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The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-15
Don't Ouit Golf when snow Flies

But board the Santa Fe's quick Califor-
MIA Limited, bound for Los Angeles
links They play there ali winter; so
may you.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-15
To cURc A COLD IN ONE DAY

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money II Il fails
70 cure. 25c. The genuine has L B. Q.
on each tablet.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-15

which was entirely LIBERAL. retired because
Senior Antunez was unable TO carry out
many OF the leading features OF has pro-
gram, but its successor, and the cabinet
that has just resigned. were coalition min
ister.es. formed, Il was understood. N east
case. with the approval OF the CenseE-sa-
lives. who had blocked the efforts ot sencr
Antunez.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-15

'Noxacold" positively cures Cold or
La Cripple in day. Guaranteed in every
case. Sold by all druggists.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-05
WILLIAM JENNING

which flow on the farther side of an inter-
vening range of mountains He would
not say whether the creek is on the coast
but beyond Lake Teslin is an expanse of
country not only never prospected, bui
never trodden by the foot of a white man.
There are old prospectors by the score who
have always believed IN the richness of
this ground. Lake Teslin is perhaps the
largest of all the bodies of water lying in
the great basin between the Coast Range
and the Rocky Mountains. 1t is naviga-
bic, and the Hootalinqua River is naviga-
ble. Small steam boats, such as now ply
on the Yukon, can go from st. Michael up
to the Hootalinqua to the head of Lake
Teslin. The bars in the Hootalinqua
River have been worked to some extent
and found to pay we'll. 1t is the general
understanding in Juneau that line OF
small steamboats, will be run on Lake
Teslin next season, but nobody seems to
know who is going to put them on.
Much talk is heard here about the availa-
bility of the Taku and Stickeen passes,
south of here, and the indications are
that they will be popular gateways to the
Yukon and Hootalinqua next year. A
steamboat now runs on the Stickeen
which comes out near Fort Vrangel.
News of another rich strike in placer
ground has reached Juneau from the
Unuck River, which runs out OF the
mountains near Dixons Entrance. In
dams are reported to have taken out SO
to $50 per day. They came out after a
few weeks work, and when they returned,
broke, could not fino the place again.
The Indians believe that glacier has slid
down and covered it up. num- Der OF
white men have gone from Fcrt Wrangel
and Juneau to try to find it. The Indians
are poor gold miners. The white men
promise themselves they will take out $40
where the Indian took out 81. Needless
of The rush and excitement, the thousands
of stamps in the many mills around
Juneau keep up their deafening racket
night and day crushing gold out OF quartz
There is hardly a mill in Alaska that has
not annually increased its capacity out OF
its surplus earnings. HAL HOFFMAN.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-05

desire to get the trail in pasGable shape i.
general, but there IS no concert in action.
The frequent meetings are not well
attended or harmonious. Indifference is
spreading. All express willingness to &c
to work on the trail. but comparatively
few actually do so. The New York World s
expenditure of money for the purpose OF
putting the trail into condition was ac-
cepted with general enthusiasm. Even il
the trail is IN good shape inside of week,
it will not be possible for m ore than very
small percentage of the crowd to reach
Dawson before the river freezes.
For nine-tenths OF the people on the
ground the situation is puzzle with only
one solution. That is to winter on the
ground or return to Juneau or home.
Golden dreams have changed into mig ht-
mare OF the bitterest disappointment. To
leave Skaguay means to abandon expen-
sve outfits to be either stolen or ruined
by the winter storms. To remain is
about as expensive as to go away and re-
turn in the spring. Tents are unsuitable
to live in there during the winter. The
rains are furious and the wind sweeps
down the canyon with enough velocity to
dlinOSL DlOW Tic UdT n Oil tue IlceSs IL Is
much colder and stormier at the bead OF
Lynn Canal than at juneau. To build
board cabins is beyond the means of
many; lumber is very expensive here.
Many of those at Skaguay are already
running short of money. Five hundred
transients are now lodged in Juneau, and
the limit is 300 more at the outside.
Men are coming in daily from Dyea and
Skaguay. Probably $50 might be accom-
modated across the channel at Douglass
City and Treadweli. What will finally be
done the arrival of winter will reveal.
The Klondike has ruined hundreds finan-
cialy before they have got fairly started
on the journey. The Kiondike is now m en-
toned in the same breath with curses.
This is not pleasant reading; the plain
truth is not always pleasant. 1t is now
'every fellow for himself and the devil
take the hindermost." If the devil assumes
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-05
SAYS THE PRESENT CONDITIONS
WILL AID BIMETALLISM.
"f Republicans Desire to Claim Credit for the
High Price Of Wheat They Must As
sune the Responsibility for the
Famine IN India"

A general rise in prices should be fol.
lowed by rise in wages. Mr.. Carlisle in
his speecA of 1878. com menting upon the
advantages to be secured through the
Bland act, said: Instead of constant
aud relentless contraction. instead of con-
stant appreciation of money and depre-
citation of property, we will have expan-
sion to the extent of at least 81 600, 600 per
month, and under its in1uence the ex-
chang able value of commodities, includ-
ing labor, will soon begin to rise, thus in
viting investment, infusing life into dead
industries of the country and quickening
the pulsations of trade in all its depart
ments."
The farmer and manufacturer would
each receive higher price for his produc-
ton. Laborers, on the other hand, would
at once realize the advantage en- joyed by
employers and their own disadvantage and
demand an increase in wages. Labor or
CARNATIONS, aided by increased demand
for labor, would obtain this increa and
thus secure protection from harm. The
good effect of a general rise and subse-
quent level of prices would be widespread
and permanent. The owners of money
and holders of fixed Investments are the
only ones 10 whom rising prices bring real
injury and this injury is partly remedied
by the greater security given to invests
ments.
If it could be said that rising prices do
injustice to the owners of money and
those enjoying fixed incomes let it be re-
membered that the restoration of BIZ
metallism can only take away the advan-
tage which the gold standard gave. 1t is a
choice between falling prices Indefinitely
continued and return 10 the bimetaliic
level. The gold standard gives a perpetual
advantage to the money-owning class and
works perpetual injustice to prod ucers of
wealth, while bimetallism gives tenn
porary advantage to producers of wealth
at the expense of money-owners. and then
esta blisLes Justice between all classes by
preserving stability in the purchasing
power of dollar.
recent rise in wheat know tnat the price
will fall when the foreign crops again oe-
come normal; in fact, wheat has already
receded twice owing to a fear that the first
reports of the foreign crop failure were
exaggerated. The export price of wheat
for the year ending June 30. 1892, was
81 03; for the year following it was 80
cents, and by the 1st of November, 1898,
the price had fallen below 70 cents.
What will be the political effect of this
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-05
ONLY FOUR AT JUNEAU WHO
KNOW THE SECRET.
Prominent Mining Men Declare That tht
Finding of Wonderful Placer Beds in
Alaska and the Northwest Has
Only Begun.

been in there all winter and was trying to
find his wav out His provisions ran out,
and he was on the verge of starvation,
when he ran across an Indian. The In
dian gave him his bearings. In coming
along creek on his way out he picked up
eleven pounds OF gold in large nuggets.
Washed down the creek with the gravel
the nuggets had caught in rifles near the
places where the bedrock was exposed.
The high water having gone down, left
the gold exposed along the banks. He no.
tlced the peculiar gravel beds, and stoop-
Ing down took up a handful. 1t was
heavy with gold. The nuggets he brought
out were picked from several handfuls of
gravel taken up from different places on
the edges OF the bed. This man came TO
Juneau, but never said a word to any one
till he got TO Seattle. There he told friend
who is merchant. won't give his name,
for the reason that know that he will be
bothered to death by people. He has been
here several days, and went to Skaguay
to-day to take look at the town before
returning home. He Is an old friend of
mine. We are going in there next spring.
/ have already sent to Cooks Inlet for
ones, the finest there are il Alaska. They
are worth about FIVE ounces apiece, about
$3.50; they will make three teams. If
this is one of these Alaska tips il has
caught me. 1 am going next spring if [
i've
The others here who know of the new
discovery are Arthur C. Bates, manager
of the San Francisco house at 80 and 80
Fremont street of the Gutta Percha and
Rubber Manufacturing Company of New
York, who is here, but will return to San
Francisco in a few days, and Major Nor
ris Orton. one of the pro oprietors of the
Occidental Hotel. Major Orion is an old
Yukon prospector. After nearly twenty
years prospecting be mace a rich strike
in the noted Cassiar district. A few years
ago, Major Orton tells there was time
in the Cassiar when he patched the ample
portion of his trousers with -four sacks,
but he came out all right. In regard to
the new Ell Dorado he said:
81 have not seen these new diggings, but
think they are possible. 1 have never
been in the country beyond Lake Teslin,
out have been IN the country on the
other side. the Cassiar. We always be-
lieved that there was gold, and plenty of
1t, over there, and at one time did intend
to go in there. l am too old now and
L must let the young fellows go and find
1t. L Rave no doubt that there are rich
placer deposits in that section"
As near as Mr.. Becker would locate the
place where the eleven pounds OF nuggets
were picked up in few minutes was that
1t is between the head of Lake Tesiin and
the headwaters of the Mackenzie River,
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-05

JUNEAU, ALASKA I(By Steamship CT
4Pessor John Muir homewad aboard the Queen when
He
his visit to Skaguay, Dyea and Muir Glacier. He said
Il Skauay miles the trail
and have life.
trail They laying What the building
ladder will
BOTH An experienced packer will lead these ridges without
trail to better advantage and than being taken the
Skaguay trail 1t will filling
They moving
At Dyea did not ashore but told who went up the
that godseeers along
mining Alaska think did when the subject eighteen
Gold and other development There
believe the Kondke the gooeang the Yukon BASIN
Gold found Alaska The finding gold will be
followed commercial developments Alaska think there
British Columbia
The Judgment
will unusually
will uncovered Uncle he bought
when last ship sailed that
glaciers smaller In time the Muir entirely disappear
HAL HOFFMAN,.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-05
STRANDED AT SkAGUAY.
Fortune-Seekers Disheartened and
Desperate Over the lmpossi-
bility OF Reaching KlOndike.

Fortune Seekers LIS ear teneo anu
Desperate Over the lmposSt-
biity OF Reaching klondike.
JUNEAU. ALASKA, Aug. 30-(By steam
ship Queen, via Victoria, B. c.. Sept. A.
The situation at Skaguay is critical. De-
ceived by stories of the condition OF the
trail, halted and unable to move on, see
ing the K.ondike further away than when
they started and an impossibiiity this
wear, the crowd is in an angry, impatient,
dangerous state of mind. Tie slightest
di sagreement provokes quarrel.
The first murder nearly happened yes
terday. d. F. johnson, better known to
the camp as "Pegleg," who has been run
ming a row boat be .ween ship and shore,
shot at a restaurateur after quarrel over
a bill of 81 80 for Ium Der. He winged him
in the SHOULDER. Johnson then used the
oun as club and knocked his man sense
less.
At the same time the weapon exploded.
missing Johnson by few inches. United
States Commissioner John U. Smith and
Ind ,e c. III. Hannum OF Juneau rusned in
and stopped the row. Johnson was fined
$3.50 by the commissioner. He refused to
nav. and in default. is now lock d up in
| The Federal prison at Stka. He has been
| in three other rows at Skaguay.
! No unanimity prevails in the camp. The
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-05

the form OF winter he will overtake
thousands
The fiat is black with horses, moving
with for SALE signs upon them. Fully
1000 beasts of burdens are here, idle, use
less and eating their heads off. They can
be bought now for $40 each. Under the
circumstances it will cost more than
the beasts are worth to feed them through
out the winter.
Far from imag ination is 1t to say that
before the coming of spring the fats and
the tide that laps the front of the city of
tents will run red with the blood of
slaughter. These poor beasts are already
subject to horrible cruelty. They return
from an attempted trip over the trail with
backs sore, raw, torn by the packs and
pack saddles, with rivuIets of blood trick
ling down their legs from wounds re-
ceived on jagged rocks and roots. In New
York, Chicago or San Francisco their pitt
full condition would excite public indigna-
fion and the drivers would be instantly
arrested. No man has really heard pro-
family until he hears the driver of pack
train swear on a mountain trail.
The Skaguans have already had taste
of winter. Yeste rday chill and bowling
wind. carrying sheets OF rain, swept down
the canyon. 1t lashed the bay into fury.
Ships had to heave anchor and TO pull out
into the canal for room to ride the storm.
One hundred horses had been unloaded
from the steamship Bristol upon two
scows lashed together. A small steam
boat, making a great deal of fuss and
splurge in its effort to be a tug, was try
ing to tow the bar0es to Dyea. The LASH
ings parted, owing to the high wind. and
the scow drifted ashore on the rocky point
which juts out into the canal between the
rival camps. The scows bumped against
the rocks in imminent danger of going to
pieces. Neither man nor beast could have
lived in such sea. The horses shivered
in the relentless storm forty eight hours,
with nothing to eat or drink.
Up the trail outfits and supplies were
Continued Second Page
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-05

II UNEAU, ALASKA, Aug. 80 (by
steamship Queen), via Victoria, B.
C., Sept; Another tabrIousIy
" rich strike has been made close TO
the mighty Yukon's headwaters of
gold. A new klondike has been dis
covered, new Ell Dorado, the streams of
which seem to run over beds yellow with
precious metal. The gold seekers bound
for the head creeks of the Stewart River
or for the Klondike neighborhood will not
find these new discoveries, but those who
he6d Up the swift and beautiful Hoota-
Iinqua or the Pelly rivers and prospect
among the many creeks which compose
their headwaters may strike it.
a small number of prospectors went
into that particular section OF the country
early in the summer unaware Of the rich
strike that has been made. They went in
the belief that there ought to be diggings
il the country, and there are. Only four
men have been let into the secret here.
They are keeping it quiet and making
extensive preparations to 90 into the ter
litory as early next spring as possible. 1t
is little too late to try to get there this
season.
The original discoverer, with a friend.
lhree indians and packhorses, dogs. sIeds
and two years supply of provisions,
went over the Taku Pass, south of bere,
two weeks ago bound for the place. The
new discoveries are about 800 miles from
Dawson City in a beeline, and probably
twice that distance by the watercourses.
When the place is located and made
known there will be an exodus from Daw-
son City and another rush of excited peo-
pie from the thickly populated States.
1t seems that discoveries of rich placer
beds in Alaska and the British Northwest
Territory have only just begun. The thou
sands that have already gone into the in
terror and the thousands now swarming
on the border OF the land of gold viii.
doubtless STUN bic upon as good gravel as
has ever been washed in pan or sluice-
box. The story of the new bonanza bed
is told ard vouched for by ]. A. Becker, a
mining engineer and one OF the best
known men in Alaska. He has made a
study of the geography and topography of
the Territory. He is uperintendent OF
The z. ]. ana Lucky Chance mines at
Sitka. Mr.. Becker is said to be a conser-
vative man. Late last night i'll the lobby
of the Occidental Hotel he called me aside
and said placidly:
There has been new strike. 1t beats
the Klondike. l am in on it,
Room for any more?'' inquired.
''P ,enty." be said. ''Tll not tell you
right where it is located. 1 want to get
there myself before the rush, but l will
say this much: Early last spring trap
per and Orosnactor named Polk or FoTk
got lost beyond Lake Teslin. He had
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-05

ST HE rise in wheat will aid rather
than injure the cause of bimatal-
lism. While few people may be
inclined to give an ad ministra-
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-05

Continued on Second Page
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-04-17
HILL OFFERS NO CONSOLATION.

Senator David Bennett Hill has emerged
just moment from his enforced political
retirement, to dampen the enthusiasm of
his fellow Democrats, who have already
carried the election of 1898 and 1900 on the
strength Of the recent spring elections.
In the judgment of Mr.. Hill, these vic
tories have no special significance, bearing
on the future of the Democratic party as
national organization. They have been
the results chiefly of local conditions and
he warns his fellow-Democrats not to be-
come over-conident. He points to the
fact that in the two State elections which
have been held this year-in Michigan and
Rhode Island-the Republicans have held
their own, and that in such elections are
to be found the real signs of a change in
political sentiment.
Senator Hill has no specific advice to
offer his party as to its future in national
affairs, but he evidently believes in making
the best of State and local issues in gather
lux IL loSttncl again. Ilt CONSTITUTES Ullp
recent elections as rebukes to 'ianaticism"
and as expressed in favor of liberalism"
in municipal affairs, and he proposes that
the New York Democrats shall bend their
energies to that end, with personal
liberty as their rallying cry.
So far as the Dingley bill Or the McKin-
ley administration is concerned Senator
Hill has no criticisms to make beyond the
suggestion that ''the Republicans should
have enough rope to hang themselves In
fact, the whole policy which the ablest of
the Democratic leaders in the East proposes
is in substance to lay low and wait, not to
90 off at half-cock over town elections, but
at the same time to work local discomfort
against the restraints of law and order fol
all it is worth.
There is not much craftsmanship in the
programme, but it is the best that Hill car
offer at this time to his divided party.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-04-17
THE PAGEANT AT GENERAL
GRANTS TOMB,

On Tuesday the 9th of this month, there
will be witnessed at Riverside Park New
York one of the grandest military pageants
ever witnessed in this country.
As the swift revolving years carry us
further away from the partizan excitement
of his times, the disposition to render to
General Grant the full credit Of his military
genius grows general.
The honor rendered his name by a
grateful nation, will take emphatic ex-
preston on the 9th, and one of the most
gratifying spectaces that will be witnessed
on that day will be the presence of pro-
mlnent confederates officers at the tomb of
the dead Hero, to blend their voices in the
national anthem to his fame.
Indeed nothing in General Grants
career was more admirable than his modest
and magnanimous conduct in the last days
Of the war and at Appomattox.
His bitterest enemies never begrudged
him credit for his simple and transformations
behavior and his generous treatment of a
fallen foe lIe conducted the whole opera
tion with no more ceremony or formality
than if it were more than a part of the
daily routine Of camp life. His regard for
the personal feelings OF Lee at Appomattox
was not unlike that which Washington had
shown at Yorktown when he declined to
subject CORVALLIS to the humiliation of an
open and personal surrender of his men.
He took pains not only not to wound Lees
feelings, but to spare his men from eXulta-
ton or insult He forbade his army from
firing needless salutes; he gave orders that
there should be no offensive remarks made
to the prisoners, and the terms which he
offered were so mild that it was generally
supposed that they would not be approved
at Washington. There were many Union
men who thought Lee should have been
shot as traitor. When Andrew Johnson
came into power he was furious in his zeal
for hanging traitors, and he attempted to
have Lee indicted for treason. The clamor
was bitter and courage of the highest kind
was required to withstand it; but Grant
was equal to the occasion, and declared
that Lee should not and must not be
punished while he kept the terms of his
parole. Twenty years later Gordon and
Fitzhugh Lee, lieutenants of the great rebel
chieftain at Appomattox, followed their
conqueror to his tomb in the memorable
procession that will be repeated in New
York two weeks hence. They alone sur
vive among the Confederate officers that
saw the meeting Of Grant and Lee thirty
two years ago, and no tribute paid to
Grants memory was more touching than
their presence at his grave by the side of
BucEner and Joe Johnston in that mag
unanimous spirit in which brave men ever
hold one another.
How little it was thought in those April
days Of IS that the time would come when
the officers of the detested Robert +. Lee
would honor the memory of their captor at
Appomattox and stand reverently around
his tomb!
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-04-17

To PATRIOTIC people of average intelli-
gence, it seems to be the purpose if not the
desire of Congress to avoid the money ques-
ton the chief issue of the late Presidential
tariff question either with prudence or dis
cretion
The Dingley bill has been rushed through
the lower House with the large mass of its
provisions and schedules undiscussed, while
the Senate is expected to make material
reductions in the bill.
Even Senator Chandler is constrained to
issue a word of warning to such Republic
can leaders as seem to have forgotten the
disasters of 1890 and 1892.
Senator Chandler last week authorized
the statement that the passage of the tariff
bill might be endangered if the pressure
for high duties continues. "This pressure
is enormous from all parts of the country, .
he said, ''and it is so strong that there is
some danger that it might be yielded to.
There is, for instance, general demand
that the wool tariff shall be increased, so
that instead of rate of five or six cents a
pound on wool, we shall have ten or twelve.
The wooden manufacturers want compensa-
tory rates, which amount to prohibitive
duties on woolens. Californians ask to
place such duties on fruits that all foreign
fruits shall be kept out in the interest OF
the California products. There is great
pressure from all parts Of the country, and
in the interest of almost every industry for
productive duties. The Republicans have
not majority without assistance from other
parties, and the danger is that there will
be such general Ievulsion of feeling as
will cause the outsiders upon whom we are
counting to not cast their votes for the hill
So, at least, the matter presents itself to
my mind. The Republican members of
the Finance Committee are disposed to be
conservative, but the pressure is so strong
that they may be forced to yield. The