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"3F nniinrtinor i Established 1892 Incorporated 189T AU*fc*l'WW**jri^v'Liim*W.^jrn Retail orders solicited and promptly delivered in the village Exchange workt solicited 9" W. P. CHASE, Flanager. CITIZENS STATE BANK. (INCORPORATED) OF PRINCETON, illNNESOTA. Paid Up Capital Surplus, I BANK O PRINCETON. I J. J. SKAHEN, Cashier and Manager, s% Does a General Banking Business. anrid Farm and 2 Collecting an Insurance. Village Loans. Railroad Lands 7 Fine Hardwood Lands, Meadows and Open Lands, at 9 Low Prices and on Easy Terms, for sale by The Great Northern and 4/ & St. Paul & Duluth Railroad Companies. 0 ffl For Maps, Prices, and any other information, 7 write to M. S. RUTHERFORD, Land Agent. Princeton, Minn. E. HARK LIVE STOCK HOLDS I PUCTIOIREGULAR SPLITS $AT PRIISCETOIS ON THE FIRST SATURDAY* OF EACH MONTH. Fifty Good Young Horses and Mules Constantly on Hand. Private Sales Daily. Time Given on Approved Paper. $ E. MARK, Auctioneer. I PRINCETO N ROLLE MIL Wheat Flour COMPAN $30,000 5,000 A General Banking Business Transacted Loans Made on Approved Se curity Intel est Paid on Time De posits. Foreign and Domestic Ex change 5. S. PETTERSON, Pres. T. H. CALEY, Vice Pres. Q. A. EATON, Cashier. COHPANY! rfX4'4rf*rf*4*rfXtf4*rf*.u*&VWW>V*rfHrfrf*rf*tf Rye Flour, RAI MA Flour, Ground Feed, Etc. *& *T* Foley Bean Lumber Company Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in White Pine Lumber, Lath and Shingles. Also Sash, Doors, Mouldings and a Com' plete Stock of Building Material. Princeton PRINCETON. i$M iSteiim R. C. DUNN, Publisher. Terms Si.00 per Year. PBINCETON, MULE LACS COUNTY, MINNESOTA, THPBSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1901. t- JCROCKERY I have just received a large consignment of Crockery, both plain and decorated, which is being sold at re markably low prices. The decorated ware several comprises choice patterns and is being sold almost as cheap as the plain, Come in and see it. Princeton, to We will be glad show it to you. 5 Job N. Berg. Minn. ^+**$ I would I ike,to talk to you about your Fall Suit or Overcoat. Call and get prices and see what 1 can do for you. Sam J. FryMJfig, TAILOR. Next door to Keith &. Rines ofiice I am ready takeFalor Suits orders fo and Overcoats. Come in and see the goods and get prices. E. ENGSELL, Tailor. Shop in Long shoe store wwvwwwwwwwww and Advice. Dr. C. F. Walker Dentist. Teeth A Plates i Gold and Porcelain Crowns. I Teeth extracted Nwttliout^ain by use of Vitalized *Air. 1 Call and have your teeth ex amined free of charge. Appoint ments may be made by telephone call 55. I|i Princeton 1st to 20th I In Cambridge each month. Office in Chapman Building. 21 to 28th, 2 i f Office over I Gouldberg & Anderson's store.* ^^1% 5 i COJRT I N SESSION A Lively Grind and Quick' Disposi tion of Cases on the Calendar ^5 the Present Term. Joseph Pelarske indicted by Grand Jury--Cases Against Ray and I McGinnis To-Morrow. The fall term of court opened at Princeton, Tuesday morning, at 9 o'clock. Judge Baxter was unable to be here on Monday, and Clerk of Court Briggs called court to order Monday morning, announced that court would notcpnvene until Tuesday, called the role of jurors and excused them until Tuesday. The jurymen and several at torneys arrived Sunday and on Monday morning's train, hut the bulk of the bar came in Monday night. Judge Baxter entered the court room Tuesday morning, and for a few min utes was busy shaking hands with at torney and many court attendants A little past nine Sheriff Claggett's "Hear ye! hear ye'" rang out through the court room and the machinery of justice was put in motion. The first work of the court was to call the grand jury together and charge and instruct the members as to their duties, which the ^udge did in a very plain and practical manner. He was particular about inquiring whether all members had taken dut their second papers, and several members were closely questioned in this respect All proved full-fledged citizens Thos P. Kerr, of Milaca was chosen foreman and after receiving instructions and being sworn the jury retired in charge of Deputy Sheriff Wm. Wallace, of South Har bor. T. Johnson was chosen clerk With the grand jury out of the way Judge Baxter took up the calendar, containing 30 civil and six criminal cases The first five cases on the civil calendar were the echoes of the old Anderson railroad land tax law, the State v&. the old St. Paul & Du luth and St. Paul, M. & M. rail road companies to enforce the pay ment of taxes. The law being dead the cat-etj no longer had a legal status and were dismissed. Cis continued were a follows: Mille Lacs Lumber Co vs. Charles Keith, et al.: John B. Gilfiilan vs. Samuel M. Cook, Eugene Trask, et al Austin & Western Co limited, vs Town of South Harbor: Fred McMillan vs James Powers, et al and John Adcock vs. J. A. Rush, et al. The case of Idella M. Cushman \s Chicago Title and Trust Co et al was stricken from the calendar The cases of Eunice Farnham vs Foley Bros. & Guthrie, J. Chad bourne as administrator, vs. Foley Bros & Guthrie were settled as per stipulation on file A second case of J. Chadbourne, as administrator vs. Foley Bros. & Guthrie was continued by consent. The three cases against Mary E. Chadbourne, in which Clapp & Macart ney are attorneys for plaintiffs and A. Y. Merrill attorney for defendant will be heard by Judge Baxter at chambers within ten days. The same disposition was made of the case of Mary E. Chadbourne vs. Geo. W. Stewart. The case of A. M. Kipp vb. Edward L. Reid will be tried at chambers on eight days notice. The case of Frank Baker vs. Foley Bean Lumber Co. was dismissed, the plaintiff failing to put in an appear ance. The case was reached sooner than Messrs. Dickey and Stiles, his at torneys expected, and Mr. Stiles moved for consent to continue. "The court house is here and the court and. jury and attorneys,"' remarked the judge, "and if people do not attend it is their own fault." The case was dismissed. In the matter of Geo. A. Locke vs.% Foley Bean Lumber Co. and Mary F. Parrott vs. Geo. Locke and John Bart lett, there was some legal sparringi)y attorneys interested in the case. The latter case has been in court some time and was a matter for adjudication by the court upon argument In the former case, where Locke sues for flow age damage to property Mr. Clapp, as counsel for defendants, made a motion for a stay until the Parrott case could be settled, and Messrs. Stiles, for Locke in both cases, and Clapp and Keith, who were attorneys for the Lumber Co., and Mrs. Parrott, respect ively, took up the attention of the court for some time with motions and arguments relative to the questions involved. The court took the matter under advisement. Later it was ar ranged to have the Locke vs. Foley Bean Lumber Co. continued by consent and the Parrott case will be heard at chambers on fifteen days' notice. In the case of the Piano Manufactur ing Co. and A. H. Steevea vs. Frank Kaufert, attorney for defendant mov ed to strike the same from the calen- wmfrmm l^&ag^m&L^&MS^tfXU dar because of defect in summons, but the court overuled the motion and al lowed defendant's attorney 20 days to answer the complaint, a Cases set for jury trial were the fol ''Sisters of St. Benedict, appel lants, vs. County Commissioners: Geo. A. Locke vs Foley Bean Lumber Co. J. A Rush vs John Adcock Chester Pearson vs Joseph Craig, and Albert Kreuger vs Chas. Bondemere. lowing: On the criminal calendar the State vs. Sawyer was continued The State vs John Kennedy, appellent, was dis mibsed on the grounds of no cause for action and the judgment of the lower court was affirmed The celebrated Milaca sidewalk case in which Albert Wilkes appealed from the justice court, was dismissed on the grounds of improper notice of appeal The case promised to be a good lively one, but Attorney Foster's motion fixed it COURT AND JURY CASES After dinner Tuesday the court set tled down for business and the first case called was the St Benedict Sis ters against the County Commission ers. This was a case where the au thorities of San Raphael hospital in St Cloud appealed from the action of the county fathers in rejecting a claim of $154 for boarding one Daniel Aul guire who pre-empted a claim in Milo years ago, lived happily, re-married, sold his farm some time afterwards and got a little money and a team of poor horses, one of which died and the oth er was taken on a mortgage With old age and pgor luck staring him in the face he oought a piece of land in Kenabec county for a new home, and while o\ er on the land one day he burn ed his eves and was taken to the hos pital at St Cloud for treatment A few of the old man's personal effects were tauen by the constable to Milaca and sold at auction, but by the time the doctor, constable and all parties in terested had made the divy there was just $43 to remit to the Sisters for car ing for the old man who became feeble and blind and is still at the hospital. Considerable evidence was introduced and the court requested County Attor ney Ross and P. Gorman to submit briefs in the matter The jie*t case for trial was J^A. Rush vs. John Adcock^ and it was 3:30 P. Mi when the first jury of the present term was called The case was one in which Rush had leased a ranch to Ad cock and the parties got into a dis pute over some barb wire fence and tools and machinery on the farm, which plaintiff claimed were not the property of Adcock by the terms of the lease Rush claim's' defendant is in wrongful possession of the machinery, etc and seeks to recover the value of the goods, $400 and $75 damages, besides of course costs, etc. The case was on that when court adjourned for the day. The case had not proceeded far before every thing was eliminated in the legal con troversy, excepting the barb wire. Mr Cormany, attorney for the plain tiff, took the exception he was entitled to and the case proceeded, with barb wire the main contention The case was given to the jury about 11A M. yesterday, the court instructing the jury to bring in a verdict for plaintiff for possession of all the property men tioned in the complaint, other than the barb wire, and also to give defend ant a verdict for cost of the fence and any damages sustained. The jury sent in sealed verdicts, giving to plaintiff possession of all property mentioned in complaint, except the wire, and al lowed defendant the wire fence valued at $240 and damages to the extent of $200" Attorney Foster for plaintiff moved for judgment, notwithstanding verdict, and in case of refusal to have verdict in favor of defendant set aside. The motion was allowed on the min utes. In the action of Chester Pearson vs. Joseph Craig, the case was continued by consent of both parties. The next case on the calendar was Albert Krueger vs. Charles Bonde mere, appellant, the case coming up from justice court. Bondemere ap peared and stated to the court that his attorney was in Norway, whereupon the judge gave him until 2 p. m. to either secure the services of his foreign counsel or get a United States lawyer. The case was called after dinner, with Stiles for plaintiff and Gjertsen for de fendant. The matter in Controversy was damages Kreuger claims because of the removal, as he claims of some fence by Bondemere, the value of which was $40, and also damages to the amount of about $40 for the tearing down of some fence around plaintiff's barns, and the escape of two horses, which were lamed and injured by breaking loose. The court ruled that no claim for damages in the way of injuries to the horses could be main tained under the complaint. The case took up the greater part of the after- VOLUME XXT. NO. 42. noon, but the jury did not take long to come to the conclusion that the plain tiff was entitled to damages to the amount of $10. A stay of 30 days was granted in this case. The case of the village against the county to recover road and bridge money will be submitted by briefs. Court adjourned Wednesday night with all the jury cases on the civil calendar finished and with but two court cases to be heard. The case of the Twitchell heirs vs. Aulger Rines, et al was heard by court last evening, the evidence of several witnesses being taken The case involves title to some land, and John Day Smitn represented plaintiff's while S & O Kipp was present for defendants. The matter will be submitted on briefs The only case remaining was that of Samuel M. Cook vs Ernest N. Remer and Frank Zins, but this case met with a sudden termination when M. D. Taylor, register of the land office at St. Cloud, and counsel for plaintiff arose at opening of court this morning and stated that the action had been dismissed by claimant The petit jury was excused this fore noon until to-morrow morning, when the cases against Ray and McGinnis will be heard. ONLY ONE INDICTMENT. The grand jury after retiring at once cook up the matters that properly came before them. The case of Walker held for stealing a bicycle of Joe Ma honey several months ago, was re ported to the court without indict ment, and%Walker was ordered re leased. The jury took up the matter of the alleged trespass on lands in 39-26, in which Andrew Brolin and Andrew Larson were charged with stealing large amounts of timber, but after ex amining witne&ses found no indictment. In the case of C. B. Braford, bound over charged with selling mortgaged property, the jury found no indict ment, it being discovered that the offense was committed in Crow Wing county. This morning the grand jury re turned its first indictment. It was against Joseph Pelarske of Milaca for selling liquor to an habitual drunkard. Pelarske had been bound over charged with this offense. Geo. Stewart of St. Cloud appeared for defendant, waived the reading of indictment and entered plea of not guilty Defendant was placed under $100 bonds and case con tinued Court otes Court will probably adjourn Satur day. The court room is very badly ventil ated. John P. Vandersluis was court steno grapher. The petit jurors are having an easy time of it. Mrs. Briggs assisted her husband in the office work during court. Of the petit jurors three were excus ed and three there was no service on. A good many of the attorneys from the twin cities returned home this morning. State Senator Brower, of St Cloud, is tall and towering, and knows how to tell a good story. Clerk of Court Briggs wes as ousy as a bee but he found time to be polite and courteous to all. Judge Baxter loves his pipe and a quid of the weed as well, which is a "quid pro quo" for the pipe. Attorney Clapp, of St. Paul, is a cousin of U. S. Senator1 Clapp, and one can note a slight resemblance. Sheriff Claggett brought up Ray, McGmnis and Walker, Saturday night from the Hendipen county jail. Attorney Geo. C. Stiles, was at one time county attorney of Aitkin county and court reporter of the Sixteenth district. Louis Gjertson, of Minneapolis, was in attendance at court, in behalf of some of the unfortuate ones before the grand jury. Sheriff Claggett attended to the main court room. His court deputies were Wm. Wallace, Lee Cramb, Owen Newton and Sidney Cravens. County' Attorney Ross is suffering with a "frog in his throat," which, however, does not interfere with his looking after the State's dignity. John Day Smith, of Minneapolis, is attorney in a land case. Mr. Smith is a frequent visitor in Princeton. Mrs. C. E. Chadbourne of this place being his sister. The bar is well represented. From the twin cities is Harris Richardson, A, Y. Merrill, Geo. C. Stiles, Attorney Clapp, A. H. Hall, Sylvester Kipp, John Day Smith and E. F. Thompson. From St. Cloud is P. B. Gorman, R. B. Brower, State senator, J. D. Sullivan and Attorney Taylor. W. S. Foster was down from Milaca. Vti&SM 3 B