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The times., 1897-09-20
Ia RueS Female Pills.
safe and Sure Price. Sl.50
At all druggists.
HE NAMED THE CREEK.

After passing Dead Mans Hin, Horse
Thief Guch and Wounded Mans Lake, 1
came upon a farmer sitting in front of his
cabin on the banks OF creek. After the
usual salutations l asked him if the creek
had name, and he slowly shook his head,
and replied:
''She has, stranger-she has. Yes, sir,
her name is Total Wreck Creek
THAT rather queer name, 1 suggest
ed Il suppose ycu once had a boat on the
creek, aud it was wrecked by noud
Didn't you save any Of the pieces?"
II never nad a boat, SIR he replied.
but something must have been wreck
ed?''
Just so. 1t was man. Yes, sir, Z
n4an was totally wrecked right out thar.
II you will look at me you viii be lockin
eight at the man"
I'D like To hear your adventures"
said, as 1 offered him some tobacco for
his pipe.
wal, 1t begun in the house here. The
ole woman got up cranky and l got MP
cranky, and before breakfast was on the
table We was abUsin all Of each others
relasEurs. II kept CROWN hotter and
hotter, and finally picked up a strap 10
trounce her. At that she lit into me-
And it was a family row.
jest 2 family row, sir. We fit in the
house fcF half an h0ur, and then went out
side TO git more room. That's whar' I
made my tig mistake. As soon as she got
ROOM to plant her feet and swing her arms
she began to git the best OF me, and arter
about ten rlinits l broko away and started
over the prairie. When l cum TO the creek
l fell into it"
But l don't sec where the name comes
in 1 said.
Its jest Gere, sir. was all heated Up
| with the fightin', and the cold water gimme
| a chill which used me up. 1 was totally
| wrecked and crippled fur life, but l only
call the creek Total Wreck. Half mile be
yond the cr1ssin' You'll find Crippled Fus
Life HiIl NJ wife named the hill.''
The times., 1897-09-20
JA11-BREAKER CAPTURED.
John Matthews Arrested After al
Absence of Three Years.

Late Saturday evening John Matthews,
who escaped from the city jail m ore than
three years ago, was caught by the po
lice of the econd precinct.
Matthews was arrested by Policemen
Reeth and L. L. Godwin, OH NJ street
northwest, for profanity. When taken to
the Second precinct station Matthews gave
an alias of john McP hers on, but Police
man Mcdonald, who probably knows the
lawless characters Of the Bottom" bet
ter than anyone else, happe ned to see
the prisoner He ventured the opinion
that Mcpherson was Matthews, the jail
breaker, aud this later proved to be the
truth. Matthews was thereupon locked in
a cell at the station, and Warden John
r. Leonard, of the jail, was Notified of
the arrest.
Matthews broke jail while serving out
q sentence imposed for assault and battery
with intent to kill Frank Bro w5n, on Pierce
street northwest, March 20, 1893. lie
ives arrested June % in New Jersey and
tried July II, e93. The jury brought in
a verdict OF assault and battery and Mat
thews was sentenced to eieyen months aud
twenty-nine days and fined $50 additional.
He Ng as finishing his term of Imprisonment
when he escaped, May i, 1894 He had
been made a helper in the kitchen al the
jail, and this afforded an easy oppor-
tunity to escape. Keeper Cluss was
blamed With allowing Matthews to escape
aud was discharged on that account.
The times., 1897-09-20
RAILROAD LINE IN kLoNDIKE.
Charter Obtained From Dominion
Government by Yukon Company.

Charter Obtained From Dominion
Government by Yukon Company.
Ottawa, Ont Sept. -Presidentsauls-
bury, Of the Yukon Trading and Transpor
tation Company, is ia this city ana has
had a Consultation with the minister Of
tie interior on KIondike matters. His com
pany obtained a charter from the Dominion
Parliament last season TO construct "A
line Of railroad from the head of deep
water navigation on Taku Inlet to Teslin
Lake.
All authorities agree that the water
route from Teslip Lake TO Dawson, by
way Of tie Hootaiinqua fTeslin) River, is
preferable 10 the course now taken by those
who are going in from Dyea or skaguay.
Not only are both passes difficult to travel,
and, at present, practically impossible for
the transportation OF supplies, but the
water route to which they lead is impeded
10y the dangerous White Horse and Miles
Canon rapids, while by Teslin Lake and
the Hootainqua virtually unobstructed
navigation exists throughout.
Two routes are available from the coast
TO Teslin Lake-one by the Stickeen River
ana Ie'egrapn OreeE ana the OJneTr IuT
ther north, from the Taku Inlet. The
former involves a stretch OF broken and
uncertain river navigation from WrangeH
to Telegraph Creek, while the latter has
the advantage OF a f,eep-wdter terminus
open the year round.
Mr. salisbury says that it is the inten-
tion Of tie company To proceed as soon as
possible with the work of construction. y
trail VIII be built over the proposed route
and sawmill VIII b. built on TeSlin Lake.
whore the company has d considerable
area OF fairly good timber. In all prob
ability the railroad wIH be completed next
summer.
The times., 1897-09-20
Their school Luncheons.

When the children come back to town and
the schools oper, the ever-recurrlng Ques-
ton Of lunches will come up. Public seuti-
mcnt was pressed quite strongly last year
against the board OF educa tion taking n
hand in providing lunches. The whole
question, like many others, must at last be
left to the parent The child who vibrates
between the two extremes of pickles and
cake is the child who has not had proper
home training. 1t is not everything That
can be transported to school in a lunch
basket, and the youngster who has been
trained to catholicity OF tastes is the one
for whom a good, wholesome, varied lunch
may be provided with little trouble. The
boy or girl who gives trouble about the daily
school lunch betrays the fact that his Il
don Ike that" has been the end-allof argu-
ment hitherto. Let parents start with their
children from infancy and teach them TO
eat everything that is suitable and sensible
for child to eat; let the qualification Of
whims be the last thing thought Of at the
family board. and let "eating to live''be the
raison d'etre OF coming to the table, and
we shall hear no more of trashy lunches
or difficulty in pleasing the children in re-
gard to the food provided. New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
The times., 1897-09-20
RA1DED UNLICENSED BARS.
Houses in o street Alley Found
Selling Illegally.

The house of Noah Burk coiored, who re-
Gently served term of three months in
Jail Tor Eceping q 'speak-easy' in O
street alley northwest, was again raided
by the police yesterday afternoon.
Burk, Who was found drunk in one of
the rooms, and his wife, Mary, were ar
rested for keeping an unlicensed bar
The haul was made about 2 O'Clock,
under the direction of Scrgts. Gordan,
Koucher and Donigan, OF the Second pre-
cinct. Policemen Lightfoot, Cooper, Trumbo
Jenning, Rickles and Clemens also assisted.
The house Of Fanny Harris, alias Car
ter, in o street alley, was also raided
and the latter locked up at the Second
precinct police station for keeping an I'M
licensed bar. A tub OF beer and demi-
john of whisky viii serve as evidence in
the case.
The times., 1897-09-20
Fourteen Common Pleas.

(From tie Cleveland Plain Dealerl
One OF the common pleas judges had Il
distinguished escort at the Barnum shoY y
Monday afternoon. 1t was made up Of ali
the little maids and masters on the street
where the Judge resIdes. There We're four
teen of thelu, the oldest not more than
twelve, While the youngest was five. They
were the guests of the judge, and no en-
tertainer ever had a more delightful corn
pany about him.
'.There are not many CleveIan ders,"
said the judge, as he proudly sized up his
merry flcck, ''who have fourteen such eX-
cellent excuses for going to the circus"
The times., 1897-09-20
Pickpockets Active.

A trio Of pickpockets have during the
past few days been plying their trade
with considerable success among the travel
ers in the big excursions which have
come tC this city frcm Pennsylvania.
Several persons were robbed yesterda =
and Saturday Of various amounts. Abra-
ham L. Mayer, an excursionist from Read
ing, had his pocket picked on B. & P
train between here and Baltimore yesterday Y
of $74 and a number Of valuable papers
The police have been asked to look out
for the men.
The times., 1897-09-20
1nnnest in the Ammon case.

Coroner Carr will hold an inquest today
at IL O'Clock at No. 6 station over the
death OF George L. Ammon, who was
killed by a locomotive on the B. & p.
railroad, near the Pennsylvania-av venue
bridge, Saturday night.
Albert Thomas, the man who was III
jured in the same accident, is entirely
out Of danger and WAS yesterday removed
to his holue.
The times., 1897-09-20

By yir tue of a certain deed of trust, dated
the 18Th day Of November, A. ID. 1891, and
duly recorded In Liber No. 1888, folio
326, ct seq, one OF the land records OF the
District or Columbia, and a5 the TequeSs
OF the party secured thereby, We viii sell
on TUESDA Y, THE 2STH DA Y OF SEP
TEMPER, 1897, at + O'CLOCK p. NJ, all
those certain pieces or parcels OF land and
premises situated in the county OF Washing
ton, District or Columbia, and known and
designated as follows, to wit. Lots num-
incl, twenty three (23l and thirty-five t30l
TO Tort y-siX t46l, both incl, in the suDdiv1S-
lon made by Jacob Il. Clark and Edward
u Cottrel, trustees (Of part or lot No one
VI IN subdivision or a tract OF ldndcdlled
w hlte Haven among the heirs OF Alb
ner Cloudj for the Palisades or the PotO-
mac Land Improvement Company, said
SUBDIVISION being recorded in the office OF
the surveyor OF the District OF Columbia In
Book, County 8, page g.
Terms or sale. Oue-Jhlrd cash, and the
balance in one and two years, the deferred
payments to be represented by the notes OF
Jne purchaser, bearing interest at the rate
OF SIX 70 per centuIn Per dnnum from day
OF sale, payable semi-annUallY, and secured
hy first deed OF trust on the property sold
or alcash, a. the option OF the purchaser.
All conveyancing, recording and nOtaIlAl
fees at purchaser S cost. A deposit of $50
on each lot will be required at time Of
sale and n terms or sale are not complied
with within ten days from day OF sale the
trustees reserve the right to resell the
property at the risk ana cost Of defa ulting
purchaser, after such public advertisement
as they may deem proper and necessary
WILLIAM W A YRES,
Trustee
WILLIAM E. LEWIS,
TIustee-
sci 5-d&ds
The times., 1897-09-20
strong nnd Violent.

(From the Philadelphia Times.l
Sugar as q food furnishes great ele-
ments ef strength. As an evidence OF
this, there's no need of going further than
the Sugar Trust
The times., 1897-09-20
MYER COHEN,
l. p. WRIGHT,
se14-eod&ds Trustees.
THOMAS BOWLING & CO.. AuetiOneera
612 Street ". W.

SALE OF VALUABLEL LOTS
ON THE PALISADES OF THE PO-
IOMAC-INTER6E ECTION OF CON
DUIT AND NEW CUT ROADS, Dis
TkICT OF COLUMBIA
The times., 1897-09-20
AUCTION SALES.
AF . IV-N III LI15s
RATCLIFFE, SUTTON & Co. AuctIoneers-

TRUSTEES SALE OF THREE LOTS IN
ALLEY BETWEES q ST. AND NEW
YORK AVE, TIL RTEESTH AND
FOURTEENTH SITS, NV.
BY virtue of a deed Of trust, duly re-
corded in liber No. 1,7O1, folio ESQ, ee
of Columbia, and at the request OF the
party secured thereby, tile undersigned VIII
oIrer for sale by public auction in front
OF the premises, on SATURDAY, the
25th day or SkPTEMBER, a. ID. 1857,
at O'Clock p. m, part of lots forty 4Ol.
torty-one t41 }, and fort y two t42J Of Charles
Thomas subdivision of part OF original
lot number nineteen 80, in square two
hundred and nfty-two (252l, said sub
division is recorded in office OF the Sur
yeyor OF the District Of Columbia, in book
j. H. K.l page 2o3, together with all the
improvements. rights, etc.
Terms stated at the time OF sale. de-
bid.
MYER COHEN,
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-26
MANY MAKE BIG MONEY,
Juneau Men Who Have Already
Made Fortunes in the
KtOpdike

VICTORIA. B. c.. Aug. 25.-More good
news has come from the Klondike b. the
steamer City of Topeka, which arrived to.
night, leaving Juneau just after the ar
rival there of Joe Birch. James Mckay
and Archie Sheip, who made the Trip
from Dawson over 10 Dyea in twenty days.
They did not come any further than
Juneau, but intend 10 go back to the
mines. They had a pretty rough trip,
having to paddle and tow their boat up
rivers.
f. In conversation with one of the passen-
gers VINO came down on the Topeka Shelp
spoke very highly of the Stewart and In.
dian rivers. although there have been no
sensational finds. From $40 to SIS per pan
is being taken out of these rivers.
Close upon $2,000,000 in dust has gone
down on the river steamers, the owners
intending TO take the steamer Portland at
st. Michael. Gold passed at $17 an ounce
at Dawson City.
SheIp gives this list of Juneau men who
struck it rich. They are: Dick Law. $780,
600; ]. Smith, $4,000; Oscar Ashby and
w. Leak refused s150, 600 for their claims;
Joe Brant. $4,000; Cornelius Edwards,
$4,000; = Whipple, $4,000; Harry Ash,
who left on the last boat for San Fran
cisco, $4,000 an old man who q few
months ago was cutting wood around
Juneau, $50 1000. About dozen men who
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-26
VAST FORTUNES MADE IN THE RICH XII ONDIKE

the Alaskan gold fields in the spring with
six other women, who will act as over
seers of parties of men who will be sent
into the gold country to prospect for gold
at the expense of American women.
Miss Hale has letters TO number of
well-known Chicago women, and her pur-
pose is to endeavor TO interest them in the
far-away land, for she says woman has as
good an opportunity to make an inde-
pendent fortune as has man.
Miss Hale says it is the intention of the
women she represents to organize
branches of the Woman's Club of Alaska
in every city OF prominence. The head
quarters of the clubs will be in New York,
but no effort will be made to interfere
with the workings of local branches.
When club has fifty mem bers it will be
entitled to prospec.or. but even before it
has that mum ber of mem bers it will share
in the profits of the com bined clubs.
For every fifty mem bers It's proposed to
send one experienced miner to Alaska to
prospect for gold and the incomes from
whatever mines may be located will be
turned into the common treasury to be
distributed among all members.
The idea of organizing women's gold
cluns first came to Miss Hale last year at
Newport, where she met a number OF
Chicago and New York women. She sue
ceeded in interesting a mum Der OF women
in the Sorosis Club and established the
first branch OF the organization in New
York
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-26
AFTER TIE NEWS.
Newspaper Men Go Forth in Tugs
to Meet the Incoming
Steamer Portland


to Meet the Incoming
Steamer Portland.
PORT TOWNSEND, WASH, Aug. 25.-
One of the most exciting chases after
news in the history of this newsy section
occurred last night upon the receipt OF
vague rumor telegram that the home
ward bound treasure ship Portland, re-
turning from the far north, had been
sighted off Vancouver island.
Three big tugs, chartered at enormous
cost, were loaded with newspaper men,
started in the teeth of an angry gale to in
tercept the vessel and tell her news to the
world. One hundred miles of rough voy-
aging in sea rolling mountains high re-
suited only in learning what had been
previously predicted. that some other
vessel had been mistaken for the anticl-
pated gold ship.
To-day J. ]. Corey of THE CALL, accom-
panied by staff of reporters, stenograph-
ers. typewriters and photographers char
tered the tug 1yee, one of the most pow
erful towing vessels in the world, and went
out TO sea in search OF the Portland, that
craft for whose reception newspapermen,
now here from all ever the Union, are
awaiting. The Portland may be expected
to- m orrow, after being out fourteen days
from st. Michael
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-26
Blankets for kIondike.

SANTA ROSA, CAL, Aug. 25. = The
Santa Rosa Woolen Mills have just started
up again, after being idle for very long
period. The mill has received orders for
blankets and heavy wooden fabrics for
clothing at such rapid rate that the fac
tory is fairly blockaded.
Already the mill is between 5000 and
1000 pairs of blankets behind orders, and
still the rush continues. The mill has
night force and day force and every one
is working at full pressure. The blankets,
which are for the Klondike trade, are
made of pure wool and weigh fourteen
pounds. They look as if they could sue.
cessfully repel the advance of the Arctic
weather.
The mill is also turning out large GUAM
titles of heavy WOODEN cloth, to be used in
Alaska for miners coats. The cloth is as
heavy as an ordinary blanket
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-26
ENFORCING THE LAW.
Collector OF Customs fvey Causes
Constern alton Among Alaska'S
Whisky Ring,


JUNEAU, ALASKA, Aug. 81 (via Vic
toria, B. c., Aus. 25l.-A big row has been
stirred up among Federal officials super
vising Alaskan waters over the action of
Captain Movers OF the British ship Dan
ube in discharging cargo of Canadian
supplies at Skaguay instead of Dyea, the
SUPPORT, his ordering United States Gus
toms officials to leave his ship. and the
action of P. A. Smith, inspector afioat, in
supporting Captain Meyers.
Since the row on the bridge of the
Danube, as related in a previous dispatch,
it has come 10 light that bar was in full
operation on the Danube at atSkaguay with
Inspector Smiths cognizance.
Meyers was ordered back to Juneau
under arrest by Special Deputy Ham
mond, but refused to 60. l have it from
re liable authority that if the Danube re-
turns to these waters she will be seized
for smuggling, libeled and Captain
Meyers arrested. Collector of Customs J.
w. Ivey has stated that he will see that
Inspector P. Smith is discharged for
cause. Governor Brady denounces the
action of Smith.
Collector Ivey is G new broom. He IS
causing CONSERVATION in the whisky ring
OF Alaska. Yesterday he seized and
emptied cargo of beer at Skaguay. The
beach sands drank it. There will be a
liquor famine at Skaguay and Dyea AMI
saloons starved out if the new Collector
continues to enforce the law, Several
places suspected of selling liquor to In
dians have been raided.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-26
Blackburn's Expedition.

GLOUCESTER, MASS. Aug. 25.-The
schooner Hattie L. Phillips of Gloucester
was purchased to-day by Howard Black
burn for his Kiondike expedition. Mr..
Blackburn has rec ived the full com pie.
ment of his party. twenty men, who have
each made the preliminary deposit. Sew
eral vessels were looked over, but the
Phillips was selected for her alI-around
good qualities. The Phillips is stanchly
built Gloucester fisherman, a type of ves-
sci which for speed and weatherly quail
ties has no superior in the world. Work
on fitting her for the expedition will be
com menced i'm ediatey. Mr.. Blackburn
has taken his pick of the men presented.
He could have manned two or three yes
sells had he so chosen.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-26
ROBINSON DEPARTS.
The Alameda County Committee.
man and Woodman Goes
to kiOndike

OAKLAND. CAL. Aug. 25.-T. NJ Rob-
inson, member of the Republican County
Central Committee and secretary of Oak
land Camp of Wood men, is a splendid
hand at giving advice, but very poor
hand at following it.
For the past few days he has not been
seen in his accustomed haunts, and to
every body's surprise at the last meeting
of the Woodmen his resignation was ac-
cepted.
Now the secret is out. Robinson has
given up politics, the insurance business
and his salary in the Woodmen to hunt
the elusive gold in the Klondike. A few
days ago Robinson was very pronounced
in his views regarding the folly of going
tc the gold region. In an issue of the pa
per controlled by the Woodmen, which
was recently published, Robinson found
a little article that he said went right to
the gist Of the whole matter. He marked
several copies of the paper and considered
it his outy as secretary of the camp 10
send it to friends who appeared to be most
in danger of being afflicted with Klondi-
citis.
A. portion of the article is as follows:
"Are you married? Have you familyf
Are you a Woodman? Do you need
money? Your loved ones need you more
than you need Klondike gold. We desire
to erect as few monuments on the graves of
frozen and starved neighbors as possible.
Suppose you 60 to the kIondike and Sc
cure $4,000 in gold and then have to
spend 1t to regain your broken health or
suffer Tor the remainder of your days,
what have you gained? You can we'll un-
derstand what you have lost. Woodmen
are supposed to be pioneers, but not of
that Kind. They are not supposed to be
miners. Mem bers that contemplate going
to that country had better understand be-
fore they start that they will be held
strictly responsible for dues and assess.
ments; that if the dogs that draw the
nail seds should go on strike and the re.
mittanoes not arrive on time, and they
should be suspended, rel statement NAV
be accompanied with much difficulty.
The Woodmen of the World have not con-
tracted to insure men who deliberately
face death and tempt their own destruc-
tlon when it is not necessary, and the
order may therefore be technical when it
comes TO reinstating klondIke miners. 1t
seems to us that the limitless resources
of these nine great Western States under
our own flag, surrounded by our own peo-
pie, should be sufficient attraction to an
average American citizen"
Yet, County Comm itteeman Robinson
has gone; he is married; he has family,
and he is Woodman. Undoubtedly he
needs money or he would not have gone,
and now his brethren are asking each
other regarding the value of Secretary
Robinson's advice.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-26
DO NOT GO THAT WAY.
Charles Stewards Warning Against
the Dangers of the Mackenzie
River Route

TACOMA, WASH, Aug. 25. = Charles
Stewart, who has been over the ground
several times, warns miners of the dangers
of the Mackenzie River route to the Klon-
dixie, which the Canadians are praising as
an all-British and nearly all water route
to the Yukon. He calls particular atten-
ton to the numerous and dangerous
rapids which are encountered. Said he
Tonight:
about 100 miles from Atha basca land
ing are the Pelican Rapids, and in an
other day one reaches Grand Rapids, one
mile long, which men have never been
able to run. After portaging Grpnd Rap
ids the traveller passes over ninety miles
of water to Fort McMurray, which the
Canadian papers describe as requiring
careful attention.
I'm reality the whole ninety miles is
one succession of the worst kind of rapids,
the principal being the Boiler, Cascade
and Flint Rapids. No man can 60 from
Grand Rapids to Fort Murray without
both steersman and bowsman who know
the water. In Great Save River are
Smiths Rapids. Sixty miles up Nelson
River, on the route to Pelly River, via
Lead River, come the worst rapids con-
ceivable. 1t is 800 miles from the head of
these rapids to the Pelly, ten miles of
which is a bad canyon portage. In the
Grand Canyon are five portages and at the
Deyi s portage boats have TO be portrayed
four miles and the road passes over a
ridge HOO feet high. The journey to the
Klondike via Peels, Rat and Porcupine
rivers, portaging from Rat to Porcupine
is one OF 2700 miles from the railroad to
Edmonton. / have made several trips
over the eseater part of this route and am
convinced that no man in his right senses
will try TO reach the KlondiEe by it,
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-26

went north within the last few weeks, in.
tending to 20 to the mines, came back on
the Topeka, and they say many will fol-
low them.
Two surveys have been sent out to try
to find better route for Skaguay trail,
and if they succeed the men promised to
go to work on it.
Among those who threw up the sponge
and came back to civilization was Sam
Brown of Seattle and William Albert. NJ
Niles, an attorney of Los Angeles, also
came back. but he is going to make an
other trial, thi, time by the Stickeen
River route. Chief Factor Hall Of the
Hudson Bay Company. who also came
down on the boat, having been to Cassiar,
reports the route splendid one.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-26

R. Adsi
business place. n addition:
81 around this
Harry Ash takes and God knows what he
claims
demand Many had kings
impossible
this the
Kondk
beyond belief
In o S
and
Trading
Chicago HAL HOFFMAN.