On This Date in Minnesota History: August 19

August 19, 1915 – Ada’s resourceful mayor has solved the problem of providing harvest hands for farmers in this vicinity who are killing horses and working overtime in getting their unusually heavy crops into market. Their cries for help have ceased since his new labor policy went into effect.

This morning with the aid of the police department and a string of deputies, Mayor Snyder held up a freight train and seized every man found in box cars, on bumpers, rods, head end and every other place where hoboes are accustomed to travel.

Each one of the 52 tramps was sentenced to go to work. They were parceled out to the farmers under surveillance and after the harvest is over will be released and paid at the rate of $3 a day.

The Minneapolis Morning Tribune; “Ada’s Resourceful Mayor Holds Up Freight Train to Commandeer Harvesters”; Aug. 20, 1915; p. 8.

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