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years after, he sets to work to plant
trees to take the place of those which
ne mad been so eager to destroy.
In Pine county will be found an am
pie supply of pure cold water every-
where accessible. There are numerous
lakes. rivers brooks and streams fur
nishing water Of the purest quality.
Water is not hard to get from wells.
the Instance to go for 1t is not far and
the supply is plentiful; it is not aka
line or brackish, or bitter, but pure and
clear as that which flows from the Crys-
tai Springs. All the best dairy regions
are found in the extreme northern part
OF the United States, Canada. Norway
Sweden, Denmark, Finland and the
mountains of Switzerland. all districts
where the summers are not so long
and hot, but where the atmosphere and
waters are cooler, SO that for dairy
purposes this district far excels those
farther south.
Fodder Corn.
The settler in the corn belt can read
lily be made to assent to the PROPOSE
ton that clover and good grasses NAV
grow in the area named, but he shakes
his head when he is told that good
crops of corn can be readily grown
thus far north. And yet, incredible
as it may seem to him or to any one
eise 1t is true. More than once it has
been demonstrated that as much food
Tor cattle can be obtained from an acre
Of corn grown in Pine county as from
an equal area in the heart of the corn
belt. 1t must be of a smaller variety.
however, and the yield of grain will be
considerably less. But, If it is prop
erly grown, the increased number of
stalks and the nutriment in them will
at least balance the greater food value
OF the grain in the corn belt area. The
acre in the north when fed to the COW
VIII any time produce at least as much
OF dairy products as the acre farther
south, as now grown. Fodder corn
may be thus grown and splendid yields
may be obtained. The same is true of
sorghum grown for a similar purpose.
The corn does not need to be husked,
but may be fed directly in the cured
form, run through the cutting box and
mixed with other foods, or it may be
fed in the shredded form or as ensi-
lage. 1t may be fed along with ample
supplies Of clover hay, alfalfa, or pea
and oat hay, thus making a nicely bal
anced ration.
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county. The second reason was largely
due to the fact that in the grant of
lands to the Lake Superior & Missis-
slppi Railroad company, the precursor
of the st. Paul & Duluth and Northern
Pacific, the grant embraced practically
all of the lands in the county, about
the only lands not granted being the
two school sections in each township.
This barred out the sturdy homestead
er who has been the man to develop
the West as general rule. There was
little free land in Pine county and so
few homesteaders. But this was not
all AS long as the railroad companies
held these lands no taxes were paid in
the county, and the few settlers had a
heavy burden to carry, far too heavy
to permit the settlement of the county.
Then, too, paying no taxes, the rail-
road companies preferred to farm out
the timber and in that way secure a
revenue without much trouble and lit
tie or no expense.
But now all this has been changed.
All the lands in Pine county are now
on the tax rolls. Roads, school houses
and other public improvements are be-
ing made, and the taxes have been
made very low, thus illustrating the
fact that when every man pays his
proper share the burden of government
is not heavy.
Some of the many good reasons for
settling in Pine county, so near four
great and constantly growing cities,
are:
First-In this district cyclones and
tornadoes, which so often carry de-
struction to the settlers on the prairies.
are unknown.
Second-Pine county is, by reason of
its location so near the great lakes and
between those large bodies of fresh
water and the Mississippi, well within
the rain belt. The rainfall during the
summer is all that a farmer desires.
and drought is a stranger to this dis
trict. This, together with the clay sub
soil, explains the marvellous growth of
all kinds of grasses, root crops and all
other vegetation.
Third-From the lands alone. and
only at the cost Of cutting, can album
dant wood for fuel and for buildings be
had. The owner of a tract of land in
Pine county on which there is some
timber. has fuel with which to keep
warm his family and to make him in
dependent of the coal trust
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Field Roots.
The soil that produces the crops inst
named is also well adapted to the nro-
duction of field roots. The temnerat,,re
is not too warm in summer for tba
growth Of rutabagas, and the soil in
hardwood timber areas shows a higher
adaptability for such purpose than
the vegetable soils Of the prairies
Mangels, carrots and sugar beets will
respond admirably to the efforts of
those VINO grow them properly. These.
however, are excellent forkyoung cat
tie, and are no less helpful in growing
swine. The standing objection to the
growth of roots in this country is the
labor involved, but at present the d1tv
of the writer is to tell what NAV be
expected from the effort to grow them
IN Pine county, rather than to give the
pros and cons Of the labor question.
Advantages as to Markets.
Near the western end of Lake SUI
perior and behind one of the finest
harbors on earth-a harbor within
which during the last year has been
handled more tonnage than in any 9TH
er harbor in the worId-there are
o Up NAlAOo NlOoG
and population will ultimately be Sec
ond to none on this continent.
Crops Of Small Grain.
The forest trees speak Of a soil well
adapted to small grains. The charac-
ter Of the soil is a guaranty Of same,
and so the settlers have found it to be.
Winter rye can be depended upon any
season when it has been properly
sown, either for pasture or for the
grain. Wheat will grow very well also.
but there is not much necessity for
growing it in country -eminently
adapted for dairying.
1t would not be correct to saw that
this region has the same adaptness for
wheat culture as the prairies Of the
Northwest, and yet there are no good
reasons why good crops may not be
grown when desired, in all the years to
come. What has been said Of wheat
will also equally apply to fax. Oats
and barley grow in fine form. The
weather that is favorable to the growth
or the pea crop and to the maturing
Of the same, is also favorable to the
growth and maturing of oats and bar
ley, both OF which are, or at least ought
to be, staple food crops in a land with
high adaptation for dairying. And the
permanency of these crops is assured
under a system of judicious farming.
since the fertility Of the soil can be
easily maintained through the growing
OF clover and other legumes.
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comes from the lumber camps, and the
thousands of people who live in the
towns in the iron country. some sixty
miles north of Duluth population,
that consumes but does not produce
farm products, and whose business is
chiefly working in the mines, while the
great demand and one which will ever
increase comes from the cities Of the
Atlantic seaboard. This district has the
advantage of being on the cheapest
and shortest highway over the lakes
and between the west and the east.
The Climate.
The opinion prevails in some quar-
ters that the climate of Central Mime
sofa is usually severe. Such a view is
not correct. The snowfall is usually
considerably greater than on the prai-
ries farther west, but the Thermometer
does not fall SO low, and billiards and
cyclones are practically unknown.
While the spring is little late
in opening, winter is correspond
ingly late in closing in This is due
largely to proximity to the lakes. The
great snowfall is decided advantage,
not only in carrying on work during
the winter season, but It'll also renders
great service in the protection given to
the crops. The fact that several of the
hard1er varieties of winter apples can
be grown with marked success bears
testimony to the fact that the climate
IS not colder than that of exposed To-
cations which lie much farther to the
southwark. For some time past it has
been a matter Of surprise that this re-
glon, with so many natural advantages,
should have been so completely over
looked for so long a period
A Country That Will Develop Into One
of the Greatest Farming Re-
aions of the United
States.
Here, then, was an immense area.
until recently covered by uncleared
forest, except in the not considerable
openings where primeval natural mea-
doWs in some instances interviewed. 1t
could not be settled until the railroad
went In. The trees on it, crowding
each other for standing room, in many
of the forests, told this at least to the
discerning settler, that he had come to
land which had ample rainfall or
those trees could not have grown; to
land with fertile soil, or those
hardwood trees would not have been
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-26

Pine county has never been appre-
ciated by the people of Minnesota I'M
til within the past year or two. It's
splendid location, forty miles. south of
Duluth and Superior and fifty-five
miles north of st. Paul and Mime
apolis, has long been unable to over
come the disagreeable impression pro-
duced by the journey from Pine City
north along the Kettle river. Here is
narrow belt of land, part of it sandy
and part very stony, which has always
deferred the homeseeker from looking
beyond. In this section are the great
quarries of sandstone at Banning and
Sandstone, which are of course quite
as valuable as even the most fertile
belt of land, but that territory never
attracted the men who wanted to
make farm home.
But within three to six miles of the
Kettle river, on either the east or the
west, quite a different class of coun-
try is found-so different in fact that
one can journey east and south of
Bruno for fifteen or twenty-five miles
and in all that vast country it is said
sandy forty cannot be found In this
territory drained by the Tamarack,
Crooked Creek, McDermott Brook, Will
low River and their tributaries, the
soil is a clay loan with a clay sub
soil which holds moisture to such a
degree that, journey where you may
north, east, south or west-you will
find no district producing such Yields
OF tame and wild grasses, clover meas
uring ten feet and timothy almost as
tall, with blue grass and red top of
equally amazing size and yield Sew
eral counties and districts are now la
beling themselves the land of big red
clover" but this belongs to Pine coun-
ty and was first used in describing it
and came from the clover growing
wild along the old lumber roads where
the lumberman had dropped the seeds
long years ago.
Then the question, Why was not
this district settled long ago, naturally
arises? To this there are two answers:
First-Because the easily cleared
land of the prairie first attracted the
settler.
But this answer is not sufficient. be-
cause Goodhue, Wabasha, Winona,
Houston and the counties of the big
Woods were all settled years ago. and
were harder to bring under cultivation
than the central eastern part of Pine
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-26
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-08-03
THE PACKERS STRIKE.
Greek Strike Breakers Captured anc
Disuaded from Work.

Greek Strike Breakers Captured and
Dsuaded from Work.
Chicago August 2.-Difficulty was
experienced today by the packers en-
ployment agents in bringing strike
breakers into the stock yards. In
one case II Greeks, who have come
from Milwaukee, failed to reach their
destination. They were captured while
enroute through Chicago, by a crowd
of strike pickets. The Greeks were
taken to union headquarters and dis,
suaded from working. The packers
had better success with a special train
bearing lat men and women strike
breakers, chiefly negroes and Italians.
These were switched directly into the
stock yards and unloaded at the doors
Of the various packing houses. A
short time previous one hundred strike
breakers quit or were discharged for
incompetency.
The receipts of live stock today
were much lighter than yesterday, con.
sisting of 5000 cattle, $1,000 hogs and
$4,000 sheep.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-08-03
GLOOMY VIEW TAKEN
BY ST. PETERSBURG
War Office Is Now Anything
but Optimistic.
OFFICIAL NEWS is LACKING
This Fact Leads Officials to the Belief
that the Situation In the East Is
UnfavorabIe to Russia-simoucheng
Reported Lost.
Reported Lost.

Reported Lost.
st. Petersburg, August 2.-1:52 pm.
The feeling at the war office here
was distinctly gloomy this morning.
No official kilograms had been re.
ceived by the general staff from Gen.
eral KurOpatkin, who was communi.
eating direct with the emperor, but
from private sources at the front it
already was apparent that Simoucheng
about 10 miles sOuth-southeast Of Hal
Cheng, at the juncture of the Feng
Wang Cheng Stuyen roads, had been
lost, General Stakelborg's outpost hav
ing fallen back to Hal Cheng. No
word was received enabling the staff
to either confirm or deny the reported
capture of the late general Count
Keller's position at Ikhavuen, east OF
Lao Yang, and Yangsee pass, 80 miles
east Of Lao Yang, but heavy fighting
continues on both the southern and
eastern fronts, the object of the Jap,
anese in the east being to flank Gen
eral Keller's corps from the south and
north, which is easily possible.
The progress of the developing
movement may have forced the corns
to retire on Liandansian, which is the
next position in the direction of Liao
Yang, Official dispatches detailing
the engagement are hardly expected
until the evening.
The failure Of the garrison of Si
moucheng to retreat along the north
ern road probably was due to the pres
ence of the Japanese column fianking
the late General Keller's corps from
the south.
In view of the inability of the Rus
slams to hold Simoucheng, it is con.
sidered unlikely that Generals Zarou-
baieff and StakelbOrg will attempt 10
offer stubborn resistance at Haf Cheng
1t is possible that they were already
retiring in Ansbhanshan halfway be
tween Hal Cheng and Lao Yang, as
indicated in these dispatches last
night. There is reason to believe that
two of GeenraI Okus divisions are ad-
vancing from New Chwang on Hal
Cheng with the view Of f1ank1ng and
cutting off General Stakelborg's re-
treat, but this movement Is not likely
to succeed on account OF StakeIborg's
ability to retire northward ON Anshan,
shan.
An interesting detail eyidencing the
fierceness of the artillery duel south OF
Hal Cheng July 81, is the fact that the
Russian batteries on the left flank
fred 4,842 shots in four hours
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-08-03
JAPANESE HAVE WON
SWEEPING VICTORY
Kuropatkin's 5 Army Defeated and
Cut Off From Supplies.
sIMoUcHENG is NOW OCCUPIED

Believed the Most Decisive Battles of
the Campaign Have Resulted In
Sweeping Victories for the Mikado's
Army.
Toxic, Anug. 2.-Couriers arriving at
Che Foo report that the Russians nave
been defeated at every point and Ku-
ropatkin's army has been fianked and
cut off from its supplies.
The Japanese are reported as having
captured and are now occupying Si-
moucheng, cutting off General Kuro-
patkin from General Staketberg' s
army.
General KuroIi is said to have de
feated the Russians at Yinazee pass,
and now occupies the entertainments
of the enemy.
1t is believed from the rumors afoat
that the most decisive battles of the
Far Eastern campaign have resulted
in a sweeping Japanese victory.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-08-03
DEMOCRATIC CLANS
OF WEST VIRGINIA
They Gather to Put In Nomina.
ton a State Ticket.
is THE GUIDING SPIRIT
Nominee for the Vice Presidency Will
Take Conspicuous and Leading Part
In the Affairs of the Convention.
Davis Men For Governor.

Parkersburg, w Va, August 2.-The
here tomorrow for the nomination of a
state ticket. The preliminary meet
ings as we'll as conferences were held
today and they indicate that former
Senator Henry G. DAVIS VIII pe the
guiding spirit. Previous to his nom.
inatfon at ST. Louis, for the vice pres.
fdency, it was conceded that Davis
would be the candidate for governor
in the unusual contest that the party
expects to make this year to carry
West Virginia.
All Difference is shown now to Sen
ator Davis, who is here with his
the convention. The friends of Sen.
ator Davis state that there Will be no
Davis slate for the entire ticket, but
that Senator Davis and his friends will
ticket for which place both G. Wood
Daily, the attorney Of the Davis inter,
est at Elkin, W. Va, and William H,
Thompson, of Huntington are both
mentioned as Davis men for governor.
The legislature which is now in sep.
cial session at Charleston, on account
of new system of state taxation, has
adjourned until Friday, so that the
Democratic members of that body are
in attendance Of the nomination of Das
Wis for vice president.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-08-03
Board Considers Grievances.

Scranton, Pa, August 2-The eXecU
tive board of the United Mine Workers
resumed its sessions here today fo1
the consideration of grievance. The
miners are in a conciIiatory mood and
appear averse to ordering strike td
force the operators to accept Umpire
Wright's decision.
A plan is under discussion for i'm
pressing the operators with the sin.
cerity of the mine workers and giving
the operators until the end of this
month to agree to the decision. AT
that time President Mitchell will have
returned from his European trip.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-08-03
TINDALL HELD FOR CRIME.
Alleged Slayer OF Mrs. snipes Goes t
Superior Court.

Alleged Slayer OF Mrs. snipes Goes to
Superior Court.
Thomasville, Ga, August 2.-The
commitment trial of Morgan 1Tndall
Arch Tindall and Matthew Thompson
was held here, lasting all day Monday
The three young men were charged
with the assassination of Mrs. L. R
Snipes, who was shot, while in bed,
through a window, at MeIgs, IN this
county, one week ago.
The character of the crime aroused
unusual interest, and the court house
was crowded. Circumstantial evidence
of the strongest kind connected Arch
TindaIl, who is the youngest of the
trio, with the crime, and he was held
for the superior court.
The other two we're acquitted.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-08-03
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
Increased Appropriation for Common
Schools of State.


Schools of State.
Atlanta, August 2-For the support
Of the common schools the sum OF
100000 in addition to the school
fund derived from the sources other
wise provided by law.
The foregoing is the paragraph on
the subject of common schools adopt
ed by the house of representatives by
a vote Of "A to 80, and unless the SEN
ate insists on a change and succeeds
in carrying it's point, $1,000 600 will
have to be raised by taxation for the
support of the common schools for
1905.
This is an increase of $780, 900 over
the appropriation which has been Civ
en- for the last four years, and with
the increase which comes this year
from convict hire, including also those
convicts which go to counties working
them on the public roads, for these
must be taken cOnstructlvely into ac-
count the total school fund for the
year 1905 from all sources will be
more than $2,000,0O0. If the convicts
supplied to several counties by the
state, be not taken into account, then
the school fund for the next year will
be under the action of the house. about
S1,90O,O0O.
The military appropriation was CIV
en- an increase of $4,000, the total be-
ing $4,000, and the deficiency OF near
ly $4,000 in the military fund for 1904
was passed and made Immediately
available.
The appropriation of $4,000 for the
summer school at Athens went through
without difficulty, and the only ques'
ton now remaining before the appro
priations bill is finally passed and sent
to the senate is what shall be done
for the state board of health. There
is pending a proposition to give it $10,
900 to fight contagious and infectious
diseases which will be disposed of be-
fore the bill is finally voted on.
The anti-boll weeviI bill will come
up for consideration by the house as
a special order today as soon as the
general appropriations bills has been
finally disposed of. This measure
provides for an appropriation of SIS,
900 to the state department of ento
mology for the purpose Of fighting the
introduction into this state of the
Mexican cotton boil weevil and for
continuing the fight against other fruit
and plant pests.
A resolution providing for an in
crease in the number of Georgia coun
ties is ratified by the people of the
state, was introduced by Mr. Sweat
Of the fifth.
The Australian ballot bill passed the
senate yesterday with the provision
that it should apply only to such coun
ties as voted for it at general cleo
tions, the question to be submitted I'd
every county in the state at the ap
preaching general election.
It will be remembered that some
days ago the senate general judiciary
committee decided to Eeport as a sub
stftute for this measure bill by Sen,
ator Snead, making it misdemeano1
to buy or sell a'vote in primary elec'
ton. This substitute was ravorably
reported to the senate.
The immigration bill, as passed by
the senate, is dead The work of the
| committee on general agriculture in re-
porting the bill unfavorably by a vote
of 3 to II, means that the measure
stands practically no chance of pass
| age at this session.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-08-03
DEATH OF MRS. MILES.
Wife of the General Dies at West
Point, NJ. Y.

Wife of the General Dies at West
Point, N. Y.
West Point, N. Y, August 2.-Mrs,
Nelson A. Miles, died here last night
of heart disease. She and General
Miles had been visiting their son Sher,
man, who is a student at the military
academy. General Miles was not
present at the time of his wife's death,
he having gone out of town yesterday,
He returned today,
Mrs. Miles was 62 years old. She
made number of calls yesterday and
apparently was in her usual health,
At her bedside when death came were
her son-in-law, Colonel Samuel Reber,
y. S. A; her son, Sherman, and he1
nfeces Miss Fitch and Miss Hoyt, oi
Washington.
Mrs. Miles was the daughter oil
Judge Charles Sherman, and niece
of the late Senator John Sherman o1
Ohio, and General William T. Sher
man.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-08-03
DECISIVE MOMENT ARRIVED.
Military Critics Believe Campaign Is
Nearing the End.

Military Critics Believe Campaign Is
Nearing the End.
st. Petersburg, August ALI the
military critic this morning take the
view that the decisive moment of the
campaign has arrived. The army or
gan says THAI General Kuroki prepared
for his advance by drawing in his
forces, which were scattered over a
front of 40 miles
The paper says it is evident that a
large Japanese force is working along
Saimatzsa Liao Yang Lin. 1t express
es doubt, however, which advance Of
the enemy will push home and wheth.
er it is KurOki's intention 10 try to
flank KurOpatkin north and south OF
Lao Yang.
The Russ says:
The decisive moment has arrived
but Judging from the latest reports
the Russians have retained their posi-
tions and this time it will not be an
order to~retreat"