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FLoCKINo TO HARVEST FIELDS.
Eastern Coilegians TO Help Reap West.
eru Wheat.

ACabs
Hundreds Of Harvard students and
others from Tech, Tufts and other Bos-
ton institutions of learning are joining
the thousands of students from all over
the East In a rush for the West, where
they may earn good wages at helping
reap what promises to be the greatest
harvest grown on the American soil. Last
year many Harvard students tried it and
were SO pleased with their success that
they will go again this year
As usual, Kansas sent out its call for
10000 men to assist in harvesting its
vast grain crop, a call which to every
American means plentiful prosperity for
asother year. Should Kansas fail TO
make the call, look out for a panic. Al
though the wheat acreage OF Kansas was
FIVE per cent greater than usual this
year. foods reduced the output 80 that Its
total crop Is estimated at 65, 0OO, 600
bushels Oh 6,242,9S7 acres. :
Kansas has a State labor bureau
which issues calls for laborers as needed.
This bureau gathers data from every
quarter Of the State as to the number of
men needed per locality and the time
when they will be wanted. 1t Is no small
Job 10 gather 10000 men of the right
kind at the right moment. Much de-
ponds on whether the wheat ripens slow
ly or with a rush. When all Is ripe
practically all the men in the State, and
not a few women, 60 to work. Men
leave Offices, shops and pulpits for the
grain fields, as the wheat must all be
gathered within ten or twenty days of
the ripening or be lost.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07
THE BIGGEST MAJORITY.
Political Race In Which Pennsylvania
at Present Leads Texas.

EOIlt1Cal n0CC IN utCn feuueyIVaul
at Present Lead Texas.
In 1868, at the first national election
after the close OF the Civil War, the
Republicans carried Pennsylvania by 49,
300 majority, and Kentucky, then the
strongest Of the Democratic States, gave
a majority of 10000. Texas had not
been readmitted to the Union, its re-
construction not being complete.
In tie succeeding presidential election,
hat Of 1872, Pennsylvania rolled up a
majority monumental for that period, of
$4,000 for the Republicans, and Texas
went Democratic by 10000.
In 1915 Texas gave 10000 Democratic
majority; Pennsylvania went Republican
by $4,000. In 1880 the Republican ma
jority in Pennsylvania was $1,000; the
Democratic majority in Texas was 9S,-
900, Texas leading all other States in
majority.
In 1884 Pennsylvania gave $1,000 Re-
publican majority and Texas 132, 900
Democratic-Texas still further ahead.
In 1888 Pennsylvania gave $4,000 Re-
publican majority and Texas 10000
Democratic-Texas still further ahead.
In 1892 Pennsylvania gave $4,000 Re-
publican and Texas 100000 Democratic
majority. In 1895 Pennsylvania shot
ahead with 295, 900 Republican majority,
but Texas was not very Tar behind with
100000 majority for the Democrats.
In 1900 the Republicans carried Penn
sylvania by 1884, 900 and the Democrats
carried Texas by lac, 000-Pennsylvania
far In the lead.
OF these two States, one intensely Re-
publican and the other overwhelmingly
Democratic, the two parties are likely
to depend this year for their banner ma
~jorities; and under existing conditions 1t
is not thought probable that the Demo
cratic majority In Texas will fall below
100000. whatever may be the result In
Pennsylvania.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07

The Republican campaign textbook
has beer printed.
The Montana Republican State con
vention will be held at Billings Sept. z.
The Idaho Democratic State conven.
ton will be held at Rock Springs Sept. 9.
The fusionists and middle-of-he-road
Populists of Indiana agreed to a joint
convention.
The Peoples party will place a full
electoral and State ticket in the field in
New York.
Senator Elkins declares that West vir-
ginia is as safe for the Republican ticket
as Pennsylvania.
David B. Hill said the New York
Democratic State convention probably
would be held Sept. 20 at Saratoga.
Coy. Yates of Illinois has decided to
make his home in Springfield, where he
will wage his campaign for United States
Senator
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07
MAY BURN ITS COTTON BELT.
Texas May Start Bonfires Over Millions
of Acres to Wipe Out Boil WeeyiI.

OF Acres 10 wipe Out boil Weevtis
IL the present plans Of the Boil Weevil
Commission are carried out, the cotton
area of Texas affected by the boil weevil,
amounting to 100000 acres, will be
turned into n vast bonfire, In hope Of
thus efectually destroying the pest,
which has cost many hundreds of mill.
ions OF dollars to Texas. The Boil Wee
vii Commission, the president of which
Is Jefferson Johnson. formerly commits
sione of agriculture. will recommend
this radical action to the Legislature.
Those who have given most earnest study
to the boil weevil trouble favor the
method as the only safe cure. and see no
hope in the other remedies proposed
not even the Guatemalan ant.
The ravages which the boil weevil Is
now committing in the cotton belt are
alarming. Up to two weeks ago Texas
had the most lattering cotton crop pros
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07
LEARNING THINGS.

We Are All In the Apprentice Class.
When a simple change Of diet brings
back health and happiness the story
Is briefly told. A lady Of Springfield,
Ill, says: After being afflicted for
years with nervousness and heart trou-
bic, / received q shock four years ago
that left me In such a condition that
my life was despaired of. l could get
no relief from doctors nor from the
numberless heart and nerve medicines
tried because I didn't know that the
coffee was daily putting me back more
than the doctors could put me ahead.
Finally at the request Of a friend
I left OF coffee and began the use Of
Postum, and against my convictions /
gradually improved in health until for
the past six or eight months I have
been entirely free from nervousness
and those terrible sinking, weakening
spells Of heart trouble.
MY troubles all came from the use
OF coffee, which I had drunk from
childhood, and yet they disappeared
~4nen ! quit coffee and took up the use
OF Postum" Name given by Postum
Co., Battle Greek, Mich.
Many people marvel at the effects
OF leaving on coffee and drinking
Postum, but there is nothing marvel
ons abont it-only ommon sense
Coffee IL . destroyer--Fostum II
rebuilder. That's the .
Look In each pkg. for the famous
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07

president of their
international organ
%ization, has ordered
on strike every
union member in
America, whether
working for firms
that have agree
ments with the
union and have
stood by it during
the strike against
the FIVE large pack
ing firms or not. In
thlo a~trama NJ
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07
HILL WILL QUIT POLITICS.
Makes b Announcement ON Eve Of
Sixty-flrst Birthday.

Sixty-first Birthday,
David Bennett Hill on the eve of his
sixty-frst birthday, announced his inten-
ton of retiring from politics Jan. i, 1905.
regardless of the result Of the national
or State election.
With the passing of Hill goes the lead
ership Of the Democratic party in New
York State, which has been held by him
for twenty years. Not only will he re-
Hnquish the active leadership, but he de-
clares that In the event Of Democratic
success this fall he will not accept any
position under the national or State ad-
ministration, nor will he again be a can
didate for any office.
MI. Hill called some of his friends to-
gether the other night for the purpose
or making his announcement which was
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07
corn Crop to Beat All Record

While the wheat crop will fall below
the earlier estimates, owing to the prsva-
lencs of black rust In the Northwest, the
yield of corn promises to break Ill rec
ords. The anticipated yield is about
64,S47,O 900 bushels, which ID 10000
BOO bushels more than the enormous yield
OK 1oeo
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07
ORDERS ALL. TO OUR.

Donneliy Tells $4,000 More Union
Butchers to Lay Down Tools.
In a final effort to render effective
the strike OF the butcher workmen in
the packing industry Michael Donnelly.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07
AT BAY.
FURIOUS BATTLE FOUGHT NEAR
LiAOYANG.

Japanese Attack Russian Forces with
100000 Men = Celebrate Mikado's
Birthday by Hurting Shower Of
~Shrapnel at the Enemy-Many Slain.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07

A politician Il. a-grasping man-wit
his hand-shaking prociiyiieA
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07

Look In each pkg. Tor the famous
iittla book. "Tns Road 10 MsllyillAs
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-20


explode and did not damage the dock.
The hole in the Russian protected
cruiser Pallada, the repairs on which
will soon be completed, was seventeen
feet in diameter.
DEFINES THE WAR AREA.
The text of a staff order published
at Harbin, Manchuria. has just been
received in st. Petersburg. 1t says
Vicercy Alexieff defines and limits the
military operations as follows:
The line of the Mongolian frontier
to the intersection of the Lao River,
thence to Hsinmintung. thence south
west along the railroad to Koupangtse,
thence southeast along the railroad to
Yinkow."
Count Kapnist, the Russian Enbas-
sador to Austria Hungary, who is now
here, in an interview on the Macedo-
nian question says he is convinced the
Slav races and states will not move
while Russia is busy in the Far East.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-20
W.6J. SLOANE SEQ
FURNITURE CARPETS RUGS -DRAPERIEs,
Ia -l22 POST STREET

and execrate Japan. The slightest sug-
gestion of free and fair discussion has
disappeared.
If man even vaguely implies that
there is possibility that Russia will
not win he is regarded with suspicion
by the police and closely watched, -
said he. I'm Poland conditions are
still worse. In Warsaw the jails are
crowded with innocent citizens who
long since ceased to represent the
slightest menace to the empire, but
whom the present situation causes TO
be punished for wag of the head or a
glance of the eye. There are thou
sands of Russians throughout the en-
pire who. if they could speak. would
utter bitter regrets over the opening
of the present epoch in Russian his
tory, about the end of which they are
none too sure"
Paderewski denies that he was given
twenty-four hours in which to leave
the country.
The Incident he said, lis largely
exaggerated. 1t seems it would have
been delicate courtesy for me to have
referred to myself as Russian when
in the Cars presence, whereas l In
cidentally called myself Pole.
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NEW YORK'S SLAV
ELEMENT PLEDGES
SUPPORT TO CAR

NEW YORK, March 19.-Resolu-
tions pledging support and extending
sympathy to the Russian people in
their struggle with the japanese were
adopted at a meeting here of Amer
lean citizens of Slavonic origin. While
deploring the necessity of taking UP
arms the resolutions declare:
I'VE are firmly convinced that the
Russian people are waging war of
self-defense and not one of conquest.
We recognize that the Russian nation
must have an outlet to an ice-free sea-
board. We maintain that there is less
to fear from the peaceful aggression
of the Russian people than there is to
dread from the industrial and COM
mercial domination OF the Paclf1c
Ocean by 100000, 900 yellow men,
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War-Tax Problem
Worries Toxic
Statesmen.
Results May Not
Come Up to Ex-
pectations.

TOXIC, March 19.-The British Min
lister refuses to indorse the application
OF Hales, the correspondent of the
Daily News, to accompany the Japa-
nese army. giving as his reason that
Hales' reports from the Transvaal dur
Ing the Boer war were slanderous Of
the British army. The Japanese Gov
ernment requires that all correspond
ents should have the Endorsements of
! the resident Minister of the country
they represent. Hales therefore will be
excluded from all connection with the
army movements.
The Government has not vet fully
disclosed the proposal concerning the
war taxes to be submitted to the spe-
cial Diet, about to meet next week, but
1t now appears as though it will not
propose any change in the tariff on
sugar, but will instead recommend a
domestic tax on the basis previously
stated.
1t now seems probable that the only
change effected in the customs tariff
will be an increased duty on kerosene
and spirits. No discrimination will be
made against Russian kerosene, be-
cause that trade is chiefly in the hands
of British merchants.
1t is expected that there will be Sc
rfous contention in the Diet over the
taxes on sugar and silk, and dealers in
the former commodity are strongly agi-
tating for a reduction in the rate which
it is thought the Government will pro-
pose.
Party committees are meeting daily
to discuss the tax proposals, and the
belief is expressed that the Government
will be forced to modify several fea-
lures of it's plans and that it will fail
to realize the total amount originally
estimated.
If the tobacco monopoly is enacted
it is estimated that it will be ten years
before 1t is finally completed. although
the Government counts upon earnings
from 1t in 1904 amounting to 100000
yen, gradually increasing until 1914
when, it is estimated, they will amount
of 40, ZOO, 900 yen.
1t is estimated that it will cost the
Government 5000, 900 yen to purchase
the plants and stock required to con-
summate the combine and fully 100000
yen to compensate the owners.
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ADVERTIsEMENTs.
TOOK A STRAW VOTE.

IntC tCrcsting Experiment i'm a Restau-
rant
n advertising agent representing a
prominent New York magazine, while
on p recent Western trip, was dining
one evening in a Pittsburg restaurant.
While waiting for his order ht
glanced over his newspaper and no.
ticed the advertisement Of a we'll
known dyspepsia preparation, Stuart's
Dyspepsia Tablets. AS he himself was
a regular user of the tablets, he began
speculating as to how many of the
other travelling men IN the dining
room were also friends of the popular
remedy for indigestion.
He says: / counted twenty-three
men at the tables. and in the hotel Of
fee Il took the trouble to interview
them and was surprised to learn that
nine of the twenty-three made a prac-
tice Of taking one or two of Stuart's
Dyspepsia Tablets after each meal.
One of them told me he had suf-
fered so much from stomach trouble
that at one time he had been Obliged
TO quit the road, but since using
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets had been
entirely free from indigestion, but he
continued their use. especially while
travelling. on account of irregularity
OF meals and because. like all travel
ing men. he was often obliged to eat
what he could get and not always
what he wanted.
Another. who looked the picture Of
health. said he never ate a meal with
r.
because he could eat what he pleased
and when he pleased without fear of
a sleepless night or any other trouble.
Still another used them because he
was subject to gas on stomach, caus-
ing pressure on heart and lungs.
shortness Of breath and distress in
chest. which he no longer experienced
since using the tablets regularly.
Another claimed that Stuarts Dys-
pepsia Tablets was the only safe
remedy he has ever found for sour
stomach and acidity. He had former
~ used common soda to relieve the
trouble, but the tablets were much
better and safer to use.
After smoking. drinking or other
excesses which weaken the digestive
organs. nothing restores the stomach
to a healthy, wholesome condition so
effectually is Stuart's Tablets.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets contain
the natural digestives. pepsin. dias-
tase. which every weak stomach lacks.
as well as nux. hydrastin and yellow
parilIa. and can be safely relied on as
a radical cure for every form OF poor
digestion. Sold by druggists every
where.
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increasing the conviction that many of
them have had to put back to Japan
for a thorough refitting. A high naval
officer said:
I'VE probably shall never know how
many of their ships were crippled or
sunk-at least until the war is over"
The failure of the japanese to rush
their opera tions evokes agreeable dis
appointment here, as it gives the Rus
slams the time necessary to complete
their preparations. A Japanese land
ing on the Liaotung Peninsula to be-
siege Port Arthur would rather be well
coined now, as it would not be a large
force, yet would weaken the frontal at
tack from Korea.
1t was reported soon after the Jap
anese began their operations against
Port Arthur that they had seized one
! of the Elliott Islands, situated in the
Korean Gulf, less than 100 miles east
by north of Port Arthur. for use as a
base. and the Toxic correspondent of
the London Times on March cabled
that a Japanese squadron took possess
sion of Haiyangtao, one of the Elliott
group, on February 29. The corre-
spondent added that the japanese
found there only stores of coal and
signaling flags, the Russians having
evacuated the island on February %.
WARNING TO THE ARMY.
The army organ publishes an order
OF the day, issued by Viceroy Alexieff,
threatening the most severe penalties
against soldiers damaging private
I property or officers permitting the
same. The order says:
"Such offenses not only beslur Rus
sian honor, but are subversive to dis
cipIine. Every officer permitting ex-
cesses will thus be guilty of a griev-
Gus offense against the Emperor and
! the country"
A special flag has been ordered by the
Emperor for Viceroy AIexieff-white,
with blue st. Andrews cross, in the
center black double Russian eagle.
1t will be saluted by nineteen guns.
| The daughter of Admiral Taube, who
commanded the wooden Retvizan, pre-
decessor Of the present battleship, has
written TO Admiral Makaroff, saying
that nearly fifty years ago, while the
old Retvizan was moored in the Neva,
her father noticed an object floating
toward him and found It to be an.
image of the Savior, which has re-
mained in the -lube family since the
dismantling of the old ship. The
daughter Of Admiral Taube now sends
the image to Admiral Makaroff. con-
WINGED that IL viii keep the battleship
from harm in the future.
During the last bombardment of Port
Arthur two Japanese shells fell in the
works of the drydock, but failed to
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-20
Togo May Have a
Convenient Coal
ing Base.
Never Cruises Far
From Waters of
Port Arthur.

ST PETERSBURG, March 10
Russian troops continue to pour into
Northern Korea. They are in excel
lent condition. II is said here that
typhus fever is raging among the Jap
anese forces.
The representations OF the United
States Minister TO Japan, Griscom,
concerning American interests affected
by the creation Of the japanese to-
bacco monopoly, will. the Novoe
Vremya believes, sharpen American
japanese relations. II considers the
tobacco monopoly absolutely neces-
sary for Japan. in the present condi-
tion Of her finances, and says the COM
pensation claimed by the Americans
would more than eat UP the income
from the monopoly in the first years,
thus creating for Japan a situation,
the full meaning Of which IL is prob
able is quite appreciated at Washing
ton"
The Governments private informa-
ton is not reassuring as regards
China's sincerity in observing a neu-
tral attitude. Secret advices indicate
that at least a powerful party in the
Chinese Government is abetting the
japanese. Although at first reluctant
to credit these reports, the Russian
authorities continue TO receive evi-
dence that the japanese contemplate
landing on Chinese neutral territory,
west of the Lao River, and 1900
men are being held especially to await
developments in that direction.
CoALING BASE FOR TOGO.
Moreover. the Emperor's naval ex-
perts. who have been studying care
fully the puzzle as to where Vice Ad-
miral Togo's fleet is coaling and pro-
Yisioning between its appearances off
Port Arthur. are becoming more and
more convinced that il is using as a
base some quiet spot on the Chinese
tcoast. After each disappearance not a
word is heard OF the fleets where
abouts until il reappears. A calcula-
tion OF time and distance shows il is
quite impossible for the feet to steam
70 Nagasaki or Hiroshima, take on
board coal and ammunition and come
back. II is also certain the Japan
ese warships could not take on coal,
much less heavy projectiles. at sea in
The face OF the prevailing rough
weather. The idea that they are using
Chemuipo. Fusan or some other place
on the Korean coast for this purpose is
rejected. as It IS believed that if such
were the case the numerous secret
correspondents and secret agents of
The Russians IN Korea would certain
ly have reported the fact.
So. by process Of elimination the
- RussiaEs seem compelled to arrive at
the conclusion that the vessels Of the
japanese fleet must be rehlling their
bunkers in some inlet on the Chinese
coast either on the gulf of Liaotung
OF the ShaRtung Peninsula. so far from
ports and inha abited centers that the
correspondents are unable 10 get wind
of IT,
RUSSIA PROFITS BY DELAY.
The dwindling number Of japanese
warships appearing off Port Arthur is
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-20

chwangN particularly the Russo-Chi-
nese Bank. 1t is thought unlikely
that Germany will undertake the task,
which, it is reported, France recently
declined.
There are no Chinese laborers in
the vicinity of Newehwang construct
ing defenses, though Russian infantry
is conducting evolutions, on the plain
about the fort. The Lao River is
open for considerable distance from
its mouth.
A branch of the Chinese Red Cross
Society was organized here to-day
upon instructions from DR.. Richards
of Shanghai
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-20
TRADE
WITH MANCHURIA
FAST INCREASING

YINKOW, March 19.-Official re-
ports dealing with the Manchurian
trade UP to the beginning of the war
show a continuous increase, independ-
ent of foreign investments, and also
the commercial influence Of Russia,
even before the railway was COM
pleted. The growth of American trade
is shown to. be greater in Manchuria
than elsewhere in China, making
Newchwang third in Importance of
Chinese ports.
1t is reported that the Russian Of
ficials have approached Germany with
the object of engaging German pro-
lection of Russian property at New
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-20
Hurrying work ON Battleships.

KRONSTADT, March 19.-The
commander in chief here. Admiral
Baririeff, to-day inspected the battle
ships Alexander III. Navarin and Sis
sol Veliky, the cruiser Sveitlana and
the torpedo-boats, which are preparing
for long cruise Chief Constructor
SkervortzOn promises to have all the
warships building on the Neva ready
in June to proceed for the Far East.
if the authorities decide to send them
there.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-20
SAYS
POLICE OF RUSSIA
ARE ULTRA-ACTIVE

io PARIS, March 19.-Paderewski,
who arrived here to-day to play at the
symphony concert tomorrow, in
speaking of the spy system in Russia,
said that no one dared to open his
mouth now except to praise the Car
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-20
Ovation Awaits Gallant seamen.

ODESSA, March IA great re-
ception and patriotic demonstration is
being prepared for the sailors of the
Variag and Koreitz, who are expected
here shortly.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-20
Russia orders Railroad Cars.

BERLIN. March 19.-The Frank
furter Zeitung to-day says the Rus
sian Government has just ordered 5000
railway cars in Russian Poland for
delivery within the next six months.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-20
Troons Ponring Into Liaoyang.

LIAOYANG, Manchuria, March 10.
Troops continue to arrive here in in
ereasing numbers. The health of the
soldiers is good.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-20
Accepts servian Volunteers.

BELGRADE. SeTvia. March 10
The Servian Foreign once having
asked Russia whether she would ac-
cept volunteers from Servia. the En-
peror replied that he would accept
the voluntary service OF 500 Servians
and 500 Bulgarians.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-20

Nicholas took no notice. but some kind
friends did not fail to spread broad
cast the report that was snubbed for
indiscretion in the imperial presence"