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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13
DEAD BEAT AND HALF FROZEN,

DEAD BEAT AND HALF FROZEN,
canyon of the Frazer was charnel-
house, strewn with the bodies of the
red-shirted gold seekers who had met
their fate in its waters.
A few Ct the most hardy struggled
through to the great bend of the Co.
lumbia river, and sailing down its
broad bosom eventually found their
way back to Oregon. They wintered
near the Arrow lakes, and with indom-
table resolution continued prospecting
during the succeeding summer. Traces
OF their operations are occasionally
found, but though they were in a coun-
try far richer than Caribou, they knew
it not. Placers there were none, and
the my steries of true assure veins and
smelling ores were beyond their ken.
They required gold in it's native pur-
ity-something they could wash out
with pan and rocker and exchange for
necessaries without further trouble. 1t
was not there, so they passed on.
Yet there were superior men among
them. One pioneer at least must have
found rich float on Red Mountain, on
the very site of what is now the LIE Roi
mine, and evidently followed it up to
the outcrop Of gossan, or "iron-hat,"
that lay exposed for hundreds of feet.
In a half-hearted way, as il he doubted
the wisdom of wasting precious energy
on a quartz lead, he drove shallow
trial shaft, but after going down few
feet 5acame discouraged and moved
away back to the dance halls and rum
Of the coast; probably his bones now
bleach on some alkali desert. far to
the south of the futile shaft he sunk
on Red Mountain. Yet a few more
shots. and he would have reached ore
that would have placed all that wealth
can buy within his reach.
For more than generation Red
Mountain lay undisturbed. Wild ami
mails alone wandered over the lofty
mass of diorite. The grizzly and noun
! tain lion owned it by turns; blacktail
Akulked in the forests at its base; big
horn skipped over it's crest; the white
goat of the north chewed the scantJ
AL:!eus on its ecarrcd sides. But TIE
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13
Nett to a. Approvin. Conscience.

A vigorous stomach is tho greatest Of mum
dane blessings. Sound digestion is guar
anty ofquiet nerves, muscular elasticity. a
aSoush s PPPs always nst"ra nea
it may be acquired through the agency Of
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, ono OF the
most effective invigorants and blood ferti-
lizer's in existence. This fine tonic also
fortifes those " no use it against malaria,
and remedies biliousness, constipation and
rheumatism
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13
Try Allon'a Foot Easa.

A powder to be shaken into thu
shoes. At this season your feet feel
swollen and hot. and get tired easily.
II you have smarting feet or tight
shoes, try Aliens Foot-Ease. It cools
the feet and makes walking easy. Cures
and prevents swollen and sweating
feet, blisters and callous spots. Re-
lieves corns and bunions Of all pain
and gives rest and comfort. Try it to-
day. Sold by all druggists and shoe
stores for 25c. Trial package FREE.
Address, Allen 8. Olmstead, LIE Roy,
N. Y.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13

navy ofantiquated, leaky craft, laden to
the scuppers with horde of dauntless
adventures, burning to reach the prec-
ious places Of the Upper Frazer. These
upper regions are wild enough even to-
day; forty years ago they were in the
heart of an untrodden wilderness. Civ
ilization had not penetrated further
than the guns of the British cruisers
could reach; even the log forts of the
Hudson Bay Company were not to be
found in the remoter parts of that re-
gion, so aptly described years after
wards by Lord Dufferin as "a Sea Of
Mountains" Gold was known to exist;
inland tribes bartered it with others
nearer the coast for powder and lead,
or blankets, and it eventually made it's
way to Victoria; but where it was
found, or iE what quantities, no white
man knew, unless indeed it was the
head factors Of the company, and it
was part Of their duty to withhold all
such matters from the world, that they
might keep the great northwest a
animals for all time But one day a
certain Jim Barker found his way up
stream, dug gold dust from the bars by
the spade full, and then a dozen Hud-
son Bay Companies could not have kept
back the adventures. The rush had
begun.
There were no woods, or even trails,
save those made by the grizzly and
the blacktail; the Frazer and Thomp-
son were cruel streams ice cold and
full of terrible rapids and eddies. But
when did danger deter the gold seek
er? The army OF red-shirted, big
booted dare-devils pressed on until
Caribou and it's rich placers had been
reached. Hundreds died on the way;
disease and priyation played sad havoc
with the survivors; but the rewards
were in few cases beyond the dreams
Of avarice, and the logged fellows con-
tinued to work like heroes all through
the short northern summer with rocker
and long Tom, ravishing the rich bars
of the wealth they had accumulated
during the lapse of aeons. Wages were
$25 day, paid in gold dust. 1t was
barely living pittance. Everything
had to be carried over 400 miles of
rough trail on mems shoulders, as the
country produced nothing, after the
game had been driven away, except
gold dust-but of that there was great
store Potatoes cost $50 bushel, -four
$40 a pound: pair of gum boots sold
for $50: drinks were paid for in pinches
of the precious husband some of the
barkecpers had thumbs broader than
ever miller possessed. A few men made
fortunes, many managed to pay ex-
penses, but the majority went dead
broke.
Then the awful winter was upon
them. The mercury disappeared in the
bulb; the river froze almost to the bot
tom in the still reaches; deep snow
covered the land, and buried the shan
ties and tents of the pioneers. Men
sickencd and died like sheep with
murrain. One historian met 1000 min
ers returning on the Bakerfield trail.
destitute, barefooted. and despairing.
When the ice thawed in the spring the
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13
Try lirniI-O.

Ask your grocer to-day to show you
package Of GRAlN-O, the new food
drink that takes the place of coffee.
The children may drink it without
injury as we'll as the adult. All who
try il like it. GRAlN-O has that rich
seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is
made from pure grains, and the most
delicate stomach receives it without
distress. i the price of coffee.
Is cents and 25 cents per package.
Sold by all grocers. Tastes like coffee.
Looks like coffee.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13
Conan Doyle, after having had his first
novel rejected by eleven publishers, sold it
f>, q
Visitors to Lincoln Park in Chjcac

Visitors to Lincoln Park in Chicago
Will be delighted with the souvenir book
Of this beautiful spot now being distributed
by the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway Company. 1t is a magnificent
publication Of 96 pages full to overflowing
with delicious half tono pictures Of one OF
Creations most charming places of resort
for citizens Of the Great Republic.
No stranger visiting Chicago should be
without q copy of the "Souvenir Of Lincoln
Park" 1t can only be procured by onclos-
ing twenty five '25) cents, in coin or post
age stamps, to Geo. II. Heafford. general
passenger agent, 40 Old Colony Building,
Chicago, Ill.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13
Nebraska . Great Wheat State.

This year Nebraska has como to the very
front rank as a wheat: producing state,
with her splendid crop of IS, 000, 900 bushels
Of spring wheat, averaging yer over "s bushels
to the acre. and 100000 bushels OF winter
the acre. The table given below, which
has been carefully compiled, shows what
will surprise many. that Nebraska stands
third among the states Us q wheat produc-
err, and it must be bourne in mind that
the states that outrank her are almost ex-
clusively wheat states, whereas Nebraska
is country of diversified crops, corn
being her principal product
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13
The True (doa,

Hicks-In my judgment no man should
marry until he Is fully able to support
wife.
Wicks-In my opinion no man should
marry until he is able to support a wife
and four small children
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13
An Optimistic BOokkeeper

MY dear sir, your books are in
frightful disorder. Don't you have to
make IN deficit sometimes?"
"Oh, yes, sometimes. But then.
sometimes there's surplus. Fiji.
gende Blaetter.
hone and Muscle FIexibtIity.
The bones and muscles OF the human
hcdy are capable of 1900 different
movements.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13
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WILL PAY 500 FOR ANY CASE
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Eall TO cure.
An Omaha Company places for the first
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This MAGICAL TREATMENT may be taken
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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13

At Blenhem palace, the home of the
Duke of Marlborough, there are said to be
twenty stair cases lending from the first
floor to the second.
OF four. footed animals the giraffe takes
the longest stride IL full swing it covers
fourteen feet.
Wages of scnool teachers in Connecticut
hive been doubled in thirty years.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13
Read tho Advertisements.

You will enjoy this publication
much better if you will get into the
habit of reading the advertisements.
They will afford most interesting
study and will put you in the way of
getting some excellent bargains. Our
advertisers are reliable, they send
what they advertise.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13

lnever used so quick a cure as Piso's
Cure for Consumption. j. b. Palmer. Box
III. Seattle, Wash. Nov %. 1905.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13

Richard A. Proctor was authority for the
statement that the earth receives only the
one two-hillionth of the suns heat.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13
Halls Catnrrh Cure
Is constitutional cure. Price, 755c.

Great BrItain's yearly expenses are
now abont $500. 900, $780, but the surplus is
100000 900
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13

E,lUcate Your Bowels With Cnscarets.
Candy Cathartc, cure constipation forever lfc.
nc. {. {. fail. druggists refund money.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13
Rcc0HnitlOn That lfailnd.

Congressman Spoutcr is the recog-
nized leader of his party, is he not ?"
Eyes, by every one except the
sreakcr.'
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13
WESTERN STATES WHEAT CROP.
Actual figures for 1896 and conservative
estimates for 1897:

Asker-After all is said and done what
is there in this life of ours that beats a
good wife? Tasker-A bad husband, OF
cOllrSC.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13

French railroads earned $lO.a50 per mile
last year. of which 81 6 per cent was used
for working expenses
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13

FITS Permanently Cured. No hts or nervousness afte,
:irst day Of DR.. kEncs Great Nerve Restorer.
Send for FREE $500 trial bottle and treatise.
Dr. II. II. KLINE Ltd, 93l Arch ST., PhiladelphiM, Pa.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13
Free I'rip to Alaska.

From St Paul to Alaska for nothing.
Two ckets given away. Enter the * lon,
dyke word contest. Limited to the first
500 subscribers. You won't see this again.
Address. Home g. Garden, Newspaper Row.
st Paul Mimi
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13

NoTo-Rac for FIFTY Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak men
strong, blood pure. Soc, 81. All druggists.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13
ohsr q, NM Ethics.

ohsEsy Mn Ethics.
Mission tsachsr-Boy, what IL an Opt.
mist2
Bowery tough OATS do folly wot strad.
dies de ante an den draws to I'll,
Teacher-And what Is . pessimisti
Tough-Dat'e do same telly two minutes
later
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13

Font Tobacco Spit and Smoke Iour Life Away.
Toquit to5accoeasily AMI forever, bem,.
netic, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No
To-Bac, the wonder worker that makes weak
men strong. All druggists, SOC or Il. Cure
guaranteed. Booklet and sample free; add
Sterling Remedy Co.. Chicago or New York.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13

feeling of suffocation and alarm, she
must at once regain her strength.
It matters not where she lives, she
can write a letter. Mrs. Pinkham,
Of Lynn, Mass, will reply promptly
ard without charge. The following
shows the power of Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, accom-.
panied with letter of advice:
Dear Mrs. Pinlxham:-I have suf-
fered for over two years with falling,
enlargement and liberation of tho
womb, and this spring, being in such a
weakened condition, caused me to flow
for nearly six months. Some time
ago, urged by friends, wrote to You
for advice. After using the treatment
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13

The height of houses in Vienna must not
exceed eighty-two feet above the level
of the street
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13
A Noticeable Change,

She-1'hls tandem custom In bicycling Is
proving an antidote to the club habit In
man. I.'
He-What makes you think sol
She-Because the man comes after tho
woman
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13

The skin of the kangaroo, when prorerly
tanned, never cracks.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13

Borgess. has untold wealth. "How dc
you know Il Just saw the tax collector
coming from his house."
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13

Hegeman's Camphor Ice with Glyccrinc
;urc Chapred Hands aud FACE. Tender Sore Feet.
Piles, &c. c. Clark Co.. New Haven, CT.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13
SOME WON EN-.

To Cure patton Forever
Take CGscarets Candy CathnrtiL. Ice or $50
e. C. c. fail 10 cure. druggists refund money
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13

ct know not how to form to myself
greater idea of humane life" said Rich
ard Steele, "than in what is the prac-
tice of some wealthy men whom l
could name, that make no step to the
Improvement Of their own fortunes.
wherein they do not also advance
those of other men,
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13

If the crow has creed it is that all birds
ire heretics that do not wear black
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13
New Treatment Necessary.

Mr. Grumpy, why did you discharge
DR.. Slckly."
He had the impotence in these hard
times to advise my wife to take trip to
EurOpe"
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13

You feel cross aud out of tune Why
Because your liver is sluggish. DR.. Kay S
Renovator will renovate and restore it.
See adv't. 25c and 81 co.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13

And in the long run nobody will ben
eft. Initiation and development are not
synonymous. The frenzy of specula-
ton adds little or nothing to nations
wealth. and a successful specuator is
chiefly remembered in after times as
one who brought many to beggary
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13
MISSED A FORTUNE.

VEN the wild rush
to California in 40
hardly eQualled
that to Caribou ten
years later. Surely
there never has
been such a fren-
zied scramble for
gold as that which
filed the harbor of
Victoria, Vancou-
yer Island, with a
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13

1t lies in our own power to attune thu
mind to cheerfulness -Auerhnch
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13

Mrs. WinslOw's Soothing Syrup
For children teehng sOitens the gums reduces inam
nation allays pain. wind collie % cents bottle
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13
A HEALTHY WIFE
10 q Husbands Inspiration.

A sickly, half-dead-and-alive woman.
especially when she is the mother Of Q
family, is a damper to all joyousneH
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13

Thirty millions Of wooden spoons are
in Russia every year.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13
Rugs Made From You

John Durbin. who died recently in Port
land, Ore. was lG} years of age and was
Oregon's oldest pioneer.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13

In every school in Paris there is res
taurant where free meals are served to
the students who are too poor to pay for
them.
All vow guess about difficulty in sell.
ing Stark Trees may be wrong. If you
wish to know the truth, drop o. postal
to Stark Nursery, Louisiana, Mo-, or
fockport, III. Name references. Cash
pay to statesmen each WEEK the year
round. Outfit frce---tales no money
to TRY the work. Also want CLUB
MAKERS get their trees free
The man who sees things as they ought
to be is great deal happier than he who
sees them rs they are.
Whatever makes men Christians makes
hem good citizens. Webster.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13
A LIFE-AND A DEATH.

From the Whitechapel district of
London a young Jew named Barney
lsaacs, who had been by turns cab
driver and peddler, went, twenty-five
years ago, to South Africa. In 1849,
twenty-five years later, he returned to
London-this time as Barney Barnato,
the "Kafir King" 1t was said that he
was worth hundred million dollars,
and that the "Barnato circle" which
included Cecil Rhodes. controlled the
richest gold and diamond mines in the
world.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13

in the home.
! sometimes
marvel at
the patience
of some llus-
bands.
Ifawonan
finds that
her energies
are tagging
and that
everything
tires her,
her sleep is.
distuxbed
by horrible
dreams,
and that
she often
1vo1xaS s,1f1,
denly in the
nirht within.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13

Rugs Made From Your Old Carpets.
Latest Improvement. now methods of making
reversible rugs from your old Brussels or Ingram
carr cts. with border all around. Send for cir
rular nd prices to S. KrOss, GIL Wentworth Ave,
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13

world.
Soon he began to organize companies
to take over old mines or develop new
ones. So skilfully were they promoted
that conservative England went mad.
Everybody wanted Barnato's stocks.
Shares that started at twenty-five cents
each rose to three hundred dollars
Other shares that sold on Wednesday
for five dollars commanded on Friday
five hundred. 1t has been estima ted
that, up to year ago, the British pub
lie had invested seven hundred and If
ty million dollars in the Barnato
schemes. When the craze was at it's
height Barnatos income was asserted
to he twenty-five million dollars year.
and his fortune was placed at three
hundred millions.
The tide turned with the failure of
the jameson raid. Barnato spent vast
sums to bolster his enterprises; but
public faith had been overstrained and
the stocks continued to fall. Suddenly
Barnato went to South Africa-some
say, to rest, others that he might save
a remnant of his fortune. Returning,
insane or desperate, he ended his dife in
midocean.
The stories told Of this modern Mon
tie Christie present a curious character.
Gossip dwclt impartially upon his
champaign baths, his cloud" toilets, his
lavish generosity to tramps and beg
gars and the pet bull dog that shared
his breakfast. People laughed at his
social ambitions when they recalled
that, for blackguardism, he had been
expelled from two clubs. He gave
much money to charity. but that did
not cause anybody to forget that his
wealth was largely gained by the ruin
of others. 1t was said of him that,
though he inhabited palace in Picca-
dilly. his soul still lived in White
chapel.
The most unfriendly view recognized
that Rarnato had qualities of leader
ship. Hc was inventive, energetic,
audacious. persevering. full of resource.
Yet he spent himself in erecting a
house of cards, destined soon to fall,
doubtless, now that the juggler's hand
has been withdrawn.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-08-13

There are about 100000 islands, large and
small. scattered over the ocean. America
alone has $500 around its coast.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-11-06

The general public had forgotten all
about it, perhaps. but there is q man
residing in the state by the name Of
Jones. his top name Is William C.
and he writes the word congress
man" before his name. The Post
Intelligencer relocated this interesting
fossil yesterday. and brought him ont
into the light Of day through an in
teryiew In which Mr.. Jones talked
about fusion--a question that was the
basis OF some excitement just before
he retired from the pnblic's view. Il
Is 20 DC regretted that Fir. Jones re-
turned to the public gaze With his old
popalist myths still floating about
him. but there seems to be some hope
II his ultimate recovery. in that dur
ing all OF his interview The old delu-
sions Of IS 10 !. wheat and silver as
twin brothers OF adversely. and sew
eral well-remembered charts were not
referred to By him.
Mr.. Jones did say two things. how
over. that sounded like the erratic
Jones who was on the stump last year.
First. that there were n great many
Republicans who voted with that
party in this state last year who were
now anxious TO aid in securing the
par:y's defeat in order to change the
money system.
Second. he upholds the Rogers state
administration and believes il has
strengthened the fusion party.
Mr. Jones, while attorney general.
had the reputation Of giving an opin-
ion first and looking up the law after
ward. The Post-Intelligencer does not
wish to accuse Mr.. Jones Of having
siven his mental faculties a perma-
nent vacation. which IL would have 90
do II il took his interview seriously.
Il therefore takes IL that Mr.. Jones
has merely changed his system. In
stead OF writing opinions and looking
Up the law afterward. evidently he
now talks his desires and defers look
ing fer his facts Until later.