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FINANCE and IDllE.

NEW YORK. August 23.-Eyening Posts
London financial telegram:
The stock markets nere We're quiet to-
day but firm on the whole, investment
stocks being particularly strong. Amer
leans were good early but the close was
distinctly oft on New ! ork selling.
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DRY GOODS.

NEW YORK, August 2s.-The drv
goods market shoS slight gains from day
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NEW YORK, August 23.-Money on call
steady al 1242 per cent; last loan at Ia
per cent.
Prime mercantile paper Si2a4A per cent:
Sterling exchange nrmer, win actual
business in bankers bills at SteJA04.Sol2
for demand and at $4.s5%404G Tor sixty
Gays; posted rates $i.S4d4S412 and S4.oS4
1852.
Commercial bills $4S2izG4.S3.
Z. rrifCa.eS LA
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11van and departures Of trains On an1
amer May y. 1885, Explanation Of Refers
enSe Marks: DAILY: fSunday excepted.
.Monday excepted: Saturday excepted:
iSun0ay only: 2. Saturday only: )Monday
on.y'. r except Saturday; I. except sat-
uIuay. Eastern Standard time. which il
one nour earlier than Central time.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-06

Dawson City, Ct miles. Total distance
1,542 miles. W
Fort Wrangel is in Alaska. AT Fort
Wrangel baggage and freight win ~
transshipped in bond to river steamers
Ihe St1keen is navigable for fiat-hot,
tom river steamboats, to Glenora opa
M Nil the water is high they can reach
ielegraph creek. twelve miles further
up stream. The trip from WrangaI
10 Glenora occupies thirty-six hours
Ihere is clear navigation from the
mead of Lake Teslin to Dawson viii
out one rapfd-that of Five Fingers
along the entire distance, and this with
care, is reported to be easily navigahIa
on the northern or right-hand channel
out OF Ieslin flows the Teslin river.
which. after being joined by the Big
Salmon river. is known as the T,ewes
which is followed to Fort SelkirIr
where. with the Pelly it forms the Yu.
kon. Of which it is the principal source
and greatest feeder
The contractors will begin work with.
in few weeks, getting in supplies bv
sledges. The right Of way will be
cleared as soon as the snow disappears
and a wagon trail will be fixed up to
facilitate the work of construction. A
daily service will be put on, if neces-
sary, and passengers, when everything
is we'll under way, are to be put into
Dawson City in seven days from Van
cOuVer.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-06

they go and start a new colony Mr..
Duncan felt that his only recourse, If
he would get beyond the reach Of his
ecclesiastical prosecutor was to go out
OF the country altogether. So, armed
with credentials from those who knew
the history of his good work, he came
to Washington and begged of our gov
eminent a right to bring his colony
over upon United States soil and set
tie them upon Annette island, off the
Alaska coast, which was uninhabited,
so that they would not be in the way
Of anybody. AS the site chosen was
supposed on all sides to be worthless
for other purposes, our government
gave it's consent, and not only made the
island a reservation for the immigrant
Indians, but RENTED all customs du-
ties on the property the colony should
bring with them.
They could remove very little. All
the expensive buildings they had rear
ed, and most of the machinery they
had set up. had to be left behind. But
the~ pilgrims shouted and wept with
joy when they landed in their new
home and ran up the Stars and Stripes
over it as a sign Of their religious and
social freedom. On Annette island
they have built up another industrial
community as wonderful in its way as
the first. Their noble white leader is
stay -HdlIeu anu DeHJ WIFI age, DuC
still has much of his old fire in him.
Now, at time when he had hoped
that he could die assured Of the hap
py future Of his wards, comes this at
tempt to thwart the very object for
which he had moved them into the
wilderness. and to break the pledges Of
the government that they should be
undisturbed in their adopted home in
our land Of liberty"
Mr. Hermann, the commissioner Of
the general land office. to whom the
bill was referred for comment, has sent
back a report whose facts and figures
condemn the scheme. He shows that,
on the little peninsula into which the
bill would pen the Indians, there is not
enough land to give the Thousand in
habitants even fourteen acres apiece,
If it were allotted, much of this land
being. moreover, barren and of poor
quality. 1t is believed that there is
too much conscience and good faith in
congress to permit such a wrong; but
the progress of the bill will bear watch
ing by the public.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-06

mated cost Of this road. Let congress
authorize the issue Of that amount Of
2 per cent low denomination bonds. say
Tor twenty years. Then make trans
portation charges-as they could-one-
third of the rates a corporate company
would establish. and the profits would
pay the interest and the principal Of
the bonds before the expiration of the
twenty years.
AS sure as fate, Alaska has come to
stay, and its mineral resources will not
be exhausted In 1000 years. The ex
ploration will last for hundreds Of
years, and here, too, the government
should assist, to the extent of a thor
ough geological survey. We hear only
Of gold, but It must not be forgotten
that the interior of Alaska is rich in
silver fhe richest silver mine in the
world is being worked in Norton bay
Bering strafts), copper, lead, cinnabar
and other minerals. In Prince Will
Jams sound has recently been discov-
cred a mountain of copper believed to
be the richest and greatest deposit in
the world. On the coast, near the
mouth Of the Copper river. are lakes
or petroleum, seemingly inexhaustibIe.
coal-not Of the best quality-almost
everywhere, and timber. WHY. il was
for the timber that Secretary Seward
bought Alaska, he predicting that the
Alaska coast would be the shipyard
for the world. and may be it would be
so, but for the substitution of steel for
wood in ship building
The building of railroad would give
employment in construction, mining
and incidentally to all the UNEMPLOYED
labor of our country, and settle the
LABOR question for half a century, and
Organism forever. Virtually, with no
cost at all to our government or its
people, for, as I have said, the revenue
OF this railroad will more than provide
for payment Of interest and PRINCIPAL
OF the bonds issued for it's construction
Temporarily, this expenditure might be
met by looping off the pension roll S1O-
100000 or 100000 Of the annual nen-
sfons paid to those who neither need
nor deserve pensions. I would go still
further and lop off $10,0OO0OO more to
give to those who, through no fault of
their own, need pension, regardless. of
any disability contracted in the army.
Since writing the above, I learn that
a governmental order has been issued
Tor exploration and survey Of a route
10 the interior of Alaska from Prince
Wllllam's sound to the Yukon river
Follow this with a survey from VAIN:
tat bay to determine which of these
routes Is the best The Prince Will
lam sound route will be determined in
auVance OF government exploration nv
the SUI or more explorers who are now
on the way over this route. But T ON
glad II our government has awakened
to the need Of doing even this nIcb
for Alaska. ii00ii
i0i NJ. R. BALDWIN.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-06

Klondike district and from that region.
west of the Mackenzie and Laird rivers
and north Of the sixtieth parallel. A
royalty Of l per cent is levied on min
eral produced from these lands. Min
ing claims already recorded within
these blocks of land are excepted from
the grant. The railway rates are to
be fixed by the governor general in
council, subject to a reduction after
four years of rs per cent, and a sim
liar reduction after seven years.
Practically monopoly is granted the
contractors, as no line of railroad from
Lynn canal, or any point near the in
ternational boundary between Canada
and Alaska will be authorized by par
lament for five years from the 1st of
september, 1898, and for ten years these
contractors will have the preference in
constructing any other lines of rail-
road from Stickeen river to an ocean
port. Subject to the approval Of par
lament, the contract virtually provides
quick and easy route to the Yukon,
and there is no doubt, that the monopoly
clause will be the subject of hot con-
trovery between the two political par
ties
Upon the completion of this line the
Trip 10 DAWSON Clty may De MADE
throughout by railroad and steamers.
From Victoria, B. c., ocean steamers
run to Fort Wrangel. River steamers
will ply up the Sitkeen from Fort
Wrangel to connect with the railroad
to Lake Teslin, and from Teslin to
Dawson City the Yukon and its tribu-
taries are navigable. The distances
are as follows: Vancouver or Victoria
to Fort Wrangel, 700 miles; Fort Wran-
gel to Glenora. 125 miles; Glenora to
Lake Teslin, AS miles; Teslin to Fort
Selkirk, 400 miles; Fort Selkirk to Stew
art river. los miles; Stewart river to
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-06

estimate the coast product at double
that Of last year. I would not ven
ture to approximate the amount of
gold and other mineral that the in
terror will produce. Reports reach us
of wonderful discoveries of placer and
quartz near Yakutat bay, and of an
other Klondike on the Chittyna river,
but from Dawson come the widest re-
ports Of discoveries on the Tanana and
Copper rivers, where prospectors are
getting 5000 to the pan. Richness"
too, on the Mynook, Innokook, Koya-
kuk and many of the other tributaries
OF the Yukon. But, most of all, the
Copper and Tanana rivers are attract
ing attention, and it is reported that
a stampede for those districts has al
ready begun from Dawson, Circle City
and Fort yukon. Two hundred thou
sand is thought to be a conservative
estimate Of the number who will go
into the interior of Alaska the present
year. ] believe the mineral wealth OF
Alaska is sufficient to warrant this, and
that twice that number will go in dur
ing 1899. Ninety-nine in every hun
dred are now headed for Dawson.
where there are neither claims nor
room for them. All the Klondike dis
trict is staked from river to mountain
top.
L predict that within three months
two new routes to the Yukon will be
opened up, so much nearer and cheap
er than the Dyea or Skaguay routes,
that they will be more used than both
the other routes. One of these is the
Copper river route; the other the
Yakutat bay route. By the Copper
river route, from Port Valdese to the
Yukon, the distance is 260 miles. From
Yakutat bay to the Yukon 220 miles,
1t is now known that the mysterious
George Rennick went in from Yakutat
bay to the Tanana, and one of his men
recently returned alone and reports an
excellent route. Prof. Hill, of Seattle,
has spent two summers in and about
this bay, exploring some distance into
the interior, and is enthusiastic over
this as the railroad route from the
coast to the Yukon river. Others, we'll
informed, favor the Copper river route,
and most agree that the only other
route for a railroad to the interior is
via the Dalton trail, but that the Cop
per river or Yakutat Is shorter and pre-
sents fewer difficulties.
Why does not our government make
surveys to determine the best route
for railroad from the coast to the in
terror of Alaska? While am opposed
to the government ownership of rail-
roads, as proposed by the Populists,
do believe that, from what is known
Of the enormous mineral wealth of
Alaska, and with the view to prevent
ing eXtortionate rates for transporta-
ton, thus encouraging the greatest de-
velopment, our government should Sc
lect the most feasible route (all within
our own lines, of course), for a rail-
road, then construct own and operate
it. Eight million dollars Is the esti-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-06
ARE NEEDED
ALASKA WANTS MORE TRANSPORT
TATION FACILITIES

The Canadians Propose Building IA
Road From Telegraph Creek to
Lake TesIin-A Survey Ordered
From Prince Williams Sound to
the Yukon River.
Correspondence The St. Paul G!obe.
SEATTLE, Wash, Feb. lit is Off
cially announced that the Canadian
government has granted a subsidy OF
$4,000 acres of land per mile and en-
tered into contract with a company for
the construction of a railroad from
Telegraph creek to Lake Teslin, and
ii is stated that the new route to the
Yukon is to be completed as soon as
men ard money can construct 1t. 1t
is Weli-knOWn that the Canadian gov
eminent has established in the Klon-
dixie every function of law and gov
eminent necessary to the preservation
of law and order, and that Dawson is
today as we'll regulated and as order
~ as is Seattle or most of our larger
Northwestern cities. If the cOmpari-
son We're not OdiOuS, I would call at
teDtiOn 10 conditions on our side of the
line, as compared to the conditions
within our neighbours boundaries. And
what does the United States govern
ment propose to do for Alaska? Moth
ing, if we are to judge from executive
ton. 1t never has done anything, and
ii is whispered here on the coast that
the present administration will confer
but few favors on Alaska until it is
definitely settled whether the Repub-
lican party shall control the politics of
this territory, district, or whatever it
is. Iust now it doesn't seem to be
anything politically. So while the
Canadians are establishing govern
nient. enforcing laws, aiding in the
construction of railroads and in other
ways aiding and encouraging develop
ment our government refuses to recog-
rize Alaska as a territory and is bag
Cling, delaying and maybe refusing to
Il ant thirteen acres of land for ter
/minal purposes, and right of way to
two different companies, one Of which
proposes to construct a railroad from
Pyramid Harbor to the Yukon river
The other from Prince Williams sound
to the Yukon river.
Is not Alaska entitled to recogni-
tion or consideration equally with the
state of Nevada? We boast Of the
enormous revenues derived from Alas
ka in furs and fish. Let it be known
too, that the gold product of Alaska
for the year 1887 was $4,S550 900, not in
Guiding the placer product of the in
terror. What will be the gold product
for the present year? 1t is safe to
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-06
Correspondence The St. Pau! Globe.

Correspondence The st. Pau! Globe.
WASHINGTON, Feb 5.-There is a
threat In the air that congress will
presently deal a brutal blow to one OF
thSoUost famous triumphs of Caucas-
IAN Sylllzation in modern times, the
New Metlakahtla. A bill introduced
by Representative Dovener, of West
Virginia, proposes ito segregate and
return to the unreserved public do
mann all lands upon Annette island
except those on it's southwestern pen
lnsula, and throw them open for set
tIement and occupancy under the gen.
eral land laws of the United States"
And the Trainer of the bill has cum
nlngly inserted in an obscure place a.
proviso that all presumption filings
heretofore made shall be treated In
all respects as if made upon any of
the public lands" etc. This indicates
the probable reason of the bills exist
ence. Prospectors who have discover
ed the presence of mineral deposits on
the northern part Of the island have
already filed claims on these, and the
bill is designed, not to benefit the gen.
erai public by opening a new field for
the mining industry, but merely to
give the sanction of law to the illegal
acts of its special beneficiaries.
For no white man had a right to
invade Annette island. 1t belonged to
that wonderful little colony of redeem
ed Indian saVages which was brought
thlther from the British mainland a
dozen years ago by William Duncan
II congress passes this bill it means
the over-running Of the land by a
horde of fortune seekers, who bring
with them the usual accompanimentS
OF the mining campfire am-shop,
the gambling-hell, the dance-house,
and all the rest. Two considerations
make such an idea revolving to every
fair mind; first, that the site of the
original Metlakahtla was chosen for
the purpose of getting the Indians
away from the demoralizing influences
surrounding frontier garrison life.
which, bad as it is, nevertheless is
vastly better than life In a minine.
camp; second, that the Indians and
their leader would not have quilted the
old Metlakahtla for the new, had they
not been promised by our government
that they should be undisturbed in
their island home So both Justice and
good morals demand that the bill shall
be killed. The situation will be better
understood from a brief rehearsal of
the story of Metlakahtla.
In 1856 William Duncan, an English
man, whose uncommon business ability
commanded large private income, be-
came dominated by the idea of forsak-
ing everything at home and going as q
missionary to the Indians of the great
Northwestern colony of the queen In
der the auspices Of the English Mission
airy Society of London, he went to work
among the aboriginal tribes in the re-
gion tributary to Fort Simpson, a trad
in& post of the Hudson Bay company,
about 600 miles north of Victoria, and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-06
SEVEN DAYS TO DAWSON
A WEEK FROM VANCOUVER AFTER
THE RAILROAD IS BUILT
Septembcr-It Is Proposed in
Canada to Authorize No Other
Railroad for Number of Years
Preliminary Work.


Preliminary Work.
OTTAWA, Feb. 5-The railroad
which is to be built from the Stickeen
river in British Columbia to Teslin
lake. $50 miles, is expected to cost S.
100000. 1t is stipulated that the con-
tractors shall open a good trail from
the mouth of the Stickeen river to
Teslin lake, providing stopping places
at intervals of twenty-five miles. this
road to be ready for use within six
weeks, while the railroad is to be in
operation by September next. The con-
tractors must also establish steamboat
service between Teslin lake and Daw-
son City. Many capitalists have sought
the franchise for this road. but nearly
all, including the English syndicate.
withdrew when they learned Of the
difficulties Of such an enterprise. The
country is wild and almost impenetra-
BILE, and the government insisted on
rapid construction. The work, as al
ready announced, has been undertaken
by Mackenzie & Mann, who have been
highly successful in Canadian railway
construction. The contractors deposit
$&50,000 as a guarantee of good faith
and, instead of receiving a cash sub
sidy, will secure what will amount to
about 3,750G00 acres of mineral lands.
These lands are to be selected from the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-06

t ter nj the Misses Alice and Agnes stln
., Mrs T. L. Flegnon, OF Stewart Mimi. ia
Lafayette avenue u
MI. and Mrs. Fred Whiteham of Water
S Sown; VIII reside in the future on Granite
The Bethesda Hospital society will meet
next Thursday at the hospitaI for snacIaI
work. " "PeOi'-
Mrs c. D. Maclaren. OF De Soto street.
gave eQchre party yesterday afternoon
Tuesday.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-06
SUBURBAN -
- SOCIAL.

teresting paper was read by Mrs. Penning-
ton.
Mrs. S. bearing entertained at cards last
evening.
Mr.. Frank steiger left last week for Cali
fornia.
Mrs C. K. Rowe Is visiting at Winona
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-06
Engine Drivers.

Engine drivers in Germany receive from
the government a gold medal and f10O fo
every ten years of service without accident.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-06
The Oldest Village,

What is the Oldest village in the world?"
A writer in one of the November magazines
gives the honor to Kilcar, in County Donegal
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-06
THE NEW METLAKAHTLA
BAND OF WHITE MEN INVADE
ANNETTE ISLAND,

AheE IhiniS 1t Rich in Minerals, and
Ask Congress to Throw Most of 1t
Open to Settlem Untold
Injury Which This Would Do to
the Duncan Colony.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-06
R0MANCERS ADVICE
HI. G. WELLS, AUTHOR OF aTHE
WAR OBJ THE WORLDS,

He Tells the Story of His Life-OnIy
Two Years Before the Public and
Already known as the English
Jules Verne-His Literary Strur
giles and Successes.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-02-01

The doors of the Methodist Episcopal
church south I'm Hillsboro, Tenn, have
been closed to a female revivalist. The
affair has created excitement among the
Methodists i'm that section. Mrs. Harris,
widow OF the late Robert Lee Harris. a
noted evangelist OF his time i'm Tennes-
see. is the woman who has been barred.
The meeting was commenced In the
Methodist Episcopal church by author
ity of the board OF stewards, but Rev.
Anson West. presiding elder of the De-
catur district, learning of the use of his
church by n female revivalist went To
HillsboTo and overruled the action Of
the board. interrupted the proceedings
and caused a considerable furry by OFF,
cially closing the doors of the church to
women preachers.
Mrs. Harris. undaunted removed 20
another church and continued her re-
vival services. Large congregations at
tended them, many going 80 miles to
hear her.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-02-01

matter with her so far as illness was
concerned. Had she lost her purse? 1t
was safe In the shopping bag. Had she
lost her way? No, she lived in the city
and knew her way about town. Had her
friends or children wandered from her?
No. she had gone out alone.
At last. suddenly inspired, he asked,
Have you lost your memorandum
book?' She looked up In his face and
answered. mo. I've got II. but can't
make out what one word OF il means"
And eventually she cried so long and
so hard that she had an attack of
hystera. and a doctor had TO be called
i'm and a carriage ordered. Her loss of
memory cost her husband $50 The
moral is Write out your memoran-
dunn list so you will know what it
means" A very sensible judge has de-
cided that the proprietor of a theater
will have 10 pay for frock torn by a
nail on the seat engaged for the per-
formance. Now comes the oppo,tuni-
~ OF the downtrodden worm. How
about the hats crushed by men going
out between the acts? How about the
cloaks injured when one is induced to
check them? How about the back8 of
bodices stained by the accumulated
dust and grease on the nasty plush up
holstery? VIII the manager have to
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-02-01

pay for these? Men are always won
dering why the women won't leave their
hats and cloaks In the dressing room.
| will tell you why. Because nobody
likes 60 have the maids I'm charge try
ing them on or holding them I'm their
hands. and criticisng them. No wo-
man who wears good clothes likes TO
know that her cloak is at the bottom of
a heap OF cloaks poked into a cubhy
hole. and that is about the way that
things are cared for when they are
checked The woman who has the wis
dom OF the serpent keeps a very ordi-
nary cloak for'theater wear and swathes
hcr head in an enormous lace scarf.
The scarf can be wrapped I'm the cloak
and put under the seat. and the gentle
man behind can put hts feet on &c or
even poke hole i'm it with his umbrella.
and there will be no great grief But TO
see an crmine lined, lace trimmed cloak
and beautiful chapcau receive such
treatment is enough 10 bring tears to
the eyes of rhlnoCcros, an animal
which is said not To weep easily
Personally l glory i'm a warm cloak
of irish fricze and lace scarf four
yards long. which arc my standbys
while the man who oftenest is my es-
cort invariably wears 60 the theatcr a
hat which i'm the order Of service In
-AHe'rn as No. Q. ] must confess tnat