f.'^wfll J'' m A LETTER FROM S. SMITH. He Describes in an Interesting Manner Spokane and Its Surroundings. I have recently received letters from friends in Mille Lacs county remind ing me of a promise to give my opin ion of Washington in the Union. I will now try and fulfill that promise in part by giving in a condensed form a description of Spokane and what I have seen in eastern Washington. My first impressions of Spokane were that the people were very wise, for a large part of the city is literally founded upon a rock, so that when the rains descend and the floods come it remains firm. This applies to the central, or buisness part of the city. In other portions there are many beautiful flower and vegetable gar dens, lawns, and many fruit trees. The architecture of the buildings is good, and in many instances very beautiful, but there is one peculiarity about the dwellings that I have not seen in any other city, that is, a large proportion of them are but one story high even in the business part of the city. There are no sky scrap ers as are seen in most eastern cities. The Spokane river runs through near the center of the city, and the most beautiful scenery in the city is the Spokane falls, which are very much like the St. Anthony falls. There are fourteen bridges across the river within the city limits, one bridge be low the falls being 208 feet above the water, and sometime in the past a man committed suicide by jumping from this bridge. There is a foot bridge outside the city where a young couple who had a misunderstanding in love matters tied their hands to gether and jumped into the river, but when they struck the water the knot had untied and both were rescued by a man who saw them jump from the bridge. The soil around Spokane and on the banks of the river, or what is known as the bottom land, which in places is several miles wide, is very light sand and coarse gravel, yet it is very productive in a wet season or when irrigated. The river is about the same size as the Rum river at Princeton. Four years ago Spokane contained 40,000 inhabitants. Now it has over 80,000 and expects to have 150,000 within the next decade, but it is not wise to count chickens until they hatch. The timber in eastern Washington is yellow pine, bull pine and fir, but pine predominates. The yellow pine grows very large and tall and makes excellent lumber. The bull pine is al most identical with the jack pine of Minnesota and it is used almost en tirely for fuel. Thefiris greatly su perior for all purposes. There are a number of plots of lands around Spokane called prairies, and these prairies have an elevation of over 400 feet above Spokane, the ascent being very steep. But will speak of only two of these prairies. Five Mile Prairie is where our Min nesota C. T. Johnson lives, and in my opinion it has the best soil, is the pleasantest and most desirable loca tion to be found in eastern Washing ton. It is 464 feet above Spokane. The land is comparatively level until we get to the base of the hill, and then we rise 400 feet in traveling one half mile. At the top is a plateau of over 2,200 acres of as deep and pro ductive soil as can be found in Wash ington or Minnesota. About 300 acres of this plateau or prairie is planted to fruit of various kinds, ap ples predominating yet there is a large quantity of pears, peaches, cherries and plums (prunes), also raspberries and strawberries. Mr. Johnson has a fine bed of the latter and has extended the cultivation of the plot this spring. Mr. Johnson has a very thrifty orchard of about 10 acres, the trees being all young, as it is only four years since the first were set out. The orchards on this prairie vary in size from five acres to 45 acres. It is 20 years since the first orchards were started and the ground has to be cultivated every year the same as a corn field. If not thus cul tivated the apples are worthless and the trees soon die. There is no timber of any kind on this prairie, all of the 2,200 acres being under cultivation. Potatoes are raised extensively and are of the best quality, but grain is the principal crop. The barley is all raised for the grain and a small por tion of the wheat and oats, bub a large amount of the latter two are cut in the dough and used for hay. Mr. Cutler lives on Orchard prairie, eight miles from Spokane. I visited his place and had to climb to get there the same as at Mr. Johnson's. The land is more rolling than Five Mile Prairie, but otherwise the description given of Five Mile Prairie will apply to Orchard and all the other prairies, the only difference in these prairies being that some are larger than others. Mr. Cutler has a large or chard that has borne fruit for several years. There are some very large prune orchards on this prairie and a large dry house for drying the fruit. The sides of these prairies in many places are so steep and rocky that neither man nor beast can ascend or descend them. There are ledges of perpendicular rock twenty or thirty feet high, and yet the land can be cul tivated within a few feet of the edge of these ledges. The ledges are cov ered with a heavy growth of pine and fir with a little mixture of tamarack, some trees of the latter three or four feet in diameter. Minnesotans living near Spokane and who take the Union may dis cover some mistakes in the above statements. If they do they must ex cuse me, as I made no notes at the time I was in Spokane and have writ ten wholly from memory. In my next article I will tell what I have heard about the Palouse valley from those who live there. S. B. Smith, Bremerton, Wash. REV, AND MRS. STAPLES HONORED. Elected Respectively Department Chaplain of G. A. R. and Chaplain of W. R. C. The Rev. J. S. Staples and his good wife, parents of Geo. I. Staples, busi ness manager of the Union, who are well known to many Princeton people and who at this time reside in Geneva, Neb., have been highly honored by the Grand Army of the Republic and the Women's Relief corps of the de partment of Nebraska. The follow ing is reproduced from the Geneva Signal: The Nebraska department of the G. A. R. held its annual encampment in Lincoln last week, the veterans being in session several days. Rev. J. S. Staples was elected department chap lain and his wife was elected chaplain of the W. R. C. This is a coincidence worthy of note. All who know them will agree that the honor was worthily bestowed in each case. Those who know Mr. Staples feel that he must have been a good soldier. When he was mustered out he was First Lieutenant of Co. D, 28th Maine Infantry. He is now about 84 years old. EIGHTH GRADE GRADUATION. Exercises "Will be Held in High Sehool Building Tomorr ow Evening:. The graduating exercises of the eighth grade of the Princeton public schools will be held in the assembly room of the high school building on Friday evening, June 1, at 8 o'clock. Parents and friends of the children are cordially invited to be present. The program is as follows: Overture Edward P. Brands Invocation Rev. Cathcart Songr, "God and Fatherland" School Salutation ina May Leathers Eecitation.... "How I Won My Wife" S. Loren Orton Vocal Solo Ethel Mary Palmer Essay, "Earthquakes".. Grace Isabelle Dugan Eecitation Ralph Smith Piano duet Lola A. Scheenand Lydia Aimee Woodcock Essay, "Beauties of Nature'*. .Ada A. Jaenicke Cornet Selo. ."Love's Response" Charles Umbehocker, Edward P. Brands, ac companist. Class Trip Albert J. Burke Vocal Duet en f?TT ''^PT^^^^SI^iP Jaax A i* a 1 Ethel Mary Eecitation. "Christmas BackLoga"h A v, -,V,-- V.- Palmerr Giltne Eli A bcnool Girl Declaration of Independence" Gertrude Myrle Hill Piano Duet... Lydi a Aime Woodcoc Alta Lenor Jaax Oration, "Death and the Soldier" Lisle Joseph Jesmer Presentation of Diplomas.. Margaret Ida King Song, "OldGlory" School A Spelling: Lesson. Students in a London school were recently asked to write this: "A glut tonous sibyl with her glutinous hand complacently seized a sieve, a phthis ical icheumon, a noticeably supercili ous, irascible and cynical sergeant, an embarrassed and harassed chrys alis, a shrieking sheik, a complais ant proselyte and an anonymous chrysolite. These all sudddenly dis appeared down her receptive esopha gus. She simply said: 'Pugh! not saccharine!' "She then transfered a billion of bilious mosquitoes, an unsalable bouquet of fuchsias, lilies, dahlias, hyacinths and phlox, a liquefied bdel lium, an indelible, defamatory, in flammatory synchronism and a debat able syllogism to the same capacious receptacle. "Peaceably surrendering her da guerreotype to the ecstatic aeronaut, she descended with her jjarachutea synonym for barouchezand griev ously terrified the stolid, squalid yeomanry" already torrefied by the heat. 101 Fahrenheit. "--Chicago News. Postmaster Robbed. G. W. Foust, postmaster at River ton, la., nearly lost his life and was robbed of all comfort, according to his letter, which says: "For 20 years I had chronic liver complaint, which led to such a severe case of jaundice that even my finger nails turned yellow when my doctor prescribed Electric Bitters which cured me and have kept me well for eleven years." Sure cure for biliousness, neuralgia, weakness and all stomach, liver, kid ney and bladder derangements. A wonderul tonic. At C. A. Jack's drug store, 50 cents. Eccentric, Indeed. It is told of James Lick, the eccen tric San Francisco millionaire, who founded the famous observatory bear ing his name, that when taking any one into his service he always asked the person to plant a tree upside down, the roots in the air, the branches under ground. If there was any protest the man was at once sent away, Lick saying that he wanted only men who would obey orders strictly. Kansas City Journal. Total. ii^i^fiSh^^v^^di^^^'^-ifc'VKrf'ti'A. THE PBINCBTOK TJNIOH: THUKSDAY, MAY 31, 1906. Church Topics ie a* .5. 4 A Sunday and Weekday Announcements. METHODIST. Morning service abandoned on ac count of baccalaureate services of the high school at opera house. 7:15 p. m. Epworth League 8 p. m. "The Ministry of Sorrow." Prayer meet ing Wednesday evening at 7:30 p. m. CONGREGATIONAL. Morning 11:45 Sunday school 7 p. m. Y. P. S. C. E. 8 p. m. preaching service. It is expected that Rev. Shore will join in the service and preach the sermon. A meeting of the church will be held at the close of the service. SWEDISH LUTHERAN. Services will be held at the Swedish Lutheran church next Sunday after noon at 3 o'clock. BLUE AND GRAY. SPOKEN. You ask me why upon my breast, Unchanged from day to day, Linked side hy side on this broad band, I wear the blue and gray. SONG. I had two brothers long ago, Two brothers young and gay: One wore a suit of northern blue, The other wore a southern gray. One heard the roll-call of the drum, And linked his fate with Lee And one marched with the stars and striDes, With Sherman to the sea. CHORUS. And that is why upon my breast. Unchanged from day to day, Linked side by side on this broad band, I wear a knot of blue and gray. Each fought for what he deemed was right, And fell with sword in .hand One sleeps among Virginia's hills, And one by Georgia's strand. The same sun shines on both their graves That shines o'er hill and plain And in my dreams of vanished days Both brothers live again. Republican County Convention. A Republican County Convention for the county of Mille Lacs, State of Minnesota, will be held at the court house in the village of Princeton, on Wednesday, June 6, 1906, at 1 p. m., for the purpose of selecting ten dele gates to the Republican State Con vention, to be held on Wednesday, June 13, 1906, in the city of Duluth for the purpose of placing in nomination candidates for the following state offices to be voted for at the general election in November 1906: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Gov ernor Lieutenant Governor Secre tary of State State Treasurer State Auditor Attorney General Clerk of Supreme Court One Railroad and Warehouse Commissioner. The primaries for the electio"nof delegates to said county convention, shall be held at the usual place of hold ing elections in the different election districts of said county on Saturday the 2nd day of June, 1906, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and shall be con tinue open one hour. Each election district shall be en titled to one delegate at large and to one delegate for each twenty-five votes or major fraction thereof cast in the respective election districts at the general election in 1904 for the repub lican candidates for Governor, Lieu tenant Governor Secretary of State, State Treasurer, Attorney General, Associate Justices of the Supreme Court and members of the Railroad and Warehouse Commission. Princeton village 13 Princeton town Greenbush Borgholm 6 Bogus Brook 5 Milaca village 7 Milaca town 3 Miio 4 Poreston, except Sec. 33, 38-27 2 Page 2 Hayland 1 Onamia 2 Eobbins 2 SouthHarbor 2 Isle Harbor 2 East Side By order of the Repupblican County Committee. Dated, Princeton, Minn., April 25, 1906. L. S. BRIGGS, Chairman. Princeton Township Primaries. The republican primaries for the township of Princeton will be held at the Armory hall, in the village of Princeton on Saturday, June 2, 1906, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of electing eight delegates to the county convention, which will be held at the court house in Princeton, on Wednesday, June 6,1906, at 1 to. m. Ernest H. Sellhorn, Chairman. Not if as Rich as Rockefeller. If you had all the wealth of Rocke feller, the Standard Oil magnate, you could not buy a better medicine for bowel complaints than Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem edy. The most eminent physician can not prescribe a better preparation for colic and diarrhoea, both for children and adults. The uniform success of this remedy has shown it to be super ior to all others. It never fails, and when reduced with water and sweet ened, is pleasant to take. Every family should be supplied with it. Sold by Princeton Drug Co. Lying. He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.Alex ander Pope. Z $23.40 For a 400 lb. Six-Hole Steel Range Has six 8-inch lids. Top cooking surface 30x34. Large warming closet. Fifteen gallon reservoir. Oven 17x21x21 inches. Duplex grates--burns wood or coal. Lined throughout with as bestos. Guaranteed strictly first class in every respect. CALEY HARDWARE GO. Princeton, Minn. A friend of the home* A foe of the Trust Calumet Baking Powder Complies with the Pure Pood Laws of all Ctatea. Peterson & Nelson Can set your buggy tires cold while you are waiting without taking the wheels off from the buggy or the bolts out of the wheels. All kinds of Custom Work Daintily Shod feet add greatly to a woman's attrac tions^ Coarse, clumsy shoes have the opposite effect. We give special at tention to Ladies' Shoes. All the latest productions of the best factories are here. The newest shapes, the modish heels, the fashionable leathers. There are shoes for every kind of wear in or outdoor. Of course we have shoes also for men and boys but we take particular pride in pleas ing the ladies. What can we do for you? S. LONG, First Street, Princeton, Minn. ^^^^MisMiMs^^ ^mmmmmmmminmmmmmmmmmnimmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmn!^ Princeton Lumber Company, Dealers in Hieh Grade Sash, Doors, Millwork, 1 Maple, Beech and Fir Flooring, 1 Red Cedar and Pine Shingles. 1 .fr.fr4fr.iMMSMfr.fr4^.fr.3MSfr.frg^ A Full Line of Building Materials. 3 GEO. A. COATES, Manager. PRINCETON. 1 ^iuuiiuuutuuiuuiuuutuututuituiautuuatuutuuuiuutiuiuuumuuiutiuiuiauuutug W. P. CHASE, llanager. First National Bank of Princeton, Minnesota. Paid up Capital, $30,000 A General Banking Busi ness Transacted. Loans Made on Approved Security. WP^^^^k^r^s^^"* Does a. Gen **fr*1r^***trtr*^*Wr^ M. S. RUTHERFORD 4* Interest Paid on Time De posits. Foreign and Domestic Ex change. S. S. PETTERSON, President. T. H. 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