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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-08-25
CLAIMS AND MEN.
A Practical Miner Who Is Many Times a
Millionaire.


Reports of the richness of the gold
diggings were going out ali winter, but
people did not believe them. Every
mail carrier that went out took these
reports with him, but people thought it
was a fake or at least greatly exagger-
ated. They did not believe until people
came out and showed the gold at Sell
vey's smelling Office at San Francisco.
Wher they saw the gold poured cut
there and miners coming in with all
they could carry in sacks on their
backs, they realized that there was
something back of the reports. Lifey
had, guess. $50 pounds on his back
when he walked into the smelling room
Of Selvey g Co. I suppose that was
worth $4,000.
When l left Dawson City on June
%, all was excitement. If you had been
there and seen the tents. you would
have thought there were 5000 people
encamped. The tents were set as thick
as they could stand and leave barely
room to walk between them. My mill
was working night and day and en-
ploycd 15 men. I gay these men $40
and SIS day. Sawyers and engineers
get S15, common laborers $40.
l have no trouble in getting men,
except that they change almost every
day. AS soon as a man gets little
money he wants to quit and go pros
pecting, and we have to break in new
men about every day.
Plerty of Room Left.
There are lets and lots of creeks
there not prospected On that were not
taken at the time l left There were
about 500 claims located in the Bonanza
gold mining district.
I think Alexander Mcdonald was
about the heaviest owner Of claims. He
is from Nova Scotia. I suppose he may
be worth 1000, 600 or S5,o00,o00. He
was there himself. He is man about
45 years old, practical miner, and has
had experience in that country for years.
1t was reported by the Montana
man, Moss, that there were 2, 900 graves
in the place. / don t see how that could
be, as we never had more than 1900
men there. The first to die was Bert
Stickney, who died on Lake le Barge
while on his way in. Tne second death
was C. G. Felch Of Oregon, who died
of heart disease. They found him dead
in bed in the morning. He had srld out
and had his money in three sacks under
his pillow, which amounted to $12,34o-
These are the cnly two graves III
Dawson.
He was buried by the people there,
and his money was turned over to the
Northwest Territory Nj. Ogilvy had
been sent up there en Il survey. A town
site had been applied for by man
named O'Brien at Forty Mile. Mr.
Ogilvy told the government it would
rot pay them to handle town sites in
there. He was sent cut to report on this
boundary question. After he made the
survey he pat it in himself as town
site.
Dawson is laid cut in square. Out
side of it there are struggling houses
around. The 100 acres have been divid
ed into city lots. bought is acres be-
sides this adjoining mine, between it
ard the government reservation. l fled
on that town site along the last of Al
gust, 1896. I have not received q patent
from the government for it..
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-08-25
THE FIRST GOOD DIGGING.

Searching the Klondike For Long and
Weary Years.
About that time :. band of Indians
came from Tanana and brought in a
piece of rich gold quartz That was in
March, 1883, or about that time. I
went out there to see where they got
this rock, myself and four other men.
We took Indian guides and went
over there to find it. This was on the
mead of Forty Mile creek. We did not
find it, so we went back to the cache We
had made the previous winter at the
head of Sixty Mile creek, and we put i'll
the balance Of the summer prospecting
in that locality. We staid there until
fall.
At the end of a year we had prospect
ed and found in different streams and
various places that there was gold in
the country in paying quantities, but
not having tools or sufficient supplies
we were not able to get much.
We intended to 80 into mining the
next spring on some Of the creeks we
had already explored. but that summer
the A. c. I. company steamer Yukon,
the Only steamer on the river, broke one
Of her engines and could not get up the
river. In consequence we had to drop
down to the mouth of the Tanana river,
where We spent the second winter.
The Tanana river is abont 800 miles
from Dawson City and runs through a
mountainous. country, which had not
been prospected. There we found some
very good quartz prospecting, but no
placer gold diggings.
Our party were all very healthy
men with the exception of two, William
Moore and John McGraw, who had a
severe attack of scurvy. This was be-
cause they lived entirely on bacon and
rusty ham all winter. Iwent out and
caught rabbits, so that saved US from
like attacks Outside Of that we were
all in good health.
The second summer we went back
on the steamer New Racket, belonging
to Harper and McQuesten, on the Stuart
river, 900 miles up from the Yukon,
and there made the discovery Of those
rich bars which you may have heard
about They paid as high as 500 to the
day.
That locality is about 1900 miles
from the mouth OF the Yukon and $50
miles from Juneau. should say it was
about 4, 900 miles from San Francisco.
Stuart river is about rs miles above
Dawson City.
Paid 500 to the Rocker.
There on the Stuart river was our
first mining camp. We found very good
mining On the river bars. The bars paid
all the way from So to So and as high
as 800 rocker.
GA rocker is built something similar
to our baby cradles, with one end out
1t has aprons in it and blanket in
the bottom. It is set on an incline
The dirt is put into hopper and dis
charged over an apron, then back down
on the blanket and from there into the
river again. The gold clings to the
blanket, and the dirt does not.
We found gold there in paying
quantities, but we maintained that
camp only for two Summers. Those
bars were only short lived. During the
winter Of 1885 ran a trading post with
Harper and McQuesten at this Belle Isle
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-08-25
How the Hardships Have Been
Magnified.
PLAIN TALE OF A PRosPEoToR.
The Country, the Weather and
the People.

Fruitless work-The Founding OF Daw-
SON and. the Rush Of ProspectoFs to It.
PIeaty OF Claims Left-WaEes of Com
mon Iaborers Heavy Owner OF
ClaimsrBut Two Graves In One Largo
settlement.
A staff correspondent of the New
York World gires the story Of Joseph
Ladne, q e7rned miner, who is now IN
Plattsb1rg, n z. with the following
preliminary information:
Iadue issa plain man, an experienced
mining prospector, short and rugged in
build and type, commonly intelligent,
reserved in manner and picturesque in
habits and language, after the manner
of men who have spent much Of their
time on the frontier or in the mining
camps
He is 43 years old and for Is years
prospected among the frozen regions Of
Alaska and the Northwest. Territory
with only Indifferent success. He knew
mining before he went to the country
of the linaifless and unknown Yukon.
He has known there hunger ard Want
and cold. There were Is years of it be
fore he struck it rich.
Ladue frankly says that, knowing the
dangers Of travel in the Yukon country,
he would not this autumn attempt to
return to his home' at Dawson City,
which he founded last August BE is
going back IN March to operate his saw
mill and develop the claims which the
mining company OF which he is presi-
dent is to operate.
Ladue is not an educated man in the
schoolbook sense. he is simple and
honely in his speech. He is not imag-
native; he does not exaggerate, like,
for instance, the genius who started the
story that he had brought back $780,
900 in gold nuggets and was going to
mary the girl he left behind Is years
ago when he went west in search of a
fortune. he brought back $1,000 in
gold
He owns the township Of Dawson
City; his sawmill, where he gets $3.50
for saving 1000 feet of lumber, the
tariR forwhich in this country is $l.5o,
and his mining claims, which may OF
may not make aim a millionaire. He
4recSons'' he IS worth $4,000.
In his pocket he has 60 nuggets rang
ing in size from pea to a silver dollar
and worth in the aggregate probably
50, 100, and he declared, with sub
stantia, damn, % that he never had any
girI and doesn't want to marry any Of
them. But he didn't explain the reason.
He Was not asked to do sc, because that
had nothing to do with his story of the
Klondike, which follows this introduc-
tion.
This Klondike story isn't a romance.
Il is che recital Of things he actually
saw and things he actually learned by
living for 15 years amid hardships that
would have killed most men before he
Struck it rich. -
It was after dinner at the Cumber-
land hotel that he went over to Lawyer
Botsfo-d's Office. facing the public
square Of Plattsburg, and, folding him.
self up in chair, with his feet On a
table, tucked the end of cigar uAder
his short brown mustache, tinged with
gray, and began
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-08-25
WOMEN IN THE KLONDlKE

But They Are Mostly Engaged In Domes-
tic Occupations.
l applied TO the Canadian government
for 100 acres. The Canadian govern
ment did not sell town sites in the
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-08-25

when I returned to Forty Mile creek.
Nothing new had occurred in the mean
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-10-30
More Light Wanted.

Editor st. Tammany FARMER.
There is matter which would
like to call to the attention of the
East Louisiana Railroad folks,
through the columns of your estima-
BILE paper.
Now that the days are shorten
ing up so much, it is night when
the train arrives from New Orleans,
and passengers are forced to get
off and grope around in the dark,
frequently missing friends. or par
ties who are waiting to take them
to their various destinations.
1t is true passengers get of on
the side farthest from the depot, but
this is because of the greater con-
venience in getting to vehicles in
waiting, and also for the reason
that even if the depot were properly
lighted, we would have to 60
around one end of the train, add
ing additional risk of crossing the
track. Suppose team should run
away and charge down through the
crowd in that dark narrow street!
1t is matter of very small ex-
pense to put . reflector light or
two, SO as to illuminate the mar
row dark space between the cars
and the sidewalk, and all the pa
irons of the road would appreciate
such an accommodation very much.
A. l.. Il.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-10-30
Slidell's Modified Quar-
antine.
Slidell, La. Oct. 81, 1897.
Editor st. Tammauy FARMER:

SIueSsS LIZ WV SSs A0Sds
Editor st. Tammany FARMER:
Talking about quarantine, Slidell
ought to get the cake, insofar - dne.
ness IL concerned. Of those who estab-
lished the quarantine for their own sell
ash purpose, without consulting the
old residents Of this town, and without
any precedent OF law. Surely they
must have adopted the maxim Of the
Iron Chancellor, that s.might IL right, !"
without reckoning that We are living
in Z free country, open to any one.
But let alone the FORGING, are We, the
citizens Of this free and untrammeled
country, supposed to submit to such
outrage q committed by those who
style themselves ssThe Town Council
Of Slidell'' and signed by . Mayor
named wilder! Surely It looks wild
right now, without any brains to back
mp al their d0ings. Only the other day,
suppose 1t was Monday last, that the
Slidell Council made . provision to
punish all those, with fiue Of go 90
or thirty days, who should infringe on
any Of their ordinances, In regard to
the established quarantine, and those
(not formulated.) Did our Legislature
ever enact such bosh to authorize
Town Council to levee . line ON laws
not in force, aud only contemplated BY
the Slidell Town Council3 Surely, II
fools led astray by capital make cat
paws out Of themselves, those brainy
crafts ought to be retired with q PEN
sion for their services by special act
Of our Police Jury, for the heroic SER
vices performed for this Parish Of st.
Tammany. A CITIZEN
OF The Ninth Ward.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-10-30

where the ladies could sit vhils
the children play?
There Is Town Hall Square, with.
out . single tree or bench. Gentle
men Of tho Council, turn It over to
such = eociety, together With . lit
tie appropriation, and you shall zee
what can be made OF it. Even
slowly-Eovlng and in manv things
ver-conservstive New Orleans =
placing ito squares, parks aud ave-
nues into the hands OF citizen com.
Eissioners, and experiencing great
benefits therefrom.
There are many other things that
might be suggested here. For in-
stance, . second daily train between
New Orleans and Covington. side
walks with fewer roots 70 stumble
over, e. few loads Of sand, in many
cases, would cover the roots,) the
placing Of . good, strong light in
the middle OF the iron bridge, where
there is trouble every night when
vehicles attempt to pass each
other, . more liberal use OF brush
and whitewash GU houses, fences and
trees, the keeping OF cows in the
yards at night, and 60 forth. But ~
Covington, very likely. will not be
built quicker than Rome was, which,
as tue saving goes, was not accom-.
plished in q single day. I will stop
for the present.
But let there he sucl, q society
in Cov,ugton, and let it he started
1t once. Now is the time, the
one golden opportunity, which may
not occur again in many years.
The immunity Of this town from
yellow fever has given it . great
reputation, and hundreds OF people
will come next summer who have
never been here before. Prepare
to receive them. Get ready now,
during the winter months, 80 that
by increasing the attractiveness OF
Covingtpn, you may chain them
here, before the yellow fever scare
is over aud they think Of going
back to the Gulf Coast place.,
where they have been spending
their summers until now.
THIS is the advice Of yours, sim
cerely,
]. HANNO DEILER.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-10-30

A statement made in = news
article few days ago that ssmedi-
cal advertising is barred by law
is so erroneous, says the Chicago
Tribune, As to require correction.
In 1883 this matter was fought out
in the courts of Illinois, and the
Appellate Court refused to revoke
. certificate to practice medicine
granted by the State Board of
Health, which the board sought to
annul on the ground of ssunprofes-
sional conduct citing advertis-
ing As unprofessional. The court,
in effect, held that advertising on
the part of physician was not only
legal but professional.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-10-30
New York Election.

The quadrangular fight for
Mayor of Greater New York will
take place next Tuesday, Nov. 2.
and will be prosecuted with the
utmost vigor by all the candidates.
There are four tickets in the field.
Vaa Wyck is the regular or
Tsmmany Democratic candidate,
and Gen. Tracy is the regular
Republican candidate. Henry
George is running as an independ-
ent Democrat, and Seth Low as an
independent Republican. The re-
suit of the election will be looked
for with unusual interest, both
in Europe and in America.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-10-30

Notice b hereby given hat the follow
ing named SeGtlsr has aled notice Of his
intoation % make Anal proof IN sup
port Of his olaiE3, ard that said proof
viii b made before g. r wagrso. clerk
OF the district court. At Covington, La,
On Moaday. NovsmSer -, 1897. Wig:
DANIEL 81. SNOW.
Who made ho.,estead entry No. Is 100
Cor the south half oftho n0sthvest quarter
and the sast h>lf Of the southwest
a aastsr Of eeetion Z. tow nship 8
90 ath rangs - east, y. 1slsae meridian.
He names the following Witnesses 70
his continuous residence upon and oul.
tivation Of aaid land, viz:
]. !. CusAsshs, Charles Aendex. Heavy
Keller and 4. w. Ezsll, III Of Bayou
Loo0MOe, Ia.
% 3 e. q. Nod. BaUlgDY. Register.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-10-30
Covington, Oct. 80. 1897
In New Orleans.

The Board of Health of the State
of Louisiana officially announces
the status of affairs in New Or
leans as regards yellow fever to be
as follows:
During the sixteen hours ending
Oct. 90, at l. r. ", there were:
New cases, GO. Deaths, 5.
Total cases of yellow fever to
date, 1850.
Total deaths from yellow fever
to date, 16l.
Totsl cases recovered, 660.
Total cases under treatment, 500.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-10-30
Communicated
The Turning Point.

On the authority of member of
the New Orleans Board of Health,
it was stated repeatedly in the
press that the goth Of October
would mark the s'turning point
in the present outbreak of yellow
fever, and that after that date the
number of new cases would rapidly
decline. Considering the fact that
q great number of cases of sickness
were either concealed or wrongly
diagnosed this year, as well as in
other years, it is certainly not pos
sible to base any statements OH the
number of new cases reported Of
ficially, or to make any predictions
from them. The only reliable
data are the number of deaths, be-
cause . death can not be 90 easily
concealed or wrongly diagnosed.
Looking over the statistics of
the great epidemic Of 1879, be-
fore us, we find that the largest
number of deaths occurred during
that year on the 5snd day after the
outbreak of tins disease. This
SIND day was the 18th of Septem-
Der, 1878, when 80 people died
from yellow fever. After that the
number Of deaths declined so
rapidly, that on the goth of Octo-
Der, the so-called stunning point, :"
only 90 deaths occurred. Thus it
would seem that the Goth of Octo-
Der has very little to do with the
ssturning."
As the send day after this years
outbreak (Gclpi died on the 9th of
September,) was reached last
Wednesday, Oct 81, with = record
Of IL deaths for that day, we may
reasonably expect rapid decline
from now on, not because the Goth
of October is passed, but because
the time apparently necessary for
the full spread of the disease seems
to have been reached. J. H. D.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-10-30

Needed improvements - The
second article on this subject, from
the pen Of Prof. J. Hanno Deiler,
will be found in another column.
His suggestions are all pertinent
and to the point, and will doubt
less receive the approval of our
merchants. officials and business
men, and should be followed by
prompt action. Now is the time
10 act in order to be ready when
the next summer season. opens,
when it is expected that more peo-
pie will come here than ever before,
and We can .etain them, if the
proper s:eps are taken to add to
their comfort and pleasure, IN ad-
dition to our natural attractions Of
health and climate.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-10-30

In some parishes the grass and
woods are burning. At this sea-
son, when everything is SO dry,
great damage can be done by these
Tres. The Government law, which
We published last month, is very
strict against the woods burn
ers, and If the culprits can be dis
covered it viii 90 very hard with
them.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-10-30

Rev. w. G. Black, D. D., edi-
tor of the New Orleans Christian
Advocate, delivered his famous
lecture, sGenesis and Geology"
at the Town Hall, last night.
There was 4 large attendance, and
the speaker was listened 70 with
marked attention. The lecture
proved highly interesting and in
structive. The proceeds will be
used-for the benefit of the Methodist
Parsonage.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-10-30
q. 8. Land Omce. New Orleans, II.
OcsObeI Is. 1877.

q. 8. Land OAlce. New Orleans, Ia.
October Il. 1877.
Notice - hereby given that the follow
ing Banned settler has 1ied notice Of his
mention 20 make Small proof In support
OF his claim, aud that sail proof will
b. made before II. r. Warren, clerk Of
the district souHt, at CovinYto0. L..
on Monday, November -, 1897.
JOHN COOPER
Who made homestead entry No. IA. O6l
for the nostheass quarter of the southeast
qaastef Of sscsioa -. townahip g. south
rAnge IA east. 81. Helena meridian.
He names the folio wing witnesses 70
prove b II oonuliaous residence upon
and cultivation Of sid land Wig:
z. B. johnson. T. n johnson, Hiram
Jones. Ellis Craadle, all Ut Slidsil. La.
90 . e. G. We'd. BRumbv Register.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-10-30

The Atlanta Consultation In.
quires, what's In . name?
Tennyson runs . Georgia distil-
lery.
George Washington has been
tried In Georgia for perjury.
Abraham Lincoln has been ar
rested for shooting ut . man in
Dale county.
Stonewall Jackson i in jail fos
slashing his wife'with . rszor.
Jefferson Davis is suing for Z di-
vorce.
Nspoleon Bonaparts, eighty years
old aud black - spades, has been
arrested tor hog stealing.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-10-30
Metropolitan Bank 70. John ]. Clarke.
sixteenth Judicial District Court Of
Louisiana. In and for the Parish Of
- Ta nInAny.

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tovn az Cov;neton. ~ Tamrs.v Pa.
;sh - an SxTnnnAY M, ~ lae5
hetveen iso.I Fl. honr.' The foIio~;nc
dsse,ihe6 Sronertv. ~. sit:
4 ce,fsir tr:ct =, r.r.., ~ ,.ra
.itna "a In r.. Tamnsnv Fam Tnni.i.
M. in the Nichois. nners Cisim- hein.
IN section forty-6ve. comnrised within
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-10-30
HOMESTEAD APPLICATION.

In accordance with Act No. g Of the
legislature Of the State Of Louisiana OF
1883, hereby give notice Of my inten-
ton to homestead the following State
land, VIZ:
For the north half Of the northeast
Quarter and the north half q the north
west quarter section IS township s south
range - est, 0seeuabarg District, L.
LOUIS 0RANThA4.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-10-30
HOllR8TEAD APPLICATION.

In aeeerdancs With Act No. "a Of Tie
legialasuso q ~ l3oaee Of Louisiana q
l061. hsesby Givs noeiee q ny insso-
sioa % Homestead ~ lollowing State
land. viz:
Toe the soath west Ssaseiooal quarter
and yet half Of he oouth est Quaxtes
Il seetioo ~ township 8. south sange
Is eaat, 0soeosbasR DietxioA Il.
SAMUEL CHATHAM
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-10-30

Written for the Farmer.l
NV huf8l UOOQeSS.
"
In the country there IL maiden fair.
And sweet IS the morning dews;
Her heavenly form INV heart doth charm.
n,,. =. -.
49,.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-10-30
HOMESTEAD APPLICATION.

In accordance with Act No. "a q the
legislature Of the State q Louisiana Of
less, hereby give nosice q ny inten-
ton = homestead the following State
land. viz:
For The soash wet i'm tsooal quayler
Of section - township 8 sooeh ranSe
Is ease. 0sesnabasg Isistriet. 4.
DANIEL GRANTHAN.