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FREE COAl fOR DAKOTA'S POOR' The Great Northern will Carry tho Coal Fine, Rut Ilwi’f Vnnt , to l»0 lni|tosed Vpon. t.5500,000,000 F0H PENSION ARREARS.! ',:Individual Pewdon Kills Ifnsliedo Through. - A Hn«y Roy in . ” Canjsrei*. :1. ; The Great, Northern Gmntad Right-of-way Tlirongh Fmt Aminabnlne Reservation.Ci i.fcniMT.R, N. !., Sept. ‘li. Mayor Sefmn of the city, who vrroie to .lame* .1 Hill, president of the Great Northern Railway cautpnny, asking ihnt ounces sIodb be made lu the transportation of oool for needy erttlere, hap Jnafi re.ielved ’ a copy «if it luiter stnt by Hill to Hou. J. , il. Fletcher, lieutenant governor of South Rukntu, with information that the offer made to the people of ihnt aeotlnn will apply to ruckey county. Mr. Hill *uys: If tliu communities that will need uld in getting cheap fuel on oar line in Hie district you name will make ■■me org„a Uiitloa to lake charge of Hie fnel matter, we will carry their cool free Co the extent or one thousand font, or m'.e, il necessary. Wo desire, however, to avoid I coming under the iDter-atate low In regard to carrying con Ifor those who can affordto pny. Inasmuch us the Jawwould com pci ua to carry f«r nil nlllcc, and ogam, our experience In the past in such oa*i* ha* tmeu that many people who are ahnnriantly able to pay take advantage lt;jT such circumstance* In get their own coal hauled for nothing. For the lost year both In North and South Dakota the mutter of fuel, transportation of supplied of varlrma kind* nod furnishing a guaranty on seed wheal hav* made the burden unusually heavy on our mil road, aud while wo desire to help as farA. ...
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The Semi Weekly Tribune
Great Falls, Montana, US
Wed, Oct 01, 1890
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