Arizona republican., 1897-09-11
ROUND ABOUT CALIFORNIA.

The KlOndyke fever has suffered a
 heavy chill on account of reports of
 the failure to make any rich strikes
 this summer. It is only within a few days that any authentic news has
 come out from Dawson City of the re-
 suits of the summer prospecting With
 the large number of new arrivals
 some rich finds were expected, and
 hundreds of men have been SCOUT
 ing creeks tributary to Yukon, Klon-
 dyke and Stewart rivers. No dig
 gings have been found that will com
 pare with the Klondyke, and many
 cording. These reports also show
 that the summer has been exception
 ally dry, so that there was no water
 to work bench claims. The most serious result of this drought has
 been the reduction or the water in
 the Yukon three feet below the crdi- nary level in recent years. This has made, river navigation extremely diff icult and dangerous, and it renders
 uncertain the passage up the river of the numerous expeditions which have sailed from this city by way of St. Michaels. It also puts in jeopardy the food supply at Dawscn, for it will
 De impossible to get up the river be- fore ice blocks the Yukon the large amount of supplies that has accumu- lated at St. Michael's. Without this food famine is sure to prevail on the Klondyke this winter, unless the min CTS adopt the heroic course of send ing out of the country by the over land route every man who cannot show that he has one thousand pounds of food. The reports that have been circulated throughout the l east by P. B. Weare declaring that l S1,000,000 in nuggets and gold dust 1 will come down on the river steamer Weare are pronounced absurd here, as private advices have been received | saying that the Weare carries only | $65,0 in gold, and that all the gold | to be shipped out of Dawson for the | remainder of the season will net ex- ceed $4OO,00O.
 United States Senator John T. Nor gan of Alabama, who stopped in San 1 Francisco enroute to Hawaii, declared i that his trip was one of recreation | only, but the actual condition of af- l fairs on the islands will engage his attention, and the result will be seen | when the annexation treaty comes up l in congress next December. Mr. Nor l gan takes 10 stock in the story that l Japan is seeking the control of the | Nicaragua canal.
 At Stanford university President 1 Jordan has issued several proclama- | tions that are noteworthy in college | government. One warned the head | of the student body, who is responsi- ble for good order among under grad 1 uates, that he would be expected to weed out idle and vicious students | and see that those guilty of haZing CT rushing were also expelled. Dr. Jordan's position is that no college, in justice to working students, can afford to permit it's class rooms to De filled with the lazy ard inccmpe- tent. He also holds that the manager of student affairs has a wright to pre- vent poor students from overworking themselves. Dr. Jordan has warned the chairman of the committee on athletics that no unfair methods are to be employed in any contest, and no aVoldable injury done to students in
 any contest or practice game Point is given to the warning against class
 rushes by the serious injury of sev- eral students at the state university
 this week in the rush between sopho-
 mores and freshmen.
 The action of the old millionaire,
 Benjamin Douglass, of Santa Barbara,
 in marrying his servant, Louise
 Kretzler, has stirred the fashionable
 society of the seaside resoA Doug
 lass, who owns much propertNn Chi
 cago, and was one of the founders of
 the R. G. Dun company, is 75 years
 old, but is-still vigorous. His daugh-
 ter and son-in-law objected to the
 marriage, but he silenced them by his threats of disinh el.itance.
 &nSna capitalists have closed a
 C5s n1! Be purchaseAof the Last