The Princeton union., 1905-06-01
State News.

tlse its resources.
The merchants of Isanti county have
formed Merchants Protective as
sociatiOn.
There is a we'll founded rumor that
the iron mines at Hibbing are to be
re-opened soon.
Reports throughout the State say
that the frost of May 25 damaged
early potatoes, strawberries, corn and
fruit.
The pine stumps around Pine City
are being rapidly converted into tur-
pentine by company recently formed
there.
George II. Fletcher, formerly of the
law firm of Fletcher, lockwood &
Dawson, Minneapolis died recently at
Los Angeles, California.
G. G. Hartley, formerly of Brain
erd but now living in Duluth, will in
the next few months establish a large
stock farm between Cloquet and Swan
River.
Lydia Berndt of LeSueur, a young
lady eighteen years old, took her first
'lde in the cars last week when she
Mt to Minneapolis to attend a Bap-
kconvention.
~<rgus Falls is to have new hos
plcal costing $4,000, donated by Ver-
non Wright in memory of his father,
the late George B. Wright, who was
the founder of Fergus Falls.
The citizens of Montgomery, Mimi,
are going to build beet sugar fac
tory to cost s6OO,O0O. The farmers
have pledged themselves to plant
three thousand acres of beets.
J. o. Pattee, for several years mas
ter mechanic of the Great Northern
and Milwaukee roads, is dead from
the effects of fall down the cellar
steps of his house in st. Paul.
Henry Nelson, a laborer in the
kasota quarries, was killed by hav-
ing his clothing caught in the betting
while he was oiling a pulley on the
shafting in the stone saving mill.
Anders Jensen, an old man eighty
five years Of age who resided at AL
bert Lea, was found dead recently be-
side the railroad track few miles
from the city. He died of exhaustion.
The new code re-embodies the law
which gives jailor the right to keep
an obstreperous prisoner on bread
and water, in solitary confinement for
twenty days and then if he is not ready
to come to terms the dose may be re-
peated.
S. G. Iverson, State auditor, is
making an effort to settle the ques-
ton as to the right of the State to
grant mineral leases for mining ore,
under lake beds. The question has
been referred to Attorney General E.
T. Young.
Fish-fry is accommodating so fast at
the St. Paul State hatcheries that the
game and fish commission is having
strenuous time disposing of it. On
May 25, over 100000 fry had to be
thrown away because of a lack of fa-
cilities in handling.
State Auditor Iverson, assisted by
Attorney Generval Young and Sena-
tor Clapp, will present the claims of
the State for a large area of swamp
lands on the Chippewa Indian reser-
vations, before Secretary Hitchcock
in Washington this month.
Mrs. Floyd Hall of St. James was
so seriously burned on May "a, that
hope for her recovery is very small.
She was building the kitchen fire with
kerosene and was pouring the fluid
over the hot ashes and Goals in the
stove. This created a gas, which ex-
ploded.
Lieut.. Frederic H. Smith artillery
corps of Fort Smelling, has been de-
oe1l1OO W OCl1. SdII w ItUUCuu UlC en-
campment of the artillery battalion of
the national guard at Camp Lake.
view, Minn., July 6 to 13. for the
purpose Of giving such instruction as
may be required.
There will be a special election on
Tuesday, June 6, of the Qualified vot-
ers Of Albert Lea to pass upon the
proposition of issuing bonds in the
sum of $4,000 to aid the Duluth, St.
Cloud, Glencoe & Mankato railway
that is now building a line through
Freeborn county.
The national guard of Minnesota
will be first to receive from the gov
ernment it's share of the million-dol
appropriation provided for by the
Dick militia bill. The recent inspec-
tion of the guard by Lieut.. Col. Ger
ZACH, United States army (retired),