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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-09
MORE KIONDIKE NEWS.
Letter From w. H. Davis. Written
f ON Sheep Camp.

SHEEP CAMP, Alaska. Jan. 20, 1898.
S. H. Newm.r, Esq, Ell Peso. Texas.
De Strive or" in camp three
gu r'ers f a nile above Sh' ep Camp
and 1000 pounds of our outfit at The
Scales. TOmO row, weather permit
tug, we will begin packing on top of
Chilco1t md will not move camp to
Linderman until we have everything
packed ur, which will probably take
us several days. We will not Try to
move everything until we get on the
lakes, when 1 think I can move right
along if we encounter no storms Ever
sin. e we left Dyea we have had stormy
weather, and very little could Re NOV
ed at time. 1t has showed and blow
ed every day for the past week; but we
have kept pegging away, moving lit
tie every day snd keeping our dogs in
trim. Our dogs are working good,
considering the chance they have had
and the condition of the trail, which IS
very bad. From our present camp to
The Scales we haul 200 pounds to the
team, and We have five dogs in team
and have two teams. There is lots of
people on the trail pushing their out
fits along with dogs and horses; but
most of the people are packing and
shedding their outfits without the help Of
dogs or horses. The N. w. M. Co. have
lot of freig ht beng moved over this
trail to Lake Bennett from Skaguav,
for which they pay so cents per pc md;
aud there is about so men moving it
without horses or dogs. From our
present camp horse can move about
$50 pounds TO The Scales; hut the trail
is quite bad for horses near The Scales.
From The Scales TO the summit o.
Chile rot there is horse tramway, but
the past week very little freight has it
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-09

"Quo Vadis'' is fashioned much after
the style of "Ben Hur," dealing with
the life and habits of the Romano,
though of later period. The descrip.
ton of sport in the arena, during
which Christians met death in many
ingenius ways created by the diaboIi-
cal Nero, is at Cnce the inost horrible
and fascinating thing in the English
language.
AS the chariot race in ':Bsn HUI
the struggle OF Ursus, with q wi d bull
and the final breaking of it's neck, is the
master picture iu 'Quo Vacis, - AID
can BE- appreciated as an extract:
AT that very instant the project OF
he city wave d lei haudke rchief. the
hinges opposite Caesars podium creak-
ed, and out of the dsrk gully came
Ursus into the brightly lighted arena.
The giant bllnked, dszed evidently
b. the glitter of the lights in the
arena; then be pushed into the centre.
gazing around TO see what he had to
meet. 1t was known to all the Angus.
II ms and to most OF the spectators tina,
ne was the man who had stified Cro.op
hence at sight of him q murmur passed
along ever. bench. 10 Rome tn re
! was no lack of glad atOrs larger bv far
IMAM the common mea ure of man. bu,
Roman eyes had never sen tie like nj
Crsu-. The people gszed with the de.
hight OF experts at his mighty limbs as
| large as tree-trnnks, at his breast AZ
arge as two shields joined together
d his al ms of Il Hercule-. The mnr
muir rose every instant. For those
mutt tndes there could be no highe,
pleasure thai to look at those muscle.
IN play in the exer ion of STRUGGLE
he stood there, in the middle of III.
| amphltheatr~, naked, more like STONE
colossus than ma, With a co lecte(
expression, and at the same time The
SD look of a barnarian.
Suddenly the shrill sound of brazer
trumpets was heard, aud at that sigma
a grating opposite Caesars podium wa,
opened. and INFO the arera rus Led
amid shou's of beast-keepers, an enor
nous Ge' man bull, bearing on his heaf
the naked body of woman.
his time the amphi, heatre wa.
sl'eut. The August aus re Sc in thei
! places as one man, for in the aren,
something unu- ual had happened
mat Lygian. obediens and ready +,
die, wnen be saw his queen on tn,
/ horns OF the wild b.ast, snrspp for
ard as if torcaed by living fire, ant
bending, ran NJ the raging animal.
! From all breasts i. sudden crv n
amaz-ment was beard, after which
came deep silence.
The hygian fell on the raging bul
in twinkle, and seized him by tn,
horns.
"Lookn' cried Pe'ronius. spatchiu,
the toga from the head of Vinicius,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-09

All breasts ceased to breathe. In
the amphitheatre fly might be heard
on the wing. People could not believe
their own eyes. Since Rome was
Rome, no one had ever seen such q
spectacle.
The hygian held the wild bea' by
the horns. The mans feet sank in the
sand to his ankles, his back wss bent
like q drawn bow, his head was hidde en-
between his shoulders, the muscles Oh
his arms came out SO that the skin al
most burst from their pressure; but he
bad stopped the bull in bis tracks.
And the man and the bull remained SO
still that the spectators thought them
selves looking at a picture showing
deed of Hercules or Theseus. But in
that repcse there was tremendous
exertion of two struggling forces. The
bull sank his feet as we'll as did the
man in the sand, and his dark, shaggy
body was curved so that 1t seemed q
gle autic ball. Which of the two would
fail first; which would fall 6rst.-tha at
was the question for those spectators
enamoured of such struggles; quas-
ton which at that moment meant
more for them than their own fate,
than all Rome and it's lordships over
the world. The hygian was in their
eyes demRod worthy of houors and
statues. Caesar himself stood up as
well as o!hers.
In the amphitheatre were men who
h ad raised their arms and remained in
that posture. Sweat covered the ia es
of others, as if they themselves were
struggling with the beast.
The man and the bsast continued on
in their monstrous exertion. M an
while dull roar resembling q groan
was heard from the arena, after which
brief shout was wrested from every
breast. People thourht they were
dreaming till the enormous head of the
bull began to turn in the iron hands of
the barbarian. The face, neck and
arms of the Hygian grew purple; his
hack bent still more.
Duller and duller, hoarser and
hoarser, more and more painful grew
the groan of the bull as it mingled with
the whistling breathe from the breast
OF the giant. The head of the bull
turred more and more, and from his
jaws came long foaming tongue.
A moment more, and to the ears of
the spectators sitting near, came, as it
| were, the crack of breaking bones;
then the beat rolled on the earth, his
neck twis ed in death.
The smphitheatrs, had gone wild.
The walls of thu building were tremb-
| ling from the roar of tens of thousands
of people.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-09

fastened upon any subj ect that interested
him.
Nearly every man has it in his power to
live to green old age like the great states
man of England. 1t is simply a matter of
little daily thought and regard for health.
If, when man feels that he is little out
of sorts, he will resort to the light remedy,
he will never have to submit to the more
serious ills of life. Most men, when they
have a headache, feel drowsy during the
day and are restless during the night, and
find their appetite falling off, pay little or
no heed to these warnings. The inevitable
result is some dangerous and possibly fatal
malady. The doctor may call it consump-
ton, malaria or biliousness, perhaps
some blood or skin disease. 1t makes but
little difference. These troubles all have
their inception in the same cause - i'm
proper and insufficient nourishment. Dr.
Pierce's Golden Med Cal Discovery corrects
that cause. 1t makes the appetite keen
and hearty, the digestion perfect, the liver
active and the blood pure and rich. 1t is
the great blood-maker and flesh builder
1t facilitates the assimilation of the life
giving elements of the food, filling the
blood with the nutriment that makes new
and healthy flesh and nerve tissue. Medi-
cine dealers sell it.
Last summer" writes Miss Laura Piersel
of East Bethlehem, Washington Co. Pa, 4" was
going into umption. DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery completely cured me-"
man or woman who neglects constipa-
ton suffers from slow poisoning. Doctor
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure constipation.
One little Pellet" Is gentle laxative,
and two mild cathartie,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-09
SCENE IN DAWSON CITY.

there this winter. There is no gu g.
ton in my mind about being able t
sell provisions in Da y son Ne KIT summer:
for there is going to be lots of feed and
it is impossible to get provisions in
next summer for the multi tude wit 4
tho present means of transportation.
Every boat now is loaded with KlOn-
dikers. landing fir, m 300 to 500 people
from each boat. Word cama to Sheep
Camp this evening that 600 people
were in Dyea without place to pitch
camp: a I'd at Canyon City, which .is Xix
miles below Sheep Camp, people were
fighting for old camping ground, when
parties move on. There is no questi N
now that the Klondike boom and
stampede is on; the people. and the
trail proves it.
If you intend to bring in supplies, I
would advise you to get them to Dyea
or Skaguay as soon as possible and get
them over on the lakes. Bring four or
more horses. with plenty of feed; p'ck
saddles and harness; and hire good
men to handle them and pay them
liberal wages in order to be able to
keep tham; and when yon have your
outfit over, if you don't care to k ep
the horses you can sell them and they
will pay for themselves. l heard yes
terday that the Skaguay wagon read
was in shape to tie summit, and also
that the Dyea trail was the PREFER ID
one. The towns of Dyea. Skaguay,
Canyon City, and Sheep Camp are
building and booming. and the com
bined population must be 10000 peo-
pie.
You can tell the ladies' who antici-
pate going to the Klon1ike over the
Dyea trail that short skirts and bloom
ers are with the advance guards; aud
some of the m WEAR pantS
Hoping this finds you we'll and ready
to start for Klnndixe, with best wishes
1 remain, Yours truly,
VIM. II. DAVIS.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-09

m Dved, on account OF stormy weather.
They charge four ceots per pound-the
same as the men charge who are in
the packing BUSH ess. The best ar
raneemo' for m wing a large outfit is
1000 feet of i"ch rope and block and
ing their stuff from the store house
that wsy up tn hill They load a
sleigh with 500 p unds, one man guides
the S eigh and three men take the end
of the rope and pull down hill, us
prope ing he losd up hill TO the block
and keep repeating until they have ali
moved
Since my arrival at Dyea I have met
quite a nun Der of people who came
port the trail BAL; Thirty Mile river
op u, d no anchor ice; and Lewis
rivcr full of big gorges; rest of trail
good | hope to find the Thirty Mile
froze over by the time we get there. 1
know month or six we e'ks will make
q grea' change if the weather turns
cold All of the men have spoken TO,
TIL me they have had no cold weather.
in the interior yet. TIL sse reports do
not discourage me; an / if it is possible
for any one to get to D-"s)n on ice,
I am going to get there 4 fter
reach the lakes 1 anticipa;r little
trouble until reach Miles Canyon aud
White Horse Rapids, and I will find
ways to get by them. There is no
question in my miud about getting to
to the foot of Lake Lebarge with my
outfit; and should we find the Thirty
Mile river still opened can cash my
outfit and go to Dawson light, and
when I return in the spring pick it up.
I am going to get to Dawson on the
ice, if it is possible, end return on it,
if can get hold OF anything. l am in
hope of getting to Stewart river early
enough to go and locate where l pros
pected last summer. 1 hear there is
quite number of men respecting
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-09

"Ouo vadis," by Henryk Sienkiewig,
a Polish writer, is a narrative of the
time of Nero. In it the author has
given pictures of opening scenes in the
conflict of moral ideas with the Roman
empire-a conflict from VIII Oh Chris
tiauity issued as the leading force in
history. The story is of supreme in
terest to English-speaking people
(which accounts for it's enormous sale }
and the verdict of those who have read
it places it in the came category as the
noble works of "Last Days of Pom
pei,'' ''Ben Hur," etc. In fact
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-09
Horace B. Stevens,
Real Estate and InSur-
anCe Agent.
| Solicit Collection of Rents
and make no charge for
Advertising.
FOR SALE

NORTH STANTON STREET, near
Hildebraud residence, 2 lots; $500.
Ore-third cash.
NORTH KANSAS STREET, 81 lots
for 500 cash.
UPSOM AVENUE, between N. Ell
Paso and Santa Fe Sts., 45 feet for
5000; one-tbird cash.
NORTH OREGON STREET, corner Of
Rio Grande, 175x175. Room for 5
houses. CHEAP.
MESA AVENUE, 2 lots, corner, for
500.
IDAHO STREET. 3 lots at sacrifice.
BUSINESS fORNER, Mesa avenue
al Texas street. 115x60 feet. A bar
gain and terms to suit.
II LOTS on San Ar tonic street facing
Magoffin homestead.
TN O LOTS ON East Overland. Cheap.
ONE LOT, near Mesa school.
6Ox12O feet on W. st Overland street.
BUSINESS PROPERTY, paying $40
per month, for Sc. ZOO
81 800 will buy row of houses paying
S64 month.
MONTHLY INSTALLMENTS and q
small cash payment will buy 7-room
brick house, JIG Upsom Avenue.
6l4 N. OREGON STREET brick house
rooms. Easy terms.
4O7 N. Ell PASO STREET, rooms,
cheap.
400 N. Ell. PAsO STREET, rooms,
brick.
BRICK HOUSE of 5 rooms on North
Stanton Street; southeast corner; q
Pleasant home.
NEAR S. P. DEPOT, on N. Kansas
Street, Broom brick.
GOOD PAYING LODGING HOUSE,
Is rooms.
LARGE BRICK RESIDENCE. CEN
trally located. Suitable for fashion
able boa ding.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1898-11-23

among the embers for the cooked meat,
removes the baked clay and leaves and
bark and places upon the table the meat
thoroughly cooked and whittier than roast
meat usually is seen. He reserves the
right of carving and dividing this dainty
dish, giving each boy his share. They
pronounce il the finest meal ever eaten,
and declare, while eatir z, that they were
never 30 hungry in their lives, forgetting
all about the paw-paw patch.
Each wrapped in his blanket, liud a
place upon which to lie on the leaves in
the "wigwam," through the "door" of
which they can see the fire bltzirg up
cheeriully, aud arise to replenisl the
logs if they awake to find only bed of
Goals there.
Awaking. they have scarcely time To
tell each other how they dreamed OF b, :
ing among the Indians until some one
hurries out to find that the precaution
they had taken to secure game for break
fast had not been in vain, for in the trap
or coop are found six partridges and one
pheasant, in the snare rabbit. As the
rabbit is choked to death they decide to
eat it and the pheasant for breakfast and
leave the partridges alive in the coop for
a time OF scarcity. Was there ever a
time of famine among the Indians
At any rate such time soon comes to
these white Indians, for this next day is
to be one OF hunting with bows and ar
rows, and somehow they never see bird
until it flies, then the arrows either does
not 90 high enough to reach it, or glances
by it. The string breaks Just as rabbit
runs away from them, sometimes the ar
row drops before it reaches him, thus
showing lack of muscle or unsteady
nerve They soon find the thing need
full is Workmanship, 80 they, practice
shooting until every arrow is gone, never
knowing whether they hit distant tar
get or not. Then hours are spent in
hunting arrows and making new ones
and they again reach the camp they find
it is very dark and raining. Too tired
and late to set snares they take two
blankets and stretch them tight over the
"wigwam" to help drain the water off,
using three blankets to wrap five boys in
and lie down to uneasy dreams. The
rain was OF short duration, they find
when morning comes. Deciding, after
disPatching the six partridges, that they
must live by their bows and arrows for a
few days, they start out, each in differ
ent directions, to see if they would not
have better success, and to practice trail
ing some. At night they return to re-
hearse their experiences, carrying with
them barely enough game to sustain
them in their hunger, for surely boys
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1898-11-23

| Here he finds turkey has been caught
in the coop made the night before, fine
young one and two rabbits have been
shared a pheasant and two partridges
also cooped squirrel that Jack Small
had struck with rock rs il was lying
sprawled out on the bark OF tree tryiI Z
TO see what animal was coming by his
home and to all this good list of meats
ie added a hatlul of Dersimmons, another
OF paw-paws, another of chestnuts, anoth-
er OF grapes hickory nuts are brought,
pecans, hazslnuts. walnuts, haws OF three
kinds, hack berries, crab apples Sassa-
fras and spice wood are brought to first
smoke aud then boil the small game by.
In the absence OF a receptacle Tor gravy
the turkey is stuffed with the kernels
of chestnuts and hickory nuts. The
opossum is filed with chinkapins and
hazelnuts, and placed near the turkey to
roast; the craD apples are placed on
psices OF bark to roast.
Today a cloth is made for the table by
pinning together pretty leaves, dishes
are made of clearly washed pieces OF
scaly bark from the hickory trees When
the dinner is ready to be served we see
red haws piled high around the turkey
These are the cranberries," said Tom
Cobb. The persimmons were piled
around the 'possum, whole hickory nuts
around the tquirrel, sweet smelling
pieces of red sassafras root around the
rabbits, the paw-paws made nest upon
which to place the duck, great pyra-
mied Of grapes was in the center around
which sat the pheasant and the part
ridges. What least for only five boys
to eat But long time was spent in
preparing it, nearly as long a time in
eating it, and that that remained was
guarded for later luncheon.
After spending two more days in the
woods they prepare to start home. Be-
fore breaking camp they discuss the
events and pleasures OF these few short
days while the fire seems to burn more
brightly than any previous nights, they
recall the trapping, hunting, fighting
daring of "Deer-slayer" and decide that
Jack Small has earned the name of
"Squirrel-slayer" lin the abs of any
DEER and that Bob Lee may will BIZ call
ed "The Trapper," and John Whist
Leather StockiI g." Tom Cobb "Hawk
eye" and that Will Robb shall Justly
be called pathfinder"
Returning to their homes they enjoy
the comforts of civilization more than
ever before, they can study now with
much more zeal, but often they may be
seen telling other boys OF the great fun
they had playing "White Indians"
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1898-11-23

old people are sitting close TO few Goals
OF fire in their little grate--a woman and
man with sad, old aces and snow-whie
hair.
Father, do you remember that to-
morrow is Thanksgiving day, and the
twenty -sixth OF November"
"Why, mother, how could forget our
boys birthday Yes, and only a few
more days and Guy will have been gone
ten years. that will make him thirt, ~ g
years Old tomorrow, il he is still living"
The mothers tears are fallif fast, as
she replies, "Yes, yes, ten long, weary
years of waiting; but something cells me,
even now, that 1 shall live to behold my
boy again, my handsome Guy he will
come back to his old parents, know he
will" and her voice dies away in the sob
she is poweress to withhold. TIL n 81
lently they sit thinking of the gay and
hopeful youth, who left them 30 long sg +,
in the days Of their prosperity.
He was their pride and they spared
neither trouble nor money to fit him for
any sphere in life which he might be
called upon to occupy. But he had no
taste for business and wished to travel,
30 they let him q, thinking that few
months would TIRE him and that he
would return a willing slave TO business,
but he had not yet returned.
Ten years ago James Willis was rich
man and livsd with his happy family in
a lovely home of their own. At that
time their little daughter, Nellie was a
beautiful child, eight years old while
her brother Guy was twenty.one. Guy
thought Louisville too small for him and
longed with all of boys impotence to
see the world, and at the age of twenty
one he babe home and friends joyous
good bye aud started on a trip to South
Africa intending to visit the diamond
fields of that country.
At parting he had said "Mother,
whe n | am rich man / will return to
you on Thanksgiving aud you may give
me a grand birthday dinner" With a
gay laugh he srraDg into the carriage
which bore him to the train.
Since then misfortunes had fallen thick
and fast in the business life of Mr.. Wit
lie; one crash after another until they re
forced to give up the beautiful home and
rent the folorn looking little cottage
standing 80 bleakly on the bank of the
Ohio. Then sickness completed the
W eek, and they were reduced to want,
depending solely on their young daugh-
ter's small earnings from flew poor pay
music pupils for support.
During all these years no tidings OF
their wandering boy ever reached them,
and the mothers yearniDg heart grew
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1898-11-23

never had such appetites as these who
have tramped all day, eager to gain ap-
plause from their companions, eager to
because real experts in tho Indian pro-
fession But the days wear on and II IS
Wednesday before Thanksgiving, when
tired from days hunt, they sit around
the camp fire late in the evening, discus
sing the probable preparations in their
own homes for the morrow. I'VE must
celebrate the day too, with feasting" said
Will Robb.
So it lie decided that they shall bring in
every luxury possible for to-mOrTow's
feast, even ii they have to trap for it. So
Bob Lee asks some one to 90 out on a
hill with him where he that morning
saw sigd Of turkeys scratching and the
tree in which they had roasted, that he
might make a coop to allure them into,
with hickory nut kernels for bait. Other
bows set snares, others build up the part
ridge coop anew, then all unite In a
postum hunt which results in the cap
tuTe of a very fine fat one OF that species
in persimmon tree near by. II is dress
ed and hung up in a tree to keep Till
morning When they have had a slight
breakfast, with bows and arrows in hand,
they start out TO visit the snares and
coops. Before reaching the coops John
Whist decided TO visit little lake where
he saw some wild geese the day before,
but instead OF geese he espies a large
duck floating on the water, and with
steady aim, improved by weeks prac-
tice he brings this duck TO lifeless con-
ditiou by striking the arrow ju behind
an ear, II flutters and drifts near the
shore just as John jumps from his place
OF concealment TO grab IL. "a duck for
dinner" he chuckles, as
with one foot dripping wet, he trudg
up the hill, going directly 10 the camp.