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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-29
RUSH is EXPECTED.
$4,000 Gold Seekers Anxious to Reach
Cape Nome Early.

cape Nome Early.
TACOMA, Wash, Jan. 2s-Estimates
made by local shipping men show that
about $4,000 men are intending to reach
Cape Nome by the first steamers from
Puget sound and Dawson. Two-thirds of
this number will go from Tacoma. Seattle
and San Francisco and the balance will go
down the Yukon river from Dawson and
other Yukon towns. A great prospective
race is in sight between these two contin-
gents. First arrivals will secure the best
part of the beach, which will be in the
greatest demand because beach claims may
be worked without fumes or machinery
According to latest advices over half of
Dawson'S population will head for Cape
Nome as fast as the Yukon steamers win
te-ing on the upper river can follow the
outgoing ice down stream Dawson miners
have great hopes of reaching the Mecca
first and to accomplish this are even pre-
pared to leave the steamers below Nula-
to and make portage of 200 miles across
the Tundra.
Nearly thirty steamers, each carrying
from 800 to 1000 passengers. are now sched-
uled to sail from coast ports between May
10 and June l. All prospective passengers
from Northwestern States cannot be ac-
commodated by the first steamers unless
several more large boats are placed on the
Cape Nome route. Whether this will be
done depends on how soon the government
releases number of transports now run
ming to Manila Fully $3.O00,0 900 worth of
supplies have been purchased for shipment
on the first steamers
Severe storms blockade the White Pass
railroad. No trains have reached Skagway
from Bennett I'm two weeks. Returning
In crossing the summit afoot. Several have
been badly frozen.
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A wOMAN's STRANGE STORY.
Says She Has Been Hounded by n
Gang of Confidence Men.

BALTIMORE. Jan. '2S.-The Suns Wash
ington correspondent says: lone of the
most curious stories ever recorded by the
Washington police was told tonight in Pre-
cinct Station No. 1 by a young woman
whose name is thought TO be Esther Whist
Ter. 1t concerns a course of alleged perse-
cution that has extended over years and
followed her to half the cities in the coun-
try. Before coming 10 Washington, she
says, her few friends were locked in a
room by agents of Postmaster S. Davies
Warfield, in Baltimore. and confessions of
unlawful acts obtained from them through
dureSs. Miss Whistler is a comedy woman
about thirty-two years DID, Her manner
is calm and rational. But the story she
tells and her reflections on various private
detective agencies are so unparalleled that
the police hold her for an inquiry as to her
sanity.
when a typewriter in Kansas City, sew
eral years ago, says Miss Whistler, a gang
of confidence men made her an unconscious
decoy. she was accustomed TO walk home
over certain route Letters We're sent to
young men of gullible natures apprising
them that she might be seen at certain
young men would report at the place the
SchemerS met the victims and fieeced
them. She left Kansas City, she says. on
the urgent wish Of her relatives and went
about, she declares. From city to city, as
often as she could remove, she was pur-
sued, until in Baltimore several weeks ago
she found friends who seemed able TO pro-
tect her. Even her friends were not Sc
cure. Agents of the secret service and
employees of the city postoffice, she says,
took them into custody and examined them
fer crimes with which they had no con-
nection whatever. Finally, she, too, fell
under suspicion apd had to leave Baltimore
for Washington. Who the men were thus
prosecuted in Baltimore Miss Whistler
would not say. Miss Whistler while in Bal
timore and under the impression that her
sufferings had ceased wrote a book,
Friends, Beware" copy of which she
presented to the police authorities. At
headquarters the officers are in doubt. The
woman's manner and appearance are so
distinctly that of a truthful person, in full
possession of her senses, that, wild as it
is. many Of the officers incline TO accept
it,
Postmaster Warfield said last night that
about two weeks ago a woman appeared at
the postoffice making claims similar TO
those contained in the Washington dis
patch. No attention was paid to her, as
IL was believed she was Ill. Mr.. Warfield
said there is no truth in the statement
that friends of this or any other woman
were locked in room by his agents and
from whom confessions of unlawful acts
were obtained by duress.
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053 barrels against 37ssS4 in 1889. China's
direct -four importations were small.
The gain in exports of iron and steel was
very rapid in 1896. 1891 and 1898, most of the
exports going to Japan which took s., 1885,,
152 worth in 1898 QUA of total for the year
of 50. ia, 967. For 1889 the iron and steel ex
ports to the three places named were only
S5l9.212. Generally speaking it may be stated
that the figures show that the gain in our
Asiatic exports has been nearly all made In
the last FIVE years. Aside from the five
classes mentioned. the chief exports have
been paper, alcohol, tobacco, leather. lubri-
eating oils, lumber and scientific apparatus
OF the imports silk and tea made up 10
per cent. of the total. Japan sending most
of the former and China most Of the latter
Silk imports were S2S, $50 1886 in 1898 and tea
imports IS. S9i. S3G. In that year we imported
$16 453, 406 worth of silk and 8. 06S. 66S
worth of silk manufactured from Japan,
while from China came S7506. 400 fn raw silk
and only 5906 in silk manufactures.
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KNOCKOUT DROPS" VICTIM.
ID. A. Mcclure, a Wealthy Scotch Tour
list, Killed by Thieves.

NEW YORK, Jan. 2s.-David A Nc
Clure. a wealthy Scotch tourist OF Glas-
Cow. died to-day at the Homeopathic Hos
pital In Brooklyn. and the autopsy showed
that he had been killed by Knockout drops
Mcclure came here from Scotland on
Nov. a. He remained in the Manhattan
Hotel for a time, but then went to Brook
lyn TO live. On Friday Mcclure became
intoxicated and he remained I'm that con-
dition all through that day and Saturday
This morning he was found battered.
bruised and unconscious near the Fulton
ferry. He was carried by several patrol
men to the Fulton-street Police Station,
and from there TO the Homeopathic Hos
pital.
In lucid moment he said he had been
beaten in Ocean Parkway by three men
and that they had stolen his watch. chain,
scarfpin and money. 1t was thought at
first that the beating was the cause OF
death. but an autopsy made tonight
showed that the choral had effected his
heart SO that death followed.
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Journalism as a Basis for Literature"
Mr.. Gerald Stanley Lee argues that writ
ers for the press make the mistake of deal
ing with the passing thing in a passing
way-that is, do not do their best. In il
lustration of what can be done by following
an opposite course he cites Kipling and
Barrie. "Kipling." he says, sis an artist
because he respects the passing thing, be-
cause he catches the glimmer of the eternal
joy upon it, and will not let it pass. Ii is
not in spite. of being reporter that j. NJ.
Barrie is an artist, but 1T is because he is
so much more of reporter that he can
report an out-oI-the-way town like Thrums,
ana makes il as famous as London. The
world will look through a window any
where, IL IL belongs 10 a man who sees
things from IL. The real difference between
Barrie and the host of journalists to which
he belongs is not that he could make
Thrums famous as London, but that he
wanted to. No one else would have thought
that Ihrums would pay. Barrie did not.
He delighted in ii. Nine reporters out OF
ten. once finding themselves in Kipling'
place, would have been too clever and
worldly-wise to have written as kipling
did. Who would have supposed that the
whole civilized world from its great COM
placent continents would ever come pour
ing out in crowds to the jungles of India?
1t was because Kipnng delighted in the
jungle. could not help writing about it,
whether anybody wanted 1t or not, that
we ma the whole reading world to-day
crowding jungleward across the seas;
spending its time in that fever-stricken
district. that Indian-haunted, Mulvaney
memoried wilderness. as If II blossomed as
the rose. Nobody cares about this jungle
OF yours. Why don't you write on some
thing that people care about? said the
English publisher distinguished for reject
ing Mr.. Kipling's work. Mr.. Kipling's Sc
cret is that he took mold of something that
nobody wanted him to do. and did il better
than any one wanted him to do 1t. He
owes his success to the fact that he has
never done anything except to please him
self, and he holds it because no one can
get him not to do ii now"
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Uncrowning a King.

The Indian war waged by King Philip
I'm 1915 furnishes the theme of this story
for boys by Edward S. Ellis. The hero is
a young American colonial lad. and his
adventures during that eventful period.
his efforts in behalf of towns attacked by
the Indians. his capture by them, and his
subsequent release through the efforts OF
King Philip himself. with a vivid account
of the tragic death of that renowned Indian
chieftain, form an interesting and instruct
i've story OF the early days OF the colonies.
Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Com
pany.
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Famous Racehorse Dead.

LEXINGTON, Ky, Jan. 2S.-Imported
Cadlemas, the famous racehorse owned by
]. Il. Haggin. died to-day from vertigo
He was by Hermit, dam Fusee. by Mai
sayan, and was full brother TO St. Blaize.
which won the English Derby in 1883, and
sold at that time for 100000 He was
bought by Haggin from G.. j. Enright here
In 1896 for Sl5. 900, Enright having purchased
him eight years before at Tattersalrs, New
York. from the English owners for S12.5O0
He was seventeen years old and sired some
most useful horses on the turf, notably
Martimas. who won the Futurity in New
York in 1898. DR.. Catlett. once the great
two-year-old and many other stake horses
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Mrs. wtn.Iow.. soothinw syruu

Has been used over fifty years 5y millions Of
mothers for their children while tcething with
perfect success Ii soothes the chld. sofgens tie
gums. allays pain cures wind collie regulates lne
bowels. and is the best remedy for dar.h ea
whether arising from teething other causes
For sale by druggists In every part OF the world
Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing
Syrup. % cents bottle.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-29
A Volume OF Verse.

Living in the World, and Other Ballads
and Lyrics" is the title of a volume of
verse by Frank Putnam. The poems which
make up the pretty volume are short, num-
erous and cover wide range of topics and
sentiment. They do not reach any great
heights OF poetry, but they are bright and
clever and argue In the author a keen APP
probation of things and rare aptitude for
versif1cation. Chicago: Rand, McNally
a. On
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parks. etc, every name accompanied by a
phonetical figuration Of its correct pronun-
citation. Altogether, IL makes an excellent
guide to the visitor and is likely to Fiji a
want" during the coming season.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-29
state of Indiana, ONCE of Auditor of State

State of Indiana Office of Auditor OF State
/, the undersigned, auditor Of state Of the
State of Indiana, hereby certify that the
above is correct copy of the statement OF
the condition of the aforementioned COM
pany on the 3lst day Of December, 1899, as
shown by the original statement. and that
the said original statement is now on file
in this office.
In testimony whereof hereun-
[SEAL.l to subscribe ny name and affix
my official seal this 18th day of
January, 1900. w. III. HART,
Auditor OF State
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Take UP your line OF march for Crittenton's
No 7, sixth avenue, all ye coughers and wheez-
ers and snuffiers. IL is the depot for Hale's
Honey OF Horehound and Tar, which for all
ailments of the lungs and their air passages
is an Immediate and sovereign remedy All
Pixies toothache Drops cure in one minute.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-29
BUSY PEOPLE LAST YEAR
MANUFACTURERS RODE THE APEX
OF THE PROSPERITY WAVE.
Increased Their Imports of Raw Ma
teriaIs 35 Per Cent. and Their Ex-
ports of Products Nearly %.
.elal to the IndianapoIIs journal.

Special to The Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S.-Manufacturers
were apparently the busiest people in this
busy country of ours in 1899. They increased
their importations of materials for in
manufacturing SO per cent. over the busy
year 1893 and actually increased their ex-
portations of manufactures nearly % per
cent, so that the grand total of manufac-
lures exported during the year reaches
$3.50 600 and seems likely to touch the
800 900. 900 line in the fiscal year which ends
June go 1900. The exports of manufactures
which in 1898 averaged SIS. 600 per month
averaged over $31, 900 per month in $780,
or more than a million dollars for every
day in the calendar year. Beginning with
s25. $40 in January, 1899 the figures grew
steadily until December showed $50. Co. O53.
December and March of 1899 showing larger
expectations OF manufactures than those of
any preceding month in our history. Not
only are the exports of manufactures in
1899 the largest in any year in our his
tory, but they form a larger percentage of
our total exports than those of any pre-
ceding year. the percentage being for the
calendar year 1899 1914 per cent, for 1898
2.s per cent. and for 1897 259 per cent.
Taking the entire list of classes of ar
ticles composing our imports and exports,
those relating to manufactures show the
largest gains both as to imports and ex-
ports. In imports articles in a crude condi-
ton for use in domestic industries in
creased from s199, BOOST to s267. 45S.959, an in
crease OF SIS, 236, 322; articles of food and
live animals from $1S7, s29 SOP to 500, 81 1856.
an increase of $42 141, 5S3; manufactured ar
ticles ready for consumption, from 4,SO4,-
500 to Sis, 339 $50, an increase of $13,535, 01:
articles manufactured for use in the me-
chanic arts, from $50, IL. $50 to S75,S76O05, an
increase of $6,24S,3l9, and articles of volun-
tary use, luxuries, etc, from $S3,946,5l4 to
S107 664 $685. an increase of $23. M S52, the COM
PARSONS in each case being between 1898
and 1899. In domestic export manufactures
increased from 1901 1924, 1874 to $3.50, 49,, $751; an
increase of $72. Sc. S97; products of the mine.
from SIS, S51, 092 to 1929 S7. an increase of
81, AIS, 095: products of the forest, from $685.
1913 to $7. 562 121, increase of s., 531 sos,
and miscellaneous, from $3,O16,771 to s3,5S2,
$50, an increase of S5i5,S9 while products of
agriculture decreased from SS5I ,9l57 62 in
1898 to $7S2, los, 04S in 1899, reduction of $685.
$40, ia and products of the fisheries, from
S. S19 20S to $50 ,077, reduction of $751; l31.
The table which follows presents the
figures Of the imports and exports by great
classes during the calendar year 1889, COM
pared with 1895:
Imports
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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-12-29
THE LYNOHlRes IN INDIANA.

The lynching Of IM HENDERSON,
BUD RowLASDs and JOHN RoLLA, the
first two at Reckport, Indiana and the
last at Bonneville, Indiana, Dec. 18th
and 18th, 1900 by q mob Of irresponsi-
pie citizens was without o shadow of
pslliation or excuse.
These colored men were charged
with the r.urder and robbery Of HoL
LIE SIN&oNs, . white man. The pun
ishment provided by the laws OF Indi-
ana was amply sufficient to meet the
case, and being as they we're in hos
lille community, there was little. Il any
likelihood in not receiving their just
deserts.
Lynching 10 an evil which is now
spreading over the entire country de-
spite the efforts of white and colored
men to check it. The remedy is said
to exist in . healthy public sentiment
against it. This is unquestionably
true. but it Ia slow way to reach the
goal:
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cough Of hers: "A little less noise, young
ladies, II you please"
Let us do IL all over again" cried Estel-
Ia. Come to my roems on Christmas night
at i've O'Clock. Urania may send the cooked
chicken; you, Penelope, shall send the nuts
and candies, and will do the rest"
Prof. Wensel did not become richer In
pocket through these old ladies, but il, as
he aid repeatedly in his lecture, spiritual
rewards always found and enriched him, he
must have been in afluence after this night
People wondered why Urania laughed so
much, one old boarder saying some one must
have left her fortune. Another thought
she must be On the lookout for a husband,
after which astute conjecture he gave extra
attention to his hair and clothes, and tied
his scarf with wondrous care.
Penelope worked with such zeal that her
employers were surprised. One day she
hummed little tune to herself, at which the
junior partner remarked:
by Jove, there's plenty of courage and
work in the old girl yet"
Estslla spent every spare moment IN max
ing her two resms beautiful and immacu-
late. She had ceased to grumble about the
chimney place being draughty. It was no
longer IAN unsatisfactory heater and quite
out Of date" 1t was now glorious, such q
perfect ventilator and SO cheerful.
On Christmas day she was prompt at
church. The anthem passed off capitally.
Everyone was pleased. She visited the chill
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dren's ward in the old hospital, and was so
funny and lovely that the pale little crea-
lures stretched out their hands to her, and
laughed little with their hoarse pain
laden voices. She had emptied her peck cts
of pennies to the beggars that beset her
homeward path, and at three O'Clock in the
afternoon had busted every article in the
quaint room to fine polish.
Two great broad windows overlooked a
sloping hill and the roofs of many houses.
Beyond lay the great gray ocean. A side
window was shelved from top to sill, and
filled with potted plants that bloomsd pro-
fusely and overran the ugly red clay that
inclosed them.
Across one corner stood the piano. II
was the only really new thing at hand. and
its polished surface took on shadows of the
ancient grandeur about it, as if in apology
for its presence here. Opposite the flower
window was another recess filed with book
shelves, where goodly reading was to be had
between the shabby covers of many an old
treasure.
A few easy chairs and tables lay cozily
<bout; and the great brick fireplace with
its brass andirons and high old mantel shell
was the heart and core of the room.
Estella laid the fine thin old cloth care
fully on the round, polished table, garnish-
ing it by pinning little sprigs of holly en- its
satiny surface.
She placed Urania's chicken by the warm
hearthstone, and on a stool near by laid a
basket OF rosy apples an > a pile of bread
with the great toast-fOrk on guard. With
much pride of manner she turned out a ola, :
of crab-apple jelly into an old glass dish.
and thanked it by another dish Of branded
peaches.
That will surprise the girls" she said.
and laughed little as she showered Pencil.
Spe's lavish supply Of candies in every con.
ceivable little receptacle she could find.
Estella looked queenly. Her black sati,
gown was old, but she had drawn ever the
patched waist fehu of soft yellow lace
and fastened in itI folds a bunch of Drsttv
old velvet wall flowers. Her hair had :
trick of curling itself into proper places.
and CLINT of its old auburn tint was 1.
its white sheen. Her eyes were bright and
hsT cheeks rosy with expectancy.
Toward five o'clock the shsdovs rn,v
heavier. Day was almost gone. EsteiIs
went to the window, looked eat n.ment
on the sea. "Evss the great ds.p Ia sui.4
to-day" shs said, and there is no pee,
ionssly Estella thir Christmas"
She drew the curtains, put a fresh log ..
the blazing Gre and hurried to answer .
tmid little kAsek that came on her door.
As the gust OF air rushed In shs locked mr.
10 see Penelope and Urenia With hoods "a
and hands sxtendsd, whilst thsy sang n
nasal tsnss the cid street wsK's: Fl oray
you, merry gentlemen" Estsna huxAinsly
Shirlsd thew ists tks rssna, ssyias: 'T a..
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'Yss," added Urania, "and an open fire il
80 comforting. Three logs and pair Of well
polished andirons-"
An unexpected laugh rang out; Estella
was certainly forgetting nerves, and cold,
age and in6rmity.
DO you remember" said she, that aw-
tul Christmas We were forced to spend at
Miss Verplanck's boarding school! Bless
me, girls, it will be so years this Christmasl
Surely you remember itY'
We'll, guess we do" chimed in Pencil.
ops. Il was exiled because of scarlet fever
at home; you because your mother and
father were called to London, and dear
Urania, here, stayed lest we should be un-
happy; bless her!"
Yes, added Urania, with a slight flush.
"and do you remember the feast in Estella' }
roomr How you knitted something soft
and white, and Estella played minor things
on the piano, till a tear dropped on one OF
the apples l was roasting for supper. and
how you stuck your knitting needle "a that
apple, so that / should swallow my own
tear. Then how we danced the Highland
schottische, illlittle Miss Verplanck put her
head in the door, and said, with that little