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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-01-12
FIRST SALE OF THE NEW YEAR.
The January Mark Horse Auction Goo
Opening Sale for the New Year.


The January Mark Horse Auction Good
Opening Sale for the New Year.
The auction sale of the Mark Horse
Co., last Saturday which was the first
sale of the new year, was very we'll at.
tended and there were as usual several
buyers from outside points at the sale.
A good many horses were offered and
the auctioneer, Frank Smith of North
Branch, knocked down string o.
offerings in the sale ring.
The private sales were good and
there were two carload buyers, Cur.
rier & Kellar of Robbinsdale and Ton
johnson of Glencoe. Messrs. Cur.
rier & Kellar shipped out their horses
to Robbinsdale while Tom johnson
loaded out for Hinckley where he will
dispose of his stock.
Barney Gleason of Wayzata was
one of the outside buyers and he
purchased eight head.
Gus Parent of Parents Station, was
at the sale and he bought OF. the E.
Mark Live Stock Co. forty head Of
thoroughbred and grade Galloways
which he sent over to his farm.
Mr.. Mark closed out all Of his live
stock holdings at the sale and started
the year, with new deal, the Marx
Horse Co. being organized dea]
in horses, and big: horse market
and horse trade will be built up in
Princeton as the result in another
year. .-
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-01-12
THE FREIGHT REBATE EVIL.

III hEAU IL REBATE EVIL.
New York Jurist Calls it Greatest Crime
of Our Day and Generation.
Justice William j. Gaynor of the
New York supreme court, in an inter.
view on freight rebate question says:
1T is the greatest crime of our day
and generation,. It has done more
wrong than all other crimes defined
by the statutes and pursued with zeal
by prosecuting officers It has crushed
and beggared thousands all over the
country for the benefit of few of the
railroads business rivals.
sit seems almost useless to try ia
enlighten those who do not or will not
understand that our railways are our
public highways. ~ :.
THE maxim that man may do as
he likes with his own was never true,
and has long since been exploded. In
law it, never gained recognition, nor
was it ever entitled to recognition
in morals. But it has no application
to our railroads.
"They are just as much public
highways as are our dirt roads, and
in the very same way open to the use
OF all on the same terms. Railroad
corporations are allowed to make
profit for their stockholders, but that
is only incidental. They perform
public service, and their first and
paramount duty is to the government
and the public. Their duty to their
stockholders is secondary and subor-
dinate.
Can you conceive of grosser
crime than the public highways of the
country, which are open by law to the
free and equal use of all, being new
ertheless used by few individuals to
destroy their competitors in business.
Discrimination in railroad freight
rates is the mother of trusts.
Some advocate the taking of the
railroads by the governments. If the
possibility of this experience we have
had with freight rates had been for
seen the government never would have
given these highways to corporations.
But the resumption Of them now
would be a vast enterprise.
SsAll that we need, it seems to me, is
that the government appoint the gen
eral freight agent of every railroad.
That would end all discrimination in
freight rates.
Local freight agents, though APP
pointed and paid by the companies,
would be accountable to the general
freight agent appointed by the governs
ment and dismissed for the slightest
discrimination in favor of any one ia
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-01-12
SEED WHEAT AND RUST,

h"sted Wheat May be Used Seed With
No Danger to Growing Crops.
Northwestern farmers are needlessly
alarmed about prospective lack of
good seed wheat. In using seed from
rusted wheat plants they run no dan
ger whatever of propagating this year
the rust that caused so much damage
last year. There is no occasion to
continue the efforts, already begun in
many quarters, for importing Cana
dian wheat as seed that the Minnesota
and Dakota crop of 1905 may be pro-
tected against another scourge of rust.
This is the definite, positive state-
ment of Prof. Thomas Shaw of the
Minnesota Agricultural college and
of Prof. 81. L. Bolley of the North
Dakota Agricultural college-two of
the highest authorities in America.
Both are experienced wheat raisers,
equally scientific and practical. Both
have made repeated experiments
with rusted wheat in various seasons
to determine this very point, whether
rust may be propagated through in
fected seed. .
They agree with all the other recog-
nlzed authorities, American and Eu-
ropean, that rust is caused by seed
spores; that the spores have their
early growth on other plants and not
on wheat plants. that these spores do
not flourish on the other plants, ex-
cept under special conditions; and
that when the spores are carried by.
the wind to a wheat plant, they do not
attack the plant unless those same
weather conditions are prevalent. -:
In other words, young wheat plants
do not inherit rust; they are wholly
free from rust in the course of their
early growth; and even the older
plants are never attacked by rust, ex-
cept under special and rare conditions
of weather. Unless the weather of last
summer should again prevail next
summer northwestern farmers have no
reason to fear rust.
1t is agreed, also, by the experts
that not only does rusted wheat not
produce rusted wheat the next year.
but also that rusted wheat is essen
TALLY sound wheat in every grain that
has fully developed. Many grains,
of course: develop incompletely; this
is the evil wrought by rust. But
the fully developed grains are free
from disease. ~
Thus by choosing the large, de-
veloped grains, farmers may obtain
perfect wheat this year after planting
seed from rusted wheat plants.
The only precautions necessary in
using rusted wheat as seed is to clean
the grain thoroughly with tanning
mill, and to select then for seed only,
the large and fully developed kernels.
The cleaning is advisable, not to pre-
vent the transmission of rust, but to
remove any possible obstacle to the
prompt propagation of the seed.
It is also pointed out by Prof. Boil
ley that North Dakota farmers whof|
do not care to take the trouble of
sorting and cleaning rusted wheat
may easily obtain the best possible
seed wheat from Dakota farms un-
touched by last years plague. GA
vast area of wheat lands in North
Dakota, as Prof. Bolley points out,
raised last summer the finest grain
ever harvested III the state.
The same statement applies to Min
nesota. By no means all this State
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-01-12
Both Getting. skinned.

! The difference between the price of
beef on the hoof and the dressed arti-
Gle is proof positive that the consumer
and the beef are both getting skinned.
City Post.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-01-12


Thought He Ate His Own BOOSTERS.
Barney. Gleason of Wayzata, who
attended the Mark sale last Saturday
bought two of Marks fine thorough.
bred Plymouth Rock roosters while
here. Mr.. Gleason is lover of the
good poultry, and he priced his pair
of Plymouth Rocks very highly, and
thereby hangs a tale. He had been
dickering with Mr.. Mark for a jack
during the day, and when Sunday
came the deal had not been closed, SO
it was prolonged into the Sabbath
day. Mr.. Kellar of Robbinsdale who
was also at the sale had waited pa
tiently several hours for Gleason to
cinch the deal, and finally told the
Wayzata man that unless he closes
the deal by four. O'Clock. that he
(Kellar) would order Gleason's choice
Plymouth Rocks offered up as a
sacrifice. Just few minutes before
the hour Kellar ordered his man to
produce the birds and prepare them
for the pot unless otherwise notified
by four. No notice being given, and
no deal for the jack having been made
Gleason made up his mind: that his
roosters had been sacrificed, and a
short time afterwards when he went
into Marks Office he saw big kettle
on the stove for which came the delic-
ious odor of stewed fowl. Gleason
felt that his roosters were in the soup.
but just the same his mouth watered
and when the fowls were served he ate
heartily and with a relish, but once in
a while he would get a big lump in
his throat.
There was lots of sport at Glea-
sons expense, but he never once
showed the white feather. At the de-
pot Monday morning Emmett Mark
was twitting him about the loss of the
birds, while out on the express cart
was a crate containing Gleason's
Plymouth Rock BOOSTERS, and the
WayaZta man was perhaps, a very
much surprised individual when he
reached home and. found his roosters
alive and growing him a welcome.
Come again, Mr.. Gleason.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-01-12
Storey and Clark Piano Contest

The contest for the Storey & Clark
piano makes new showing this week.
Mrs. Anna King still leads, while the
Northwestern hospital comes in with
1888 votes placing Mrs. Grahek in
third place. The vote stands as fol-
lows:
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-01-12
PERSONAL PROPERTY TAN.

Big Increase In Mile Laos County Be
cause of Raise by State Board of
Equalization. .-.
County Treasurer Burrell has sent
out his personal property tax notices
to those who have the privilege of
paying into the county treasurer funds
to keep the county from going to the
poor house. The personal property
statements this year have staggered a
whole lot of people. The statements
have surprised lots of people because
of the fact that they supposed that
they had placed their list of personal
property low enough so that when the
800 exemption was deducted that
they would be clear. Many find that
they have been caught for small sums,
while many others who always make
out to return a reasonably accurate
or honest estimate of what they pos
sess find that they have got double the
amount of personal taxes to pay that
they paid last year, and with tax
here in Princeton a few mills lower
than last year. The total tax in
Princeton is thirty three and one-third
mills this year while last year it was
thirty-f and thirteen -hundredths
mills. The boost comes because of
the fact that the State board of equal
ization raised the household goods
and wearing apparel in this county
sixty-six and two-thirds per cent last
fall. Hennepin county has been doing
a lot of bowling because of the in
crease in it's taxes which were only
raised fifty per cent on this class of
ling with the antiquated and double
back action tax laws of the State
made an attemptsto equalize the value
of personal property throughout the
State and it appeared that Mile Laos
county was way down in the hole and
had to take good boost to get level
with the rest of the State. It is the
same old story of making the old
melodeon, the family cat, the old clock
on the stairs, the knitting machine,
the wash tub and the few goods most
mortals need to get along with pay a
tax wholly out of all proportion with
the tax that other property in the
State pays. The household goods
and wearing apparel are the ship of
State, in fact the whole cheese when
it comes to making up a jack pot for
the price we pay for government as
found up in this neck Of the woods.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-01-12
Wesley Plano Contest. :

wesley Plano Contest.
The count made January 10TH. shows
result as follows:
Mrs. Emmett Mark, Princeton III sas
Good Iemplar Lodge Wyanett. 101 Si3
NJ N as - ~ Churc1. frlnceton.. $3.50
pt F. SnuFgn. Frlnceton 63746
1ss.. na91 oiSters Princeton 2222
SWedlsh Lutheran Church, Princeton. 381
~ ~. r. GluIcn spencer Brook ......... 294
.SWeedlsh Baptist Church. Spencer Brk 40
GSP,,ScoPal Cnurch. Princeton. :........ 50
Dalbo Lutheran Church, Dalbo :. -.
MISS Lizzle NacnDar. ......s.:...s /
a6asis
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-10-27
A Trial by Telephone.

Robert Willard, farmer living near
Elkhart, in Logan county, Illinois, up
on being arrested by Constable Petit
on a charge of intoxication and dis
orderly conduct, pleaded guilty by tele-
phone. When he was informed of the
$14 fine by the justice in Lincoln, he
agreed to send the amount by mail
The case is unique in central Illinois
Jurisprudence.
The constable found Willard busily
engaged in cornfield and read the
warrant to him. Willard agreed that
it was all right, but pointed to the
work that he was doing and declared
that he could not possibly lose a day
or two by driving to Lincoln and wait
ing for trial. He suggested the use of
the telephone, and when the constable
somewhat obviously acquiesced, the
two repaired to the farmhouse. FL
nally they got connection with Justice
Rudolph, in Lincoln, and over the wire
the unique trial was held. The justice
received a letter later with the fine
enclosed.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-10-27

PHOTOGRAPH OF "SEEDLEsS' APPLES
SOLD TO MESsRs. sHEARN FOR 80
SHILLINGS APIECE.
trees are being grown in New York,
Iowa, Utah and Colorado.
It is questionable whether the Fraud
Order Office of the Postoffice Depart
ment will be able to bar the use of the
mails to the company owing to the
skillful preparation Of it's literature,
though such action, it is stated, would
be sustained by all reputable fruit men
and nurserymen.
The wonder of the whole story is
that in the face of such lamentable
failures where the promoters have con-
sented to exhibit their apples the work
still goes forward of successfully fool
ing the people. 1t is not denied that
there is an apple which may be called
seedless and with an imperfectly de-
veloped core; but it is freak and
worthless, and, moreover, is thousands
OF years old. Wherever the Spencer
apple has been exhibited it has been
fizzle. One claim made by the company
is because the apple is bloomless it
offers no opportunity for the codling
moth to lay its eggs, that, therefore,
the apple cannot be wormy. One Of the
apples reluctantly submitted by the
Spencer people to Colonel Bracket, the
Pomologist Of the Department, con-
tanned, when cut, a good, fat codling
moth worm, while all the apples sub
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-10-27
Everything Vas the Same.

A young Oxford student one day re-
ceived an unexpected visit from his
pretty sister, and was very indignant
that she came without a chaperon.
Look here" said the young man, II
will not have any of the fellows see
you in my rooms, SO if anyone knocks
at the door you just get behind that
screen"
In a few minutes a knock was
heard, and the girl ran behind the
screen as her brother went to open the
door. An old gentleman stood on the
threshold, who, after profusely apollo
giving for his intrusion, said: II am
just home from Australia, and many
years ago I occupied these rooms;
would you allow me, sir, to look at
them once again.? Certainly" said
the student, "come in" "Ah," ex
claimed the old man, everything is
just the same. Same old table, same
old fireplace, same old screen" Then,
catching sight of the girl; "By jove,
same old dodge" "Sir," exclaimed the
student, ''that is my sister" "Gad,
sir" was the rejoinder, same old
story"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-10-27

AGRICULTURE SPENCER COMPANY. =

CORELESS" APPLES FURNISHED THE
E BY THE SPENCER COMPANY.
the scheme, "that all of the people con-
nected with the general company, with
the exception Of the president, or al
legged discoverer Of the new apple, are
men, entirely na1,a unknown to the h0rticul
Reckless Statements,
The company appears to be well or.
ganized and has apparently engaged ex-
cellent legal talent. "The statements
in all the literature issued by the COM
pany are very skillfully worded," said
Mr.. Taylor, 'the statements made
through the public press, for which the
company cannot be held accountable,
and which are influencing the people,
have been recklessly misleading and
untrue" The shrewd method by which
this apple was advertised in England
and again readvertised in the United
States shows that a master brain is en-
cheering the promotion of the scheme.
Having prepared the British public
through numerous articles, for some
thing startling, a specimen of the seed
less apple was sent to King Edward,
inclosed in plush-lined jewelry box.
The English papers commented widely
upon the occurrence and several addi-
tional apples were sold at public auc-
ton for enormous prices, and the pro-
cially we'll written encomium on this
happening and on the value Of the
apple was innocently transmitted by
the American Consul to our Depart
ment of Commerce and through it's ad-
vance consular sheets distributed to
every newspaper in the United States.
A feature of this incident was the
ceremony connected with the cutting of
two apples which brought the largest
prices--namely, SIS. A number of dis
tinguished British horticulturists were
present, the apples were taken from
cold storage cases, and everything was
proceeding beautifully until the knife
was applied, then it was found that the
apples were neither seedless nor core
less and the indignant purchasers,
Messrs. Shearn, demanded their money
back.
Must Make the Fakirs Smile.
"A somewhat amusing feature, as re-
lated by Colonel Bracket, Is the con-
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-10-27
A Few AnerthOughtS.

The Chinese women are being wean-
ed from the old custom of binding
their feet, and it is stated that the
practice now obtains only among the
American women.
There is no authority for the state
ment that the railroad companies
would seriously object if Congress
spends the entire session discussing
the tariff and reciprocity.
81 reflect with sorrow over the
justification of the claim you make
of having lent me your constant sup
port" says Lord Curzon, the viceroy
of India, recently deposed at the
instance of Premier Balfour. If the
Premier understood just what Lord
Curzon indicated, and had the nerve,
he probably called back, "you'r anoth-
err"
The customs officials are alarmed
at the apparent fact that there are
more Havana cigars in the country
than is warranted by the imports of
Havana tobacco. They have proba-
bly, omitted to calculate to include the
hickory and cabbage-leaf crop.
The King of Spain is again touring
the European courts, looking for some
body who will accept him.
The idea that the scarcity of ser
want girls is due to their all having
become writer's of novels, is probably
suggested by the quality of current
| fiction.
Germany and France have reached
an agreement over Morocco that is
entirely satisfactory to both parties"
How about the feelings Of the third
party?
Helen Bertram has been up before
New York magistrate for failure
to pay her debts. At the same time.
her husband is playing in ''The Prod
igal Son."
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-10-27
NJ 0ccuIess Apple Fraud
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE DENOUNCES
SCHEME AS HUMBUG
GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL.

One of Uncle Sans duties, and it is
an extremely important one, is showing
up, and where possible, stopping
frauds and fakes and preventing the
people from being mulcted of their
savings. Through its issuance of
fraud orders" the Postofice Depart
ment prevents millions Of dollars every
year from being squandered on worth
less projects and fake schemes ex.
plotted through cunning advertise
ments. The vigilance Of the Govern
ment against lottery concerns is an.
other instance. So much is done now
through clever advertising that officials
have come to be very chary about CIV
ing their Endorsement to any schemes
which have not been pretty thoroughly
tried out.
The Spencer "SeedIess'' Apple.
A case in point was the efforts of the
Colorado seedless and coreless apple
concern, headed by Mr.. Spencer,
which attempted last year to secure the
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-10-27

either paper stock or nursery stock. In
New York State.
The attractive plan proposed by the
parent Spencer company, as learned at
the Department of Agriculture, is that
these subsidiary or local seedless apple
companies may be formed in the vari-
GUS States. The local company is to
pay cash bonus to the mother com.
pany and also issue it 81 per cent. of
its stock-a controlling interest. The
public is to be let in on the remainder,
40 per cent. To facilitate the sale Of
this stock Assistant Pomologist w.
A. Taylor says that the company some
time ago issued statement to the eff.
feet that the retail price of trees will
be held up to So each, while the cost to
the local company will not exceed 80
cents, and it is estimated that on q
local investment of $4,000, 100000
could be quickly rounded up.
ut seems" said Mr. Taylor, who in
speaking Of the matter appeared to be
entirely convinced of the shadyness of
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-10-27
Newspapers Which Bit.
BIS SECTION OF SPENCER sEEDLEsS
PLE, REPRODUCED FROM SPEN-
GER CATALOGUE,

htalogue contains numerous ex-
BIN papers all over the country
the Spencer seedless apple al
1.-The skies. The truth is, that
1.-THE most conservative papers
cessfully roped in and uncon-
published articles specially
or them by the propagandists
bs, and these very papers are
led in the catalogues distrib-
the company. Such eminent
pear as the New York Times,
Ilos Inquirer, both Of which
psiastic editorials, the Ameri-
htor, the New York Farmer,
ktific American; the Buffalo
al,- the New York Herald, the
Nurseryman, the Denver
q score of others.
,bllc to Pay the Profits
" York apple company is but
subsidiary companies, with
the right to sell stock,
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-10-27
Pickles and Babies.

An exchange made an unfortunate
error in its Answers to Correspond
Cnts" recently.
Fond Mother wrote in to find out
what she should do for her children
who had the whooping cough. In the
make up the compositor got some
items transposed and the answer read:
IF not too young, skin them
thoroughly; immense in scalding
water, sprinkle plentifully with salt,
and leave for a week in strong
brine" Horrors! He misplaced the
answer to anxious Housekeeper's"
query for picked onion recipe.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-10-27

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUI
Endorsement of the Fruit Division of
The Department Of Agriculture. The
|pple men of the Department were ex-
hemely doubtful of the claims made
" Mr.. Spencer that he had evolved a
|eedless apple which would revolu-
onize the apple industry Of the coun-
~, and they were wise in refusing to
I've 1t Endorsement. Colonel Bracket,
be Pomologist of the Department,
pw states that the seedless and core
ss apple propaganda is apparently one
the most carefully considered and
|telligently worked out schemes for
oling and defrauding the public
hich has ever been attempted along
ricultural lines. Taking advantage
the remarkable results Of fruit and
Int improvement made by Luther
rbank and other wizards of plant
ence, the statement was sprung upon
unsuspecting newspaper press and
bic that a wonderful seedless and
eless apple had been discovered.
ndreds Of columns Of newspaper de-
iptions of this fruit have since ap-
red in not only the daily and weekly
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-10-27

19lRss-- 1Ss.sS ssOlmcnuUus auNeFtIS-
ing Is causing our principal c0mpeti-
tors In the export apple trade. The
Tasmanian government council has in
stituted an official inquiry whether this
new development is likely to SO revolu-
tionize the character of the fruit which
we export to Europe, and which
is in competition with them, as to ne
cessltate their securing and growing
this seedless variety.
Colonel Bracket states that thus far
no tree or scion Of this alleged remark
able apple has been placed in the hands
of any disinterested experimenter, and
it is significant that there are not as
yet any trees or scions for sale. al
though it is stated that several million