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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08
Duluth Life Insurance Company.

II +
Duluth Life Insurance Company.
Inc title page of a prospectus issued
by the Duluth Life Insurance com
pany contains these words: "Duluth
will be the Home of an old Line Legal
Reserve Life Insurance Company. y
And why not? Why not build up a
strong life insurance company at the
head OF the great lakes and make
Duluth an important money center as
we'll as manufacturing and dis
trlbutlng center? Why pay out
hundreds of thousands and millions
OF dollars annually to eastern and
foreign insurance companies when the
money might be kept at home and be
utilized in building up and develop
ing the almost inexhaustible resources
OF northeastern Minnesota? Little
cities IN the east no larger than Du-
luth are the homes of life and fire
insurance companies of worldwide
reputation. Nearer home, there is no
better or more reliable life insurance
company in the world than the North
western Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany OF Milwaukee. We are glad to
learn that steps are being taken to
establish a strong life insurance COM
pany at Duluth and that the leading
business men of that city and the sur
rounding towns are subscribing
literally for stock in the same. At
the head of the enterprise is Hon. J.
81. Block, who for three successive
terms filled the important and re-
sponsible position of state treasurer
OF Minnesota, position in which
millions of dollars passed through his
hands annually. MIR. Block is a good
conservative business man of large
experience and undoubted integrity.
There is splendid field for a re-
liable life insurance company in Du-
luth, and under the prudent manage
ment of Julius b. Block the Duluth
Life Insurance company should from
the start prove profitable alike to it's
stockholders and policy holders.
We repeat, the establishment of
strong life insurance company at Du-
luth means great deal to that CITY
and the territory tributary thereto.
We sincerely hope the Duluth Life
Insurance company will be completely
organized and ready for the transac-
ton of business within short time
the sooner the better.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08
KNOCKING HE4TWOLE.

Hon. Frank M. Eddy writes q
column Of interesting political stuff
for the Minneapolis Tribune every
week. In last Saturdays Tribune
Frank devoted his entire column to
Third district politics and administer
ed this knock and compliment to Joel
p. Heatwole:
''It has become quite the fashion
among many republican papers in this
state and among the republican
leaders to knock Joel and have done
my share of this knocking. He has
done a lot of foolish things for which
he ought to have been knocked, but
just the same he was one of the most
efficient accomplishers ever sent to
congress from Minnesota and is en-
titled, more than any other one man,
to the credit for the revivification of
the primitive republican doctrine of
protection so tersely stated in an
issue of the Mortified News during
the congressional campaign referred
to. Protection should only be
accorded those industries that need it
and they should be accorded no more
protection than they need.' One
might offer a large reward for better
statement of the true principle of
genuine, beneficial protection without
any danger of ever being called upon
to pay the same. Had the present
tariff bill been framed according to
this principle the nation would have
been republicanized for the next
generation beyond all possible
question: -
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08

What do our Minnesota republican
editorial brothers think of Senators
Nelson and Clapp voting to add 50
per ton to the price OF print paper:
queries the St. Cloud Times. Why
PROFOUND such an absurd interroga-
tory? If Messrs. Nelson and Clapp
had voted to add 500 per ton to the
price of print paper it would not
lessen their popularity with Minnesota
republican editors. Republican
editors in Minnesota are generous and
brcad-gauged and such a mercenary
consideration as the price of print
paper is foreign to their thoughts.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08
State News.
Virginia had a $4,000 fire on July
S. Six dwellings and three barns we're

Virginia had $4,000 fire on july
6. Six dwellings and three barns we're
destroyed.
The newspaper boys will start on
their annual outing on July 10. The
trip will be from St. Paul to Detroit,
Mich, and return, including tour of
the great lakes.
Carrie Nation, while on her way to
Redwood Falls to deliver lecture,
stopped off at New Ulm and visited
several saloons. She did not use her
little Ratchet, but threw a mighty big
scare into the publicans and sinners.
Arthur. Bowman, boy years old,
living at Winona, had one of his
hands torn to pieces by a dynamite
cap which he shot off on a toy pistol
on July 4. Parents should not permit
their children to use such dangerous
playthings.
Francis, the 4-year-old son of Oscar
Bennett of Red Wing, was fatally
burned while playing with matches.
The little fellows waistcoat caught
fire and his chest, abdomen and right
hand were so terribly burned that he
died shortly after.
Charles L. Lewis, associate justice
of the supreme court, was struck by q
freight train on the Milwaukee road
near the foot of Chestnut street, St.
Paul, on Monday and sustained in
juries which will con6ne him to his
home for some time.
Sebastian Rechert, the well-knwon
St. Cloud merchant; died from sun
stroke last week. Mr.. Rechert was
overcome by the heat while out driv-
ing. Several other prostrations are
reported from st. Cloud, among them
being that of Alderman Thielman and
Warren Freeman.
There are approximately .275, 00C
acres OF land yet remaining for
ihomesteaders in northern Minnesota,
and during the year 225, 900 acres we're
filed on. It is estimated that a con.
siderable portion of this land will,
however: revert to the state through
failure to complete the homestead
process, and for other reasons.
The government engineers who are
operating with the state drainage
board in making a biographies
survey OF the state, began work last
week in Otter Tail and Pope counties,
where they started on the task Of
making q Typographical map of the
whole state. The Pope and Otter Tai
region was selected on account of its
many lakes and streams.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08

Count Zeppelin, says the Lokal
Anzieger Of Berlin, will make an
effort to reach the north pole in his
dirigible balloon. While we admire
the iron nerve of Zeppelin, we are in
clined to the opinion that his under
taking is a foolish one. The last
fellow who started for the pole in a
balloon similar to Zeppelin's has not
yet returned and never will.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08

In order to place Great Britain in
a state of safety Admiral Beresford
advises his government to expend
$500, 600, 900 in new battleships and
Notifications. Probably England, in
view Of the fact that the kaiser has
his eye on "the right little, tight little
island" needs this additional. pro.
lection, but it could expend it's money
in a much better way by purchasing
food for it's starving millions.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08
MINNEAPOLIS WATER SUPPLY.
get more settlers

1NANNAdHOLAS> WATER SUPPLY.
Occasionally one reads in the Min
neapolis papers of a movement to
obtain the water supply for that city
from Mile Laos lake. The scheme
is impracticable. Mile Laos is a
shoal lake and is fed by only few
small brooks and there is not water
enough to supply large and grow
ing city like Minneapolis. In dry
seasons like the present-there has
been little or no rainfall in the vi
cinity of Mile Laos since early in
the spring-the outflow exceeds the
inflow and the water in the lake is
almost two feet below it's natural
level. The lake might be damned at
the outlet, bikes built along the low
places on the south shore and the
water stored against the dry season,
but even then it is doubtful if a de-
pendable supply of water for city OF
Minneapolis dimensions could be Sc
cured throughout the year. In any
event the people in the vicinity OF
Mile Laos lake need give themselves
no uneasiness. If the city of Mime.
apolis ever determines to bring its
water from Mile Laos the first consid.
Grafton will be to maintain the source
of supply, otherwise the millions Of
dollars expended would be wasted.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08

There seems to be a general belief
on the part of'the newspapers Of the
country that Irregularities existed
IN the conduct of packing house
inspection by government officials at
St. Louis charged by a resigned
official who made the complaint
despite the fact that Secretary
Wilson's investigators found other
wise. These packing plants offer a
splendid opportunity for graft and
government inspectors are no more
impervious to its charms than other
individuals.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08

In an engagement with Moro out
law and his band of cut-throats in one
of the Philippine islands few days
ago one American soldier was killed
and three. officers and twenty-one en-
listed men we're wounded, but the
Moros. were extee q, ni Private
O'Connell was the. name of the soldier
killed. Narrow-mipded bigots may
sheer and ieer at the Macs and the
O's but they are always to the. front
when there is any Fighting to bse done
under the Stars and Stripes.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08

Rev. Myers of the Emmanuel Bap-
tist church, Chicago, announces that
he will bet $50 that Professor Foster
cannot give a satisfactory definition
of God. Foster may be a hereto at
heart and that sort of thing, but, in
our opinion, it is not in good form
for a minister or anyone else to place
bets on the diety. Rev. Myers at
tention is respectfully called to this.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08

1t pleases US to learn that Mrs. Taft
is rapidly recovering from her illness.
Entering into the open-work social
season with too much enthusiasm,
perspiring contraryto the advice of
her physicians and sitting in drafts at
functions of the s'four hundred" are
said by the daily press to be the cause
OF Mrs. Taft's illness. But then the
daily press dispatches are not always
as truthful as they should bes
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08

Indians and other natives OF the
Minnesota wilds should, and doubtless
will, gather in many a shekels this
season through the medium Of the
primitive 6shpole and old-fashioned
hook, for the city dudes, with their
nickel plated rods, quadruple reels
and imported angleworms are excep-
tionally numerous at the lakes.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08

Hon. W. W. Rich, custodian of the
custom house building in st. Paul,
has considerable land business to
attend to around the state these days.
Mr.. Rich can be depended upon to
knock the obnoxious steel trust where
ever and whenever opportunity offers,
and he is always welcome visitor at
the newspaper Offices as he is whole
souled, genial gentleman.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08
TOOs1LANY RESTRICTIONS.

The state land sales must be some
thing Of q disappointment thus far
this year in spite of the large adver-
Using done by the immigration and
publicity bureau. The land is selling
in the northern counties for the mini
mum price and there is not much
wanted even at the appraised figures.
The sales in Aitkin, Beltrami and
Cass we're very light considering the
large lists of land offered by the state.
Fergus Falls Journal. 81.
There are too many restrictions
governing the sale of state lands at
present. Chapter 299, laws of 1905.
never should have graced our statute
books. That law provides that not
more than 800 acres of state land can
be sold to one purchaser. It also re-
quires that the land shall be improved
within five years from date of sale.
When the best lands we're being dis
posed of in southern and central Min
nesota and in the Red River valley
no such restrictions were imposed.
Now, when the great bulk of the un-
sold lands are located in the northern
part of the state and are of poorer
quality, why insert such unnecessary
and unwise provisions in the con-
tracts? Prior to 1905 considerable
state lands we're bought by SPECTATORS
and every such speculator Immediate
~ became an active colonization
agent for the state; speculators could
not with profit to themselves hold
non-productive state lands any con-
siderable length of time and paw
interest and taxes on the same. It
behooved them to dispose of their
holdings as speedily as possible.
Then again there is small induce
ment to purchase land in a timber
country when there is not enough
timber left on a forty to construct
two by four hen-coop. Land chiefly
valuable for it's timber should not be
sold as agricultural land, but there is
no sense in offering land for sale for
agricultural purposes after every
sapling that would make fence post
has been removed. In a timber
country scattering timber should be
left to at least enable the purchaser
to erect fence posts upon which to
string wire to fence his garden patch.
The mineral restriction in state land
contracts is proper although such
reservation tends to prevent the sale
of the lands. ~
If scattering timber was sold with
the land, chapter 299 laws of 1905 was
repealed, and the rate of interest on
unpaid principal fixed at four per cent
without any ten year limitation
state land would command higher
prices and northern Minnesota would
get more settlers.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08
NEWSPAPERDOM

, -as. ~ * J .. a . 7- +
! Will Whiteman's paper, the orion
vile Herald-Star, is thirty, healthy, fat
and saucy. The editorial columns of
the Herald-Star are always interest,"
ing even to those who cannot see
things from its EDITORS viewpoint
@ 6 g @
c. 81. Mackenzie, editor and pub
Usher of the Onamia Lake Breeze, de-
livered the GRAFTON at the celebration
in Wahkon on Monday and those who
heard him say he acquitted himself
we'll. Mr.. Mackenzie is deservedly
popular in the lake region.
9 90
The Akeley Herald Tribune pub
lished a l6-page industrial edition
last week which is credit to it's edi.
tor, G. F. Scheers. It is printed on
book paper and is profusely illustrat.
ed with half-tones. The people Of
Akeley should feel proud of the paper
which Bro. Scheers is producing.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08

The American Sugar Refining COM
pany has been indicted by a federal
grand jury at New York upon the
charge of entering into conspiracy
in restraint of trade. If the usual
order of things prevail this will result
in fines for the trust and imprison-
ment for the understrappers.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08

1t does one good to read of the
Fourth of July celebration in St Paul
on Monday where $4,000 children cele-
brated the day on Harriet Island at
the expense of the business men of
that city. 1t was by far the best and
grandest celebration held any where in
the United States. N
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08

Only four republican senators voted
against increasing the price Of print
paper and our own Knute and Moses
were not among the number.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08

Messina and Reggie, the Italian
cities which were devastated in, the
earthquake of December, 1908, have
experienced more shocks. The old
towns are receiving almost as many
jOlts as Uncle Sans tariff bill.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08

F. S. Adams, Duluth boy, will
explore the frozen Labrador coast,
says the Duluth Herald. Presenting
that the boy has trained for the trip
on the glacial bluffs of Duluth, we are
prepared to wager that he &C.
complishes his purpose.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08

Texans are beginning to ask: ''Who
is this man Day who threatens to
come here from Minnesota and take
up his residence?"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08

At this time it looks as if the
Unions prophecy will prove true
that the Armour packing plant, over
which Minneapolis made such hula
balOO, will die a bOrnin'.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08

Taft's backbone may be all right
despite his avoirdupois. The test will
come when the bastard Aldrich tariff
bill reaches him.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08

Bubonic plague is decimating the
population of many places in China.
AS the Chinese are great lovers OF
rats-eat all they can catch-and rats
carry around the plague germs, it is
not surprising that the heathens are
shutting off.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08

News comes from Washington to
the effect that the tariff thinkers are
sweltering in their seats. The dis
patch does not, however, state whether
the seats are in the congressional
halls or in the buffet.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08

Now that the Tennessee legislature
has closed all saloons in the state
the boys will probably spend their
spare change in patronizing the
''blind,D
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08

While it is unusually hot at Wash
ington, D. c., the congressman will
find a more torrid atmosphere when
they return home to their constituents.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08

No one can blame Peary for not
returning from the polar circle at this
particular time.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08

The Anoka Union is intensely
republican in the odd numbered
years.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08
Two Female Deeenerates.

Two Female Degenerates.
Many papers are pointing moral
in the violent death thatcame to Elsie
Sigel in her alleged attempt to work
the conversion of several Cinnamon in
New York city. It is the same fate
that is quite likely to overtake any
girl or woman whose religious or
other zeal leads her to play with the
passions ana jealousies of men, and
whose excessive desire for the saliva
tion OF the heather soul led her to be-
come an inmate of that very feshIy
soul's private apartments. Without
the flavor of the cry of salvation,
though meeting an equally shocking
fate, the young and beautiful Mrs.
Edith May Woodill, trod the "prim-
rose path of dalliance" with fleeing
criminal and found it to be all dead
sea fruit. The world grows wiser
very slow. Ortonville Herald-Star.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08
Go to Canada!

Dispatches from Calgary, Alta,
state that owing to the severity of the
weather last April, when heavy frosts
followed the chinooks which melted
the SHOWS, fully three-quarters of the
winter crop was killed, according to
careful estimates recently made. Go
to Canada and take your chances.
Austin Transcript.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08

She's the Girl, All Right
The girl that can make good bread,
cake, roast meats to a lovely brown,
and knows more about household
duties than she does of foreign
missions or cheap skates of young
men, is the girl that all sensible men
are looking for as better half. You
take it from us that we know whereof
we allegate.- Gazette.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-08


The glory hallelujah" that
emanates from the mouth of an old
colored nanny when she is being
baptized in stream of cold water
has more of the ring of sincerity to it
than the hallelujahs started at
Billy Sunday meeting by paid
capper.-Prison Mirror.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-06-24

ington, D.. c., "a points, fourth; Della
ware Saengerbund, Wilmington, Del,
"a points, fifth; Buffalo Saengerbund,
Buffalo, N. Y, 20 points, sixth.
Singing societies of the first class:
Williamsburg S~aengerbund, Brooklyn,
% points, first; Jersey City Lieder-
kranz, Jersey City. 26 points. second;
Germania Maennerchor, Baltimore, rs
points, third; Junger Maennerchor,
Scranton, Pa, rs points, fourth; Hart
ford Saengerbund, Hartford, Conn.,, %
points, fifth.
City and county declarations Omitted
singing societies) OF the first, second
and third class:
First CIass-United Singers of Brook
Ign. first: United Singers Of Hudson
County. second; United Singers OF
Baltimore, fourth; United Singers OF
Newark, fifth.
Second. Class-United Singers of Long
Island City (only entrant).
Third C~.ass-United Singers of Allan
tic City (only ~entrant). =
Headed by bands of music the two
victorious singing societies of this city
returned from the saengerfest last
night. their officers in coaches. Presi-
dent Vosseler, of the Suabian Singing
Society. made the necessary arrange
ments Is soon as the prizes had beer
awarded. President Reinhard, Of the
Germania, did the same, and both so
cieties marched to their respective
headquarters, Wevers's. Colosseum >nd
the Kruger Auditorium, where they
celebrated their success.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-06-24
SINGERS RETURN
WITH HONORS WON
IN mSAENGERFEST
Local Societies Bring Away
Prizes Awarded by Fes-
tiyal Judges.

Newark singing society contestants
for the prizes offered in the great saen-
gerfest, under the auspices of the
Northeastern Saengerbund. in New
York. received a proud percentage of
the honors when the award of prizes
was made in Ulmer Park last night.
The Germania Singing Society won sec.
mi place and a silver wreath in the
great contest for the Kaiser's prize, and
tho Suabian Singing Society won first
in the contest between societies of the
second class. The United Singers of
Newark got fifth place in the contest
for societies of the first class.
The Germania was but two points be-
hind the dual winners of the silver
statue of a minne-singer offered by the
Kaiser. The Kreutzer Quartet Club, of
New York. and the Junger Maenner-
chor, of Philadelphia, each scored 56
points out of a possible so. The Ger
mania, Of Newark. was close behind
them, with "a points; the Concordia, of
Wflkesbarre, the winner of three years
ago, for whom victory this year would
have meant permanent possession Of
the trophy, was third, with SO points,
and the Arion Gesangverein, of Balti-
more, was fourth. with 81 points. The
Junger Maennerchor, Of Philadelphia.
and the Kreutzer Quartet Club, Of New
York, in view of h tie, will share pos
session OF the Kaiser's prize, to which
was added a portrait painting of the
Emperor. Each society will be allowed
81 keep the prize eighteen months. The
Ntatuette Is valued at $4,000.
10000 Singers In Park.
Twenty thousand members of the va
rious competing societies which met In
Madison Square Garden, and their
friends In the great choral competitions
gathered at Ulmer Park, Brooklyn, last
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-06-24
FORD CAR NO. 2 HITS
SEATTLE JUST. RIGHT.
Winner of Ocean-to- Ocean Race
Royalty Greeted.

SEATTLE, Wash, June 24.-The city
is enthusiastic today over the great
victory of Ford Car No. 2. which won
the oc~ean-to-ocean automobile race
yesterday. The car reached the gates
of the laska-Yukon-Pacifc exposition
at 12:55:35 O'Clock noon. covering the
distance from New York to Seattle in
twenty-five days and fifty-five minutes,
The car was met at Renton, several
miles southeast Of here, by Seattle
automobilists, and escorted through a
lane of people that crowded the busi-
ness streets. The little racer, dusty
and battered. looked anything but i'm
pressive in the company of big, bright
touring machines. AT the fair grounds
gate a crowd cheered and waved flags.