The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-17

all they care for is the same rights as
are accorded other nationalities on the
island. The public school system of
Japan is excellent, each prefecture
(province) having a separate system.
They have grammar and high schools,
the same as in the United States, and
the schools are copied after the Eng
fish methods. There are about 10000
900 people in Japan, and a large pro-
portion are able to read and write, and
the coming generation is being in
structed in modern learning.
Just before 1 left Yokohoma two
iron clad battleships, the Full and the
YaShima, arrived in Japan from Eng
land, where they had been in course
Of construction, and were fitted with
the very latest appliances and armour.
!! Japan has let a contract recently for
a number Of large ships, which are
now building, not only in England, but
in the United States and Germany.
Japan's relations with China are now
perfectly amicable, and aside from the
trouble China is having with the Eu-
ropean powers everything is peaceful
in that part Of the world"
]. ]. Weiser, of Owatonna, is in the
city doing his Xmas buying. He is
registered at the Clarendon.
Ex-State Senator Silas w. Leavitt Is
a guest at the Merchants.
The Dean Of Ruperts Land, In the
Dominion of Canada, was at the Mer-
chants for few hours yesterday. The
dean has his headquarters at Winnl-
peg. where he looks after the interests
Of citizens Of that frigid province. He
was on his way East.
]. w. Wallace was quartered at the
Ryan yesterday.
E. S. Allen. Of Bismarck, registered
at the Windsor yesterday
ID. +. Longstreet, prominent New
York railroad man, is stopping at the
Metropolitan. While in the city he Is
being entertained by j. M Hawthorne.
Jack Dalton, the man for whom the Dali
ton 1T, trail to the Alaskan gold fields was
bound for the Pacific slope. Dalton who
has been in Chicago making some contracts
for supplies, machinery, etc., for his stations
took the Northern Pacific train for the coast.
He will go direct to Chilcat where one of his
stations is located, and will return again to
Seattle before. pushing UP further into the
gold country later in the spring.
He says the trail, which bears his name and
for the construction of which he spent nearly
all the money he ever made fur trading, will
be used by the men who come out Of The
Klondike beginning July 1, with what mug
gets and dust they have been working to get
al the winter Dalton says that although
during the winter, he does not believe any
body will be allowed to starve, and he says
the, stories about wholesale starvation are
sent out by the same people who said he did
not know where his own trail was when
making this last trip down. He left Klon-
dixie Oct, II, and was the leader Of the last
party out. His two stations are at Chilcat
and loo miles further on toward the interior
on the Alsec river.
He fears that many hundreds of persons
who are now preparing to be In Seattle ard
Tacoma, ready for the rush to Klondike,
will never be able to get Accommodations en-
the steamers.
''The wealth of the Yukon country is sim
ply incalcuable,' said Capt. Charles King yes
terday, land while 1 almost tremble when
realizing the vast hordes of humanity which
will go In search of 1t, yet 1 am confident
that there is gold for all who succeed in
reaching the celebrated REGION And Capt
Just returned from Alaska, having gone there
last July. He was sent out to learn the ex-
act condition of affairs, and to amake &C.
curate reports. A civil engineer, his special
mission was to ascertain the most passable
route down the river, and while he did not
himself go through to Dawson City, he saw
enough to convince him Of the vast wealth
of the lower country
1T must be stated that nearly all the best
claims on the Klondike river are taken. There
are probably no more to be had which pan
from $75 to $100 per day. and those who go
now will have to be satisfied with those which
run from $40 to $50 per day. There are vast
regions which have not been explored and
| 1t is possible that strikes as rich as that on
| the Klondike may be made. 1t is well known
! that there Is gold on the Hootalinuua and
! Stewart rivers, and 1t is very probable that
| there is more or less gold on every river
emptying into the Yukon. l believe the coun-
| try has just been scratched"