The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-03-26
FROM MIME POLLS
q Spicy Letter From ..Uncle
JASON on Matters and
Things Interesting.
The State Convention at Mime
apolis Furnishes Few
Topics for Discussion.

apOliS Furnishes Few 5
Topics for Discussion.
special Correspondence to the UNION.
MINNEAPOLIS, March ,26, 1885,
Mckinley got the whole outfit, body
and breaches, opposition and all, Tan
tiso and stalwarts. McCune of the
Eighth ward was the only man in.
Minneapolis for Reed, and the Allison
boom, which was doomed by Wash
burn and Eustis, lacks one vote of get
ting q single ballot.
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That contest between Pillsbury and
Wash burn! Oh my! It stood 43. for
ashburn-that was the best he got
on any ballot-and 1888 for Pillsbury!
Even half the 100 dropped him and
went for themselves. Washburn is
simply a dead letter in Minneapolis.
On the only ballot which gave Wash
burn any support worth mention, he
stood sixth and was saved from being
the tail-ender only by the presence of
a seventh candidate wholly unknown
except to the A.P. AS who ran him.
The? organs of the 100 say: ssE. M.
johnson made an eloquent speec h
nominating w. D. Washburn.'' But
that was the whole of the Washburn
movement. It was eloquent" but got
no votes.
The trial of Otis Billings, formerly
of Delano, Wright county, for perjury
developed queer things. Billings
swore that Dodge and Howard, attor-
ney and Inspector for the Great North
ern,5 had employed him to bride jurors
in railroad damage suit in Wright
county. According to Billings story
he had been engaged by the railway
company for a year or. SO in. the general
business Of jury bribing. Howard and
Dodge had Billings indicted and tried
forperjury. Then developed a strange
case. Billings went into court to
prove himself guilty of the crime of
bribery and the. railway com pany
went into court to try to prove him in
,nocent. It is not strange that the
jury disagreed. They could not tell
where they were at. What is behind
the screen in the case is not known.
It has bad smell all round. Mean
time, the county commissioners are on
the warpath because the county has
been bled with such heavy costs and
another costly repetition in sight. 49,:
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: Captain Helm, of the police force,
tried for perjury in the case of the
Tyler gambling plant. was dismissed,
Notwithstanding the testimony of
Judge Kerr and Clerk Allen of the
municipal court against him: Kerr
and Allen, the officials Of the municipal
court, imagining that the usual caper
would be played with the Tyler outfit,
went to the city hall, it seems, while
the outfit was stored there, and made
private marks upon the tables and
machines to identify them. After the
police force, in violation of the law, al
lowed Tyler to sell his plant to gam
blers from Omaha, instead of destroy
ing it as the law provides, the police
went out and brought in another plant
with which to make show in court,
Helm and his friends swore that the
latter plant was the original, although
it was known all over town that the
had been sold under permits
sion Of the police department.. Kerr
and Allen nailed Helm in court, but it
was no use. The jury acquitted Helm.
Doubtless they figured that Helm was
guilty, it was simply because he acted
under instructions from his chief and
the mayor. And so another chapter
of the celebrated policy is written.
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Z A paper called '''I0aUae Talk, run for
what purpose only its victims know.
was summarily suppressed by one Of.
our eminent citizens the other day.
The paper. had an unusually juicy grist
Of scandal aboard relative to the pri-
vate affairs of said eminent individual,
and the latter, instead Of paying for
preferred to break the
forms, steal the printed edition, and
pie the type with a mallet: The few
copies which were sold by the news
boys on the street are now going at a
premium, while the proprietor of the
sheet is bringing suit for damages.
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At the meeting of Minneapolis, St.
Paul and Duluth Taxpayers, to adjust
in the three cities, the
the question was raised if the mineral
lands of ST. Louis county could be
placed on the tax rolls. JIG. Cooley,
member of the State board Of equaliza