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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-31

Cash quotations were as follows: Flour
s35O@s go; clear, So 4o6S. 50; spring. Special
brands, sos; Minnesota hard, 44o14 50;
soft, 81. 2O@4 40. Wheat-No. 8 spring. $50
TIC; No. red, SIG. Corn-No. 2, 33N@33h
22c; No white, 2s1ac No. white, 26i$ 3
27kc. Rye.No. 2. 42Ac. Barley-sample, 500
S5c. Flax Seed--No. 1, SIC: Northwest, aORc.
Dbl, 50. 1905. As. Lard-Per 100 lbs, S. $50
5;471k. Short Ribs-Sides Qoose), S. 3515. 70.
Shoulders-Dry sailed (boxed), 4%@5c Sides
Short clear (boxedl, s.. S016. Sugars-Cut
loaf, Sc. o2; granulated. s5.52 Recaipts-Flour,
1000 bbls; wheat, 1870 bu; corn, 316, 400 blu !;
oats, $4,000 bu; rye, 1880 bu; barley, a,7Oj
200 blu; corn, ss2, 900 bu oats, 81, 400 bu. On
the produce exchange today the butter mar
ket was firm. Creameries, 13AQ17kc; diaries,
12@15c. Eggs easy; fresh, lie. Cheese slow;
creams 7@Skc.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-31

Stockers and Feeders
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-31
Wt.Dkg.Pric

Cattle-Steady The yards were well clear
ed up early. No butcher cattle were left,
and only few tail-end scrub stockers. Good
cattle of all kinds in demand. Prospect good
next week for light stockers and heavy feed
ers Representative sales:
Butcher Cows and Hefers-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-31
JOHN LIMBS PUBLIC LIFE
4 GENTLEMAN, PUBLICIST,
STATESMAN AND SOLDIER

Was willing Worker When His
Parents Needed His Help, as He
Is Willing Fighter When His
Country Needed Men-NlisfOr-
tune in Youth Could MOI Stay His
Ambition to Succeed.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-31
LIVE STOCK MARKET.
Cattle Were Steady Mt South st. Paul
and the Yards Were Fairly
Well Cleared.
South ST. Paul.

SOUTH ST. PAUL. July 3O.-Receipts at
the Union stockyards today were: 40 cattle,
80 calves, rs hogs, LOSS sheep, 10 horses
Hogs-The few punches offered sold at
strong prices Quality was not very good.
Packers want more hogs and are paying good
prices. Representative sales:
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-11-05

freezes, else the water will run in on
his fires" Meanwhile he must sit in
his tent and wait. Very few Of the
pilgrims have yet gone to work for
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, a fall of
about 20 per cent w winter wages.
Most OF the pilgrims feel that 1t isn't
worth while to work for less in such a
country-at least, they feel so now.
Fol- most Of them came in to make a
fortune in short order and, il they can't
make it, they say they might just as
well return to a more habitable coun-
try. Men with trades, who came for
the purpose of working for wages, went
to work at once. The mass, the for
tune seekers, those whose ambitions
are bound up in a "lucky strike" watch
the few build cabins and prepare for
winter.
If the number who had already built
cabins or caches for their food were
any criterion of the number who will
stay in the country, then not more
than 1900 will remain. A thousand
had sold their outfits and started out
of the country by July 1. But for pride
two-thirds of the lot would already
have followed suit. 1t is hard to re-
turn to o u own with less than you
had when you started-particularly
hard to explain to your friends why
Alaska is a failure when its golden
harvest seems bound to increase with
every cal. "Doggone it," said a
young Missourian, Pm going back to
the old farm with a thousand dollars
i had that when l left-if l have to
stay in here ten years. Doggone it!
wasn't l green, though, when l reached
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-11-05

upon this little mining camp it was
of flies. If the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
never called them by any other name
expected much from Dawson, Dawson
expected a good deal from the ''cheec-
hawkes." The saloon keepers wanted
whisky; capitalists wanted to see the
price of labor go down, and everybody
wanted fresh eggs, fresh beef, cigars to
smoke, and a new pair of boots. These
things the "cheechawkos" gave us.
That is, those of the 'cheechawkos"
who were clever enough to take in
goods and edibles to sell, thus allowing
somebody to dig the gold for them in
stead of digging for themselves. These
were sure of a fair, and perhaps a
fabulous, profit, which is a safer propo-
| sition than taking n chance out of a
thousand on finding a 5000, 900 claim.
The first man to arrive had built his
boat at the foot of lie Barge. He was
from Seattle, and he told us so as soon
as he was in hailing distance. In
Dawson it is hard to escape the impress
sion that Seattle is a district repre-
senting an area of about one-half of
the United States. This Seattle man
had eggs and lemons to sell, and he got
$18 a dozen for both. The first boots
to come down sold for SIS a pair; the
first potatoes, So a pound; first oranges,
SIS a dozen; first bananas, 81 apiece;
first broad brimmed hats, s25 apiece;
first fresh meat, 50 a pound; first SUI
gar, SLIPS a pound; first butter, $3.50
a pound; first condensed milk, $3.50
a can; first syrup, SIS a gallon, and first
canned peaches, 81 a can. But the
market for such prices is more or less
limited. and with the increase of sup
ply which followed the opening of the
whole chain of lakes three weeks later
than the opening of the river below lie
Barge, prices went down considerably,
except in the case of fresh beef, which
was held at 81 so a pound.
Ten thousand dollars was cleared up
by one man, who brought a 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 $1,000. 1t was most i'm
portant of all that those with goods to
sell should put them on the market at
nnce. TheT made 3 store out of a tent,
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-11-05
DO YOU LOVE ME STILL?

Is powerless-like a dreamer who suf-
fers and cannot awake, though he
knows, the while, that he is dreaming.
She knew in her heart that her lovers
word was worth more than most mems
vows; she knew that his purpose was
direct and honest, and yet she doubted.
The tiny stone of suspician began to
roll. A question which Cicely was too
proud to ask would have checked it,
but it rushed on and became an ava
lanche that buried and crushed their
happiness under its mass. Raymond
looked on dazed. He could not under
stand.
When it was too late it was made
plain. Cicely sat before her own fire,
In the dusk, and looked quietly at the
blazing logs. The light shone ON her
fair face and on her cleaning hair.
Raymond stood and looked down at
her, resting his arm on the mantel-
piece. He was an honest man. He
had no intention of speaking of wen
the love of the past to another mans
wife, but beside the blank reality rose
up in front of him the might have-been
Of his life, and he cried out from the
depths:
"Cicely, why did you do it?"
She started back and looked up at
him. For one long minute the deep
eyes gazed into his eyes and saw there
the futility of an i~rretrievable mistake.
The curved lips grew white, and parted
and closed again. She turned and hid
her face in her ti~ght-clasped hands,
and bowed her head against the back
of the chair. There is tragedy Of the
fiercest sort that enters, once, at least,
into most lives-tragedy which seems
to rend the veil of ones universe in
twain and to open up the graves where
ones hopes and sorrows have lain
sleeping. Yet we jeer at melodrama
when we are shown bits from the play
of existence that are as nothing to the
truth. We say it is overacted. 1t is
because 1t has been mercifully given 10
US to forget. In the past. Raymond,
first OF all, would have scoffed; in the
future, he would come to doubt the
horror of the present moment. But it
caught him and held him then with a
mighty strength. The primitive crea-
ture comes out when it is dashed with
the whip of real pain; all the bars OF
custom and convention cannot restrain
1t. He forgot the honor of his sane
moments. He snatched away the
hands and dragged her to him, and
turned her face up again to his.
why did you do it, Cicely?" he re-
peated.
She clinched her teeth aud steadied
her voice, and then she told him.
by: you were utterly wrong" he
said. He was dazed to have been sc
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-11-05

Seattle I'd never seen any gold miRed.
| thought you could get it easy enough
once you were ~here-aud, doggone it!
why your troubles have just begun"
OF those pilgrims who remain in the
country some will go to work for
wages, some will hang around Daw-
son and walt for somebody to make a
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 10000 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 al elephants tooth with a
pair of tweezers-as the newcomer sees
1t. The terror wears off with expe-
rience. And the Klondike has never
been so habitable as it will be this win
ter
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-11-05
The Boy of LOGO Years Ago

The numerous papyri unearthed
some time ago by Messrs. Grenfel and
Hunt from the ancient city of Oxy-
rhyncus, Egypt, are being gradually
deciphered. One of them, a letter from
a boy, evidently a petted darling, tc
his father, sounds strangely modern
though it Is at least 1000 years old
"Theon to His Father Theon, Greeting:
1t was a fine thing of you not to take
me with you to the city! II you won't
take me with you to Alexandria
won't write you a letter or speak tc
you, or say good-by to you; and If you
go to Alexandria l won't take your
hand, nor ever greet you again. Thai
is what will happen if you won't take
me. Mother said to Archelaus, II
quite upsets him to be left behind CD
1t was good of you to send me presents
= ' on the 18th, the day yor
sailed. Send me a Tyre, implore you
If you don't, I won't eat. l won't drink
there now!"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-11-05
NEW SLEEPING CARS.
TO Denver, Omaha. st. Louis, Chicago and
BOstOn.

TO Denver, Omaha, st. Louis, Chicago and
The Denver g. Rio Grande railroad
Scenic line of the World-announces new
and important additions to their already
well arranged sleeping car service. In the
future, this popular line will run through
weekly Pullman Tourist sleepers to Oma-
ha, Chicago, New York and Boston, also to
ST. LOUIS without change. These cars will
start from Portland, Oregon, thus giving
benefit of through service on Oregon
Short Line, as well as from all Utah
points. The excursions are personally
conducted and furnish all the conveniences
of regular Pullman sleepers at less than
half the cost. The st. Louis car will leave
O.. S. L.. station every Thursday and Og-
den via Rio Grande Western railway,
every Friday morning. The Omaha, Chi
cago, New York and Boston sleeper will
leave o. S. L. station every Wednesday
and Salt Lake every Thursday evening,
thus affording the inestimable privilege of
a twelve-hour lay-over in Salt Lake City.
For rates and all details, write to B. +.
Nevins, General Agent, or I'll. M. Cushing,
T. p. A, d. &R. G. Railway, Salt Lake
City, or any Oregon Short Line or Rio
Grande Western ticket agent.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-11-05
IT'S ODD ABOUT GEESE,
They CANT Stand a Rainstorm When
Thirsty,

Geese are peculiar" said an old
poultry salesman in Manhattan mar
ket. Put them out in a rainstorm
when they have a good thirst on, and
they are liable to die. About ten
years ago | was engaged by a firm to
go out through the west to buy live
geese and chikens. l bought about ten
carloads, put them in crates, and start
ed east. The geese were in the crates
nearest the floor of the open car
that's the regular way to ship them
and on top of them were piled the
chicken crates. We got about ten
miles from st. Joseph, Mo-, when the
load on n of the cars sagged, and
the whole pile Of crates were spilled
on the side of the track. In piling the
crates OF again the geese were piled
on top. | knew l was taking chances,
because a rainstorm meant death TO
the geese, but there didn't seem to be
any storm in sight, and | thought we
could make st. Joseph and shift the
load there. The train had only gone
d snort distance hen a storm came
up so suddenly that the rain was fall
ing almost as soon as the LIQUIDS were
noticed. The geese had been without
water for some hours, and the moment
they felt the rain they were stretch
ing their necks through the openings
between the Stats and holding their
DIS open to catch the drops. Well,
got an old coat and laid it over as
many of the crates as it would cover,
SO as to save as many as possible. Then
got a switch and tried to force the
others to keep their heads inside the
crates. They didn't mind the switch
very much, and l had to give each
n four or five good hits before it
would pull in it's head, and when l
started on a new head the old one
would pop IL again. When we got
into st. Joseph it was still raining,
and every goose in the crates, with
the exception of those under the coat,
was dead.'-New York Sun.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-11-05
WORTH KNOWING,

The army of Germany boasts eight
women colonies.
The washing Of clothes for the
queens household costs more than
SIS, 900 per annum.
AT a recent auction in London $3.50
was paid for four volumes of a visitors
register kept in Shakespeare's house at
Stratford from 1921 t. 1S4S.
In proportion to population Texas has
furnished more troops for the war than
n other state. Texas pays each en-
listed man 81 a month in addition to
his government pay.
The natives of some tropical conn
tries chew the fbers of green cocoa
nuts as a remedy for fever. They con-
tain much fannie acid, and are reputed
as effective as quinine.
Napoleon's cabbage palm at Long
wood has been blown down. 1t was
the last tree of its kind on the island
Of st. Helena, and the species has not
been found elsewhere.
Public drinking troughs for horses
are condemned by the ex-president of
h Royal College of Veterinary Sur
geons. on the ground that they propa-
gate certain diseases peculiar to
horses.
There is II Christian minister for
every 900 inhabitants in Great Britain,
one in every ia, 900 in Japan, one in
165,O00 in India, one in 222, 600 in At
RIGA, and n in $4,000 in the Chinese
empire.
A traveller tells of treasure chambers
in Bagdad that rival the tales of the
Arabian Nights" Among the multi
millionaires are the Sassoons, whose
banking firm exercises the functions
of a great power throughout Asia.
In noting that it is the purpose of
the navy department in the construc-
tion Of the new ships to minimize the
woodwork, the Boston Transcript sug-
gests that a trife less woodwork in the
war department might also be trie6
with good results.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-11-05

rented a booth in front of a saloon, or
made a counter of the bow Of a boat,
or of a piece of canvass laid on the
ground by the water front. Booths
and cloth buildings sprang up in such
p%rofusion 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
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 hen had to go to
the doctor to settle. These 10000 pill
grims now in Dawson are like an army
OF 80, 900 generals seeking to conquer
a country. They walk up and down
the streets, loiter in the saloons and
gambling places and ask one another If
they know where there is any ground
worth stalking. They are slowly find
ing out that they haven't reached the
place where the gold awaits their min
ing, but a place where they may pros
pect for gold. There are $500 claims
staked in the Klondike mining dis
trict. OF these only 500 are Of any
proven value more than a nominal
speculative sum. And the nominal
speculative sum Is fast going down be-
cause the boom is out of Dawson. The
thicker the "cheechawkos' become the
smaller the boom. Claims which were
prospected still sell, but unprospected
ones on unprospected creeks do not.
Everybody is waiting to see whether
or not the Canadian government is
going to rescind the royalty, whether
or not 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
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-11-05
E"vVvVVVvVVVVVvVVVVVVvV
= -
: Dawson City Filled With $
Z i
: an Army of Gold Seekers. s
EAAAAAAAAAMAA aAl 4:

Out of the host which started for
Dawson last spring, from 10000 to
$4,000 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 1t
were used as a compliment, the very
sound OF this word Is enough to make
a man sad, if not tired. 1t comes with
a leering smile and a sneer, saying:
"Oh, what a lot you have to learnt"
The old timers borrowed the word
from the Indians, and literally 1t
means "a newcomer" Not until you
have spent one winter in the country
and o have seen the ice in the river
break are you an old timer. To be q
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 I did,
writes Frederick Palmer, l passed the
thirty thousand on the trail, and 1 saw
the old Dawson before it was trans
formed. If Dawson, in It's superiority
of ancient culture, tried to phaze and
succeeded in phazing the pilgrims, the
pilgrims had the satisfaction of liter
ally swapping Dawson. For Dawson
Is only a few log cabins sitting on a
mud fiat along the river front. Last
winter the resident population was not
more than a thousand, the remainder
OF the people in the country, four
thousand in all, being at work upon
the creeks.
When thirty thousand people fell
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-11-05
DO YOU KNOW

that in making the trip to Omaha EXPOSE
tion you are on the road ONLY ONE
NIGHT, if you use the "Overland Limited"
of the Union Pacific; just the thing for
nervous people who prefer to travel by day
light: and for Men of Affairs" to whom
The saving of a business day is an impor-
ant consideration, we have the EAST
Mail" ONLY ONE DAY on the road to
Omaha. Appreciation of this incompatible
time, together with dining car service and
superior equipment, is best sho wn by the
popular demand for tickets via the Union
Pacific. For further information address
H. M. Clay, general agent, POI Main street,
Salt Lake City.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-11-05

Wages-in fine, which way the cat is
the cat, or largely the cat, eating fat
bacon when the thermometer is at 100,
is waiting on his own part for the cat
to jump. In his heart the jump he
wants to make himself is over the
mountains and the glaciers to the lane
where there are strawberries-and
cream to go with them. 1t was a fairly
well-distributed fact a year ago
though the pilgrim could think only of
the story of $500 a pan on Eldorado-
that all the five creeks now demon
strated to be rich-Eldorado, Bonanza,
Hunker, Dominion and Sulphur-were
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 old-timers who have
been in the country from two to ten
years. All the new creeks-which
mean every creek in the neighbor-
hood of Dawson-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 u we'll, 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
there will not be employment, even at
reduced wages, for one-ffth OF the
10000. There are numerous oppor-
%tunities TO prospect unprospected
claims for half of what is in them, but
If they urn out blanks then the lay
man will have nothing when summer
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 a rule he is
broke" and in many instances he has
sold some Of his outfit to get a little
spending money.
If he does not go to work for an
other he must go prospecting in new
territory. That means taking his food
many miles up a tributary, selecting a
little creek and burning" q hole to
bedrock. II the first one fails he must
try another, and so on. He cannot
prospect until the surface ground
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-11-05
Temperance Notes,

Two hundred and ifty-three Chicago
saloonkeepers have gone out of BUSH
ness since July 1. In the city collec-
tors Office it is figured that 300 or 400
more will drop put before the first OF
next year.
At the annual convention Of the
Catholic Total Abstinence Union.
Just closed at Boston, a resolution was
adopted thanking Gen. Shafter for the
stand he had taken on the use and
sale Of intoxicating liquors in can
teens In the army at Santiago, and for
his refusal to permit cargoes Of beer
from the United States to be landed
there. It was voted to hold the next
national convention at Chicago on tina
second Wednesday in August, 1899.
At a meeting of the provisional COM
mittee appointed at Prohibition Park
to secure an advisory committee of all
national temperance and religious Or
CARNATIONS, with a view Of securing
union of effort on all matters of agree
ment, the following societies were rep
resented: National Temperance soci-
ETY., A~nti-Saloon league, United Soci-
ETY. of Christian Endeavor, Prohibition
party, I. o. G. r., Sons of Temperance,
National w. G. T. o., Non-partisan
w. G.. T. U. The committee organized
and the temporary officers were made
permanent. The following resolutions
were adopted and recommended to the
organizations forming a part Of the ad-
visory committee. and to all other Or
ganizations which believe in total abb
stinence and the suppression Of the
saloon:
1. 1t is the sense of this committee
that all organizations petition the
president. as commander-in-chief of the
army and navy, to issue an order
against the introduction of distilled,
fermented or malt liquors to be sold
or given away in the army and navy.
That a similar petition be forwarded
to zach colonel from the ne~ighborhood
in which a regiment was recruited, urg-
ing that the canteen be closed, if theirs
is one. II the canteen has already
been closed, that a vote of thanks be
extended for the courageous stand
taken. 2. That an appeal be SEM to
school trustees in city and county dis
tricts, asking them to employ only such
teachers as are total abstainers from
liquor and tobacco. That the w G.
T. U. and the non-partisan w. G. T. U.
be requested to push this work through
the department of scientific temper
ance instruction.