Arizona republican., 1909-06-13

 best In the aggregate Chicago banks have on hand in cash far in excess of the 25 per cent legal requirement.. there having been an increase dur ing the year of over $100,000,00 in deposits as against s64,636,s2O in- crease of loans.
 Chicago is fast becoming a south ern city declare economists here, who point to the fact that develop ments of the past few years have wiped out the old northern bound ary line between settled country and wilderness on the continen: and moved it north nearly five degrees of latitude. The line now runs well up in northern Canada, it is said, about 800 miles north of Chicago, or about the same distance that Chicago is from the Gulf of Mexico. The re- cent railroad building activity Tn western Canada is assigned as the leading r.ason fer these great in roaGs on -fe wilderness, coupled with the discovery of new fertile wheat wheat lands in upper Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. Last re- ports of tho pr )Sress on the new National Transcontinental. the Grand Trunk Pacific. indicate that settle ment is taking place rapidly along it's main line which is eleven de- srces north of the Union Pacific u Q. I~st line ," reach the coast. The Can:': in North II railway alr..a.ly C. acts Prince Albert with W:hni-
 ,., and R.,ina and line aDw practically completed to the Saskat- chewan river at the Pas will push the frontier still farther toward Hud- son Bay and open up new regions declared by tho Canadian govern ment to coa.ain great mineral wealth and agricultural possibilities. The further extension of this line in the near future to Hudson Bay it. self at Fort Churchill, will put a stretch of 1900 miles of civilization between Chicago and the real norch and furnish a new outlet for Cana dian wheat. such as the Grand Trunk Pacific will provide by way of Prince Rupert. Chicago is thus doomed by the economists and the march of progress to become, com paratively speaking, a southern city. At the same time, curiously enough. Chicagos climate is said to be growing colder, phenomenon as- cribed by some to the diversion of cold Lake uperior water south through Lake Michigan and the Chi cago drainage canal to the Missis- sippi.
 Mysterious disappearances of girls frg. Chicago have been reported in in creasing numbers during the last month to the committee on legisla- tion against the white slave traffic" appointed by the "Womans World" magazine. Discovery of procurers at work in many communities has given concrete confirmation to warnings that depraved men and women make systematic traffic of girls and young women, enticing them from their homes to sell them at $25 to $50 each into disorderly houses. From Mans field, O., comes the report that pro- curers representing themselves as employment agents for the American Tobacco company have been trying to induce young girls employed in factoriesto go to Chicago where more
 
 Lucrative employment is promised. Similar reports have come from Galesburg, Ills, Topeka, Kas., Indi- ana and Arkansas. Employment is offered in other large factories" ac- cording to the Mansfield News, and the most alluring prospects are set forth to induce the girls to leave Mansfield and go to the city. The fact that af are operating in Mansfield has come to the attention of Joseph J. Haupt, manager of the Mansfield branch of the American Cigar company, and hr has denied most emphatiCally that the agents are representatives Of his The underlying motive of these agents is to secure girls for | houses of ill repute in the larger | cities and more especially Chicago. | It is nothing more or less than d | of the white slave traf- | fic.' Many girls of foreign families | are being sought after more at the | present time as American girls have | L. "h Il Little mD'c shy about listen :nc to tEe allucer eris nf the agent. 1t is D. ." of th., fnrciSn rlilss which the agents are sec. i ic in Mansfield at the present time" Copies of the Woman's World bill enacted by the Illinois legislature against whi'e slavery have beer sent to governors If ai' .;t; tes urfsi 's the n"-n of uni form laws on the same lines.
 Growing talk of new political II party because of the failure of c9r- gress to meet the popular demand 'egarding tariff revision and a posIsl