The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-07-06
State News.


Southshore, were married June %.
By a vote of 203 to forty Barnes
Vile was carried in favor Of a water
works system.
The city council of Mortified has
refused to grant more than five saloon
licenses for next year.
Anoka has 917 pupils enrolled in it's
schools and it's school buildings and
sites are valued at 5000.
The annual conference of the Amer
lean Sunday school union will be
held in Minneapolis in October.
The second summer meeting of the
Retail Jewelers. association will be
held in Minneapolis July rs and 26.
A derrick at the St. Croix dam fell
last week, injuring Engineer Thomp-
son. He died the next day, June %.
A proposed Minneapolis ordinance
makes sixteen years the lowest age
limit for running automobiles in the
city.
The rainfall for June just passed
broke eight years. record for Mime
sofa, it being 7.21 inches. In 1897 it
was nine inches.
The Minnesota foot ball team will
meet at Waconia, Mimi, September
l, for the preliminary training for
the next seasons work.
Mrs. Christ Dobmeier of St. Cloud,
accidentally shot her six-year-old
daughter on June 30. It is thought
the wound will prove fatal.
Forty-two boys and girls were taken
to Minneapolis from the school for
the feeble minded at Faribault on
June 80, to spend two months with
their parents.
Ninety-fve mineral leases covering
large territory in the vicinities of
Leech lake and Deer river have been
secured by William P. Lardner of Du-
luth, for $3.50.
Twenty cans of trout fry have been
planted in the streams of Winona
county. Complaints have been made
from that county that dynamite is be-
ing used in fishing.
There is considerable talk of abol-
ishing the U. S. land Office at St.
Cloud and consolidating the business
at the Crookston land office. St.
Cloud people object.
P. August Eklund, secretary of the
Clay County Land company of Moor
head, has disappeared and it is re-
ported that he is short in his accounts
from $4,000 to $1,000.
There are fears that Minnesota may
not be represented in the national rifle
contest to be held at Seagrit, N. j.,
on August "a, because there will be
no money to pay expenses.
Delay by the capitol commission in
completing the steps to the new capt.
toll has been the subject of much COM
plant. One entrance is in such con-
dition that it can not be used.
An old book has been found in the
office of the city clerk of Minneapolis,
which contains a complete list of the
enlistments during the civil war from
the township of Minneapolis.
It has been announced since the late
census was completed that the number
of prisoners in the State penitentiary
is increasing more than four times as
fast as the population of the State.
A telephone guywire conducted
lightning into the basement of build
ing in LeSueur last week causing an
explosion, wrecking the building and
injuring a boy so badly that he died.
The old flour mill property at Elk
River has changed hands and there
is a move on foot to secure the build
ing of new 2OO-barrel mill on the
site of the one burned some time ago.
E. E. Mcdonald of Bemidji has
been elected by the board of county
commissioners to fill the vacancy
caused in Beltrami county by the res
ignation of H. j. Loud, county attor-
ney.
The Hawkins mine, one of the larg-
est in the Immediate vicinity of Nash
wauk, will be operated heavier than
usual this year, and properties of the
United States Steel company will be
opened.
Several Elk River people we're pas
sengers on the Denver train which was
wrecked at Pinto recently. None OF
them we're injured. Mrs. N. K. Whit
temore and her daughter we're of the
number.
The Northern Pacific railway has
submitted plans to the. grade crossing
committee for the elevation of it's
tracks in southeast Minneapolis, the