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The San Francisco call., 1897-08-24


G. N. Haller of Tacoma went up on the
Rosalie July 80 on a business mission and
returned to-day. He says that there are
are 5000 or 1000 people at Skaguay, with a
continuation of tents for several miles.
Lumb Der is hard TO get a $50 per 1000 feet.
hay and oats cost $50 per ton, horses be-
ing as high as 5000. Two colored women
have q restaurant and cant bake bread
last enough to supply the demand at 25
cents a Loaf He believes the miners are
in earnest about putting the trail in passa-
be condition. They have gone to work at
it and when completed this will be the
easier way to pack goods in. Haller says
a numb Der have got. over from Dyea to
Lake Linderman and that 1t can be easily
accom- plished if one has money to have
his packing done.
Frank Clancy. a well-known sporting
man of this city, returned on the steamer
from Skaguay, where ne had been for sew
eral weeks looking up business prospects.
II e expects TO return with horses and run
a pack train. He said: when YOU
know that miners are paying from 35 to
so cents a pound for packing over the
mmit you can form some id ca Of things
at skaguay. Good packers are getting $s
day. That is what John G. Scurry is
paying his men. the trail is simply
awful. Very few OF the thousands ut
Skaguay will get over this winter. George
Rice of this city started out with pack
train the day before l left Skaguay and
had not returned when l left. Think of
that, will you? The country is holy
terror on horses. Scores OF them have
been killed and lots of them ruined. One
OF Harry Strives horses stepped in a
crack in the rocks and literally twisted its
leg off. Skaguay is a lively town and
people in business there will make good
thing this winter. A good many of the
boys up there will come home after they
see how impossible it is for them to cross
the summit this winter"
William Zins of Evansville, Ind, re-
turned on tie RosaIie, although when he
left Seattle on The Eliza Anderson he ex-
pected that by his time he would be in
the neigh borhood OF ST. Michael. He
went with the boat as far as New Metia-
kahtla and there concluded it would be
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-24
WAKE Up!

HOW MUCHLoNGER
III do you propose to
dream? You feeIyour.
self becoming weaker
day by day. Do you
propose 10 do anything
about it or do you pro-
pose TO lie down and
die? You have your
own future in your own
keeping, and do you
really mean to say that
it is pleasant to know
that you are but half a
man? II you heard
some one say that about
ytu on the sidewalk
you would be annoyed,
but it's the truth. Why
not be a man? Are you
ashame led TO ask helpf
A few thousand people
felt in just the way you
do. But each one of
them decided that it
was better to seek help
if help could be had.
DO you want TO know
who they were2 A 2
cent stamp Will bring
you a heap OF circulars
and testimonials telling
you all about "HUD-
YAN," the great reme-
dio- treatm ent. III I'D
YAN" has cured over
ten thousand Ieople.
Do you imagine that
your cese is the worst
the world has ever seen?
Cease your fretting. 1t
matters not as to
whether you have blood
taint, catarrhal trouble
orkidnev disease a per.
fora ted liver or a fit OF
nervous depression All
alike are very prom pity
helped by the doctors of
the Institute. But you
have got to ma ke the
first effort. w by not
make it TODAY? Ii
you want to continue to
be puny you certainly
can do so, but any hu-
man being. if he has
his faculties about him,
wants to
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-25
OBITUARY.

Hermon W. Atwood died Friday evening at
his residence. 81 West EiRhty-second street
after n rather short illness. He was Vice Prcsi.
dent OF tho New York College OF Pharmacy, to
which office he was elected last March. He had
been engaged in tho drug business since 1855.
He opened a drug store at $40 Broadway in
1867. where he continued in business until tho
time OF his death. Mr.. Atwood was born SO
years ago in Hartford, ana in 1868 ma ried Miss
Josie Chamberlain. He was a member OF tho
Park Presbyterian Church and a prominent
member OF the National and State PharInaceuti-
cal societies. Three unmarried daughters sur
vive him.
Major Sellman Hsnnegan, son of the late
Senator flanagan OF Indiana, and doorkeeper
OF the Diplomatic Gallery of the Senate. died in
washington, yesterday OF cerebral hemorrhage.
He was stricken on Friday evening at the house
OF tho Rev. DIR. Fred Mickey. and never regained
consciousness. The remains will be shipped to
Indiana for interment. He leaves a son and
daughter.
Capt. Le Boeuf of the General Transatlantic
line steamer La Bourgogne. who was a son Of
the celebrated Marshal Le Boeuf, died sud-
denly In Paris yesterday.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-25
BED OF GEMS IN TROY.
Brilliant Stones That Arc Thought to he Dtn
nonds Found In Digging n Well.

Brilliant Stones That Arc Thought TO he Din-
nonds Found In Digging n We'll.
Troy, Oct. 24.-when Max Selig moved into
his new home in Ranken, a suburb of Troy. a
day or two ago. he decided to have a we'll dug.
After going down about ten feet the workmen
struck bed rock. When this was penetrated the
workmen came upon what bears strong evidence
Of being a bed of diamonds. The stones were Of
various shapes and sizes. and glisten with a
brilliancy which creates strong confidence in
their value. Mr.. Selig secured several speci.
mens and has sent them to Washington to be
examined and their value estimated. The news
hundreds OF people have visited what Ia already
called The Diamond Fields"
Old records show that the belief long ago pre-
vailed that gold and precious stones were to be
found in this vicinity. In the first lease Of tho
Ranken land, given in 1890, 1t was provided
that all gold discovered be reserved by tho
lessor. Stephen Van RENSSELAER,. Prior to 1890
gold. and 1t " as believed that they found them
on this land. So confident was Stephen Van
Rensselaer, that the land was rich in mineral de-
posits that he had the reservation clause in
serted in the lease which he gave to Jacob
Schermerhorn in the year named. The annual
rent. by the way, was twenty eight skipples OF
wheat. four fat fowls and one days work. The
wheat and fowls were TO be delivered at the
PATRONS mansion In Albany. No gold was found
by the old settlers on this land. but it is con-
t nled now that since Saratoga. county has q
gold mine. 1t would not be surprising to find not
only that precious metal here, but diamonds,
also.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-25
GAY I r
Nc Has Been Living Luxuriously On the HGsney
He Stole In This City.
Special Cable Despatch to The sux.

Special Cable Despatch to THE Sun.
LONDON. Oct. 24.-It is learned that William
r. Foster, Jr., the special attorney Of the Ora.
tuity Fund of the New York Produce Ex-
change. who absconded In 1883 with $lS3, 600
belonging to the fund, and who was arrested
yesterday at Neuilly, near Paris. has led q
luxurious life since he ran away from New
York. He passed as a gentleman with a fortune
which he had made on the New York Stock
Exchange. He lived much of the time on the
Continent. He successfully imposed on local
society here, and was received on equality In
good English circles, where his bearing as a man
OF education and money stood him in good
stead.
From the beginning Of his life as a fugitive
from justice he adopted the alias of Ward, and
his wife usually accompanied him. MRS
Ward" recently resided in Northamptonshire,
whore she was known rs a great patroness OF
fox. hunting. She mixed Familiarity with the
elite Of the hunting fraternity. Foster some.
times visited her there. Latterly they lived
together In a stylish fiat In West London, en-.
PERTAINING and visiting people Of position.
A while ago Foster visited Zurich. where he
was for some time the guest of the American
Consul. The latter did not learn the identity
Of his guest until Foster had left. Foster felt
30 secure In the disguise of his alias that he
seemed 10 ignore the eHortS tnat were being
made to catch aim. Three times recently he
was on the verge of capture. and once. In Lon
aon. he had a very narrow escape from arrest
Detective Froest vigilantly tracked him fol
three months, and much OF tho credit of the
capture belongs to him.
Mr.. Norvall, who had been in the same ofic
with Foster. and who two months ago informed
the Scotland Yard authorities that Foster hat
been recognized in Zurich. arrived at South
ampton on Wednesday last aboard the Ameri
can line steamer st. Louis. He lived undel
an assumed name at a West End hotel, ant
assisted in the arrest. He arrived In Pari
this morning and saw Foster, who will be extra
dited direct to New York. The American
Embassy at Paris has taken a land in the mat
| tar.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-25

II saw one OF the most amusing race episodes
at a fair in a Kentucky town this season / ever
witnessed In my lifo. said an old circuit trotter
this morning.. DANDY Dick was bought in tho
books for the comparatively attractive odds OF
z to l, and was reck9nod Q sure winner by the
many bought him, and / put up on the Dandy.
There was a good start, a fair burst of speed to
begin with. and the usual trailing out OF the in
capable hacks until tho stretch was reached.
Just here WAS where Dandy Dick needed a
guardian, and 1t would have been money In his
owners pocket II he had visited the court that
morning and had one appointed.
Instead Of beating BULLY Boy three lengths,
mistaken APPREHENSION, presumably, that he
wanted it Tor a %portiSre. II no could have
waited a fraction OF a minute longer Tor his play
the pain OF walking home. Tho believers in
Dandy didn't indulge In any fall overcoats, all
because OF tho black rascal's short stop for a
lunch on tho homestrctch. But 1t was jolly to
watch the disguised losers swallow their wrath
and trudge out OF the stand"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-25
LETTER FROM MIR. GLADSTONE.
He Regrets ItaIy's straining After Pows
AbrOad-The Disgrace OF Europe.

He Regrets ItaIy's strnininE After Power
AbrOad-The Disgrace OF Europe.
Special Gable Dsspatch to TIE sun.
LONDON, Oct. 24.-Mr. Gladstone in the course
of Il letter to a Viennese author, which has just
been published here. lanents the megalomania
which has led Italy to strain her resources to go
beyond the European province marked out for
her during her national infancy, and which may
perhaps endanger her dearly bought institutions.
Referring to tho condition of affairs in the
East, Mr.. Gladstone says: my views on tho
conduct Of the European Government in the
Eastern question are very strong. They seem
to me to be covered with indelible disgrace.
The German Emperor is the first and worst
among them
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-25

Married the seventh Time ~ ~ Years Old
LOUISVILLE, KY. Oct. 24.-GeorRe Ford. aged.
n, applied for a marriage license at Hodgen-
Vile yesterday and was married to Ida NJ.
Huston to-day. Mr.. Ford is n farmer OF L,ruo
county, and this makes his seventh venture in
matrimony. His bride ia only ls. Ford was
married first at Is and the last timo before this
at go. He is still active and hearty.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-25
PROF. PALGRAVE DEAD.
He Was Professor or Poetry ut Oxford Univer-
sity.

No was Professor or Poetry 1t Oxford Univor-
Special Cable Dsspatoh to THE Sun.
LONDON. Oct. 24.-Prof Francis Turner Pal
grave. LII. D.. professor of poetry at Oxford
University, died to-day.
Prof. Palgrave was born on Sept. %. 1924,
and was educated at the Charterhouse and Bal
liol College, Oxford, where he took his degree of
M. A. and was elected to a fellowship at Exeter
College. He was for five years Vice Principal
Of the Training College for S~choolmasters at
kneller Hall. was afterward appointed to
q post in the educational department Of
the Privy Council, and was for some
years private secretary to Earl Granville.
He published numerous works, among them
being "Idyls and Songs" THE Golden Urea
sury OF English Songs" 1.-THE Treasury Of
Sacred Song" THE Visions of England,
Children's Treasury and q Life of Sir Walter
Scott" He also edited a number of poetical
works. He became professor of poetry at OK
ford in 1886.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-25
Count Tolstoi Worry III.

Special Gable Despdfch 10 The Sun.
ODESSA, Oct, 2I.-The condition Of Count Tol.
stoi, tho noted Russian writer, Is critical. 1t
was announced n few days ago that il would he
necessary for HIM To undergo mn operation. but
weakness. His disease is grayely complicated.
owing to his obstinacy in refusing 10 see . ply
aician earlier.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-25

Appolu,sd to tho British COurt or Appeals.
Special Gable Dc.patch to THE Sun.

LONDON. Oct. 24.-slr Richard HEM Collins.
A Justice of her Majesty's High Court aud one
OF the British members OF the Venezuelan
arbitral tribunal. has been appointed one OF tho
Of Sir Nathariel Lindloy, who recently replaced
VisCount Esher, Master OF the Rolls. resigned.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-25

Special came DesJd'cH 10 Nh ouH'
PARIS, Oct. 24.-Tho monument erected 10 tho
memory OF Guy de Maupassant, the noted
French novelist. who died some time ago in an
insane asylum, WAS unveiled in the Pare Mon.
ccau today before a distinguished assemblage.
NJ. Zola made tho principal speech.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-25
It would seem that 4Oo dogs wore calculated

1t would seem that 400 dogs were calculated
to make the population rather dense on a small
vessel like the Fran. 1t was announced last
spring that Svercrup was going to
the FRAN on another Arctic expedition.
His destination and purposes were not clcarly
indicated. The latest number OF PetcrntHn mn
MfteiIun en- says that Sverdrup had given up
the intention Of making Investigations between
SDitzbergen and Greenland. and II had been de.
cided that he should proceed up Bafin Bay and
Smith Sound to the part OF the Arctic Ocean
north OF Greenland.
This happens to be tho very part OF the Arctic
area which is TO be the scene of tho further
labors OF Peary. beginning noXt season. and the
preparations for which are already far ad.
vanced. Pcary's plans were announced at the
time he received tho gold medal OF tho
American Geographical society, and have been
rcpublishcd in practically all of the geOgraph-
icai Journals OF Europe. II all Arctic explorers
and students have not known for mouths Just
whore Poary is going and what he will under
take 10 do, i is not because the facts have not
been very widely circulated.
Tho project attributed to Capt. Sverdrup of
operating simultaneously in the very field
| selected by n distinguished explorer of another
nationality is probably UNPRECEDENTED in tho
annals of Arctic endcayor. II seems more
likely that PCtcrmdnn's ,lIateiiumOen Ia mis-.
taken in its statement OF his proposed destina.
| tiOn.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-25
For Nervous Headache


DIR. Y. A. Roberts. Wsteryille, Me-, says; "Hays
found IL OF great benefit In nervous diseases-nery-
ous headache. nervous dyspepsia. neuralgia, and
think IL is giving great Satisfaction when II is thorow 4
~ tried.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-25
AMERICAN MISSIONARIES.
The Forte Demands tho Recall Or Two Or Them
from Aleppo.
Special Gable Dsspatch to The Sun

Spsctut u SL"'s N DUN.
LONDON, Oct. 24.-A despatch to the Daily
Mail from Constantinople says that the Porte
has demanded the recall Of two American mis-
e~ionarj,s at Aleppo on the pretext that their
visit L that city for the purpose Of relief distri-
button is likely to lead to disturbances. Tho
American Legation has made no reply to tho do
mand, and the missionaries will not BIO recalled
unless definite charges are made against them.
It was recently declared that 1t was the inten.
tion of tho Porte 10 secure, II possible. tho no.
cali OF all the American missionaries In ASIA
Minor, with the view 10 prevent the presence OF
foreign witnesses In the event of another slaugh.
ter OF Armenians. 1t may be that the demand
Tor the recall OF the two missionaries engaged
in relief work at Alcppo WAS intended as a test
OF Tho willingness of the American Minister TO
cali ali the missionaries out OF Anatolia, In
his was the case the object of the Porte appears
TO have met with a rebuif.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-25

Philip Oakley. 90 years old, of Rossvilie. 8. l., fell
or a wharf on Saturday night and was drowned,
The body was found in Staten Island Sound yester
day.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-25

She was alone, but wished to
buy her son a suit.
After selecting the color and
kind, she was asked for meas.
urements.
"I'm not quite sure" said she,
but | think he wears a Is inch
collar"
Such is a mother educated in
buying at department stores.
Everything boys wear day or
night.
We don't make to order but
we make to fit.
Mems Fall overcoats els to ESQ; Fall Suits els
10 $50.
Underwear to fit all short
stout men at $3.50 a garment
may be in many stores by next
year.
This year it's new and only in
our stores.
Isn't it natural that selling
everything men or boys wear,
we should also sell everything
used to carry clothes in.
Trunks, bags, dress suit cases,
hat boxes.
Selling so many other things,
isn't it natural that we can sell
these cheaper than stores that sell
nothing else.
ROGERS, PEET & Co.
Prince and Broadway.
Warren and Broadway.
Thirty.second aud broadway.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-25

Prince and Broadway.
Warren and broadway.
Thirty.second aud broadway.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-25

There are fortyseven election districts in the
borough of Richmond this year. and seventysix In
the borough of Queens. Q total OF l2s in suburban
New York. There are $40 election districts In Kings
and $50 In New York. q total Of 1899 in the whole
territory.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-11
IN STORE FOR BARRIERS.

The BARRIERS of Minnesota may learn
from the law recently enacted in Paris
what they may expect in the way Of
state regulation of their business. This
will follow logically .as a result of
their success in getting the state to
regulate admission into their art, for
when the state assumes to say who
may practice a calling it follows that
the state can say how it shall be fol
lowed, even to it's minutest details
France is logical in the paternalism.
over which it throws the mantle of &
republic, and will not admit that there
is any domain of human activity or
inactivity into which the authorities
cannot enter and assume direction. SO
the BARRIERS are to be further regulated
in the interest of sanitary science and
the faces of Frenchmen.-
The project of police, we learn has
issued stringent orders to the BARRIERS
that all their instruments must be
plunged, directly after using, into boil
44lS SOdp water. Inc smell, Ivory and
celluloid combs are to be replaced by
metallic ones in order that they may
be disinfected. Scissors, razors, clip
pers and brushes must be kept in an
oven and heated to 100 degrees CEN
tigrade, or else be kept in a solution
prepared according to a formula rec
commended by the sanitary authorities,
before and after being used. Shaving
brushes must be dipped in boiling
water before and after use, and the
shaving cups scalded after each shave.
No longer will the barber spread the
soothing powder on the scraped face
with towel or with the featherv
puff, for he will have to use a blower
and, finally, he must wash his hands
presumably in boiling water, after
each service.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-11

island. He declares that all Of those
birth. He confesses that the alleged
scheme Of Japan to resist, forestaI or
prevent annexation is myth. He not
ed the presence in some of the schools
of children of half a dozen different
races He understands that the gov
eminent in power is at present, and
under annexation will remain, in the
hands of something less than 5000 in
dividuals. The mixture of half-caste
races, that are not and never will be
homogeneous, the dangerous indiffer
ence of the native races and their ina
bility to take even an ordinary interest
in political affairs, and the craft and
commercial interest of the working ele-
ment have set up in the Sandwich
islands an oligarchy which there is
every reason to believe permanent.
Unless race characteristics, the most
permanent of all things known to this
planet, change suddenly and swiftly,
these people will continue to be ruled
by small circle of rich and intelli-
gent, but ambitious and avaricious.
men. Think of such a community add
ed to the United States whose first
article of government is that all men
are politically equal, and that uni
versal suffrage and the rule of the
majority are fundamental to any just
government Think of a senator or rep
resentative who can see what Mr.
Tawney saw, imagine that community
admitted into the Union; recognize the
impossibility of harmonizing it's con-
ditions or it's institutions with ours,
and still remain an annexationist. For
making sharp eyes blind, the stolid
fidelity of the thorough-goi party
man is all-potent.