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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-03
ANNEXED BY ENGLAND
SOLOMON GROUP OF NOW
PART OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
Massacre of Whites by
Many Miners TOmahawked.

VANCOUVER. B. c., Aug. 1.-The steam
ship Miowera from Sydney has arrived
here. She left Sydney on the evening of
July 10 and made the fastest passage on
record for the Canadian line. She brought
details of the recent annexation of the Sol
ONION group. The work was done by her
British Majesty's ship Wallaroo. The first
island made a colony was Bellona which
the Wallaroo reached on July 16. The
union jack was hoisted with the usual
ceremonies. The natives were very shy
at first and much frightened by the salute.
but they ~became treasured on the ship
leaving and removed the notice of the
board of annexation and dug up the bottle
containing the proclamation. The entente
cordiale was first established by the ship
rescuing a native blown out to sea in a
canoe. Runneli island was also placed
under British protection the same day.
The island is difficult of access and no ma
tives were seen. The Wallaroo called at
Maru sound and proceeded to the Stewart
islands and annexed them. The natives
are of a high type and very friendly. They
were much pleased at becoming British
subjects.
Runnen and Bellona lie to the south
ward of Guadalcanar in the Solomon
group and were apparently discovered by
Captain Wilkinson in the Indispensable, in
1879. 1t is said that copper ore is abundant
on them. According to Lieutenant Rich
ards Runnell island is about forty-ive
miles long and six or seven broad. of a
uniform Height of four hundred feet, but
apparently affords no anchorage. The ma
tiVeS resemble those on Tanna in the New
Hebrides. All the islands are rich in
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WARNED TO STAY AWAY
GOLD SEEKERS SHOULD o TRY TO
REACH KLONDIKE THIS YEAR.
More People at sISaguay Now than Can
Reach In Interior Before Winter
Proposed Balloon Route.

VICTORIA. B. c.. Aug. 2.-The steamer
Queen arrived from the north this morn
ing. She brought no late news from the
mines. but reports that 400 people are
camped at Skaguay bay and fifty at Dyea.
They are unable 10 move goods taken into
the lakes, as the packets canno han1le
the business. There will be a terrible crush
there when the boats that left here after
the Queen. seven in number, arsive there.
1t is safe to say that not hall Of the men
viii get away from Skaguay bay this year,
and even with the large numher ot horses
on the way up it will be impossible to
handle the freight.
Passengers on the Queen report that the
mounted police of the Northwest Territory
are meeting all people bound Tor the Yukon
country at the British line and compelling
all who have not a years supply of pro-
visions to return 10 the coast. Rev. Alfred
Hummer. of Oakland. Cal. who went
ashore at Skaguay, and Captain Carroll, of
the steamer. warn every one not TO attempt
TO enter the Yukon country before next
spring. The captain says not even those
who are now at Skaguay or Dyea will be
able to reach the interior this winter.
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THE LAND OF GOLD.
KIOndike Miners Expect to Take Out
%5.OOQOOO This Season.

RssOOYsUOO HIS
SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. "A letter re-
ceived to-day from Dawson City. written
June 26, says: This is the land of gold.
Unless all signs mislead. as signs have
rarely misIed, not California in the days of
1919. not Australia, not the prolific Rand
In South Africa. should rank with it. 1
venture TO estimate the output of gold for
the season from the placers in the inn
Ilediate neighborhood of Dawson at IS, 000,-
0o. Some of the enthusiastic miners hero
say the product for the season will be
nearer $1O.0OO.OOO than 5000. 600. but 1 nave
noticed a local inclination to brag, and 1
want to be entirely within the facts IN any
information / send out from this camp of
marvels.
Dawson has grown like a mushroom
since the news of the richness of the
mines in this neighborhood has reached the
other diggings along the Yukon and it's
tributaries. The present population of this
town is about 1900. Men are streaming in
as rapidly as their legs or the river streams
or horses will transport them. We in Daw-
son have an idea that by the close of the
short summer season there will he 10000
people in the town. There are no openings
here for new corners TO locate claims along
any of the creeks where gold plaeers are
known TO exist. All the claims on the good
ground in this immediate vicinity have
been take up.
"A stranger has to get out and prospect
in places Of which nothing definite is
known. Parties leave here every day on
prospecting tours. When a discovery of
gold is reported crowds rush out in frenzy
to the place. The %thronging in of men is
making an important change in the prices
paid for labor. While provisions are dear
the price of labor is going down. / have
known a laborer to get $40 a day for his toll,
but that price was not paid to every man.
The indication now is that many men who
must have food and clothing will crowd
the town, and that the rate of wages will
fall 10 he cost of subsistence. Flour is Sc
A sack
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MAssAcREs IN NEW GUINEA.
Miners from Australia Put to Death
by the Natives.

VANCOUVER. p. C.. Aug. 1.-The
steamer Miowera from Sydney brings in
formation that news of still another mas
sacre has been received at Sydney. Not
long ago great numbers of Australia's
huge army OF unemployed were attracted
by stories of fabulous gold panning at
Papua and other interior points in New
Guinea. Their ranks lave been terribly
thinned by murder, starvation and fatal
swamp fevers. To make matters worse
every native who helped a white man was
marked for the tomahawk. The remnant
of these white pioneers went TO Vanapa
for q final effort to make their fortunes
and return. Their stores gave out and
for months they lived on damp" and tea.
Natives in the vicinity claimed to be i'll
treated by the government III the way Of
scont stores and decided to teach the gov
eminent a lesson by massacring all the
whites within reach. The whites were
raided at night and put TO death with
tomahawks. being easy victims. They were
SICK and emaciated and could not defend
themselves. Many maSsacres had occurred
in the same place previously but the gov
eminent has never attempted to punish the
murderers.
Later news confirms the massacre which
occurred eighty-ive miles from Port
Moresby. The entire settlement of natives
and whites had their heads split open by
a large band Of saVages. The government
has sent a large body of military police
sary. Wholesale arrests will be made.
The natives will be brought back manacled
III the hold or a steamer chartered for the
purpose
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A DISCOUNTED EXPERT.
Prof. Elliott Again Gen.
Foster and the Seal Conference.

CLEVELAND, Aug. 2. Prof. Henry w.
Elliot has written a s~cathing letter to the
Plain Dealer regarding Lord Salisbury's
seal conference, experimenting the one of a
few days ago to Assistant Secretary of
State Day. He wrote:
In the foreign dispatches OF Sunday
morning there appears an entirely mislead-
ing account OF the fur-seal conference
which Lord Salisbury has finally, at the ur-
gent personal appeal of John Hay, author
lied. l protest against this studied attempt
to deceive the people as to the scope and
extent of that conference and the infer
ence which may be drawn that ii is to be
of the slightest gain TO the American case.
In the first place, we have had the official
and curt refusal of Lord Salisbury to reopen
this seal question in any way affecting ex-
isLlng rules ana regulations established by
the Paris tribunal oil 1875. This refusal was
made on april Il last, and not a thing has
taken pace since which has altered Sails
buryfS stand. rosters trip to London My
strengthened the British premiers napG.
NOW, what IS the warrant Tor this enOr-
ence IS TO compass AT washington next Oc-
tOber2 Simply this, and nothing more;
JOnn Hay, to break the force OF Fosters
Illuminating failure TO reopen the question,
begged Salisbury 10 let the British natur-
alisls VINO have been studying the seals
on our islands since 1891. meet out natur-
alists at Washington next fail and compare
their biological notes as to these animals,
all reference 10 the revision Of the existing
regulations to be expressly barred from the
discussion. Salisbury has permitted this
that is all OF it-and Il is simply nothing
for the American case ana, as to an agree
mcnt even in biological notes, that Is very
unlikely, judging irOm the work OF Jordan
on our side and Thompson on the British
last season.
calling in Russian and japanese agents
to this informal conference will not have
the slightest effect one way or the other on
the stand which the British agents may
take and have taken. Canada controls this
matter absolutely. she has an unusually
easy task as things now are directed on
our side. She viii again skin Foster as
clean as she did at Paris in 1856
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Army officers Ordered to Alaska.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 2.-Under orders is
sued by Acting Secretary of War Nickel
john, Captain p. Fl. Ray and Lieutenant
Richardson. Eighth Infantry, have started
from Fort d. A Russell, Wyo., for Alaska.
Their orders are to go as far as Circle
City at least and make as much of an in
vestigation of the conditions at the gold
fields as the short time remaining of this
season will permit. They will sail on the
5th from Seattle, and the War Department
officials are confident they will not only be
able to get into the Klondike region this sea-
son. but also to make their exit before the
country is closed by winter. On the re-
port of Captain Ray will depend the action
OF the War Department in maintaining a
military force in the vicinity of the gold
fields
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-03
GLAD TIDINGS.
FO~recaster Wappenhans Predicts
Cooler Weather This Afternoon.

Forecasts for Indianapolis n vicinity
for the twenty-four hours ending Il p. m,
Aug. &Warm. fair weather on Tuesday,
possibly thunder showers, and cooler in the
afternoon and evening.
General Conditions Observation-Disclosures
ly low barometric pressure prevails except
north from the Missouri valley, in Canada
and near the Atlantic coast, surrounded in
the north by high barometric pressure.
The low barometric area south of the Mis-
souri, valley did not extend or move. The
warm current in its front extends. with 90
degrees or more, northward 10 Kansas, Mis-
souri, and Kentucky; in its rear it is quite
cool, less than 20 degrees, south 10 Wyom-
ing, South Dakota Minnesota and WiScon-
sin. The temperature fell everywhere ex-
cept near the Atlantic and gulf coast: it
fell from 10 to l6 degrees north from the
Missouri. Fair weather continued. and
local rains fell and thunderstorm formed
only in Wyoming, South Dakota, near Lake
Superior. at Duluth. Iowa and in Florida.
FORECAST FOR THREE STATES.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. - For Ohio -
Threatening. with local showers Tuesday
afternoon; light northwesterly winds.
For Indiana and Illinois-Local showers
are probable; cooler; variable winds.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-03
Steamers for the Yukon.

SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. 2.-The North
Transportation and Trading Company mas
let a contract to Moran Brothers,, of Seat
tie, for the immediate construction of three
new river steamers to ply on the Yukon
liver from st. Michael's to Dawson City,
and for a tug to be used in the vicinity of
st. Michael's. The same company acknowl-
edged that 1t would bring three steamships
around the horn from the Atlantic coast
this winter TO Seattle and use them on the
run to st. Michaels. The steamship will be
large and fine, but the company has not
decided whether it will build or purchase
some already in use.
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TO alaska BY BALLOON.
New Yorker Perfectisg IA scheme
Thu May Revolutionize Ira vel

NEW YORK, Aug. 2.-Don Carlos Stevens,
of this city. has nearly ready a balloon that
he says is destined to transport passengers
and freight from Tiko pass, in Alaska, to
the Klondike regions, The balloon" Don
Carlos says, will be the largest one ever
made. It's height will be lis feet. 1t will
carry passengers or freight faster than can
be carried by any other extant means. 1t
will be faster than either boat or sledge."
What is the limit of passengers and
freight was asked.
I'VE expect to carry eight or ten pas
sengers and from thirteen to fourteen
thousand pounds Of freight, either live or
dead. We will also carry six or seven thou
sand pounds of water for ballast"
is the balloon navigable? %
Perfectly. OF course no balloon can go
against the wind, but we expect to find
trade winds in those regions almost as re-
liable as the trade winds on the Atlantic
ocean. We are making a rudder to be at
tached to the balloon as d steering APP
paratus. The rudder contains sixteen fans
which beat against the air and decide the
course that the balloon will take. The
lifting power viii be hydrogen and oxygen,
so mixed as to be impossible to freeze.
This mixture has three times the power of
Illuminating gas
"And where will the balloon start from ?"
From Tliko pass, which Is just 20 the
west OF Circle City, and about 1877 miles in
q straight line from the mouth of the Klon-
dlke. but II Is not Impossible tnat we may
decide on Douglass City as the point of
departure in the future
Under whose auspices will the balloon
rum"
Under those OF a transportation COM
pany, which has already been started, with
q capital of $3.50, 000. 1t is known as the
Jacobs Transportation Company. Jacobs is
a big beef contractor in Kansas City. A
banker named Low, of Millersburg, O., has
a large interest in the company. Under the
auspices OF this company steamers will con-
meet with the balloon at Douglas City or
Tliko. OF course everything depends, how
ever, upon the successful first experiments.
The deal will not be closed until the first
balloon vindicates itself. In that event it
is probable that we may build a dozen more
balloons and establish a regular line be-
tween the Klondike and the highest navi-
gable point on the Yukon river. AS you
see, we are hurrying through as fast as
possible. We are working from sun rise
TO midnight. We expect to start for the
West on Aug. s or Sin fact. we must do
SO. If the balloon is not finished by that
time we will take it with us and do the
coating and put on the finishing touches
in the West. The balloon will set out on
its trial trip from the Tliko pass about
Aug 2S."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-03
The sharkey-Maher Match.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2-Representatives of
Tom Sharkey and Peter Maher met in this
city to-day to arrange a match between the
mon. lick Abraham, of San Francisco,
t~elegraphed saying that the Knickerbocker
Athletic Club of that city would give a
$4,000 purse for the fight, to take place on
Oct. II. William A. Brady, who is lay
ing plans for a big carnival in Nevada in
the fall, offered a purse of $40, 600 and 40 per
cent. of all privileges. He was shown Abra-
hams offer, but remained stolid. saying he
from Dan Stuart, and because OF this the
impression gained ground that Brady and
Stuart would be partners in the Nevada
carnival. 1t was decided to wait for fur
Their particulars from San Francisco. The
pugilists' managers will meet again to-mor-
row. when the referee will be chosen, the
stake posted and the place of the battle
decided upon. The Knickerbocker Clubs
offer will probably be accepted.
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PUGILISTlC GOSSIP.
San Francisco to Have n Boxing Car
nivnI-COminE lights.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2.-San Fran
cisco will have a pugilistic carnival of it's
own, no matter what Billy Brady and Dan
Stuart decide on doing in regard to their
m~uch-talked-of show at Reno and Carson.
Inc Empire Athletic Club and the Column
bian Athletic Association have joined forces
for the occasion and are planning to bring
off five or six fights some time in Septem-
Der within one or two days. The exact
time and the talent nave not been selected
as yet.
The sporting fraternity is troubled over
a rumor that George Green is not in condi-
ton to fight Joe Waloott. The fight between
them is considered the best on the card at
the present time. Green alleges that he has
a sore hand and is therefore in a position
to beg for some consideration There seems
to be no reason why he should not be all
right by the time the fight comes off, near
ly three weeks from now. The fight be-
tween Spider Kelly and Jack Everhardt
next Wednesday night is a ~puzzling one to
the sports. Seemingly Everhardt should be
the winner, but Kelly has so improved of
late and has shown SO well that some of
the betting on Everhardt will switch to
KallU
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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. TUESDAY, AUGUST s. 1897.
RAINS EXPECTED
WEATHER MAN SENDS GLAD TIDINGs
TO INDIANAPOLITANS.
Cooler This Afternoon and Evening
Another Hot Day in st. Louis-Heat
Is Damaging Crops.

The blue and white flag will meet the
eyes of those who turn longingly toward
the courthouse flag staff this morning IN
the hope of seeing something to indicate
cooler weather. This flag means that the
weather man expects there will be rain
somewhere in this portion of the world to-
day. but does not necessarily mean that
this city will be the scene of the rain. In
other words ii Is the flag that indicates
local showers A local shower may cover
only a few square miles of territory and
this city may not be fortunate enough 10
be within those few miles. Cooler in the
afternoon and ev~ening'-the expression
used in the official forecast for to-day
sounds very well and will be welcome news
to the people here. While the temperatur
here has not been very high, relatively
speaking, the heat has been very oppres-
sive, but not very conducive to prostra-
tons. No actual prostrations were reported
yesterday. The maximum temperature
was SO.
In glancing over the Official reports of
temperature from different places in this
country, as reported below, the cynical man
will be inclined to wonder. He will think
the weather man partial in giving Helena,
Mont, a minimum of 46 degrees and a
Md8lIuum OF ~, Willie Idplu lily, p D.g
brought out furs to keep out it's maximum
of GA degrees. But there will be some con-
ISOLATION in knowing that fourteen Of the
cities reported had temperature higher than
this city, among them being Concordia,
Kan, with 102 degrees-just think what that
means-and Kansas City and Little Rock
sweltering in 100 degrees in the shade.
There is colder rather -warm-comfort to
the people of that region IN the report of
the officials which says the low barometric
area, which extends north as far as Kan
sas, Missouri and Kentucky, moved COM
paratively little.
But to come nearer home. A high pres
sure prevails north of the Missouri valley,
and in Wyoming and Nebraska the temper
allure was lowering about the sixties last
night. This is the weather that is headed
ing here before another day rolls by. This
delightful weather is accompanied by some
thunderstorms which may also come this
way, but they will L! doubtedly be well
coined with Open arms by. the peOple.
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Berry Offered s2.O0O.OOO.

NEW YORK. Aug. 90. O. Howard, jr.,
the mining expert and son of Gen. o. o.
Howard. telegraphed from San Francisco
10 a Wall-street syndicate: II have Sc
cured an option on Clarence Berry's con-
trolling interest in the best four claims at
paid Immediately, this sum to be forfeited
If contract is not carried through and bal
ance paid in six months. Forty square feet
actually produced $3.50, 600, of which $50, 900 in
nuggets is here" Clarence Berry is the
young Californian who took his bride to
Alaska to pass their honeymoon, and in
the meantime made a fortune.
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POLITICIAN MURDERED.
Alleged to Have Been Killed by His
Wife and Their Home Set ON Fire.

REDWOOD FALLS, MINI, Aug. John
O'Connell. a w~ell-known politician, has
been murdered at his farmhouse. Seven
gashes in his scalp were made by some
blunt iron instrument. After the blows had
been inflicted O'ConnelIs clothing was sat
urated with kerosene and his home set on
fire. Statements Of three of the Oldest Of
nine children made to the authorities are
to the effect that Mrs. O'COnnell, wife of
the murdered man, was the sole author of
the horrible tragedy. His wife's antipathy
to drink was strong, and ,his abuse of Ter
and their children while under it's influence
appear to have driven her temporarily in
sane
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EIwood-AIaskn Mining Company.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ELWOOD, Ind, Aug. 2.-Articles Of in
corporation were filed to-day with the
secretary of state of West Virginia of the
Elwood-Alaska Mining Company, with a
capital stock Of 81. 900, 900. w A. De Harity
Is president o. A; Armheld secretary and
are w. A. De Harity, O.. A. Armfield.
Charles Mahan, K. E. Fornshell, T. L. De
Harity, Bert Carpenter, II. c. Freeman,
Theodore Harnack, j. r.. Elliott and j..
e. Kirkpatrick. The company proposes to
send five men to Alaska in the spring.
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PrOStrnti0ns at ST. LOuis.

ST. LOUIS. Aug. 2.-The hot spell continues
with very little change. The difference in tenn
perature to-day with that OF the past few days
was slight. but the atmosphere was drier and
there was no such suffering as on Saturday and
Sunday. Ninety-seven in the shade was the high
est point registered by the weather bureau
afternoon when the heat was several degrees
more intense on the streets and places exposed to
the suns rays. Tonight the thermometer hovers
around ninety. There. were a number of prostra-
items to-day. three of them being fatal. Joseph
motive engineer; and Patrick McCauley, an iron
worker, were the victims. Other points in the
State are suffering from the intense heat.
At Montrose. Mo-, the week just ending has
been the hottest of the season, the thermometer
standing at 100 in the shade almost all the time.
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Corn Injured by Hot Winds.

Topeka, Kan. Aug. 2.-Dispatches to
the Capital tonight from every corn-pro-
ducing county in the State show that this
years Kansas crop of corn will not be over
80 per cent. of last years. Hot winds have
withered the product in the southern half
of the State, and few fields will average
over fifteen bushels to the acre. In the
southern tier of counties. except cas-. there
will be no corn. III the northern belt, north
of the Kansas river, though needing rain,
corn has not shown the least sign Of
drought and will make a full crop if relief
comes within a week. No hot winds have
blown there. Yesterday she thermometer
stood at from 10S to Ill in the south central
part of the State, and there is no crop
there.
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Nobody's business.

LONDON, Aug. I'm the House of Com
mons to-day the parliamentary secretary
for the Foreign Office, Mr.. Curzon, reply
ing to a question of Michael Davitt, said
a British potectorate was proclaimed over
Palmyra island in May, 1889, and that
the occupation will be maintained. Mr..
Curzon also said il was not necessary to
notify any of the powers of these facts,
and he asserted that Hawaii and Palmyra
had no present connection.