The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-29


investors. They numbered ten to
every one man. Over in Minneapolis
those in charge have been trying to
sell nearly 100000 worth of bonds
for the past two weeks, but have been
unable to get a bidder.
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The Capital City will lose one of
its ATTRACTIONS" shortly, when seven
ty resorts that have long been a blot
on its fair name will go out of bust
ness. The abatement law passed by
the last legislature is responsible.
Chief Flanagan of the local police
force has given the order. The one
problem now confronting the authori-
ties is what to do with those driven
out of the resorts. When Minneapolis
cleaned up the sore spot in it's con-
fines the tenants were driven into the
residence districts and the same is
feared in the case of St. Paul. Both
police and civilians, however, join in
the statement that the law is a good
one and they intend to see that it is
enforced.
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Speaking of this particular law and
it's passage by the late legislature in
the face of vigorous opposition from
certain sources, there is hint that
there may be loud boiler on the part
of several when the day to vacate
comes. The intimation is that heavy
slush fund was collected for the pur-
pose of putting the abatement bill out
of business and that several outside
| the legislature protited as a result.
| The amount raised with which to kill
the bill is estimated all the way from
! $4,000 to $4,000. Whether all this
is true or not l am unable to say, but
just the same there is talk, and it is
nasty talk at that.
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| The Westlake bill providing for the
| licensing of the sale of cigarettes is
one of the few laws passed by the last
legislature giving to any one who Sc
cures a conviction for a violation of.
The informer gets one-half and he
might have gotten more had not the
legal department held that his bit
did not include the license fee paid
into the city or county treasury. Who
ever drafted the bill worded it so as
to include the fees in the event of
conviction, but the legal department
says nix.
That many bills now laws were
tempered with during the closing
hours of the legislature is coming to
light and it is nothing these days to
see one or more persons studying the
house and senate journal at the state
capitol in an effort to find out how
it was done. One of the bills undoubt-
eddy tempered with and for which
there is no record is that relating to
maximum hours of labor. In the bill
: it was stipulated that telephone op-
orators should have an eight-hour day.
When enrolled the figure 8 was
changed to 8. 1t is said that the bill
regulating the profession of pharmacy
, was also tempered with.
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AS soon as the state fair is out Of
the way st. Paul will take up the pre-
liminaries for it's spring election and
the promise is that the campaign will
be the Warmest in the history of the
city. St. Paul next spring will take
, on the commission form of govern
! ment and as far as politics is con-
{Io u,h ifCo1f
, into the question of who will control.
the Keller crowd, which is now lit, -
or R. T. O'Connor and his forces. st.
= Paul never took on a Republican ad-
, ministration for more than two con-
+ secutive terms and the bets are now
, that O'Connor will prevail. Then the
f new primary law is expected to help
! his crowd.
They say HOW that the reason Immi.
t.. grafton Commissioner Maxfield was
. lifed out of his job so unceremonious-
r ly was because he tipped off valuable
: information to friends of the admins
I tration and overlooked others on the
S outside. Mr.. Maxfield, it is said, ad.
: mits that he extended some favors
, but not of the kind his enemies claim
3 Just now F. D. Sherman, who has been
t placed in temporary charge of the ad
Q ministration, is being heavily backed
. by members of the legislature, but
l. am afraid it will avail him little.
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- This week the members of the state
:" board of control, together with mem
bers of the medical advisory commits
sion, are at Walker, where they arc
y inquiring into the needs of the SAM
;. tarium for consumptives at that place
y improvements aggregating nearly
- S175,000 in value will be planned and
arrangements made for the care Of
! children. The institution is a costly
=, one, but it has some of the other in
,, situations beat a mile in point of good
!. work being done.
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