The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-12-03
State News.

j. Albert Johnson, county treasurer
OF Redwood county, has been indicted
for the alleged embezzlement of S2,400
in 1906, after the affairs of his Office
had been investigated.
A tumble down stairs served as an
operation for a tumor on the head of
r. 0. Morrow of St. Paul. He was
taken to the city hospital, where it is
said that good nursing is all the man
now needs.
The United States steamship,
Gopher, the naval militia's boat at
Duluth, will be practically new craft
when the government has completed
the alterations and repairs which are
to be made upon her this year.
The Northwestern National bank of
Minneapolis has absorbed the Swed-
ish-American National bank of the
same place. The business and good
will of the latter institution we're
taken over at the close of business
Saturday.
At the risk of being torn to pieces
by large and vicious dog, Frederick
Stevens, Is years old, rushed in front
of the animal, which was pursuing a
crowd of small children in Minneapo-
lis on Thursday and was severely
bitten for his heroism.
Minnesota as grain and grass
state will be advertised among the
exhibits of the National Grain Grow
ers' association, which will hold it's
annual meeting at Omaha December
10 to 10. A special car full of material
for this ex hibit left for Omaha Mon
day.
j. j. Fosmee, Minneapolis grocer,
while engaged in reading his evening
paper, was seized by three mere boys
and held fast while a fourth boy
opened the cash register and robbed
it of all it contained-eight dollars.
The robbers then made good their es-
cape. Crime in Minneapolis appears
to be largely on the increase.
Arguments will be heard by the state
supreme court December II on the
contest over the wide-open tax amend
ment to the constitution as voted on
at the 1906 election. The date for
hearing the appeal has just been reset,
and the case will be heard in time for
decision early in January, so the
legislature will know what the con-
stitutional restrictions are for the tax
legislation it must consider.
The deer hunting season closed on
Monday and thus ends one of the
poorest hunting seasons ever expert
enced in northern Minnesota. Not
that the game has been scarce, for it
is claimed that deer we're more plen-
tiful this year than last or the year
before, but the conditions have been
most unfavorable to hunters, and it
is estimated that not over one-quarter
the number of deer killed last season
we're secured.
Duluth lost one of her old time res
idents on Sunday night when David
E. Holston, one of the best known
men in northern Minnesota, 70 years
old, passed away as result of a
paralytic stroke at his home on
Woodland avenue. Mr.. Holston
leaves wife and one son, Eugene A.
Holston, now of Winnipeg. He was
one of the Oldest members of the
Knights Of Pythias in Minnesota and
the Oldest in point of membership. :,
| A. W. Norton of Mortified, former
president 81 the. Nerstrand bank, which
failed several years. ago, has been
sentenced to serve two years in Still
water prison and to pay a fine of
81, 900, Norton pleaded guilty to sew
eral indictments for having received
money when he knew the bank was in
solvent. Two years ago he was con-
victed on similar charge and has
served a sentence of two years under
that Indictment. - ~. -. -.-zs.,rz,r-..
The state board of control is getting
ready to select a site for the state
hospital farm for inebriates before the
Legislature meets. No rivalry has de-
veloped among the towns of the state
for this institution, which is to be
maintained out of Q 2 per cent tax on
liquor: licenses The board gave
notice on Saturday. that applications
| for the location must. be in by Deem