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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-04-08
A VICTIM OF THE WAVES.
A Dismasted Iron Vessel Sighted
in a Heavy Storm.

"A DiSmaSted Iron Vessel Sighted
in a Heavy Storm.
A dismasted iron ship was sighted by
the British ship Conway, Captain James
Hume, on her voyage across the Pa
cific ocean ending last month. The
vessel was reported to Lloyds i'm
mediately upon arrival on the Sound.
1t is not known among shipping men
and those who follow the movements
OF vessels to and from the Pacific
coast, what ship it may be dismasted
and helpless on the bosom Of the Pa
cific. 1t is surmised that in all proba-
biiity it is some grain vessel on her
way across the Pacific seeking charter
Captain Hulne's story is as follows ::
On February Is, 1898, while en-
route from Manila to Puget Sound,
the British ship Conway sighted a
large dismasted iron ship, abont 152
degrees longiture west and 81 degrees
north latitude. At the time terrific
gale ragged and darkness was approach
ing. The gale blew the disabled vessel
up to windward of the Conway, and
Captain Hume was unable to reach
the ship before night fell. The sea
was high and the wind blowing with
great force. The dismasted ship when
discovered was about five miles dis
tant. She appeared to he from 1900
to 1000 tons register. Originally she
was three-masted iron ship. The
storm had devastated the rigging un-
til only the fore lower mast remained
standing. The main mast was COM
pletely gone, the fOremast demolished
up to the eyes OF the lower rigging,
and the jib boom missing. Captain
Hume, by means OF a powerful glass
made out that it was white port
painted ship. with very big half
round aft. When the Conway hove
in sight flag was hoisted by the dis
tant ship, but before the kind of flag
was discovered. the furious gale had
torn it into fragments and Captain
Hume did not discover whether or
not the signal was one Of distress.
That there were people on board is
evidenced by the raising of the flag,
in what condition they were, or who
they are, are the mysteries that only
the wind and wave can reveal.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-04-08
The American AK.

Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain and the
Birmingham Chamber Of Commerce
have been this week giving valuable
advertisement to the American ak.
A patriotic British workman in Tas-
mania, distressed by American axes
monopolizing the colonial market,
wrote to the Colorado Office.
The Birmingham Chamber discussed
the letter lengthily, and sorrowfully
admitted that the Americans make a
style of ak suited to the colOnists
which British manufacturers couldn't
or wouldn't copy.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-04-08

To make a nice cabbage sauce,
freshen the cabbage by laying in cold
salt water. Shave as thin as possible
Put in glass dish. Dissolve two or
three teaspoonsful sugar and a little
salt in vinegar and pour over the
cabbage.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-04-08
SPANS STORY OF DECAY.
How Il Great Nation Has Boone
Feeble Ono.

New YORK sW0rld.
1779-Spanish successfully lay siege
to Gibraltar.
1795-Cession by Spain of part of San
Domingo to France in the treaty
of Basle.
1797-Spanish fleet destroyed by the
English off Cape Vincent.
1SO1-Spain receded Louisiana to
France, having gotten itself into
inextricable difficulties with the
United States over boundaries,
and fearing a revolt which
would have lost it the territory.
18O3-By the treaty extorted by Bona
parte Spain became involved in
q disastrous war with England,
and the last remnants of its
maritime powers were shattered
in the battles off Cape Finis-
terre and Trafalgar; English
take possession of Buenos Ayres,
in South America, then owned
by Spain, Madrid was taken
without difficulty and the Span
ish army scattered.
1S1O-Revolt in Spain's Argentine
colonies in South America.
Revolt in Spain's colony in
Venezuela and New Granada.
Revolt in Mexico, Spain's rich.
est and largest American pos.
session.
1S14-Ferdinand VII. was liberated
and again acceded to the thrune.
Spain groaned under a Royalist
reign of terror. The cortes (par-
liament) was abolished, the in
QUESTION re-established and
finances were squandered in fu-
tile effort to regain South Amer
ican colonies, which again took
advantage of Napoleon's con-
quest Of Spain to revolt against
Spain's oppressive and tyranni-
cal rule.
lost to the Spanish crown.
1S2l-Florida sold to the United
States. Spain had captured
the west coast from England.
On his way home after his sup
preston OF the Seminoles in
1918, General jackson captured
Pensacola and deposed the Span
ish authorities. The resulting
differences were ended with the
purchase of the peninsula by
the United States for $5OOO,-
600. Mexico's independence
gained. A revolt throughout
Spain.
1823-Armed intervention in Spain
by France, Russia and Prussia.
Madrid entered by invaders;
no effective resistance made.
1S24-Peruvian independence gained,
and Spain lost her last strong
hold on the American conti-
nent.
1S36-Spanish government involved in
desperate struggle with the
Carlists.
1S6S-Revolution. Queen Isabella
fled to France.
1S76-Carlist war ended. Alfonso
XII. reigns.
1S95-Cuban revolution begun. Now
in its third and probably trium-
phant year.
1S97-Revolution in the PHILIPPINE
islands. These rich Pacific pos
sessions of Spain will be lost as
soon as Cuba is, and probably
at the same time.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-04-08

A new English idea is hot gravies
instead of cold sauces, and for this a
low sauce dish is made with a cover.
Under the dish is small spirit lamp
to keep the gravy hot.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-04-08
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The San Francisco call., 1898-02-14

those who are known to have any corl~ nection with the ring of corruptionists, and even more caution will be used to see that none but persons absolutely free from even the taint of the gang are nominated for any of the city off, ces. The New Charter Club is organized on an absolutely non-partisan basis, and former party utilization will not be allowed to enter into any question un- der consideration. Every effort and sacrifice, if necessary, will be made to maintain harmony In the ranks of the club, as it is fully realized that victory can only come by united and energetic action. As showing the non-partisan character of the organization it may be stated that the chairman of the finan- cial committee is a Republican, while the chairman of the advisory commit tee is a Democrat All parties are also equitably represented in the personnel of both these committees.
 The officers of the club state that they intend to place a ticket in the field that will meet with the approval of the people from top to bottom, and that there will not be a single man on the New Charter Club ticket for whom it WILL De uSCeSSdIy lO dpOlOSlZS. IHGy say their idea is to put up such ticket that whoever wants good and econom- ical government will be able to vote the club ticket straight from top to bottom. Only well-known men of established in- tegrity in business and private affairs will be placed on the ticket.
 The club now has a membership of about 25O, and 1t is growing at the rate of 100 each week. The nominations made by the club will be given to the public in about three weeks, and cer- tainly not later than four weeks from this writing. The reason for announc- ing the ticket so early Is to give any element that is not satisfied with the nominations of the club ample oppor- tunity to place other candidates in the field.
 Under the old charter there was no salary attached to the position of coun- cilman, and the Mayor received only $500 a year. Under the present instru- ment the councilmen get each $500 a year, and the Mayors compensation Is S20O0 a year. This matter of salary, 1t Is believed, will be an additional in- ducement to good men to accept the honors of those offices, but will also be a further incentive for the poodle gang sters and their heelers to make desper- ate efforts to defeat the decent and re- spectable people.
 The work of the New Charter Club Is not to be confined altogether to matters pertaining directly to the ap- preaching election. There is a special committee of ten. whose duty it Is to see that all the provisions of the new charter are being carried out by the official incumbents and to prevent or punish violations of the charter and of the laws. Two injunction suits brought by the club against the council to pre-
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-14

the ship preparations were at once be- gun for landing the expedition.
 Accordingly at 10:30 o'clock Bertholf showed off with one boatload of gear. Shortly after the second boat with Jarvis, Dr. s. J. Call and F. Koltchoff. who has lived in this part of the coun- try for some years, left the ship with most of the rest of the outfit. I went with this boat. Brown was not going to send any officer to bring back the boat. but I wanted to see Bertholf at the last moment. Besides that, so long as they would not let me go in the overland expedition, I wanted to have as much fun as could with the fellows that were going. So I prevailed on him to let me go.
 Bertholf went sailing along merrily until he got opposite the place selected for the landing. When he found him. self down to leeward he dowsed his sail and pulled to the shore It was blowing a gale and the sails on both boats were reefed, with the spirit out. We had not much more than gotten clear of the ship in our boat before the mast went over the side, taking with 1t the thwart in which it was stepped. So we had to row the whole two miles to the shore. mostly against the wind The spray dashed over the boat until the crew and MT. Koltchoff, who were dressed in the clothing furnished by the San Francisco Examiner, were wet to the skin. But the rest of us, clothed in the fur parkays and trousers given us by The Call, were as dry as a bone. n1f 1fn1 1off . ed to the climate, and, since he also had the fur clothes from The Call. although he had not chosen to wear them as yet, l could not feel so sorry for him as might have done Bertholf had unloaded his boat and sent it back to the ship before we reached the beach. When we arrived he was stand ing in the midst of a pile of goods and
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the honest business man must be brave, strong and steady if he would meet and overcome them. The modern business man needs above all other qualihcations-go health Without good health, he may be naturally shrewd, bright and capable, but he will eventually fail. It takes keen brain and steady nerves to be successful Impure blood will befog the brightest brain and shake the steadiest nerves.
 'The greatest known blood maker and purifier is Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis covery. It corrects all disorders of the di- gestion, tones the liver makes the appetite keen and assimilation perfect Consequent ly the blood is plentifully supplied with the clements of nutrition and the body is properly nourished. It cures oS per cent. of all cases of consumption. All good druggists sell it.
 H. Gaddis, Esq, of No. 3I3 s. J. Street, Tacoma, Washington, writes: I was taken Ill in Feb ruary, 1892, with headache and pain in my back. I called in doctor and he came three times. He said was bilious, but kept getting worse. I took cough so that could only sleep when propped up in bed. My lungs hurt me and got so poor that was just skin and bone. Thought Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and 1t did me so much good that tried another one and 1t made me strong and well. It saved my life"
 The Peoples Common Sense Medical Adviser A large book of I,oo8 pages over ROO illustrations. Every woman should have it. - It is full of the information that women should possess. The best medical book ever published. It saves doctors bills, worry of mind, and, more than all days, weeks and months of sickness in every household where it finds place. Whoever wants a copy of this book in strong paper covers may obtain it absolutely FREE by sending 2r one-cent starnps-to pay merely the cost of mai1ing-to Worlds Dispensa-J Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. If binding of cloth Is preferred, send ss cents Axtra-af-ce in allss
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and would not come too near us. The craft apparently held but one man each. I say apparently" because frequently a kayak will come from a long distance and the man will get out
 Presently. from one end of the craft
 a squaw will emerge, then two or three children will make their appear ance. Finally some dried fish, their staple food, is brought out, and the observers wonder, just as when a magician hauls yard after yard of rib bon from his mouth. Then Lieutenant Jarvis went ashore to seeif it were prac- ticable to land. Meanwhile a two hatch bidarke had come over from Tunumak to the Cape Vancouver beach. A half-breed trader in this craft told Jarvis that he was going to St. Michael in a day or two. He ex- pected to reach the settlement in ten days and the overland expedition might go with him. This was un- expected luck. Allowing for two days to get ready, that would bring them into St. Michael by December 28 AS the whole Yukon delta Is, so far as the charts tell us, a trackless waste, there Is no knowing just what direction the guide would take. But following the villages as shown in the chart, the dis tance from Cape Vancouver to St. Mich ael cannot be less than 240 miles. Con- sidering the nature of ground and the reputed fact that the rivers are not yet fully frozen over ten days seems only too short. I doubt if they got to the end of this, the first stage of their journey, before the 10th of January. Of course Jarvis was delighted at this good luck at the very outset of the undertaking, and upon his return to
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-14

those patches of scum. At 1:22 Jarvis we could make out the outlying rocks thereof. They were covered with snow and shore ice stretched from one to another To leeward of them, that is to the northward, detached cakes of ice were floating out to join cluster of dazzling, white islands, bobbing up and down with the waves of Boring Sea.
 The temperature of the air had fallen since we had got near the land, so that it was now between 30 and 32 Fahren- heit. The sea water showed a temper ature of 29 and 30, almost down to the freezing point of salt water, which is 28. By or 3:30 the Bear was well in the ice, encountering cake after cake of it. It was soft and mushy, but no one knew how far 1t might extend, and, moreover, If it were possible to reach Sledge Island, who knew if the Bear could get near enough to the hard shore ice to make a landing? For there might be floating ice extending for miles outside the grounded cakes. Per haps the whole Boring Sea to the northward of us was a mass of ice. So, at 4:45 D. m., the Bear turned and stood to the southward. hoping to find a fa- vorable place to land near the mouth of the Yukon.
 The Bear, fitted especially for work in the ice, has steam pipe leading to each opening through the bottom of the ship, so that they may be thawed out should they become clogged with ice. At 10:30 p. m. on the 14th a plug in the pipe leading to one of these outboard connections blew out. The fire-room and engine-room immediately filled with steam. Nothing could be seen, even If the stationary lamps had not gone out. MT. Bryan, who was on watch, could not tell but what the boil CT or main steam pipe had given way. Finally, by means of a lantern, aided by the sound of escaping steam. the leak was found and the steam shut off, but not before all engaged in the search had got thoroughly wet and somewhat scalded.
 At a. m. December 15, land was sighted to the eastward, and the ship stood slowly in toward it, sounding as she went, for the water was shoal. At 3:20 D. m we rounded Cape Vancouver. just inside of Naniyuk Island. and on
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-14

the eastern end of Nelson Island to the south of the Yukon delta
 Then we steered to the northward and eastward looking for village there are two of them on the chart there = from which the expedition might be started. For the dogs which we had brought from Unalaska were not trained. and although they would have to be trained as they went, pro- vided no others were obtainable, it would be ever so much better to get from the Eskimos dogs that had done the work before. Now, for an hour or so, the temperature of the air and water as we'll fell to 24 degrees F., we'll below the freezing point of salt water and new ice was forming. thin but hard, inside between the thicker but soft ice and the land.
 At $50 we sighted a village, found afterward to be Tunumak, and at 4:15 the Bear anchored in Hagen, Bay, about eight miles from the village, to wait for daylight. All that night the ice went by us. drifting with the tide at the rate of three knots per hour at it's strongest Then as the tide turned, back it all came. Sometimes 1t swept off shore, outside of us; again it would swerve in and envelop the vessel. The thin new ice had melted by this time as the temperature of the water rose to 29 and 30 degrees. But the wind came down in the heaviest kind of squalls from the mountain tops.
 On the 18th at 8:45 a. m., we got un- der way and stood in little way toward the village, and at 9:20 an- chored. Hardly was the anchor down when two kayaks were seen coming toward the shin They hung off coyiv
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-14
THE BEARS CREW
 APPRECIATES THE
 CALLS GENEROSITY

UNALASKA, ALASKA, Feo (via Seattle Wash, expedition, in winter quarters at Unalaska, Alaska To Hon. ohn D. Sbrecksls San Francisco CaH, San Francisco, CA.-SR We, the warrant officers and of the United States Arctic relief steamer Bear wish testify appreciation of the generosity of the San Francisco Call and of your oughtfuness for comfort in this bleak and desoate country of Alaska Not only did you call the attention, first of all men, to the suffer ngs of the imprisoned whaers but by supplying us have volunteered to them, with the well the necessities of life, you have served the ests of humanity almost we'll the first instance Very respectfully,
 Judson Thuber J. R. Daniels
 William Boundy T. M. Toverd
 C. Johnson John Petersen
 C.. L. Lnbert R. Hughes
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 Axe Swanson o. Olsen
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The San Francisco call., 1898-02-14
ADVERTISEMENTS.
Tkere are bandits

Tkere are bandits nowadays as well as in the days of old. Business men
 have to meet what
 are known as business bandits. T h ey> m ay not commit violence with knife an d pistol, but they re- sort to all manner of dishonest busi- ness fnethoda and
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY. Weather forecast for San Fran cisco: Fair Monday; continued warm weather.
 Maximum temperature for the past twenty four hours: San Francisco. degrees Portland .................5S degrees Los Angeles. ..S0 degrees San Diego. degrees
 FIRST PAGE. Rescue of Ice bound Whalera Fighting San Jose Boodlers.
 SECOND PAGE. Los Angeles and Corporations. Seeking Haines' Brother.
 THIRD. PAGE. War Clouds in Central America. Seal Branding Successful. Klondike Relief Steamer Sails. Witness Spirited Away. France Faces a Crisis. Spaniards Hamper With Mail.
 FOURTH PAGE. Riot on a Japanese Steamer. Death of a Hungarian Diplomat. Work Before Congress. Garcia and Wife Arrested. Fast Hounds Are Poisoned.
 FIFTH PAGE. Raymond Adds to His Confession. Todd Sloan and His Rival. Tried to Kill His Partner.
 SIXTH PAGE. Editorial. Put Up or Shut Up. Our Enormous Business. The Water Rates. Lincoln Day Speeches. Clearing the Decks. The Maid and the Matroh. Individual Thoughts by a Modest Critic. Answers to Correspondents.
 SEVENTH PAGE. Judge Denny. the Turf Wonder. Thomas Hills Nemesis. A Syrian Wedding.
 EIGHTH PAGE. News Along the Water Front. The New Major-General. Celts at the Chutes. National Guard Notes. Arrested at a Funeral.
 NINTH PAGE. News From Across the Bay. Shooting at Shell Mound.
 TENTH PAGE. ..Lincoln Day. Sermons.
 ELEVENTH PAGE. Births, Marriages. Deaths.
 TWELFTH PAGE. A Sensational Suit Promised Veterans Play Baseball. Grand Jury After Teachers. A New Klondike Sleigh.
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