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circus performance and necessitated the
big tent. The hippodrome separated the
audience SO widely from the performers
that the old singing and talking clown
soon vanished. His place was taken by
the silent funmakers of today. From
being a chief feature the clown became
a mere pantomimist, relegated to the
waits. The hippodrome multiplied riders
and cheapened them. so they. too. lost
individuality. The distance and multi
plicity of features enabled the showmen
to run in mediocre riding acts instead of
the frst-class ones formerly necessary
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with the exception of a region lying be-
tween Tanana and Circle City. There liz
placer gold scattered through the ground
in pretty nearly every square mile OF ter
r;tory between Norton sound and Port
Clarence and most of the region adjacent
to kotzebue sound carries placer gold.
One of the successful miners of the Nome
country said recently in discussing the
prospects of that region: They will be
discovering mines and mining gold when
we are dead and gone" 5
The richest deposits of placer gold are
most often found In the channels of an
cient water courses. In California these
ancient channels have been traced for
miles In places volcanoes have covered
them with a thousand feet of lava, and
miners have tunneled under the lava and
have obtained sufficient gold to make
these expensive operations successful.
The first discoveries of placer gold in
the Nome country were channel deposits
in Anvil creek, where a modern stream
had concentrated the gold i'm it's gravelly
bed. Some of the ancient channels in the
vicinity of Anvil and Glacier creeks were
not deep beneath the surface. and this
ground was either hydraulicked or worked
by open cuts.
In 1899 when the great stampede from
the creeks was caused by the discovery of
gold in the beach sands, the sea beach for
distance of fifteen miles was worked
and reworked during this year and the
two following seasons. and produced
about 10000 But at this time 1t never
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The sharp rivalry characteristic Of the
one-ring days was dead.
The hippodrome. which furnishes a
half hours entertainment, is itself rela-
lively the cheapest part Of the perform
ance today.
When Maude Oswald was hippodrome
rider the races were hotly contested. So
great was this rivalry at times that the
mana cement had to interfere-not be-
cause Of the danger to the contestants,
but for fear they might injure the horses,
or other property. The riders owned their
individual necks, and could be replaced at
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McMelville, his son Frank Melville, and
many others. Among the clowns Of re-
nown in the earlier days were Jim Cooke.
the Shakespearean clown; Johnny Pat
terson. the Irish clown: Joe Pentland. Dan
Rice, Billy Burke, etc. Their pay was
nearly as high as that of the riders.
Clowns and riders were the only real ex-
pensive attractions of the circus up to
the year 1870.
A year or two later p. 7. Barnum and
his associates, W. C. Coup and Dan Cos
tello, introduced the hippodrome, and
that feature became a fixture in the
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--~-H1LE the performance of the

.~0 ~HILE the performance of the
big modern circus Is truly
dazzling and confusing to the
wv average visitor, an analysis
will show it to be very
simple affair. The performance proper
consists OF four parts, namely-aerial,
ground. equestrian and hippodrome. Ev-
,rythIns else is incidental or adjunctive.
The menagerie, freaks, curiosities, etc.
make I'D the remainder of what We call
the show
II one will examine the program of the
circus performance carefully. 1t Will DC
seen that the latter Is arranged so tnat
The ground acts alternate with, say, a
Jockey act an aerial act, an equestrian
act. another ground act. another aerial
act. and so on for the entire performances.
The performers are mostly foreigners,
japan furnishing the most of any partic-
ular country. France. Italy and Ger
many give us the most of the athletic
artists. while England and America pro-
duce the equestrians. But the japanese
furnish fully three-eighths of the whole
entertainment.
The natives of Nippon have never been
equaled by those Of any other country
for tricks of the feet and hands. The
Japanese. however. are never found on
the program as equestrians. trapeze art
lists or clowns. With these parts elimi-
mated. they may be said to give the
greater part of the performance. Cut
J. the equestrian and trapeze acts and the
Japanese will be found in almost every
number.
A single Japanese troupe of five or six
numbers, costing from $50 to $4O0 a week
will thus furnish the most of the enter
tainment. AS every circus-goer knows,
the Japanese are especially skillful in
every feature of juggling. balancing by
hands or feet. manipulation of objects.
Hire-walhng. etc. which they have car
ried to such a degree of perfection that
their acts are unapproachable by the peo-
pie OF any other nationality.
The first Japanese performer in this
country was a small boy who came with
the first japanese embassy to the United
States. some forty years ago. His per-
formance created q perfect furore Of en-
thusiasm. and he attracted more attention
than the novel embassy itself. Little
'All Right will be remembered though
the embassy and its important mission
has long been forgotten.
The name was acquired from the cir
cumstances that the words "all right"
were the only English words the child
knew at the time. and he used to sing
them out in his shrill treble as he fin
ished what was then deemed remark
able feat to the intense delight of the
audience. So popular was the little chap
that his advent was followed by several
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ST 900 00O in one season, and on Capt. E.
W. Johnston's property on Cooper gulch
$500. 600 was taken out and cleaned up In
nineteen days Every lady who visited
this claim during the past season was
given painful of the golden sands and
permitted to keep the result of her pan
ming. The yield of these pans was from
$500 to $65 each. Miners in the Nome
country are hunting fer the old beach
lines. These gold-bearing beach deposits
have been traced for distance of four
teen miles. and il is believed that they
extend much farther On the arctic
slope of Sc ard peninsula gold has been
found in creeks and benches.
There are no beach deposits in the Fair
banks region. Fairbanks is near one
thousand miles from Nome and several
hundred miles from the ocean. The rich
deposits of the Fairbanks country are the
result of concentration by water in
streams. The most notable gold-bearing
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occurred to the miners that there were
ancient beaches several miles back from
the present shore line covered with an
overburden of gravel and muck III places
to depth of 100 feet. which were richer
than the Pactolian sands that were dis
covered in 1899. Three separate ancient
beaches have been discovered near Nome,
and the third beach line. some three miles
from the present shore line. is the richest
of all of them. These mines were dis
covered by means of shafts. The pay is
found in ruby and black sands under
identically the same conditions that the
pay was found in the modern beach Some
spots were found rich that they had
the appearance of much gold and a little
sand mixed in. This concentration had
been accomplished by wave action.
handful of this concentrated matrial
would contain a couple of ounces Of gold
During the past two years the gold prod
uct from the ancient beaches near Nome
has been greater than the gold product
from all other parts of the peninsula
One mine, the Bessie claim. produced near
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! other little "All Rights from the same
curious country beyond the Pacific. until
the Japanese performer here became an
old story.
| The chief reason for the overwhelming
| preponderance of foreign talent in the
| American circus lies in the practlcal eN-
clusion of children from the stage and
ring in the United States. So many OF
the states have laws forbidding the pub
lie appearance of children under sixteen
| that theatrical managers hesitate to pro-
duce any play with a child. in the cast.
AS acrobatic feats require early and Sc
we're training, the American is practically
/ cut off from this way of earning liv-
/ ing.
| In present conditions, when little Eva
| in Uncle Toms Cabin has become
young woman, old enough to marry. little
"All Right would bey an impossibiity
| For not only do these laws prevent the
training of American children for the
| stage and ring. but they prevent the ap-
| pearance in this country OF some Of the
most famous family troupes OF Europe
Abroad the show career offers better
means of advancement than the trades.
and poor parents frequently apprentice
| their children to those who train them
| for the stage or ring. In this country we
generously send them to the cotton mills
or the mines.
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any time without expense to the show.
Nowadays the hippodrome personnel is
made up with odds and ends and costs
little or nothing extra. A clown Will be-
come a Roman" rider: his wife will drive
chariot. Half a dozen women. some oc
them sewing girls In the wardrobe depart
ment. make up the ladies' fiat races. An
equal number OF stable grooms will do the
crack Jockey races. A few dogs run
around the track once and II is called the
.whippcr dog race" half dozen terror
stricken monkeys are strapped to pony
saddles and their frantic fears sends the
audience into convusions OF laughter.
The only really meritorious feature OF
the hippodromc is that of the fine jumping
horses introduced In modern days. Then
come the chariot races, the cheapest kind
of affair. but furnishing perhaps the most
thrilling excitement to the average coun-
try crowd. There used TO be elephant and
camel races. but the brutal manner in
which 1t was necessary to goad and prod
these unfortunates in order TO get them
to run at all was so repulsive 70 the gen
tle-hearted in the audience that these
races had to be eliminated. The hippo
drome has now been a circus feature for
quarter OF century or more. practi-
cally unchanged. 1t is popular with
showmen. because cheap and a good filler
Nobody has to be hired for II. The obi.
gatlon is put into certain contracts.
In writing these articles it will be un-
derstood that l am now giving a fair in
sight into the realities OF circus life. and
am not acting as press agent. The HARM
less little press agent stories as TO the
tremendous outlay In salaries. and all
that. which may seem to conflict with
anything here set down, may he relegated
| to the fiction department. The real cost
of running big show is considerably less
than any other business OF like capitaliza-
| ton.
] When the late James A. Bailey made
his tour Of Australia he had Jim Rob-
| inson, the great rider. at 500 per
week. payable in gold. The Snowman be-
came sick of his bargain and tried 10
scare Robinson out OF it by dwelling on
the unhealthiness Of the climate. He told
Robinson that it was very risky, that few
people could stand 1t.
Robinson finally 'tumbled' to this trick
and met it half way with: Say. Bailey.
you can pitch your tent in hell and I'll
ride there just the same for $500 a week."
1t used to make Bailey turn cold to ap
proach Robinson on the long voyage every
week and hand the champion $500 in gold
coin, the same as IL the rider were at
work; but Jim held Bailey to his con-
tract. No rider. before or since, has ever
received such salary.
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s18,CUO,O0c


The most Of this gold has been extract
ed since the discovery on Anvil creek in
the Nome country in 1898. Seward penin-
sula and the Tanana valley have been
the principal producers. and while some
very rich diggings have been discovered
the miners in both of these districts are
In reality just now making the right kind
of preparation to mine the country. The
known gold-bearing area of Alaska COM
prises at least 10000 square miles. a
country as big as the state of California.
There may be gold in other regions not
yet explored. There probably Is. But a
man who knows considerable about Alas
ka and something about mining has eX-
pressed the belief that there is sufficient
gold In the discovered gold belts Of Alaska
to demonetize that metal * all of It
could be poured into the mints of the
world within a calendar month. What
are the prospects OF undiscovered gold
bearing areas? The man who writes
about Alaska twenty years from now may
ask the same question.
Alaska's contribution of $126 0O0. coo to
the mints of the United States Is rot such
an insignificant sum when we consider
how little was expected Of Alaska in the
Hays when Seward was derided and lam
pooned because he let Russia bunco the
United States to the extent OF $500. 900,
the sum paid for this land of polar bears
and icebergs. But this $4,000. 900 is
only sample package. II the people of
the United States like the sample. all
they have to do Is to go after some of the
article and get a quantity that Is really
worth while.
| Take the map accompanying this article.
and the reader may easily locate the gold
| producing areas of Alaska. The author
OF this article does not believe that these
are all the gold-bearing areas of this vast
country; but the regions marked on this
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jokes, after which the rider resumed the
performance. All riders in those days
were champions in tha show printing.
The press agent invariably wreathed
these champions in laurels wrested from
other champions. and on the dead walls
their breasts were adorned with rich
medals of superlative merit.
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lowing figures OF the gross output from
the various sections of the district are not
far astray:
Seward peninsula. ............... $4S ,O0O.0 900
fairbanks country 25,OoO. 900
The Yukon region between Eagle
and Fort Gibbon . 100000
Koyukuk region LOCO, 900
Chistochina, Susitna and their
tributaries ............... 1000, 600
The Gastfneau mines including
the famous TreadWell group. 10000, 900
The Porcupine. Chandlar. 1noko
and other regions GOO, 600
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There were such champions as Charles
W. Fish, MARITIME Lowande. William
Showles. William Demott, Robert Stick
ney, William Ducrow, Jim Robinson. Jim
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LASEA contains near 59ONW
! !: s: +: : : !: :: i: !:
Nevada thrown in for good
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-05-08
Automobile Calendar.

New York, May S.-Among the au-
tomobile events scheduled for the
1908 season are the following:
May 15-Chicago, Algonquin hill
climb, Chicago Motor club.
May 16-Hartford, Ct, 200-mile
endurance run. Automobile club of
Hartford.
May SO-Bridgeport, Ct, Sport Hill
climb, Bridgeport Automobile club.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Giants Despair
hill climb. Automobile club of Will
kesbarre.
San Francisco, endurance run, un-
der the auspices of the Automobile
Dealers'association.
June 6.-Worcester, Dead Horse
hill climb, Worcester Automobile
club
June 14-27-Chicago, 12OO-mile re-
liability run. Chicago Motor club.
July 7-S-Buffalo, national conven-
ton of the American Automobile ass
ISOLATION.
July 9-Buffalo, start of the fifth
annual A. A. A. reliability touring
contest.
Sept 5-S-San .Franclsco-Los An
seles reliability run, under the aus
Dices of the Automobile Dealers as
of San Francisco.
Sept. 14-Chicago annual economy
'un, Chicago Motor club.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-05-08
FREEWATER WOMAN is
RELATIVE OF MUSICIAN
Mrs. ID. c. SandersOn Is Aunt of Miss
Kathleen Pariow.

Miss Kathleen Parlow. the seven
teen-year-old girl whom Professor
Groess of Berlin declares is the
greatest violinist of the last 25 years.
is a niece of Mrs. d. C. Sanderson of
Freewater, being the daughter of her
brother, the late C. H. Parlow, of
lroquois, ont. Mrs. Sanderson has
several pictures of her, the first be-
ing taken when she was about a year
old, and the last when she was fifteen.
The Bulletin dispatches of last
week told of Miss Parlow's appear
ance in Christiania. Norway, before
kink Haakin and Queen Maud, the
latter presenting her with a diamond
pendant. She appears this week be
fore King Edward in London, and
every ticket for the big concert.
though sold at double prices, was
sold two weeks before the event. II
is to be one of the big society events
of England. Miss Parlow has an Of
fer of $3.50 per night for $50 con-
certs in the United States. The Par
lows are a musical family and for
many years in eastern Ontario were
in great demand for musical num-
bers, so that Miss Parlow comes hon
estly by her inheritance as a musi-
clan, the mother of Miss Parlow being
4 teacher of vocal and instrumental
music.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-05-08
MANY PRIZES FOR
CALEDON|AN MEET
EVENT AT
ATHENA MAY % AND, %
Full Program VIII Not BE Issued Un-
ill Next Week--Prizes for All the
Sports Have Been AnnOuncc,l--
From la Grande, COndon,. Walla
aud Portland.

The Athena Press Of this week says
Of the coming Caledonlan picnic at
that place on May 22 and 20:
Extensive preparations are under
way by the committee on program of
the Umatilla County Caledonian as
fsociation to entertain the big crowds
which are expected in Athena on the
two days of the annual picnic, Friday
and Saturday, May 22 and 23.
The secretary is in receipt of let
ters from members Of Caledonlan So
cieties at Portland. Condor, La
Grande, Walla Walla and other plac-
es, stating that members of these So
cieties expected to be present when
the Scottish clans gather here for
their annual picnic.
The program in full will probably
be announced next week, when post
ers and other advertising matter will
be available for use. The program
for sports, complete. together with
the amount OF purses in each event
follows:
Foot race, 100 yards, first prize, 50:
second. 50.
Foot race. so yards. first prize. SO;
second. 50.
Hurdle race. 12O yards, first prize,
SO; second, 50.
Putting the shot, first prize, 50;
second. 50.
Pole vaulting, first prize, SO; Sec
ond, 50.
Tossing the caber, first prize, SO,
second 50.
High jump, first prize, SO; second,
So.
Broad jump, first priae, SO; second,
So.
Hop. step and jump, first prize, SO;
second. 50.
Three standing Jumps, first prize,
SO; second, 50.
Bicycle race, first prize, s3 second,
80.
Best dressed lady in Highland cos
tune. first prize. 3d. second 50.
Best dressed gentleman in High
land costume, first prize, SO; second,
80.
Best dancer in Highland fling first
prize, SO; second 50.
Horse race, running. purse. s25.
The sports will be held on Saturday
afternoon, commencing at o'clock. !
An entrance fee of 25 cents will be |
charged in each prize event.
Heretofore the majority of prizes |
at the Caledonian picnics have been
won by Weston normal school ath-
letes, but for this occasion 1t is said
a number of Scotch lads are in train
ing, and will participate in the feats
of skill with the intention of winning
a goodly share of the purses.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-05-08
he Circus Minister.

airs in keeping with the sacred sen.
timent of the day.
The Circus Minister.
The minister with Sells-Floto (they
carry minister, Rev. ]. c. Merriman.
born near Athena) breaches to the
show people every Sunday. Last
Sunday he talked on 1.-THE Boys in
Blue" Said he: "The dearest blood,
the best blood, runs in the veins of
the American soldier. The liberty
we enjoy today was made possible by
them. So the most blessed sight to
man is the Stars and Stripes. In
prayer, in thought, in deed, in every
walk of life, we should keep topmost
the remembrance of the soldier boys
of our land. My sentiment for SOL
diers living and dead is Cheers for
the living, tears for the dead.!'"
Who Is She?
The Pendleton girl with the Sells
Floto circus is the talk of society.
She is trying to hide her identity. Be-
cause of this the Smart Set" will at
tend the circus Saturday, May 80. and
try to pick her out "Who is she?" is
the kuestion of the hour. Show peo-
pie say she is the handsomest woman
in circus life.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-05-08
HOTEL St. GeOrrn

S. A. Saylor, Umatilla; S. r. Old
aker, Hermiston; William Dunn.
Portland; b II. Davis, Hermiston:
Leland Cross, Hermiston; G. w.
Brown, Hermiston; w. Roy Saxton,
Hermiston; E. I. Parks, Hutchinson,
A. H. Withrow, Portland; ]. T. Lacey,
Portland; James s. Bell, Athena; Doc.
Waddell. South Africa; o. E. Mann,
Minneapolis; c. C. Misner, Niagara
Falls; A. A. Chapman, Boston; H. C.
Clark, Everett; C. A. Waeylin, Asotin;
H. C. Haggins, Billings; Waddy De
Elephant, South Africa; A. w. Sifton,
Spokane; Robert C. Smith, Portland;
NJ. Myers, New York; H. w. Coe, Port
land; NJ. II. Keller, New York; F. S.
McMahan, Portland; Mrs w. B. Ham,
ilton, Walla Walla; o. V. Robbins,
Walla Walla; w. r. Clark, Salt Lake;
B. N. Fisk, Chicago; B. B. Hail. Wes-
tom E. T. Hibbard, Portland; j. F.
Hermiston; T. j. Maloney,
lone; H. Sexton, Hood River; Sam
Lee, Portland; J. A. Allison, Portland;
E. B. Brown, Portland; s. Redmond,
James Redmond, Minne-
sofa.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-05-08
sAOoT DECLARES TIMBER
is BEING WASTED
Utah Senator Defends Policy of Far
estry DcpaRtment.

The speech In opposition to the
forestry service. was made by Sena-
tor Hepburn of. Idaho In the senate
while the agricultural bill was under
consideration.
Warner of Missouri, continued his
speech on the Brownsville affair, but
1t was not concluded.
Hepburn suggested an amendment
excepting Idaho from the states In
which the secsretary of agriculture
may give permits for the exDorta-
tion of timber from the forast re-
serves. He ridiculed the chart. Of the
forestry division, which wasi swung
on the wall of the senate chamber,
marked with statements as to the
number of years the forests oG various
parts of the country would last The
forestry division he says, was launch
Ing into, a realm of prophecy In a
way that would require greater wis
dom than that possessed by the sages
of old, when 1t was declared that
certain section would be short of its
forest IN 20, 80 or 40 years, they for
got thar, he says, lumber grows, ana
he declared tina the timber supply Is
as great today as ever In the worlds
history. There is, he says, no danger
of timber famine.
Senaor Smoot took exception to-
the statement that the worlds timber.
was as great as ever. Hepburn re-
tOfted that the senat0r from ITta n
might consult the map on the senate
wall as a guide, he possessing the
spirit of prophecy" which he (Hey-
burn) did not possess. Smoot said
he could prove, not by prophecy, but
by figures, that the timber of this
country is being rapidly destroyed
and that there is not anything like
the amount OF timber in this country
that there was 20 or 80 years ago.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-05-08
Woman Waned.

To do washing for two families.
Call Red 1902.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-05-08
Suit Over Ditch

Suit to force Michel Estoup to rec
ognize right Of way for an irriga-
tion ditch through his land has been
started in the circuit court by John
l. Creswell, the complaint being filed
by Messrs. Lowell G. Winter. Ac-
cording to the complaint the plaintiff
is the owner Of 40 acres OF land in
section 21, township 8 north of range
S5 and by the terms of his deed is
to a right Of way for an irri-
cation ditch which takes water from
Mud creek. The defendant is charg-
ed with obstructing said ditch and the
court is asked for an order restrain
Ing him from 80 doing In the future
and also for $50 damages.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-05-08
Patriotic Music Ordered.

H. H. Tammen, general manager Of
the Sells-Floto forces. has issued in.
structions that the music on the date
here be Yankee Doodle and patriotic