Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-02-03
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readers are already familiar with the excellent
~Magazine Section which the Times formerly
published and it is this service which we have
secured,
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their cooperation i'll making The Tribune as
truly representative as possible of the thought
and progress of Morris and Stevens county.
H. P Hall wrote an interesting letter to
last Saturdays Dispatch describing the capitol
at Albany, New York. It seems from what
Hall says that Minnesota got better building
for 81, 100000 than New York got for $25OOO,0OO
Cuba haa voted $50 600 for wedding gift to
Miss Alice Roosevelt This, and other foreign
gifts, are very nice expressions of good will
to the president and people of the United
States, but it is mighty poor taste to accept
them. Its tax payers money
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Grant Van SAINT, formerly resident Of
Morris, and son of Ex-Governor Van SAINT, is
mentioned for the Republican nomination for
mayor of St. Paul. The Republicans of St.
Paul wish, to redeem that city from Democratic
rule, and are anxious to get the younger ele-
ment Of the party interested in the contest
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The sn1tan of Morocco COMPLAINS that the
rich do not pay taxes and that he has only the
poor to collect from He wants the conference
of the powers to solve this difficulty for him.
When the conference gets thru, they might tell
the people of this country how to make the
corporations here pay their just share of the
taxes,
Waiter 7. Lemon, a cleancut young St.
Paul Republican, and for the past two terms
member of the House of Representatives, an
nounCes his candidacy for clerk of the supreme
court. We do not know what success he will
have in a contest with the present incumbent,
Mr.. Pidgeon, but we do know that he is cap
able and deserving young man.
Alteady some good men have been selected
for the next state senate. According to the
local papers, Frank Clague, the speaker of the
last House, will have clear field in his dis
trict, and r. H. Jefferson, of Bingham Lake, who
attention in the last House by his indie
pendent fight against Whitewash Bowling,
will also have a clear field. The Ortonville
Herald-Star says that F. NJ Geier, of the city
will be a candidate in the fifty-sixth district.
The following declaration by Senator
George F. Hoar is TO form the inscription on
his monument: II have no faith in fatalism,
in destiny, in blind force. believe in God, the
living God believe Ill the American people, {
a brave and free people, who do not bow the
neck or bend the knee to any other, and who I
knee to them, believe that a republic is great
er than an empire. believe finally, whatever
clouds may darken the horizon that the world
is growing better, and that tomorrow will be
better than today"
Minneapolis is discussing why it's water
system cannot support itself Morris should
turn it's attention to the same thing. Neither
the Minneapolis the Morris system
carries its own debt, pays it's interest or
provides for it's own sinking fund, and yet it is 1
a self evident proposition that it should do So
In Minneapolis they have installed many