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The Princeton union., 1903-10-22
Strenuous Life at Mile Laos.

John Kruger of Lawrence who is
under Indictment for having sold
liquor at that place without license,
was driving along the highway in
town of 4l-25 last week and he met T.
E.. Potts who it would seem is not one
of his mutual friends. The two men
did not fall into one another's arms
and embrace each other like old pards,
but they manifested disposition to
declare war and it is claimed that Mr..
Potts did not use Kruger like a man
with a boil on the back of his neck.
Mr.. Kruger had warrant issued for
Potts arrest and the case came on for
trial before Justice Humble, the case
being his maiden effort to square
mans actions with the law The COM
plaint stated that the breach of the
law occurred in the town of Isle Har-
Dor while as a matter of fact it took
place in town 41-25 and the case was
thrown out of court for this reason.
Our correspondent at bar states that
this is not the end of the matter as
new warrant will be sworn out, and
also that Mr.. Potts will have Mr..
Kruger arrested for using abusive
language.
The Princeton union., 1903-10-22
Surprised by Friends.

Mr.. and Mrs. William Mcfarland
were aroused from their slumber last
Monday night by crowd of Green
bush and Princeton people who called
at the house and secured an entrance
without waiting to be admitted. The
first thought that came to the mind of
Mr.. Mcfarland was burglars, but he
soon discovered that himself and wife
were in the hands of their friends
who nearly fifty strong had called to
tell them that it was not the proper
thing to let their third wedding ami
versary pass without some sort of
recognition of the event. The party
came with baskets full of good things
to eat and they proceeded to take po-
session of the house and make ready
for good time generally and every
body who was present had just this
kind of a time. Mr.. and Mrs. Nc
Farland were presented with set of
dishes by their friends with which to
remember the event by. It was late
hour when the party broke up and
started for home. -
The Princeton union., 1903-10-22
HOT SCHOOL MEETING.
A Special School Meeting in District
No. 7 in the town of Blue Hill
Ends in Row.
A Pugilist in Disguise at the Meeting
Enters the Arena and Retires
With Flying Colors.

There was a special school meeting
down in district No. 7 in the town OF
Blue Hill last Saturday night to vote
on the proposition to bond the district
for a new school house and it is said
that the meeting proved to be one OF
the snappiest and liveliest ever held
in that section. There was bad feel
ing to start with and there was lot
petition was granted by the county
commissioners of Sherburne county
to have a certain part of the district
adjoining Elk Lake set off by itself
and to be known as district No. 81,
but the order of the board creating
the new district was never published
and the residents of the territory to
be created into a new district discov-
cred the irregularity of the proceed
ings later on and they were advised
to begin all over.
\ certain freeholder desired to get
in the new district and went to the
original petitioner and made his re-
quest, but it seems that the original
petitioner questioned the action of the
freeholder and did not see fit to grant
the request. This added more bad
blood to the school district cauldron
and at the school meeting Saturday
night the kettle boiled full and run
ming over and several were burned by
the escaping steam and heated con-
tents.
The meeting was organized and pro-
ceeded to business and all went along
fairly well until the balloting began
from an orderly gathering to a sort
of free-for-all fight in which several of
the participants were knocked out.
One OF the new cOmerS in the district
proved to be a pugilist in disguise.
This horny-handed son of toll went to
the meeting with his wife and rumor
has it that when his wife went to the
polls to cast her ballot that a certain
party seized her fair hand and i'm
parted on it kiss. The husband was
standing near by and noticed the act
Of homage and affection and he just
made one pass at the man with the
kissing habit and knocked him out the
first round. Another party interfered
and he, too, went off his feet in the
twinkling of an eye. The meeting ad-
journed in singles, pairs and trios
and there was SO much cOmmotion and
scrapping at the close that our cor
respondent forgot to wait to hear the
result Of the vote announced. There
are several of the residents in district
No. who in the future when they
attend school meetings will wear a
coat of mail.
The Princeton union., 1903-10-22

Falls. Sheriff Claggett started with
Taft for Elk River on the noon freight
but was obliged to take the man to
Minneapolis in order to make connec-
tions for Fergus Falls. Taft was
locked up in the Hennepin county Jail,
and while alone he became very vio-
lent. He seized an iron bar with
which he smashed his bed all to pieces
and when the jailor came at supper
time to feed him he struck through the
bars at the jailor and nearly put one
of the jailor's eyes out. Sheriff Clag-
gett arrived and succeeded in quieting
Taft after some time and while off his
guard the sheriff rushed in and seized
the man and placed him in straight
jacket. He took him to Fergus Falls
yesterday.
The boy has always been strong
and rugged and never showed any
signs of insanity until he assisted
his father in killing the beef. A few
years ago he was injured about the
head by coming in violent contact with
his brother while playing ''shinny''
on the ice. While in the Judge of pro-
bates office he remained quiet but was
sullen and stubborn when his father
asked him a question about being
hurt few years ago. He carried his
bible with him and since becoming in
sane has been reading it most of the
time.
Mr.. Taft is a new settler in Mile
Lacs county, having moved here two
years ago.
The Princeton union., 1903-10-22
YOUNG TAFT GOES DAFT.
Charles Taft Living Near Page Goes Crazy
and Becomes Almost Unmanaeable.

c. \. Taft who lives east of Page,
came down last Tuesday with his son
Charles Taft who was taken violently
insane at the home of his father last
week. The young man who is twenty
five years of age was assisting his
father butcher steer last Thursday
and the sight of the quivering flesh of
the animal affected the son to an ex-
tent that made him take on all the
conditions of the beef. His whole
body began to tremble and culver and
his nervous system seemed to go to
pieces. He did not act unusually
strange until a day or so ago after
wards when he became violent and his
hallucinations were on the religious
order. Monday night he retired and
he had not been in bed but short
time before he jumped out of bed and
began crying out that he would have
to go to Milaca to convert the town,
and he called loudly to his folks and
those whom he was acquainted with to
follow him. He started out of the
house and his father took after him
and called to another son to follow
him. Mr.. Taft caught up with his son
and grabbed him, about the body but
the young man tore at his father vio
lently and struck him with great force
about the head. The younger son and
a hired man arrived in a few minutes
and it took several hours before the
crazy man could be bound. A heavy
rope was tied tightly about his arms
which were bound to his body so that
he could do no harm, and Mr.. Taft
started at once for Milaca with his
son, realizing that it would not do to
delay matters.
The boy was taken before the Judge
of probate and Drs. Cooney and Galley
were summoned to examine the young
man who was pronounced insane and
committed to the hospital at Fergus
The Princeton union., 1903-10-22
A Split in Church Circles at NIilaca.

There has been a split in church cir
cles at Milaca. Rev. D. P. ..Olin who
has been pastor of the M. E. church
at that place for some time was not
returned to the church at Milaca and
he has withdrawn from the M. E. de-
nomination and it is said that he will
organize Congregational church at
Milaca. Many of his friends in the M.
b: church at that place are withdraw
ing and they will join with: Rev. Olin
in the organization ofranother church.
The Princeton union., 1903-10-22
TWO GAMES OF BASKET BALL =. -
Princeton High School Girls Play Anoka
and Monticello.

The high school basket ball team
played two games with visitors last
Friday and Saturday and the double
engagement tested we'll the mettle and
the playing and staying qualities of
the team. On Friday evening the
home team played a game at the opera
house with the Anoka team which
came up on the afternoon train and
with lot of rooters from that town
at the jumping off place of the Rum.
The game was the first one ever plaved
by the Princeton team in hall, but
the girls did we'll all through the
game, and gave the visitors a close
shave. in: fact the decisions of the
Anoka umpire toward the finish of the
game looked just a bit as though he
desired to- favor his own team, and a
few of his decisions were claimed to
be unfair, but this is one of the feat
ures of any game of this character
and is pretty much the same as base
ball or any game where an umpire has
to detremine plays by the rules or
otherwise. At the end of the first half
the score stoodsix to nine with Prince
ton at the best end of the score. The
Princeton girls started in and made
excellent plays from the start and
kept the Anoka team making 100000
eyes at the ball. At the close of the
second half it was claimed that the
PricetOn girls made errors and fouls
which gave the game to Anoka by a.
score of fifteen to thirteen. The game.
however, was g real good one. There
was good attendance and the hall
was noisy with the shouts and horn
blowing of the rooters on both sides.
1t was amusing to note how offended
some of the Princeton Juveniles got at
the decisions of the umpire and the
young Americans felt like throwing
the Anoka crowd out of the hall. Raw
Morrill, acted as umpire while Miss
Daisy Trout, and Thos. B. Adams of
Anoka were the referees.
Those from Anoka who came up.
including the members of the team,
were as follows: Helen Goodrich.
lnez Applebee, Miss Hall, Lenora De-
pue, Louise Kelly, Florence Allen,
Celia Tierney, Pearl Scott, Viola
Clingman, Blanche Murray, Anna Mae
Hawley, Thos. B. Adams, Oscar Mo-
berg, Ray Morrill,, and John Cole
man. The Anoka folks returned home
Saturday morning and were accom-
panied to the train by the members of
the Princeton team who bade them
goodbye with the yells of the Prince
ton high, and the Anoka crowd re-
sponded with a number of yells.i il:
The Monticello team arrived for.
dinner Saturday and were ready for.
The Princeton union., 1903-10-22
Jamlson ct al. It's time Sam recog-
nlzed who his friends have been. !


All this talk of the senatorship be-
ing involved in the governorship fight
is rot. The people will say who shall
be their senator's when the proper
time comes.
For the ten months ending Oct Is
the dairy and food department exam
ined 5,947 samples of foods and of this
number twenty-five per cent was ille-
gal. For the two years ending De-
cember Is, 1902, 1918 samples were
analysed and thirty-five per cent was
illegal. Great Improvement is noted
in the quality of food stuffs. In 1902,
torty-tour per cent of vinegar samples
was illegal and for this year only
twenty-one per cent; whiskey this year
shows but thirteen per cent impure
against twenty-eight per cent last
year. Spices averaged twenty-five
per cent impure last year and only
eleven per cent this year. These re-
suits show the practical value of pure
food laws and their enforcement.
MINNIE.
The Princeton union., 1903-10-22

game at. two at the grounds of the
Prlnlcceton llcceton high school. There was a
good crowd out to witness the game
Whlch7 1lso was easy for the visitors, who
deteeated the home team by score of
thirteen to- four. The game had not
progressed far before Monticello
scored on a foul by the home team
and$%5at the close of the first half the
score stood seven to two for Month
cello, Princeton only succeeded in
maklng a single basket. It was ap-
parent at the start that the home team
was in poor shape to- play as the
game the night before had tired them
out AS it was they were very good
in keeping the ball from their antag-
onlsts but when the opportunity came
for the Princeton girls to make bas-
ket the big sphere refused to roll down
IN the net for score that was needed
SO badly. Several of the home team
played we'll under the circumstances
and the work of Miss Nachbar, Miss
Neuman and Miss Grant was especial
~ good. For the Monticello team,
MISS Bertfam practically won the
game. Tall and 1.-THE she stood guard
at the basket and would go at ball
like a swapping turtle and her basket
throws in the first half were always
winners, though in the second half she
did not play so we'll.
Ross Wedgewood umpired the game
while: Miss Trout acted as referee.
There was little complaint over any
OF the decisions and the two teams
played without any special friction.
The Monticello girls said that Prince
ton did not begin to play as good as
they did at Monticello, and this was
accounted. for by the fact that the
Princeton girls over exerted them
selves by attempting to play two games
SO close together
The personnel of the Monticello
team was as follows: Miss Mealey,
Miss Cove, Miss Bertram, and the
Blume sisters.
E: H. Sherwin, and daughter Eva
and his sister, Mrs. A. J. Mealey, ac-
companied the team over. Ray S.
Thompson of Monticello also accom-
panied the playres.
The Princeton union., 1903-10-22
Old Man Sleeps in a Cradle.

There is man of seventy in Paris
namd Wallace Superneau, who still
sleeps in the cradle he was rocked in
when baby, and he has never slept
one night of his long life in any other
bed. The Youngest of family of
boys, Wallace retained his place in
the cradle as he grew older. He soon
became too tall to lie in it at full
length, but he overcame this difficulty
by drawing his knees upward. Each
night to this day he rests his feet
squarely on the bottom of the cradle.
sways his knees to and fro; and rocks
himself to sleep as he did when a
small boy. The habit was formed in
babyhood and never broken.
The Princeton union., 1903-10-22
A Tempest In a Teapot.

"A substantial basis underlies the
general feeling that there is sure to be
a crash in America. But it will be a
crash in America, not crash of
America" says the Saturday Evening
Post.
"Never was it so true of any people
as of the American people that bread,
to be had, must be got by sweat of
brow or brain. And any one in
America who is getting his bread with
out giving any adequate return for it
may we'll be uneasy. The more bread
he is getting the uneasier he ought to
feel. On the other hand, the mass of
Americans need feel no uneasiness.
Three may be slight trembling or
there may be no disturbance at all
when their backs are relieved of the
burden of infationists and fotation-
ers of wildcat schemes, of stock
waterers and bond-jobbers. These
airy gentry will inevitably tumble or
be shaken off. Then, if the crops are
good, everything will go forward
more smoothly and easily.
$50 long as there is work for capt.
tai and labor, neither the honest cap
italist nor the honest laborer need fear
lack OF employment. When the some
thing-for-nothing fellows go down
there will be a hupe c1Ond Of d,,ct
But it will soon drift away"
The Princeton union., 1903-10-22
"LANDLORD GOLDEN'S" HOSPITALITY.
A Visit at the Old Hostelry i'll 1868, While
En- Route to the Pineries.

A Visit at the Old Hostelry in 1868, While
En- Route to the Pineries.
In letter to the editor of the
y nj IN, Geo. A. Iselin of New York,
enclosed the following extract from an
Article Oh 1.-THE Minnesota Pineries''
which appeared in Harper's Magazine
in March 1868. The article was writ
ten by j. M. Tuttle, and that part re-
ferring to Princeton will be read with
no little interest by many of the old
settlers. Mr.. Tuttle says:
'Our horses stopped after two or
three hours of smart trotting before a
small frame building, which by rude
sign that hung from still ruder pole
surmounted by a martin-box, we learn
ed was the American house. The few
houses scattered about constituted the
village OF Princeton, an unpretending,
honest-looking place and buttoned
onto the dark skirts of the big woods.
A man appeared at the door of the
hotel in his shirt sleeves, and with his
gray head uncovered, whom my friend
addressed as Brother Golden,' and
invited us in. We complied readily,
for l at least, was a good deal chilled.
The prairie blast which the hypobo-
rean fends had that afternoon whetted
to an uncommon sharpness, pierced
even my extra garments, making me
sigh for some hospitable fire.
brother Golden appreciated our
wants. With true, landlordly cheer
he filled the long, high stove which
stood knee-deep in a box of sand, with
dry wood, and, as the flames roared
their welcome to the shivering travel
ers from down river he made many
inquiries, the last of which was Have
you bought me a paper?' My friend,
remembering our good-natured land
lords fondness for the latest news,
and also that Uncle Sam can hardly
afford to send a mail-coach so near
the big woods every day, had filled
his pockets with St. Paul and Minne-
apolis dailies which the old man ac-
cepted and commenced devouring with
a singular relish. AS soon as the
frost was thoroughly melted out of us
we donned our outer garments again
and started on. Leaving the village
we Immediately crossed the West
Branch (of Rum river) and then struck
into the woods, my friend remarking
that we should see no more signs of
civilization, except in the lumber
camps, until our return.'
The Princeton union., 1903-10-22

['Minnie's Thinks do not necessarily ex-
press the views of either the editor or publisher
OF the UNION. Brother editors, please bear
this in mind-PUB. UN1oN.]
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-28
Good Sl1ew Coming.

The company billed for the
Opera House, Friday and Satur-
day, May I and 2, is company
of merit. Edson's big company
of :32 people, of which the Spo-
kane papers said on the occasion
Of its recent visit there:
The Edison Company, with a
good band of musicians, were at
the Spokane theatre last night
and pleased a large and enthusi-
astic audience with the good old
play of "Uncle Toms Cabin =
The company is large one, and
the various parts were in good
hands throughout. Deserving of
mention is Miss Lulu Sutton,
Little Algo Steck, Mr.. Edison,
Mr.. w. S. Lecempt and several
others. Nugget Neli' is the
bill for Saturday night. Re-
served seats are now on sale.
Prices are SO and Is cents.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-28

upon the details OF administer
ing the Office; matter about
which the president had no con-
Germ and was not consulted.
1t might as well be said that
every man who retires from a
government appointive office is
not i'll harmony with the admin
istration. It had as we'll be said
that if the postmaster and his
deputy should not agree about
the details Of conducting the
rostofice, and in consequence
the deputy should retire that
therefore the deputy had fallen
out With the president of the
United States and was out OF
harmony with the administration.
If you we're to hold democratic
press to the strict TRUTH without
assembling. the truth would be
90 radical. 1t might make
!, them sick. Mr.. Hernlann's diff
ferences were not. with the presl-
dent nor with his administration,
but solely with Mr.. Hitchcock.
The administration never had
anything whatever to do with
their differences.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-28
ITS DIFFERENT HERE.

Two or three men of Seattle
having business interests there,
in speaking recently of THEN
town, universally remarked that,
"Seattle is the best town on the
Pacific Coast" When asked
why? They answered that Seat
tie was booming because every
man there stands together and
pulls together, not only to push
forward matters of public inter
est but also in relation to general
business. They say there is no
pickering, biting, left-hand-
ed compliments and the like to
disturb the good relations be-
tween neighbors, but every one
not only stands by and upholds
the town, but also his neighbors
in pushing forward the public
matters and encouraging each
other in doing the business OF
the locality and that tributary tc
Seattle. How much different is
it in some other places? What
contrast to towns where you find
persons spending their whole
time year after year conveying
unpleasant and false insinuations
from one to another for no Other
purpose than to create enmity
between neighbors? No doub
the Seattle plan is the ideal way
of building up a community
This plan can be put into efec
/ in any town only after public
sentiment frewns down the Sian
dereT, the mischief maker, The
interneddler, the manufacture
and the tattler of false state
1nents, to create trouble between
friendly neighbors.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-28
Is All Nonsense.

United States Senator Charles
w. Fulton has been in the city
since yesterday, says Salem cor
respondent, attending to some
legal matters in the supreme
court and incidentally enjoying
a very pleasant visit with his nu-
merous friends and admirers in
this city and county. Senator
Fulton is very anxious for repub-
1ican success in the congressional
contest which is now on, and en-
phasises the importance of send
ing from Oregon this year a man
who is in harmony with the prin-
cip1es of the national admins
tration and the dominant party
in congress. Asked about the
feeling of President Roosevelt
and the administration generally
towards Mr.. Hermann, Mr.. Full
ton said:
1T is all nonsense TO talk
about Mr.. Hermann being OBJ
iectionable to President Roose-
velt or the cabinet. The fact is
that Mr.. Hermann is very popu-
lar with the president, with con-
gress and with nearly all the
heads OF the departments. Sec
retary Hitchcock and himself had
differences of opinion relative to
administrative details, but Mr..
Hitchcock makes ne charges OF
dishonesty, incompetency or rep
rehensib1e conduct against Mr..
Hermann. His chief complaint
against Mr.. Hermann was that
he was not sufficiently severe
upon Oregon men who were
holding official positions in the
United States land department
in this state, so that really Mr..
Hermann was blamed for not
sharing with the secretary sus-
picion of dishonesty against the
people who have been Mr.. Her.
mann's neighbors and constitu-
entsr for these many years.
"The differences between the
two men will not impair Mr..
Hermann's strength or usefulness
in congress in the. least, and no
republican who wishes to please
President Roosevelt and his ad-
ministration will cast his ballot
for the democratic nominee for
congress"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-28
ARE THEY MISLEADING.

1t is enough 10 make ones heart
yearn and tear drops fall as large
as pumpkins for the great solici-
tude pretended by the democratic
newspapers, urging harmony
with republican president and
his administration, if it were not
for a fact too patent for a blind
man to overlook that their asser-
tions in that regard are simply to
mislead the public mind. 1t is
as natural for them to 1nislead in
national matters and concerning
candidates as it is in regard to
county candidates and elections.
When Peter Rickard, very good
man. ran for sheriff the first time,
the democratic press urged that
he should be elected because he
had a fine farm, plenty of stock
and was in a prosperous condi-
ton. A few years later when
James o. Wilson ran for county
clerk, just as good a man and the
best qualified man in the county
for the clerks Office, the same
press urged that Mr.. Wilson had
a fine farm we'll stocked with
cattle, sheep and other items and
hence he should not be be elect
ed. The same source now ridic-
ulously asserts that Mr.. Her
mann is not in harmony with the
president and his administration,
because Mr.. Hermann recently
retired as commissioner of the
general land Office. When in
fact President Roosevelt had
nothing to do with his retiring.
Mr.. Hermann retired because he
and Mr.. Hitchcock, the head of
the department, did not agree