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The San Francisco call., 1897-07-20

Government map. 1t shows range of
mountains from 1000 to $4,000 feet high.
Out of these run the Pelly, Klondyke and
other rivers. All of them will no doubt
furnish rich placer diggings. And then
think of the illimitable auriferous rock in
these mountains. California has fur
nished 81 600. .000,0 600 of gold-more than
half from her quartz-and to-day, after
fifty years of delving and mining, she
produces more gold than any other region
in the world. Where will these $4,000
Alaska argonauts be supplied from? Un-
doubtedly Portland ought to do it, and
she will. We are very deliberate, as I
said, but we get there. What will they
require? Well, at least 100000 barrels of
flour and an equal weight of meats and
groceries. We have the transportation here
to do it with. The Oregon Railway and
Navigation Company has four steamers in
the San Francisco trade. They have been
running with a beggarly array of empty
berths until the recent reduction to carry
ing people for next to nothing. They
could put two of them on and put on the
Yukon their river steamers, which l am
told have been doing charity work for ten
wears"
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pound, and at times it is impossible to
get 1t at any price. At an eating house
(it coulo hardly be digniied by the name
of restauran) two fried eggs generally
cost S., and a square meal would cost
more than days wages"
Charles Brannan owns claim 80 on
Bonanza Greek, said to be one OF the best.
paying properties in that particular dis
trict. The patriarch of the party, B. +.
Purcell, who is also one of the most en-
thusiastic, says that there is hardly foot
OF ground in either the E Dorado or
Bonanza Creek districts which does not
carry gold in paying quantities, aud that
for 300 miles which has been prospected II
IS the richest country in the world. 81
do not believe it would be possible TO ex.
aggerate the wealth TO be found there"
said he, "and the future will add to
rather than detract from the marvellous
stories already brought from there
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-20

Gold In Washington.
TACOMA, WASH, July 19.-Gold has
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PORTLAND's OPPORTUNITY.
Oregon's Metropolis May Supply
the $4,000 Who VIII Rush to
the North,

PORTLAND, Or, July 19.-Hon. ]. B.
Mon tgomery, the millionaire landowner,
to-day handed The CALL correspondent
the appended excerpt from letter from
his son Russell on The Klondyke district:
"Here is the golden opportunity for
Portland. Our city is staid, steady and
little slow, but we get there all the same
l have no doubt at all that 90, 600 men will
rush into Alaska in the next twelve
months. 1t will not be alone from Ore
gon, California and Washington, but from
every State in the Union. Remember the
rush to California in 1885, Why, this will
beat it out of sight. The argonauts had
to sail around the horn and across the
plains. 1t took six months. Now they
can cross the continent in less than
week and for quarter of the sum. The
gold placers of the Yukon appear to be
tenfold richer than those on the American
River.
~ have been examining a United States
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Brown, who was hanged at Harpers
Ferry" was the quiet answer.
"Great Scottp' exclaimed Gum, "you
grandson of old John Brown?"
The little insurance agent was speech
less.
0. J. Anderson, writing from Dawson
City to his brother, G. A. Anderson, says:
Il left Circle City in March and came
up here. 1t is a mistake that you are not
here as the times are good and there is
plenty of gold. There is going TO be lots of
work this summer and next winter. 1 am
making lots of money and will have good
sack when l come out. Albert has cleaned
up SO, 600 in the last two years and has an
interest in mine that he would not sell
for $50, 600. He will be cut soon and will
take trip to the old country. When /
came up here L left six months outfit at
the Circle City mines. | am now making
$40 10 $50 day so cannot afford to go back
Tor a little thing like that. This is the
richest country l ever saw. They are
packing the gold dust around, not in their
pockets, but on their backs. There are a
good many that have made $50 900 apiece
since last fall"
Joseph A. Costello. a we'll known news
paper man, has resigned his position with
the Seattle Times and will leave Sunday
for the KIondyke, accompanied by Mr..
Branson and Samuel Archer, also of the
same paper.
The late Alaska papers announce that
Robert lnsley, proprietor of the Juneau
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been found on Section SO, between Gig
Harbor and Henderson Bay. George
Barnaby struck a handful of small nuggets
on Saturday afternoon while working on
the road. and dozen placer claims have
been staked out. The school section is a
mile from Gig Harbor and two miles from
Purdv on the Gig Harbor and Springfield
road. Several Tacoma and Gig Harbor
men who are investigating believe there is
paying geld on the section, and will COM
mence sluIcing at once. The find has
diverted some OF the excitement over the
Klondyke. Others claim it is an attempt
to secure valuable school lands through
the med ium of mineral filings.
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nan and ]. j. Halterman. The stories
they tell of the fabulous wealth of the dis
trict they have recently left bear out the
reports which have been coming in for the
past week. They are of the party which
came down on the stea amer Portland and
are the advance guard of twenty-fiv or
thirty OF their comrades who are expected
here to-day.
Myers, who seems to be the leader of the
party, is practical miner of long expert
ence, and says he left Prescott, Ariz., in
the spring of 1896, and has been worrying
claim 80 on El Dorado Creek, owned by
Mcdonald u Chappie, for half the profits.
They started in late in the spring, after
nearly every one had quit work, and were
laughed at by the miners for so doing.
The day after CONNIE ncing work they
struck bedrock. and in the next thirty
three days took out SAL 900.
Mr.. Myers says he believes he took from
this claim the biggest pan ever washed in
the district. From a shovel half full of
dirt he got $500. AS illustrating the value
of the claim and the richness of the dirt
he also says that his partner and himself
in six hours shoveling Cleaned up" three
times, and in each 'clean up" got $4,000.
Myers owns claim 81 above Discovery, on
Bonanza Creek, which be intends to work
next season.
Another member of the party, j. O.
Clements, is said to have disposed of a
claim for $4,000, and has in the safe OF
the Golden West Hotel nugget valued at
1921. The nugget seems to be about half
pure gold, and is very rich specimen.
Charles Leonard has been three years in
Alaska, one of which has been spent in
the Klondyke country. In three and a
half months actual work he says he took
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Going From New York.

NEW YORK, N. Y, July 19.-H. W.
Lemplugh to-day advertised for men to
invest $1,000 each in a company to go to
Klondyke. Afterward he explained his
idea was: "To get five or six young
fellows to form theHselv into an in
corporated company. Then we will go
there by way of Seattle, Sltka Island and
st. Michaels and up the Yukon and
straight up to Klonkyke. There each
man would work claim, and make all
the money he could" He said thirty-two
satisfactory replies had been received to
the advert isement and that the party may
start in few days.
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Opera house, recently married Miss
Blanche Lamont, San Francisco vaude-
vile performer. and that the people pro-
ceeded at once on we'd ling tour involv-
ing trip to the Klondyke.
While the Alaskan placers are all the
talk. Captain Mein of the London Ex-
ploration Company would have it under
stood that there is also a little quartz
around Juneau, and he is quoted by a
paper of that town as saying: "There are
1000 900 tons of ore in sight at the Paris
or TreadwelI mine on Douglass Island"
This would run a 50Ostamp mill for
eleven wears"
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GOING FROM BERKELEY.
Party of Ten Men Being Organized
at the College Town for
Klondyke

BERKELEY, CAL. July ia party of
ten men is being organized in the uni
verslty town to go into the Klondyke
gold fields.
Hansford Griffith, a graduate of the
University of Virginia and at present a
student at Berkeley. is at the head of the
cheme.
He proposes that each of the party of
ten put up $500 to defray the expense of
reaching the gold fields and purchasing a
years provisions and QUILTING. They
will go by way of juneau and will leave
as soon as the party is complete and
transportation can be secured.
1t is proposed that the party remain in
Alaska for at least two years. Those who
are strongly considering the proposition
made by Griffith are ]. G. Berry of the
tailoring firm of Mikkelsen & Berry,
Charles Graham and A. B. Quackenbush !,
all OF whom are well known in business.
All of those mentioned are young men
and are accustomed to roughing it. Two
of them will leave wives and families.
IL. I. Gilbert, an account of whose pro-
posed trip to the Yukon was published in
late issue of THE CALL. will leave to-
morrow on the Walla Walla for the Tres
we'll mine.
Football Captain Haskell of the Uni
yersity of California eleven and Theodore
Barnes, one OF the university's crack
sprinters, are in Alaska at the present
time. They went up early in the vacation
for pleasure and to work if they found
nything suitable. An intimate student
friend of the young men remarked to-day
that he believed Haskell and Barnes
would get the Klondyke fever and not re-
turn to Berkeley. In that event new
football aptain will have to be elected.
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Frank p. Slayin, the champion heavy
weight boxer OF England, who once held
Inc cham plonshlp OF the worl |; Joe Boyle
OF Ontario. now champion heavy weight
of Canada, and Frank Raphael of San
francisco, lightweight champion of the
Pacific Coast. They are on their wav to
the gold fields of the Yukon. where they,
like many others, are sanguine of making
their little fortunes quietly and then re-
turning to other lands to enjoy it."
On the hurricane deck of the Al-ki yes
terday stood young man with straw hat
and bright beardless full face, his elbows
planted on the edge of life raft, his chin
resting in his palms, and a his side was a
very pretty young woman. Every BODY
noticed them, but nobody knew that th at
young man is the grandson of old John
Brown who died at Harpers Ferry.
Young John Brown is dentist. He.came
to Seattle some six years ago. DIR. Brown
practiced dentistry in Seattle, Everett,
Salem and several other places and went
last year to Cooks Inlet, coming out with
the same amount of gold as the others.
Like his grandfather he has not given up,
but goes marching on to the gold fields.
When living in Everett DR.. Brown once
made application to ]. W. Gum, then
life insurance agent, for policy. In the
midst of the questioning Agent Gum
read from the blank form:
us your father living?"
Eyes, sir.'
"Isyour grandfather liyingr'
mo, SIR"
"From what cause did he die?
~ tho apcwar ruifbopf
the slightest change of tone or look
Executed, how's that?" said the ques-
toner, becoming interested, but not read
ing from the insurance blank.
81 happen to be a grandson of John
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-20
RICHEST IN THE WORLD.
Six Miners From the klondyke Tell
of the Wonderful Finds of
Gold AIreadv Mada

A party of six miners direct from the
Klondyke reached here Yesterday at noon,
having come down by rail from Seattle.
They are G. E. Myers, B. F. Purcell, ].
0. Clements, Charles Leonard, G. Bran
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-12-15

A London daily has this reference
to an old photograph which the Siam
Free Press points out some of its read
ers may have seen: Twenty-Five years
ago there was photograph on sale in
Singapore representing the consorts
of the king of Siam in Highland array.
There were thirty or forty of them in
kilt and philabeg and ostrich feathers,
with piper on each flank. The mon
arch ancestor, we presume, to king
Chaulalongkorn-had lately received
Scottish gentleman, who thought it
fitting to don his national costume for
the ceremony. His majesty was so
struck that he borrowed the accoutre-
ments, set his tailors to work, equip
ped all the harem and sent for a pho
tographer. The funny old print re
ours to memory when we read the
present king admiration for the dress
OF the Magyar mobiles. He is not likely
to parade his wives therein, but he
has ordered one for himself. 1t is in
deed striking costume-so striking
that one does not know whether to
laugh or to admire when coming across
a gentleman thus rugged out in the
brand new, bustling thoroughfares of
Budapest
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-12-15

Students of the drama will doubt
less recall one play atleast in which the
fortunes of family, or the hero's life
md honor, were saved by girl don
aing a Jockeys colors and riding the
winning horse to victory. A case OF
this kind in real life has just come to
light in England, where a young
woman of Is had worked for six
months as q stable groom without her
sex having been discovered. She be-
longed to family of jockeys, was
capital rider and devoted to horses.
She induced stable friend to intro
luce her under a masculine alias, and
Turing the entire time of her service
gave excellent satisfaction. A stable
accident revealed the truth as to her
sex, but the owner for whom she
worked, in telling the story, declared
he believed it would be a great advan-
tage if young women could ride race
horses, not only on account OF their
light weight, but on account OF the
devotion the horses showed to them. -
New York Press.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-12-15

Says the Chattanooga News: It is
better for the country that most rich
mems sons are like Pullman's, rather
than Vanderbilt's. That it should be
three generations from shirt sleeves
to shirt sleeves is wise provision of
Providence to prevent the republic
from becoming few princes of finance
on the one part and millions of pau
pers on the other. 1t is we'll for the
majority of humanity that one gener-
alton is usually disposed to spend
what the former generation accumu-
lated. Thus is the average kept up
and that approach to equality main
tanned which alone makes a republic
possible.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-12-15

The women of Switzerland are hop
ing to arrange congress of women
from all the cantons, to take place
during the exhibition at Geneva next
year. They look forward to being
able thus to lay foundation for the
formation of a national council of
women-not an easy thing to do when
one considers that the inhabitants of
Switzerland consist of three different
races, with different languages and
religious creeds.
A society now existing in Geneva,
with branches in other towns, has
much the same spirit and aims as q
national council. 1t is called L'Union
des Femmes, and has taken up the
question of women's wages, of CO.
operative stores, of technical educa-
tion, of dress reform and woman's s
moral elevation. Connected with this
union is the Society for Woman's $
Legal Rights, which only last year
achieved great step in advance
by procuring for married women the
right to dispose OF their fortune OF
wages, as the case may be, and I'd
bank the same under their own name!
Louis Bridel, professor of law at the
CE;vsrsity Of Geneva, has been mos
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-12-15

Florists do not like the new fashion
which DEGREES that butter, and not
lowers, is the proper gift to send to
A friend, man or woman, about to sail
for Europe. Butter appears to lie
rather a strange token of friendship,
but just now it is the proper thing to
send as farewell Offering TO one
about to go down to sea in liner.
The butter is sent in the care of the
ships steward. who sees to it that it
Is served al the table on the numer-
Gus or rare occasions when the recip-
lent of the dairy gift appears in the
dining saloon. The gift is not sent as
a reflection upon the butter served by
the ship. Nor is it cheap lutter. In
deed the butter is very expensive, for
it costs from 60 cents TO 81 Il pound. 1t
is the product of milk from the very
best bred COWS. Five pounds is the
quantity usually purchased. That is
sufficient to last a passenger six or
seven days Mt sea-or even more, II he
or she becomes seasick. New York
Commercial Advertiser.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-12-15

Lace collars add greatly to the
beauty Of velveteen or corduroy
dresses.
Colarettes or boas of fur with muffs
to match are smart accompaniments to
jacket suits.
Plaid and Roman striped ribbons
are chosen in preference 20 plain rib
bons for stocks, belts and trimming
purposes.
Small patterned, self colored taffeta
silks in beautiful evening shades are
now sold in popular qualities at from
rs cents to 81 yard.
Corded silks and ribbed woolens
and velvets will be very fashionably
used for handsome gowns, entire street
costumes, redingotes and wraps this
winter.
The oldest, but certainly not the
prettiest, of new belts are of tluted
gold and silver, the outside enameled
with solid color and strewn with
flowers of different tints.
Velvet ribbons are to be especially
fashionable this season for dress trim
mings. Checked, striped and plaid
velvet ribbons are also in demand, and
are exceedingly effective in brighten
ing up street and house gowns.
A smart blouse of dark brown cloth
is crossed in front by straps of bright
red cloth fastened with black military
frogs. The belt is of red cloth braid
ed with black, AMI the faring collar is
braided with black and fastens in front
with an ornament of steel.
The fur blouse which will usurp the
place of both bodice and wrap is one
of the leading novelties of the season.
There are likewise fancy blouses
for very youthful wearers, made Of
Scotch tartans and plain vivid reds Of
many different shades, but somewhat
toned in effect by their velvet trim
ming.
Facings, revers and vests Of white
or cream cloth appear on some of the
handsomest cloth costumes for special
wear. This is an easy and most ef-
fective addition to gown and always
O becoming one. Some of these gowns
show the white or cream portions bor-
dered with rows of white and gold
braid; others are almost hidden by au
intricate arabesque or vermicelii de-
sign in hand braiding.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-12-15

In connection with the announce
ment of young Henry George that he
pledges himself to carry on the work
which his father began and his evil
dent inadequacy to the undertaking,
it is interesting, remarks the New
York Times, to recall an observation
in Progress and Poverty" Mr..
George said that in his early life he
had been printer. and that he in
time had met great many rapid
printers and some very slow ones, but
that the swiftest compositor he ever
saw could not set type four times as
fast as the slowest. He was of the
opinion that there was not more diff
ference in the mental equipments of
men--in other words, that no one man
had four times the intellectual capacity
of another. Whether Mr.. George
was right or wrong in this attempt at
applying mathematics to the determi-
nation of mind is not material, but the
implication that one can do nearly as
good work as another will have a
chance to be tested in the future
career Of young George.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-12-15
The Diamond Ring.

The diamond ring is general il not
universal. 1t sits enthroned on the
hand of young and old, rich and poor,
and though it may not always be safe
to test its genuineness, it glitters its
very best under all circumstances.
This passion for bit of carbon is in
born. One offers no excuse for the
taste that can be gratified at a COM
paratively trihing outlay, for there are
diamonds of such exquisite purity that
cease to become mere ornaments, and
are rather gems of nature to be won
dered at. Mans fondness for shiny
objects began with his creation; and
though no mention is made of Adam
wearing a diamond ring, it was Ewes
weakness for a serpents bright eyes
that led them both astray and made
the earth give up its treasure to graf
ify their suddenly developed human
vanity. Not many years elapsed
after the expulsion, / warrant, ere
Nine. Eve was ordering Adam to bring
her home some of those bright peb-
bles to sew on her new frock. To
drop down to the present era, when
diamonds are bought by the pint, it is
not strange that everybody wears one
in ring or in his scarfpin. Some
years ago the man who wore diamond
pin in his shirt bosom was regarded as
the porsonitication of vulgar ostenta-
ton but today he does more-he
wears diamond studs, diamond scarf
pin and the inevitable ring. There
fore the other day when a car con-
ductor flashed diamond ring on his
third finger, under my nose, wasn't
bit astonished at the exhibition of
his wealth, but silently wondered what
fortuitous conditions had led him to
collecting the public's fares. 1t was
of no consequence if the stone was off
color, for any lapidary will tell you a
yellowish tint adds to the brilliancy,
but it showed how human nature in
sists on gratifying its tastes, even at
the expense of the necessities of life.
But as a philosopher opined, when we
all have bicycles, why in the world
shouldn't those who can't ride one
buy something that costs as much as
the wheel? Why not, indeed? 1t is
matter of saving up.-Boston Herald.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-12-15

A most stupendous book-making
scheme in England is now set in mo-
tion by Lord Acton, namely, "The
Cambridge Modern History" 1t will
be published by the Cambridge Uni
versity press in twelve volumes, and
will cover the period from the end of
the Middle Ages to the present day.
The first volume, dealing with the
Renaissance, will appear in 1899, and
in each succeeding year two volumes
will be printed until the work is COM
pleted. Lord Acton's staff includes
great array of historical writer's, to
whom different historical periods will
be given.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-12-15

A favorite trimming for handsome
,loth dresses is mauve, reseda, green,
lahlia, gray, fawn, ETC., is rather
leavy cream or ecru guipure lace
which is employed for yokes, boleros,
,paulettes, and laid fiat on velvet vests,
spaulettes, cuffs and collars as bor
lers. Very dressy gowns made with
princesse backs are cut down in a
square at the front, with an inserted
yoke of guipure, the yoke bordered
with fur or with framing piece of
yuipure which broadens out into
,paulettes at each side, partly cover
ing the small sleeve puffs. The seams
,f graceful princesse corsages are de-
fined by a narrow cache point or gimp
IF passementerie which is carried
lown to the bottom of the skirt.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-12-15
A Real "Miss Havishan."

The case OF Miss Havisham, in
"Great Expectations" has lately been
paralleled in England by a Miss Clarke,
IF Chatteris, in Cambridgeshire, who
aas just died after 45 years in her
bed. In 1852 she had disappoint-
nent in love, and forthwith retired to
,er bedchamber, which she never left
live. She was in comfortable financial
circumstances, and found her chief di-
version in fancy needle work. -Argo-
aaut.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-12-15

What woman does not know the be-
,omingness of fur on cold crisp day,
when the eyes are Frightened and the
,olor of the cheeks heightened by the
tiff, bracing air? Fur, if selected to
,uit the wearer and worn consistently,
loes more to lend youth and freshness
20 the face and general style than al
most any other accessory of feminine
lress, and the woman of As who af-
'ects furs to harmonize with her gen
,ral coloring of hair, skin and eyes
,an take many years from her usual
appearance. -Woman's Home Com
Danion.