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chased.
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Saskatchewan Valley & Manitoba
^ Land Company the Success
1 ,, ful Buyer.
Land to Be Put on the Market at
OnceThe Company's
Personnel.
Western Canadian land transactions of
enormous magnitude, both in acreage and
money, have become so common that it
requires something so much above the
ordinary big deals to arouse public inter
est that it may be taken for granted that
when a land transaction attrac ts and holds
,the interest of the people, it must b.e
something of unusual size. To the Sas
katchewan Valley and Manitoba Land
company belongs the honor of \having put
,thru what is probably the most extensive
land purchase in the history of Canada,
If not, indeed, in that of the English
speaking portion of the North American
continent.
When some of the gentlemen who com
pose this company pujrhased a ye ar ago,
under the na me of the Saskatchew an
Valley La nd company, a million acres in
Assinlbii - and Saskatchewan, the land
Ibuying and land-selling public was amazed
,and dumfounded, and the prediction was
'freely made that the company had "bit
Iten off more than it could chew"bu t in
seven months the shrewd, energetic and
enterprising gentlemen who composed
that company, disposed of the entire mil
ion acres in large and small lots and
looked around for "new lands to conquer.
Buying an Empire.
The result of the quest was announced
a short time ago, when the information
i-was given to the world that the Saskatch
ewan Valley and Manitoba Land company
had. purchased the entire land grant of
the Canadian Northern Railway in Man i
toba, Assiniboia and Saskatchewan, com
prising more than 1,500,000 acres of prime
wheat land.
The new company is composed of men
well known in American and Canadian
business circles and who have been as
sociated with several land companies and
have always succeeded. Their success last
year with their million acres makes it
certain that they will do as well with the
iland empire they have just purchased.
! Among those in the company is F . E.
Kenaston, president of the Minneapolis
Threshing Machine company, who has
been connected with several American and
Canadian land companies, all of which
have been remarkable for the celerity and
satisfaction to purchasers with which they
disposed of every tract of land they han
dled. Besides his land Interests Mr. Ken
aston has other extensive Canadian con
nections, and is president of the Ameri
can-Abell Threshing Machine and Engine
company, of Toronto, and is, therefore,
one of the heaviest manufacturers in
Canada.
Another member of the company
is G. F . Piper of Minneapolis, who is j^ll
known as an extensive operator in the flax
market and a leading manufacturer of
linseed oil. He, also, has had a success
ful experience in handling Canadian land
in connection with the old company. W.
D. Douglas of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, also
a linseed oil man of national reputation,
.is another member of the company.
Mr. Douglas is one of those Americans
who take a keen interest in Canada's de
velopment and progress. H e is one of
the heaviest stockholders in the Quaker
Oats factory at Peterborough, Ont.
George C. Howe of Duluth, a member of
both the Saskatchewan Valley and the.
Saskatchewan Valley and Manitoba Land
companies, is still another stockholder.
Mr. Howe is not only engaged in selling
Canadian land, but he has demonstrated
his faith in the future of western Canada
- by opening up there an immense farm on
h is own account. Other members of the
company are A. D. Davidson of Duluth
and his brother, A. R. Davidson of Little
Falls, Minn., both of wh om are in both
companies and have a wide and varied
experience in Canadian and American
lands. Before they ever touched the Ca
nadian west, both of the Messrs. David
son were deeply interested in the land
movement in Minnesota and have been
interested in banking in this state ever
since they came to it, some thirty years
ago. It is reliably asserted that they are
interested in more Minnesota banks than
any other men in the state. Another Du
luth man in the big company is A. D.
McRae, a well-known bank er and land
man. H e also was in the Saskatchw an
Valley La nd company.
They Are Canadians.
Mr. Kenaston, the Messrs. Davidson,
$Tr. Howe and Mr. McRae, take no little
pride in the fact that they are Canadians
by birth and now find themselves doing
so much for the advancement, develop
ment and prosperity of the western part
, of their native land. A number of
resident Canadians are also deeply inter
rested in this gigantic corporation. One
of them is D. H. McDonald of Fort
Qu'Appelle, N. W . T., a member of the
,terirtorial legislature. Mr. McDonald's
father has been the Hudson Bay com
pany's factor at Fort Qu'Appelle for fifty
years. Mr. McDonald is a successful land
man of wide experience, and he was
largely instrumental in attaracting the
attenti on of his associates to the country
in which they are now operating. An
other Canadian members of the company
js A. J. Adamson, a banker at Rosthern,
.N. W. T., who has become familiar with
the land and banking business thru an ex
perience extending over many years. H e
was one of the heaviest stockholders in
,the Saskatchewan Valley La nd company.
The official list of the company is as
\ follows: A. D. Davidson, president F .
E . Kenaston, vice president J. A. Mc
Ra e, secretary D. H. McDonald, treasur
er. The directors are G. F . Piper and
F. E. Kenaston, Minneapolis, W. D.
, Douglas, Cedar Rapids George C. Howe,
^ A. D. McRae and A. D. Davidson, Du-
:' luth A. R. Davidson, Little Falls A. J.
Adamson, Rosthern, N. W. T. D. H.
, McDonald, Fort Qu'Appelle.
The principal offices of the company
have been located at St. Paul, Detroit,
Mich., and Winnipeg, Man.:
y* v-*i World's Best Wheat Land.
By the ter ms of the purchase from the
Canadian Northern railway, this power
ful new company comes into possession
of more than 1,500,000 of the best wheat
land in western Canada, and, therefore,
in the world. I t lies along the Canadian
'Northern railway and the Qu'Appelle,
Xong Lake & Saskatchewan branch of the
Canadian Pacific, and includes the great
er part of the famous Saskatchewan
tTi^ Valley. The main line of the Canadian
^Northern is building thru the center of
*- 'this tract. A branch of the Canadian Pa
cific penetrates it and the Moosomin and
Torkton branches of the Canadian Pacific
are building thru it. It is needless to say
.that the building of these railways hun
dreds of miles in length will give splen
did means of transport to all portions of
this imperial land purchase.
* The gentlemen who make up this com
pany have a reputation as builders of new
country rather than as mere speculators.
,The lands they take hold of are soon
populated. They contributed in no small
degree to the work that took 50,000
settlers into western Canada last year
from the United States and as many
jnore from northern Europe. Literally
thousands of actual settlers, industrious,
.thrifty and ambitious, have been settled
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MONDAY EVENING, tf te^?^
by these men on the land they handled
la st year.
An Upbuilding Agency.
They are probably doing more than any
other agency In Canada except, perhaps,
the government, to turn the fertile wild
erness of western Canada into a thickly
populated and prosperous community. A s
long as Canada was merely an Immense
expanse on the - map with a few people
in one corner of ' It, it could not expect to
and did not cut much of a figure in the
world's affairs. Canada has needed popu
lation above all else for years, and the
fact that It la now getting them thru su ch
agencies as the Saskatchewan Valley and
Manitoba Land company means more to
the dominion by far than even the great
Industrial enterprises that have been es
tablished In middle and eastern Canada.
The company, in line with Its policy of
attaining substantial results, is content
with small profits for itself and Is thus
able to announce that it will put Its mag
nificent virgin lands on the market at
from $5.25 to $7 an acre, with easy terms
of payment. Most of Its grant lies In the
Saskatchew an Valley, which may be fig
uratively compared with the Red River
Valley of the North, tho it is vastly more
extensive, and, it is claimed, much more
productive of whea t.
Helps the United States.
Experienced observers of the land mov e
ment in the Canadian and American west
predict that this policy will result In a
tremendous impetus to the population of
western Canada. I t is recalled that the
men who are behind this mammoth land
selling operation moved 2,000 German
Americans from Minnesota, Wisconsin and
Iowa in a block. While their work is of
the first importance to Canada It is be
lieved that the time will come when it
will also prove to be of great benefit to
the United States. Such a population
movement as that these gentlemen are
promoting not only makes reciprocity with
Canada more desirable, because it in
creases the country's consuming and pr o
ductive capacity, but also because it tends
to make the sentiment of western Canada
strongly in favor of reciprocity. It is a
fact worth noticing that Minnesota, the
state in which this company is so largely
represented by stockholders, is also the
sta te which, .thru the Minnesota Bran ch
of the National Reciprocity League is now
doing more than any other sta te to bring
about reciprocity with Canada.
The resources and advantages of west
ern Canada are now so widely known and
appreciated that it is not necessary, per
haps, to say anything about them here.
Yet it is not easy to drop such an article
as this witho ut a few words along that
line.
T o Lead in Wheat.
The Saskatchew an valley and Manitoba
Land company is operating In a portion of
western Canada that was acknowledged
to be blessed with a rich soil and a
healthful climate long before it was
known that country nearer the boundary
line was also good, but most of it lacked
railway communication until lately. In
this region It Is very little colder in win
ter than in Minnesota and the Dakotas,
and the winter is endured with even less
discomfort than In the^e states. Farm
wo rk goes on just as easily and satisfac
torily. The great crop is and always be
wheat, altho other cereals and vegetable
crops are splendid and live stock does
well. In a recently published book W . C.
Edgar, editor of the Northweste rn Miller,
Minneapolis, concedes that ere long the
primacy in wheat production will pass
from northwestern United States to west
ern Canada. H e does not regard it as
absurd to predict that within a few years
western Canada will be raising more than
350,0000,000 bushels of wheat, or half of
an entire bumper crop of the United
States at present. Mr. Edgar also admits
that the Canadian wheat is superior to
the, American article, because it is raised
on newer land. Twenty-five bushels of
wheat to the acre is considered just a fair
yield in the Saskatchew an valley, and
thirty, forty, fifty and even sixty are not
extremely rare. Taking a great many
years together and counting the worst as
well as the best, the wheat has averaged
twenty bushels to the acre, which Is about
five bushels better than the Minnesota
average.
Taxes are very light In western Canada,
the government is good, good schools are
provided and the social advantages gen
erally are probably superior to those of
any other new country in the world. Pop
ulation is now going in at the rate of 100,-
000 a year, however, and this new country
will soon be an old one. Those who go in
now will skim the cream of the oppor
tunities.
DIED WITHOUT WARNING
Old Business Man of But te Stricken Dead
In a Store.
BUTTE, MONT.Salime E. Page, a well
known business man and property owner of this
city, died suddenly and most unexpectedly yes
terday afternoon at a grocery store, of "which
his son, William Page. Is the proprietor, at 127
South Wyoming street. The cause of death
was heart failure. The end came without warn
ing and so quickly that there was no opportunity
to secure a physician and in consequence a
coroner's inquest will be held upon the re
mains to-day.
Maggie Wynn. a well-known character in the
lower world, of Butte, committed suicide Inst
night by taking carbolic acid. A man walking
through Wyoming alley, between Mercury and
silver streets, stumbled over her prostrate body.
The Woodmen of the World, the Women of
Woodcraft and the Odd Fellows held memorial
services in this city yesterday. The impressive
programs were presented to two large audi
ences at the Broadway and the Grand theaters.
The roll of the dead were read, after which ad
dresses were delivered. With the Odd Fellows
were the Martha ard Mariam lodges of the
Daughters of Rebekah.
Policeman J. L. Webb has been summarily
removed from the force by Mayor Pat Mullins
on the ground ot alleged Improper advances made
by him toward .Sophia Mogiskey. a Polish girl.
Policeman Webb denies the charges and savs the
trouble is the result of the jealousy of the'girl's
lover.
F. Augustus Heinze scored the first point in
his suit against the Parrott Mining company of
the Amalgamated group when Judge Clancy made
an order granting the Nipper Mining coinpanv.
the Hock Island company and Chester A. Glass
the right to survey and inspect the underground
workings of the Parrott company. It is alleged
that the aPrrott company has been extracting
ore from a portion of the Nipper lode, and that
ore thus illegally mined is of a value that
figures into the thousands of dollars.
A THEORETIC HOUSEWIFE.
A woman there was and she wrote for the press
(As you or I might do.)
She told how to cut and fit a dress.
And how to stew many a savory mess.
But she had never done it herself. I guess.
(Which none of her readers knew.)
Oh. the hour we spent, and the flour we spent,
And the sugar we wasted like sand.
At the behest of a woman who never had cooked
(And now we know that she never could cook),
And did not understand. -
A woman there was. and she wrote right fair
(As. you or I might do.)
How out ot a barrel to make a chnir.
To be covered with chintz and stuffed with hair.
'Twould adorn any parlor and give it an air.
(And we thought the tale was true.)
Oh, the days we worked, and the ways we
worked
To hammer, and saw. and tack.
In making a chair in which no one would sit,
A chair in which no one .could possibly sit,
Without a crick in his back.
A woman there was and she had her fun
(Better than you and. I)
She wrote recipes, and she never tried one.
She wrote about childrenof course she had
none , , .
She told us to do what she never had done
(And never intended to try.)
And it isn't to toil, and it isn't to spoil,
That brims the cup of disgrace
It's to follow a woman who didn't know beans
(A woman who never had cooked any beans),
But wrote, and was paid to fill space.
Columbus Dispatch: ,
WESTEBN HEAET EAILTJBE.
Brooklyn Eagle.
A bit of western conversation:
"Turrible thing happened to Bill in the poker
game last night."
"What was it :" ' i
"Heart failure.1'
"You don't mean it."
"Yes he held four hearts and drew one card.
Got a spade."
THE INS AND OUTS OF IT.
Brooklyn Eagle.
"Is your master in?" the caller asked of the
servant at the door.
" 'Deed, suh. I don't know fo' sure." j
"Can't yon find out?"
"Well. suh. it's dls way. V3 you come to pay
dat $5 you borrowed of him, he say he's in Jes'
dat much but ef you come to borrow some mo',
he eaya he's out all he's gwine ter be, sub."-
%s- THE MI3STNEAPOLIS*JOTTONAL.
Women's Suits Half-Price
Just 124 in the lot, but they are the most desirable ones we have shown,
two or three of a kind. They include our entire stock of
Ladies' fine lisle vests, richelieu ribbed, in
white only, with or without straps* 50c quality .
Ladies' fine imported lisle mesh drawers,
deep lace flounce, $1.25 quality . . . . ...
Ladies' fine lisle ribbed drawers, lace flounce,
69c quality *...,. i
Ladies' fine lisle thread union suits, umbrella
style, lace trimmed, $1.50 quality . . .. . . . . 98c
Ladies' fine silk plaited union suits,pink and blue,
somewhat soiled, $2.00 quality 98c
Children's fine lisle vests and drawers,all styles
of 40c to 50c garments Tuesday all sizes .... 25c
Women's Oxfords, $2.00.
About 100 pairs of regular $3 patent leather and vici
kid with patent tip, welt sole, low shoes that fit and
wear well, about all sizes in any width, a A A
bargain at . tyu\J\J
.Women's bathing Shees, white or biack, at 50c
Special to The Journal.
Oacoma, S. D., June 15.In the confes
sion of Claude Eagle Pipe, Henry Pipe,
William Black Bull and Moses Goodvoice.
Indians charged with rustling horses and
cattle, the officers of Lyman county have
secured evidence telling the story of an
oathbound secret organization of rustlers
known as the "Circle Society." The con
fessions were secured by Detective C. H.
Wilkie, a special officer of the South Da
kota Stockmen's association, who, dis
guised as a rustler, learned the secrets
of the society. The Indians confessed
separately, but their stories are entirely
consistent.
In the Circle society men were required
to take an oath of secrecy and loyalty,
and in many instances respectable stock
men were compelled to join for self-pro
tection, some having been threatened with
assassination if they did not.
The headquarters of the circle were at
the ranch of a. prominent stockman
eighty-five miles west of here. A mem
ber of the society stealing a bunch of
animals would hurry them to the nearest
"point" in the circle, where the brand
was worked over. The stock would then
be hurried to the next, in the chain, the
first giving a bill of sale. The stock would
probably change hands in this way sev
eral times and at last would be sold to
an innocent purchaser for .their real value.
The money w as always tiivided propor
tionately among the members of the so
ciety.
An officer on the trail of a theft would
be referred along the line till he came
to the real thief, who would say he got
the stock from an Indian, giving his name.
This Indian would refer the officer to an
other Indian, and he to a third, and so
on till the trail was lost.
, Frequently, when hard pressed, the
thieves would shut the stock, cut off
the ears and destroy the brands. Frank
McCluskey, a ranchm an near Battole
Creek, has lost seven horses during the
past few weeks. His race horse, "Slim
Neck," w as recently stolen, and Detective
Wilkie found the carcass of the animal
in a creek bed. The animal had been put
in mourning as a special warning to Mc
Cluskey, for whom the gang entertained
the most bitter hatred.
Ranchman Richardson has lost twent y
four horses, six having been shot and
the ears and brands cut off when the
rustlers were hard pressed. Colonel C.
P. Jordan, Indian trader at Rosebud
Agency, has lost 150 cattle the past year,
and recently thirty-five horses owned by
Postmast er Custer of Rosebud were poi
soned.
The thieves hav* lately put a bounty
of $500 on the head of one of the Han
son brothers, who have defied the organi
zation. The information in possession of
the officials has not all been given out,
as it is expected several rustlers will be
arrested. Many of these, however, hear
ing of the confessions, are fleeing.
BITS OF PHILOSOPHY.
Chicago Journal.
"Charity begins at home." and in half the
cases it says there.
Some people cirry a heavy .stock of wisdom
that never yields a dividend.
We laugh at the weaknesses of others and
yet we object to others, laughing at ours.
Mrs. GreeneThey tell me your husband has
been decorated by some foreign ruler.
Mrs. BrownYes, but it is only a bit of rib
bon and it doesn't match my complexion at all.
When Charles wears it anywhere he'll have to go
without ma- ',.""". /, ": 7 :v^,i '^AU id
SPRING AND SUMMER SUITS
In voiles, etamines, twines and mistrals, perhaps the very one you wanted and
couldn't afford is amoig them if it is it is yours now at half it's former value.
$60 suits, now , .
, * $50 suits, now
$40 suits, now
. $35 suits, now $17.50
*
v $3 0 suits , now $1 5
$25 suits, now.......... $12.50
5 $20 suits, now $10
Not one suit in the lot that isn't this season's make and the very latest.
Ladies' Underwear
All broken lines of our fine underwear at greatly reduced prices for Tuesday.
Ladies' fine all silk vests in white, pink and blue, daintiest hand work A - *Q
yoke and shoulders, the best imported vests, $3.50 quality $170
Ladies' fine silk vests, all colorshand work yokes and straps $1.50 quality, 98c
Ladies' fine
On Main Floor.
The Great Plymouth Clothing House* Sixth and Nicollet.
S. D. OUTLAW BAND
Oath-Bound Secret Organization of
"Rustlers" "Uncovered by Con
fessions of Indians.
Stockmen Threatened With Assassi
nation if They Did Not Join
and Keep Still.
Method of Tobacco Culture That Is
Hnding Much Favor
Nowadays.
Value of the Leaf Increased Nearly
Three Times by the New
Process,
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Whi te tents of an enormous size will
rise this spring over the tobacco district
of Connecticut, causing the quiet country
land to resemble a colossal circus. Under
the white ten ts Sumatra leaf tobacco will
be grown, and this leaf will be so much
finer than the sort raised in the open field
that it will fetch 68 cents a pound,whereas
the other fetches but 25 cents.
Ariel Mitchelson of Tariffville, Conn.,
inaugurated the idea of tobacco growing
under cover. When, last year, at a cost
of $250 an acre, he tented eighteen acres
of his best tobacco land with cheese cloth,
the tobacco farmers of the country
laughed at him they said he was wasti ng
a good deal of money. But wh en Mr.
Mitchelson produced under his cheese
cloth a crop of Sumatra leaf that far ex
celled in quality any tobacco that had ever
been grown in the United States before,
the farmers gave him an ovation. The
secretary of agriculture, Mr. Wilson,
came all the way from Washington to
study and to praise the new departure
Companies from this novel sort of to
bacco culture were formed and incor
porated. Strong efforts were made to
wards buying up of the best tobacco lands
of Connecticut and Massachusetts. The
value of these lands went up amazingly.
Business bomed in an unprecedented way.
Mr. Mitchelson got his idea from M. L.
Floyd, an expert of the government
bureau of soils. Mr. Floyd some years
ago, conducted in a small way a series of
experiments in tobacco growing under
tents. H e made these experiments in
Florida," and they, were most successful.
Some of his tent-grown Sumatra leaf he
exhibited at the Paris exposition, and It
w as adjudged a better tobacco than that
raised in Sumatra itself. Mr. Floyd's to
bacco got an awa rd two points higher than
the real Sumatra got. This was an un
heard-of thing, and naturally it created
amo ng tobacco men a great deal of talk.
Some of the talk came to the ears of Mr.
Mitchelson. H e was a raiser of Sumatra
leaf. H e decided that if it w as well to
raise this leaf under tents in Florida it
would be well to raise it under ten ts in
Connecticut .also. H e went to a number
of tobacco growers in his neighborhood
and asked them to try the experiment,
saying that he would give them 40 cents
a pound (the market price w as 25 cents)
for all the leaf they would raise for him
in this way.
But, though Mr. Mitchelson's offer in
sured them against any shadow of loss,
none of the farmers would accept it. H e
w as obliged, therefore, to make his ex
periments himself.
H e began upon a pretty big scale, and
Mr. Floyd, the expert, was good enough
to come to Tariffville and help him.
First posts, nine feet in height, were put
up, one rod apart, on spaces of tobacco
land that aggregated eighteen acres. Over
and between the posts stringers and lines
of galvanized wire were run, and then
cheese cloth was spread and drawn taut
over all. The result w as a number of
tents of an unexampled hugeness. These
tents were very strong, for they were
fortified with 196 posts to the acre, and
with an abundan ce of snap hooks, rings
and cloth also.
In the tents Sumatra leaf tobacco was
planted, the rows being set out in the dif
ferent tents at different times, in order
that the several crops would ripen one
after another. And as soon as the plants
began to grow the advantages of the
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im
ported Swiss lisle vests
lace yokes and
straps, $1.00 '^^
quality . . . 0"C
$30
$25 $20
BASEMENT SALESROOM.
Wrappers, 75c.
Never before were such values offered
new, bright, clean, up-to-date garmentsyou
can buy two now for the price of one ordin
arily. The new ones are percales and lawns
in handsome patterns, neatly trimmed around
yoke, ruffles around bottom wrappers f-g
made to sell at $1.50. Basement price /DC
25c
89c 48c
In Basement Salesroom.
Muslin Underwear.
Complete line of women's summer undermuslins at
greatly leduced prices, in many instances below cost of raw
material.
DrawersUmbrella style, fine soft white muslin,
trimmed with lace embroidery, insertions and tucks, p C
a garment regularly priced 65c, Basement price " ^
ShirtsWhite muslin with deep hemstitched ruffle, dust
ruffle underneath, others trimmed with lace insertion, Q g
the regular price is 75c, now in Basement OOC
GownsFine white muslin night gswnsround and
square neck trimmed with lace, embroidery and in- Afi.r
sertion, regular 75c and $1.00 grades at T"Ov
In Basement Salesroom.
cheesecloth covering began to manifest
themselves gloriously.
First there was freedom from insects.
Insects are the great bane of tobacco.
Against them the leaves must be sprayed,
and in Cuba, indeed the growers watch
their plants eternally, night and day, and
pick off the insects by hand, for they hold
there that spraying injures the flavor of
the leaf. But the closed tents ke pt all in
sects away from the Mitchelson tobacco.
Then there was the protection from the
winds. As tobacco plants grow tall, the
winds, in the open, lash and tear their
leaves, spoiling millions of them but the
Mitchelson tobacco leavesevery single
one of them remained whole and per
fect, being shielded completely from all
the winds that blow.
Again there was the proper, humid tem
perature that the tents maintained of
themselves. The cold of the early spring
nights, which so much retards open-grown
tobacco's growth, w as not felt under the
cheesecloth. There it was always from 3
to 5 degrees warmer than out of doors
a continuous tropic climate, with the
moisture so desirable in successful to
bacco-raising, a moisture due to the shade
maintained always for the soil.
There was also the modified effect of the
rain. In the open the rain beats down on
tobacco plants, damaging them, tearing
them, rotting them. But in the tents the
rain sifted thru the cheesecloth in a fine,
warm mist. All the good of it w as en
hanced an hundredfold all the evil of it
w as quite destroyed.
These tents, in a word, united all the
advantages of the open air and of the hot
house. The plants had the hardy vigor of
their outdoor brothers, and at the same
time they had the fineness that a hot
house's protection gives. By the time ear
ly summer had arrived they had reached
so great a height that their leaves touched
the nine-foot roof.
Men ca me from all sides to admire them.
Never had such Sumatra leaves been seen.
They were from 20 to 24 inches long, thin,
and of the best imaginable shape and size
for wrappers, since each promised to yield
two full cuts without waste. The secre
tary of agriculture appeared, and could not
praise enough the enterprise of Mr. Mitch
elson. Companies for the growing of to
bacco in tents began to form and land b e
g an to be bought, and land values began
to go up amazingly.
Meanwhile the tobacco was harvested.
The first trial field of a third of an acre
yielded 700 pounds and sold for $473.70, an
average of 68 cents a pound. That price
compared well with the 25 cents a pound
that was being paid at the time for leaf
grown in the old -way.
And the tobacco itself compared well
with the tobacco grown in the old way. It
yielded 2,000 pounds to the acrean un
precedented yieldand the leaves were of
an unprecedented size, an unprecedented
shape and an unprecedented quality. Uni
versally they were admitted to excel the
leaves that are grown in Sumatra itself.
Sumatra does with America a business
in cigar wrappers that amounts annually
to $6,000,000. In Connecticut and in Mas
sachusetts, since a way has been found
to excel the imported crop, they expect
now to take from Sumatra all that busi
ness. That is why tents are going up all
over the Connecticut and Massachusetts
tobacco countrywhy the quiet green
fields.are coming to resemble great aggre
gations of colossal circuses.
THE VALUE OF THE AMERICAN HEN.
Leslie's Weekly.
The growth of the poultry industry in this
country is one of the wonders of the time. As
a producer of wealth, the American hen Is a
marvel. To illustrate the increased earning
powers of this industrious autocrat of the barn
yard, it may be stated that in. Missouri, during
the last fiscal year, the suto derived from the
sale of youltry and eggs ran $17,000 ahead of
all other products of the state combined. The
totals show that the old hen. neglected and left
by the farmer to forage for herself while he de
voted his attention to the field crops, outstripped
them all, including corn, wheat, oats, flax, timo
thy seed clover seed, millet seed, cane seed,
castor beans, cotton seed, tobacco, broom corn,
hay and straw.
NortonI noticed yon were very quick to give
up your seat in the street car to that ladv in
black.
SpinksYes, since childhood's davs I never
have relt easy when I saw a woman with a
strap iii' ber Uaaa. j-^.v '- EXJSI-^
1903. KSS^S^!
The Coolest Suits for Men. i
One,
Are made without veststhe coats skeleton lined, the trous-
ers turned up and with belt straps it's the only way to keep
cool in this torrid weather.
We've made a study of summer comfort in good-looking clothes for men.
Style, shapeliness and minimum weight
are embodied in these suits of ours.
The materials are homespuns, Bannock
burns, serges, flannels and worsteds.
All styles in double as well as single-breasted sacks
all have the long, narrow, close-fitting lapel, the
concave shoulders and the deep athletic front Price
range $10 to $25.
BLACK SILK COATS, $5.
PONGEE SILK COATS, $7.
ALPACA MOHAIR COATS, $2to$10
SERGE COATS, $3 to $10.
Men's Spring Suit Way Underprice.
Men's Suits, $15
Men's "Goodyear Glove"
shoes with white rubber soles,
size or width, regular price
$1.50 during this sale..
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Regular $10 and $25 Values.
We are making a most attractive suit
offering to the great number of men who
figure on paying about this price, i. e.,
$15 for their suit. Of course we always
give a very carefully tailored and thor
oughly stylish suit at this price but
tomorrow we place in our $15
suit section about 300 suits of
our best imported fabrics
lines of all sizes, but the majority odd, from
our great $25 and $30 sale of last week. It's
a grand opportunity.
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In Basement Salesroom.
$2.00 Shirt Waists, $1.
Shirt Waist3 made frem the finest of white lawns, and
ordinarily sold at $2 and $2.50trimmings of embroidery
lace and fine tucks, this season's best styles. Easement &>+
price
White Sale Summer Footwear.
Goodyear glove White Tennis Shoes, commencing today and
continuing all this week, men's and women's white (with white
rubber soles) Oxfords, any size, any width, several Q
hundred pairs, regular price, $1.25. This sale, special "DC
*p J.
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Some are full
lace
any
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Women's sizes, same style. $1.25.
Boys' Girls' and Children's sizes in
"Goodyear Glove," white with white
rubber soles, at prices correspondingly
low.
Remember these are the very best
tennis shoes made, and we buy
direct from the manufacturer. Every
pair new this season.
SHE WAS". A GRADUATE.
Chicago Chronicle.
The Indiana may be educated perhaps as highly
as the white man. but he seldom forgets his free
and easy life of the wigwam and not infrequently
returns to his savage haunts and habits.
Major Pratt, the United States army officer
who is in charge of the Carlisle Indian school,
admits that many of his graduates who return to
tribal life fall into Indian ways again. He
tells of an incident he saw at a western Indian
agency. A squaw entered a trader's store,
wrapped in a blanket, pointed at a straw hat
and asked: "How inuehee?"
"Fifty cents," said the merchant.
"How muchee?" she asked again, pointing at
another article. The price was quoted and was
followed by another query of "How muchee?"
Then she suddenly gazed blandly at the mer
chant and asked mildly:
"Do you not regard such prices as extortionate
for articles of such palpably and unmistakably
inferior quality? Do you not really believe that
Black tennis Oxfords for everybody,
any size and the' 'Red Tennis'' C f \ *%
for children for only OUv
Children's and boys' gray QC/
canvas Oxfords for only 7v)v
Women's white canvas Oxfords
good heavy leather soles,
for only
Quickly and effectively in all cases of Nervous and Sick Head*
ache, Lumbago, Sea and Car-Sickness, Irritability, Bearing
down and Ovarian Pains.
" I find Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills excellent for the relief of pain
or rheumatism. In fact they are nearly as essential to my house
hold as groceries. I recommend them highly."L. E. UTLEY.
Minneapolis, Minn.
"I found a positive cure for headache, with which I had beei
afflicted for years, in the use of Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills,
always have them in the house, and heartily recommend them
anyone suffering from headache or pain of any kind."MRS.
JOHN HORAN, Duluth, Minn.
"I have been a great sufferer from headache and neuralgia.
And have tried many remedies without getting relief. A friend tol4
me to try Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills, and after taking three of
four boxes. I have not had the headache since. I think it Is th*
best remedy on earth."ADA ANDERSON. Mankato, Minn.
Neuralgia, Bheumatism, Sciatica, Backache, LaGrippe, Pail
in Stomach, Ague Pains, Indigestion, Dizziness, Nervousnesi
and Sleeplessness.
"I think Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills the greatest remedy foi
headache and neuralgia. I keep them constantly on hand, an*
recommend them on all occasions. Some time ago I was on an
excursion train, going to Duluth, and I gave away an entire bos
to people that had car-sickness, and in every case they obtained
immediate relief."H. D. SANFORD. Pipestone. Minn. .
"I had suffered from headache for years, and could get no
relief I finally heard of Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills, commenced
using them, and they can't be beat. They cure every time."
MRS. L.UCT McNICOL. East Grand Forks. Minn.
Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills are sold by all druggists, 25 cents a
box, under a positive guarantee that the first box will benefit!
pr money refunded. _ -. , ~ , _ .v
heGenuine Dr.MHes' Remedies are never sold at cut pricel^
jrS&gaftS^ - itfj^MJsa^
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$1.50hwit
Men's gray canvas Oxfords, "union
made," with welt exten- ^ ^ Cfi
sion soles, for oaly dp Li - J v
Men's gray canvas lace Shoes, d^
f er only ra
a reduction in your charges would materially
enhaiiee your iecuniar profits? I beg you to
consider my suggestion."
She was a graduate of the Carlisle Indian
school.
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THE PROPER GAGE.
Los Angeles Herald.
First Fair OneThey say you never know a
man until you have summered and wintered with
him.
Second Fair OneMy experience is that you
never know him until you find out how much,
alimony he can pay.
NATIVE PRIDE.
Philadelphia Press.
"If I were not an Englishman." said the
Briton, patronizingly, "I should wish to be an
Irishman."
"Indade?" exclaimed the Irishman. "Faith, if
Oi was not an Irishman, Oi'd wish Oi. was
one."
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