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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-02
BACK FROM ALASKA.
Prospeetors' Dreadful Experience on the
Edmonton Route.

IrOspectOrS Dreadful Experience on the
Edmonton Route.
San Francisco, Oct. Among the
crew of the steam whaler Mary u.
Hume just arrived here, are eight dis
appointed gold-seekers who went into
the Arctic region over the Edmonton
route. They shipped on the whaler at
Herschell island at the mouth of the
Mackenzie river, which they reached
after much privation. Their names are
B. V. Lares. st. Paul; j. Martin. F.
Thompson, F. A. Dillman, w. s. Mason,
Edmonton, N. w. T.: w. c. McGinshon,
Michigan.
J. Martin had perhaps the most
dreadful experience Of the lot. At Fort
Mcpherson he refused to follow his
friends further in the search for gold,
and meeting Anderson and Paul Schnei-
der of Britain, s. d. the three decided
to return up the Mckenzie. They got
scarcely more than a hundred miles on
the journey when winter set in and the
three were compelled to prepare shelter
for the long stormy season. Anderson
and Schneider were attacked with sour
Wy. Both became very i'll and almost
helpless. Fifty miles away was ply
stefan in winter quarters with party
of belated and discouraged miners, and
twice Martin attempted to make the
aid for his sick conpanions. When he
came back with medicines he found the
dead body of Anderson. The other man
was near death. Schneider improved
as the medicines were administered. and
when he gained sufficient strength to
move Martin constructed a sled and
dragged his companion back over the
snow to Fort Mcpherson and there left
him. When spring came Martin went
to Herschell island and sought succor
from the whalers. Among those who
died at Fort Mcpherson from scurvy
was ex-Mayor Stewart of Hamilton,
Ont
Dillman, Sisk, Mason and Thompson
We're on the shores of the Arctic ocean
at the mouth Of Babage river when the
winter closed in and there they remain
ed for nearly seven months. They were
free from scurvy. and they say that
| they owe their health and life to the
kindness of the natives, who supplied
them with fresh meat.
while we We're at Herschell island"
said Captain Hegarty, -four men ar
| rived there in harness, drawing sleds.
They had walked all the way from Sit
| ka. They had been to Dawson and Por-
| cupine and then straight across the
| mountains at Herschell. on wild goose
| chase for gold. They stayed over night
! at Herschell and pulled out for the
south over the trackless snow. ] gave
| them some deer meat. They had only
little bacon and flour and said they
i ate very little"
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HANNA SAYS 1T
is A GROSS INSULT
Absolutely Indecent to Mention Dewey
as Presidential Candidate-Mc-
Kinley in the Field

Pittsburg, Oct 1.-The Post to-mor-
row will say:
United States Senator Mark Hanna
says this of the possibility of Admiral
Dewey for the presidency:
1.-THE practice of continuously placing
the name of Admiral Dewey on the list
of prospective presidential candidates
is indecent. 1t is an insult and a great
injustice to the hero of Manila, as he
himself has frequently said that nothing
in the world would induce him to run
for president or any other political Of
fee. To force upon this brave and gal
liant sailor the need of again and again
declaring he will not accept any polit-
ical office Is, in my opinion, contempt
ible, and places this man of integrity,
stern purpose and determination in the
ranks of those shifting aspirants for
political honors who have not the stam-
ina to resist the flattery or blandish-
ments of political schemers''
The senator when asked if Mckinley
would positively be a candidate for the
presidency again said everything point
ed that way.
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AUTHOR OF THE
ARBITRATION LAW
1t Resulted in Stopping All Strikes and
Other Labor Disturbances in New
zsaland-None in Five Years.

New York Oct. 1.-Quartered at the
Waldorf-Astoria are distinguished of
ticials who arrived on the New York to-
day. They are delegates to the Ma
1ional Export Exposition and CONNER
cial congress to convene in Philadel-
phia Oct. 10. William P. Reeves. who
is accompanied by his wife and daugh-
ter. is the general agent in London of
New Zealand He secured the enact
ment of the compulsory arbitration law
which brought national renown to him
self and prosperity to New Zealand.
1t provides for the settlement of
trades disputes without barbarous
methods"
Disputes between capital and la
bor," said Mr.. Reeves to-day, ARE arbi-
trated upon in New Zealand by the
state tribunals, of which there are sew
eral, and from any one of which appeal
may be made to the central tribunal.
AS result of this law we have had no
strikes or other labor disturbances in
New Zealand for over five years.
Il have not the time to go into this
grave and momentous question now,
but / am going to speak on the subject
at Cooper Union and l shall read pa
per on capital and labor and arbitra-
ton before the Twentieth Century club
in Boston.
Alter we uSleSdleS get through at
the Philadelphia congress we shall go
to Canada to confer with the Dominion
government officials with reference to
the proposed imperial cable which will
connect Great Britain. Canada, New
Zealand, Queensland, Victoria and
South Australia.
'All the delegates are pleased to learn
this morning that war has not broken
out between England and the Trans
yNl a
and an amicable adjustment of affairs"
Sir Andrew Clark, r. E. G. c. M. G.,
agent general of Victoria at London
and formerly chief commissioner of
crown lands in Victoria, said he ex-
pected to receive his instructions re-
garding the Philadelphia congress with
in day or two.
Sir Andrew will call upon Admiral
Dewey, whom he knew when Dewey
was a MILDLY in the Mediterranean, and
who Sir Andrew thinks should have
been left in the Philippines until peace
has been restored there.
Sir Horace loser. K. G. M. c., the
general agent for Queensland in Lon
don, is accompanied by Lady loser.
He said that the delegates to the COM
mercial congress are here because
Great Britain is anxious to foster the
steadily increasing pleasant commercial
and social relations between Great
Britain and the United States.
j. A. Cockburn, general agent in Lon
don for South Australia, was formerly
prime minister and has carried many
portfolios of the South Australian COL
ony. DR.. Cockburn wifi read a paper
before the congress on ''The Products
of South Australia
The secretary Of the British colonial
delegates, Albert Graham Berry. neph-
ew of the distinguished Sir Graham
Berry, former premier of Victoria, was
also in the party.
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of the uprising of the insurgents. The
day after the cruiser anchored off san
to Domingo city few of the officers
went ashore and they witnessed the
novel sight of the insurgents taxing
peaceful possession of desolate-look-
ing place, which was practically de-
serted. The insurgent army was quite
picturesque but decidedly feeble in APP
pearance. 1t was composed almost en-
tirely of negroes, most of whom carried
only machetes. They We're all mounted
on small mules or horses, which had
been ridden for many miles, and they
wore a sorry look. Not gun was fired,
and after the ceremony the Insurgents
took possession of the drinking places
and made a merry night Of it without
cost.
The next day a little order was re-
stored and the provincial government
proceeded to run along smoothly.
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Instantly Killed.

San Francisco, Oct. IA cart con-
tanning Lorenzo Ciordella and his fam
lily, consisting of his wife, Rosa. and
two sons, Angelo, aged two and one
half years and Guido, seven months,
was struck by northbound San Jose
train at Sunnyside crossing tonight.
The cart and its occupants were hurled
high in the air and thew fell to the
ground 40 feet away. The father and
eldest child were instantly killed and
the mother was seriously injured she
held the baby in her arms and Il eg-
capped without a scratch.
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ORIENTAL ADVlCES.
Intrigues Rife for the Dethronement of
of the Emperor of China.

Victoria, B. c., Oct. 1.-The steamer
Olympia reached here this afternoon
from Yokohama with more than 200
natives and four white passengers. OF
these prominent ones are E. G. Bert
ram of New York, who has been in
Kobe settling the affairs of rich rela-
tives recently deceased at Kobe; G.
W. Cotton and son, formerly of the
big importing company of Yokohama
and Kobe, and w. A. Wilson, return
ing from trip to China
Advices by eastern papers state that
Captain Ide and 300 men have been
to England to bring out the new bat
tleship Shikishima.
A dispatch from Pekin to the North
China Daily News says that arrange
ments for the reinforcement of the I'M
fortunate emperor, kuang Hsu, are
proceeding apace. The empress dow
ayers choice has definitely fallen upon
Pu Tsuan, the 9-year-old son of Duke
Tsai Ian to succeed Kuang Hsu as
emperor of China This imperial can
didate can only speak the Hanchu
dialect and knows no Chinese. Kuang
Hsu has already been urged to draw
up memorial to the empress dowager
asking to be allowed to resign his
throne, owing to his chronic illness.
The troops of Prince Ching and Jung
Lu will be under arms on the occa-
sion OF the reinforcement IN case some
thing untoward should happen. Duke
Tsai Ian is a close friend of Prince
Ching and there are doubts whether
the Jung LUIS party will be satisfied
at this further strengthening Of the
Ching faction by the appointment of
the new emperor.
There are rumors that perhaps. Rus
STA will have something to say before
the dethronement takes place, as Chi
nese officials in Fangtien have recently
reported that Russians are preparing
to send a large force to Picking in a
few days.
The British gunboat Wovern left
Hong Kong Sept. u for the West river
for the suppression of pirates, who have
been carrying on depredations there re-
Gently.
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KILLS MISSION SCHOOLS
Japan's System of Education Is
Strictly Secular.
MORE lNTRlGUES IN CHINA
Plot for the Dethronement of the EN-
peror Is Nearly Ripe-Russia Is
Getting Ready to Take
a Hand.

Yokohama, Sept Is, via Victoria
B. c., Oct. 1.-The japanese government
having decided to keep it's system of
education strictly secular follows the
logic of its decision by Withholding its
u sanctions and privileges from all
schools in which religion in any form
is taught This has of course been con-
strued as an attack upon Christian
schools, which are in effect almost the
only schools to suffer from the new
policy, some having been already closed
and all being greatly depleted in at
tendance, because of the superior ad-
vantages which the purely secular
schools enjoy. The missionaries in
charge are placed in an awkward di-
lemma, for if they eliminate the teach
ing of their religion they must lose the
support of the home boards, upon which
they are largely dependent, while IL
they attempt to carry out the main
purpose for which they are sent here
their schools will inevitably anguish
and die for lack of native attendance.
An echo of the Dreyfus trial is heard
here at the antipodes. it being made by
the advocates of a strong government
a text for the exposure of the weaknerS
of popular rule. The Dreyfus tragedy
has already been dramatized for pro-
duction in one of the Japanese theaters
and is becoming a favorite theme for
the novel writer's and public story tell
ers.
Mr.. Kato, minister to England, is now
at home and will probably not return.
Baron Hayashi. on his homeward way
from st. Petersburg, has intimated his
unwillingness to resume his work there,
and Mr.. Kurine, it is rumored will soon
vacate his position at Paris. The source
of the difficulty is assumed by the ma
tive press to be a general straining of
personal relations between these diplo-
mats and the present minister of for
eign affairs.
1t would appear that an oriental
triple alliance is on the tapis. Some
light is thrown on the recent negOtia
tons between China and Japan by a
revelation of the existence of a semi
secret society with a large membership
in the two countries and Korea, having
for its purpose the preservation of the
independence of the three eastern en-
pires. This organization originated be-
fore the war among literary men to
unite the nations having common
basis of language. When the war ended
the society took on a political aspect
and was a basis of efforts at reform
made by Emperor Kuang Hsi. The
association is now attracting to it's
ranks the educated youth of China.
1t is significant that simultaneously
with negotiations in progress between
China and Japan a new, treaty between
the former country and Korea was
signed on September u. Coincident to
this there comes also report from Pc
kin that popular opinion in China is
strongly in favor of an alliance with
Japan.
The transport Pennsylvania, with the
homeward- bound Washngtons on board,
is reported to have arrived at Nagasak
to-day and will be due here on Satur-
day, the 18th.
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They Won the Strike.

Skaguay, Alaska, Sept. q, via Seat
tie, Wash, Oct. Lone hundred men
employed on the White Horse tram
way struck Saturday for an advance in
wages from So to 81 a day. Not man
went to work on the tramway and not
pound of freight was moved. The
strike came at the critical time of the
last few weeks of the open river and
just when there is the greatest demand
for freight to be hurried down the Yu-
kon. The advance was granted the day
after the men went out. Freight rates
from Bennett to Dawson We're to-day
quoted at 10 cents pound. The rush
has created a demand for all kinds of
steamers. and lumber is in much &C.
mand for scow building. so that the To-
cal market advanced IS to-day.
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WAS NOT IN TIME.
The New Orleans Was Hurrying to Take
Part in the Parade

Part in the Parade.
New York, Oct. 1.-The New Orleans
arrived this morning from Santo Do
mingo. The New Orleans was sent to
Santo Domingo to look after American
interests during the anticipated trou-
bles subsequent to the assassination of
President HeureuX. Affairs have set
tied down. The New Orleans was or
dered to Tompkinsville.
She is under command of Edward
Longnecker. She left Santo Domingo
on the morning of September % and
was running at full speed in order to
get here in time to take part in the
Dewey naval parade. When out two
days two of her boiler heads blew out
and her speed was reduced to little
over five miles an hour. The officers of
the cruise were not inclined tonight to
talk about the accident to her boilers,
but it was learned that the New Orleans
is in very crippled condition. She
may be ordered to the Brooklyn navy
yard for repairs.
The trip was uneventful, as the revo-
luton had subsidized before the New
Orleans and Machias arrived off Santo
Domingo. The officers say very little
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Torturing
Disfiguring Humors
Itching, Burning, and Scaly
Eruptions of the Skin and
Scalp with Loss of Hair
CURED BY CUTICURA.

The treatment is simple, direct, agreeable,
and economical. and is adapted TO the young
est infant as well as adults of every age.
Battle the affected parts with Hot WATER
and CGTICURA SOAP to cleanse the skin of
crusts and scales, and soften the thickened
cuticle. Dry, without hard rubbing, and
apply CUTIcuRA Ointment freely, to allay
itching, irritation, and Inflammation, and
soothe and heal, and lastly take the CUTICURA
REsoLvENT to cool and cleanse the blood.
This treatment affords instant relief permits
rest and sleep, and points to a speedy, perma-
nent and economical cure when all other rem
edies and even the best physicians fail.
scd everywhere Price THE SET. o. e5; or, CrTIcuRA
Soar &c OINTMENT Soc: RRsoLvKlT (lalf tizei, SOc
FoTrER DBuo AND CREM. CoRP,, Sole Props, Boston.
RS- How to Cure Humort." 6fpage book, free.
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Skaguay, Alaska, Sept. 81, via Seat
tie, Oct. 1.-E. B. Stratford, United
States townsite commissioner, has re-
turned from the westward and has
made public his report to the govern
ment in regard to investigation as to
the townsite of Skaguay. He says he
finds Skaguay to have population of
1000 to be on a site of 200 acres and
that there are not now and never had
been in said townsite private or church
claims held or claimed under Russian
conveyance as originally granted or
claimed at the date of the acquisition
of Alaska.
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Welcomed Home.

Fargo, N. D., Oct. 1.-The North Dakota
volunteers reached their native state to-
day in two special trains from San Fran
cisco, Every town along the line in this
state yelled itself hoarse in honor Of the
troops. Fargo was reached at o'clock
tonight and 10000 people and dozens of
steam whistles and bells and salvos of
artillery by the Lisbon battery made the
occasion unparalleled in North Dakota.
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Standing of the Clubs.
Robbed the Bank.

Sedalia, Mo-. Oct 1.-The safe of the
Bank Of louisiana, at louisiana, No..
was blown open by burglars last night.
The robbers are reported to have secured
$4,000, but Cashier w. F. LonRan says
the bank lost only $1,000.
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Cincinnati, Z; Chicago, 3.

Chicago, Oct. Luck was with the
Reds to-day, their errors counting for
nothing, while all of the Orphans mis-
plays and two of Taylor's gifts resulted
in runs. The game was played in u
drizzling rain, which, with darkness,
caused a postponement of the game
scheduled with Louisville. Attendance,
500. Score:
r. H. E.
Chicago ......... ..............3 3
Batteries-Taylor and Chance; Cronin
and Wood.
Umpres-ODay and Latham.
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BASEBALL YESTERDAY.
St. Louis, 4; Cleveland, 3.

st. Louis, Oct. 1.--St. Louis won from
the Exlee to-day. Sudhoff and Harper
We're in great form. The latter received
poor support but for five innings he had
the Perfectos at his mercy. Sudh.ff let
down in the ninth and allowed Cleveland
to score two runs. Attendance, $500.
Score:
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Palace and HoveI.

Probably in Constantinople, which
has been described as the "city Of how
els, . there is greater contrast between
the public and private buildings than
in any other city in the world. The
streets are narrow, tortuous and dirty,
and even the better class of private
houses are mean in comparison with
those of similar class in other coun-
tries On the other hand, the mosques
and palaces are magnificent in size, de-
sign and materials of construction.
most Of them being of marble, white or
gray. The seraglio is one of the most
splendid buildings in Europe.
Berlin is close second in this re-
spect, boasting the finest street in Eu-
rope Inter den Linden and its public
buildings will compare favorably with
those of any other capital, but its slums
and tenement houses are squalid and
filthy in the extreme another city
which is close in the running is Lisbon.
When it was rebuilt after the earth
quake, the public buildings were built
on scale by no means justified by the
finances Of the country, while the pri-
vate buildings had to be erected in ao-
cordance with their owners means.
The contrast between them is therefore
naturally very striking.
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MAKING A NEW EDEN.
APLAN TO RECLAIM THE EVERGLADES
OF FLORIDA.
Pet Project of jefferson Davis, Who
Surveyed the Territory When Sery-
ing In the United States Army-BiS
Money In Sight
Especial correspondence

ST. AUGUSTINE, May 15.-When JEFF
ferson Davis was serving in the United
States army in the Seminole war, he
surveyed extensive areas of territory
nearly adjacent to the famous Florida
Everglades. AT the same time he took
the altitude of Lake Okechobee above
the waters of the ocean and the gulf,
and suggested one Of those monster
schemes of improvement by which civ
ilized man changes the face of nature.
1t was no less than the reclamation of
the 4, 0C0, 000 and odd acres of waste
ground now constituting the Ever
glades. or, as the Indians call it, the
Grass Water.
For the overflow of Lake Okechobee
toward the south makes seemingly
hopeless swamp of $500 square miles,
and although the ground is of the rich
est. being, as is known, alluvial soil
from TO 30 feet deep, it is constantly
so flooded as to make its cultivation inn
practicable, and ''saw grass Is about
the only vegetation there.
, jefferson Davis conceived the notion
that by system of drainage by canals
the surplus water which flows from the
lake could be carried to the ocean and
the land made available.
1t has been figured that matter of
So, 900, 600 or so will suffice for the
work, and, as the prize is so rich, con-
siderable study has been put on the
question. Lately so much attention has
been given to it that it is believed that
some syndicate of capitalists has taken
it in hand and is quietly pushing the
enterprise. Captain J. E. Rose, an EN-
gineer and surveyor of experience, has
been examining the ground and formu-
lating plans, and it is believed that if
the capital is not already pledged it
will be easily secured. Rumor has it,
and the sanguine believe the rumor,
that the work will be begun within the
year.
A brief description of the conditions
will explain the theory on which it IS
held that the work will be justified.
The lake, fed by numerous large streams
from the northward, lies % feet above
tide water The glades, through which
and over which the surplus water runs,
slope downward from the marshy shores
of the lake to level of 12 or 13 feet
above tide water, giving natural
drainage of, say, ten feet toward the
outer edge of the glades, where lime
stone ledge intervenes between the
glades and the ocean. Several natural
streams pierce this limestone ledge and
discharge into the ocean, but this relief
is not sufficient to keep the glades from
the perpetual overflow. The plan pro-
posed is to cut one main canal from the
lake directly through the glades to the
Miami river, striking that water course
at point near Miami City, and so
carry off the great body Of the surplus
water Subsidiary canals will connect
with the other streams to the ocean.
Natural drainage is relied upon after
the opening of these canals to do all the
work, and it is estimated that in a few
years time the submerged and partially
submerged lands will be dry enough for
cultivation. When that end shall have