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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-03-18
ALASKA MINES.
The Distinction Made Between the
Winter md Summer Dfgginxs

The Distinction Made between the
winter and summer Diggings.
The gold diggings of the Yukon are
graded according to their depths as
winter and summer mines, a classified
ton that has been recognized only with
ia the last two years. Until within that
time the miners considered it impracti-
cable to do any work in the winter,
and so they hibernated for eight long,
dark months, consuming what they ha j
earned during the short summer sea-
son. Winter was a time for gambling
and dissipation, and they all collected
al Forty Mile and whilcd away the long
night of self-imposed imprisonment
Though the people of Forty Mile still
expect quite a muster from the mines
at the approach of cold weather, there
is a very radical change from the old
order. They have discovered that they
can accomplish more in winter than in
summer, and as consequence the
working year is three times as long rs
IL used to be. And here comes the utili
ty of classifying the diggings according
70 their depth. If the gold lies only
surface il is necessary to remove all
the worthless ground, throwing it to
one side after the pay dirt is taken out,
after which IL may be piled where ii
was originally taken from. The diff
Guilty of such mining is increased three
fold by the fact that the ground is
frozen. Every foot of it, either in
~. 81 hac To hox ri
by small fires. The shallower mines
the whole process being in the open air
are worked in summer.
In the other kind, where the gravel is
more than seven feet from the surface
they sink a shaft for a beginning and
then burrow or drift under the super
fetal part, removing only enough dirt
to allow space to work in. These opera
tions being underground. where the
miner is protected from the weather
are better adapted for the cold season
So the miner builds his cabin at the
mouth OF the shaft, gets in supply of
wood to the most accessible place and
TRANQUILITY views the approach of cold
weather. If he is of provident habit it
is not necessary for him to expose him
self greatly. He must bring to the sur
face and dump possibly ton of dead
ground in day. and also carry to safe
place a few hundred pounds of pay
gravel. There is no necessity for being
out of doors more than a minute or two
at time.
If one is prepared for them the win
tiers at the mines are not bad by any
means. Seventy degrees below zero is
about the coolest, but that is not of fire.
quent occurrence. There is good deal
Of dry, still weather. with the Their
mometer from ten degrees to thirty de-
grees below, and as much, probably,
early and late in the season, when it
hardly falls below zero. have met men
who have wintered on Forty Mile in an
ordinary tent.-Chicago Record.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-03-18

Railway wheels are increased per pound
TO ~. cents. Anthony ore Is taken from
the free list and taxed at three-fourths OF a
cent per pound
German silver, brass ard Copper.
The Mckinley rates re reimposed on
German silver. brass and copper, except
that copper In rolled plates win be 2ik
cents per pound instead OF IS per cent and
sheathing OF which copper Is the prir cipal
component cents per pound instead OF
= Per cent Mckinley rates are restored on
gclt leaf, silver leaf and lead ore and
lead Mica r. changed from 20 per cent. 10
81 cents pound and Is per cent. Mckin-
ley rates are restored on pins and type
metal Chronometers are increased from
10 per cent TO ~. and watches and clocks
from Is per cent to 30. Mckinley rates are
restored on ziEc.
Lumber Rates.
In the lumber schedule all OF the para
graphs Incorporated In the free list OF the
present law are restored to the dutiahle list
n the Mckinley rates. with the exception
Of white pine. which Is now classed with
spruce and pays 81 per thousand feet. in
stead Of 81 under the Mckinley law
a clause is inserted providing for On ad-
ditional duty Of Is per cent. ad valoreTn on
lumber 10 be imposed IN retaliation IN case
any country imposes discriminating taxes
on similar articles proposed 70 be ex-
ported 10 the United States. The tax on
toothpicks IS changed from IS per cent 10
liz cents per thousand.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-03-18

bonds shall be given to the United States
for such duties as may be imposed by law
upon any or all sucn articles as shall not be
portation or for the payment OF lawful duty
which may accrue II any OF the articles
aforesaid be sold, transferred or otherwise
used contrary TO this provision, and such
articles shall be subject at any time to ex-
animation and inspection by the proper Of
ffcers of the customs. The secretary of
the treasury may extend such period for a
further term of months in cases where
application is made. and the privileges of
this section shall not be allowed 10 assoc
Citations, corpo,-<ions, firms or individuals
engaged in or connected with business of
a private or commercial character.
Vans, seafern.
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Maple Sugar.
TOBACCO.
Nothing Is Lower I'm This List Than
Mckinley Rates.

There Is no change from the Mckinley
rates In the duty on leaf tobacco suits BILE
for cigar wrappers. but all other leaf, un-
stemmed. is increased from IS cents to 40
cents per pound. and stemmed from 30 10
20 cents.
Leaf tobacco suitable for cigar wrappers,
II not stemmed. 81 per pound: il stemmed,
g. % per pound. Provided, that II any
tobacco imported in any bale. box or pack
age or I'm bulk shall contain exceeding IS
per cent. thereof Of leaves suitable for
cigar wrappers. the entire quantity of to-
baCcO contained in such bale. box or pack
age or In bulk shall be dUtiable, II not
stemmed. at 50 per pound IL stemmed, at
81 per pound.
All other tobacco in leaf. unmanufac-
tured and not stemmed, S. cents per pound
II stemmed. 50 cents per pound.
Tobacco. manufactured. of all descrip-
ions not specially provided for In this act.
20 cents per pound.
SNUFF and snuff -four. manufactured of
tobacco. ground dry. or damp and picked,
scented or otherwise. of all descriptions. 40
cents per pound
+ Cigars. cigarettes, cheroots of all kinds
$40 per pound and % per cent. ad
valOrem: and paper cigars and cigarettes,
including wrappers. shall be subject 70 'he
same duties as are herein imposed upon
cigars.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-03-18
MURDER IN THE AIR.
Terrible Experience Among Hood
Thirsty md MerciIess Natives.

During the recent Mashona uprising
il was reported in England that w. f.
Brand, "A Dung prospector,h had been MUIR
dered by the natives. He afterward ca
bied from Fort Salisbury that he was
safe. In letter to his parents, who lived
at the Instow, in North Devon, he mar
rates his experiences. Among other
things he writes:
Groves and myself started from Lo
Magundi on June 10, two days before
the war broke out, with seven boys
two Mashonas and five Zembezis. ! met
two policemen on the road, As miles
from town: next morning both were
murdered. | reached the store on the
18th and met Groves there. We left the
store next morning and started for
Angwe, 30 miles off. AS we passed
along we thought there was something
suspicious, as the niggers all had guns
and were hiding in the long grass.
went up to a kraal and asked for my
things which | had left there five
months ago. but they refused to give
them up, so l cleared.
1--WE finished our work at Angwe and
came back When we got to the store
we saw four men who had been brutality
murdered, evidently by battle axes.
They were lying on their stomachs.
and had been dragged out of the store
into the veldt. They were blown out
to a tremendous size. and when we
turned them over their faces were eaten
away. We walked to Jameson's camp
to see if we could find any more bodies.
1t was five o'clock when we arrived and
had been walking all day.
"Then we walked on to Ayres farm,
rs miles, where we thought we should
be safe, but ! had TO shoot both my
Mashonas 70: safety. and lucky for me
that did. We arrived at Ayres at seven
a. M, where we thought we were going
TO have a good breakfast. as we had had
nothing to eat for two days. | rushed
up to the huts like mad. and just as
reached the first the brutes jumped up
all round US, with battle axes and knob
kerries, and yelled. They fired about
90 shots at MS before we cleared. All
the boys were shot, and then they
chased us. One gave me blow on the
back with d battle ak, but cut only
through my coat. We shot six and ran
across a place like the Burrows. bullets
tearing up the ground all around us,
but fortunately never hit us. One
bullet went through my hat, which was
not pleasant. At last we got away.
There must have been 600 or 400 of the
brutes. We got into a wood aud lodged
end then my legs gave way, and could
90 no further.
'Wearriyed at Fort Salisbury like two
hroken-down tramps."-N. Y. World.
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

"A bust of Thomas Arnold, of Rugby,
has been placed in Westminster alb
hey. 1t is opposite that of Matthew
Arnold, who was thus honored before
his father.
-Ruskln's favorite recreation is chess
to which it is his custom to devote his
evening. A Partially for chess is also
said to be one of the characteristics of
George Meredith.
Dean Farrar quotes Tennyson as
having related to him the remark of a
farmer, who, after hearing fire-and-
birthstone sermon from an old-style
preacher, consoled his wife by saying:
"Never. mind, Sally; that must be
wrong. No constatooshun couldn't
stand it."
Charles Frohman, the theatrical
manager, though one of the most con-
spicuous men in this country, and well
known in England and France, will
never sit for his Photograph nowadays.
There is an old picture of him, taken
years ago, which occasionally appears
in illustrated newspapers, but it does
not look much like him.
ACC NlAC Ahh
poet and dramatist, lives in the quiet
old town of Client. and enjoys wheeling
over the fiat smooth roads. NJ. MIe-
terlinclx is barrister, but does not
practice, saying frankly that as he was
never able to manage his own affairs
he could not expect to manage other
peoples.
Twelve Thousand copies OF Ibsen's
new drama, John Gabriel Borkman, s"
have been printed in Norwegian, being
the largest edition known in Scandi-
navia. For Nansen's book, Farm
over Polkavet," there are 1900 Nor
wegian subscribers. Jonas Lie. too, is
bringing out new novel, "Byre Rein"
Eugene Zimmerman, the garcia
turist who signs his eccentric and com
ical drawings 'Zim," is a Swiss by
birth, and started his artistic career as
a painter of sign. One of his drawings
on barn in the country was so conf
cal that it attracted the attention of
the editor of Puck. and the creator of
this was sought out and soon installed
the Puck Office at four dollars per week.
When the late Mr.. Gillian left Puck for
Judge, Mr.. Zimmerman followed him.
He has since remained there.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-03-18
A Minister Killed.

Milwaukee, March 16.-Rev. George
IL. Wells, of Dover, ILL.,. was struck by a
train on the St. Paul road half mile
east of the Wauwatosa depot last Sat
urday night and was instantly killed.
He came here accompanied by his broth
err last Saturday and entered the Waa-
watosa sanitarium as patient, having
suffered nearly year from nervous
prostration. 1t is believed that he COM
mitted suicide. Mr.. Wells was IS years
of age, unmarried, and until recently
pastor of the Plymouth church in Min
neapols. He was formerly from Mon
treal, where he was an influential pastor
for o. wears
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-03-18
COTTON AND COTTON GOODS.
This Schedule Built Practically on
the Wilson Lines.

In the cotton goods schedule there are few
changes from the present law, except some
goods The Mckinley rates are restored
On ready made clothing. on cotton chenille
goods and on h9 psETd shirts fnr and drawers
There is an entire new classification of
seamless hosiery, shirts and drawers.
Hosiery valued at not more than $50 per
Is per cent; valued at more than ST. and
not more than 50 per dozen, IS cents per
50 per dozen, 81 per dozen and 20 per cent
Shirts and drawers valued at not more
$50 and not not more Il than So per dozen. q
cents per dozen and rs per cent; valued at
more than SO per dozen. 81 per dozen and 30
The present rate remains on cords, braids,
etc. and on all manufactures of cotton not
specially provided for
Flax, Hemp and Jute.
In the fiaN. hemp and jute schedule all
the articles placed on the free, list In the
present law are restored to the dutiable
list at Mckinley rates except tow of hemp,
which Is increased from the Mckinley rate
CT one-half OF cent a pound to i cent.
Jute yarn is changed from 80 per cent. ad
valorem to cent pound and 10 per cent.
Gables, cordage and Irvine not otherwise
provided for are taxed at cent per pound (;
binding Irvine. when imported from coun-
tries placing duty on the same article
cent per pound: cables and cordage of
hemp. , cents per pound; hemp and tute
carpets, cents per square yard and 20 per
cent; burlaps, except cotton bagging,
eight-tenths OF cent a pound and Is per
cent: burlap bags for grain. one-half cent
a pound and 10 per cent.
There is a new classification of fax, gill
netting, etc. When made of yarn not
higher than No ~ IL is taxed Is cents per
pound and Is per cent; finer than No. ~ to
No. %. "a cents per pound and Is per cent. !:
to No. 40. 40 cents per pound ard IS per
cent: finer than No. 40 to No. so. As cents
20 to No. so. IS cents per pound and 20 per
cent: finer than No. so, 80 cents per pound.
Threads. twines and cords of hemp. FAX
or ramie, not finer than slime. u cents
per pound: finer five-eighths of a cent ad-
diti0nal for each line Yarns OF hemp.
flax or ramie. valued at less than y cents
per pound. cents per pound and 10 per
cent; valued a. above IL cents per pound.
u cents per pound and IS per cent: collars
and cuffs composed entirely of cotton, i5
cents a dozen and Is per cent; composed
of whole or In part of linen. 50 cents per
dozen and 20 per cent: shirts and under
wearing apparel not specially provided for,
composed In whole or in part of linen. 80
per cent.
Laces, embroideries. ruchings. trim
mings window curtains and other tam
boured articles and articles made wholly
or in part of ahove-named articles, com
posed of fax, tute. cotton or other vege-
table fiber are taxed at 50 per cent. ad va
loren.
The basket clause in the re hemp and
iute schedule imposes a com yund duty or
all manufactures containing not more tran
100 threads per square inch and so per cent.
on all above 100 threads
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-03-18
RAN INTO DROVE OF HORSES.
Missouri Pacific Train Wrecked
Three Killed, Six Injured.

Kansas City, Mo-, March 16.-The Mis-
souri, Pacific passenger train, north
bound, which left here at OILS o'clock
Sunday night, was wrecked at Wolf
Creek, Kan, Es miles east of Hiawatha,
at midnight by running into a bunch
of horses. The engineer and fireman
were killed, express messenger, bag
gageman and conductor badly injured
and three passengers hurt, one of them
afterwards dying of his injuries. The
dead are Ed Nye, engineer, Kansas City;
Patrick Connor, fireman, Kansas City;
j. b. Meador, travelling man, Atchisou,
Kan. Engineer Nye was one of the
oldest engineers IL the service, having
been on the road for ii years.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-03-18
RECIPROCITY.
Provisions Aimed TO Aid Our Foreign
Trade ReIuffous

1t was the purpose of the committee to de-
wise provision that will enable reel
procity treaties TO be made, not only to Sc
cure the larger importation of American
manufactures into the South and Central
American countries, but also TO open the
markets of European countries particu-
larry Germany and France, TO the freer
use of American meats and agricultural
products generally.
IL has already been decided TO place the
following articles In the list of goods which
viii be used for reciprocity arrangements
with other countries:
Sugar.
Spirits.
Champagnes.
SIX goods.
Gloves.
Mineral waters.
Argols.
Chicle.
Feathers and millinery ornaments.
On all the foregoing articles, imported
principally from Great Britain and France,
the duties VIII be reduced In consideration
OF removal OF restrictions and for other
reciprocal arrangements in favor of Amer
lean products, such as breadstuffs live
stock and meats
No changes are made in the adminis-
trative features of the existing law. The
present internal revenue laws are not
touched at all. either as to rates or regu-
iations.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-03-18
on Time.

And very early too. That's what any one
should be in treating ones self for inaction
of the kidneys and bladder. The diuretic
which experience indicates as supplying the
requisite stimulation to the organs without
exciting them, is Hostetter's Stomach Bit
tiers. Don't delay; kidney inaetion and dis
eases are not far apart. For fever and ague,
dyspepsia, constipation, rheumatism and
nerve debility, also, use the Bitters.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-03-18

Wool is advancing in London and in
our markets; slowly, however. because
of the immense Accommodations aud
heavy importing orders in anticipation
Of duties 10 be imposed. 1t is certain
that the seasons wool supply will be
large enough to keep prices from rising
materially until the gIut shall be re-
moved by mill consumption.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-03-18

If you ee1 anything in the line of Hav
Coal, Stock, Grain or Cotton Scales, you
should write to the Weeks Scale Works,
Buffalo, N. Y, for catalogue and informa-
ton. This is an old reliable firm, and you
can rely upon right prices and right treat
ment
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-03-18

Ad vaIorcm Rates Changed TO spe-
ci6c-The New Duties.

ci6c-The New Duties.
The sugar schedule IS specific through
out Sugars not above No. is. Dutch stand
ard In color, tank bottoms, sirups OF cane
juice. melada, concentrated melada, con-
crete and concentrated molasses, testing BY
the polariscope not above IS degrees, cent
gree or fraction OF a degree shown by the
0olariscopic test. Observation-Disclosures OF
cent per pound additional: and on sug =
above No IS. Dutch standard in color a ii
on all sugar which has gone thrOugh a
process Of refining. ISIS cents per bound /:
molasses testing not above s. 6-s-ees. 3
cents per gallon: testing Is degrees AID
above, cents per gallon: sugar, tank
bottoms. sirups. cane Juice beet Juice,
melada, concentrated melada and concret,,
and concentrated mOlasses. the product OF
any country which pays directly or indi-
whether imported directly and in condition
exported therefrOm or o. herwise. shall
pay in addition TO the foregoing rates =
duty equal 10 such bounty, or so much
thereof as may be In excess n any tax col
lected by such country upon such article
produced Provided. that nothing herein
contained shall he so construed as TO abro-
gate or in any manner impair or affect the
provisions of the treaty OF commercial
reciprocity concluded between the United
States and the king OF the Hawaiian
the provisions OF any act of congress here
tofore passed for the execution OF the
same
Maple sugar and maple sirup 4 cents per
pound: glucose or grape sugar, IL cents
per pound. sugar cane In its natural sta te
or manufactured. % per cent ad valorem.
Ssccharine, g per pound and Is per cent.
al valOrem. Sugar candy and all confec-
tiOnery and all other articles made wholly
or in part of sugar. valued at Is cents per
pound or less. and on sugars after being
refined, when tinctured. colored or in any
way adulterated. cents per pound and q
per cent. ad valorem: valued at more thar
- cents per pound and not more than g.
cents per pound, - cents per pound and %
per cent. ad valorer; valued al above e.
cents per pound. - per cent. ad valorem.
The weight OF paper and other immediate
wrappers, tickets, labels. cans. cartons.
boNes OF COVERINGS other than the outer
packing case or other covering shall be in
cluded In the dutiable weight Of the mer-
cEn
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-03-18
Hero of HalaI,Inya Dies.

Phoenixville. Pa, March 16. = Barney
McKernan, who took part in the famous
charge of the Light brigade at Bala-
klava, died here with his medal of honor
on his breast. McKernan was probably
the last survivor in this country of the
famous charge.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-03-18
eos BUS. OARS, I7s nus. HARLEY.

M. NJ. Luther, East Troy, Pa, grew
200 bushels Salzer's Silver Mine Oats,
and John BREEDER, Mishicott, Wis, 179
bushels Silver King Barley per acre,
Don't Won believe it? Write them!
FODDER plants as rape, teosinte,
vetch, spurry, clovers. grasses, etc. in
endless varieties, potatoes at $3.50 a bar
rel. Salzer's seeds are bred to big
yields. Americas greatest seed cata.
logue and 10 farm seed samples are sent
you by John A.Salzer Seed Cola Crosse
Wis, upon receipt of 10 cents. and thi:
notice, worth $40, to get start. [K1
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Shelf you were TO find that | had lost
all my fortune-every penny of it-would
you hesitate to carry out our engagement 80
He would hesitate at nothing. '-lndi-
annapolis journal.
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Herman Gunsallus. of Beech Greek,
Pa, recently caught large catamount
in a trap at the head of Big Run. The
animal measured three feet ard seven
inches from the tip of the nose to the
tip of the tail. Gunsallus has also
caught four bears in traps this winter.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-03-18
Uurequfted.

Dreamer is great wooer of the
muses."
ayes; but the love appears 70 be all
on his e"-Philadelphia North Amer
lean.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-03-18

A woman's idea of man good and true
IS one who, on Sunday afternoon, reads to
his child the little paper it received al sun
day school that day-Atchison Globe.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-03-18

When bilious or costive cat a Cascaret,
candy cathartic, cure guaranteed. I0c, 25c
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-03-18

We think Piso's Cure for Consumption
is the only medicine for Cough.-Jennie
Pinckard, Springfield, Ills, Oct /, 1894.
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some spankinr ue,hoa.

r-Hand-Spank the children? Oh
yes; have to use the slipper occasion
ally; but when il comes to spanking
A wall came from the woodshed.
"My wife takes the palm."-N. Y
Press
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-03-18

When heating a furnace for your foe, do
not forget that there is some danger Of
your being thrown into it.-Rams Horn.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-03-18

George describes the girl he is engaged
says she is sight. "-Indianap Journal
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-03-18

Fits stopped free and permanently cured.
No hts after first days use of DIR. Kline's
Great Nerve Restorer. Free 81 trial bottle &
treatise. DIR. Kline. 933 Arch ST., Phila, Pa
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-03-18

Some of the best people we know are so
fat that they will not be able to reach
their a~ms around a harp when they get Up
Yonder-Atchison Globe.
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Our idea of hopeless fool is a man who
has a stiff neck from looking up for air
shiDs