The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-07-17
purpose of testing out the competency
of those already employed.

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According to the figures compiled by
the state board of health there were
over 5000 cases of measles in Mime
sofa last year and this figure by no
means represents the actual number
of cases in the state. Because of the
failure of town clerks and others in
trusted with the making of reports
only a fraction of the cases were sent
in. One case of leprosy was also re-
ported. In the last quarter of a cen
fury half dozen cases of this dread
disease have been reported, but no at
tempt has been made to control it be-
yond isolating the victim. The disease,
it is claimed, is less contagious than
others of the contagious kind
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If present plans are carried cat
Winona county will within year
have a system of concrete roads that
will be without parallel in the
state. The county is preparing to
invest over S750,000 in this style of
road building and as a starter has
let contracts for twenty-one miles
of highway. These roads cost the
county $500 a mile. The roadbed
and surface is composed of cement,
sand and washed gravel and is said
to be almost indestructible. The
state highway commission is
cause of the high cost, but it is lend
ing it's aid wherever they are
adopted.
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AS result of a supreme court de-
cision handed down last week the
state treasury has been enriched to
the extent of over $4,000, but this
tidy sum would never have been
added to the store of wealth in the
states strong box had it not been
lumber firm. The concern which will
pay the state this $4,000 is the
Brooks-Scanlon Lumber company
Back in 1905 the company bought
from the state tract of timber n
st. Louis county. 1t paid the price
scale made by the then surveyor
general of logs and lumber A clerk
in the employ of the logging CON-
pany, sore at being discharged,
whispered to State Auditor Iverson
that the scale had been underes-
timated and he started an investi-
cation which resulted in the location
Of a discrepancy of nearly 100000
feet.
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In this neck of the woods no one
would be surprised if Governor
Eberhart deferred his call for an
extra session of the legislature to
consider the passage of a statewide
public utilities act until the first of
next year. The general demand from
the country is that it be postponed
until that time. Governor Eberhart
had October in mind for the call. 1t
is claimed that rural paper falls due
between Oct. Is and Nov. and that
both the farming element and the
professional men are then busy try
ing to clean it up.
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Insurgency has broken out in the
ranks of the insurgent members of
the Modern Woodmen of America in
Minnesota and it now looks as if the
scheme of a new organization would
go glimmering. The last legislature
passed a law permitting a new society.
but it was tempered with to the ex
tent that the act was rendered i'm
practicable. Despite rulings made by
Attorney General Smith covering the
law it is claimed that certain per-
sons interested in the new movement
have been giving out misleading
line of publicity and those insurgents
interested in square deal have
threatened to make trouble. It is
more than likely that the next leg
islature will be asked to interfere.
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Now it is the negro population Of
the state who are after Governor
Eberhart. Their official organ, the
Twin City Star, published at Min.
neapolis, contends that the governor
has ignored the colored man in Min
nesota. The chief grievance Of the
paper is that Governor Eberhart
failed to answer a letter from the
editor of the colored paper asking
that a negro be named among the
Minnesota commissioners to the
Panama-Pacific exposition.
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1t looks very much as if friends
would force Alva Eastman, the St.
Cloud editor, into the congressional
fight in the new Sixth district. Alva
did threaten to break into the game
two years ago, but sensibly laid down
at the last moment.
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The location of the new sixth
normal school authorized by the last
legislature has half dozen North
ern Minnesota towns by the ears and
the contest for the honor threatens
to result in bad blood. All kinds of
charges of double dealing are being
made. Park Rapids, Thief River