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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18
FULL OF DANGER.
Secretary Bliss Warns Gold



Washington, July IL Secretary
Bliss has taken cognizance of the rus
to the Klondike gold fields and Alaska,
and has issued the following warning to
the general public:
ITO Whom 1t May Concern: In view of
information received at the department
that 5000 persons with 1000 tons of baggage
and freight are now waiting at the en-
trance to White Pass, in Alaska, for an
opportunity to cross the mountains to the
Yukon river, and that many more are pre-
pairing to join them, / deem it proper to call
the attention of all who contemplate MAX
ing that trip to the exposure. %privation,
suffering and danger incident thereto at
this advanced period of the season, even
if they should succeed in crossing the
To reach Dawson City, when
over the pass, 700 miles of difficult naviga-
ton on the Yukon river, without adequate
means of transportation, will still be be-
fore them, and it is doubtful if the jour-
ney can be completed before the river
Is closed by ice.
81 am moved to draw public attention to
these conditions by the gravity of the pos
sible consequences to people detained in
the mountainous wilderness during five
or six months of an arctic winter, where
no relief can reach them. however great
the need.
&c. N. BLISS,
Secretary of the Interior"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18
a & A
September Wheat Makes n Gain Of
Six Cents in Two Days.

Six Cents in Two Days.
Chicago. Aug. 13.-September wheat
sold from s2% up to s4h cents on the
board of trade Thursday. and at the
close it broke to S3A cents, a net adj
vance of 15s cents over Wednesdays
closing price. Within two days Sep
TENDER wheat gained nearly 6 cents
and No. spring cash wheat is selling
at a premium of 3 cents over the Sep
TENDER option. Excitement was in
tense on the board at the opening. Buy
ing orders were flashed over the wires
as fast as the operator could get them
from the receiver, and the whole coun-
try, and especially eastern exporters,
was buying everything offered. The
bull clique which ran wheat up from
65 to rs cents and cleared 100000 by
the operation descended on the wheat
pit and is credited with having bought
6,7oO, 900 bushels.
Scarcity of wheat to satisfy mature
contracts is regarded as the primary
reason for the second great squirt in
wheat during the present season. The
movement of spring wheat, which is
already partially harvested, has been
mostly toward empty bins of millers
who have been compelled to shut down
for the want of wheat to grind. This
movement was expected to go eastward
for export, and the unforeseen contin-
gency caught the trade mapping.
Laboring under the impression that
they will see the market advance still
higher, the farmers are also said to be
stacking their wheat. Forecasters in
sist hat these reserves will be piled
upon the markets suddenly, and then
the boom will break and wheat will go
down to Is cents. Robert Lindblom in
sists that if wheat slumps to rs cents it
will recover and even touch the ST
mark.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18
QUEEN KAPIOLANpS YACHT.
She Carried the Union Jack ON 1t. and
the Craft Is Now in Washington.

She Cerried the Union Jack on 1t. and
the Craft Is Now in Washington.
England and Hawaii are two coun-
tries which have monopolized their full
share of public attention recently. An
article in the National Museum brings
to memory the fact that on the occa-
sion of Victoria's jubilee in 1887
Queen Kapiolani of Hawaii was the
guest of the queen of England. And
each of these queens, in her WI coun-
try and in her own private boat. sailed
under the same flag, the union jack Of
England.
The royal yacht of Queen Kapiolani
of Hawaii is in the National museum,
and may be passed and repassed with
out attracting the notice of the sight
seeker. High against the eastern wall
it is placed, and from the floor little
can be seen except the small sail OF
straw. This royal boat was once a
log, and with rude instruments was
followed into the semblance of a canoe,
making a craft IS feet long and but 10
inches wide. 1t is such a BOAT as the
Hawaiians used long before Column
bus sailed en- his voyage to a new coun-
try, and it was in such a BOAT that the
Hawaiians sailed from the western
islands in the Pacific to the Samoan
| islands.
The little craft is what is known as
an outrigger canoe, and has a small
float extended on arms from either side
of the canoe. This plan renders it
l.. r.. H. L-n -. L. ,-2
The sail is of the rudest kind, made of
plated straw, supported ON rudely-
hewn masts. In the boat is a gourd to
be used for bailing out the water and
also a net with which to catch fish. In
such a boat the proud queen of the
Hawaiians went forth on the waters
of her country to woo the DOL breezes
of the ocean. In the bottom of the
boat is found the strangest thing OF
all, a small English flag of the com
monest type, which the queen was wont
to place in the stern of her pleasure
boat.
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani was asked
lately if she remembered this craft Of
her royal sister-in-law, and answered
Via L. ~ ulotlilStlys CNCh
related the circumstance which led to
the boat being given to the museum.
II accompanied Queen Kapiolani on
her visit to England in 1887" said the
ex-queen, and on our return we
stopped for some time in this city.
One day l accompanied the queen and
her party. consisting of Col. Boyd, Col.
Tankea and Gen. Dominis, to the mu-
scum. After looking around the diff
ferent apartments the curator showed
us a boat, something like a canoe, with
a man at the bow, and asked the queen
il our canoes were like that in Hawaii.
The queen said yes. and that she would
be pleased to contribute one to the
museum on her return TO her own
country."-Washington Post.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18
News IN Bret.

The coast trains of the Great North
ern are to be v~estibuled.
Between five and six inches of rain
fell at Mountain Lake in two hours.
Emil Swanbeck. confectioner and
restaurant keeper at Springfield, was
burned out.
Four young Polish boys at Winona
assaulted Josie C~zaplewski. a 14-year-
old girl, with fatal results.
Workmen on the Syndicate block at
Red Lake Falls struck for an increase
of wages.
The fourth annual convention of the
ton was held at st. Paul. Over 35 del
egates were present from nine states,
with Indiana OIL the east and Oregon
on the west represented.
A shoemaker at Rosemount got drunk
and drove his family out of doors. The
citizens took him out into the fields,
gave him a coat of varnish on which
feathers were stuck. He promised to
behave.
The large saw mill of the st. Cloud
Lumber company was totally destroyed
by fire. Loss, $50, 600.
The cornerstone of st. Mary's hos
pital at Duluth was laid with appro-
pirate ceremonies. Il
Gov. Clough has formally requested
kthe chief magistrate of Colorado to re-
turn to Minnesota, one Charles Boland,
sent to Saltwater some years ago for
grand larceny. He was released on
parole and went to Colorado where he
again went wrong, and was sent to
the ~penitentiary in thai state.
w. b. Marston and William Keenan,
of Minneapolis have been appointed
Chippewa pine estimators.
1t is announced that the installation
of Rev. Father Trobec as bishop OF st.
Cloud will take place Sept. 26. He
will be consecrated at st. Paul the 21st
by Archbishop Ireland at the cathe-
dral, and will be installed by the same
prelate. 1t will be a most impressive
ceremony.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18
A RIVER.
It's Ancient Bed In Now the Deposit OF
Rich Gold.

htcH uOlu.
There is another source OF Occur
d'Alene placer gold even more potent
than the d~ecomposing lodges with
which the country is bound together,
aud that is the old wash. Beginning
near Raven, and running down on the
sidehill north of Murray and Eagle City,
clear across the North Fork. and still
on westward for an unknown distance,
is the old wash. What the stream that
it, whence it's source nor whittier
it flowed, no man knows. Perhaps
primeval mar foated his boat upon it's
waters, and with his stone weapons
~endeavored to Stay the mastodon rest
ing beneath the shade of the tropic
verdure that lined it's banks. Every
thing regarding the era or nature of the
stream flowing there is mere conjec
ture, but some things regarding it are
well known. One is hat it was a,
stream of no mean proportions. For a
quarter of a mile in width the bedrock
is covered with the rounded gravel
washed smooth by its waters during the
ages that it existed, and even after the
countless years since its springs dried
up at their source, or some convulsion
of nature turned it into other channels.
have been washing the easily rolled
stones down the mountain sides. they
are still 1875 feet in depth-perhaps more
in places. Another thing certain about
the old river is that its source was far
away beyond the Occur d'Alene noun
tains or the Bitter Roots, hat hedge
them on the east, for in great quantities
among the gravel now choking it's old
bed are huge powders of a rock that is
entirely foreign to this region. Re-
sembling a mixture of sandstone and
quartz, if such a mixture can be i'm
agined, it is a rock that is unmistak-
able, and nowhere within more than
100 miles around is it found in any
place except the channels of present or
prehistoric streams.
Another thing known regarding the
old river, more potent than all else, ex-
cept, perhaps, to the student, is the
fact that it traversed a country inter-
spersed with gold-bearing lodges, parts
of which are picked up and brought
down with it's gravel. Everywhere that
the old channel has been cut it has been
found rich in gold. Many of the smaller
gulches about Murray were rich up to
the point where they had been cut
through the old channel, and above it
their gravel was barren of the yellow
metal.
The most economical way to handle
this old wash was by hydraulic min
ing, but water was too scarce Tor more
than the few to do this, and many
others have taken the slower way of
drifting. With gravel spreading from
so to 500 yards in width, and varying
from five 20 one hundred and fifty feet
in depth, probably one-half OF the gold
would lie in a strip a rod wide and with
in five feet of bed rock. So while the
hydraulic miners would proceed 10
move the whole mass, wash it down the
hill and sitting out every particle of
gold. the drift miner mas taken his
more laborious method and none the
less surely secured for himself a COM
petence it his possessed the faculty of
saving what came into his hands,
Spokane Spokesman.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18
STATISTICS.
Increase in Churches ard Preachers
in Ten Years.

in Ten Years.
The United States is the only country
in which an official census omits mat
tiers relating to the religious belief of
the inhabitants. In every European
country, in Canada, South America,
India and Australia, when a census is
taken by governmental or local au-
thority, inquiry is made into the re-
ligious belief of the inhabitants, and
the custom is universal to ascribe to
the minor children of a family the re-
ligious creed of the parents or guard
ians. In the United States, however,
the antipathy to any admiNture of re-
ligious with secular matters has
always served as a bar against
inquiries by census officials on re-
ligious matters, n the nearest
approach to such information has
come, therefore, from statistics of
church sittings. There is kept, too, but
not by any official authority, a record of
the number of ministers of each re-
ligious denomination, and a compare
sol of the figures for the last few years
is interesting as showing the changes
which are going on in the various de-
nominations.
Ten years ago there were in the
United States 3s,522 Baptist churches
and 25,377 Baptist clergymen. There
are nov 45,sO2 Baptist churches and
31,572 Baptist clergymen. Ten years
ago there were in the United States 49,
1853 Methodist churches and 2S,075 cler-
gymen of the Methodist creed. There
are now 52,236 Methodist churches and
33,601 Methodist clergymen. There are
13 subdivisions of American Baptists
and II of American Methodists, but for
the purposes of ordinary compu-
tation they are spoken of as Meth
odists and Baptists collectively. Ten
years g there were in the United
States 500 Catholic churches and
1868 Catholic clergymen. There
are now 1882 Catholic churches
and 9,9O6 Catholic clergymen. Ten
years ago there were 1892 Lutheran
churches and 4,215 Lutheran clergymen.
There are now 9,493 of the former and
$685. of the latter, the increase being due
in considerable measure to the large
and steady immigration from north
Germany and Scandinavian countries
to the United States. Ten years ago
there were returned in the United
States 800 Jewish synagogues and BOB
rabbits occupying pulpits in Jewish syn
agogues. There are now returned 543
synagogues and 900 rabbis, though OBJ
viously the latter number is much too
low, and the disparity arises from the
fact that there are a considerable num-
Der of rabbis who do not appear in the
church records as such, as they also
follow other pursuits. Ten years ago
there were in the United States 12,437
Presbyterian churches and 1854 Pres
byterian ministers. By the last figures
at hand there were 14,530 Presbyterian
churches and 13,476 Presbyterian cler-
gymen. Ten years ago there were 3,54O
Episcopal churches and 4,139 Episcopal
.clergymen in the United States. There
are now 5,979 of the former and 1850
of the latter.
All religious organizations in the
United have grown in membership and
church accommodations during the last
ten years, but the gain, as the figures
show, has been somewhat unevenly dis
tributed.-N, Y. Sun.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18
The Pitch of Rens.

The secret of success in casting bells
of large size for chimes or given tones
is in getting the thickness of the ring
lust inside the mouth of the bell exact
ly right. In preparing the mold for IA
bell a cross section of this ring, or
extra thickness, is made. and the pitch
of the bell depends almost altogether
on the diameter and relative thickness
of the ring thus laid out.-Philadek-
phia Press.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18
A Growing Population.

The warden's report to the board Of
prison managers. made at a regular
meeting, shows a prison population OF
53S, a larger number than has been in
the institution for years. Of these 10
are women, which breaks the record
for number of female convicts. Two
of the 10 will soon become mothers
and will probably be paroled before
that time and sent back to Minneapo-
lis, where they live. Their husbands
are in prison also and will be released
with them, all the terms being short
ones. The board of managers has de-
cided to purchase additional binder
Irvine machinery, increasing the daily
output 500 pounds and bringing it up
to a total of 25, 900 pounds. Irvine from
the prison has been in demand this
year and the entire supply, $500, 600
pounds, was sold, bringing 5000, 600.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18
A woman's Comfort.

These stripes" sighed the convict,
make a man feel small"
The kind woman, who had come into
the darksome place to cheer him,
smiled radiantly.
only think" she urged, "how much
worse they would be if they ran the
other way."-Detroit journal.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18
Would Try.

And do you think you can make my
daughter a happy woman?" asked the
father.
II guess So" replied the young man.
What make wheel does she prefer?"
-Yonkers Statesman.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18
"Secretary of the IL
WEYLER RESIGNS.
Spanish Commander in Cuba Said to
Have Given Up.

Havana, Aug. 14.-It is learned on
what seems to be the best authority
that Capt. Gen. Weyler has sent his res
ignation to Madrid. This report is gen.
orally believed to be true. There is no
doubt that the resignation of Gen.
Weyler is due to the assassination of
Senior Canovas del Castillo, the premier
of Spain, through whose personal
wishes Capt. Gen. Weyler was retained
in Cuba.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18
Can Return.

County Attorney Peterson of Henne-
pin county, has given it as his opinion
that Louis F. Menage, he of malodor-
Gus memory, ear return to his native
heath without e~ndangering his liberty.
To convict Menage of crookedness it
would be necessary to introduce the
same evidence that was utilized in the
former Guaranty Loan cases. This
would be impracticable, as much of the
strength of the previous cases lay in
certain notes and papers, which have
become scattered since then, many of
them having been returned to their
owners.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18
GROWTH OF INFANCY.
Americans and Will Be
Essentially One People

Americans and Canadians Will Be
Essentially One People.
The moral of the whole situation is
that a common civilization is making
for relationships between England and
the United States that questions of
political jurisdiction will be powerless
to break up; while the facts of COM
merce, and of immediate contiguity as
neighbors clear across the continent,
must make the people of the United
States and Canada essentially one peo-
pie in the very early future. The i'm
e movement of young and ener-
United States will in it's turn undoubt-
eddy be followed by a great movement
of young and energetic Americans
across the line into Canada. A great
many American farmers are going into
the new Canadian northwest, American
lumbermen are at work in the Canadian
forests, and American engineers and
miners are taking an important part in
the development of the rich mineral re-
sources of Canada. Our American trav-
clers are becoming more and more fond
of summer s~ojourns in the picturesque
and healthful country to the north
ward, while Canadian travellers find con-
stantly increasing attractions in the
United States. Canada is producing
scholars, historians, novelists, poets and
artists who will testify very cheerfully
that they find Boston, New York, Wash
ington and Chicago most hospitable and
most ready to welcome them. Such de-
bated matters as tariffs and jurisdic-
tional questions must in the long run
adjust themselves to the general
growth of intimacy across the border.
Review of Reviews.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS
Experimental work.

A great mum Der of important expert
ments in grass cultivation are being
conducted on the state experimental
farm at Island Lake. These investi-
cations are for the purpose of finding
out the various grasses best suited for
the climate and soil of southwestern
Minnesota. Supt. o. c. Gregg says:
MANY men have considered that it
was impossible to grow clover success
fully in Lyon county. We have found
that itcan be grown with great success
If given proper care and cultivation.
The Asike is the clover for low lands.
1t will thrive on ground that is good
for red top. 1t is not suitable for high
lands. The Mammoth clover is a
heavier grower and bids fair to surpass
the red clover in Minnesota. Red
clover is biennial. 1t drops seed the
second year of it's growth. If left on
the ground and not carried away, it
will reseed itself. We have and there
that has reseeded itself for 10 years.
For sowing on uplands l advise farm
ers to use the Mammoth and red clover.
Asike and timothy are the finest forage
grasses"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18
Cleared Up.

Everything in connection with the
O'Connell murder mystery, near Red
wood Falls, o appears to be cleared
up, with the exception of O'Connell's
clothing having been saturated with
oil, and fire set to the building after
O'Connell was murdered. Mrs. O'Con-
nell says her mind is a complete blank
on everything that happened after she
killed her husband in self-defense.
The children are unable to give in
formation on the subject, and unless
Mrs. O'Connell's mind clears up, it is
probable that it will always remain a
mystery. From all the evidence SO
far there is nothing hal will convict
Mrs. O'Connell, although there are a
dozen different points remaining for
investigation. Preliminary examina.
ton has been waived by Mrs. O'Con.
nell and her 17-year old son. James,
and they are in the county Jail, walt
ing the action of the November grand
iury.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18
Anxious to Sell.

AHXIOuN 10 SCIIs
Miss Bigfst purchasing for a male
friend)-Have you any gentlemen's
gloves?
New Clerk (glancing at her hand)-
No, miss; but l think l can find a ladies'
size that will fit you.-Up-to-Date.
Rising to the Situation.
She-The man / marry must have
done something.
Helm your man, then.
what have you done"
"Just fallen heir to a million very un.
expectedly."-Puck.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-10
EXPORTS TO-DAY.
THE GENERAL MARKET REPORT.

New-Ycrk December 1897;
co1ToN was day Of small hn n aga pnn a, d de
slime there was a featurcless market to 1890 a. m:
when a recess taken 70 IL m TO enable members o:
erried riner Upon the resumption OF business there
was but little disposition to trade in the absence q i'm
sources exceedingly scarce. leaving the local con
ngent practically POSSESSION oni purInseess ana IN
ferent at present prces IneFe Was - ,ng ~"
n receipts the ports and TO moderate Interior move
ment The Liverpool cable accounts wnile showins
Ne-sustaned activity In SPOT cotton were disappointing
As 10 future deliveries. European orders Mere Nef
scarce The Liverpool orders went TO III" snort side ct
The account. and private cables SAID that ire Enss'
rotton trade ready to accept the prediction Of
permanent falling on in receipts line OF Ions cotton
anne to-day and ;he market was further weakened
bv disturbing advces from Fail River pointing 10 more
" general strike the result Of recent ovetues In
he direction Of reduction Of wages which the cotton
Closed dull but steady decline q $40 points:
:sss m Gnssa npand. So mddns Gulf sac against
,o-n3rrow l7oooaleooO bales against IS gas
saa5 bales last year. and IS 500 bales in 1894
ia 0I bales last week and 977i bacs southern
spot markets to-day. middlina quoted az follows:
sas 200 Gales sales S bales Sae M and
s$ise: sales. siso Gales Charleston steady, s-sc
WImRson s,ssdy S'G N"fO .eady Sac ssss
5iac: sales. 74e bales St Louis steady 5'-loc; sales.
Cotton Exchane. special Liverpool cables spo, cotton
good business doing sales u 600 bales sPscgston and
export 1000; American. 1900" receipts Is 900; Amer
partially Led advance Closed quiet, but steady. De
Scmbsr point lower o;h,r months UNCHANGED to point
siiss: June,uly, 3l2t.b. Jqly-Ausus; ai4s: Angus.
Semser sie,sb becenter aosb Decemoer January BOSS
Manchester-Yarns easier cloths orders at low limits
The range Of contract prices to-day was as follows: