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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-10-11
CHICAGO.

Activity in the leading pro lucing in
dustries discloses no d~iminution, although
the aggregate of new demands has fallen
below the exceptional bookings at this
tim last year. Delay in agreement
upon the new rail specification holds up
many contracts for steel mills and lessons
the demand for pig iron, but indications
are good for an early lifting of this tenn
porary embargo.
Other heavy manufacturing lines main
tain steady drawing upon capacity and
absorb large quantities of supplies, and
current deliveries of finished produces are
remarkably large in machinery, hardware,
cars, furniture and footwear.
The course of prices affords some re-
lief to consumers of raw material and
receipts of the latter continue ample,
while values of leading outputs o. the
factories remain unchanged. Financial
conditions are paramount in consid sring
new, enterprises and, while no decline in
the cost of borrowing may be looked for
soon, there is a better feeling in the
money market, which begins to have q
s%aiutary effect upon business.
n most encouraging feature is the sus-
tanned enormous marketings of grain and
the rapid conversion of these and other
farm products into cash, all making sub
stantial addition to the circulation Of
money, which must eventually stimulate
and widen confidence.
Buying of necessaries reflects satisfac.
tory Roadway, trade in the leading retail
departments being seasonably strong and
much augmented by liberal purchases of
many visitors from the interior. For
wardings of stable merchandise exceed
those at this time last year, and country
merchants operate freely.
Western advices indicate prosperous
conditions throughout the agricultural
sections, and country stocks Of merchan-
disc under gratifying reductions. Collec-
lions at most points are reasonably
prompt, while the record of defaults
again makes a favorable showing.
Freight movements by both rail and
lake are much in excess of those a year
ago, and the calls for cars to rush bread
stutfs, coal and lumber begin to overtax
equipment. The total movement of grain
at this port aggregated 16,977,6S1 bushels,
against 9,791, 691 bushels last week and
9,621,O11 bushels a year ago.
Bank ~clearings, $246. 9O1 $50, exceed
those of corresponding week in 1906 by
$50 per cent. Failures reported in the
Chicago district numbered 16, against %
last week, and 10 a year ago.-Dun's Re-
view of Trade.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-10-11
VAST MEAT INDUSTRY.
Issues nnnntnnf RulIefin.

Department of Commerce and Labor
Issues Important Bulletin.
The Department of Commerce and La
Dor has issued a bulletin on the meat in
dustry. The number of wholesale estab-
!ishucnts engaged in slaughtering and
meat packing during the last year was
929, with q combined capital of $237,713,-
$50. They furnished employment to a.
134 wage earners, paid $4O,326,972 in
wages, consumed materials costing $780,
S56,969, and manufactured products to
the value of $913,914,624.
Although Al States and territories con-
tributed to these figures the industry
was practically m~onopolized by IA States,
Illinois, Kansas, New York, Nebraska and
Missouri leading.
In each of six cities the value of
products reported was over $50, 900.
Chicago ranked first with products val
New York, St. Joseph aud East st. Louis
followed in order. For Ok. c. the value
of products is not given because of so
few establishments that the figures might
be used to determine individual opera
tions, and the census Office adheres to
the rule not to publish statistics which
lulSul Dc 81 uSeu, L ~ dulOuLlCcu- #- .
About 100000 beeves, 11,OOo,00O
sheep ard 21,0Q0,O0O hogs were slaugh-
tered for use in this industry. The
beeves cost about S2S9,OO0,OO0, sheep
about $44,O00,o00 and hogs about $780,
100000. In addition the establishments
slaughtered other animals to the value of
about $13,000,000, purchased about $685.
100000 worth of meat already dressed
and paid about S%72.O00,000 for materials,
supplies and transportation expenses.
The leading product of the industry
was beef sold fresh, of which 3,74S,05o,-
377 pounds were produced, valued at
$247, O96, 724. Salt pork was the second
product in respect to quantity, slightly
exceeding hams, smoked bacon, sides and
shoulders but the smoked products were
of a greater aggregate value. Each of
these products and also pork sold fresh
and refined lard, exceeded in quantity
1,0OO,OO0,OO0 pounds. The value varied
from nearly ST5,O00,0o0 for the refined
Hard to over $500 1000 for the smoked
products.
The quantity of most of the more i'm
portant products increased between the
censuses of 1900 and 1905. For fresh
beef the increase was oyer SO0.000,00O
pounds, or 50 per cent salt pork, over
1S5.O00,O00 pounds, or 1871 per cent; re-
fined lard, over 15,o0o,000 pounds. or
1T per cent; fresh pork, nearly 3,00O.-
COO pounds, or 2 per cent. The quantity
of hams, smoked bacon, sides and shoa,-
ders, on the other hand, decreased over
400,Oo0,000 pounds, or Us per cent.
Canned beef, sailed and cured beef and
neutral lard also decreased in quantity.
Among the numerous products was
2ti,137 tons of fertilizer, valued at ST.
3a7 ,626.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-10-11
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Although only six States elect Gov
errors this fall, for an off year the No
vember elections will have unusual inter-
est because of their bearing on national
politics and the presidential campaign Of
1908. ~
Mississippi and Kentucky may be con-
coded to the Democrats. But in Mary
land, which the Democrats carried for
War6eld in 1908 by 12,6S5, the following
year the presidential vote was so close
that one Roosevelt ~elector was chosen.
The Rhode Island Democrats last year
elected Higgins Governor by 1873, but
they lost the State to Roosevelt in 1904
by 1876. Of the two Representatives
IN Congress elected last year Granger is
a Democrat and Capron a Republican.
In 1901 the Republicans carried New
Jersey for Roosevelt by SO,59S and for
Stokes for Governor by 51,644.
Guild vas elected Governor of Massa-
chusetts last year by 3O,233; but the
tariff-revision issue, if the Democrats are
capable of taking advantage of it, may be
a determining factor in the pending cleo
ton.
General significance will also attach to
the election in New York of two judges
of the Court of Appeals, the Assembly
and possibly of the State Senate. Among
the State officials elected last year Gov.
Hughes was the only Republican.
Nebraska, Mr.. Bryan's State, will elect
only minor State officials. In 1906 Shell
don, Republican. defeated Shallcnbcrser,
democrat, for Governor BY 12,97:::.
The Roosevelt administration and the
Taft presidential candidacy are directly
involved in the Cleveland ~mayoralty con-
test because of the open Endorsement of
Representative Burton by President
Roosevelt and Secretary TaS.s. Because
of the uncertainty OF the result and the
Importance of the issue none of the State
elections will command a more general in
terest than the Cleveland contest, remarks
the New York World.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-10-11

Go HE dedication in Canton. Ohio,
of the magnificent Mckinley
mauSoleum, the tribute of the ma
ton to the memory of the martyred
President, took place before $4,000
men and women assembled from all
parts Of the United States. Many of the
foreign countries were officially repre-.
scented. The formal exercises of tho
dedication ceremonies were begun by
Justice William K. Day, Mr.. McINin-
ley's Secretary of State. who delivered
the opening address in his capacity
as chairman of the Memorial Commit
tee. Judge Day explained that upward
of 100000 persons had contributed to
the mausoleum fund, representing ev-
cry Stat. in the Union and every civil
lied country in, the world. The invoca-
ton was pronounced. just before Judge
Days address, by Rev. Frank NJ. Bris.
tol. pastor Of the Metropolitan Metho-
dist Episcopal Church Of Washington.
Following Judge Days remarks, 1.-THE
Star-Spangled Banner was sung by
the entire ~assemblage of $4,000, accom-
ljIlIlSil ny lHc tAllly b1hu VI
Canton. Governor Harris of Ohio was
then introduced and delivered an ad-
dress. which was followed by the I'M
yelling. Then Miss Mckinley slowly
drew back the American flag and dis
closed the bronze figure of her brother,
represented in the attitude of deliver
ing the last speech of his career on
the day of his assassination at Buff
falo, Sept. 6. 1901. After the reading
of Mr.. Riley's poem on civilian Nc
Kinley" and the giving of President
Roosevelt's address the program was
closed by the singing of America by
the vast throng and the bestowal Of
the benediction by the Right Rev. Ig-
Horstmann, Bishop of Cleve-
land. Immediately upon the finishing
of the formal ceremonies President
Roosevelt and his party visited the in
terror of the tomb. The invited guests
followed. and then the general public
was admitted.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-10-11
PRISON CONGRESS IN CHICAGO


Annual Session of the National
Prison Association.
The annual congress of the National
Prison Association attracted MANY prom.
inent officials and students of criminol.
ogy to Chicago. The report of-the com.
mittee of preventive and rcformatory
work advocated a complete revision of
our criminal code. 1t is held that the
system of fees charged in the d~efesse
and prosecution of criminals is wrong. A
wealthy criminal should not be permitted
to pay for his defense a dollar more than
the State pays in defending q criminal
without financial backing. In The opinion
Of the committee one of the greatest So
cal evils of to-day is the privilege which
the rich nave of escaping punishment for
their acts.
Warden butcher of the Colorado State
~reformatory argued against having pris-
oners constantly watched by armed
guards. While admitting that in certain
that the display of firearms in penal in
stitutions was fraught with grave dam
gers and with evil consequences. The re-
suit of this policy was inevitably TO mark
the criminal with u~gliness and 70 fiji him
1 ltStitIltuL anu HATRED against All
who have Il part in the administration Of
the criminal law. Throughout all the
addresses at the congress the prevailing
tendency was in favor of those methods
which lead toward the reformation and
betterment of criminals rather than those
which are actuated by Il spirit OF revenge,
and much attention was paid to the asso-
Citations being formed throughout the
country for the purpose Of helping ex-
%convicts to their feet.
Attorney General BonapaIte, address
ing the Prison Wardens' Association on
Wednesday, advocated the death penalty
for habitual criminals mad for attempts
to commit capital crimes, He argued that
the primary purpose of punishment was
to assure obedience to the law, and that
in inficting punishment the Stale looks
not to the past and not to the individual
who now suffers, but to all the ;u1iyid-
uals who may hereafter fear to disobcy by
reason of the sufferings of the one now
punished. The habitual criminal, he said,
was a product of modern civilization, as
our ancestors would have hanged him for
his first felony. He did not favor harg-
ing men for ttrihing o~ffenses, but he would
have society cease to nourish and shell
ter its proved and inveterate enemies"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-10-11
THE GREAT WHITE PLAGUE.
Congress on the Subject to BE Held
Next Year in Washington.

on the Subject to BE Held
Next Year in Washington.
Next year an international congress on
tuberculosis is to be held at Washing
ton and the most prominent men in that
speciality of the profession of medicine
from all over the world will attend. To
bring these men to this country and en-
terrain them while here will require $780,
600, $4,000 of which has been subscrib-
ed. During the congress the delegates
will be divided into groups and these
groups of men will visit every large city
in the United States and give popular lee
lures upon this subject, trying to put
before the public the awful ravages Of
this most awful disease, teaching them
how to so care for their bodies that they
may not contract it, or having contract
ed it, if in it's first stage, teach them how
to recover from it.
AS a prominent bacteriologist says,
consumption is a disease which the peo-
pie must cure doctors alone can't do it
and any attempt to eradicate this disease
must be a social as well as a medical
movement. Therefore, great good is ex-
pected to result from these popular lee
lures, given by the delegates"
Committees have been appointed in
each State in the Union, and Mayors and
health officers of every city of any size
have been asked to participate in this
congress to awaken interest and TO diffuse
knowledge all over the country regarding
the dangers of tuberculosis, its care and
the best methods of preventing it's spread.
The American people some way can't
be made to realize the inroads this dis
ease makes yearly. Over 10000 persons
die in this country every year of tubercu-
losis and over 100000 are affected with
it in the United States to-day. Pure,
fresh air in our homes every minute of
the day and night, perfect cleanliness of
our bodies we must have if we would be
surely safe. In many States already
State hospitals nave been built for the
care Of early cases of tuberculosis among
the poor, SS1d in Iowa they have a State
lecturer, who goes from city to city, from
hamlet to hamlet, delivering lectures Of
instruction in this disease and it's pre-
%vantioO
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-10-11

property : . when we set our faces
like flint against those offenders who do
wrong in order to acquire great wealth.
or who use this wealth to help %wrongdo-
ing.
Many lessons are taught by his career,
but none more valuable than broad hui
man sympathy.
Arrogance toward the weak and envi-
Gus hatred toward the rich were equally
abhorrent to him..
Wrongdoing is confined to no class.
Good and evil are found among rich and
poor, and in drawing the line we must
draw it on conduct and not on worldly
possessions.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-10-11
AUTOMOBILE ON THE FARM.
II Has BecOme n Common ThdnH Il
Nebraska and Kansas.

II Has . "a Common ThdnH In
Nebraska and Kansas.
Western agents of aitOmobMe GactDries
assert that If the machines could be Sc
cured hundreds Of autos could be sold this
summer to the farmers of Nebraska and
Kansas. AS it is the residents of country
towns n the farmers are buying more
OF the benzine buggies than the cities,
and there is scarcely a country town in
Nebraska in which there are not more
automobiles in proportion to population
than in Lincoln or Omaha.
The prosperity of western farmers has
become an old story, and this prosperity
is going to be augmented this year by an
other big crop of wheat and corn and
oats. Most of the farmers in the State
could buy a medium priced machine just
AZ a luxury ii they wanted to, but the
manner in which they nave amassed their
money does 70 lead to ex~travagances Of
that kind.
When a Nebraska agricultlirist adds to
his machinery collections he buys only
that which will be of use. That is why
he is just now turning to the automobile.
The favorite farm type IS the runaboat,
largely because of it's low first cost. The
prudent farmer figures that with a good
carriage horse bringing $3.50 to $3.50 each
on the market he is foolish to utilize
them in his pleasure jaunts and his jour
neyings to and from church. If he uses
his work horses to so to town or about
the country he deducts just that much
from their working capacity on the farm.
BY using an auto he saves the horses
fresh for the farm work, he can trans
act his business quicker n get back to
the farm in a short time, to his financial
betterment.
The employment of the gasoline engine
on farms in che pumping of water for
stock and in running threshing machinery
and grinders and shelters mas familiarized
him with this type of power and he takes
hold of an automobile proposition with
interest and enthusiasm.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-10-11

The Finnish Diet has opposed the de-
mand Of The Cars government for al
appropriation Of $4,00O,00G to support the
military service of the Russian Empire.
The first military dirigible balloon built
in England made two successful trial
trips the other day, thus bringing Great
Britain into line with France and Ger
many in the matter of aerial war machin-
cry. The British balloon, which is sau-
sage shape and 100 feet long by 30 feet
in diameter, with capacity of $4,000 cubic
feet, with car made Of aluminium and
canvas, went up to the distance of 500
feet in the presence of a great throng of
people and performed various evolutions
with and against the wind, and returned
to the starting point. She dipped and
rose with the greatest ease and reached
a pace of twelve miles an hour. At one
time the vessel turned around in its own
length. f. 8. Cody, an American, is the
Inventor.
The Zemstvo Congress at Moscow has
rejected the latest proposal of Premier
Stolypin for local self-government, in
which persons of all ranks should Coop
crate on equal terms. The Liberals de-
manded that the suffrage be given to
women also.
The fourth member of the band of Rus
sian officials which tortured Maria Spiri-
donoYo, the assassin of Gen. Lugenvosky,
has been killed by the Terrorists, who
vowed to avenSe the suferings OF this
woman, who is now spoken of as the
Russian Joan of Arc.
Cardinal Domcnico Svampa. archbishop
of Bologna, Italy, is dead He was born
in Italy in 1851 and was treated a car
dinal in 1894.
The Gar and Czarine were on board
their yacht, STANDARD, when it went
ashore on the coast of Finland, and re-
fused to leave the yacht until the tugboats
and cruisers should have come to pull the
boat off.
The British Trade Union Congress has
adopted a resolution demanding a State
pension Of $1.25 a week for everybody
over 60 years of age. The Congress also
opposed tho compulsory arbitration OF in
du1tr;m 1ssputss.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-10-11
IGE M@2lNERS
0&R &GG

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
Sl.W to 1925; hogs, prime heavy, 81 NJ
to $500; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $685.; wheat, No. 2, 3c to G6c
corn, No. 2, Coo to Gle; osts standard,
soc to SIC; rye, No. 2, SEC to SIC; bay,
timothy, $1,000 to $500; prairie, 500
to $500; butter, choice creamery, &c
TO 3Oc; eggs, fresh, 19c TO pc; potatoes,
per bushel, SOC to 60c.
Indianapolis-Cattle, shipping. $500
to 500; hogs, choice aeavy, $4.o0 70
$$6.15; sheep, common 70 prime, S:stW
to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, bic to 05c corn,
No. 2 white, SIC &c s2e; nnts, No 2
white, sic to SIC.
st. Louis-Cattie, $3.50 to SID;
hogs, $4.OO to $685.; sheep, $500 10
1925 wheat, No. 2, 99c 10 SI.OO: 'o,n,
No. 2, Coo to Gle; oats, No. ., 47c TO
4Sc; rye, No. 2, SIC to SIC.
Cincinnati-Cattie, $4.OO to $500;
hogs, $500 to $6.97; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. 2, 93c TO s1.OO; corn,
No. 2 mixed, 64c to 63c; oats, No. 2
mixed, Sic to 52c; rye, No.. 2, SSc to soc.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $50; hogs,
$500 to S6.45; sheep, $3.50 to $3.50;
wheat, No. 2, 96c to orc; corn, No. 3
yellow, &c to Csc; oats, No. 3 white,
SIC to 53c; rye, No. 2, Soc to 90c.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. 2 northern,
SLOT to S1.O9; corn, No. 3. sic to &c;
oats, standard, Sic to SIC; rye, No. ],
SEC to Sic; barley, standard, S1.G1 to
S1.O6; pork, mess, $3.50.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to $3.50; hogs, fair to choice, $500
to $3.50; sheep, com,no to good mixed,
$500 to S5.25; lambs, fair 70 choice.
$500 to SS.25.
New York-Cattle, $500 to s6.G0:
hogs, $500 to $3.50: sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.02 to S1.04;
corn, No. 2, 3 to T4c; oats, natural
white, 56c to 5Sc; butter, creamery 25c
to soc. eggs, western, 1Sc to DC.
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 96c to
orc; corn, No. 2 mixed, 64c to CSC;
oats, No. 2 mixed, 53c to 54c; rye, No.
2, Csc to 99c; clover seed, prime, $1,000.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-10-11
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There are $4,000 employees on the
! Louisville and Nashville's pay roll.
Steps are being taken to reorganize the
building laborers Of st. Paul, MINI.
All the printing Offices of Lincoln,
Neb., are now working on the eight-hour
basis.
A weekly pay bill for railroads will be
introduced in the next New York Legisla-
ture.
There are 10000 members Of the Inter
national Tobacco Workers AUUnic2 Il the
United States.
In one year preceding November, 1906,
$3,96S 1896 was paid out in strike BEN
eits by sixty-four International unions.
The Structural Building Trades ALI
ance of America now has a membership
of 100000 outside Of New York City.
japanese in some Union Pacific mines
are drawing as high as SIT a month,
and 1t is feared wages will go still higher.
The brotherhood Of Railroad Carmen
has a membership Of 31,OOO distributed
throughout the United States and Cam
ada.
Work in the painting industry in MiE-
n%eapolis, Mimi, has fallen off, and there
are many men idle. Many workmen nave
left the city.
The government of Belgium, having re
fused to pass a measure reducing the
hours of labor in mines, was defeated on
a vote taken in the Chamber Of Depu-
ties. Fzz5s
During q period of ten months, 800
new charters have been granted by the
American Federation of Labor, which is
an increase of 40 over the same period
last year.
As a result of the agitation fostered
by the Missouri Federation Of Labor,
much valuable legislation was obtained
for labor at the recent session of the Gen
eral Assembly.
In order that all metal nolders may
become members of the organization, the
Iron Molders' Union of North America
has changed its name to the International
Molders' Union.
The Wisconsin Assembly passed a bill
limiting the hours of railroad telegraph
ers to eight a day. and also passed a law
giving street railway employees a ten
TOUR day within twelve.
The cigarmakers Of Minneapolis viii
try the plan of organizing a banking
system on a small scale, to handle the
funds of the union and individual naem-
bers. They have been encouraged to this
step by the operations of a loan fund
which they established some months ago.
The total number OF wage earners, Gov
ering ell classes of employees in mann
featuring establishments in Canada for
the year 1900, was 3A,O55, and the wages
paid amounted TO ffS.24is,55JJ6 white for
the year 1905 wage earnars employed
numbered 391,4s7, and the total wages
paid amotrnted to S16s ,394 400.
Wages 10 per cent higher than paid
last year are offered throughout the Do
minion of Canada to All who want to
work IN farms.
Wages Of South Wales miners have
been advanced another 5 per cent, bring
ing up the rates to within 2H per cent
of the maximum
The BARRIERS strike ut London, Canada.
has been settled, and the men get a guar
antee of $11 a week, with 5 per cent over
$12 taken in a chair.
Massachusetts state Federation of
State, CITY and Town Employees Unions
will urge a pension bin for city employees
before the Legislature.
NAH EEI -
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-10-11
weyerhauser on Lumber

Frederick WeyerhauSer of Muscatine,
Iowa, the head of the lumber combine,
who is said by some to be richer thar
Rockefeller, in an interview, criticised
Judge Lands for fining the Standard so
Heavily, and said RocSefeller would never
pay a cent of the fine. AS to the lumber
trade, he denied that there is a trust and
insists that the high prices are due to
the growing scarcity of lumber, and that
prices will go still higher. He thinks it
an outrage the way the wealthy men of
the country ARE being attacked" He
asks What do they nieanT' and What
nave we doneg"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-10-11

His broad and deep ~sympathies made
him feel a genuine sense of oneness with
all his fellow Americans whatever their
station or work in life.
He was not only q leader of men but
q helper of men.
He always grew to greater stature as
larger responsibilities confronted him.
He deserved to nave his life work char
acterized in Lincoln's words as being car
ried on with malice toward none; with
charity for ALL"
A citizen who loved peace, he did his
duty faithfully when the honor of the
nation called him to war.
We are the best friends of the man of