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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-08
A GOOD IDEA.
A Hedge Fence For the County Poor
Farm.

A Hedge Fence For the County Poor
Farm.
The county board will meet tomor-
row and E. r. Graham, representing
the Minnesota Hedge & Wire Fence
Co., and J. A. Bates, who has entered
the employ of the company, will ap-
pear before the board for the purpose
of interesting it in placing combina-
tion hedge and wire fence around or
in front of the county poor farm. The
FREE PRESS has investigated the COM
pany and the fence which it is con-
structing, and feels that it can recon-
mend both to the commissioners.
Several of our citizens have placed
orders for the fence, to be started in
the spring. There is no doubt that
this fence is the cheapest in the long
run, and it is absolutely cattle proof,
besides being beautiful to the eye. 1t
has been largely used in some portions
of the country, and its popularity in
Minnesota will only be matter or
few years, when the fences that are
now about to be started come to their
maturity.
The fence will last for generations,
and while it will resist all kinds of
stock, it does not iujure them. If one
of these fences was 10 be used at the
poor farm, it would be d good obj
lesson, and without doubt large num-
her of farmers who will see it's ad
vantages will place orders for the
fence for their own farms.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-08

THE Paris Figaro looks upon the
Monroe Doctrine as absurd. That is
all from the point of view maintained.
From this side of the water it looks
different.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-08

On Monday next, Jan, 18th, the
presidential electors will meet at the
capital, of their various states and cast
their votes for president. There will
be no anxiety expressed in getting re-
turns of the result, however.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-08

Had Mr.. Bryan been elected the gold stand.
ard men would have pointed to the recent bank
failures and split their throats shouting: 81
told you so."-Adrian Democrat.
Had Mr.. Bryan been elected the re-
cent bank failures would have been
but drop in the bucket to what
would have happened.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-08

STEPHEN CRANE, the novelist, is
said to have gone to Cuba to join the
insurgents. 1t is thought his poetry
will be sure death to the Spanish.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-08
ONW AY IN PRISON.
One of WaIraven's Alleged rlurderers
Said to Be lncarcerated.

Said to Be incarcerated.
While holding court at Fairmont,
Judge Severance was Informed that
VIM. Conway is serving term in an
Iowa prison for homicide. Conway is
the man who was tried for the murder
of Harry Walraven, and who was
ACC uitted. While the evidence against
him was mostly circumstantial and
not very convincing, it was and still is
the popular belief that he was one OF
the parties who caused Mr.. Walraven's
death. After his release, he went to
Iowa.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-08
NEW TINE
St. Paul and
Minneapolis
to the
Pacific Coast.
Great Northern
RAILWAY.

The Overland Train now leaves ST..
Paul, l p ~, Minneapolis. 1 :35 p. M,
daily, after the arrival of trains on
Chicago and Southern lines. This
change in time enables passengers
from the East To continue their
Journey without waiting.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-08

WILLIAM e. GLADSTONE celebrated
his 97th birthday yesterday, He is
truly a grand old man.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-08
CLOSED.
The Germania Bank, of st. Paul, flakes
an Assignment.

Special to DAILY FREE PRESS.
ST.. PAUL, Jan. 4.-The Germania
State bank closed this morning to
protect depositors. 1t made assign
ment to Peter Kersh. There is not
much excitement over it's closing, and
tits believed the bank is in good shape.
1t stood a big run in 1893.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-08

IT is estimated that the United
States will export 10000 900 barrels of
apples to Europe this season.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-08
TAX RATE FOR 1896.


mills dollar valuation
P. A. GUNDERS. Auditor
Mankao linn 2
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-08

HERON LAKE spent S43, 900 in build
ing improvements for the year 1896.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-08
THU new TARIFF BILL
Hearings of the Ways and
Means Committee.
REPUBLICAN IDEA OF PROTECTION,

Suggestions of Manufacturers Accepted by
the Committee-The Democratic Idea
of Tariff-Prediction as to the Issue
of the Next Presidential Campaign.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-25

communicate with the outside world
is big mistake, however. Circle City,
only few miles away, has mail once
each month, and there we have our mail
adore sSed. 1t is true, the cost is pretty
high-a dollar letter and two dollars
for paper-yet by that expenditure of
money we are able TO keep in direct COM
municatop with our friends on the out
side. In the way of public institutions.
our camp is at present without any, but
by the next season we will have a
church, music hall, schoolhouse and
hospital. This last institution will be
under the direct control of tae Sisters
of Mercy, who have already been sta
toned for long time al Circle City and
Forty mile Camp.
CIVILIZATION AT DAWSON
Just before leaving for San Francisco
donated 500 ard lot on which will be
built library, for, strange as it may
SEEM, there are already nearly a score
of children playing in the streets of our
city, and we feel that naturalization
must not be neglected. BY next fall we
will have a church also and a minister
to occupy it. AT Circle City are a
number of priests and Church of Eng
land clergymen. The diocese at that
place is in charge of Bishop Bumpus,
who, although so years of age, Isl still
actively engaged in his chosen work.
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OMNC AND FASCINATING STORY OF THE RICH CLONDYKE REGION

( bred but even that makes it ,considera-
bly, cheaper than the same goods could
be purchased in the mining camp. 1 I'M
derstand that the commercial company
has decided to carry freight for travel
ers next season. If this is true, the cost
to the prospector will be materially les
sened. On the trip from Juneau the In
dams are employed in the heavy work.
They are paid from to % cents pound,
but the average is Is cents, as already
stated 1 think it we'll to state that the
credit system has been entirely done away
with in Dawson. No one can make
purchase of any kind without the neces-
sary cash in the shape of dust. OF course
it must not be understoodithat we would
let a man starve, but, on the other hand,
no one must expect to be supported by
the generosity of the people. We are all
hard workers up there, and if any man
will work he can always make living.
1.-The impression seems to prevail that
the mines are close to Dawson City.
That is a mistake. The rich creeks are
fifteen miles off, and it is days journey
to reach them. The camp there is as
pretty place as one desires to see The
white tents and huts of the miners are
scattered along the banks of the creeks
or built on the mountain sides, as conye-
nience or fancy dictated.
THE nearest paper we have is the Yu-
kon Press, published at Fort Adams, a
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-25
THOUGHT HE WAS A HERO
Dilemma of Man Who Held Burst
Bathtub Together

One of the most ridiculous situations
which at the time bring the coolest
sweat out on a mans brow, and ever
after remain with him as a constant
source of mirth, occurred to a Shelton
merchant few days ago. He thought
he would take a bath, and as his flat is
minus one of the chief requisites for the
JOD - bath tub - he extemporized
one out of a small washtub and enjoyed
cooling ablution.
He had just concluded and stepped
from the tub for the towel, when, sudden
ly the top hoop Of the tub burst with
sharp report, and the man saw to his
horror that the whole contents of the
tub would soon be flooding the floor.
AT the same moment he thought of the
floor beneath and the amount of dam
age the water would do as it ran down
through the ceiling. He is man
of quick thought, and in a moment
he did the only thing possible, threw
himself down beside the tub, and,
casping his arms around it, held the
already fast swelling slaves together
He was successful in keeping the water
in-but what situation. He dared
not yell, for he was hardly In condi-
ton to receive callers, especial as he
knew that all in the block at the time
were of the geDtler sex, and, he realized
at once that the only thing left for him
was to stay in that position until the re-
turn Of his wife, who was out on a shop
ping expedition.
Like the boy who saved Holland, he
manfully remained in his most uncom-
Portable position until relief in the shape
of his wife appeared. Then, to cap the
climax, when he asked her to get
rope or any old thing to tie about this
tub, she, after a long fit of uncontrolla-
BILE laughter, asked him why he didn't
carry the tub and contents out to the
sink room and pour out the water With
a look that froze the smile on her face
he did as she said, and without word
donned his clothes and wandered out
into the cold, unfeeling world, crushed
and Inundated man.-Ansonia, Conn
Sentinel.
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ton whether it can get in. There are now
ABOUT 5000 men at Dawson.
There is only one way to go and that
is overland. By steamer it is $3.50 from
mere TO Dawson, but for that amount
you can BUY at Juneau complete outfit
Tor over a year. The steamers won't
carry grub, because the companies own
all the stores on the river and you are
supposed to buy from them If you go
by water you would take big chances of
getting grub when you reached Dawson.
The claim can be reached in about TWEEN
ty-one days from Juneau; a month
would be easy travelling.
Il would advise anybody going I'D
there to take his own dogs with him.
Dogs are worth their weight in gold. A
good one will bring all the way from $3.50
to- 5000. Any big, long haired dog will
do; he can be broken to work in two
days. The overland trip is the best be-
cause it is the cheapest and it will hard
en- up a Notwithstanding he will
need. 1t takes hard work up north to
make money. Fortunes are not picked
up for the asking"
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B. F. PURCELL
Says Food Will Be Scarce This Winter
in Dawson Citv

B. f. Purcell started last week for his
home in Missouri with a draft for S35, 600.
He was one of the lucky ones at Dawson.
and his main anxiety now is to see his
| home and then return to the land of gold.
Mr.. Purcell is man past the middle
age, but his gray hair and whtened
beard do not detract from his physical
vigor. This is the story of his exper-
ience:
81 went into Dawson on January list
last. I had mined before, but this was
my first experience in that country. 1
had claim 2S above Discovery, on b.
nanza creek, but sold out for S21 900.
That was dirt cheap, too, but was sick
with scurvy and was tired out I had
done very little work on the claim, but
1 know it was good one. I now own
ground on Bear creek, but do not in
tend to tell anyone where it is or what it
panned out.
1.-The country is very rich and many
men have made big fortunes there. My
advice to intending prospectors would
be not to go in this winter. The steam
ship companies can't get enough grub in
there to feed the people. There are four
boats on the river, two owned by each
company-the Alaska Commercial COM
pany and the North American Trading
and Navigation company. The latter is
building another boat, but it is ques-
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He Had a Glass Eye

Several victims of an accident were
taken to the hospital one day last week.
Two of them were thought to be serious
ly hurt. A man, who may be called
Smith, was badly cut and bruised and
internal injuries were feared. He had a
bad heart and had not regained con-
seriousness when the ambulance reached
the hospital. An inferno felt his pulse,
and carefully pushing back the lid of
one of the eyes, gazed earnestly at it.
Poor fellow, there's no hope for him"
he announced THE pupil of his eye is
greatly dilated and that's a sure sign
where there is heart trouble"
A little later one of Smiths friends
called at the hospital and inquired about
him. The young physician repeated
what he had said before, explaining the
method by which he arrived at his con-
clusion.
(which eye was it you looked at?"
queried the friend.
"The right eye"
well, there's a popularity about
Smiths right eye"
''That so? What is it?" inquired the
young doctor with scientific interest.
Its a glass eye" said Smiths friend,
and the next day Smith was discharged
from the Observation-Disclosures Enquirer.
Latest style of wall paper at A. A. Eek.
strom's. 1924 South Spring street.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-25

high, but is the only opening in a noun
tain range whose peaks reach an aver
age altitude Of 10000 feet. The snow
storms at the pass are sudden and furi-
Gus, and many lives have been lost
there. People who have been caught
have saved themselves by crawling I'M
der some overhanging rock, where they
were forced to remain two or three
days without food.
THE distance has been done in less
than month, but for a tenderfoot it is
well to count upon one month at least
The wisest thing to do is to initiate the
Indians in dress and habits. They know
how to live and stand the cold. 1t is
useless to wear leather or gum boots.
Good moccasins are proper snow shoes
and absolutely necessary I have made
the trip myself, and I would not go with
out good guide and strong, healthy dogs,
with plenty of feed for them.
THE only dangerous point is the cross
ing of the summit. When 1 went over
the moon was shining and there was not
breath of air, but sometimes the winds
are dreadful, and it is as much as a
mans life is worth to try to cross. |
never heard of man losing his life
there, but l have known them to lie in
their blankets under the snow trying to
keep warm, and have their feet badly
frost bitten. Sometimes those who want
to cross the summit have to wait so long
for fair weather that they run out of
provisions and must turn back, but
when the ice first sets early in the spring,
it is usually safe enough to cross Once
over the summit, which does not take
more than few hours to cross, it is
easy going either way.
All the rest of the journey is pleasant
enough. From the Clondyke to Lake
Linderman is all down hill, and the
colder it is the better the travelling. be-
cause the snow is not more than eighteen
inches to two feet deep, and is as light as
feathers; Furthermore, when it's very
cold there is no wind and it is the wind
which is hard to bear.
Indian guides are necessary to go
ahead of the dogs and to prepare the
camp for the night"
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THE FIRST DISCOVERIES
Down to the Location Of the Bonanza
Richest of All

Here is the record OF the new camn
concisely cut down by Arthur Perry. Of
Dawson City:
The first discovery of gold on the Clon
dyke was made the middle of August
1896, by George Cormack, on a creek emp
tying into the Clondyke from the south.
called by the Indians Bonanza. He found
$1,000 to the pan on high rim, and after
making the find know at Forty Mile went
back with two Indians and took out s14OO
in three weeks with three, sluice boxes.
The creek was soon staked out from
one end to the other, and all the small
gulches were srtaked and recorded. About
September 10th a man by the name, of
Whipple prospected a creek emptyinG
into the Bonanza on No above Discov-
cry, and named it Whipple creek. He
shortly afterward sold out and the min
ers renamed it Ell Dorado.
Prospects as high as 81 to the pan were
found early in, the fall Many of the old
miners from Forty Mile went there and
would not stake, saying the willows did
not lean the right way andthe water did
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Where 1t Is How to Get There, What Preparations
Should Be Made

| We have had preaching once in Daw-
son City, minister from one of the
lower towns addressing us from the
banks of the river.
"As has been stated time and again.
the cost of provisions in Dawson City is
four or five times higher than in the
most civilized sections. For instance
l will give you an idea of this by telling
you what the breakfast or dinner costs
at the only chophouse in our town. The
menu consists principally of two Or
three little, thin slips of bacon and a
bowl of beans for which you must pay
the sum of $3.50. We were lucky last
year to get even bacon and beans ard if
the restaurant keeper had charged S.
meal it would have been paid gladly by
many The ordinary price of bacon
alone is rs cents a pound, while eggs
last fall sold for So dozen.
COST AND PROVISIONS
"a great deal has been said about the
cost of getting from Juneau to Dawson
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JOAQUIN MILLER
The Poet of the Sierras Will Work at
ClondYke as a Miner

Never since 40 has gold arrived in
tons, and this arrival of gold in tons is
going to tear down the bastile, which
means gold tied up in stockings and
buried in teapots. Within forty days
there will be a change'in the condition of
affairs greater than we ever knew"
Thus spoke Joaquin Miller, the pros
pector, miner, farmer, author, lecturer
ana poet, last night, says the Examiner
| L rather enjoy the prospect of this
trip of adventure, experience and infor-
nation he continued. II am taking it
with many ideas in view, one of which is
to show what man of my age can do
My tickets lead me to Dawson, the CEN
ter of the present excitement That is
only about 5000 miles from here. 1 shall
come back, God willing.
Il believe we are in the heart of the
most tumultuous movement we have had
since '49. I am going to the mines be-
cause l glory in the going. I will str.C
the head of the great gold river, the
Yukon. / expect footage and portage
of perhaps thousand miles. Where is
e. Payson Weston, the great walker who
walked all the distance from Portland
to Chicago? Where is Greer Harrison?
1 expect to walk all the distance after |
leave the steamer. He who puts on
armor should not boast with him who
putteth it off,
What am I going to do there? Pm
going to work. I'm a miner If a man
OF my age can go into the heart CT the
mining country, there are many young
men who may do the same thing, and
thus leave the congested districts of the
United States.
I'm the meantime, exult that Ameri-
cans, after the leadership of California
and other new states of the north. have
been the men who widened out the other
fifth of the United States into the Brit
ish possessions.
Il will carry with me some sausage
made at Mazatlan. 1t is rather hot 1t
is very hot. 1t dries up, and when you
put it in water it increases in size. I'm
going to live on that. I'm not going to
starve. On my way l shall speak at
Ashland at Oregon City, at the Chau-
tauqua, Olympia, and perhaps on ship
board. I believe man can get clothes
anywhere, and food too. I've been in
Persia, when the shah wanted me to
take a retinue, and 1 didn't have a gun
I'm going without pistol or a popgun
Wherever the heart of humanity isTto
be found it will be found to be fair, and
you will get all you want. 1 shall say
that the people of Dawson are as white
as the people of Washington, and prob
ably more civilized.
1T will take me six months to reach
my destination. There are 600 miles of
portage from Juneau. That is as far as
it is to San Diego. / am to see the
greatest mines in the world-the great
est, perhaps, that have ever been in the
world"
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City, but nothing has yet been said OF
the cost and the provisions that one
should take with him. I have made the
trip and have gone through all the hard
ships incident to venture of that kind,
and / know what l am talking about
when 1 say that no one should venture
into that region without some cash and
a sufficient supply of provisions to last
eight months. One should buy these
things in Juneau, and he should start out
with something like the following: Four
hundred pounds of flour, 100 pounds of
beans, 100 pounds of bacon, 100 pounds
of sugar, 10 pounds of tea, thirty pounds
of coffee, $50 pounds of mixed fruit, salt.
pepper and cooking utensils. The whole
outfit can be purchased we'll within $50.
The cost of conveying this stock Of pro-
visions to the headwaters of Lake Lin
derman will average about SIS per hun
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Dawson City, the Metropolis That Rose Like Magic,
Almost in Day

ture, it being wide and fiat.
Both creeks were staked, principally
by "Chee Chacoes'' (new men in the
country, and as early as they could get
provisions about $50 went there and COM
menced prospecting by sinking holes to
the depth of from nine to twenty feet,
doing to by burning down, as the ground
was frozen SOLID to bedrock,
On November 23d Louis Rhodes To-
Gated on No. q above Bonanza, and got
as high as $3.50 to the pan. This was
the first big pan OF any Importance, but
nobody would believe it. Soon after
large pans were found on both Bonanza
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and Ell Dorado and each creek was try
ing to outrival the other.
This is probably the richest placer
ever known in the world. They took it
out so fast and SO much of it that they
did not have time TO weigh it with gold
scales. The took steelyards and all the
syrup cans were filled.
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instances the supply is all exhausted
before the mail reaches us.
CITY lots are now selling at from $500
to $4,000, the average price for twenty
five foot lot being $780,
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AT DAWSON CITY
Life in the Metropolis Of the Clon.
dyke Region

Captain Ladue, the founder of Daw-
son City, is full of interesting reminis-
censes and general information. He
says:
Many people have an idea that Daw-
son City is completely isolated, and car
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-25
Thrilling Stories From the Lips of the Returning
Millionaire Miners of the North

together, forming the Yukon. From
that point on it is practically smooth
sailing, though the stranger must be
exceedingly careful.
DANGEROUS
1.-THE most dangerous part of the trip
is that crossing Chilkoot pass. Even as
late as May and June snow storms &C.
cur, and woe to the traveller who is
caught. Chilkoot pass is itself $500 feet
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Latest style of wall paper at A. A. Eek
stroms. 1924 South Spring street.
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Dawson City is more favorably 10.
Gated than her former rivals. Forty
mile and Circle City the diggings from
these places being respectively seventy
and fifty miles. From the new mining
center the gold fields are only fifteen
miles distant, which can be covered in
q days journey when the weather is
good