The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-11-01
State News.

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and gambling of all kinds prevails.
This, of course, is gratifying to the
gamblers on the range and a number
of them have arrived from neighbor-
ing towns.
The three box car thieves, Frank
Kelley, Frank Rush and Ed Lane,
were sentenced at Red Wing to i'm
prisonment in the state penitentiary
at Saltwater at hard labor for one
year each.
Mrs. Linton Elliott was found dead
in her bed Sunday morning at her
home, Crocus Terrace, St. Paul.
Death is supposed to have resulted
from ptomaine poison in canned peas,
acting upon the heart, which was weak.
An epidemic of ringworm has broken
out in the public schools of Fergus
Falls and the chairman of the board
of health has warned the public that
children afflicted with the disease must
be kept at home, as it is decidedly
contagious.
t Believing that Lemuel Hill, an aged
bachelor who died in WinOna, went to
his grave with a secret regarding a
fortune which relatives supposed he
had saved during his long life as a
recluse, search was begun on his farm
at Pleasant Hill. The searchers were
rewarded after an all day hunt by
finding under the floor of the barn
personal property valued at about
$4,000.
An epidemic of typhoid fever intro
duced from other towns is raging at
Eveleth and four deaths have been
reported during the last two weeks,
the fourth occurring Oct. 26 just out
side the city limits. Twenty-Five
cases have been reported from within
the city and it is feared that many of
these will prove fatal, as in some in
stances the fever has apparently a
deep hold on the systems of it's VIC
Tins. 49,
One hundred passengers had mi
raculOus escape from serious injury
or death when the Northern Pacific
passenger train leaving White Bear
at 7:20 o'clock on Friday ran into
freight train at Gladstone crossing.
The engine of the passenger train was
overturned and ditched. It was prac-
tically demolished. Engineer Brown
and Fireman Haas jumped and es-
capped injury. The passengers were
all shaken up but none were injured.
i Indian Agent Frater is making an
annuity payment of SIS per capita to
the Leech Lake Indians. The older
Indians and the Bear islanders are
greatly dissatisfied, for they expected
a payment of at least S25, as in other
reservations. They assert that there
is Sc, 900, 900 of their funds in the trea-
sury at Washington and that they
have received nothing from the sale of
their timber in recent years. Many
} chiefs are refusing to accept the pay
ment.
Bank robbers broke into the section
house at Burtrum, took the hand car
out and pumped to Swanville, where
they made raid on the Bank of
Swanville at midnight. They broke
into the front door, tore down the
brick wall of the vault and charged
the door of the safe with nitro-glycer-
inc. The door was blown off, but the
robbers got no further. Someone
rang the telephone in the bank and it
scared them away. The citizens of the
town heard the noise and instead of
organizing posse they telephoned
the sheriff at Little Falls. By the
time he arrived the robbers had made
their escape in the darkness.
Rev. Frank Higgins, who is known
throughout northern Minnesota as the
''Lumber Jack Skypilot" has arranged
for the establishment of bi-weekly
paper at Fergus Falls to be known as
1.-The Lumber jack The paper will
be designed to circulate among the
lumbermen of the state, and while de-
voting considerable attention to local
news of the camps will be semi-relig-
ious in character, and will carry on
something of an anti-drinking and
anti-gambling crusade. It will be
edited by Rev. T. D. Whites, the
pastor of the Presbyterian church
there. Mr.. Whites has been asso-
ciated with Mr.. Higgins to some ex-
tent in his mission work in the logging
camps, and the work has now grown
to very considerable proportions.
The new meat inspection law is
causing much confusion and it will
be several months before business
generally will become adjusted to the
new conditions. A few days ago
Henry Saxon of Fox Lake killed five