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TI1E COPrER COUNTRY liVENlXQ NEWS. CALUMET, TUESDAY, MAY 24, 180. 6. KING OF THE KLONDIKE. Such Is Major Walsh of Her Majesty's Government. IGNOEANOE OF THE SITUATION. Dtotn of th Trail to Dawson The I Boundary Question a Difference In Meth i ds of Measurement Lake I2nuets a Typical Ilooiu Town. i (From Our Fptvial Correspondent. i Lake Bexxktt, Alaska, March 23. I have just had a long talk with Ma Jor Walsh, administrator of the Yukon for the Canadian government. I found him at his own headquarters, a little back from the tented town of Lake Den nett, and busy with a mass cf corre fpoudence. He impressed rue by his sol dierly bearing and a in ode t and unas suming niaumr which is usually the concomitant cf real merit. Few men now living have had a more varied ex perience ia frcutkr life cr with hostile Indians. He spoke in ix:Mplimet:tary termscf General Miles, whom he knows personally, and also rtf-.rred feelingly to the late Gtmral A. H. Terry and to General Phil Sheridan, whom he like wise knew cn the border. Major Walsh seemed a bit turprised when he learned my wife was with me. "JCut you are not gciut; to take her to Dawson City with yen?" be asked. "That is my plau," I replied, "and why not?" "Simply because if you do you will be impaled on one of the tbreo horns of an uncomfortable dilemma," said he. "You will either be obliged to hire In dian guides to either draa you up the Yukon from the shore or pole you up to the lakes, which must be done late, 6ay in October, and at considerable expeuse, for you can never Ret up that tswift cur rent yourself, or you will be obliged to Etand your chance of going home by the way of St. Michael's in a vessel that you would not trust your life in for a moment on the ocean, and at a heavy mihrl.02$'7u (t CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE. expense likewise. Tho third horn of this dilemma is wintering in Dawson City, which I do not suppose you will care to do. " I thanked him for his advice, but have not yet changed my plans. Ignorance About the Situation. "As to petting in or out of Dawson City," continued Major Walsh, "there is yet en ustounding amount of igno rance as to its actual difficulties, and I wonder that your government enter tained tho thought c f a relief expedition for an instant. Of course anything like a eo called (now and ice engine ie out of the question, and, as for horses or mules, after they have been packed with tho CCO pounds of forage, which is the least which can be provided for their use to Dawson City, and the food and blankets and camping utensils nec essary to the man who accompanies them, they cannot be relied to take i tingle pound for relief. Indeed I quea- Oft i J 1 1 . frW I'M, !AJOIt J. M. V.'ALSII. tlon whether any one can come out of Diwpon City to the coast nr go in dur ing winter unices bo strikes a Kptll of the most favorable wnther." "Hut people luvo roiuo out the past winter," I iuterjoHd. "Yes, but how did they do it? In ev ery cap no far as I know, they were given fo'jd, tkclter and good cheer as well as information concerning the next post by our police. They have come in to our posts well nigh exhausted, and we have helped them on repeatedly when without our assistance they must have perished. The reindeer idea is also chimerical one, for if there is an; m food for this animal in this locality 1 have been unable to find much of it.1 What Alaska Nerds, Major Walsh is of the opinion that what Alaska needs most at present is the means of securing provisions at the cost of ordinary transportation. He thinks this will bo consummated a lit tle later by the Canadian government by means of the railroad from Gliuora into the iuterior, and that the country will then be a good one for the prospect or who is satisfied with a modest iu come, say from 3 to 10 a day. He says that while it may be doubted that many more rich strikes muy b made there are fields capable of supporting hundreds of thousaudsof people provid ed the cost of living can be reduced so that the independent miner may find it profitable to. wash out 5 per day. As to the boundary line question, he laid, theChilkoot pass line, where the mounted police are now stationed and are collecting duty, is not disputed ter ritory. "The case in anutfhell isthis," he continued "your government meas ures from inland waters and ours from the sea; or, if you please, you may put it in this way your government claims that the inland waters are the sea and we claim that they are not. This is all the dispute there is or ever can be con cerning the boundary question." Dawson City llifih Prices. We are already beginning to get a taste of Dawson City high prices, be cause from here cu, when the ice breaks op, it is an untrokeu waterway to that place and tho cost cf transportation is not exorbitant considering the distance. For instance, meals consisting t f Leaus, rice, bread, ham or bacon and coffee, are l.oO each. Lodging in a bunkhouse, where all sleep in one room and each provides his own blankets, is from 50 cents to f 1 per niht. I bad occasion to buy an ordiuary crosscut band taw the other day and was obliged to pay $8 for what would probably cost $1.50 in the States. Flour is worth $45 per barrel today, or rather $12 for a sack cf 50 pouuds. Lake Bennett is one of the most live ly settlements we have seen thus far on the trail. It has two or three bunk houses, called hotels, the ubiquitous sa- loon, a bakeshop, two or three Btorts cf general merchandise and several places where outfits are bought and sold. This last named business is becoming quite common along the trail. When a poor devil gets discouraged or ill and ro solves to go no farther, he can always find some one to take his outfit off his hands and pay him not n fair price, but possibly a little uddition to what it ccst him in the States. Then tho outfit is told piecemeal or complete to whomso ever may want it and at a handsome profit. Iu fact, any ono who has a spec ulative nature and a disposition to prof it by his fellow creatures' misfortuuo can easily make considerable money here. There are "corners" in a small way that are in every way as shrewd and quite as daring as any perpetrated iu Wall street. For instance, there may be a shortage in flour or coffee or cau dles or kerosene oil or any other article cf prime necessity. The shrewd specu lator goes quietly arouud and buys up all he can get hold of. Then if no moro comes in ho sells out at about any profit he chooses to ask. A Wood Famine Imminent. Timber and wood promise to be scarce articles here ere long if tho rate of dev astation continues. Our party has cart ed firewood three miles for use in oar tent, and timber for boatbuilding i. be coming almost extinct. Lumber at pres ent is worth S5C0 per 1,000 feet, and a tawmill company 1ms teceived u grnt of a large portion of the timber iu the locality. The price of boats thus far ia from 2C0 to $400 each, but no rational being would c..ro to trust his life in any cf those which sell ut the Trst named figures. Two eteumbaat are to rr.u c,:i the lake this season, bat from present indications they will not be clear of ice under two months at least. I have made diligent inquiry to learn the destination of the majctity cf tbujo who are ou their way to the Yukon n:id find that a large number intend going through to tho American si 1. There will also bo quite a number go to tho Dig Salmon and Stnart rivers, and n good many, perhaps the majority, havo no fixed idem whatever ns to their des tination. 1 bey v. ill "fellow the crowd" go anywhere if there be a possibility of their finding the lunch soupht for gold. Some indeed imagit;e they can pick up tiugcets almost anywhere. It i a pity hat pueli a golden dicam mr.sl have a ndo awaktuiug sooner it later. A. A. Hill. SUNSET GATES AJAR. TonlKht. as 1 s.it It hit win-low, Whvn tho west was. all airl-ai:i Ulth that strnnpi-MDd woiuU rfulsplenutr That s fletitvn s u tlrva:n, I tbouifht thul 1 l.o hands if the anirvl Hud flunKOii bt'avrn'a ratway vlds And 1 ( uutit it krhi.-iphu vf th Biory Prom the lulls ou tb other id Is It not a Ivuiitifi.l fancy. This snn-M-t thnv.pht f mire. Tlint the gute of luawu ait- si ays Flunti vym M tiny ' tU v l.r. Thnt thoM? wl.cn iiy Is ended Of ourtLly wis sud ill atay pas to tLv in.rums ur.hfn Tbat UwvIU cn ll.f Ur nly L;.lsf Th n ft r isu' t!i- n-.'n-t t:M v .iy fcb:;ll ut ax ' t.vliuo cuvlx'. And 1 in through tt rn.lj To that loiv -nl rvo. 1 know taat 1 shall in;:iuUt, in tul city ski (uir snd Ur, Sly Btrauut and txsutirul tauoy Of the kUiiM t putt's ajar Tt rhaps wlnlo 1 sat th re d-ramlnj Cf th kT.tA ay in tho wet Boiae for M)Ul wnt through its turtsls Tu a h and tsuli-ni t-t Psst-d ihrci.l. u:o-t CJtvway To that 'uy isvl with pM;" Passi-d into the iu v ;fo's Udiu- To te no loner r c !d -FracU C Uti'.Klay in luod IIou-. ktvj inj. A PACSFiC SLOPE HOLLAND. nirhnrss cf the SwtuoniUh Flats In Skacit County, Va&h. In this great western country, where there is so mucu wild land, where millions of acres of soil hare never f.lt the touch of the plowman's harc or the keen edge of tbo wordnian's ax, It dcxs net seem that 1: would bo necesisury to reclaim land from the tk'a to obtain acres for cultivation. J)ut that has Uvn done, and in Skagit county, almost In tha very northwestern corner of tho state, can be found scores of tho finest ranches in tho world, lying be hind dikes built to keep out the sea and the overflows of the Skagit river, the lar gest stream that empties into the sound. This Is tho veritable Holland cf Wash ington. In Skagit county are situated the famous Swlnomlsh flats, the Ifcvtvcr marsh. tho Olympic marsh and tho Saiuish Hats, all 6urr.unded by dikes ranging in height from S to 15 feet. There are tide gatos along the seashore which act automatical ly, and which drain the land so perfectly that crops are raised on land below tho sea level with safety. And such crops! For ages the big river has been bringing down from the hills tho richest sediment, and there is really no bottom to the soil. If a farmer In the east plows a little too deep, he turns up clay or rocks. If the Peavei tnnrsh rancher holds his plow bandies too high, ho simply digs up moro of the rich loam that raises every year without fail such crops that the old ratirhers of other sections caunut believe tho stories. One hand ml and twenty-five bushels of oats to the acres a ton and n half of hops or five tons of hay are common yields, while all sorts of root crops give equally large re sults. In order to plow this land, which, of cour60, is soft and spongy, the ranchers often put "tuley" shews cn thedr horses. the bhejescemfcistinctof wide wooden Llocus to prevent tho anhr.als lrom sinking into tho loam. There nro at present eight ellking dis tricts In the county, and nearly every ranch cf any aiza is in o;io or another of these districts. Fully loo mi!es of dikes nro iu nso iu tho county, u:d many of the?ni uro used also n roads. ery pietur- escuo are these embankments in many places ns they wind around through the trees. When thufc-knrtit is having a freshet, as hus been tho ease this week, the people turn cut to watch their dikes, and by re pairing them savo their lands front Inun dation. Sometimes a very high tide will go over a diko and cover a number of ranches with salt water. If the wat.-r does not stand too long this does no par ticular damage. As there, is nothing but sand and black loam to construct tho dikes of, no perma nent work has over been done and cannot bo until tho river is so improved that it has n reasonably straight channel to tho sea. I Ivo or six forks or mouths discharge tho water Into tho sound, and the delta thus formed is excellent farming land. If tho water thould ho confined to one channel, thousands of acres of land would bo ro- clainied und tho danger of overflow ro duced to a minimum. Py this iiunrovo- mcn.t n magnificent navigahlo river, teein ini; with fish und (lowing through a wealth of timber and mineral land, would be opened up and would provide employment fur countles-s numbers of people. Scttitlo Poht Intelligencer. A I'irate In Had Lurk. Mr. Frank Ii. Stockton, writing of "Tho buccaneer of Our Coast" In St. Nicholas, st-ys of tho celebrated liartholcmy Portu gnez: In tho way of well defined and conspicuous tips and downs few livis havo cut passed that of Partholcmy. Ho had many adventures after tho desperato affair In tho bay of Canipeachy, but they must all havo turned out badly for him, and consequently very fortunately for divers and sundry Spanish vessels, and during tbo rest of his life ho bore the reputation of an unfortunate pirate He was one of those men whoso success soemed to have depended entirely upon his own exertions. If there happened to bo the least clmnco of his doing anything, ho generally did it. Spanish cannon, well armed Spanish crews, mancclcs, Imprisonment, the dan gers of tho ocenn to a man who oould not swliu, bloodhounds, alligators, wild beasts, awful forests impenetrable to common men all wcro bravely met and triumphed over by Lartholeniy. Yet when It came to ordinary good fortuno, such us any pirate might exiiect, Partholemy tho Portuguese found that ho had no chance ut all. Put ho was not a coicmon pirate and was therefore obliged to bo content with his uncommon career. He eventually settled in tbo Inland of Jamaica, but nobody knows what became of him. Thoughtful. Sirs. Greene ily husband Is such a thoughtful man I He always goes do wn into the basement kitchen to smoko Mrs.Uray And lets tho mi:c1.i ee ine up stairs lum tho dining room through the dumb writer. Mrs. (iieene Yes, hut that's . breauso ho Is obsctitmirnled, ftf.-or man! That has nothing totm uJ'.li i.iBtht.t.pUiidnet.H.you know. Lost on 'IrausiTlpt. Exercise all tho muscles eery day ol your life for ten minutes. Stop Le.oiv yon feel thoroughly' tired. Neer overt is tbo iiiusclt3, or they will rovu.ige them selves. A simple and very efT.e Sent disinfectant to pour d jwii a fink 1 1 u m.nll quantity of charcoal mixed with eh'nr water. Tho streets of London, placed end to end, would stretch from New York to Suu Francisco. FROM FOREIGN LANDS. Iatarostluc Topics That Enfros tha At teuttoa of K uro pa. According to a recent report made by II. Uleukr, the couimissioucr of educa tion, iu Switzerland, there are now (114 youug women taking course iu Swiss universities. Cuuevu has 331 female frludeut. Zurich li0, Iananne and Peru each 00. Pale while the i:ni versities cf Neufchattl and Freiburg have ncne. While Fr::cv is concratulatir,? Iter e!ft'th. imrtavo of her population ever lr death utt a condition hewn by tho last m:usi that hud not been t;calcd fcr lua: y years Ptlgiu'm has cvme out itu most remarkable Lgurvs ccrcotuu'S hit p puh.liau. TlioLut na tieiul .i:kt in I Uium wasceimplettd iu May. lT, aud i;s llguros have re cently lo:i put lie. Within tho last ytr.rs tiu p r.latiou of Pelgium hiudectled itti;, lit.ng from 3,000, -I' CO to O.WO.COO. Put the records of the larger eiti.s make a Hill n.oro in tereing shesvi::g. Antwerp in n cen tury has risen from 53.000 to 257,000, an increase cf :5bd per cent. Liegu has ndvauced from 4d,000 to 1 GO, 000; r.lnnt. from o.'.OOO to I.COO; Hrus- pels, frcm 00,000 to lbT.OOO. j The Politiidie Ccrres poudenz of Vieu i na recently published a letter from a . perfoliate high in court circles iu St. ' Petersburg saying that tho physicians in tho suit of Grand Duke George, heir presumptive to tho throne of llussia, now had every hope of tho permanent recovery of tho duke. His improvement is so marked as fairly to astonish the doctors. The czarowitz has been spend ing a few mouths at Pa ton m, on the Plack sea. He will shortly leave that place ou his yacht and go to tho French Piviera. While there he will bo visited by his mother, the Dowager Czarina Maria Feodorovna. Together they will proceed ou the yacht to Ajaccio, in Cor sica, where they will pass the early spring months. Toward the end of May the grand duke's party will start by slow stages for St. Petersburg, going by the way of Marseilles and Paris. Royal commissions havo been taking evidence cu the improvident old ago of tho inhabitants of New Zealand and Victoria, with tho idoa of providing for the old and poor. In New Zealand a law has recently beeu patsed to devote $000,000 yearly to the aged poor. Put citizens who would be provided for in this way must not only be poor and aged, but honest and virtuous as well. To havo been convicted, for example, of drunkenness four times iu four years before reaching the age of G5 will cost a New Zealand citizeu his pension. The maximum pe nsion is $00 a year. It is to le reduced by $5 per nunum for every a of private income iu crcess of $ 170 per nunum whiclj tho pensioner possesses. In Victoria tho lav is similar, but tho ego limit is placed at 00. In each col ony tho number of citizens entitled to these pensions is about 10,000. While the bubonic plague seems to bo spreading in India and threatens almost to eepsal in fatality tho epidemic of a year ago, tho French physicians in Al geria have discovered a disease in Africa which, if the meager reports which have been received prove true, is none the less fatal. It is a mysterious disease, and no satisfactory diagnosis has yet been made of it. It first bhows itself by the patient having an inordiuato desire to hlecp. Its symptoms resemble thoso manifested in laudauum poisoning. If tho patient be not at once nroused, ho socn falls into a stupor, which is suc ceeded by death. From its symptoms it has been called by the correspondents of Frcuch medical journals in Algeria "la r.iuladio du sommcil" (tho disea.se of sltep). Europeans aro not susceptible to it, Arabs only i lightly, but tho negro falls a ready victim. Two doctors of tho University cf Ccimbo have a theory that the disease is microbic. With somo bacilli in tei am obtained from tho blood of a young negro who had died from tho discaso they inoculated half a dozen rabbits. Tho littlo animals became drowsy and soon died, betraying all tho symptoms of the disease. Thocij amber of deputies of the graud duchy of Luxemburg has recently voted the budget for lb98, which makes tho receipts 11,100,000 francs and expenses to the amount of 0,800,000 francs. Tho Litlo duchy owes its financiul prosperity to participation iu the German reve nues, certain parts of which wero allot ted to it ly treaty under couditious that havo now become obsolete. Luxem burg had a population In 1805 of 217, 583, of which 109,282 were males nud 1 OS, 301 females. The budgets of the last four years have been as remarkable as that of lbl)8. Iu 1893 the receipts ex ceeded tho expenses by 1,572,314 francs; iu 1804 by 1,028,188 fruncs, iu 1895 by 1.841,520 francs and in 1897 by 1,145,. 650 francs. In 1859 the public debt amounted to 3,500,000 francs and bore interest nt 5 per cent. Now it is 12,000,. 000 francs, and bears interest at 3 per cent. Tho army is composed of 150 men, tb ree horses and a baud of music New York Times. The Chaplain's Trajer. 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