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Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-24
COUNTY CHECKER PLAYERS,
They Showed Up Well in the Contest at
Boston.

At the checker contest in Boston,
Tuesday, between the All-New England
and Boston teams. the result of which
was announced in Wednesdays Spy,
Worcester county was represented by a
delegation of cracks, who gave a good
account Of themselves A. II. Newton OF
Grafton made the best showing, by
winning both Of his games, and evident
ly had an easy mark in his opponent, j.
Treadway. A. J. Kirby of Grafton played
6. II. Bacon, losing one and drawing
one. Samuel E. Ross of Spencer was un-
lucky and dropped two games TO w. P.
Fitch. r. S. Farnum of Uxbridge won
one and lost one to Ellis. Alfred Brig
ham of this city drew both of his games
with Stevens. In the classification of the
players at the start, Mr.. Brigham was
given the eighth place.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-24
HOLY CROSS COLLEGE.
'oId cronies" Given in Fenwlck Hall on
Washington's Birthday.

: "The Old Cronies' was put on in the
college hail. Tuesday evening. The pro-
duction was one worthy of the greatest
praise. w. B. Mccarthy and j. f. Cal
lanan impersonated the respective char
acters of the gruff old seaman and the
mild old scholar to a perfection that full
ly repaid the untiring efforts of the
reverend moderator, c. C. Jones, S. ].
If we are 10 take this evenings enter
tainment as {. criterion for judging this
success of the annual play, this years
play will eclipse all former production:
which Rev. FIR. Jones has put before the
public during his many years as mod
orator Of the society.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-24
AMHERST MUSICAL CLUBS CON.
CERT.

The Amherst College Glee, Mandolin,
Banjo and Guitar clubs will give con-
cert in Association Hall Thursday even
ing, April 7. There will be four distinct
clubs comprising about 80 students.
A reader will accompany them, and a
f1utist and violinist will be one of the
features. The club will make spring
vacation trip between March 29 and
April IA.
Edmund A. Garland, class of SO, OF
Worcester, is making the arrangements
for the concert. The business manager
is S. B. Furbish, class 49, the Amherst
mile runner champion, who has figured
at the intercollegiate meets.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-24
FUNERAL OF M. F. GEAsoN.

The funeral of Drum Major Michael F.
Gleason, one of the old st. Johns Ca
diets, who died in New York Monday,
took place at st. Johns Church Wednes-
day forenoon at $50 o'clock, when a
high mass of requiem was offered by
Rev. C. A. Sullivan. The pail bearers
were Thomas Connors, John Scully, An
drew Scully and John j. Scully. The
burial was at ST. Johns cemetery.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-24
WILLARD MEMORIAL SERVICE

The Worcester Woman's Christian
Temperance Union will hold memorial
service for Miss Francis E. Willard, late
president of the national and worlds
w. C. T. u, on Sunday, Feb. 27, at 3 p,
M, in Trinity M. E, Church in Worces-
ter.
Members of the Crusade Band, the
Young Women's Christian Temperance
Union, the Worcester Reform Club, and
other temperance organizations and
unions in neighboring towns are es-
pecially invited to be present on that oc-
casion.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-24
LEcrURE ON PASSION PLAY.

A large number of PERSONS gathered
in the First Baptist Church Tuesday
evening at the lecture by Prof. Drake
upon the passion play at oberamme@
gau, it being the second time he has
presented it before a Worcester audi
euca
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-24
FAMILY PROTECTIVE UNION.

The officers of the Family Protective
Union have received their badges from
national headquarters; and at the next
meeting these beautiful adornments will
be worn for the first time. The local
council will hold its next meeting Feb.
"a. when new members will be admit
ted, and a social dance will take place
March 10.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-24
ApoLLo Assoc1ATEs DANCE

The Apollo Associates were in posses
sion of Foresters' Hall Tuesday night
and entertained about 300 friends with
a social. Rney's orchestra furnished
music for dancing, which ceased at the
stroke of midnight.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-24

Is prescribed by leading physicians in Sc
we're cases of typhoid fever and patients
after the first taste relish it. crave II and
drink it with beneficial results.
No better table water ever known or
heard Of. Put up in bottles only and
charged with it's own natural carbonie
acid gas just as it comes from the spring.
For sale by dealers in Min
eral Waters, Druggists, Gro
GERS and Hotels. Lincoln
Spring Co., Saratoga Springs,
N. Y.
Boston Office, AZ CornhiIl.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-24
d1urtesttr Daily SPY.
CITY NEWS.
BUILDING PERMIT.

To w. Z. Putnam, builder, for Hor-
ace wyman, wood addition, so by so
feet, and TO raise the roof feet, so as
to make a dwelling house 33 feet high,
on the corner of William and West
streets, in ward l.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-24
THE WORCESTER---

In accordance with the provisions of sec
ton AZ of chapter 317 Of the acts of 1894,
depositors are requested to present their
bank books to the bank for veriication.
H. WOODWARD. Treas.
February LIST. 1898.
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-10

With every facility, and by laboring as much as eighteen hours out of the tWenty-four, our party made the river trip from Wrangel to Telegraph Creek In three weeks. The party was one of the first of the big outfits with horses to arrive at Telegraph. In the next week men with horse teams continued to pull in. The demand for horse prov ender became sharp
 by the bale at the rate of $400 per ton. Attention was drawn to a New Zea- lander who was keeping his cayoose on a regime of oatmeal porrdge and dog biscuits. This fortunate gramini- vorous beast had a fashion of thrust ing its body far within the tent flaps to secure a ration of bread stuffs and would eagerly swallow the bolus at a single gulp.
 J. c. Calbreath, an old settler and ad- vance agent of civilization at Tele- graph Creek is said to have caught the hay market advantageously, having saved a large crop of hay from his ranch on the Tahltan. Some cayooses wintered by MT Calbreath fetched thoroughbred prices before the arrival of the boats; the same thrifty pioneer had regular pack trains running into Dease Lake as early as May 1 at rates of 15 cents per pound, and on the Tes- lin Lake trail by the middle of May at 40 cents per pound. These light Indian ponies, with proper handling, were packing about three hundred pounds apiece over the mountains.
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-10

The warrior ant is a slave-making species, says Grant Allen. It is large red kind and it makes raids against nests of the small yellow turf ant, mild and docile race, large numbers of which it carries off to act as servants.
 But it does not steal fully grown turf ants: their habits are formed and they would be useless for such pur- pose What the warrior ant wants is raw material, which can te turned into thoroughly well trained servants. So 1t merely kills the adult ants which strive to oppose it's aggression, and contents itself with trundling home to it's own nest the larvae and pupae of the turf ants which it has put to flight and van-
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for nine weeks along the trail, and the struggle of the adventurers Klondike- ward by way of TesIin Lake was wit messed by me in all it's phases. rms movement carries with it episodes tlIat are really tragic.
 From the time large parties of men began to ascend the frozen Stikeen last February, the difficulties of the route have multiplied up to the present hour. The history of large majority of the three thousand Klondikers now camped in Glenora, or strung along the Teslin trail for fifty miles, properly began with an experience on the river early last spring. A few men went up the river in February with light dog teams, and reaching Telegraph Creek, took the winter trail and passed on to the lake.
 The real movement, however, of men with horses and large outfits did not begin till some weeks later. March 10 found 15OO men stalled at Cottonwood Island, and the first fifteen miles of the Stikeen. Our expedition, backed by the resources of the big Canadian con- tractors, pushed on through this fif- teen miles of heavy slush, leaving in the rear many parties, which three months later we met in Glenora, they having been delayed for that time in their efforts to get up the river.
 After passing the Alaskan boundary the party was detained a week at a point f1fty-five miles up the river. bridging open water on the StilEeen. In
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to transport freight In via Wrangel, Dyea the Chilkoot Pass and Lake Ben- nett for 15 cents a pound and they did a thriving business booking klondikers down the ri-er, but no proposition how ever liberal can affect the man who have already expended their last $100 in getting to Glenora. As to paying $500 for the chance of getting years provisions packed to Teslin, well, 1t is simply out of the question and so they sit helplessly by to become mayhap ob- jects for Government intervention.
 Fourteen powerful steamers are do- ing business on the Stikine, and as many as four a day arrive at Glenora. Passengers disembark with wagons and horses and their goods are piled thirty feet high along the river front. As the philosophic Tahltan Indian loiters about this strange scene of activity and attentively regards the new arrivals and their prodigious quantity of 1mped- imenta his mind may revert In its heavy bovine fashion to 140 miles of narrow Indian trail over mountains and through swamps and he may wonder in his simple ohildlike way what his
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the ascent for the fifteen miles Is so gradual that it may be reckoned the easiest stretch of the route. A few miles farther on lies the Second Coketsie Lake-one of the sources of the Taku Riyer-the waters of which mingle with the ocean at Juneau, Alaska The Shesley stream of importance is next encountered. Crossing by means of a substantial bridge the traveller finds himself at the Hudson Bay post (abandoned) with half the distance to Teslin Lake accomplished.
 But from here on troubles multiply Instead of a rugged trail over the mountains the pathway deScends into willow swamps and muskeag bogs Vast clouds of mosquitoes rise from the damp moss to torment poor humanity, while the pack horses sink into the mire to their knees at every plunge Along one of these messy stretches the writer observed two lusty men in tears The mosquitoes had plagued them to a point beyond patient or profane en- durance. Many outfits passed us dur ing the nine weeks our party was camped along the line of travel.
 Galbreath aid Highland of Telegraph Creek and the Hudson Bay Company of Glenora had contracts for all they can take in to the lake during the summer at $500 per ton. It is notable that not one of these pack trains had returned up to June 10. Silas Taylor of Berlin, Md, and his partner are the only men I discovered who succeeded in reaching the lake after the condition of the trail caused the abandonment of dog sleds
 These two men went in to the lake in April carrying fifty pound packs and accompanied by pack dogs. They re- turned month later for a fresh supply of provisions and reported gr>at scar city of food at the lake and the ina bility of the men there to secure em- ployment unless agreeing to board themselves. The Edwards party of Montreal succeeded in getting part of their outfit as far as Long Lake or within twelve miles of Teslin, some of
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narrow, hard packed trail would land a horse above his withers in porous granulated snow While camped here J. c. Claus of Nanaimo, B. C., the al- legged murderer of his partners, Burns and Hendrickson, passed us. He was overtaken two days later by the police and haled back to Telegraph Creek.
 The topography of the county from this first summit to the Little Tahltan River indicates a fall of 2600 feet in an easy gradient of eleven miles. On ap- preaching the river the grade declines sharply, forcing the railroad location a circuit of three miles up stream on a per cent grade. At this point on the trail numerous Klondikers have come to grief. Up to June 1, on this north slope, the ice remained intact un- der a heavy covering of moss. and this. in conjunction with sharp falling off of the mountain, made the last 800 feet of the descent difficult and dangerous.
 A squad of Canadian mounted police were recently put to work removing this moss and, under the exposure of an eighteen hours sun, this portion of the trail will soon become more toler- able.
 A substantial bridge 125 feet in length was thrown across the river at this point under the direction of Cap tain Bullock Webster, s. M., of the Provincial Government
 The trail from this point winds in sharp undulations for five miles over the mountains to the Big Tahltan. In reaching the valley. freight is lowered 150 feet down a precipitous descent by means of block and tackle Ducks were plentiful on a small lake near
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quished.
 In time these grubs and cocoons pro- duce full grown yellow workers, which can be taught by the warrior ants to act as nurses and housemaids. I once saw in a garden in Algiers a great pitched battle going on between slave makers and the family of the future slaves, in which the ground was strewn with the corpses of the vanquished. Not till the nest of the smaller ants was all most exterminated did they retire from the unequal contest and allow the proud invader to carry off their broth CTS and sisters in their cocoons, asleep and unconscious. Occasionally, by dint of mere numbers, they beat off the in- vader with heavy loss; but much more
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.,o,. ,on were returning to the Little

their men were returning to the Litlie Tahltan for their cache at that point.
 Dr. Edwards said that he Lao aoa .i doned all hope of getting 10 ms uese o,. walton the Stewart River, thls year. Many permane t camps are to De oo- served along t..e trail, where men who came up the river through the snoWs of last winter are now sitting calmly down under their mosquito net cano- pies waiting the return or anothei 1yintfr before renewing their journey.
 One sees strange varieties or go- devils" or one wheel l contrlVanceS TOT nronulsion over the narrow trail. Ihese wheels made in the wilderness with noor tools, are ingeniously concelveo bnt rudely e-ecuted. Loads or ooo nounds are stored upon them ana taken at the rate of four or five miles qay as far as the Hudson Bay post. 1hey are all built with low center ol gravity. ,,,.u,ed hv a Klondiker in Glenora. OpWaru of 5000 people are camped there. wnere three months ago only few m 'eraoie indians were cabined. Fully tWo- tbirds of these men have practically mt their entira capital into provlslons For a wear or more. Agents or re- sponsible company offered i'll Glenofa
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often the large and strong jawed war riors win the day, and destroy to worker the opposing forces. They crush their adversaries' heads with their viselike mandibles Meanwhile, within the nest, the other half of the workers-the division told off as spe- cial nurses-are otherwise employed in defending and protecting the rising generation. At the first alarm, at the first watchword passed with waving antenae through the rest; "A warrior host is attacking usi' they hurry to the chambers where the cocoons are stored and bear them off in their mouths into the recesses of the nest, the lowest and most inaccessible of all the chambers.
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other places progress was barred by great dunes or drifts of snow extending from bank to bank. The horses were completely useless in this heavy snow, and the big sleds loaded with hay, oats and two months provisions for twenty men were tugged for miles over the big drifts by hand. Occasion ally a horse would lose heart after floundering through the snow for half day and no longer respond to the efforts of the teamSterS. It would then be necessary to un- load a sleigh. Upon this sleigh the horse would be securely bound and in this way drawn out to a place of safety. Two of our horses following behind with pro- vender disappeared through the ice and were seen no more. A big whisky outfit also disappeared in similar fashion within two miles of Telegraph Creek. Two months later a barrel of whisky was re- covered fifteen miles below by MT. Garden of Clark's survey corps. In the next six weeks eight Klon- dikers lost their lives in as many different accidents on the river
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-10

"HE "An Canadian" route to the
 Yukon by way of GlenOra and
 Teslin Lake is not fulfilling the
 promise of it's projectors in af-
 fording a direct and expeditions highway to the gold fields. The engi- neer employed by the Canadian con- tractors, Mann, Mckenzie & Co.,, to locate a narrow gauge railway from Glenora to Teslin Lake. have been recalled after three months of work. and it is not likely that the whistle of a locomotive will he heard in that region by any of the present generation of wayfarers.
 Bent on a years outdoor work in British Columbia and Alaska under health olders I pushed on with one of Mann & McKenzie's engineering corps to a point in the interior about sixty miles north of Glenora. l camped
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enterprising white brethren intend to do about 1t.
 Tn speaking his own convlctions the writer is confident that grit and desper ate energy will carry many through to the lake late in the summer when the swamps are dried out. It is also equally certain that many more must find the means to avail themselves of another route or else to return whence they came.
 As to the condition of the man who, in the face of an unprejudiced warning, stakes his all in an attempt to pass to
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-10

The author of party of surveyors and recently Canadian Government to by what is known as the Sklne Tein Lake, into the klondke Ihe pro nosed road of the "A Canadian route into the
 attended the party the extrao encountered the perils awaiting the hou sands and adventuers met along the way are here forth
 Th surveying party obliged give its work aban route is said to be thing of the according to the writer's story are leaV n as fast So another much advertised road to marked "Cosed a1ter tn or rnuch time and several fortunes
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From the middle of April to May 2o if was impossible to get loaded horse over the first summit. When the sur vey party was running try lines at that noint April Il, Charles Collins, rodman, renorted a mean depth of seven feet two inches of snow on about two miles of the trail. A false step from the
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by and, though of a fishy flavor, were eagerly devoured by the bacon and
 beans contingent of wayfarers. The trail following the windings of the Big Tahltan is in fairly serviceable condi- tion as far as the second summit or the First Coketsie Lake. The altitude here is about three thousand feet, but
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On reaching Telegraph Creek, March 29, the southern exposures of the noun tain slopes were almost devoid of snow. Klondikers arriving with dogs and sleds few days later were nonplused to find the trail impossible for sleds over the first few miles of the steep ascent from the Stikeen. The Indians began at once lively business packing to the first summit of 2700 feet over a distance of nine miles at the rate of cents per pound or $50 a ton.
 With an abundance of horse feed,
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-25
When General Miles Comes.

1t is apparent that an investigation
of all the various shortcomings of adj
ministration during the war cannot be
STAYED off much longer. 1t was sup
posed that the round robin incident
would become the subject of at least
an amiable inquiry, but the fear that
it must lead to an examination of
the conditions that called it out and the
question Of responsibility doubtless
caused the department to ignore an un-
precedented performance. Then the
unanimity with which the press of the
country, including the medical jour
nails, charged negligence and incomLe-
tence and consequent needless suffering
and mortality among the soldiers is a
thing that nobody could expect to pass
without formal official action; but the
only result was a private letter to the
perennial Depew, wishing him a pleas
ant summer and evading the most es-
sential points of the charges. The sur
geon general then demanded an in
vestigation of the medical conduct of
the Santiago campaign, but his right
TO it has not been recognized. Seeing
no reasonable prospect of having the
medical service relieved of a blame
which he thought belonged with the
War Department, Lieutenant Colonel
Sem, chief of the operating staff at
Santiago, has written letters to the
newspapers, and had himself inter-
viewed by reporters, in order to make
direct charges of cruel neglect and in
difference on the part of his superior
officer, General Shafter. These extra
ordinary efforts to force an inquiry
that should need no forcing-an in
quiry that would be inevitable if there
was nobody to shield from deserved
censure-have all failed of their OBJ
ject
There is yet one other hope. Yester-
days dispatches showed that Gen.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-25
Fatal Nostalgia

How seriously inconsistencies affected
the volunteer army at Santiago, only
the doctors know. 1t is to be consid-
cred that most of the young men who
enlisted in the army had never been
away from Come in their lives and
that they had an exaggerated idea of
the distance to Cuba from the time re-
quired to receive letters froms home.
1t is affirmed by doctors and nurses
that homesickness was an unfortunate
complication in the case of most of
the fever-stricken soldiers. Some who
would have borne the malarial attack
lightly if they had not been yeaIning
for home sunk and died.
That the authorities in Washington
did not appreciate the importance of
letters in the case of the volunte eTs is
obvious, since no attempt was made to
establish a system of prompt transit
and delivery. DR.. Sem regards this as
one of the worst oversights. He ira ed
the virulence of many an attack Of
fever, or rather the lack Of resistance
on the part of the patient, to the fall
ure to receive letters from home. Those
who were at all inclined to homesick-
ness looked eagerly for the postn an
who did not come, and then ceased to
fight for life. He reports that. mail
bags intended for the soldiers were
sent to Florida, then to New York, and
it was weeks before they reached the
army. He maintains that home letters
were really of more consequence than
rations-that there was hardly man
who would not rather have gone with
out half his rations than without his
letters. DR.. Sem himself got but two
letters while in Cuba, although no
less than two hundred were sent to
him.
There is hardly doubt that he has
put his finger on a fact of some import
ance in this. The monotony of camp
life in the most favorable circum-
stances is almost intolerable to men
who are not used to it, and especial Y
to young men who are the idols of
a household. To be subjected to severe
discipline, to deprivations and expo
sures previously unknown, and to come
as near to death as most of them DID,
is enough for the stoutest to bear with
out being cut off from communication
with home The lesson is well worth
remembering.