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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-16
DISCOURAGING STORIES.
Many WOuId-Be GOId-SeeIers Forced
TO Turn Back to the Coast.


SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. 15.-The predic-
ton that there would be misery and suf-
fering on Dyea and Skaguay passes, Alas
ka, is fast becoming a stern reality. w. II.
Ewing, who went on the Rosalie, writes
as follows from Skaguay: I'VE have just
arrived here, the city of tents. The wharf,
which is at the base of a mountain of rock
columns, is 500 square feet. There is no
warehouse. The trail which leads to the
city from the wharf has been hewn out of
this mountain of rocks. AS the tide is out
now it is possible to pick your way along,
but impossible to take a horse from the
wharf across the trail to the city In order
to reach the trail the horse would have to
jump ten feet down. The steamer Edith,
with seventy horses, is now anchored out
tide to get the horses on a scoW in order
to take them as near as possible to shore
without dock. They wade them the rest
of the way.
Il. j. Richards, formerly of Seattle, told
me that many who have come up here have
returned F. 3. Porter, of New York city
mining business. He told the following
story of the conditions at Dyea as he
are encamped at Dyea. They are liv-
ing in their tents in which they have
packed their goods and are waiting for
that is. some of them are waiting. Many
have sold their outfits and are arranging
to come back. Several came down on the
Mexico, and | saw a good many in Juneau
who had given up the trip. The Skaguay
trail is not open beyond the summit. There
is a good trial as far as the summit. Some
time ago a man named Rice advertised in
the Juneau papers that the trail was open
and many of those going into the Klondike
landed there.
Il understand from two Juneau men who
attempted to take a small outfit over this
trail that they were compelled to turn back.
They returned to Juneau, enlarged their
outfit and will go over the Dyea trail. Men
are needed to pack on these trails not
horses. Horses get along until they reach
the summit, then man has to pack his
own outfit or sell it. At Juneau a great
many positions are vacant, but in a month
the town will be filled with men who have
failed to get across the pass. l cannot see
how the men who are leaving here now
can expect to get across the trail to Lake
Bennett in time to make the trip down
the river
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To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
In an editorial, Taxation of Patent
Rights" you quote from the attorney gen.
eral of Indiana follows:
'The value represented in a patent under
which the holder has an exclusive right 10
the invention or discovery for period of
years stands upon very dlnerent tootlng.
Primarily the value of such invention lies in
it's novelty and usefulness. II 1t Is neither
novel nor useful ii has no value, no matter
how many patents may have been issued
upon it. All the value given to it by letters
patent is in the monopoly or right to the
exclusive use for a term of years in that
which was his before, and this monopoly.
while afforded by the general government
in the exercise OF grant conferred upon it
by the Constitution, IS IN no sense a gov
eminent appliance. Without il, while the
people might not live so comfortably the
government might exist as powerfully. Its
value represents not only the interest worth
of the invention but the value of money
expended in advertising and making known
to the world the value and necessity of it,"
Now if in what the attorney general of
Indiana says there is to be found any prop
ostion on which that functionary may be
taken as locking horns" with Federal
Judge Baker, it is the proposition that the
ascertained inherent worth" of the inven-
ton covered by patent, coupled with the
money required to be invested "in adver-
Using and making known TO the world the
value and necessity Of that invention" is
that which the State may legitmately tax.
have not yet. L trust reached the stage
of senility when any sort of intellectual
gymnastics has failed to interest, and so /
would fain inquire how the State Board of
Tax Commissioners shall proceed 10 ascer-
tain the inherent worth of the "inven-
ton" and how, after money has been
expended by the inventor or any promoter
'in advertising and making known &c the
world the value and necessity of" ii g in
vention, the State Board of Tax Commits
sioners shall proceed to add the value OF
that expended money to the invention
itself? Am l TO conclude that ii is pre-emi-
nently the function of the State Board OF
Tax Commissioners TO guess property into
existence for the purpose OF taxation? y
| own letters patent for invention
which | regard not only as of inherent
worth" but as being a necessity" to the
world but as to such money l have al
ready spent in order TO impress the world
with a moving sense of either the inherent
worth of that invention or of the ''neces-
sity of IT,. that money, alas. has gone from
me. and most likely will nev4r return either
TO my touch or smell, though l confess to
the pleasing hope that some other citizen
of this or some other State is honestly taxed
with it. II torsooth- the State Board o.
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Prohibition hotties.


washington 1oSt
Here's something for temperance coun-
try, or, more particularly, a prohibition
country" said Commissioner Butterworth.
as he picked up two very long. slim fat
bottles. The attorney who has just been
explaining these bottles continued the
Commissioner says they can be used in
New Hampshire. Maine and other states
where the prohibition laws are enforced.
He is attorney for a man who wants a de-
sign granted for them by the Patent Of
flee"
1t appears that in the prohibition States or
in communities where there Is strong
temperance sentiment a man who would
wish to purchase and carry home any
liquor would get himself suspected II he
carried it in the usual oblong bnttl, with
rounding sides or in the round bottle with
a long neck. The bottles for which the de-
sign is asked are long and fiat and can be
wrapped so as to look like a package Of
dry goods or some parcel In the common
fat box which is used in stores for any
article sold. The man who wishes to APP
pear on the streets with parcel in his
hand can carry small bottle of tangle-
foot home and not be suspected. The quart
bottle is so long that he could tuck ii under
his arm and the general public would say.
There goes Mr.. Goodman with the parcel
of dry goods his wife asked him to get at
the store" The fiat bottles demonstrate
the saying of the small boys that there
is more than one way to skin cat"
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FUNERAL OF A COREAN
REMAINS OF POM KWASG son GRE
MATED AT WASHINGTON.
Body of the Late Senator George Ly-
ing i'm State in the Mississippi Cap
itoI-Death of Singer.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-The body of
Pom Kwang Sob, the former COrean min
lister to this country, whose death oc-
CURED here last Friday, was to-day Gre
mated. according to the expressed wish of
the deceased, and his ashes placed in the
keeping of the present minister, Mr.. Chin
Pom Ye. Later they may be returned to
Corea. At $3.50 O'Clock this afternoon the
body was taken from the Fourteenth-streer
residence, where it had lain in state, and
conveyed to Lees crematory, on Pennsyl-
vania avenue. followed by long line of
carriages containing personal friends and
prominent members of the Blavats ky
branch of the Theosophical Society, Of
which Mr.. Sob was a member The brief
and simple funeral services were conducted
by Mr.. George NJ. Coffin. president of the
society. The casket was draped with a silk
American flag and on it also had been
placed the robes of state worn by MI. Sob
during his official career here. At either
end OF the coffin were crosses of white and
pink roses which had been sent by Prince
Min and Mr.. Patt. Among those admitted
t. the chapel were Prince Min. Prince xvi
VIVA, the second son of the present Is ing
of Corea, in full court uniforms: Mr.. PAX,
Mr.. Suoh, Il number of COreaG students and
a number of the members of the Tncosophi-
cal Society
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ALL ARE NOT RONANZAs.
Many Gold Mines Swallow More Mon
CIV linn TheN Give In.

NEW YORK, Aug. 15.-There are great
losses in gold mining, and the mere state
ment that a sum slightly in excess of $1S-
900 900 in gold was mined in California last
year does not carry with it the significance
that attends the cost of mining. To be
precise in figures, the value of gold ore
mined in California was $l3,960 529, and the
cost of getting 1t was S12, 800 OF course,
there was profit onNsome mines and a loss
on others. but this is the average, which
shows that mining like many other indus
tries, is at times very costly for capital 1t
really cost 90 cents to produce dollar of
mired gold in California last year. 1t cost
SO O5 in Alabama, and 1856 in Wyoming to
produce a dollar of bullion from the mines
In Colorado the total mined was $2S, 600 O00
in round numbers. at cost of $13, 800 coo, so
that 1t cost 30 cents there to mine a dollar
of bullion. In Montana the cost was 45
cents
In 1890 the total gold and silver mined
in this country was 500. 2sS. 1872. and the
capital invested was S46S 1923. $685. or $3.50 of
capital for every dollar of bullion pro-
duced. Putting il in another way. only 20
cents of bullion was produced for every
dollar of capital.
The total expenditure in mining this sum-
mer was 500. 45i 1856. The amount of ex-
pense per dollar of bullion gold and silver
was 81 cents More than 5000 mines pro-
duced less than $4,000 each. Only twenty
eight mines OF the 5000 produced over a
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half million each; fewer than fifty produced
between $4,000 and $500 600 II is esti-
mated that 1000 nonproht-producing mines
worked last year, and that 1856 were idle
or abandoned. California has first place IN
gold producing, but Colorado is close be-
hind. and the two produce an aggregate or
$2TOOo,O0O OF gold year, California being
about 100000 ahead of Colorado Inc TO-
tai production now in this country averages
about 1000 a year, although last year
the production was $4,000.
But the losses indicated above are from
mines either developed or in process of de-
of the loss in gold mining. or OF the cost
of getting the precious metal The mining
camps and the mining country. from
Alaska to Peru, hold thousands of men who
have spent their lives and all their money
in quest of gold. Many of these have gath
cred thousands of dollars in placer mining
only TO lose all in the search for gold-bear-
ing quartz. Many, having acquired a moo
est fortune have invested ii in what looked
like good mining property, only to hnd that
the product would not pay the interest on
the cost Of machinery and building. Not
one proSpectOr in twenty-five, so the rec
CrdS show, is successful and one-half or
those who do find paying quantities IN rock
mining are caught in other gold mining
ventures that do not pay for the labor en-
ployed.
Silver ore, on an average, costs 80 cents
an ounce to mine, and then must be taken
out in big quantities to pay. Gold may
run $500 to the ton of ore, and then fall TO
$50 to the ton paying vein tempts the
investor to increased outlay of the macnln-
cry and labor, only to find at the end that
the lead is false one. If the amount OF
capital sunk in abandoned mines and. lost
by individual prospectOrs should be added
to the capital employed in paying proper
ties, it would be found that gold mining
is, as a whole, a risky business and that
amount has been expended. with the proht
to the few and the loss to the many.
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LIFE IN THE DIGGINGs.
Miners CaIk About Good Things to
Eat, Instead of Gold.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug 15.-The
following letter from w. w. Curran, of
Honeyville, in the upper Yukon, was writ
ten on June to an old friend at Caspar,
Wyo, and appeared yesterday in the
Herald:
Dear Friend--You can surprise the dear
people at Caspar by telling them that
am worth $4,000, and that next summer
will start back to buy up the town. Some
people will want to kiss me when l get
back who wanted to kick me when | left.
1t is a bad trip up here, but it is worth
making if money is what man wants. 1t
is the only place l ever saw where there
is so much money that people don't seem
to care for it, only as it will be good to
take away. We sit around and talk about
good things 10 eat That is what every
body is thinking about. If a man gets to
talking about fruit he is put out of camp.
We can't stand it to hear it talked of.
have dreamed of seeing peaches as big. as
car wheels and they say that when
man gets the tremens up here he always
sees fruit trees or fancies that he is pulling
radiSheS or Smelling peas.
This is a hard country on man. 1t Will
make a young man look old in two seasons.
l have lost all my good looks. There are
lots of Irish up here, but l am the only
whiteheaded one yet. You have heard of
the golden calf. Wen, 1 have something
LndJ DedIS IHdI, L nave SOlueH Jog. "A
dog of mine died and l have used his hide
as sack for my dust l have him as full
OF gold as he was of meat l sometimes
lay my head on his body and dream of
what | will do with my dough when l
get back to the States. Maybe l will butch
er him and give you and Shelly each
leg
my partner has ten one-gallon syrup
cans filled with dust for his share. l would
have come home this fall but he wants
to wait till next summer then we will both
come together. He only weighed 1875 pounds
when he came here. so you can know this
climate is not as hard on a weak man as
you would think Pneumonia is bad, and
many die from it. The scurVy is bad, too
but it don't kill many after all If man
could have what he wanted to eat up here
it would not be so bad. You can dress warm
and fight off the Geld, but it is hard to be
hungry every day and get nothing to eat
but things you deteSt
This is the first mail to leave here since
last September An Esquimo will take this
to Juneau Let me know what is going on
down there. l will get the letter by next
spring, anyway. If you want to come up
here | can send you the stuff, and it won
cost more than what | pay for 100 pounds
of flour. My paper has run out, and there
is no more in camp.
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DUEL WITH SWORDS.
Concluded from First Page)

time had come to have a little diversion:
No grass grows where he is in the habit OF
walking, and no sooner had ne come TO
the aforesaid decision than he sent off an
open challenge to anybody VINO choSe 10 ac-
cept it. There was a certain mlddle-aSeS
air about his action for IN letter TO the
Patrie NJ. ThomegueX accused the Italians
of prosecuting Prince Henri by sendlng the
successive challenges. He SAID IN conclu-
sion, that such things could not be per-
mitted while Thomeguex was outside the
grave, and wound up by throwing down the
gauntlet before the entire ltallan army. Inc
admiring shudder had hardly time 10 be
cot out of the way when the telegraph
brought this answer: ChauenSe accepted
on behalf of myself and the Italian group;
Communication awaited. rms was signed
General Manategia la Rocca, 81 Quatlero
Fontane, Rome.
A PRACTICAL JOKE.
Now. it is sometimes useful for even
Frenchman to speak a foreign tongue. Had
Thomegeux, for example, known Italian,
he would have been aware that Mana
tegia' is quite an untranslatable Italian
oath. and this might have made him sus-
picious. He did not know it, however, and
answered with joy that he would give Gen.
eral La Rocca all the satisfaction he want
ed, and sent the name of his seconds, but
what was his disgust to learn that neither
General La Rocca nor the address had any
existence save in the imagination of some
practical joker. NJ. ThomegeuX was forced
TO regretfully thank his seconds for the
useless trouble he had given them, when
suddenly his hopes were revived by the
receipt of a letter supporting to come from
an Italian captaE in the Fourth berSa-
gieri regiment who was at that moment
stopping at the Hotel Continental here.
This time a fight seemed sure. Thome-
geux's seconds rushed to the hotel, deter
mined to arrange a duel on the spot. Flash
The captain of the bersaglieri was as nom
existent as the profane general and all
Paris wore a broad grin at the disappOint-
ment of ThonlegeuX. who is one of the most
brilliant fencerS in the city, and whose
duel with PM was one of the most re-
marka5le seen here in many days.
One of the most tragic duels between men
of royal blood in recent years was that in
which Prince Henri De Bourbon was killed
by the Duke of Montpensier. This affair
of honor took place seven miles from the
walls of Madrid. March p 1870 The i'm
mediate cause of the hostile meeting was
the production of insulting letters from
Prince Henri, branding the Duke of Mont
pensier a Jesuit conspirator" against
the peace and happiness of the country and
the Spanish people, and as being a "blOat-
ed French pastry cook.
The Duke of Montpensier's seconds were
Generals Aaminor and Cordova and
Colonel Sober. The 6rinces seconds were
Republican deputies. members of the
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ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
President Mckinley to Attend the An
nual Reunion at Troy This Week.

TROY, N. Y, Aug. 15.-The twenty
eighth annual meeting of the Army of the
Potomac, to be held in this city next Fri
day and Saturday, will be an event of more
than usual Importance because of the pres
ence of President Mckinley, Vice President
Hobart and Governor Frank S. Black. The
list of organizations which will participate
in the parade is large, and the showing of
the troops will be excellent. 1t is probable
that there will be more than three thou
sand men in line. Elaborate preparations
are being made for the decoration of the
buildings of the city, ana the streets will
present a brilliant array of flags, bunting
and streamers. The Presidents party will
arrive in Troy from Bluff Point on Friday
morning, and the programme arranged is
as follows: Friday morning, meeting of the
various army corps. AT O'Clock in the
afternoon parade will take place and at
o'clock a business meeting VIII be held in
the City Hall Public exercises VIII be held
at Music Hall in the evening al o'clock
at which time addresses of welcome will be
delivered by Governor Black and Mayor
Molloy. and the president of the society
Gen. VIM. W. Henry will respond. An ora
tio1Awill be delivered by Major Woodruff,
L. s. A President Mckinley will also be
one of the speakers of the evening.
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BLUFF POINT, N Y, Aug. 15.-Presi-
dent Mckinley, Vice President and Mrs. Ho-
bart Mrs. Alger and Master Hobart COM
prised the presidential party which attended
the Trinity Episcopal Church this morning.
The party was slightly delayed on their
way from the Hotel Champlain to town, so
that the church service had begun when the
carriage arrived. The President seemed to
enjoy the service, and especially the music.
After the service was over the President
held back, evidently wishing to mingle with
the congregation in going out of the
ing in their pews, seemingly unwilling to
precede the presidential party in going out
of the church.
The President remained indoors after his
return to the hotel He was an interested
observer of great electrical storm which
visited the Champlain valley in the after
noon A bolt of lighting struck and shat
tered one of the largest pines on the Bluff
Point grounds.
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They Are Good Indians.
Harpers Weekly.

Complaint is made that Mrs. Harriet
grandfather and father were Seneca In
dams by adoption, and who has herself
been elected a member of the tribe, uses
her influence with the Indians on the Onon-
daga reservation to incite them TO hold to
pagan rites and customs, thereby seriously
interfering with the efforts of missionaries
who wish to Chrstianize the Indians and
have established churches for that purpose.
Mrs. Converse denies the charge, averring
that she is herself a member of the Episco-
pal Church, and has not fnterfered with the
conversion of the Indians. She admits
though that she does not think the mis-
sionaries can do the Seneca Indians much
good and believes that the Indians do we'll
to stick TO their ancestral religion, which
she says is practically Christian though
il has it's special observances, such as the
three geat annual dances which the Indians
observe There is no harm in these Dances
Mrs. Converse thinks. and nothing repulsive
about them. At one of them, 1t is true a
dog is sacrificed to the Great Spirit, but
il is white dog of q species specially bred
for this purpose and ii is not cruelty killed
but merely strangled. As for conduct Mrs
Converse declares that many of the Senecas
are better Christians than some of the mis-
sionaries. She seems to think that as long
as the Senecas last they would better con-
tinue TO be Indians. There is doubtless
good deal TO be said in support of that
view though the prospect that 1t will ever
recommend itself to the missionaries is re-
mote.
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Cortes. After reaching the place of meet
ing, Prince Henri won the toss for weapons
and chose pistols. Prince Henri's first and
second shots missed his opponent. His
third grazed the cheek of the duke, infiict-
ing slight wound. The dukes first shot
opponent in the side The third shot took
effect in Prince Henris forehead, killing
him on the spot. On seeing the prince
fall, the Duke of Montpensier exclaimed:
My God. what have / done?" Then he
swore that he would protect the princes
children After the Duke of Montpensier
had fired his second shot, the seconds on
both sides tried to effect a reconciliation,
but the prince refused the offer with furi-
Gus vehemence. The duel caused pro-
found sensation in Spain, and the Duke of
Montpenser was arrested on a charge of
murder. At his trial he made a prompt
confession of his guilt and expressed pro-
found regret that he had killed his ad-
Versary. The accused man was sentenced
to one months exile from the city of Mad
rid and to pay $1,000 indemnity to the fam
ily of Prince Henri.