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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-25
THE KLONDIKE AGITATION.
1t Has Some Suspicious Features to
Be Noted by the Wary.


The United States is still busy talking
about the Klondi1e. During the past week
the press appears to have been busy warn
ing the public not to rush in too heavily, e.
ther into the Alaskan mining district or
into the companies organized FOR mining in
the new fields. An old-timer around these
parts. and one who has been in the north
a good deal during his day, made quite
kick on the latter score to me the other
day. asked him to set down some OF MS
objections and sure enough, ne dld. Here
they are:
The Simultaneous appearance at various
cities in the Union of a "klondlker' who
brings a bag of nuggets or money with
him and puts it in the bank and then gives
most interesting interviews to business
men of the place. They are not old resi-
dents who nave gone away TO the gold
fields and are now returning 10 their
homes, but strangers. 1t is not usual Tor
men to go travelling about with a bag OF
pounds for exhibition IL this way, and
coupled with the fact that an old prospect
or friend OF mine, who lives in Juneau, told
me a year ago the transportation compa-
MES were Matching big boom for June,
1897, it looks to me like Well-organlzed
amount of reality-say 10 per cent-ln the
mass of fabulous rot being spread by the
transportation companies.
The enormous tax and royalty imposed
by the Canadian government.
The small area of the claims allowed.
The law that prevents a stalker entorc-
ing any claim against the men he has grub
staked-a premium on spoIiauon'
Probability of friction between Americans
ana CdndOudIlS dlOIlS Inc OOUlAH'AS Twins
to the above.
If half the people in there this winter
who care absolutely beyond relief have
half enough grub, the other half a3l who have have
none will make them Whack up Tone
fourth enough all round, so the talk about
our representative" being well supplied
is all rot; if everybody is not well supplied
he won't be.
Only ninety days to prospect in, and If a
newcomer should get anything good among
the hordeS who have sWarmed in there
from neighboring districts. it will be very
strange.
If the prospector gets a few bags of
nuggets, at the risk of his life, and in cold,
hunger and priv8ton of all kinds, is it like
ly that the stockholder Lying in comfort
here viii get his share? Too much to eX-
pecti
Placer bars are, and always have been,
an individual proposition and not for COM
panies.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-25
RUNNING NIGHT AND DAY
INTENSE WORK DONE AT PoLK's
CANNING ESTABLISHMENT.
VIII Put Up 100000 Cases of Tomatoes
and 3,0OO, 900 Quarts of Catsup-
Fish Commissioners Work.
ial to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
GREENWOOD Ind, Aug 24.-Tomatoes
and corn are being hauled to the big Polk
factory in this city at the rate OF 200 wagon
loads a day. The factory opened up yester-
day morning with about 1200 employees and
will run night and dav until frost. The fac
tory cans no tomatoes after frost sets in.
The Polk factory is the largest tomato can
ming concern in the United States and will
pack this season in the neighborhood of
100000 cases of twenty-four cans to the case.
1t will also pack about 81, 600 cases of corn.
The corn and tomato season, as it is called
here, generally lasts from five to six weeks,
night and day, and the amount paid out
to the employees during this time will be
about $4,000 per week. The value of the
entire seasons pack will be $4,000 Aside
from the peas, corn and tomatoes, the cat
sup industry is quite an extensive one. This
year there Will be 10000 cans, five gallons
each, t3,VUO quarts of catsup manufac-
tured, besides the many thousands of bot
Ties; In former years the catsup has been
made from the tomato peelngs but this
season Mr.. Polk has made his contracts
read that he shall use 10000 bushels OF first
class tomatoes for the catsup. The factory
season brings q great many strangers to
Greenwood, and it is impossible TO find d
vacant residence and the many hotels and
private boarding houses are full.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-25

most instances the owners of mineral prop
erty have not the capital with which to de-
N, s,s ana, therefore, cannot go 10 eapi'ai-
The gold of the Appalachian mountains
lies in narrow belts. running northeast ana
southwest in the geological formation
known as the crystalline belt. Lump1in is
the most widely known mining town. be-
cause the old mint was located there. The
principal mines in LumplUn are the Ivy, the
Ftshtrap. Singleton, Lockhart, Bast, Find
lay, Hedwig, Hand, Barlow, Yahoola,
PREACHER Murray, Ralston, Calhoun Iur-
KEY Hlll, Garnet, Battle Branch. Betz ana
the Josephine. The Creighton IS the most
famous mine of them all and the deepest.
Ore is now being taken out at a depth Of
net on the orc Forty tons are handled
daily. Mr.. A. French of Pittsburg. owns
this mine. a Boston syndicate, with q
capital OF $500 coo put up ten-stamp mill
last spring near Villa Rica. at the old Clop-
ton mine, and the property is paying well.
London company is at work in the same
territory, and its ore averages 81 ton,
while picked samples run up $3.50 a, ton.
Tennessee company. capitalized at Sl,WO 600.
is the largest one in the field operating
eighteen mines and its profits very
large. The Chattanooga company, OF which
mine, in Harelson county. This ore aver
ages SIS a ton, with some assays as nigh
as S15S. The Buford Company has assure
vein which bears q good paying quality of
ore, ranging from SIS TO 800.
Mrs. Belknap Smith has the most unique
mine. She has made a good deal of money
ore. containing free gold and aurferous
sulphides, using fine stamp mill with cop
per plates coated with mercury 10 save the
gold. The sulphides go off as tailings into
the river. and experts think more gold is
lost in the tailings than is saved on the
plates. Before the war Mrs Johnson
worked five hundred slaves in her mine,
and 100000 was credited to her at the mint.
The great curse of gold mining in the
South has been the experiments of COM
panies with capital. The practice of
freezing out small stockholders has also
hurt the work. The limit to which placer
mining may be worked is too soon reached
and the value of the mines is too uncertain
to make them subjects for large invest
has ever been mined out in the South, min
ing having invariably ceased when the sui
phides became so stubborn as TO make min
ing by the old method Improbable.
The climate is such that gold mining is
carried on night and day all the year
round, and there are scores of weak-lunged
men from the North and East working in
tie mines for their health.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-25
NOMINEE OF ALL FACTIONS.
Republicans Name Col.
McMichneI for CITY Tren surer.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. A.-For the first
time since the control of the Republican
organization in Philadelphia was wrested
from Senator Quay by the detection which
prevented the nomination for the, mayor
atty of Boies Penrose, now United States
senator. a regular Republican convention
representing every faction in this city,
to-day nominated a pronounced Quay par
tisan by naming Col. Clayton McMichael
proprietor of the Philadelphia North Amer
lean, who is one of the recognized Quay
leaders in eastern Pennsylvania, for city
treasurer. The senators and members of
Congress interested had united in naming
Colonel McMichael to succeed the Demo-
cratic postmaster in Philadelphia and he
said to-day that he entered the contest for
the city treaSurerShip only because all fac
lions had lited on him to perfect the Re-
publican harmony, which puts Senators
Quay and Penrose in what is regarded as
undisputed control of the Republican state
organization
All of the Wspapers-Republican Dem
ocratic and independent-make compliment
tary comment on Col. McMichaels's selec-
ton, referring in eulogistic terms to his
career, beginning with his entrance into
the military service a the outbreak of the
war before he was seventeen years old as
Ger of the regular army, and continued to
the present through a lifetime of promi-
nence in military affairs, in politics and in
active journalism. Other nominations were:
Register of wills, H. B. Hackett Common
Pleas judges, F. A. Breezy, Charles Y. Aud
mated; Orphans Court, Judge JOS c. Fer
guSOn, renOminated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-25
INDIANA OBITUARY.
Hon. Andrew j. Stal<cbake, n Well
| known Winchester Attorney.

Hon. Andrew j. Stakcbake, a Well
known Winchester Attorney
special to the indianapolis Journal
WINCHESTER, Ind, Aug 24-Hon. An
drew j. Stakebake, of this city, died at his
home here last night Of cancer of the ston-
ach The day of the Harrison rally here
last fall he was Frustrated with hemor-
rhage of the stomach and continued to de-
cline until his death Mr.. Stakebake was
born in Preble county. Ohio, in 1843, and
came with his parents to this county in
1853. His early life was spent on the farm
Later he taught school and was finally
chosen county school superintendent. From
teacher and school superintendent he
turned to the law, which has been his life
work. In September 1861, he enlisted in
Company E. Thirty-fifth Ohio and was dis
charged in 1864 with the rank of sergeant
He was four times wounded. He was twice
chosen a member of the State Legislature
serving in the legislatures of 1898 and 1895
He was prominent Odd Fellow and mem
Der of the G. a. r. He leaves a wife, a
niece of the late Ex-Governor Isaac P Gray
and one son and daughter. A meeting of
the Randolph county bar has been called
for tomorrow to take action in reference
to his funeral, which will be held on
Thursday, at o'clock.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-25
A GRIM STORY ABOUT WILLIAM.
The Tragic Mystery of Lieutenant
Won Hahnke's Death.


The German Emperor is never SO thor
oughly happy as when he is concentrating
attention on himself, and he apparently has
not yet reached the limit of astounding
pranks he is capable of playing in order to
be we'll under the iimeltght on the Euro
pean stage. This makes 1T all the more
curious that one of his many dramatic en-
frances and exits, which was closely fol-
lowed by the tragic death of a young com
panion, has been shut off from the public
gaze by the curtain OF silence raised only
for brief moment to show the august hg-
ure of the imperial protagonist in uncertain
light dimmed by the mist of improbable nc
ton 1t will be remembered how a short
time back the world was panied by the in
formation that the imperial navigator on
board the yacht HohenZollern off the Nor
wegian coast had received a bad black eye.
Elaborate explanations were at once forth
coming as to the clumsy Mapping or falling
of a vaguely placed rope on one OF the best
appointed vessels manned by perhaps the
smartest crew ahoat. Then comes the
tragedy in the shape of the sudden death
next day of Lieutenant Won Hahnke, a
promising young naval officer on board the
Hohenzollern, and the press Of Europe was
that this young athlete, expert in all man
ly exercises, had landed and ridden a BIZ
cycle over the edge of a cliff into the sea.
All this goes very well, and the encourage
Of the Kaiser may be recommended as art
lists in fiction of no mean order But the
grim story which is now muttered under
the breath of the land whose loyalty is so
sorely tried by the feVerish Tuning of Will
liam the Autocrat is of a much simpler
kind 1t tells Of a young oflcer VINO, MAD
dened by some biting speech or rough, inn
pulsive act of the fiery Kaiser. so far for
got himself as to strike his sovereign, and
then, on the next day, seeing that all was
over for him, took his own ruined life. II
this tragedy be true even in part, 1t has
its own precedent in history If not in grave
pity. BY such needless mystery and care
ful concealment of the details attending
the young fellows death, added to the fool
ish explanations vouchsafed to the not alto
gether imbecile world, that the German au-
thorities should turn men s minds 10 the
gravest interpretations. even where the is-
sue is less serious, it is most curious; The
fatality which impels the Kaiser 10 90 me
wrong thing with unerring accuracy, as in
stanced by his congratulatory telegram to
King Humbert and the Count of Turin on
his late duel with Henri dOrleans, is ON
nipresent In this case the revenge Will be
certain though a while deferred. for VIII
liam has thereby ruined MS chances OF pc
no invited to Paris for the great exhibition
of 1eOO-a trip on which he is known to have
SET his heart.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-25
Fluctuations at St. Louis.

ST. LOUIS. No, Aug. 24-The bears took
another rap at wheat to-day and futures
and spot went off more than cents. DO"
nestle markets did not show any strength
over the favorable foreign news received
early and the improvement here was small
Then came the Chicago opening, which
showed a yielding in price, and local bears
at once fell on the market and hammered
it down more than cents The reaction
from this was small and was speedily fol-
lowed by another onslaught by the bears
The market finally rallied on buying by
shorts and closed firm December, the ac-
tive option, opened Ac higher than yester-
day, at $lC05s declined 21sc, recovered %c
declined 519c. late reacting &c and closing
with buyers at 945sc bid, &c below the top
The net decline for the day was sac for
August &c for September, sac for Decem-
Der and 614c for May
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-25
HOSTS OF VETERANS.
from First Page1


with which they were so long associated
and they sleep tonight within those green
tents whose curtains never outward
swing Grant has gone; Sherman and
Sheridan and Thomas and Mcpherson
and Logan and a long list beside are each
in precious memories. And not only have
the great commanders gone, but the rank
and file of that splendid army have joined
their dead comrades on the other side They
are gone who seem so great; their great
work is done and they wear purer crown
than any man can weave them. Speak no
more of their renown, but in the vast
cathedral leave them. God accept them;
Christ receive them. 1t is our duty, it is
our business to perpetua ce their memories
1t is our duty-it is our duty to preserve
and to improve and strengthen and glorify
the ma gnificent institutions for which
they fought and for which they gave their
lives.
Il thank you ladies and gentlemen for
this moment that you have given to me to
pay my respects to that noble army of
volunteers, the sacrifical giants who threw
darkness asunder and thus insured our
national existence"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-25
GoLD-MINING IN THE SOUTH.
SuIphuretted Ores Made Profitable by
the Colonization Process.
NashvlIle Letter i'm New York Post.

Many men are quietly prospecting for and
mining gold in the Appalachian mountains
in Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, North
Carolina and Virginia. The old gold belt of
the South extends from Virginia southwest
to Alabama, a distance OF five hundred
miles, with a width CT fifty miles. The
metal is almost pure gold, running from 80
to So per cent Nuggets Of 400 pennyweight,
worth nearly dollar II heavyweight, have
been frequently found. The ores of this
belt carry silver in amounts from three to
twenty ounces to the ton, and in some dis
tricts the silver will pay the expense of
mining. The gold belt usually includes four
veins running practically parallel, and
varying in width from two TO twenty feet.
There are true t1SSure veins in PO!k county
Tennessee, and in Georgia.
Two reasons are assigned for the decline
of mining in the South before the war. The
California fever drew thousands of miners
from Georgia 10 the West and the best
skill was drawn away. Then the difficulty
found in treating the sulphuretted ores
handicapped the miners for years, and IL
was not until the chloiination process was
developed cheaply that deep mining could
be Pre- secuted with profit In the South
there IS no such thing as stalking a claim
hence prospecting and developing are very
different from what they are in the West
The mineral rights must be leased or
bought before mining can be carried on In
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ada, and to solicit their redress and, sec
ondly, large number of files of contem-
porary newspapers, printed and written
documents CT all SORTS. and some very
ancient letters, all bearing on the subject
of the petition, and all Of the greatest MIS-
toric interest
The most curious thing about this petit
ton is that it is the very one that was
presented to George " by a commission
composed of Surgeon Nelson's grand
father, the late John Nelson, and Messrs.
Austin Cuvillier and D. b. Viger. How it
got back to Canada and came to be so
completely lost sight OF is an enigma. 1t
consists of squares of parchment, thirty by
twentysix inches. strung together with
silver cord, and bears the autograph sig
natures Of $1,000 male property holders or
tenants Of the province. headed by Nalliere
de St Paul, George Forsyth, etc. The mon
ster roll, which exceeds one hundred yards
in length, is in a perfect state of preserva-
ton. Among the letters is some curious
correspondence relative to visit OF four
in 1921
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-25

commissioner Sweeney Believes In
Protecting the Fish.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind, Aug. 24.-Rev. z. T.
Sweeney, state fish commissioner, was in
Muncie to-day in consultation with ex-
State Senator Ozro N. Cranor. making pre-
liminary steps to take action against manu-
facturers who are polluting streams in this
part of the State with refuse from the fac
tories. The Albany strawboard works, the
refuse from which, it is alleged, has nearly
depopulated the MiSsissinewa river of fish
is said to be the chief offender Mr.. Cranor
who has been appointed deputy commits
s1oner for Delaware and Madison counties
says he made tour of inspection last
week, and found wagonloads of fish form
ing cams in places across the river. He
says. that only the carp and catfish can
survive in the poisoned water The inspec-
tors propose TO force the manufacturers to
dig big reservoirs, and while one of them is
being filled with the refuse the other can
be evaporating until it dries out The res
1due makes a fine fertilizer Commissioner
sweeney proposes to make a strong fight
and determine whether MississineWa and
White rivers are simply sewers, and if so
he VIII recommend that they be improved
accordingly TO protect residents near the
streams from the stencil
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-25
FEATURES OF THE DAY.
Parade of Veterans and Meetings of
NariOus OrEnnizafinns

The feature of this morning was the sec
ond parade of the celebration, and the first
in which Grand Army men took part. The
Naval Veterans Association and the ex-
Prisoners of War Association together
with the survivors of Erie county regi-
ments and other organizations composed
the Grand Army contingent of the parade
The naval veterans from the naval service
made a splendid appearance AS they
marched through the streets the crowd
cheered them to the echo The ex-prisoners
OF war. from the rank and file of the G. A.
r., wore the uniforms of their respective
posts, and on each coat was fastened a
badge bearing the name of the prison in
which the wearer had been confined AS
the names of Andersonville. Libbey, Sails
bury, Belle Isle, Florence, Castle Thunder
and other places of historic horror were
read the cheers became deafening.
Rear Admiral Sears called the twelfth
annual convention Of the National Associa-
ton Of Naval Veterans to order this after
noon. About 500 delegates were in attend
ance Dan f. Keelley, of Philadelphia,
was elected rear admiral for the ensuing
year over VIII Z. Atkinson by vote of 81
to Is. a resolution was adopted urging the
secretary of the navy to accept the plans
OF Baer q Webb, OF New York, for statue
of the late Rear Admiral David Porter, to
be erected in Philadelphia or Washington
The committee on resolutions reported
against the removal of gold stripes from
the uniforms of the naval veterans. After
a fierce fight the matter was unanimously
laid on the table for a year. A resolution
approving the project of the late Gen
William i. HaZcn to establish a sanatorium
on Castle Pickney island in Charleston, s.
c. harbOr was unanimously adopted. An
other fight arose over the report of the
committee on the revision Of the constitu-
tuition regarding Glasses ? and 3. which
consist of sons, grandsons and associates
of the veterans. so that these might be ex-
PEELED from the national association. A
lengthy and somewhat animated discussion
ended in tabling the report
The National Association OF Army Nurses
met to-day. With the national president.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-25

for higher prices. In the early afte-n6 on
selling was sharply arrested Ey taik OF
heavy export purchases, induced by the dip
in prices. The news was followed by quick
rise of i cent, after which values again
yielded TO the pressure of long wheat,
which continued more or less freely all the
afternoon Spring wheat reports we're off
set by reported enlarged offerings of new
wheat in the Southwest. The market closed
unsettled at 59snBltc net decline. Sales for
the day reached nearly 100000 bushels,
giving some idea Of the enormous dumping
OF long wheat Some of the after1oon re-
ports made export purchases upwards Of
% loads at New York and out-ports, hut
this could not all be confirmed. the range
on Septeni Der wheat was from 91ia cents
TO Sl6l closing at 97%4c. December scld
from 95i5c to Sl.0l3s and closed at 9t34c. no.
] northern Now York was nominally worth
Fl G-St and M red 81 923t
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-25
THE PRESIDENTS PARTY.
Incidents Of the Trip from Lake
ChnmpInin-Speech at Syracuse.

Chnmplain-Speech at Syracuse.
BUFFALO, Aug. A-President Mckinley
arrived here this afternoon, accompanied
by Governor Black and Secretary of War
Alger. The trip from Lake Champlain to
Albany. under the charge of the Delaware
& Hudson officials, was uneventful. At
Troy a car with Governor Black and his
party was attached to the special train.
Depew's car, which was occupied by the
presidential party, was beautifully adorned
with cut flowers. Breakfast was served as
the train passed Little Falls, and later
Governor Black and President Mckinley
met and had a chat. At Syracuse about a
thousand people were gathered at the de-
pot. In response to demand for a speech,
the President said:
My Fellow-citizens-I am extremely
pleased TO visit your city and appreciate
your generous welcome This is IA year
when, in very marked degree, patriotism is
being exalted and patriots are being hon.
ored. In the month of April. in the city
of New York, the people Of the great me-
tlopolis dedicated magnificent mausoleum
to that greatest of all great soldiers of the
civil war-U. S. Grant. In May following,
in the city of Philadelphia. there was un-
yelled splendid equestrian statue to that
greatest soldier Of the revolution-Gen.
George Washington; and only few days
ago, IN tnat gTeat lhIanu hletroRons IN lne
State of Illinois there was unveiled mag
nifcent monument to that great soldier, the
hero of two wars-Cen. John A. Logan.
This week the Empire State of New York
is laying at the feet of the largest patriotic
organization in the world its tribute of af-
lection FOR the splendid services rendered
IN the civil war by the Grand Army OF the
Republic. We cannot eXalt patriotism too
high; we cannot encourage too much love
of country, for, my fellOw-citizens, as long
as patriotism exists in the hearts of the
American people so long will our matchless
institutions be secure and permanent. I
thank you for your most cordial greeting,
and bid you good morning"
There was great applause at the conclu-
sion of the speech and at intervals during
it. Secretary of War Alger and Governor
Black spoke briefly.