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The San Francisco call., 1898-03-17
LOCCERS FIND AN FL DORADO Placer and Quartz Gold on Vancouver
 Island. Rush of Prospectors to the Banks of Ninapkish
 River. Discovery of Rich Ore Made Through Information Given by
 Squaw.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

VICTORIA, March 16.-Dr. Van Wag- ner of Seattle returned this morning from Nimpkish River, bringing news of large finds, both placer and quartz. along the banks of that stream. He says a large crowd of prospectors Is hurrying to the new diggings, and al ready twenty-two claims are being worked with success, the dirt returning as high as an average of from $8 to Sl0 a day.
 Gold was discovered there by loggers, who were at work cutting trees and rafting them down the river from the upper Nimpkish to Alert Bay, where there is a sawmill and settlement. A squawman was told by his Indian wife of finds of the shining metal along the river by Indians. He at once told his companions, Hansen and Anderson, and together they began search. Many places were tried without success, but at last the searchers were rewarded by discoveries of placer gold running ln some cases as high as 35 cents to the pan.
 They determined to keep the find se- cret but Indians who went down to the settlement to trade told of the dlscoV- cries, ana lHlIneOldlelS d luoh began from Alert Bay and vicinity, and all ready many men here are thinking of going to the scene of new finds.
 On seeing the prospectors coming in, Hansen and Anderson endeavored to get all the ground they could by re- cording claims in the name of Indians who were working for them. This was reported to local commissioners, who will investigate. About five miles away from where they discovered placers, Mathers, settler, who owns small ranch near the mouth of the river, has found a ledge of rich free milling quartz, which, if worked, would pay royalty. He intends to come down to Victoria and try to raise money to es- tablish a smelter.
 Nimpkish River is at the upper end of Vancouver Island. and is easy of ac- cess
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-17
DEADLY FUMES POISON TIMBER Governme ent Agent Makes an Investigation at
 KeSwlek. Forests Destroyed by Vapors From Large Smelling
 Plants. Will Submit a Report Unfavora bl Q to the Mountain Copper
 Company.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

BEDDING, March 16.-Special Agent Cullom, acting for the Department of the Interior, has been here for over two weeks making an exhaustive investiga- ton of the devastation of Government timber by the poisonous fumes from the roasting and smelling plants of the Mountain Copper Company at kes- wick It was not disclosed until to-day that such an investigation was in pro gress The operation of the vast plant of the Mountain Copper Company Is Of tnestimable advantage to the entire county, yet the ever widening circle or dead timber, reaching now for miles beyond the plant, has caused com plaint to be lodged with the Govern ment, and the official investigation Is the result.
 The special agent is said to have made such progress as to enable him to formulate his report, which will be unfavorable to the company. The de- partment will be guided by his report and recommendations. The agent IS convinced that the fumes are poisonous
 to all vegetation, and the dead pine timber standing and the entire absence of life in the smaller trees and shrubs
 bear evidence of the deadliness of the fumes. He will recommend that the
 Mountain Copper Company be en- joined by process of law from operating its plant under the existing conditions.
 Should the department obtain tenn porary injunction it will then be asked that a permanent injunction be issued compelling the company to resort to system of condensers. In other copper smelting regions such action was taken and the smelling companies compelled to construct condenSerS.
 At times as high as 100000 pounds of ore is dumped in a pile at Keswick fired, and permitted to burn for weeks, sending forth a volume of poisonous vapors, which spread over miles of ter
 ritory, sparing no kind of vegetable life The first vegetation to Succumb to the deadly smoke was the Digger pine and in some quarters trees are standing dead and desolate ten and even twelve miles away. Within closer limits to Keswick not spear of grass nor a green shrub of any kind has sur vived.
 The town of Shasta and it's vicinity are the greatest sufferers. The smoke there at times is almost unbearable and the damage is constantly growing
 Far up on the mountains dead trees are
 multiplying and nearer by entire ridges have been devastated. In Bedding
 many pine trees have been killed and it is feared that other vegetable life
 will suffer a like fate. The smoke
 reaches this point by following the | course of the Sacramento River. The
 bulk of the damage is being done, how
 ever, in the section lying northwest and west of Bedding, the smoke being car | ried thither on air currents passing up i the Spring Creek Canyon and over l toward the Clear Creek Range.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-17
TYR ANS A CANNON ON A RIOTOUS MOB
 OF LONGSHOREMEN
CaDtain of the Steamship Cleve= land Subdues a Belli9erent
 Ska9uay Crowd.

TACOMA 1sThe steamship Cleveland of San Francisco  by wharf with did net instantly retreat The long
  into finch brass and the carefully
  orders the in
  were satisfied u adero of the
  skipper How  thereby the hosilies ended resulted in sending the C in This by the ongshoremens demand of
  ship them aboard and asked Captain Hall
  he
  
  g for
  n his
  prevented  that the wasbr
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-17
MAYER EASILY
 RESTS O'DONNELL
Philadelphia Police Stop the Fight in the Second
 Round.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

Special Dispatch to The Call
 PHILADELPHIA, March 16 - Peter Maher finished Steve O'Donnell in short order at the Arena tonight, the referee stopping the fight In the second round, when Steve was so groggy as to be all but knocked out. At the opening of the bout, which was to have been of six rounds. Maher objected to ODonnell wearing bandages on his right wrist, but this was quickly settled by the Australian removing them.
 First round-They fddled for an opening Maher led right on face. Steve countered with left face and Maher went to his knees Steve again landed the jaw and Peter sent his right to the chin and left and right on the ear, ODcnneI going down. He took the limit to get up. Peter put a right on the jaw and Steve again went down. O'DonnelI sent a right on the chin. Maher led and missed, but second later put right and left on the jaw and Steve resumed his intimacy with the boards. Maher landed right and left the face and Steve left on the face re- beating the bell sounded
 Second round-Maher landed a left on the and right the face. Steve returned with a left on the Peter put right on the jaw and O'DonnelI went down again. Maher banged right and left on the jaw send Ing ODonnell down. Maher walked to his corner as if 1t was all o Donnell got up and went for him. Maher turned and rushed him into his Steve went to his knees and stayed there in very groggy shape. and the referee stopped the one-sided contest.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-17
DAVSONITES
 CLAMORINC
 FOR MAIL Have Not Heard From the Outside We Orld
 in w eeks. Quantity of Letters and Papers Held at Big
 Salmon. Food Becoming Cheaper and Whisky Dearer on the
 KlOpdike. A MURDER AT SKAGUAY. Gambler Anabushed and Shot at the Threshold of His
 Cabin.
Food Becoming Cheaper and Whisky Dearer on the
 KlOndike.
A MURDER AT SKAGUAY
Gambler Anabushed and Shot at the Threshold of His
 Cabin.
Special Dispatch to The Call,

PORT TOWNSEND, March 16.-The steamship City of Seattle arrived short ly before 10 o'clock tonight from Skag- uay, with forty-f1ve passengers on board, one direct from Dawson City. This was H. c. Petit of Snohomish City, who arrived at Dawson on Sep tember F. He went to the Klondtke in the interest of a St. Paul and Snohom- ish syndicate, and returns with inter ests in twenty-one claims. He brought out $2O0O and expects to return to the north in the course of a few weeks.
 Petit came out with Atwood the United States mail carrier. They lert Dawson on February s, tn" trip out be- ing without special incident.
 Events are pursuing the even tenor of their way at Dawson City, MT. Pet tit says, grub getting cheaper every day and whisky dearer-"
 Major Walsh is now on his way out, having left Big Salmon three days ahead of Atwood and Petit. He stopped at Lake Bennett, however, and was still there when the other two came out. There is said to be much complaint about the failure of mail to arrive at Dawson City from the outside, and, according to MT. Pettits story, it was delayed for weeks without good reason.
 There were about 1000 pounds of mail taken in by Major Walsh's party, and it remains at Big Salmon, the point where he made camp. It is claimed that this mail could have been sent on to Dawson at any time during the winter, and that, in fact, dog teams had no difficulty in going back and forth between the camp and Major Walsh's headquarters.
 People at Dawson were willing to pay big money to have the mail taken in to them; but 1t would not be given up for delivery, and none has been received at Dawson, MT. Petit says, since he went there in September.
 The City of Seattle brings news of another fatal shooting at Skaguay, a man named Sam Roberts being shot just before the steamship left. He was supposed to be running a gambling game at Skaguay. and on the morning the steamship left he was shot just as he was entering the door of his cabin.
 He died almost immediately. It could not be learned where he came from and nothing was known of his antecedents. The authorities were in the dark about his assailants, nothing whatever about the perpetrators of the crime being. known at the time the steamship left.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-17
KNEW NAUGHT OF KASSON. Testimony of a Claimant for the Dead
 Miser's Wealth.

STOCKTON, March 16.-The legal fight over the big Kasson estate continues to attract crowds to the Superior Court room The most interesting feature of the case to-day was the admission of George w. Lindy, one of the claimants that he did not know that Thomas Lindy was his father nor mat he was the son of Kasson, as 1t is being attempted to prove. Lindy said that he had never known any other name and had always looked upon the Lindys as his parents. It also developed that he had been named George by the Lindys at the request of Kasson, his alleged father.
 During the time Lindy was on the stand to-day Judge Jones frequently alluded to him as MT. Kasson. The case will be continued tomorrow.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-17
AUBREY BEARDSLEY
 DIES AT MEMT0NE.
Best Known by the Eccentricity Which Was Displayed in the
 Posters He Designed.

LONDON, March 16.-A dispatch from Mentone states that Aubrey Beardsley, the well-known artist and writer, died to- day in that city from hemorrhage of the lungs.
 MT. Beardsley was born in 1874. He be- gan working for the Pail Mall Magazine and the Pail Mall Budget in 1892. He was Club in 1893, and subsequently he worked for various publishers He designed a number of posters that attracted con- tricity displayed in them. He supplied drawings for several illustrated publica- tions, including "Le Morte d'Arthur," :" Under the Hill" lie contributed a large number of drawings to the Yellow Book and Le Courier FrancaiS.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-17
Confirmed by the Senate.

WASHINGTON, March 16.-The Senate to-day confirmed these nominations:
 Horace H. Thomas, Appraiser of Mer- chandise. District of Chicago; Charles M. Sehlbrede of Oregon, Commissioner in and for the District of Alaska.
 Postmasters: California-J. N. Turrsn- tine. Escondido: M. Robinson, Vacavfllc. Washington-O. Hall Colfax.
 OregonSJames Mccain, McMinnvtlle.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-17
SIGHTS A WRECK AT SEA. Vessel Bottom Side Up Seen Off the
 Columbia's Mouth.

ASTORIA, Or, March 16.-Captain Amsbury of the British bark Puritan, which arrived today from Hiogo. re- ports that on the 12th inst. a vessel was the Columbia River lightship. The keel was about ninety feet long and the bot tom newly painted with copper paint. feet of the derelict, and saw few float ing spars around the hull, but there was nothing to indicate what she was. It is supposed to be the same wreck reported off Tillamook by Captain Daily of the sealing schooner Hetzic.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-17
SENATORS INSPECT
 A NORMAL SCHOOL

SAN JOSE, March 16.-The State Nor nal School was inspected by the Senate committee on State institutions this morning The buildings were looked over and Principal Randall Miss Blaisdell. secretary, and Trustee James M Putnam ters. This afternoon the committee left for San Francisco. i.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-17
SPEEDS A BULLET :.
 FROM AN AMBUSH,
Lyman S. Bell Kills Richard Murray Upon the Latter's Indian
 Diggings Claim.

PLACERVILLE, March 16.-A shooting affray occurred at Indian Diggings, this county. last evening. Lyman s. Bell, with a Winchester rife, shot and killed Rich ard Murray upon the mining claim of the latter. No one saw the shooting but before his death Murray made his way to the store of John Kohlert and told of being shot from ambush. Bell is in the custody of the officers, but beyond admitting the shooting, makes no statement. Both men were old citizens of this county between whom ill-feeling has existed for over year.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-17
Drives Off a Grade.

EUREKA. March 16.-A heavy snow storm has been raging in the adjacent mountains for the last few days. Mail Carrier Hitchings met an accident while en route from Bridgeville to this city his rig running off the grade in a blinding snowstorm. Through the instinct of his horse he found his way to the nearest set tiers place. where he obtained a saddle horse and brought the mail through to this city Operation of the stage line has been discontinued until next Monday.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-17
The Bark Prussia Aground.

SEATTLE, March 16.-The steamship City of Seattle arrived in port late to- night. While sailing through Queen Charlotte Sound the City of Seattle passed the wrecked steamer Corona in tow of the tugs Lorne and Maude, bound for Victoria. The bark Prussia, which left Seattle more than a week ago for the north. grounded at Wrangel Narrows. As the Seattle came south the tug Tacoma was trying to get the Pr11cSfa off
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-17
A Significant Inquiry.

RALEIGH, N. C., March 16.-Gov- ernor Russell to-day received a mes sage from President Mckinley asking how many troops the State could fur nish in case of hostilities. The reply of the Governor gave the number at 245, 900.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-17
Grand Parlor Delegates.

HAYWARDS. March 16.-At the meet ing of Eden Parlor No. 113. Native Sons of the Golden West, last evening" George A. Oakes and N. A. McConaghy were elected delegates to the grand parlor. pr. A. J. Powell and J. Smith were elected alter
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-17
Dervishes Gross the Nile.

CAIRO. March 16.-A large party of Dervishes crossed the Nile to Shebalya Island on Sunday last. but were repulsed by the Egyptian troops with the loss of eighteen killed. The only Egyptian casualty was the wounding of Major Sit-
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-17
San Rafael Flower Festival.

SAN RAFAEL, March 16.-A mass meeting of the citizens of San Rafael will be held next Friday evening at the Coch- rane-McNear Hall for the purpose of making final arrangements for the hold ing of great flower festival during the first week in May.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-17
Sails for southampton.

NEW YORK. March 16-S. F. Judah of San Francisco was a passenger on the steamer St. Louis, sailing for Southamp- tOn to-day.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-06-30
Two SoldIers.

With gallant step and flashing Gro
And swelling heart and courage h,rh
One marches gnyly down tho street
To martial music, loud and sweet.
All IL before him. Naught he knows
or deadly wounds from lurking foes.
Only the glory of the brave
He sees an fags that proudly ware.
With nushing check and hopeful smile
He wavos his farowclls, bu. tho while
n suduen tear all quickly dried
SHOWS the warm heart ho cannot hide.
.ho other, bent and old and gray,
Watches him gayly march away.
Adown the Scared and wrinkled chcek
unbiddcl tonrdrops slowly creep.
swiftly the years sweep back and. Ia.
vision of ihc long ago
4 ne siiac gay throng. the crowd, the chcors.
Inc mar'iai airs, tic faSs. tho tears,
Himself 20 brave and yorns ana strong.
ono of the noble. gallant th,onc.
nude afri Sos; les him. and then
Back to today ho cpmes agaia. 81
And nobs forcing lack the cry
Oi laHgin. ~ M 20 60 aud die. -
hhh trembling ,oicc lc weakly chesra
Ana iusns asicc 4" hide LIS tears.
oo1 bless tie young. Col bless ,he old.
Tor ia'Ti"' hearts ~ prfest gold!
Ana or them both, The noble brave.
Cur nag - freedom ever wave
-kausss Citv Star.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-06-30
DEATH NOTICES.

CARPENTER-In this city, 2stl insf. CaarIe.
Earl, son of the late Earl and sarah Am
days. "u
~. Funeral Friday. July l, st o'clock. nc the
rirse Universalist church. Greene sfreet
Friends nre requested not to'send flowers.
DRCGAN-In this city, the 10th inst, Ann
wire OF John DruGan. at 20 Palmer street.
JENKs-In Central Falls, on the astb ins,
Eeacon Daniel Whipple jerks, aged 81
NICHOlSON-in this city, Goth inst. Steph.p
eldest sen OF Elizabeth Dexter md fbs
lato William Thomas Nicholson.
PHILLJPS-In this ti,y. 10th irst. Henr;ett.
ka'ghn, wife Of the late Isanc X PhiIiins
ngcd 02 years.
PlCkCP-In Lonsdalc, suddenly, 9th iust
Thomas Pickup, aged SO years.
FOlLEIT-In this city, 18th ins. Samuel
Fcllett, aged e5 years
MEkCIER-Suddcnly, in Carolina, 9Th ms,
lila l., wife Of Charles Mercier.
PoTTER-At Butler Bee ital, 9th inst.
Edwin q Potter, aged i.i years, l2 days
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-06-30
+ TWO DARING DIVERS.

Ahooiauch and Judson. Heroes at Raj
quiri,Aro Promincnt New York Athletes.
During the landing of tho army Of
invasion at Baiquiri two of Roosc
Veits rough riders earned themselves
| special mention by tho excellent worl,
they did IN diving nnd rescuinr tho
many packages of provisions guns.
pugies and accouterments which fell
overheard from tho boats into the shark
infested waters. These heroes who risk.
ell life to rescue small articles Of value
were Charles Il. KnoLlauch aud Alfred
M. Judson, both we'll known men Of
New York 49, n y.
Mr. Knoblauch won his laurels nearly
ten years ago as one of tho most expors
swimmers and divers of the New YorI,
Athletic club. He was q member of tbe
club team which won the water polo
championship Of America on April ?.
1892. His speciality was TO secure the
ball and make long dives with IL under
the water. Knoblauch, who Is about 30
years old, has Cor many years been
prominent in athletics, and fcw wears
ago he was one of the most noted ANA.
teur oarsmen in tho country. lie was a
member OF tho celebrated "ChipDio,
crew., so famous seven or eight years
ago. knoblauch is also tho owner Of tho
sloop yacht Bonnie Flo inherited q for. |
tune few years ago and was n Wal, I
street broker before he joined Roosevelt's
rough riders.
Judson is tho son Of Alfred NJ. Judson
and was associated with his father in
the stock brokerage business in New
ork previous to tho war. He is also an
Expert diver and swimmer, besides be-.
ng an excellent nll round athlete. bud.
on was q member Of tho New York
avairy, Squadron A, but as he was not
hosen as ono OF the ip3 incn who went
outh he JOINED Rooscsefts rough rid.
rs. New York Herald
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-06-30
well regulated business establish

well regulated business establish
ment OF treating all customer:
alike. But the Telegram space
with 10 pages, from to IL ol
which are dummies, is cheap
though not every advertiser hasn't
discovered it. and the Telegram
has business conscience so anna
bic that, Il It can't get business at
me price 1t wants, it will take il
at the price it can get-though
every advertiser doesn't know
that either. The Ripans Chemical
agency knows ii, though, you
bet
we may only guess at what the
ngure was that our interesting
contemporary demonstrated as its
circulation TO the Ripans agency,
OUT we may approximate it at
$4,000, although it was probably
less, despite the fact that for the
oeneht OF the local advertiser the
aspiring Telegram claims TO print
aad sell some 10000 papers every
evening. One-seventeenth of a
cent a line per thousand, then, |
amounts to &c. a line for the Tcle- |
grams circulation of "a, 4,ooo--as- |
suinlng that the Ripans Company |
were fooled into believing it had |
SO much. Thus the interested
local advertiser may sit him down
again and revise his previous fig
ures as follows:
! column OF the Telegram .2.S lines
page coils. OF the Telegram. 1896
Cost OF l940 lines at 2Oc. a square
unstead of s1) or &c. line (in-
sIean OF lCc. s3a. % |
Therefore, the local advertiser
who is sailed on to pay for space
n the Telegram at a rate which
you'd make this page cost him
1894 90, is likely TO have a fit.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-06-30

Another message from Dewey.
and everything is going well with
MN. Dewey's reassuring mes
sages have happy way OF coming
a;ong Just about the time that the
sensational news from Hong Kong
mas worked the country up to the
lever pitch Of anxiety about his
situation. 1t is understood that
Dewey has been elected president
OF the Manila Don't Worry Club.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-06-30

Have we the shipse
Have we the guns?
Have we the men.
Have we ali army big enough ?
Can we raise one?
What will Germany say-Rus.
sia-France-
Can the country stand it?
Won't it interfere with prosper
itys
What does the Lord think about
't-how does the devil regard it?
Is it right to fight'
There has been a good deal OF
this sort OF questioning since war
w-s declared, ten weeks ago, ac-
colnpanied by some actual oppo-
sition to interfering III any way
with the operations of the dis
credited and discreditable Spanish
nation, a public nuisance, an Of
fence to the civilized world. par
ticularly obnoxious to our great
Tree country, at whose very door
was being done their wickedest
work. ~
But the great majority of seventy |
million people permitted no such |
timorous doubts and queries to
bother them. They ordered the
war to begin, and it die begin.
Today, Spanish power in Cuba
ss crumbling before our guns.
Thousands of American soldiers
are OH Cuban soil. Thousands
more will soon be in possession of
the Philippine islands. The thun-
der Of Yankee guns will be heard
IN Spain itself.
How paltry seem now the oues- t
tIonIng and the doubling, the fear 7
alike OF the vengeance of the Lord
ana the assault of Spanish tor {
pcdo boat threatening to relax sup $
port OF the government in the ear $
l'er steps OF its majestic undertak-
Ing. The war is on, and we'll be- h
gun. That's half done. 1t will d
DC conducted in our own American d
way, with malice toward none bur n
With tear of none. If any foreign Il
'ountry has criticism to make that :
VII be listened to when peace is cl
!eclared. There is no time now III
Q 40 ANYTHING but fight to the u
|nish. The jingle bell has been nc
l'ng End we are going full steam tn
read to thrash Spain out of her 10
cots and wind up the trouble ue
18th smash.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-06-30

II Is reported that the fellows in
Santiago who can afford il are
drinking champagne in celebration
OF the repor ed sinking of Schley's
flagship, the Brooklyn, by Span.
|'sii shell. But then. only a mod.
crate excuse is ordinarily needed
70 TEN. { the fellow who can afford
i to trcal; a bottle.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-06-30
Tao Kansas Farmers Bonds.

AT Newton. Kan, the other day th
First National bank made out 50 49,,
In drafts to send for the purchase of
war bonds. OF this sum so, 800 was sup
piled by farmers, and only $40 came
from business man.---Kansas CITY
Journal.