The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-07-29
Secular News Of the Week.

secular news OF the WeGks
New York State is facing deficit
in it's treasury of more than $1,000
900 at the close of the present fiscal
year, according to an estimate by the
State Controller For the past few
years expenditures have exceeded the
receipts and those in charge of the
States finances have been put to their
wits ends to devise means of meet
ing the deficit. Declaring that the
situation demands serious attention,
Governor Dix has sent special mes
sage to the Legislature recommending
the passage of Senator Harte's bill
providing tax on secured debts. The
measure is in substance an extension
of the mortgage recording tax law
and it's passage is expected to add ma
terially to the States revenues.
Machinists on the Canadian North
ern railway, west of Port Arthur, have
secured a substantial increase in pay
with shorter hours, dating from July
! 1. The wages for machinists, special
lists and helpers are all affected. There
are 400 such men in Winnipeg and
$50 men at other points The increase
| is 2h cents an hour. There are to be
fifty work hours in a week, and a
half holiday on Saturdays, the year
through. They were working fifty
four hours in winter and fifty-two and
half in summer. Machinists are in
creased from 421a cents an hour to
As cents. Helpers and specialists are
increased from "a cents to 341a cents
an hour to 261a cents to 81 cents an
hour. Negotiations have been in prog
ress since May IL.
The Board of Health at Lidgerwood,
N. D., has notified the superintendent
of the Richland County Board of
Health that number of dogs are af-
fected with the rabies and are run
ming at large in the adjacent town
ships. A number of the people have
been bitten at that place during the
last two years and some have gone to
Grand Forks to take the Pasteur
treatment. All local boards will be
notified and the report published
throughout the county, so that all dogs
may be muzzled, tied up or killed.
The recent announcement of the
general land Office at Washington that
registrations would be received in
October for another big land opening
in South Dakota has started a flood OF
inquiries at the local United States
land offices. The officers of the local
land offices have received detailed in.
formation regarding the coming regis.
tration that the public may be in.
formed. From this official information
the following facts may be taken The
places of registration will be Cham
berlain, Rapid City, Dallas and
Gregory. The first registrations will
be received October 2, and the work
will continue for three weeks at each
of the four registration points. In all
total of 466,562 acres will be thrown
open to settlement in the Rosebud and
pine Ridge reservations.
The Consumers Power Company
, will lay gas main from Faribault tt
Mortified, distance of twelve miles
, The generating point located at Fari
bault was recently enlarged. A high
} pressure line will be put in with 6
, capacity of $4,000 cubic feet a day
Z Work will begin as soon as a fran
chise is secured in Mortified
Although a mass meeting of Cor
son County, South Dakota, homestead
ers was held at Morristown recently
to petition the government to grant
, deeds of their property on proving up
J without further payment, there is M
disposition on the part of the settler:
who have proved up to abandon theil
claims. One man near Aberdeen re
; fused $4,000 for his homestead las
{ week. Most ,homesteaders believe tha
their claims will be worth mucf
| more than they will bring on the mar
r ket now.
} Confident prediction of an interna
: tional highway, stretching from Pain
. Beach, Florida, northward across tht
United States and Southern Canad;
: to Montreal and Quebec, above 2,2O,
0 miles long, is made by Howard .
] Hadley, chairman of the New York
$ Montreal road committee, which ha
t been instrumental in carrying forwar,
the part of New York in this large
Y project. Governor Dix recently signe,
r the New York-Montreal road bill. an
0 propriating S1,500.000 for the highwa,
+ up to Rouse's Point on the Canadian
i border. The New York stretch o
roadway is only one link in the chair
+ stretching from the southernmos
e point of Florida to the heart of Car
r ada. Much of the work on the VAR