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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-10
THE GOOD FELLOW AND THE
KID WITH THE FILLED STOCKING
THE STORY OF THE
EMPTY STOCKING
Santa did not I'LL the one hung
for him last year and none will be
,,nnE this year.

the little Ruggles in the Birds Christ
mas Carol have never tasted it."
A few days ago happened to be In
a new friends home while she was
experimenting the making of Christ
mas coollies-made of pepernut
dough, the kind we have teased our
ever since we could remember. There
was a warning smell from the oven
and Mrs. - hurriedly opened the
door and emptied upon cloth upon
the table whole pansful of brown and
white cookie girls and boys, dogs and
cats and whole menagerie Of cookie
wild animals. Then she put into the
oven more of these tempting things
and let me help her put on the FROST
ing good and thick" 1t has always
been fun Ito put on the trimmings"-
so she passed over the box Of tiny
candles and helped put them on
the round, blue and brown ones for
the eyes, the white ones for the noses
and red ones for the mouths. The
other colors we saved for the buttons
and buckles on the shoes when we
saw "how we were going to come
out"
Ruth will not have any experience
like that this year-she has never in
all her life. She has no friends to
let her help make the Christmas
goodies or to give her a taste when
they are done. Neither she nor her
sisters and brothers, will have q
single taste unless some of the
big hearted women of the coun-
try, who really know best how to
make the tempting goodies-to say
nothing Of mince pies-will look over
their bullying pantry shelves and give
Santa few to leave with children
like Ruth.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-10
NO SANTA CLAUS
GAME TO THIS GIRL
,=.-=--=.==-.-----.. =
Pathetic side OF the disappointed
child on Christnas day who In not
remembered.
(Oliye Tracy Halik,)

There are children in Grand Forks
to whom Santa Claus means nothing!
That sounds startling but it Is true.
Only yesterday Miss Louis Hachen-
busch, visiting nurse Of the Associated
Charities, went into home on -
avenue to give medical aid to the
youngest child in family of eight.
baby q few months of age. One Of
the little girls in the family, little
more than baby herself, watched
the operations of the nurse with op-
en-eyed interest, as with deft fingers
she showed the mother what to do to
win the little creature back to health.
(of course Ruth isn't the girls right
name. but 1t is pretty name and
we'll suppose that It is) and said:
Going to hang up your stocking
this year, Ruthf"
The child shook her head Don't
think so." she vouchsafed In most
reserved matter of fact way.
mot going to hang up your stock
ing| the nurse asked In surprise,
"Why. Ruth. why not?"
"Oh, did last year." explained the
child, "but Santa Claus didn't come" :"
There are other children in this
vicinity who have had the same sad
experience: He didn't come! The
same little rag doll has been Rugged
tenderly year In and out because
st. Nick doesn't know where the lit
tie girl lived. Sometimes she has
had warm clothes to wear, sometimes
she hasn't. All that these children
know about Christmas and Santa
Claus is the stories they hear in the
school. the pictures they see in the
books and the newspapers, or the toys
In the big shops. They have never
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-10

seen the jovial old saint themselves.
To them he isn't even dream, any
more. nothing but disappointment.
II they were to waken on Christmas
day to find real train of cars in
stead of the wooden blocks picked up
in the lumbed yards, Q real teddy
bear or q new doll instead of the de-
lapidated bundle of rags, these chill
dren would be in veritable seventh
heaven.
Ruth is an example. Neither she
nor her seven sisters and brothers
have ever in their starved little lives
had q really Christmas tree, with its
bells, its ornaments and goodies. AS
for the strings of popcorn and cram
berries they would be glad enough to
have them to eat without simply for
decoration. Their parents have had
too hard q struggle to keep them
clothed and fed to think about extras.
The father only works in the sum-
mertime and fall, and then even when
he tolls the hardest, he only received
$1.30 q day. Not much to spend for
Christmas luxuries, Is it?
It il pretty hard stretch Of the
Imagination for US to think of q
chilid's having Christmas without
even nuts or candy. Not even cookies
do these children see. They have
heard about plum pudding but like
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-10
NEAR BALANCE

Berlin. Dec. 10.-Herr Wermuth.
secretary of the imperial treasury, ex-
planning in the reichstag today the
financial position of the empire, show
ed that one year hence Germany for
the first time in many years will be
able to balance her expenditures with
her income.
The government has borrowed on
an average nearly $4,000 annually
since 1900. The extraordinary expen-
ditures under the naval law are ap-
preaching an end and the reduction
in these by some s6,000.00O will begin
in the budget for 1912. The extraor.
dinary expenses for new construction
will disappear. the secretary said. in
1917.
The improved financial position
brought about by the new taxes was
indicated by the reduction in treasury
bills from s159,OO0,000 in May, 1909,
to S40,000,000 at the present time.
The secretary said he was con-
vinced that the time was not far dis
tant when the finances Of the country
would be on sound basis.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-10
KING MANUEL IS
ENTIRELY BROKE
Does Not Have Money to Pay
Servants and He Lives on
Charity

Rome, Dec. 1O.-The Tribune today
prints an interview with Portuguese
parsonage whose name is not mem
toned but who is said to be a prom
inent Royalist, concerning Manuel II,
the eNiled king of Portugal.
Manuel, he says. is poverty stricken
and unable to choose a place of resi-
dence. Owing to lack of money the
dethroned king has been compelled to
accept the hospitality of the Duke of
Orleans at Wood Norton, Eversham,
England. For three months he has
not had means with which to pay his
own servants.
Manuel, according to the interview,
hopes that he will be restored to pow
er, insisting that republic in Portu-
gal cannot exist. His friends predict
that congress of the powers will
settle Portugal's affairs but say that
otherwise the Royalists are ready to
fight for the restoration of the mon
archy.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-10

the committee at the last session by
certain members of the house had led
to an allotment of 100 acres of land
to James F. Rowell, when he was not
entitled to 1t.
Rowell. a white man. from Connec-
ticut, who had married an Indian
woman. it developed, had been al
lotted land near the town of Lawton,
Okla, which u United States inspec-
tor for the interior department de-
clared to be worth from $4,000 to
100000. The committee had been
informed. Mr.. Burke said, that the
land which Rowell was to receive was
no more valuable than that usually
given to members of the tribe in which
he sought enrolment. Representa-
tive Morgan Of Oklahoma declared
that he had given such Information
to the committee at the time and
thought 1t was correct. During the
past summer he learned, he said. that
the land was more valuable than he
had realized before.
Representative Hill of Connecticut,
from whose district Rowell had gone
west, declared that Rowell had a right
to be heard before he was taken of
the tribal enrolment and lost his
right to an allotment and that no mat
ter what the value of the land he
should not be deprived of his legal
rights in this particular. 1t was final
ly decided to let the question Of his
right to citizenship in the Indian tribe
go to the courts, where the matter is
now pending and the bill was simply
withdrawn for the time being to de-
termine Rowell's right to an allot-
ment,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-10
SITS 50 YEARS ON
SUPREME BENCH
John Marshall Harlan Today
Shares Experience Of Only
Three Others

Washington, Dec. 10.-John Mar
shall Harlan. presiding justice Of the
supreme court Of the United States
today is what what only three other
men have done in the history Of the
court: he is celebrating the close of
thirty-three years of service on that
bench. In Dec. 10, 1877, Justice Har-
Ian became member Of the supreme
court. He was then A. years Of age.
Not only have men who sat on bench
during first of service passed away
but Justice Harlan's service is now
twice as long as that of any other
member of the present court. OF six
ty-two men who have sat on this
bench. Justice Harlan has been an
associate of twenty-six. Three men,
bers of the court whose services ex-
ceeded that of Justice Harlan were
Chief Justices Marshall, Justice
Stephen ]. Field and Justice Joseph
Story.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-10
POPULATION Of
UNITED STATES
IS 9l,972,266
This Is an Increase of Twenty.
One Per Cent Over That Of
1900
Statement ISSUED At NOON
TODAY IS an UNOFFICIAL ONE.
The Population Of the United States
Including Alaska, Hawaii and Porto
Rico Is 9s,4os.151, According to the
Same Census Statement,

Washington. Dec. 10.-The popula.
ton OF the United States Is 93,402.15l.
This is the total number Of people
enumerated throughout the states.
territories, the District Of Columbia,
Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico In the
Thirteenth census which began April
10, 1910. The total does not include
the Philippine islands.
The increase in the country's popu.
lat1on during the last ten years was
l6, 145,521 or 20.9 per cent, over a..
256,63O. the population in 1900. com.
pared with an increase Of 14.276,S84,
or 22.7 per cent, over 62,979,766, the
population in 1890. The population
of continental United States is 81.
972 ,266. an increase Of 15,977,6s1, or
21.0 per cent, over the 75,994575 in
1900, when the increase was 1906.
S61, or 20.7 per cent, over 62,947,7ll.
the total in 1890.
The total population Of the United
States with all her possessions ID
about 101 100000. This number in-
cludes 7.6S5,426 in the Philippine is
lands as enumerated in the census
there In 1903 and estimates for the
population Of the Island Of Guam, the
American possessions in Samoa and
the persons on the Panama canal
zone. The number Of persons in the
military and naval service of the
United States stationed abroad and
on the naval vessels is 55,6OS.
States in their rank according to
population is:
New York. 2-Pennsylvania, g.
Illinois, 4-Ohio, 5-Texas, 6-Massa-
chusetts. Missouri. s-Michigan, 9
indiana, 10-Georgia. 11-New Jer-
sey, 12-California, 13-Wisconsin, IA
Kentucky, 15-Iowa. l6-North
Carolina. 17-Teunessee, 18-Ala-
bama, 19-Minnesota, 2o-virginia,
21-Mississippi. 22-Kansas. 23-
Oklahoma. 24-Louisiana, 25-Arkan-
sas, 26-South Carolina, 27-Mary-
land, 2s-West Virginia, 29-Nebras-
ka, 3O-Washington. 31-Porto Rico.
32-Connecticut, 33-Colorado, 81
Florida, 35-Maine. 36-Oregon. 81
South Dakota. 3S-North Dakota, So
Rhode Island, 40-New Hampshire,
41-Montana. 42-Utah, 43-vermont,
44-District of Columbia, 45-New
Mexico, 46-Idaho, 47-Arizona, As
Delaware, 49-Hawaii. 50-Wyoming.
51-Nevada, 52-Alaska.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-10
OKLAHOMA HAS
GOOD ROADS PLAN
One County Has 100000 to
Spend in Improving the
Public Highways

Tulsa. Ok. Dec. 10.-Following a
preliminary meeting last Friday and
the general meeting Monday night,
the good roads movement in Tulsa
county has been set In motion. About
eighteen months ago Tulsa county
farmers became interested in good
roads, and at a special election voted
100000 for roads. This money has
not been touched.
One Of the first roads to be built
probably will be north and south
pike to connect with q similar road
in Washington county passing
through Bartlesville. which will be q
link in the proposed Kansas CITY,
Tulsa pike. This road probably will
be Of macadam, although there is
some talk of an asphalt binder road
such a. connects Fort Leavenworth
with Leavenworth, Kas.
A District Of $50 Square Miles.
A road district Of one hundred and
fifty square miles. with Tulsa in the
center. has also been proposed and
there is every reason to believe It will
be created, and permanent improve
ments made before the end of next
year. On some Of the less travelled
roads oil may be used. while macadam
or something a. permanent and salts
factory will be used in constructing
the central roads.
Within few days petitions will
be circulated asking the county COM
missioners to call an election to cre-
ate the proposed road district, and to
ascertain the sentiment Of the county
on the north and south pike through
the county. Within the last few
months many of the farmers through
out the county who q year ago were
opposed to good road building on Q
general scale. owing to the heavy ex-
pense it would entail upon an already
heavily taxed people. have become fa-
vorable to the idea and the proposal
for the road district will, 1t is believ-
ed, carry without much opposition.
Convicts to Build Them.
Convicts from the McAlester peni-
Tertiary will be used In the work and
some Of the county prisoners may be
pressed into service.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-10
WHITE SLAVERY
TO Be EXPOSED
Secret Service Men of Gov.
ernment Are Investigating
International System

Pittsburg. Dec. 1O-Two prisoners.
a man and a woman, were placed in
cells In the central pcilce station
last night. From the time of their
arrest they were not permitted to talk
together. While considerable mystery
surrounds the arrests, it was learned
that the prisoners were taken as a
step in the white slave investigation
now in progress here.
Special Policeman Edward Brophy
was the arresting officer. Brophy is
connected with Inspector Bartley's
department. BARLEY has been pur-
suing his investigation in company
with the secret service agents OF the
government.
For a number Of weeks two fed
eral agents have been studying condi-
tions in the underworld Of Pittsburg
with the specific aim of breaking up
the "pandering" system in this city.
1t was learned last night that other
agents, on the same job, are working
on the Atlantic seaboard, tracing the
movements of number of women who
came or were brought into this coun-
try and are now in Pittsburg. The
federal authorities have discovered
in the lower section of the city a
place where women Of eight different
nationalities live, and these SO re-
Gently arrived in the country that
they cannot understand the language
of each other.
International Traffic
In the near future the police and
government agents hope to make ar
foh o1o n ~
international white slave traf1chng
more astounding in its magnitude than
any other in the history of the coun-
try. The recent convictions under the
new national law secured by the
United States authorities in Pittsburg
is said to have had the effect of stop
ping the ordinary pandering prac-
tices but traffic in foreign women
was recently uncovered which is ex-
pected to bring the representatives of
q number of governments into the in
vestigation.
The arrests last night. 1t was learn
ed, will be followed by probably
dozen others in the near future. The
woman is said to have made a state
ment in which she admits she had
been supporting the man by the PAN
dering system for the past eight years.
To Save Alien Girls
While the white slave Investigation
Is being conducted by government
agents throughout the country. Pitts
burg has turned up more arrests and
convictions than any other city since
the actions were brought under the
new national law. This Is said to
be due principally to the cooperation
between the local police department
and the government agents, who have
been working together.
When the discoveries of the govern
ment agents are made known. it will
be found that practically every race
of aliens now represented in the Unit
ed States is engaged in the general
white slave traffic that has been 60
ing on.
Recently in Philadelphia the i'm
migration authorities discovered that
Italians were meeting the vessels
coming into port and inducing girl
immigrants to go with them. A
number of these girls have been trac-
ed to Pittsburg and located in resorts.
The very difficult police task of find
ing the agents who brought them here
and securing evidence to convict them
confronts the authorities.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-10
Of HONOR
IS INDEPENDENT
Women's Auxiliary Of A. o.
U. w. Will Not Be Super
vised by Men Hereafter

Louisville, Ky, Dec. 10-The De-
gree of Honor, heretofore the women's
auxiliary of the Ancient Order of Unit
ed Workmen, was granted complete
independence by the supreme lodge
of the Ancient Order Of United Work.
men in annual session in this city.
The breaking away of the auxiliary
body came after a. prolonged struggle
brought about by the women demand
ing complete independence with no
further supervision from the mems
organization.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-10
LONG LOST CHILD
RETURNED TO HER
PARENTS ALIVE
Was Found in Yard Bundled
Into Package Like Roll
Of Clothing
HAS Been MISSING SINCE
The TWENTIETH Of OCTOBER
Father Has Received Numerous Let.
ters From the Black Hand Society
Demanding Money Child Nearly
Dead When Found by Father.

Redbank, N. j., Dec. 1O.-Four year
old Mary Petillo is at her home today
after an extraordinary absence since
October 20, last. The child disap-
peared on that date. 1t was believed
she was kidnapped. Frank Petillo, the
childs father, was entering the yard
of his home early last night when
he saw his daughter behind the fence.
She was wrapped up like bundle of
clothes and appeared to be dead. She
was found to be alive. Petillo has re-
ceived demands for money from the
black hand society,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-10
TIE FRIAR LANDS
Investigation Of Sales by Government
Under Investigation by Congress

Washington, Dec. 1O-Representa-
tive Martin Of Colorado Democrat.
who started the fight for an investiga-
tion Of the sales of the friar lands in
the Philippines, made a statement be-
fore the house committee on insular
affairs today, outlining his charges
against the administration of those
lands by the Philippine government.
The committee adjourned to meet
next Tuesday when Dean c. Worces-
ter of the Philippine commission and
other members of the delegation that
have come to this country from Manila
for the purpose, are expected to tes-
tify.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-10
FIRST BOOM
Champ Clark Gets First Endorsement
for Sneaker From Kenfuckv

TOT speaker from h6ntucky
Washington, Dec. 10-The first state
delegation boom for Champ Clark of
Missouri, the minority leader, for the
speakership of the next congress, was
launched today, when Kentucky Demo-
Gratis formally endorsed him for the
office.
Friends of Mr.. Clark say that his
election to the speakership of the next
house is assured and that there is
no other candidate in the field and
no real opposition.
They say that Mr.. Clark mas already
received pledges from IFS Democratic
representatives and pledges. more or
less equivocal promises, from twen-
ty-flve others and that Of the remain.
ing Democrats in the total of 227 in
the rext Democratic congress, vir-
tually all of them have implied an
intention to rally to Clark.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-10

A few years ago this exchange took
the form of the presentation of a
replica of the statue of Frederick the
Great to the United States by his
majesty, the German emperor. This
time 1t is the United States that offers
a souvenir of its debt to Germany.
THE gift of a replica to the statue
of General Won Steuben, a brave and
accomplished soldier who served un-
der Frederick the Great and Wash
ington and enjoyed the high esteem of
both, has been voted by the American
congress and in due time the presen-
tatiOn will be made"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-10
Secretary's Decision.

Washington, Dec. 10.-Secretary of
State Knox has granted the request
OF Italy for the surrender of Porter
Charlton, charged with the murder of
his wife in Lake Como. The secre-
tary holds that the fact that Italy re-
fuses to surrender her citizens to the
United States for trial. does not re-
lieve this country from the obligation
of the extradition treaty to surrender
to Italy fugitives from justice from
that country.
The question of the insanity of
Charlton, 1t is suggested, is one of the
courts and not for the department to
determine.
Had Secretary Knox refrained from
acting on this case for six days. Por-
ter Charlton would have been a free
man, as the statutes required final ac-
ton in the case within sixty days
from the date of his commitment.
A remark by the secretary carries
the intimation that Charlton's attorney
may have further recourse to the
courts If they are disposed to raise
the question of insanity.
The decision relates the history OF
the case beginning with the arrest OF
Charlton in New York on June "a last
on complaint of the Italian vice con-
sui.
Formal demand for the extradition
of Charlton under and pursuant to the
terms of the extradition treaty be-
tween the United States and Italy" !"
reads the decision signed by Secre-
tary Knox, was made upon this gov
ernment by the government Of Italy
under date of July % (received by
the department July 3O, that is, with
in the forty-day period provided for
this purpose in the treaty. Later
Charlton was taken before an extra
.dition magistrate who, after formal
hearing as provided by the treaty and
statute, committed him on October IA
for surrender to the Italian govern
ment.
"The committing magistrates rec
ord as transmitted to the department
'discloses no material informality In
the proceedings and a case calling for
the surrender of the accused under
the treaty terms is made out. unless
such surrender is to be defeated by
objections raised by counsel for the
accused, that the secretary of state
,hould decline to surrender the ac-
eused and the president should direct