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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-17
Canadian mounted police are
stopping all prospeetors from
going into the kiondike. as it
Is next to impossible TO make
the trip.

Special Dispatch to the Post-Intelligencer
VICTORIA, b. c., Dec ls.-J. kastner
and George McLachlan. who came down
on the Corona tooay. state that the
mounted police have decided not to allow
any more miners to proceed to Dawson
until the conditions are more favorable.
There are many men ready TO go down,
some with hand sleighs. 1t would be GER
tain death for them to proceed at this
time, the weather being terribly cold and
the river full of float ice, so the police
have instructions and they are carrying
ceeding. This they contend is the very
worst time 10 attempt the trip.
Kastner and McIachlan left Dawson
November and arrived in Victoria this
evening. They state that 500 men have
accepted the offer of the Alaska CONNER
ciai Company and the government to sup
ply them with food free at Fort Yukon
and have gone for it. About 30 were
passed on the trails coming out all short
OF provisions and suffering severely, as
70 degrees below zero.
Maj Walsh was found encamped at Big
Salmon, awaiting relief from Skaguay.
He had lost two boats and much of his
provisions. The remaining portion was
spoiled. and unless relief arrives soon, he
will be without food. Kastner says he
cannot reach Dawson this winter. One OF
his party. Freeman. was drowned on
Thanksgiving day.
Two Of d party of five who left Dawson
shortly before Kastner are In a bad pre-
dicament. They have been separated
from their companions and are without
food. kastner says people will starve in
Dawson this winter. as there is not
enough food AboIt LOCO are talking OF
coming out on the first ice.
The kastner and McLachlan party had
a rough time coming out. They started
with four sieds. but had to discard these
and all unnecessary luggage. For four
days before reaching the Little Pelly they
were on short rations and all the way had
to sleep in the open beside a fire, the
weather being cold all the time.
George Ruth. j. II. Holland and William
King were with them when they started
After travelling la0 miles to Rink Rapids.
Holland and King broke down and could
proceed no further. They were left there
with very scant shelter and but little food.
The other three pushed on. reaching Dyea
December S in an exhausted condition.
Ruth's feet and hands were so badly frost
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-17

lawson. were passengers on the Corona
" aen seen in their statero0n by a Post
lnSetsgencer reporter this morning. they
were preparing 20 leave the steamer, and
neither was Inclined 10 talk
nat was the situation with regard 20
food when you lefsr" was asked of them.
We had plenty" said Mclaughlin. I'VE
hao enough 10 bring Us ont over the trail
and had three good meals a day. Still.
tEere IS not enough food in Dawson te
saTow any away. We came out all right
and / guess that il there are any without
food, they can come. too
McLauga hin and Kastner live IN Helena
Mont Both men manifest a strong aver
sion 70 taking for publication. Tl1ev will
leave this morning for the East. They lef;
Dawson November S.
II. q. Dick, a passenger on ne Corona,
with whom kas;ner talked. quoted him as
saying that there are 26so msn now co-i-
Ing out over tie Ice 20 Dyea.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-17
Frank j. Barnard. city superintendent of

Frank ]. Barnard. city superintendent OF
the Seattle public schools. was on trial be-
fore the board Of education all OF yes
terday and last night on charges fled
against him by DIR. Titus. in which he ia
accused OF taking from the school district
money which did not belong to him. and
with being political worker. mixing mp
in political affairs and neglecting his du-
ties as superintendent. When the hearing
adjourned at 1915 last night TO meet agaia
at IL this morning. there was more known
about the inside history of school elections
than is likely to ever again come out dur
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-17
SOUNDS ITS DEATH RATTLE.
Alaska Trade Committee of San Francisco
Meets a Frost.

The Francisco Alaska
the Csoa metropolis falling
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-17

VICTORIA. &. c., Dec l6.-The Corona,
arriving today. has. on board the United
states marshal and number Of prisoners
for San Quentin. Including Slim Birch.
acquitted on the charge of numbering u
deputy marshal. who attempted his arrest
for mayhem. bat sentenced 20 three years
for the original crime. One Indian pris-
oner was sentenced to life for murder. an
other 10 seven years. also for murder, and
four white men were sentenced for mis-
deneanor
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-17
Mr.. Gage Thinks American Miners
Would Not Be Benefited.
special Dispatch to the Post-In.eIl,sencer

Special Dispatch TO the Post-InteIligenrer
WASHINGTON. Dec Is.-Fron convsr-
Sa'io'is heid with treasury officials regard
"is 'he proposed abolition of the SUPPORT
OF entry at Dyea. Alaska. ii seems reason
ably certain that this win not he done !,
spite OF the strong presentation of the case
just made before Secretary of the Treasury
Gage.
Inc department officials now beIieve
'hat the Canadian government wouId
promptly retaliate and do more iniurv -
american miners and prospectors than the
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-17
IN THE SENATE,
" ofcott Makes Statement ns IN the
Monetary Communication

WASHINGTON. Dec. 1S-Tn the senate
today Aliens resolution calling up3n fhe
President for information about the in
S'TIc-io0s given 20 the international 7lone-
taTT commission and the report made 10
HEa by the commission. taen came ap.
y Aico;t' Chairman OF the cernnaie ieszOf,
sad :has s1e commission Rad not made
r~Esort - the president. The English gov
eminent be- added naS published 4 resume
of ;he proceedings ~ tae comnl lssson in
Great Britain. Ta8t document VII soon
S~ here. and as !t covers The saIaiec: faIy.
g. ata he valuable q senators and others
%aEotL8t-ons for hl-snttsllic conference.
a~ said are ss:H pending as1. he assured
tnc senate jnzS fae commission had no !n-
Erntion of rruIo4gtag is efforts beyond the
,o.at where reasonable h8re Of saccsss
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bitten as 10 force him TO stop at Dyea.
where h siill remains
Kastner and Mcl-achIin came on 20 the
Sound for supplies ard viii return in he
spring 10 work claims which they secured
before starting cut
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-17

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. I6.-Three Yu-
kon river steamers and several barses
ordered by the Alaska Exploration Com
pany will ne constructed in this city.
Men were employed to prepare two vacant
lots on Spear street. Just north OF the
Sailors home, for a ship yard where the
steamers and harges will be built.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-17
Government, Afraid of weyIer.

LONDON. Dec e According 20 the
ST. James Gazette private letters re-
relved here from Madrid say THAT Ger.
Yyevtar's reception tneTe Tas significant.
ara that the government IS 20 alarmed
By IL. uaenarfrE attitude - the pcpuiace
thas artillery has cean stationed al eDn-
cealea points commanding the main thor
opgtfaxes.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-17
MOUNTED POLICE
STOP ALL TRAVEL.
No One Allowed to Pro-
ceed to the klOndike.
CERTAIN DEATH TO GO IN.
Major Walsh Loses His Provisions
and Needs Assistance.

Tw" Passengers by the Corona Who
Fought Their Way Out, With
feriI and Hardships, Leaving
Two Companions by the Way,
bring Word Confirming the
Stories of Threatened Destitution
-Many Have Already Gone Down
the River to Where Supplies Can
BE Had-Waitin8 for Solid Ice.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-17
BARNARD BEFORE
HIS TRIAL JUDGES.
Offers His Answer to Sal
AIRY Warrant Charge.
BIG MASS OF TESTIMONY.
interesting Things Told About Poll
tics in school Elections.
Prosecuting Attorney Nc

Prosecuting Attorney McEtroy
Catches Tartar When He Puts
to show That barnard Had Hired
Bill, the Answer Came Back, .'Iee
Hart" and the Attorney Has an
Attack of Red Fnce-Professors
Tell of PuttinH Up for Expenses.
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The Corona's Passeugers.

The Corona arrived A. o'clock This
morning. with the following passengers
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tao msa VINO have JUST come OFT from
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-07
JONES, STRATEGY.
He Got His New Suit at Half Price by q
Great Scheme.

He Got His New Suit at Half Price by a
Great Scheme.
Jones' new suit fits beautifully, but
he was $40 shy ON the price. He needed
the suit badly, but his tailor was de-
cidedly disinclined to part with it till
it was paid for. After lying awake all
night revolving in his mind various
schemes old and new to get possession
of the coveted attire Jones evolved
brilliant idea. He put ON high collar
two sizes too large for him, went to his
tailor and tried on the coat again. Of
course it did not fit around the collar
and would have to be let out. The next
day he put on collar a half size too
small and tried it on again. The collar
of the coat bulged out in the back as If
it had been constructed for the neck Of
pugilist.
II can't wear that thing" declared
Jones. at does not fit at all. "
mo, it does not seem to, admitted
the tailor.
You've tinkered with it now till
you have nearly ruined it. / guess
don't want it. "
"Well, I'll tell you what I'll d."
proposed the tailor. who did not want
a misft left ON his hands. "I'll knock
off So on the price, -
Don't want suit that don't ft,"
declared Jones.
well, I'll make it $10."
Make it $12 90 and I'll take it"
"All right, but lose money on it at
that.
Jones paid another tailor 81 to have
the collar altered, paid for his suit and
had 81. 30 with which to "wet it. San
Francisco Post.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-07
Changes In Cave Dwelling Animals.


''The influence Of environment upon
organisms is nowhere more striking"
says Science, Ethan in the case Of ami
mails which find themselves aociden-
tally lost in caves and which succeed in
accustoming themselves to the situa-
ton in spite Of its difficulties. M. Ar
mand Wire gives some notes on his OBJ
servations in the Complies Rendus. The
principal difference in the situation
consists in the absence of light and in
the rarity of animal prey. The eye al
ways becomes atrophied to a degree
which varies with the species and also
with the individual. There is some-
times a difference between the two eyes
of single individual. The eyes are to
a certain extent replaced by other or
gans Of sense; the antenn@ of the
campodes become, in some individuals.
twice as long as usual, and sometimes
longer than the entire body. The tactile
hairs with which the body is covered
obtain an exaggerated development, and
in the crustaceans sometimes even in
wade the ocular globe. Hearing does not
seem to be accumulated, but the sense of
smell is very acute, and bit of tainted
flesh becomes invaded in a very few
minutes with large colony of animals.
The organs of digestion become very
considerably modified in those species
which are naturally carnivorous, and
in two staphylins the mandibles were
found to be completely atrophied. Every
animal is more or less completely de-
augmented, but those which had no
trace of color remaining began to have
numerous little black spots disseminated
over the whole body after they had
been kept for month in the light, and
these spots were particularly abundant
in those parts (antenn@ and claws)
which had been accidentally lost and
were in course of restoration. -
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-07
The sure way to miss success is to miss
the opportunity.

The dyspe2tic carries dreadful load on
his back. 1t seems as if be were really
made up of two men. One of them am
bilious, brainy and energetic; the other
sick, listless, peevish and without force.
The weak man weighs the other one down.
The dyspeptic may be able to do pretty
good work one day, and the next day be-
cause of some little indiscretion in eating,
he may be able to do nothing at all.
Most cases of dyspepsia start with consti-
patton. Constipation is the cause of nine :
tenths of all human sickness. Some Of
it's symptoms are sick and bilious head
ache, dizziness, sour stomach, loss of ap-
petite, foul breath, windy belchines, heart
burn, pain and distress after eating. All
these are indicative of arrangements of
the liver, stomach and bowels, and all are
caused by constipation. DIR. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets are the quickest, easiest
and most certain cure for this condition.
They are not violent in action.
Send 81 cents In one-cent stamps to
Worlds Dispensary Medical Association,
Buffalo, N. ", and receive DR.. Pierce's
zoos page Common Sense Medical Adviser,
illustrated.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-07
she Won Her Ret.

The efficiency of the employees of the
Jacksonville postoffice was put to a Sc,
we're test recently, when the distribut-
ing clerk came across a photograph with
postage stamp attached and the only
direction on it as follows, says the Flor
ida Times Union:
Deliver to --, Jacksonville
Fla. "
Several of the employees were shown
the picture, which was taken with a
small camera, and which did not show
The face Of the person photographed
very distinctly One of the carriers
named Walter g. Coleman, the general
travelling agent of the F. G. and P. rail
way, was the person. Several of the
Jerks and carriers did not think that it
was intended fer Mr. Coleman, while
others sided with the Bay street carrier.
Finally wager of 81 was made, and
the carrier started out to deliver it.
When he reached Mr. Colemans
office, that gentleman at once claimed
the photograph as one of himself A
week ago or more, while walking along
Bay street, he met young lady with
kodak, who took a snap shot at him in
front of the Gardner building. She said
that if the picture was a good one she
would send it to him. 1t also appears
that the young lady won wager made
with her father en- the delivery of the
photograph to Mr. Coleman with only
the directions above.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-07
OUR SMALLER COLLEGES.
In Many Respects They Are Doing Better
Work Than the Larger institutions.

In Many Respects They Are Doing Better
Work Than the Larger Institutions.
"There are few striking facts about
the small American college, writes
Edward W. Box in The Ladies' Home
Journal. ''0ne striking fact is that go
per cent of the brainiest Americans who
have risen to prominence and success
are graduates of colleges whose names
are scarcely known outside of their own
states. 1t is fact also that during the
past ten years the majority of the new
and best methods of learning have en-
anated from the smaller colleges and
have been adopted later by the larger
ones. Because college happens to be
unknown 200 miles from the place of
its location does not always mean that
the college is not worthy Of wider re-
pute. The fact cannot be disputed that
the most direct teaching and neces-
sarily the teaching most productive of
good results is being done in the small
er American colleges.
The names of these colleges may not
be familiar to the majority of people,
but that makes them none the less wor-
thy places of learning The larger col
leges are unquestionably good. but
there are smaller colleges just as good
and in some respects better. Some of
the finest educators we have are attached
to the faculties of the smaller institu-
lions of learning. Young girls or young
men who are being educated at one Of
the smaller colleges need never feel
that the fact of the college being a
small one places them at disadvantage
in comparison with the friend or COM
panion who has been sent to larger
and better known college. 1t is not the
college; it is the student. -
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-07
SEWING ON MEN-oF-wAR.
How Sailor May Add Something to Hi
Pay From Uncle Sam.


How a Sailor May Add Something to His
Pay From Uncle Sam.
Visitors on board war vessels in the
navy yard will very likely see among
the sailors scattered about the decks
smoking, talking and SO on a sailor at
work with sewing machine 1t is a
hand machine and has a pretty heavy
base, so that it can be set down on deck
and worked easily without shifting its
position
The machine is owned by the man
working it. On a big ship like, for ex-
ample, the battleship Indiana, carrying
a crew of 400 men or more, there would
probably be found as many as dozen
sewing machines On third rate
cruiser, smaller vessel, such, for IL
lustration, as the Detroit, there would
be apt to be four or five sewing ma
chimes. The machines are oftenest
owned by sailmakers and sailmakers'
mates, but they may be owned by sail
ors Any man on the ship might have
sewing machine if he wanted to.
Space is valuable on a vessel, and so
only hand machines are allowed, and
to bring machine aboard permission
must be got from the commanding Off
Ger. 1t is not to be supposed that every
man in the ship would want sewing
machine. As matter of fact compare
lively few men do, and those who want
to take one aboard are not likely to find
any difficulty in the way.
A sailor who has a sewing machine
makes and repairs garments for him
self and he does work for others for
pay. There are not SO many sewing ma
chimes on the vessels of the new navy
as there were ON those of the old. The
sailor nowadays makes up less of his
own outfit than he formerly did. He
draws more completed articles from the
government, but there is still plenty of
work to be done aboard ship with sew
ing machines, and some money to be
made with them yet.-New York Sun.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-07
A MOTHERS RusE.
Saved Her Sons From Consumption, b
Changed the Family Name.

Saved Her Sons From CONSUMPTION, but
Changed the Family Name.
A gentleman living in Boston told an
interesting story the other day about
how some of his blood relatives hap
pened to have family name different
from his own. 1t seems that during the
prosecutions in Scotland these particu-
lar Kirkpatricks went over to Ireland
and settled in Belfast. Subsequently the
head of the family came across the
ocean and as soon as he was established
sent for his wife to join him, bringing
with her their four sons, two of whom
were old enough to make stripping sol
diers had some exigency demanded such
a sacrifice The journey was undertaken
in slow going ship bound for New
York, and while she was somewhere in
mid Atlantic the war Of 1919 between
England and the United States broke
out.
The ship when nearing our seaboard
was overtaken by a British cruiser,
which put her about and escorted her to
Halifax, Nova Scotia The officer in
command of the cruiser declared his in
tention of impressing sailors and sol
diers from among the passengers. A
mother having more than two sons
would have to give up all over that
number who might be available for
military or naval service. Mrs. Kirk
patrick, who was quick witted wom-
an, instantly planned a ruse which she
justified in her own mind by calling it
ruse de guerre Ga trick Of war;. She
stood two sons in one part Of the ship
and two in another and was accepted,
without detection, as the mother of both
pairs, though she called herself Kirk
patrick in one instance and Fitzpatrick
in the other
After they disembarked the deception
had to be kept up, as they were COZ
stantly under the eyes of British officers
The interception by the cruiser resulted
in the family settling in Halifax instead
of in the United states. but even after
peace was restored the two Kirkpatrick
boys found it much harder to get their
name back than it had been to exchange
it on shipboard. In fact, they never got
| it back.
Those who had come to know them
as Kilpatricks refused to know them as
Kirkpatricks, and in the course of time
the effort to reclaim the family name
was abandoned as hopeless. The varia-
tion in prefix made expedient pro tenn.
by the intermeddling cruiser seems to
have been ordained to continue sine
die. --Harper's Round Table.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-07

The other day pupil in one of the
public schools asked the teacher to do a
little example in grammar, and since
then what seemed at first to be a simple
problem has had the serious oonsidera-
ton of all the pedagogues in the com
munity, and it has been unanimously
agreed that there is no rule in grammar
to cover the point raised. The young
ster's proposition was this:
1T is two miles to Woodfords. Now,
please write under that sentence,
There are two twos in the above SEN
tence Y"
That is what the boy said. He did
not submit the problem in writing, and
when the teacher tried to follow his
injunction she found out the reason
why. It dawned on her that there were
not two twos, neither were there two
tos, and how to express in writing what
was easy enough to do verbally she as
certained to be impossible.
The boy responsible for the foregoing
must be near relative to the youth
who asked his teacher how to spell
paris green, and when she replied,
Par par, is, paris, green, green;
paris green, retorted:
"No; you re wrong. You can't spell
paris green, or blue, or any other color
You can't spell it anything but paris -
Portland Argus.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-07
His Last Meal.

Every day some fresh source of food
supply is discovered, says The Stamp
Collector. Adhesive stamps have not
hitherto been regarded as nutritious:
The ostrich prefers gold watches for a
steady diet, and the travelling tinker's
donkey has reputation for consuming
any clean linen that may be handy.
A Hindoo paper, however, gives an
account of a curious incident that o.
CURED at the residency in remote dis
trict in Ceylon little while ago. Mr..
Pieris, the office assistant, placed on
his table some judicial stamps to the
value of about 200 rupees. While his
attention was drawn to something else
his pet goat was slowly but surely max
ing meal Of the stamps. This was not
discovered until the goat had swal-
lowed some 80 rupees worth of stamps
Immediately the goats life was de-
manded as penalty, and the stamps,
afterward taken from its stomach, were
forwarded to the commissioner