The Princeton Union from Princeton, Minnesota • Page 1

Princeton, A. W. WOODCOCK. PRINCETON, 1 a iJ i 4 I 1 ii 1 i i 1 I CITIZENS STATE BANK fY Interest Paid on Time Deposits. Insurance.

A DWTvnwrnW 1WTUNF.SOTA.ATOSENNIM PRINCETON, (Incorporated.) Paid Capital .50,000.00. Authorized Capital $100,000.00. Transacts a General Banking Business." MILLE Edith P.O., Collections. i4 Agents Reed Sherwood Lands. CUNDY GITOINGS, GEN'L MERCHANDISE.

LACS LAKE. Butter, Eggs, Farm Produce "Wanted. Highest price paid. iiuUiuiiUiauuuuiiuuiiiuUiiiiuiauiiiiiiuuiiUiiUiiuUK Woodcock Oakes, MANUFACTURERS OF MFin Cream BrickN 'AND DEALERS IN WOOD AND LUMBER. (Office and Yards at Woodcock's Spur.) li Come in and get our prices on Grounding Peed, Corn Meal, Cracked Corn, Shorts, Bran, Screenings, Etc.

We will 3 undersell anyn dealer in this county. member IslOO -iFtiQJLJiR is the best straight flour sold. Medal and Diploma at the World's Fair for 3 zz vX-: COLOR. o.c- $30,000 $100,000 Farm and Village Loans. Minnesota.

Minnesota. We carry a complete line of Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, and Gents' Also a' nice Line of Men's, Women's and Children's Shoes and Rubbers. Also a line of Lumbermen's Goods. MINN. It PURITY STRENGTH "1 lelriiiceton Roller Mill Co.

PROFESSIONAL CARDS. TARBOX, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Graduate or Benevn Hospital Medical College and Knndan's Island Hospital. N. Y.

City. Surgeon of G. N. R.R.- U. S.

Pension Examining Board meets every Wednesday at Office over Pioneer Drq'g Store. Princeton, Minn. COONEY, DOCTOR OF MEDICINE AND SUR- GERY. 'U. S.

Pension Examining Surgeon. of tlie College of and Sur geons. and Oook Go-Hospital. Chicago. Officee and Residence in Townsend Block, Main Streei.

Princeton. R. p. L. 3 I 3 Office Hours: 9 to 12 M.

zto 5 P. Office in-Townsend Bloclr. Main St. Princeton, Minnie s.D- SOUR, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Graduate of Jefferson Medical College.

Phila- and Medical Department of Hamline University, Minneapolis. Minn. Treatment of Goitre and Scrofulous Glands a specialty. German and English spoken. Office at residence on Washington church.

Princeton, Minn. M.COOK.M.D., AND Graduate of Bennett Medical College. Chicago QHARLES KEITH, Minn. AT LAwl:" 3 First Sueei West. Princeton.

Minn A OICKEY, NOTARY PUBLIC AND Office in Carew Block. Mam Streei, Princeton, Minu. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office on First Street. Main --i''' Truiceton.

Minn J. A ROSS, ATTORNEY AT LAW. -r Office in Carew Block, Main Street. Princeton. Minn.

ROGERS, Minn. BUSINESS CARDS. KALIHER, PRINCETON BARBER" SHOP.l Main Street, Princeton. SMITH'S A. W.

H. OAKES. OLD RELIABLE MEAT MARKET Is the place to get Choice Fresh and SaltMeate Ve deal in the Beet and our prices are reasonable First Door West of Citizens Slate Bank! Princeton, Livery Stable, NEELY Single or double rigs, with or without drivers. Commercial travelers and hunting parties a specialty. Opposite Commercial Hotel, 35: Princeton.

Main Street, CHotel, A wBaaaaaiBBBk. Wm. M. Princeton, H. 1TEWBERT, Prop.

'Bus To From All Trains. SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS For Traveling Transient THE COMMEBCIAL HOTEL IB FirBt-ClaeB in All Appointments, and Aim of the Management is to Make the Gnestt Comfortable. When You Visit Princeton Stop at THE COMMERCIAL HOTEL, rt Which the Legislature l-i Has Done and So me Which It Has Not Done. i Investigations Which Are Not to Accomplish Much Liable for the State. rcial Correspondence.

thing can and will be said to the credit of the present legislature, and tfiat is that it has failed to pass any great number of good laws it has at least not passed any very bad ones, and it has repealed one or two relics of the last previous one which were not particularly creditable either to the authors of the body which allowed tbin to go through. At this writing no final action has been taken on the Douglas rate bill, but it is regarded as a foregone conclusion that it will be defeated w.hen it comes to its final passage. It was recommended for indefinite postponement by a two-thirds majority of the railroad committee, tfflt was placed on general orders by ybte of the house. On the motion to nstke this disposition of it? there were 5Si affirmative and 50 negative votes. members who voted to send it to g'eheral orders did so with the explanation that they wanted to give il a fair but would vote against it.

This TObuld reduce the support of the bill to 5fflvotes, of those who were present, probably that many of the friends at bill might be found among the mme absentees, so the full strength of bill probably does not exceed 55 58 being necessary to pass it. If Jiflere are any conversions they will plrobably be taken from, and not added the list of supporters of the be surprised to see the bill receive more than 50 affirmative votes when it comes upon its final passage. were two legitimate and natural sources of opposition to this in addition to others which were iSeither so legitimate or natural. In first place it attempted too much, md in the its author lost course, with reference to the Hastings Anoka'contest. Collaterally the labor unions, and especially the railroad organizations, fought it with a unanimity that surprising, even for them.

They nailed every city representative from districts where organized labor has a foothold, and they put it in this way: "You know that this bill will take hundreds of thousands of dollars from the receipts of the railroads, and you know there are only two places where they can make up their lossesone by allowing their equipment to run down, the other by taking it out of our the two they will choose the latter and we will get the worst of it." Of all the arguments which were submitted, including those of the railroad lobby itself, I believe that the greatest results were accomplished by these railroad employes. It is true probably sent there by the companies which employed them, and members knew this to be.true, but they were there backed by the authority of their respective organizations, and woe betide the city. politician who goes against the labor There was still another factor in the opposition to this bill which should be takenanto account, and its fate (should my conjecture as to its fate prove rect) should be a lesson to the country members. The bill was a measure purely for the relief of the farmers. Scarcely any other argument was made in its favor than that its tendency was to lighten the burdens of the farmers.

Now, all reports to the contrary not-, withstanding, this legislature is not controlled' by the farmers, or even by the country members. Indeed I doubt if any legislature within the past 20 years has been controlled by them. To begin with, the six leading cities of the State furnish 32 of the 114 members of the house and a coresponding strength in the 54 members of the senate. I requires. 58 votes to pass a bill in the house.

Take any measure involving a direct clash of interests between the farming class and the other, callings and you have a -nucleus of these 32 votes around which to mass the opposition Add to this the membership where the manufacturing and mercantile interests outweigh the distinctly agricultural interests and it will readily be seen that it i- will be comparatively easy to rally 25 votes from the towns whose population run from 3,000 to 6,000. The city members are in- better position to rally their forces and cen- tralize their-strength, and -hence Jfcjjjey. generally win. The Mountain: Iron investigation and the Powers labor bureau investigation promise to come to naught. Ex-Auditor Braden is dead, Lon Merritt has gone to Mexico, probably to stay, Rockefeller has compromised with the only witnesses who might have proved the State's equity, and the door seems to be closed in the face of all inquiry.

If anything is accomplished under the circumstarfces it will be nothing short of a miracle, for the matter has been managed on the part of the usurpers with a cunning hand, and every avenue seems to have been cut off. As for the Powers investigation, the offense was purely a political one, and we can not well expect to see him punished by the party which he was trying to serve. Personally I feel confident that "The Purchasing Power of Gold," "Farm er Hayseed" and the other pamphlets issued by Mr. Ppwers on the time which should have been consumed in the performance of his offical dutiesif he had anymight as well have remained unwritten so far as they affected the result. I do "not believe that any one ever read them clear through.

If any one ever did, and if his reason remained unimpaired by the affliction, he must have voted the Populist ticket merely out of revenge. However, as the front of his his offending was his zeal in a good cause, Republicans will be inclined to look with forgiving eyes upon his offense, especially as they were not compelled to read the books. They will take the will for the deed, accept the evident zeal as an evidence of good faith and invite him to stay where he is and sin some moreonly they may advise him to do it at his own expense next iij The prospects for the passage of the bill making the railroad and warehouse commission elective 'are very slim, and several other measures which I had hoped to see receive favorable consideration have fallen by the wayside and will rise no more. There were two arguments against the elective commission bill. In the second place it was opposed by the politicians.

The reader might look around among the the first place." for her One of the beneficent acts of this session is the slaughter of the proposed local option and high license bill. I never seen two bills wnose titles so completely obscured their purpose. Under the present law every town and village may say whether or not it will grant license at any sum above $500. Now if we are going to have license at all that is surely the way to do it. That is local option in spirit and in letter, and it, is the application of the home rule theory which is as dear to the American citizen as whiskey is.

to a Kentucky colonel. The proposed laws would have placed it in the power of one town in any county to have disfranchised another town in the same county. Milaca might have wanted license and Princeton no license, or vice versa. If Princeton out-voted Milaca, ilaca would have had to sub mit to have her affairs run by Princeton. Princeton might want license and might want to fix the license at $500, but she could not do it if the Knatvold bill had passed.

The present law is satisfactory to nine-tenths of the people of the State, and the other tenth wouldn't be satisfied in Heaven.feVytf Another particularly vicious bill which was killed in-the house last week was the so-called Scott vagrancy bill. I proposed that the police might take up any stranger who appeared with no visible means of support and put him to work on the rock pile. It was such a heinous assault upon the American idea of liberty that it died without a friend when it appeared in the house, and was dignified by a formal interment, Mr. TJonnelly reading the burial service in one of his happiest veins of satire. Ut Absolutely Pure.

Celebrated for its great leavening strength and healthfulness. Assures the food against alum and all forms of adulteration common to the cheap brands. ROYAL BAKING POWDER NEW SUDDB5N SUMMONS. Mrs. Guy Swing: Died Unexpectedly last EveningAt 8:30 last evening Mrs.

Ewing gave up her earthly caresi, ended her sufferings, and entered the eternal rest, i Though for years an invalid, her death unexpectedly and the news was a great shock to her friends and acquaintances. A week ago to-day she was tafeeh with an attack of grip but it did not seem to be a serious case andlast Sunday she had apparently so far recovered that her husband left her to resume his duties as principal of the Milaca schools. Her condition seemed unchanged until yesterday afternoon, when her breathing became, difficult, but it was not until 6 o'clock that she began to sink and then the decline was rapid. The funeral will be held to-morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from her late residence and will be conducted by the Daughters of Rebekah. Martha Oliva Stottle, was born, in Rochester, N.

July 9, 1857, and was therefore nearly forty years of age. She was joined in marriage to Guy Ewing in 1875. Prom this union two children were born, but both have preceded her into lS Her husband, who by her is left Mr. Scott represents the silk stocking ward of St. Paulthe Seventh I understand Senator French will fail to secure the passage of his bill to repeal that part of the law which permits a retraction to be plead in mitigation of damages in suit for libel.

The senator is said to have a few libel suits of his own, and wants to shape the law to suit the circumStahces. Well, a newspaper which will retract doesn't deserve any mercy at the hands of court or jury, and I would just as soon see it repealed as riot. Isaac Heath has been granted an increased pension. Mr. Heath is a deserving veteran and his many friends will be glad to hear of his good fortune.

that bourn from whence no traveller raturns." In 1883 she came west with her husband, when he came here to take charge of our public schools, and has resided in Princeton ever since. Mrs. Ewing was sterlittg-qualities'a'hdeath character. alone, has the heartfelt sympathy of the entire community. iff.

home in Durican Taylor, aged 76 years. Mr. Taylor pfe was stricken with paralysis about a -Jj5g week before his death occurred slowly sunk despite his physician's efforts. The funeral took place Mondayyfl at the Prairie school house and largely attended. Rev.

Allen, of Minneapolis, conducted' the services. leaves a wife, a son and one daughter, Mrs. Charles Groff, and a host friends to mourn nis departure. In Glen dorado, March 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, S.

aged 22 years. The funeral will to-morrow and the interment will made in the Glendorado 8 fS' WBafc is a receivership for if not to scuttled? Every time the' old political officeseeker gets a new. berth he feels and acts as if he had been born again. T. B.

or not T. that is the tion. And the wide world waits for McKinley to decide. Also T. BixbyP Just there are likely to be sins of commission than of the.

sort, and most of 'em will wear wax and. run for four years. The best way to make corporations keep.their hands off a legislature is to elect members who don't believe in that sort of laying on of hands' A writer in Bob Dunn's paper tells us that bimetallism was lost by a "cursed concurrence of calamitous circum That is a pleasant way put it, but why not out and call Mark Hanna and Grover Cleveland by are puzzled to know why should be any feeling against the lumbermen of Minnesota who have done more to clear up Uncle Sam's land aricl keep the settler out of the than any other gang of galoots we know of. Of late they have had to buy their pine, and a tariff of a so a thousand would seem a able concession. Otherwise the whole business would be up a stump.Bede's Budget.

tP'- Auditor Whitney has received notice of the change in, the wolf bounty law. Hereafter $5 will be paid for a grown wolf of either sex during ary, February, March, April and May, and $3 the remainder of the year. i will bring $2 the year through. entire carcass must be presented county auditor to obtain the bounty. m..