The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-09-09
State News.

State News.
Labor day was generally observed
throughout the state. In the twin
cities there were parades and approx
mately $4,000 workers were in line.
The day was given over entirely to
enjoyment.
Robbers looted the First State bank
at Foxhome, a village fifteen miles
west Of Fergus Falls, at 4 a. N. on
Monday. They blew the safe and Sc
cured all the money in it, amounting
to $4,000. They then escaped on a
handcar, going over to Breckenridge,
ten miles west, where they threw the
car into the river. It is supposed
that they have escaped into North Da-
kota.
While on his way home from pro-
fessional call at 11:20 O'Clock Monday
evening, DR.. Thrond S. Egge, one of
the most prominent physicians in
Moorhead, was hurled from his BIZ
cycle and brutality murdered by a
maniac or an enemy with huge club.
Frank Keathman of Fargo, with
whom the doctor was known to have
had trouble, was arrested at his home
as a suspect.
Caribou still exist in Minnesota,
in the swampy region north of Red
lake, according to information Sc
cured by Carlos Avery of the state
game and fish commission. Mr..
Avery has just returned from a trip
into that country. A trapper in
formed him that he had seen caribou
on numerous occasions, and once as
many as nineteen in bunch. Mr..
Avery himself saw numerous caribou
signs, but did not happen to see any
of the animals.
There have been four murders in
Duluth since June "a, and the police
are convinced the murderers in each
case are in custody. This is con-
sidered remarkable record. There
can be no question that three of the
guilty men are in prison, and in the
last case two witnesses say they saw
the victim fall under blow admin
istered by either Adolph or. Victor
Mattel. who we're arrested inside of
three hours after the murder at their
home on West Fifth street.
John F. Hayner, the man who shot
Geo. W. Somerville at Sleepy Eye,
committed suicide by hanging himself
with rope made from strips of bed
clothes in the New Ulm jail. Hayner,
Immediately after being taken to New
Ulm, asserted that he had shot Somer-
vile in self-defense. He said that he
went to Somerville's Office to obtain. a
REIMBURSEMENT of a land deal he had
with him in which, he alleged, Somer-
Vile traded him worthless land in
Missouri for valuable business prop
erty in Sleepy Eye. He said he had
been in Somerville's Office but ten
minutes when the latter attacked him.
Hon. Sherman S. Smith, the widely
known Minneapolis politician, died
at his home in Minneapolis on Sun
day evening. Mr.. Smith had served
two sessions in the legislature from
Hennepin county and had been active
in local politics for years. More
than year ago he was accused of
tampering with jury in the Federal
district court and Judge Morris SEN
fenced him to term in the Ramsey
county Jail. The evidence against
Mr.. Smith was purely circumstantia1
and many Of his friends believed him
innocent. he was pardoned by the
president after serving half his SEN
tence. The trouble preyed on his
mind and was indirectly the cause of
his death. A wife and two children
survive him.
Duluth will be the home of the first
$1,000 49, 4AAOA AOo w 1uduudCGuro linen
from flax grown in the northwest. r.
b. Smith, Duluth, manager of the
American Linseed company, and r.
b. Adams, New York, manager of the
same company, associated with sever
al other officers of the concern, are
organizing a firm which will be in
corporated within short time to
begin the manufacture of linen. They
have perfected a machine for separat-
ing the fax fiber from the wood.
which in the old countries is done BY
hand. The machine will revolutionize
the. linen industry of the world and at
the same time make the fax straw
raised in Minnesota and the two Da-
kotas, now of practically little ac-
count, valuable for its fiber.