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Ifcr* sr & ffisv. THE PRINCETON UNION BY R. C. DUNN. Published Every Thursday. TERMSSI.oo PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. S1.25 I NOT PAID IN ADVANCE. OFFICE-, FIRST ST., EAST OF COURTHOUSE. a. I. STAPLES. Business Manager. GEO. P. WRIGHT. Editor. REPUBLICAN TICKET For President THEODORE ROOSEVELT For Vice President CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS For Governor ROBERT DUNN, Princeton For Lieutenant Governor KAY W JONES, Minneapolis For Secretary of State PETER E HANSON Litchfield For State Treasurer JULICS BLOCK, St Peter For Attorney General E YOUNG, Appleton For Justices of the Supreme Court CALVIN BROWN, Morris CHARLES LEWIS, Duluth CHARLES ELLiOTT.Minneapolis EDWIN A JAGGARD, St. Paul For Railroad and Warehouse Com'rs IRA MILLS Moorhead W E YOUNG, Mankato For Presidential Electors At Large A W WRIGHT, Austin THOS LOWRY, Minneapolis First District THOMAS SIMPSON, Winona Second District BASIL SMOUT Wells Third District BENJ SCOFIELD, Faribault Fourth District JOHNG NELSON, Stillwater Fifth District EDWARD W BACKUS, Minneapolis Sixth District GEO W PETERSON, Long Prairie Seventh District FRANK CLIFF, Ortonville Eithth District JOHN HARDING, Eveleth Ninth District PETER I HOLEN, Marshall county Murderers as a rule travel at break neck speed. This is the season for bumper crops and busting broncos. The sportsman now begins to size up his dog and remarks "He's a bird." The money question is now no longer gold-plated. It's solid clean through. The silver lining to last year's dark cloud is now visible to the naked eye of the farmer. The St. Louis world's fair wants a good press agent. Now don't all speak at once. The meat strike is on the l,off again, on again, gone again, Flannigan" or der these days. Roosevelt carry New York? If he doesn't, old York State will surely turn its face backward. J. Adam Bede has returned from a trip filling Chautauqua dates. It is quite a change from filling political plums. There seems to be but a single chan nel in the Democratic stream now. There may be a few sloughs and mudless, holes for the rebs. It is time to let the "dead past bury its dead, "and yet we are told that "men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things." Grover Cleveland, believes that Providence is with the Democratic party this year. No doubt of it. He will be with it to the end and the end is not far distant. Hon Frank ,M. Eddy's name now appears on the Sauk Centre Herald as editor and publisher. The Herald is one of our "save outs" and never follows the wrapper. The widow of Bill Nye. the humor ist, lost about all that was left her by her husband, by the failure of a bank. Fickle fortune, what a neg lectful parent and guardian. Coal receipts at the head of theboth lakes for the past month were larger than ever known in the history of lake navigation. That will make no differ ence about the price, however. An Idaho editor is paying alimony to six ex-wives, and he says they are all whooping it up on the proceeds of his printing plant and he is worse than widowed. He is playing in hard luck sure. Chicago newsboys will start a maga zine to be known as the American Newsboys' Magazine. The new pub lication will be in the nature of a help ing hand to the little fellows who earn their living crying "Extra"' Alexandria has a humane society oragnized under the State laws. The society will look after tRe suffering dumb animals. There ought to be societies of this character in every city, large and small, in the country. 1904 is the largest in its history the te exports of manufacturers are larger than in any preceding year, and the exports of domestic products exceed those of any other country. This is the record the department of commerce and labor makes public through the bureaueof statisticsloose A special report of the census bureau shows that 1,750,178 children tion proceedings which appears in the in the United States are compelled to Union this week, is a most interest- work for their living. They form ing chapter on the crude and bungling more than six per cent of the total manner in which the average assess- number of workers, and the boys out- ments are made for the purpose of tax- number the girls almost three to one, ation. The work of the Mille Lacs the figures being 1,364,411 boys and county assessors in the main is no 487,657 girls. The Union believes in publicity in politics as well as in business, and n n, wicounty uuuu&y ooaru tuscove tha will cheerfully announce the candi- ~t ~n :*,_ i,^_ IU. o~^_ dacy of all citizens before the Septem ber primaries as news matter, but at the present time the Union will not be committed to any local candidate, and in this respect will pursue the After nearly fifteen years of impris onment Mrs. Florence Maybrick, has been released from an English prison, and has returned to this country where she has considerable property in West Virginia at present in litigation. Mrs. Maybrick was found guilty by an English court of having poisoned her husband in Liverpool. The evidence was of a nature that would have cleared her before most American juries, but the English judge was con- a commitment to life imprisonment John-nn f A-IWT Johnso of Arlington,^ the four tests will receive the fair award. a1 1 T, the fact that so many assessors are policy it has pursued for many years Thomas H. Carter, president of the and are given very brief and hasty national commission of the world's instructions it is only a ^wonder that fair at St. Louis sounds a note of many returns are not in v^orse shape warning to President Francis of the than they are exposition and says that measures returns on real and personal property must be taken to give the great show could be secured by blanks mailed by more publicity and a greater attend- the county auditor to all property ance secured or the word "failure" owners in the county will be written over the gates to that ordered in valuations immense exposition county show that a common stand' It is said that the foreign commerce o & of the United States in the fiscal year Ther is a screw somewhere in the great packing house strike. An agreement was signed by all interests, and the whole matter was to be arbi trated, but no sooner did the men re turn to work than they struck again, because of alleged violations on the part of the packers of the agreement made. The whole thing has an ugly phase at the present time, and the packers, the strikers and the public will suffer. This is another phase of our era of rapid development in our domestic government. Did you ever study the members of the""smart set" who hunch up occa sionally and tell the editor about some of his little sins of omission and commission? They never are known to open their "wings" on any other occasions and go poking through the world with a mysterious impression that an editor is a doable- back-action-self-repeating magazine of general information and accuracy. These kind of people are wholly harm but more or less annoying. As a rule they don't know "America" from "The Dead March in Saul" or "The Angelus" from a primer picture. nnAn A -v vinced that she was guilty and his among British farmers that this year's charge to the jury lasted nearly two wheat crop will be almost the worst days. Later he died in a madhouse. Mrs. Maybrick was sentenced to death, but her friends succeeded in securing favorable report of crop. Unless rain falls soon, the effect will be almost Prominent and influential people in disastrous. In Lincolnshire, the this country and England have premier wheat growing county, scarcely worked for her freedom which at last half the customary area "has been was granted her. THE PRINCETON TJNION^THTJBSDAY, JULY 28, 1904. A perusal of the board of equaliza- worse perhaps than that of the bal ance of the State assessors. One has only to study the proceedings of most of boardss tto discoverr thatt assessment work is more or less alike and amass of glaring inequali ties. The work this year in Mille Lacs county is far from being up to the average, but taking into account unfamiliaunderstans *a^s with thi work andof never properly the nature it The increases on real and personal property in Mille Lacs ar or unit o. valuation is lacking somewhere. There are corrections 4. needed threoretically an, practically The Democrats of Missouri ha\e nominated Folk, the boodler hound, for governor, and if that state is in favor of good, clean, honest govern ment, there will be no other candidate for governor. As the Pioneer Press says: "It is a betrayal of the public interests for the Republican leaders to put up a candidate against him. It only serves to put the party in Mis souri in the light of a sympathizer with the noxious forces against which Folk is battling. Missouri's battle for decency is not a matter that con cerns Missouri alone. In ridding it self of the ulcerous growths that have attacked it Missouri as an imporatant member of the Union will prevent the spread of the poison to other parts. It is not a matter of indifference to the rest of the country how this strug gle turns out, and Republican voters throughout- the country will be dis gusted with the Republicans of Mis souri if they lend support directly i or indirectly to those who are endeavor ing to hamper Joseph Folk in hisgenerally. work of purification." A Minneapolis attorney who thought Judge Dickinson of the municipal court did not use him in the proper manner in the disposition of a case, began talking politics to the judge after he came down from the bench, and informed him that he would not support him for judge at the next election. The judge did not propose to have justice thus insulted and jumped into the bench, seized the judicial pen and was about to declare the attorney in contempt, when the latter had to do some very lively crawfishing.'' Judicial dignity is as broad as the earth, as deep as the sea and as high as the heavens down in the basement of the Hennepin county court house. A London dispatch says: "There is very general consensus of opinion they have ever grown. From not a single wheat growing county is there a sown fo i th iT_ bu Iowa tied on creamery butter, with 98% points each. Mrs. M. Holmes of Owatonna, Minn., won both tests on dairy butter, secur ing 95 points on the first and 95%. The next test will begin Sept. 15. The Remember the event-Mille Lacs butter scoring the highest average in county fairand the place-Princeton and tdi&time^Thurlday, Frlftay and Saturday, September 8, 9 and 10, world's &XLtnnm incsail rains water-logged the lande,s antd rendered farming operations impossi- ble." Minnesota butter makers score more victories at the world's fair. The names of the winners in the first two of the four butter tests to be made at Good roads is a living, strenuous the world's fair are as follows: In theme and there is nothing that peopl can turn their attention to with more retto, Minn., H.H.Jensen of Clark profit to themselves and the commun Grove, Minn., and M. Sundergast of ity in which they live than the matter Minn., tied for high of passable and permanent highways score on creamery butter, each secur- It's a mighty good thing and let' ing 98% points. In the second test push it along. W. A. Fadden of Pelato, Minn., N. C. o:^ TJT The day of free land is almost o\rer Siveling, Knatvold, Minn., and W. B. day of good land has not be- The coming agriculturist will gun. make it good and an acre in ten years will produce as much as ten acres do at the present time. THE BANKER AND BUSINESS. His Assistance in Building Up the Com mercial Interests of His Community. At the recent meeting of the North Dakota Bankers' association at Fargo Attorney W. A. Scott of that city, read a most interesting paper on "The Bankers' Assistance in Build ing up Commercial Interests in His Community." In the course of his re marks he said: "You may have great power, but my dear friends, you have heavy re sponsibilities, and have taken upon yourselves heavy burdens and a grave trust. You have made the neighbor hood in which you live one financial family, adopted its residents as your children, and made yourselves the common father, the patriarch of the tribe. "Do not invest the trust funds in your hands belonging to others in your own private business ventures. Pass not upon your own credit. Play no favorites and have none. Pro mote no fake enterprises nor sell wind broken horses. "When the young men and young women in your vicinity wish to marry and become industrious citizens, give them the community credit and help them to build homes and give them opportunity to work. Seek out the industrious man in your town and loan him the neighborhood credit. "You must do the thinking finan cially for your community, must be the husbandman who prepares his ground in ample season, and saves up his seed for the coming crops in safe places. "You must finance the enterprise that benefit the community, whether public or private and that offer a chance of work to your laboring men. Such enterprises call for the public funds. Have you not these in your keeping? My friends, if you read your account books, you will find two classes of funds entrusted to your keeping. "First, Active Credit. This is the money of every day exchanges. The farmers' eggs, the cow, waiting in ex change for the mower when it comes along haying time, the farm on tapmentioned for a more convenient one perhaps nearer town. The goods from the merchants' shelves to be replaced with fresh supplies. These credits are the yard sticks of trade. Your duty is to keep them handily on theAugust shelves in sight, so that those that really own them, feel that they can be had at once, whenever a material thing presents itself to be measured up. Strive to teach your local mer chant to buy his goods cheap, and sell them at small profits, so that trade exchanges will be made in your midst. Build up markets for your produce, stock, milk, eggs and raw material Trade at home yourselves while, thank God, we have, most of us, minds broad enough to see that local barriers to trade are foolish in the end, and that a local tax to keep your neighbor out is foolish, if he wants to come in. Strive to create a spirit in your midst of loyalty to each other. Preach brotherhood and square exchange that the people may see that they are children of one com mon family, and that all work to gether for the general good, so that the exchanges in your midst all ap pear upon your balance sheets, and while the yard sticks of exchange may be in use during the day. all of them return to your shelves at night. "Second, Passive Credits. The wealth of the community. The last year's crop of wheat not used up in producing it. The farm retired to be drawn upon for a livelihood. The life insurance money of the widow and the fatherless. The savings of theroots, thrifty to assure to themselves a com fortable old age. Toward these funds your duty is the most burdensome, your foresight the most required. You must need be quasi God-like. It is a grave trust. "Actual settlers alone sustain land values. Therefore you must aid im migration in every way possible. Dis courage the holder of wild land, en courage the man in your community, who practices mixed farming, estab lishes creameries and cheese factor ies. Take a little time so to finance the affairs of men who are here in our midst that they will prosper and stay in this state. "Give the boy that will farm the land some encouragement in the way of credit and low interest. If one of your depositors gets land hungry en courage him to buy land here and not away out in northwest Canada. If one of your adopted children has lum ber to sell and another his wealth in your keeping to build into new barn, consider well the general situation in your midst, the crops and herds, per haps the one child can better afford to go without his sale, than the whole family can afford to lock up this wealth in the new barn. Your influ ence will govern. "Let your neighbors learn to know that the man who milks cows and tends hens in the winter and raises some stock to keep him busy can get credit at your bank, while the man who commences his work in the spring and will not fight weeds in the summer and quits in the fall, must change his methods if he would lay his hands upon this community wealth." ~aJ^ JM^ $? *r STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. Republican Candidates Agree on Commit tee to Conduct Campaign. The Republican candidates for State offices conferred last week with United States Senator Clapp, chairman of the State convention, and agreed on the following State central committee: At LargeE. E. Smith and W. H. Grimshaw, Minneapolis E. S. Warner, St. Paul Nelson B. March, Litchfield Marcus Johnson, Red Lake Falls J. P. Funk, Le Sueur. By congressional districts: FirstSamuel Lord, Kasson. SecondJohn E. Diamond, Man kato. ThirdW. R. Putnam, Red Wing. FourthConde Hamlin, St. Paul. FifthJames A. Peterson, Minne apolis. SixthW. E. Verity, Wadena. SeventhI. N. Tompkins, Red wood Falls. EighthE. B. Hawkins, Biwabik. NinthA. D. Stephens, Crookston. By judicial districts: FirstGeorge L. Sullivan, Still water. SecondKay Todd, St. Paul. ThirdL. E. Gartside, Winona. FourthM. H. Boutelle, Minneapo lis. Fifth Swen Peterson, Blooming Prairie. SixthThomas Torson, St. James. SeventhE. E. Corliss, Fergus Falls. EighthT. M. Paine, Glenwood. NinthD. T. McArthur, Tracy. TenthM. Halvorson, Albert Lea. EleventhMille Bunnell, Duluth. TwelfthAlton Crosby, Willmar. ThirteenthH. C. Grass, Slayton. FourteenthCharles E. Ward, Ada. FifteenthCharles H. Warner, Ait kin. SixteenthAndrew E. Peterson, Wheaton. SeventeenthE. T. Smith, Jackson. EighteenthGeorge C. Wyman. Anoka. Conde Hamlin, manager of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, will be chairman of the committee and W. E. Verity, publisher of the Wadena Tribune, is for secretary. Red Men's Pow Wow. The St. Cloud lodge of Red Men (Mississippi Tribe No. 26) will hold a grand Pow Wow six days, beginning 9th. They have secured The National Carnival and Fire Works company to furnish the attractions. There will be street parades daily grand spectacular fire works each evening twenty big features including trained animals: the eruption of Mount Pelee: the streets of all nations the prismatic phantasma a trip around the world: the most beautiful mechanical and electrical effects ever presented in the city of St. Cloud In dians from the plains Arabs from the Sahara Turks from their native heath Romans in their gilded chari ots Cowboys from their ranches Japanese from the Orient Chinese from the Flowery Kingdom Bushmen and Filipinos. Every day a big day. To Pull Stumps. The following method of getting rid of stumps is recommended by the Scientific American: In the autumn bore a hole one or two inches in diam eter, according to the girth of the stump, vertically in the center of the latter, and about eighteen inches deep. Put into it one or two ounces of saltpeter fill the hole with water and plug up close. In the ensuing spring take out plug and put in about a gal lon of kerosene oil, and ignite it. The stump will smoulder away, without blazing, to the very extremities of the leaving nothing but ashes. Speaking About the Weather. "You reckon hell gets any hotter in summer?" I dunno. But I'll tell you one thing fer yo' consolationit don't freeze over in de winter!"Atlanta Constitution. Make Your Bread with H*2 *1 It makes more and better loaves than any other flour you can buy. LOCAL POLITICAL COMMENT. Some of the county officers who in tend to be candidates for renomina tion will file next week for the pri maries. There are rumors of legislative can didates and some of them are credited to Mille Lacs county. The legislative list will settle down in a short time. Attorney C. F. J. Goebel of Milaca was in Princeton this week circulating the petition of Judge Baxter who will run as an independent candidate for district judge in this district this fall. The only candidate so far on the Republican ticket for county attorney is Carl F. J. Goebel of Milaca who announced himself some time ago. County Attorney Ross will run inde pendent as usual. A Legislative Candidate. Hon. Emmet Mark who has served in the lower house as representative from this district for the past two terms, has entered the field for a third term, having filed with the Secretary of State last week as a candidate for the primary election in September. Emmet says he has no objections to serving another term as a member of the legislature, provided the people of the district seefitto return him. He is too well known in Mille Lacs and adjoining counties to need anyi ntro duction by the i n. Second Papers. In order for a foreign-born person to vote he must take out his natural ization papers three months before election. Those who came to this country before they were twenty-one years of age, need not be naturalized if their fathers were naturalized before the sons became of age. In case a father did not take out naturalization papers before the son became of age, the latter can take out both first and second papers at the same time. First or declaration papers can be taken out any time after coming to this country. Second papers cannot be taken out until two years after first papers are issued, but at that time a five years' residence in the United States must be sworn to, and there must be two witnesses. Naturaliza tion papers can be taken out before any district judge. Mary had a little lad Whose face was fair to see, Because each night he had a drink Of Rocky Mountain Tea. C. A. Jack. MMMMMMMMMM+ BUY I the way that you can buy right 1 BUY at the time when you can buy right, and BUY 1 at the place where you can buy right. YOU CAN buy right if you buy for cash and you can buy right I AT all times if you buy at a Fo BYERsJ Dealer in general merchandise, agent for Pratt's perfumes and toilet articles and HcCall Bazaar patterns. FRANK PETERSON. N, M. NELSON. PETERSON & NELSON, Blacksmiths and wagon makers. Wagons and Buggies manufactured and repaired. Satisfaction also guaranteed in all other lines of our business Shops next to Starch Factory, Princeton, Minn. 100% HourSac*lb8 a 9 & any Grocery in town Princeton Roller Mill Co. BANK OF PRINCETON. J. J. SKAHEN, Cashier and Manager. Does a General Banking Business Collecting and Farm and Insurance. Village Loans. j