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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-02-16

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BY a vote Of 27,637 to 1,76O, the
Brotherhood of Carpenters has decided
to increase its per capita tax instead
of continuing assessments.
The National Eoard of Cancellation in
the building trades IN England has lately
been organized, which already has 1884,
600 men pledged to give the proposal a
fair trial, comprising joiners, masons and
bricklayers.
The annua report Of the Piano and
Organ Workers Union, one of the infant
internationals, shows that during 1905
benefits a~ggregating $35,2S2.96 were paid,
distributed as follows: Strike ST, 733.42,
sick $12,6S0.54, death $4,000.
According to Dun's mercantile agency
the cost Of living has risen 81 per cent
in the last seven years. With the ex-
ception of a few workers In some of the
highly organized trades, this increase is
much greater than the increase In wages
for the same period.
Tilelayers' Union, No. %, of Boston,
recently adopted its wage request for
May l. 1t provides for a minimum of
$4.G0 a day for journeymen, for the eight
hour day, and also for a Saturday after
noon half holiday. The desired rate for
the Saturday half day is fixed at $3.50.
The painters in Chicago lave demand
ed an increase in wages from As to 80
cents m hour, and several conferences
have been held between representatives Of
the union and the master painters. The
indications now are that the men will be
granted the increase without being COM
PEELED to strike. "
State Labor Inspector Thomas J..
Scally, in his annual report to the COM
missioner of labor and statistics, states
that in Kentucky 1913 women are en-
ployed at. an average daily compensa-
ton of S7h cents. The average compen-
sation for men is $1,63h. He says tina
women who belong to organized labor
are receiving nearer the wages paid
to men. The inspector praises Ken
tucky's child labor law, and says: at
has lone more for future generations
than any law enacted in Kentucky for
many years." ~
Twenty million pretzels were manufac-
tured by Berks county (pa.) bakeries in
1905. One baking establishment leads
the list with 100000 p~retzels another
made 4,OO0,OOO; the third comes close
with 100000. 1t required more than
5000 barrels of iour to make the 90
100000 pretzels. Nearly 100 men were
kept busy all the year by the work. The
pretzels were not only sold to Pennsyl-
vania consumers but were shipped to
nearly all the States and territories.
Great shipments were made to Spokane,
Wash, and to the coast cities of Cali
fornia.
Although the agreement between the
Masons' and Builders Association and
the Bricklayers' Union Of Chicago will
expire May !, no trouble Is expected In
that trade. The b~ricklayers will not ask
for any increase this year, as there was
! such a demand for men last season that
the minimum scale of 62h cents an hour
was practically ignored and the men were
paid In many instances es high as Is
cents an hour. They expect the same
conditions will prevail this year, and they
are not particularly interested in the
minimum scale, as very few Of the menu
] bers work for it.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-02-16
AWFUL MURDER RECORD.
With Exception OF Italians, Amerl.
cans Are Most HOnlicidnl Nation.

cans Are Most HOnfcidal Nation.
According to the unofficial statistics
gathered in 1905. as in previous years,
by the Chicago Tribune, there were 9,212
homicides committed in the United States
during the twelvemonth just ended. This
country remains on the bad eminence
it has long occupied in the history of
crime: indeed, we have increased our
lead, for the number of homicides was
greater by $40 in 1905 than it was in
the previous year. The record consti-
tutes a shocking indictment.
With the single exception of the Ital-
ians, the American people are the most
homicidal nation in the civilized world.
In fact, we are running neck and neck
with Italy with respect to the ratio of
violent crimes resulting in death. In the
latter country the homicides number 1OJ
per million of inhabitants per year; in
this country last year the ratio was 115
per million.
A comparison with the criminal statis-
tics of other leading nations will serve
to emphasize the Indictment and make T.
positively terrifying. Thus the annual
average ratio of homicides to population
is 10 per million to German, 10 per mill
ion in France and q per million in the
United Kingdom. 800 7s7-5<
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-02-16
EPIDEMIC OF SUICIDES.
Sweeping over New York and All
the Cities of the East.

Sweeping over New York and All
the Cities of the East.
A suicide wave for which there is no
satisfactory accounting is sweeping over
New York and the entire eastern por-
ton of the country. says the New York
Times. Experts who day by day COM
pile and tabulate the vital statistics OF
our cities nave adduced this fact from
their columns of comparative facts and
figures and have presented it for public
consideration without opinion or COM
ment. which is a way peculiar to statls-
ticians and others of their kind who deal
in cold. hard actualities.
and perhaps it is just as well, for self
murder at best is one of the most illus
i've and generally unsatisfactory problems
which the health department of a great
city is called upon to face. There is no
adequate explanation for it in any Of its
general aspects. If there is a decrease,
that decrease cannot be accounted for,
unless theoretically if increase there be
in the number of suicides the health au-
thorities are equally at sea. save, OF
course. in times of economic distress.
Rut in the accepted sense of the term
there is no economic distress in this city,
in any city of the country, at the present
time. Times are economically prcTntlous,
never better, and hence the fact that
New Iork's suicide rate in the present
month has gone far above the average
for the months of last year-22.7 per
100, OOO-and that other cities report
similar conditions cannot be explained
on the basis of economies, of hard times.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-02-16
C,.on, Ear aad Near

Geronimo. the Apache warrior, has just
been married for the eighth time at the
age Of e.
.Joh !. Cram. aged 81. years, at one
Gre one OF the leading rifle shots of the
country. died in Kennc5ec, Ne.
Albert +. ~Springsteen. connected with
the pension office, claims to have been the
n q enlisted and mustered soldier
in the United States army during the
war of the rebellion. He enlisted at In
dianapolis on Oct. IS, 1861, at the age
of II wears and . months.
w. J. Odell, Cincinnati broker, was
nermancntly enjoined from interfering
With $4,000 obtained by the sale of the
New York exchange seat OF Holman q
Co. -u
The sentence of Lieut.. Pendleton OF
Manila who was condemned to life i'm
n~r;sonment for murder, has been recon
.;dered and changed to imprisonment for
n,ho carter which has been conferred
=, tho Nikado is set with diamonds ano
~, .t.r of the order is in diamonds, ano
the George, which is pendent to the col;
lar Of the order, is carved in onyx ana SCI
rornd with brilIiants. 1t cost something
well owe. 5000.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-02-16
TREATY HAS A JOKER.
&7,OOO,OOO Worthless II
rnt,snrN Sn~lN yD.

Makes R7,OOO,OOO Worthless Do
mingO scrip Good.
The attention of Secretary Root and
Of members of the Senate committee on
foreign relations has been called to n
Joker" in the Santo Domingo treaty and,
according to a Washington correspond
ent, it is causing them worry.
The Joker is in article I, which
reads THE United States undertakes to
secure an arrangement Of all obligations
of the Dominican government, foreign as
we'll as domestic; the arrangement for
payment n the conditions of amortiza-
ton; the consideration of conflicting
and unreasonable claims and the decis-
ion as to the validity and mount of all
pending claims already liQuidated and
accepted OF which may be established"
1t was the original intention of the
President that the none collected from
the Dominican customs should be used in
settlement of the foreign claims only.
Under the heading of domestic claims
will come between $S,0OO,0OO IL So
0OO,OuO of scrip Of la Dauda D%eforida,"
the deferred debt. This scrip for forty
years has been of practically no value
not worth five cents on the dollar be-
cause of the doubt whether it ever would
~ ltNitclntu.
Now, the officials of the Dominican.
government have bought all this scrip
they could reach, paying all the way
from > to 30 cents on the dollar. Emilio
Joubcrt, the minister from Santo Do
mingo, himself has admitted that he
would not now sell the scrip he holds for
10 cents on the dollar, as he believes it
will be paid in full. He says it will be
wort nDT tbn ninntn fhn fraafv iS rnti-
fed by the Senate of the United States.
This deferred debt" is the outgrowtn
of the Dominican revolutions of the last
forty years, which, except the last n
headed by Morales, all have been success
full. Whenever a revolutionary chief
while operating in the field requisitioned
cattle or services a voucher was given.
After the revolution was won this vouch-
or would be exchanged at the capital for
scrip of La Deuda Dcferida," duly regis
tered in the treasury books. The obliga-
tons of both sides always We're recog-
nlZed because no successful faction was
ever sure it would not be among the
outs the next day.
Scrip also has been used by the govern
ment in the payment of the salaries of
officials and many influential men Of the
republic now have considerable sums of
this paper. Revolutionary chiefs have
used it literally to reward friends for
Services
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-02-16
MACON ANSWERS elokLoW.
Governor of Canal Zone Replies e
Wrtter's Criticlsms.

Writer'S Criticisms
Charles r. Magoon, Governor Of thu
Panama canal zone, who Is also a mem
Der Of the canal commission and the
American minister to the republic Of
Panama, but who draws but one salary.
Is back home for a visit and to attend
the meeting Of the commission. He con-
tradicts almost every assertion made by
Poultney Bigelow concerning the state OF
affairs on the isthmus. He says that a
large part of the $4,000 workmen are
10Y engaged In making the canal strip
as healthful as possible by drainage and
the use Of kerosene to destroy the mos
quitoes by fumigation and netting. He
says there is not a single gambling house
or house of i'll rcpute In the zone. Most
OF the women who have been brought
there from Martinique were living with
their declared husbands and the rest were
employed as servants.
Mr.. Bigelow has sent n check for ST.
600 to the Louisville Courier Journal,
which he agrees to forfeit if, upon fair
investigation, his statements arc proved
untrue He says he does not think It a
very severe thing to be called n liar,
but extremely disagreeable to be proved
one. AS to his refusal to give the names
OF his informants, he says that every
journalist knows hat such condolences
are his stock in trade.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-02-16

A new era in the electrical distribu-
ton of Niagara's power Is begun with
the signing of a contract by a company
on the Canadian side of tho fails 10 de-
liver electrical power in the city Of SYRIA
cuse by March I. The same company Is
said to be considering a transmission
line to Cleveland and other Lake Erie
cities. 1t is now regarded as probable
that Niagara power will ultimately be
sent to New York City. The power Is
disseminated by the Niagara, Lockport
and Ontario Power Company, which has
secured rights of way in every direction,
utilizing aluminium cables and heavy por-
cclain insulators on steel towers 80 feet
high. Each cable has nineteen strands
of heavy aluminium wire This company
is expected to furnish the electrical pow
er for tho New York Central lines west
of Syracuse. The company Is to have a
total capacity Of 100000 horsepower.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-02-16
MAKING MONEY, TOO.
T~raDpers of the N~orthwes Included
in General Prosperity.


The many trapprrs operating in north
rrn Minnesota will reap a rich harvest
during the present winter. This side
sweep OF the general wave Of prosperity
that has rolled over the land means many
comforts, even ]luXuries. in the log cabins
of scores of sturdy settlers in the wilds
OF the northern country. who are mainly
dependent upon their traps during the
cold months for a livelihood.
The settlers and professionals in tho
country directly tributary to Duluth look
for the most part to mink. martcn and
otter to make their trapping operations
profitable and the prlts of these little
animals at present command n higher
price than at any time during the past
33 years, though there has been a decided
slump in the prices paid for furs from
the black. blue and silver fox, which
bring only $50 each now, where a year
or two ago they were as high as $500
apiece.
Last winter $3.50 was considered a
good price for a mink pelt and it wasn't
more than n season or two back that
$3.50 was the highest paid for a single
pelt of this kind. Now a choice raw
mink fur will bring S11 and a marten
pelt from SIS to $50, where So or 81 was
paid last winter. An otter skin is worth
SD just as it comes from the trapper's
hands, which is away above any price
paid for more than thirty years. Quite
a few fisher are caught through northern
Minnesota and these are worth from So
to $40. Beaver are very scarce and are
worth from 81 to 50 each.
The highest prices paid for furs will
also prove a Door to the Minnesota In
dams. or such of them at least as have
any business ability. a great many of
the Indians trap during the winter, but
the trouble with the majority of them is
that they do not know the value of their
catch and are likely to sell a $50 otter
pelt for 81 or So and a $11 mink for
81, or perhaps a pint of whisky. The
white man is we'll aware Of this fact and
some agents make it their business dur
ing the winter to do nothing but buy
furs from the Indians, selling them later
at q handsome margin of profit.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-02-16

At g recent Boston meeting of the shoe
manufacturers Of New England ii Vas
agreed that the prices Of shoes must be
raised in view Of the fact hat the sta
pies Of the shoe industry had increased 50
per cent In cost within the last few
years. This increase was attributed to
reduced consumption OF meat, tending to
a scarcity of leather, the use of shoes in
the far eastern and southern countries
and increased consumption Of leather
owing to poor quality. The manufacture
ers justify their course by saying that
they are denied access to the open mar
kcts of the world by the duty on hides
which they say protects no industry, but
only serves the purpose Of enabling the
beef trust ito levy tribute on the people,"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-02-16
Warns Britain Of War. Perils.

Field Marshal Lord Roberts, in his
recent speech before the Liverpool Cham
Der of Commerce, again affirmed that the
nation was as absolutely unprepared for
war as it was in 1899. He urged the
adoption of a million men as the military
standard, half of whom would be needed
for the defense of India and the other
half to fit the nation to maintain a Euro
pean struggle. ' sr.ss g. .
Lord Roberts said he had heard of the
renewal of the Anglo-Japanese alliance
with enthusiasm, but he reminded his
audience that national conditions and ma
tional necessities were subject 10 change,
and that the alliance Only applied to
Asia and not to Europe, where the dan.
ger was greater.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-02-16
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6sk3gs.SsEENofhBLE

King Edward recently presented the
King of Norway with Il magnificent pair
of carriage horses.
NJ. FalIieres, the new President of
F,orcc, is noted for his devotion to a
simple country life.
Sir Waltz Gilbey bears the reputation
of being one of the greatest living au-
thorities on all kinds of sports.
Sir Oliver Lodge, whose name is fam
o,s in connection with psychical research,
was put into business at the age of IA.
Count Boni de Castellane has published
o hook containing his speeches and arti,
cles since 1901 on the foreign policy OF
France.
Showcio Tamura, one. of Japan's best
known novelists, expects to be graduated
from the Indiana university with the
class of 1907. oil. .o@ 7gt ;r
a,.plied to Mr.. Gladstone, is credited to
the Rev.. Edward Lloyd Jones of Man
chester, England.
The Gar of Russia, who is considera-
bly below the average height Of men, is
fully a head shorter han his beautiful
and majestic Czarina.
Sir Robert Reid, the new lord chancel-
lor of Great Britain, has a face SO typic-
ally English that he has been called 1.-THE
Intellectual John Bull"
NJ. Casimir Perier, who once resigned
the French presidency, recently received
a unique decoration, the gold medal Of
the Assistance Public" which is vastly
more rare than the Legion Of Honor has
become in these later times.
The real name of Gabrielle d'Annunzio,
the Italian novelist, is Rapaguetta. His
father-in-law was due de Gallese, a
Fnnchman, who received permission to
take that title on marrying the widow
Of a former duke. The author Is now
trying to obtain a divorce.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-02-16
'"eAcHeR BANKER A s,,,c,oe
Life VIM Of Peoria, ILL.,. Take.

No. ""hS, of Peoria, III r,,,.
"hen Scandal Is ReycnI.,.
Deoln by suicide has ended tho m
ieeF OF Rev. Gcorrc II s,mno,,
ss 'inah ana banker. one of the
.e"uins citizens Of Peoria, III A
s'ar'lilg scandal lu which DR. Sim.
mons had become involved made him
see " welcome relief in death As q
u''ect result Of the revelations ~.
oaiih closed Inc a run was m,ao ~
i,other When the body of the min.
's'et was found the climax was
"cneu IN IL sensation which has
shaker Peoria religious. financial and
po'i''cal circles worse than did tbn
case or N. {. Doughertv, tho sunar,n-
PENDENT of schools, last fail Sir,,o,s
lau pech pastor of the FIRST Boptist
Nhurch for five Years.
lteT. Simmons had an eytraorainorr
career. lie "dnrnted himself in a Ken.
lucky theological school, His first hrci-
HISS venture was about five years ago
"neh lie organized u company with
"ioo''V' capital to manufacture cereal
coffee. lie then organized the In+or.
state Bank & Trust Company of P,orja,
with IL capital stock of S2OO, 600. In
addition to this h" was at the head Of
a movement to hcau,ify the city and
conducted a flower festival. One OF
MS innovations Nds huIIing religious
services in the Coliseum, holding 1000
people.
Ills rather was a farmer, and he him.
self lived and lnborcl on the farm mn
III he was past twelve years of age.
The father and mother being dead.
II lad went to Louisville, Ky. to Sc
cure an education. At an early age
he decided to enter the ministry. and
began making preparation by attend
ing the public schools in louisville.
and later in Georgetown College, in
Georgetown, Ky. He held pastorates
in Henderson. Ky, Louisville, Jackson,
Tenn, and at Tcrre IIaute, Ind. He
began preaching at The age Of seven.
teen.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-02-16

conquest of France.
for five years signed by
Germany and France.
16l6-Jacob lie Marie discovered Cape
of Good Hope.
1o2o-Charles |. Of England crowned at
Westminster
lO49-hlng Charles !. beheaded.
l6o3-New York City incorporated.
l692-Massacre of Glencoe, Scotland.
1IT-Great Britain granted letters OF
narque and reprisal against America.
l.9S-Eed"ral Street theater, Boston, de-
stroycd by fire.
= -Montcyidco taken by the British.
lSoo-Tcrritory of Illinois established.
neutrality-suspicious. of Greece proclaim
ed by allied powers.
lS3J-Attemptcd assassination of Presi-
lent Jackson at the capitol by j..
Lawrence.
lSiS-Treaty of peace signed by United
States and Mexico.
1S55-Trial of steam engine Miles Green
wood, built at Cincinnati. Gold
discovered in Kern river, California.
1SJ6-Thcrmomcter registered 80 degrees
below in Kansas. .....Chilian war
steamer Cazadon lost; 3lS persisted.
1S5S-Launch of the steamship Great
Eastern.
1SG1-Convention Of seeding States met
at Montgomery, Ala.
lSGJ-Thirteenth amendment to the
Constitution abolishing slavery.
lSGI-Evacuation of Mexico by the
French.
1SGS-Act exNmpting cotton from inter.
nal tax.
mania.
1SI3-Postal franking privilege abolished
by act Of Congress.
1S74-London's great fire.
1S!5-The amended civil rights bill pass
ed the House of Representatives.
1S1G-National League of Baseball Clubs
organized at Cincinnati.
lS.S-Steamship Metropolis wrecked near
Kitty Hawk, n. c.; 100 lives lost.
~1SS1-Parnell and Irish associates re.
moved from House of Commons.
1SS4-Baker Pasha defeated by Egyp.
tians near Tokar; loss $500.
1SS5-O'Donovan Rosa, Irish patriot,
shot by a woman in New York City.
....Gen. Gordon killed.
1SSG-Attempt to assassinate President
of Ecuador. House passed Dingley
shipping bill.
~~.S7-Stanley started to relieve Emin
Pasha go. President signed interstate
commerce bill.
1SSS-Lick observatory completed at
Hamilton, Cal.
1SS9-Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria
murdered. 1.-Two million dollar fire
in Buffalo,. Dissolution of Panama
Canal Company by Paris court.
1S9O-State capital of Arizona removed
from Prescott to Phoenix. -. Discov-
cry of plot to assassinate Prince Fer
dinand of Bulgaria. Wife and
daughter of Secretary of the Navy
Tracy fatally burned. -
1S91-Dissolution Of the Canadian Par
lament.
1S93-Hawaiian commission reached
Washington.
1S94-United States ship Kearsarse
wrecked on Roncador eef....Vail-
liant, the anarchist bomb thrower,
guillotined in Paris.
lSo5-Steamship Elbe sum- and 800 lives
lost Queen Liliuokalani formally
abdicated throne of Hawaii.
1S97-Pennsylvania State capitol at
Harrisburg burned -. Alaska boun-
Diary treaty signed.
icOO-William Goebel, contestant for
~governorship of Kentucky, shot.
19O5-United States Supreme Court rem
dered decision against the Beet
Trust"