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Colorado grown seeds for sale at NJ. B.
Hyndman's.
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FOR SALE

A building lot 35x10O feet. Good To-
cation. Very little grading. Price rea-
sonable. Inquire at this Office.
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Light, Medium and heavy underwear
and shirts at Bacharach's.
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Bswiiss.

The Foxy Grandpas and the Happy.
Go-Luckys. two Of Black Hawks crack
bowling teams. had an interesting game
at Peterson Bros. & Ballard alleys last
Tuesday night, with the following result:
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For Fine 0rocsriss.
Call on Philips. g. L Co, who will give
you the very best at the BEST prices.
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Publeu shoes snd boots. bvst quality,
cheap at Baoharaeh's.
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FOR RENT on SALE
Hastie's ranch In Laks Gulch.
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FOR RENT

Four-room house on Spruce street.
Sec NJ. B. Hyndman.
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FOR RENT

A double house on 4th High, 8 rooms
e0 rent each side OF fous rooms sach.
Inquire Of Ars. Agnes McCalhsees. 3x
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FOR SALE

Household goods and furniture. First
house below depot, Black Hawk. 2t
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FOR SALE.

A Western Defender Washing ma
chine. Cali q this o@ss. sAs
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culture can be safely carried on with
out artificial irrigation only in the
northern border of this region, and also
in the moister river valleys; but even
there the crops often suffer from
droughts. DR.. Ballod estimates the en-
tire cultivable area of the two above
named districts at less than million
dessiatins, or about 2, 100000 acres. The
rest of the Kirghiz steppe presents, ae-
cording to this writer, but pasture
oro"~7 is of the worst quality.
AS regards the agricultural possibili-
ties of eastern Siberia, or the provinces
Of Yenisseisk, lrkutsk and Yakutsk. it
must be said that the area available for
cultivation is even smaller there than
in the west. Owing to the mountain
Gus, precipitous, IN some parts exceed
lngly cold and swampy character of the
country, only little over 100000 Eng
lish square miles are regarded as fit for
cultivation. Climatic conditions are
less favorable here than in the west,
the yearly amount of rain and snow fall
being but 800 nm. and for the summer
so (instead of us, as in the vest. AS
matter of fact, even the region most
favored for wheat cultivation, the dis
trict of Minussinsk Ca little over 40 900
English square miles) had already to re-
sort to artificial irrigation.
OF great Importance for agricultural
purposes is the trans-Baikal district
(south of eastern Siberia proper), which
contains an area of about 23O 900 English
square miles and almost entirely falls
within the cultivable zone. The ex-
tremely mountainous character of this
district, intersected as it is by the STAN
ovoi range, reduces, however, the real
ly cultivable area to about one-third
(about $4,000 English square miles).
This region, as a matter of fact, is re-
garded by the Russian government as
the prospective "chief granary of the
whole Amurlittoral region" On ac-
count of the cold, snowless winters, only
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utrf-prfathfnty @ftn11t-.
ing Il pultttral @mgahnn
Hard to Find Desirable Running Mates for
Presidential Candidates-Not Always So.

who was President Pierce's running
mate in 1852. Then came Henry Viii,
son, who was elected at the time Grant
was given second term. President
Cleveland's associate, Thomas A
Hendricks, was the next one to 60,
and the death of Carrot A. Hobart
President McKinley's colleague, is fresh
in mind
But if there is growing reluctance
on the part of political lights to accept
ing the second place on the national
ticket it was not always so, for in the
early history of the country the vice
president repeatedly succeeded to. the
presidency. Washington's associate in
office, John Adams, was elected to the
presidency when Washington refused
to accept a third term. And Thomas
Jefferson, who was President Adams
associate as vice president, succeeded
him in the presidency. The break ir
this regular advancement came with
Aaron Burr and as much. perhaps,
from the unprincipled conduct of the
latter as from anything else.
De1O1e party OlSdulLdtlOu anu 1OIudI
nominations. and the adoption of the
law for the election of presidential elec-
tors by popular vote, the legislators
chose the electors and they were I'M
pledged to any candidate. Each electo1
voted for two candidates for president
and the candidate having the next
largest vote was declared the vice pres
ident. The Jefferson-Burr controversy
arose over the fact that both received
an equal number of votes-73-and al
though it had been tacitly understood
that Jefferson was ,the presidential
candidate and entitled to the election
Burr saw his opportunity to slip into
the presidential Office. The contest
was thrown into congress and eyentu-
ally decided by the election Of Jeffer-
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country the granary of the
world is the ambition of the Russian
government. To force it's DEVELOPMENT
Russia has been willing to make many
sacrifices, and it is in line with this idea
that she has appropriated so much of
Ch1na's territory. A study of the ~o..-
cultural possibilities of Siberia is inter-
estlng, especially at this tine.
The population of Siberia amounts to
about 100000 people. This figure alone
suttices to show of what development the
country is yet capable in view of it's
enormous material resources. As a
matter OF fact, colonization, more or
less systematic, begun but recently,
after the government undertook it's reg
ulat1on and direction. Immigration.
which during the eighties amounted to
but 10000 to 10000 per year, has been
steadily swelling since 1892, and reached
about 224 900 in the year 1899 It is thus
clear that Siberia contains an available
area for the cultivation of cereals, for
almost all these immigrants are agri-
culturlsts and continue their occupation
on the new SITES
Official estimates of the Russian GOV
eminent, given some 20 years ago, put
the cultivable area as high as 268,00O
English square miles, or 32.4 per cent. of
the total area for western Siberia and
653, 760 square miles for eastern Siberia.
Yadrintzeff, one of the best authorities
on Siberia, while reproducing these hg-
ures in his work on Siberia, makes
however, the significant statement that
these estimates have but "a relative
value" Since that time the knowledge
of Siberia among Russians has in
creased, with the effect that the cult
vable area is being estimated lower
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summer or spring cereals can be culti-
vated
Quite different features in regard to
soil, climate and vegetation are pre-
sented by the regions of the Amur and
the Ousoury, both on the Pacific coast.
For while eastern and western Siberia
suffer very often from droughts, the
Amur region suffers from excessive hui
Nudity, which is unfavorable to agricul-
ture. The natural fertility of the soil
Is not great. Although harvests OBJ
tanned on virgin soil are abundant, vet
the crops are bad in quality and but
little nutrltive. Diverse mountain
ranges crossing these regions and yerv
VIDE sWamps reduce the cultivable area
to about 10000 English square miles
(out of total of 10000 to 225, 900 Eng
lish square miles,.
Almost the same characteristics ap-
ply to the Ousoury region, extending
along the coast of the Pacific. The eli
mate, although warmer, yet shows the
same peculiarities with reference to ex-
cesslVe moisture as the Amur region.
the averages in this regard being on
the whole still less favorable to agri-
culture than those for the Amur region.
Inc entire area capable of cultivation
is estimated at little over GO 900 Eng
Ilsh square miles.
Summing up the figures given for thu
culttvable areas in the different parts
OF siberia, we get total of about 425.-
oO0 English square miles, This total
would still be equivalent to the COM
blned areas of Iowa, Missouri. Kansas.
Nebraska and both Dakotas.
Inc total crops of Siberia for an ay.
erage year are given by official esti-
mates as about 160,0OOOOO pools. nj
which 100000 fall to the share of west.
ern Siberia. According to these calcu.
lations. the Siberian harvest reaches but
one-twelfth Of that of European Rus.
STA. The corresponding figures in tho
year for 1902 are 3,712.00O pools tons
European Russia), as against 124 900 GOD
pools for four provinces of Siberia
The amount, however, to be deducted
for seed grain is considerable. as for
winter grain the yield is not more than
SA~>ASAo' AOA SPAAA6 SId4uS even less tour
to five fold), about as much as in Euro
pean Russia, and this Notwithstanding
the greater freshness of the soil. There
were exported during recent years
about 100000 to- Il, OOO, 900 pools from
western Siberia, where the great riv-
ers. as the Obi, Irish and Tobol. pre-
sented convenient means of communi-
cation up to the Ural. For the year
1898, however, the amount of Siberian
| wheat which actually reached the west
European border ii. e.. Prussia and Aus
| tria) or Russian ports of export is given
as over 10000 carloads, which, multi
piled by 600 pools, would give "a 900 900
| pools exported to Europe. The rest of
the marketable cereals has been con-
sumed within the country itself, mainly
by the mining districts, particularly the
places of gold washing.
Without going into tedious calcula-
tons, which at best would be but con-
jectural, it might be stated that for the
coming 80 or 40 years Siberia's chances
of becoming the 'granary" of the world
and a serious competitor Of American
| wheat are not great,
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every year. and, according to the most
! recent calculation, constitutes but eight
or nine per cent. of the entire area, about
425,00O English square miles. AS will
be seen from these figures, it is rather
premature to accept definitely any data
until the results of the official survey
now going on shall be given to the
world. This work is proceeding rap
idly. According to statement found
in Benin and Wagner's Geographical
Annals, reproduced by Dr. Ballod, about
100000 dessiatinas, or 5000, 900 acres
have been surveyed during the years
1898 and 1894, and out of these 800 600
dessiatinas, or over 100000 acres, pre-
pared for settlers.
In western Siberia the cultivable area
is to be looked for in what the official
report calls the Zone of cultivation. "
i. e., the region between SIS and 5Sh
degrees north Tin the Altai region only
to the fifty-first degree north), contain
ing altogether about 100000 English
square miles, with about 2,5OO,0O popu-
lation. Out of this total area a con-
siderable part would have to be ex-
Guided, made up of marshes and moors
salt and sweet water lakes, particularly
the sO-called Barbara steppe, so that
only about 127, 500 English square miles
here. and $1,000 English square miles
in the Altai region, might be regarded
really cultivable land. The amount OF
yearly precipitation is considerably less
for western Siberia than it is for Ger
many or Russia under equal ATTITUDES,
the yearly average in the agricultural
zone being but $50 millimeters, as COM
pared with 500 millimeters in the north
ern part Of Russia. However, this cir
cumstance does not yet present any dan
ger to the cultivation of cereals, fol-
the amount of precipitation during the
three summer months is Is millimeters
only ten millimeters less than that fol-
northern Russia. The agricultural zone
in western Siberia shows about the
same features as the regions of west
ern Canada, Manitoba, Alberta, Sas-
katchewan; just as there, a severe win
ter lasting six months is followed by
a short transition period and short
and warm summer.
North Of this agricultural zone there
extends the forest zone. Agriculture is
pursued there but sporadically, between
the fifty-ninth and sixtieth degrees OF
latitude, and this only on the protected
slopes, which suffer less from excessive
moisture and summer frosts. tits inter
esting to note that the number Of do.
nestle animals in western Siberia is
much larger per head Of population than
in European Russia. There were about
400 900 head of cattle, 1,700, 900 horses
and 100000 sheep. For every 100 in.
habitants in the zone Of cultivation
there are thus 63 horses and 81 COWS.
South of western Siberia proper, be-
tween the f1fty-fifth and forty-secont
degree of latitude, extends the COVER
norship general of the steppe, whose
northern border is touched by the 81
berian Trans Continental. Out Of thu
$4,000 English square miles taken W
by these regions, the districts of Akmo
linsk and Semipalatinsk (about 3S0,00(
English square miles,, while having {
higher annual temperature, suffer, how
sver. from lack Of rainfall, so that agri
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country to believe that he is not pa
ing to serve it, but he does want
to miss the second place on the ticket,
and he lodges and squirms and coun-
tiers and turns and then winks and
looks wise when he sees the vice pres
idential bee buzz off to sting some 9th
er likely candidate.
1t was pretty game OF hide and
seek which Roosevelt played with the
leaders of his party. He did not want
the nomination, in fact, of all things
political he did not want, the vice pres
idential Office was that thing. The re-
nomination of President Mckinley was
Inevitable and he knew that his presi-
Dental aspirations would have to go
over another four years, and in the
mean time he vastly preferred the gov
ernorship of New York state to any Of
dce outside Of the presidency. And so
with all the strenuOusity of his siren
uous nature he lodged and shooed
off the vice presidential bee when it
came buzzing around. But with great
er pesistency than was it's wont, the
political insect stayed right by its de-
sired victim and at last succeeded in
inserting it's sting in vulnerable spot
and landed it's man.
There were two reasons, perhaps,
which made Roosevelt most desirable
running mate for Mckinley. First of
all he was strong man politically, and
+: -
votes for the ticket, and in the next
place he was man the leading poll
ticians of the party feared because of
his strength and personality, and they
thought to do neat double turn by
placing him -On the vice presidential
shelf, but, of course, the untimely death
of President Mckinley changed the sit
uation somewhat, and Roosevelt found
his ambition to occupy the presidential
chair Unexpectedly and suddenly real
lied.
There have been four other vice pres
idents who have succeeded to the pres
idency through the death of the chief
executive: Arthur, on the assassina-
ton of Garfield; Johnson, on the assas-
sination of Lincoln; Fillmore, on the
death" of Taylor; and Tyler, on the
death of William Henry Harrison.
Five vice presidents have died while
In Office, but the antipathy to the Office
cannot be because of this fact, for the
presidential office is as fatal to its &C.
cupant as that Of the vice presidency,
with the increasing danger, empha-
sized by the assassination of Mckinley,
of an untimely and violent death at the
hands of some anarchist. The first
vice president to die in office was
George Clinton, elected on the ticket
with James Madison in 1905. The
next one to vacate Office through the
eternal summons was William r. King,
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-
in inducing men of political
prestige and promising political future
to accept the second place upon the
national ticket. Both parties realize
that much depends upon the character
and record and political strength of
the running mate of the president for
the success of their tickets, and so the
effort is made to secure the likeliest
man possible, and generally the like
Hest man possible" has other plans and
political ambitions, and objects to be-
ing run upon the vice presidential side
track, for such it has come to be.
just why election to the vice presi-
dency should practically end a mans
political career, at least as far as as
plratlon for the presidential Office is
concerned, no one seems quite able to
explain, but that it does is made appar-
ent by study of the political records
for the past 80 years or more. No vice
president since Martin Van Buren, has
been elected to the presidency, and
That was away back in 1886 Van Buren,
was elected as vice president in 1882
on the ticket with Andrew Jackson, and
tour years later he became the success
full candidate for president, but no vice
president since that day has had like
distinction
When the politician who has higher
aspirations hears the buzz of the vice
presidential bee he takes to cover i'm
mediately and seeks by every possible
subterfuge to escape being stung. He
does not want to appear Indifferent to
the honor his party would thrust upon
him; he does not want the voters of the
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On the other hand, we find that the
Office of secretary Of state has repeat
eddy been the stepping stone to the
presidents chair. Thomas Jefferson
was Washington's secretary of state.
he became Adams vice president and
then succeeded to the presidency.
James Madison held the portfolio of
secretary of state in Jefferson's cabinet
and succeeded his chief as president.
James Monroe in a like manner sue
ceeded President Madison, and John
Quincy Adams, President Monroe's Sec
rotary OF state, became president fol-
lowing Monroe's term of service. James
Buchanan was the last secretary~of
state to become president. He served
in the cabinet of President Polk in 184s
and became the successful candidate
for president in 1856, after an interim
Of two presidential terms, ending with
Pierce's administration. Since that day
other secretaries of state have been
likely candidates for the presidency
notably James G. Blaine, but none has
ever succeeded in receiving the nomi.
nation Of his party. j.. :s-~ III S11t5sss.
.@..> WILLIS s. EDsQAL
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seesseesoso00sosessssosov.
FROM:
SCANDINAVIA:
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King Alfonso of Spain is expected
to visit the capitals of the Scandina-
Wan countries in the latter part of
August.
The first Scandinavian vegetarian
congress will be held in Copenhagen
July II. A part of the program is a
vegetarian dinner, to which many
/: non-vegetarians will be invited.
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son. This difficulty made it apparent
that the candidates for president and
vice president must be clearly indi-
Gated and from that time on until par
ties were formed and national conyen-
tons held for the nomination of candi-
dates, no such confusion was ever
again permitted to occur.
1t has been charged that John c..
Calhoun, one of the ablest statesmen
which this country ever produced, and
who was strong defender of the
slavery rights of the southern states.
labored to destroy the union that he
might be the chief of a southern con-
federacy, because he could not be pres
ident of the union. That he had ambi-
tons to become the head of this gov
eminent cannot be gainsaid, and whv
he, keen politician and able statesman
that he was, never attained the gao1 of
his desires is not clear. This fact, how
ever, is strikingly significant. Calhoun
was vice president under John Quincy
Adams and again under the first term
of Jackson's administration Just how
much his election to this Office proved
barrier to his presidential aspirations
cannot be determined. He resigned his
Office under Jackson, and who can saw
but that it was with the hope that
events would shape themselves to make
him the opposition candidate for pres
ident at the next election. That he did
not become such is a ma ter of history,
and the fact that with but one excep-
ton the vice president never has sue
ceeded to the presidency, since
the days of Burr is signifi-
cant, even if it does not establish a
principle governing national poll
tics .-
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ATTEMPTED Suicide.

Soaked in blood which flowed from
several jagged wounds in his throat,
Hans Olson of St. Paul was found by
small newsboy, lying unconscious
behind one of the large billboards on
Wabasha street, just across from the
new capitol.
In determined effort to end his life,
the man had gashed his throat in three
or four places with piece of broken
glass which he had picked up on the
street.
severed, the jugular vein laid bare,
and the flow of blood from the wounds
was so profuse that Olson must have
died in very short time had he not
been given prompt attention.
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Agricultural prnhmfttur
1uaathtltttfH nj $thfrtu
The Future Of This Vast REGION Demands Mar.
kets for Which Russia Is Fishtine

USSIAN dreams of CONNER
cial supremacy, both for
Europe and the far east, are
based upon the development
OF Siberia. To see that vast,
and as yet undeveloped,
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News Notes.


A domestic at the home of A. Pfaff,
of Crookston, while carrying boiler
of hot water, tripped and fell, scalding
herself badly.
The state game and fish commission
had a special meeting and opened bids
for the buildings to be erected this
summer at the new Glenwood fish
hatchery.
The Sterling Land company of Du-
lnth fled articles of incorporation. It
is capitalized for $50, 900, and the pres
ldent is Alexander Macrae.
The state school of agriculture farm
has been quarantined as a result Of
the diphtheria epidemic.
A babe was left on the doorstep Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph WEIGH, at St.
Charles Pinned to its dress was this
message: II have come to keep you
company this pretty May day. Please
be kind to me-" Mr.. and Mrs. Welsh
have no children and will adopt the
little wait.
Hibbing youths between the ages of
IA and Is have organized a vo - ,eer
fire department and are in training
preparatory to entering the class of
regular fire fighters.
At special election held at LeSueur
bonds were voted to build a ST., 1000
school building.
Baled ha y is being shipped into Per-
ham from Nebraska and selling at SIS
a ton, the highest price ever known
there.
Farley & Blakely, of Bemidji, with
sixty horses and grading outfit, have
begun work on the 500 line south of
Perham.
j. B. Cotton, of Duluth, will make
one of the speeches at the republican
national convention, seconding the
nomination of President Roosevelt.
Henry Cronenburg, of Pipestone,
ended his life by sending a bullet
through his brain. Dependency in
duced by a love affair was the cause.
The directors of the Minnesota
Farmers Exchange, at the Brunswick,
Minneapolis, today elected C. E. Jack
son, St. Cloud, president; Elias Steen-
erson, Crookston, vice-president; j. S.
Macdonald, Rush City, secretary, and
w. S. Weatherston, West Concord,
treasurer.
T. Hendricks family of five children
at Faribault, the eldest 7, were res
cued from a burning dwelling f.y
neighbors. The youngsters had been
left alone, and the house and barn
caught fire and were totally con-
sumed, together with contents, rem
deging tie family destitute, 4
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Hurt by Dynamite.

A gang of men we're blasting rock
on West Seventh street, St. Paul, when
they exploded an old charge of dyna-
mite left in place by former crew.
Three men were hurt. Ealmissano
Tasquale, left arm from wrist to ell
bow, flesh torn to the bone; Charles
Vonchini, eye knocked out and badly
burned about the arms and face; VIM.
Solbig, arms and face burned