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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26
CAME BACK RICH,
And Is Now Recommending Those Who
Aided Him When He Was a Pauper.

Aided Him W hen He was a faupefs
CHICAGO, Aug. 25.-Seven years ago
William Fehesh arrived in Chicago from
New York stranded, without a penny to
his name. Yesterday the same William Fee
hesh arrived in Chicago from Camp Fe-
hesh, Alaska, a millionaire. Cook county Is
richer by Mr.. Fehesh's second visit to the
exact amount it was poorer by his first ar
rival, and several Of the county commits
sioners are in fair way to reap uneX-
pected wealth. Yesterday morning a wealth
er-beaten and toil-worn stranger walked
into President Daniel D. Healy's office and
deposited a draft on New York for $3.50
on his desk.
Whats this for?" asked Mr.. Healy in
surprise.
In answer the bronzed stranger told his
story. In 1890 Mr.. Fehesh came to Chicago
to seek work. He had no money and being
unable to find employment, he was soon
the verge ( starvation. He was too
proud to ask public charity at first, but at
last his condition was noticed by the city
police, who directed him to the Cook coun-
ty board The commissioners took pity on
the forlorn man and ordered transpOrta-
ton to be given him to New York, where
Mr.. Fehesh never forgot their action.
Four years ago he found his way to Alaska
and thereafter was particularly lucky. He
has worked hard during the last four years
and to-day he estimates his wealth at ST.,
100000 My object in stopping in Chicago,
lie Sdlu, is 10 repay COOK county tHo
amount expended in sending me to New
York seven years ago and to personally re-
imburse the commissioners who aided me
out of their own pockets The ticket was
half fare one and cost the county 81 so
which amount. with compound interest for
seven years; figures up to $3.50.
MIR. Fehesh inquired as to who were the
members of the board in 1890 and copied
their names down as Mr. Healy read them
from the record. They are: George Edman-
son. John c. Shubert, A. w. Bonner M. M
Hayes, ], T. Kelly, j. w: Reilly, Herman
s leR nnai9 91isn MGnAe Tne1 TacNp
Green, H. c. Senne and George Struck
man. Mr. Fehesh says he wants to present
each with a few shares of the Fehesh
Camp mining stock as an expression Of his
gratitude. The records of the board sustain
the miners story Of receiving aid from
Cook county seven wears ago.
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TWO BRAVE WOMEN.
How Mrs. Adler and Her Niece Are
Managing an ExpedftiOn

SEATTLE. Wash. Aug 25.-"The bravest
woman ever saw in my life" said n. }.
Tanner, of Oakland, Cal, who was among
the passengers on the steamer Resale,
from Dyea, ARE Mrs. Adler and her niece,
of San Francisco. Mrs. Adler was accom-
panied by her husband and two sons, and
the entire party were my fellow passengers
on the steamer Noyo, which sailed from
San Francisco for Dyea district The COM
pany which had sent out the boat notified
us that they would land US and our goods
at Dyea In good shape. They also promised
to furnish us with guide who would pilot
us through the mountain passes.
Well when we arrived at Dyea inlet we
learned that it would cost us a considerable
amount of coin to have our goods and cur
persons landed at the village of Dyea, as
tre steamer could not get near the shore.
Ttle officers informed US that the best they
could do was to land us on the rocky point
that Juts out into the Lynn canal at the
mouth of Dyea inlet. Then we would have
to hire white or Indian boatmen to take us
up the bay and Dyea river to the village.
When Mrs. Adler learned of this she
called out the purser and made speech,
telling him that she had paid about 81, 200
to have herself and her family and their
supplies landed at Dyea-not on a point
about five miles from the town. She said
that she could not afford to pay any more
and she demanded the fulfillment of the
agreement. The purser told her that the
steamer could not get nearer the shore and
that If there was any more complaint the
freight and passengers would be landed at
the nearest point on the rocks and could
shift for themselves. Finally, were
landed with our goods piled in propliScuous
piles along the shore.
1T then that Mrs. Adler and her
niece gave evidence of true grit and pluck.
Mr. Adler is a weakly sort of man and his
sons seemed to be helpless. Mrs. Adler and
her niece donned short skirts and knicker
bockers on the steamer just before they
came ashore, and the moment they landed
they went to work at the great mass of
freight and soon had their supplies in
pile ready to transport up the river. Mrs.
Adler was rolling bundles and boxes about
with the assistance of her niece and direct
ing the feeble efforts of her men folk. She
hired Loats, stored the freight on board and
soon had the supplies well on their way
crossings of the river her husband fell into
the stream and was unconscious when his
wife and her niece pulled him out.
Ion my return from Dyea, en- route TO
Skaguay, / met the Adler party at the fer
ry waiting to cross to Dyea village. Mrs.
Adler was hustlng about theoretically, di-
rectng the movements of the boatmen. l
asked her if she intended to continue on
her proposed trip through Chilcat pass to
the Klondike mines. L am going through,
she said. i have come this far and am
not going to turn back now l left her
hard at work tell YOU that woman is
thoroughbred"
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BROUGHT BACK NO GOLD.
Arrival of the Willamette from Alas
ka-FoOd Scarce Mt Dawson.

SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. 25.-The steamer
Willamette came up to the ocean dock from
Alaska to-day carrying the following pas
sengers: J.. w. Virgin, J. H. Weber, w.
H Eockaday G. II. ]. Wiseman, A. Bell
and Arthur Needham. The Willamette left
Skaguay Aug. 10; Juneau Friday and Sitka
Saturday morning. She brought down no
gold, although $4,000 was offered by
party of four men who had crossed over
land from Dawson City, leaving there Sun
day, July 4. These men, however, only
wanted to come as far Juneau, where
they expected to winter and as the purser
was not sure al the time the gold Of
fered that the boat would stop at Juneau
he declined to take it on board. They re-
ported that provisions at Dawson arc
growing very short One of them said that
he had a friend who had several buckets
of gold but was living on two spoonfuls
of beans and a piece of bacon as large as
his hand per day.
Thomas Etanton, of Seattle. was, one of
the returning passengers of the steamer.
He went north TO join Seattle party that
left on the Mexico. The others had taken
his outfit with them and he proposed to
meet them on the trail. The steamer was
so much delayed in starting that Stanton
arrived too late and decided to wait until
spring before going to the Yukon. He says:
1T is shame the way the Skaguay trail
has been advertised as every day proves
il to be more and more impracticable. /
went over the trail as far as Porcuplne
river and that was all / wanted, although
] did not have any pack to speak of. Dead
horses can be seen all along the trail while
many others are so badly skinned and
bruised that they fiji for nothing. Foot
sore men and others with strained backs
are common, especially among the men
for wages. The biggest crowd of prospec-
tive klondikers is to be found camped
along The tran al the way from the bay to
through this year, Over at Dyea there
seems TO be very little trouble The trail
is much sleeper but horses do not get up
to their necks in mud and slush. Many
men are going in the other way. Things
are very lively at the town and on the
bay just now. AT first It was all tents but
frame buildings are rapidly going up. Next
week q sawmill will be in operation. Many
are already at work getting out lumber
for the new mill at good wages. Six stores.
carrying stocks of mixed goods have
started up and are doing very WE'LL
The Willamette saw nothing of the Port
land on her trip down and her officers say
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Situation in Mexico.

CITY OF MEXICO, Aug. 25.-Notwith-
standing the renewed decline in silver, ex-
change on London and New York
was easy to-day, brokers having
bought at 139 and LAO on New York and
selling at 1.431s to LA. 1t is believed the
exchange will gradually rise to 1.50. Bust
ness is quiet and there have been no fail
ures General business is active, but i'm
portatiOns are generally greatly checked.
The universal hope is that some permanent
basis for silver will be reached, as the I'M
certainty prevents all calculations. The
cotton crop this year will be large and will
bring large profits to planters. the total
$15 900 900 as now estimated. There has
been no marked advance in staple provi-
sions here Waters Pierce Oil Company has
reduced the price of oil, owing to the COM
petition with the New Mexico Petroleum
Company both companies importing crude
oil from the United States and refining it.
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MARYLAND REPUBLICANS.
Lively State Convention Probable To-
DaY-The baltimore Row

BALTIMORE, Md, Aug. 25.-The Repuh
lican state convention, which will meet At
the Atlantic pavilion at Ocean City to-mor-
row, promises to be one of the lveliest in
the history of the party in Maryland. The
convention will nominate candidates for
state controller and clerk of the Court of
Appeals A new state central committee
will also be elected. But the chief interest
in the conclave centers about the result of
the fight in the ranks of the party In this
city. In the contest for the mayoralty
nomination Senator Wellington, leader
of the organization forces, has indOrsed
r. Master, president of the Columbian iron
works, protested against having their
champion thus ignored and made an issue
before the people, Master developing great
strength at the primary elections held in
his interest. The two sets of primaries
eliminated in two city conventions, which
last night named two candidates for mayor.
At the same time in each of the three legis-
lative districts, which cover the entire city
two district conventions were held, each
nominating full delegations to the state
convention. Which of these delegations
will be recognized by the convention is the
mOOted question.
Senator George L. wellington left here
last night for ocean City. AS chairman Of
the state central committee he will call the
convention to order In discussing the con-
said that the real cause of the trouble was
ambitions and jealousies. He thinks that
the state convention will sustain the or
ganzation. State Controller Robert p.
Graham is a candidate for denomination
and will probably receive the nomination.
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LINCOLN, Neb.. Aug. 25.-Many of the
delegates to to-morrows Republican state
convention are in the city tonight. but in
terest in the outcome is not great. 1t is gen.
orally conceded that Chief Justice a. NJ.
Post will be renominated for supreme
Judge a third of the counties in the State
having instructed for him. while the re-
mainder have sent uninstructed delegations.
Judge Posts strength Is not pronounced.
and only the absence of other avoWed can
didates makes his chance best. His home
county. Platte, only instructed for him aft
er fight, and If leader could be found TO
start a movement for an opposition candi-
date the situation might be interesting. 1t
is rumored tonight that when the Douglass
county (Omaha) delegation arrives to-mor-
row morning it will start a boom for Dis
trict Judge w. w. Keyser of Omaha. and
If the report be true and Judge Keyser
permits the use of his name the struggle
will be a pretty one. Keyser is one OF
the most popular men in the State. and a
landslide in his favor will not be surprising
c. w. Kalety, of Red Cloud, will probably
be nominated for university regent, and
with him j. n. Dryden, of Kearney.
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TREASURE SHIP DUE.
Steamer Portland Expected to Bring
Tons of KIondiI<e Gold.

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash, Aug. 25.-
The steamship Portland is due to arrive
from the mouth of the Yukon river to-mor-
row, and it is expected she will bring sew
eral tons of gold from the Klondike gold
fields. Great excitement was caused last
night by receipt of a message from Tatoosh
island that vessel was passing in and it
was believed to be the steamer Portland.
Three tugs left Immediately down the
straits to meet her. The Associated Press
tug, after steaming forty miles, spoke the
steamship Willamette, from Dyea and
Skaguay. which proved to be the vessel re-
ported at Tatoosh. The tug will lie in the
straits until the Portland is sighted. Spe-
cial lookouts have been placed at every
telegraph station on either side of the
straits, and there is little probability that
she can slip by without being sighted, al
though weather in the straits is thick and
is likely to remain so at this season of the
year. While officials of the North Ameri-
can Transportation and Trading Company
look for the Portland tomorrow, they say
it may be three days yet before she puts
in an appearance.
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KANSAS CITY. Mo, Aug 25.-A large
part of the plant of the Kansas City Car
and Foundry Company, in Armourdale, was
tonight destroyed by fire. resulting from
the bursting of a furnace in the foundry
building The loss is fully $3.50 600. The
plant is owned by the Armour interests and
is insured for $4,000.
PITTSBURG, Aug. 25.-F'ire tonight de-
stroyed Beggs &, Co.'S monument and hard
wood mantel establishment and the Vogle
Preserving Company's plant, at Lacock
and Anderson streets, Allegheny Beggs g
the Vogle Company is put at $4,000 with
81 900 insurance. The Central Presbyterian
Church roof was partly burned off.
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the Commonwealth The league is pledged
to McCauley and opposed to Beacon, but is
taking no activity in the interest of any Of
the candidates.
There is talk of a resolution being offered
by Senator Quay's enemies condemning him
for advocating reduction by the last
Legislature of Sf.000.000 in the public school
fund. The Quay people control both the
State committee and the convention. and
this resolution is not likely to be inserted in
the platform. Senator Penrose will be
chairman OF tho resolutions committee and
Senator McCarrel, of Harrisburg, per-
manent chairman of the convention. Con-
grossmGn Hicks of Altoona, is slated for
temporary chairman. The party leaders
have abandoned the plan TO censure the
Legislature for its refusal to pass the Quay
reform hills.
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NEW YORK, Aug. ,25.-Arrived: Noord-
land, from Antwerp; Majestic, from Liver
pool Sailed ST. Paul. for southampton;
Britannia, for Liverpool; California, for
Hamburg; Southwark for Antwerp.
QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 25.-Arrived: Bel
genland, from Philadelphia. Sailed: Au-
rama, for New York.
SOUTHAMPTON. Aug. 25.-Arrived: Par
is. from New York Sailed: Saale. for
New York
ROTTERDAM Aug. 25.-Arrived: OLDHAM,
from New York. Sailed: Maasdam, for New
York.
LIVERPOOL Aug. %. - Arrived Teu-
tonic, from New York.
MARSEILLES. Aug. 25.-Arrived: Patria,
from New York.
GLASGOW, Aug. 25.-Arrived: Anchoria.
from New York.
York
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cuns Turned on Indian Packers.

VICTORIA, Aug. "a private letter re-
ceived here from j. Fleming, who was a
passenger to Skaguay on the steamer Cap
itano gives the details of a lively encoun-
ter with the Indian packers on the arrival
of the steamer. The Indians agreed to
carry goods over the trail for SIS per hun
bred, but subsequently, with supreme con-
tempt for the agreement they demanded
$50 per hundred and payment in advance.
Then the hardy Argonauts rose in their
wrath. Guns were pulled and some of the
Western men, trained in the gOodIndian-
is-a-dead-Indian school of philosophy, be-
gan blazing away to intimdate the rapac-
ious red men. battle was averted only
by the cool-headed men of the party, who
arranged another talk and told the chief
packers that no such game of eXtortion
would go. The result was that the miners
held the packers to the original agreement
and the supplies soon were moving up the
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Bottle of Brown County Gold.
Special to the indianapolis Journal

Special to the Indianapolis journal.
FRANKLIN, Ind, Aug. 25-Considerable
excitement has been Occasioned recently in
the southern part of Johnson county and in
Brown county by fresh discoveries of gold.
For years men have made a living in some
parts of Brown county by washing for gold,
but the recent discoveries have increased
the chances for wealth. William Blevins,
an old prospector from rear Spearsville,
was in Franklin this afternoon and dis
played a bottleful of dust and nuggets
which he had secured from the dirt in his
neighborhood. He believes there is wealth
in the future for the men who carry on the
mining with prosper machinery.
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OLD SOLDIER MISSING.
Joseph SchnIer, Who Disappeared
from GreenviIIe. o., Not Yet Found.

GREENVILLE, O.. Aug. 25y-The police
and detectives of this city are at work on
the most mysterious case their attention
has ever been called to. 1t is the disap-
pearance of Joseph Schiller, an old veteran
and a member of the G. A. r., who lived
alone one mile west of this city. Monday
evening, Aug 16. was the last seen of him.
Wednesday some of the neighbors called at
the house. A stream of blood was found
leading from the door on the brick walk,
about twenty feet, to the grass lawn. where
it ended in a pool. A freshly-made track
of q wagon which had been driven near the
house and turned around was seen. The old
man was probably stabbed and dragged TO
and after getting all his valuables the
body was carried AWAY
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NEW YORK,~Aug 25.-The general strike
of the cloak makers of this city and vicin-
ity, which had been threatened for a long
time has been ordered. Henry Fisher, of
the board of walking delegates of the
Brotherhood of Cloak Makers, announced
to-day that the twelve thousand cloak
makers in the brotherhood will be called
out tomorrow. More than five thousand
went out this afternoon.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-Edgar Gibbs MUIR
ply Fred Hoey DIR. Gagnon and Phil Daily
snot a fifty-bird match at Hollywood to-
day in the sweepstakes of $1,000 and at the
conclusion of the contest Murphy Hoey
and Gagnon were tied with forty-five killed.
Murphy and Gagnon were anxious to shoot
off the tie at ten birds, but Hoey absolute
in the absence of any special agreement or
rules for settling the question, the mat
ter was left in an unsettled state, barring
the simple division of Days 5000 among
the three ton men
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Sigma. CHI Ernfcrnitx.

NASHVILLE Tenn, Aug 25.-One hun
dred delegates attended the opening SEES
sions of the Sigma Chi fraternity conven-
ton at the Capitol to-day. The meeting
in the morning was devoted to the examina-
ton OF the credentials o, the delegates
from the various chapters. The afternoon
The rules co@mjttae made its i rs ana
night an open meeting Of the convention
was held, at which George T. Merrick of
Chicago. delivered the annual address.
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New LING of Schoonerr.

PORT TOWNSEND. Wash, Aug. PA
company has been organized here called
the Copper River Transportation and Min
ing Company. The company will operate a
line of schooners between this place ana
Cook Inlet south Alaska, the Prince Will
liam sound country and Copper river points
in passenger and freight traffic. The first
trip north will be made in February
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PITTSBURG, Pa, Aug 25.-The second
session of the convention of the Daughters
of Liberty was devoted to the reading and
adoption of reports? The reports showed
that the order has been established in four
new States-North Carolina, South Caro-
lima, Tennessee and Montana. That
throughout its jurisdiction 105 new councils
have been added to the roster; that there
has been an increase of over 1900 in men,
bership. The total number of councils was
345. During the year there were 139 deaths
m ba
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10000 AFTER GOLD.
Number Of People Who Have Gone to
kIOndiIke This SenSon

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25.--Here is a
list of the steamers that have left this port
and Seattle for Alaska, crowded with men
mad with Klondike fever AS these lines
meet the eye most of these ships are sailing
northward have landed their compile
ments of gold seekers and they are pushing
fnruNn I'd TO klOndila.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. Aug. 25.-There
seems to be no doubt of the nomination Of
Mai. Levi G. McCauley. OF Westchester.
for auditor general and James S. Beacon.
of Greensburg. for state treasurer by to-
morrow's State Republican convention. The
Business Mems League. which is antagonis-
tic to Senator Quay. has headquarters at
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figures have not been exaggerated. but are
taken from the passenger lists of the vessels
whose names are given. The list Of vessels
Is as complete as could possibly be com
piled. Enthusiastically some parties have
got away by the water route whose de-
parture has not been reported to the news
papers. But as ii is, nearly ten thousand
persons have taken this method of reach
ing the land of gold
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Two More vessels start North.

SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. 25.-The steamer
Rosale has departed for Skaguay with
about one hundred passengers and a full
load of horses and supplies for. miners She
also took a number of wagons to break the
light, which had to take off most of her
deck load of lumber on order of the in
spector, got away with her sixty passen-
gers to-day.
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Michael defeats MCCARTHY,

TORONTO, Aug. 25.-Jimmy Michael and
T. b. Mccarthy of Toronto, were the great
cards at the electric-light meet tonight.
They raced for a purse of 800, best two
one mile and the third two miles. McCar-
thy finished ahead in the first heat, the
time being 1853 2-5. Michael won the Sec
ond in 1867 3-5 and the third in 1855 rs.
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WILL DISCARD SILVER.
Salvador to Adopt the Gold Standard
Soon as Possible.

PANAMA, Aug. 25.-Dispatches from Sal
vador say that the slump in silver has
caused so much embarrassment that Con-
gress was called in extraordinary session.
President Gutierrez sent IN message ad-
vsing the adoption of the gold basis, to
take effect as soon as possible, and con-
gress passed the necessary measures. The
exchange rate on the United States jumped
to 200 at San Salvador to-day.
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Gold Quartz In Illinois.

CANTON, ILL.,, Aug. 25.-Gold quartz has
been discovered near here and the find is
said to be rich in ore. Steps will be taken
to ascertain the value of the lode.
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VANCOUVER, B. c., Aug. 25.-The steam
ers Warrior and Aorangi. which are due
here in a few days, will bring from Aus
tralia five hundred miners who are bound
for the kIondike gold fields.
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The Central College of Physicians and
Surgeons will open it's nineteenth session
Sept. Is. Two stories have been added to
the present college building.