The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-01-31
State News.

The annual meeting of the Mime
sofa grand lodge of Masons was held
in St. Paul last week. There were
about 400 delegates representing about
zoO OF the lodges of the state.
During the year 1906 20, III, 221 tons
OF freight we're shipped and received at
the Duluth-Superior port. New York
IS the only port in the United States
that exceeds Duluth-Superior in the
amount OF tonnage handled.
In the libel suit of Hon. ". r. Lee
against Mr.. A. W. Sheets, publisher
OF the Todd County Argus, the Jury
found for the plaintiff and assessed
the damages at Sl.00. AS far as Mr..
Lee was concerned one dollar was as
good as ten thousand, as it was not
money but vindication he wanted
Advance sheets of the official Cath
Ollie directory give the following fg-
ures on the Duluth diocese: Popula
ton $4,000; bishops, 1; clergy, g.:
churches, 90: girls academies, 3:
parishes with schools, 10: children at
tending, 1,7s0; orphan asylums, 2:
orphans, $50: charitable institutions.
II.
Death visited Minneapolis in about
l"o different ways in the year 1906,
according to the mortality table now
in preparation in the city health de-
partment. tuberculosis furnishes the
most appalling figures, there being
274 deaths from pulmonary tuber-
culosis, or consumption, recorded in
1906 as against 252 in 1905.
According to decision by Judge
Lochren, the Northwestern Telephone
Exchange company loses it's suit to
enjoin the city of St. Charles from
preventing it installing a telephone
exchange there. The court holds that
under the legislative act of 1898 cities
and villages have authority to admit
or keep out telephone companies as
they may desire.
Persons who have made homestead
entry on land in Minnesota, North
Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho, Mon
tana, Washington and Wyoming,
where the period in which they were
required by law to establish residence
expired after Dec. 1, 1906, are granted.
under joint resolution passed by
congress, until May IS, 1907, in which
to make such settlement. The provi
sion also applies to soldiers declara
tory statements.
The report of the geological survey
in the drainage investigation of In
dian lands in northern Minnesota
made last summer goes into more or
less minute details on the presidents
plan for retaining about 400, 900
acres in Red Lake, Marshall and Bel
trami counties at a total estimated cost
of ST, O6O,O00. The estimated cost for
draining the improved land is SLIGO
an acre and of unimproved and wholly
swamp land, $500 an acre.
At the annual meeting of the State
Sheriffs association in St. Paul it was
unanimously decided to try to secure
legislation which will put the Office of
sheriff upon salary basis. It was
said that upon the present fee basis,
nearly one-half of the sheriff IS receipts
was required to pay his expenses for
state business and that the Office was
not so remunerative as most people
supposed. When the bill to be pre-
sented to the legislature is drafted the
sheriffs will reserve the right to ac-
cept fees for serving papers in civil
suits.
A. N. Rove of Donaldson, the noted
fat man, died at the Warren hospital
last week. Mr.. Rowe for number of
years had resided at Donaldson.
where he had been the keeper of
restaurant and justice of the peace.
For many years he had been gradu-
ally accommodating flesh, but during
the past year and half his weight had
increased rapidly. At the time of his
death he weighed $40 pounds. His
girth became 100 inches in circum-
ference. 1t made him helpless as
wage Garner and he finally became a
town charge. No coffin could be OBJ
tanned large enough to hold his re-
mains, and one was constructed out of
Eastwood in that city.