The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-01-25
THE PBfNURToN UNION: THURSDAY, JANUARY %, 1900

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senior grand steward, William Mas
terman, Saltwater; junior grand
steward, Charles W. Sites, Lake Ben
ton; grand pursuivant, E. 81. Sher-
win, Monticello; grand tyler, Charles
j. Kruger, St. Paul.
A carelessly placed stovelid almost
cost the lives of the family of G. G..
Goodnow, north of Pipestone. The
open hole allowed the gas from a
hard-coal fire to escape through the
house. Goodnow awakened during
the night but was so overcome by the
gas as to be helpless. Mrs. Good
now, however, had sufficient strength
to get to the window, which she
opened and let in the fresh air. All
OF the family we're sick, but soon re-
covered.
DR.. P. D. Winship of Park Rapids
has been successful in securing from
the Great Northern a promise to
transport, free of charge, a carload
OF rock phosphate, to be used as a
fertilizer on the farms in that part of
the state. In the past two years DR..
Winship has been experimenting with
rock phosphate as a fertilizer and
has met with much success. The fac
tory is at Mount Pleasant, Tenn, and
the doctor has been in correspondence
with the railway officials for some
time regarding the free transportation
of carload of the product to Park
Rapids, his intention being to sell it
to the farmers at actual cost.
Deer are SO numerous in the north
country that settlers on the reserva-
ton south Of Red lake are seriously
considering an appeal to the state to
protect them from the ravages caused
by the animals. Andy Higgins, a
homesteader from that vicinity, says
that the deer are eating the farmers
hay: that he saw eight together one
day surrounding haystack. He be-
lieves that the state should send a
deputy into that section next fall to
cut hay for the deer so that they will
let the settlers crops alone. He says
the settlers are getting out of patience
| and are liable to violate the game
laws if something is not done.
In a cave-in of quicksand at the
Lincoln mine, Virginia, which has
been timbered up, Polka .Nichni. "a
miner, was buried twenty feet deep,
from s o'clock in the evening until 6
O'Clock in the morning, and then was
rescued alive. A large boulder,
weighing several tons, together with
some of the timbers, fell in such way
that a small cavity was left about
the upper part of Nichni's chest and
head, the rest of his body being held
by the dirt as firmly as by vice.
The rescuing party of ten men worked
like Trojans on ifteen-minute shifts,
there being room for only two men to
work at time. When Nichni was
reached the candles of the men near
est him were extinguished, the air
having become exhausted to such
degree. Nichni is now in a hospital
and will recover.
St. Peter is crowding Duluth for
wild animal honors. Early Monday
evening a full-grown wild cat was
shot and killed we'll inside the city
limits. It was brought down by
Patrick M artin, who lives in the out
skirts of town, and. his experience was
somewhat exciting. Several times of
late he has missed chickens and other
poultry and on Monday evening, when
great commotion arose in his barn
yard, he ran out to learn the cause of
the trouble. AS he entered the chicken
house he saw a large animal stink
away into a remote corner. While
still on the threshold the beast sprang
at him out of the darkness, but his
quickness enabled him to slam the
door and make prisoner of the cat.
Returning to his dwelling he selected
a shell charged with heavy shot and
dispatched the catamount, which was
found to measure seven feet and eight
inches from the top of it's head to the
tip of it's tail.
Costly Scissors.