The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-03-10
His WIDE IN HALIFAX
A Glendorado Farmer Brings Bride
From Sweden.and She is De-
tanned at Halifax.
Held Until Husband Came Home and
Took Out Second Papers to
be Sent to Halifax.

Oudiley PETERSON VINO lives on Sec
ton Is in the town of Glendorado and
who went to his old home in Malmo,
Sweden, last December, arrived home
last Monday night. While he had a
fine time during his visit and secured
bride in the old country to bring
back with him he looked troubled and
worried, and he had every justification
for his appearance, as the authorities
at Halifax where he landed held up
his wife and would not allow her to
accompany him to his home. Mr..
Peterson never took out his second
papers before he left for the old coun-
try and the only document that he had
with him to show his relationship to
Uncle Sam was his first papers which
he took out in Michigan just before
he came to Minnesota. For this rea-
son the authorities classed him Just
like any other foreigner and put him
to whole lot of trouble. Mr.. Peter
son stated that when he landed at Hal
flax a doctor insisted that his wife
had something the matter with her
eyes, though he said that before leav-
ing Sweden she had passed a medical
examination all right, but whatever
the trouble was with his wife's eyes
it cost him just SIS to have her placed
in the hospital for treatment and the
officers would not allow her to proceed
on her journey with her husband, and
for that matter were not going to let
Mr.. Peterson proceed either. It
looked for a time as if Peterson and
his wife would be turned back like a
lot Of scrub immigrants and refused a
landing on American soil, notwith-
standing that he was a prosperous
farmer in the State of Minnesota. He
showed fight when the officers wanted
to interfere with his journey and fin
ally they permitted him to proceed,
stating that when he arrived home he
would have to get out his second pa
pers and send them on before he could
get bis wife released from bondage.
When Mr.. Peterson arrived at Mime
apolis he went to a judge and stated
his predicament and the court in
formed him that he could take out his
second papers before any Judge pro-
vided that he had two witnesses who
had known him for five years. This
made it necessary for him to come
home and go out to Glendorado and
secure two witnesses and with them
he went to Minneapolis yesterday and
took out his second papers which he
forwarded to the U. S. commissioners
of immigration at Halifax who will
upon receipt of the papers have Peter
sons wife released and sent on her
way rejoicing.
Mr.. Peterson thinks that he was
mixed up in game of hold-up of some
kind by the Halifax officials and said
that if he had had his second papers
he would have been shown every cour-
tesy and not been interfered with with.
He showed a receipt from a physician
who charged him SIS for professional
services, the receipt stating that the
amount was for hospital service.
AS soon as he gets his second pa
pers and becomes a full-fedged citi-
zen of the United States his wife will
no longer be classed as an alien as
her marriage to Peterson will make
her also one of Uncle Sans children.