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Clever Engineering Feat.

City Engineer Morris r. Sherrerd did
a piece of engineering work yesterday
that has never been done before. By
a device, patented by Mr.. Sherrerd and
Engineer D. W. French, Superintendent
of the Hackensack Water Company, a
valve was placed in a six-inch water
main without shutting off the water.
A piece of the water-rnain was cut out,
and the valve put in place and secure
ly fastened. Work of a similar nature
can be done on any sized nnain.-New-
ark On J.) Call.
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THE LOST RETURNS.
Frank Miller Of Moreno Has a
Strange Story to Tell.

lost Frank Miller of Moreno drifted into
Riverside Saturday evening, and ex-
plains his absence by a remarka BILE
story. He states that he was robbed
and kidnapped by three men on his
rancn, and that they took him into
strange mountainous country, where
they wandered for days and days,
bringing up finally in Placer County.
He then walked to Folsom, thence
journeyed to Sacramento where in
some manner unexplained he obtained
sufficient money to buy a ticket TO
Riverside
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His father refused to take him in, and
he stabbed the old man so seriously
that he is being held in the City Prison
upon a charge of assault to murder
ST was afraid Of the boy" said Mr..
Trainor to-day. HE had threatened
me before, and I was afraid to let him
into the house. / told him that he
could not come in, and he insisted, and
when I would not let him he drew his
knife and stabbed me-"
Young Trainor is scarcely % years
of age. He was born in this city, and
his record is not good.
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that unless the old men return to work
before the end of the week the opera
tors will begin importing men next
week The ClarkSburg strikers are
firm, and are not likely to accept the
offer.
Miners and labor leaders generally
take no stock in the st. Louis meeting,
except it may aid the miners In CASH
They do not believe an order for gen
eraI strike could be enforced, and as for
amalgamating of all labor unions ana
starting a political movement, not more
than the most preliminary steps can De
taken.
The record-union., 1897-08-31
Death of a Pioneer Minister.

VACAVILLE, Aug. 30.-Rev. DR.. J.
B. Sexton, pioneer Baptist minister,
died here to-day. DR.. Sexton came to
California in 1853. He organized the
first Baptist church in Stockton, and
the Tenth Avenue Baptist Church in
Oakland. He has been pastor in
Stockton. Oakland, Healdsburg, Vaca-
vile and Red Bluff The last years
of his life We're spent in VacavilIe.
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Wear Furs to Keep Cool.

While the sun was melting the asphalt
pavement ON Kansas avenue. and the
thermometer registered 101 degrees III
the shade on the west side of the street,
a small man wearing a big chinchiIla
overcoat and the heaviest kind of
winter gloves was parading the streets.
He was 'Sam" Radges. the man who
makes the Topeka directory, and one
of the most interesting men Of the town.
His overcoat, reaching below his knees,
was buttoned tight and his gloves We're
lined with thick fur. He wore black
Fedora hat, of winter weight. and his
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PLEADED GUILTY.
A Grand Larcenist Gets Eighteen
Months in Folsom Prison.

RED BLUFF, Aug. 30.-James Hol-
man, Jr, colored man about 70 years
old, was sentenced to Folsom for
eighteen months by Judge Ellison to-
day.
The crime for which Holman was
sentenced wis in having committed
grand larceny by stealing $40 and
watch from James Russell while Rus
sell was drunk and asleep on the night
of the 9th.
When Halmon was arrested he made
no defense. An information was hled
AGAINST him in the Superior Court, anu
he pleaded guilty and waived time 1or
sentence.
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Gone To Mexico.

STOCKTON, Aug. 30.-Christian Va
gar, a German, who peddles vegetab bles
in the county, sought the aid of the po-
lice to-day to find his wife, whom he
had left in this city while peddling in
the country. The officers ascertained
that she and two children left for Mex
leo last Monday. The parties formerly
lived in LiVermore
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Attorney Crouch Still in Jail.

STOCKTON, Aug. 30.-Attorney j.
c. Crouch, who has been in jail here
for the past two weeks awaiting trial
on a charge of petit larceny was re-
leased to-day on a writ of habeas cor
pus by Judge Budd, but was rear
rested at the court room door by Sher-
iff Cunningham. The District Attorney
did not have the stolen goods at the
preliminary hearing, but has secured
them since, and will present them at
the next examination.
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Says It Was a Newspaper Fake.

STOCKTON, Aug. 30.-A carpenter
of this city named Mcneil has just
returned from Trinity County, and con-
firms the reports Of the great fake
perpetrated on the people and the sto-
ries of the indignation of those who
were deluded by the glowing newspa-
per accounts into going to that region.
Mcneil exhibited to a friend some
quartz which he took out of the
Graves Brothers mine, and which
contains very little, if any, gold.
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A Deaf Mute Lawyer.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30.-For the
first time in the history of the Supreme
Court of this State a written examina-
ton has been given an applicant for
license to practice law The examina-
ton, which was successfully passed to-
day, was taken by Theodore Grady, a
deaf mute. He is a teacher in the
Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb at
Berkeley. He has studied law for
several years, and expects to become
a writer of briefs, and perhaps an au-
thor of legal works.
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Starters of Fires to Be Prosecuted.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 800
many forest fires in Modoc, Shasta and
Siskiyou Counties have occurred dur
ing the present summer through the
carelessness of hunters and others,
that the Government intends to prose
cute some of the guilty parties. Com
plants are being prepared by Assist
ant United States Attorney Scheles-
singer.
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SchofeId Murder Case,

SAN JOSE, Aug. 30-Mrs. Schofield
and Daniel butcher, charged with the
murder of G. Schofield, appeared in
court this morning, and their cases were
set for trial on October 18th next by
consent. The proceedings were purely
formal, and there was no incident
worthy of note in connection Herewith.
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Fast Bicycle Riding.

maker this afternoon broke the track
record for a mile, going the distance in
1:59 fat. He had a flying start, and
was paced by a single and a tandem.
The former record was 1:59 %, made
by Hamilton of Denver.
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Fire in the Pasadena Hills.

PASADENA, Aug. 30-This after
noon great volumes of smoke from the
hills west of Pasadena announced the
beginning of another big fire, such as
that which last year devastated the
mountains and did thousands of dol
lars worth of damage. Tonight the
fire can be plainly seen from the west
ern part of the city, and it appears to
be spreading over the second range of
hills about four miles west of the city
and just beyond Eagle Rock Valley.
Men are out fighting the fire, but not
much progress hase been made in con-
finiDo the flames
The record-union., 1897-08-31
Steel Rails for South Africa.

BALTIMORE, Aug. 30-The British
steamship Titania will in a few days
sail from this port bearing the first
cargo of steel rails ever shipped to
South Africa. The shipment will
amount to 800 tons.
The record-union., 1897-08-31
Tax Rate at Los Angeles.

Los ANGELES, Aug. 30.-The Fl
nance Committee of the City Council
to-day filed report fixing the tax rate
at 81 % inside the city and 81 20 in
the annexed districts. The report was
approved and adopted by the Council.
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A Rich Mine.

VANCOUVER @. C), Aug. 30.-A
telegram was received yesterday from
the superintendent of the Caribou Hy-
draulic Mining Company stating that
as the result of the cleanup, which was
completed on the 26th instant, the
amalgum amounts to 5,695 ounces, of
the estimated value of S60.500. This is
the proceeds of forty-seven days wash
ing with two giants. 1t is thought
that the total cleanup for the season
will not amount to more than $150,00O
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Bishop Discharged.

LOS ANGELES. Aug. BON. w.
Bishop, who was arrested in San
Francisco while en- route to Klnodike,
for an alleged attempt to defraud his
creditors, was discharged to-day on the
ground that there was a lack of evil
dence against him.
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Real Innocence.

Oh, rare indeed. the faith of him
His first, fresh, childish trust not
gone
Who goes to meet a woman at
The train she says she's coming on.
Chicago Journal.
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STABBED HIS FATHER.
Timothy Trainor Attempts to Mur-
der His Parent.

OAKLAND, Aug. 30.-Timothy Train
or, who has been an outcast from his
home for many years, returned to the
parental roof at midnight on Saturday.
The record-union., 1897-08-31
The STRIKE IN The
COAL REGIONS.
Pinkerton Detectives Raid the Me-
gro Camp at Unity.
Twelve Men and Three Women Captured
Without Resistance.

Proposition On Foot to Mobilize
the Army of the Unemployed In
the Vicinity of Pittsburg in the
Event of a Determined Effort
On the Part Of the Owners to
Start the Mines.
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Right Here at Home.

What is the use of going to Klon-
dike?" asked the magnate. There is
enough money in ice right here at
home Cincinnati Enquirer.
The record-union., 1897-08-31

Fully one-third of the female popula-
ton of France labors on farms.
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ITEMS Shirts,
42C each.

ST is the regular price of such
goods in most any store. These
shirts have white body and coll
ored percale bosoms and cuffs.
Neat patterns and will not fade.
Well made and 42c each.
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Women sAprons
111C and 25C.

These Aprons at these prices
are about one-ha1f their regular
price, and they are the prettiest
sheer lot of their kind we've
ever shown. White lawn, with
liberal tie strings and finished
at bottom with rows of tucks,
deep ruffle of open-work en-
broidery and insertion strip.
Reduced to Csc and 1215c each.
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neau and Sitka. They are both thriving
towns, and probably they will thrive
from now on, for time at least as they
nave never thriven before Alaska is ruled
by territorial governor, who now is !
q. Brady, recently appointed by President
Mchlnley to succeed James A. Sheakley.
Inc Governors residence is in Sitka.
Among the things Alaska has done for
this country aside from stirring up the
present gold excitement one of the most
Forward was to involve it in disputes with
England on the boundary question and
the seal fisheries business. Both of these
disputes threatened war, but white-wing-
eu peace settled over the situation in each
case ana brought the suggestion of that
newly invented English American institu-
characterization. However, the boundary
question is not settled vet.
Character of the Population.
Inc census enumeration of 1890.
gave the population of the terri
tory as 3o,329, of whom 4,4l6 were whites
81 blacks, 1.56S half-breed Indians and
hskimos, 1875 natives not Eskimos In-
u,ahs', ,ni 2.l2o Chinese and S,4OO Eskimos.
Inc number of whites has probably been
more than doubled since then, however.
as the Alaskan gold fever set in in mild
,orm three or four years ago. One would
hardiy think of going to Alaska for the
social advantages of the place.
Neither could it be said that a reasono-
piS constructed individual would go there
Tor the climate. In winter the tbermomo.
Ter rails so low in places that no one will
recognize it; that it goes down to 10 de-.
grees and lower. During all this kind Of
winter NJ in the Yukon region little can
De done hut sit about fire in a vain on
ueavor t" keep warm. for darkness exists
most OF the time. and the life seems like
.i .i"t ol man uncomfortable seated at
the bottom of well.
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pared men TO flock, but the district has not
exactly borne out the reputation given to
II ny early prospcctors.
In all the immense country over which
the placer mining extends it il estimated
that up To last year there were 1000 min
ers. The districts in which most of them
worked were in broad belt of gold pro.
ducing rock, through which quartz veins
carrying gold occur frequently. Through
the gold-bearing rocks the streams have
cut deep gullies and canyons. and in their
beds the gold which was contained in the
rock is concentrated. The mining of this
country consists, therefore, in washing
out the gravel OF these beds,
To Reach the Gold Fields.
The best way to reach the Klondyke
districtt One goes from Seattle by ocean
steamer west and little north. and pass
eS through Dutch Harbor, at the ex.
trcme end OF the Southwest Alaskan pc.
ninsuln. From there the steamer turns
north and continues ON to St. Michaers
Island, II little above the mouth OF tn,
Yukon. in Bchring Sea. At that point
passengers are transferred TO the river
! steamers to begin the long journey up tn,
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through n rigorous climate, or almost
1000 miles by land and water, with noun
tain passes TO scale MS dangerous as those
of the Swiss Alps.
The fabulous tales OF wealth sent out
by the California pioneers were no less
wondered than those brought back by the
men who brnyed the last cold season in
the klundykc mineral belt. and in both
cases those who returned brought back
with them great nuggets OF the precious
stun that left little or no doubt in the
mind OF the hcarer. The California miner
In the song who had SO many nuggets that
he was accustomed to ''go hatful blind
finds his parallel in the Yukon miner who
claims to have washed out" S2l2 in one
painful of dirt-a process that requires
ten or twelve minutes.
The Alaska and California gold fields
are alike also in being placer mines. Placer
mining is commonly called poor mans
mining" for the reason that II is done
without machinery, while the implements
required in the work are few aud OF small
cost. A placer miner can get along very
well with pick, shovel and gold pan
Ii III. dirt is not rich he can accomplish
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better results by running it through n
sluice bon, but where the yield is in mug
gets instead OF fine gold he prefers to
pan" ii.
The great Klondyke strike was made
last year. hut nothing was known Of it in
the United States until June Is Of the
present year. when vessel called the
Excelsior arrived in San Francisco laden
with miners from the klondyke, who in
turn We're laden with gold. They told
almost incredible tales of the richness of
the newly discovered district, where for
tunes had been accumulated in few
months. Experienced miners and ten
derfeet" seemed to have shared good for
tune alike, and with some justice, too,
for the credit of the discovery of the new
gold fields is due 10 the inexperienced men.
Another vessel brought to Seattle a sec
ond party of successful prospectors and a
ton and a half of gold. These men had
endured peril and undergone great hard
ships in accumulating the fortunes they
brought and they told story that had a
dark AS well as bright side. To follow
their example means a risk of wealth,
health and even life, but for those who
are willing to take the chances the pros
pect they hold out is aluring.
The Klondyke District.
The richest of the mines in the Alaska
region seem to be in the Klondyke, u few
miles over the British border They were
discovered, as has been said, by party
Of 'tenderfeet," who, against the advice
of the old-tmers in the district, wandered
"over yOnder in the Klondyke" and struck
it rich. From Klondyke comes much of
the gold and from Klondyke seems to
come all the excitement. A few ''tender-
feet" going it blind, have stirred up the
nation. Out of the region of their dis
covery has cone, it is estimated, $1,000
600 worth of gold during the present sum
mer. Nearly all of that gold has found
its way into the United States.
1t is hard to tell where the Alaska gold
fields are located except that in general
way the best of them are along the Yukon
There are few lode" mines near Ju-
neau and along the southeast coast of the
territory tthe most accessible part of it,,
but the one is of low grade and mining is
made profitable only by the most careful
mana cement.
The placer mines. from which prospect
ors are said to be lining their pockets with
gold, occupy the prominent place in the
popular Etind. These are in the region re-
mote from civilization. little known, and.
on account of its uncertainties, danger
ously aluring to the average man. This
gold-producing country of the interior
is in the vicinity of the Yukon near where
that great river turns to the west in its
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Another way, the mountain route" is
shorter in miles, but equally long in the
time it requires and a great deal more
difficult. BY this route the traveller sails
more directly north to Juneau, which is
800 miles from Seattle, and then goes by
lake and river and over the mountains
1000 miles to the new mining territory.
The cost of the trip this way cannot be
definitely stated beyond Juneau, because
after that point it depends somewhat on
the bargain made with the ChilkoOt In
dians, who pack supplies through the pass,
and the length of time the overland part
OF the Journey requires; but the Indians
who act as guides and pack supplies do
not work without big pay.
Dawson City.
Dawson City, the center of the new
mining region, although siXty-five miles
distant from the Klondyke is said to be a
typical mining town-minus the guns.
The British Government enforces it's laws
in Dawson, and those laws prohibit the
use of firearms, 90 few men carry guns.
The laws of the camp are enforced by
mounted police, whose captain is civil
officer. Though there are said to be 1000
people in Dawson, few houses have been
built, for the principal reason that lumber
is 500 per 1000 feet. The general fear
is, of course, that there will be great suf-
fering there this winter, and it will be in
creased, it is expected, by the rush Of
unprepaied prospectors who sailed for the
new fields Immediately on learning what
luck had befallen those who have but
recently returned.
To give an accurate idea of the cost of
living IN Dawson City, the price list of Il
general store there is herewith given:
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Yukon, which winds nOrthward and east
ward, and finally brings the traveller to
Dawson City, now the principal town in
the district, although sixty-fve miles from
the Klondye fields.
The cost of the trip from Chicago this
way, as prospecting miners usually travel,
is $251.50. 1t is divided as follows:
From Chicago to Seattle (secOnd class,
S51.5O; from Seattle to Dawson City,
$500. in time the trip costs thirty days
four from Chicago to Seattle, sixteen from
Seattle to st. Michaels Island, and ten
up the Yukon to Dawson City by the fast
boat. The distance in general figures is
2,25O miles from Chicago to Seattle,
$500 miles to st. Michaels Island and
1.S9O miles M the Yukon to Dawson, a
total Uf about 5000 miles.
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is claiming victims by the thousands, all
eager To brave the perls of the arctic cir
Gle and wrcst fortune from the frozen
zone.
The reported gold discoveries of the
present day in Alaska and the reported
gold discoveries of 10 in California afford
many parallels. TO the average man the
treasures of the coast State were seem
ingly as inaccessible as are the riches of
the Yukon and its tributaries. One was
more than 1000 miles across n trackless
desert and over snow-bound mountain
passes, bcsct by savages, whose deadly
attacks marked the trail with bleaching
bones across the Western States: the
other is nearly 1000 miles by water.
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ern land limit The United States, there
fore, may almost say with England that
the snn never sets on its possessions.
The Great Yukon River.
The principal river in Alaska, the Yu-
kon, up which prospectors have to work
their weary way to reach the gold fields,
was called by Schwatka, the Alaskan
Nile. 1t rises little more than 200 miles
above Stka. in the southern part Of
Alaska, and then strikes northward, fol-
lowing q broad circle to the west before
it empties into Behring Sea through an
extensive delta. Six hundred miles in
from the coast it is more than Il mile
wide and the volume of its water is so
great as to freshen the ocean ten miles
out from land.
The principal cities of Alaska are Ju-
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Alaska and 1ts Resources

Alaska and 1ts Resources,
In the purchase of Alaska, the United
States acquired territory more than
half million square miles in extent. n
part Of it within the arctic circle and in
the region of everlasting ice and snow
where, during part of the summer, there
is continuous day and during the winter
continuous, dreary night The Alaskan
coast line is greater than our Atlantic son =.
board. hut the entire population of whites
Eskimos and fierce Indians who ore
called the Apaches of the North. is not
much more than that OF ward diyision
in Chicago. ''''A
In acquiring the Alaskan territorv
though the United States moved its con-
ter, figured in geographical mines, not in
area or population. as far west as San
Francisco. The country now extends
from about the 65th degree OF lonvitnJo
up at the far east corner OF Maine 10 tho
lz-u degree up at the far northwest Tin
OF the Alaskan mainland. This Is takir,,
no account OF the little island OF Att,
i;Voo miles out in the Pacific, beyond tbn
hawaiian group, which. since the mr.
ehase Of Alaska, has really been our west.
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ana furs are the standard of value With /
them. Gold fills no Eskimo stomachs and
Keeps no Eskimo body warm.
But with the white man it was differ
eht. He came, he saw, he dug, and IN
the digging he found richness Glitterins
gold greeted his eyes, and the fever o.
gold is Upon us.
Working Placer Mines.
The Klondyke mines are placers-the
most easily worked mines of any, and
requiring the least expenditure. The
methods of washing out placer gold are
known as "sluicing' and ''panning' The
former is employed where the yield is Of
ordinary value, while all old-timers pre-
Ter the latter in rich ground
In sluicing the dirt is shoveled into The
sluice box, through which water is rapid
~ running. The box is of varying length
ana has holes bored in the bottom. These
holes are filled with quicksilver; the dirt,
gravel and small powders are washed
over the quicksilver, but the gold adhers
10 IL. When a miner "cleans up" some
times every night, sometimes once week
.he water is turned off and the sluice box
holes are cleaned out.
In panning, the dirt is put into a gold
pan-about the size of small dishpau
lhis pan is made of copper. The mineI
squats beside II stream, dips water int
the pan, oscillates it with a motion tha
can only be acquired by experience, an'
gradually sloughs out the water, dirt
gravel etc, retaining the gold in the pan
1old being the heaviest substance. it is 0
course the easiest to retain in the pan
II II be in the shape of nuggets. the mine
PICKS them out of the pan with his fingers
II the gold be in small particles. fine gol
or Hour" gold, he dries the pan in tn
sun and carefully brushes the deposit in
piece of buckskin or other material use
Tor carrying the precious metal.
"A pick, shovel, gold pan, water, an'
OF course, some gold are the only esseI
tials OF placer mining. Machinery is onl
necessary in placer mining where lars
areas OF ground that yields only mode
ately are worked. and then only for b.
uraulie power in washing down the dirt