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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-10-20
The johnson Supporters.

Do you remember reading in the
Minneapolis papers a couple of weeks
ago about the big John A. Johnson
meeting at the old Exposition? OF
course you do. Do you remember
reading the list of names of the prom
inent men seated on the platform with
Mr.. Johnson? Possibly not, so we'll
just remind you of the fact that on
that platform sat the biggest array of
railroad attorneys that have gathered
under similar conditions for years.
This may be cold and cruel fact but
in our opinion it doesn't just harmo-
nize with Mr.. Johnson's "anti-rail-
road' position. And besides, the St.
Paul Globe, owned by j. Hill, and
whose employees are paid from the
Great Northern Offices, is most en-
Enthusiastically supporting Johnson and
numerically abusing Dunn. These
are merely ''straws" which show
which way the wind blows, and the
railroad zephyrs are gently tanning
the Democratic candidates feverish
brOw.-Glenwood Gopher.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-10-20

year from the time of the completion
of the surveys of the unsurveyed
towns. a... ..s ~.
MIR. Lind is simply talking for
effect, and he knows full we'll that the
State has suffered no loss and can
suffer no loss under the amended de-
cree. If he had insisted or urged that
an appeal be taken, as Mr.. Warner of
counsel for the State suggested, an
appeal to higher court would have
been taken. I want to say right here
and now that was never in favor of
accepting Judge Lochren's decision
as final.
There was no negligence on my
part or on the part of any one in the
auditors Office, and Mr.. Lind, as
lawyer, knows that I stated the truth.
But believe, in fact know, that Mr..
Lind was as ignorant of the fact that
a supplemental decree had been made
10y the court as I was. If I were in
St. Paul and had access to the records
| could make a more detailed state
ment
"The charge that I was reckless is
absurd. I contested several railroad
grants and saved the State S4OO, 900
at least in the Little Falls and Dakota
grant, and if my predecessors had
been as reckless as I was the State of
Minnesota would have been several
million dollars richer than it is to-
day: and some of the railroad COM.
panies several million dollars poor
err
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-10-20

John Lind read the statement in the
pamphlet and then proceeded to gar
BILE Mr.. Dunn's statement of the case,
and make it appear that the ex-State
auditor thought gross .carelessness
permitted these State lands to be in
cluded in railroad land grant.
The St. Paul Globe and the Mime
apolis Times and Journal printed Mr..
Limbs speech and are getting all the
thunder they can out Of it, but such
tactics will avail them little.
Mr.. Dunn is at present in southern
Minnesota where he is filling political
appointments, and he has not been
able to reply to Limbs misstatements
in full. In his speech at Rochester on
Monday night he made this statement,
which practically covers the whole
matter: .
''Shortly after I entered the audi
tors office I refused to certify any
more lands to the Duluth & Iron
Range road, holding that the company
had not earned its grant by failure to
complete the road within the time
specified by the granting act. Attor-
ney General Childs did not agree with
me.
FINALLY the road was transferred
to trustee in Chicago and he brought
suit in the federal court. Judge
Lochren rendered decision to the
effect that the road was entitled to it's
grant. At the time this decision was
rendered John Lind was governor.
He, with Gen. Douglas, Former At
torney General Childs and W. r..
Warner of st. Paul and myself held a
consultation, and Mr.. Lind and the
other lawyers agreed that it was USE
less to appeal from the decision of
Judge Lochren. In the auditors
Office we had obtained a COPY of the
decree, and it is needless to say [ did
not take kindly to the decision not to
appeal the case, for I was then and
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-10-20

am now of the belief that our own SUI
prernne court and Judge Lochren erred.
+" a year afterward discovered that
supplemental decree had been is
sued; that is, another decree had been
entered by the court, beside the one we
had received copy of, and in which
the court decreed large amount of
land that I had refused to certify to
the company as being vested in the
company. I. cannot give the exact
acreage, and included in that decree
was 43, 600 acres of State institutions
land. When 1 made this discovery I
wassastounded. No list of the lands
had ever been prepared in the audi
tors Office, and Mr.. Lind knows full
we'll that no such list was ever so pre-
pared. and no one connected with the
auditors Office knew aught about the
supplemental decree.
Il Immediately set to work to re-
cover the $4,000 acres for the State,
andsl say now had it not been for my
efforts the State would never have
recovered one acre of the $4,000, and
he who asserts to the contrary states
what is'not true. I never made any
apology of any sort to the Duluth &
Iron Range road or to any of it's Off
GERS for any act OF mine, and I never
will.
1.-THE grant was not filed during my
administration because the United
States survey of several townships
had not been completed.
1.-THE State gained several conces-
sionsN by the compromise. Under the
decree from which Gov. Lind refused
to appeal the Duluth & Iron Range
had indefinite time in which to COM
plete its grant, but | insisted that the
road should be required to make it's
selection and fill the grant within one
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-10-20

tanning the 43, 600 acres Of State swamp
lands decreed to the railroad company
by Judge Lochren of the United States
circuit court was not prepared in the
State auditors Office, and that Mr..
Dunn did not know that the lands
were so granted until several months
after the decree had been finally en-
tered. Mr.. Iverson also denied the
statement of John Lind that copy of
the decree with the list Of lands at
tached had been submitted to Mr..
Dunn month before the decree was
entered.
Mr.. Dunn had no idea that Judge
Lochren was going to include in his
decree the $4,000 acres of swamp
lands, said Mr.. Iverson. ''The facts
are just as stated in Mr.. Dunn's re-
port to the Legislature in 1900 and
1902. When Mr.. Dunn found that the
court had granted these lands to the
company, he immeditely took steps to
have the decree set aside and was
successful. There was never any
question in my mind that this portion
of Judge Lochren S decree was abso-
lutely void. No court can take lands
the title to which vests in a State and
give them to a railroad.
IF Gov. Lind made the statement
as reported that copy Of the decree
with list Of the lands attached had
been submitted to him a month before
the decree was finally entered, he is
mistaken. No such copy was present
ed to Mr.. Dunn, for if it had been he
would cerainly have discovered that
the $4,000 acres of State institutions
land were included in the grant. Mr..
Dunn was surprised when he found
out the facts and he lost no time in
rectifying the mistake. -
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-10-20
What Travelling Man Saws.

All travelling men are not against
Dunn. Occasionally there is one who
is loyal to him. II. A. Hamlin,
commercial traveller in the employ of
the Wright-C larkson Mercantile COM
pany of Duluth says:
Dunn is easily the favorite in
Chisago county. The disaffection in
that locality is too slight to be con-
s1dered seriously, and what little
there is is disappearing. I made
many points in this county and the
same conditions prevailed in every
portion. Dunn is receiving substan-
TALLY the united support of Republi-
cans.
mot only will he receive the Re-
publican vote but he will also receive
many Democratic ballots. For exam
pie, J. j. Flynn of Rush City,
liveryman and we'll known citizen,
who has voted the Democratic ticket
for many years, informed me that he
could not stand the unjust attacks on
Dunn, and that he was going to sup
port the Princeton man for governors.
He said, furthermore, that while he is
about it he is going to vote for Roose-
welt for president.
1T is true that some of the support
ers of Judge Collins were much disap-
pointed because their man did not
receive the nomination, but they are
falling in line for Dunn, realizing that
it is not good politics to desert the
party even temporarily, to vote
against a good candidate even if he
was not their original choice.
1.-The report that the Swedish
American voters are going to bolt
Dunn for johnson does these people
an injustice. I am told upon good
authority that in the territory that I
have just traversed that the Swedish
American Republicans as a rule,
design voting the straight Republican
ticket.
''Pine City is certainly Dunn com
munlty and found upon driving over
Pine county that the people generally
are for the Princeton man. [ spent
two days in Isanti county and that
division of the. State is certainly safe
for Dunn.
1T is safe to say that Chisago, Pine
and Isanti counties will roll up hand
some majorities for Dunn.
1.-The travelling men, when they hap
pen to meet in numbers on the trains
or in the hotel Hobbies, are wont to
take straw votes on their favorites for
governor. I am free to say that of all
canvasses I have seen taken Dunn
was invariably the favorite from two
to one, to five to one.
Il happened to be in Hinckley last
night when United States Senator
Clapp made political address to the
voters there. 1t was great meeting.
The senator made a rousing speech
and the mention of the names of
Roosevelt and Dunn invariably pro-
voked cheers and general enthusi-
asm.''
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-10-20
Welded at Onamia.

w. H. Scribner and Miss Emily Or
ton were married at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. j. W. Mcclure at Onamia on
Wednesday evening, October 18th, in
the presence of few immediate rela-
tives and friends. Rev. Olin of
Milaca performed the ceremony. At
ter the wedding supper was served.
The bride and groom were the recip-
tents of many wedding gifts. Their
many friends wish them all Joy and
happiness.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-10-20
Will Vindicate Dunn.

Il believe that the attacks being made upon
R. c.. Dunn's honor, his official record and his
personal character, by his enemies in official po-
sition, aided by the press are the most bitter and
unjust ever known in political fight in Minnesota.
Bob Dunn we'll can rest his case upon his
record made during the eight years he held the
office Of state auditor. Of uainnesota. During
that time there were introduced by him many in
novations that have proven Of great benefit to the
State in the saving Of money and in the increas-
ing Of her resources. His reform measures on
the private sale Of timber lands in themselves
should commend him to the people as safe and
proper man to hold the governorshp Of this State.
Mark you what I saythe people Of Minnesota
will vindcate R. c. Dunn at the polls On Nov 8
and will rest on his shoulders that honor to which
he is clearly entitled--the sovernorship Of this
great State.U. S. Senator Clapp at St. Cloud.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-10-20
Ma .iorities for Dunn

William Kohne of Lake Benton who
has been in Princeton the past week
looking after some land he has in this
section says that the. political situa-
ton in the counties of Pipestone and
Lincoln is very favorable for Dunn
despite the persistent rumors of the
knockers. Mr.. Kohne says that these
two counties will give Dunn good ma
jorities
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-10-20
The Product of One Tuber.


Paulus Paulson has harvested his
potato crop and is much pleased over
the way it has turned out.
Last spring seed potatoes were
scarce and one day while in this city
Carl P. Fjerstad handed him tuber
weighing one and three quarters
pounds. He took it home and dis
sected it, finding twenty eyes on the
one potato. He made nineteen hills
using one eye to each hill and
two in one of them and from this
seed has raised 12l pounds of good
tubers.
From sack of potatoes which he
planted he has put into his cellar six
ty-one bushel baskets full, besides
what the family has used since July.
Thos. Skogen was in Saturday and
states that he found five potatoes
which, when placed end to end, meas
ured nearly four feet in length
Dodge County Republican.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-10-20
Wesley Piano Contest.

The first report on the contest that
has been running the past few weeks
for Wesley piano has been made by
Village Recorder Borden who has
counted the ballots that have been de-
posted and the returns show that the
M. r. church is way in the lead for
the prize with 3l7 votes, the second
highest being the Swedish Lutheran
church, with 131, and it is followed
by the Catholic church with 81 votes.
The renOrt is as follows.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-10-20
LIND's CHARGE FALSE.
State Auditor IversOn Tells the Facts
About State Lands.

State Auditor S. G. Iverson, who
was deputy State auditor when John
Lind was governor and is thoroughly
acquainted with the litigation concern
ing the Duluth & Iron Range railroad
grant, said Tuesday that the list con-
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-10-20

to do, and how he inaugurated and
championed the four per cent gross
earnings tax of railroads, to say
nothing of his record while a member
of the State legislature. I have not
forgotten these things and have al
ways admired the fearless character
istics in Mr.. Dunn as a public Off
cer.n
Mr.. Nelson was asked how politics
was in Anoka, and he stated that
everybody was for Dunn, that is with
the exception of few soreheads and
political irresponsibles, who can
hardly control their own votes, much
less those of other people. The
same is true in Chisago county,"
stated Mr.. Nelson, where I know
hundreds of people, and although
Chisago county is composed of nearly
ninety per cent Scandinavians you
will find that Dunn will get practically
every vote in the county. We all love
Dunn for the enemies he has made,
and the more defamatory reports that
are sent out about him the larger will
be Dunn S majority on the eighth day
of November. -
Fair and supper.
The Ladies' Aid society of the
Union church of Zimmerman have
about completed preparations for
their annual fair, which is to be held
in the Union church, Friday evening,
Oct. 2lst. A large number of USE
full articles including three beautiful
quilts will be sold at auction. The
services of Schuyler Hoyt have been
secured as auctioneer. A short pro-
gram will be given including two
vocal solos by Miss Swanson and
Mrs. Healey and a lady pianist from
Minneapolis will also assist. A good
warm supper will also be served un-
der the supervision of Mrs. L. D. Car
ter, which is proof enough of it's sue
cess. Miss Maud Bowles has charge
of the table committee, and with nine
of her young friends to assist her it is
needless to say supper will be served
in first class style. The small fee OF
ten cents is to be asked for supper
which will also include coffee. A cor
dial invitation is extended to every
one to come and pass pleasant even
ing whether they become purchaser
or not.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-10-20

There will be meeting of the West
Branch Creamery Co. at school house
in district No. I at Estes Brook next
Saturday night to make arrangements
for starting up the skimming stations
for the creamery.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-10-20
Can Say it Was Endorsed,

The smallest country weekly news
paper supporting Dunn can say it was
endorsed after November 8th.-Gran-
tie Falls Tribune.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-10-20
Good Luck to the Journal.

Good luck to the Journal! It fought
Dunn for the nomination and he won
out. 1t fought Clough and he won
out. It has fought lot of Republi-
cans and they have won. It is now
fighting Dunn for election. Good
luck to the Journal Minneapolis
Telegram.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-10-20

The corner stone of the large new
German Catholic church at Belle
PLANE was laid in the presence of many
hundred persons and visiting Catho-
lie scieties this week.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-08-26

The Republican party is the
party that does things. In or out
of Office, it has consistent policies,
and when in Office acts as a unit
in fulfllment of its campaign
pledges. The Democracy very
seldom is able to get together suf-
fciently to obtain Office, and
when in power cannot control
its own membership sufficiently
to secures a fu1fllment of the prom
ises on which it obtained Office.
1t is the party of the permanent
opposition, composed of oppor-
tunists, who trim their sails to
every breeze. The Republican
party is the party of the nation.
The Democracy is controlled now
by one section and again by
another. It has been on every
side OF the question. Its ssprin-
ciples' are borrowed from every
other party. Some of them are
so old as to have been outgrown
by other parties. Others are so
new as not yet to have passed the
stage of theory.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-08-26
HOflein=Aikin.

Miss Elva Akin, formerly the
c. & E. agent at Philomath, was
married Wednesdao morning in
Salem to w. c. Hofein, who is
conductor on the G. & E. pass
enger train between Albany and
Yaquina. Rev. P. S. Knight
performed the ceremony. The
groom had only a 24-hour layof
for the wedding and a few hours
after the ceremony, he donned
his uniform and took the train
yesterday, few of the passengers
knowing a bridal party was
aboard and that the smiling con-
ductor was the groom. The
newly welded couple will re-
side at Yaquina. They have the
best wishes of a large and admir-
ing circle of friends.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-08-26
New Field For q. A. G..

At the recent conference held
at Newport in which educators
in Indian schools of the Pacific
coast discussed the problem oi
developing the young men and
women under their care, the tenor
of nearly the whole program wa.
directed toward the idea of spe.
cial agricultural education.
Prof. ]. B. Horner ably repre-
sented the 0. A. G. and spoke
on the need of keeping the young
Indian in touch with the agri-
cultural schools. He urged that
those fitted be entered at the
college after leaving the Govern
ment school. He pointed out
the work being accomplished at
the state college, and how it was
fitted to instruct the young In
dians about to go upon their
farms and make their living.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-08-26
Young Lady Drowned.

A wave of sorrow swept over
Albany Wednesday afternoon
when it was learned that Miss
Ora Simpson, one of the most
popular young society ladies in
Albany, had lost her life in the
cold waters of the Calapooia river
while in that stream bathing with
a number of other ladies. The
party had for the past ten days
camped at the Cline farm, two
miles above the city where,
under the chaperonage of Mrs.
Henrietta Brown, the young
ladies enjoyed outdoor life.
Every day they spent an hour or
two in the river, bathing, and
the sport was enjoyed to the full.
Wednesday afternoon the party
had been joined by a number of
visitors and the young women to
the number of IL, took their
daily bath in the river.
It seems that Miss Simpson
and another young lady had
gone down the river and had
floated over deep hole, when
Miss Simpson realizing that she
was beyond her depth, told some
of her companions SO, when she
suddenly released her hold On the
board, swayed a moment. and be-
fore help could reach her, fell
into the water, sinking imme-
diately. Mr.. Stewart came on
the scene about ten minutes after
the girl sank. He Immediately
threw off his coat and dived into
the water, which at this point
was IS feet deep. For fully IS
minutes he worked, but the mud
dy bottom of the river at this
point made it impossible to see
anything under the water and he,
despairing of finding the remains,
securing a graphing hook and
grappled for the body, finally
locating and bringing it to the
surface.
The examination showed that
no water had entered the lungs
of the unfortunate young lady.
This, coupled with the fact that
the young lady did not come ur
after sinking the first time, and
that no air bubbles could be seen
where she went down, gave rise
to the belief that she suffered ar
attack of heart failure, a disease
she was subject to for some time
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-08-26
Charge Against Apostle Crefield.
All information was flee

AL information was filed
against Apostle Edwin Creheld
yesterday bv District Attorney
Manning. charging him with
adultery. He was brought into
the courtroom shortly before 10
o'clock, and when he took his
seat he smiled benignantly upon
the court. The apostle of the
HOLY Rollers took his seat in the
jury row with just as much COM
placency as a boy would at a soda
water stand, and he entered a
plea of not guilty to the charge
in a manner that while not child
ish might not be considered as
the action of man who is in the
full possession of his faculties.
He appeared to have been great
ly improved by his incarceration
in the county Jail, but he was
pale and nervous and his hands
shook when Assistant District
Attorney Moses read the inform
alton against him.
''Not guilty." said Crefeld,
when the reading was completed.
.!'Have you an attorney to
represent you?" asked Judge
George.
"No; 1 do not want one,
thank you, sir.'
care you ready to plead?"
81 plead not guilty"
''When your case comes to tri-
al, have you the means to en-
ploy an attorney"
mo; I have no means"
"Then when your case is set
for trial the court will appoint an
attorney to defend you."
I do not desire one," and Gre
field in the full exercise of his
religious power, threw a hypno-
tizing smile at the court, but
Judge George declined to receive
the hypnotic influence, and or.
dered Crefeld returned to his cell
until a date is selected tor his
trial.
Crefeld will not state what his
line of defense will be, but it is
believed from what he has said
to fellow prisoners in the county
Jail that when he is tried he will
make an effort to prove that his
style of religion is benefit te
and not a crime against any
community.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-08-26
Good Words for O. A. G..

The Roseburg Plaindealer o.
Aug. 22 has a good word to say
for our college. 1t mentions the
fact that Professor Horner was in
that city and held examination
at Hotel McClallen Friday fol
the convenience of prospective
students in the Oregon Agricul-
tural College. Several young
people with their parents we're in
town to meet Professor Horner,
and it is learned that the atten-
dence from this locality promises
to be mnch larger this year than
heretofore.
After mentioning the names
of the former students from their
vicinity who have distinguished
themselves here, it says:
'It is learned that the grade and
quality of students from Douglas
are second to none, and that earn
est efforts are being put forth to
increase the quantity. The fact
that the Oregon Agricultural
College, which a few years ago
was excelled, in the number OF
attendents, by half a dozen Ore
gon colleges, has grown till it
has,,nearly twice as many students
as any other college in the state
is conclusive evidence that the
school is doing superior work; and
that the people desire broad
scientific education for their chill
dren: Such a training will in
crease usefulness and opportunity
of young people from one hun.
dred to ten thousand per cent,
The boys and girls who have
been in attendance are enthusi
astic for the O. A. c., hence it i:
probable that the attendance from
Douglas will be largely increased
this year.