The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-12-05
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China is preparing for war again.
Who can tael what the result will bel
The presidents message was not on
the bucking broncho order that nany
supposed it would be.
Look out for foul weather in St. Pau]
next month. The annual poultry show
will be held at that time.
G. O. P. stands for ''get out. please, .
to the Democrats and the political pig.
mics that stand around looking for
split milk. :.
The Philippines are declared to be
domestic territory, but then they are
so far away that they will always have
a foreign flavor.
The Schley- Sampson controversy has
got into congress, and the end is not
yet Why not pass it on to the Smith
sOnian institute?
The eastern people do not take kind
ly to western irrigation. They think
pond or two way down east is enough
water for the whole nation.
| People in Chicago are averring that
they saw big comet recently, when
as a matter of fact it was only one of
the city water microbes in a flying ma
chine.
If you have any Christmas presents
coming from the Philippines hurry
them up while the tariff gate is open,
for we are to enjoy brief spell of free
trade.
| The Dingley tariff will not be taken
to the repair shop this time, as the ex-
perts say it does not need any new riv-
cts, screws, bolts, ball bearings or any,
thing of the Sort
| Congressman Tawney has again been
made the party whip for the present
session of congress. The sta tesman
from Winona always was more or less
of a crack-a-jack.
l. When Mrs. Murphy went over into
Mrs. Flannigan's back yard with big
wash and proceeded to use her neigh
boris line she remarked to herself that
this merging business was the spirit of
the age.
It is said that j. P. Morgan, the
husky financier who Yields trusts and
deals in ''octopi'' spends 5000 a day on
his table. How some tramp would like
to trade stomachs with Mr.. Morgan
just for an hour or two.
"What are you in here for?" asked
the bad looking prisoner of pale-faced
little woman, who replied: ''For shop
lifting" ''Well, mine is little heav-
Ter occupation" answered the bad
looking man, II hold up trains.''
1t is amusing to see the many ways
that are taken by game dealers and
shippers to evade the game laws. We
believe they have shipped game in
about everything except collins, and
we expect to hear of some game war;
den breaking through the crowd of
mourners at the union depot in St.
Paul some time and exposing the game
corpse of northern Minnesota.
Briggs, the Minneapolis slot machine
artist, whom Sheriff Megaarden got
after and caused Briggs an awful lot
of trouble, which sent him to the work.
house for six months and compelled him
to pay heavy fine, is now fireman at
the "works', while as a sequel to the
pernicious activity of the sheriff is the
spectacle of Megaarden being obliged
to cough up several Thousand dollars
of fees illegally appropriated to his pri-
vate bank account, and to-day standing
suspended under orders of the govern
or, pending hearing that may GUST
the sheriff from his office. Megaarden
refuses to give up his Office and has in
trenched himself in the county jail,
while the coroner who is supposed to
act as sheriff is trying to find the polit-
ical corpse in ord err to hold an inquest.
Political sensations in Hennepin are
at present lively enough for the aver
age student of civic affairs.
SENATOR: NELSON has: re-introduced
his Mile Laos Indian bill, which pro-
vides for an appropriation for those
Indians who have na6o i,onrovoroon+e