The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-14
HOTEL GOSSIP.

Ihere is a fac smile CT Colonel Cody
az present quartered at the Knutsford.
HIS name is 7. P. Miles of Dawson City,
and when he is present in the rotunda.
the guests sit at a respectful distance
and gaze upon that flowing chin wills
ker, those fancy boots, the blue serge
shirt adorned with a mighty nugget,
anG last, but not least, the browning
masterpiece of a curly-brimmed SOM
Drero ike upto a japanese umbrella.
When approached yesterday, the
oronzed brow of the duplicate of Buff
Ialo Bill corrugated into a frown as he
SAID; L don't want to talk 10 any re-
porters, Tor they are always getting me
INTO heluva scrape with the New York
people The Klondiker further ayerred
that the Creator condemned news
papers were responsible for lots of
trouble on this mundane sphere. Never
thelesH, Miles ultimately talked in an
interesting vein regarding Dawson. Ac-
cording 10 the gentleman with the elon-
gated hirsute appendage, there would
be fully S25, 100000 OF gold shipped out
OF the Klondike this season In speak
ing OF the conditions in zeroopolis yes
terday, he said: 1T is no use talking:
we can never interest American capital
IN klondike properties just as1 long ais
the Canadian government has control
OF affairs UP there. Under their laws no
man can own any claims like he can
under the stars and stripes, and then,
too, he has TO pay royalties upon every
ounce OF gold he takes out. No one is
going to sink good money on the chance
OF being able TO grease the palms of a
rev ofI1clals." In answer to q query, he
said: Yes, there are about 2,000 men
who are leaving Dawson for Cape
Nome. Since the new steam thawing
machines have been successfully
brought into operation at Dawson.
quite a number of men have been
thrown out Of employment. Undr the
old scheme men had TO pay $25 a cord
Tor wood, ana then built fires on the
bare ground and thawed it cut; this. Of
course, gave employment TO a number
Oh men, but these steam machines have
reVolutIoniZed all that, and mining to-
oay is much simpler, and, taken all in
ali, much more work is accomplished. -
Mr.. Miles stated that the mosquito
pest at Dawson had been considerably
overdrawn, and that the casual pedes-
TRAN in Montana could kick up bigger
ewarms in season than there were to
be encountered in KlOndike While the
man from the chilly north was exceed
lngly reticent regarding his presence
IN the states. he said he left Dawson
just five weeks ago yesterday, and
crossed the ice, which feat. makes his
seventh trip under those conditions.
But Mr.. Miles says ne viii have to
forego those little excursions in future,
as the change from 81 degrees below in
Dawson to that Of 81 above a few days
later is even too much for his fine
physique.
Henry NJ. Ryan yesterday returned
from Chicago. When seen at the
Knutsford last night, he said that there
was mighty day of wrath coming,
which would drop on the devoted heads
Of Mckinley and his administration. He
raid: In Chicago, Wisconsin, and even
among the descendants of the old Pur-
itans on the Atlantic coast there is a
deep sentiment against Mckinley and
those who are indorsing the sympathy
shown towards Britain in the present
war, and next fall they will register
their protest at the polls"
D. S. Rose, postmaster at Hughes,
four miles north of Cincinnati, o., is
among the guests registered at the
Walker House. Rose is at present en-
joying himself in the form Of a six
months trip throughout America. Be-
yond little rain in San Francisco last
week. he said that California had es-
capped the big storm. Down in the
vicinity Of Los Angeles" he eaid, they
have not had a drop for three wears,
and farmers and fruit-raisers in a num-
Der Of cases are moving out and ahan-
doning their farms. In the neighbor-
hood Of Redlands, for instance, the
only people who are making money are
the various irrigation companies. and
they are charging from 81 TO $50 every
twenty-four hours for a supply Of water
running through an inch pipe TO irri-
gate the orange and fruit trees. OF
course the growers who have no water
Of their own are compelled to pay the
price or else go out Of business"
There is an extremely disillusioned
Dutchman by the name Of Gottlieb
Bringolf somewhere uD the line. Yes
terday he tArried at the White House
and buttonholed every guest, the bur
den of his refrain being, rs ii true that
you can get your land free out here, but
have to pay for the water?" On re-
ceiving the inevitable reply in the
Affirmative, Bringolf would dramatic
ally raise his hands aloft and say,
"Mien Gott, an dey tolt me way back
in Ohio dat everything vas vree Oud in
de vest. Wy dit leaf Ohio midi mine
self?"
c. Schley, second cousin to the re-
doubtable admiral, author of the Man
Behind the Gun" is registered at the
Kenyon from Seattle. Schley is man
ager of the Pacific Coast Mining, Mill
ing & Prospecting company, which, out
side of Bradley and other Washington
mining properties. owns and operates
thirty claims at Cape Nome. which it
n.y. 70
plan by selling shares in the company
to stockholders who are transported to
Nome and work the claims, dividing the
proceeds among themselves, after pay
ing the company so per cent of the
output. The claims are located on An
vii creek and the beach.
Eyes, there is an old saying TO the
effect that it is always raining in Man
chester" said n. Baker Of that Eng
lish city at the Knutsford, "and TO a
certain extent that saying is correct
for we get more rain in that town than
probably any other in England" While
the protective tariff laws had to a Ger
tain extent made some difference in the
output Of Manchester cotton goods for
American export. Mr.. Baker said that
the numerous mills were pouring smoke
from their lofty stacks that was lust
as sooty as ever it was, and taken al
in all the cotton industries represented
had their hands full filing orders. He
further stated that despite the big
flourish of trumpets with which the big
ship canal between Liverpool and Man
chester had been opened up to date the
venture had not proved a paying prop
osition.
John Goldschmins of Yokohama and
A Holmblad of Copenhagen, two
Swedish gentlemen returning from the
land of the rickshaw. registered at the
Knut5ford last night. As both gentle
men confined their remarks practically
TO their native tongue, the subject Of
the impending war between Japan and
Prussia was fra11ochf NTH 1871. A.