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The herald., 1897-08-08
women As P[UCKY M0nDYKE PILGRIMS
THE GOLD FEVER HAS FOUND MANY VICTIMS
AMONG THE FEMININE POPULATION
OF THE COUNTRY

SAN FRANCISCO, August 3.-One
phase of the Klondyke gold fever which
people have not considered is that the
women have become violently interest
ed. They have followed the example Of
the stronger sex in fashion that they
seldom adopt, and nearly every expe-
dition which leaves here for the Klon-
dyke has many requests made Of its
members from women who are very
anxious to accompany them.
1t is from the thoroughly respectable
class Of people that these women come.
They are mostly composed of hard
working employees of shops and stores
who feel that nature has gifted them
with sufficient physique to withstand
the rigor Of the British Columbia eli
mate. Doubtless many of them have an
idea-as one confessed-that if there is
not gold there for them there are at
least plenty of men who have gold but
no wives, and that home and compe-
tence thus awaits them.
The Klondyke has not been destitute
of women by any means. The first
woman to reach there was Mrs Thomas
Lippy, who is now in San Francisco,
she and her husband having said good
Uye 10 LIE hlOHuyke IOT year. MIS-.
Lppy and her husband have not trod-
den the primrose path to any great ex-
tent, and therefore this sudden compe-
tence which has come to them through
Mr.. Lippy's good fortune finds them
rather ignorant of the ways of enjoying
life that accrue to the possession of
money.
When Mrs. Lippy was in the Klon-
dyke, near Dawson City, at first there
were no members of her sex in that
section Of the world at all, with the ex-
ception Of a few Indian squaws. The
Lippy camp was on what is called Ell
dorado creek, a tributary Of the Klon-
dyke. Until the log cabin-which, by
the way. was the first one in the place
was built, the hardy couple lived in a
tent. All the furniture they had was
made by Mr.. Lippy and their only food
was that which was canned. Mrs. Lippy
did no mining herself, but attended 20
the camp and made her husband so
comfortable and enabled him to rest so
thoroughly that he accomplished far
more than falls to the average lot of the
miner.
After while another woman came
Into the country, Mrs Charles Berry.
who has erroneously been credited with
being the first white woman in the
Klondyke regions. There was a tinge of
romance about Mrs. Berry's advent to
the gold fields, for when she and her
husband started they were just married.
The Klondyke trip was their honeymoon
journey, but how they did work-at
least Mrs Berry says they did. They
had no money to speak of, but when they
came to Eldorado they camped about
mile from the Lippy camp, and then
they both pitched in with the deter
mination that they would get rich
Mr.. Berry mined and Mrs. Berry car
ried part to the cabin and washed 1t
there. She is credited with having
washed out $500 worth Of gold. AS
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md of your little finger, and imagine all

end of your little finger, and imagine all
this stuff to be mixed thoroughly to-
gether. How would you go at it to ex-
tract the shot in the least possible time
and at the least expenditure of labor?
If you had heard of placer mining you
would wash the earth away and save the
shot.
All you need is a pan and plenty of
water. Any sort of flat vessel, from
a soup plate to dishpan will answer
the purpose. The miners pan is shaped
like cake pan with a flat bottom. When
a prospector starts out he takes one
made of copper. Gather with your hands
or a pick or shovel a quart of this
mixture Of soil just described and put
it in the pan. Fill the pan nearly full of
water The earth will be softened into
mud. Add more water. Then tilt your
pan over a very little and the soft mud
will run out over the top of the pan. Con-
tinue the operation and in ten or fifteen
minutes the earth has run off and all that
you have left in the pan is the shot,
which, being heavier than the earth,
has sunk to the bottom, together with
any gravel you may have thrown in
originally. The work of separating the
shot from the gravel after the earth has
been washed away is very easy.
Substitute particles of gold for your
leaden globules, and the widest kind
of a mountain country for Chicago, and
you know just what the men in the
Klondyke region have been doing ali
winter that has electrified the world. IL
the manner above described they have
been washing the precious metal from
earth found on a very rough broken
region larger than the city limits of Chi
cago. The miners have had no other ap
pliances but the pan and the water of the
creeks flowing through the Klondyke
district What makes the authentic re-
ports from Alaska so startling is the ex-
troardinary yield of gold to the pan.
Nothing like it or nearly approaching
it has ever been heard of before. In the
creek beds they have picked up chunks
of solid gold as large as your hand. sin
gle nuggets worth $1,000 or more.
In the language of miners, the earth
from which gold is extracted is called
dirt" Any earth which yields ten cents
of gold to the pan is known as "pay
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Andree and His Pigeons

1t Is the unanimous opinion of the pro-
fessional Arctic explorers that IL Mr..
Andree ever comes back they will be
sorely ppointed.-Detroit News.
There is suspicion that some one has
stuffed Explorer Andree's pigeon re-
turns.-Detroit Free Press.
That North Pole bulletin by carrier
pigeon lacks the essential of probable
ity-Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
If those pigeons do not lie Andree has
at last sighted the north pole-Buffalo
Times.
If all the carrier pigeons that have
been caught bearing messages from Elk
plorer Andree really came from his bali
loon, one wonders how Andree ever
found room in the basket for himself
indianapolis News.
1t is suspected that Andree released
that carrier pigeon few minutes be-
fore he started on his trip-Detroit Jour-
nal.
Some joker seems to be letting his pig
cons loose.-Cleveland Leader.
Professor Andree should have secured
an International copyright on the trade
mark used to designate his pigeons
Chicago Journal.
In the race for Arctic honors neither
Andree nor Perry need expect to sspass
under the ole."-Chicago Dispatch,
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icles that it floats and does not sink to
the bottom like a shot. A considerable
portion of such floating runs over the
top of the pan and is lost. It Is estimated,
that in the first placer mining in Cali
fornia about one-fourth of the gold was
thus lost. To this day Cinnamon are en-
gagged in panning the refuse dirt of early
miners and they make from $1.25 to 81
day in the operations. In Klondyke,
where so much of the gold is coarse, the
miners lose very little of the precious
metal by reason OF its floating away Pla-
Ger mining is the simplest of all process
es for getting gold out of the ground and
can be carried on only where there Is an
ample supply of water. All reports from
Klondyke agree that the best "diggings''
are in the beds of the creeks, and that
the farther down they go the richer the
dirt until bedrock is reached.-Chicago
Times Herald
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Dirt" fifteen cents to the pan IL good.
and twenty cents is rich. A miner work
ing in dirt that pays six to ten cents to
the pan earns from $3.50 to $3.50 a day.
as he Is able to wash about forty pans
full day, the number depending on the
character of the dirt. In Klondyke the
lowest yield to the pan reported II thirty
cents. This would give the miner not
less than $40 day for his work. Some
pansful yield 500 in precious metal. The
gold that remains in the pan after the
earth has been washed away is called
dust" Some of it is fine as the finest
sand. some the size of a pinheadl ana
your little finger; but it is all known a.
dust" Lumps the size Of hazel nut,
a walnut or larger are called nuggets.
The gold itself is the measure Of the
days, or months, or the seasons profit.
An ounce of it is worth, barring fractions.
$50 any place in civilization. You can
buy as much OF anything you want for
an ounce of dust as you can for $40 gold.
piece. All stores in mining districts are
provided with gold scales, and the
miners gold is accepted as so much coin
of the realm. The quantity of gold II
takes to make a dollar is surprising to
one not accustomed to handling the
metal. So much dust as you can hold
on the largest blade of your pocketknife
is worth SIS to 81 so. When you consider
tha this small quantity is the yield Of
thirty or forty pans you can imagine
how little bulk there is to the gold saved
in one pan. A coined gold dollar Is small
q a ,cti1x lima IL ~
can save in painful of dirt the tenth part
of gold dollar he is making fair wages.
Some of the gold is in such fine part
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all the outfit he possesses in the way of
transportation facilities and provisions.
Outside the camping outfit and the food,
careful inquiry among the women who
have returned from the Klondyke region
shows that the following would be re-
quired:
One medicine case, filled on the advice
of good physician; two pairs of extra
heavy all wool blankets; one small pill
low; one fur robe; one warm shawl;
one fur coat, easy fitting; three warm
wooden dresses with comfortable bod
ices and skirts knee length, flannel lined
preferable; three pairs of knickerbock-
ers or boomers to match the dresses;
three suits of heavy all wool underwear;
three warm flannel night dresses; four
pairs of knitted wooden stockings; one
pair of rubber boots; three gingham
aprons that reach from neck to knees;
small roll of flannel for insoles, wrap
ping the feet and bandages; a sewing
kit such toilet articles as are absolutely
necessary including some skin unguent
to protect the face from the icy cold :;
two light blouses or shirt waists for
summer wear; one oilskin blanket to
wrap her effects in, to be secured at
Juneau or st. Michael's; one fur cape;
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fortune with her. She has kept her
word.
After two years of prospecting and
just when her spirit and her fortune were
at the lowest ebb, there came a report
to Dawson City of big placer strike on
the Klondyke. Joining a party of cat
tlemen, Mrs. Willis hurried to the new
Eldorado. staked claim, and SO she
realized more than $500 900 from it.
Not satisfied with this, however, she
established laundry at Dawson City
and was the first to introduce the boiled
shirt" among the miners. 1t mace a
great hit, and notwithstanding the fact
that Mrs. Willis is compelled to pay $3.50
for box of starch her enterprise is pros
pering greatly. An Indian squaw who
works in the laundry receives 81 day
and expenses, and the log ca bin in which
the work is done Is rented for s35 month
Wood for fuel costs nearly $500 a year.
Before the turn Of fortunes wheel made
Mrs. Willis wealthy she worked as cook
for the mess of the Alaska Commercial
company at Dawson.
Efforts have been made to steal the
woman's claim, but to a friend, Mrs.
Frank P. Hicks, she writes:
nave SCile tlllOuSH uGdlH, anu d
fight is now being made to take posses
sion of my claim, but Will stand by my
rights If it takes five years.
1t is estimated here by those who have
kept track of the matter that at least
seventy-five women Of thorough re-
spectability are now on their way to tn.
Klondyke, and unfortunate as it may
be, will have to stand the privations that
seem positively assured to the popula-
tion of the Klondyke this, coming winter.
Mrs. Lippy, who is probably the best
posted woman of all who have come oul
Of the Klondyke, says she has three bits
of advice for women who are going there
They are:
First-Be sure you are perfectly strong
and able to endure hardship.
Second-Don't think for moment that
you are going to have an easy time of ii
at all.
Third-Be sure you don't go unlesey you
are we'll equipped with all necessaries
and prepared for emergencies.
Mrs. Lippy says that if all the women
that go north follow this advice they will
have very little trouble in making ex-
istence there as near a pleasure as it is
possible for it to be.
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result of the labore of this couple snug
fortune of $135,O0O has been accumulated
and all in less than six months time
These two incidents are the ones that
have stirred the feminine heart.
1t must not be thought that it is only
San Francisco or California women who
have the fever, for women have actually
come here from the east in the hope of
being able to in some manner attach
themselves to Klondyke expeditions in
any capacity whatever, as long as it was
respectable. 1t is almost pitiful to hear
them plead. They seem to think that if
only they can once reach this Mecca Of
fortune seekers all will be we'll with them
ever afterward.
1t is by no means an impossibility for
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WHAT rs PLACER MINING
How the Miner Washes the Flakes of
Gold From the Earth

To give homely illustration Of placer
mining, take a bushel Of coarse sand
mixed with gravel. bushel of earth,
considerable portion of clay, little
cement, double handful of shot varying
in size from the smallest bird shot to the
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woman to visit the Klondyke. She
must, however, go prepared both for the
journey and the residence there. OF
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two pairs Of fur gloves; two pairs of
muclucs-wet weather moccasins.
She wears what she pleases en- route
The times., 1897-04-02
New Orleans Results.

New Orleans, April Fine weather. but
q very heavy track, marked today's sport
Attendance, $40.
First racc-FOr threc-year-olds and up:
seven furlongs. Mamie Lord, Oh, T Burns.
i to I Won; StanZa, 1O2, a Barrett = o
to /, second; Wabasso, 81, Songer, : to ..
third Time, 1:35. oily Gamin, Patrol,
JambOrce. Prudent, and Izeyl also ran
Second race For -year-oIds; four
and one-half furlongs. Floss, 100, Burns.
s 10 1, won; Miss Hattie. 1OO A . Barrett,
3 to / second; Leicester, 1uS. Hirsch. 3 to
/ third Time. O:59 ia Charlie Rose
Shine, and Isabel II also ran.
Third race-Three- year-0lds; andupward.
selling; six furlongs. Gold Top, so, Bar
rett, to 8, won; Miss Ro welt, 1O2, Cay.
wood, to J. second; Hannobelle. 100.
Hirsch. 10 to /, third. Time, 1:9 81 Gil
ForJiham, Sky-Blue. Hardenberg. Judge
Bullock, Tunic, and May Ashley also ran
Fourth raCe-Handicap: one mile. Do
mngn, Ill, Caywood, : to ., won; Nan
ME LIS Sister, 9S, T. Burns, 8 to /,
second; Elkins, 93, Campbell, to 1,
The times., 1897-04-02
Entries for Today.

First Tace-Seven-eighths OF a mile; sell
ing. Waterman, 81; oily Gamin, Gluck
101 each; Little Billy, Judge Bullock, Sit
Fred, 106 each; Hailstone, III.
Second ace-Three-quaTters OF riiIe;
selling. Stella B., 81; Mitt ROykin, Har-
ry Lee, Rachael, p at MorriSsey, 80 ach;
j. NJ. b., Oldham, Aim, 101 each; Gomez,
Pop Dixon, Harry s., Nairette, Styx, 1U4
each.
Third race-One mile ana twenty yards;
selling. Little Tom, 81; PaskOla, 10; Lin.
Der jim, SO; Linnette, 104; Jim Hogg, 1O6;
Jack the Jew, Dave Pulsfer, 109; Lease.
man, 115-
Fourth race-Seven-eighths of mile:
selling. Laura Gotta, Sobriquet. Tagliona,
Hano Belle, SO each; Old Dominion, 1O1
Mamie Lord, 105; Ben Waddel, 1O9: imp
Percy, Marquise, 10 each.
Fifth race-Three-quarters of a mile; sell
ing. Izeyl, Graerin, 50 each; Cavalry, 81;
Oversight, 90; Florence COlville, Victor
ess, Fav0rita, 100 each; Sammy Young
Wild Tartar. Twelve Fifty, 1O2 each:
Bird Catcher, Spritualist, 1O5 each; DIR.
France, 109.
Sixth raCe-One mile; selling Pert, 90;
Lizzie Mack, 90; Harmony, Sky Blue. 100
each; Trixie, Mrs. Bradshaw, 1O2 each;
MontelI, 1O4; Sandoval, JambUree, 107
each
The times., 1897-04-02
SEVEN BURGLARS BACCED
The Police Make the Arrest of a
Thieying Gang.
PLAYED OFF AS PAUPERS
Good Work of Detectives Lacey, He
Ian and Sutton and Policeman
Herndon-Recent Crimes Traced
TO the Prisoners-How the Gang
Operated on Downtown Stores.

Detectives Lacey, Helan and Sutton and
Policeman n, k. Herndon, of the First
precinct, captured and locked up last
night seven young colored men who have
been burglarizing downtown restaurants,
cafes and dwelling houses for several
months past They gave their names as
John Williams, Lafayette Moore Charles
Henderson, Harry Hood John Jackson.
William Coots and Clifton West, whose
ages range from fifteen To twenty.
Wednesday night orThursday morning the
restaurant of Charles l.. Beatty, No. 1918
Pennsylvania avenue, was again entered
by burglars, end large quantity of wines,
liquors, and cigars stolen.
About the same time show window
In the store of c. Roginsky No. 907 ID
street, was broken and "A pair of shoes
stolen. other places where the young
thieves have recently operated have been
Rothchild's liquor store, on Fourteenth
street. Breitbarth's restaurant, Sharpless'
candy store, Quigley & Hart's cofe, at
Sixth street and Louisiana avenue, and
number OF other places. Yesterday morn
ing Detective Lacey secured a valuable clew
to the thieves, and with the aid of the
other officials succeeded in landing them
The boys have been i'll the habit re-
Gently OF sleeping at the Central Union
Mission, ana leaving their quarters at /
O'Clock in the morning and committing
the burglaries between that hour and & in
the morning. The plunder was hidden
III vacant house III the rear of Beatty's
place, and what was not sold the thieves
themselves made way with.
The thieves had Il novel way of gaining
admittance to the places by breaking IA
window i'm the rear. To do this they
usually stole a loaf of bread from bakers
wagon, and cutting it in two, smashed
the window with the staff of life, so as to
avoid making any noise.
All ur the thieves have done time in hoth
the JAN and workhouse. Policeman Hern-
don raided a poolroom on Eleventh street
about ten days ago and arrested the entire
gang who were sleeping there. Judge
Kimhall sent them to the wOrkho as vag-
rants for two days and the robhcries
Wedne Sday night are supposed to be the
first these boys have committed since their
release. Several of the hOys were taken
from their beds at the mission last night
and the others were captured as they were
entering that place.
The times., 1897-04-02
DIAMOND DUST.

Davenport is in town and will attend
today's game.
Nortonand Ashe and FarrelIand McGuire
will do the battery work this afternoon.
Harry O Hagan, Bert Meyers, ErnieHodgc,
AMI Joe Bernard watched the game from
grand stand seats
The attendance was largely in ex cess Of
previous days. the quarter seats To the
right or the grand stand being comfortably
filled
If Norfolk, on their showing yesterday,
don't win the Atlantic League flag. thcv
viii make the other fellows do a lot Of tall
hustling
Charley Reilly kicks like "Scrappy Bill.
And Charley is always looking for "A chance
toget IN ii speech. The fans like Ia see him
get stirred up
The Norfolks and Senators viii play
again this afternoon. The visitors hone to
win the second game, and expect better
luck than fell to their part yesterday
Shortstop Leahy, of the visitors, WAS
with Philadelphia for brief period last
season. Judging from his work it seems
that the Quaker management made a mis-
First Baseman Schaeffer, of the Norf olks.
is siugger OF the tribe Of Hittites He
smote the ball three times good and hard
yesterday. and when he pushed il out the
sphere Travelled like a shot out OF a gun
There are first basemen and first base
men, but when it comes to handling high
balls, low balls, wide balls. and
all sorts thrown 10 him, Ed Cartwright
is in n class all by himself Watch his
work incomparison with other guardians Of
the first corner and be convinced
Owing to the weather, the pitchers have
to be very careful to avoid catching cold
and getting strainsin the muscles. Mercer,
III particular, is taking every prccaution
against a set back before the regular
season opens, and consequently is using
no speed il the preliminary games
The times., 1897-04-02
AFTER THE vooDoo DOCTORS.
Police Have Decided TO Break Up
Their Business.

The headquarters detectives, health of
flee and District Medical Society have
combined forces for the purpose of break
ing up and driving out Of the city the fake
doctors who have thrived and fattened
here on the credulity ana purses of the ig-
norant and superstitous
Two arrests have already been ma de and
others Will follow. The first man taken
into custody by Detectives Boyd and He
Ian was Simon Ford, Colored, whose Of
flee is at No. 1911 Eleventh street north
west. pr Ford claims 10 be an hcrbist,
and alleges that he can cure many ills
that human flesh Is heir to.
The second arrest was that Of Prof ="
John y. Johnson, of No. I7l7 Eleventh
street. His business card announces that
he is a Clalrvoyant and that he tells your
life from the cradle to the grave" 1t adj
vises all in trouble TO consult him in busi-
ness or love affairs and find the road to
success. Sittin gs, 80 cents Prof
johnson also incidentally processes, it is
said, to cure some of the worst forms of
disease by his mystic treatment.
The charge entered aginst these men
ispraCticing medicine without license and
also without being regular graduates of
medical colleges Detectives Boyd and He
Ian held conference with Health Officer
Woodward last evening and it was decided
to proceed energetically against all VOC.
docs. herb doctors and others of that Ik
who are practicing their art without au-
thority or right.
The times., 1897-04-02
THE MARINE CONFERENCE.
Delegates TO IL of the United States
Hold II Meeting.

A meeting of the delegates of the Uhited
States to the International marine CON
ference was held yesterday ut the office OF
the Bureauof Navigation. The meeting was
called by Secretary or State Sherman, and
would have been held at the State De
partment had it not been diplomatic day.
When the delegates called there the
Secretary was engaged with foreign min
listers, and Assistant Secretary Rockhill
received them. The delegates then went
over to the Treasury building, and held
their meeting. There We're present:
Rear Admiral S r. Franklin, chairman;
Commodore w. T Samson, U. S. N; c.
A Griscom, of Philadelphia, president of
the International Navigation Company;
Capt John w. Shackford, marine superIn-
tendent of the same company; Capt. John
w Norcross, president of the Baltimore
pilot board: Judge w w. GroodriclI, Of the
New York supreme court, and Hon 5. l.
Kimball, general superintendent of The
life-Saving Service.
The delegates discussed the rules in
force to prevent collisions, and made n
number OF suggestions as amendments 10
them, tut none of the suggestions We're
adopted.
AFTER a session of two hours the meet
ing adjourned, subject TO the call of the
chair, which will be made in May, in all
probability. After adjournment, the dele
gates made formal call on the Secretary
of the Treasury, Secretary of the Navy, and
Gen. Dumont, supervising inspector general
of steam vessels.
Appointments Of cadets to The Military
Academy at West Point have Deenmade as
follows: j. Henry Stanard, Florence, S
c.; John Il. Breth, Altoona, Pa; George X.
Spaulding, Monroe, Mich; John k. Doyle,
Philadelphia. Pa; r. T. HarreI, al
tornate, Valdosta, Ga; w j.
Mcneil, waycross, Ga; G. W. Duvall,
Cheraw, S. c.; BaXtor S Moore alternate,
Chester. s. c; Walter o. Boswell, Penfield,
Ga: William Clarke, alternate, Madison,
Ga; Emil Boyer, Brooklyn, n. Y; George
W Cochen, alternate, Brooklyn, \. Y;
Francis f. Dunbar, New Orleans, La;
Henry c. Jewett, Buffalo, n, Y; Clarence
H Knight, Gainesville, Fla; Harvey b.
lnman, Dayton, n. Y.
The times., 1897-04-02
a PRISONER ESCAPES.
Ruse by Which Lee True Gained
His Liberty.

Deputy Sheriff w. A. Brown, of Garrett
county, Md, dashed into police head
quarters late yesterday afternoon. in com
pany with Deputy John Bowles, of Hyatts-
vile, and asked the assistance of the
police in tracing prisoner who had just
escaped from him at the Enrich Hotel
Deputy Brown arrived over the Metro
politan branch, Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road, having i'll custody Lee True, nine
teen years of age, who had been sentenced
in Garrett county to serve nine mont
for disturbing a religious service. While
waiting for a train the prisoner said he
was hungry, and the deputy escorted him
to Emrich's to get hot dinner, in the
meantime removing the steel bracelets
from his wrists
The prisoner repaid the officer for his
kindness by making a dash for liberty
and escaping.
Detective BOardman sent out a general
alarm to all the stations to look out for
and capture True.