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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-08-27

BEEF trust magnates are now making
an attempt to control the refrigerator
car lines, which consolidation will
place the principal refrigerator car
lines OF the country in the hands of the
beef trust. Let 'er go, ham and eggs
will cost just about the same.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-08-27

THE Wisconsin Cranberry associa-
ton was in session last week. The
president of the association stated that
the crop of the country would amount
to sos, 900 bushels, of which Wisconsin
will produce 1Ol, 900 bushels. The
turkey crop will be an average one at
least: and SO far as these two important
items go the country is safe.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-08-27

Andrew Anderson, who has been en-
ployed in D. H. Cooper's tin-shop for
about one year, will go to Milaca in a.
few days where he has secured a posi-
ton with the Milaca Hardware %
Mr.. Anderson is a steady, reliable
young man, and the firm at Milaca is to
be congratulated upon securing his
services.-IsantiN News. ...-..
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-08-27

A Sandstone man puts up his leg in
poker game in Minneapolis and loses
it. Not half as bad as losing his head.
His leg was artificial, and his head
would have been improved on if it
had been the same.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-08-27

SOME writer takes his pen in hand
and says that the dog population of
Minnesota is increasing rapidly. Is
that SO? Just read the 'fgures-never-
lie'' reports of all our assessors. They
indicate that the gopher canine is rap
idly becoming extinct.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-08-27
HE Minnesota potato is in GOOD de

The Minnesota potato is in good de.
mand on the Chicago market and com.
mands premium over all other pota.
toes. One car of Minnesota potatoes
sold on that market the first of the
week at sixty-six cents. The outlook
is good for the Minnesota spud. Keel
your eye on the highest market.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-08-27

DAVID BENNETT HILL I-Am-a-Dem-
ocrat) sees through the glass of pros
perity darkly, and fears a crash is due
in the near future. Just a case of too
much Grover Cleveland.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-08-27

MINNESOTA will come up to the har-
vest home festival with her lap full of
grains, fruits, and the products of the
field. She will have ENOUGH bread and
butter to 60 round.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-08-27

COLUMBIA turned down the Panama
canal treaty and ditched the project
temporarily. but the political scale on
the South American sea serpent will
soon disappear.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-08-27

DURING the federal fiscal year that
just closed nearly a million acres OF
government land in Minnesota were
ila6
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-08-27

WHEAT has begun to settle down to
a more normal basis. The mills stopped
grinding wheat when it reached dol
lar, and with more encouraging crop
reports the dollar mark received a So
lar plexus.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-08-27

BANANAS have enhanced in value
nearly fifty per cent since the West In
dian cyclone. Let us hope the high
price will take the fall out of the ba-
mana Dpel
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-08-27

THE American Forestry association
has been in session in Minneapolis this
week. The delegates are the kind of
people who believe in keeping on the
shady side of life.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-08-27

GENERAL MILES says that he intends
to interest himself in the good roads
movement. Let us hope the movement
in extent will be like the name of the
veteran army officer.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-08-27

f. c. Schultz of Leavenworth. Kas;,
and j. c. Urban of Kansas City, ar
rived yesterday to get in touch with
the potato market. Mr.. Schultz has
been on the Princeton potato market
the last two seasons and has bought a
good many potatoes here for southern
shipment. Mr.. Urban handles pota-
toes quite extensively and will make
arrangements to buy on the Princeton
market this fall.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-08-27

MEN and money may buck the nat
nral laws of trade, but production, price
and demand are the Jewelers. in time.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-08-27

THE State fair will open next week,
and it promises to be the best and bic.
geSt ever.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-08-27
Shavings.,

Too many lives are short circuited.-
Pop corn and soft drinks go together.
A marriage license is a sort of social
tie-up.
A book-worm does not always have
snakes.
Poultry always gets along Just by a
scratch.
It's not what might have been, it's
the coal bin pretty soon.
Duty and danger are very often
written on the same guide posts.
The mayor of Minneapolis is asked to
get after the dives in that city. This
will not affect the bath houses, however.
Pork and beans and hog and hominv
are rapidly passing as the juggernaut
of breakfast food rolls over the boule-
ward.
Newport is to entertain prominent
colored gentleman. Well, they have
worse things than that at the famous
resort.
A Chicago pastor says we need re-
igious trust. That's funny. We al
ways thought that religion was one
supreme trust.
In ST. Louis there is a man who is an
expert at trimming hats. Most men
aspire to become experts at trimming
the bills for hats.
Minneapolis milk dealers intend to
raise the price Of milk. We think we
can hear their customers cry just raise
the cream, too, please.
A bottle of catsup exploded in St.
Paul the other day seriously mi uring
girl. Here is where some enterpris-
ing deputy boiler inspector is needed.
An Iowa girl swallowed peas whole
and they began to sprout and grow in
her stomach. She was not the whole
cheese exactly, but she was the whole
peas.
Secretary True of the board of agri-
culture of Wisconsin says the outlook
for corn and oats in that state is not
very encouraging. Of course we would
never question such a secretary's state
ment.
A Sandstone man puts up his leg in
poker game in Minneapolis and loses
it. Not half as bad as losing his head. |
His leg was artificial, and his head
would have been improved on if it
had been the same.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-08-27

HE public baths at St. Paul simply
got an honorable mention as result of
the recent carnival.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-08-27

THE ambitious American kid goes
into retirement pretty soon. and will
do few stunts in study.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-08-27

Secretary True of the board of agri.
culture of Wisconsin says the outlook
for corn and oats in that state is not
very encouraging. Of course we would
never question such a secretary's state
ment.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-08-27

TERMS-S1.oo PER YEAR IN ADVANCE.
$1.25 If NOT PAID IN ADVANCE.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-08-27

An Iowa girl swallowed peas whole
and they began to sprout and grow in
her stomach. She was not the whole
cheese exactly, but she was the whole
peas.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-08-27
Barbs From the Mortified News.

AS a political writer Ralph w.
Wheelock, of the Tribune, has of late
been getting slightly the best of c.. B.
Cheney, OF the Journal, so far as mis-
representation and INSTRUMENTATION is
concerned.
1t took three columns, of the St. Paul
Dispatch of last Saturday, August Is,
to announce the candidacy of Mr.. Tom
Lowry for the United States senate to
succeed Mr.. Moses E. Clapp. The Dis
patch is sure to earn it's salary.
The editorial in the St. Paul Pioneer
Press of last Saturday discussing the
personal appearance of Mr.. Frank NJ.
Eddy was inexcusable. The metropol-
ltan press OF Minnesota could we'll take
on additional dignity without destroy
ing the general interest in the news
and editorial columns.
The announcement Of Mr.. Eddv's
candidacy for the Republican nominal
ton for governor did not receive the
enthusiastic reception it was entitled
to. It is altogether likely that the
vehicle employed is in great measure
to blame for the Indifference with
which the declaration was received.
That was great bluff by Mr.. Ed. T.
Young of Appleton when he swore out
warrant against Mr.. Geo. THOMPSON
OF the St. Paul Dispatch for criminal
libel. The Dispatch and Van SAINT
crowd know how to secure silence and
immunity whenever it is necessary
the recipe is not wholly unknown.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-08-27

A bottle of catsup exploded in ST.
Paul the other day seriously iniurine
a girl. Here is where some enterpris
ing deputy boiler Inspector is needed
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-08-27
THE PRINCETON UNION
Ely r. G. DUNN.

Published Every Thursday.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-08-27

Minneapolis milk dealers intend to
raise the price of milk. We think we
can hear their customers cry just raise
the cream, too, please.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-08-27

ANDERsoN's STORE is SUCCESSFUL BECAUSE IT SUITS
ANDERsON'S STORE IS POPULAR BECAUSE 1T PIEAsEs
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-24
BRITISH FINANCES
IN CHERRIES STATE.
National Indebtedness Reaches Almost
Four Billion Dollars.

LONDON, April 23-The budget,
Which was introduced in the house Of
commons today, showed an estimated
expenditure for 1904 of $179,770,000.
The chancellor of the exchequer, Mr..
Richie, fixed the national debt charge
at $135, 100000, of which $31, 100000 is
available for the sinking fund The
estimated revenue on the existing ba-
sis of taxation is $273,S50,000, giving
an available surplus of $4,000, 600.
Mr.. Riches proposals included sttIe
abolition of the duty on grain. The
taxes on sugar and coal are unchanged.
Four pence is taken off the income. tax
Mr.. Richie said the total expenditure
of the state for the past year from
every source was $1,005, 635 000 a., He
estimated the cost of the wars in
South Africa and China of the last
four years at $1,0S5, 900, 900, of which
$340,000,000 had been betrayed by the
revenue. The sum of $745, 900 was
charged to the canital account The
latter would be reduced to $3.50, 100000
by the Transvaal repayment and the
Chinese indemnity. Including the war
debt, the national indebtedness now
reached the enormous total of 1891,
$4,000. The chancellor. however, saw
no reason for apprehension in the fall
in cQnsols. The chancellor viewed
great concern the increase of expendi-
ture and hoped great reductions would
be possible soon.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-24
INSURANCE COMPANIES
REPORT A NET LOSS
Depreciation Of Investment Securities
Blamed for Condition of Affairs.

Elmer H. Dearth, state insurance
commissioner has completed a gain
and loss statement of the business
done in this state last year by tha
life insurance companies operating on
the legal reserve plan. This is the only
state in the Union which has thus
far required the companies to include
in their annual statement an exhibit of
gains and losses.
Mr.. Dearth's report shows that the
aggregate allowance for expenses of all
companies transacting business in this
state on the legal reserve plan was
S1O5, TAT ,0S3.60, and the expenses actu-
ally paid $104, 431, 460.13, and therefore
that SO per cent of the funds available
for expenses was used.
The total of interest returns from
investments was $S5,859, 1898, and the
investment expenses were $9.229.OS7.79
leaving net earnings from this source
of $76,630.361.59.
Profits appear as $3,606, 939.77 and
losses as $3S2,561.47, showing under
this head net profits of 1924, 1880.
BY depreciation of market values of
investment securities the companies
suffered net loss of $1,43S,492.84.
The net investment earnings. incl,id-
ing interest, profit and loss, and change
IN market values less investment eX-
penses, of all the companies combined
were $7S,416, 30715. This shows a "a /,
no of actual investment earnings IN
statutory requirements of 40 or a
gain of 20 per cent;
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-24
MITSCH REAL ESTATE
DIVIDED AMONG HEIRS
Transfers of the Property Filed in
Register of Deeds Office.

The real estate belonging to the
George Mitsch estate has been divided
among the surviving heirs. The trans
fers of the property were filed for rec
ord in the office of the register Of deeds
yesterday. The transfers were from
George j. Mitsch, the only surviving
son. to each of his three sisters.
Mrs. Elizabeth Heck is given the
block at the corner of Ninth and st.
Peter streets. the consideration being
$4,000. To Mrs. Anna Prendergast is
given the property located on Seventh
street, between Washington and Sixth,
on which the Mitsch wagon works are
situated. The consideration was $22,-
600. The block at the corner of Sew
enth and st. Peter streets is transferred
to Mrs. Frank A. Marion, the consid-
Grafton named being s40,800.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-24
Five Deaths From the Dis
ease Have Occurred in st.
Paul During March and
April = Health Commits
sioner Cautions ALI Citi-
zens to Be Extremely Care
full.

Smallpox in the last three months
has become so malignant that every
precaution to prevent its spread to the
Capital City is being taken by the To-
cal health department.
-Four persons have died in st. Paul
already of the disease" said DR.. Ohage
yesterday and 1 would not be sur
prised to see the number increased be-
fore real warm weather comes. l have
not been alone in the prediction that
at no distant date the United States
will see a repetition of past smallpox
epidemics with equally as fatal results.
People have come to look upon the dis
ease as a harmless rash, but If they
saw a few of the cases that are now at
the pest house they would certainly be
frightened. First there is contempt,
then a panic and that is what boards
of health all over the country fear. If
people would take my advice they
would be vaccinated, and see that their
children are likewise made immune"
There are nearly a dozen victims of
the dread disease at the pest house
and some of them are in an exceeding
ly critical condition. Whenever a case
is located every possible precaution is
taken to prevent a spread. Fumiga-
ton is resorted to, every person with
whom the victim has come in contact
is vaccinated and the neighborhood
warned to do likewise.
THE whole trouble" added DR..
Ohage, "is that the disease does not
originate here, but is brought in from
other localities where the officials are
lax. There is no danger of an epidemic
in st. Paul if people are careful"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-24
HAS RANKIN MET
WITH FOUL PLAY?
Cashier of Wisconsin Central
Freight Depot Missing
Accounts Straight.

James Rankin, cashier at the Wis
consin Central freight depot, is miss
ing and has not been seen or heard
from since Monday evening, when he
left his boarding place, $40 Canada
street. Rankin is twenty-four years
of age and has been employed by the
Wisconsin Central at the local freight
house for about one year.
Officials Of the company and friends
of the young man are at loss to ac-
count for his mysterious disappear
ance, for he gave no intimation that
he was about to leave and left no clue
which would indicate whether he went
away of his own accord or was waylaid
or carried off. He took none OF his be-
longings with him.
Companions of the young man who.
room with him are of the opinion that
he met with foul play when returning
to his work Monday evening after
supper.
He had but a small sum of money
about him as far as is known, and ex-
animation of his books has revealed
that all his accounts are straight and
up to date. No motive has been as
signed for any rash action on his part.
The young mans father, T. Rankin,
came to the city Wednesday when no.
titled that his son had disappeared,
and is now engaged in a search for
him. Rankin's home is in Milwaukee,
where he was employed by the Wis
consin Central before being trans
fered to st. Paul a year ago. He has
a brother in the employ of the Wis
consin Central at Abbotsford, Wis.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-24
CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY
OF THE BIRTH OF EMERSON
Call for the Recognition of the Day in
Pulpits Of America.

CHICAGO. April pa call for the
recognition, in the pulpits of America
of the Tooth anniversary of the birth
day of Ralph Waldo Emerson, born
May %, 1903, was issued today by Rev.
Jenkin Lloyd Jones, general secretary
of the Congress of Religion. The call
says:
"The influence of Emerson has long
since become heritage of all reading
and thinking people. First and al
ways, as Matthew Arnold called him,
the friend and alder of those who
would live in the spirit, we cannot
fail to realize with gratitude the great
and beneficent influence upon our
present moral and religious concep-
lions of Emerson's thought Ministers
of all denominations are invited to
observe Sunday, May "a, 1903, or any
near date that may be convenient, as
the Emerson centenary, either by
preaching sermons rejecting the
thought, appropriate to the occasion.
of our common Indebtedness to Emer-
son, or such other manner as may APP
peal to their judgment and taste'
The call is signed by prominent min
listers in all parts of the country
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-24
.BESTOWS GIFT OF
RARE OLD BOOKS
DR.. Brewer Matt0cks Donates
Them to State Historical
Library.

Among recent acquisitions to the
state historical library none has been
more highly priced than a gift of very
rare old books received yesterday from
DR.. Brewer MattockS. This COLLECTION
consists of twenty-four volumes which
were the property of the father of the
donor, who was also DR.. Brewer Mat
tocks, we'll remembered by some of
the older residents of the city. Among
them the most recent publication ante
dates 100, and most of them are OF al
most incalculable value, not alone for
their antiquity, but because of their
authorship and subject matter and
their rarity
Possibly the prize Of the entire col
lection is a black-letter edition of the
"Historye of Italye," proclaimed on its
Illuminated title page "a booke eX-
ceedinge profitable to be red" and to
have been printed in London, in the
F1ete near st. Dunstan's church by
Thomas Marshe." 1t was printed in
1549, only seventy-eight years later
than the first printed book by CaX-
ton.
Another extremely valuable volume
of this number was written by Mar
tin Luther in 1885, the next year after
he had finished his translation of the
Bible and eleven years before his death.
This one has been rebound.
"A second work OF ltdllan history
was written by Erasmus in 1914. 1t is
still in its original binding, with wood
Ell covers bound over all with pig
skin.
There are several books printed in
Latin and five books of law, all very
ancient as to authorship and date of
publication.
With the books came an army chest
used by the late DR.. Mattocks while
he was assistant surgeon of of the
Seventh Minnesota infantry, and
among the contents of this chest are
health record of that regiment kept by
DR.. A. A. Ames as chief surgeon and
several diaries kept by DR.. Mattocks
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-24
CASH IN THE GRAB BAG
DIDN'T QUITE HOLD OUT
Appropriations for Expenses of Leeis-
Iature Short $2,613.56.

With appropriations amounting to
$4,000, the late legislature has left
expense bills amounting in all TO
$2,613.56, for the payment of which
there is no provision. Of that amount
$2,043.16 is in warrants issued by the
house of representatives and $570.40 in
senate warrants.
These warrants, many of which are
for small amounts, are held by twenty
seven different PERSONS among them
being DR.. Babcock, who still has $50
due him, Lieut.. Gov. Jones, who has
a claim for $40, and Secretary Langum
and Chief Clerk julius Schmahl,~ who
hold warrants for $3.50 and $24O re-
spectively. go 7t
The payment Of these obligations in
the regular manner cannot be pro-
Vided for until the next legislative
session, and the holders of the war
rants can realize upon them only by
discounting them.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-24
Lost Three Fingers on a Saw

2. S. Dupois, SIS Mississippi street.
mad the fingers of his right hand bad
~ lacerated yesterday while operating
a saving machine in J.. J. McNeiTs
wood yard, on Mississippi street near
Thirteenth. Dupois was placing a log
before the circular saw when the wood
slipped and his hand came in contact
with the blade. All of his fingers were
cut and lacerated. Dupois was treated
by DR.. Cook and was later taken to
the city hospital, where an operation
was performed. the first three fingers
being amputated.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-24
alutes OF the Italian shfps and land hat=

salutes of the Italian ships and land bat
teries. The German crown princes, Fred
erick William. and his brother. Prince
Eitel, and Crown Prince Louis, of Portu-
gal, also visited King Edward. The town
is daily decorated with flags, but rainy
weather marred the festivities. King
Edward subsequently visited the queen
of Portugal ON board of the yacht Amelia
the German princes on board the Sap
phire and the Duke of the Abrtzzi aboard
the Italian cruiser Liguria- Later the
king landed and visited the museum. He
has accepted the invitation of the city
authorities to attend a gala performance
at the San Carlo theater on Saturday
morning. .~~e
ROME, April 23.-King Victor Emman-
uel sent a personal telegram to King Ed
ward, greeting him on his arrival, which
King Edward answered. saying he felt
as though he was among old friends.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-24
NUMBER OF SMALLPOX
CASES DECREASES

Secretary Bracken, of the state de-
partment Of health, has issued a report
of the smallpox conditions in this state
for the week just closed which shows a
total of 107 cases as compared with 1852
for the preceding week and 1913 for
the week preceding that. The total
number of deaths was three, one of
them being in ST Paul, one in Mime
apolis and one in Moorhead.
For the week reviewed in the cur
rent report there We're 10 cases re-
ported from Minneapolis and 5 from
this city. The other cases We're scat
tered over the state in small numbers.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-24
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