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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-06
A SLUMBER SONG.

You, with the dark and weary eyes.
Weary OF love and sacrifice,
Come with mo over the waters pale
In my small gray boat with the slender sail
Into the twilight we shall steal, -
ana the little gray waves along our keel
snail snail sing you slumber song OF the sea,
Where sleep endureth unendingly>
The gray Sea Spirits in tender wise
snail lay cool hands upon your eyes;
IN 4 their arms Of mist you shall fall asleep,
Anu sea dreams into your soul shall creep.
ANA none shall know,-but on the shore
me OLD gray willows, bent and hoar,
shHil shiver and sigh to themselves next
day,
Leaning out over the sea Away.
-Harper's Bazaar.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-06

lice, whose captain is civil officer.
Though there are said to be 5000 peo-
pie in Dawson, few houses have been
built, for the principal reason that
lumber is S100 per 1000 feet. The
general fear is, of course, that there
will be great suffering there this win
ter, and it will be increased, it is ex-
pected, by the rush of unprepared
prospectors who sailed for the new
fields Immediately on learning what
luck had befallen those who have but
recently returned.
To give an accurate idea of the cost
of living in Dawson City, the price
list of general store there is herewith
given:
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-06

Some of the largest cotton mills in
New England are preparing to go into
the manufacture of linens. Two of
them have already done 50. The
Boot mills began this departure and
for three years has been employing
1900 looms on linens. The famous
Merrimac mills, of Lowell, have been
running 700 linen looms for two sea-
sons past. 1t is said that at least fif-
teen large cotton mills have under
consideration the question of changing
over at least part Of their machinery
to linen. The annual imports of
linens into this country amount to
more than $14, 900 and it is
natural that our manufacturers should
desire to capture this trade.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-06

unheeding, crowding into the Alaska
bound steamers without anything like
enough supplies or enough money to
see them through ten days of travel
on land. Miners who have been there
say that such as those will perish.
How to Reach the New Gold Fields.
There are two general routes to the
Klondike district. From Chicago both
lead to Seattle, and there diverge. One
goes by ocean steamer west and lit
tie north, and passes through Dutch
Harbor, at the extreme end OF the
southwest Alaskan peninsula. From
there the steamer turns north and con-
times on to st. Miohael's Island q little
above the mouth Of the Yukon, in Ber-
ing Sea. At that point passengers are
transferred to the river steamers to be-
gin the long journey up the Yukon,
which winds northward and eastward,
and finally brings the traveller to Daw-
son City, now the principal town in
the mining district, although sixty five
miles from the Klondike fields.
The cost of the trip from Chicago
this way, as prospecting miners usu-
ally travel, is $251. So 1t is divided
as follows: From Chicago to Seattle
(second class, S51 so; from Seattle to
Dawson City, 5000
In time the trip costs thirty days
four from Chicago to Seattle, sixteen
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-06
DAWSON CITY. IN THE KLoNpIKE GOLD REGION.

The cost of the trip this way can
not be definitely stated beyond Ju-
neau, because after that point it de-
pends somewhat on the bargain made
with the Chilkoot Indians, who pack
supplies through the pass, and the
length of time the overland part of the
journey requires. The cost from Chi
cago to Seattle is the same as by the
other route, of course, SOL. so second
class and SO more for first class. The
steamer fare up to Juneau and on to
Dyea is $40. What it costs on the
overland trip each traveller determines
partially for himself, but the Indians
who act as guides and pack supple:
do not work without big pay.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-06


In the purchase of Alaska, the United
States acquired Territory more than
half million square miles in extent,
part of it within the arctic circle and
in the region of everlasting ice and
snow, where, during part of the sum-
mer, there is continuous day and. dur
ing the winter continuous, dreary
night. The Alaskan coast line is
greater than our Atlantic seaboard, but
the entire population of whites, Eski-
mos and fierce Indians, who are called
the Apaches of the north, is not much
more than that of a ward division in
Chicago.
In acquiring the Alaskan Territory,
though the United States moved it's
center, figured in geographical miles,
not in area or population, as far west
as San Francisco. The country now
extends from about the sixty-fifth de-
gree of longitude up at the far east
corner of Maine to the 1921 degree up
at the far northwest tip of the Alaskan
mainland This is taking no account
of the little island of Attu, 1000 miles
out in the Pacific, beyond the Hawaiian
group, which, since the purchase of
Alaska, has really been our western
land limit.
The United States, therefore, may
almost say with England that the sun
never sets on its possessions.
The principal river in Alaska, the
Yukon, up which prospectors have to
work their weary way to reach the
gold fields was called by Schwatka, the
Alaskan Nile. 1t rises a little more
than 200 miles above Sitka, in the
southern part of Alaska, and then
strikes northward, following broad
circle to the west before it empties
into Bering Sea through an extensive
delta. Six hundred miles in from the
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-06

coast it is more than mile wide and
the volume of its water is so great as
to freshen the ocean ten miles out from
land.
e. The principal cities of Alaska are
Juneau and Sitka. They are both
thriving towns, and probably they will
thrive from now on, for time at least,
as they have never thriven before.
Alaska is ruled by Territorial Gov
ernor, who just now is J. G.. Brady,
recently appointed by President Nc
Kinley to succeed James A. Sheakley.
The Governors residence is in Sitka.
The citizens up in that frozen coun'
try do not vote for President of course,
being under Territorial government
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-06

The New Jersey authorities are dis
cussing the proposal to fill up the
Hackensack meadows and reclaim
thousands of acres of waste land. The
work will cost something like 81, 5OO,-
900, but, affirms the New York Herald,
since it would also result in extermi-
mating the famous long billed Jersey
mosquito and remove a standing joke
from the columns of the comic papers
there is no Jerseyite who will not say
the money could not be expended in
better cause.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-06

Every one of these men has story
to tell of the vast riches of the new
gold fields, but they tell another
story, too-a story of hardship, trial
and suffering through long winter days,
when the sun was smiling on this
earth's other pole and leaving them in
miserable cold and darkness. They tell a
story of prodigious travels, of stagger-
ing journeys and the dangers that be-
set the traveller. They tell what a
trip it is to reach the gold fields, and
when they get through the faint.
hearted prospector, who isn't thor,
oughly convinced that he wants to un-
dergo the trial, decides to forego the
trip to Alaska and dig up his wealth
at hom' go without. Some of the
gold. 'nturers, though, rush on
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-06

The best English writers habitually
employ, in both poetry and prose, o
larger proportion of Anglo-Saxon
words than of foreign words, and the
best writers Of our century use more
Anglo-Saxon words than the writer's Of
any preceding century, notwithstand.
ing the extraordinary increase of our
vocabulary from foreign sources. The
natural sciences, philosophy, theology,
will doubtless continue to increase this
foreign annex; but the examination Of
our literature indicates Enthusiastically
that the literary element in our Ian.
guage is the Saxon element. During
che past quarter of a century the study
of Anglo-Saxon in the principal uni.
versities of Germany, England and the
United States has brought about re-
vival of many obsolete Saxon words,
and the effect of this increasing study
is visible in the style Of the best prose
and, more especially, poetic compost
tions of the present day. Our voca.
bulary is capable of great enrichment
from the storehouse of the ancient
Anglican speech, as fully one-ffth of
the original Saxon is still obsolete. A
revival of taste for Anglo-Saxon will
recover these precious native coins
and put them once more in circulation.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-06

A correspondent of the New York
Herald suggests that the honor OF
christening our new war ships should
be reserved for such heroines as Miss
Agnes Judson, who bravely rescued
two men from drowning in the Sound.
One serious hinderance to such a plan
is that the number of war ships to be
christened would never equal the
number of American women who
would be entitled to the honor.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-06

All the miners who return from the
Klondyke gold fields accompany their
marvellous stories about the luck of
the 'tenderfeet" in finding rich claims
with the warning that no one should
venture into the region unless he is
well supplied with cash. This is
sound advice, deems the New York
Herald, for the excitement chat is now
causing thousands of persons to ven
ture into the gold fields is likely to
end in many "tenderfoot" returning
footsore and sorry he wasted his time.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-06

great hardships in accumulating the
fortunes they brought, and they told
story that had dark as well as a
bright side. To follow their example
means risk of wealth. health and
even life, but for those who are willing
to take the chances the prospect they
hold out is alluring.
Location of the KIondixe District.
The richest of the mines in the
Alaska region seem to be in the Klon-
dixie, few miles over the British
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-06
breakfast Picnics."

People get up early in the morning
out in Nebraska, and from this habit
some enterprising social leader has
evolved IN idea which has become q
fad in the neighborhood of Grand
Island, where breakfast picnics" are
in vogue. The guests start out at
o'clock, breakfast in the woods, and
come home before the sun makes
things too hot for comfort. t.-New York
Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-06

Outdoor exercise has not only made
girls feet larger, but has tended to
make girls larger and stronger in every
way. Girls cannot cramp their feet in
tight boots and enjoy athletics. 1t is
said by one who knows q great deal
about such matters that at dances you
don't see nearly as many dainty feet
as you used to.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-06

According to the Postoffice Depart
ment estimates, this country will use
next year of ordinary stamps 3,444,-
167, 200 of newspaper and periodical
stamps 6,462, 200, and of postage due
stamps 81, 168,000. OF the ordinary
stamps two and one-half billions are
of the two-cent denomination, and g.
900, 900 are of the ten-cent special de-
livery series.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-06

"Less sermon and moro praise are
BETTING the heated term" confesses
the New York Independent "People
drink more and eat less in hot weather.
Solids are less necessary and less agree
able. This is hint for preachers"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-06

Captain Mahan, the great naval ex.
pert, is quoted as saying that ''if we
do not at once annex Hawaii we must
either resolve to give it up to Japan or
to fight her within ten years, for she
will take it if we don't"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-06

Whether the farm pays or not, de-
pends very largely upon the farmer,
the farmers wife, and the paper they
read, maintains Farm News. Good,
hard sense, careful management and q
spirit of progress, will win success,
where recklessness and shiftlessness
and fogyism bring defeat.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-06

but they do send delegates to the Ma.
tional politicalconvsntions. The judi.
ciaI function there is exercised by o
district court, established in 1884.
The court sits alternately at Sitka and
Wrangle. How odd for court to sit
at Sitl1a and Wrang!e.
And speaking of Wrangle, among the
things Alaska has done for this coun.
try aside from stirring up the present
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-06
The Centre of the Gold Region.

Dawson City. the centre OF the new
mining region, although sixtyfvo
miles distant from the Klondike, is
said to be typical mining camp
minus the guns. The British Govern
ment enforces its laws in Dawson, and
those laws prohibit the use of firearms,
so few men carry guns. The laws of
the camp are enforced by mounted po-
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-06

The increase in the production of
gold has been very rapid during the
past twelve years and is proceeding
now at greater rate than ever.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-06

Russia is evidently strengthening
her hold upon Korea, somewhat to the
dismay of Japan.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-06

Total. l.......... E. $500, $50
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-25
Market Gossip.

Puts December wheat, ss7sc: calls De
cember wheat, 929sa9224c; puts December zee loe
Liverpool: Wheat, steady and unchang-
ishs yield so. 900 bushels, about one
quarter the consumption.
Bradstreet's clearances, $4,000 bush
els; last week. 6,569, 600 bushels.
Liverpool: Cash wheat quiet; No. 1
and No. red, Id higher; No. California,
unchanged.
London: Wheat on passage, quiet and
steady; corn off coast, very little doing;
on passage rather easier.
Exporters took at New York and out
ports about $780, 600 bushels of wheat for
loading way into November 10000 BUSH
els corn and 290 coo bushels oats at New
York. and $4,000 bushels of corn at out
Chicago: Barrett sold wheat. Patten
sold corn; he says the crop Will De Two
Forecast: Kansas City and vicinity;
fair tonight and Sunday. For Kansas and
Missouri. generally fair tonight and sun
day. Stationary temperature
Northwestern receipts: This year, Min
neapolis 563 cars, Duluth 7o3 cars. total l.
Duluth 1872 cars, total 1.04S cars.
Bank statement: Rese@ryes @ ID decrease. %
crease, $50 400; legal tenders, decrease, So
6l4 700; deposits. decrease, $1O6, ,O20; circula-
ton. increase, $50, 720.
els; 1uor, 49, S65 barrels; corn, 203, 900 BUSH
els: oats col, ,S14 bushels; rye, 81, 534 bush
els; wheat and flour equal to S6S,S4o push
New York: Seventy loads have been
taken here for export a loads at ouports-
English deliveries. $500 quarters; price.
33s lid, against previous week 1920 quar-
ters, price, 33s I'D.
Paris: Wheat steady; October, unchang-
ed; -four, steady; september ana OctoDer'
Antwerp: Wheat quiet and unchanged.
Estlaeea see peT az corn 72s cars: oats
500 cars; hogs, $4,000 head
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-25
TODAY'S MARKET REPORT.
Furnished by the Associated Press to
the State Journal

Chicago, Sept. %
wHEAT-wheat opened easy and
slightly lower today, December starting
at from 921sc to 921ac, compared with yes
terday's closing price of 9215G92ssc. The
Minneapolis and Duluth reporting 1855
cars, against 1143 cars last week and 95S
cars year ago. Liverpool cables show
ed no change in response to the sc ad-
vance here yesterday. The weather in
the winter wheat section was still very
dry and unfavorable for seeding Export
business at the seaboard yesterday was
reported at 100000 bushels. Clearances
for the week from both coasts amounted
that September shipments were as large
as any month in 1891. Local sentiment.
sence of any support of consequence De
cember declined to 9113c. Covering
by shorts then caused the price to react
to 9134 691kc. New York was very weak,
and this fact had considerable influence.
rCORN-Corn was very weak with COM
mission houses and longs all selling. The
Cables We're AM3sd lower Receipts, 6S2
cars, were $50 cars over estimates De
cember opened 14c lower at So2sc and de-
OATS-Oats were practically at stand
still. There was a little trading in May
at &c decline. The tone was weak on
the heavy receipts, $40 cars. December
was quoted a shade lower at 207sc, May
PRoVISIONs-There was renewed Hqui-
dation in provisions and prices were lower
all around. The yellow fever news was
December pork opened 2lac lower at
S. .171h, advanced to $S.221s and declined to
$s.15. December lard was quoted 2lsc
higher at $4.471a, but October was &c lower
at $4.35 December ribs opened unchang-
ed at $4.821k and DECLINED to $4.75
RYENCash and September, 47c; Decem-
IF Fi.Ax-cash. $1.o2: cash northwest,
TIMOTHY-Cash, s2.65; September, 81. 75;
October, $2.70; March, $3.50.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-25

Kenny will make their home at Her
ington, where Mr.. Kenny is brake
man for the Rock Island. At 8 o'clock
Rev. Hutchinson united in marriage
Miss Alma Kistler, only daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Kistler. Jr., and
Mr.. Frank d. Russell. Both Mr.. and
Mrs. Russell are well known on this side
and will go to housekeeping on Monroe
street. This couple had not left the
parsonage, when Mr.. Rush w. Conk-
lin and Miss Florence Mae Chapman
arrived and desired Mr.. Hutchinson to
perform the marriage ceremony for
them, which was done at $50. Mr. and
Mrs Conklin will be at home to their
friends this winter at 140S Van Buren
street. Mr.. Conklin is a brother of
Frank Conklin of fire station No. 1. and
Mrs. Conklin has been very prominent
in Baptist church circles.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-25
Chicago Livestock Market.

Chicago, Sept. 25.
HOGSEstimated receipts hogs today.
1000: left over, 1000. Market slow and
50i1Oc lower. Light, So -95Q4.3 .35; mixed.
S3.S5@4.30; heavy, So. .65@425; rough, So $50
3.75.
CATTLE-Receipts, 600 About steady;
nearly all consigned to slaughterers. Mar
ket unchanged.
SHEEP-Receipts, 5000. Market steady.
Official yesterday:
CATTLE-Receipts, 4,796; shipments, g.
SIC.
SHEEP-Receipts, 1o,726; shipments. L.
063.
Estimated receipts hogs Monday, 2,oOO.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-25
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The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-25
Kansas City Produce Market.
Kansas City. Sept.

Kansas CITY, Sept. ..
WHEAT-Slow, generally 1c lower. No.
/ hard. S5c; No. 3 S2A@S415c; No. g. 500
s21ac; No. A. 77GS1c: No. 2 red. 9o991c: No.
8, 85dSSc; No. 4, S2Qs4c; No. spring, 79
6DS0c.
CORN-Steady. No. 2 mixed. 24s4d25c.
OATS-Steady, active. No. white, 2oc-
RYE+Weak. No. 2, 42c.
HAY-Fairly active, somewhat lower.
Choice timothy, IS; choice prairie, S6Q6. %.
BUTTER-Active, strong. Creamery, Is
620c: dairy 120D15c.
EGGS-111hc
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-25

f OR SALE-Farms-160 acre improved
N miles out, small payment, long time
low rate interest on balance. 100 acres
splendid improvements, 3 milese out. cheap
at $40 per acre. so, finely improved. 5
miles out, s., 600. 800 acre stock and grain
farm in Pottawatomie county for less
than $40 per acre. 120 acres, improved
Morris county, 81, ,5OO 22O acres near Te-
cumseh, Shawnee county, houses, 2
barns, orchards, plenty timber and
water, $50 per acre. j. D. Miller & Co,
COL Kansas ave.
FOR SALE-Suburban-7 room house.
= barn, cellar. well, cistern and so lots
adjoining, S1,100. 10 acres, house. barn,
part cash, balance payments. Also, other
small tracts. J. D. Miller & Co., COL Kan
ave.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-25

EOR SALES room house, lots. barn,
Il fine shade, brick walks, within two
blocks of Potwin school, $500, $50 to 500
cash, balance monthly.
house, 81, 100.
room cottage. newly painted and pa
pered. within blocks Kansas ave and
Eighth ave-, 5000. 500 cash. balance
monthly.
11a vacant lots. finest on West Sixth
ave, $3.50.
acres and room house, close in, 81, ,O0O
easy terms.
so acre farm. miles from Eskridge
Kan, room house, stables, 8 wells, so
acres in cultivation, all fenced and cross
fenced, improvements alone cost over $780,
our price for the whole, S900-the cheapest
little farm in Kansas.
We have houses to rent, money to loan
]. w. FERGUSON & CO., Agents.
625 Kansas.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-25
Kansas City Livestock Market.

Kansas City, Sept. ..
CATTLE-Receipts, 200. Market steady,
unchanged; only retail trade.
HOGEReceipts, 1900. Market weak to
SC lower. Bulk of sales, 50 s5d3. .95; heavies.
So. 5000 95: packers. $3.S0d3. .9215; mixed,
So S514: lights, So. .sOQ4: yorkers, $4Q4O5;
SHEEP Receipts 5Oo Market steady.
Lambs IS 36O65. .35: muttons, $2.50G3.60.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-25
Sugar and Coffee.

New York, Sept. Is.
SUGAR-Raw, firm; fair refining, 9ssc;
centrifugal 96 test 8 15-16m4c; refined,
firm; crushed, SAC; powdered, 37sc; gran
CoFiFEElsteady. No. I, TIC.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-25
The Cotton Market .

New York, Sept. ..
COTTON-Futures closed easy. Sales.
s8 500 bales. January, $6.41; February, s6.45;
March s6.4S: April, S6.52; May, S6.56; Sep
tember Sc IS: October, $685.; November,
Sc 80; December, $685.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-25
FOR sALE-REAL ESTATE


FOR SALE-A new room cottage on
\ East Eighth St, good cistern, we'll
of water, front and back porch. Price
mentS.
11k lots, room house, between Sixth
and Seventh on Monroe street well, els
tern, barn. Price 81, 800. $500 to $500 cash.
balance in monthly payments.
room cottage on Locust street, near
Fifth, good cellar well and cistern. fine
grape arbor, small barn. Price $500, $100
cash, balance in monthly payments.
113 lots, east front room cottage eel
lar, hot and cold bath, well. cistern. sewer
connection. electric lights, hard oil e.
ish. on Quincy street. Price. 81. .0O0 500
cash, balance in monthly payments. This
is something nice.
room house on Chandler st. between
Fourth and Fifth. well water fruit
shade and blue grass. Price $500, part
cash, balance in monthly payments.
1 acre of ground, 3 room house fruit
cave, well water, grape arbor, peaches,
West Tenth. Price $3.50.
u acres 1i9 miles north of reform school.
splendid fruit land. $50 per acre. This
is about half price.
room house between Fourth and Fifth
on Leland, ciStern. well, barn, fine shade
and blue grass Price 5000, one-half cash,
balance in monthly payments
Several vacant lots two or three blocks
east of Santa Fe shops, from 500 to 500
each- Small payments down. balance in
monthly payments.
VIII write your fire insurance and loan
you money at the lowest rates.
For further particulars call on
w. c. STEPHENSON & CO.,
6O9 Kan. Ave. (over Rigby's).