The Princeton union., 1908-02-20
State News.

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Lake was blown by yeggmen on Fri
day morning and 5000 in stamps
stolen.
The state board of control will take
no further steps in the matter of locat-
ing the asylum for inebriates until the
constitutionality of the law authoriz-
ing it has been passed upon.
Eveleth will take an active part in
advertising and developing Minne-
sofa along the lines suggested by the
officers and executive committee of the
newly organized Minnesota Fedora
tion of Commercial clubs.
Rev. F. L. Honeywell, the Methodist
minister who left his home in Wood
Lake three weeks ago, is still missing.
Mystery still surrounds his departure
and no good excuse has yet been
offered for his strange actions. He
left home on Jan. %.
John Lind of Minneapolis and
n. B. Hovland of Duluth have been
appointed members of the board of
regents of the Minnesota university.
They will succeed j. T. Wyman of
Minneapolis and S. G. Comstock of
Moorhead. The term of Office is for
six years.
The 500 road is one of the few to
file with the state statement showing
an increase in it's gross earnings for
1907 over the year previous. On the
1907 earnings the company will pay
the state tax of S198, l41.83. Last
year the tax paid amounted to
Sl85, 5,6l8.53.
A permanent regatta association, to
consist of four, and possibly five,
yacht clubs of Minnesota and Wis
consin, including Duluth, White Bear,
Lake Calhoun, Minnetonka and
Superior, is being agitated by Com
modore Horace Johnson of the Duluth
Yacht club and the officials of the
White Bear organization.
| The body of Mrs. Martha Peterson,
who disappeared from her home at
Ashby in heavy snowstorm ten days
ago, has been found in a drift in a
railway cut a short distance from her
home. She had been drinking and
laid down beside the track and was
frozen to death, the snow gradually
drifting over her. She had been liv-
ing alone.
B. A. Smith, who was employed as
a helper in the Great Northern station
at Dalton, near Fergus Falls, has
been arrested for robbing the mails.
One of Smiths duties was to carry the
mail from the postofice to the station
and put it aboard the night train, and
this necessarily gave him access to the
postoffice. He was trapped by means
of marked $40 bill.
Benjamin G.. Steenerson, only son
of Representative Halvor Steenerson
of Crookston, was drowned on Sunday
off the tug Annie A. Wood, on the way
from Newport to Fort Greble. He is
supposed OF have perished in an
attempt to save the life of John M.
Mcintosh, marine. Both men were
drowned. The two were friends and
were awaiting discharge from the
army.
A plan by which the members of the
Minnesota Retail Furniture Dealers
association may do large part OF
their buying on the cooperative sys-
tenn was set on foot at the first session
of the third anual convention of the
association in Minneapolis last week.
The scheme has been adopted in
order that the association may be
enabled to successfully compete with
the mail order houses.
Mayor J. W. Andrews of Mankato
has issued orders prohibiting the
shaking of dice and the playing OF
cards or chance games of any charac-
ter in saloons, cigar stores or else
where, for drinks or cigars. The
laws prohibiting gambling in every
form are to be rigidly enforced. The
principal purpose of this order is to
prevent students and other young men
from throwing away their money.
Parents had complained to the mayor
and asked that the law be enforced.
A very commendable act.
For better organization of the anti
tuberculosis work in Minnesota a
conference will be held Tuesday, Feb.
rs, in the judiciary committee rooms
in the new capitol, St. Paul, under
the auspices of the Minnesota Associ-
alton for the Prevention and Relief of
Tuberculosis. Organization of the
association will be completed at this
meeting and reports will be heard
from all anti -tu hercnlOsis aoenioos Of