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

Middle-aged men to-day can remem-
Der that when they were very small
farmers were very plentiful who knew
the art of farming and there was no
one who could tell them anything.
There are a few living yet. But the
wise farmer is the man who does not
know it all and is willing to learn,
and does learn by making expert
ments. Take the raising of corn
alone. The farmers of the corn belt
of the country knew it all a few years
ago, but it took a Professor Holden,
show them that they had hardly begun
to know anything about raising corn.
This professor has revolutionized the
corn raising industry of the country
by his theories of selection in breed
ing. A farmer down in Lebanon
county, Pennsylvania, has placed I'M
der cover eighty-four acres Of corn
that averaged 125 bushels to the acre.
It has taken this Pennsylvania farmer
twenty years to make the discoveries
necessary to enable him to be so sue
cessful in raising corn on worn out
land that western farmers would not
think of cultivating. But by sys-
TEN of rotation and nourishment for
the soil and by a close and thorough
selection from the field for the best
seed he is able to beat out the corn
land of Iowa and Nebraska. The
science of farming is great science
indeed and the farmer who would
master the soil and not let the soil
master him will study the science as
a schoolboy studies his lessons.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-02

Russia may have temporarily stem
med the Revolutionary tide that's des-
tined to. sweep with resistless fury over
the empires but the spirit of the
"divine right Of kings' is at very low
ebb in Russia today. The St. Peters,
burg instruction was at first peace
able petition and an appeal inspired
by Father Gopon who with cross in
hand led the great army of men,
women and children to the gates of
the cars palace, but Nicholas
II had been ordered by his ministers
to leave the palace and the weak,
vacillating monarch did not have the
nerve or courage to face his people.
The mob was 10th to depart, and little
dreamed that the troops would open a
merciless fire upon them and charge
upon them with saber and knout. It
was this treatment that turned the
hearts of the people into revengeful,
unforgiving hearts of stone, and has
set the Russian empire ahame with
revolt. The czar's life has been set
as the price of this awful slaughter at
St. Petersburg, and the monarch's
shuddering form will become a tar
get for some pretty red-hot missiles.
Some of his miserable, merciless min
listers will also have to go the way of
Won Pleve and other Russian demons.
Russia is in bad way Threatened
from within and without, the empire
is doomed to fall, and a new Russia
will rise over the ruins of the most
despotic empire of modern times. Rus
STA may take the blood of Gorky
or Gopon, but for every drop of such
blood sacrificed the empire must event.
.ually pour out hundred drops of
devilishly red venom that should have
been drawn years ago. =
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-02
OUTF0R THE ''STUFF"
The Mugwump Minneapolis Journal
Roasted by the .sSilk-Stock-
ing" Business Men.
Beware of False "Get-Rich- Ouick''
Advertisements in that rlug-
wumpian Sheet. .s ID.

FROM the Minneapolis Tribune Feb. 1, 1905.
A very large display advertisement
which bears upon it's face marks of
unrel1ability and chicanery, and MAX
ing unwarranted use of the names of
some of Minneapolis most solid and
conservative business men, appeared
IN The Minneapolis Journal of YES
terday, and has aroused a storm of
Indignation in local business circles.
The advertisement in question is
that of a Lawrence Plaster COM
pany," purporting to have / ZOO acres
OF gypsum land in eastern New Mex
lco' and agrees to pay dividend of
over zoo. per cent to investors, and re-
turn to them the amount they invested
within six months. The whole "ad,,
reads IN most suspicious and extra
VACANT style, and only an uncon-
trolled desire for ''copy" on the part
OF any newspaper could have caused
its acceptance without an investiea-
ton.
THE COMPANY"
This investigation might have been
easily made, for the preposterous ad-
vertlsement carries at it's foot the fol-
lowing Minneapolis names as .:officers
OF the company:' President, John D.
Washburn, of Washburn-CrosbyC Co.
Vice president, John G. Butler. of
Pillsbury- Washburn Co.
Treasurer, E. A. Merrill, president
OF Minnesota Loan & Trust Co.
Secretary, D. McC. Scribner. law
yer. -.
Managing Director, Charles 81.
Wheeler, capitalist.
: But not only did The Journal &C.
cept the advertisement without max
ing the investigation, but published
it in the face of prohibition from
one of the ''officers'' named. who in
formed The Journals representative
that the company was a mythical one,
that the men whose names are used
had nothing to do with any such prop
osition, and that he forbid the use of
his name in any such fraudulent con-
nection.
It. seems that Charles D. Wheeler.
who is given the position of managing
director in the non-existent company,
rented desk room in his office, 66 Loan
and Trust building, to one D. Nice.
Scribner, who is, so far as known,
the entire Lawrence Plaster COM
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-02
STATE FORESTRY,
The Legislature May Provide for Care Of
Pillsbury Reserve.

The Legislature May Provide for Care OF
Pillsbury Reserve.
The recommendations of the State
forestry board for the care of the
Pillsbury reserve of 10000 acres in
Northern Minnesota has been ap.
proved by the house committee on
forestry, and it was decided to recon.
mend for passage the bill by Repre-.
sentative A. l.. Cole of Walker, max.
ing the appropriations.
The measure appropriates $500 for
fixing the boundaries of the reserve,
ST., 900 for a survey and thorough ex-
animation of the tract, 81, 200 annually
for six years for it's reforesting, and
81, 800 annually for it's care and pro-
lection. ~. t....- - D.. ~ :.,.,1.} e.,
Prof. S. B. Green of the State
school of agriculture and Gen. C. c..
Andrews, chief fire warden, made the
plea for the bill.
Minnesota's forest wealth, said
Prof. Green, now amounts to millions
of dollars annually and should, if
possible, be preserved. The State
owns probably 100000 acres of land
worthless for other purposes. and in
dividuals own much vaster tracts.
Should the State by it's experiments
demonstrate that reforesting of land
is good business venture, these
lands will be a permanent source of
wealth.
Two propositions are embodied in
the reforesting plans. One is to plant
spruce, to be grown for the manufac-
ture of paper pulp, large industry
in the State which will increase.
Spruce now brings So a cord, and
prices will advance. The other is a
simple numbering proposition of fire
protection and care of standing and
growing forests. ,-
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-02
New Variety of Flax.

The United States department of
agriculture and the Minnesota expert
ment station in cooperation with the
experiment stations of North and
South Dakota have originated new
variety of flax which is hoped to in
crease. the average yield per acre
throughout the fax-growing states.
The new variety has been named
Minnesota No. 25'' or ''Primost, /"
and the claim is made that it will in
crease the value of the Minnesota fax
crop So per acre. On the basis of
800, 1000 acres, the average fax acreage
in Minnesota, this will mean an in
crease of 81 200, 900 to the flax growers
of the state when the new variety be-
comes established. ...,. -..
The Minnesota experiment station
has secured l. 200 bushels of the seed
which will be distributed throughout
the State in four-bushel lots as a
foundation for the stock. This seed
will be sold at $3.50 per bushel to
farmers who have proper machinery
and buildings for handling seed grain
and whose land is free from mustard,
Russian thistle and other weeds the
seed of which is difficult to separate
from flax seed. The land must also
be free from the disease known as fax
wilt.
| Minnesota No. 25 or Primost fax is
selected stock from a variety which
came to the Minnesota experiment
station from the United States depart
ment of agriculture in 1891:
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-02

Congressman Littlefeld of Maine is
on the right track. He has introduced
bill providing that no department
of the government shall expend in any
fiscal year any sum in excess of ap-
preparations made for that year or
involve the government in any con.
tract for future payment. Six months
imprisonment and fine of not less
than $4,000 is provided for violation
OF the act. The bill ought to become
law.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-02

Government by injunction will re-
ceive it's death warrant in bill which
has been introduced in congress which
deprives all courts of the power OF
issuing these arbitrary writs. The
bill permits all parties interested in
the outcome of any strike to be heard
before any writs of injunction are is
sued. The bill is the result of con-
ferences held during the past two
months between President Roosevelt,
Attorney General Moody, Commits
sioner of Corporations Garfield and
representatives of labor organizations
and corporate interests, and in all
probability the measure will be en-
acted into a law. There is great need
for a law ofStthis kind. With courts
having despotic power in the matter
as they do at present, some interests
are sure to suffer, for judges are very
human beings, and susceptible to
prejudice many, many times, in cases
of strikes. One judge will favor labor
interests while another will favor cor
porate interests. With proper pro-
cedure provided by the proposed law.
courts will have no opportunity to
take hasty or biased action.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-02

The sailing of the Great Northern
steamship Minnesota, = from Seattle
last week marks the beginning Of a
new era in the Pacific Coast-O Oriental
trade. The minnesota is monrach
of Pacific carrying trade and sailed
with a cargo of $4,000 tons, the larg-
est cargo ever carried by a ship. In
addition the ship had a passenger list
of 300 persons. Raw cotton and cot
ton sheeting, the latter principally for
China, comprised the bulk of the
ships cargo. while in addition there
was general merchandise, steel rails,
structural steel. tobacco, flour, etc.
Much of the -four and provisions goes
to Manila. Seventy-fve fat cars
were on board the vessel for railways
Of the far east. The Commercial West
in commenting on the advent OF the
minnesota in the Oriental carrying
trade, says:
The Importance of the steamship
" Minnesota to the American export
trade with the Orient lies largely in
the fact that its railway feeders are
owned by the same transportation in
terests and act strongly in co-opera-
tion.t The reason why Minnesota pa
per goes to Japan, is that the Great
Northern and the Northern Pacific
railway companies make a special
rate from the Mississippi river to
Japan amounting to about one-half
the transcontinental freight bureau
tariff rates from the Mississippi to
San Francisco. The same is true as
regards Minnesota flour, bacon, beef,
dairy products, and hardware. A
through rate on these northwestern
productions has been made from the
Mississippi valley to the Orient via
Minnesota-Puget Sound railroads and
the steamship ''Minnesota,' at one
half the regular rail rate fixed by the
transcontinental freight bureau for
the rail part of the shipment alone.
1T is a rate of about So per ton,
which is only a fraction more than
half that which Kansas flour pays, to
reach San Francisco or Los Angeles,
that places Minneapolis flour in
Manila or Hong Kong, and Minnesota
paper, provisions and hardware in
Japan, China and the Philippines.
In other words, the rate is made that
will create an Oriental market for the
productions of the northwest, regard
less of cost of transportation or exist
ing transportation rates in America
or on the globe. It is this transport
tation force behind the 'Minnesota''-
backed by the ability to place, the
business-that makes the advent of
this steamship in Pacific commerce of
such significance to the country and
to the northwest in particular. J"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-02

Place your ear close to the ground
and catch the sound of the protests of
the people and the stern voice and
command of some of the peoples rep
resentatives who are saying to the
railroads and the trust concerns that
the people will in the future take a
hand in the government of public
utilities and in the government of such
concerns as dare to thwart the will of
the people. ..
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-02

Minnesota's penitentiary is not
large enough to enable the warden to
properly provide for his big family OF
law breakers, and plans are under
way for the construction of a new
building at Saltwater. The present
Legislature will be asked to secure a
site and make sufficient appropria.
ton to begin work. The bad order
part of our community must be looked
after.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-02

Russia dare not impose the death
sentence on either Gorky. the Russian
genius and author, or Father Gopon,
the man who dared to lead the mob to
the palace. But the minute the. ma
tions of the earth take their eyes of
of the rotten old empire look out for
punishment to the poor devils who
may have incurred the displeasure OF
the bureaucracy.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-02

pany, directors, workmen, machinery
and gypsum deposits in eastern New
Mexico. Mr.. Wheeler believes the
man to be most extravagant in his
ideas.
z He evidently made a good impress
sion on Mr.. Scribner, for the latter
has kindly made him managing
director" of his remarkable company.
FULL OF WILD PROJECTS.
Mr.. Wheeler believes the mans
head is full of wild projects.
Yesterday The Journals represent
alive called at Mr.. Wheeler's Office
with a proof of this ridiculous adver-
tisement. Mr.. Scribner was out, but
Mr.. Wheeler was astonished to see
his name at the bottom, and expressly
and specifically told The Journal rep
resentative, that the use of his name
was entirely unauthorized, that he
was certain the company was myth
and that all the other names, except
that of Mr.. Scribner, were used with
out the owners knowledge or permits
sion and told him that the "ad" must
not run.
AS a matter of fact, The Journal is
the only paper in the city which ran
the advertisement. Other Minneapolis
papers to which it was offered refused
the advertisements.
EVERYTHING A ''FAKE.,'
Messrs. John Washburn, John G.
Butler and E. A. Merrill, whose
names are appended to the ''ad,''
called at The Tribune office last even
ing to repudiate all knowledge of such
an organization as the Lawrence
Plaster Co.." and denounce the use of
their names in such connection in the
following statement given to The Trib-
une yesterday:
Editor The Minneapolis Tribune:
TO the Public: Our attention has
just been called to an advertisement
in this evenings Journal headed
Lawrence Plaster Co. Do You Want
to Invest. Paying over 200 per. cent
per annum,'' in which advertisement
the officers are given as follows:
President-John Washburn, Of
Washburn-Crosby Co. t. 49, :%.."...
Vice-Pres.-John G. Butler, Of
Pillsbury-W ashburn Co.
Treasurer-E. A. Merrill, President
of Minnesota Loan and Trust Co.
We, the undersigned, state without
qualification that we never heard of
this company before seeing this ad-.
vertisement and are not and never,
were connected with it in any wav,
and repudiate the use of our names in
connection with it in any way what
ever.
JOHN WASHBURN.
Washburn-Crosby Co.
JOHN G.. BUTLER,
PillsburyWashburn Co..
E. A. MERRILL,
Pres. MINI. Loan & Trust Co..
Minneapolis, MIMI, Jan. 81, 1905.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-02
Just put it in vour nine and emol

Just put it in your pipe and smoke
it. The advent of President Roose-
welt in the White House has advanced
the interests of the people to a degree
never before known in this country.
He is making precedents that are
wholesome and beneficial, and the
best of it all is there are few public
officials who are fearless enough to
walk in his footsteps.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-02

Prof. Abbott of the Minnesota uni
versity law faculty in lecture to his
class the other day insinuated that no
material benefits, at all commensurate
with the cost, could ever be expected
from the dam now under construction
below the falls of St. Anthony, and
rather implied that vanity and senti-
ment were alone responsible for it's
construction. And Prof. Abbott was
not far of the mark when he made the
statement.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-02

An attempt will be made at Wash
ington to defeat President Roosevelt's
rate legislation program, but the presi-
dent and his cO-workers will keep
some of the bucking interests guess
ing for time and will be sure to sad
die the beast before they get through
with it.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-02

Hoch, the man of various matrimo-
NAL alliances, was caught while try
ing to make matrimonial alliance
with a New York boarding house
keeper. He was certainly welded to
his profession. 49,.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-02

Russia met with another singing
defeat in a battle with the Japs. Dis
integrated Russia. There will be
nothing left of the once vast empire if
things keep on but memory, and a
mighty poor one at that Russia and
Turkey should be taken to the dump
and left there.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-02

Japan has agents in Minneapolis
buying flour for the little brown. SOL
diers who are gnawing at the Russian
bear in such vigorous manner.
Next summer you will see ''Pillsbury's
Best" uniforms all through Man.
ch1ria.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-02

Montana has memoralized congress
to submit constitutional amend
ment providing for the election of
United States senator's by a direct
vote of the people. Somewhat like
memoralizing the car of Russia.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-02

i The demagogue is losing his grip
and the people who have been doing a
lot of reading and thinking the past
few years are getting next the real
issues of government. They are
breaking in, but it has taken them a
long while.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-02

Don't growl about the weather.
Other sections have suffered severely
from the snow and intense cold. New
York experienced the worst storm last
week since 1888, and the loss in bust
ness to that city was estimated at
s.. 900. 900.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-02
Talking Shop.

First Telephone Girl-What did
Bella say when you told her your en-
gagement was broken?
Second Telephone Girl-Oh. she
said it only meant another ring off.
Royal Magazine. !
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-02

These winters that start out on the
mild order are not always what they
are cracked up to be.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-02
Who said banana belt.

There are rumors of peace in the far
east. Let it come.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-02

The tax ferret system is wholly i'm
practicable. Make the assessors the
tax ferrets that they ought to be.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-02

What's that, protect wood alcohol?
Something rotten in Denmark. Screw
loose somewhere. Johnny get your
O,1n
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-02

We are quite sure to have an ice
crop, and there is no rust on it either.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-05-20
A Hat Experiment.

A gentleman who visited pump
ing station of city waterworks
was shown into the engine room.
What | am proudest of here is
my draft, said the engineer;
here it is. p" He raised a trap
door in the floor, disclosing a black
hole about a foot square, and the
visitor looked in, eagerly. Moth
ing was to be seen, but a ire
meadous draught sucked in his
silk hat. Ha, hal" cried the
engineer, joyously. Now, this
is very interesting experiment.
Just watch that tall stack over
there. " And he pointed to a lofty
stack. As he did so the silk hat
shot straight out of it so feet up III
the air, and then, like big black
bird, sailed slowly away. "A
grand experiment, indeed, d" said
the visitor, and l thank you for
It. I'll now endeavor to secure
the remains of my hat. And he
chased away after his property,
while the engineer looked on with
all amused smile.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-05-20
-Four Days Only.

Being direct from the factory
and having all the instruments
necessary for fitting and testing
of eyes, l ask those who are
troubled with their sight to call
and have their eyes examined.
Consultation free. An located for
the 70, 20, 21. and p. at tie
Eagle drugstore.
H. d. WHITAKER,
Hawkes. Specialist.
< fo-10
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-05-20
YTURRIA.

The townsite of Yturria, also the prop
erty of this company and located ffty-three
miles north of Brownsville on the main
line of the St. Louis, Brownsville & Mex
leo railway, is now surveyed and
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-05-20
Most
Important

Commercial cities on the Rio Grande.
This company has over four thous-
and acres of truck and farm lands
surrounding the townsite, which, as
soon as facilities for irrigating same
are completed, will be plotted and
placed on the market.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-05-20
JAMESB. WELLS
attorney
at Law.

Successor to Powers & Maxan,
Powers & Wells, Wells & Rentfro
Wells, Rentfro & Hicks, Wells &
Hicks, Wells, Stayton & X,ebe-g
1 buy and sell Real Estate and
investigate land titles. A complete
abstract of ali titles of record in
Cameron County, Texas.
Practice in all state and federal
courts, when especially employed.
Land Litigation and corporation
practice.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-05-20
The Town of
Sam Fordyce

Situated on the sloping hills over
looking the Rio Grande valley, is a
most delightful and lIealthful loca-
ton. Anticipating their future needs
the railway company has secured
ample terminal yards and facilities
and large plot for shops, round
houses and other necessary build
ings. This is the nearest logical
trading point for a present popula-
ton of over fifty thousand people
within a radius of forty miles, and
is destined to become one of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-30
PAN-PREsBYTER1AN ALLIANCE.
Report of Committee on Church History
Considered Today.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, March 30.-The re-
port of the committee on church history
was considered by the western section OF
the Pan-Presbyterian Alliance today. The
report recommended cooperation with
the Presbyterian Historical Society OF
Philadelphia and the preservation Oh all
valuable historical material.
DIR. Beatty read a report on mission work
among the 10.0O00o0 colored people IL
reviewed conditions in the south and
showed that the northern presbyterian
Church is doing the largest amount oi
mission work for negroes
The southern church has remarKaple
work in Africa, the report says, the lars-
est congregation of that denomination,
with about 5000 members. being on the
Congo. With the exception of the united
Presbyterians other churches OF the al
lance do little organized work 1or 'he
negroes. . ~ o,,-
In connection with the report on can,
didates for the ministry DR.. Minton SAID
the decrease in the number of candidates
was due to rationaiism.
Dr. Roberts addressed the body on the
revival in Wales.