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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-14

The state central committee has adopted
the following rules for the government OF
the convention:
/. Delegates and alternate delegates
shall be democratic residents Of the coun-
" they represent.
.. In the absence OF a delegate his al
ternate shall cast his vote.
3 In the absence of a delegate and nj.
alternate. a majority of the delegation OF
tina county shall be entitled to cast the
vote of the absentee.
4. In case any county shall De without
representation. either by delegates or
their alternates. such county shall not be
entitled TO vote.
& In the preliminary organization OF
the convention the unit rule shall not
prevail. but the vote OF each delegate snail
be counted in accordance with MS own
views.
BY order OF the state democratic central
committed. w NJ. COCKRILL
JOHN @. MORONY. Chairman.
Secretary.
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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-03-19
A VIEW OF THE TOWN OF sKAGuAY.

parties, with a view to determining the
possibilities OF that region.
The trades and professions represent
ed in the expedition are physicians, sur
geons. dentists. chemists. assayers. en-
gineers, surveyors, carpenters, boat
builders, sailors machinists and black
smiths.
The number of women that have been
infected with the gold fever is surpris-
ing. Foremost among the expeditions
that include women in their member
ship is one got up by Miss Mary M.
Board OF Metuchen. n. j. This young
woman achieved notoriety about six
months ago by running down three bur-
glars who had come to pay her a mid
night call. The expedition organized by
Miss Board includes nine women among
it's a members.
From Waynesboro, Pa, Mrs. Mary J.
Blair will send her 16-year-old son 70
the Klondike to hunt gold
A young man named Welt former
resident of Altoona, Pa, recently re-
turned to Seattle on mining trip from
the Klondike. He describes the suffer-
ing and destitution which he left be-
hind as being intense While travelling
overland from Dawson City to Seattle
Nell HdU one sue Ol MS ldce frozen.
In November at the time Welt left
Dawson City, -four was selling at $50 a
sack. pork and beans were each quoted
at 81 per pound. and an ordinary drink
of whisky cost $1.50. Dogs used for
hauling sledges were valued at from
$50 TO $500 Nothing is plentiful ex-
cept gold immense shipments Of which
are awaiting transportation. The metal
is filled into -four sacks, which are piled
one on top OF the other like so much
merchandise
Among the latest of the rich sites
that have been discovered are many
that are located in Klondike county. a
miner named Olsen OF New York city
tells of a prospector who has opened a
rich pocket not over 10 feet square
from which $4,000 worth Of gold has al
ready been taken.
The steamship oregon very lately left
Portland carrying 500 passengers and
1200 tons OF freight, including dogs.
horses and burros.
A railway will be built from Montreal
TO the Klondike via the Peace River
pass by the Great Commonwealth De-
velopment and Mining company, which
has already obtained British Colum-
bia charter.
The route is northwesterly, via Fort
Assiniboin, Sturgeon lake, Fort st. John
on the Peace river. up Half Way river.
through the Rockies by the Peace River
pass, across the northeastern corner OF
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-03-19
copyright. 1881


The spring rush to the Kiondike has
commenced. The first fortune hunting
parties indeed started during the ear
ly part OF February, though there was
little possibility OF their leaving Seattle
or Tacoma or Victoria for a month
later. Some have already sailed from
Portland for Dyea and Skaguay. From
San Francisco comes a report that be-
tween 500 and 1000 people are daily
leaving that city. But, in truth, those
who attempt the passes In March will
risk life and property, while April gives
some more genial promise. as the win
ter's rigors will have then greatly mod
Grated.
There is naturally the feasibility OF
passing over the snow laden ground
with more facility than in wadng
through the slush OF later days when
the thaws commence. but the element
of ever present danger will last as long
as wintry sky hovers above that des-
olate waste OF England's possession
known as the Northwest Territories.
Steam yachts have been taken from
the Atlantic coast by loading them on
to fat cars and transporting them by
rail across the continent to the shores
of the Pacific, where they are being fit
tea IOT the hlOnulke SeTNlCe. many
new types of boats have been especially
designed to meet the exigencies pecul-
lar to the Yukon river. Almost inva-
riably the boats of new design are fiat
bottomed and of very slight draft. with
stern paddle wheels. such as are used in
navigating the Mississippi.
IL is true there is an aerial railway
already over the Chilkoot pass and that
the trip may be made in a few hours
instead of the previous several days,
but the traveller is swung along at a
rapid rate, at a dizzy height in some
places, ensconced i'm a basket and far
above the banks of snow and jagged
rock below. to land on the icefields OF
the other side. Then there is a contem-
plated bicycle road by this route and
regular road by the Stickeen river way
from Fort Wrangell TO Lake Teslin.
alongside the HootaIinqua river. which.
after its junction with the Big Salmon,
Is known as the Lewes river.
All these proposed roads will be fin
ished during the summer. and the re-
turn from Dawson City, Forty Mile and
Cudahy will be made under compara-
lively easy conditions next fall Ad-
ditionally there is TO be on the road
from Dyea a line OF steamers on Lakes
Lindeman. Bennett and La Barge and
fatboats on the connecting streams to
the Lewes river, which at Fort Selkirk
nnites with the Pelly TO form the
mighty Yukon. The summer traveller
TO the new FL Dorado will find plenty
of means of communication and easy
transit.
Some vessels which are an entirely
new departure in bodybuilding are now
in course Of construction for the En-
Crescent shipyard at Elizabethport, N.
j. These boats are ten in number con-
sisting of eight barges and two power
full tugs. The barges are arranged to
carry both passengers and freight. and
they are to ply between ST. Michaels
and Dawson City distance of about
1,7o0miles. The barges are TO be all of the
same size-100 feet long. 35 feet beam,
feet inches depth of hold and feet
inches draft.
After the hulls Of the boats have been
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-03-19
10! FOR THE K0ND[KE WILD STAMPEDE Or GOLD SEEKERS
Manner Floating Craft Ready Garry Thousands Yukon GA Novel River Steamer and Her
boat Contingent Nearly Ready For Departure Expeditions by Balloon Also Preparing

Lard river. up the Francis, along the
Finlayson river TO the Pelly, which is
really the Yukon. and down that stream
10 Fort Selkirk and Dawson city and
the boundary of Alaska.
This distance is about 1000 miles. and
the company is prepared 10 guarantee
the building of the line TO Pelly, dis
tance of l,lc0 miles, within 20 months.
The highest point of this road will not
exceed $500 feet above sea level.
But there are other projected enter
prises. and to reach the Klondike with
out paying cent of railroad fare and
lodging all rapids, rocks, rivers and
mountain passes sounds like an idyllic
dream. c. w. Vosmer, a slender young
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-03-19
Anecdote Of Senator Morrill,

Upon one occasion a few years ago
when a subject in which the people
were taking unusual interest was be-
fore the senate Mr.. Morrill, announced
that he would upon the following day
address the senate upon the proposed
measure. Such notification from sem
ator known to read his speeches served
almost invariably to give the senators
an informal recess inst cloakroom
and to leave the gallery free to the un-
wary tourist. Mr.. Morrill,, however.
found few empty senatorial seats, and
he saw that the galleries were filed.
The senator's staid. and the visitors
came to listen, not to oratory. but to
an essay. The compliment clearly was
pleasing TO Morrill,, for as he rose with
his manuscript in his hand he bowed
almost imperceptibly, yet in graceful
acknowledgment to his associates, and
then he spoke an informal sentence or
two. with his face half turned toward
the rear gallery. 1t was plain that he
Was thus testing his voice and that it
had occurred to him that IL these Wis
itors had come to hear him speak IL
should not be his fault IL they failed to
hear him. Then he turned to his man.
uscript and began:
Mr.. President, when thing Is worth
doing at ALL IL is worth doing grace
fully" And in the spirit of that quality
the address was written and in Its man
ner delivered. so that il seemed for the
moment that not i'm the senate cham
ber. but in some peaceful audience
room. a congenial company had come
together TO listen to something that was
far remote from the intense world or
craftsmanship and politics. Yet this
address was as earnest and persuasive
as any Morrill, ever made and was att
erward declared by one senator to have
been "rocklilSe i'm its logic"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-03-19

ploring with a scientific study OF the
geological the floral and general con-
ditions or the country. We shall not
neglect TO prospect. The gold belt in
the Rocky mountains goes from south
20 north along the western slope There
are the Kootenai, the Caribou and the
Omenica mining districts, from which
large quantities OF gold have been taxi
en-. Then above the sixty-second de-
gree is the Klondike. Is IL not reasona-
BILE TO believe that the unexplored re-
gion between the Omenca district and
the KlondilSe is also full OF gold? have
been making a scientific geological
study along this line for some months
and believe the unexplored territory
will prove to be the coming gold coun-
try. We anticipate being gone a year
at least"
They went from Vancouver by the
Canadian Pacific railway to Ashcroft.
from there 10 Quesnelle by wagon road
and then By trail along the Fraser river
TO Fort George. thence to Fort Mcleod
on to Peace and Finlay rivers. and
from there they will strike out into the
unexplored territory.
Both gentlemen are OF wealth and
high family connection. DR.. de Simone
was d iltuttutul III the lNtHly-lOuItn
regiment OF infantry OF the Italian
army before he retired to enter the
medical profession.
A Klondike lunch has heretofore been
an expensive necessity, but it is prob
able that the tors of beef which failed
10 reach Dawson City last fall, some OF
the supply being within 90 miles OF
that town imbedded in snow which will
keep it preserved, and the immense
quantities of food and provender that
will be sent into the region this year
will result in a lowering of prices. Dur
ing the winter the lowest rate for a
meal has been $3.50, but IL has not been
near as good and nutritious as the so
cent table d'hote repast of the eastern
states, and il has been quite easy for a
very hungry man to eat so OF food
there at one sitting. The "stand by"
at all the restaurants is the f1apjack
No dining saloon is too poor TO pro-
duce it, and 1t is the most popular
form OF wheat flour preparation. II is
the glory OF the Klondike and appears
in the most remote and impoverished
diggings. Always palatable. IL is, in
the language of the miner. tough. but
filling"
at the better class OF restaurants in
Dawson City is fresh fish. Rolled in
flour. in cracker crumbs or in batter
and fried a delicate brown. IL is a
dainty that hungry man can readily
appreciate, especially after a diet OF
salt pork.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-03-19
Iron Heated In Cold Water.

Few operations look more like =
miracle than heating a piece of iron to
a cherry hue or an even more daz-
zling incandescent by thrusting IL into
tank of cold water. None of Berr-
mann's illusions could be more STAR
tling than this feat. which. as now per-
formed, is a practical reality and not
merely an entertaining trick. Hitherto
the blacksmith has plunged horses
shoe or other product OF his art into
bath beside his forge to lower the tenn
perature OF a piece Of mstal which has
already been heated in che fire. 1t is
now proposed to do away with the
broad hearth. the coais, the blaze and
the bellows. but to retain the tank and
its contents. Then sim Fly by immers-
ing the iron therein il will be quickly
brought TO the desired temperature.
In Newark, Nj, the other day. when
tests of the device were being made. II
was found that a railrvcd spike fully
an inch in diameter acqy..ed n cherry
tint 80 seconds after II wGs dipped into
the cold bath. while fsif inch screw
bolt came TO a white heat in 1S seconds.
The general arrangement OF this Won
derful apparatus is as follows: The tank
is about as big as kitchen sink and
stands on four legs. 1t is q portable af-
fair. Two carefully insulated wires.
proceeding either from a dynamo on
the premises or from some general pow
er and lighting circuit outside, are led
into the room. The positive" Is
connected with the metal lla;ng OF the
reservoir. The other wire W secured
by welding or solder or otherwise to &
pair OF tongs whose handles are cover
ed with insulating material. The Mega
tive wire is long enough and flexible
enough to allow considerable movement
by the workman. The latter merely
grasps with these insulated tongs the
spike. bolt. horseshoe or other object
which is to be heated and dips ii into
the liquid. That's all. When IL Is hot
enough, he turns to his anvil and ham,
mers the thing or drops 1t where anoth-
err workman can pick IL up and then
uses his magic tongs afresh to handle
something else.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-03-19

from Ashcroft, II. c., to the rivers OF
the Yukon system.
''The territory between the fifty
eighth degree north latitude and the
sixty-seMnd degree said Signor Seq
hezza ( st before his departure. has
never been explored The Indian hunt
ers are the only people who have pene-
trated that section of country. II is the
intention of DIR. de Simone and myself
TO make the trip alone with the excep-
ton of hired man. We have a desire
to explore this northern region and ex-
pect TO do SO in a scientific and prac-
teal way. We will take along all the
necessary apparatus for surveying and
will establish monuments. We expect
to make a detailed and reliable map OF
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-03-19

man, with dreamy blue eyes and high
forehead, who has for months past been
star attraction at the San Francisco
recreation grounds, says it Is not. Be
hind his expansive frontal bone Nosmer
is said &c hide nerve of the heroic sort
He talks as calmly about steering
balloon from San Francisco TO Dawson
City as he would about the details of
breakfast. He proposed to bring the
big airship. the largest ever construct
ed, the monster Worlds fair balloon,
now his property. known DIS the 'E. A."
from Cincinnati and then to go skim
ming the ethereal blue to the land of
nuggets and frozen feet.
"If we get the proper kind of encour-
agement," Mr.. Vosmer said some weeks
ago, eve can go TO the Klondike easily.
1t viii take about three weeks TO come
from Ohio If the winds are at all fa-
vorable. We hope to be ready TO start
from here for Dawson City not later
than the end Of March"
In company with Mr.. Vosmer will be
James Thomson of Cincinnati, A. An
drews of Chicago and II. Klemike OF
Pittsburg. all experienced aeronauts.
Mr.. Thomson and Captain Nick Rob-
erts of Cincinnati formerly owned the
balloon, which cost 1900. II was made
for the Worlds fair by Henri La Cham
bre of Paris. The bag when inflated Is
very nearly 100 feet I'm diameter and
differs from the gas compartment OF
most balloons in being a perfect sphere.
The basket is Of wonderful strength and
skillfully devised to hold all the neces-
stiles for a long Journey. The aerial
voyage westward has been over Ken
lucky, Illinois, Missouri Oklahoma, In
dian Territory Texas, New Mexico and
Arizona. People were astonished and
enterprising advertisers pleased by the
occasional showers sent down by the
aeronauts Of certain brands of soap.
baking powder, stove polish and other
articles Of value. but harmless even
from the mile in the air standpoint. A
similar free gift distribution was tried
in Chicago, but there the citizens who
received the soap resented the aero
nauty institution.
j. r. Mathews OF Baltimore. who is
q steering gear manufacturer, proposes
20 conquer frozen seas by n novel craft
he has constructed IL is a catamaran
with three hulls that has already been
shipped 90 Seattle. where two smaller
boats for storage and freight are TO be
added. The center boat Is 34la feet
long, 9 feet beam and has a carrying
capacity of 80 tons Skates or runners
will be attached 10 the bottom when IL
is necessary, and there IS an attach
ment for wheels. The sails will be OF
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PAGES
9 to IL.

bones and waste which fall from the
butchers meat blocks.
A stranger who does not appreciate the
health value OF these buzzards Is liable
TO Kill one OF them. Then he Is liable
To be fined $40. for the city does not al
low it's curious scavenger birds to bs
destroyed with impunlty.
The Charleston market Is a noted
place in the south. IL runs from Mar
ket street TO the waters edge and In
the main thoroughfare for the crowd OF
pedestrians who come and go from the
harbor boats. Ii is a novel sight TO see
the hurrying feet OF workmen threading
their way carefully among these wild
birds gathered there by the hundreds.
Like domestic chickens they stand
about, and like domestic dogs they
watch for every piece OF waste as II is
dropped from a meat block One would
hardly think as he pushes the big birds
out or the way that these same feather
ed things roost in the forest and are
tame nowhere else. In the markets they
never attempt TO steal meat from the
counter.
Going through the three or four blocks
OF the big market one morning the writ
er counted over 300 of these buzzards
dS nO0Cndldntly as
though 1t was their own poultry yard.
They will not get out of your way. They
fight every dog or cat that attempts TO
run in opposition and will scramble
with man or a child who competes
with them for a fallen scrap OF meat.
But they keep the Charleston markets
clean, perfectly clean. AS result Of
their thorough scavenger work this is
the cleanest and healthiest meat mar
ket in the world.
In consideration OF their assistance In
keeping the city clean the municipal
council has made ii an offense to in
jure or kill one OF them. An offender
not only has TO pay $40 fine, but usu-
ally gets free lecture on the laws OF
health and the value of the buzzards as
assistant members of the local board OF
health. By an hour after sunrise the
birds have all left the city.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-03-19
Washington a Practical Man.

Washington was not even accordins
TO the standards of his day, n highly
educated man. In his youth he did mo-
seem destined 10 high honors. lie be-
gan life as n surveyor at i6. and mis- col
lege was the forest: his tutors I'm war
were red Indians. He was eminenty
q practical man.
Patrick Henry wrote OF Washington
during the First congress. "1f you speak
of solid information and sound juds-
ment. Colonel Washington is unques-
tionably the greatest man upon the
floor
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-03-19

expense fund. The first installment OF
$50 was for the purpose OF securing
the necessary mechanical equipments.
Among these were included two bucket
dredges. four centrifugal pumps. a
steam launch, a inch running drill, a
sawmill, a large metallic gold pan and
two boilers and engines for a steamer
not yet built. AT a point on the Stick
cen river the expedition will halt and
build the necessary boats, while several
of the leaders of the party intend going
up To the Klondike TO secure contracts
for working on claims that are known
to pay. Others in the party remaining
at the point on the Stickeen will band
together in number of prospecting
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-03-19

powerful tug and four barges. The tugs
are OF unique construction and will be
the first steamboats, ever built with six
independent screws. These screws are
fitted on new principle, working in
separate recesses underneath the boat.
the sides OF each recess dipping trihe
below the water. Paradoxical though IL
may seem, owing to this arrangement a
screw the diameter OF which is greater
than the draft of boat may be work.
ed In complete immersion, for as soon
as the screw starts the water is lifted
into the recess and Is held there by
means OF atmospheric pressure so that
the screw revolves I'm solid water"
There will be three Roberts safety wa
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-03-19

express can see huge black Jumps fall
from the trees about. They never hit
the ground. out in the open these black
Jumps gather in a struggling flock and
flop their way over toward the custom
house. They are buzzards. While the
twilight is yet gray these vulgar birds
go TO the city market and infest IL for
an hour or two. The passenger who
was startled by their dull flop from
their palmetto perches and saw great
black clouds OF them move across the
low rice flats can, If he goes to the mar
ket place. see the same birds, disgust
ingly tame. running about the stall
flows of the meat mart. fighting with
the hunger OF dogs OF the city for the
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-03-19

the lateen rig. consisting OF balloon
jib OF 500 square yards of canvas. fore
sail OF 100 square yards, jib Of 80 and
mainsail OF IS square yards. 1t is TO be
propelled solely by the wind, and the
builder claims IL will have a speed OF
20 miles an hour through water. 60
miles an hour on ice and a rapid rate
on land. II he succeeds. he will solve a
difficult problem. With five others he
will start in the early spring and go
direct 10 Copper river by sailing along
the coast 10 it's mouth and then over
land to the Klondike.
Felix SeghezZa OF Genoa and DR.. ID.
r. de Simone OF Naples ieft New York
city some time ago for a midwinter trip
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-03-19

ter tube boilers. with three independent
smokestacks The fuel may be either
wood or coal, but It is intended to start
with enough coal TO make the trip to
Dawson City without having to stop for
a supply OF wood. Electricity will be
used for Illuminating purposes on the
steamers.
The purpose of having number OF
small barges instead of a single large
one is not without it's advantages. In
many places on the Yukon the water is
shallow and swift. and while a large
barge would cause considerable trouble
for a single tow a number OF smaller
ones can avoid the difficulty. for they
may be towed through one by one.
Travel to the Klondike will shortly
be greatly facilitated by the addition
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-03-19

of four ocean steamers that have late
ly undergone alterations at the Cramps
yard in Philadelphia. These steamers
the Ohio. the Indiana, the Illinois and
the Pennsylvania-weref formerly in the
service OF the American line and piled
between Philadelphia and Liverpool. II
is intended to use the steamers for the
transportation OF freight and passen-
gers between Seattle and st. Michaels.
at whiclnplace they will connect with
the barg fleet now building.
One of the largest and best equipped
parties of gold seekers that have yet
started is known as the Alaska Klon-
dixie Cooperative Mining expedition.
This expedition consists OF about 60
men, each OF whom has agreed to pay
$500 in installrsents toward a general