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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-02
ALASKA.
Some Interesting Facts Concerning
Thia Territory.


To the Editor Of the Inter Ocean:
LEPsIo, Ohio.
Give a description OF Alaska, of its
people, its coast, population, extent
natural resources, climate, govern
ment, etc. D. A. MCCLURE.
Answer. The enormous extent of
our northwest territory is but little
appreciated by most readers. It's
length from north to south is as great
as the distance from Maine to Florida
and from its eastern boundary to the
end of the Aleutian Islands is as far
as from Washington CITY to Califor-
MIA. It's area comprises $50, 10 square
miles, or nearly one-sixth of the
entire area of the United States, ex :
elusive of this, her latest territory.
Its coast line measures over 25, 600
miles In 1880 the census showed the
the population to be 80, IFS, of whom
19, AIS were native ESqulmaux, 655
Indians, 6S3 half-breed. and 392
whites. Recent investigation has
shown the natural resources of Alaska
TO be much greater than was at first
supposed. Its principal river, the
Yukon, may be ranked among the
largest rivers of the United States, be,
ing IS miles wide across its FIVE
mouths and their intervening deltas,
and from one to five miles wide for
the first thousand miles of its course.
1t is known to be navisable for /, 500
miles The land abounds in fur bear
ing animals; the seas yield fur bear
ing seals and others, and fish in many
varieties and immense quantities.
Over 8, 900 tons of Goldfish are take an
nually for the trade with San Francis
co alone. Several salmon canneries
have been established, which are dos
ing prosperous business. The bust
ness of seal hunting is entirely in the
hands of the Alaska Commercial
Company. This company secured IL
1870 by act of Congress a monopoly Of
this business for twenty years. They
are not allowed, by the act, to kill the
animals except during certain months
in the year, nor more than a specified
number annually. In this manner
the reckless extirpation of this valu>
able animal, which would almost
certainly follow upon gen
eral opening . OF business to
spectators, has been prevent
ed. The Alaska Commercial Cons
pany paid into the treasury of the
United States from July, 1870, to Au-
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-02

gust. 1881, the total sum of s3,452, :
408 So Among other important re-
sources Of the territory are lumber
and minerals Of all kinds The south
western part is covered for thousands
of miles with dense forests of yellow
cedar, white spruce, and balsam FIR.
When the forests of Maine, Michigan,
| Wisconsin and Minnesota have been
denuded, as they probably will be, at
present rates Of spoilation, in about
two more decades, we will find abund-
ant use for the beautiful trees OF
Alaska Among the valuable min
erals, coal has been found at different
places along the coast; petroleum,
lead, iron, sand graphite at various
points; copper, marble and sulphur ia
great abundance; also gold and silver
and valuable stones, sucn as am
ethysts, garnets, agaIes and carmel
ians. The yield of gold during 1883
was $500, 600. The climate Of the ter
ritory is very severe in the inland
districts, but mild along the coast.
at Fort Yukon the thermometer sinks
as low as 20 degrees below zero in the
winter; the summers are short and
hot, the winters. long and very cold
But in Southern Alaska and on the
AleutIan Isles the winter climate is of
the average winter climate of Ken
lucky, and the sumaler climate about
that of Minnesota. The territory of
Alaska was purchased in 1867. In
1868 the laws of the United States re
latlng to customs, commerce and nav.
igations were extended over II. In
1870 it was made a military and coll
lection district. In 1874 congress
passed an act creating district gov>
ernment for the territory. This act
provides for governor and district
court, the clerk of the court being ex-
officio secretary and treasurer of the
district of Alaska, also recorder Of
deeds, mortgages, and mining claims,
and register of wills. A United States
Marshal and a district attorney are
also provided for, and the act further
creates four commissioners to reside at
different points in the territory to act
as justices of the peace, hold courts
of record, etc. There is also land
office at Sitl1a. The laws of Oregon
are held TO be in force in the territory
when not in conflict with those of the
United States.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-02

play became noticeably more pic,,,.
esque as the scenes shifted. WI
the curtain rose On the autprnu pI
landscape beyond the vicaraoe oa ,,,jna'
with view Of trees laden with fs'il
Royal Academician led the daI;aL.s'
ed applause. The second set shoTs ~
the interior of the viearaee with ~
amples of cosey home life was WI
kie-like picture; but the approhota.
OF the audience was fairly exuberant
when the last sess, occupying fba
whole stage and showing Tip tae
scenes at sunset on Christmas eve ~
early Christmas morning, were ala"
mated by perfection of stare rna
chlnery. In the vicarage sceno
Sophia played upon a harpsicborsS9
made IN London over century 49,
The play was pitched in thesaddsst
key throughout two-thirds of q ana
being unrelieved by any really bp1
morous bits was received al timss
withsuch fearful and hushed attention
that when at intervals some bold irs1
nighter tried TO applaud indignant
cries Of ''order."
Mr.. Iryings picture in the dress and
attitudes of the vicar is certain 10 bo
in the Royal Academy next year Hs
looked Gol5smith's vicar, despite tbe
attempts of Mr.. Wills to make him
new vicar. At times his tone was
monotonous, but for the most part bs
brought well into play the whole o..
NUT of his voice. His JOY at his sil7er
wedding as he received his gift of tha
vicarage, and when he found the err
ing Olivia and his grief at her clone.
ment, and when he lost his property
and found how he had been deceived
were of the highest types of nature as
II these emotions were instigated bv
real events. Seldom before has go.
ciety" at lyceum play forgotten that
it was not good form" for them 10
weep.
Miss Terry's comedy in the early
scenes and her tragedy in the latter
ones irresistibly attracted. What
seemed most TO trouble the audience
were her assumption of girlish pert
ness and village vanity; hel expires
slons OF maiden trust; manifestations
of tilial love; struggles between head
and heart underher lovers temptations
her intensely pathetic farewell to the
members of her family while masking
her intention to elope; her grand ac
cession to full womanhood when the
sham marriage was discovered; her
wearing the thorny crown of pride
and then as thOrny a chaplet Of
shame, and her returning of girlish
delight at the reconciliation.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-02
Who Was "Hoyle."
San Francisco Chronicle.

According to Hoyle" is phrase
common among card players, many
of whom are under the impression
that Mr.. Hoyle was a reformed gam-
bier who turned his attention 10 book.
making as a means of keeping himself
out of the poorhouse. Edmund Hoyle
was born over 200 years ago and
lived to the advanced age of 81, diving
in Cavedish square, London, in 1863
lie was among the first who took
special interest in whist, and after it
became craze he devoted several
years of his life TO teaching the game
at a guinea a lesson. Some supposed
that he invented the game, but il was
well known before he was born.
However, he did much to perfect it.
He was paid $4,000 for treatise on
whist, which was published in 1913
AT the time he was attached to a gov
eminent Office in Ireland. Towards
the close of his life he revised his
treatise and included in it back gam
mon and other popular games of the
day.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-02

ines in the market, was treated with
the same acid after a short time it ex-
niblted deep rich crimson scarlet
color. He then tested the new sub
stance in this way, and after standing
several hours undergoing the chemi-
cal changes, discovered a purplish
tinge on the margin. In some former
experiments he had discovered that
cotton seed oil subjected to the action
of sulphuriG acid gave a similor tlnge
of color. Other experiments demon
strated that he had a new substitute
for butter TO deal with, viz, cottoh>
seed oil and lard compounds. This
compound is sometimes known as
butterine. 1t contains a very large
proportion of oil, which keeps the
fatty crystals in solution or in HON
ogeneous condition. He was aware
from the experiments of several years
previous that butter, when boiled, on
cooling, exhibited crystals of fatty
acids. He determined to take advan-
taee OF that fact, and proceeded to
boil the new butter substitute with
the view of producing crystals in it.
This experiment was successful, and
the crystals proved to be those of
swine fat, dark in color, stellar in
form, with numerous small particles
in the center, and by acid test the oil
was shown to be that of cottonseed
THE TEST OF PURE BUTTER.
Since then he has made many new
experiments with known pure butter
received from several states, butter
sent directly from farmers to their re-
lations IN this city. Procuring small
samples of these, he boiled them for a
few seconds only, and one at time,
putting them in cold place to crys-
tallize. On subjecting these sam pies
to the action of polarizing prisms he
discovered that all of them exhibited,
when viewed under the miscroscope
with plain light transmitted in the
field of view, translucent bodies Of
fatty crystals, but when viewed uader
polarized light a well-defned cross,
with arms Of equal length, resembling
that known as st. Andrews cross,
was observed on every gobular crys-
tai, and on the rotation OF the polariz
err the black cross revolved in like
manner. Old butter treated in the
same way gives bright rosetto form
and rotates in like manner. He also
further observed that the crystals of
beef, lard and other fats are of fat,
stellar form, but exhibited in no case
the appearance Of cross; neither do
they rotate as described. In this way
may an expert detect pure butter from
oleomargarine or other substitutes for
butter. Professor Taylor says he is
preparing a fuller and more perfect
description of his experience for pub.
lication by the Department of Agri~
culture, illustrated with plates and in
colors, which will enable chemists or
microscopes to give positive evidence
in court whenever prosecutions for
violation of the law are presented.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-02
A Strange Story About Chinese Gordon

Here is a droll story about General
Gordon that has not yet found its
way into print. The General enter
tanned peculiar ideas concerning the
Edenic apple by which Mother Eve
introduced death and all our woe
into the world. The constituent elc-
ments OF this fruit Gordon held to be
present in the blood of every mesu-
Der of thc human race up to the pres
emf day, and he contended that their
virtue could only be subdued and
counteracted by frequent participa-
ton in the bread and wine of the
sacrement. But so material view
did he take of this rite that he
Thought the more a man could inject
in quantity of the conSecrated food
the better would be his chances of ex-
purging from the physical organism
the poisonous corpuscles of the for
hidden fruit. Having foreseen that
there would be little or no opportuni-
ties of receiving the sacrament in the
Soudan, Gordon resolved TO take as
much as possible of the sacred ele-
ments before starting. lie therefore
uCCupIcU ntLuSttl on tue SATURDAY peN
fore his last Sunday in England in
ascertaining the certain hours at
which communion would be admins
tered in the various churches within
reach OF the place where he then was,
and rising early on the Sunday morn
ing, he went from church to church
in turn, partaking of the sacrement
in each and Tins received the ele-
ments some half dozen times in sue
cessien, beginning at o'clock a. M. +,
and ending at MIDDAY.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-02
Hints to Beauregard and Early.
Philadelphia Public Herald.


Is there anything under Gods sun
more disgraceful and disreputable
than lottery swindlc? The thief that
runs the three card monte show and
his confrere thimble rigger are arrest
ed on the spot, their stock c0n6scated
and the nearest jail is made the abid-
ing place of these Jeremy Diddlers.
The amout of woe thatthe Louisiana
Lottery has done and is doing can
never be told. Servants steal to in
vest; poor,a poverty stricken widows,
dazzled by the glittering false pros>
poets, scrmp for months their far
things, until they grow into pennies
and the pennies into pounds 70 throw
them where they never hear OF their
money again Annually thousands
and thousands of dollars of the poor
people of the South are taken by these
lottery swindlers, who live like noble
men upon the credulity and blind
faith Of their poor eountrymen
Imagine if you can the great Washing
ton, the high-toned Lee, the chiv-
alrous Custer, the great hearted Lin
coin, the pious Jackson as manager
Of a lottery swindle.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-02

John Bach McMaster, the historian,
thus describes the American beau OF
1900: 1.-THE pantaloon Of beau went
up to his armpits; to get into them
was a mornings work, and when IN,
to sit down was impossible. His hat
was too small to contain his handker-
chief, and was not expected to stay on
his head. His hair was brushed from
the crown of his head toward his
forhead, and looked, as satirist OF
that day truly said, as if he had beer
fighting an old-fashioned hurricane
backward. About bis neck was a
spotted linen handkerchief; the
skirts of his green coat were cut away
TO a mathematical point behind"
70 the list of hlccough remedies,
most of which concentrate the atten-
ton for few moments, the Popular
Science Monthly adds. "You say to
your affected friend something like
this: See how close together you can
hold the tips of your forehngers
without touching. Now keep your
elbows out from your side. You can
get your fingers closer than that.
They are touching now. There-noW
held them so. Steadyr BY this time
you can ask Now, why don't you
hiccoughp"
The first American almanac is be-
lieved to have been issued in 1867 by
William Bradford, in Philadelphia.
The celebrated Poor Richards Al.
manac" was published in 1872, and
continued until 1857.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-02
GOLDSMITH.
The Irish Poets Delicious Story on
the Stage Melts am English Audience
in Tears

New York Herald.
The distance from the grave of Oil
yer Goldsmith in the Temple church.
yard in Fleet street to the Lyceum
Theater is not long, but the distance
between his novel, THE Vicar of
Wakefield" and Mr.. Wills play "Oli-
via" founded thereon, AS produced a
few days ago by Mr.. Irving is very
great-as great as the distance between
Mr.. wills dramatic picture OF Crom-
well in his play CHARLES L. and
Carlyle's Cromwell. Goldsmith in
his original preface asked as to DIR.
Primrose, how in this age Of opulence
and refinement can such a character
please2 He added that those who are
fond of high life will turn with dis
dsin from the simplicity of the wears
country tireside, and that they who
mistake ri6aIdry for humor may find
no wit in his harmless conversation,
and such as have been taught to derida
religion will laugh at one whose chief
store of comfort IS drawn from futur-
ity.
Mr. Wills in his dramatic distilla-
ton of Goldsmith's simple STORY of
Family" has, by working its spirit
up to theatrical high proof, through
heat of situation and dramatic energy
IN the dialogue, tended to deprive his
fooLhlight Vicar of much of his inno-
cent excellence and perplexng weak.
ness as originally drawn Yet a ly-
ceum audience the other evening rep
resenting that very opulence, refne>
ment and high life which Goldsmith
feared for his Vicar, was heartily de-
lighted with Mr.. Irviag's Primrose,
because, by his skillful art in stage
business, he turned Mr.. Wills version
of the character into a great resenl>
blance to Goldsmith's hero.
Thepart of the Vicar wnen this play
was FIRST produced at the Court Thea
ter on March 81, 1873, with Olivia By
Miss Ellen Terry, was assumed by
Mr.. Herman Vein, who made as
great a success in it performing it
for 1876 nights as Mr.. Charles Fisher
made as Primrose when, on August
II following, at ehe Union Square
Theater, Miss Fanny Davenport, act
ing Olivia, produced the same play.
The social scenery, SO to speak, of
the boxes and stalls, as viewed from
the stage, was as strikingly beauteous
as the scenery upon the latter. Lords
Dunraven and Londesbopough, with
members of their families, represents
ed the peerage and not far from them
the McCarthys, father and son, and
Mr.. Labouchere represented the COM
nsons, Senator Payne, of Cnio, sat
for American coal OLD sovereignty.
Railway politics were infused in the
persons of Messrs. James McHenry
and Robert Garrett Literature claim.
ed Mr.. Lawson ofthe Telegraph, Miss
Braddon, Mrs. Katherine 5. Maequoid
and Mr.. Edmund Yates, appetlzing
for his coming Saturday night com
plimentary dinner. Art was embodied
in the stalls by Messrs. Edwin g.. Alb.
bev, Fred Goodall, Alfred Parsons,
George II. Boughton and Onslow
Ford, while Sir Spencer st. John, the
veteran dplomatist. applauded for
the foreign effice. TIE striking and
original toilets in all parts of the
house charmingly coAtrasted with the
last century costumes behind the foot
lights.
The sets of scenery throughout the
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-02

How old a man is the Marquis of
SG'tsbury}' asked an American of an
Ens.ishman on the cars this morning.
"Oh, he is not an old man, by any
means-only about So, was the
prompt reply. "Ah, then. Salisbury
is not an elder berry !" remarked the
American, TO the great disgust of the
son of John Bull.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-02
Food and Exercise.

Sir Henry Thompson in the Nineteenth Century
Those VINO have little time for exer-
else and are compelled to live chiefly
within doors must endeavor to secure,
or should have secured for them as
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-09-04
From the World in General and the
United States in Par
ticular.
Commodore Perry, the Naval Hero of
Lake Erie, to Have a
Monument.
Cattle Men Obeying the Presidents
Indian Territory Proclamation
With Alacrity.
Washington GOssip-The New Postal
Card-The News Boiled
Down.
A Naval HerO's Monument.

NEWPORT, r. l., Sept. 1.-The ceremony
of laying the corner stone of the statue to
the memory of Commodore Oliver Hazen
Perry, of Lake Erie fame, was performed
this morning with all the pomp and ritual
of the grand lodge of Masons. The statue
is now beside the base and will be placed
in position tomorrow. The entire height of
the statue and base is about rs feet. The
base is of the best western granite. On
one side is the simple word "Perry," and
on the reverse side is the well know SEN
tence first heard on Lake Erie in 1918:
ave have met the enemy, and they are
ours" The figure of the statue itself, is
very striking, it represents the naval hero
as having stepped out from the boat that
carried him from the ship Lawrence to
the ship Niagara. Standing hatless upon
the deck Of the latter vessel with appraised
hand giving directions to the men aloft to
trim sail, as to enable him to run alongside
the enemy. The statue is in bronze, and
weighs about four tons, and is located
opposite the Perry mansion.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-09-04
The St. Paul e. Duluth,

ST. PAUL, Sept. 3-The net income of
the st. Paul & Duluth railroad company,
for the fiscal year ended June 80, 1885, as
given out for publication, is as follows:
Land and stumpage sales, $S6,598; opera
ton Of railroads, $449,268 Total net earn
ings, $535,866. Net income for the
year, S399639. Gross earnings and net
income for the past four years as follows:
Year ended June 80, 1882, gross earnings,
81 ,203, ,4SS; net income, Ss258,882. Year ended
June 3O 1884, gross earnings, 81 308,O3S; net
income, $2S5,932. Year ended June 80, 1885,
gross earnings, 81, ,293,511; netincome, $313,-
042 June &c. 1885, there remained unsold
1,l6S,676 acres of the company's lands, and
of the Taylors Falls branch, 7O.939
acres. The company now operates 225
miles of road, heavng 55 miles of side
tracks, and 155 miles of main line from
ST. Paul to Duluth; Taylor Falls branch, q
miles; Grantsburg branch, II miles; Knife
Falls branch, miles, and leasing Min
neapolis and Saltwater branches of 81
miles each. The gross earnings of the road
for the past month were $123,119, and for
the eight months of the present year, $742,-
500, an increase of 32,050.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-09-04
A Jockey Rides to His Death.

NEW YORK, Sept. 2.-The track was in
good condition at Brighton Beach today,
and there was an average attendance, but
the pleasures of the day were completely
marred by chapter of terrible accidents,
by which one of the most promising young
jockeys, Moran, was instantly killed and
several other riders narrowly escaped. The
second race was started with thirty-one
horses, although twenty-five owners had
sent in applications to have their horses
withdrawn, as the number was too great
and the track too narrow to give the animals
chance to win, and, as was stated
they were afraid of an accident
Caldwell got the horses off in punches,
and, of course, raised an immense cloud of
dust, in which those out of the front rank
could not see where they were riding to-.
At the half mile post, Moran, who was rid
ing "MisS Daley" as well as could be seen
with the dust, was ON the outside, in the
third place, having Joe Howell little in
front and closely followed by Garrison on
Blizzard and Lane on Bonnie Lee. He was
seen to suddenly throw his hands into the
air, and was quickly followed by the other
two, falling also. MOran's neck was broken,
and death was almost instantaneous The
other riders, Garrison and Lane, are all
right In the third race another accident
occurred, which in one case may prove fatal
Rivers, who was riding WOnderment, and
and Williams, on Carninal McClosky, were
thrown as they entered the home stretch
and Rivers was carried home unconscious
and unable to move. Williams escaped with
but few bruises.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-09-04
NE WS IN BRIEF.
Cholera decreasing in Marseilles.

Cholera decreasing in Marseilles.
Maud s, Providence, yesterday, 2:1S.
The Prince of Wales is in Stockholm
Virginia's auditor of public accounts is
$141 900 short.
The French cable, broken last June, is
once more spliced. -
The reduction in the public debt in Au-
gust was $2,879,052.
Lawrence Barrett scored another grand
success in st. Paul.
Maud will attempt to beat her 2:O8M
record at Narragansett park.
About thirty families burned out of their
homes in Albany, N. Y, yesterday.
Two French deputies fought duel yes
terday, in which one was wounded.
Net income of st. Paul & Duluth rail-
road for year ended June 80, 1885, $399 $3.50.
Fire in Lynn, Mass, shoe factory, yes
terday, did damage amounting to $4,000.
Ohio river coal miners will strike next
Friday, unless operators cOncede them
three cents per bushel.
VIM. Anderson, middle age. from Crooks
ton, Mimi, cut his throat in Winnipeg. He
will live to do it again.