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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

Senator Victor l.. Johnson of Chi
sage county voted against the semi
centennial bill which provided for a
100000 appropriation for the erec-
tion of buildings on the state fair
grounds, and the Minneapolis Tribune
deemed his action in so doing of suf-
fcient Importance to merit editorial
mention. Senator Johnson is not de-
serving of more praise than any one
of the other thirty -one senators whose
votes were recorded in the negative.
He voted according to the dictates of
his own conscience, and in doing so
he undoubtedly voiced the sentiments
of the majority of his constituents.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

-Four or five primary election bills
are pending in the legislature; all of
them are cumbersome, costly and i'm
practicable. The bill introduced by
Hon. Burdett Thayer at the 1905 ses-
sion should be substituted for all the
pending bills. The Thayer bill did
not NEEDLE with the present primary
law; it simply provided that delegates
should be chosen to county conven-
lions to elect delegates to state con-
ventions in the same manner as town.
ship officers are elected and under the
supervision of the regular election
officers. The source of all the trouble
in delegate conventions is at the pri-
maries. If the primaries were con.
Quoted at the usual voting place in the
township or precinct on a certain fixed
day under the supervision of the duly
constituted election officers there
would be no trouble. The only other
solution of the question would be ,tc
extend the present primary law to in.
clude state officers. .s.-....
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

Minnesota is certainly state of in
spectOrs, and coal seems to be about
the only commodity not provided for.
The inspection of coal is of far greater
Importance than that of paint, putty
and dozen other things. Coal even
needs inspection more so than oil, for
oil is usually oil, while coal is largely
slate and other unignitable stuff.
While engaged in formulating system
of inspection let us make a perfect one
at any rate let us employ a dozen or
so of the faithful to make an inspec.
ton of coal. .~* H.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

A press dispatch says that trains
were recently compelled to come to a
stop near Bingham lake and Mankato
by myriads of frogs which were dis
porting themselves on the tracks. AS
railroad engineers are invariably men
of temperate habits and veracity it
would be unfair to insipuate that in
the particular instances reported they
we're suffering from what is known in
medical parlance as the Bumpers +"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04
GREATER DULUTH.

Duluth is to have an immense steel
manufacturing plant. The United
States Steel corporation has so de-
cided. This means a great deal to
Duluth, northern Minnesota and the
state generally. It will make the
Zenith City one of the iron manufac-
turing centers of the country; it will
add thousands to it's population and
millions of dollars to it's wealth and
taxable valuation. It will make Du-
luth a splendid market for farmers
produce, and Indirectly will increase
the value of every acre of farming
land within a radius of 100 miles of
that city. There is now no valid
reason for imposing a tonnage tax, or
a special tax Of any description, on
the output of the iron mines. The
main argument used by advocates of a
tonnage tax, that a foreign corpora
ton was robbing Minnesota of it's
mineral wealth for the benefit of peo-
pie of other states, is now without
effect. The determination of the steel
corporation to erect large smelling
works at Duluth spoils that conten-
ton. The legislature should not waste
minutes time in the consideration
of any measure that would in the
slightest degree tend to retard or pre-
vent the. establishing an iron manufac-
turing plant at Duluth. The man who
would place straw in the way of
such an enterprise is an enemy of
Minnesota.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04
The Long Prairie Leader of Marc]

The Long Prairie Leader of March
rs was edited and managed solely by
women-it was woman'sj edition..
The paper was of twenty-pages with
an artistic cover in colors, contained
many well-written articles on momen-
tous questions of the day and carried
an advertisement for every leading
business house in Long Prairie.
Every department of the paper was
splendidly edited and the ladies of
Long Prairie who conducted the ven
ture are deserving of much credit for
their successful efforts in journalism.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

J. j. Hill has resigned the presi-
dency of the Great Northern and will
be chairman of the board of directors
of that company, and Mr.. L. w. Hill
has been elected president. The ac-
tive management of the Great North
ern will devolve on the younger Mr..
Hill, but it is safe to assume that as
long as he lives J. J. Hill will dictate
the general policy of the magnificent
railroad system he has created. .o
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

There is little prospect of com.
promise on freight and passenger
railroad rates between the legislature
and the railway companies. The in.
dications at present are that radical
anti-railroad measures will be- rushed
through both houses and endless liti-
cation will ensue. Had the compro-
mise talked of last week been effected
the people would have reaped immedi-
ate substantial benefits. There are
too many politicians of the Van SAINT
stripe in and around the state capitol.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

Bills calling for appropriations that
will aggregate $5,500,0o0 are before
the legislature, and this does not in
clude the standing appropriations and
several bills that provide for the rails
ing of large sums by direct tax levy.
The members of the appropriations
committee of the house and senate
should whet their broadaxes prepare.
tory to doing some close trimming
otherwise the tax levy for the next two
years will be the highest in the history
of the state. -.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

In trying to discover . system BY
which he could beat slot machines
Prof. Williams Of Alton, H., aged 60
years, wound up in the poor house.
Twelve thousand dollars, his entire
fortune, was dropped into the hole
for the benefit Of science,'' as the pro-
lessor expressed it. The operators of
the machines wherein the old profess
sor lost his money should be COM
PEELED to disgorge and the sums be
placed in trust for his maintenance.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

Rapid are the strides being made in
the art of surgery. One of the most
remarkable achievements on record is
an operation recently performed on
Mrs. Peter Anderson in Philadelphia
who was dying from anaemia. Her
husbands blood was pumped directly
from his arteries into her veins and
as consequence she is fast regain
ing her strength. The possibilities OF
the surgeons art are limitless and the
men. engaged in its practice today
are superior to any that the world
has hitherto known.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

A microscopical examination oil
pork is not sufficient, says the bureau
of animal industry at Washington, tc
determine whether such flesh is af.
fected with trichinae. The only safe.
guard the public has against such dis.
ease is the thorough cooking of pork.
Hence raw or even smoked ham is
liable to affect deleteriously those
making use of it.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

BY 9 vote Of So to 81 the Bjorge-
Jefferson tonnage tax bill was de-
'feated in the house Tuesday. The bill
had no merit and deserved to be. de-
feated. The original Bjorge tonnage
tax bill was a meritorious measure.
but the attorney general held that it
was unconstitutional. The house
acted wisely in killing the bill. '
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

Under the reapportionment bill in
PRODUCED by Representative White the
membership of the senate is left as at
present, So, and the house membership
is increased from 119 to 129. Isanti
and Anoka are placed in one district
with one senator and two representa-
tives, while Mile Laos, Sherburne and
Benton are grouped together and are
given one senator and three represen-
tatives. The reapportionment on the
whole is a fair one but the bill cannot
pass at this session The senators will
not legislate themselves out of Office.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

J T
VOULD HAZE VETOED THE BILL.
If the legislature really wanted to
know what Gov. johnson thought of
county option, they should have
passed the bill. He would have told
them in veto message. st. Cloud
Times.
The Times is one of the leading
democratic papers of the state, in fact
it is second only to the Duluth
Herald, and, we presume, it's editor
speaks authoritatively when he says
Gov. johnson would have vetoed the
county option bill if the legislature
had passed the same. In 1904 and
again in 1906 Mr.. johnson had the
backing of the brewers, wholesale
liquor dealers and saloon men gen.
orally. Last fall Mr.. Cole, the re-
publican candidate for governor, was
asked to pledge himself to veto a
county option bill if he we're elected
and such a measure passed the legis-
lature. He refused to give any such
pledge. If the Times is correct, and
it's editor is not in the habit of max
ing rash statements, the liquor inter-
ests knew in advance what Mr.. John
son would do should he be called
upon to act. But the reverend gentle
men who from their pulpits urged the
members of their congregations to
vote and work for John A. Johnson
because he favored county option and
radical temperance legislation must
have been laboring under misappre-
hensiOn.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

At first it was estimated that it
would take twelve years to dig the
Panama canal, later this estimate was
reduced to eight years, and now Rep
resentative Scott of Kansas says it
can be, completed in five years. II
those excavators continue to increase
their speed at this rate we may yet be
enabled to take a trip through the
ditch upon our next Christmas vaca.
stiOn e..
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

Hoke Smith of Georgia, secretary
of the interior under President Cleve-
land, sums up the controversy be-
tween President Roosevelt and the
railroad magnate p. E. Hartman in
two terse sentences: "President
Roosevelt has advocated legislation
necessary to protect the rights of the
public, for this reason he seems to
have incurred the enmity of Harri-
man. Attacks by such men will only
add to the popularity Of the presi-
dent. /" VI
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

The exorbitant prices asked by the
lumber trust for its products have led
an inventor to introduce box for
packing purposes which is manufac.
tured largely from a tough grade Of
cardboard. The invention is good
one, but if the paper trust continues
to advance prices at the rate it has
for the past three months lumber will
prove the cheapest.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04
Another attempt will probabl

AuOG11er dGUeIHpG VIII pTUUdUIy De
made to capture John Dietz of Cam
eron dam fame. The state of Wis
consin had better let Mr.. Dietz alone.
He has done nothing more than any
citizen of the United States might be
expected to do under similar circum-
stances-sought to protect his prop
erty against the encroachments of
trespassers and thieves. And John
Dietz has the majority of the people
of Wisconsin on his side.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

Howells, president of the Omaha
Coal exchange, has been sentenced to
pay fine OF 81 900 and to serve six
months in Jail for conspiring to re.
strain trade. The conspirator has
not, however, been cast into prison
and probably never will be, for the
case has been appealed to the supreme
court. Seldom has a public robbe1
failed, either by hook or by crook, tc
avoid serving a Jail sentence.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04
Some OF our exchanges are incline'

Some of our exchanges are inclined
to make fun of Representative Adams
semi-centennial bridge bill. If they
but look into the measure a little
closer they will see, however, that the
building of steel bridges to common
crate Minnesota's semi-centenary
would be far more helpful to the state
than the holding of big show in the
twin cities. A show would benefit
only the merchants of these two cities,
whereas steel bridges would benefit
the people Of the whole state and at
the same time be lasting monument.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

A Miss Peterson and her brother
have been committed to jail at St.
Peter, the first for assault upon and
the second for threatening bodily
harm to Mrs. Martha Norlin, whom
they charge with practicing the black
art. The authorities seemingly in.
carcerated these poor deluded mortals
in the wrong institution.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

Duluth people are jubilant now that
the erection of an immense smelter
plant by the steel corporation at that
place is certainty. We expect to
live to see the day when Duluth will
have population of 100000 people,
and a city of that size at the head of
the great lakes means much for the
country tributary thereto. .. ~ ..
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

The pure food commission has just
discovered that cabbage leaves and
brown paper enter into the compost
ton of cheap cigars and smoking to-
bacco! Old smokers were aware of
this fact at least fifty years before a
pure food commission was thought of.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

Can't understand why : Senator
Swanson should vote against the
semi-centennial celebration BILL
Anoka Union. ..5a@
Senator Swanson is man who does
his own thinking. We are inclined to
believe that large majority of his
constituents have no fault to find
with him for his negative vote on the
semi-centennial bill.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

After one of the hottest political
fights that was ever waged in Chicago.
Busse, the republican candidate for
mayor, was elected by plurality OF
over $4,000. William Randolph Hearst
came from New York personally and
brought along gang of. his bench.
men to assist Judge Dunno the demo.
cratic candidate.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

If they do not want the state turned
over to the democrats entirely, it is
time for some of the sane members of
the republican party in the legislature
to check their colleagues in their mad
squirt oblivionward.-HibbingTr ib-
|une.
Does the Tribune mean to insinuate
that some of our state legislators are
non compos mentis?
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

Mr.. Bryan has given his ideas or
the railroad problem and believes
that public ownership will be the ul.
innate solution of the question. II
will be remembered that Mr.. Bryan
also believed that free silver would
be the ultimate solution of the none
tary question.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

President Roosevelt thinks that
Ohioans will support anyone he may
suggest for the presidential nominal
ton. The president should not be
too cOcksure.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

Gentlemen of the legislature: Min
nesota has been a state for almost
fifty years and outside the large cities
there is not fifty miles of good roads
within her borders. Give the state
highway commission a chance.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04
ParadOxes of Travel.

There are surprises to him who
travels. There are no onions in
Bermuda for the visitor. They are
all exported. No tobacco is grown
in Egypt. The khedive has forbidden
it's cultivation. There are no olive.
trees on the Mount of Olives The
Turks and tourists have DESTROYED
them.
Irish whisky is drunk in Scotland
and Scotch whisky in Dublin. The
Holland cheese is seldom seen at The
Hague and Neufchatel cheese is made
in New York. Kansas City is in Mis-
souri,. The chief justice of the SUI
preme court of Egypt is a citizen of
the state of Florida, and the head of
the anti-Armenian party in the Turk
lsh empire is an Armenian. Travel.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

The type trust has advanced prices
twenty per cent, but this is immateria]
as it merely. affects the newspaper
publisher, who is too busily engaged
in fighting the trusts which concern
humanity generally to pay attention
to trifling matters of this sort.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

Upton Sinclair says that athletics
exert 9 harmful influence upon under
graduates Once upon a time Upton
stirred up a stencil which pervaded the
civilized world and he is now seem
ingly trying to stir up hornets nest.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

John A. Johnson is the name of the
capitol correspondent of the Orton-
vile Herald-Star, and he writes good
stuff too. There are few Johnsons
in Minnesota.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

Governor John and his kitchen cab
met attribute Ed Young's fall to his
oficious hunger for notoriety and are
inclined to turn toward him the cold
shoulder.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

Staples is one of the thriving vii
lagos of northern Minnesota. Its
newspaper, the World, conducted by
J. T. Draw, is creditable alike to it's
publisher and the village it so ably
represents.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

1t is said that an agent of the gov
eminent is in St. Paul pursuing an
investigation of the lumber trust. If
investigation would lead to regula-
tion it would be of benefit. But it
doesn't.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

Minnesota's attorney general says
that the decision of the supreme court
in the Great Northern Injunction case
was an unfortunate one for the state.
He should have substituted the word
"YOung" for "state.'
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

Some people are never satisfied.
An exchange now demands that our
state legislators work eight hours a
day and six days week. This would
necessitate the maintenance of a state
dray line to cart away dead and down
bills.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

Nebraska has passed a wide-open
primary bill. This bill does away
with state, county and city nominating
conventions. The operation of this
law will be closely watched by other
states.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

"A county that secures an agricul-
tural school at an outlay of $4,000
and $4,000 annually thereafter is pay
ing a pretty stiff price for the same.
Such school might prove a white
elephant to the taxpayers of a small
county.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

Don't forget that this is pneumonia
weather and protect your chest. MARY
McF'adden.
This advice is good but trihe in
definite. Mary doesn't say whether
we should apply the protection to the
outside or the inside of the chest.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

Since the federal laws now provide
for food inspection the maintenance
of commissions by states for this pur-
pose is sheer waste of money.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

This session of the Minnesota legis-
lature has certainly proven a record
breaker in setting up laws and rec
ord breaker in knocking them down
AGAIN
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

Bill Hearst has sued the Chicago
Tribune for 'political" libel. How
it would be possible for any paper to
libel Hearst is beyond our under
Standinp
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

"There are strong men in the state
legislature, says a contemporary.
And headstrong.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

By a practically unanimous vote
the two cent passenger rate bill has
passed both branches OF. the legisla-
ture. -
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

The state senate on Friday killed
the semi-centennial bill. The vote
was 80 to 81.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

Seattle has seen the Incorporation
of 1908 mining companies, and of
this number but one has ever paid a
cent of dividends. -Brainerd Dis
patch. .-
To pay dividends, we presume, was
not the purpose, for which the 1902
companies were organized.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04
Mans Truthfulness.

When the average man tells the,
truth it's q sign it doesn't cost hir<
anything. New York Press.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04
Rub1ished Every Thursday.

or, FIRST ST.. EAST OF CoURTHousE,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

W. b. Culkin's work for good roads
is of the practical sort. He brings
his Important mission before the at
tention OF business men at every op-
portunity, and is doing valiant SER
vice in a cause exceptionally good
Mary McFadden.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04
= Z"
There Are Others.

Miscegenation In Blue Earth County.
Clerk of Court Thorne of this county
refused to issue marriage license to
negro and a white girl. The race
question is coming home to roost.
When two people make up their minds
to go together the devil could not
keep them apart. There will come
day when the white girl will wish she
were dead, and she will go from bad
to worse.-Lake Crystal Union.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

standing.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

Hard on the Hungry Patriots.
Thomas 81. Horton of North Branch,
representative from this district, in
PRODUCED an "anti-treat'' bill in the
house last week. Such a bill, if
passed, will be blow below the belt
to that hungry patriot who exists from
one election to another that the joys
OF many beers may be his.-Anoka
Herald.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-04

No, Our Legislators Are Not Idiotic.
Leg-pullers of the state of Washing
ton are making overtures to the Min
nesota legislature to appropriate the
money OF the taxpayers of our state
for the Yukon-Alaska show to be held
in Seattle in 1909. Will they succeed?
Battle Lake Review.