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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-09

An evangelistic movement has
started in Great Britain that bids
fair to become the greatest religious
movement of modern times. Wales
has been afre with religious fervor,
and now the great city of London has
awakened it's sleeping conscience and
at the opening meeting there were
10000 persons, with a grand chorus
of 5000 voices. London has spent
over $4,000 to advertise and get
ready for the series of evangelistic
meetings, and the metropolitan press
has taken the matter up and is devot-
ing columns to the movement. The
world moves in cycles, and it begins
to look like the dawning of a new one.
We are passing through the poodle
dog, for-revenue-only, get-rich-quick
era, and it is pretty nearly time for
a change, if there is to be anything
substantial left for our children who
are to follow.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-09
dent, with rare exceptions, have ig-
nored it's provisions.

dent, with rare exceptions, have ig-
nored it's provisions.
"For fifteen years the public con-
science has apparently been in a sort
OF self-hypnotic trance of an expect
ancy that the virtues of the railway
companies will render it impossible
for the individual to offend the law.
While am willing to admit the I'M
compromising virtues of railway
officials, submit that it is too much to
expect the few railway presidents,
who are growing fewer, to furnish the
virtues for eighty five millions of
people,
Mr.. Stickney's statement is a bold
and frank one. The railroads are not
alone in this violation of the law. AS
long as public officials clamor for
free transportation and as long as
many of the dear people will ride the
necks Of their friends in power for
railway passes, the odium for the
violation of the law must not rest
alone with the railroads.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-09

In an article on reduction of rail
road rates in Minnesota the CONNER
cial West states that the average rail-
road rate in Minnesota was about .S5
of one cent per ton per mile while the
average for the southwestern group
Of states is one cent ton, 1.16 cents
for the Pacific states, while for the
New England group the rate is 1.18
cents per ton per mile. The CONNER
cial West says: ~
1T therefore appears, and the State
legislature in making it's investiga-
tions should in the interests of a full
and fair hearing take note of the fact,
that Minnesota and the northwest are
doing better than most other sections
of the country in the matter of fair
rates and progressive rate reduction. -
The average rate is not what the
present legislature is investigating.
It is the alleged determinations which
seem to be pretty numerous. We can
figure out an average temperature
for the State, but this does not relieve
some localities from being cold, and
others from being hot; others from
having cyclones and others from hav-
ing hail storms. Unequal local con-
ditions will obtain in the weather,
and will also always obtain in rail
road traffic. There are many condi-
tions and contingencies that make it
impossible for railroad officials to
equalize freight rates, and many so.
called determinations are not wilfu]
violations of State and federal laws
by the railroads. But, on the other
hand, there are many cases, of wilfu]
violations and unfair policies and
rates put in force by railroads. The
Investigations being made by the leg
islature can do no harm, and, on the
contrary, may do whole lot of good.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-09

A bill has been introduced in the
legislature by Representative Flower
of St. Paul which provides that all
two-dollar-per-day hotels shall furnish
first-class accommodations to members
OF the Travelling Mems Protective
association. Referring to the meas
ure the Minneapolis Tribune says:
If the house is So day house,
it must under the proposed law pro-
vide a bel of cretain quality, a menu
must be served which will conform
with the charge per diem and hunters
dogs, game and noise must be kept
in the background. There will be
separate regulations for the ST, 81 .25,
$3.50 and the So houses.'
Anything will answer for the CON-
mon herd, but the travelling men must
be fed on quail and toast, reed birds,
choice cuts, etc. The bill ought to be-
come a law without unnecessary de-
lay! The meek, patient, long-suffer-
ing travelling men must be protected
in their inalienable rights! The leg
islator who has the temerity to vote
against such a benefcent measure
should and doubtless will be CONSIGNED
to political oblivion!
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-09

The Vanderbilt system of rail-
roads embraces eight roads, belong
ing to the Vanderbilt system. The
roads extend over 10000 miles and
their annual earnings approximate
S15S, 900, 900, divided as follows: New
York Central, West Shore and Boston
& Albany lines, S75,000,O0O; Lake
Shore & Michigan Southern, 1925, OOO,-
600; Big Four, 1923, 900, 900; Lake Erie
& Western, $4,000, 900; Michigan Cen
trail, S21, 100000; Nickel Plate, So, O0O,-
600. This great system of roads has
been acquired since 1868, for it was
at that time that Commodore Wander
bilt acquired control of the New York
& Harlem railroad, a little 128-mile
road running northward from New
York City. The old commodore had
when boy borrowed $500 from his
mother, and bought a small boat
which he ran between New York and
Staten Island. Later he acquired
several boats for local and coastwise
trade, running south to New Orleans
and the isthmus. He was about to
invest in transatlantic liners to COM
pete with the Cunard line of boats.
when a man named Crane induced the
commodore to abandon the water and
begin his commercial battles on land.
Crane on appointment called one even
ing at the commodore house with a
big role of maps, etc., and when Van
derbilt saw the bundle he inquired in
a very emphatic and bresque manner
''What's that?" Crane informed him
and told him he would need very big
table to spread the maps on, and
grumbling and cussing quite vigor-
ously the commodore went to the din
ing room, and on the sixteen-foot ex-
tension table was mapped out the
nucleus of the great Vanderbilt sys-
tenn. Crane advised Vanderbilt to Sc
cure the road. "But what the -
would do with it?" growled the COM
modore. sit begins in New York and
ends nowhere in particular; besides
I'm a steamboat man." Crane how
ever talked Vanderbilt into the prop
osition, and in concluding, remarked:
"Before you die you can ride in your
private car from New York to Buffalo
over your own road. Thus was
started the Vanderbilt system that re-
quires a Chancey Depew at Washing
ton to look after it's interests.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-09

John Goodnow, who has been. con-
sui general at Shanghai, China, for
eight years, and who is in Washington
at the present time to answer to a
long list of charges preferred against
him, has decided to resign his post,
and the president will appoint his sue
cessor in short time. Goodnow was
one of the original Mckinley men in
Minnesota. When he decided to ask
for an appointment he had his eye on
some important post in Europe but
close friend advised him that the i'm
portant posts of the Far East offered
the best opportunities and John de-
cided to go to Shanghai and he did.
He may have exceeded his authority
and acted unwisely in some things as
charged, but he certainly was "John-
ny on the Spot' when it came to rep
resenting Uncle Sam during the troub-
lous times of the Boxer rebellion.
The president has decided to displace
all the original Mckinley men hold
ing consular appointments with men
of his own selection and there will be
an overhauling of the consulships
in very short time. 1t is pretty safe
to say that the country will not suffer
in the least because of the changes.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-09

Governor Johnson has wisely deter
mined not to go on any junketing trips
during the session of the legislature.
Governor johnson IS predecessor never
was known to decline an invitation to
a feed, barn-raising, dog-fght or
smuggling match-provided no admis-
sion fee was charged. But then Gov
ernor johnson is not all gas and alb
domen there is some gray matter To-
Gated under his thatch. .s4e~~.:
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-09

The cold spell that passed over the
country last week was. record
breaker in many palces. At,Glendive,
Mont, it was fifty three below, and
the frost waves caused lot of suffer-
ing in places where such cold weather
is not anticipated. The ground hog
came out and said "No, thanks and
went back for six weeks.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-09

The State Editorial association will
hold it's annual meeting at the council
chamber in St. Paul on February l6
and II, and the boys have a good
program to pull off, while the city of
st. Paul will do the honors in good
shape. When the boys are down they
will do the new capitol and then they
will be right in it.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-09

Editor Olsen of the Anoka Free
Press was asked who preceded Gov
ernor Johnson as chief executive of
the State. Olsen answered: "Wasn It
there somebody by the name of Van
SAINT strutting about somewhere in
this State at some time or anothero
Anyhow it seems as if we had heard
the name. Has any one discovered a
hole in the air anywhere?" -
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-09

The wife of "Lord'' Darlington, the
fraudulent English lord under SEN
tence of death at St. Louis. writes the
authorities and says "Please hang
my husband.'' She adds: ''You have,
without exaggeration and impartially
speaking, captured the slickest,
smoothest, most hypocritical and
worst villain there is on Gods uni
verse to-day.' Surely an echo OF
domestic infelicity and suffering.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-09

The staid, reliable and conservative
Pioneer Press seldom cracks Joke or
"smOles a smile.'' Occasionally a
bit of levity is wedged in between the
able editorial expressions, as witness
the following:
"While there is much agitation for
the adjustment of railroad passes,
the reformers cannot be expected to
grow wroth because several new passes
have been discovered in the British
Columbian ROckies.''
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-09

Sam johnson has vomited again.
This time he spewed all over State
Auditor Iverson and rehashed his
stale calumnies against ex-State Aud
ltor Dunn. Gov. Johnson and his
white-souled secretary are preparing
special message to the legislature in
which the attention of the members
will be called to Sammy's astound-
ing(?) revelations! The Union may
have few pertinent remarks to offer
later.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-09

Why was Attorney General Dona-
hower's opinion relative to Sam John
sons charges against ex-State Auditor
Dunn, rendered last September, sup
pressed until last Saturday? A more
disreputable gang of knavish political
freebooters and cowardly official
assassins of character than Sam Van
SAINT and his parasitical dangerous
never existed in this or any other
State.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-09

The many friends of the veteran
journalist, Fl. P. Hall, will sympathize
with him in his present affection. Mr..
Halls wife died at her home in St..
Paul last week very suddenly, though
she had been a sufferer from asthma
for many years, and was in such frail
health this winter that she was unable
to seek warmer climate. Mrs. Hall
located with her husband in St. Paul
in 1862.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-09

President Stickney of the Chicago
Great Western railroad in an address
on "Some of the Defects of the Inter-
state Commerce Law delivered be-
fore the Economic society of Washing
ton last week, made some very frank
admissions for railroad man. He
spoke in favor of government rate
making and absolute supervision of
rates by the government. He alluded
to the provisions of the Interstate COM
merce law prohibiting discrimination
in freight rates, and the issuing of free
transportation in way calculated to
show the obsolete character of these
provisions Of the law. On that feature
of the law forbidding the issuing of
free transportation, Mr.. Stickney
said: vs.
''The law which makes it a misde-s
meanor for any individual not an
officer or employe of a railway COM
pany to use a pass enacted by con-
gress and approved by the president
fifteen years ago, and as an individ-
ual rule of action it was ignored by
the congressman who passed it and by
the president who approved it, and
subsequent congressman and presi-
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-09

bribing notaries, county officials.
United States commissioners, and for
corrupting special agents of the land
department. who where sent out to in
vestigate the claims. Large sums of
hush money have been advanced since
the government investigation began,
and all of this is supposed to have
come from the lumber men who were
the benefciaries of the frauds -
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-09

Sammy Johnson is a good saver.
He saved the State hundreds of thous-
ands of dollars, and saved enough in
three years out of his salary (S3, 500
per Year, to pay all his old debts and
start bank in Minneapolis
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-09

A New York plumber was stricken
blind while drinking a glass of five
cent whisky at a Bowery saloon. The
doctor stated that the blindness was
caused by acids used in his trade as
plumber. What about the acids used
in the whisky. ...: %.... s-.....f =
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-09

The contest two years hence will be
the Dunn-Collins fight over. again.
The fewer the Dunn-Collins leaders
there are actively concerned in it the
better for the Republican party
Bemidji Pioneer.
The Dunn leaders were Republicans
in 1904, and they will be active and
aggressive Republicans in 1906.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-09

Governor Deneen of Illinois an
nounces that he does not want mill
tary staff and will not have one. Had
Mr.. Deneen been a candidate for the
Office of governor in Minnesota and
given it out in advance that he would
dispense with the "staff" he would not
have been elected.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-09

President Roosevelt was introduced
last week to the parents of twenty
seven children who live at Yankton,
S. D. This is not all-the children
are nine sets of triplets, and twenty
four of the children are boys. Next!
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-09

The freak bills have begun to make
their appearance in the legislature.
There is no use in trying to be orig
inal. The precedents have been es-
tablished long since.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-09

Cass Gilbert, the designer of the
Minnesota State capitol, has won the
competition for the preparation plans
for the new State capitol at Madison,
Wis, receiving the first prize of 50, 900
and the contract to supervise the con-
struction of the building.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-09

Pease has soured on johnson be-
cause of failure to appoint Pease's
candidate for oil inspector for Anoka
county.-St. Paul News.
If Johnson has the same financial
backing in 1906 that he had in 1904,
Pease can be placated.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-09

Wanted-An able-bodied, all-round
practical engineer, thoroughly up to
snuff to supervise the construction of
the Panama canal. Apply to Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-09

Chicago people have got the sun
spot fever again. Up here we usually
get it for a few days in August.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-09

It is rumored that Secretary Morton
of the cabinet will resign his position
March first and return to his old post
with the Santa Fe road.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-09

Russia is looking for peace, but she
imposes too many conditions.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-09

There are plenty of opportunities ir
the far east. Times are booming.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-09-08

The rest ran for dear life as soon as
a shot was fired.
Reed and Brockway got away dur
ing the excitement. AL was killed,
though he gave the constable good
tussle right in front of me before he
fell back dead. Then they carried his
body to little schoolhouse near by
and took me to Farmer Blacks for the
night.
"They caught Brockway next day in
the next town, but they haven't got
Reed, and If I'd had any chance to
get away they wouldn't have got me,
either. AL has been buried in the
pauper's graveyard at Pawlet. What
they'll do with me l don't know.
What do care, anyway"
Such is the story of Lovina Lanfear.
Not highly romantic. as she tells it,
but, from the very manner Of it's re-
lation, a remarkable illustration of
what girl can become who is given
her own way and allowed to run fast
and free. even in so civilized a COM
munity as New England state.
She will not be tried as principal
for the murder of Ross. for which
Reed will be arraigned. The rob-
berry charges against the gang will
probably be prosecuted, though Lovina
may be used only as witness against
the others.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-09-08
QUEEN" OF A GANG WHICH OPERATED
IN VERMONT-STORYO OF THEIR
CRIMES AND THEIR CAPTURE
AFTER FIERCE BATTLE.
WHY LOvINA LANFEAR BECAME A ROBBER
Thought 1t "Couldn't Be Any Worse Than
Working" - Evil Associates and InflN-
ences Work the Ruin of the Daugh-
ter of Farm Hand.

Bennington, W.-Lovina Lanfear, a
bandit queen at Is, is in the Jail here.
According to, the officers, the girl is
as desperate character as ever
roamed the hills of the Green Noun
tain state. The capture of the gang
with which she was associated seems
to bear out their assertion. for the
girl and her pals were taken prisoners
after desperate battle, in which one
man lost his life.
Lovina Lanfear is IN the same cell
in which Mrs. Mary Rogers awaited
trial for the murder of her husband.
Mrs. Rogers case attracted worldwide
attention because of the brutality of
the crime of which she was found
guilty. The Lanfear girls case prom
ises to become as famous on account
of her youth and the peculiar circum-
stances surrounding her strange ca
reer.
A remarkable story is hers. one that
makes the hearer pity her rather than
blame the girl. Her face is pretty,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-09-08

The girl bandit is the daughter of a
farmland, her birthplace being in
Dorset, nearby hamlet in the hills.
"Vinie," as she is called, was brought
up in poverty and vice. Her mother
was weak. simple and careless of her
children's well being. while the father
was a brute almost passing descrip-
tion.
Last September she was married to
young man. named Martin Westcott,
who amounted to little. The girl is
the mother of a child cared for at
present by "Vinie's" family.
Her married life was short, and
when she and her husband tired of
living together they simply separated.
After she left Westcott the girl met
Albert Ross, member of the gang
of bandits over which she soon ruled.
In fact, he was the most desperate,
and was the one to lose his life when
the country officers and the gang met
in battle.
Asked to tell her own story in her
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-09-08

liam Herschel was struck with the util-
ity of the ancient Hindoo custom and
Sir William tried to have law compell-
ing all persons concerned in the sale or
purchase of land affix their thumb prints
to the deeds of transfers and other legal
documents.
Charles Darwin's cousin, Prof. Fran
els Galton, was the first to announce 20
the English world the value of finger
print evidence in detective work He
was at one time president of the an
thropological section of the British as
sociation, and had studied the question
for years.
THE chances of two persons finger
prints being alike are one in 64,000,000,-
000," declared Prof. Galton. After Prof.
Galton produced his evidence the Eng
lish home Office revised its method of
identifying criminals.
Here is something simpler and more
certain than the Bertillon anthropome-
trio methods. A new department was
opened at the registry of habitual Grim
inals at Scotland Yard. The finger
prints of all prisoners convicted for GER
tain classes of crime were to be taken
before they quilted the respective goals
and sent to Scotland Yard, where they
would be examined, classified, indexed
and filed.
Last year 5000 identifications were
made by its instrumentality. The fig
ures this year probably will be more
than double. "In no single instance"
said Inspector Collins, in giving evil
dence the other day, was the result
challenged. The finger print system has
robbed the alias of its utility; the man
of many names and many crimes can no
longer successfully plead hunger, des-
peration and first offense. His finger
prints betray him."
Many dangerous criminals have been
traced and brought to justice by the
I,voiceless witness of their finger prints.
NJ. Alphonse Bertillon, the French an
thropometrlcal expert, has become
| convert TO the finger print system. Ber-
tlllon says he got the foundation of his
| finger-print knowledge from the Eng
lish. An interviewer asked him recently
if he thought the science of measure
ments would ever supplant the science
of finger prints.
No" he answered 81 think the hu-
man measurement system will supple
ment and assist the finger-print system
in the ultimate marking down and tab
ulating of practically every known or
potential criminal in the civilized world
The sister sciences will go hand in hand.
The science that is based upon the fact
that each different individual has among
his bones certain characteristic shapes
and dimensions will march forward in
unison with the science WHICH arises
from the circumstance that the finger
prints of practically everybody are diff
ferent from the finger prints of anybody
else. Both these truths and the appN-
cation of them in everyday criminal
search and detection have been of enor-
nous service to us in France, and have
helped to rid respectable society of many
of the human harpies who prey upon 1t. a