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MINNESOTA NEWS
I'D Interesting Items Gathered IN the 40
! r. Gopher State "
Fanas Are Not Drawn,

st. Paul-"Sam" Fullerton is not a
dead one yet, and certain dealers in
contraband game who held banquet
recently in st. Paul to rejoice over the
game protectors downfall find that
their jubilation was premature. Mr..
Fullerton is no longer executive agent
but he has been retained by the game
and fish commission with the title Of
superintendent of fisheries" He will
have charge of the st. Paul and Glen
wood fish hatcheries, will superintend
the taking of fish eggs and fry, and
will assist in the executive depart
ment when needed. This means that
during the duck and chicken season
Fullerton will be just as perniciously
active as ever
The new commission organized as
follows: o. J. Johnson Of Glenwood,
was elected president; ]. H. Grill Of
Sherburne, e-president; Robert H.
Hanna Of Fergus Falls, secretary, and
Carlos Avery of Hutchinson, executive
agent. The commission settled the
disputed claim of Tanner Brothers for
fish ponds at the Glenwood hatchery
on the basis Of $1,000.
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Fierce Drive.

McIntosh.-Driving thirty miles
through deep snow, the journey oc-
cupying three days, with sick child
in her arms for the entire distance,
Mrs. Albert Oefstos aptly illustrated
the pluck and hardihood Of Minnesota
women. Mrs. Oefstos lives on a claim
near Lilo, and this winter her hus-
band has been working in the woods,
leaving his wife and child alone. Two
weeks ago the little one was taken
violently i'll with Group, and then came
fight for it's life. The mother treat
ed the little one with such home rem
edies as she had, but finding that the
disease did not yield, she determined
to bring it here to a doctor. She har-
messed horse to a cutter and wrap
ping herself and the little one as warm
ly as possible and taking along sup
ply of cooked food, started on the
thirty-mile drive. So deep was the
snow that not more than ten miles a
day could be accomplished. The nights
were spent with friendly settlers, and
with the first break of dawn the
anxious mother again started on her
quest for relief for the child. The
journey ended and the mother felt well
repaid for her hardships by the recov-
cry Of the child.
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damned to you!" replied the burly
old royal prince, swinging on his heel
and ordering his aide-de-camp in wait
ing to show the colonel to the door.
A few days later 1t was announced
that COL Wellesley, who in his boy
hood had been page of honor of
Queen Victoria, had been "graciously
permitted" to resign his commission
in the army.
How an Emperor Avenged Blow.
In the same way that European Of
ficers are debarred from fighting
duels with people Of the working
classes, so are they precluded from
meeting royal personages and crowned
heads on the field of honor. If young
officer during heated argument
with some comrade of royal or i'm
perial rank receives blow, he has no
alternative but to blow his own
brains out.
On one memorable occasion EN-
peror Francis Joseph interviewed in
person to prevent an act of self-de-
struction of this kind. The late Arch
duke Otto, his nephew, while en-
deavoring in drunken freak to con-
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axes.

st. Paul-The abstract of tax lists
of all counties of Minnesota, just is
sued by State Auditor Iverson, shows
that the average rate of taxation in
Minnesota has fallen from 1920 mills
in 1905. to $3.50 mills in 1906.
The total amount Of taxes paid by
the people of Minnesota for all pur-
poses. state, county, city, village and
school districts, amounts to s23,472.-
677.06, an increase of over $1,100.000
over the previous year.
The rate Of taxation in Hennepin
county is 1888 mills, slightly below the
average in the state. Hennepin's to-
tai taxes amount to $5,253, 264. rs,
nearly one-fourth Of all taxes paid in
the state.
The total value Of all property in
Minnesota for taxation purposes is
$917,017,413, compared to $S53,033,535
in 1905. OF the total amount personal
property constitutes $163, 432,357.
City and village taxes show sub
stantial increase throughout. The
taxes for state revenue purposes
have decreased from $1,53S,sO1 in 1905
to s1,421,3s7 in 1905.
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sion, extorted from him in a moment
of evaporation and when smarting
under sense of injustice, resulted in
the ruin of his political career and in
his being ,blacklisted by English so
ciety.
Perhaps the most mortal of all sins
in the eyes of unwritten law is unfair
play at cards, and there are few fami-
lies of birth and breeding on either
side of the Atlantic who would not in.
finitely prefer to have a murderer
among their relatives than man
who has been caught cheating at the
card table. For it inflicts a stain upon
the family escutcheon which can
never be effaced, and which is remem-
bered against the house concerned
from generation to generation. A
man caught in the act of unfair play
is exempt from punishment by the
tribunals OF the land. But the penalty
imposed upon him by unwritten law
is immeasurably more severe than
anything that statute could devise.
For, instead of being restricted to
himself. it extends to those who are
nearest and dearest 20 him, and he
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News Notes,

Vernon Center.-Mr. and Mrs. F. H.
Barnes celebrated the fiftieth anniver-
sary Of their wedding. About eighty
Of their old neighbors and friends as
sembled from Vernon Center Lake
Crystal and vicinity.
Mankato.-While Raymond Doyle and
William Engel, of Plum Valley, were
on their way home from Minnesota
Lake the king bolt on the wagon
broke, throwing both men out. Engel
was not much injured, but Doyle was
badly hurt and was carried back to
Minnesota, Lake. It was found that
his jaw was broken and it was neces-
sary to remove six Of his teeth.
Newton.-The 11-year-old daughter
Of John Blush, OF Bluffton, sustained
a serious laceration of her hand by
the explosion of dynamite cap. The
little girl was alone in the house, and
out Of curiosity picked up a dynamite
using in some blasting that he intend
ed to do. While she was examining
it the cap exploded, tearing a hole
through her hand.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES in this county
are moro numerous than in former
years and many are being shot. It
Is reported that hunter shot large
timber wolf inside of the city limits
the other day. A woman living on the
outskirts of the city a few evenings
ago heard a disturbance in her hen
house, and upon investigation she
found wolf trying to get at her poul-
try. She attempted to chase the beast
away, but it showed fight. When she
returned with help, the animal had
disappeared.
Barnes, we'll known residents Of Yer
non Center, celebrated the ffftieth
birthday anniversary Of their wedding
a day or so ago. Eighty Of their old
friends and neighbors from Vernon
Center, Lake Crystal and vicinity as
sembled to do them honor. and boun-
tiful luncheon was served. The old
couple were presented with several
handsome gifts. A biography Of the
couple was read by E. W.>Washburn.
The celebration was planned and took
place at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. F.
H. Barnes.
Minneapolis.-H. w. Lauderdale. Of
Minneapolis, Fred r. Johnson, of New
Richmond, K. j. Knutson, Of Mankato,
and William S. Erwin are the four
freshmen chosen to enter the annual
inter-class oratorical contest in the
university chapel March 6. The soph-
ignores who won places are Dagny
Knutson, of st. Cloud, T. L. Potter and
NJ Lowenthal, Of Minneapolis, and S.
TT Patarcon IF Minnaota Tho aiOht
were picked from a field Of nineteen
contestants. Professors NJ. L. Sanford
and e. e. McDermott and D. w.
Sprague, N. Whitney and T. Cahill
were the judges. Three prizes are Of
fered in the final contest, s25. SIS and
$40.
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Totes Dou TO ST. Paul.

Moorhead-A man who claims to be
travelling from Havre, Mont, to st. Paul,
was picked up AMI brought to this
city by a Great Northern section crew.
The man, who says his name is Haw-
ley, was found about two miles south
east of Moorhead. He was walking
along the tracks and carried a dead
dog over his shoulder. He wanted to
sell the carcass for 5000, but insisted
that he must keep the skin, which he
had to take to st. Paul. He is being
held pending an inquiry as to his
sanity
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Mound Likely to Kill.

Browns Valley.-Ole Aspesletten was
shot here with a SO calibre revolver in
the hands of Peter Branden, a we'll
known farmer, living over the line in
Roberts county, South Dakota. The
shooting is supposed to have been ac-
cidental, although Branden is being
held to see IL the result proves fatal.
Aspesletten is still alive, but the doc
tors say his chances for recovery are
small. Four ragged holes in his intes-
tines mark the path Of the bullet. He
is "a years old and came from Nor
way a year ago. The men had been
fishing and INDUCED in alcohol. Care
less handling Of a loaded revolver Is
given as the cause Of the affair, al
though there is rumor Of previous
quarrel.
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MT Mes EPNkNC0W
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G0nIHIZZNYG HNRHTIpI

duct a bacchanalian party of men and
women into the apartments of his
wife, the Archduchess Marie Josepha
in order, as he explained, that they
might see what an archduchess
looked like in bed-was stopped in the
corridor leading to her apartments by
his aide-de-camp, who drawing his
sabre, threatened to run through the
body anyone excepting the archduke
who endeavored to pass him.
The crowd, sobered by the serious
ness of the situation, hesitated and
then withdrew. But the archduke was
so beside himself with rage at being
baked in his project that he struck
the young officer a blow in the face.
The matter was brought to the imme-
date notice of the commander of the
garrison, who communicated by tele-
graph with the emperor. Francis
Joseph ordered that the young officer
be prevented from doing himself any
harm, at all costs, fastened to the
scene from Vienna and, having as
sembled all the principal officers sum-
moned both his nephew, Archduke
Otto, and the young aide-de-camp to
his presence.
Apostrophizing the latter in his
kindliest manner, he exclaimed: 81
have to express my gratitude to you,
sir, for having undertaken the de-
Tense of my dear niece at moment
when she was in urgent need of your
protection. In so doing you received
a blow for which you yourself cannot
obtain satisfaction and which you
could not return. But 1 can redress
that indignity for you;" and with that
he strobe up to Archduke Otto, and
before all present slapped his face,
thereupon ordering him under arrest
for a period of six months, and de-
prived him of his command. The
young officer was promoted and deco
rated But had it not been for the
emperors interference and for the
manner in which he avenged the af-
front imposed upon the young A. d.
c., the latter would have been COM
PEELED by unwritten law to have blown
out his brains.
Unwritten Law and Perjury.
Perjury is according to every Grim
inal code of Europe a felony, yet the
correspondent in divorce case, no
matter how guilty, is compelled by the
unwritten law to perjure himself in
the witness box like gentleman"
and failure to comply with this re-
quirement entails an ostracism which
by many is regarded as worse than
death, as one of the most eminent
of English statesmen found to his
cost. In endeavoring to exculpate him
self of the unfounded charge of hav-
ing betrayed young married woman
whom he had known from childhood,
he admitted under examination that
he had been guilty of too great in
timaoy with her mother. This confess
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Cooley TO Be DeIeuate,

st. Paul-George w. Cooley, secre-
tary of the state highway commission,
has been invited to attend the fourth
annual convention of the American
Roadmakers' Association, which will
be held at Pittsburg for three days,
beginning March IL. Mr.. Cooley will
be the delegate from Minnesota. Pos
sibly Gustave Scholle OF the state
highway commission will also attend.
There will be representatives at the
convention from all parts Of the Union
and addresses will be made by ex-
pert road builders from various parts
of the country.
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was universally regarded as having
received his deserts, and his assailant
looked upon as having complied with
the requirements of the code of social
ethics. Nor was he ever troubled by
the authorities in connection there
with, and remained respected mem
Der of his class, and of the communi-
ty in gereral, and of society, both at
home ard abroad
When the late Edward Parker Dea-
con found A. Abeille, the French club
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man and race horse owner, in the
apartments of Mrs. Deacon on that
memorable night in the hotel at Nice,
and shot him as he endeavored to
conceal himself behind sofa, he
acted strictly in accordance with the
demands of unwritten law, and it may
safely be assumed that If he had been
a Frenchman instead of foreigner,
and an American at that, he would
never have been sentenced to even
the brief term of Imprisonment TO
which he was condemned.
Unwritten Law and the DuelIo.
Duelling is even more strictly for
hidden by law in England than on the
continent. But if a member of the
English diplomatic service, or an Off
Ger of the English army or navy, re-
ceives while abroad a challenge to
fight, or is made the subject of an in
dignity calling for redress to fight, he
is forced to resign not only his COM
mission but also the membership OF
his clubs. Not even all the immense
social influence of colonel the Hon.
Frederick Wellesley, brother of the
late Earl Cowley, and now husband
of the widowed Duchess of Yelling
ton, was able to save him from fate
such as this while acting as charge
d'affaires of Great Britain at Vienna
some IL or Is years ago. Col. Welles-
ley, who was also A. d. G. to Queen
Victoria, became involved in the Aus
trian capital in quarrel about wom-
an with an Austrian nobleman, Count
K, who resented to such an extent
his behavior, as we'll as his remarks,
that he struck him with his glove
across the face and challenged him to
fight. Wellesley refused, however, to
accept the challenge on the ground
that by so doing he would render him
owing to the fact that the English
articles of war prescribe the penalty
of being cashiered for every officer
involved in a duel either as princi-
pal or as second.
Called to Task by His General.
Wellesley was at once relieved of
his Office of charge d'affaires at the
suggestion of the Viennese court.
which did not relish the idea of being
compelled to accord diplomatic hon
ors to a man who had thus shown the
white feather, and shortly after his
return to London one of his fellow
officers of the Guards, Capt. John Del
acour who had witnessed the affair
at Vienna, brought the matter before
the notice of the other members of
the corps. In due course it reached
the ears of the old duke of Cambridge,
cousin of Queen Victoria and general
issimo of the British army. He sent
for Col. Wellesley and asked him if
it were true that he had taken shelter
behind the army regulations to avoid
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Poultry Men Ballot.

Mankato-At the annual meeting Of
the Central Minnesota Poultry Asso-
citation, it was decided to hold the next
annual poultry show in this city on
Jan. to 10, 1908. The report of the
secretary showed the recent show to
have been a success in every way.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: H. W. Perry, presi
dent; Charles E. Keith, first vice-presi-
dent; Mrs. Ed. McGrath of st. Peter,
second vice-president; E. c. Willard,
treasurer; j. w. HOLMAN, secretary;
c. E. Keith, superintendent.
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LDM4RD RRxp AEAcoM

has no alternative but either to kill
himself or else to disappear and seek
his fortune in some remote foreign
country, where, disguised as to ap-
pearance, silent as to his origin, and
under an assumed name, he passes
his time in fear and trembling lest he
should be recognized and be once
more driven forth like the wandering
Jew of old from his temporary refuge.
Construed Insults.
There are all sorts of minor pro.
visions of the unwritten law which II
would take too much time and space
to enumerate here, but among which
may be mentioned the rule which con.
strues it as an insult when a man in
filling his neighbours glass slants the
bottle backward instead of forward.
More than one sanguinary duel has
been fought to the personal knowl-
edge of the writer in Austria for a
breach of etiquette of this kind. In
the same way in the orient, if in
showing the blade of a sword to an
acquaintance one happens to turn the
edge thereof toward him he will con-
slider his honor impugned, and if by
any chance he is a Japanese of rank
he is capable of going off and commit
ting suicide by ripping himself open,
leaving document stating that hav-
ing been insulted honor demanded
that he should commit hara-kiri, and
calling upon his nearest relatives to
avenge him.
In Relation to the Thaw Case.
With regard to the application Of
the unwritten law to the case of
Harry Thaw, there are several con-
siderations to be noted in endeavoring
to bring it to bear upon the tragedy
of Madison Square roof garden. If
young Mrs. Thaw had been without
any stormy antecedents, and had been
subjected by Stanford White to indig-
mites and insulting proposals since
her marriage, her husband would have
been justified, according to the terms
of the unwritten claw, as understood
abroad, in shooting him, though of
course it would have been more chiv-
alrous to have given him a chance Of
defending himself instead of taking
him at disadvantage and unarmed.
But, unfortunately, young Mrs.
Thaw is not without past; that she
was educated at the cost of White,
and had known him first as a school
girl, then as model, and finally as
chorus girl, for several years prior to
her marriage, cannot be denied. Her
relations with White before becoming
Mrs. Thaw, and also her career in
New York and Paris prior to her mar
riage were of a nature to debar her
husband from shooting White unless
he had actually caught him in the
very act of insulting her. That at
least is the status of the Thaw- White
drama from the point of view of I'm.
written law.-New York World.
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the consequence of quarrel at
Vienna, thereby bringing discredit to
the corps of officers of the famous
regiment to which he belonged. Wells
ley, OF course, was obliged to
admit that he had been guilty of the
charge. Then" said the duke, you
had better leave the army
Leave the army, sir?" exclaimed
the colonel. "But what am / to do if
/ leave the army?"
Turn dancing master and be
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"Unzyriittten Lao" !;
Notable Instances
of It's Application.

Its Application Bereaved the
Emperor of Austria, Who Took
No Revenge for The Killing of
His Son-Prince Baldwin of
Belgium. Heir Apparent to the
Throne, Violated Its Provi.
sions, and His Slayer. an Indis-
nanf Husband. Was Never
Troubled by the Authorities
II Has q Relation, Too, in En-.
ropeau Countries to the Duel,
to Cheating and to Suicide.
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News Notes.

Mankato-The public School at
Cleveland is closed for two weeks on
account of an epidemic Of measles.
Milaca-John Hanks, an Indian, was
found dead in the road near Page.
Coroner Bacon decided that the man
had been frozen to death. Several
bottles Of whisky were found on the
body, and it is supposed that the In
dian had become intoxicated and lay
down in the road to sleep and was
frozen to death.
Cannon Falls-Joseph Timmeras was
run over by train at Stanton, sta
ton about eight miles west of here.
He was on his way home from Wis
consin to visit his father, who is in
poor health. He had stepped off the
train and was about to start for home
when be was struck.