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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-08-10

Revenue of 1897, 289.44 from state
owned mines in northern Minnesota
for the fiscal year just ended is re-
ported in" an official state treasury
statement issued recently. A gain OF
more than so per cent is shown owe.
the previous high record year of 1913.
Mine revenue for the last fiscal year
will add $796,889.82 to the permanent
school fund Of the state, and the indi-
cations are that the state school funds
will ultimately exceed $100,000,000.
Minnesota is indeed a favored state,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-08-10
MORE OFFICIALS NOT NEEDED.

MORE OFFICIALS NOI NEEDED.
With all due regard to State Treas
urer Gooding we unhesitatingly assert
that there is no excuse for the creation
of another costly department Of state
government to be known as the public
domain department. The state is dis
posing of large bodies of it's lands and
quantities of it's timber and mineral
yearly. Ten or fifteen years hence
there will be little Of the states arabic
lands undisposed Of, and the same is
true of the states timber. The states
ore brings a royalty of rs cents per
ton on all outstanding contracts, and
it ought not to be difficult matter to
collect the royalty.
Once a public domain department is
established in this state it will remain
in existence as long as there is an acre
Of state land undisposed of, or a ton
Of ore remaining unmined on state
land. -
Mr.. Gooding is also excited over
the trust funds Of the state, especially
the loaning Of the same, and he is
quoted as saying "a bank would en-
|ploy twenty or more officials and clerks
for the same duties"
We would like to inquire of Mr..
Gooding if the state has ever lost a
single dollar on any loan made to any
municipality of the state? And if the
law governing the making of loans is
properly observed how can the state
lose a dollar? The law provides that
loans may be made to the extent of
Is per cent of the assessed value of
the real property in the civil division
seeking the loan, exclusive of outstand.
ing obligations. Very simple and alb
solutely safe. No need of any great
legal luminary to elucidate. ANY man
of ordinary common sense should be
competent to pass upon the legality Of
an application for state loan and see
to it that all the requirements. of the
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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-08-10

Our esteemed contemporaries, the
Elk River Star-News and the Mora
Times, have recently installed linotype
machines Of an up-to-date pattern.
With all our heart we congratulate our
brother publishers, Messrs. Dare and
Rines, on their evident prosperity, and
also on the greatly improved appear
ance of their respective newspapers.
The chief push of the Star-News and
the |Fmeek and lowly one" of the Union
shebang "have been friends for more
than forty years." and their friendship
will be continued to the end Of the
chapter.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-08-10
chapter.

The editor Of the Springfield Free
Press evidently was recently misin-
formed as to a road. In the last issue
of his paper he says: "Some dire
punishment schould be prescribed for
the wise villagers who stand on the
street corners and presume to advise
tourists how to find the road to the
next town when the informants VEN
ture wild guesses as reliable informal
ton. 1t is always safest to get cor
roboration to make sure of the way
for some people who are free with
advise don't even know the general
direction of their neighboring towns -
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-08-10

Most of the belligerents are able to
show that their situation has improved
since the first anniversary of the war,
which leads an exchange to observes
AT that rate everybody ought to be
satisfied in few more years." Not
only satisfied but satiated as we'll.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-08-10

An exchange opines that if the num-
Der of automobiles in use becomes
much greater about the only safe place
for the "kiddies" to play will be in
the railroad yards. And it could have
added that with the reduction in price
Of the '"Tin-lizzie" the chances Of the
number increasing are mighty good.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-08-10
May Disbar Five LAWYERS.

Duluth, Aug. 9.-Five Minnesota at
torneys will be stripped of their right
to practice law in this state if recon-
mendations adopted by the Minneso-
ia State Bar association in annual ses-
Sion here are carried out by the state
board of law examiners. The names
of the five are withheld.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-08-10

The United States is today the
dominant money factor in the world,
due to the workings of the Federal
reserve act. The week of July Is, 1916,
found the New York money market
dominating the London market for the
first time.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-08-10
The Bull Moose dies hard. Til

The Bull Moose dies hard. The
party has no candidate for president,
but it is still in the ring and electoral
tickets will be put in the field in sev-
eral states. The Moosers hope to
capture enough votes in the electoral
college to hold the balance Of power.
Hope appears to be about all that is
left of the progressive party, and that
is due to vanish.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-08-10

At the coming election the balance
of power will doubtless be in the hands
of those who have arrived at the voting
age since Wilson was elected in 1912.
And events between now and Novem-
Der will largely determine which way
the young vote will swing.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-08-10
WOULD TIE UP LAKE TRAFFIC
!. w. w. Leaders Want Dockmen tc
Go on Strike.

Duluth, Aug. 9.-"Our aim now is to
paralyze the shipping industry in Du-
luth and Superior, tie up all lake
traffic, keep the boats idle and the
dockmen on a strike, so as to help
the miners on the Mesaba range
stated Louis Melis, local I. w. w. sec.
rotary.
Jubilant over having 300 dock labor
ers strike in Superior and become af-
filiated with the l. w. W. the branch
officials will now attempt to spread
the strike to Duluth.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-08-10

The tramp situation is becoming
serious in the western section of the
state and hordes Of wandering idlers
swarm the country whereabouts. Not
in a score of years have rambling
mendicants been so numerous, and it
is thought that goodly percentage
of them are the dupes of I. w. W.
agitatOrS.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-08-10
Sheriff Prevents Lynchjnq.

Eufaula, Okla, Aug. 9.-An unsuc-
cessful attempt was made by mob
of citizens to get Will and Cecil Tow
cry, negroes, who confessed murder
ing Charles Vaughn, an oil producer
of Morris. Meanwhile the prisoners
lay hidden in a cornfield not far from
the county. jail, :sa !, ..:.a4
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-08-10

That all guard officers and men on
the Mexican border classed as "kick-
ers" will be returned to their homes
for the good of the service is limited
at in a Washington dispatch. Nobody
loves a chronic Pathfinder.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-08-10

Why does an automobile driver in
sist on a pedestrian stopping on the
crossing to allow him to pass ?-Rush~
ford Record.
For the reason, we presume, that
the driver does not view prospective
collision with the same degree of
alarm as a pedestrian.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-08-10

"Our aim, to swat liars and leeches,
hypocrites and humbugs, demagogues
and dastards," flies at the head of a
driveling crank sheet sample copy
of which arrived at this Office this
week. With paper as high as at pres
ent it is little short Of criminal to
issue such publications.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-08-10

There is more gold in the United
States today, property of American
citizens, than any other nation ever
accumulated. Have you got your
share?
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-08-10

entirely too valuable to use in pro-
ducing an average crop of Is bushels
of wheat to. the acre and not always
getting that. Diversified farming is
the solution of the problem Brecken-
ridge Gazette.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-08-10
DR.. Lawrence M. Isqriqg

SCIENTIFICALLY PRACTICING
SUGGESTIVE THERAPEUTICS
A System of Drugless Healing.
Presenting remarkable opportunity
for the afflicted to obtain a cure of
Chronic Stomach, Liver or Kidney
trouble; rheumatism, Constipation,
Paralysis, Consumption, or Female.
Trouble; Diseases Of the Eye, Epilepsy
Asthma, Cancer Eczema, Nervousness
or any organic weakness, in fact a.
great many diseases not reached bv
medicine or surgery.
OFFICES OVER HERDLISKA'S
JEWELRY STORE.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-08-10
A Heluva of a Name.

A Heluva of Name.
Otto He'll of West Virginia-O. He'll
for short-was refused admission into
the army in Kansas last week because
he was short physically as we'll as in
name. It'd be h-hard to have name
like that; you'd answer so many
times when you weren't called.-Mel-
rose Beacon.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-08-10
OPINIONS OF EDITORS.
A Real LOVal Booster.

Some Of the newspapers along the
central Jefferson Highway route ap-
parently get more or less satisfac-
ton out of roasting the Hon. P. H.
McGarry of Walker. At that Nc
Garry is one of the best and most
loyal boosters in all northern Mime
sota.-Detroit Record.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-08-10
Can You Beat 1t?

Because the editor of the Sank Cen.
ter Herald went into a restaurant ir
St. Paul recently, with his coat on his
arm instead Of on his back, the DAY
was hot of course, woman arrayec
in a gown that showed everything but
her soul, protested to the head waiter
And this modest country editor was
seated just as far away from the
fashionably dressed woman as he coulc
get. Sure the woman should have a
mans chance, but not much more or
hot days. Saltwater Gazette.
XXX X
Think 1t Over.
Why not one big, common church in
every community with adequate fnan-
cial resources to pay the preacher a
living salary, with paid choir and a
great, big pipe organ, a community
center where all could go on a Sun
day morning or a Thursday evening
feeling certain that sufficient num-
Der would always be present to inspire
the minister and relieve the dreadful
loneliness of vacant pews? Consider
ing that we are all journeying toward
common goal, why travel by separ-
ate routes when one big highway with
genial and numerous companions
would prove vastly more pleasant and
less lonesome? Think it over.-Pres-
ton Times.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-08-10
Governor Was Right.

Governor Was Right.
The only folks who find fault with
Governor Burnquist's course in the
Range controversy are the politicians
of that region, the members of the 81
Won't Work" society and the editor of
the anarchistic Mesaba Ore, Notwith-
standing this opposition, the governor
will continue to insist on the preserva-
ton of fife and the observance of law
in that region. He has taken an oath
as governor to do this-and he will do
it.-Pine City Poker. ~ s.. 49,
T. ... * * x:
Ever Changing Conditions.
The small grain crops in this coun-
ty, and IN fact, the whole Red River
valley, are almost a complete failure
It is probably that Wilkin county's
crop Of small grains will be smaller,
both in the matter Of acreage and
bushels than for many years. The
fact Of the matter is that as a wheat
country the Red River valley has lost
the supremacy which once made it
famous the world over, and the sooner
our farmers realize that this is so, and
get into stock raising, the better it
will be for, them and for the country
generally. Land in the valley is. now
worth from SOS to 1925, per acre
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-08-19

west and Undine in the northwest,
and to the Austrian cities of Trieste
in the southeast and Klagenfurt in
the north. The situation of Goritz is
a picturesque one, greatly enhanced
by the rare pleasure gardens that
have been called into being by the
winter guests. It Is built on the left
bank Of the Isonzo river. The worn
rocks Of the old castle ruins Of the
counts of Goritz dominate the city
from the hillside. The castle Is now
used partly as a barracks and partly
as an arsenal. The cathedral, built
In the fourteenth century, is another
interesting monument to the city's
past.
Where Theodoric Defeated odoacer.
The fighting which is now occurring
on the Isonzo recalls the great battle
Of the Isontius (Isonzo) in the fifth
century, where the Roman emperor
Odoacer met signal defeat at the
hands Of Theodore, the Ostrogoth.
The vanquished leader was driven
back to Ravenna, where, after a pro-
tracted siege q truce was agreed upon.
During the parley Odoacer fell before
the treacherous Ostrogoth, who Glove
his enemy from shoulder to flank with
broadsword.
One of the most interesting natural
phenomena of the Isonzo district is
the short Timavus river, which emp
ties into the Gulf of Trieste five miles
from the mouth of the larger water
course. The Timavus gushes from a
mountainside, Uniformed. in three
streams of sufficient volume to float
small vessels at the very source. In
Virgils day, according to the descrip-
ton In the Aeneid, the Timavus
rushed from the rocks In nine streams.
The river is supposed to be continu-
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-08-19
Diamond Oldest of Riches.

The discoverer of diamonds is un-
known. From references in Exodus 1t
is apparent that the diamond was
precious stone in Egypt in those early
times; and even before that 1t was
known in India, where probably 1t was
first obtained. The name is derived
from the Greek word "adamas," mean
ing "unsubduable."
From Pliny, a writer Of the first CEN
fury, we learn that the diamond was
regarded as the most valuable Of all
things. and only a few kings ever
could afford to buy them. But as no
means of artificial polishing had been
discovered the stone deprecated in
value, so that the ruby and the emer-
aid became more precious. The dis
covery by Ludwig Won Berquen, in
1476, of mode of polishing and cut
ting it at once returned this gem to
the first place among precious stones.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-08-19

intensely popular, and asked him to
say to congress that as long as that
body was disposed to furnish school
books that the Moros themselves
would furnish the schools and the
scholars. Datto Piang, one of the
powerful chieftains, has himself erect
ed two costly schoolhouses In Min
danao solely at his own expense. A
Moro doing anything of this sort in
olden times would have been hanged
by his own people.
Baseball Has Helped.
Baseball has helped wonderfully
with the Moros, as it did with the
Fillpinos, to cement affections for the
Americans. It is claimed by a learned
Filipino who recently toured Min
danao that in two decades the Wis
itor in Moroland will not be able, so
far as dress and manners are con-
cerned, to distinguish Moro from a
Filipino. No American baseball fan
really knows what fun Is until he Is
privileged to see holly contested
game of ball between Filipinos and
Meros and gives an attentive ear to
the game vernacular as it Is spoken
by our wards in the excitement Of the
sport.
With the awakening to civilization
the Moro is acquiring some chivalry.
One of the sultans thought he had
reached the acme Of politeness when
he asked the popular daughter Of one
of our ex-presidents, at the time Wis.
iting his palace, to become No. 1 in
his harem. OF course, there was a
blushing declination, at which the
dusky ruler was probably chagrined.
But the incident goes to illustrate that
the American, as well as the Christian
Filipino, is for the first time making
himself and his institutions accepta.
BILE to the remade Mohammedans OF
our farthest-fung frontier.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-08-19

Mindanao has q larger colony OF
American planters, engaged mostly in
hemp cultivation, than any other spot
in the islands, Notwithstanding that
the people there have always been
hostile to trespassers. Many of these
have been wantonly murdered, but the
fatality list is growing less right
along, an evidence that the people are
being converted to new order OF
things. Many of these brave Ameri-
cans started business on what they
saved from q soldiers wage, and to-
day not a few of them are Oriental
nabobs.
Responding to Education.
For centuries the Moro thought the
only kind of effective government was
that having force behind it. 70 be
kind to him, in his opinion, meant that
you feared him. But to be kind, with
means of making kindness accepta-
BILE through a standing military force,
has completely wrought change In
the warlike people. Under good lead
ers the Moros are good people; under
bad ones they, too, are bad.
The Mohammedan religion teaches
that to Stay white man, or Chris
tan, Is q sure way to get to heaven.
Therefore, in Spanish times, and DUR
Ing our early occupation, fanatical
Moros used to run amuck, chopping
down as many foreigners as they
could with their wicked knives. Often
it has taken a dozen bullets, we'll
aimed from a high-power army rifle,
to kill the crazed followers of the
Koran. All Moros hate pork as bull
does a red flag, and the military Off
Ger who placed the dead body of a
fanatic inside pork carcas and
strung the two up In the plaza for
the inspection of others effectually
kept running amuck" within bounds
in his territory.
But today the Moros are laying
aside their war krises and spears, are
discarding their tight-ftting, gaily
colored costumes for modern dress,
similar to the Filipinos, and are send
ing their children for the first time to
public schools. A decade hence there
may be Moro professional men, such
as lawyers, doctors and scientists.
A committee Of Moro chieftains who
went to Manila recently to meet Resi-
dent Commissioner Manuel Quezos OF
Washington, himself Filipino, told
the commissioner that schools were
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-08-19
MAzATLAN is A BUSY PORT
Rich Products of Mexico Are Shipped
From the Pacific Coast
Metropolis.

Mnzatlan, Mexicos metropolis of the
Pacific coast, reported to have been
the scene of an unprovoked attack
upon officers and men from the Amer
lean gunboat Annapolis, is thus de-
scribed in the National Geographic So
ciety's war geographic bulletin:
The north entrance to its harbor,
marked by a lighthouse perched on the
crest of an eminence called Cerro del
Creston, making it one of the Hottest
guides to navigation in-the world, Ma
zatlan is the chief entrepot for one of
the richest mining sections of the
southern republic. 1t not only exports
the gold and silver from it's own inn
mensely wealthy state of Sinaloa (esti-
mated by some experts to have the
most valuable mineral deposits in
Mexico) but it also handles the ore
shipments by sea of Zacatecas and
Durango.
The city, which has a population of
10000, is situated on a small peninsula
opposite the Bay Of Olas Atlas (High
Waves), and is surrounded by COCO
nut groves. 1t is six days voyage
by steamship from here to San Fran
cisco, the Mexican port being 225
miles east Of the southern tip of Low
err California. The distance from Ell
Paso, due south, to Mazatlan is about
the same as from st. Louis to New
Orleans.
The aspect of the territory adjacent
to Mazatlan is little affected by the
prosperity of the report. The Indians
live in the same type of huts which
they have occupied since the Spanish
conquest and perhaps for centuries be-
fore that. The strip of lowland along
the shore has a tropical climate, with
an abundance Of rain. Beyond this
| verdant margin to the East rises the
| towering, thickly wooded Sierra Madre
range, extending for hundreds Of
miles to the north and south.
Among the rich products Of Mex
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-08-19

ico's fertile fields, undersea caves and
riven hills which find their way to the
outside world through the Mazatlan
gateway are rubber, gums, dyewOods,
silver, copper, gold, lead, pearls, tor
toiseshell, sailed fish, and cabinet
woods. The citys manufacturing &C
tivities include saw mills, cotton fac
tories and rope works.
Fourteen years ago Mazatlan was
almost depopulated by a frightful cpl
demic of bubonic plague which sur
passed in severity some Of the most
terrible ravages Of the "black death"
in Europe during the middle ages.
According to one authority only 1000
people out of total of $4,000 were
spared, and more than a thousand
houses were burned in an effort to
stay the march of the disease. Dur
ing the last decade sanitary condi-
tons have been improved greatly.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-08-19

danao, with the Sulu archipelago
the Mohammedan empires well
worth reconstruction, and 1t is per-
haps this fact which has made us so
persistent.
Largest Of Philippine Islands.
Mindanao itself is the largest island
by far in the entire Philippine archi-
pelago. 1t is about the size of our
own state of Mississippi, and is big
ger than Indiana or Ohio. 1t would
make seven states like New Jersey,
and Is by far much larger than sew
eral Of our Atlantic coast states COM
bined. To be precise, 1t has an area
of 46,721 square miles.
In ancient times the Moros had lit
tie, If any, business sense, They had
a woeful lack Of the appreciation OF
money. To overcome their antiQuated
ideas Of trade we have established
markets for them in the leading towns
where they meet to buy and sell.
Some DAY Mindanao will be one of
the leading countries of the world for
the production of rubber. The rubber
tree grows wild there in great pro-
fusion. Although the industry is as
yet undomesticated, exports from n
single locality have reached nearly
100000 pounds in year. The island
also produces much hemp, as well as
tapioca, cocoanuts and other tropical
fruits.
We have been successful in giving
railroads to that part Of the Philip
pine archipelago occupied by the Fill
ipino, even though foreign capital had
to furnish the money, but we have
yet to lay the first steel rail in Min
danao, the greatest and richest of the
islands of our insular frontier. Bor-
neo, distant only stones throw from
Zamboanga. Mindanao's metropolis, is
far ahead of Moroland in everything
save natural wealth.