The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-03-28
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An incendiary fire destroyed the city
hall, fire station and city electric light
plant at East Grand Forks, causing q
loss of $50, 900.
A deal has been closed whereby q
controlling interest in the Bemidji
daily and weekly Pioneer has passed
into the hands of Clyde J. Pryor and
A. G. Rutledge.
W. A. Cassler of the Red River
Lumber company says that at the
nineteen camps along the logging line
of this company the seasons cut of
pine will be 120,ooo,0O0 feet. This is
considered a good cut. Logging oper-
ations near Akeley are about finished
for this year.
St. Paul will be recognized as one
of the leading railroad centers of the
country by the interstate commerce
commission. The state capital is to
be made a district headquarters for
carrying into effect the provisions of
the new railroad law. A district dep
uty commissioner and force of
clerks will eventually be sent to St.
Paul. ..>.--. ......
The only township not open for
entry in St. Louis county is 65-15.
This is just IL miles north of Tower
and is supposed to contain more or
less mineral. Several homesteaders
are located there and most of the
timber land was scripped years ago,
but the heavy fires that have swept
through the section to the north have
probably destroyed most of the pine.
A newspaper item was the means of
bringing to the attention of friends of
William Kruger, a former resident of
Crookston, now living on claim
near Blackjack, information that a
fortune of $3.50, 1000 awaits him in Kan
sas. Kruger has been told of his
good luck and is on his way to Kan
sas, to get the money, which, the ad-
vertisement says, has been left him by
an uncle who died several years ago.
The prospective tonnage from the
proposed Duluth steel plant and the
incidental trade caused by the demand
of the Armour packing plant at Mime
apolis upon the livestock of northern
Minnesota is the cause of another
contemplated railroad line to Duluth.
The new road will be called the Twin
City & Lake Superior, and if the
promises of it's promoters come true it
will be running trains into Duluth be-
fore the present year has elapsed.
Already more than IS per cent of the
right-of-way between Duluth and Min
neapolis has been secured and the
promoters say that actual construc-
ton will commence this summer.
When Capt. Edwin F. Barrett of LIE
Sueur sold out the Sentinel last year
he turned over his old subscription
accounts to an attorney for collection.
Among them was one for IA years and
eight months subscription against a
LIE Sueur county man. He did not
pay on. demand and was sued and
Judgment entered against him for
S27.05. Still he did not pay and the
judgment was transcribed to district
court and an execution issued and de-
livered to Sheriff John II. Traxler for
collection. Traxler levied on some
land belonging to the defendant aud
advertised the same for sale. This
worked, and the defendant made settle
ment, the total amount, costs and all
being the very respectable sum of
$500. g.
After contemplating death for
twenty-one hours at the bottom of a
forty-foot we'll in West St. Paul, with
the shaft above him choked with
boards, timbers, earth and other
debris, Ernest Adams, "a years of age,
was rescued from his perilous posi-
ton. Standing in ice-cold water that
vas slowly rising about his feet and
legs, Adams retained consciousness
throughout his trying ordeal in that
damp, chilly tomb, while fifty men
worked desperately to rescue him.
He was conscious when he was taken
out of the we'll, but was severely
chilled and almost exhausted with his
long period of suspense and Sleep
lessness. Physicians who are attend
ing him say that he has suffered no
grave injury by his experience.
After search of three years Sheriff
Bailey of Beltrami county located
Allen McGraw at Waterloo, Iowa,
said to be the star witness in the case
of Shortly Wesley and Paul Four
nier, under arrest for the second
time for the murder of N. o. Dahl and
daughter in April, 1904, whose bodies