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(A RC.0UNHSPEAK5 URGES IMMEDIATE ACTION ON IMPROVEMENT OF HIGHWAYS. WOULD ENHANCE LAND VALUES Declares That a Proper Improvement of the State's Roads Would In crease Population 500,000 in Next Decade. MinneapolisAt the annual meet ing of the Minnesota State Editorial Association last week, Hon. Robert C. Dunn, editor of the Princeton Union delivered the following address on "The Problem of Good Roads." To my mind the most important problem that confronts the people of Minnesota at the present time is that of bettering our public highways. Good roads is, or should be, the para mount issue. Certainly no other question vitally affects so many peo ple. It is a question that admits of no discussion, for each and all of us, and every thinking person in the state, is convinced that the improve ment of our roads is an imperative necessity. If you expect a disquisi tion from me on the best method of constructing or permanently main taining a highway after it is construct ed you will be disappointed. While I have for years taken a deep and ac tive interest in the improvement of roads in the vicinity of my home I do not pose as an expert road-maker. It is my purpose rather to point out how means can be obtained to better our public highways. If talk were all that was necessary every town ship in the state would be speedily gridironed with macadamized roads. It is generally conceded that, if there is to be any marked improve ment in the condition of our high ways in the near future it will be brought about through the medium of intelligent state supervision and li beral state aid and also by the re modeling of our township and county road laws. Under present conditions it is safe to assert that from 25 to 50 per cent of the money and labor ex pended upon roads by the minor po litical subdivisions of the state is wasted. To be sure there are local ities where intelligent road work is performed and where full value is received for every dollar expended. But it is the problem of state aid which I propose to discuss. It is not necessary to weary and confuse you with figures and details relative to the history of ,state aid in the building of roads and bridges. Suffice it to say that, under our laws as they at present exist, it is possible for the legislature to levy an annua] tax on the taxable property of the state of not to exceed one-fourth o* one mill upon each dollar's valuation. Prior to the adoption of the amend ment to section 16, article 9, of the constitution in 1906 (it was not untiJ Feb. 1st, 1908, that the state supreme court rendered its decision holding that the amendment had been adopt ed), a tax of one-twentieth of one mill was all that could be levied. It was possible for the legislature of 1909 to have levied a tax of one fourth of one mill, but having made a direct appropriation of $300,000 annually from the revenue fund for roads and bridges it was deemed in expedient to increase the tax rate for road and bridge purposes at that ses sion. The total amount at the disposal of the state highway commission for the year ending July 31st, 1909, was $84,721.71, derived from the one twentieth of one mill state tax, in come from investments in the inter nal improvement land fund, and five per cent from the proceeds of the sale of United States lands Even with the beggarly pittance at its command the state highway commission has ac complished a great deal, far more than it is given credit for accomplish ing. But many of the smaller counties, counties that stand most in need of assistance, have received no benefit from t*ie fund, because of the unwise constitutional provision which re quires that, in no case shall more than one-third of the cost of construc ting or improving any road or bridge be paid by the state from such fund. Take Kanabec county for example. Its valuation is less than $2,000,000. Prior to ly07 a tax of only one mill on each dollar's valuation could be lev ied for road and bridge purposes by county. Chapter 423. laws of 1907, provides that a tax of two mills may oe levied. If the state highway com mission were to appropriate the small sum of $1,500 to aid in the improve ment or construction of a road in Kanabec county, three-fourths of the toad and bridge fund of that county would have to be expended on that particular road in order to get the state aid. There are five commis sioner districts in the county there are roads in each of the districts that demand attention, the board of coun ty commissioners could not expend three-fourths of their entire county road and bridge fund upon a road in any one district the commissioners from the other four districts would not sanction such an inequitable di vision of the county road and bridge fund hence Kanabec county could not avail itself of the state aid. Chapter 506 laws of 1909 proposes an amendment to section 16, article 9, of the constitution which, if adopted, -j., __ will permit the stateoto pag one-half- the cost Th provis fixin the pro portion the state can expend should be eliminated and the amount left to the discretion oi! the highway com mission, subject, of course, to the constitutional proviso that not more than three per cent of the state road help themselves. And that brings me and bridge fund can be expended in to the question of how the state road any county indany one year Th assesse valuation of the state for the year 1909 is $1,108,605,572. The valuation will be materially in creased this year, when there is a complete new assessment of real es tate and, for convenience sake, we will assume that it will be increased to $1,200,000,000. __. the constitution so as to permit of the n^mnr company, we have already reaped some benefits from the out-put of the rock-crusher at the Peformatory, and, Oliver Twist-like, we want more. The bankers and business men of the cities profess to be deeply inter ested in promoting the welfare of the farmers, and doubtless they are sin cere in their professions. There is no way in which the business men of the cities can render the farmers a greater service than by assisting them in geUing better highways. As remarked at the outset, mere talk will not bring good roads. It re quires money, and money can be ob tained only by taxation. What fairer, what more practical way than by understand me. I do not wish to con- osity of the Great Northern railroad to the statedelays the cause of good company we have alread roared roads for two years Future generations will cherish the memory of the men who are instru mental in having incorporated in the fundamental law of our state a sec. tion that will give "our beloved Min wna i mur practical way than by a conductive to tne happiness and pros* vey the impression that a one-mill state tax.woulV nvuM necessary to give Minnesota a system of good permanent highways, nor do wish to create the impression that I would have the state build toads for communities where the people are too niggardly to vote means for road-im provement. God helps those who -e and bridge fund should be distributed. Th present wise proviso contained in section 16, article 9, of the consti tution, that no county shall receive in any year more than three per cent or less than one-half of one per cent of the state road and bridge fund, should remain as it is Supposin *wi ao Why not amend the fund amounted to $1,200,000. No axable property of the state to Dro- proviso that the founts taxable property of the state to pro vide a state road and bridge fund commensurate with the dignity and importance of the great state of Min nesota? California is expending millions of dollars in the improvement of its roadshas issued state bonds for that purpose. The comparatively young state of Washington levies a general state road tax of one mill, and that splendid commonwealth is forging to the front at a rapid rate and is attracting thousands of people we can ill afford to lose from this state. Are not the people of the North Star State as intelligent' and progressive as those of California and Washington? A tax rate of cae mill on a $1,200,- 000,000 valuation would produce a state road and bridge fund annually of $1,200,000. With a fund of such magnificent proportions something worth while in. the improvement of our highways could be accomplished. Such a sum judiciously expended an nually under state supervision and expert road-builders would soon put Minnesota in the front ranks in the good roads movement. There are 85 counties in the state and each county, on an average, would receive $14,000 in round numbers, which, supplement ed by local taxation for road purposes, would give each county from 15 to 20 miles of good permanent highways each year. Think of it: 17,000 miles of first-class roads within the state in the next decade! Is there anything unreasonable or impracticable in this proposition? Would a 1-mill tax be onerous? Surely a tax of ten cents on each one hundred dollars' worth of property, which is generally assessed at one third of its value would not be bur densome. To be sure the three large counties of St. Louis, Hennepin and Ramsey, where the population and wealth of the state is largely con centrated, would contribute more than 50 per cent of the entire fund, What of it? Large wealth should be taxed for the general good. If a 1-mill tax could be enforced this year the United States steel corporation alone would contribute over $200,000 to the state road and bridge fund, and next year at least an additional $50,000! I would rather see that amount of that corporation's money expended on the roads and bridges of the state, out in the rural districts where it would do the farmers some good, than twice or thrice that sum paid into the state treasury, under the guise of a tonnage tax, to be wasted upon a horde of useless new office-holders. Why should the cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis object to such a tax? In this age of automobiles, as far as travel by road is concerned, Prince ton is nearer Minneapolis today than Anoka was ten years ago. Quite fre quently nowadays an automobilist leaves Minneapolis after partaking of a late breakfast, eats lunch on the shores of Mille Lacs Lake and dines the same evening with mine host Dan Gunn at Grand Rapids. The city people make use of our rural roads more frequently than we coun ty people do, and their automobiles' play havoc with our roads. But mark the indirect benefit that would accrue to these cities. Two-thirds of the state is tributary to the Twin Cities. A system of good roads, such as a 1-miir tax would lay the foundation for, would add 500,000 people to the population of the state within the next decade. Think what such an addition to the population of the state would mean to the merchants, man ufacturers and mechanics of the Twin Cities. It is useless for me to enumerate the benefits that would accrue to the rural districts from a system of good roads, and, remember, I have not in view roads paved with granite blocks or macadamized roaus. I have in mind roads properly drained and rounded off, wide enough for vehi cles to oass each other without diffi culty, with a top dressing of gravel or crushed rock wherever possible. By the way, we need about a score more of rock-crushers, such as the one located at the St. Cloud Reforma tory, scattered over the state. In the locality of my home, thanks to the highway commission and the gener countyy could gee more tha $36,000 or .uc V,UUBIIIUHUU u as to iieriun ot ^umcom a ge more than $36,000 or "c levying of a one mill tax upon all the less than $6,000 in any year. The provis that the county should pend two-thirdsshould and the chief engineer and his dep uty at headquarters should exer cise general supervision. Counties where the local authorities made no effort to improve the highways with in their jurisdiction should receive scant consideration at the hands of the commission. The highway com mission should be allowed wide lati tude in exercising discretion as to where money should be expended, al ways subject to the three per cent constitutional restriction, and if nec essary there could be supplemental legislation on this subject. What an object lesson a piece of well-constructed road would be in a county. The road authorities of every town in the county would have a practical demonstration of good road work that would prove of incal culable benefit. I wish to call your particular at tention to the proposed constitutional amendment to be voted upon this fall as well as to the amendment the courts decided was adopted in 1906. Both amendments ignore the highway commission. Under the constitution as it now exists (see section 16 art icle 9), the legislature can authorize the levy of a state road tax of one fourth of one mill and apportion it out "pork-barrel" fashion. Moreover, there is nothing in the constitution as it now exists, or in the proposed amendment to be voted upon next November, to prevent the legislature from enacting a law abolishing the highway commission. Such action on the part of the legislature would certainly be a gigantic stride in the wrong direction. It would be a death-blow to the cause of uniform good roads in this state. I, for one, would like to see an amendment enacted by the legisla ture and adopted by the voters that would provide for a 1-mill tax, to be extended by the state auditor every year, and not leave the levying of such tax to the discretion of the leg islature provide for the expenditure of the revenue derived from such tax by the state highway commission not more than three or less than one half of one per cent of the fund to be expended in any county in any year without any restrictions as to the amount that may be expended by a county in order to enable it to get state aid. Then the apportionment of the road and bridge fund of the state could not be used as a club in the legislature to force members to support objectionable measures would not be a thing of barter and sale. I repeat here what I said at the mock session of the legislature held on the state fair grounds last Sep tember, and which I have constantly reiterated in the columns of the Princeton Union, the governor ought to convene the legislature in extraor dinary session to enact and submit an amendment such as I have outlined. The expense would be a mere baga telleless than $10,000as the mem bers have already been paid their sal aries and their mileage would not ex ceed $6,000. The chief executive has it in his power to prevent any other legislation from being enacted, by stating to the legislators in advance that he called them together for the express purpose of acting on a good roads amendment to the constitution, and politely but firmly them that any other measure would have to be passed over his veto. If tio tna win give'ou beloved Min nesota a system of public highways unsurpassed by that of any state in th.e Union. In conclusion, a great deal has been said and written anent state de velopment. The alpha and omega of state development is GOOD ROADS. I believe in advertisingin the effica cy of printers' inkbut a system ol good public highways would be pro ductive uf better results would be ueiter rsuns,, WOUlfl De conductive to the happiness and pro general one-mill tax? Do not mis- perity of a greater number o'f people, 000,000, of which $132,000,000 was than all other agencies combined. Mtaacwby'THirnig, reBBS^?ii^a2?nH produce all the means yvuutro cut tu means v* uciyo muse wno Difficulties and Perils of Navi gating a Ship In the Polar Seas Vividly Described by the Dis coverer of the North Pole i N the Dcove tl shor1lx*'"t 1I,"""T tiv a\*nn\A wluu ouuuiu ex or one-half as as the state be wipedmuch out County commissioners could desig nate the roads where state money, in their judgment, should be expended. All road work should be done by con tract according to general plans and specifications prepared by the state highway commission, and no work should be paid for until duly exa mined and accepted by an engineer of the commission. A deputy engineer could be appointed in each county, bee na stand and thf rhiof anm'tiiu. n-nA vs_ j- OTflif?1 thft TinnsoraHfniifrh !*r irnni teade tn iu rr_! vf pnishpfl s+rn nr nnnrso snnrl with PEARY'S- FIGHT WURCTIC ICEFLOES Etah to Cape MarcehF issue of Hampton's ro Magazine Commander Robert E. Peary, the discovereur* of the Ic tn iv as. oupposing north polei,s dealrsywith "The Bat- Wit of the Nort 'uesuriueu vo in nis narra us Sheridan," as described in his narra About polar research writte Pole." For the first time in all that "M.I. does the average man get an idea of the tremendous difficulties of sailing a ship in the polar seas. This battle of the Roosevelt with tumbling ice bergs and grinding ice floes literally hanging over the rail ready to smash the boat to pieces reveals to the quiet reader sitting by his fireside a vivid and memorable picture of the contin ual peril of such work. It is hard for a layman to under the character of the ice through which the Roosevel-t foughtf he way,i says Peary. "Most persons imagine that the ice of the arctic regions has been formed by direct freezing of the sea water. But in the summer time veiy little of the floating ice is of that character. It is composed of huge sheets broken off from the glacial fringe of North Grrnt Land, broken up by contact with other floes and with the land and driven south under the impetus of the violent flood tides. It is not unusual to see ice there between eighty and a hundred feet thick. As seven-eighths of these heavy floes are under water one does not realize how thick they are until one sees where a huge mass, by the pres sure of the pack behind it, has been driven up on to the shore and stands there high and dry, eighty or a hun dred feet above the water, like a silver castle guarding the shore of this exag gerated and ice clogged Rhine. With Steam Up at All Times. "The navigation of the narrow and ice incumbered channels between Etah and Cape Sheridan was long consid ered an utter impossibility, and only four ships prior to the Roosevelt have succeeded in accomplishing it. Of these four ships one, the Polaris, was lost. Three, the Alert, the Discovery and the Proteus, made the voyage up and back in safety, but one of these, the Proteus, was lost in an attempt to re peat the dash. The Roosevelt had on the expedition o* 1905-6 made the voy informing age up and back, though she was bad ly smashed on the return. "Of course the steam is up at all such an amendment was enacted it times, ready, like ourselves, for any- could be submitted to the voters at thing at a moment's notice. When the the ensuing election and if adopted Ice is not so heavy as to be utterly im- the one-mill tax could be extended in penetrable the ship under full steam 1911. Otherwise such an amendment moves back and forth continually, butt ing and charging the floes. Some times a charge will send the ship for ward half he length, sometimes her cannot be enacted until the regular session of 1911, and could not be vot ed upon before November 1912. A de Cr i lay of two years means a great loss whole length, sometimeW not a inch. Copyright. 1000 b\ Robert E Peary Copyright. 1909, by Benj. B. Hampton. CAPTAIN BARTLETT IN THE CROW'S NEST, WITH COMMANDER PEART CLINGING TO THE RIGGING JUST BELOW *^BW, u. uiuna iM4W|lMMl|liAiM# Streets of Rubber. A new process for paving streets with vulcanized rubber has recently been invented bny a Brazilian and cou romise try Vulcanin as tho revolutionize the rubber *u ta compound is called, is a mixture of crushed stone or coarse sand with a vulcanizing medium, the composi tion of the latter being a secret of the manufacturers. 0 ?U65" Americans Wearing MoreeV Silk The Americanea al 1 "r womaJ isa wearing 8w *nut e&T I use BUh- uscl sU it-,* a m.t. i __ nnnnn of -wtiin *iS5noo.nn A wn home manufactured. tD cou wa more sUek everly year and more Ameri- Sll h*k tn m&d CW "Rip 'Em. Teddy! Bite 'Em In Two!" Gaptain Bartlett Would Shout to the Roosevelt as She Charged at the Ice Pack When with all the steavn of the boilers we can make no headway whatever we wait for the ice to loosen up and economize our coal. We do not mind using the ship as a battering ramthat is what she was made forbut beyond Etah coal is precious, and every ounce of it must yield its full return of north ward steaming. The coal at present in our bunkers was all that we should have until our return the following year, when the Peary Arctic club would send a ship to meet us at Etah. "It must be remembered that during all this time we were in the region of constant daylight, in the season of the midnight sun. Sometimes the weath er was foggy, sometimes cloudy, some times sunny, but there was no dark ness. The periods of day and night were measured only by our watches, not, during the passage of these chan nels, by our sleeping and waking, for we slept only in those brief intervals when there was nothing else to do. Unresting vigilance was the price we paid for our passage. "She's Got to Go Through!" "Often on this last expedition of the Roosevelt, as on the former one, have I seen a fireman come up from the bowels of the ship panting for a breath of air, take one look at the shelf of ice before us and mutter savagely: 'By God, she's got to go through!' "Then he would drop again into the stokehole, and a moment later an ex tra puff of black smoke would rise from the stack. "During the worst parts of the jour ney Bartlett spent most cf his time in the crow's nest, the barrel lookout at the top of the mainmast. I would climb up into the rigging just below the crow's nest, where I could see ahead and talk to Bartlett, backing up his opinion with my own when neces sary to relieve him in the more danger ous places of too great a weight of responsibility. Encouraging the Roosevelt. "Clinging with Bartlett high up in the unsteady rigging, peering far ahead for a streak of open water, studying the movement of the floes which press ed against us, I would hear him shout ing to the ship below us as if she were a living thing, coaxing her, encourag ing her, commanding her to hammer a way for us through the adamantine floes. 'Rip 'em, Teddy'. Bite 'em in two! Go it! That's fine, my beauty! Now, again! Once more!' "At such a time the long generations of Ice and ocean fighters behind this brave, indomitable young Newfound land captain seemed to be reliving in him the strenuous days that carried the flag of England round the world." 'I' 'I' ft 't' t ^M^^HtH&8^M>4^HSHS DoMiver Master of Repartee. Senator Dolliver of Iowa received a letter from a constituent which said: "Dear SirI wouldn't support you for dog catcher." Mr. Dolliver wrote in reply: "My Good ManYou are laboring under a great misapprehension. I am not running for dog catcher." An Australian West Point. In a report on the Australian de fense act Field Marshal Lord Kitchen er recommends the establishment of a college modeled after the United States Military academy at West Point, the staff of which at first should be composed of imperial and later of Australian officers. Jury LUt. Names of persons drawn to serve as grand and petit jurors at the term of the district court to be held in Princeton on Monday, April 4, 1910: GRAND JURORS. Isaiah MudRett Princetou GeorgeGerth Princeton William Bartman Greenbush S- Wiprud Greenbush A.E. Grow Greenbush Peter Jensen Bogus Brook OleFolwick Bogus Brook Peter Franklin Borgholm CarlEkman Borgholm OlofPierson Borgholm August Lindstrom %[ilo Jacob Larson Milaca HFos Wm.DeHart Andrew Mattson William Erickson August Anderson... Grant Weatherly.. Peter Sohlin Nils B. Berg George Orton... Milaca Mllac a Milaca Milaca Page ...Page East Side Isle Harbor Onamia William Anderson Kathio John M. Schelin.. Hayland PETIT JURORS James Edmonds Princeton Clarence R. Sanford. Princeton S.M. Orton Princeton N. Nelson Princeton AugustGebert Princeton Henry Schmidt Princeton J.E.Chapman. Princeton FredWesloh. Greenbush JohnEdin Bogus Brook BenVanRoekel Bogus Brook Victor Hoffman.. Borgholm John Jackson Borgholm L. K. Nelson Milo JohnE.Bleed Milo John Overby Milaca Louis Larson Milaca Oscar Mattson Milaca Axel A. Anderson Page Peter Frykman East Side Ed Bauer South Harbor A.E. Wiseman Onamia H.O. Oliver Kathio JoeKniffln Foreston Emil Stromwall Foreston WHY SO WEAK? Kidney Troubles May be Sapping Your Life Away.Princeton People Have Learned This Fact. When a healthy man or woman begins to run down without apparent cause, becomes weak, languid, de pressed, suffers backache, headache, dizzy spells and urinary disorders, look to the kidneys for the cause of it all. Keep the kidneys well and they will keep you well. Doan's Kidney Pills cure sick kidneys and keep them well. Here is Princeton testimony to prove it. Mrs. Joseph Leathers of Princeton, Minn., says: I was afflicted for two or three years with kidney and blad der complaint. My back was so lame that I could hardly perform my house work. My head ached severely and dizzy spells came on when least ex pected. My eyes were very weak and my whole system was run down. The kidney secretions were irregular in passage and caused me great annoy ance. A neighbor finally advised me to try Doan's Kidney Pills and I pro cured a box. This remedy proved of such great benefit that I can con scientiously recommend it to other kidney sufferers." by all dealers. Foster-Milburn Co., sole agents for the For sale Price 50 cents. Buffalo, N. Y., United States. Remember the take no other. nameDoan 'sand (First Pub Mar 3) Mortgage Foreclosure Sale. Default having been made in the payment of the sum of seventeen hundred fifty-six and 65-1C0 dollars, which is claimed to be due and is due at the date of this notice upon a certain mortgage, duly executed and delivered by Elvena Smith and Frank Smith, her husband mortgagors, to the First National Bank of Princeton, mortgagee, bearing date the 26th day of January. 1906, and with a power of sale therein contained, duly recorded in the office of the register of deeds in and for the county of Mille Lacs and state of Minnesota, on the 22nd day of March, 1906, at 1 clock p. in book of mortgages, on page 31?* and no action or proceeding having been instituted, at law or otherwise, to recover the debt secured by said mortgage or any part thereof, Now, therefore, notice is hereby given, that by virtue of the power of sale contained in said mortgage, and pursuant to the statute in such case made and provided, the said mortgage will be foreclosed by a,sale of the premises de scribed in and conveyed by said mortgage, viz All of block four (4), and lots one (1), two (2), three (3). four (4), five (5) and six (6), in block five (5) of Princeton and the south fifty-eight (58) feet of lot six (6) in block one (l) of Da mon's addition to Princeton according to the plats thereof in the registry of deeds of said county. Excepting and reserving from such sale lot four (4) and the east seventy-five (75) feet of lots one (1) and two (2) in block five (5) of Princeton, heretofore released from the lien of said mortgage, in Mille Lacs county and state of Minnesota, with the hereditaments and appurtenances, which sale will be made by the sheriff of said Mille Lacs county at the front door of the court house, in the village of Princeton, in said county and state, on the 16th day of April. 1910, at 10 o'clock a. m. of that day, at public vendue, to the highest bidder for cash, to pay said debt f seventeen hundred fifty-six and 65-100 dollars, and interest, and the taxes, if any, on said premises, and seven ty-five dollars, attorney's fees, as stipulated in and by said mortgage in case of foreclosure, and the disbursements allowed by law. sub ject to redemption at any time within one year from the day of sale, as provided by law. Dated March 1st. A. 1910. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF PRINCETON. Mortgagee. By. S. S. PBTTERSON, President CHARLES KEITH, Attorney. (First Pub. Feb. 17.) Citation for Hearing on Final Account and for Distribution. ESTATE OF ERNEST AXT. State of Minnesota, County of Mille Lacs. In Probate Court. In the matter of the estate of Ernest Axt, decedent. The State of Minnesota to all persons in terested in the final account and distribution of the estate of said decedent: The representative of the above named decedent, having filed in this court her final account of the administration of the estate of said decedent, together with her petition praying for the adjustment and allowance of said final account and for dis tribution of the residue of said estate to the persons thereunto entitled Therefore yo, and each of you, are hereby cited and required to show cause if any you have, before this court, at the Probate Court Booms in the Court House, in the village of Princeton in the County of MiUe Lacs, State of Minnesota, on the 14th day of March, 1910. at 10 o'clock a. m.. why said petition should not be granted. Witness, the Judge of said Court, and the Seal of said Court, this 14th day of February, 1910. (Court Seal) W H. V. SANFORD, CHARLES KEITH. Probate Judge. Attorney for Petitioner. 1