Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-12-11
BREEZY news FROM CHICAGO

Chicago, Dec, 10 Vow that the Off
GERS Of the big Chicago banks see the
end of the financial disturbance and
Resumption Of normal banking meth
DDS, some Interesting new facts are
the National Bank Of tine Republic
made the unique record Of paying out
cash as required by its depositors all |
through the furry cash went out and |
In over its counters just as has been
usual during its sixteen years Of bust
ness. Acting on the theory that cash
was not demanded If it was not re-
fused to depositors, 1t cheerfully com
Quoted its business during the last
five weeks in the same way as when
conditions were normal Tho deposits
Of this bank December were within
$5S4,633 what they we're before the
stringency began, $1,000, 900 Of gold
has been imported and $1,000, 600 Of
new circulation has been taken out to
meet possible req irements All of
the Chicago banks have strengthened
themselves by gold impo ations and
new circulation until they are III such
position that they readily offered to
help Kansas City il good collateral
could be furnished.
TO the remotsst corners Of the
earth and In almost every language.
Merry Christmas is now going out
through the Chicago postofice, at a.
rate beyond any previous record. Not
less than $50, 00G Christmas packages
4 win be handled by the festaI 25th n
the registry division alone. The rush
began last week and the records show
ed an increase Of rs per cent over last
year; instead Of the normal L, 900
registered packages in a day, the 1907.
/ mark for the early days was $4,000.
! Two hundred extra registry clerks
were needed to help the 500 meet the
emergency. Every one Of the $685.
4 employees Of the postofice, particular
" the 1855 carrier and 8, los clerks,
are prepared for tine worst Fortu-
inately the recent shortage of help
4 for the postal service, which promised
4 to- bring crisis OF the maiIman's
troubles, has been relieved by the
4 financial furry which threw out OF
emp oyment hundreds Of people, here
as elsewhere. For the 200 extra jobs
1 500 persons applied, including 200
women, pleasant surprise for Peter
i Newton, Secretary Of the United
States civil service examiners who,
i two months ago, was at his wits end
to get the people needed at the wages
paid by Uncle Sam, the maximum of
which is now $1,000 for clerks
+ Pioneer days in the middle west,
when the Indians outnumb ered the
white settlers and Chicago was only
"A e frontier trading post were recalled
by friends of ex-Judge James H. Brad
well when he died last week The
q judges family made, the trip from
Utica, n. to Jacksonville, Illinois,
IN 1888, when he was FIVE years old,
and from there moved to Chicago
q Our journey from Jacksonville was
made in prairie schooner drawn by
two oxen" the judge was wont to re-
late. Though we travelled every
hour, sleeping in. the wagon, We were
twenty one days enroute. The spring
was late, the trail was all mud, and
the prairies We're mostly under water.
4 It was May 20 when We. arrived in
II Chicago and made our camp on the
lake shore at what is now the foot
of Randolph street. Wolves would
Il houl outside the log cabin during the
winter. We had hard work to keep
from starving. Once the presiding
elder of the district came to beg some
ii provisions. We had none to give him.
Il I was only a small boy and believed in
the efficiency of prayer. There We're
n two prairie chickens on the fence
d near the house. I prayed that ] might
! kill them both with one shot, pronis-
Il ing TO give the latest to the minister.
The prayer was answered, and the
elder was a long time picking out the
latest bird Judge Bradwell was a
striking figure in the. civil war days,
when Illinois was swarming with Sc
cessionists and acopperheads. With
i fine audicity he formed a home de-
tense association, Of which he was the
q only officer and member, and by his
personal efforts won over many luke
warns to take the oath Of allegiance
to the Union,