Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-07-28
TIE Cleveland low tariff law il
among the things of the past.
EDIroe AND PRoPAiIToR

THE gold found in Alaska is report
ed not quite as rich in quality as the
California gold.
The Mckinley protective tariff bil
was passed and signed at 4.l7 P. NJ,
on Saturday, July "a, 1897.
GOVERNOR HASTINGS vetoed the
Becker Bill which certain kinds of
politicians were wrapped up in.
The Turk will v,cate the strip of
territory that he won from Greece in
The late war The Turk vacates the
place reluctantly upon a threat of
Russia, that if vacation has not taken
place by a certain time Russia viii
declare war.
THE horseless carriage has come to
stav. A carriage company in Cleve-
land, O., is manufacturing carriages
of that kind to be run by gasoline. at
the cost of less than a cent mile.
In recent test one Of the carriages
was Travelled 160 miles in day with
four persons in it, over Ohio country
roads
Is the closing hours Of Congress
on Saturday, a bill providing for the
creation of currency commission
wos passed. The bill was passed up
on the recommendation of a message
from President Mckinley, asking
Congress to establish such commits
sion to revise the currencv aud bank
ing system of the country.
GovERsoR HASTINGS has signed the
new scalp law:-Fcr every Wild cat,
two dollars; for every fox red or gray,
one dollar; for every mink, fifty cents
The hunter, if he claims the premium
must produce at the office of a JUS
tice, the whole animal, or if he pre-
fers, may produce tie pelt from the
tip Of the nose.
GoLD mining with the thermome
ter 80 to 40 degrees below zero must
have been q cool Job last winter in
Alaska Where the new gold field
is located the summer is short The
ice there goes off the streams in May
and comes again in October. It's a
long winter OF ice and snow from Oc-
tober to May, but there are men who
brave it all for gold.
THE man who goes to Alaska to
search for gold, should be provided
with buck skin under clothing over
flannel under-clothi,g, then the com
mon clothing surmounted by heavy
skin overc0at and Arctic boots. A
man thus clothed would have some
show of weathering the winter of that
region without danger of freezing or
being physically ruined by the cold.
TIE Alaska gold fever bas struck
London and experienced miners who
made money in the mines OF South
ern Africa are coming to America.
They'll fad a'differerce between min
ing in Southern Africa whers they
can hang up their outfit in a banana
patch and be comfortable and mining
IL Alaska where there is only to S
weeks of summer, and where one can
only be comfortable when clothed in
suits of the skins of the beasts of the
woods. But fortune an" fame have
always been things to allure men to
deeds of hardship. danger and death.
THE protective tariff bill was pass
ed and signed by the President last
Saturday, July %. 1t is the fulfil
ment of promise made during the
Mckinley campaign. -Four months
ard twenty days after the inaugura-
tion of President Mckinley, the Cleve-
land wrecking tariff law was replaced
by higher tariff law, that within the
next IS months will give more tone
to the business of the country, and
give the Government revenue enough
to pay its way without selling bonds
every few mouths as was the case un
der the Cleveland administration.
The extra session of Congress is at
an end.
II reports from the Alaskan gold
fields are true, a large amount of
gold will be mined there within the
coming year, but with all that, it will
be some years before as much money
is realized as was made by the farm
ers Of Nebraska last year. Last year
the Nebraska farmers paid thirty mil
lion dollars of fheir mortgsged in
debtedness They raised that money
out of the ground, not by digging in
the frozen earth when the ttermome
ter registered zero and 80 below, and
then waited for the thaw of summer
in which TO wash the dirt, but they
raised the money on grain grown on
their farms.
A NUMBER of ships on Saturday
love in sight of American ports CT
entry, ladened with foreign cheap
goods. 1t WAS hoped by their own
ers to get them into port before the
passage of the Mckinley protective
tariff bill, and they were signaled TO
crowd on all slil and all steam so as
to get into port before the act became
law In number Of cases power
full tug boats were sent to help the
ships IN, but in most of cases the
ships signaled failed 70 get in before
4 P NJ, VIXEN the bill passed Con
gress. Seven minutes after p. VI,
the act became law, and the ships
not then in came under the new law,
and the new tariff rates must be paid
on their new cargo of goods.