The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-03-15
State News.

for the Minneapolis Tribune, shot
and wounded his wife, aged 26, and
then blew out his brains.
The seventeenth annual commence
ment exercises of the state school of
agriculture will be held at the univer-
sity of Minnesota from March Is to 2l.
Failure of the city council of Eveleth
to designate an official paper for the
current year has practically resulted
in the tying up of all city business,
Mayor Charles Jesmore having given
the city clerk orders not to have any
legal publishing done until the city
has an official paper.
Joseph Gardner will be placed on
trial for his life for the second time
at Grand Rapids on March 20.
Gardner, who was q former resident
of Superior and is now living at Hib-
bling, is charged with the murder of
William Garrison, a homesteader at
Grand Rapids, in July, 1904.
Charles H. Lienau, an early settler
in St. Paul and prominent throughout
the state as the owner of the St. Paul
Daily Volkszeitung and as politi-
clan, is dead at the home of his son,
John Lienau of San Francisco. He
was II years old. For the last few
years Mr.. Lienau has made him home
in Redlands, Cal.
Northrop field, Minneapolis, has
been leased to the G.. A. r., and the
encampment exercises will be held
there next August. This field is one
of the best in the country for football
and other sports, and the action of
the board of managers in letting the
field is taken as an indication that
there will be little football there next
season.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars will
be expended by the Union Stock
Yards company of South St. Paul
in providing a much-needed show
ring for sales of pure-bred cattle, and
a new modern horse barn. The stock
sales in South st. Paul are increasing
in volume and Importance and have
entirely Outgrown the present facil-
tiles. The proposed improvements
will make the market center of high
grade stock sales of horses and cattle.
Work will be started as soon as
ground can be broken.
The Indian appropriation bill, as
it passed the house, contained an ap-
preparation of $4,000 for topo-
graphical survey of Indian lands in
Minnesota, to be made with a view to
the preparation of a plan for draining
swamp lands. The bill also provides
for an increase in salary for assistant
superintendent of logging in the
Chippewa reservation from 81 to Sc
per diem. It was found difficult to
keep good men in this capacity be-
cause lumber companies were paying
cruisers Sc per day and boarding
them in their camps.
The alleged discovery of new evil
dence is the ground Of motion filed
in Anoka county for a new trail of
Orlin Kalderwit, John Kolb and
Charles Hammens, convicted at
Anoka last winter OF completely in the
murder Of the boy, Freddie King, at
Columbia Heights, near Minneapolis,
in November, 1904. Kalderwit was
sentenced to life Imprisonment. Kolb
and Hammons, convicted of murder in
the third degree, were sentenced to
thirty years. imprisonment. Argu-
ments in support of the new motion
will be heard On March 10.
Sue Quai Fook, a Chinaman, was
cdered deported by United States
Court Commissioner C. L. Spencer at
St. Paul. Fook was arrested at
Bemidji November % last and taken
to St. Paul. When arrested he in
formed the exclusion agent that he
had been a merchant in St. Paul since
May, 1905, but at his hearing he said
he bought an interest in the firm of
Quong Vat Chong in Chicago in 1892.
j. M. Dickey, assistant United
States attorney, weat to Chicago and
ound that the firm mentioned did not
begin business until 1895.
By the verdict of jury in Judge
Hollis court, Minneapolis, the Great
Northern Railway company won
substantial victory in it's efforts to Sc
cure the land in Bryn Mawr, needed
for the extension of the company's
yards. The jury found the land to
be worth s12,947, as against 81, 900,
the value fixed by the commission ap-
pointed by the district court and from
whose appraisal the j. G. Oswald
heirs appealed. The heirs asked $780,
900, and before the present appeal
came to trial the railway company
Nffaro0 oopo~nDx,oioo 80 o1Q nm -,