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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-07
AWAIT TRANSPORTATION.
Enough to Take Away Gold
Hunters and Outfits.

SEATTLE, WASH, Aug. 6.-The steam
er Willamette, advertised originally to
sail August 3, has not yet succeeded IN
getting away. To-day she discharged her
cargo, consisting princ pally OF 1000 tons
of -four, beans and dried fruits, imported
from California to meet the serious ga p in
Seattle merchants outfits caused by the
Quitting OF nearly 1000 men for the
mines The Willamette is entitled to
carry 500 passengers and when she does
sail she will have on board the full num-
Der. 1t is giveA out that she will sail to-
morrow night, but there is large ware
house pied full of freight for her which
has to be taken on board first. This
freight consists entirely of miners QUILTS.
To avoid the confusion which would 9TH
erWise result when the freight was landed
on the beach at Dyea an effort is made to
keep each mans freight separate, and the
wharf and warehouse presents peculiar
appearance with the outfits piled up In
this manner Nearly every one contains
a sheetiron stove. A very large percent
age have also large sleds, while the
wharves are piled with lumber IN the
form of "knockdown" boats, which are to
be carried over the pass and put together
on the lakes 10 carry the prospector ana
his provisions down the river.
The Queen, which sails from Seattle for
Dyea at o'clock tomorrow morning, will
carry about 400 passengers, OF whom less
than 100 were booked in Seattle. She has
had rough hunks put in between decks TO
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-07
TO Go THROUGH IN BOND
An arrangement for Shipping
Goods That May End the
Customs Warfare.

PORTLAND, Or, Aug. 6.--F. G. Da-
vidge & Co., agents in Portland for the
steamship Bristol, which is TO convoy the
stern wheel steamer Eugene to the Yu-
kon, have received telegraphic message
that arrangements have been perfected
whereby American goods and horses in
transit could be bonded through via
either Dyea OF st. Michaels to the North
west Territory and the Klondyke.
There is more of Importance in this
message to the prospective passenger
for the Klondyke than would at first ap-
pear, for it virtually conveys the news
that the retaliatory customs warfare
which has been waging of late between
the American and Canadian Governments Is
is to end. While American goods will
lave to pay duty on passing the line into
Canadian territory in the interior of
Alaska, the arbitrary action of the Cana
dian customs officials at Victoria In
forcing The payment of duties at that
point or refusing the owner OF the goods
in the event of non payment permission
to take passage on the steamer leaving has
come to an end.
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JOINS THE EXPEDITION.
Mrs. r. L. Ouisenberry of Stockton
to Go North In Quest of
Nuggets

STOCKTON, CAL, Aug. 6-Mrs. R. L.
Qpisen berry is the latest Stock on an re-
ported TO be infected with the Alaska gold
fever. Yesterday she surprised her friends s
here in the city by announcing her deter
mination to accompany her husbands ex-
pedition TO the Klondyke, and divioed the
day between making preparations for the
venturesome journey ana saying farewell
to the numerous friends who called
TO bid her godspeed. She left for San
Francisco tonight, and tomorrow en-
barks on the steamer South Coast, which
Is under charter to Messrs. Yardley and
Quisen berry to go as far st. Michaels.
Mrs. Quisenberry will have suita BILE
outfit oil woolens, fur clothing and other
arctic necessaries and will be we'll pre-
pared to Withstand the rigorous weather
and the hardships OF walking over noun
tains of snow and fields of ice with which,
there is no doubt. the land of god is Law
ishly supplied. She will take $400 in hard
cash. slowed away in her inside vest
pocket, to be prepared to meet erner-
gencies of any kinu that may not now ap-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-07
1T IS VERY WEARY WORK.
Cap-ain Miles StandiSh of Montreal
Draws Gloomy Picture of
Gotd-DiR0lnp

BOSTON, MASS Aug. 6.-Captain Miles
Standish of Montreal, who has been
spending the summer in Alaska, writes a
letter on his way home. He knows all
about the Klondyke gold craze. and his
advice to intending prospectors is worth
some consideration. He says that the sit
uation on the Klondyke is not very dis
similar to other goldfelds. The yellow
metal is there, but it does not lie around
the ground in chunks waiting to be
scooped up. 1t can only be secured by
patient and uncommonly iaborious placer
mining, intersp-rsed with many weary
miles of tramping around from pocket to
pocket.
He further says that the journey to the
'diggings" from juneau is an enterprise
calculated to appall the stoutest heart.
Beyond all this it is beginning now to be
winter in that region, and one who starts
must stop over at Juneau or somewhere
else until next May. There is not iood
enough in all Alaska to keep the people
for a month.
He drops a hint that the larger part of
the Klondyke ground il in Canada with
out sire tching an elastic boundary line an
inch. He says that there has been con-
spicuous activity in Dominion police cir
cles for some time and adds that it would
not surprise him in the least to see cor
don of men with repeating rifles and Cat
ling guns surrounding the gold district
when spring opens.
Twenty resolute men, the oldest "a and
the Youngest q, left Boston for the Klon-
dyke Wednesday afternoon. From the
Union station they left for Chicago and
from there 60 via the Chicago. Rock Island
and Pacific and connections to Seattle.
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GOLD FROM THE DESERT.
Plenty of the Yellow Metal to Be
Found in Balmy Southern
California

LOS ANGELES, CAL, Aug. 6.-Gold-
hunters who do not feel able to withstand
the rigors of the Klondyke latitude can
have experience of an opposite character
as regards climate, and with probably as
good hope Of success by doing a little
prospecting near home. The wealth of
certain mineral lands in this county was
amply demonstrated to-day by the arrival
in this city of $50. 600 worth OF gold, in
bricks, from the Red Rover m inc, up near
Acton, in the desert. The gold was brought
to the city by Henry T. Gage, the lawyer.
who, with Judge E. M. Ross of the United
States Court, George J. Denis, United
States District Attorney, and others, own
the mine, which has passed from the de-
velopment stage to sure and rich pro-
ducer The owners of the mine and their
friends who are aware of the facts agree
that the Red Rover is veritable bonanza
The thirty gold bricks brought in to-day
are worth thousand dollars each and
represent thirty days run, and it is said
the richest body of ore has not yet been
reached. To controvert the theory that
gold in Southern California could not be
found at great depth the owners OF this
mine went down 700 feet before milling
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-07
UNABLE TO GET THROUGH.
Five Hundred Gold-Seekers Re-
ported to Be Stalled at Skag-
uav Bav

VANCOUVER, B. c., Aug. 6-The
Capilano arrived from Dyea this evening,
after delivering thirty head OF cattle and
ten horses, which had to swim ashore,
owing to no wharf accom- M odations. The
vessel brought down no miners. At
Juneau there was no bacon and only a
few sacks OF -four. At Skaguay Bay a
large crowd OF miners were unable 10 get
through the pass and were living on their
supplies. Nearly 500 were unable to leave
Packers cannot be got at any price all
being engaged at tremendous premium.
A party OF gam Dlers from Vancouver left
al Skaguay Bay the horses they had
brought UP, and engaged all the Indian
packers they could get. They represent
Vancouver sporting syndicate, and hope
to make more during the winter than they
would if engaged in mining.
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GOULDS ARE INTERESTED.
Robert B. Reading Coming to Take
Charge of an Expedition to
the Klondyke.

PAsSAIC, N. j.. Aug. 6.-Robert B.
Reading, who has been for the last two
years superintendent of the Continental
Match Company's factory. left to-nis ht
for the Kondyke. He will have charge OF
an expedition fitted out by the Pacific
Coast Mining Company, in which Jay
Gould's sons are said to be interested.
Millionaire l. Y. Lipman IS president OF
the company. Reading took no men with
him, but at Portland, Or, will employ
fiftv experienced miners at $40 day.
Provisions have already been ordered in
large quantities.
The pcrty will leave Portland on Au-
gust IA, proceeding to Alaska by boat.
Then striking inland they will make the
trip to Dawson City with dogs. Readin e
expects 10 reach Dawson on October Is.
The company has twenty claims about
twenty miles from Dawson City. They
pan very rich gold. Reading is about 80
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was begun. All this bullion was obtained
between the 600 and 700 foot levels, and
the hole is growing richer every day. The
ledge can be traced a great distance and
the company has locations for a mile.
Mr.. Gage does not say much about his
mine for obvious reasons, but others are
we'll enough informed to give much en-
couraging information, not only about the
Red Rover, but about that district where
other rich districts can certainly be found.
The mine was discovered several years
ago, but its original owner could make
nothing of it, and he abandoned the claim
because OF lack OF water. The present
owners obtained it, found the necessary
water and with a 10-stamp mill have
achieved the resu,s here'reported.
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pear on the list OF her hope of fortune.
The plucky little woman intends to act
dependentiy OF her husband and any
body else as far as mining is concerned.
She is going to the Klondyke to hunt for
gold, and if she finds a paying piece of
ground 1t will be her own indiv dual prop
erty, which she will operate for her own
profit and with her own hands, if neces-
sary.
Her proposed venture has excited an
cumulative spirit among other women OF
the city, and it would not be at all sur.
priSing if others of her sex should follow
her example within a few weeks.
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TO MAINTAIN LAW AND ORDER
Owing to the Increased Rush to the Klondyke Another
Detachment of Mounted Police Is Ordered
to the Yukon District

OTTAWA ONTARIO, Aug. o.-A meeting of the Cabinet to-
decided, official reports Dyea relating
the increasing rush of miners for the Kondyke that
of Northwest mounted police
the Yukon district larger force toomantan law and order
demanded urgently civil law also is to be
established without delay Judge however, be appointed
particular judicial district be defined until special legislation
outlined Parliament for that purpose the session One
the Northwest Judges therefore will be charged to have the Yukon
district especially under his jurisdiction temporarily.
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tain breeds to be shipped to the Klondyke
country for beasts of burden and drawers
of sledges, thieves are making a syste-
matte cam paign against Newfoundland,
ST. Bernard and other large dogs. Owners
of valuable animals on which the license
tax was paid have reported already more
than a dozen losses and some Of them feel
so badly about it, they may go to Alaska
in search of their pets.
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Cholera in India.

BOMBAY, INDIA, Aug. 6.-Considera-
BILE alarm has been caused by he official
statistics of The public health just pub
lished. They show that there were 1701
deaths here during the past week, of
which mum ber 900 deaths from cholera
and 18 were deaths from the plague. This
Total death rate is quail to 65.61 per 1000
or double the normal rate.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-07
10 BE Ansttea "klendiks. .

WASHINGTON, d. c.. Aug. 6-The
GEOLOGICAL survey has announced officially
that Kondyke shall be spelled with *"
and 81" and will hereafter appear on
m ps and books issued by the survey as
.tK lon dixie -
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-07
Stealing klondyke Dogs.

LOS ANGELES, CAL, Aug. 6-The
police have suspicion that thieves are
engaging in new villainy in this city.
Prompted by the demand ior dogs of GER
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years old. He made several mining expe-
ditions to tie West in the interest of
George Gould.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1897-01-30

Examine the young apple trees
and see if the moles and rabbits
are working on them. If so paint
them with tar as far up the trunks
as rabbit can reach.
In planning to set out an orchard
be sure to give the trees plenty of
room. Plenty of room will give
thriftier and longer-lived trees and
larger crop of better fruit.
One advantage with hardy shrubs
is that once they are planted out
and given such attention as is ne
cessary to good start to grow, very
little after attention is needed.
In selecting varieties of fruits to
grow for market, hardness comes
first; next, productiveness, size,
beauty, ability to stand transporta-
ton, season of ripenining and quail
ity.
There are few if any kinds of
fruit more easily raised or more
highly priced than the different
varieties of raspberries. BY plant
ing in rows sufficiently far apart
to cultivate they can be grown with
very little trouble.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1897-01-30

Poultry manure mixed with dry
earth is good top dressing for the
lawn.
When not mulched, the Winter is
q good time to manure all kinds oil
small fruits.
In the Winter when the ground
is frozen hard is the best time to
transplant large trees,
Feed the trees and fruit plants
with an application of manure OF
wood ashes scattered evenly.
The demand now is for quality
rather than quantity in all kinds
Of farm products, especially fruits.
Use wood ashes in the orchard
or coal ashes on heavy clay land.
Both are too valuable to be allowed
to go to waste.
In pruning, cut close to the body
of the tree, cut smoothly and then
cover the wound with some kind of
paint or varnish.
During the Winter when the
ground is not frozen is the best time
to do the necessary pruning or trim
ming in the orchard.
1t is claimed that, as a rule, va
rieties of Strawberries that have the
most vigorous and healthy foliage
are the least productive.
Mulching the ounce trees with
coal ashes will be beneficial in keep
ing out bores, while a sprinkling Of
salt will help to secure a thriftier
growth.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1897-01-30
Thls Is Your Opportunity.

This Is Your Opportunity.
On receipt of ten cents, cash or stamps,
q generous sample will be mailed of the
most popular Catarrh and Hay Fever Cure
(Ely's Cream Balm) sufficient to demon
strate the great merits of the remedy.
ELY BROTHERS,
Sc Warren St., New York City.
Rev. John Reid, Jr., of Great Falls, Mont,
recommended Ely's Cream Balm TO me.
can emphasize his statement, ut is posi-
tive cure for catarrh if used as directed. -
Rev. Francis w. Poole, Pastor Central Pres.
Church, Helena, Mont.
Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged
cure for catarrh and contains no mercury
nor any injurious drug. Price, so cents.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1897-01-30

"My daughter, when recovering
from an attack of fever, was great
sufferer from pain in the back and
hips" writes Louden Grover, of
Sardis, KY. "After using quite a
number of remedies without any
benefit she tried one bottle of Cham
berlain's Pain Balm, and it has
given entire relief" Chamberlain's
Pain Balm is also a certain cure for
rheumatism. Sold by 7. J. A. Flaws.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1897-01-30

Give young trees good protection
and good cultivation.
The safest plan is to plant few
fruit trees every year.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1897-01-30

FOB WORK OF EVERY DESCRIPTION Elk.
y ecuted with neatness and dispatch atpthe
TINES office, at prices to suit the times. Send
for estimates.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1897-01-30
FOR THE FARMER.



There is no way of preventing the
wax moths from entering the hive.
Drone laying queens and fertile
workers are the worst of pests in an
apiary.
Separators are used to prevent
the bees from building one section
into another.
Bees often starve, sometimes
smother, and occasionally die be-
cause of dampness.
Never keep queen after she is 3
years old, or, rather, after she has
laid for three seasons.
Wood separators are preferred
when they can be used loose, be-
cause they are cheaper.
Combs of brood should not be
given to depleated colony farther
than there are bees to cover it.
An increase of colonies and a
large quantity of surplus honey can
not be secured at the same time.
Cold weather never kills colony
of bees that is in a water-tight hive
and supplied with plenty of honey.
The queen of populous colony
will soon fill the empty comb with
eggs and be no detriment to the col
ony.
If bees are old in the Fall empty
hives will be the result the next
Spring, and of course prove unproit-
able.
Bees should never be put in the
cellar for the Winter unless It's dry.
Dampness is certain to cause diar
rhoea among them.
Sugar sirup is the best Winter
feed. 1t contains no pollen, and
when given late in the season will
be stored in brood nests.
Extracted honey is always in de-
mand when the consumers are GER
tain of its purity. Extracted honey
is simply pure liquid honey.
Where bees have poor supply of
stores they are safer upon their
Summer stands, for during the
warm spells they can get out.
The best place to feed is in the
upper story of the hive, just above
the brood frames, where no bee from
the outside can gain access to rob.
If hive containing combs of
honey should remain in a badly
ventilated cellar during the Winter
the combs would be moldy in the
Spring.
For nearly year the queen does
not lay any eggs destined to become
queens, so if any evil befalls her in
that time the hive will be without
queen.
The first eggs the queen lays de-
velop into workers, the next produce
the drones and also the queens. She
lays worker-eggs for / months and
then the eggs produce drones.
When there is a foul brood in
hive, the bees are not able to remove
the contents of the cells. If a pin
is run into the stuff to lift it out it
stretches like rubber, and flies back
again.
If mold brood combs containing
dead bees and dried pollen are given
to strong colony of bees in few
hours they can hardly be dis
tinguished from those that were in
the hive before.
If for any reason it becomes nee
essary to feed bees in Winter the
best plan is to insert sealed combs
of honey, or if this cannot be done,
fill honeycomb with strip and insert
in the same way.
There are two kinds of worker
bees-the nurse-bee, which contin-
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The silver star., 1897-06-17
Duty ON Raw Cotton.

Washington. ID. c.. June S.-By the
decisive vote of ~ to 10 the Senate to-
day adopted an amendment to the tar
iff bill. placing raw cotton. the great
product of the South. on the dntiahle
list at twenty per cent. al vnlorem.
1t is the first time in the history OF tar
iff Legislation that duty has been i'll
corporated in bill. The amendment
was proposed by Mr.. Bacon. Democrat.
of Georgia. on his individual rcsponsi-
bility and without the approval OF tn,
finance committee. which thus far has
been requisite to the success of every
amendment except n minor one which
went through hy default.
The amendment led to n spirited dc
bate. Democratic senators disclosing
n wide difference of views. and at times
exchanging sharp personal criticisms.
On the final vote six Democrats. Bacon
and Clay of Georgia. McEnery Of
Louisiana. McTaurin and Tillman of
South Carolina and Rawlins of Utah
voted with the Republicans for the Bn-
con amendment, while the negative
vote was solidly Democratic with one
exception, Kyle. Populist.
The silver star., 1897-06-17

gates to the convention relative to the
condition of the silver movement.
These reports were OF most cncourag-
Ing character.
At the close OF the reports. 8. w. Bel
ford of Denver was called upon for n
speech. and he made a hot one. He
drew a parallel between these times,
when the country has nearly reached a
crisis, and abolition days. In both
cases combined capital was lined up
in its selfish interests against the people
ms a whole. not caring for the wrongs
existing 80 long as II prospered. I'VE
wiped out that wrong. and we will
wipe out this" he said.
Chairman Towne spoke, in closing
of the Significance of the convention
which, at a time when there We're no
offices to get, showed pure principle
He spoke of the condition of the gov
ernment, and said 1t either showed
that the governing principle was wrong
or that the people Mt the relns were In
capable of governing, and they would
do well to step down and out. Greed
was the main principle shown now
and he proposed. If possible. to arouse
the antique feeling of Americanism In
this contest. The enthusiasm with
which the movement has been received
has greatly encouraged him, and he
was confident they would win.
The convention then adjourned sine
die.
The silver star., 1897-06-17
Fireworks. Explode.

Chicago, June s.-A match dropped
carelessly by one of the workinen In
the fireworks factory of NJ. Shurc. nj
West Van Buren, and Halstead streets.
caused terrific explosion, II few min
utcs after o'clock tonight. II was
shortly after the closing time of tn,
factory, and many of the workmen had
gone home. otherwise the loss of life
must have been very heavy. As II
was. "A number of the employees Were
badly hurt. and flying rockets and can.
dies struck several people who were
passing In street ears and Oh the side
walks. One woman was killed by II
runaway horse.
The force OF the explosion was 81
great that nearly all the windows In
the block were demolished and tho
Shure building, which IL ii four-st0ry
structure. was badly damaged. Immc
dintely following the explosion til.
building was ablnze from cellar to roof
and the fire department Ind despcr
ate struggle before 1t succeeded In cx
tingulshlng the flames.
The silver star., 1897-06-17

A recent writer states that in Japan
the opportunities are exceedingly slim.
and It would be wrong to advise a
young man to go to the Mikado's en-
pire for the purpose Of bettering his
condition. Japan is still adherinR IN
her old plan Of sending out bright. in
dustrious young men to learn practi-
caily. as well as theoretically, whatever
new discoveries are made. Scientific
books as well as periodicals find earn
est readers. and her colleges and unI-
versities are fully UP to the times. She
10 gradually dIscharging such of the few
foreign employees as are left, and who'll
ly declines engaging any one but ma
tives. except In very exceptional cases
After Americans had introduced elec.
trio lights and the telephone In Toxic.
native engineers have established simi.
lar plants In the large cities of the en-
pire. and. although the result was not
always satisfactory in the beginning.
they have overcome all difficulties and
now furnish a highly satisfactory SER
vice. While the Japanese decline to
employ foreigners. they have also pro-
hibited the use Of foreign capital. I'm
der the present treaty foreigner can.
not own real estate. except In q few
square rods Of the foreign concessions
In the open ports. nor can they own
sharss In Japanese enterprise. Even
japanese bonds are insliensbls TO for
asnsrs. Hence the opportunities 70
iAvest capital are exceedingly few.