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1 VOL. XV. KINGMAN, ARIZONA, OCTOBER 9, 1897. NO. 48. A The present rush to the Klondike gold fields revives interest in the "diggings" in the Sheltuga. valley, whose reputed wealth caused many adventurers to plunge into the little known regions of Manchuria. A Germ in Rnssiiti paper, the Tageblatt, Riga, relates how these gold fields were discovered, and why the world suddenly failed to hear any more about them The Russian gov ernment, we are told, did not like the establishment of a "republic" which at traded Russian diggers. We lake the following from our contemporary's ac count. "In 1883 a Russian prospector dis covered gold in the Shpltuga yalley, in Northern Manchuria. He told an en gineer named Lebedkin of his discovery, and the latter started with a party of workmen to exploit the rich mines. He was, however, an intemperate man, and died of alcholiem. The men, left to themselves, began to work the mines on their own account. The news of the wealth of Sheltuga soon was told in the countries watered by the Amur and in Transbaikalia, and thousands of men started for the new El Dorado. Among them were adventurers from all parts of the world, Americans, Germans. French men, Englishmen altogether some 12, 000 men gathered there in 1895, among them about 500 Chinese. Drunkennesp, immorality, robbery and murder reigned supreme. At last the diggers got tired of anarchy and elected an energetic, honest, but very strict man as their head, forming a little republic for the purpose. The gold-bearing country was divided into five districts; for each the newly elected dictator appointed a chiei. His laws were extremely draconic. Theft was punished by 500 blows with a cat-o'-nine-tails studded with nails, hence the culprit always died under the lash. -Men caught importing lewd women re ceived 400 blows with a cane. Twohun dred blows were administered for dis turbing the camp at night and 100 blows for dr 'nkenness. "Thirty men were banged at the die tator'e orders on the first day of his term, and for two weeks the cat-o'-ninetails never rested. After that the camp was as orderly ao a Sunday school pic nic. All those who felt that a commu nity where order is maintained did not suit them left for pastures new, and there was every hope that the little republic would prosper. But the Russian gov ernment did not like it. The Russian workmen ran away from the govern ment mines, and the government did not receive its usual amount of precious metals. Russia, therefore, induced the Chinese government to break up the re public, which had been established tdthout the knowledge and consent of thS mandarins. A force of 2000 horse mennd 1000 infantry, with two guns, was 6ent to Sheltuga valley. The dig gers would not leave, a battle took place and the adventurers were killed almost to a man O ily 27 escaped. Five hun dred Chinese were left to garrison the The Mutual Life Insurance Co., , . . OF NEW YORK ... 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Rush, to gopfier RiOer A Seattle, Washington dispatch of re cent date says : The steamer Walcott, formerly in the revenue cutter service, arrived in this port this evening bringing news of copper discoveries on Prince William Sound and the rush to Copper River The discoveries in the Klondike have put a damper on prospecting in the Cooks Inlet country, but George R. Beade, operating on Six Mile Creek, re ports that his company has struck placer mines which yield 100$ profit a month to each man. Dr. H. B Allen, surgeon of the Pacific Steam Whaling Company, which owns the Walcott, states that the rush to the Yukon next year will be by the way of Valdes Inlet, Prince William Sound, as the country, after the first stages are passed, is level and allows people to strike the Yukon not far below Dawson In regard to a railroad to the interior of Alaska Dr Allen says: "If a railroad i3 feasible from any point in Alaska to the Yukon it is bv the Valdes route from Prince William bound." The doctor refused to make any statement as to his helief whether the Cudabys and other capitalists are thinking seriously of building the rail road from Valdes. It is certain however, that no survey hps been made. When asked if it would be any easy mat'er to run a railroad around the base of the dead glacier, be tween Valdes and level country, he re plied that he did not feel like being quoted on the subject. The Walcott lett Prince William Sound September 15 in charge of Captain J Humphrey, superintendent of the Pa cific Steam Whaling Company's can neries. She had no passengers except Louis L Williams, United Spates Mar shal of Alaska, who has been on Prince William Sound investigating the copper discoveries. The Walcott stopped two days at Hunters Bay, where the compa ny has canneries, and then came along south, slopping in Sitka and Juneau. At Juneau Hans Bent of the Seattle land ofiLe was taken aboard. Alter a pleasant voyage the Walcott reached Seattle this evening at 6 o'clock ami tied at the Ocean dock. The salmon season being closed the Walcott will pro ceed to San Francisco in a couple of days. Prince William Sound is practically in the form of a square of Copper Rivei entering at the northeast corner. The Valdes Inlet is near the northwestern corner leading to a route running in a northeasterniy direction, striking the Copper River about 100 miles north of its mouth, thereby avoiding the rapids, canyons and glac'ers that have pervented the successful passage up the river. From Valdes the passage is over a dead glacier which is readily traversed most of the year. Dr. Allen says that if a railroad ib That at your death your children may not be in want, and may obtnin an educa tion to fit them for the life you gave them. That your parents, sisters or less fortunate kindred, after you are gone forever, may feel your help and know that even in death your heart is beating for them in generous thoughts and deeds. To pay off that mortgage on the house. That even your creditors may honor your memory. Since Its Organization in 1843 $258,959,451 53, $178,045,743 76 1 $437,004,195 29 its present members for its members $234,744,148,421 $671,749,343 71 feasible from any point in Alaska to :hr Yukon, it is by the Valdes route from Prince William Sound. On Septembei 11, the mail steamer Dora landed at Ore a a party of fifteen prospectors from Sin Diego, Cal., and vicinity. The party was headed by ex Sheriff O'Neil of San Luis Obispo county. They had twenty tons of provisions, and expect to spend two years investigating the Copper River They were determined to attempt the ascent of Copper River from its mouth despite the advice of men cognizant of the difficulties, and expected to build boats. How they were going to build boats when there was not a stick of timber within ten miles of the place where they desired to be landed is a question hard to solve Captain Humphrey realized the plight they would be in and when he saw that they could not be restrained innumerable experiences. A pair ot from their plan gave them an old seine rabers has saved many a life in a thun boat that will hold the entire party, j derstorm. But they must be sound and They were advised to winter at Fidalgo who,e- Do not don an old pair with a and then pass over the glacier to thecrack,n the toe, because electricity will HnnnPi Riunr nhrwn thn rom.io and lha canyon. John R. Toole and John Gilley have been on Prince William Sound in the interest of the millionaire mine operator, Marcus Daly. They came down on the City of Topeka. They have nothing to say about the result of their investigation. There is, however, considerable stir over the copper discoveries made by M O. Gladhough at Tetetiuk and Latouche Island, Prince William Sound. Glad hough located his claim in July. One assay showed 8 26$ gold to the ton, 96 cents silver and 28 70$ copper. The greatest financial genius of the Rothschild family, though there have been many of great talent, was Nathan Mayer, of the second generation, who established the bouse of N. M. Roths child & Co , in 1798, in London. He flew to the stars and groveled in the mud for money. He welcomed all trans actions, big or little, wherewith to turn the banker's penny. He was the most daring speculator of his time on the Stock Exchange, and the most success ful. He had carrierpigeons and fast sailing boats to bring him the earliest news from the war centers of Europe, tnd so help him to manipulate stocks. He followed Wellington's army to Wa terloo in person, and bad relays of the swiftest horses, and a fast yacht lying in i he harbor at Ostend. So he arrived at the London Stock Exchange, after the battle, 12 hours ahead of any public an nouncement of the victory, and made 5,000,000 by one of the most tremen dous series of speculations in history. In 1810, when the Duke of Wellington, then commanding in Spain, drew on the English Government for 3,000,000, and the English Treasury was short, Nathan bought the drafts at a big discount and at once sent the money. The stories about this remarkable man are almost endlesB, and show how strangely he was alike equal to the most tremendous schemes and the pettiest tricks of avarice. Exchange. W. E. HtfRPm, General Agent, Albuquerque, N. M. ROSS H. BLAKELY, Resident Agent. Easily Prevented. Very few people are wholly at ease during a violent thunderstorm. Light ning generally strikes somewhere, and no one feels absolutely safe from it. There is a simple way of insuring one's self against danger, however. If you put on a pair of rubbers when the lightning be gins to flash and the thunder to roar, and stand on the fl).r so that you touch nothing else, you will be as safe as if you were Bealed in a glass cage. Rub ber is a non-conductor ot electricity ; and if the lightning has to go through a piece j of rubber to get at you it will leave you alone and take something else. In oth er words, when you have on a pair of rubbers and are not in contact with any thing, you are perfectly insulated. Thip ! is not a theory merely. It is a tact proved I RBI OUl OI a Very Small note Wden It IS cornered, and a pair of defective rubbers will do yon no good. She trier's ife The following extract from an article published in the Grass Valley papers, certainly contains an much truth to the square inch an anything else hat ever was written : The miner's life is not one of purely fascination. He has his dark hours, his lonely cell beneath the earth, pounding without melody or song on a cold steel drill, living in the atmosphere of powder, no hot meal for his lunch and a tallow candle to -wary his eyes and deaden his s(-nse3 of taste and smell Out of hi? hard e-trnins he pavs house rent, he buys clothing and shofs for hie wife and children. Hit monthly earn ings pas3 into your dry goods .store; they support the rae-it ra trket and the haher disher. In fait hi noney goes into every avenue of oranrc-; even the farmer finds a better field fir his pro duce pnd fruit in a mining community than anywhere else Last month a tnnn in the east swal lowed a piece of tobacco which he was chewing. There is nothing very strange about that; but the man soon went stone blind. His physicians attribute it. en tirely to that piece of swallowed tobacco. This case is anthenic Bugler. LEVI -STRAUSS & CO. FACTORY-SAN FRANCISC0-CAL COPPER R OVERALLS AND SPRING BOTTOM PANTS. EVERY GARMENT GUARANTEED. EMPLOY OVE R 35 O GfRLS. Professiona. E. M. 3AiNroiir ATTORNEY AT LAW Prescott. Arizona, EORGE WALKER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, KINGMAN, ARIZONA Will practice in all the courts. Surveving. OF. KUENCER. DEPUTY U. S. SURVEY- or and County Surveyor. Mines examined and reported on, Kingman, Arizona. Notice. Notice is hereby given that neither the Ora Plata or Mariposa mines, nor the owner thereof, will be responsible for any debts contracted by the lessees thereon in working said mines. J W. Gekkitt. .Kingman, March 3, 1897. jor rtforrnatiori Concernining mines or mining in Mohave county, call on or address O. D. M. Gaddis, Mining Broker, Kingman, Arizona. Where it is Coldest. There is yet no positive record of the lowest range of the thermometer in the Upper Yukon region, but it is sale to assert, says the Philadelphia Ledger, that this range extends yearly to the 50 or 60 degree line, with a not improbable occasional descent to a somewhat lower. This would be approximately low level temperature of the true Arctic regions, and is by no means the lowest that has yet been recorded Thus, Kane, in his Arctic service, has been 75 degreeB, and the officers of the British polar expedi tion in 1876 recorded nn almost equiva lent temperature of 72 degrees. On the other hand, the lowest registry ot Peary'3 thermometer was only 53 degrees. Com pared with regions lying further south, the winter climate ot the Klondike does nrt differ in severity very materially from that of many parts of the more thickly inhabited portions of British America, as Manitoba or Alberta, or even from Dakota or northern and cen tral Minnesota, where almost annually the mercurv freezes in its tube. G. O Paarce, representing the Rio Colorido Gold Extraction Co., with a n:H up capital of 1,000.000$, is in Yuma making arrangements to erect a five stamp mill on twelve mining claims in thp Chocolate mountains abont eighty mile? up the Colorado river The mill will he shipped np the river on the steamer Mohave as soon as it returns from the pulphnr mines in Lower Cali fornia, and nppd developing the claimB on which the Colorado company holds a bond from Taylor D Mc-Leod and othprs of this city. Mr. Pearce, who is an expert on mines has made a thorough examination of the property and is very piithneirts'ic in the belief that they have one of the greatest gold producers in the country If the development of the mine" meet with the expectations of Mr Pearc- the mill will he at once in creased to 100 stamps. Sentinel Thp Calumet-Hecla mines are credited with dividends paid of over 50.000,000$. The celebrated Comstock paid 77,608, 800$, but aside from this no other com pany in the United State has reached the fifty million mark. The largest div idend payers in the Unired StateB be sides these are the Ontario. 13 445,000$, and Granite Mountain, 12 120 000$ No others have reached over 10 000,000$ in America. Even the Australian and South African mines have not paid as large dividends as either of the two first named properties. IVETED MARK. MINING MEN I We have for sale at this office MINING DEEDS MINING LOCATIONS MINING LEASES MINING BONDS And blanks of every descriotion. Orders by mail, accompanied by cash, promptly filled. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that neither the Nighthawk mine, nor the owners thereof, will be responsible for any debtp contracted by the lessees thereon. James T. Langfokd, Superintendent. Kingman, Arizona, Nov. 23d, 1895. Notice. Notice is hereby giyen that neither the Lookout mine nor the owner thereof, will be responsible for any debts con tracted by the lessees of said mine. J. S. Withers. Kingman, March 4, 1897. tf.