The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-10
He HAS BEEN THERE HIMSELF
SAYS AFTER ALL THERE ARE
BETTER MINES IN MINNESOTA
THAN ALASKA.
'REE SILVER MAN FROM ILLINOIS.
A. C. Bentley Here to Confer With
Hon. Il. ID. O'Brien and Chair
man l.. A. ROsinE.

the Pacific coast, is registered at the
Merchants. In an interview with re-
porter for the G i o b e, Mr.. Hazard
said:
Everything on the Pacific coast, and
especially on Puget sound, is absorbed
with the Klondike fever-it is having
great run in Seattle, Tacoma and
other Puget sound points The last
vessel for st. Michaeps for this season
has sailed, and the people must now go
by Juneau or Dyea. 1t is 700 miles
overland from Dyea to Klondike, and
as that is absolutely impossible in the
winter time, the future bonanza kings
must now wait until spring People
intending to go to Klondike by Juneau
or Dyea should be at Tacoma or Sc
attic by March /, and if by ST. Mich
aeIs they should arrive there in May.
The ice will not be out of the Yukon
before June, but on account of the I'M
precedented rush the boats will make
an effort to get through before the ice
is out.
People should understand that deep
water vessels cannot get up the Yukon
because there is a delta at it's mouth,
with five outlets, and vessels drawing
over five feet of water cannot get up.
The boats used are all fat bottomed.
1t is 1000 miles from the mouth of the
Yukon to Klondike; Dawson City, for
merly known as Fort Reliance, is at the
head of navigation on the Yukon.
81 have been in Alaska, but not as
a gold hunter. Thirteen years ago /
was in the employ Of the Alaska Com
mercial company, which at that time,
had lease of all the seal islands, and
l explored as much as it could be eX-
plored by boat, and 1 have been to old
Fort Reliance, which, at that time was
supposed to be on American land, but
which, by recent surveys, has been
found to be about forty miles within
the British borders. The Alaska Com
rercial company has had trading sta
tons all over Alaska, and bears the
same relation to that country as the
Hudson Bay company did to the Moth
west. The former president of the COM
pany was Senator John F. Miller, of
California, the present head is Louis
SloSS, who, by the way, gave Secretary.
Seward the idea of buying Alaska. 1t
is not generally known, but it is true,
that when Seward left the state depart
mcnt in 1869, he went to San Francis
co and thence to Alaska in a boat fur
nished by this company. When asked
on his return what he considered was
the greatest act of his official life, he
said, The purchase of Alaska'-and
time has indicated his wisdom.
There is an abundance of good agri-
cultural land in Alaska, but the climate
shows the greatest extremes. During
the middle of summer the sun never
sets, and it is then hotter than any
place you ever saw-and it is just the
reverse in winter.
But, after all, there are better mines
in Minnesota than in Alaska. The mine
which will produce such an abundance
of golden grain is more valuable than
the one which yields UP a few nuggets
of gold. At least such is the history of
ali gold mining booms, and 1 don't
think this will prove the exception. The
most desolate place today in California
is Suffers mill race, where Marshall
found gold in AT. 1t is only fifty miles
from Sacramento, but is practically a
deserted spot
A c. Bentley, secretary of the
Illinois state central committee and
publisher of the Pittsfeld ILL.,, Times,
is visiting the Twin Cities. His mis-
| sion is politics and he will meet Chair
nan Rosing, of the Minnesota Demo-
| cratic state committee, and National
| Committeeman OBrien.
| Mr.. Bentley has been personal
| friend of Bryan's since they were boys
together, and is confident that four
years more will see his old friend in
! the White house He believes that the
| fight of 1900 will be on the financial
plank, though the Dingley bill may be
| so unpopular that the tariff question
will enter largely
1.-THE Democratic platform of 1900
will be what it was last year. he says,
except that the Objectionable clauses
about government by injunction and
the like will be modified. A civil SER
| vice plank will also be added, and it
| will be a winner. We will declare for
the examination system, but will de-
mand limited tenure in office The
! American people don't believe in life
tenure in public Office, and the party
that declares for a limited and fixed
| term-say four years, is going to
sweep the country. There is so much
| dissatisfaction among the Republicans
| On account of the small number Of
! offices President Mckinley has been
able to give out that, good times OF
| lad, the Democrats will carry the
country in 1900.
| Mr. Bently says John Lind will be
| the next governor of Minnesota, and
| that the Democrats will elect twelve
| out of twenty-five Illinois congress-
men in 1893. He has just received a
| letter from Senator Jones' chairman of
! the Democratic national committee, in
which he says that the Democratic
majority in the next congress will be
| it. Mr.. Bentley is working on the
reorganization of the party in Illinois
on the basis of a committee or five
| in every precinct and the expulsion
! of every man who didn't vote for
Bryan. 1t is supposed that he is Civ
| ing the Minnesota Democrats pointers
on how to reorganize
Gen. and Mrs. ]. K Miner are registered
at the Ryan, leaving today for Duluth to take
a trip on the great lakes. Gen. Miner was a
brigadier general in the United States army
and was recently retired.
! Mir. and Mrs. G. Swart of st. Cloud, are at
| the Ryan.
B. F. Tanner is a guest at the Ryan.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. H. Mccoy, of Lakeland,
are registered at the Windsor.
| F. S. Judson, of Austin, is Windsor guest
Congressman Tawney and wife of Winona,
registered at the Merchants yesterday.
Judge L. L. Baxter, of Fergus Falls, is
| Merchants guest
! VIM F. Niedringhaus, of st. Louis, is at
the Merchants
! Merchants guest Yesterday was l.. A.
| RAISING, of Cannon Falls.
| w. B. Parson, of Dodge Center, member
of the state fair board is registered at the
| Ryan.
Mrs Joel P. Heatwole and daughter, North
| field are at the Metropolitan
William Fl. Meyer, Washington. D. c., is
registered at the Metropolitan.
Mrs. M. E. Ritter, Reading Pa, is Metro
| politan guest.
| Young Thieves Scored.
| Charles McAvoy and Harr Levy, the two
| lads arrested for the alleged theft of pop
/ and ginger ale from a refreshment booth at
Lexington and University avenues, were dis