The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-07-28

Mr.. Malone, who is handling the
Indian business here for Gus Beau
lieu, contemplates writing q book of
"reminiscences. It would certainly
make interesting reading and sell like
hot cakes.
A short distance from Malone's,
near the lakeshore, two families of
Indians make their homes. They
have built themselves small log
houses, which are comfortably furn-
ished, and are pretty good Indians.
The head of one Of these families is
Pete Anderson and the other John
Jeka. Both are full bloods and talk
sufficient English to make themselves
understood. Pete works for his
neighbors by the day and is faithful
laborer, while John occupies the
greater portion of his time in hunting
and fishing. These red men are as
happy as the day is long, yet they
know not when the owner of the land
upon which they dwell will bob up
and tell them to vamoose. They are
chock full of Indian legends, but it is
difficult to induce them to relate them.
We gathered from John Jeka, how
ever, that Spirit island is so named
from the Indians belief that their
devil dwells there. They believe that
the thunder and lightning is manipu-
lated by this spirit at pleasure John
says that uncanny lights often float
above this pile of rocks-spirit island
ON dark nights, and the Indians be-
lieve these lights to be the sulphurous
breath of the evil one. Jeka is par
ticularly interested in "'tricity"-
wants to learn all about it-and Mr..
Jensen, engineer of the Luella, who
lives near him, is devoting some of
his spare time to explaining it's mys-
teries to the red man. So far it is
beyond Jeka's comprehension is
half inclined to believe that it is in
some way connected with the gentle
man who manufactures the lightning
atsSpirit island.
Hennepin, as we'll as Spirit island,
is also held in sort of fearful
reverence by the Indians. Thousands
of gulls hatch their young on Henne-
pin island, and at this time it is liter
ally covered with young birds. No
Indian could be induced upon any
consideration to modest these gulls-
the red men believe that whosoever
disturbeth a gull's nest will be rough
! ly handled by Beelzebub.
! There are not many cottages around
the lake, but numerous lots have been
sold to city people and ere many
years Mile Laos will be a lively place
in the summer time. 81. S. Thomp-
son, Minneapolis grain dealer, and
family are occupying their cottage on
the north side of the harbor; John
Crooks, ST. Paul attorney, and
family, are at Big Point; Mrs. Nc
Gonigle of Royalton, Mrs. White of
Little Falls and several others are
occupying cottage near the Hagg-
berg place: and Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Mallette and family of Princeton and
Mr.. and Mrs. T. W. Allison Of Milaca
are at their summer home-Camp
RansOm-near Cove.
Dynamiters-vandals of the worst
kind-have been depicting the lake of
its fish and the law-abiding citizens
are determined to put stop to it.
The dead fish which have of late been
floating to shore in large number are
the result Of the activities of these
sneaking poachers. We learn upon
good authority that hundreds of bar
rels of fish have been taken by means
of dynamite this season and shipped
to the cities. It is high time that such
nefarious work was put a stop to.
The progress of Isle is somewhat
handicapped by the absence of rail
road station. The people would be
satisfied with a flag station, but it
seems that the railroad company is
averse to granting even this small
favor. This is, however, thriving
little settlement and it's people keep
abreast of the times. There are also
a number of prosperous farmers in
this vicinity among whom may be
mentioned G. J. Bergman, Lars
Madsen, A. P. Enroth, Nels Munson,
| August Elgren, Albin and Mamie
| Wicklander, Nels Berg, DR.. HAYES,
Peter Haggberg and John Carlson
These men all have fine buildings on.
their farms and 40 or SO acres each
under cultivation. The number Of
dairy COWS owned by them range from
8 to IA each.
i With the exception of corn and wild
hay the crops are exceptionally light.
The recent showers will help little,
but not sufficient rain fell to be OF
4 material benefit. All sorts of
vegetables are plentiful, but they had
; to be watered by hand. The berry
crop is light in consequence of the
drouth. For vegetable and berry Gull
tura tho coil horoo bouts L.