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Yukon Valley news., 1906-05-02
BREAKUP THIS YEAR
 MAY BE LIVELY.
Lots of Snow and Warm Weather May Combine to Make the
 Event Turbulent.

With the thermometer ranging in the eos the snow has been disappearing rapidly for the past week.
 Big Minook has been pouring a flood onto the Yukon for several days, and Squaw creek has been dischargng freely since yesterday.
 With knowledge of the great amount of snow, and with prospect of con- tinuation of warm weather to send the torrents from the side streams into the big river, the breakup this year may prove little more tumultuous that it has been for several seasons past.
 Last year the ice moved at noon May 16. The earliest that the ice has moved any year since a record has been kept was May II and the latest May 24. It would be good guess that the record will not be broken at either end this pear.
Yukon Valley news., 1906-05-02
The Valdez Mail.

Ed s. Orr, formerly of Orr X Tukey of Dawson, will run a stage line conveying the mails of the \. C. Co.'S contract between Valdez and Fairbanks next winter, The service by the contractors ea that route vas so had last winter that there was storm of protest from the lower Yukon anal Nome.
Yukon Valley news., 1906-05-02

Mosquitoes, robins, ducks and geese all testify that this is really anal truly spring.
Yukon Valley news., 1906-05-02
Weather Conditions.

Number of days-Clear {, partly cloudy 3, cloudy 0.
 FHED E. RsbgR.
 Voluntary Observer.
Yukon Valley news., 1906-05-02
The Wires Were Down.

big ice jam destroyed the telegraph line at Baker Creek and from Monday morning till this morning communication has been had from beyond that point.
 Since communication has been re-established pr- vate business has practically shut out press matter. The above telegram received late this afternoon
Yukon Valley news., 1906-05-02
COLD STORAGE BOAT
 L0TTA TALBOT WRECKED
Quarter Million Damage Done by Big Ice Floe
 From Cinema River.

Fairbanks, May "A big ice foe came down Cinema river last night and wricked the Pacific Cold Storage Companys refrigerator boat Lotta Talbot
 At the N. C., Calderhead and Clough-Kinghorn docks the loss is estimated at quarter of million dollars
 The ice is packed at Chena the Panama not having broken, and the flood is rapidly extending up the river
 The people here doing everything possible to foresta a repetition of last years disaster.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-07
Unfiattsring Unanimitv.

''Well-uh. muh bruddren and muh
sistahs, rs shOly glad OF dis oppor-
tunity to vociferate what great things
salvation has done did for me"' earnest
ly said Brother QuackenbOss. rising in
his place in the midst of the expert
ence meeting. 'Yo'-au reorganizes dat
bsfO' I seed de Juror Of nun ways and
turned into de straight and norrsr way
I was de most Tnizzable OF critters.
uh-wa1lerin' in de mire OF 'nickerty and
dc sasspOle OF sin! Uh-yas, nun
friends, 1 trembies yit at de awful
pomposity OF muh heenyusness. for
twsll de light broke in muh soul was
one o. de most low-dOwn diSintegrated.
contaminated sinners dat ever cucum-
bered de yearth. and"
Amen! Aa-a-meni HaIelooyerI
OATS so. brudder, OATS de troofF'
arose a chorus Of conformation
We'll. yo'-all don't need to be so
fetch-taked anonymous about IT,"
snarled the speaker. II don't rickOi-
leck dat was so cadfounded much wus
dan some O. de rest O. yo'l It's all
right 70 welcome de lost sheep back to
de fold, but 20 needn't rub 1t in on
hirnt'-Puck.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-07
CAPTAIN OF SIRIO.
NOT A SUICIDE.
Rescued, Despite Efforts
to Sink With Vessel
He Sent Upon Rocks
NARROWING SCENE

CARTAGENA, Spain, Aug. 6.-Reporta
continue 10 arrive here of the terrible
scenes attending the wreck on Satur-
Gay evening OF Hormigas Island of the
Italian steamship Sirfo. resulting in the
loss OF over 800 lives The drowning OF
the Bishop Of Sac PaOlo. Brazil, Is now
attributed to the action Of an Argentine
passenger, who forcibly took from tho
bishop life belt with which the latter
had provided himself
Numerous bodies were thrown upon
the shore during the day. Several small
hsnlng smacks have arrived, bringing
III sometimes one and some times several
survivors OF the Sirio who were found
hoat1nS at sea long distance from the
scene OF the disaster
II IS believed that some OF the pas
senSers who secured life belts have
been picked up alive by French, Ger
man, British or Italian sailing vessels
passing in the vicinity. The vicinity OF
Cape Alos is much frequented by sailing
vessels and steamships. British war
ships at Gibraltar have gone full speed
in the direction of Cape Palos to render
assistance in exploring the surrounding
seas.
The first reports OF the disaster de-
clared without qualification that Cap
tain Parade OF the SiriO had committed
suicide. Later information, however.
showed that he was on board the vessel
when she sank and expressed the de-
termination TO go down with his vessel.
He was afterward rescued in spite OF
his refusal to be saved. He is So years
OF age and has had forty-fve years
experience as mariner.
The survivors of the Sirio are COM
posed Of 24S Italians. 40 Spaniards. IA
Arabs, 10 Austrians, Orientals. Ar
gentians, 4 Brasilians, MOntenegranS
and 119 persons whose nationality is
not set forth.
One of the women survivors has
given birth to a child since being
brought ashore.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-07
MUCH CASH FOUND
IN DEAD LETTERS
More Than 1000 Letters Containing
Money Came to Dead Letter
Cfice I'm May

More than $4,000 was received at the
dead letter office Of the Postoffice De-
partment In May. Only a small per-
centage OF this amount can be returned
to the senders, for the reason that the
writer's give insufficient addresses. The
majority of these letters are written
by poor persons, including many for
eigners, and are, for the most part in
tended for mail order houses, but on
account Of wrong addresses finally
reach the dead letter office.
The total number OF pieces of un-
claimed matter received during the
month was S05.66s. against 667,100 in
April, but Notwithstanding the large
increase In receipts. every piece of
mail received was opened and treated.
leaving no accumulation at the begin
ming of this month A new record
was made In the percentage of letters
returned to senders. 80 per cent being
the average for the month. 1t is esti-
mated that not more than So per cent
of the so-called "returnable" letters
can, in fact. be returned. The total
number of Letters so returned last
month was 125,o18, against 115,S57 in
April. 1906. and 1o9.332 In May. 1905.
Money was found in 7243 letters, to
the amount of s5167.51. In May. 1905.
s4,56s.03 was contained in 1859 letters,
showing a slight decrease for 1906 IN
the number OF letters received con-
tanning money. but quite a consider
able increase in the amount OF money
incIosed.-Washingt Post.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-07
Avn ApprecIated Performnnce.

The late Joseph Jefferson used to
say that his career came very near
being nipped in the bud in a small
Western town. He at that time was
a member of a small pioneer company
which progressed by means of three
bull teams" from one mining camp to
another They were always heartily
received by the miners and cowboys,
who readily paid the IS in gold re-
CURED to witness their performance.
Mr.. jefferson was the traditional melo-
was supposed to kidnap the child"
The supposed mother, hearing its cries,
rushes upon the scene just as he is
about to escape, and fires a fruitless
shot from a revolver.
Upon this particular occasion all had
gone well until this scene was reached.
and the audience many OF whom had
never before seen any kind of theatri-
cal performance, sat as If spellbound.
At the crack of the mothers revolver,
however, the spell was rudely broken.
by heaven, she missed him. a red
shirted miner in the front row shouted,
drawing his own 'six-shooter" and
leaning TO his feet. Round to the
can git a boss, boys" he yelled, and,
following him, half the audience stam-
peded for the exit.
The excitement was finally allayed
bv the mother and the villain ap-
nearing hand in hand before the cur
tain. and the managers explanation of
the situation When the performance
had been concluded the audience in
sisted on paying another admission
price and having an immediate repeti-
tion from beginning to end.-Success.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-07
SOME FACTS CONCERNING
MANUFACTURES OF SHERRY
Only Best of Grapes Used and Strong
Alcohol Added 70 Fermented
Juice.

Commercial Agent Price OF Jerez de
la Frontera makes a report on the
manufacture of sherry wine in Spain
and thus describes it's preparation for
the market:
The vintage Of sherry wine occurs be-
tween the 18th of September and the
last OF October. After the grapes are
cut they are left IN the sun for two or
three days. being covered at night to
protect them from the dew. All bad
and unripe grapes are separated from
the punches, after which the good
grapes are thrown into large, square.
wooden troughs, when men, barelegged
and wearing heavy shoes with project
ing iron nails, tramp out the grapes
and the liquid runs into an adjoining
vat. The residue of stems. pips and
skins are put into another trough, and
after adding water are crushed with d
wooden press. The pulp is used for
manure and feed for hogs. The liquid
other receptacle, and is of an inferior
are filled they are put In the cellars.
each barrel having a tin funnel ipserted
in the bunghole to permit circulation
OF air. These barrels must have
vacuum of at least four gallons to al
low the wine TO ferment without over
of about two months the clear liquid
is transferred to other barrels care
fully, so as not to disturb the sediment
al the bottom. The barrels for the ulti-
mate reception of the wine must be Of
white oak, perfectly clean and smoked
with sulphur to prevent dampness. The
barrels are then stored and carefully
classified by experts and a name given
to the wine IN the different butts.
Tt always happens that different
kinds of wine are obtained from the
same grapes grown in the same vine
yard and subject to the same treat
ment. From the same grapes come the
mellow (hechos), light (finos) and bou-
quet (oloroso). Some of the wines are
so bad that they are sold as vinegar or
burned for alcohol. Alcohol of 80 de-
grees must be mixed with wine at the
rate of twelve pints to the butt or
eighty-fve gallons for each degree OF
strength desired. To properly preserve
wine it should have an alcoholic
strength OF at least 10 degrees. and as
pure wine does not possess that 1t must
be strengthened. There are some wines
preserved in their natural state, but
they are very few.-Chicago Chronicle
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-07
LAKE THREATENS SUIT.
Says That Action Must BE Taken On
His Claims.

Unless the executive committee OF
the Relief Corporation does not give
me some satisfaction about my claims. ''
said Colonel J. ". Lake yesterday. Il
am going 10 put them in the hands of
an attorney"
Lake has a bundle OF labor claims
agRregating about $1,000. They have
been rejected twice by the various
financial committees. but Lake insists
that they are just claims and should
be paid.
He made application Yesterday TO
Mr- McLane Of the rehabilitation com
mittee for some idea Of what he should
do TO get his money. McLane directed
him 70 Stark Stark sent him 10 Fisk.
and Fisk sent him to the Associated
Charities From the Associated Chari-
ties he was sent back to McLane. Nc
Lane referred him to the Associated
Charities. BY this time the wrathy
Lake saw that he was going the rounds
OF the circle the second time. Then he
/. got angry and threatened to sue.
The executive committee meets to-
day. Among other things IL will set
q definite time for the consideration of
claims The members are of opinion
that at least three days viii be re-
cuired for the work.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-07
Couldn't Face Both. ways.

While the Panama canal debate was
proceeding in the Senate recently it oc-
Cured to Senator Dryden of New Jer.
sey to ask a question of Senator Kit.
tredge, who was speaking. Mr. Dryder
stood directly in line between Mr.. Kit
tredge and Vice President Fairbanks
Mr.. Dryden first addressed the chair
and then, turning about, he addressed
Mr.. Kittredge.
When the New Jersey Senator turned
his back upon the chair to address Mr.
Kittredge the official reporters could
not hear him. and when to oblige the
reporters he turned to address the pre-
siding officer. Mr.. Kittredge complained
that he could not hear.
The Senator from New Jersey is no,
heard by the official reporters" sug-
gested the chair.
Mr. Dryden wheeled and faced the
chair.
II am unable to hear the Senator
from New Jersey" insisted Mr.. Kit
tredge.
Finally the situation became embar-
RAISING to the Senator from New Jer-
sey. Facing the chair, his face flushed
Mr.. Dryden said:
Mr.. President, am not like the
Temple of Janus; 1 cannot face both
ways"
He was not bothered after that
Baltimore American.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-07
BUILDERS CONTRACTS.
..Yc Rook of Phxrick., !,

An antiquary read from gray lit
tie book:
"A comb made of the right horn of
a ram cures the headache if it be on
the right side of the head. being
combed with it, of the left horn for
the left side
The antiquary's book was called
"Culpeppers School of Physick or the
Experimental Practice of the Whole
Art" It's author was Nicholas Gull
pepper and the date of its publica-
ton 1923. For the volume, which
was a first edition, the antiquary's S
price was SIS.
He read from the book the follow
ing odd extracts:
~ro draw tooth without pain, fill
an earthen crucible full of emmets or
ants (call them by which name YOU
WILD, eggs and all. and when you
have burned them keep the ashes. with
which If you touch a tooth it will
drop out.
..Shave the crown of the head of
one that is sick and lay upon the
shaved place rhue stamped with oil
of roses, binding 1t on, and IL the
party sneeze within six hours after
he will live; else not.-Exchange.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-07
STRIKE IN RUSSIA
IS A FAILURE.
Developments Show
That GovernmentHas
Men Under Control
TROOPS WATCHED

ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 6. 3.3O
a. m.-In the light OF yesterdays de-
velopments the general strike NAV AL
most be regarded as a flasco. The
summons to go out has met with some
response in Moscow, where the print
ers and the streetcar men and part OF
the employees of the gas, water and
electric light plants quit work, but
these are more than offset by the de-
fections in st. Petersburg.
The revolutionists may possibly vet
be saved by the railroad men. but
the central committees of the rail-
road men have not yet reached a final
decision, and up to the present time
in spite of the frantic efforts of the
agitators. not a single important line
of the empire Is affected
The organizers of the strike are In
despair over the prospects of failure
Some already counsel calling the
strike off in an effort to save prestige
MOSCOW, Aug. 6.-All the railroad
stations this morning were occupied
by troops. and heavy reinforcements
were sent to the Industrial sections
The police are arresting the members
of all the central committees of the
various trades unions
ODESSA. Aug. 6.-Sebastopol is still
geographically isolated, but steamship
arrivals from that port report all
quiet there.
MINSK, Aug. 6.-The mail train on
the Libau Railroad was held up to-
day. A band of robbers armed with
rifles ransacked the mail car and took
from each passenger half the cash
in his possession.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-07
vAINLY SEEKS SHELTER.
Woman With Babe Roams From Camp
to Camp Looking for Aid.


Sick and almost exhausted, Mrs. F.
Unworthy carried her nine-months-
old baby from camp to camp yester-
day in search of tent and a blanket
to protect her from a cold and dismal
night. She had been driven from her
home. at 2472 Mission street, by a
greedy landlord. At every camp she
was met with the story that tents
were plentiful. but no blankets or mat
tresses could be had.
The young woman had been living
at the house on Mission street since
the fire. AS long as her husband
could earn a few dollars as a laborer
she was 10th TO ask for help from the
Red Cross. The little Family was do
ing nicely on the husbands small
earnings until the woman was taken
sick and the little they had saved went
for drugs. At this critical moment
the landlord informed them that their
rent would be doubled, and as they
could not afford the extra expense,
they were ordered to vacate by night
fall.
While the husband Iabored at the
docks the sick woman applied at the
camps for a tent and bedding. She
was everywhere informed by the
camp commanders that the Red Cross
had stopped the issue of blankets and
mattresses and that nothing could be
done for her. The commanders every
where informed her that the higher
authorities were trying to reduce the
number in the camps and that no one
could be admitted unless they had
sufficient money to purchase their own
bedding.
The sick woman finally reached Lo-
bos square and applied to DR.. w. H.
Winterberg, the camp commander, for
admission into the camp. After hear
ing the woman's story and noting her
enfeebled condition the doctor ex-
hausted every effort to obtain the
necessary bedding for her. but without
avail. He then suggested that she be
sent to the hospital. but the poor
woman would not separate herself
from her husband. declaring that If
he had to walk the streets she would
do the same thing. Not willing that
she should travel farther in her en-
feebled state, the doctor procured for
her a couple of blankets which he had
for emergency cases. The sick woman
and her baby spent the night on a
hard board with only a blanket be-
meath them.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-07
ADVERTISEMENTS.
The San Francisco Relief
and Red Cross unds
copoaon receive applications for assistance from
Land and Building Department
Under any Of the three plans following:

burned bonus
house $780, will be
erecting
will the lot
This offer remain
exhausted before that date No
more than one paid
(2) dwellings
install
plan will deferred small
total paid monthly To
lot $500
and bt purchase from the corporation
Monthly payments of be made months
will be
will
and charged the purchaser When the 5000 and
purpose family resided before April
employment
apply, preference being living
(3) LOANS: exceeding will making
in dwellings
Francisco lot owned by the whom loan
building
family Security for such loan be taken
first second building and lot
This until
October S5ooooo
exhausted
of in
filed the Office of the Department Union Square
No applications will be received except by mail
and in the order of their -
Chairman Landa nd Building Department.
Square.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-07
The smalIest Midget.

Vernon Pierce of Dunkirk, n. Y. is
a healthy man OF ~ years, three feet
six inches tall and weighing just forty
FIVE pounds His widowed mother runs
a little store and Vernon helps.
Pterces father weighed 200 pounds, his
mother I75 and two sisters are large,
fully developed women. There is no
trace of dwarf stature on either side
Of the family so far as known. Pierce
was born at Fort Henry, n. Y. He has
never been exhibited except for short
time in q museum. Count Rosebud, the
Italian midget, said TO Pierce: I am
going back to tell my people that
America has the smallest man in the
world" Tom Thumb saw Pierce and
said: You take my place and ! will go
unloading cattle boats. s."-Kansas City
Journal.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-07

! contractors of the city. as ii is to be
constructed on new plans patented by
John A. Ettler, the architect. The con-
crete is to be reinforced with steel
consisting of fat bars punched at reg
ular intervals and laid to form tri-
angular meshes bouud together at the
intersections with steel pins The OBJ
1ect of this is to produce a bracfng
and strengthening frame in which a
strain sustained at one point will be
transmitted throughout the entire
fabric.
1t is believed that this method Of
constructing Will defy all earthauakes
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-07

Il - AGROA4 afternoon woman
broke through the lines OF
clerks and porterS that hedge
in the high officials Of the Re-
lief Corporation. entered into the in
nermost sanctum OF the directors and
demanded transportation for a young
woman refugee to Los Angeles. She
got IL.
Mrs. John Pettee, the woman in the
case, asserts that for weeks she has been
haunting relief headquarters to secure
transportation to Los Angeles for a
worthy young person. Miss B. LadinL
yesterday her patience became ex-
nausted and she resolved to take the
matter into her own hands.
The first hint OF her irregular course
came when abe swept through the re-
.ception-room at headquarters and over
the deadline. beyond which no outsider
Is allowed 20 pass unlimited. A clerk
who attempted 10 stop her was swept
aside, as was the Office boy, who stands
at the inner door of the directors room.
The rehabilitation committee was hard
al work IN one OF the inner Offices.
upon the door OF which Mrs. Pettee
pounded vigorously. 4 clerk endeav-
ored to eject her, but desisted when
she resorted 70 shrieks that could have
been heard for a block. The pounding
on the door continued until Dr. Voor-
sanger, one OF the members Of the COM
mittee, came out to calm her. She
wouldn't be calmed until she got the
transportation she was after. Finally
this was given her and she went her
way, defiant but rejoicing.
Dr.. Noorsanger stated afterward that
her application for transportation had
not been made to the rehabilitation
committee at all. but to the fifth sec
tion. This, DR.. Voorsanger explained,
IS the reason the committee had not
acted.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-07
PLANNING TO SECURE
MUTUAL ADJUSTMENT
Our Claims Against England and Brit
fsh Claims Against Us to BE
Settled In Simple Way.

Secretary Root is having made a
careful study of the respective claims
of England against the United States
and the United States against England,
with a view to a mutual adjustment,
IL that is possible. AS he told the
Senate committee on foreign relations
recently, he believes that without re-
sorting to the cumbersome machinery
of a high joint commission, or even
framing treaty which would have to
be urged through the Senate, the mat
ter might be arranged by direct negoi-
alton and a balance struck and paid in
cash by the party found to have the
best of the claims. Because the execu-
tive has no constitutional power to
bind the legislative branch OF our Gov
ernment, which alone can appropriate
the money necessary to meet and pay
Off an adverse balance, 1t is probable
that the agreement between the ne
rotiators must provide that the judg
ments reached shall be subject to the
approval of the Congress here and OF
Parliament in England.
The obstacle in the way of compar
atively easy agreement upon pro-
gramrae of negotiation of these claims
is the famous Frederick Gearing case.
That United States fishing vessel was
seized a number of years ago in
Canadian port for alleged violation of
the fishing laws, and In spite OF a
vigorous protest by this Government,
was condemned and sold, and no restt-
tuition was made to the owners. The
New England Senator's still keenly feel
what they declare to have been the in
justice of that procedure, and are firm
in their contention that no agreement
shall be made for the settlement OF
claims of Americans against Great
Britain that does not provide first of
all for the adjustment of that claim.
The British Government. however. as
serts that the matter is res adjudicata;
that the case was tiled out thoroughly
in the Canadian courts and that no
negotiations can succeed II they are
to revert to dead issues of that kind
Washington Star.