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miles from, and $500 feet above, the
starting point, in less than nine months
from the day when the first line peg was
driven.
In the spring Of last year President s.
H Graves arrived In the United States
from London. He carried the sole pos
sessions Of this arctic thoroughfare, the
charters from the English government
granting the right of way over British
territory, from a point near Lake Ben
nett to Dawson, and from the United
States government over the strip Of
American territory lying between the
sea and the international boundary line.
Armed with these documents Mr.. Graves
started for Alaska, arriving in April. 1t
seems incredible that In SO short space
of time immense quantities of railroad
material could have been purchased and
shipped three-fourths of the wayato the
north pole, and that the same weeks
should witness the organization of as
splendid corps Of civil engineers as ever
sighted Il sextant or made war upon ma
tUre-yet such is the fact
RAILWAY IS MAKING MONEY.
The general name covering the whole
system is tho white Pass & Yukon
route" but this is merely caption, and
covers three distinct charters. From
Skeguay to the international boundary
line twenty-eight miles, the road will
be officially known as the Pacific & Arc
tic Railway and Navigation company
The majority of this stock s held by
Americans, or, at least, in the name of
Americans. The next division, which is
now under rapid construction, crosses
British Columbia, and Is to be called the
British Columbia Yukon Railway COM
pany" The last division will traverse
the Northwest territory, and Is to be
known under the title of the British
Yukon Mining, Trading and Transporta-
ton company" The stock covering the
British divisions 10 mostly held in Lon
don and Montreal.
The road has been carrying freight and
passengers as far as Glacier station,
about five miles from the summit, for
several months. During February the re-
ceipts of the freight department alone
were $500 a day, and those of the pas
senger department $780, Indeed, since the
first of January the receipts have equaled
the payroll expenditure, including a con-
struction gang of between 1000 and 1000
men. Now that freight and passengers
can be landed at the top of the dreaded
pass, Mr. Gray anticipates that the re-
ceipts will be doubled.
Yet this fine showing Is not obtained by
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BY RAIL TO DAWSON
WHITE PASS s. YUKON RAILWAY
IS NOW NEARING CON-
PLETION
TRAINS ARE NOW RUNNING
The Schedule Time VIII BE About
Twelve and One-Hal9 Days From
St. Paul to Dawson-R emarkabIe
Speed and Success In Railroad
Construction In the kiOndfke
Country-Cost $4,000 a Mile.

On May II, 1898, the silence of the ap-
proaches to the White Pass of the Chill
cat mountains was broken by the eXplo-
sion of tons of giant powder, and LOCO
laborers, armed with bar and barrow,
drill and dynamite, pushed out from the
head waters of Lynn canal, leaving two
shining lines Of steel in their wake. 9th
er railroads have conquered greater
heights and spanned wider chasms, but
for rapidity of construction in the dead
Of an arctic winter over an almost insur-
mountable mountain range, the White
Pass & Yukon railway must stand in
conspicuous pre-eminence.
At first the wiseacres smilingly nodded
their heads and whispered, Scheme;
Skaguay has seen her best days, and
there are town lots for sale" AS the
grade neared the granite wall a mile
high, and the snow flied every cut and
canyon, even the hardy packers" said
that the construction gang must surely
tie up until spring, but the indomitable
officers and engineers were not built on
that plan. From ten to forty feet OF
snow was removed, the roadbed hewed
from the granite cliffs, and a train pulled
to the summit, twenty and four-tenths
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!. :. q The Theaters |: !:


The ever-popular NELL Stock company
will begin return engagement Of two
weeks at the Metropolitan opera house
tonight, presenting the beautiful drama
Of Southern life, Alabama" by Angus
tus Thomas. 1t will be pleasure for the
friends of this company to learn that
Miss Grayce Scott and Mr. Charles Wynn
gate have rejoined the Neills and will ap-
pear in Alabama" tonight The travel
ing organizations are compelled by pub
lie demand to furnish new plays, very few
Of which will run for more than a year or
two. The plays which have been pro-
duced for two or three years are dis
carded, no matter how successful they
may have been, and remain for years I'M
used and forgotten until revived by some
stock company. 1t often proves that the
revival is even more Ola success than the
original production, and this was the
case with the Neill performance Of Ala
bama" in Minneapolis last week. They
broke all their records of business in that
city. and scored the biggest success they
have achieved during the present season.
It's production in ST. Paul will be antici-
paleu WIFI MUCH pleasure Dy Tire pdlIollS
of the Metropolitan for" Alabama" is
play that will be appreciated by all adj
nlirers of the higher class of drama. 1t is
considered one of the most beautiful plays
of it's type ever written There is some
thing quantity sympathetic about the
story and action of Alabama" and 1t
appeals with resistless influence to those
who delight in tender touches of senti-
ment and the purity of the stage With
love and sentiment for a basis and
pronounced vein Of comedy to relieve 1t
from the slightest suggestion of gloom
Alabama" is a splendid specimen Of the
successful modern comedy-drama.
For the latter part of the week the
Neill company will produce "a Social
Highwayman," with Mr.. Neill as Cour-
tice Jaffray, a lole in which he appears
to the greatest advantage. The play is
a dramatization by Mary F. Stone, of
Elizabeth Phipps Trains famous prize
story in Lippincott's Magazine. The story
rs that of man moving in the best So
ciety whose position gives him the en-
tree to the most exclusive circles, and
who takes advantage of the fact to skill
fully rob his fashionable friends and &C
quaintances His career of deception and
theft, his final exposure and sudden death
are shown with the most perfect skill Of
the dramatist's art 1t is one Of the
strongest plays in the Neill repertoire,
and, with the possible exception Of Capt.
Swift the most popular drama they
have produced in these cities.
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transported from scenes Of war to the
more enjoyable realms of farce, pre-
senting for a weeks engagement one of
the big comedy successes of last season,
mistakes VIII Happen" The engage
ment will commence with a performance
tonight and will include the usual after.
noon performances.
Novelties in farcical comedies are eX-
tremely rare, but this is an instance
where the author has really devised a
lot of new and novel situations. where
the dialogue is bright and crisp, some
times even brilliant. from the first until
the final curtain Heretofore 1t has been
the melodramatic author who has put in
buzz saws, railroad trains and cotton
presses, while the writer of farce was
content to use over and over again the
same old material. The author of '.Mis-
takes Will Happen" makes use of
coupe, q common garden hose, hay rake,
an oat bin, some hay, pitchfo-k, an ak.
a pug dog and trained Tat9in producing
some of the laughter, which is incessant
almost from the first until the final cur
tain. Perhaps one of the greatest nov
elites in mistakes Will Happen is
that 1t tells a story, continuous Gull
minating story, which in itself is most
amusing. A certain society woman,
who has a rich husband, is DESTROYS of
becoming an amateur actress. She meets
the leading man of "a certain theater,
and he, In consideration of $50, agrees
to coach her. This actor has written
a play which every manager to whom
he has sent it has refused 1t, and he sees
in the society woman the chance of a
possible production. ~Ihe actor has Sc
cretly married thenleading lady of his
company, and both he and his wife live
in terror that their secret will be dis
covered, for they have manager who
objects to having married people upon
his stage.
The society woman also has husband
who poses as moralist, but who, as a
matter of fact. Is ejust as human as any
other man. He meets the actors wife,
<and she, thinking to hefp her husband
decides to try and get him to produce
her husbands play. Both couples make
an appointment for the same place, day
and hour, which happens to be the rich
mans coach house. The actress goes
there to read the play toSthe, society wom-
ans husband. Naturally THIS leads to all
sorts of ridiculous complications, and
things get pretty generally tangled be-
fore the end Of the second Nact In the
last act, however matters are straight
ened out to everybody's atiSfaction. The
marriage of the actor and actress be-
comes known to their manager and he
promptly discharges them both. But the
society woman comes to the rescue, and
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difficulties, he recoHected that, previous
to his illness, he had put his name to
bill of $3.50. Within a few days of-the
time it fell due he seemed very restless,
and had long conversations with his over
seer, who could not make out anything
he said. At last, one day he exclaimed
II want a hundred, another hundred, and
something less than a hundred"
It will easily be seen from these eX-
anples that this mans power of artlcu-
late expression was deeply damaged. His
case, indeed, was in many respects
remarkable one. He had been an accom-
plished linguist. and after the attack of
aphasia his conversation chiefly consist
ed OF a jargon composed of mixture OF
words from many languages, and some,
It was believed, belonged to none. His
intellect did not appear to be much, II at
all, affected On meeting an old friend
after a long absence he usually began
the conversation in English, but soon
struck off at a tangent for some other
language Surprise uniformly produced
English, while anxiety with him seemed
to find its tural expression in foreign
tongue or possibly in a mixture of
tongues 1t was also observed that when
at loss for the termination of word
he sometimes tackled on 10 1t the last
syllable OF synonym. In this way he
compound Of the first syllable of suzzler
and the last Of epicure.
ACUTER CASES.
In acuter cases the destruction Of the
power of articulate expression is more
complete. The patients cannot articulate
correctly, a fact OF which they are pain
fully conscious, and they often remain
mute rather than subject themselves to
or Ind r
Of this phase of the disease is that In
case certain words or phrases ere retain
ed OF regained after the attack these
words or expressions are used in pecu-
liar, automatic way by the patient in re-
ply to any question asked. These phrases
or words are,Aof course, in the majority
Of cases, absurdly irrelevant TO the 1ues-
ton asked.
DR.. Hammond cites case where pa
tient would reply Hell to pay" under all
circumstances Another patients unvary-
ing reply was 81 want protection and
q third would say nothing but 'Umbrel-
la! Umbrella"
In one instance the total vocabulary Of
an aphasic consisted of five words, yes
mo" three" always" and hello for
Helong, his own name). His use of the
word three" was very peculiar. When
asked If he had children he said Three
but held I'D four fingers. How many
boys?" Three" but he held UP two
fingers How many girls?" Three"
but he again held up two fingers. What
o'clock is it?' Three and he raised
ten fingers Git was 10 o'cloch. 1t Is pos
rible that he may have used the word
three" as a representative OF numbers
in general Qn the same way as an alge-
brist uses letter of the alphabeD, leav-
ing 1t to his fingers to Indicate the partic-
ular number he meant.
Another patient replied mo" to every
question, but accompanied 1t with q nod
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locomotive, like a mad bull with its head
down. dull thud, a deluge of snow,
! AMI the engine stops midway through the
drift, with wheels a-whirl. Another run
for 1t" and we are through with a rush,
and out upon a creaking trembling
trestle. Here the science and skill of the
constructing engineer is put to its sever
est test. One month ago this gorge was
level full Of snow. Shovels had first
cleared the way and tossed the white
blocks down the mountain side; then
came the rock men to prepare the founda-
ton with drill and dynamite, during
weather SO bitter cold that the hospital
tents were filled with frost-bitten men.
Then the slender timbers were lifted to
the level OF the grade and the rails laid
across.
Another mile and we drove through a
tunnel under the backbone of the last
ridge. and, following the contour of
natural amphitheater, stopped before a
long line of tents half buried in snow
From one foated the stars and stripes,
from its nearest neighbor the union jack
between, passed the international boun-
Diary line. We were at the summit Of
White pass.
COST IS $4,000 A MILE
The cost of the road SO far has been
about $4,000 per mile. 1t is narrow gauge,
AAtS-SlA pound rails Deing used. There
are more curves than straight lines. Ac-
cidents Aare inevitable, but there have
been few fatalities considering the dam
ger Of the work and the severity of the
weather. Two men lie beneath an i'm
mense block of granite. too large to be
moved. Others have died of pneumonia
and freezing.
Speaking of these things, one of the
engineers said that he believed nothing
short of divine interposition had saved
him and his men from an awful death last
November. A charge of giant powder had
been tamped home, and the warning sig
nal given. He and his assistants stepped
behind an eighteen-inch tree, supposing
that the blast would be of the usual force
where 100 pounds of explosive Is used
For some reason the spark machine failed
to ignite the fuse-a most unusual occur
renee After waiting a sufficient period
the engineer examined the batteries and
found that, instead of 100 pounds, the
workmen had put in 1880 pounds Re
firing to a greater distance the spark
machine was again operated-this time
successfully The impact was terrific
Twenty-Five hundred yards of rock was
dislodged and thrown into the air. One
piece measuring twenty feet by thirty
struck the tree behind which the party
had first stood, shattering it like pipe
stem.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-10
PHASES VI APHASIA
PECULIAR DISEASE WHICH HAS
BAFFLED THE BEST MED
ICAL SKILL
SEVERAL KINDS OF APHAsIA

The Gar OF Russia and Gen. But
terrified Among the Sufferers From
the Disease-The Exact Converse
of the Condition Is Where the Pa
or Print, but Cannot Write.
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what is your name?"
"Haute-Lotre."
what is your trader"
'Haute-Loire."
"But is not your name Marcon?"
yes"
what is your country"
Maroon
may" said the physician, that Is your
name"
With gesture Of Impotence the patient
uttered an imprecation. He could not re-
peat the oath when requested to do So.
This shows how automatic action Of the
vocal organs may survive when the pat
lent is off his guard. Explosive eptthets
are a habitual mode Of expressing passion,
and action followed its stimulus so long
as 1t was unconscious. Nor Is the pres
ence Of active emotional feeling always
necessary A French patient whose vo-
cabulary was limited'to the simple affirm
alive "Oui" on an occasion uttered a
distinct "Merci'' when lady picked up
and handed to him a handkerchief he
had dropped.
His friends were elated at his supposed
sudden recovery of'speech; but he was ut
terly powerless to pronounce the word
again, although implored to do So after
1t had been repeated to him several times.
The force of old habit had brought out
the worn, apparently W4tiloOl uiiiSoi ~ >
but no amount Of voluntary effort could
reproduce 1t.
WRITING AND READING.
man who was capable of only pro-
nouncing the meaningless sound CONSIST
could write his name correctly, though he
could write nothing else. When asked
for his address he again wrote his name,
despite an acute consciousness of mistake.
In another case, a man who could speak
only the two words Mamma" and enc"
was asked: What is your name?" Nam
ma" What is your age?" Mamma,
no" But on being asked to write his
Guenier'' Asked to pronounce it, he re-
peated the everlasting Mamma Ask
ed to write Mamma" he wrote Cue
rier"
victim of agraphia, when asked to
write the Lords Prayer, produced the
following:
COR hather daddha ca ka kava hoona
kear ten take Their bingham ter der
gemees Ike i'll ter as 1t is in heaven give
us ther des ker DIES derres,' &c. 1t will
be observed that few words are written
correctly, while the others for the most
part bear no resemblance to those they
were intended to represent. One curious
circumstance regarding this man was,
that though he could not write one Of the
numeral series in words, he could write
them in figures-at least up to twenty.
This apparent anomaly probably arose
from the much greater compactness of a
figure as the symbol Of an idea as COM
pared with a word.
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her husband agrees to produce the play
Incidental to this quartette, and aiding
and abetting in the fun are an English
coachman, boarding house keeper who
has seen better days; pugilistic plumb
er and newly imported German maid
servant. Assisting Mr.. Dickson this sea-
son Is promised a cast of acknowledged
competency. The leading feminine char
acter, a rare opportunity for a comedi-
enne, has been entrusted this season to
the hands Of Miss Lansing Rowan, an
actress whose beauty, grace and dra-
matte talent are said to make possible a
most perfect delineation Of the character.
Such well known players as ]. w. Stand
ish. Ben Deane, L. r. Willard, Elsie Es-
mond, Ada Eckert, Lottie Hyde and 9TH
ers are found in the supporting cast.
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pie of rank whose names he had forgot
ten were styled such names as the
king 'the queen" 1.-The grand vizier.
Occasionally, to mark more clearly the
person to whom he referred, he had re-
course to >minlicking characteristic traits
of manner, or showing off oddities of
personal appearance, such as describing
with his arm the capacity of an abdo-
men.
On one occasion he put an almanac into
the hands of his medical attendant and
asked what o'clock it was-meaning the
day Of the month. On another OCCASION
on going out for drive, he gave his
ccachman the rather indefinite direction
Take me to the place where never was
MISUNDERSTANDING to a new bridge in the
neighborhood.
To show still further this mans verbal
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of his head when he meant to mean
yes" One old gentleman, on the other
hand, had only one word, yes, when
he used on all occasions, even when ne
shook his head In denial. 1t is noteWor-
thy that, when in the vocabular only a
single word survives the wreck of the
faculty of language, one word Is very
often the little monysyllable OF afflrma-
ton or that of denial.
There are curious instances OF patients
who could not take the initiative In pro-
rouncing any sound, but who would re-
peat the last word they had heard with
meaningless iteration. Thus, in French
hospital, an applicant for admission was
asked
Are you not from Haute-Loire?"
Whereat, like an echo, he replied,
"Haute-Loire.'
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"M1sTAKEs WILL HAPPEN"

Dickson In a Comedy Success at the
Grand This Week.
Laughter will succeed patriotism at
the Grand opera house the present week
and the patrons OF this theater will be
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The La Crosse Fair.

The La Crosse Fair.
For the Interstate Fair at La Crosse,
Wis. Sept. ~ to Is, the Burlington will
sell tickets at one fare for the round trip,
Tickets on sale Sept. 18th to 18th, good
for return until Sept. 18th. Apply at
City Ticket Office. No. 400 Robert street,
Hotel Ryan, or at Union Depot.
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Hundreds of lives saved every year by
having DR.. Thomas Electric Oil in the
Group, heals burns, cutse wounds of eV-
cry ssort.
Arizona republican., 1899-01-19
MINES AND MINING.

The deep shaft sunk last year by the Kohinocr Mining Cc., near tte Com mOnwe2lth, has been relocated by s m mons & Sandercoek.
 J. s. Kolar and A. c. Grcssman, re- turned to Kingman from the Cheme- huevis m-urtains below that town, where they have been perfecting the To- cation of Q big tract Of placer ground. They are well pleased with their work.
 It is reported that there will be an entire change Of management of the Elkha1t Mining Company, but ne, req son has been assigned for such step. The company has a wonderfully fine property, a gcOd mill, with stopas all in ere Of shipping grade.
 T. L. Ayres of Cerbst has just com p-eted assessment work Cn several Of his mining properties in the vicinity Of Cerbat, MChave county. These properties are all valuable, and when the raiIroa1 gees up the valley the big ere bodies can send out pay ores by the train lead.
 Engineer Becker, under whose super vision the United Verde and Pacific railroad to Jerome was cons ructed, started cut with 6 corps lcf engineers, it is said. to survey 9 rou-e f-r the ex- tension of. the |. V. 6 P. road 10 the Equator mine. It is 8,zo rumoTed tha. the litigation over the property has been compromised and that work will soon begin extensively. Should these runners prove truel Jerome will soon be come the largest mining camp in the territory OUrnal-GiDe
 J. Dyer is in from the Columbus camp. MT. Dyer has charge Of the Helvatia Co.'S properties which were recently scld to an eastern syndicate. There are twenty men working on the properties, getting thin5, in shape 10 begin extensive workings. Tha new pr-prietors will arrive in Tucson about the first of the month to take charge Of the properties and begin work Cn largo scale.-Star.
Arizona republican., 1899-01-19
TWO MEN MURDERED
A Pima County Tragedy SieriIcS fl c
 People.

Between Friday night and the after noon of the following day James Pe- ters, an old resident on the Santa Cruz, and another man, name unknown at this writing, were murdered On the old Walker ranch, five miles north of Gala bas5s, says the Tucson Star. Daniel Arthur Of Tucson. who has been employed to drive parties, on call, for the Tucson stables, had occasion to go to Nogales with party, and on his way down stopped at the house occU- pied by James Peters on the ranch mentioned and purchased feed for his horses, a portion of which was left for consumption on the re urn to Tucson. Coming back alone Su lday evening MT. Arthur stopped and fed his horses and intended to lay over until morning. Going to the house he found Peters and the nan he had seen with Peters at the time Of passing south, lying on the cabin floor dead. Che Of the men had been shot in he head and the other in the bcdy and head. He hastened ol to Tucson and communicated with Sheriff Wakefield of his discovery. Arthur said that the pockets of the pants of one man were turned inside out and there were other indications pointing to he fact that the men had been killed for plundsr.
 The officers of the law are on the track and hope to ind the guilty par ties before another sun sets.
 EX-Senator Morgan F. Wise, who came up from CaIabasaS, says that an inquest was to be held over the remains Cf the men found murdered down the Santa Cruz, but proceedings were de- layed in order 70 obtain further infor- matiCn.
 MT Peters was regarded as a very poor man, and his companion il death was a German whom it was supposed had been in Sonora and had money on his person at the time the deed was committed. The bodies were buried, subject to elimination when the cOro- ner's jury should agGin be called.