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The San Francisco call., 1897-08-29

dividual reports having loaned $40 900 at 5
per cent.
1t was generally believed that the
amount brought out on the Portland
would be much larger. and it would have
been had not some accident befallen the
river steamer z. B. Weare.
1t Is estimate that from forty to fifty
miners would leave on her from Dawson
City, expecting to reach st. Michael early
in August and board the Portland for the
south. The sum in their possession is
placed at from 81. 600, 600 to $1,000 600. 1t
is possible they may be able TO return on
the Excelsior.
The Portland will again go north about
September 10 and return the middle of
October On that trip she will bring
down several hundred miners with their
ciean-ups for the season, which will, In
the aggregate, come near $500, 900 to $500, :
600 in gold dust
This will not include the funds OF the
North American Transportation and
Trading Company, which will aggregate
over half million dollars.
S. P Weston, the returning newspaper
correspondent. stated that Captain Hooper,
commandant Of the Bering Sea fleet, in
formed him that he had orders from the
department at Washington to have the
revenue cutter Bear wait for the Portland
and act as envoy on her last trip down.
The news brought by the Portland
strengthens the universal opinion as to
the richness of the Yukon and its
tributaries. All are united in the
belief that Mother Earth has a lap of
plenty from which her venturesome and
industrious children can take golden mug
gets and pan out dust in value and guam
tity SURPRISING all previous finds or esti-
mates.
Efforts thus far have been directed to
placer mining, but expert miners are of
the opinion that the mother lode is not
far from the placers in the neigh boring
mountains.
Dominion Surveyor William Ogilvie re-
ports having seen and examined quartz
that assayed from $500 to 500 per ton.
From the various reports received it is
equally certain that shortage of provisions
will exist this winter in the Yukon
cHntry.
1IThere has been shortage every previ-
Gus season, and with the population now
SO largely increased much privation and
suffering must necessarily result this
winter.
Men who have prospered on the Klon-
dixie and have money enough to purchase
all the necessaries of life are apprehensive
as to the outcome Of this mad rush to this
gold fields, and many will leave their
claims to come TO land of plenty.
They sound a warning against any in
fiux of prospectors this year. The Port
lands passengers say it is almost suicidal
for the rush to continue, as there are al
ready about 5000 people around Dawson.
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fever before the ice king envelopes the
mighty Yukon.
They know only of the stories that had
reached ST. Michael IN 10 the time they
left there. They know hat the tiny feet
OF yer boats has been dec eased this sea-
son by the loss of one, and in ali proba-
bility, two of its mum Der.
They also know that a mighty host of
treasure seekers is bearing down on them
from the head waters of the great
river. The vanguard of those who
went north by the Drea route had
already reached Dawson before they
left and the reports they carried of the
thousands who were following them have
struck terror to those who have already
experienced the rigors and sufferings of
one or more winters in the Arctic circle.
The widest stories of gold that have
already come down from that country are
well affirmed by the little batch that
reached Seattle to-day. But even gold
will not purchase food i'll land where
there is no food TO be had.
Some Of the passengers on the Portland
say they came down to visit friends or
purchase supplies to carry on operations
rext season, but others frankly admit
that they left splendid-paying claims to
escape the hard ships of the coming win
ter that stared them in the face.
Not one of those on the steamer belit.
ties the stories of the marvellous riches of
the Klondike country that have already
reached here. Ten million dollars. and
possibly $4,000, 900, will be wres,ed from
the frozen soil between now and spring
tut with what sacrifice of human lie no
one can foretell. But they were also a
unit in sending out a warning TO every
body not to venture north until after the
first of the year.
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Considerable of this money was rein
vested in claims, while q portion was
loaned out on in terest at from to 4 per
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WHAT HAS BECOME OF THE wEARE?

SEATTLE, WAsH Aug. 2SWhen the Portland left ST.
the Yukon River B. Weae fifteen days
due from Dawson City 1t is known that the Weae carried
S 3 200, worth of gold stacked her decks.
The Portland expected to receive this St
transport Fears for the safety of the Weare
entertained probable the little may
msap the Yukon Some suggest that pirates may
waylad vessel there is little likelihood occurrence
There forty fifty returning miners aboard.
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SEATTLE, WASH Aug 2SThe most important from ST.
Michael that the ago
their last trip up the that they
reach Dawson this fall which passengers who left
the steamer early July would only reach Circle
City before navigation closed
This hundreds of who have left the
August for ST Michael will have
scarcely started the Yukon before
the river freezes over solid a..
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LESS TREASURE BROUGHT
DOWN BY THE PORTI AND
THAN WAS EXPECTED
Ibis Owing to Failure to Connect With
Yukon Steamer Which Has I hree
Millions on Board.
MINERS BRING STORIES OF VAST WEALTH ON
THE KLONDKE.
One of the Returning Miners Says That the News Of the Rich
Mines Has Not Been Half Told, and That There Is More
Gold m a Single Gulch Than Ever Came
Out of California.
MINERS BRING STORIES OF VAST WE
THE KLONDIKE

ANGELES
here o. ~ m n h ON stories heatn riches
e
the precious mw xphne tt of ii tb sommgd down ntehe
yellow
,rd s. thus ptd ma he he al w
-,an when h aLht dsovnsa
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brought o W covoe By the cutter
Ih him the NORTH, nd h he h shon
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byhatt tte We expect to baryav valuable
n X 800 miles from he emut
ere an pg Vi o. he and Intended bpssHn
wmtrtn
Anon myers bgho o from It Timothy h oha with dhm $4,000
godH bought OIL
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'Imay go back again; think will
next year, but never TO go through what
had to get my gold" This was the view
of a man who had roughed it in mineral
camps all his life, and spent four years in
Alaska living as luck and his resourceful
ingenuity permitted.
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TREASURE SHIP
LONG OVERDUE
Possible Mishap to a Yukon
Vessel Bearing Gold to
St. Michael.
Miners and Their Sacks of Dust
May Have Gone to the Bot
tom of the River.

SEATTLE. WASH, Aug. 29.-Though
the passenger list of the Portland is small
and the treasures she brings down fall
far short of expectations it is not because
# the lack OF gold in that region.
The steamer from Dawson which was TO
TO have left the mining district with
scores of passengers and hundreds
OF thousands OF dollars worth of
bullion had not reached st. Michael
when the Portland left, although
she was fifteen days overdue. 1t is certain
that some mishap had befallen her, but
whether she has been engulfed in the
mighty Yukon, those on board swept to
death and these fortunes lost will not be
known until the arrival of the next
steamer from the north.
Three hundred and thirty thousand
dollars is the golden harvest reaped by
thirteen returning miners on the steamer
Portland from the far-famed Klondike
district of the Upper Yukon country.
Just what proportion of this su1n they
bring to Seattle is hard to correctly esti-
mate, as the miners positively refuse to
give definite figures.
From their expressions, however, 1T is
safe to place the amount in the neighbor-
hood of $500, OOO The miners left Dawson
City on July 3D. coming down the Yukon
on the steamer j. J. Healy, reaching St.
Michael about August /. There thew
remained for over two weeks, until
the Portland was ready 10 sail on
August 49, the steamer reaching Seattle
during the early hours of August 90. The
names of these fortunate prospectors,
some of whom have endured the bard
ships of two or three years existence in
the frozen north. with their residences
and amounts of their clean-ups during the
present season. are as follows:
j. Rowan, San Francisco ...... $50, 900
Tim Bel, Canada ................ $4,000
Joe Goldsmith, Seattle......... $4,000
N. w. Powers, Denver.......... $4,000
w. w. Caldwell, Nebraska. 10000
Win oIer, Ialtimore ............ 10000
z. X. lilly, Seattle............... $4,000
+. w. Cobb, Boston and Seat
tie..................... $4,000
w. Zahn, attIe................. $4,000
A. A. Buckley, Nrvada......... 10000
G. S. Lansing, Montana......... $4,000
B. Farman, Iowa. 10000
NJ. X. Gowler, Winnipeg. 5000
Total. aI......................... 1880, 900
Considerable of this money was REIN
vested in claims, while portion was
loaned out on interest at from 2 to per
cent month, secured by claims. One in
The morning times., 1897-01-23
BITTEN BY A ST. BERNARD
Olive Keep Patted the Big Brute on
the Head.
II Lacerated Her Hand in Six Places,
Causing Tgly Wounds-No Seri-
Gus Results Anticipated.

Olive Keep, fourteen-year-old girl who
lives with her mother, Mrs. Jane Keep. at
No ga Massachusetts, avenue northwest
is suffering from an ugly wound in the
hand caused by the bite of a large st.
Bernard dog last Thursday evening The
child was resting nicely last night and
it is believed no serious results will fol-
low from the incident.
As the girl passed near the corner Of
Seventh and l streets about o'clock
Thursday afternoon she met two ladies
patting the big dog that was in charge
of a colored man standing near the curb
Olive paused TO admire the dog and reached
out her hand to fondle it. AS she did so
the brute gave fierce growl and snapped
at her hand.
His sharp teeth sank deep into the flesh
and one of them entirely penetrated the
palm. The coIored man Immediately called
his charge and hurried away. He was
soon lost sight Of in the excitement incl
dent to the gathering Of the crowd about
the girl and the two ladies.
Olive was helped to neighboring drag
store, where the wound was cauterized
1t was found that the flesh had been
penetrated in six different places. The
wounds bled freely and the whole hand
was badly lacerated.
There is no clew to the owner of the
dog, and the coiored man in whose COM
pany he was could not be found.
The morning times., 1897-01-23

trade situation this week is the Increased
demand from manufacturers for wool The
decision Of print cloth manufacturers to
curtatl the output will emphasize recent
sales of the heavy surplus and promises a
better market. To these may be added
the Increase in the volume Of domestic bank
clearings, a general steadiness of prices,
and the healthfulness of general trade in
almost all departments.
Conservatism in granting credits and the
preference by retailers ard others to buy
oftener, but in small quantities, continue TO
mark the course OF business as not before
for years. Demand is increasing in al
most all lines, with few exceptions. al
though very slowly. A radical improve
ment in the near future, based OH slow
but healthful increase in the compara-
tive demand, is, in the absence of unfore-
seen obstacles, almost certainty
r. G.. Dun & Co. will say tomorrow in
their weekly review Of trade:
There is more business. though not at
better prices. 1t is interesting that
almost all prices which change at all are
lower than week ago, and yet business
in unquestionabIy larger. There is larger
production, but as yet not as much in
crease in consumption. and there is larger
buying of materials, but at present only
because better prices are expected in the
future. 4 few conspicuous failures dur
ing the week have had no material in
fluenCe. The market for securities is
slightly stronger and yet there is very
little doing The number Of hands EN-
ployed, all industries Considered, is slightly
larger than week ago. without adverse
change in the rate of wages.
The morning times., 1897-01-23
REV. DIR. TURNER MAY ACCEPT.
The Rectorship of st. Michael's and
All Angels at His Disposal.

The vestry Of st. Michael and A II Angels
Church met last evening to consider the
nomination of tile Rev. William X. Turner,
assistant rector of Epiphany, for the rector
ship of the parish of st. Michael and All
Angels. Those present were Gen. II. G..
Gibson. senior warden; Commodore E. o..
Matthews, junior warden; Mcssrs. Phillip
McKin, Jacob o. Chase, A. l.. d. Mesny,
Ross Leslie Ray, John F. Slaven.
The communication from the vestry OF
st. Johns Church nominating the Rev.
Mr.. Turner for the rectogship OF the parish
OF st. Michael and All Angels was read
and generally discussed by the members of
the vestry, but Mr.. Turner's views not
being known no action was taken. t was
stated after the meeting that there was
perfect harmony among the vestry on the
subject of the selection of a rector.
Tie meeting ad journed until Sunday after
the morning service. In the meantime,
however. it is understood that the members
of the yestry will call on Mr.. Turner and
hear his views on the situation, and so it
appears as if the settlement of the matter
will rest entirely with that gentleman
Tie Rev. Alexander MaCkay Smith viii
preach at the Sunday evening service, but
SO far no provision has been made for u
minister at tie morning service. 1t is
possible that the Rev. Dr. Turner Will tie
asked to officiate at that service.
The morning times., 1897-01-23
New York Cotton Market.
baltimore Markets.

Baltimore, Jan. 22-Flour weak, un-
changed-receipts, sos barrels; exI orts,
2, SO barrels. Wheat steady-sros, so 1-2
bid; May, SIaS7 14-receipts, 5,42o hush
els; exports none; stock, So, 1853 bushels
southern wheat by sample, GLASS; DO on
grade, S6a91. Corn steady-spot and
month, 20 1-2a25 5-S; February, 20 3-4a
20 IS; March, 90 1-4a26 1-2; April, ga
% IA; steamer mixed, 23 12a23 3-4-Fe-
ceipts, 136,545 bushels; exFo orts, 154,25o
bushels: stock, 2,124,949 bushels; sales,
81 900 buShels-so1thern white corn, ga
%; do yellow, 81 1-2a26 1-2 Oats quiet
and Steady-No. 2 white, 24a25; No.
mixed, 21a22-reeeipts. 37,117 bushels;
exports, 170,977 bushels; stock, $50, ,235
bushels. Rye steady-No. nearby, ~ ga
43: western, 43 1-4a43 1-2-rceeipts, 40,-
$50 bushels; exports, none; stock, 321 ,O7O
bushels. Hay firm-choicc timothy, $3.50
ash 90. Grain freights considerable ac-
tivity, unchanged. Sugar, butter ard eggs
steady, unchanged. Cheesefirm, unchanged
Whisky unchanged
The morning times., 1897-01-23
He WILL NOT NAME HANNA
Governor Bushnell q Said to Be
Determined on This Point.
A LABORING MAN FOR SENATOR
state Chairman Kurtz Authority
for the Statement That the Re-
publican Leader VIII Not Succeed
Sherman-The Rival Candidates
Met at a Columbus Banquet.

Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 22.-The intense
interest in the selection OF the successor
to Senator Sherman brought nearly the
whole membership OF the seyenty-seco1d
general assembly to the reunion today and
banquet tonight, where Gov. Bushnell
presided and Chairman Mark a. Hanna
among Others responded to toast
Il have merely come down for an cut
ing" said Chairman Marcus A. Hanna,
this afternoon II have not been in the
best OF health for some time, and took
advantage of the kind invitation TO .oin
in tie reunion OF members oil the general
assembly. with nearly all OF whom L
am personally acquainted. There is moth
ing political in my visit"
1T is not believed here, however, that
Chairman Hanna has come solely for his
health.
GOV. Bushnell called upon Chairman
Hanna, at his quarters in the CLittenden,
this evening, and the two chatJed for d
short time. Their meeting was not
conference, however. in any sense OF the
word. A more significant fact was the
conference in the Governors private Of
flee William X. Day, OF Canton, close
friend Of Presdent-elect Mckinley, and
Lieut.-Gcv. Asa w. Zones were present
Mr. Day denied himself to newspaper men
and left the city soon after the conference
GOV. Jones would not discuss the Sena-
tOrial qnestiM
EX-Gov Foster had engaged quarters
but telegraphed today that lie would not
4, ~
speaker OF the house, who seemed to lie
managing Fosters boom FOR the Senate,
ut once left the city
Late this afternoon state Chairman
Kurt, who was on the program sent
word that he could not be present at the
banquet.
II - evident that the majority of the
members OF the legislature present are
for Hanna for the Senate The report
comes directly from Chairman KurtZ, who
is very close to Gov. Bashncl and Senator
Foraker, that Bushnell will not appoint
Hanna to the Senate. From the same
source also comes the Statement that The
governor VIII not call a special session of
the legislature. From other sources IL is
reported that Bushnell Will propose To
Hanna that inasmuch as the worklnginen
were appealed to in the late campaign TO
support the Republican ticket and responded
hobby, and there are plenty OF rich men
in the Senate and no representative OF
the laboring classes, one OF the latter
should be appointed to the vacancy.
To meet this the Hanna advocates are
using a statement made by John Mcbride,
eX-president OF the United Mine Workers,
to the effect that Hanna was the fairest
man in his dealings with his employees that
he ever knew.
Tie speakers at the banquet were; Lieut..
Gov. A. W. Jones, NJ. a Hanna, Gen A
A. AXline. Levi c. Goodale, c. n. Shryo,
{. L. Shryock, {. H Bosler, Albert Starr,
Attorney General F. s. Monnett, T j.
Harbaugh, j. j. Sullivan, Philip Fosdick
j E. Blackburn, c. f. McBryde and j E.
Griffith. The toast assigned Mr.. Hanna
was: "olio, the Mother OF Presidents;
How They Are Made
The morning times., 1897-01-23
AS A GAMBLING HOUSE.
william Hoare Arrested Charged
With So Conducting His Poolroom.

William Hoare, who runs a poolroom at
No. 1880 Pennsylvania avenue northwest,
was arrested by Patrolmen Bell, of the
First precinct, last evening upon the charge
OF setting up gaming table. He was
later released on $500 bond to appear
in the police court in answer to the charge
The accusations against Hoare are of a
rather serious nature. 1t is claimed that
he has been regularly conducting his
establishment as a gambling house. 1t is
alleged that betting is frequently done at
the place, and that games of pool are
played for money, while Stockholders are
named by the proprietor.
The morning times., 1897-01-23
Afflicted With Religious Mania

Sarah Lee, a nineteen-year-old colored
girl, living at No 224S Twenty-seventh
street, was locked up at the Twelftll-street
station-house last evening until the police
surgeons can investigate her sanity She
is troubled with religious mania and yes
terday Afternoon raised a disturbance in
the house where she stays by her loud pray
ing, singing and preaching. She will be
turned over to the proper authorities for
examination this morning
The morning times., 1897-01-23

and made a paying property.
The situation OF c. Z Huntington in
the affair is u matter OF much specn-
latiOn. The Times is the first to give
voice to the suspicion, which may be more
or less general, that Mr.. Huntington VIII
not be out in the cold on the rcorganiza-
ton. An astute critic OF the market,
well informed on the history and present
condition of the Union Pacific. is authority
for the suggestion that Mr.. Huntington was
not too anxious for the funding bill to
pass and that in reality the reorganization
scheme under foreclosure. was always his
choice and was only another deal into
which he had been taken. The govern
Iuent directors of the Union Pacific were
in session all day yesterday after II
O'Clock and the stock of tile road was the
feature of the market. insiders were
cIose-Houthed all day, butthe rumor leaked
out that the deal with the government had
been definitely fixed.
1t would seem probable that the stock
should he a buy Immediately, for q short
rise, at least, even If 1t is only a specu-
latiYe one.
The morning times., 1897-01-23
HER REASON DETHRoNED.
EpiIeptic Attacks Brought Mrs
Woodbury. to This Condition.

Mrs. Eveline Woodbury., twenty-eight
years old, living on Chevy Chase road, was
taken to No. 1 police station last evening
suffering from insanity. The police sur
eeons will Investigate the case this morn
ing, and, if necessary, the woman will be
sent to st. EIizabeth's.
She has been subject to cpileptic at
tacks for a long time until her mind
finally became unbalanced. Her parents
kept her at home, but her condition finally
became such that they decided to turn
her over to the authorities
The morning times., 1897-01-23
Suddenly Taken insane.

Mrs. Evelyn Woodbury. aged twenty-eight
years, living on the Pierce Mill road. be-
tween Connecticut avenue extended and
the Tenleytown road, was taken violently
insane at her home yesterday morning and
removed by DR.. Slaymaker and Officer
Bradley to the First precinct station, where
she is held awaiting commitment to st.
EliZabeth'S Insane Asylum.
The morning times., 1897-01-23
A Mysterious $ Robbery.

A report was current last night that a
robbery had been committed at the Colonial
Hotel, formerly the Wormley, corner of
Fifteenth and II streets northwest. No
details of the affair could be learned So
far as could be ascertained, the authorities
at the central detective bureau had not
been notified, and the police were not
familiar with the facts. The hotel people
refused to discuss the subject.
The morning times., 1897-01-23
HE WAS SHAMMING.
Cha rles Scott Taken to a Hospital
and Found Free From Ailment.

Charles Scott, an ordinary looking white
man, was found last night lying in the
roadway near Mount Pleasant by one Of
the mounted policemen of the Eighth pre-
cinct. Scott claimed to be i'll, and was
taken to Freedman's Hospital in the
patrol wagon Dr.5Wolf recognized in
Scott an old friend, whose face is rarely
missed from the hospital precincts for
more than two weeks at a time
He examined the would-be patient, but
failed to detect any ailment that flesh is
heir to, and called Policeman Murphy, of
the Eighth. Mr.. Murphy had Scott locked
up at the station, and preferred a charge
Of vagrancy against him, with DR.. Wolf
as complainant.
The morning times., 1897-01-23
THE LADIES CLUB AS HOST
The Virginia Republican Associa
tion Auxiliary to Entertain

Aloh AuAlIldTy 10 EDIertatn.
The Ladies Auxiliary of the Virginia
Republican Association met last night at
No. 11l6 Nineteenth street, the total mem
berstip, including those elected last night.
being orty-tliree. Mrs. Thornton presided
Miss Sutton being secretary.
The club considered a proposition to
tender reception to some OF the distin.
guisiied visitors 70 Washington during in.
augural week, the plans for this recep.
tion TO be determined upon at a later
meeting. The installation Of officers, which
was to have taken place last night, was
postponed until the first Monday in Feb
ruaTy, at which time handsome badges
VIII be presented to the members. The
club decided to attend the bazaar soon 10
be given in aid of the association
At the banquet which closed the meeting
last night speeches We're made by Hon
John NJ. Langston, Hon. Thomas L. Jones,
+. d. Lee, John Branch, w. E. Page.
Rufus Delaney, w. II. Nelson, p. NJ. Jones
and others. A vote of thanks was passed
TO Mr.. Langston, and Mrs. Langston WAS
elected an honorary member of the aux.
Hilary.
The morning times., 1897-01-23
The will Of Bridget Walsh

In will dated January 26, 1892, and
filed yesterday for probate, the late Bridget
Walsh OF Georgetown bequeaths house
and lot on Potomac street, Jointly to her
daughter and son, Elizabeth and Matthew
Walsh. To Mrs. Alice Frances Brown.
a married daughter, is left the sum of
500. Elizabeth Walsh is executrix.
The morning times., 1897-01-23

10 cts Cures Constipation and
Liver Hls.-Dr. AgHew's Liver Pills are
the most perfect made, and cure like magic
Sick Headache, Constipation, Bliousness.
Indigestion and all Liver Ills. 10 cents
Sold by F. S. Williams & Co., Ninth and
r streets, and Edmonds 6 Williams. Third
and Pennsylvania avenue
The morning times., 1897-01-23
An Act of Vandalism

Lewis Bray, colored, sought to perpetuate
his name yesterday afternoon by chipping
it on one of the walls Of the Capitol. A
Capitol policeman saw him and took him
to No. 6 police station, where he was
locked up on the charge of defacing pub
lie property.