The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-12-05
State News.

Labor conditions have made it pos
sible for the Duluth, Rainy Lake &
Winnipeg railroad to rush the work
on it's extension to Rainier and across
the Canadian border, and officials O:
the road announce that through
trains from Duluth TO Winnipeg coul6
be put on by February 1.
Andrew and Joan Madison, living
twelve miles north of Mora, captured
a black bear in rather novel way
Knowing there were bear in the
vicinity, they placed several pounds
of wild honey in the fork of large
tree and set bear trap at the roots.
The following morning bruin was
found in the trap.
Instead of curtailing the seasons
output of timber, loggers say the
lumbermen should increase the cut
this year, on account of excellent
weather conditions. It is said this
will be the best winter for logging
that Northern Minnesota has seen for
the last ten years. Conditions could
not be more favorable.
The Miles hotel, the largest build
ing in Hibbing, burned on Friday.
The hotel and vaudeville theater was
one of the finest buildings in the
northwest, and was recently rebuilt at
cost of 100000. For a time it
seemed that the entire town would be
burned, but by the free use OF
dynamite the department succeeded
in combining the flames to the hotel.
There is large number of cases of
diphtheria in Virginia and quarantine
cards are numerous. But few deaths
have occurred, however, and it is
hoped by maintaining strict quaran-
tine to check the spread of the disease,
although in nearly every case re-
ported SO far particularly dirty
alley or back yard is found in the i'm
mediate vicinity of the residence of
the patient.
Three men highly distinguished in
business and social life in St. Paul
we're called by death on Thanksgiving
day. They were W. II. S. Wright,
one of the most prominent and widely
known Masops in the United States;
Louis Lockwood, one of the foremost
architects of St. Paul, and Reuben
S. White, who had been active in
various lines of business and at the
time when his last illness came upon
him was connected with the firm of
Griggs & Co., commission merchants
and wholesale grocers.
Out of total of %, 947 employees in
the government service inWashington,
with aggregate annual compensation
of $3l, 54l ,225. Minnesota has 1929
drawing salaries aggregating S424,-
1923. Two years ago the total number
of employees was 25,48l, and their
aggregate annual compensation $27,-
l45, 70S, and the Minnesotans num-
bered $50, with aggregate salaries of
1924, 37l. This is part of the Informal
ton contained in the new government
Blue Book, which is published at the
beginning of each congress. The
number mentioned does not include
government employees outside of
Washington, nor those in the postal
service.
Fire started in a load of hay which
had been drawn to the barn of DR..
Guy Wilson at Mora late on Friday.
1t is supposed that some drunken per-
son from saloon directly in front of
the barn unwittingly set the load of
hay afire. Three valuable horses in
the barn, belonging to DR.. Wilson,
were burned, also his entire veteri-
mary equipment worth 81 200, with no
insurance. The fire spread to the
;Sprieter livery barn, burning it to the
ground. A tenement house occupied
10y A. w. McKnite and E. S. Nor
berg was next destroyed. A large
machine warehouse was torn down,
which checked the further spread of
the flames. The fire department was
without means to fight the fire, the
engine which furnishes the motive
power for the waterworks system
having broken down.