The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-06-29

n6TE own life, DIlG Ia1loQ. For nerve
the murder and attempted suicide
stand unparalleled in the country and
the tender age of the child criminal
makes it more remarkable. Only
girlish jealousy, aroused because the
youth had accompanied another girl
to a dance, can explain the act.
The State board of control has let
the contract for the plumbing in the
new normal dormitory at st. Cloud,
to O. F. Doyle of st. Cloud. The
contract for the building was let sew
eral days ago, and the whole struc-
ture is to be completed by Nov. l.
The sum available for the structure is
$4,000.
The Red Lake Courier says: "The
Neils saw mill at Cass Lake claims
the biggest log of the season. It was
a white pine, sixteen feet long and
produced l, 140 feet of one and a half
inch clear lumber. The log came from
the Leech Lake reservation and is
said to be the largest yet found in
that part of the country'
It has been discovered that tax titles
to ten lots in the site of the new Min
nesota capitol are held by several st.
Paul persons. They were acquired at
the last delinquent tax sale. One of
the purchasers, on discovering the
prize he had picked up, was so elated
that he gave immediate notice that the
State would have to pay handsomely
for release.
The State free employment bureau,
provided for by the last Minnesota
legislature, has been opened in the
Minneapolis court house and city hall.
The bureau is in charge of a compe-
tent superintendent and the intention
is to furnish all classes of labor to
employers on application. It includes
woman's department under a COM
petent manager.
AS result of quarrel over a if
teen-year-old girl after the Forepaugh
q Sells Brothers circus in Moo1head
on the 10Th, Max E. Miller is in a hos
pital suffering with a fractured skull
and Frank Jones lies in the county
jail. where he is held to answer to the
charge of assault with a dangerous
weapon. This charge may be changed
to murder if Miller dies.
Practical application of the new law
authorizing the State railroad COM
mission to appear before the inter-
state commerce commission for Min
nesota complaints will be made soon.
The State commission will present
the complaint of shippers along the
Great Western, north as far as Red
Wing and south as far as La Crosse.
that they are not given the same grain
rates to Chicago as Red Wing ship
pers.
Fully 700 persons attended the dairy
mems picnic at New Sweden June 20.
1t was the tenth anniversary of the
New Sweden creamery, and Secretary
Anderson read a report showing that
the company has earned $3.50, 900 since
its organization. It has won more
prizes than any other creamery in the
world, and premiums received on it's
butter had more than paid the sala-
ries of buttermakers and the first cost
of the plant.
Congressman G. B. Buchanan has
won his timber trespass case in the
supreme court. A decision returned
June % decides that the State brought
claim for $4,000 damages treble the
value of the timber, more than three
years after the trespass. Treble dam
ages is in the nature of a penalty
which is barred by limit of time. Ac-
cording to the decision, there is moth
ing to prevent the State bringing suit
for actual damages.
Successful bidders for the construc-
ton of the new Mesabe road for the
Duluth, Mesabe & Northern are build
ing camps and distributing supplies.
Contracts have been given for the
labor supply and grading will be un-
der way soon. It is not likely this
work will call for large force of men
until late in the year. Much of the
line is through swamps and will not
require the labor that rougher
country would demand.
The State dairy and food commits
sion intends to make it warm hereaf-
ter for box car merchants in Mime
sofa. AS soon as box car merchant
is heard of, the Commercial club of
the nearest town will be expected to
notify the State food commission. A
State inspector will at once be sent to
the scene and the box car merchant
made to prove that his goods are all
up to the legal standard. This is
something which no box car merchant