Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-07-30


gold-seekers in the far north there is q
fair sprinkling of rich mems sons
The main difference between the outfit
OF the child of fortune and his plebe.
ian brother is that his pack is larger
and is carried on other mems shout.
ders.
A firm in Portland is engaged in
" collapsible" boats for use in
the new colorado. They can be taken
to pieces by removing a few screws
and converted into sleds, carts, rockers,
etc. Verify, necessity is the mother
of invention. These boats weigh 300
pounds and cost $40.
For thorough manifestation of su.
preme selfishness, for true exhibit OF
" devil take the hindmost" disposition,
take mining camp just after a new
discovery has been made. The scram-
BILE resembles that of street gamins
after q handful of nickels have been
thrown upon the ground.
Seattle figures up that, within four
teen days, passage had been taken by
$50 men for the new mines. Some
had taken outfits costing from $1,000
to $1,000, others those costing as lit
tie as $500. An average of $500 would
indicate that 1926, 900 had been spent
in that city for outfits in that time.
AS might have been expected, the
good Sisters of Charity have already
hospital at Circle City,
in the new mining district. Wher-
ever suffering and disaster appears,
this angelic sisterhood forces its way
armed with the weapons of Mercy
and Love, to minister to the wants OF
frail humanity.
A returned Klondite the other day
created n sensation among the Endeav-
ors at Tacoma. He stepped aboard a
where about score of the
visitors were seated and passed a mug
get valued at from So to $40 to each of
them. Such an exhibition Of liberality
had never before been encountered in
their walk of life.
The United States by late act
Of Congress provided for establishment
Of land Office at Sitka. Roswell Skully
has been named for Receiver and John
W. Dudley for Register. The new land
office will be opened at Sitka. 1t is
thought that second Office will be
opened at Circle City, in the spring, if
the mining interest continues.
The "gate prize" at a big clambake
and evening festival, to be given in a
Portland park, Sunday, by the Elks,
the butchers, the grocers and the
bakers, is a ticket to Klondyke. 1t is
a pity that a more euphonious name
for that district had not happened to
bob up, if it is to be served up at every
meal and in every course of the pop
ular menu.
A party of 200 gold prospectors has
been organized in Chicago, who tele-
graphed Seattle as to whether they
could be supplied with outfits and
charter q steamer in that city to carry
them north. The reply was that the
goods could be furnished but no
steamer was available for charter, so
it is expected that the party will out
fit in San Francisco.
Dawson City price-lists read some
what thusly: Overalls, $3.50 to $3.50;
short coats, IS; trousers, Sc; socks, 81 !;
leather shoes, S.; gum boots $12;
$3.50 to $3.50; shirts S..
Bacon sells for 35c per pound; flour
Sc per sack of 80 pounds; beans 124c
per pound; coffee SOC and tea $3.50
per pound. Miners pans cost $3.50;
picks, 81 and shovels $3.50 each.
The Canadian government at a
cabinet meeting, held at Ottawa, on
the 9th, decided that it had been de-
termined in future to reserve every
alternate claim for the government;
to impose a royalty on all placer dig
gings on the Yukon, in addition to
the SIS registration fee and 500 an
nual assessment, ten per cent. on
claims with an output of $500 or
less mon thly and 20 per cent. ON those
yielding more than that amount.
A gambler named Anthony Nash, of
Port Townsend, paid the owners of the
steamer Portland the sum of 5000
for the privilege of plying his shady
vocation on that ship for one round
trip to St. Michaels and return. As
the Portland on her return will prob
ably bring down about $4,000, 900, it is
not regarded as bad transaction by
knights of the green cloth. easy
comes, easy goes" finds universal ex-
A special train of $50 gold-seekers
leaves Chicago tomorrow for San
Francisco en- route for Klondyke.
They expect to charter a steamer to
take them to st. Michaels. They will
take a couple of launches which, if
they are too late to ascend the river,
will be moored in winter quarters till
the river opens, and used as homes till