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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-24

northern M~anchuria. drains a district
twice as large as the Lao watershed,
and the whole Of it is adapted to
wheat. Three varieties are already
grown in a small way, and the pro-
duction in the best districts is about
thirty bushels per acre. The grain
is sown in April and harvested in Sep
TENDER and October. It is tied up in
bundles -nd stacked near the villages.
The grain is threshed upon a thresh-
ing floor with stone rollers, which are
pulled by donkeys led by children. It
is WinnOWed in the wind and then
ground into fiour upon rude native
mills. OF. late considerable 1Our has
been taken to Hardin. and as the new
mills are built the area Of production
will rapidly increase Twelve steam
mills have recently been erected across
the frontier in Siberia, and other mills
are S~pringing up along the Trans
siberian road.
Tie Russians Flooding Siberia.
The rapid settlement of Siberia is
one of the striking features of the
| eastern situation. That country has
tens of millions Of acres of wheat
lands, and it will eventually feed a
great part of the world. Travellers
say that the lands along he railroad
are being rapidly settled, and that
there will soon be a popu1ous country
above Manchuria.
The Chinese agent Of our Equitable
Life Assurance Company, III has just
returned from a trip over the Trans
siberian system, says that the Russian
! government is putting 10000 emf
grants a day into those regions. He
says hat he saw long trains coming
day after day, filled with immigrants.
Some of the engines hauled twenty
| cars, and each car had double decks
above the main floor. SO that three
tiers of passengers were carried.
The people are being exported by
villages, and the old n young are
crowded together, the children and
grown-ups being packed in like sar-
dimes. This man counted the trains
and their passengers, and it is his es-
innate that the number now coming
in cannot be less than 10000 per day.
From other authorities I have like in
formation, and a statement was re-
Gently published that as many as
800, 900 souls were settled in Siberia
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-24
q the South Ia anuay n Rails Are American M the Cars
Arc Pu umans.

commerce.
the shipping in Of American flour I'M
q view to inducing the Manchu-
rian merchants to buy the on
der Japanese trade marks. and pack
ages made in Japan. The flour is
brought across the Pacific to Yokoha-
ma It is there re-packed and SNIP
ped to the North and sold as japanese.
The trade marks are the same as those
to be adopted by the new Touring
mill hich the japanese are con
structing on the railroad north OF
Niukden. Our -four is thus being used
to build up a trade for that mill. The
Manchus and Chinese are noted for
their faith in trade marks. If they
find an article all right they will stick
to it, and the trade mark-~does much
to sell the goods. Fol this reason
there are old store signs in China
which bring a and some
times a thousand dollars a piece.
american Flour in Manchuria.
American flour is popular here, but
il will not be long before a great mar
ket can be created. There are about
sixteen million people in Man
churia, but the majority OF
them are too poor to eat
wheat or rice. They llVe upon sor-
ghun seed and other varieties Of mil
let, and wheat is not one of the reg
uIar grains sold in the market. Prot.
f. c.. Parker, one Of our. agricultural
experts, who has just been travelling
over northern Manchuria. tells me
that the farmers raise wheat here and
there, but only enough for their own
consumption. If they have a surplus
they will DAD it upon a Chinese cart
and carry it to the mill. It usually
takes them several days to get to the
nearest one, and the wheat barely
pays the freight. !.
At present some wheat is raised
about Hardin but the business of the
mills is falling off, and it cannot go
on proftably with their present capt.
talization. Professor Parker says that
the flour business Of Harbins is IN a
bad way. It had "a monstEous CROWN
through the war, when the mills were
running day and night to supply the
Russian army, and got big prices Iof
all they could grind. They were BACK
ed by the government, and were OPP
Grated at enormous cost. There were
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-24
THE TRADE DOOR Is OPEN AND
AMERICAN COTTON, KERO-
sf1NE AND TOBACCO ARE
SELLING.

Big Orders for Railway Materials
Our Tobacco Trusts New Factory al
Mukden-ETOur Mills Equipped
With American Macfinery-The
I Japanese Merchants Leaving Man
churia-Their Colonization a Fail
ure-How the Russians Are Flood
ing Siberia-A Great Wheat Belt Of
the Future.
copyright, 1909, by Frank G.. Car
penter.)
Shan-Hai-Kuan, 1909.
Has Uncle Sam an open door to
Manchuria
[ have asked this question of our
American consuls at every city dur
ing my trip through the country, and
the nsWers are that he has. The
Japanes have tried to push their
trade in every possible way, and they
are doing some things contrary to the
best business ethics. Nevertheless
there is no discrimination as to the
admission of goods. The hines are
allowed to buy and sell as they please,
and if there are railroad rebates for
Japanese goods they have so'far been
kept secret. / understand that the
Japanese cotton exporters have re-
Gently adopted a lottery scheme for
the sale of their sheetings. In every
so many packages Of goods they are
putting notes for small sums of money
" hich will be cashed on demand, with
the strength Of these prizes. It is be-
ing denounced by the chamber Of
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-24

Working Near In
last year.
This migration is not a new one. Tt
began at the close of the Japanese
war. 1t to 10000 in 1905
and averaged that for several years
preceding. In 1895 it was 1900,
and in~1907, 100000, While last year
it was half as large as o1r Immigration
from all the wcfla during taat year.
This movement OF tn Eas5ian peo-
pie means a new in@.lst i: empire in
Of a wheat belt greater thaa that of
Canada, and also the CREATION Of a
Russian peril which Eiay-SoTne day
cast the yellow peril into the shade.
The Russians are moving as villages,
and not as Individuals. They have g
wonderful cohesive force and their
motto is "For God and the Gag The
present emperor is a weakling, but
with a strong man as his successor
may there not be another struggle be-
tween the japanese and the Russians,
With his thicEly populated grain-
producing, food-supplying Siberia as
a background? The Japanese must
nave more territory before they can
support larger armies than they now
have. Their land is crowded with
their fifty millions. Russia already
has as many people, and it could put
many Japanese into Siberia and have
room to spare. Verify, the end is not
yet.
The Japanese in Manchuria.
It is wonderful how the japanese
have crowded the Russians out of
southern M~anchuria. The only re-
mains left by the ear are the mag
nificent buildings at Dalny and Port
Arthur and the railroad upon which
Russia spent something like $500, O00,-
900. Even these are being rapidly
changed. h line to Mukden has
been dOuble-tracked and better sta
tons erected. The buildings of
Dalny have been improved and a new
town is going up on the edge of the
harbOr. The names of the streets
have been changed and we now have
such as Oyama and Nogi.
The Russians signs over the stores
have disappeared. and Japanese signs
1haVe taken their places. Indeed,
about the only email of the Rus
slams arc a lot Of broken-down drcsch-
kies and antiq':ated dirt carts; these
have fallen into the hands Of the Chi
neSe ana are now to be seen among
the jiFf.rfs ishas en- every highway.
The 3neSo have b ed
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-24

schools in Dalny and Port Arthur and
they have also schools in Mukden-
They are chiefly for japanese children
and, so far as I can see, Japan is rot
attempting to push the western ciNlli-
zation into this country as into Korea.
The Jauanese who have come mere
are much the same as those who are
flooding Korea. They come from
the scum of the Japanese cities, and
are a much rougher element than the
soldiers Of the Japanese army.
japanese Colonization a Failure.
SO far as I can learn. the attempted
Japanese colonization of Manchuria
has been a failure. Mr. 1kabe. the
Japanese. consul at Mukden, tells me
his people are fast going back and
that they do not find Manchuria suited
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-24

make their fortunes out of nothing
have gone back, and the remainder is
largely made up of shopkeepers with
small capital, who belong to the lower
classes Of our country. These people
find that the Chinese are good bust
ness men and that the Chinese stores
are supplying the demands Of the
market. AS a result they get but little
of the native trade. The army and
mers, and as a result their business is
small"
The Japanese in Mukden.
What Mr.. Okabe says is undoubtedly
true. The Japanese stores are near
the camps and about the railway sta
tons. There are but few Of them in
the Manchu cities, and those at
Mukden are a mile or SO from the
centers Of the Chinese population.
They lave built their stores Japanese
fashion, n they look cold and mean
in comparison with the substantial one
story brick buildings Of the Chinese.
The business conditions here are far
different from those of Korea, where
the people are simple and the Japan
csc are managing everything.
Every Manchurian city seem to be
given up to buying and selling. Mukden
is business from the word go, and it
iIao u SOo0 Il y ~
The streets fairly swarm with peddlers.
and almost as much business is done
on the sidewalks as in the stores
themselves. The Chinese
chases the dollar even more ardently
than his japanese brother. He trades
on q closer margin. and beats him in
nine cases out Of ten.
B%ulldozing the Chinese.
I hear considerable criticism Of the
Japanese methods employed in Man
churia. The natives claim that the
japanese are exploiting them. and
that they are squeezed at every turn.
One instance of this was as to the
electric lighting Of Mukden. The
railway station is four miles from the
city and the city itself has its electric
light plant erected by the capital of
the Mancaurian Chinese. The Japa-
nese railway company has an electric
plant at the depot. and. according to
it's agreement. it cannot extnd its wires
beyond its own concession nor sup
ply the current to the genera. public
Nevertheless the JaIfnese recently
began to erect poles all the way to
Mukden. It was pushing its wires
CONTINUED on Tsate Twelve.)
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-24

to hem. Said he:
h are now only about sc. 900
Japanese in the country-I mean out
side of our military forces. The most
of them are at Dalny and Port Arthur,
although there are small settlements
in the towns along the railroad, and
we have about 5000 here in Mukden.
Manchuria belongs to the Chinese. and
in it's southern part the good lands
are all owned and are under cultiva-
ton. Besides, the Chinese methods
of farming are different from ours and
the climate is colder. The most of
our people who came here hoping to
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-04-28
NEWS Of Scandinavia.
NMARk.

The statue of liberty in Copenhagen
Will have tn be moved about fifty feet
because a tunnel is to be built under
its present site.
An old woman at Vange, 6crnholm.
was found dead in her bed one morn
Ing. She had lived alone In the same
house since 1877, and she never want
ed anybody to come and see her. Al
most $500 in cash was found in the
house after her death.
During the spring thaw a lofty hill
known as Bovbjerget, on the west
coast of Denmark, began to tumble
into the sea. Thousands of tons
slipped into the water, and the North
sea now threatens to wash away this
picturesque landmark.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-04-28
NEWS NOTES.

Minneapolis. - The Bijou Opera
House will have as it's attraction the
week of April 25th, the dramatization
of Harriet Beecaer Stoves famous
story, "Uncle Toms Cabin.''
Marshall.-A. D. Smith, county SUI.
perintendent of schools of Murray
county, has resigned to accept a DO
sitton In the Office of State Treasurer
c. c. Dinehart. The county commits
sioners at special session appointed
Miss Florence Turner of Fulda to fill
the unexpired term
New Ulm.-Habeas corpus proceed
ings were instituted last week for the
release of Mrs. Josephine Ray, alias
Carmody, the fortune teller, who is
in Jail here awaiting trial on charge
OF grand larceny. The hearing was
held at Sleepy Eye and Judge Olson
of the district court denied the mo-
ton.
Two Harbors.-The fifth annual
convention of the Epworth league of
the Duluth district of the Northern
Minnesota conference convened at
the Methodist Episcopal church this
afternoon. About fifty delegates are
present from various points on the
range and from charges between
Sandstone and Duluth.
Thief River Falls.-A singular and
most distressing accident befeR 4
farmer of Mahnomen county, whereby
he met his death on the right of way
Of the 500 road. When the daily
passenger train reached Thief River
Falls it was discovered that portions
Of a mans body were attached to the
COW catcher and on the front of the
engine. It was evident that the train
had struck some person and had torn
the body to shreds. Inquiry was
made at all the stations down the
line as far as Detroit and in a short
time it was learned that portions OF
a mans body were found along the
track near Galloway. Later, upon IL!
quiry, the coroner discovered that
the remains were those Of Knut Taz.
son, well-to-do farmer residing near
the town where the accident occur.
red.
Hastings.-May Quealey, the II.
year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
David Quealey, and member of the
Junior class of the Hastings high
school, died this morning of periton.
tits. The funeral will be held tomor
row morning from the Church of the
Guardian Angels.
Duluth.-Louis Helverson. a miner.
was held up at the Hull location near
Hibbing by four men and was relieved
of gold watch and 50 cash.
Collegeville.-Ac class Of twenty-one
students was confirmed here by Bish-
op James Trobec of st. Cloud.
Detroit.-The Hotel Minnesota
company sold the Hotel Minnesota
to Victer Anderson Of Sioux Falls,
8. D., for $4,000: The Minnesota
has been for years the leading hotel
Of the resort region. The company
still owns real estate in the city and
also the Phoenix hotel.
Corcoran.-After swallowing the
contents Of q two-ounce bottle of car
bolic acid, Maynard Eberhardt re-
GREETED his act and ran for nearly
half block in an effort to obtain an
antidote, but it was too late. He died
before help arrived.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-04-28
Takes Poison and Dies.

Mankato.-Oscar Gilman, who lived
near Lake Crystal, was found dying
beside a straw stack on Herman
Shipman's farm, near Minneopa. He
had taken rough on rats, but did not
die until some hours later. He re-
fused medical assistance, saying he
wanted to die as no one loved him.
He had been supplemented for years,
since sustaining a sunstroke. He
was single and about 40 years old.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-04-28
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
FOR THE BUSY MAN
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM,
ROUND ABOUTThEWORLD
Complete Review Of Happenings Of
Greatest Interest from All Parts Of
the GIobe-Latest Home and For.
oiQn Items.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Senator Cummins of Iowa intro
duced an amendment to the Payne
Aldrich tariff bill providing for an in
come tax, which, he said, would pro-
duce $40,OO0,0O0 in revenue.
President Taft ordered Attorney
General Wickersham to investigate
charges made against the Hartman
railroads by the senators and one rep.
resentative of Utah.
Senator Tillman of South Carolina
caused sensation in Washington by
calling on President Taft.
The senate rejected the conference
report on the census bill because it
failed to include the McCumber
amendment.
Representative Scott of Kansas has
prepared bill to be introduced in the
house which removes the duty from
wheat.
Senator Aldrich for the Republicans
and Senator Daniel for the Democrats
began the debate on the tariff bill.
Secretary Wilson declared there 10
no shortage in the wheat crop and
blamed the high price to the corner
OF James A. Patten.
II congress grants the $4,000 year
travelling expenses President Taft
will take long trip through the west
and may visit Alaska late in the sum.
meI.
The annual congress Of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution be.
gan In Continental hall, Washing
ton.
President Taft had conference
with leaders of the American Fedora
ton of Labor and promised to lend his
aid to the uplift of the working man.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-04-28
Boy Thieves Go to Reformatory.

Boy Thieves Go to Reformatory.
Faribault.-Judge Thomas S. Buck
ham sentenced William Lang, aged
Is years, and Irving Gallagher, aged
IA years, to the reformatory for
breaking into the grocery store OF
Joseph l. Rell last Sunday night and
taking what money was left in the
cash register, besides some tobacco
and other goods. Both pleaded
guilty.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-04-28
Coed Wheat crop in Europ..

London, April 20.-The Marklane
Express says it has received generally
good crop reports from Great Britain.
France. Italy, Spain and the countries
Of Central Europe. Russia reports q
good promise of winter wheat from ~
out Of her 81 vast provinces. Then
provinces promise to be below the av.
erage. Spring sowings are backward,
having been hindered by the rain. The
paper estimates the present reserves
Of British wheat at only 10000 quar-
tiers as against 2,431.00o ct this time
IN 1905, $500
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-04-28
ot;Matee.

People do not realize the value Of
hot water. It will stave OF IN attack
OF indigestion or check sudden &c.
we're pain II taken a. soon Is ono
feels the attack coming on. 1t will
ward OF a nervous headache or eye.
strain, it the head or eyes are bathed
in 1t and one is careful not to rush
right out into the cold.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-04-28
Battles with Insane Man.

Waseca-Sheriff NJ. McDonough OF
this county had a strenuous encoun.
ter with an insane man here in the
county Jail. He was closing the
door of the maniac's cell when the
insane man suddenly attacked him.
The scuffling attracted the attention
of the other officials in the Jail and
the maniac was overpowered.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-04-28
Disadvantage Of, Beauty.

zone disadvantage Of being good
looking" said the woman who id.
mits that she knows she is handsome,
rs that never get 4 chance to beat
my way on the street cars. Just be.
cause am good looking the con.
ductor spots me when enter the
car and he hustles right up 70 ask
for my fare
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-04-28
City Not Liable In Damage Cases.

City Not Liable In Damage Cases.
Mankato.-District Judge A. r.
Pau has filed two decisions of much
Importance to the city of Mankato.
He has sustained the demurrer to
the complaints in two $4,000 damage
suits brought against the city by wild.
ows whose husbands died as victims
of the typhoid-fever epidemic last
year. The city was sued on the
ground that it owned and operated
the water works system, and that,
through incompetent management,
the water became polluted and caus-
ed an outbreak of typhoid.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-04-28
The Beauty Of IN. 80.

The Beauty Of the free.
whether In summer. autumn, spring
or winter the tree always has = die.
tincttve and majestic beauty that
serves to endear 1t to all that come
under its inhuence.-From "Our
Trees and How to Know Them" -
Clarence NJ. Weed
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-04-28
The Rivals.

The Rivals.
Rchfello-What . perfect complex,
ion Miss Beauty has?
Rival BELIEVES. BY the way, she
n with her brother tonight. Do you
know him? He's very prominent i'm.
porter Of drugs, chemicals and toilet
articles.-New York Weekly.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-04-28
Many IN 4 Minute.

In one of the big Swiss lace manu.
factories there is q new machine
which threads 1000 needles minute,
ties the knot for each, cuts the thread
of at uniform length, and then car
ries the needle along and sticks It into
Q cushion.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-04-28
GENERAL MEMS.

Henry White, ambassador from
America to France, will not attend
the Catholic ceremony in Paris on
April 20, which will make his daugh-
ter, Miss Muriel White, the wife of
Count Herman Scherr Thoss because
Of the refusal of Cardinal Kopp to
cOncede the Episcopal ceremony for
the wedding.
A step looking toward the ultimate
annexation of Cuba is embodied in q
resolution introduced in the house by
Representative Helm of Kentucky.
One hundred and eighty.four people
were killed and 1924 injured in train
accidents during the three months
ending December 81 last, according to
an interstate commerce commission
report.
Anthracite mine operators met In
New York to discuss plans for set.
Ting the differences with the work.
men.
Col. Jacob Augur, whom President
Taft intended to promote to brieadier
general died of apoplexy at Fort Nc.
Kinley, Philippines.
Counsel for Capt. Peter c. Hams,
Jr., slayer of William E. Annis, be.
fore his trial began said the prisoner
is incurab]y insane.
Fourteen students of Des Moinee
college, seven young women and
seven young men, were poisoned by
food eaten at club dinner.
Mrs. Marie Bartels of Chicago was
beaten and almost killed by thieves
who looted her apartments in Paris.
Adolphus Busch, president Of the
Annheuser Busch Brewing Company
OF st. Louis. limited that the company
would move to Illinois II Missouri
votes on statewide prohibition.
Indictments charging the Cudahy
Packing Company with violating the
oleomargarine laws were returned by
the federal grand jury at Topeka, Kan
A sensation was created in Tokyo
when nine members of the Japanese
die: were arrested on charges Of &C
eepting brides.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-04-28
MaoaenIno.

maooenlnq.
There never was q man so patient
that 1t didn't make him mad To ret =
line under his horses tail when out
driving.-Atchison Globe.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-04-28
Exeeeiajno tha Doe.

Exercising the Doc.
joint" The footman inclined his
head deferentially. John, step
toward F1do and speak q kind word
to him, to make him wag his tail. He
has had no exercise to-day"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-04-28
Jeftrlee viii Fiaht Johnson.


New York, April 21.-James J.
Jeffries made the following announce
ment last night:
Il will fight Jack Johnson. The
present heavyweight situation is the
only thing that could have brought
me from retirement. 1 have all the
money I will need and there is no
monetary consideration that could
tempt me into the ring If l was not
sure could easily defeat any chal-
lenger for the championship.
"All will ask after that is for
sufficient time to thoroughly condi-
ton myself, and should Mr.. johnson
care to challenge me for the title
I will do what think l owe to the
public, that is, to defend my title of
undefeated champion of the world"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-04-28
A Humble Succession

A Humble Suggestion.
Scientists say the white ant LAYS
10000 eggs a month. Would II, We
desire to ask, would It be possible to
cross the white ant with the Plymouth
Rock hen?-Topeka Capital.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-04-28
Revealed hx thu Face,

It has been proved that strong
thoughts realize themselves in words
and acts. II you think bitterly you
will soon show it in your face and
verify It with your tongue.