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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-09-21
PYRAMID SHOWING ALASKA GOLD
PRODUCTION.

cleaned up, the gold being washed out
by means of sluice boxes, and this con-
cludes the seasons work.
On the claim last winter, the Portland
Beach claim, owned by the Pioneer Min
ing company, seven men and a cook
cleaned up $421, 900 worth Of gold in go
days. The cost of operating the mine,
including cost of labor and coal, during
this period, was $500. This, of course,
was the biggest cleanup, but on the
claim adjoining, known as Number /,
on Little creek, J. c. Brown took out
$3.50, 900, and there are many smaller
clean-ups. Mr.. Underwood says that in
the neighborhood of 100 claims on the
Ancient Pay Streak, where the first win
ter diggings were found, were worked;
a dozen on Little creek, and others on
Center creek, Cripple river, Solomon
river, the SNOWFALL, Ophir and Crooked
creeks. Probably 1,250 miners were en-
ployed, all told. The cleanup on Candle
creek and the Inmachuck river, in the
Good Hope district last winter yielded
100000. This was made possible by
the discovery of coal near by. The
mines near Nome get their coal from
Seattle, at a cost of SIS ton in the sum-
mer and $40 in winter.
In the territorial wing Of the United
States government building, pile OF
gilt blocks Is feet high stands as evi-
dence of the wealth of Nome and the
Seward peninsula. The blocks repre-
sent s29, $50 900, the total output of gold
from 1899 to and including 1904. the size
of each block being exactly equivalent
to that of the years output OF god.
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streak, winter mining is more econom-
ical, because there is less danger of the
mine caving in or being flooded by water
from melting snow. When the ground is
frozen solid, it may be tunneled with
comparative case, and it is not neces-
sary to board up the shaft. AS timber is
worth $40 thousand feet in Nome, this
latter feature is one of no small i'm
portance
Mr.. Underwood talks Interestingly
of the way winter mining is carried on.
Every mine is equipped with boiler,
and hose which carries the steam to
the mine. Attached to the end of the
hose is a long piece of steel pipe, drawn
to point, and perforated with two
holes short distance back of the point.
The steel pipe, or nozzle, is driven into
the bank, by means of a sledge, and
when the steam is turned on the gravel
is thawed out for three or four feet in
all directions. Workmen shovel the
gravel and dirt into large buckets, which
are dumped near the mouth of the mine.
Samples are taken frequently and the
amount of gold is ascertained, SO that it
is possible at any time to estimate the
value of the dump where the pay dirt is
deposited. In the spring the dump is
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-09-21
The News Condensed.

Kaukauna.-The surveying party of
the Valley Railway company, the pro-
posed new line along the Fox river val
ley from Green Bay to Neenah, has
reached Kaukauna from the Green Bay
end of the route
Burlington-L. J. Smith has secured
an injunction restraining Burlington
from establishing a municipal electric
lighting plant. The contention is that
two-thirds vote instead of majority
vote is necessary in the matter. The
case will be decided by the courts.
Milwaukee.-The erection of a $50 900
home for the Polish orphans of Milwau-
kee, to be begun in the early spring, and
the Incorporation of a company under
the state laws, to take charge of the
work. was decided upon at meeting Of
delegates from six of the seven Polish
churches in this city.
Menasha.-Fully 5000 people wit
messed the laying of the corner stone of
the new Menasha hotel, $35, 1000 struc-
ture.
Beloit-Burglars carried away over
$1,000 worth of gloves and mittens from
the factory of H. J. Leonard company.
Madison.-State Insurance Commits
sioner Zeno M. Host stated positively
that he will not be a candidate to sue
coed himself at the end of his present
term of Office, which expires a year
from next January. He says that poll
tics in itself has no attraction for him.
Madison.-The milk-maid promises
to be a nonenity soon, if the milking ma
chine invented by Sank county man,
turns out to be successful. The me-
chanical device is operated by one man
and milks two COWS at one time, and is
equal to four milking by hand.
Marinette.-The Marinette county
training school for teachers will have
48 students this year, about double the
number expected to attend the first
year. Not enough desks and seats had
been provided, and more will be ordered
Immediately.
Milwaukee.-The democratic state
central committee of Wisconsin met at
the Plankinton house, when the resigna-
ton of A. F. Warden as state chairman
was formally received and accepted. A
successor will be chosen at meeting
to be held November
Milwaukee.-Th forty-seventh an
nua1 conclave of the grand commandery,
knights Templars, state of Wisconsin,
opens in the Masonic building Octo-
Der 10.
Notwithstanding quarrel between
William Sittuan, saloon keeper, and
Joe Jonas, farm hand, Sittuan's head
was nearly severed by a penknife.
Jonas was arrested, charged with MUIR
der
Fond du Lac-Fred c. Wells, an en-
gineer employed by the Wisconsin Gen.
trail railroad, was attacked by three col
and gold watch.
Madison.-The state has taken pos
session of the Stoughton bank and will
close it up.
Racine-The large J. /. Case Thresh-
ing Machine company shops will not
close this fall for a number of months,
as has been customary for years. They
will run this fall and winter through,
thus giving employment to 1000 men.
The shops may possibly close for two
weeks to take inventory and make re-
pairs.
Neenah.-A $25. 900 stock company
has been organized to manufacture gas
oline lamps. A large plant, employing
200 hands. will 20 erected.
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ing thence dog Sledges with small par
ties farther north. The last heard from
him before the cables brought the
news of his rescue the other day was
IN October, 1908, when a whaling yes
sci brought the news that the America
had failed to make Franz Josef Land,
but would try again the following
spring.
Mr. Ziegler discredited the report.
But in 1904 he sent his secretary, Will
lam S. Champ, from Trondjhem on the
steamer Fritjof, but Champ returned
without tidings. This year, just before
ne died, Mr.. Zeigler sent two expedi-
lions. One was commanded by Mr..
Champ on the Terra Nova, the other
by DR.. Oliver l.. Fassig, of Johns Hop
kins university, on the Belgica. On
August came message from Shan
non island, from DR.. Fassig, stating ne
had found no traces of Fiala. -Four
days later came word from Champ He
had found Fiala, and all were we'll
One CT the Norwegians had died OF
natural causes. that was all
1t was a long weary wait for the
girl.
1t was not the wait of girl who can
reach her sweetheart by mail or tele-
graph. 1t was not the wait of a girl
whose affianced might be on the other
side of the globe and yet able to COM
munlcate with her. For two years she
never knew whether he was alive OF
dead, whether he was achieving the
glory of being the first to set foot on
the spot that has been mems ambition
for a century, or whether his bones
were not whitening on some Arctic
waste.
The first relief expedition started q
year ago. She waited for its return
No news. A second went out and came
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-09-21
The Long Wooing of Anthony
Fiala lis Soon to End.
BACK FROM THE NORTH TO CLAIM A BRIDE
Wooed for Eight Years, a Pretty Southern Maid
Will Wed an Ardent Lover-Her Word
Given as He Sailed Northward
Two Years Ago.

Me-; ]. Collin Waugh, of Forest HILL
N. j.; Charles E. Rellits, Of st. Louis;
John Vedoe, of Boston; Spencer w.
Stuart, of Brooklyn, aud H. d. New
court, of Milford, Mass.
When he sailed there was a little
party of women to see him off-his
mother, one or two relatives and the
girl from Nashville She had relented
at last
when you come back" she whis-
pered, as he started up the gangplank
of the steamer that was to take him to
Norway, Il will marry you"
when | find the POLE" answered
Fiala, 'I'll be back"
But nobody knew that either had
promised the other. 1t was only when
the brief dispatch came on August IL
that Miss Puryear told her secret-she
was to marry the intrepid young arctic
explorer when he could come back to
her. Wooed six years and his promised
sweetheart for two years more, she had
kept her secret well. For two years
lacking less than a month she had not
0PdTQ d WOIu llOlu ulLI AACl lc1oC lCC-
ter was dated in September, 1903, when
the gallant little band passed out of
reach of the mails for almost L. months.
The expedition cost $250,000. The
party were taking everything possible
for the prosecution of the search for the
pole. Everything that science or COM
fort could suggest found a place aboard
the sturdy ship. There were 210 Siberi-
an dogs, 80 Siberian ponies, ten tons of
horse food, Al tons of dog food, 100
pounds of tobacco, 1000 pounds of gun
cotton, 5000 rounds of ammunition for
rifles and shotguns, GO sledges of spe-
Cial design, two specially built canoes
Is feet long, made to take apart in sec
lions for transport on the sledges, tons
of the most skilfully prepared concen-
trated food of all kinds, and so on
without limit
Fiala took 81 men with him, two of
them Norwegians Injured to Arctic cold.
The America sailed from I'sysi.A,ys,
Trondjhem, Norway, on June %, 1868,
for Franz Josef Land, where Fiala in
tended to spend the winter, dispatch
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-09-21

of the cage, big enough for ons to put
his hand through, but not large enough
to enable him to steal the nugget. Over
the chunk of gold there is legend which
reads: "You can lift the nugget, but
don't take it away" AS matter Of fact
it requires considerable muscle to lift
$9,276 worth of gold, and most women
find it too great for their strength.
Johnnie" Lynch, the watchdog, says
that nobody has tried to steal the mug
get as yet, but that visitors who think
they can pick off chunk with their
finger nails, or pry away piece of it's
yellow gold with pen knife, are not
uncommon. Besides the big nugget.
there are number of smaller ones, and
the cage contains all told about $4,000
worth of gold, all the property of the
Pioneer Mining company.
A less spectacular display, but one
which is almost as interesting, consists
of number of boxes Of pay dirt, with
glass covers. The pay dirt shows no free
gold, but the gold is there. and is attested
by the legends, one Of which reads, 'Pay
dirt from Anvil creek Average value,
$1.20 per bucket" Another box is Ia
beled, PAY dirt from Claim No. on
Little creek. Output In six months,
$250,O00. J. G. Brown, owner" A third
box of the dirt bears tag which says
that it was taken from Moonlight
creek, and is worth one dollar a
bucket
Mr.. Underwood, the Nome commits
sioner, says that modern methods,
which require expensive machinery, are
being adopted in the Nome region, with
marvellous results. Where a laborer.
working for $3.50 day and board, could;
shovel ten or IL cubic yards OF gravel
in day, hydraulic elevator'can clean
up $500 yards. Dredging machines ac-
complish results almost az astonishing.
Both of these devices have been in
stalled in number OF cases. A stamp
mill with 20 stamps has been working
for year on Solomon river, and another
is being erected on Glacier creek. six
miles from Nome, while several hun
dred quartz claims have been located.
And yet Nome is still the poor mans
country.
"On the boat which came down on"
says Mr.. Underwood, there was $780,
900 in bullion. There were SO miners.
who had stakes of from $4,000 to $780,
900, and these were nearly all men who
never before had known how it feela
to have money"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-09-21
Object to Tax Valuation.

Representative of five of
the principal railroad companies oper-
ating in Wisconsin appeared before the
state tax commission and protested
against the preliminary valuations fixed
upon their property for taxation pur-
poses. The commission valued the rail-
road property in the state at 1929, 1870. 900
this year, as against $21S,024,900 last
year, an increase of $11 1866, 100. The
rate of taxation of railroad property is
the average rate of taxation Of all other
determined by the commission. The
railroad men argued that the COM
missions valuation of their property
was too high and asked a general re-
duction.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-09-21
NATIVE SERVANTS IN INDIA
Obey Orders to the Letter, But Seem
to Be Wholly Lacking in
Judgment.

Native servants in India have the
generally desirable though sometimes
inconyenient virtue of the Chinese
doing exactly as they are told Tho
trouble is that they seldom use judg-
ment.
Lord Roberts, during a campaign in
India, had ordered his man to prepare
his bath at a certain hour. One day
a fierce engagement was going on, but
the servant made his way through a
storm of bullets and appeared at the
commanders side.
"Sahib," said he, your bath Is
ready"
Even better story comes from an
unknown soldier, who was awakened
one morning by feeling the servant
of a brother officer pulling at his
foot.
"Sahib." whispered the man-"sa-
hib. what am / to do? My master
told me to wake him at half-past SIX
but he did not go to bed till seven"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-09-21

Nashville Tenn.-Some time during
the coming winter there will be sol
emnized in this city marriage that
will mark the climax to one of the pref
test romances this land of romances
has known in many year.
1t will be union of the north and
south of that north represented
by the frozen ice fields surrounding the
north pole, and of this sunny southland.
Anthony F'iala, the hero of the ZiegleT
expedition in search of'the pole, is the
hero of this romance, and Miss Claire
Puryear, young lady prominent in
Nashville society, is the heroine, and
the story of their courtship is an inter-
esting one.
It has been long engagement, even
as long engagements go, and even
longer wooing, says special writer TO
the New York World. twas eight years
ago that Anthony Fiala, then young
ster of 81, first met Miss Puryear. He
was a member of gallant troop G, OF
Brooklyn, then. He had gone as part
of the escort of the governor of New
York to the exposition at Nashville. On
New York day, just by chance, he was
introduced to Miss Puryear, guest al
the governors reception.
OF course the trooper did just what
he ought to have done-he fell in love
with her. They correspondent after he
left Nashville for good, but that was
all Chance took young Fiala back
again to Tennessee and he made bold
to say what his heart had hidden him.
NO" said the young girl, thinking,
of course, it was final.
But men who are fit to brave the ter
rors Of the arctic don't give up at one
rebuff, and a hundred times more not
SO Anthony Fiala. He went away un-
daunted. Again and again he begged
the girl to marry him, sometimes going
to Tennessee just to make one more
proposal; at other times sending his
message by letter.
Then in seeming despair he gave
1t up.
81 am going after the pole,'' he wrote
in 1901, and it wasn't joke, either.
William Zeigler was then fitting out his
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back without finding trace of the man
she loved, or his ship. A third went
norLhward nearly four months ago
she waited again.
AND then-the glorious news, alive
and Welt
1t came first in the regular dispatch
es from far away Norway, and then in
another message to Fiala's brother.
Louis" Returned, good health, love
from Anthony" A third dispatch
vent to Tennessee, but what was in it
is not on record. 1t was then that Miss
Puryear's secret became known to the
world. She admitted that she would
become the wife of this man who had
twice risked his life in search of the
frozen pole.
Up in Norway, meanwhile, the young
man was receiving the congratulations
CT men who know what it means to
brave the terrible rigors of two Arctic
winters. Though he had lost his ship
and had failed to reach the pole, or
even the farthest north, he had come
back with an honorable record-every-
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Frea to Claim Wealth.

Kenosha.-In order that he may claim
share in his fathers estate, Daisy B.
Rogers divorced her husband, Charles
Rogers. A MUTUAL understanding is said
to exist between the couple. Several
years ego they separated, and when the
estate is settled 1t would not surprise
their friends if they are remarked.
When Daniel G. Rogers died he left a
will declaring that his son, Charles Rog-
ers, would moi share to any great extent
in his estate SO long as he was the hus-
band of Mrs. Rogers. 1t is supposed
that the Milwaukee man now will re,
ceive his inheritance. Mrs. Rogers was
the only witness sworn in the case, and
she testified her husband had deserted
her five years after her marriage to him
in Milwaukee, and that she has not seen
him since June 1, 1902.
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first expedition under Evelyn B. Bald
win in his quest to attain the farthest
north. When young Fiala applied for
a place he was accepted. MIR. Ziegler
found that the young man had already
an enviable war record in '9S, when he
went to Porto Rico with troop c, and
was also an accomplished artist, pho
tographer and stenographer. So the
young man got one of the coveted
places.
Two years later he came back.
The expedition had been a failure.
There had been dissension among the
officers of the America, which finally
stirred up spirit of mutiny even in
the men. Little was accomplished; the
chickering's which had been bred in the
Arctic were kept up when the expedi-
tion arrived back in New York. Mr..
Ziegler was disguised. He spoke his
contempt for the men who had wasted
his money in no uncertain words. But
Anthony Fiala was not one of them. He
had done good work, and when it came
time for the baking powder millionaire
to cast about for man to lead Sec
ond expedition in 1908. he selected
young Fiala, then but SO years old.
sNorthward, always northward," was
Mr. Ziegler's injunction, as he intrusted
the young man to the command Of the
America, the best ship that ever ground
her way through Arctic ice.
Fiala promised.
He sailed from New York in May with
the members of his party. The other Of
fcers with him were: R.tR. Tafel. of
Philadelphia; Charles L. Seitz, OF
Evansville, Ind; William ). Peters, OF
the geological survey, second in COM
mand; Francis Long, of the weather
bureau, the meteorologist of the expe-
dition; DR.. G. w. Shorkley, of Camden.
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vile society. Maj. John Reid, of Vir-
ginia, is her grandfather; the family is
well known throughout both Tennessee
and Virginia.
Miss Puryear was too modest to say
anything to correspondent about her
romance.
eve will be married in the winter"
was all that she would vouchsafe.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-09-21
Broke His Neck.

Baldwin.-James Higgins, a well-to-
do farmer of Gillian, Pierce county, met
instant death in runaway, three miles
south of here. while returning home
from Baldwin. He was driving frac-
tious team down a steep hill when one
Of The lines broke and he was jostled
out of the front end of the box, the
wagon passing over his head.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-09-21
To Observe Anniversarv.

The bicentenary Of Benjamin Frank
lin will fall on January IL, 1906, and
already there is movement on foot
to observe the anniversary in a fitting
manner. 1t is urged that, while Wash,
ington's birthday is legal holiday in
nearly every state and Lincoln's in sew
eral, no similar honor has been paid
to Franklin. Congress will probably
be asked to adopt measures for ma
tional recognition of this revolutionary
patriot.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-09-21
Residents Dust Church.

Fearing that church would be built
in their neighborhood which might not
harmonic with its architectural fea-
lures, residents of Prospect Park South.
Brooklyn, have paid their projectors
$500 to induce them to buy their property
elsewhere 1t was explained that it was
not because the people are not religious,
but they did not think church structura
would agree with the rest Of the sky
line.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-09-21
woman's Hairpin Useful.

At Bloomnelu, ~. j., the other day
trolley car was stopped because of the
burning of the fuse. Luckily, how
ever, there was woman aboard, and
she had hairpin to spare, so
blockade was avoided. If great
liner should break down in mid-ocean.
and there were no other means of fix
ing things, ali would be well If
woman with a hair-pin to spare hap
nened to be among the passengers.
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Death of g Pioneer.

Milwaukee-Peter Vieau, the oldest
native Milwaukeean and brother-in-law
of Solomon Juneau, died at his home at
MUskego Center at the age of SO years.
He suffered a paralytic stroke several
days ago.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-09-21
Doctors Have a Black List.

Racine.-The Physicians Business
association, of Racine, made out a list
of people who engage physicians and re-
fuse to pay for the service. The list
shows 1000 names. Not one of these de-
linquents can hereafter secure services
of doctor who belongs to the associa-
ton without paying in advance.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-09-21
How Crocodiles Are CAUGHT.

In some parts of India the natives
dig a crocodile pit which they cover
with sticks and leaves. The pit sur
rounds a little island CT mound Of
earth and is close to stream where
crocodiles abound. On this mound
they fasten a young goat, and its
bleatings through the night attract the
crocodiles who break the frail floor
of sticks with their heavy todies and
fall into the pit prepared for them.
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Much Land Subject to Entry.

Madison.-There is still subject to
homestead entry in the district covered
by the United States land Office at
Wausau the following amount of lands
in the counties named: Adams, 500!
Florence, 400; Forest, 800; Iron, $50;
Lincoln, 400; Marinette, 5000; Oneida,
1000; Price, 1900; Villas, 1000.
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Same Feelings.

Howell feel like so cents
POWELL feel like 25 minutes to II,
when the train goes at s0:30.-Judge.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-12-14
TIE "oRIENTAL LIMITED"


Train Of the Great Northern Railway
Between st. Paul, Minneapolis and
Puget Sound Points.
This new train has been aptly
named Travellers Of this progressive
age demand the highest degree of
comfort when they are contemplating
to undertake a journey, and especially
a journey Of considerable length. In
the placing in service of the Oriental
Limited" the Great Northern Railway
has achieved distinctive success in
the excellence, ease and elegance of
this regal train. If man is making a
journey for purely business reasons,
he wants comfort The Oriental
Limited" lands him at his journey
end with a pleasant memory lingering
in his mind of the comfort which
has been provided for him. All the
conveniences of a modern, up-tO-date
hotel, all the comforts of home, the
privacy of club, are at his command
Instead dreading a long journey he
looks forward to it with pleaurable
anticipation. To the tourist the same
applies. The delightful surroundings
of this train, the opportunities fol-
enjoying the passing scenery enroute
makes the Oriental Limited" the train