The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-05-13

mouth Traction Company, according to
announcements have made an agree
ment for the merger and consolidation
of the two concerns, to become effec-
tive July /. The combined properties
are earning at the rate of approx
mately $4,50O,00O per annum, gross.
and their combination will result in a
s31, 100000 corporation.
At caucus OF Canadian government
members at Ottawa, Ontario, last week.
lit was decided to push forward with
all possible haste the building Of the
government railway from the Sas-
katchewan river to Hudson bay, the
terminal point OF which has not yet
been selected, but which will be either
Churchill or Nelson. A $500, 900 bridge
has been under construction all winter
across the Saskatchewan, and the de-
! termination Of the government mem
bers to hasten the completion of the
northern route for wheat to Europe is
largely to offset the feeling in England
that all Western Canada grain is to
go south over United States railways
to Liverpool and the continent. Two
hundred miles will be graded and made
ready for steel, a portion being
through terrible swamp which is said
to have no bottom
Again the danger of forest fires
threatens the best timber sections of
Northern Minnesota For three years
in succession disastrous fires swept
out of existence valuable quantities of
timber which the increasing town and
farm population of the Red river val
! ley and North Dakota stand in such
dire need of for building purposes.
This spring is SO dry that, despite the
recent heavy rainfall, all the northern
streams are at low stage. About the
Red lakes are vast areas of mature
white and Norway pines estimated to
contain three-quarters of a billion feet
of lumber. This forest has been in
jured by fire in the past and it's par
tial or total destruction is ever i'm
minent. AS this tract constitutes al
most the sole remaining body Of pine
timber in Northern Minnesota avail
able for sale to the farms and towns
: in the sections indicated, it's injury
would seriously effect the interests of
: persons not directly connected with
the lumber industries. to say nothing
: of the monetary loss to the Indian
owners.
, The city of Rochester, Mimi, has
been made defendant in a lawsuit
which has been instituted by the
Laird Norton Lumber Company for
the payment of $7,513, alleged to be
: due the company for coal delivered
and actually burned in the city's cleo.
trio light plant, and for which no pay
ment has been made The proceed,
: ings is the elimination of a long con
troversy between the city and the
company, in which contract fol
5000 tons of coal is involved, the
!, utility board having let the contract
last fall after the city council had
passed a resolution authorizing the
transaction. Later the city attorney
! advised the mayor not to sign the
. contract, and after large amount Of
coal had been delivered notice was
served on the company to discontinue
the order All efforts to settle for the
coal have failed, former Mayor Thomp
: son refusing to sign an order for the
: payment presented to him by the
utility board. and the present mayor
has stated that he could not legally
!. sign such an order without making
: himself personally liable for the
= amount, should a suit be brought
: against him.
The Jewish Chronicle states that il
is rumored that Sir Mathew Nathan
: will succeed Sir EIdon Gorst as British
, Resident in Egypt.
- Should this report prove correct,
; says the journal, sit will be the sec
!. ond time in history. after lapse Of
: some 1000 years, that a Jew will
= have taken the most prominent place
= in the Government of Egypt"
! Sir Mathew Nathan was formerly
Governor of Natal.
uS 6OIA6 OuL OA SLIlhG I'll ONC
y 10000 men in five industries and The
y threat Of striking by 10000 Others
y marked May day in Chicago as the be
= ginning of Industrial disturbance.
If which threaten to spread to nationa
}, scope. The strikes inaugurated in
IS volve the railroad, building, meta
= trade, and brickmaking industries. This
a underlying causes were demands
ranging from higher wages. shortel
hours, recognition of unions, and juris
h dictional disputes to internal dissen
r. sions over various union claims tt
4. various classes of labor. Maintenance,
g Of way employees on the Chicago ter
e minals Of six railroads struck followin,
a the refusal of the railroad genera
If managers association to grant de
d mands for higher wages and a stand
l. ardization of the wage scales.