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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-10-15
Seeing Things at Night.

We are used to crabs as large as small
plates, but. would open our eyes with
smazement and perhaps alarm if we
should suddenly come across a crab
as large as the bottom of a washtub;
yet this is what our soldiers in Cuba
have been amused and even frightened
by. A colored trooper gives the fol-.
lowing interesting account Of them in
the Boston Transcript: t"They are the
queerest things you ever saw. When
they walk around at night they sound
like a! man, and when a man is. lying
wounded and one comes toward him it
sounds like mule Why, they come.
right inasthe tent and carry off big
chunks Of meat from our mess. And
they'd take a mans leg of il they
could. I was wounded and lying in
the hospital tent, with my leg fixed up,
when heard scratching and a claw,
ing in the dark, and a big thing crawl
( ed up: / could not move, and made UP
my mind that after escaping the Span
iards was going to be carried of.
and be chewed UP alive. It crawled
right over me, and doctor came along
just in time. He said, nice like, do
you need nything 2 and Il ssaid, Yes,
sir; j do need something. want a
six foot fence built around me to keep
the Holsters away. It seems so queer
to have crabs as big as balloons walk
ing around in the bushes
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-10-15

NEW ENGINE FOR ENGLAND.
Baldwin Finishes First Mschta 70
Island and Country. .

Baldwin Finishes First MachtH g 10
Island and Country.
In these days, when American man
ufacturers dream of making the entire
world a market for their goods, it is
interesting to- note that the Baldwin
Locomotive Works has just finished it's
first engine for England. For years
it has been building locomotives for
British provinces and, colonies, but
this engine is the first foothotd it has
secured in the island ITSELF The loco
motive, which is a double~ender,' is
intended to run between Barnstaple,
in Devonshire, to Lynton, a coast re-
sort about fifteen miles to- the north,
and has one feature which is expected
to make Englishmen stare. This is a
cowcatcher, or, rather. two cow
catchers, one at each end-a device
quite unknown in English railroading.
AS a concession to- English methods
there is no headlight, but only a large
signal lamp in it's place. The Bald
wins have recently shipped six engines
to Spain, to be used on d mining rail-
road in the province of Biscay-a fact
which shows that the Spanish some
times do know a good thing, even if
American, when they see it.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-10-15
PULLED THE LANYARD.

our eyes to see what they'd be up 70
next. 5s}+ - >t~:.@"
''The first fight we was in a shell
. bust mighty near the Cap, and out If
the saddle: he went just by the con-
cussion. He warn,t hit, and sWore s.t
me to go back to my gun when I ran
to pick him up, He was trying to
mount, but the horse wouldn't let him,
and we could see the beast hold up
one. fore leg while he sided and
swung about on what was left. And
then the Cap quit him and called the
guidon- bearer to let him have his
horse, which the bearer was darned
glad TO dosand run back and get under
70 caisson. st.. 5 :5 8
And after the serimmage was over
where do. you suppose #e found the
Caps horse? Why, at the field hos
/ Epital.. with thes brigade surgeon dress
ling HIS. wound q! Walked right back
there. 50 thessurgeon said. like boun-
sjjty jumper, and held up his leg for
treatment. But that Amt 50 remark
able when you think Sf It, for he'd
seen the men 60 to sick eall every day,
and, Of course, he could see the band
ages md smell the ether. so there
amt anything 50 remarkable about
But what .Eins him his great reputa-
tion was what happened Ia another
battle a little later on. He'd got all
right ~ that time, and he and the Cap
80
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-10-15

Everybody Is waiting to see whether
or not the Canadian government is
going to reseind the royalty, whether
or or: not M Ottawa: is going to- send an hon
est set of officials, whether Or not any
new ground will be discovered by the
pilgrims, what is to be- the rate of
wages lin fine, which way the eat Is
going to jump And the pilgrim being
the cat, or largely the cat, eating fat
bacon when the thermometer is at 10O,
is waiting on his own part for the cat
to- Jump. En- his heart the Jump he
wants to make himself is over the
mountains and the glaciers; to- the land
where there are strawberries and
cream to 60 with them It was fairly
HH-distributed fact q year ago
though the pilgrim could think only Of
the story OF $500 a pan on Eldorad@- =
that all the five creeks now demon
strated to be rich--Eld dorado, Bonanza.
Hunker, Dominion and Sulphur
staked by men who were in the Klon-
dixie or started for the Klondike before
the world received the news which was.
responsible for the first great rush.
No fortunes, no considerable sum, ex-
cept by speculation, has yet been made
by other than the oldtimers who have
been in the country from two to ten
years. All the new creeks-which
means every creek in the neighbor-
hood of Dawson n-Were staked On faith
and not on prospects. These claims
must have the legal three months
work done on them this winter or be
lost to their owners. / have faith that
some Of them will turn out well, but
even then it will be another: year Or
two years before the owners can realize
from them, except by sale. Unless
there IS more work done than promised
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-10-15

ups as the wages for their: winters
work in their gold dust bags, drank
pink lemonade, sampled everything in
the edible and drinkable line displayed
in: the booths, and then had to- go to-
the he docto Fst9 settle. These 10000 pill.
grims m n now il Dawson are like an army
Of 10000 generals seeking to conquer lei.
a country Theey walk up and down:
the streets, .loiter in the saloons and
gambling places and ask one another II
they know where: there is any ground
worth stakingg They are slowly dnd-s
ing out that they. haven't reached the
place where the gold awaits their min-
ing, but q place where they may pros
pect for gold. There are s, 500 claims
staked in the. ]. Klondike mining dis
9trictsf OF these only 500 are OF any.
proven value NOR than a nominal
.specula tive sum md the nominal
speculative sum ii fast going down be-.
cause the boom out Of Dawson. The
thicker the s cheechawkos' become the:
smaller the boom Claims which were
prospected still sell, but unprospected3
ones on unnrospect creeks do not.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-10-15

! Dawson CITY Filled With
az Army Of Cold Seekers. Z


Out OF the host which started for
Dawson last spring, from 10000 to.
5000 have arrived and, like those who
gave up the battle en- route, they are
beginning to wonder why they came.
They have roughed it over the tough
est of trails; they have been sailors,
boat builders, dog drivers, cooks, only
to be called "cheechawkos." Though il
We're used as compliment, the very
sound Of this word is enough to make
man sad, if not tired. It comes with
leering smile and a sneer, saying:
"Oh, what a lot you have to learnt
The old timers borrowed ss the ..eword
from the Indians, and literally i it
means "a newcomer Not until you
have spent one winter in the country
and you have seen the ice in the river
break are you an old timer. To be a
Yukoner you must have been in the
country before the great strike was
made in the Klondike district. The
~Yukoners have formed an aristocratic
society, something like the Sons OF the
Revolution at home, and on great oc-
casions they wear broad blue scarfs
Going over the ice to Dawson, as did,
writes Frederick Palmer, I passed the
thirty thousand on the, trail, and. I saw
the old Dawson before it was trans
formed. If Dawson, in its superiority
of ancient culture, tried to phaze and
succeeded in phazing the pilgrims, the
pilgrims had the satisfaction Of liter
ally swamping Dawson. For Dawson
is only a few log cabins sitting on a
mud f1as along the river front Last
winter the resident population was not
more than thousand, the remainder
Of the people in the country, four
thousand in all, being at work upon
the creeks. szs&s, ~: ~. 81
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-10-15

there will not be employment, even at
reduced wages, for one fifth Of the
10000. There are. numerous oppor-
tunities to prospect unprospected
claims for half Of what is in them, but
il they turn out blanks then the lay
& man lln will have nothing when summer.
1 comes, having eaten his stores during
the winter. The average pilgrim has
food for not more than six months.
This means that he must buy more
before the year Is out. AS rule he is
sbreke, . and in many instances he has
sold some Of his outfit to get d little
spending money. &
If he does not go to WORK for an
other he must go prospecting ii new
territory. That means taking his food
many miles up a tributary, selecting q
little creek and burning 8, q hole to
bedrock. If the first one fails he must
try another, and so on. He cannot
prospect until the surface ground
freezes, else the water will run IN on
his g Ares. q, Meanwhile he must sit In
his tent and wait. Very few sof the
pilgrims have vet gons to- WORK for
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-10-15
The Boy. of 1890 Years Ago.

The numerous papyri. unearthed
some time ago by Messrs.s Grenfel and
Hunt from the ancient city of Oxy-:
rhyncus, Egypt, are being gradually
deciphered. One of them, aletter from
a boy, evidently petted darling, to
his father, sounds strangely modern,
though it is at least 1900 years old:
,.Theon to His Father Theon, Greeting:
It was fine thing of you not to take
me with you to the city! If you won't
take me with you to Alexandria I
won't write you a letter. or speak to
you, or say good-by to you; and if you
60 to Alexandria / won't take your
hand, nor ever greet you again. That
is what win happen if you won't take
me. Mother said to Archelaus, Tt
quite upsets him to be left behind (?)'
It was good of you to send me presents
on the 18th, the day you
sailed. Send me a Tyre, implore you.
fsyou don't won't eat, J wont 'nf drink;
there now y -. -.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-10-15

wages. The demands OF new enter@
:prises have, perhaps, employed an ad-
ditional thousand men, who are get
ting from Is cents to 81 a day, fall OF
about 20 per cent over winter wages.
Most Of the pilgrims feel that it isn't
worth while to work tor less in such a.
country at least, they feel so now.
For most OF them came in to make
fortune i'm short order and, II they cant
make it. they say they might just as
well return to more KabJtable coun-
try. Men with trades, who came for
the purpose Of working fer wages, went
to work at once The mass, the for
tune seekers those whose ambitions
are bound up I'm '.lucky strike" watch
the few build cabins and prepare for
winter. r . ~ s,! Tss @ =
se Is the umber who had already built
cabins or caches for their food were
any criterion OF tfle number who will
stay in the country, then not more
than 5000 will remain. "A thousand
had sold their outfits and started out
OF the country by Jhly L., But for pride
tWo-thirds of. the lot would already
have followed suit. It is hard to re-
turn to your owm with less than you
had when you started-particularly
hard to explain, to- your friends why
Alaska is a failure, when. its5 golden
harvest seems bound to increase with
every. year. ''Doggone it!'' said a
young Missourian, "I'm going back to
the old farm with a. thousand dollars
- had that when left-if have to
stay in here ten years. Doggone it.!
WASH t green, though, when reached
Seattle I'd never seen any gold mined.
I thought you could get it easy enough
once you were here-and, doggone it!
why your troubles have just begun r
OF those pilgrims who remain in the
country some will go to work for
wages, some will hang around Daw-
son and wait for somebody to make
strike, and the valiant few will go out
up the unprospected creeks, thaWing
holes through thirty feet Of ground,
seeking for strikes Of their own:- But
two-thirds Of the 100000 will spend
Christmas at home in the states. Alas
ka is richer in gold than the experts
who went into the. country expected
to find it. But getting the gold is like
extracting an elephants tooth with a
pair of tWeezers the newcomer sees
it. L The terror wears off with, expe-
rfence And the Klondike has never
been SO habitab1e as it will besthis win
ten. .e. YAK Il II .: 81: IS. IT,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-10-15
Remember the Gloucsster.

s.sir,ss said the second officer OF
great Spanish battleship, ,,1ass:..h :..hestile
ship is visible on the horizon. !" Scan
you make her out e. & She is an AM
.erican SIR All, . battleship. Clear
ship for action! We will give her a
stir fight. Sir, It is not . battle
ship. It is an auxiliary cruiser, one
of those Yankee pleasure yachts has
tily transformed into q war vessel
The commander s lace blanched as he.
replied: Then there Is no help for u.s.
Run the ship to shore. beach her, and
blow her mp Pittshurg Chronicles
Telegraph. Z. 81 !.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-10-15

Sfi -ss ~ 54T5 fss
sion that Seattle is a district repre-
.senting an area Of about one-haK Of
the United States. This Seattle man
5h hadeggs and lemons to sell, and he got
{ 8 dozen for both. The first boots.
Ito come down sold for SIS a pair; the
first potatoes, 81 q pound first oranges,
1$18Sa dozen; first bananas, 81 apiece
first broad brImmed hats, $25 apiece,
first fresh meat, 50 a pound; first SUI.
gar, $1.25 a pound, first butter, $3.50
g pounds: first condensed milk, $f-50
q can; first syrup, IS gallon, and frst
Canned peaches, 81 can. 8 But the
market for such prices is more or less,
limited, and with the increase Of SUPP
ply which followed the opening of the
whole chain of lakes three weeks later,
thanthe opening of the river below Le
Barge, prices went down considerably,
except in the case of fresh bee, (which
was held at s1.50 pound. 5*.sE IS
Ten thousand dollars was cleared up
sby one man, who brought stock Of
millinery and of fine clothing to the
port of LIE Barge with four oxen. The
oxen he put On a raft along with the
goods, and brought them to Dawson,
where he sold them on the hoof to a
butcher for $4,000. It was most i'm
portant Of all that those with. goods to
sell should put them on the market at
once. They made a store out Of tent,
rented a booth in front of a saloon, or
made counter of the bow Of a boat,
or 3sof a piece of canvass laid on the
ground by the water front. Booths
and cloth buildings sprang up in such
profusion that the only thing to disa-
buse your mind, of the fact that you
were not at a country fair was that
pink lemonade was SO and not 5 cents a
glass. The miners, with their "clean-
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-10-15
q sGlRLHOOD~ YESTERDAY.
Oid-Fashioned Virtues We. Might Well
~ Wish Revived. y =: -

Oid-Fashioned Virtues We Might Well
o, Wish Revived.
Arabella is safely shut away in an
old daguerreotye, and there is nothing
left to her memory but few dead rose
leaves and Sthe fading dreams in the
hearts of the old, says the Woman's
Home Companion. But we should Of
fer to her memory a. tribute of praise
for certain '.sweet endearing young
charms which are almost lost arts
at the threshold of the twentieth cen.
tury.. True, Arabella was pale, faint
star in the brilliant light of the new
girl, and yet, looking into that old
daguerreotypei lin just the right line
OF vision), one sees some sweet, old
fashioned propensities which have been
banished to the. cobwebs and dust Of
age, but which even the proud new
girl would do well to adopt. II it is
eld-fashioned to be modest, then it is
a grand, good old fashion, and we need
to dig it up out Of the past and give
it a genuine nineteenth century
"boem. !" Oldfashioned gowns, old
songs. old plays, are born again after
years Of burial, and delight new gen
erations. Happy. If some old-fashi
virtues long aband donedS and forgotten:
might be resurrected and become the
rage! After the cheap jests and shrugs
and ymannerisms Of society a pure,
frank, unspoiled manner is like sun
shine on the waters of asbrook after
the yellow glare of gaslight. Arabella
was wont to sit in a state Of sweet
receptivity and absorb the eloquence
of man, which, though perhaps inglor-
ious, was at least restful. Therefore,
she had that pearl of all manners-re-
pose The new girl, on the contrary, is
all the time making palpable' effort
to sustain her reputation for bril-
liancy. Now, the conscious effort to
be continuously witty and entertaining
may be as trying to the nerves as
those deadly pauses which occur be-
tween ideas (and which unquestionably
occurred pretty frequently between the
ideas of our lost Arabella). The girl
who is determined at all hazards to
fill up silence, and takes that task
wholly upon herself is sure to become
exhausted, and e1hausting Isn't the
new girl, by demonstrating. her power:
to do anything, in danger of having
everything thrust upon her?
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-10-15
BA TIER Z HORSE.

q Il amt no liar" said the veteran
to q circle OF comrades at q campfire,
s..and I'll tell you about q horse we
had In our battery. We was rendy.
'Vooing at place which wasn't nothin'
but a sandbar, and horses was shipped
out there from the North. Many was
shipped but few was landed. The Black
Prince, she started out with more'n
three hundred, and Just two beasts liy-
ed out the voyage and was landed on
the island. Our captain, he froze to-
one Of 'em. A wall-eyed, lop-sided
brute he was-the horse, I mean-but
the captain saw something about him
that looked promising and he UNDER
took to educate him.
: I'VE was drilling hard every day,
going thro' the manual Of the piece in
the sand, and we had boy for a
bugler who was trying to sound the
calls reyelee, stable call, boots and
saddles and all that. The boy made
some progress. but this ere horse he
learned faster than the boy, and in
three days the horse knew that stable
CALI meant a.he was, to be fed, and
boots and saddles meant he'd got to
go to work In the. sand, so what does
he do but pull away from his halter
and so of up the island whenever ne
hears the bugle go Boots and saddles
But the Cap he got onto this trick,
and SO one day when he intended to
mount and give us drill he told the
bugler to- sound tstable-call.' The
horse woke up his appetite for a square
meal, and you could see how mad he
was when instead Of feed he was set
to work flying about with the Cap on
him. .ys4,. -, . - = .,..@
II was watching him, and said to
the boy, You look out, that .horse'l1
get even with your The boy snick-
cred; but in a minute, as the Cap was
riding past him and pulled up for. a
second to swear at a number one man
for not handling the sponge-staf. right,
the horse he let fly with both hind feet
and caught the boy right in the jaw!
That youngster, didn't sound no more
calls right or wrong for a month, ]
can tell you, but the next. day I could
see the horse was sorry, for now he
didn't have no sign +, of a warning
whether it was to be dinner or drill.
.s Well, we got over to. Louisiana and
the battery was all horsed up, six to
every gun. and caisson, hut that horse
OF the Caps (for they stuck together)
could double discount every other
beast IN the crowd. He give up mis-
trick Of lodging drills, for he'd learned
to like 'em, and it was better than a
circus to see him and the Cap flying
up and down. the line when the guns
was IN battery. They was a pair, I
tell you! The Cap with his tongue and
the horse with his heels, both ready
toilet fly at any man or beast that
didn't come up to the scratch. Some
days we boys would swear they was a
pair Of devils together and ought to
be dismissed the service, but generally
we was mighty proud of 'em, and al
ways watching out of the corners of
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-10-15
View. .sf an Expert.

r Beeler ou are the last man i
should have expected to find opposing
the pensionins Of government em-,
5ployes no longer able to work. e" Heel
hen q man gets 30 he isn't able
to do what little work there Is in a
government job he ought to be taken.
out behind the barn and shot e ,ln-H
scinnati Enquirer.
The times., 1898-11-08

1t If he had felt there was good pros
pect of Republican success. He is not
a man to allow the highest place to go
to one of whom he is not fond. Julian
Hawthorne has information that imme-
diately. after Roosevelt had conquered
all Spain, he notified some of his New
York friends that he proposed to gov
ern some part, If not the whole, of the
nation he had saved. Senator Platt
was approached, but he would not COM
nit himself until he was convinced
there was no probability of Republi-
can majority because of the canal
frauds. Then he consented to allow the
warrior to be defeated on condition that
he would put on the collar, which he
did with eagerness. 1t is the wall of
some of Roosevelt's former friends that
he called on Platt and did not wait for
Platt to call on him; and that in his
legislation he will ask the advice of
Senator Platt." This the senator ex-
acted only for his own amusement. He
was quite sure Roosevelt would have no
needed to ask his advice about legisla-
ton.
This campaign is a strange, chapter
in the history of New York politics. and
if, as seems likely. Roosevelt is defeat
ed. it viii not be repeated. The Re-
publican party is expert in switching
off public attention from its crimesi but
the exposure of the canal frauds is still
too recent and the candidate too light
and too self-centered and too lacking in
the modesty of the hero to attract a
sympathetic interest to the forgetful-
ness of the party offenses. 1t is not
probable Senator Platt was ignorant of
this. He knew that no individual could
induce the people to condone the crime.
The times., 1898-11-08
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER s, 1898.
Election Day.

Elections will be held today in forty
two States of the Union, but national
attention is particularly directed to the
results in New York, Pennsylvania and
Michigan.
In New York it is to be hoped that
the blatant Roosevelt will be beaten.
The Empire State. ordinarily Democra-
tic, never had less excuse for choosing
a Republican Governor.
Pennsylvania may mot discard Quay's
eubernatorial candidate, but there is a
prospect that il will elect a legislature
which will repudiate Quay. In Michi-
gan Pingree is hanging in the balance,
and may meet a similar fate. Ohio, In
diana and Illinois may be expected to
show reduced Republican pluralities.
All good Democrats will hope for a
small but sufficient majority in the new
House of Representatives. A careful
survey of the field justifies the predic-
ton that this expectation will be real
lied