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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-03-26
From n Brokers View Point.
(By s. c. Igoe & Co.'S Wire, 429 Lemck,

Building1
CHICAGO, March 3.-The wheat market
has been weak and strong by turns to-day.
All conditions point to higher prices as we
read the market. The Bradstreet report
showed 100000 bu decrease, about three
times greater than estimates, and. independ-
ent of this, we consider wheat low for con-
sumptive wants. 1t may be a little early to
get a very big or sharp advance, but the ad-
vance, We think, is sure 10 come. Europe's
wants are great, and, although not depending
on this country entirely, she is dependent on
US for a good deal before next harvest. When
she wants it, will she get 1t AT her own price
Is the question. We think not. The big re-
serves in the Northwest have been the great
argument against an advance. We think we
know what We say when we say these re-
serves are not housed to be put on the mar
ket until the next crop is pretty well assured.
We think wheat is a sure money maker II
purchased.
Corn opened ffrmer, on lighter receipts
than expected. Trade all day has been with
out feature: crowd watching and the mar
ket sympathizing with fluctuations in wheat.
Shorts in oats all tried TO buy at once, run
ming the market up &c, after which the mar
ket became dull. declining to opening price.
Outside trade light.
Hog products have not been active. but the
business was fair. Sentiment now is for
some improvement.
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|; futures ranged as follows:

Cash quotations were as follows: Flour
nominal; No. 2 spring wheat, 6l16Q62c; No. 8
spring wheat. 57962c; No. 2 red, 65q651zc;
No. 2 corn, 2SQ2SAc; No. 2 yellow corn, 2Sikc:
8 white, 1sa191sc; No. 2 rye, 25Ac; No. 2
barley nominal; No. / 1axseed, 90c; prime
timothy seed, SO. 80: mess pork, per brl, IS. 20
@S.S0; lard, per Id, 5.05Q5. 07Isc; short-rib
sides Ooose). 4.65@4.7oc; dry-saited shoulders
(boxed), 411G45sc; short-clear sides (boxed).
4tsq4Ac; whisky. distillers' finished goods.
lated, 5.37c; standard A, h.25c.
Receipts-F1our, 1000 brls; wheat, IS, 0OI
bu; corn, 1850 bu: oats, 594, 900 blu; rye, 49,
600 blu: barley, 1000 bu. Shipments-Flour
5000 brls; wheat, $1,000 bu; corn, 81, 200 blu:
oats, 2S6, 900 bu; rye. 1000 blu; barley, &c..
600 hu
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LOCAL GRAIN AND PRODUCE.
some in Trade Notice.
able, with Few Changes I'm Values.

able, with Few Changes In Values.
With the dry goods houses. milliners.
leather dealers and grocers on the wholesale
streets more has been doing for a couple Of
days past, with the milder weather, but,
taken as a whole, trade is very ~disappoint-
ing in its volume. and how long this state. Of
affairs is to continue is troubling the wisest
Of the wholesale merchants. On Commission
row more was doing yesterday than on Mon
day or Tuesday, but still trade Is slow. In
prices there was not a change calling for
comment yesterday. Poultry, eggs, provi-
sions, fruits and vegetables ruled steady and
firm at the prices of TUESDAY. Collections
are some better than earlier in the month.
that money will be a little closer.
The local grain market was featureless, ex-
cept an IN advance ;n - of tFc r. IN S Wheat Iui ald "a a t DE-
lows:
Wheai--No. 2 red. &c; No. 3 red. 64@S5c;
corn-No. / white. 2sc; NO. 2 white, 2sc;
No. 3 white, Csc; No. 2 white mixed, Zhc;
No. 9 white mixed, 2I1kc: No: yellow. 21asc;;
mixed. 271kc; ear corn, oc.
Oats-No. 2 white. 2sc: No; white. &c;
No; 2 mixed. &c; No. 8 mixed, zoe; .,ua
Hay-No. 1 timothy, S13 No 2, sl0g
12.50; No. 1 prairie. $9q9.O.
Poultry md Other Produce.
prices paid by shippers)
~Poultry-Hens 7kc; springs, 7hc; cocks.
old toms, &c; ducks, Sc; geese, &c.
-Butter5Choice country, SQ10c.
Eggs6Shippers paying SC for fresh stock.
Honey-16G18c per ID.
Beeswax-20c for yellow; 15c for dark.
Wool-Medium washed, lac; fine merino,
unwashed, loo; tub-washed, 20423c; bury
and understandable. SC less
Feathers-Prime geese, 20Q32c per ID; mixed
duck, 2c per h.
HIDES, TALLOw, ETC.
Green-saited Hides-No. 1, SIC; No. 2, Akc;
No. 1 calf. 61kc; No. 2 calf, sc.
Green Hides-No. 1. &c; No. 2, Sc; No. 1 calf
SIC; No.. 2 calf, 4c.
Grease-White. 3l1c; yellow, 2%c; brown
TalIow-No. 2. SIC: No. 2, 2xc.
Bones-Dry, $12G13 per ton.
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Available supply statement.

NEW YORK, March Especial cable and
Geographic dispatches to Bradstreet, cover
ing principal points of accumulation, indi-
cate the following changes in available sup
plies Saturday, March II, as compared with
the preceding Saturday: Wheat-United
tains, decrease. 1.227, 900 bu; afioat for and
in Europe. decrease. $3.50. 900; total decrease,
worlds available. 100000. C~orn-dncrease,
$4,000 bu; oats, increase, 726,003 bu.
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Final Action Taken.

Final action was taken yesterday on the
following street Improvement resolutions:
For brick sidewalks on Minerva street.
from New York street to the second alley
south.
For paving with powders the first alley
east Of State avenue. from Carter 10 koner
street.
For a local sewer In Morris street and the
first alley north. from East street 10 tie
first alley east OF Madison avenue.
For a local sewer In Bismarck street, from
Sullivan street to a point nifty feet south
of McCarty street.
For a brick sidewalk on the south side
OF Henry street. from Senate avenue 10
Missouri street.
For asphalting Vermont street. from Merid-
ian to Pennsylvania street
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Tuesday night Matte Holt. a married
woman living in a house In the rear Of
the street-car stables on West Washington
street. was found lying beside the Mich
igan road. above Fall creek. near the wrecx
OF a buggy. DR.. Wilcox. of the City Dis
pensary. found the woman suffering with
a klinded eye and slightly intoxicated
When she was taken to her home in the
ambulance the door was found locked aid
the physician could not get in. 4 police
man broke open the door and found the
says. that the woman vas not badly in
jured.
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Bfrtlla.

John and Kate Noonan. "a Oriental street,
boy.
girl.
Raymond and Carrie Fiscus. 13 Pearl
street, girl.
olson street, boy.
Edward and Anne Miller. SIS West Eugene
street, girl.
c. w. and Ida Lyons, English avenue, girl.
Charles and Amy Van Eaton, Hoyt ave-
nue., girl
Charles and Lizzie Arnold, 334 Yandes
street, boy.
William and Mamie Ward. 2s7 North Della
ware street, boy.
William n Sarie Hallenkamp. 50 Willow
street girl -.-
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A IN
Quotations at st. Louis. Baltimore,
C%Icinnnti and Other Placea.

ST. LOUIS, March 25.-Flour fairly active
and steady. Wheat opened weak and lower
on an advance in Chicago. where the shorts
were buying freely. became weak again rail-
lied and closed unsettled. No. 2 red, cash,
CSC in elevator, 70@72c on track; May. 5S4x6
5Si1c: July, 5sssc. Corn-Futures firm most OF
the session. but quiet. Spot higher: No. :
mixed. cash. 16Hc; May. 261zq16Hc: July.
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Pitcher Cross. of the indianapolis Baseball
Club, came TO town yesterday. and all Of the
players that have reported went out to the
ball park. The ball was tossed around for a
while. and one or two OF the players donned
uniforms, but the grounds were too soft for
much practice. There will be another at
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-03-26

The Board of Works yesterday awarded
the contract for building a local sewer In
Michigan street. from Senate avenue TO
Roanoke street. TO Sheehan Bros. at H.U
a foot. The other bids Were: H. G. Roney.
los: Gansberg < Roney, H-l2: William
Bossert. s1.s. and Daniel Foley, $50.
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MINING STOCKS.
Wednesdays Bank CIearings.

AT Chicago-Clearings. s12.s14.0O0. Money
unchanged; on call, 6 per. cent; on time.
per cent. New York exchange at 30c dis
count. Posted rates: Sterling. on demand.
ASsA: on sixty days, AS7A
At MISUNDERSTANDING, Sl2,I3O; balances,
s115.17S.
At New OrleansEClearings. 8, 591, S43.
AT observation-disclosures, $40, 887, 603: bal
ances, 1856. 173.
At Misunderstanding. s1,sss. 7o4: ball
ances, 1924. 402.
At New YorkeClearings. s79.346.070; bal
ances, s.. 594, 923.
At Bosfon-Clearings. s13. 4s2. s14; balances,
s., 64S,022
AT Cincinnati-Clearings. $1,987. 80. Money,
446 per cent. New York exchange. 70
cents premium.
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Ora G. Clary and Lilly G~oubeaux.
John T.. Tellas and Sophia Lirk
Charles Hoskins and Ada Rayno.
Asher w. Gray and Ida NJ. Campbell.
Jacob Ketter and Mona Matilda Vogei.
George Holm and Mary h. Montgomery.
Rol,a Schcfield and Lulu L.ndsly.
Attic M Rounder and Nettie May
James Simpson and Rebecca Lloyd.
John Mccoy and Bessie Sanford.
Charles Schmid and Lora E. Craig.
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R~solutfoua Re~cfnded.

The Board OF Works yesterday rescinded
all action on the following improvement
resolutions:
For a~sphaiting the roadway OF Illinois
street. from Seventh street TO Fail creek A
resolution for blocks has been adopted
For grading Capitol avenue at its crossing
OF the old State ditch
For asphalting Liberty street. from Wash
ington street TO Massachusetts, avenue.
Fol- ~asphaIt.ng Senate avenue. from Wash
ington street TO Kentucky avenue
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Recommend the Vault Ordinance.

The Council committee on public health
last night decided to recommend the passage
Of the ordinance introduced at the last meet
ing to regulate the cleaning of vaults The
clause referring to garbage was stricken out.
on account OF there being other provision al
ready made for this, and an addition was
made making the owner OF the property, as
well as the occupant, liable for failure TO
comply with the terms of the ordinance
The finance committee also had a meeting.
for the purpose OF discussing the request OF
the Board OF Works for an additioral APP
preparation OF 5000 for electric lights. No
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me Councii- Record Allowances.

City Clerk Stuckmeyer yesterday sent to
the Mayor a Communication from ex-City
Clerk Lee Nlxor asking that an allowance OF
$500 be made for indexing the Council records
ton IS addressed 10 the Council. II shows
that the city has made allowances OF more
than this amount in the past for the same
work. In 1855 John Bowlus received $50 fer
the work, in 1859 ne was paid $50. In 1880
sam Perrott was paid $3.50. and NJ G. Hor-
malay received 800 for 1891 and 800 for 183
and 1898. MI stuckmeyer says the index
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Newton Todd Secures the Issue Of
x7O.OOO OF New City Bonds.

$7O,OO0 OF New City Bonds.
City Controller johnson yesterday sold
$4,000 of the city bonds to Newton Todd at
par, he to pay the accumulated interest 10
the city. These are the bonds authorized
for the purpose Of improving the fire de-
partment and City Hospital. There were
two bidders for the full amount. s. A.
Kean offered one mill on the dollar premium,
but his bid specified that the bonds would
be taken subject to their legality. which
made the bid irregular. Maggie Anderson
renewed her bid for 5000 at par.
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street, from the Big Four tracks TO North
western avenue. by crawling and curling
the roadway and paving the sidewalks with
cement. was adopted by the Board OF Works
yesterday.
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DAILY VITAL STATISTICS-MAR. 20


Willis w. Wright. seventy-eight years, s2
Clifford avenue, schlerosis.
Glenn Evans. four months, City Hospital,
pneumonia.
Charles Branham. twenty-seven years, 239
South Delaware street, heart disease.
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Dry Goods.

NEW YORK, March 25.-For seasonable
stuffs and staple cotton many orders for
moderate quantities were received to-day.
Printing cloths were in moderate demand,
with sales of 5000 pieces at 211c.
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The building Inspector yesterday asked
Tor the ndemnatio OF the building located
at 128, 10 and 1z South Illinois street. owned
by ]. G. voss. and a portion Of School Ne
Il In North Indianapolis
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Elsewhere.


ST. LOUIS. March 25.-Cattle-Receipts.
800; shipments, 1000. The market was
rather easy and slow. Export steers would
bring s.. fair to good shipping steers.
s3.60Q4.D; dressed beef and butchers steers,
$3.3Od4; steers, under 1000 lbs, 2.S5d3.5O;
stockers and feeders. s .25@3-65: cows and
heifers. $2Q3.50; bulls. chiefly at s2.25Q2.S;
Gamers, H.242.25; calves. A.50q6: Texas cat
tie, fed steers. 3Q4. mostly at s3.25d3.6 IS
cows and heifers. $2.25a3.25: bulls. $2.2Sa3.
Hogs-Receipts, $500; shiDments, 800. TIE
market was 5d10c lower. Heavy, g. 7093.9 80
mixed, x.60d3.S5; light. x.f0d3.90.
Sheep-Rece.pts, 500: shipments none. The
market was strong. Native muttons. s.. 40d4:
Southern. S2sqs.eS; Western; S.4oas.D;
CHICAGO. March 25.-Prices for cattle are
on the down grade. Sales were on a basis
OF s.. 40Q4.W for common 10 fancy dressed
beef and shipping steers. with the bulk of
the sales at g. 75@4.15. Exporters were again
buyers, but they insisted upon getting them
cheap, and IL took very choice beeves to
bring much over 81. Prices are about as low
as was ever known. Cows and heifers are
selling relatively better than steers. very
few going as low as e. while good to choice
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LIVE STOCK.
Hogs Active

Cattle a Shade ~LOyver-HOgs Active
and Low r-Sheep Strong.
INDIANAPOLIS, March 25.-Cattle-Re-
ceipts, 300: shipments light. There was a
fair supply, but the market was hardly as
active as yesterday and prices were a shade
lnuer All sold
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NEW MARCH Z5.-C0tt0n
steady; middling, TIC; low middling, Z 7-16c:
good ordinary, 7sc. Net receipts, 5,240 bales;
gross receipts, 5,624 bales; exports to France,
$3.50 bales; sales, 1850 bales; stock. 24S.25
bales.
MEMPHIS, March S.-Cotton firm; mid
ding, TIC. Receipts, PAS bales: shipments,
s54 bales; stock, 1921 bales; sales. 600 bales.
NEW YORK, March Is. Cotton closed
quiet; middling uplands, z 13-16c; middling
gulf, s 1-16c. Sales, 437 bales.
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Temnernturer

Yesterday Temperatures.
The following table Of temperatures is fur
nished by the United States Weather Bureau:
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$40 packages. The market was steady.
Western creamery, 12@22c; Elgins, PC.
Cheese-Receipts, l,i52 packages. The mar
ket was steady; large, 6ai0Ac; small so
Eggs-Receipts, 12,47S packages. The mar
ket was steady; State and Pennsylvania, 12c;
Western. 11AQuxc; Southern. 1O1zQ10Ac.
CHICAGO, March 25.-On the Produce
Exchange, to-day, the butter market was
steady; creamery, 14d2lc; diaries. 9@16c.
Eggs firm at 9410c.
PHILADELPHIA, March Is. - Butter
firm: fancy Western creamery 22c. Eggs
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Bar. Their. R.H. Wind. Weather. Pre-
z a m..30.@ "a 81 South Clear. 900
Up. m..2.7S IS 81 South. Cloudy. 600
Maximum temperature. Ga; minimum tenn
perature, e.
Following Is a comparative statement of
teh temperature and precipitation March %:
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OIL CITY, March rs. Credit balances
opened at S1.37, closed at $1.35. Certificates
opened and closed at $1.321a. Sales, 1000
brls; shipments, 71,055 brls; runs, 92.496 brls.
WILMINGTON, March 25.-Rosin firm;
strained, $3.50; good, N.35. Spirits of turpen-
tine firm at 24AQ2Ac. Tar steady at soc.
Turpentine-Nothing doing.
NEW YORK March 25.-Petroleum dull;
United closed at $1.34ha. Rosin steady. Tur.
pentine dull.
CHARLESTON, March 25.-Rosin firm at
81. 40. Turpentine-Nothing doing.
SAVANNAH, March 25.-Spirits of turpen-
tine firm at 25AQ25kc. Rosin firm.
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Sheep and Lambs-Receipts light; ship
menfs u1hf The demand WAS good and the

market strong at quotations.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-06-07

rather over a month. Mining parties go- ing in generally start from the coast about the end of February or early in March, when the weather has somewhat moderated but before the thaws have set in. The pass is about 3,50o feet high; it Is the custom to catch half a load and bring back the empty dog sledges after it. When the river is reached all is easy going on theiee. Indeed, when the wind is from the south the Argonauts set sail on their sledges and go merrily ice boafing down the great Yukon. If the trip is taken late and the ice has gone out. datbaots must be built, an operation taking about week The companies have small steamers on the upper river.
 The frontier, when tits reached, lacks one element of the early picturesque ness of California;; it is fairly orderly In Forty Mile, although there are proba- bly, 20 saloons and dance houses, there has never been either a murder or 8 lynching. Net there is no law but mi ner's law. The territory is not formally organized, and there is absolutely no rule except the direct result of agree ment and common understanding The harmony which prevails is doubtless due in large part 10 the fact that pro- fessional men and lewd women do not care to undergo the hartlships Of the Chilkat trip.
 And the hardships are net all over when one has reached Circle City or Forty Mile! It takes so long to get in the miners generally go prepared to stay three years. or rather, two winters and three summers. The thermometer ranges from 60 degrees below to 100 above. It is in summer as hot as Florida and in winter as cold as Greenland. There are in the brief, hot. wetsummer, from June l, to September l, tiny mos quitoes of q ferocity unknown in more southern climes In winter, if the ice has closed in rather early, there is apt to be some scarcity of food and maybe danger of starvation; Of stagnation in any case. Nevertheless quite . good many women as well as, men brave the dangers and discomforts of the arctic winter. Some of them have tramped over the pass and boated down the rivers in boomers; some have gone the long way around, 30 days steamboating from here.
 There is room on the Yukon for thou sands of miners where now there are hundreds. The river is second only to the Amazon in size. It is larger than the Mississippi. and has as many miles of minutely branching tributaries, on any one of which there is a chance of, gold and q certainty of mighty inter esting prospecting. There are q full dozen navigable tributaries giving many
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-06-07

crate report on Alaska, says that no one ought to go thither seeking gold without a return ticket and money enough to live on for one year-'say $500. Experienced miners say the attempt is fairly safe with about half that sum, and a return ticket Many men have started without means of any kind.
 Stories Of lucky strides are always Interesting The prettiest one is that of Peter Wilborg who left this state three years ago for Cooks Inlet, COO miles west of Juneau, Last winter Wil- borg banked S35, GOO in this city, leaving himself Sf3,e09 to "hlow in Notquite finishing the operation by the time he set out on his return trip in March, he stood on the deck of the steamer in Port Townsend, throwing double handfuls Of silver dollars to the boys on the dock Such a man is fairly likely to die poor. whatever his luck. "Old Dick" Will loughby is another of the popular he roes. Until this year, Willoughby never saw railroad. He sold mine at Hunt CTS Ray for $To, GOO and has some prom saing claims left It is said that per haps 200 men average placer earnings as high as SEQ per day in the Yukon re zion; but when it is added that winter is nearly nine months long in that drear neighborhood, that flour is worth $9 per 100 pounds and bacon 50 cents a pound at Forty Mile River. and that Circle City is nearly 1,ooo miles overland from Juneau. these earnings do not seem so large.
 Juneau. it must be remembered, is reached directly by boat by an easy and delightful sail behind the coast islands In tho Juneau vicinity on the coast gen erally men get s4 per day if they are lucky enough to find work, but must pay for their board prices considerably higher than in California. The coast ore is reduced by stamp mills working on comparatively low grade quartz as a rule There arc about 500 stamps along the coast The Alasl<a-Treadwell com pany alone has nearly 300 stamps and ships SSa,000 per month i'll gold.
 Cook $ Inlet is GOO miles nearly west of Juneau, and although on the coast, the mining there is mostly of the famil- inr placer sort which hasn't much changed it's character since '49. Still farther west by 200 miles are the Alaska Commercial conpany's stamps on Unga island with a rrInored rich ore to work upon.
 Tn the coast towns and at the stamp mills work is as methodical and unin- terestiug as in the states. The romance and the laardships of the miners life lie in the inland placer district-very fas Inland it is. too. bout and above Circle City. H is far inland because placee mining requires brawIing mountain
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-06-07

streams slit.ug over oskA u os, dl!d al. the lower Yukon valley is fiat and swampy.
 Circle City lies near where the Arctic circle crosses the Yukon, an easy place 10 find on the map whether it's name is there or not. By water it is triAe os about 5000 miles from San Francisco to Circle City. Practically no miners take that route. They go over the Ghilkat pass, north of Juneau, and then trail or boat the Yukon headwaters down to the city. This year, for the first time, two or three companies are running pack trains over the passes and boating min CTS down the upper Yukon; through tickets, by these lines, can be bonghtlr San Francisco or Seattle.
 Most of the miners, however, still go in the good old way, packing their camp kits over the pass by dog train, An outfit of about 200 pounds of food can be taken in on sledges, two miners usually going together This outfit twill cost about $10O to $150 in Juneau and is worth in Circle City fully twice as much. The advantage of sledging ill ones out f is that company freight goes by boat all the way round by the Yullon's mouth and the charges are very high; besides the sledge miner can start much earlier in the season.
 He is likely to freeze to death on the pass if he hasn't patience enough to wait for favoriHg weather, in cold running from 40 to so degrees below zero, but gold is the lure! Some of the amateur miners paid this spring as high as $50 each for big dogs in Seattle and Port Townsend, without stopping to consider the question of their fitness for hard work under the Arctic circle. It is no joke crossing the pass. Two parties came out from Forty Mile last January whose experiences are typical. The first started January 15 with the Yukon mail of l, 200 letters and Jackson, the Indian mail earrier. arrived in Juneau on March 9. havre encountered weather GO de- Frees below zero ard having left his two white companions, who had become ex- hausted on the road, with half a sack of flour and some beans between them and starvation. The second party started January % and came through on March T. making little better time. though