The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-10-04
State News.

| Z. D. Grinols has succeeded Jas. A.
Martin as postmaster at st. Cloud.
The incorporation of the village of
Beaudette has been declared illegal in
decision 6ledd by Judge McClena-
han.
A final decision in the famous Sec
ton Sixteen" case at Cass Lake has
at last been rendered and Mrs. Nellie
Lydeck secures deed from the gov
eminent for her allotment, which for
many years has been a bone of con-
tention for the people of Cass county.
With the aid of two fire departments
from Belle Plain and New Prague
ire which for a time threatened the
entire business section of the village
OF Jordan was subdued, entailing
loss of $4,000. It was the worst con-
Migration Jordan has ever had, and
had aid not arrived promptly the
loss would have been much greater.
Frank E. Ellickson has sold the
Blue Earth Post to Charles W. Dill
man, late of the Sherburn Advance,
and Frank More, the efficient foreman
OF the Post, who under the name Of
Dillman & More, publishers and pro-
prietors, will take charge of the paper
on Oct. l. It will be conducted as
heretofore, a straight-out republican
sheet.
While separating two blooded boars
which were fighting in a pen at the
fair grounds Monday, D. 81. Blancher
of Winnebago, a hog breeder, was set
upon by one of the savage animals
and was badly lacerated about the
limbs. It is thought that he will re-
cover, although there is danger of
poisoning from the tusks of the
brutes.
John A. Oldenburg has sold the
bank of Finlayson to Messrs. M. W.
futile and G. W. Dixon. Mr.. Olden-
burg's reasons for selling we're that
the banking business had grown so
large that it required men who could
devote their entire time to the bust
ness and on account of his large mer-
camille business he could not give it
the attention. required.
The Hinckley cash store was broken
into, the safe was blown and s65
taken. Nothing else is missed. En-
trance was made through the front
door, which was pried open with
bar. It had been hit with a railroad
spike maui and the lock broken out.
The maui was found outside the door
in the morning. It belongs to the
Great Northern. The safe door was
blown to pieces and the corners of the
safe are cracked. The job was evil
IDENTIFY done by experts.
-Four runaway boys we're captured
lin Willmar by the police, three Of
them being from Minneapolis and one
from Melette, S. D. Their ages
ranged from 10 to ID years. They
we're stealing a ride on a passenger
train from the east and said they we're
going to Seattle, where the mother of
one of the boys resided. To all
appearances the lads were of the
dime-novel variety, and we're bent on
seeing the "wild and woolly west. :"
One of them was armed with re-
volver.
John Shepperd, one of the princi-
pals at the Indain school at Pipe
stone, is out looking for seven or
eight Indian children who have es-
capped from the Indian training school
with which he is connected. He states
that they have trouble every year after
the school opens with the children who
are brought in from the wilds. They
cannot get used to the domesticity of
the school and long to get out into the
wilderness. The children who left
this year are mostly from the White
Earth reservation.
Mrs. Beaulieu of Cass Lake has
commenced suit against the Great
Northern for $4,000 damages. The
cause Of the action is peculiar. On
July 20, 1906, Elizabeth, the 4-year-
old daughter of Mrs. Beaulieu died
in Cass Lake. The remains we're prop
erly prepared for shipment to White
Earth, with orders to transfer at
Erskine. But instead of making the
necessary transfer, the body was car
ried through to Crookston, thus de-
laying the funeral twenty-four hours
and causing the plaintiff great annoy
ance and damage.
Despite the fact that the police of
East Grand Forks believe the So, 700
carried by Henry tombstone, sus-
pected of being a bank robber, was
dishonesty obtained, there was no
eVidenca nv which JOhnstOna cO111d he