSON.
I E. HA RK LIVE STOCK COflPANY
HOLDS REGULAR
^UCTIOIJ SfZLES
I AT PRINCETON ON THE FIRST SATURDAY
OF EACH MONTH.
Fifty Good Young Horses and Mules Constantly on Hand.
Private Safes Daily.
Time Given on Approved Paper.
E? MARK, Auctioneer.
PRINCETO N
ROLLE MIL Wheat Flour
COMPAN
Rye Floor, BuckwM
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$30,000
5,000 Surp!u$i~* 3
A General Banking Business
Transacted.
Loans Made on Approved Se
curity.
Interest Paid on Time De
posit^
"Foreign
change
and Domestic Ex-
5. S. PETTERSON, Pres.
T. H. CALEY, Vice Pres.
G. A. EATON, Cashier.
E. C. DUNN, Publisher. Terms 01.00 per Tear. PBINCETON,MILLE LACS COUNTY, MINNESOTA, THUES1)AT, FEBRUAKY 21, 1901.
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FIOE Ground Feed, FIG.
Princeton
We have received a big con
signment of Neckties which we
will sell at remarkably low
prices. We quote a few prices
which will reach everybody's
pocketbook.
25c Ties /7c
35c Ties 23c
50c Ties 35c
75c Ties 50c
Now is the
time to buy.
John N. Berg.
Prineeton^^
Meat Market.
E. RIPPON & CO, Prop.
Wholesale and retail dealer in
MEATS.
Fish, Poultry and Game
in Season.
Princeton, Minn.
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New Store I
AND
New Goods.
In our Removal Sale we sold
a good share of our old stock,
and we are now ready to
greet the public with a nearly
new stock of General Mer
chandise at prices that defy
competition.
R.D.BYERS.
Examinations
and Advice.
Dr. C. F. Walker
[Dentist. I Teeth S Plates
i Gold and
Porcelain Crowns.
Teeth extracted without pain
use of Vitalized Air.
Call and have your teeth ex
1 amined free of charge. Appoint
ments may be made by telephone
call 55.
In Cambridge
by
In Princeton
1st to 20th 1
each
month.
Office in Chapman Building.
121 to 28th, iz:.!
Office over
Gouldberg & Anderson's store. 1
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PB^Bffi COUNTY
A List of Those Who Have Been Drawn
v^ ftr Jury Duty at the Coming
Term of Court,
A|Grand Jury Has been Drawn to
"j- Dispose of the Burglary
and Other Causes.
Below will be found the list of jurors
who were drawn last week to serve at
the coming term of the district court.
The arrest of the Foreston burglars and
other matters which are said to be onyear?.
the tapis, made the drawing Qf a grand
jury necessay.
f GRAND JURYr-
J. L. Larson Princeton
S. A- Cravens. do
C. ]S. Neumann do
E.#l. Farnham. do
C. H. Chute. do
A,^. Bullis........ do
Sidney Jesmer ^Greenbush
Lo|iis PWmadore do
John Teutz... do
Wijliam Jones Bogus Brook
Frank Magnuson do
Frank Tellander. Borghoim
John Westiirig...-.': do
Fred Warren Milaca
A. Bryson..- do
Martin Boe.". do
A. J. Barrett do
George P. Shurte do
Lester Kempton Milo
Joh*n Norgren Foreston
H.W. Towle. do
E. M. Murray Isle Harbor
C. B. Braford .Robbins
PETIT JURY.
OttOjHenschel Princeton
S. A. Carew. do
Eric Swan do
WiHiam Gerth do
Angus Varney". do
R.E.. Jones do
Fred Newton.. do
Louis Rust...... do
R. SvShaw... Greenbush
John Erstajd. do
A.jp. Vernon. do
Charles Nelson ..Borghoim
John M. Sehelin do
:CharIes Nyberg do
George Cotton... Milaca
Arthur Tyler do
E. V. Milton do
Erick Nprquist ~do
Chatrles Dickey do
M. E. Northwav .Milo
T. D. Kerrick do
William Sullivan *._ Robbins
C. N. Archer do
Josrgi?,\ Carter .Isle Harbor
FBOM CAXIFORNIA.
A ride along the foothills in Santa
Clara valley is beautiful beyond de
scription. The sides of the hills areas
steep as the side of a house and are
laid out in acres of peas and vegetables
of all kinds and fields of grass and bar
ley, one above the other, with almond
orchards in full bloom, orange and
lemon groves at the base and in the
valleyj walks and roads lined with
ornamental trees, shrubbery and flow
ers, more beautiful than any picture,
because you can see miles of 'em at
once.
We visited San Jose mission, estab
lished in 1776, apart of the original
adobe building still remaining, and
also the Masonic home, which is a
three-story brick building about four
times as large as our court house, with
a wing for culinary purposes, dining
room, etc. They have 350 acres of
land, partly in the valley. The build
ing is up 200 feet or more on a bench
with a gravel road winding up to it
like a letter "S
Flowers line the
roadway and on one of the benches are
the words in letters three feet long,
"Masonic Home,'* cut into the green
sward and filled with flowers of allground.
colors. They are raising all kinds of
fruit and vegetables and expect it to_be
selfsustaining in a few years. They
have room for and are building twelve
eight-room cottages on the bench ad
joining the main building. -Mrs. James
Lentelle, an aunt of Fred Pillsbury,
showed us over the premises and en
tertained us nicely. Here needy Ma
sons, their widows and orphans, have
a home that is a home, with all modern
improvements. At present there are
twenty orphans at school here, I forgot
how many altogether, but the Masons
we saw in their rooms appeared more
like guests in a first class hotel than
inmates of a charitable institution.
The location and surroundings are
superb.
We made a few trips into Sari Fran
cisco through Golden Gate park, and
to the Cliff house, Sutrb baths and*
museum. We saw hundreds of "seals
and heard them roar. We saw Byde
Van Alstein* too. He looks as sleek as
an otter-^-tne best looker in the family,
and he is feeling good top.
Now while everything is wonderfully
beautiful, there are drawbacks. Ttfe
air is sluggishisn't clean and bracing
I couldn't live here on that account.
The land sells for $200 to $300 per acre
and rents for $6 to $20 per acre. Their
little homes are worth from $4,000 to
$7,000 and they have to work the same
as a man in flfar town with a $500 home.
What would make a man rich in Min-
nesota would barely ^tart him here.
After he gets an orchard bearing he
may^nd his crop unsalable. One manceives
here has a 10-acre prune grove worth
$4,000. He took off 55 tons of prunes
last season. These he offered at two
cents per pound but found no bidders.
The prune men have an association
and he has put his prunes into the
pool. They retail in the stores at
eight pounds for 25 cents.
I noticed that all the roofs are
painted, which struck me as singular.
I found some outbuildings not painted
and saw at once why it is necessary.
They were covered with green mould.
Unpainted roofs will i*ot inside of five
Many orchards are unproduc
tive on account of the seale caused by
dampness and must be fumigated to
save them. I saw some ice one morn
ing and parties were spraying to take
the frost out before the sun got to the
vines. We have to have a fire most of
the time on account of the damp, chilly
air. This is a rich man's country, a
beautiful country to visit, but a poor
man can do better among the stumps
in Miile Lacs county.
Next we struck for Fresno and barely
escaped trouble in a washout. I have
read so muph about the sandy desert
being converted into a garden by irri
gation that I wanted to see the line
between. We crossed miles of sage
brush, cactus and gr.ay sand before
getting to Fresno. I got .acquainted
with a Fresno man on the train and got
lots of information. He showed me
strips of land worth nothingalkali
landother strips good for nothing for
other reasons, and many get badly bit
ten in buying. It takes an expert to
pick land on this desert. There is lots
of good raisin grape land and land
adapted to all kinds of fruit, but you
must be careful in buying wild land.
We saw miles of irrigation 'ditches
with their head gates to distribute the
water, and just before we reached the
city saw a flock of rabbits in a vege
table patch. I called my friend's at
tention to them and he told me they
were a great pest, destroying hundreds
of acres of crops. They had a l'abbit
drive one day last fall and killed over
15,000.
We remain two days in Fresno and
rode out all over and around the pretty
little city. The streets were full of
working men from the ffnitffarms, the:
late" heavy rains having stopped all
kinds of work. I was told that they
sold last season over $4,000,000 worth
of raisins and $5,000,000 worth of other
fruit, one man getting a draft from
Liverpool for $40,000. If you want to
know how a vineyard looks at this
time, take some grub oak stumps, turn
them over the short roots up, place
them in a row about four feet apart
and you have a facsimile of it. Well,
I got on the line with one foot on
waves of gray sand, sage-brush and
cactus on one side, the other foot on
green sward, barley four inches high,
thick as a mat, where it Had been ir
rigated and cultivated. The pictures
we have seen are not overdrawn, in
fact they do not show up as well as the
original, because we can see here hun
dreds of acres at one look, all laid out
artistically like iandscape gardening,
first a great orchard of oranges, then
one of lemonsand at present the
trees are loaded with fruitthen a
prune grove and then one of nutsand
all kinds, one after another, the ground
as level as a floor and irrigated, every
thing rank and green, with palm trees
looking like pineapples set in the
By the way the apples and
Irish potatoes are very poor in Califor
niadry and spongy.
We left Fresno on the 8th and came
through the Sierra Nevadas by day
light, over that wonderful loop where
the road crosses itself, the second
crossing 100 feet above the first. We
got into a big snowstorm, met another
train and both had to stop on account
of some obstruction, and the passen
gers got into a snowball fight, one
train against the other. Both sides
were badly whippedI got it in theyears.
neck, too. We have been here a week
and are keeping house at 311 West
Third street. I have lots that will in
terest you but have written enough for
the present.
CV Hi CHADB*OUBNE.
Los Angeles, Feb. 15.
Here's a Wolf Story.
The St. Cloud Jouirnal-Pvess last
Monday published an account of theward
depredations of timber wolves in the
vicinity of Stanchfield which we can
not vouch for.- .It claims its authority
is a private letter written by a Stanch
field man to a St. Cloud friend.
The capsheaf of the story Of the rav
enous brutes however is in the inform
ation concerning the*' awful fate of a
little girldaughter of a settler living
in'the vicinity of Lake Louisfor he
writes that the child while going home
from school last week was attacked
andkilled by the hungry wolves. Por
tions of the unfortunate ware eaten by
the animals, and the story of Little
Re'd Riding -Hood's grandmother re
a Minnesota application.
GOOD LOGGING SEASON.
An Ideal Winter for Logging Operations
In Northern Minnesota.
FOLEY HAS HOPES.
Quiet Move on Foot to Secure Benton's
County Capitol.
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VOLUME XXV. NO. 11.
It has been an ideal winter for log
ging operations in Northern Minne
sota, though a scarcity of snow has
been complained of in some places.
There is plenty of snow everywhere in
the northwest at present, however,
and there is believed to be a good
three weeks of hauling weather ahead,
Every winter has its drawbacks. The
winter of 1897-98 was remarkable for
the depth of snow, which interrupted
logging and caused a suspension of
operations in a number of camps. The
winter of 1888-89 was exceedingly cold
and was a drawback to work in the
woods through sheer severity of the
weather."The winter of 1899-1900 found
weather and snow conditions favorable
but labor was so restless that the log
ging crews were broken and unsteady
all over the northwest. The present
winter has, as already stated, been
ideal in regard to weather and general
conditions, but in many logging dis
tricts whole camp crews have quit
work in a body on account of the ap
pearance of a real or imaginary case of
smallpox.Bvainerd Tribm^.
The village of Foley is an aspirant
for the honor of being the county seat
of Benton county. A meeting is re
ported to have been held in the enter
prising village of the eastern part of
the county on Monday evening, when a
committee was named to devise ways
and means for the securing of the
county seat. The meeting was ad
journed to Saturday evening, when an
other meeting will be be held. It is
reported that one of the leading men
of the village stands ready to donate
$5,000 to a fund which will ensure the
location of the court house at Foley.
Sauk Rapids has been the county seat
ever since the organization of the
county and is expected to present a
spirited resistance to any scheme
which will rob it of any interest or
glory.St. Cloud Journal-Press.
Smallpox.
CotiftictingrepoHscome from ^iija
Lacs lake in regard to the "small pox
situation. One is to the effect that the
lumber-camp of John Goss has been
quarantined, the disease haying made
its appearnce among the members of
the crew, and the other is that the
crew has not been quarantined
and the men are rapidly leav
ing for their homes. Members of the
crew are now in Anoka, Princeton and
Milaca. Anoka already has the Small
pox and it is intimated that possibly
the disease was brought to this county
from there, but neither Princeton nor
Milaca has so far been afflicted and the
danger now sdems great.
The authorities of the town of Bob
bins should not neglect their duties in
this matter, aud though it may be
now too late to prevent contagion steps
should be taken immediately to pre
vent a further spread of the disease.
At her home near Stanchfieid lake,
Feb. 18, Harriet M. Hall, aged nearly
75 years. The funeral occurred Tues
day, the interment being made in the
Princeton cemetery, Rev. Satterlee of
ficiating. Mrs. Hall was one of the
oldest settlers of this section and was
well known in this locality. She is
survived by her husband and six chil
dren.
In Baldwin, Feb. 17, Anna Mode, in
fant daughter of John and Anna Mode.
The funeral was held at'the family
residence yesterday, Rev. Satterlee
conducting the services and the burial
took place at the Princeton cemetery
yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Wealthy D. Ellingwood of Spen
cer Brook, died yesterday, aged 62
Funeral will be held at M. E.
church in Spencer Brook, to-morrow
afternoon, Rev, Geo. E. Satterlee con
ducting the services. One son and. one
daughter survive her.
A very pleasant wedding occurred at
the home of Mrs. Edmison yesterday^
afternoon, Miss Orpha, her daughter,
being united in holy wedlock to Ed-
L. Saxon. Miss Shults presided
at the piano. After appropriate wed
ding strains Rev. Shults read i he ac
customed words which made the twain
one for life. The bride is one of the
accomplished young ladies of Prince
ton and has been a successful teacher.
The groom's friends are legion. Th
ceremony was witnessed by relatives
and a few immediate friends. The
couple will reside on the Saxon farm
north-east of town.
Pearl Hindley, of Elk River, was the
guest of Fred Burrell last Friday
evening.
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