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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-24

177s-John Jay of New York elected
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1S07-Kingdom of Etruria dissolved
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lS13-Gen. Mcclure, commanding at
Fort George, burnt the Canadian
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1s16-First savings bank in the United
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I317-Mississippi admitted to the I'm
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182S-The Legislature of Georgia pro-
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1s3o-The first locomotive built In the
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18S3-The Green Bay Intelligencer ap-
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183S-Silk rover met in convention
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j, railroad in Georgia opened to pas
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Forsyth.
i844-Jefferson Davis entered he
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1847-Sir Donald Campbell became
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1S5o-Nearly 100 lives lost by an ex-
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Observation-Disclosures victorious at the
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Fredericksburg, Va. bombarded by
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1s67-House of Commons adopted pre-
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and the Northwest Territories....
Reconstruction convention met in
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18S9-Funeral of Jefferson Davis in
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1S91-The knove bridge across the
Ohio River above Cincinnati OPEN
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1s95-William O.. Bradley inaugurated
as first Republican Governor Of
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1S9S-Sir William Vernon Harcourt re-
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1899-Sir George Kirkpatrick. former
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and Speaker of the House of Com
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1901-Signor Marconi announced the
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Cornwall, LOO miles distant.
i902-Vermont substituted for her pro-
hibitive liquor law a local option
high license measure.
1sO3-Niagara Falls. Ontario, incorpo-
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leO4-Earl Grey assumed office as Gov
ernor General of Canada. New
British ministry formed by Sir
Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
I907-Gustav ". assembled the throne
of Sweden.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-24

er tribes were contributed. With each
n went some tender memory of home
and other Christmas times. perhaps.
The men carefully wrapped each arti-
Gle In many papers and tied them with
colored strings. The cook donated two
bright red apples and two doughnuts.
They then all Clipped in and two sill
yer dollars we're set aside. one to be
placed in the toe Of each stocking. Big
Jse wae elected to act as Santa Claus.
They fastened a string OF sleighbells
around his waist and watched him as
he climbed to the roof of the shanty.
Sammy's dreams had been Of Christ
mas and the ringing Of the bells half
awoke him. He called out in his sleep.
Santa, Is that your" Then, waking. he
whispered from under the blankets.
Tommy! Tommy! He's surely coined.
for I heard his bells aringin'."
The boys mother, too, had heard the
bells and had crept softly to the win.
dow in time to see six dark figures dis.
appear behind n Pile Of logs. and in her
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-24

same. I imagine there wasn't anything
to go back for. See here, boys!" and
Big Joe set his foot on the upturned
chair, II heerd them kids talking only
this morning bout Christmas, and lit
tie Sam said as big as you please,
Course he'll come, Tommy, he allus
did at home
but, Sammy his brother argued,
he'll never find us away up here in
these big woods
"'Well,' Sammy said hopefully, we
can hang up our stockings, anyway,
and maybe-he'l stop on his way to
somewhere else
Now. you see, boys. Tom. he knows
shout how things are here and he did
his best to discourage Sammy. He
said: But. Sammy, Santa Claus used
to come down the chimney at home.
You know we used to let the fire go
out; but here, why we couldn't do that
and he would fall right into the
flames
Then you'd ought ter seer that kids
eyes snap. That youngsters a corker!
TIL tell o what wen do he said,
e~xcitedly. Well fasten our stockings
on the outside of Tie chimney. Then
he can't miss them, Tcmmy.'
"And that's what they've done, boys.
Now, it's up to US to play Santa Claus"
The men all filed out In the moon
light and took a look at the shanty.
Sure enough, there were two black
stockings, securely fastened to the
chimney and blowing in the wind.
Big Joe shut the door with a bang,
then went to his bunk and took from
, under it a small red box. He looked
at the contents carefully, then selected
. pearl-handled knife and laid it on
che table. I've had ii since l was q
little shaver down in Indiana" he said
Auskily. No N said a word, but ono
~ one, other treasure boxes" ap-
psared and a polished agate, a deer's
teoth. . red silk handkerchief, and 9th
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-24
CHRISTMAS AT
CAMP OWENDALE
BY LENA BLlNN LEWIS

There we're a half dozen fellows sit
ting about the fire in the lumber camp
at Owendale. The burning pine knots
sputtered and cracked in the great fire.
place and the shadows about the room
only emphasized the shadows in the
rough faces OF the lumbermen.
Guess we'll open up the new trail
tomorrow, boys" the foreman, Pete
Hennesey, said conclusively, as he re-
last night. Make pretty tough loggin'
for a day or two. but when it's once
settled-umph!" Pete stopped short.
The fellows were not responsive.
Twas Christmas ever and thoughts
flew as fast and as %furiously as the
snowflakes. Finally the cook broke the
circle about the fire as he placed a huge
pan Of dough on the hearth, prepare
tory to the morroW's baking.
Wonder how the kids are doing
down in the shanty," he said half
aloud as he stopped at the window and
looked out into the night.
Its no place for 'em here!" Big
Joe, as everyone called him, left his
chair. kicked it over and strobe across
the long room.
The situation was this: Samuel
Howe had moved his small family to
the camp early in the fall and had
built the log shanty. 1t seemed he
had come to stay, and when some one
would discourage his keeping his wife
and children there during a long, cold
winter of northern Michigan. his wife
always laughed cheerily and said she
would so much rather be with Sam.
But trouble even in the seclu-
sion Of the forest. No one thought the
tree would fall that way, but the shouts
of the warming were too late and the
two little Howe boys were left father
less.
"She wanted to stay, 'y'know," Pete
said, as he blew rings to the ceiling.
Yes, yes, but It's tough Just the
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-24

necessity and throw itself heartily into
the work OF helping forward the good
time youth and all %unspoiled minds
accept with gratitude. There is no
predeterminate set OF conditions for
holiday making hat need tie adven-
turous hands. and If traditional GUS
toms belonging to Thanksgiving and
Christmas are vanished beyond recall
we can harmonic the day with our
present abilities.
my sympathy Is with those who
wish to bring back upon Christmas
day the sweet old traditional obsery-
ances. I love them well. even those
that are known to me only by hearsay
and were outgrown In that shadowy
period alluded to as before the war
But no one thing is indispensable to
happiness with any Of us, unless with
children, and not ever with them If
judicious substitute is made. What
ever we have, or whatever we lack, the
quality that makes the occasion Is the
spirit we bring to it. Good will never
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-24
THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS,
We Should Each and All Try TO Make
the Day Thoroughly Enjoyable.

We Should Each and All Try to Make
the Day Thoroughly Enjo y
Because we came have the Yule
log and traditional rsast pig. shall we
refuse the cheer Of anthracite Goa and
baked turkey?" asks Florence Hall
WinterburE. writing on the Spirit of
Christmas" in the Woman's Home
Companion. "Or if even the open fire,
the mistletoe and the family gather
ing are beyond us. must we disdaIn
the homemaking attempts Of the
steam radiator, and find no comfort
in the dainty e~laborateness of a we'll
spread table, catering to the needs of
a refined modern taste? Suppose the
misanthrope (for the recluse who
lives only in an imaginary Christmas
is a misanthrope) came out of his
shell and gathered the young people
about him to charm their ears with
tales Of the old ways Of holiday-keep-
ing when he was a boy Would not
tests against the new ways that lave
their own reasons for being. and offer
in turn their own measure of enjoy
ment to willing spirits? Genial old
age is always a welcome presence, and
1t never suggests any contrasts that
put us out Of conceit with the pleas
Tres that lie within our reach. But
carping. even ii 1t proceeds from the
patriarch, Is an inaiction severe
enough to blight any holiday.
TN the nature Of things there must
be holidays. How poverty-stricken is
that soul which does not recognize this
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-24
CONVICTED OF SUGAR FRAUDS.
All Trust Employees Except Bender
nagel Are Found Guilty.

The Federal jury, before whom six
of the employees of the Sugar Trust
have been on trial in New York for
sugar weighing frauds, returned a YER
dict as follows: Guilty as charged:
Oliver Splitter, dock superintendent at
the Williamsburg refinery plant of the
American Sugar Refining Company;
Thomas Kehoe, sugar trust weigher;
John R. Coyle, sugar trust weigher;
Edward A. Boyle, sugar trust weigh
er; Patrick Hennessy, sugar trust
checker. The jury disagreed as to the
guilt OF James F. Bendernagel, cash
Ter of the Williamsburg plant Of the
American Sugar Refining Company,
who was charged with passing brides
to government weighers. The verdict
was accompanied by recommendations
of the mercy of the court for the five
who were found guilty. Together with
Jean M. Voelker, who was too serious
ly i'll to stand trial at this time, they
were known as the big Six" and all
were charged with conspiracy to de-
fraud the United States government.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-24
KING LEOPOLD IS DEAD;
ALBERT THE NEW RULER
Death from Enbolism Comes Sud-
denly to Aged Patient in His
Royal Abode.
LONG LIFE OF BELGIUM's KING
Monarch Often Denounced for Atroc-
tiles in Congo and Shocking GAL
lantries with Women.

King Leopold of Belgium died at
2:47 o'clock Friday morning, his aged
and wasted body being unable to stand
the strain put upon it. The collapse
occurred suddenly and at a moment
when the doctors seemingly had the
greatest hopes for his recovery. The
kings death, it was announced by DR..
De Page, was due to embolism, a
small blood clot probably being carried
to the heart.
There being no direct hereditary
heir. the crown passes to Prince Al
bert, the only son OF Leopold's broth
err, the late Philippe, count of Elan
ders. The new monarch was born on
April 8, 1875, and on Oct. 2, 1900, mar
ried Princess Elizabeth of Bavaria.
They have three children, Prince Leo
pold, s years old; Prince Charles, !
years old; and Princess Marie Jose,
who was born on Aug. 4, 1906. Prince
Albert is one of the most popular mem
bers Of the reigning house of Belgium.
His wife is equally popular, their home
life being such as to attract the ad-
miration and love Of the people. Prince
Albert has travelled extensively and
is a man of affairs.
King Leopold was the ruler Of Bel,
GUM since the death OF his father,
who was King Leopold L., on Dec. 10,
1865. In spite of the open and glar-
ing Irregularities of his private life,
the king of the Belgians was a sue
cessful administrator of his little
realm. He set up the policy of Eng
land as the model for Belgium; and
from the moment he became ruler he
never ceased to urge the doctrine of
colonization and extension of trade,
through a merchant marine and
through sending samples of Belgium
manufacture to all parts of the world.
This country is known as the "labora-
tory of Europe"
The king was born in Brussels on
April 9, 1885, and on Aug. %, 1853,
he married the Archduchess Marie Of
Austria, who died in 1902. -Four chill.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-24

wisely spen> We have also known
men and who though still
young in years were hopeiessiy emu.
led, who had learned no lesson from
life, and seemed to have exhausted In
their youth all pleasure and hope OF
pleasure. They make no resolutions
for the New Year. H~ope1essly blase.
they try to live for the hour
Nothing is nero deplorabis than a
life with no object to live for. The
fact that we have tasks each day to
do. something to look forward to,
something to plan for the future. Is In
itself a great blssaing; whom this 10
done for others 1t 10 the greatest bless
ing we have. If We could have our
food provided fer us ~ the mama Of
the wilderness was provided for the
wandering children OF Israel. 1t would
not b a thing to be thankful for; IL
would be . curse. We would soon
weary Of the neaotony Of such IN In
ane existence. Our resolutions for the
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-24
CHRISTMAS HuMoa.

Mad1o-Niss Passay has volunteered
to get up q booth at the CAristAas
bazaar and sell kisses. Isn't 1t awful!
Marjorie-Dreadful, my deari I never
thought that girl had the face = do
it.-Smart Set.
Mrs. Spooner - Smoke. smoke.
smoke! John, you're just smoking
yourself to death. Spsoner-Iss for
your sake. Maria l want to get
enough coupons to get a watch for you
for Christmas.-Broeklyn Eagle.
Uncle Silas-I see by tho Enterprise
tibet yer son Eds cum homo fer ter
spend the hollydays. Uncle Abner-
Yep; Eds spent all the money he
could git holt on, so ! g1ess they
hain't nothin' else fer him ter spend
Judge.
lamp as q Christmas present fer nam
ma! Edith-And what shalt you get
for your father? Ethei-Oh. I shall
get something real nice for papa with
the trading stamps I got with the
lamp!-Judge.
Mrs. Speyer-The Newweds can't
have as much money as we thought.
Speyer-Hsw do you know? Mrs.
Speyer-Why. I see she has tied her
holly wreaths with the ribbon she
had on that red Int white dimity she
wore at the beach last sunner.-
Town Topics.
But the love you profess to have
for me-is It an unselfsh leve-a love
80 strong that 1t could even make you
humiliats yourself for my sakef" Syl.
vester CaYbuncle was hurt. Had this
girl, Leonora Careyhammer. - soon
forgotten that he had. for one whole
day, worn the aecktfe she had given
him for Enthusiastically Life.
Jonah was giving the details OF the
episode. But" they asked. did your
wife believe you when you said you
had been three days in the whale?"
YES" he returned. she said I had
given q much more improbable o..
| cuses before" With q happy smile
he went down town to buy her .
handsome present.-Harper's Bazaar
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-24
THREE DIE IN MINE SMOKE.

.H.-..'.r ..f .4 .4E .FJN.. ..-. ~
Flames Famed Down nj Air Shaft
%ufYOcnt Workers Below Depths.
Three men died of suffocation and
twenty-one others were overcome and
rescued with difficulty as a result of a
peculiar accident at a mine of the
Shoemaker Mining Company. fifteen
miles northeast of Johnstown. Pa. Fire
broke out in the farmhouse at the mouth
Of the shaft. The place was deserted
and the flames gained much Roadway
before being discovered. Meanwhile
the fans were in operation pumping
air to twenty-four men inside the
mine. The smoke caused by the fire
was caught by the fans and forced into
the mine with such volume that three
of the men were suffocated. The 9TH.
ers we're rescued in a serious state
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-24
BLOCKS OF FIVE" HERO DEAD,
W. W. Dudley Of Indiana Dies in
Washington.

General w. w. Dudley of Indiana,
formerly Commissioner of Pensions,
died in Washington the other day. He
had been ill at his home several weeks
Ten days before he was supposed to
be nearing the end. but his condition
changed and he improved. His death
was due to Bright's disease.
Twenty years g General Dudley
was the most talked of man in the
United States. as he was n of the
most capable politicians, notwithstand-
Ing the blocks of five incident which
furnished material for the humorous
political photographers of the Demo
cratic press for years. In the Benja-
min Harrison campaign Of 1888 Cen
eral Dudley was treasurer of the Re-
publican national committee and was
charged with having given instructions
to his lieutenants in Indiana to "di-
vide the f1oaters int blocks OF five,
put a trusted man with the necessary
funds in charge of each five"-and see
that they voted "our ticket" The
story was denounced as a campaign
q -, liz Twins vi INV -
ton stuck to the general until it was
wiped out by more exciting political
history.
General Dudley came of a distin-
guished New England family Of revo-
lutionary fame and was educated at
one of the noted Phillips academies.
He entered the Civil War at the age
of IS, fought all along the line to
Gettysburg, where he lost a leg, and
was subsequently brevetted brfgadier
general for ~'gallantry$ in action
After the war he settled in Indiana,
was United States marshal in that
State, and by his industry in behalf
of the veteran soldiers secured action
from Congress by which the pension
office trebled in capacity and the pen
sion laws were greatly liberalized.
Since 1889 the general had been en-
gagged in the practice of law in Wash
ington. He was twice married. Four
children-two daughters and two sons
with his widow, survive him.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-24
u
lBZpygDzY

The first local unions Of printers
were established in 1881.
There are $4,000 Chinese and Lascar
seamen now on British vessels.
Ship owners in England have forced
down wages from $25 to SIS a month.
and his has reduced the membership
Of the unions.
In order of membership the first four
divisions Of Americas labor army are
miners, carpenters, painters and gar
ment workers.
One feature of the great labor dem
o]nstrations or strikes. that have occu-
Died public attention for the last year
has been the uniform demand on the
part of the workers for arbitration OF
their grievances.
A. Rosenberg, president of the Gar
ment Workers Union. says that in his
line more men h women are en-
ployed in the larger cities. but that in
smaller places women and girls do
much the greater part of the work.
John T. Smith. Of the cigar makers.
Is the labor member of the public util-
fty commission Of Kansas City, Mo.
This commission is a standing body
THAT uSdlS Will
ways, electric lighting. etc.
Only % years old. Matthew VOL.
president o. the International Photo
Angravers' Union, is probably the
youngest international president.
Working "at the bench" by day and
studying at night, he put himself
through a considerable law course.
The Railroad Photographers Union is
a widespread one. 1t has mbe in
Canada, the United States, Porto Rico.
Cuba, the Hawaiian stands and the
Philippines.
A plan has been approved for organ
ization among the 100000 commercial
stenographers and typists in the Uni
ted States and Canada who would be
eligible to join a union.
The international Glove Workers
Union favors woman suffrage on the
ground that the ballot for women is
essential to economic independence Oh
the working classes
The recent National Fraternal Con-
eress estimated that so per cent of the
death losses from tuberculosis could be
saved to the various unions and ira
ternaI organizations of the country.
It is stated that the first labor ex-
change in Great Britain under the new
act will be in working order before
Christmas, and 100 of the proposed $50
will be ready early in tho new year.
The International Photo-Ensravers'
Union. while not conducting a
torium Of its own, pays for the treat
ment of it's tubercuiar members In In
etitutions in various parts OF the
country.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-24

fails to create a good time. 1t finds
merit in rain, lifts fog and lights
a CHEEKY blaze within that passes for
the sunshine in it's absence. And good
Will has not passed away with chival-
ry, nor persisted under the onrush OF
science. 1t lives and breathes now,
and Is here at this moment to light
our Christmas fires and swing incense
before our affairs. All we need do is
to recognize and adapt it."
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-24
MINE DISASTER COST 7e2 LIVES.

Details of Horror Show
Only Forty-threc Men Escaped.
Details were brought to Victoria,
B. c., by the steamer M%onteagle,
which arrived from Japan, of the dis
aster at Onoura colliery, Fukuoka pre-
lecture, Nov. "a, causing the loss of
1852 lives, only forty-three of the min
ers escaping after an explosion. The
mine is one of the largest in southern
Japan and employed 4,755 men. It's
output is $4,000 tons monthly.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-24

Wash Q quart OF cranberrdas, drall
them and put them Int a double boiler
while they are still wet. Cover closely
and cook until the berries are. broken
to pieces. Tura into a Jelly bag and -
ssen as the fruit Is cooled enough TO
be touched squeeze hard to extract all
the Juice. Te . pint Of this juice Add
tive cups Of graduated sugar. Return
to the IRE, boil up Just once. thsn Dour
into q mold vet with cold w1ter.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-24
reject Kansas city Franchise.

The extension of the Metropolitan
Street Railway Company franchise
was overwhelmingly defeated by the
voters of Kansas City at the special
election. The result of the election
means that Kansas City will continue
to pay scent fares for the next six
teen years. at which time the COM
pany's franchise expires.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-24
nxs1erx in Couple. Death.

Abraham S. Johnson, 80 years old,
IN elevator operator, and Jennie John
son, his wife, were found dead in bed
in their room in East Thirteenth
street, New York. Death evidently
several days ago
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-24

heart she blessed the tender-hearted
lumbermen.
Say. boys" Old Pete said, as they
turned in for the night. Lets take a
day of tomorrow and give the kids a
Merry Christmas" And they did.-De-
troit Free Press.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-24
MURDERER GETS LIFE SENTENCE

Man Who Killed Teacher for SInp-
ping Daughter Gets Long Term.
In Mount Vernon, Mo-. a jury found
Charles Heath guilty Of murder in the
first degree and he was sentenced to
the penitentiary for life for killing
Clarence Mosier, a school teacher, at
Saratoga, Mo, Feb. 3, 1907, as q result
of Mosier Furnishing Heath's young
daughter by slapping her.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-24

Before the grain growers conven-
ton of the province of Manitoba the
Hon. George Coldwell made an ad-
dress, in which he announced that
the Manitoba government has assum-
ed ownership of all the grain elevators
in the province.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-24

future. our exertions and our hspeA
lift US each year to q higher plane.
and thus we
Rise on stepping stones
Of our dead selves t hlgheT
things.'-New York Tribune.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-24
Insist. That His Son IL Alive.

When told of the report from Chi
cago that his o William Thomas
Van Court, had been slain IN Bolivia.
d. d. Van Court issued an unqualified
denial in Omaha.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-24
n. Y. Debt Is sI,ooO,oOO,OOo

The bonded debt of New York City
has reached 81 900, 900, 900, according
to a report issued by the comptroller.
The amount, however, includes 0
than $780, coo, 900 held by the city
sinking funds
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-24
Men Ask Pay increase.

Conductors and trainmen of a ma
iority of the railroad lines in the East
have voted to ask for an increase in
wages ranging from 10 to 80 per cent
and changes in working rules.