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 tains. some four or five miles from the beach, it attains an elevation Of 150 or 200 feet During the summer it is usually wet, soft and boggy and is dotted here and there by few ponds. and is traversed by the Snake, Nome and Cripple rivers and other smaller streams which carry out the drainage from the mountains.
 TopOgra and Geology.
 Along the north edge of the tundra. at the beginning of the mountains, the topography is low and rounding, with the floors of the main valleys rather fiat and from one to three miles in width. Seven miles north of Nome, crude gravel terraces. seemingly ma. rine, were observed 10 the height or about 1 300 feet. These seem to mark successive stages of land elevation still going on.
 Further northward. twenty or thirty miles from the beach, the mountains become more rugged and rise, in some instances, into seemingly permanent snow peaks. but probably nowhere ex- ceed 5000 feet in elevation.
 The nearest harbors for deep-sea or ocean vessels are Port Clarence, sixty miles northwest of Nome. and Golof- min bay, the same distance northeast. It is not unlikely that one or both of these harbors will be connected with the Nome district by rail should the
The Nome nugget., 1900-01-01

and to the Pacific coast in 1898. The winter of 1898 and 1899 he spent in Alaska. arriving at Nome in January, 1899. In the following month he was given the appointment of deputy re corder. which position he has since filled in a most ae<1pEable manner. There have been recorded in his office upward of 5000 claims. He estimates that in the various dtBtricts in the sur rounding country. 0ge<her with the Nome district. there have been over large area of land IT. southward Is q popular and worthX young man. who has large interests ta the country. and who stands a goo chance of obtain ing a very long -.Yxe'' as reward for his indnn1r& hf<y close attention to businea<
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WHO DISCOVERED NOME |? Tradition Awards Honor
 to Several.
AH EPOCH IN. THE HISTORY
Of Mining-The Oldest Inhabitants Tell COnhictin. StOries-Scandi- navians Located Best Claims and Claim Most of he HOnOr-DiTer- ent Accounts Given.

Who discovered the Nome diggings? Was it Blake, Lir~erberg. Lindblom, Brynteson, Hultberg. or the Lapland- CTS? Or was it sor<e unknown whose modesty prevents him from putting in a claim for the Dnor9 There are more contradictory accounts of the memorable event n rh 'fe a;e indi- viduals named aboys It is an und.s- puted fact, howeye1. that all of the above ramed individuals except Blake are members of the ''close corpora tion" that located Anvil and Dexter creeks and Snow glL,ch. The discovery marked an epoch mt only in the his tory of Alaska but also in the history of mining. We wi,l tell the tale as twas told to us, leiving future histo- rians to settle the dispute.
 Story of Linderberg.
 Jafet Linderberg is one who claims that he was the lyan, and has been interviewed and written himself about it, until in the miliS,s of many he has established an indisputable claim to the distinction. In one of his recent communications hinderberg solilo- quiZes thus:
 Late in the summer of 1898 my partners, MT. Bryntesen and Mr. Lind blom. and myself let Golovin bay and started to do some prospecting. Hith- erto we had had veiy poor luck in our mining adventures, so we proceeded
The Nome nugget., 1900-01-01

Timbers for the dock which the A. c. Go. proposes to build at Nome in the spring are being gotten out at Unalaska The size of the dock is not known at the local office of the com pany, but it will be. large enough and substantial enough to permit of the loading and unloading of the largest vessels in fair VI atL1n That it will -paiH sIc,5fS. = lol11 1aho~ aI0 s~' unloading the cargo of the Bertha last fall.
The Nome nugget., 1900-01-01
Mayor T. ID. CasheI.

Hon. T. D. Cashel, mayor of the mu- nicipality of Nome, was born in Corry. Pa, in April. 1868. He graduated at the Christian Brothers Seminary at St. Louis, Mo, in 1887. Much of Mir Cashel's life has been devoted to the railroad business, he having been in the employ at different periods of near ly all the great transcontinental roads He was revision clerk in the auditing department of the St. Paul Railway Company. chief clerk with the N. P
The Nome nugget., 1900-01-01
Judge AIohso Rawson.

United States Commissioner Raw son, of Nome, was born in Des MOines, Iowa, in 1868. He graduated from the Iowa State University in the class of 'SS. He afterward studied law and was admitted to the bar. He then went to New Whatcom, Washington, where he practiced law for five years. In 1898 he came to Alaska as agent and attorney for one of the large trad ing companies operating on the Yu- kon. In the winter of '9S and '99 he was stationed at point 100 miles below Weare. In the spring of '99 he came down the river in small boat behind the ice, and after spending a short time at St. Michael in the prac- tice of his profession he came to Nome, landing here in September. Shortly after arriving here he received the ap- pointment of United States commis-
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A. E. sOUTHwARD.

Deputy Recorder of the Nome Min
 ing District.
 MT. A. E.. Southward. deputy record CT TOT the Nome mining district, is a Lative of New York City. Where he spent his boyhood days and received his education. He came West in 1897
The Nome nugget., 1900-01-01
THE OUTPUT AND OUTLOOK
Of NOme's Most Famous
 Creeks and Claims.
RESUME OF DEVELOPMENTS

Future PoSsibiiities-These Are Es- seutjnIIy Summer Diggiugs-iack of Water Prevented Work on Dexter and Dry Creeks. hut Pumping Plant VIII Hereafter supply Them.
The Nome nugget., 1900-01-01
TOPOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY
Of Country in the Vicinity
 of Nome.
FORMATION OF THE eRAvELs

Extracts From the Omcial Report of the United state Geological Sus- vey-How Gold Is Extracted From Fuel Scarce and Cost of Living High.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-24
ANALYSIS OF TRADE FAILURES.
Dun Finds encouragement Despite

DUN Finds encouragement Despite
Increase in Losses.
r. G.. Dun & Co.'S weekly review OF
trade says: If the great increase in fail
ures to $1O0,57O, 1874 in the first half of
1900, against S49, 664 ,661 last year, and
especially to S43, 500, 079 in the second
quarter, against S21 ,695, 635 last year,
gave no occasion for diligent search, fail
ure returns will be worth nothing. But
to-day it is shown that thirty banking
failures for $25,S22, 682, against thirty
one last year for 81 COZ, 72S. accounted
for much of the difference; that 26o brok-
erage and real estate failures for ST.
122,346, against 145 last year for only
$2,S2S, 215, accounted for another part,
and that in building and lumber working
and trade other large failures distinctly
connected with those in real estate eX-
plain much more of the difference be-
tween manufacturing and trading fail
ures last year and this. In these and
much less important changes in few
other lines are seen substantially all the
commercial disasters as yet resulting
from an amazing rise in prices last year,
followed by weary but largely successful
efforts during the last few months to get
back to normal state of business. When
this is seen, and the remarkable steadi-
ness in number and size of the great ma
Jority of failures not for exceptional
amounts, there appears ground for espe-
eial satisfaction that business has been
on the whole so soundly conducted under
conditions of unusual danger. Failures
for the week have been 1876 in the United
States, against 169 last year, and 20 in
Canada, against "a last year."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-24
FEAR ANTI-cHINEsE RIOTS.
Federal Officials Take Precautions
Against Mob ReprisaIs.

The Government at Washington has
taken note Of the efforts made in some
quarters to stir up an agitation against
the peaceable Chinese in the United
States. IT feels it is imperatiyely neces-
sary to use the entire resources OF the
Government to suppress any movement
that would jeopardize their safety. Any
thing like massacre Of Chinese in the
United States, correspondent says,
would wreck the whole case OF the United
States Government in the settlement
which must come Of this Chinese trouble
Our Government could not demand rep
aration for indemnity from China for
whatever happens at Pekin or elsewhere
in China if the Chinese Government
through the violence Of our people, were
put in position to claim set-off growing
out OF violence shown its people in the
United States. Therefore steps have
been taken already 70 have the authori-
ties in localities where there may be dan
ger OF anti-Chincse outbreaks prepare for
the promptest and most stern repressiye
measures at the first symptom Of trouble.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-24
ENDEAV ORERA THIEF
DELEGATE ToWORLD'S CONvEN-
TON STEALS JEWELRY.
American Girl in d London Police
Court Testifies that Liquor Influenced
Her to establishments Girl in Plot
to Kill Her Parents.

Caroline Z. Reyes pleaded guilty in
Marylebone police court, London, to the
charge of stealing gold watch, bracelet,
hair brushes and articles of clothing ag-
gregating the value of Ed from rooms
in the Norfolk Mansion Hotel, where she
had been staying When the robbery was
reported the police Intercepted Miss
Keyes, who, after a series of denials to
questions with which she was piled for
two hours, fraliy opened her trunk and
displayed the missing articles. Her ex-
PLANTATION was that she had been drink
ing brandy and while under the infcence
OF liquor took the property. When She
realized the enormity of her crime the
next morning she tried to replace the
stolen property, but was unable to gain
access to the rooms she had robbed In
the course of her hearing Miss Reyes
said she was an American and had gone
to London to attend the worlds Christian
Endeavor convention from a church in
Minneapolis. She had gone to disseminate
the gospel
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-24

wounded. At evening allied attack on
native city was repulsed, with great loss.
Returns yet incomplete. Details not yet
confirmed. REMEY.
At o'clock on the afternoon of the
18th 1000 of the allied troops attempted
to storm the wall of the city. The Chin
ese on the walls were estimated conserv-
atiyely at 10000. They poured a terrific
hail of artillery, rifle and machine gun
fire upon the attackers.
The Americans suffered terribly. The
chief surgeon of the Ninth infantry said
a conservative estimate was that % per
cent of the Americans were hit. Col.
Wilson II. Liscum was mortally wound
ed as he was walking in front of the
troops. Maj. Regain and Capt. Buckmil-
Ter, Wilcox and Moves are among the
wounded. The marine losses include Capt
Davis, killed, and Butler, Leonard and
several others wounded
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-24
ATTACK ON sHIpwREcKED CREW.
Natives of Falalu Assault Stranded
Sailors Seeking Shelter.

Natives of Fa1alu Assault Stranded
Sailors Seeking Shelter.
Recently the inhabitants of Falalu,
Caroline Islands, were aroused by saw
age attack of the natives upon ship
wrecked crew The sailors, who were
English subjects, were seeking shelter
when they were fired on and would have
been slain had it not been for the timely
arrival of an American cattle dealer.
With his three employees, who were Fill
pinos, the American managed to rescue
John Stevenson and James Smits, who
had been seriously wounded by the ma
tives, the other three of the crew having
fled, leaving the wounded to care for
themselves. The latter were looked after
by the American, who, although wounded
himself, conveyed them to a place OF
safety. He refused to give any informa-
ton as to his identity, but it was learned
later that he was Edward st. Supery,
Californian, who left Guam to purchase
some cattle among these islands. The ma
tiyes Of Falalu have long been known
as savages. They are constantly at war
with themselves.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-24
MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chieago-Cattle. common to prime,
$500 to 500; hogs, shipping grades,
$500 to $40; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $40; wheat, No , red, T6c to nc;
corn, No >, 4oc to 42c; oats, No. ,, 23c
to 24c: rye. No. 2, SIC to 54c: butter,
choice creamery, lie to Ice; eggs. fresh,
Sc to lie; new potatoes, Soc TO 35c per
bushel.
Indianapolis-Ca shipping, $500 to
$5.J0; hogs, choice light, $500 TO $5.SS;
sheep, common to prime. $500 TO $3.50;
wheat. No. >. re to 7Sc; corn, No.
white. Ale to 45c; oats, No. , white,
pic TO sc.
st. Louis Cattle, 1925 TO $3.50: hogs,
$500 to 1913; sheep. $500 to $3.50:
wheat. No. ,. 73c to I4c: corn, No. 2
yellow. zoe TO Ale; oats. No. ,. 24c to
25e; rye, No. >. 54c to 55c.
Cincinnati-Castle, $500 to Sc. %; hogs,
$500 to 1915: sheep, $3.50 to S4.25;
wheat. No. >. soc TO Sic; corn. No. ,
mixee. &C to 47c. oats, No. mixed. DC
TO &c; rye No. ,, Gle 10 &c
Detroit-C Cattle. $3.50 10 $50; hogs.
$500 TO $3.50; sheep, $500 10 S4.T5;
wheat, No. ?. soc 10 Sic; corn. No. =
yellow. 46c 10 47c; oats. No. 2 white. &c
to 29c, rye, 60c to Gle.
Toleio-Wheaf. Ne. , mixed. SOC TO
Sic: corn, No. > mixed. Ale TO 42c: oats.
No. mixed, 24c to 2scs rye. No, ,. 5jc
to 57c: clover seed. prime. $5.05 TO $40.
MilwagSee-W Wheat. No. . northern.
75c 10 T6c: corn. No. 8. 42c 70 43c: cats.
No white. &C To 2sc: rye, No. /. 59c
TO zoe; barley. No. .. 44c 10 4sc: pork.
mess. $500 to S12.15.
Bahalo-Cattle. choice shipping steers,
$500 to $5.70: hogs. fair to prime $500
10 $3.50: sheep, fair 70 choice. Ss.25 70
S4.25: lambs. common TO extra. SS.5o to
500
New York-Cattie. $3.25 to 500: hogs.
500 TO $685., sheep. $500 to S5-1a;
wheat, No. red, soc TO SEE corn. No. 2.
47c TO 4Se; oats. No white, Soc to Sic;
butter. creamery. lsc to l9c; eggs, west
ern, I4c TO 16c.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-24
REVENGE is THE CRY OF EUROPE.
Fate of Foreigners in Pekin Stirs War
Spirit in England.

Revenge to-day, mourning tomorrow"
is practically the universal cry of Europe,
but it is sorrowfully admitted that there
can be no revenge to-day, nor, perhaps,
for many tomorrows, for the incredible
barbarities that are reported to have
marked the last scenes within the lega
tions at Pekin. Nothing is clearer, a
London dispatch says, than that the anti
foreign confagration is rapidly permeat-
ing even hitherto quiescent provinces, and
the fate of the capital appears to threat
en- other towns like Tien-Tsin, Chefoo
and even Shanghai. The defeat of the
allied forces at TienTsin seems to place
that town in desperate straits, and il re-
treat to Taku is necessitated observers
consider that it will be likely TO decide
the policy of wavering viceroys.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-24
AMERICAN FLOUR IN JAPAN.
Consul General Mclean Reports It il
Growing Demand.

Consul General Mclean Reports It in
Growing Demand.
Vice-Consul General Mclean has made
a report from Yokohama on the subject
of the Importation of American flour into
Japan. He says that the use of flour is
not confined to the large cities of Japan,
but is becoming common throughout that
country. He, speaks of three or four
American-built -four mills, the largest
having a capacity of 100 barrels day,
that are now helping to supply Japan
with flour. There are many small native
mills of hand and water power through
out the country, but their product is OF
a coarse character and they do not COM
r@se to any extent with the imported
stocks. american wheat also is being
imported into Japan and a considerable
amount of flour made from it is being
sold there. The demand for -four through
out the Orient is rapidly increasing, the
best points of consumption at present be-
ing Russian possessions in northern
China and eastern Siberia.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-24
NARROWLY ESCAPES DISASTER.
Train Wreckers' Plan to Rob Union
Pacific Flyer Miscarries.

Train Wreckers' Plan to Rob Union
Pacific Flyer Miscarries.
What appears to have been an attempt
to wreck and rob the Union Pacific west
bound flyer was discovered at a siding
four miles west of Manhattan, Kan, the
other night When the train reached the
siding the engineer saw that the switch
had been thrown and Immediately set
brakes, bringing the train to a stop with
in ten yards of the end of the siding.
Had he noticed the thrown switch two
seconds later the train would have been
ditched. A search Of the vicinity reveal
ed a shotgun, several sticks of dynamite
and a bottle supposed to contain nitrogly-
Germ on a pile of ties. The trainmen be-
lieve robbers tried to wrack the train,
planning TO get away with the express
safe in the confusion and blow it up at
their leisure. The failure to ditch the
train, it is thought, disconnected them
and they fled
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-24
PLOT TO KILL PARENTS.
A Sensational Confession Made b
Daughter of Murdered Couple.

A Sensational Confession Made by
Daughter of Murdered Couple.
At Anoka Mimi, sensational turn
was given the Wise murder trial when
Eliza Wise. the younger of the girls of
the household, made statement accus-
ing the defendants, James Hardy and
Elmer Miller, of the murder and prac-
tically admitting that the plot to shoot
her parents was formed with the knowl-
edge of herself and her sister. Eliza tes-
flied that she saw the boys and their
guns outside the house before the shoot
ing. After the crime was committed she
found one of the tell-tale shells outside
the window and destroyed it. Her story
made a profound sensation, as the de-
PENDANTS had established a tentative alibi
by numerous witnesses and it was the
general belief that they were innocent.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-24
SHOOTS HIS OWN MEN.
Seynour's Wour>led Soldiers Prefe
Death to Torture by Chinese.

Seymour's wouE>led Soldiers Prefer
Death to Torture by Chinese.
The most horrible feature of the fight
ing at Tien-Tsin was that Admiral Sey-
mour was obliged to kill his wounded in
order to prevent them from falling into
the hands of the Chinese. Bodies of some
of the men who had been captured by the
Boxers while still alive show that they
had been subjected to the most horrible
fortunes. Admiral Seymour in retreat
found that he was unable absolutely to
longer care for his wounded. He gave
hearing to all who had any suggestions
to make, but it was impossible for the
force to get away and carry the wounded
men with them.
Seymour, it is reported, went to the
men, and with streaming eyes. asked
them whether they would prefer to be
shot by their own commander or left to
the mercies of the Chinese. He inform
cd them that it would be impossible for
him to do anything for them and the
wounded pleaded at once for death at the
hands Of their own men. A firing squad
was made up and while the little allied
force under Seymour held off the Chinese
that swarmed around, few yolleys re-
lieved the army of its burden OF wound
ed and cheated the fanatics of their pros
pactive victims
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-24
RUSSIA is FURIOUS.
Cars People Anxious for a Fight with
the Chinese.


the Chinese.
News of the horrible death of NJ. de
Giers, the Russian minister at Pekin, his
wife and the other Russians in Pekin,
rapidly spread throughout Russia. The
Russian army is crazed by desire for re-
yenge. Eager thousands are begging for
orders to so to the front. Moscow re-
serve officers are leaving. daily The Gar
has ordered that all Chinese dispatches
be submitted to him for his personal cen
sorship. Among those who were butch
cred in Pekin were the heads of the Rus
sian orthodox mission at Korsakoff, prov
ince of Amur; the legation doctor, his
wife and two sons, and NJ. de Giers'
bodyguard Of twenty-five Siberian cos
sacks. The sevensy-fye marines whom
NJ. de Giers requested last May were
slaughtered TO a man, but these heroes
died fighting, and in the four days of ac-
ton that preceded their overwhelming
they slew 1000 of the Chinese. The di-
rectors and employees of the Russo-C Chin
ese bank-nine in all-were murdered,
and NJ Barber. secretary Of the bank,
was behealed when he had fallen.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-24

A dispatch from Nankin announces
that Prince Tuan has ordered a great
n,ilitarv movement, owing to the appear
ance of the japanese in China. Inc VICE
roy of Nankin has informed the foreign
consuls there that he cannot be answered.
lie for events in Chao-Sin, Ning-Po and
Cbu-Chau. The foreigners are fleeing TO
Shanghai. The position is alarming. Six
taen foreigners have arrived at Nankin
from Ning-Po. where the houses Of for
eigners have been burned and mAssion-
aries horribly maltreated.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-24

were completely routed and the allies,
took possession of the native city and its
defenses. The total losses of the allies
in the engagements of Thursday, Friday
and Saturday were about 500 killed or
wounded. The casualties were greatest
among the Russians and Japanese"
The guns of the allies did immense
damage to the native city, causing many
large conflagrations, and finally silenced
the majority of the enemy's guns stimuli
taneously. Then the 1,500 Russians, as
sisted by small parties OF Germans and
French, assaulted and captured eight
guns that were in position on the rail-
way embankment and the fort, the maya
zine of which the French subsequently
blew up. A BODY of American, British,
japanese and Austrian troops then made
a sortie and attacked the west arsenal,
which the Chinese had reoccupied. After
three hours of the hardest fighting yet
experienced the Chinese fed.
Admiral Remey cabled the navy de-
partment at Washington that the city
and forts Of Tientsin are in the hands of
the allies. His list of killed and wound
ed is somewhat fuller than the first re-
port. Total killed and wounded report
ed, 775: Russians and japanese lost
heavily. Our total loss, he says, IS 2lo;
about 40 were marines, but number be-
lieved to be exaggerated.
According to Shanghai dispatch 1907
600 Chinese troops armed with Mauser
rifles and modern artillery are encamped
at three points within forty miles Of
Shanghai, ready to besiege the town III
the event Of an attack by the Europeans
Never, since Xerxes' time, have the
nations Of the world gathered their varied
armies together as is now the case at
Tien-Tsin. Under the walls Of that grim
old Chinese town, English and Ameri-
can, French and German, japanese and
Russian, Austrian and Italian fought
side by SIDE hereditary enmities forgot
ten. vengeance in their hearts and the
great worlds approval at their backs. At
Leipsic, in 1918, Napoleon, with his
French and Polish troops, faced Ger
mans, Austrians Russians and Swedes,
while at Waterloo the Corsican had to
meet English, Germans, Belgians and
Hollanders. In the Crimean war, Russia
stood against English, French Turkish
and Italian armies, but in none of these
conflicts were so many or such heterogc-
neous forces brought together as in China
yesterday. The battle of Tien-Tsin might
wei! he called the battle of the nations.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-24
Dcfinea Now Bird Law.

The Department of Agriculture has is
sued regulations for the proper execution
of the Lacey law for the protection and
importation of birds. 4 circular contain
ing the regulations has been published,
1t explains that the department merely
purposes to supplement- and not to ham
per or replace the work hitherto done by
the State commissions and organizations.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-24
CHINESE WARN vIcERoYs.
Rcformers at San Francisco Urg
r. !. p-oa..r.& E.-.s.-...-

RcforIners at San Francisco Urge
Them to Protect Foreigners.
The members Of the Chinese Empire
Reform Association OF San Francisco are
very much perturbed over the serious
condition az affairs in the Orient and are
exerting every possible endeayor TO pre-
vent the persecution Of foreigners reSid-
inx in China Cahlegrams are being sent
daily 10 the viceroys Of the different
provinces praying them to use al their
,inauence 10 prevent further slaughter OF
innocent persons Of other nations who
have not had an opportunity to leave the
country for some place Of safety.