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Show PROUD DAY FOR J. J. HILL Brilliant Assemblage Honors Him at Banquet. MINNEAPOLIS. ScpL 23. Should James J. mil, president of .the Great Northern railway, live to rpallzo the fervent hopes of tho brilliant bril-liant assemblage of noted Minnesota politicians and Now York capitalists, who sothcrol In tho Minneapolis club 16 do him honor tonight,' ho may never forget tho proud compliments showered upon him, nor tho beautiful gifts bestowed upon him by tho citizens of this city In honor of his sixty-seventh birthday, on the IClii of thin month. Mr IIIII. In hi speech, "Fifty Y'ears ot Progress," spoke of tho futuro ot tho Northwest, North-west, of tho country at largo and praised President Pres-ident Roosevelt for Mn jrreat work In tho conciliation con-ciliation of peuco butween Japan and P.ussla, Tho guests of tho evening wcro: James J. Hill, guest of honor Archbishop Iraland, ex-Mlntcter ex-Mlntcter of Sweden Stanford Newell, Luin W. Hill, Samuel Hill, President Howard Elliott of tho Northern Paclllco, William B. Dean, St. Paul; Frederick D Underwood of Erie, Gcorg4 F. Baker. Sam Thorne, John Thorne, Georgo C. Clark, Amos T. French, Alexander Cochrane, Puyno Whlmoy. G. W. Lano and Daniel Wlllard of New York. Georgo B. Harris nnd Darius Miller of Chicago, Sam Hnll of Seattle |