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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-03
LOCAL ALASKA PARTY
Leave Next Monday and VIII work
Together as One Man.


John Scott. 753 Ashland street, and
Harry T. Smith, 176 Kent street, two Of
the Oldest passenger conductors in the
employ of the Great Northern road, re-
signed their positions last Monday, and
will join number of other Great
Northern employees on a journey to AL
aska
The other members Of the party are
C. A. McCabe, postal clerk; Harry
Smart, master car builder; Fred Long.
bridge carpenter; Thomas Moore, car
penter; George Stubs, engineer: j.
Davis, machinist, and four others.
They will be accompanied by Fred
Lancaster, of Chicago. mining expert,
so that there is in the composition of
the party men qualified to look after
nCarly every need While they have
formed no organized company, they
have a mutual understanding to the
effect that the property of one is the
property of all. They have each placed
$4,000 into the general fund, with
which they will purchase their outfit
and necessary supplies. The findings of
each one will be divided up equally
among the party.
They will leave next Monday for Sc
attic, whence they will sail on the Ex-
celsior, Feb. 90, for the Copper river
country, Orca being the destination.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-03
COMPARED WITH AFRICA. -
q Former Resident of Cape Colony
Talks OF the T<Iondtke.


J. K. Buhner, an immigration expert
from New York city, was among the
arrivals in the city yesterday. Mr.
yesterday, at the Merchants, and dis
cussed the rush to the Klondike. Mr..
Buhner was q resident of Cape Colony
about the time the rush began to the
South African country, and was for a
time in the employ of the English gov
eminent. He said:
81 left New York last week, and even
there you hear much of the KlOndike,
and companies are constantly being
formed to go into the gold country in
search of wealth. In many of the
small towns the fever has gained a good
hold, and large parties are going from
many country places. In Chicago,
where [ spent a few days, the fever
seems to be the worst. There are also
many fake companies getting up par
ties to the KIondike, fleeing the public
with no intention of ever taking a step
towards Alaska.
''Of my own knowledge T know little
about Klondike, only what I have seen
in the Eastern papers. But, if the con-
ditiOns in KlOndike are anything like
those which existed in South Africa at
the time of the gold fever there [
would say that many and even a great
pIOpOIIIOH VI IhOSe WHO go 10 AIdShd
will come back empty handed, poorer
even than when they first started out.
A few will get rich. but the bulk of the
vast number who will cast their lot in
Alaska this year will be soreIy disap-
pointed.
''The mines in South Africa still yield
a large profit to their owners, but moth
ing near like the first two years of the
boom. Nearly all the mines operated
there at present are controlled by i'm
mense English syndicates. who have
gobbled everything in sight. So it will
be in the Klondike, L think"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-03
AT THE LOCAL PLAYHOUSES.

The Cherry Pickers.' Joseph Arthur's
splendid melodrama, is still meeting with pop-
ular favor at the hands of local amusement
lovers at the Grand. Ralph Delmore. as
Col. Brough, gives a finished performance
and Eleanore Browning. Nourmalee, the
beautiful half-caste, evinces studied por-
trayal of the character
Two Little Migrants" the. melodrama
which will be seen at the Grand next week
is an interesting reflex of life in a great
city. The characters are all we'll known and
are said to be true to nature. The produc-
ton, in the line of mechanical effects, is
said to surpass anything on the dramatic
stage. Mildred Holland, who is quite a ia
vorite in this city. will be seen in the leading
role Of "Fan-Fan," the boy hero.
The attraction at the metropolitan opera
house all next week commencing Sunday
evening. will be the latest comic opera sue
cess, The Geisha.' This Is claimed to be
duction of 1.-The Mikade." The sale of seats
for this engagement opens today.
THE Sign of the Cross at the Metro
politan this week. is playing to big and con-
stantly increasing business.
The regular fortnight1y concert of the Sci
bert orchestra series will be given at the
Metropolitan opera house Sunday afternoon
at $3.50.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-03
ON TO THE LAND OF GOLD
ESk3 -
SENTIMENT OF The MEN NOW IN THE
WESTERN PROCESSION
Coast Trains Leave st. Paul With
Cars Filled With Men Fearful of
Losing a Day in Their Journey
Estimates of the Crowds Be.
Iieved to Be Exaggerated.

The Alaska movement through this
city yesterday was considerable, al
though a majority Of the gold seekers
Travelled in small parties. The pas
senger men estimate that, since late
last year when the business began
moving, nearly 1000 persons have
passed through ST. Paul en- route to the
different sections where gold has been
found or is believed to be.
Railroad men say freely that the es-
Inmates of the amount of business
which which will move from east to
west have been greatly exaggerated,
and that, if many more people than
$4,000 or 10000 start for the gold coun-
try, they will experience great difficult
ty in getting further than the Pacific
coast. The railroad men smile at the
talk of 100000 or $50, 900 people going
as being too absurd to talk about.
Both trains left here yesterday after
noon-the Great Northern and North
ern Pacific-weI loaded with people
from all over the country.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-03
Washington Bureau 81. Paul Globe, }
C0rcoran Buidino. {
Special to the St. Paul Globe

Special to the st. Paul Globe.
WASHINGTON, Feb 2.-The revenue
cutter service seems to be in more dan
ger of injury from it's friends than from
its enemies. For several years. as will
be remembered by all interested par
ties, the service struggled hard to pro
cure Its own transfer to the navy de-
partment This movement had several
contradictory phases at different times.
1t was never possible, for instance. to
procure complete union of sentiment
in the cabinet on the subject of the
transfer, the secretary of the treasury
and the secretary of the navy almost
invariably having opposing views, and,
as these were the members directly
affected by the proposition, the other
members, no matter what they thought.
kept their hands off the whole business.
In those days the house of representa-
tives could always be depended upon
to pass the necessary legislation, but
every bill stuck fast in the senate,
where the influence Of the naval Of
ficers who objected to the transfer
was especially potent.
There is no longer any talk of trans
ferring the cutter service to the navy,
but in its place there is an animated
discussion Of means for accomplishing
practically the same end, that is, the
relief Of the stagnatiOn which DESTROYS
the ambition of it's officers and through
them is liable to demoralize the entire
establishment. AS only a specific num-
Der of officers of the several grades
are provided for by law, the older men
who stand at the top must give way
before the younger men below can be
promoted. There is no retirement sys-
tenn in this service; the result is that
some of the older men are utterly in
capacftated by age and infirmities, and
yet, with their meager income have
not succeeded in saving enough to JUS
tify them in resigning and letting their
salaries go to the more active Juniors
Not a few of these men have served
their country so web in >-ar as to de-
serve marked consideration. now that
they have passed the era of usefulness.
a faVorite argument urged in oppOsi-
ton to the transfer bills in former con-
crosses was that the officers of the rev
enue cutter service were seeking some
of the social radiance which is sup
posed to glorify the naval service
Whatever may have been in the minds
of some of them, the great majority
had more practical object-to get the
advantage of the naval system of re-
tirement and promotion. The amalga-
nation having proved impractical bic,
bill was introduced in the last congress,
and has been introduced substantially
in the present one, "to promote the eff
fciency of the revenue cutter service"
1t provides for the creation of ire
tired waiting orders list" To this list
it is proposed to assign officers who
shall have been pronounced, by board
of medical experts convened by the
president from time to time al his dis
erection. incapacitated, through no vi
cious habits of their own, for performing
the active duties of their offices. The
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-03
Not Our Pants.

Gov. Pingree announces another campaign
OF national proportions. 1t is nothing short
OF grand movement in favor of the eight
hour working day-Springfeld Republican.
Tho ! IN. Potato Pingree is too much in
clHed 10 diversity his political industries
vi! ght or eighteen hours day be enough
are statesmen who can better his instruc-
ton. For example, the Hon. Peach Pants of
Red Wing, Mimi. who is at the head of a
grand movement in favor of abolishing work
New York Sun.
Avast, there, you incarnation of the
irreverent. Belabor your Potato Pin
gree, your Abe Slupsky, your Pod Dis
nuke. your Dink Bolts, Of peachy
Michigan and tobaccony Mizzoori and
cottony Georgia, as you will and to
your hearts content; but keep your
profane hand off Minnesota We have
no Peach Pants here, neither in Red
Wing nor Bemidji. We have abolish
ers in plenty, but none who would
abolish work. We have Rahilly, who
would abolish railways, and Taw-
ney, who would abolish Democ-
racy, and Long, who would abolish
fusion, and Lugger, who abolishes
chinch bugs, but no Peach Pants head
ing crusade against work. The only
Pants Minnesota ever had were the i'm
mortal Birch Bark pair tailor made by
the Hon. J. Adam Bede, and worn by
him upon state occasions; but work is
the last thing he would set his face
against.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-03
Is Saul Among the Prophets ?

We congratulate the Minneapolis
Tribune upon notable departure in
the interest of truth and Justice from
its ordinary attitude of hide-bound
partisanry. The reader of the Tribune
who turned to it's editorial page yes
terday morning for the customary
polus of laudation of all things Repub-
lican and abuse of all things Demo-
cratic Unfortunately must have rub
bed his eyes in doubt when he read
View of Croker" and "Van Wyck On
Schools" The subject matter of these
Is full of facts, but they are such only
as are commonly passed in respectful
silence by the Republican editor In
the first, which is a sympathetic COM
ment on an article by Mr.. Alfred Henry
Lewis il the Metropolitan magazine,
the Tribune remarks that Mr. Croker
is not at all the INSCRIPTIONS person
that he has been pictured. His char
acteristics are indicated in a quota
ton from the magazine article thus:
There is nothing indirect in his nature.
He hunts 'or his foe at and goes
to battle with bugle and banner. He
turns from treachery as crime and
honesty not to be bribed Croker combines
courage not to be daunted. These make
his bedrock. or his history one may
say: No man ever knew him to break
his word; no man ever saw him desert
friend. In his war of politics he plans
wisely and fights with that desperate
silence BELONGS tn he hnll- do
one might kill him, he cannot be con-
quered.
This is followed by an article strong
ly commendatory Of the action of
Mayor Van Wyck in reducing the esti-
mates of expenditure for Greater New
York, and particularly in his dealings
with the school board Finding that
an appropriation of 20 per cent over
the amount granted last year was ask
ed, he took a stand against the increse
and fall out of the superintendent of
schools. Although we may differ from
him in some Of his ideas as to where
retrenchments should be made, his
general proposition that the steady in
crease of public expenditure noted in
every department of every city gov
eminent should be checked, is the very
essence Of reform. The conclusion Of
the Tribune as to the ability of this
man, whom it represented during the
campaign as either a nonentity or a
monster bent upon running the city, is
as follows:
From which it appears that the advo-
Gates of eXtravagant school fads have
run UP against hard proposition in the
hard-headed mayor of Greater New York.
He may not be so E'advanced as some of
the educators, but he is evidently bent on
protecting the pockets of the tax payers.
Combining these articles of confess
sion and recantation from a single
issue, we have again to congratulate
the Tribune upon its fairness and it's
openness to the blows of truth; and to
express the hope that it may follow
the lead of these to their true and in
evitable end, which is a safe refuge in
the fold of Democracy.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-03
T0-DAYS WEATHER.

WASHINGTON, Feb. Forecast for
Thursday: Minnesota Threatening weather,
with possibly light snow in extreme northern
portion warmer; southerly winds.
MISUNDERSTANDING weather; warmer;
fresh southwesterly winds.
South Dakota-Partly cloudy weather:
sOuthwesterlY winds.
Misunderstanding weather. warmer;
southerly winds.
North Misunderstanding weather, and
possibly light snow in northern portion;
warmer southwesterly winds.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
United States Department of Agriculture
Weather Bureau, Washington, Feb. 2, 6:48
p. m. Local Time, 8 D. N. 18th Meridian
Time Observations taken at the same mo-
ment of time at all stations.
TEMPERATURES
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-03
-FOUR HUNDRED FORTUNATE MEN.

Two hundred thousand dollars is a comfort
able fortune, and there are over four hundred
men in the United States who have this, or
greater amount, IN life insurance. Some of
them have five times that sum-
very tidy amount is $500, 900 to look for
ward to for ones certain dependence in later
that particular amountsis not cited either as
an example for the uninsured or as a subject
of envy to the hundreds of thousands of policy
holders who carry vastly smaller sums. Only
rich, very rich, men can afford such expensive
insurance. but if life policies are good things
for those men, with all their other posses
sicns, who, in the name of sense, are policies
not good for and who has right to go
grumblng through life without one?
If rich man is so insecure in the posses
sion of all his wealth that he must guard
his family and himself by life insurance,
what excuse has the man of moderate means,
small means. or no means at all for not doing
the same thing to the extent Of his ability?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-03
GO AT 1T LEIsURELY.
Plans of n Select Few That Start
From Chfppeyvn Fails.

One party that came in yesterday was from
Chippewa Falls, Wis, chaperoned by Mr..
and Mrs. B. F. Willard. There were w. r.
Willard, w. H. Browning, Ben Hunter, John
Riddell and Martin Bestres.
They have been planning for some months
to go to the coast feasible and
await satisfactory transportation arrange
ments to the Copper river country where
they mean to go and prospect.
In the party are practical machinist, car
penter, and another member has had some
experience in mining matters, although he
has never before been in search of gold. One
of the party has contracted to do the cook
ing for all the others. This will be his share
of the work. The little group will take mat
tiers easily, and expect by this time next year
to have searched out some of the hidden
wealth of this now much talked section of
Alaska
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-03

gold. The party is largely composed of Great
Northern employees, who have received a Years
leave of absence, so in case their venture
fails, they can return to their Jobs. The
of this city, and Conductors Scott and Smith
OF St PAU, two Of the best known train
men nth the system Others included in the
party will be John Raitor and ]. w. DeIehay,
OF st. Cloud; George Stubs and George
Shaule, of Melrose; Louis Lace, John Canton
ana John Mckay, Minneapolis, and several
others. The party will leave this city Feb.
I, land at Auker, Alaska, and from there
make the best possible time they can for the
Copper river The outfit will include pro
visions for eighteen months
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-03
SEPARATED IN ST. PAUL.
Rules of an Alaskan Company
Cause a Family Parting.

Among the Chicagoans who passed through
as the Youkon Valley Mining and Prospecting
company, was T. V, Cannon, of New York:
his Mr Ta 6cao on 70 Miss eve
Leahy, an heiress, who lives on Wabash
avenue. She accompanied her husband to
st. Paul, reaching here Tuesday morning,
but in spite of the fact that she offered the
Yukon company 81. 900 to waive the objection
to taking women the officers were obdurate
and she was compelled to return to Chicago
while her husband went On.
Mrs. Cannon will, however, join her hus-
band when the summer comes, and the water
route less perilous and more comfortable than
the back door, route. is opened up In the
meantime she will live with her two sisters
who, with herself. have been made rich
women by their fathers will, of which Mrs
Cannon is the executriX.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-03
From the saltwater Gazette.

The general appearance of The G o e is
now more after the style Of Eastern publica-
tons, not being quite as loud on heads The
new management proposes to give the news of
the day without views, although it promises
to be not wanting III views when occasion de-
mands. That it will be n first-class news
paper is little doubted, judging by the sam
pie of today. Politically, it promises to be
Democrtic. lin sympathy with the political
the party and its organization respected"
We believe The G o b e viii be improved
and prove a credit to the state as well as
the Democratic party. of which it is a natural
leader.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-03
AT TIE HOTELS.

indsor Hotel. S. Campbell, West Su-
or; S: G. Comstock, Moorhead; NJ. S.
Ingles, Winnipeg. H. S, Judson. Austin; j.
V. Goetchins. Duluth; James K. Grondahl,
Red Wing; Give Hastings. Brainerd; Charles
G. Kinds, Shakopee; Maj. Ashley j. Abel,
John Lamey, jamestown, N. D.; Calm D.
Meyer Montevideo; A. NJ. Lewis, Austin.
E. G. Atwood, Des Moines; F. B. Phillips,
Milwaukee; William Herschel, New York ;
e. S. Friend, Milwaukee; W. H. Kelly, Owa-
tonna; E. T. Young. Appleton; J. NJ Fox.
Cincinnati; H; P. Barley Philadelphia; H. G.
NeTfJ ones M P A Boat New York
pie, New York; E. Fensdorf, Cincinnati; H F.
Bennett, Chicago; Charles Edwards Chicago
J. M. Jordon; Kansas City; B: o: Moon, Chi
Minneapolis; W. w. Mayo. Rochester; w. j.
Mayo, Rochester F. o. Routh, New York !;
]. K. Carlisle, New York; w. P. Page Bos-
Boston; J. L. Lehman, New York; W. W.
Butler. Chicago; G. B. Smith, Chicago; George
W, Hockstein, Milwaukee; VIII Freedman,
New York
Merchants HOTEL. B. streeter. Auegap
Mich; c. L. Good, Alexandria; ]. X Hud-
ner, New York; d. I'll. Moore Philadelphia
R. L. Frazer, Pelican Rapids; H. Wilson,
Parbault A: D, Keyess, Faribault; ]. H.
family, North Branch, Charles O. Elwood,
Elkton, S. D.; w. LaIvande Eau Claire; D..
f. Henderson, Chicago; E. S. Durant, Still
water; H. W. Kennedy, La Crosse; w. S.
Burrows, Chicago; S. d. Purdy, La Crosse;
j. w. Searles, Montana: A. G. Foss, ELS
worth; o. f. Gilman, st. Louis: S. Rosen-
thai and son, Crookston; E. H. Wilson, Bis
marck; j. c.. Leib, Prairie City, To-; E. L.
Donovan, Langdon, N. D.; Andrew Thisted.
Great Falls O.. L. Sateren, Grafton, n. D.;
II. W.. Wallmare, Drayton NJ D.; F. w.
Hall Chicago; P. J. O'Leary, New Duluth.
Clarendon Hotel-E. D. Bangs, Milwaukee
b. G. Allen, st. James; ]. B. Mccormick,
Milwaukee; George F. Faber and wife Chas,
ka; Daniel Taylor, Spooner, Wis; NJ In
gram, jamestown, N. D.; Mop. Chamberlin.
len, Ely.
Hotel Metropoitan-H. o. Pinther Chica-
go; J. NJ. Brainerd, Waterloo, To-; George F..
Long. Minneapolis; A. j. Burnham, Des
Moines; George urrir, Crookston.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-03
A Tortoise Once Caught "a Hare.

From the East Grand Forks Courier
The St Paul o b e has been sold again
this time to a Mr.. Spinney, of New York
The new proprietor will find it necessary to
get swift gait Oh to keep up with the
better general newspaper than it has
been heretofore. It's editorial utterances have
always taken high rank, and the addition to
the news service makes the Pioneer an all
around literary tre2i.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-03
Trio From DCfrnii.

Three stolid Germans all middle aged. sat
in Northern Pacific tourist coach and
watched with some amusement, the nervous
activity of some of the younger gold seekers.
The trio consisted Of two brothers, Carl
and Theodore Meier and Theodore Rusinski,
al OF Detroit, Mich. They have considerable
money. and have cut off all ties in the East
They will outfit at Seattle and push Gheir
way to Dawson City.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-03
Felix O'NefII,s PART

Felix O'Neill resigned his position as lieu
tenant of Chemical Engine No. l, of this
CITY, and with three companion from Maple
cine for Dawson City, where they hope to be
in a month and a half
O'NeilPs companions are James Moore
Ihomas J. Butler and George A. Cunning
ham; all stout farmer lads from Maple Lake
on the 500 line. The party has big outfit
ara VIII purchase on the coast sleds to be
taking with thar, S-AS' - =
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-03

The New York man who married two
cashier girls recently and contented
himself thereafter with clipping cou-
pons from the salaries of his wives has
certainly established a new kind of
matrimonial business trust.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-03

Senator Pettigrew's roast on the Ha-
waiian annexation scheme will not be
leader in the congressional record
this morning. The administration blue
pencil went through it when the ex
ecutive session was ordered
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-03

The summer hotel man has succeeded
where Uncle Sam failed and has sep
arated John Bull from part of his loose
change in the way of scattered islands.
The largest of the Bahamas is now
practically an American possession.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-03

There's no implication against the
honesty of the Pine Ridge reds in the
governments intention to build a barb
wire fence around their lands to keep
cattle from "straying into the reserva-
ton"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-03
WILL CROSS THE CHILKoOT.
Six Stout Young Men From the Pine
RIGS Of WiScOnsin

sextet of stout fellows from the pineries
at Hurley, Wis. have been saving up their
money, and yesterday. under the leadership
of Capt. James A. Wall, who has spent sew
eral years in Alaska, reached this city, and
took passage on the Great Northern train
for the coast.
The party has sixteen dogs and will cross
the Chilkoot pass and prospect along the
Mckenzie river, just east of Point Barrow,
the old supply post some distance north of
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-03
TEMPERATURES.
DAILY MEANS

Barometer, 1914; mean temperature, 6:
relative humidity 50; wind at D. m, south
west; weather, partly cloudy; maximum tenn
perature, ,; minimum temperature, -13;
daily range 10; amount of precipitation (rain
and melted snow in last twenty-four hours,
%.
Below zero.
Note-Barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation. P. +. Lyons. Observer.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-03
IxIondiIke Lynching.

SEATTLE Wash. FEB. 1.-The steamer
Alliance arrived today from Copper river.
bringing the news of a double murder and
lynching at Valdes on Jan. >. NJ f. Tanner,
a Montana cowboy. killed A. A. Call. of
Worthington, Mimi. and VIM. Lee of Mas
sachusetts. The miners hanged Tanner the
next morning.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-03

One hundred and forty-eight snakes
were found at a New Jersey winter re-
sort the other day. Convivial young
men may as well strike that resort off
their list.