The Princeton union., 1906-05-03
State News.

"A WayZdGd mdl, d0Qry Angus
Braden, who was a supervisor of the
Agnew, Cal., hospital for the insane,
was killed in the destruction of that
institution by the earthquake.
Herman Nelson of Minneapolis, a
boilermaker employed in taking down
the refuse burner in the mill of the
Brainerd Lumber company, fell fifty
feet, striking on his head on pile of
brick. He was not seriously injured.
1t has been decided to shut down the
Chaska corn-canning factory, the
company having sunk $4,000 during
the past year, and there are thousands
of cases of the product on hand for
which there is now no market at
profit. The plant is for sale.
The agitation for a creamery at
Mora has finally borne fruit and a
first class butter factory will be
erected at once. A company has been
formed consisting of 43 members and
81 100 has been raised to build the
creamery and put it in running order.
The Twin City Telephone Co. has
filed with the secretary of state a bill
of sale of all it's property for S4, 900, 900
to the Tri-State Telephone & Tele-
graph company. The latter company
assumes all the indebtedness of the
Twin City company. No explanation
of the transfer is made.
A fire broke out in the Office of the
Anoka Herald at midnight on Friday
night. The blaze was in the floor un-
der the engine and was hard to COM
bat. Most of the damage, however,
was from the water, which flooded the
Office and ran down upon the stock of
goods of Campbell & Howard.
A temporary organization of the
Willmar Strawboard Manufacturing
company has been made for the pur-
pose of Investigating the merits of
the strawboard manufacturing project
offered by Peter Prins of Holland,
and to ascertain if the necessary
stock can be secured for factory for
Willmar.
The city council of Eveleth has de-
cided that Louis Larson, former city
clerk, is not to be prosecuted for the
alleged embezzlement of 1920 from the
city. Larson's present abode is un-
known. The council decided to let the
shortage of 1920 remain with the hope
that Larson may be induced to reim-
burse the city.
Members of the Anoka Commercial
club voted by more than two to one at
a meeting held last week to request
the city council to fix the saloon IL
cense for the ensuing year at ST, 900.
This is double the amount it has al
ways been. and, if put into effect, will
reduce the number of saloons in all
probability from ten to five.
Fish are running up stream in very
large quantities in the Otter Tail
river, and at the foot of the mill dam
at Frazee there are hundreds of fish,
the larger portion of which are suck
ers and pickerel. Barrels of suckers
have been speared by the boys and
men, and some of the people are salt
ing them down in barrels for summer
use.
John Stewart a cattle buyer of
North Dakota, has been found MUIR
dered in the brush twenty miles south
of Roseau. Robbery was the motive.
He was last seen Dec. %, when he
started to walk from Wannaska to
Thief River Falls. It is supposed
the crime was committed by an en-
ployee of Stewart, who disappeared
the same date.
The state drainage board has ap-
propriated $4,000 for the construc-
tion of state bitches in the northern
part of the state. The amount will
reclaim about 40, 900 acres of swamp
The sum of $4,000 was appropriated
for ditch in Kittson county, Sc, 1000
for Itasca county, 1000 for St. Louis
county, $4,000 for Aitkin county and
$4,000 for Clearwater county.
Rigid restrictions are to be thrown
about the retail liquor traffic in the
village of Kasota. Two years ago
the town voted out it's saloons, but at
the last election, held April 3, license
carried by the narrow margin of one
vote, the result being IS to 76. At the
same election the ticket supported by
the temperance faction won out, and
when the council came to pass upon
the liquor question it fixed the license
fee at 81, 200 and voted to permit only
one saloon to open for business in
Kasota.
Burglars entered the Golden Rule
department store and the Silver Bell