Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-03-11

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40 "A THE STANDARD.
respectively 2 and 4 years, at home
while she had gone to a neighbours
house, half a mile away on an errand.
While she was visiting with her neigh
bors the older child made it's appearance
and informed them that his little
brother had been burned to death. The
neighbors on arriving on the scene of
the accident found that the children
had been playing with matches and that
the clothing of the 2-year-old boy had
caught fire, whereupon the older one,
with rare presence of mind, had dragged
him out into a snow bank and gone for
help. When found the poor little fell
low a beyond aid and in a few
minutes breathed his last.
A letter from DIR. Fawcett, leader of
the Grand Forks party en- route to the
Klondike, to the Grand Forks Plain
dealer, says that prospects are favor
able for their reaching their destination
safely, and adds: We have seventy
horses and carry provisions for ourselves
for over a year and ten tons of feed for
our horses, for you must remember the
snow is four feet on the level, and a
horse paving a living simply digs his
own grave unless he is fed. AS we go
north the depth of SNOW decreases and
our horses will be better able to rustic
for themselves. You can form no idea
of the rush to the gold fields of the
north by this route. While we are ly-
ing in camp this morning a Chicago
party headed by Captain Willis and
Doctor Carlton passed with thirty 8 X
men. Several others have also gone by.
We let them pass 50 as to break the
road for us. The great rush is not from
the east, but chiefly from the west.
There are 5000 people in Edmonton
now, I am informed, from Seattle and
Vancouver, who finding they cannot
reach the goal by the coast route till
June, are rushing to the overland route.
Some are returning, having lost their
horses in attempting to force their way
through. DR.. Albright of England
came back and took refuge with me
last night. On his way back Walker of
the Fresno, California, party, visited me
also, having lost 1876 horses out Of lao
but these men had no experience in this
class of work and worked their horses
without feed, resulting in the terrible
mortality.
The Stock Growers Journal calls at.
%tention to the benefits likely to inure to
the American wool growers from the
decrease in number of Australian sheep
Until 1896 Australia was supposed to be
!, land indeed it was-almost an ideal
country for extensive and profitable
sheep raising and wool growing. In '95
there were 62,OOO,OOO sheep in New
South Wales alone, but the intense heat
experienced there in '96 reduced the
number to $4,000, 900, IA, 0 $1,000 having
been killed to prevent their death from
climatic causes. The killing of so many
sheep increased the output of the wool
crop for that year, but was followed by
a diminution the next year for the
sheep were not there to yield the usual
crop. Prior to '96 these severe climatic
changes in Australia were unknown and
the fact that of late such long continued
heated terms occur, lasting day and
night for weeks, drying up supplies Of
water, ~discourages the sheep owners
there and i%nclines investors to draw on,
of the business. Sheep and cattle per
ish from the heat and drouth which
now appear to PREVAIL especially in New
South Wales and recdr almost with
every year. This change is very likel,
to inure to the benefit of American
wool growers because if the competition
of Australian woods is Withdrawn in any
great degree the effect on prices of the
American product must be highly fav
orable. It may at least be confindently
asserted that under the conditions
herein enumerated, the present higt
price of wool is assuredly to be main
tanned, with excellent prospects of still
further appreciation in values of sheer
and wool in the United States.
Plentv If Wheels
Godfrey Herlund, a Cav!ier count,