The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-03-01
State News.

The first white woman born in st.
Paul, Mimi, has just died, and she
wasn't quite sixty two years old.
The voters of the town of Elk River
are circulating a petition to vote on
the question of being separated from
the village for the purpose of govern
ment and taxation.
Harry Plumb, a Chicago, Milwaukee
s. St. Paul freight brakeman, was
knocked from boxcar, thrown under
the wheels and instantly killed while
switching in the yards at Leroy, MINI.
A crew of engineers. is engaged in
surveying line for railroad from
Gunt1int lake on the international
boundary between Minnesota and
Canada to Highland on the Duluth
& Iron Range road.
Again there is talk of an immense
dam being constructed on the Missis-
sippi river at Elk River which will
develop a $4,000 horse power. It is
said that company of eastern cap
italists with ample means is behind
the scheme.
The most disastrous fire in it's his
tory burned two blocks on the west
side Of the business street in Dawson,
which, with the exception of the Bank
of Dawson and the Carlson building,
were reduced to ashes. The loss ag-
gregates many thousands of dolalrs.
By the death Of an aged uncle in
Toronto, Ont, Perry Clute. work.
ingman of Elk River, has become heir
to $4,000. The money is in bank
in Toronto. MIR. Clute knows little
about his deceased relative and the
inheritance came as a great surprise.
Ole Valsvick, an employe of Swal-
low & Hopkins camp No. 6, about
twenty eight miles from Ely, was
taken to Ely suffering from a frac-
tured skull, having been hit by fall
ing tree. He was placed in the Ship
man hospital, but died few minutes
after arrival.ss
The St. Paul health department. has
started a very much needed milk cru
SADIE. The department will insist that
COWS of all herds furnishing milk to
St. Paul be inspected for tuberculosis.
Moreover, it will also enforce strictly
the laws as to the sanitary condition
of cans and the labelling of sour or
skim milk.
Edward Pierce, short-change
swindler and resident of Chicago, was
sentenced at Mankato to two years
and one month in the state peniten-
tiary. He has a penitentiary record
extending some years back. He is SO
years of age and is considered one of
the smoothest crooks that ever worked
the railroad lines of the northwest.
The little town of Chester, west of
Winona, on the Northwestern rail-
road, is rapidly disappearing. Sew
eral houses and buildings alreadyhave
been removed several miles, and
another is now on it's way. Still
another is to follow if the sleighing
holds out, and there will remain a
cluster of only half dozen buildings.
George Stokker. who had charge OF
the general store at Sigsbee, Freedom
county, met with sudden death by be-
ing thrown from an unmanageable
horse he was trying to ride. After
being thrown he held the bride and
was dragged a long distance before
the horse was stopped. His head
was terribly crushed. He leaves a
wife and two children.
f. S. Dove, who runs large
chicken ranch near Lake City, has de-
vised a scheme which he hopes will
result in larger production of eggs.
He has had his coops fitted with elec-
trio lights, and these are to be kept
brightly burning all night, so that if
the chickens are seized with desire
to lay an egg during the night they
will have sufficient light to enable
them to perform the operation with
care and exactness.
Worrying because he was unable to
buy back his old farm, which he had
recently solo, Edward Moore, a
farmer of Lexington township, threw
himself under the wheels of train at
LIE Sueur Center and was instantly
killed. Moore had sold his farm in
tending to purchase a larger one, but
the thought of leaving the place which
had so long been his home caused him
so much worry that it is believed his
mind became unbalanced.
Thomas Thayer, local agent for the
Milwaukee at Red Wing, received
letter from a young man living at
Stewartville, Mimi, enclosing check
for S1.15. About a year ago, the