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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29

$50 feet was the worst Of all The water
fairly boiled and foamed in its eagerness to
tear away the great granite powders that
stood In the middle of the stream to check
the rush. The boat danced about like cork
and taxed to the utmost the men on shore
BY careful polling the craft was worked into
the proper position, the line from shore
ids
Not fifty yards distant and in plain view
stood the headboard over the grave of J.
". Mapes. the man who. in descending
the rapids, capsized mis- boat and lost his
was impressive, and it will be many a
long day before we will forget it's effect
On one Of the rocks which we avoided
were the wrecks of two unfortunate boats
Our boat shot into the eddies and came
up shedding the water like a duck. An in
slant later and ii was all over and We
were safely at anchor.
Then we helped two Swedes from Hell
ena Mont, through the rapids. and acct
dentaly ran against a sunken bOWlder
which strained the boat considerably. The
rest of the afternoon and to-day we put
in carrying our goods across the portage
The road is quite sandy and hard to trav-
ell. Lake Benedict is thirty miles long
and from 1000 yards to one mile in width.
AT present there are about $50 persons In
camp, building md waiting for boats to
be built The Skaguay trail comes out at
the lower end of Lake Linderman. After
careful inquiry | am convinced that not
one-tifth of the persons now on the SKA
quay trail will be able to get through to
the lakes this season. On the lower end of
Lake Bennett is a small sawmill. Patrons
required to furnish their own logs
and pay $40 a thousand feet for having
them cut into lumber. The capacity or the
mill cannot supply one-quarter OF the de-
mand. 1t is impracticabie to attempt 10
take any kind of a boat across the
mountains 1t is cheaper and better to
build boats on the lakes.
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SANDBAGGED IN AN ALLEY.
COIOred Man Employed at DIR. East
mans SanatOrium Assaulted.

Morgan Frenshaw, colored man en-
ployed at the Eastman Sanatorium, corner
of Vermont and Delaware streets, was as
saulted and robbed about 1920 o'clock last
night. Shortly after 10 o'clock DR.. Rilus
Eastman drove up to the sanatorium and
turned his horse and buggy over to the
colored man. The latter drove around to
the stable in the rear, to put away the
horse. That was the last seen of him I'M
til about l O'Clock this morning. when he
staggered into DR.. Eastmans office and
aroused the household. He had been bad
ly beaten about the head and face.
He told the doctor he had been Knock ed
down and robbed and had not been able
to give the alarm. He said that when ne
drove into the alley leading to the stable
a man and woman moved out of his way;
He paid no attention 20 the man and
started to unhitch the horse. While en-
gagged in this work the man he mad seen
in the alley attacked him, knocking him
down with a club or sandbag. When he
revived he found that he had been robbed
of ten dollars all the money he mad. As
soon as he recovered sufficiently he
crawled 10 the sanatorium. lie did not
recognize his aSsaiiant.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
Horses Beat the Quad.

PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 2S.-The fve-mile
race between a relay of running horses and
a quadruple bicycle took place at the Ken
s:ngton Driving Park, Holmesburg, near
here, this afternoon, and resulted in a vic
tory for the horses. The quad was ridden
by E O. Manager. r. H. Dippy, A. Boone
and r. Boone. The horses were started at
different distances-Belisariu and Romeo
going a mile each, Efie S: and Aida Kirk
running three-quarters of mile each
winding up with half mile. The quad and
Belsarius got off well together. At the
end of the first mile Belsarus led the quad
by a hundred yards. Romeo almost lost
the advantage in the second mile. but
from that time on the quad was out Of
it. for Efie S., Aida Kirk and kirkoVer
last half Statesman had a start of about
two hundred yards. The quad kept up a
the distance in that relay. The time of the
horses was 1854 is and that of the quad
10.13
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
Wooing in Alaska.
New York Mail and Express.

New York Mail anu EApEtss.
WooinC and wedding in Alaska among
the natives are interesting and peculiar
rites When young man is of suitable
age to marry. his mother his aunt or his
sister looks up a wife for him. lie seldom
nIarries a woman younger than himself:
she is much older, and sometimes IS double
from a family whose position equals his
or is even higher. When suitable woman
is found the young man is asked how
many blankets and animal skins he Is Will
ing 10 pay for her When this important
question is settled, a feast Is arranged IN
the home of the bride and the friends or
both families are invited When the COM
Dany is assembled the womans people ex-
iol the greatness of their family. The
Young mans marriage gifts are spread out
where they will make a fine show, and then
his family sound their praises. The cere-
mony lasts from one 10 two days. and final
his own abode.
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FLOOD OF CRITICISM.
views of EngIishmen on the Outbreak
in Northern India.

LONDON, Aug 2S.-The Indian troubles
have let loose a flood of criticism here
which blames everybody connected with
the government. Sir Ellis Ashmead Bart
lett in a virulent letter just published, de-
clares that a spirit of fanaticism has been
aroused which will be most difficult to
uuell adding: Every gallant life now
lost in the onslaught of the northwestern
fanatics is the victim of the reckless Will
fication and persecution of Turkey, which
has been the British policy since 1898, and
which has ruined the Armenians, pros
trated the Greeks, revolutionized Crete,
lowered British prestige and alienated the
Mussemans in India
Prof. Arminus Vambery, the well-known
authority on all Oriental questions, partly
comedies with this view of the situation.
though disclaiming that the Sultan has had
any particular hand in the present troubles,
which are Panislamic.
The Saturday Review. while eXculpating
the Sultan, declares that Lord Roberts, of
Kandahar, is believed by many of the best
informed people to be at the bottom or
the affair which is claSSed as a legacy OF
the Roberts administration.
whose motto was Military aggression.
The Spectator, touching upon the same
subject, says: wv hat we are paying Tor
and deserve to pay for IS our unWAllng-
ness to grasp the Turkish matter boldly
Had it been known in India that we alone
had dared to coerce the Sultan, ana mat
he trembled at our words, we should nave
had no outbreak on the frontier
In spite of constant demals, 1t is little
doubted in official circles that the Ameef OF
Afghanistan has had hand in the present
troubles. and that his attitude towards
Great Britain is unfriendly. 1t has been
known for months past that the AmeSr mas
been ordering enormous quantities of arms
and ammunition from agents in England
and this so attracted notice of late that his
orders were not executed In the mean
time no news is permitted to leak out of
Cabul, the capital of Afghanistan. Every
mail is closely scrutnized and all suspect
Anneer's right-hand man, has been eX-
pected in England on his annual visit tor
weeks but no news has been received re
garding his movements, and II IS quite
POSSIBLE that he is detained at Cabul by
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
RUSSIAN INTRIGUES.
Agents of the Gar Probably at Work
Among the Afridis.

The present fighting in and around the
Khyber pass may lead to something more
serious, says the Chicago Tfmes-Herald.
That something is Russian dominance in
Afghanistan. 1t is a specter which has
confronted Great Britain for many years.
There are no students of the Eastern situa-
ton who do not believe that a final Crap
pie between the lion and the bear is in
evitable All of the art of diplomacy has
been employed to postpone it in the past.
1t will be so employed in the future. There
is a point, however beyond which diplo-
macy cannot go. Two hostile lines of sol
diery confronting in wild country Will get
together despite the men of the schools.
They have been kept apart so far because
Afghanistan has acted as buffer between
the Russian advance on the north and the
British forces to the south. The chances
are that Russian agents even now are al
work among the wild hill tribes. That
country Is filled with them. They are on
the roadways. In the temples and in the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
ALMOST EXTRAORDINARILY.
Difficulties of the Sl~nguny Trail De-
picted by Thomas Magee.

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 2S.-Thomas Ma
gee. sr., who is en- route to the Klondike
gold fields with party Of San Franciscans.
writes TO the Associated Press from Lake
Bennett under date of Aug. Is, confirming
previous reports of the terrible condition
of the White pass trail from Skaguay, and
relating the almost insurmountable Difficult
ties to be encountered by the gold hunters
who prefer that route TO the more formiGa-
able Chilcat pass route. He and his party
left Skaguay on Aug. 10 with nine burros
and during the four and one-half days oc-
cupied in making the trip of forty miles
to Lake Bennett met with innumerabe as
ventures. Twenty-Five times some Of their
pack animals were begged up. necessitat-
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NEW YORK, Aug. 28-Arrived: Rotter-
dam, from Rotterdam. Sailed: Corlnthfe
for Marseilles; Mobile, for London; La
Gascogne for Havre; Spaarndam, for Rot
terdam; Circassia, for Glasgow; Island, for
Copenhagen; Umbria, for Liverpool
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 2S.-Sailed:
Rhynand, for Liverpool.
AMSTERDAM, Aug. 2S-Sailed: Wer-
kendam for New York.
MOVILLE, Aug. 28.-Sailed: City of
Rome, for New York.
LIVERPOOL, Aug. 2S-Arrived: Georgia,
from New York
HAVRE. Aug. 2S.-Sailed: La Touraine,
for New York.
SOUTHAMPTON, Aug. 2S.-Sailed: Paris,
for New York.
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Deal in Indiana Ronds.

CHICAGO, Aug. %. - Official particulars
of the deal between the Chicago, Hammond
q Western and the Junction Railways and
Union Stock Yards Company state that the
latter company has bought the entire stock
of the Chicago, Hammond & Western Com
pany, amounting to $20C0,000, at $50 per
share, the amount paid thus being $500 OOO.
The deal places the operation of the thirty
two miles of the Chicago, Hammond Il
Western and the franchise of the Indiana
State-ine Railroad in the control of the
Junction Railways Company. The whole
system will, however, be operated by the
Indiana State-lne road, and the transporta-
ton interests of the Union Stock Yards
and Transit Company will thus De placed in
d separate department and operated as a
unit with the Belt and switching tracks
which are now used for the Transportation
of the products of the stock yards.
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ONE WOMAN KILLED
And Eleven People Injured by the
Wrecl1ing of Dancing Pavilion.

CHICAGO, Aug. 2S.-A hurricane struck
the picnic grounds at Laurelwood Park this
evening and demolished the dancing pa
vilion in which several hundred persons had
taken refuge from the storm One woman
was killed ara eleven persons were severely
injured. The dead:
MRS. KATE BROWN, Chicago. struck by
falling scantling.
The injured:
IRENE MALADY.
SADIE OTIS.
NELLIE CROW.
MRS. KITTIE BARRY.
FRANCIS HAGEMAN.
FRANK KLINE.
LILLE FOLEY.
]. SCOFIELD.
PATRICK CARNEY.
M. B. NASH.
MRS. KATE TIERNEY, all of Chicago.
The Laurelwood PARK picnic ground were
crowded with $500 members of the Catholic
Total Abstinence Union this afternoon
when a severe storm arose. A mad rush
was made for the railway train. About
three hundred of the picnickers gathered In
the dancing pavilion. A gust of wind tore
off the roof and threw the timbers hater-
SHELTER among the crowd Mrs Brown was
instantly killed. None of the injured will
die. The storm demolished several out
buildings and barns in the vicinity but
the property loss was not heavy.
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terchangeable Brake Beam Company OF st.
Louis against the Chicago Railway Equip
ment Company for 100000 damages. 1t is
tempting to impair the credit of its COM
petitors.
Next Monday all lines will sell round
trip tickets from Chicago to San Francisco
at one fare or $3.50. The round-trip rate
from the Missouri river will be $50. The re-
duction is the result of row over the
transportation of delegates to the letter
carriers convention to be held soon in San
Francisco.
The Indiana Chain Companys ball team
defeated the Madden Lounge Company. 5
nine yesterday afternoon by a score of is
to 5. Batteries-Tincher and Adams: Mad
den and DIN. The feature of the game was
the pitching OF Tincher. who struck out
game won by the Indiana Chain Company s
team this season.
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RAILWAYS DECLARE WAR.
Will Fight the commissioners O
South Dakota.

CHICAGO, Aug. 2S-The Chicago roads
doing business in South Dakota have de-
clared war on the railroad commissioners
of that State. These commissioners, in exc
cutting a law passed by the Legislature of
that State last winter, have ordered d re-
duction in the tariffs of all lines in the
State. The Omaha, Milwaukee & st. Paul,
the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern,
the Sioux City & Northern and a portion
OF the Great Northern system have been
termed Class A roads by the commission,
Great Northern Glass B. the Fremont Elk
horn q Missouri Valley Glass c, and the
burlington q Missouri Glass d. The re-
duced tariffs for Glass A roads are about
70 per cent lower than the present tariffs,
the rates for Glass b roads % per cent.
above the rates for Glass A. Glass c roads AZ
per cent. above Glass a, and Glass d 80
per cent. above rates for Glass A roads.
The railroads have secured an injunction
against the proposed rates until Sept .,
when the case will be argued before Judge
Garland at Sioux Falls.
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SO OUT OF 100.
Wonderful Live-Bird Shooting by
Champion j. A. II. Elliott.

EAU CLAIRE, Wis, Aug. 2S.-With the
great score of 80 out of 100, j. A. r. Elliott,
OF Kansas City captured the Dupont silver
trophy and the championship FOR live pigeon
shooting from C. w. Budd, of Des Moines,
here to-day on the grounds of the Eau
Clare Gun Club. Bud scored 81 BIRDS OF
the six falling out OF ounds he had failed
to hit but one. J. a. Watson, of Chicago.
was referee. For fifty birds the champion
had tied, but Budd lost four in the next
tN1antX-fiNp
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RniIrYnY Notes.

II is reported here on the best authority
that the Pennsylvania Company will soon
commence the work of double tracking its
line from Chicago to Fort Wayne, Ind
The indianapolis Drug Company defeated
the Van Camp Hardware Company base
ball team yesterday by the score of II to o.
Batteries-Drug Company Murbarger and
Van Camp, Bronson and Bart
lett. This is the eighth straight victory for
the drug company team
A suit has been commenced in the Cook
County (Illinois) Circuit Court by the In
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 2S.-The
change in the officers of the Santa Fe and
Southern California roads, both of which
are parts of the Santa Fe system. which
have been expected for several days, will
take place Sept l. The authority of Gen.
eral Superintendent A. G.. Wells. who will
move his headquarters 10 Los Angeles, has
been extended over the Southern California
for the entire Santa Fe system Andrew
Smith Will act superintendent of tele-
graph of the entire system. Superintendent
Beamer's headquarters will be moved to
San BeTna r0ipO
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Returned After Thirty-Four Years.

ALBION, \. Y, Aug. %-W. e. Lord
Wis. and went to the front. He was not
heard from afterward and was given up
for dead His family moved here soon
after. and was overjoyed by his appear
ance to-day. Lord. who is now superin-
tendent of public works at Pittsburg at
tended the Grand Army encampment at
Buffalo. and while there learned of his fam
ilY'S Mherea bouts.
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ing not only the unpacking of each load.
but also the lifting of the animals bodily
from the mire. as the burros refused to
make any attempt to extricate themselves
when their small hoofs struck marshy
ground. Another trouble was the narrow
ness Of the trail in places, which necessi-
tated the unpackng of the burros and
transporting the supplies by hand over
these spots.
The Magee party took a boat up from
San FranciSco in sections, but was COM
PEELED to leave it at the beach at Skaguay,
as it was utterly impossible TO carry it over
the trail. At the head of Lake Bennett,
however they found firm of boat build
erS, who charged no more for good boats
than would be paid in San Francisco-Sl40
They had orders ahead for forty-tive boats
which would occupy them until Sept. ~ at
least
Mr.. Magee thinks that the majority OF
the crowd now at Skaguay and at Dyea will
have to abandon all hope of getting into the
Yukon country this year, and is certain that
late corners will have no chance of doing 50.
He also deplores the fact that so many
would-be prospectors seem TO overlook the
fact that once started from Dyea or Ska
quay, food and other supplies are not to be
purchased for love or money, as no one has
any more than he absolutely needs for him
self. He thinks that $50 pounds is about the
right amount for each man, but says that
hundreds are starting out with less than
one-half that amount and predicts disaster
for them
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KANSAS CITY. Aug. 2S.-President A. e.
Shllwell, of the Kansas City, Pittsburg &
Gulf road said to-day: There are abso-
lutely no grounds for the rumor from Little
Rock of an impending strike on our road.
There have been no threats of strike at
any point, nor have our men any griev-
anCes. On the strength of the rumor
printed this morning we have already re-
ceived in kilograms from different parts of
the country offers of fully fifty train crews.
There is 70 Likelihood whatever of a strike
on the Port Arthur route"
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Henry Griffin Makes IA vicious Assault
ON His Sire.

Last night Henry Griffin, colored. about
thirty years of age. went home in bad
humor, or rather to his fathers home. at
lie Anderson alley. and assaulted his ia
taer with ball bat. One blow on the head
was sufficient to place the elder Griffin TO
sleep When the police reached the scene
the injured man was unconscious. DR.. Colly
was called and found a severe conclusion OF
the brain, but 1t is not likely to result Ia
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
Severe Hurricane.

NOGALEs, A. T., Aug. 2S.-Advices from
Guaymas state that a severe hurricane
Mexican coast on the 22d inst, and that in
formation of the damage done is beginning
to arrive at that port. At Las Guaymas,
near the mouth oil the Yaquia river, the
region for miles around was inundated and
the town swept away. Three lives are re-
ported lost and great damage to crops. Sew
eral vessels are reported missing.
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general Henderson,s knee Cut or.

DUBUQUE, Ia, Aug. 2S.-The amputation
of Congressman Henderson's left leg at the
The patient is resting easy and his speedy
recovery is assured. His physicians ex-
press the opinion that the trouble General
Henderson has suffered for long years
caused by old army wound, is now at an
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29

The city of Juneau, in which many eXpe-
ditioners to the KlondiIe will be tied up all
winter, is the last vestige of civilization on
the overland route TO the gold fields of the
yukon. 1t is situated in the southeastern
part of Alaska and was founded by Joe
Juneau. a nephew of Solomon Juneau, the
man who founded Milwaukee. Many years
ago Joe Juneau and a companion went
prospecting along the coast of Alaska.
They landed on the coast just beyond where
the town now stands, climbed the mountain
and crossed ovei TO the other side. There
they found a mountain stream dashing
down to the sea. At its bottom We're white
powders and nuggets of gold They took
out $14 coo in a few days and then returned
for supplies. They tried TO keep their Sc
cret but ii got away from them. There
was rush to the region, and the town of
Juneau is the result The city neStles in
the mountains near the sea, and has a pop
ulation of about $500. The climate, owing
to the Japanese current, is not cold. but
the altitude is high, and winter there is by
no means tropical. Juneau has ample ac-
commodations for the travellers to the
Klondke but prices will be high this winter
for those on their way to the Chilcat pass.
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Freight shipments Heavy.

CHICAGO, Aug. 2S.-Freight shipments
from Chicago to the East for the week
just closed were heavier than for any
other period of seven days of the last two
years, and il is expected that the shipments
for the next seven days viii exceed those
of last week Lake shipments last week
reached the immense aggregate OF 100, t3S
tons, OF which 100 2O0 tons were corn
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vertinn. Not PnrnlHsis.

NEW YORK Aug. 2S.-Charles Fleisch-
mann. the Cincinnati millionaire who was
taken i'll on his yacht Hiawatha, lying in
East river early this morning. Is much
better and has proceeded on the yacht to
his summer house in the Catskills. He was
attacked by vertigo, and not, as at first
supposed, stricken by paralysis.
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Assets of the United Press

NEW YORK. Aug 2S-The schedules in
the assignment of the United Press filed to-
day in the Supreme Court show liabilities
of 1923, 4l5, with nominal assets estimated at
the same amount and actual assets esti-
mated at $500. The bond of the assignee
WAS fixed at $50 600
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Detroit Free Press.
Don't be so severe on the signal service
officer he means to give us good weather !"
Then why doesn't he?"
"Well-you know how hard it is for a
man 10 find ANYTHING in bureau drawer"
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Philadelphia North American
And now the righteous wife declares that
every club ought TO be called Klondike
because when a man starts To go there
there's no telling when ne will get back
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About S2,OOO.OOO In KIOndikc Gold, 1t
Is Believed, Is stored In the
Strong Box of the ship.
SAW NO PIRATES ON THE WAY
JUSTICE AS 1T is ADMINISTERED ON
THE SKAGUAY TRAIL.
The Trip Through Lakes Bennett and
Linderman-Unmarri Women
Wanted in the kIondike.

PORT ANGELES, Wash, Aug. 2S-The
steamer Portland arrived here at Z o'clock
tonight from St. Michaers, with miners
from the Klondike and about 81, Oo0 eco in
her strong box. The steamer was delayed
at ST. MichaeIs by the nonarrival of the
Yukon river packet, with those cords of
gold" returned Klondikers say they saw
stacked up on the dock at Dawson. The
officers are reticent as to the amount of
treasure brought back by the steamer but
say it does not amount to the millions
which newspaper correspondents have been
telling about No pirates were seen on the
way down, nor were there fears of meeting
any.