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New-York tribune., 1906-08-05
MANY FRAUDS IAUgHa9rv

Some Of the ways IN which mantl,s 49,.
be duped are almost unbelievable A.-ils .
ridiculous Disease Is not the only soIv-. - 80
nue. OF the fraud There are those nh, = 'eg-
eating from an oversupply OF sentimonss1.-'' '---
who believe IN supernatural povers - -. ~
DR. White. Of Baltimore who was trS.4 -
in the United States District Court N 49,. LII
the charge OF using the mails % doe,s-s - =
now serving a three years sentence o,- az .
love charms and invented the "anria,. v, -
breastplate." said to contain charms a-4 esa@ a.
The latter was said by the doctor % - 80
with magic solar fluid The breastnIs.' = 'ss'
two inches square They were hlled vifs s.'s ~.
fUlleTs' earth Printed prayers VEN. - -
them. This plate would do rnany fhi,sSssN 3 tn.1
Wearer, according TO q circular which W. ~ %
the court Il would right love affairs WI'-, q =
not progressing tavOraby. II would trTrr ~ Us
IN ones business II would give healfb - ~ = -
In the words Of the circular. - s a'A
IL viii draw TO you great forces ana -.
TO gain many OF your greatest desires T. - ye-
you good luck and guide you 10 slieoasS -. iss
lea0 YOU 20 the greatest secrets. Il win ca- y
II VIII cause you to gain friends and 49, scssr s
yoH 70 gain money from ali parts Of the coS-a.a -a.a
Your life VIII be brighter
Your home more happy
Your desires viii be granted.
Bad VIII turn to good.
mirrors for the use Of mediums by Wiz, -, -
could see spirits One woman said Eha 1ofs .Se @ey
White 500 for pair OF them. A carDenffsI- ~ s. *.
strated the profits in the ouackerS 6,,-ssssi- ssi-c--
testlfying that he made the mirrors anT fSsSoIs, :,
was $3.50 each ~e eost
The spell 70 create love was STYLED ,hs ass.-
and Eve charm. Adam and Eve were - -a,a -
ed by roots declared TO be obtained frov.
Adam was one root and Eve another T7-e- - -
were TO be placed In running water ana tie TS-s ~
Whom God hath Joined together let No T-as - ~.
4SundeF' were 20 be TeCited -. ~
New-York tribune., 1906-08-05
Plans for Subways for Pedestrians. for Tunnels and
Bridges for Inerurban Transit and More Speedy
Communication from One Part 10 Another.

surpass that devised between Manhattan and
the other boroughs.
"The first essential principle OF rapid transit
is continuous and effective control by the city.
There should be short term leases, with power
TO the municipality to take over any line on pay
ment of a specified indemnity Boston in this
way controls it's transit system. New subways
should be planned to connect with the general
scheme. yet capable Of independent opeEatioQ.
Elevated structures should be generally discour-
aged. universal one fare transfers given and
the tunnels and bridges be forever kept IN close
control of the city essential transverse feed
ers to the north and south lines of travel"
The Municipal Art Society further points out
that the object of doing away with terminals
on Manhattan Island applies most forcibly to
railroads that enter the city. There is not room
enough for the terminals Of all present and
future roads. Many separate stations would
mean an impossible congestion and a blocking
of general improvements. Extensive yards
should be in the suburbs. The Pennsylvania
Railroad it is pointed out. while building an
elaborate and costly station in New York. has
the essentially right plan OF running straight
across the island. The Neg York Central.
on the other hand, continues the antiquated
terminal idea, despite its improvements in cleo
trical equipment. 1t is asserted that the fact
that this road enters the city lengthwise IN
stead of at right angles should be TO reason for
exempting 1t from the adoption Of this plan
There prophets who foresee that mere
economy in suburban yardage. as compared with
the cost of property near Fifth avenue, will
compel a grand tunnel loop under the East River
and back again to some point in Harlem. AS
minor detail. the Pennsylvania is believed to in
tend reservng its Jersey City facilities aided by
tunnel for suburban traffic and using the 34th
street line for through express trains.
That the public must guess at plans vitality
affecting itself is considered another misfort-
une
New-York tribune., 1906-08-05
WOMEN WATCH THE FRAUDS.

ITO detect and convict these medical crooks and
Illegal practitioners the County Medical Society
maintains experienced detective force and re-
marlable card index system for keeping tabs on this
class Of criminals Detective work involves tempta-
tion, and especially when Il is carried against
wealthy swinders who able TO corrupt the
emlSSarieS of justice. Every In charge Of a
force Of investigators realizes the difficulty of keep
ing them honest and efficient. We had had more
or less trouble with our agents. detectives. and
four had been discharged for suspected collusion
with the men they had been set to watch. We had
an ex-sergeant OF cavalry chief detective. He
was a very able man, and is now In the Police De-
partment In some delicate cases he had his wife
assist him in procuring evidence. with such success
that several OF her friends-stenographer govern
esSes telephone operators and trained nurSeS-Were
pressed into service for occasional cases. Eventual
ly women practically excluded men altogether from
force Of detectives, and since then not case
dishonesty has come up
THE society has ten agents, and they
have shown themselves ideal detectives, endowed
as they are by nature with all the arts Of disSimu-
lation- Their wits match those Of the wiiest char
latans the lookout for legal retributiOn What
could extract evidence with winning smile
tell a long fiction with entire plausibiity? II
might seem that have advantage in dis
gusing themselves with more less whiskerss but
the woman detective by change of costume and
voice. dropping her hair from pOmpadOur SO as to
New-York tribune., 1906-08-05

STs SanGs PrlsoPmeos q sot;a either or, Or BOTH Coz 90
larceny can be made against thosa -, - sraa:
patients health anG then charge reV.-.I't - a
would seem too great for charIaf9- ~ ~ s-7a.
erateiy creates running sores on ths 49, e. )
purse under the delusioH that ne h s,s'- lbs I,
New-York tribune., 1906-08-05
CROwDING IN THE STREETS.

What is to be done to reJae the perilOus and
nerve racking crowding OF the streets? George
s. Rice, chief engineer OF the Rapid Transit
Commission, holds that subyays for pedestrians
with entrances TO stores, hotels and office build
ings on the lower level making a series Of un-
derground streets in the congested parts OF the
city, is the best method OF remedying present
conditions. Others are as eloquent In favor OF
New-York tribune., 1906-08-05

avaz 4re,r rovers Of mental resistance 20 such
extent their minds are openly receptive 10 Is
arguments Of the charlatan and they are ready 10
build up Elusive hopes upon his m8gveious claims
and extravagant promises. The hypocbondr1ao is
so fruitful a field that in the operations OF the
Quack there is place for the 'hypo cfeatoF' as
those are styled who devote their energies 70 Gre
ating in people belief that they sick The real
sufferers who may be depended upon TO furnish
patients for the Quack include the hopeful con-
sumptive and the sufferer from locomotor ataXla.
Many Of these are ready to grasp at any straw as
they the bNnk Of the fall In fact, TIE
his ability to save those who are within sight Of
the edge-Or to heal those who are not for that
For the benefit Of the cOnsumptive, the quaGdls d
mas foowsd ms ps9aI course ana oIaWp Hge
appeared of an X-light which had been designed
whether a person had consumption not. By
Of Of the e invention @ the the physician d Ws
there any diseased tissue there. In the adver-
earlier the presence OF the disease could be deter
mind the easier it could be cured No matter how
After using his x-light the quack advertiser
lungs, which he said the picture he had just
W q ne s b1no The paent could not
know that the solemny given diagnosis of the dis
to take his vibratory treatment ultraviolet rays
Electricity has been worked hard by the quack
Large sums of money have been made in the sales
and copper insoles 1t has been called the stream
names by innumerable swindlers The dynostat
was based it.
Two three months ago the papers contained
accounts OF who had made magic boots for
those with deformed limbs. He had been arrested
the charge of grand larceny by false pretence,
etc. For some Of these boots the maker IS said
to have secured $1,000 a pair. He declared that
they possessed mysterious power which would
cure such diseases loconOtor ataxia. paralysis.
rheumatism and neuritis When asked what the
mysterious power he would talk darkly about
their being charged so that when worn they set
up a magnetic influence that caused a current of
nerve force to course through the body. The shoes
could be 'recharged by hnl-at a charge of $25.
Their real and only value lay in the fact that, hav
ing been made to fit plaster casts Of the feet Of
the prospective WearerS. they fitted their feet
actly and bore the weight comfortably without
gard TO the position in which the feet received 1t.
In his establishment he had a room which he
called the Chamber of Mseries.' It reminded one
of shrine, for its walls were hung with braces
OF all kinds which he would say TO the visitor had
been taken from cured patients. Among the braces
was one of iron which he declared had been worn
by Bishop Potter, but which he had replaced with
a pair of his 'mechano- PHI ysiological boots
Professor F. B. Crocker. head af the electrical
department of Columbia University testified at the
preliminary hearing before Magistrate Poole that
ordinary shoes shoes The minimum price of this foot
gear was $500 pair, and. as the evidence showed.
there had been not few pairs sold at prices higher
New-York tribune., 1906-08-05

overhead sidewalks, with second story entrances
10 the buildings, while third suggestion is for
moving sidewalks placed underground on a level
with the present subway and acting as a means
OF crOSstOWn transfer to IT,
The elongated shape of the city causes street
traffic to be largely confined 70 a comparatively
small number of up and down town channels.
At the points where these 1ntersect the main
exceedingly dangerous. and IT is growing worse
daily.
1t is estimated by New York traffic expert
that two persons are killed and ten injured each
day by trucks. streetcars and automobiles.
Practically all of these accidents occur I'm the
congestion is so great that every pedestrian
takes his life In his hands when he ventures
across the streets.
Underground foOtways in the crowded por-
tlons OF the city would be an excellent thing -
says Mr. Rice. II have always urged t. and I
predicted when we built the spur at the 23d street
station, where there is an underground arcade
with half a dozen basement stores opening on il
that one day that spur would be extended to
Sixth avenue. Twenty-third. 14th and 34th
for subwayS of this kind In time there are
bound to be traction subways along those streets
connecting with the present and possibly future
subWays. The fOOtway would be on the same
level. hut it would be directly under the present
sidewalks, with entrances TO the buildings and
connecting passages to the opposite side OF the
street Thus person arriving by the subway
at I'D street would walk along the underground
walk, which would be lined with inviting store
entrances and shop windows just the street
itself is now. Arriving before a shop which
displayed the goods he wanted he would enter
from the lower level. perhaps take the elevator
to some department the fifth floor, return to
the subway by the underground walk, and arrive
at his Office downtown without having been
jostled in 2Sd street by the crowd or been en-
4 Ra6 hFr haaT frnfH
New-York tribune., 1906-08-05
VENTILATION NO DIFFICULTY.

'No, there would be no difficulty whatever in
the matter Of ventilation" said Mr. Rice in reply
70 a question. In subway have the
problem of heat generated by the motors. But
this would not, Of course, exist in the foot sub
way. Besides. the stores and buildings would
ventilate the footway and keep it's temperature
normal. The expense OF building would not be
prOhibitive, and the value OF the land and build
ings benefited would be materially increased II
would undoubtedly be a splendid thing 10 have
underground footways at these centres Of con-
gestlon. where travel. traffic and shopping are
all abnormal"
At present there are several underground
stores I'm connection with the subway. and az
2Bd street there Is a miniature underground
street which may well be taken as a sample
section Of Mr.. Rice's proposed street. Opinions
dilfer e7 20 whether the half dozen subway
stores at that point have been q succcss but
New-York tribune., 1906-08-05

NEW TRAP EFFECTIVE.

goes out to win the persons confidence and get
New-York tribune., 1906-08-05
MOVING SIDEWALK PLANS.

ton TO their second stories. Evidently Trey an
a great convenience"
New-York tribune., 1906-08-05
CHARACTER OF VICTIMS.

1.-The people who promise the most as victims are
those who are either hypochondriacs who are
suffering from disease which has wasted
Yukon Valley news., 1906-03-21
NOME HYDRAULIC PIPE
Nugget, Feb. 10.

A. G. Browne X Co.,, have inst com pleted an order for 5000 feet of 15-inch hydraulic pipe for w. L. Leland This pipe will be used in connection with the big electirc power plant which will be erected by Mir. Leland at Salmon lake, Pilgrim river, as told in the Nugget several weeks since. The pipe will be hauled out to Salmon lake this winter.
 There should be good opening in Nome for the manufacture of hydraulic pipe on an extensive scale. As it is the local manufacturers are kept quite busy filling orders. Browne & Go. employed on the contract four men for five weeks, their wage account reaching $1 ,150. The firm begins work on another pipe con- tract within few days.
Yukon Valley news., 1906-03-21
FOURTH OF JULY CREEK
Dawson News, Feb. Is.

John Moe, formerly of Bonanza and Dawson, has just completed a deal and taken an option on mile of Fourth of July creek fifty miles below Eagle l, owned by Zeke Oglevie, who formerly operated on above, Bonanza, above, Hunker, and discovery bench on Do- minion.
 The ground has been prospected and shows values from to cents, with five feet of pay.
 Mir. Moe intends to place dredge on the ground.
 Capt. J. J. Donovan is operating on the creek and is very enthusiastic over the outlook.
Yukon Valley news., 1906-03-21
REINDEER TO HAUL ORE

Teller, Alaska, Feb. 5.-(Special cor respondence Nome Nugget. Ward, Da- wis X Berry, who are the owners of valuable copper ledge near Teller, have made arrangements with the Teller reindeer station to have 100 tons of ore hauled with deer from their mines to Teller, to be shipped upon the opening of navigation to the Tacoma shelter. The assay from the smeltcr shows slSl in copper and gold.
 Mir. Ward believes he can freight the ore to Teller with reindeer and make it pay a good profit There are plenty of wcll-broken deer here available for the purpose.
Yukon Valley news., 1906-03-21

The Nevada Camp that Has Superseded Tonopah as a Star Attraction for Gold Seekers.

The discovery of gold in the Manhat- tan canyon was made by John c. Hum- phrey, Frank G. Humphrey, c. A. Cooper and G. E. Matte on April 1, 1905, says the Manhattan Mail.
 Rock taken from the Ida and Lottie claims was assayed, giving a return of SIPS ton. On the strength of this showing John Humphrey staked the now famous April Fool, War Eagle, Tip Top, Lottie and Ida claims. After stalking these the parties returned to their Peavine ranch in Smoky Valley and did not visit the Manhattan prop erty until in June, when they came up to do their location work. On hot day in the latter part of June the Humphrey party was enjoying lunch under pine on the hillside on the War Eagle. John Humphrey careessly broke a piece of rock from ledge near where they sat Frank Humphrey picked it up and found it to be literally impregnated with shining gold. The party finished their location work and only staked one more small fraction in the upper gulch. The news of the strike did not spread very rapidly. The Humphreys and their as scciates were convinced that their for tunes were made, and through the summer, when the knockers were after Manhattan the hardest, the original locators did not worry in the slightest. They were intimately acquainted with the fact that there was not only gold in Manhattan, but knew it to be here in unheardof richness. Some time in July the news of the phenomenal strike reached Tonopah, and during that month and August there was waged a terrific campaign of stalking. In the latter part of the summer some effective knocking was done, and it began to be said that Manhattan, after all, was q false alarm. But this was only false impression of the ignorant. The miners in the Manhattan camp knew their val ues. The leasers kept on finding lodges and from these took shipping ore from the start.
 Interest in Manhattan again began to hum and by the first of December the movement to Manhattan had quietly begun. By the end of December the movement was an avalanche and the eyes of Nevada and the coast were on the new camp.
Yukon Valley news., 1906-03-21
Friseo-Siberia Steamers.

San Francisco, Feb. l0.-lt has been decided that Russian line of steamers will bc operated between this port and the siberian coast, arrangements to commence at once
Yukon Valley news., 1906-03-21

Pelly and good prospects on Woodside river, Campbell creek, Mink creek and many other creeks. I found in one place on Mink creek at depth of four feet from the surface two pieces of gold that together were valued at cents. No better indication of large gold values could be found than these finds at so short distance from the surface. 1 have no doubt that in the country which I have indicated are some of the richest deposits to be found
 "That country is very difficult to reach-much more difficult than was Dawson in the early days. It lies up stream commencing about three hun dred miles above the junction of the Pelly with the Yukon, opposite Selkirk, In reaching Dawson the early voyageurs had merely to get in boat and float down stream. In going up the Pelly one has to breast the current fer three hundred miles, polling or towing ones boat or canoe. To reach the mouth of the Pelly from Dawson requires travel of 175 miles up the Yukon to Selkirk, at the mouth of the Pelly.
 II firmly believe that no better ex- penditure could be made by the govern ment in the Yukon than upon an ex- ploration of that country. By private enterprise it will not probably be under taken for many years. The mining centers, Dawson, the Panama and others, retain people who but for these old mining camps would probably make the venture. Many of the first-class old time prospectors have left this territory and today there is less prospect of the country to which l refer being properly explored by private individuals than there was four or more years ago.
 My proposition is that the govern ment should set aside, say, 5000 to cover the expenses of party of ex plorers in that country. The party should be, say, ten in number, one of them to act as mining recorder for those stalking claims in the region of any new discovery. Five packhorses would be required and outfit and provisions sufIi- cient for two years. An experienced prospector should be given charge of the party. The country would support the horses, as hay is easily obtained in the valleys. l would propose that the party be landed by steamboat at Hoole canyon. Five thousand dollars would cover all the expenses of outtitting the party and provisioning it for two years and trans porting il to Hoole, from which point, if properly outfitted and provisioned, the party would look out for itself
 Good men for the undertaking could be got in the klondike, who would re- quire no further compensation for their services than have stated, except the rights in any new discoveries allowed by the existing regulations, and the further right that any one of the party who made a discovery on a creek to which he had been assigned could stake and re- cord claims not only for himself, but for the other members of the party who had been assigned elsewhere, thus obvinting the necessity of other members of the party leaving the explorations to which they had been assigned and rushing to the new discovery, which would only
Yukon Valley news., 1906-03-21
kUSkOkWlM STAMPEDE
r,uana Yuhon rre... March 10.

TtaHHa Yukon Pres.. Mnrcb io.
 Prom Basil Autnska. uho has just ar- rived irom Eokrinys, wc lrarn that @ stimps'le i. on io the Kuskokwim. Up- ward ot it'y useu have let, the Novi,no and other parts tnr the .upposs,l strike.
Yukon Valley news., 1906-03-21
WOULD PROSPECT
 UPPER BELLY.
Discoyerer of the KIondiks Thinks Other Great Finds May Be Made
 in Canadian Territory.

Bob Henderson, the first man to dis cover gold in the watershed of the klondike river, is now drawing a salary of $200 d month from the Canadian gov ernment as assistant mining engineer, the place being given him as compensa ton for valuable ground he staked but was wrongfully deprived of by dominion officials.
 One of the conditions of Henderson $ pension is that it deprives him of the right to hold mining property. The justice or injustice in the case is some thing we on this side of the boundary line are not called on to bother ourselves about However, it is interesting and instructive to note that he asks that the $200 month be continued and he be set footloose to go out and prospect.
 The Dawson News says Henderson has prepared the following address to Hon. Frank Oliver, Canadian minister of the interior, on proposition to pros pect remote but promising seetion-in which, of course, he aspires to take a. aieading part. Of the countless sugges- tons to both the Canadian and United States governments for paternal meas ures for the far north, we have seen none more sensible than this one:
 q believe that was the first discov- erer of gold in the Klondike and the credit of that discovery is generally at tributed to me. need not say anything to you of the great value of the diseov- cry. That value was not as great to Canada as it should have been owing to several reasons, chief among which, believe, was the fact that at the time the Klondike goldhelds were discovered the Americans had been interested in similar matters to such an extent as to prepare a great number of their citizens to take advantage of the new find, whereas Canadians had been almost entirely without any experience of the kind. American business men knew well the wants of the new country and how to supply them. As a consequence the major part of the advantage of the Yu kon was reaped by Americans, not by Canadians Seattle was revived and made thriving city by the Yukon trade, while Vancouver and Victoria scarcely felt its influence.
 ''Cauadians have now been sufficiently made aware of conditions to insure different result should discoveries si magnitude be made in this uorthland. believe such discoveries will certainly follow proper investigation and search. l have for a hong time been familiar with the country lying between the upper reaches of the relly river and the upper part of the Lizard and have spent a part of four summer seasons in that country. have obtained good banning results, often as high as ten cents rcr tan. without at any time having gone to bedrock or more than few feet from the surface. It was not pos-ihls In thc time at my disposal or with the mate rials cpuld Taes on u,y l.,ck Co so tp bedrock. and never dil. The gravcl are in many phases from .u ,o 2Do tsct or more iu depth anj are very extensive iu arra.
Yukon Valley news., 1906-03-21
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