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OOLD FOR ALL MEN. 1 ■S — — 8; % Joaquin Miller Shows the Richness_of Klondike Creeks. ©' SULPHUR CREEK, Indian River, Klondike, Aug. 23, via Pan Francisco, Cal., Oct. 22. — This camp may be called the extreme limit of the newly discov ered gold mines in the direction of the gtuari river, towards which all eyes have been turned in expectation 6£ great developments. It is about fifty miles from Dawson by way of B ar creek, Hunter cretk. C-jld Bottom and Dominion creeks, and about forty miles by way of Bonanza and El Do rado. Our previous excursions had taker, us over the comparatively easy trails, ter rible enough, too, of the camps within ten and tYv< nty mi'.ps of Dawson. The purpose of these trips was to find out in a quiet line of inquiry from camp to camp, and even from claim to claim, * ■ 1 if the mines were really as rich as had been reported to the world out side. The verdict was, in the words of the Queen of Sheba to Solomon: "Be hold, the half had not been told." Our next duty was to find out the area and room on remoter mining dis tricts and see if it were right or wrong to let the world pour its surplus of enterprise and brain in search of gold in this direction longer. I set about pulling myself together and was ready to set out by the 26th of August. There had been some storms, and rain and snow. The ground wan frozen hard as I climbed up the hill in the quay past the new little grave yard. I was load- ( ed down, for there were but few men j remaining in these remoter campr.; j and nothing at all to eat save what I j could carry on my back. Besides, each I must now carry a bed for the bitter i cold nights. I also had to carry pick, j shovel, and a change of boots and all sorts of footwear, and a few extra gai - j mentis in case of drenching storms for j a change of clothes. My pack was about forty pounds, ! and in the early morning I went stum- , bling up the Klondike hillsides, over the icy hummocks and great grassy ] "nigger heads" that stood to the knee I at almost every step. The load grew heavy, very heavy, as I put the miies behind me. The sun was hot and op- j pressive by 10 in the morning. By 11 I looked down Into Bear creek, a j great, deep gorge that plunges Into the Klondike, dense with somber forest. J Here, at the north of Bear creek, I met a Mr. Seymour, to whom I haa been recommended as a good man to see and a learned man in many ways. I found him and his partners at work j with a whipsaw making a track for underground cars to carry dirt to the mouth of the tunnel. Bear creek is worked entirely by drifting. It is the deepest place In these mines, more than fifty feet. deep, tt is rich, tremendous ly rich, so far as prospected; was dis covered on Sept. 6, 1896, by Russian Fins, aiid is staked for more than 100 claims. But the records of Dawson, a copy of which I had In my pocket for reference, showed only fifty- two claims recorded. Men often delay this Im portant matter while prospecting on their claims until they go to Dawson at the end of the season on business, as a location must he recorded in per son. NOT FROZEN TO BEDROCK. Bear creek is peculiar in another re markable feature. Besides its great depth it is r.ot frozen to bedrock, as are all the places in this region. This is very strange. Even Mr. Seymour, whom I found to be most obliging in every way, couid not. with all his learning- and scientific research, solve the problem. As this expedition was not for the purpose of seeing heaps of pold, but to find out if the outside camps were rich and desirable, like those nearer Dawson, I passed on with the assurance from Mr. Seymour, "Bear creek Is all right." I must have been limping badly, for as I emerged from the great trees that grew rank and proudly here, because the ground is not bo much frozen, a boat's crow, poling up the Klondike, hniled me, pulled ashore, and took me to the mouth of Hanker creek, the next objective point. The valley at the mouth of Hunker creek is miles wide and the woods are stately and beautiful. The creek is of a rich amber color, caused by a soda Spring whioh puts into Gold bottom, a SKINS ON FIRE Bkb?S cm firs wi:'J torturing, disfiguring, ilclU&c. bureing, blooding, scaly, and pimply tttunogcs, tnttftsUy roHered by a warm bath witb Co tictsj. KOi?, a sinsl« application of Curicriu. (3icttac;t»): the great skin cure, tad & full dos* if C:;tic(:ka Kesolyuvt. Is iok! ftTOTietof* Om vor!3 , Pottw I>. *C. Cosir , Pol* Props., tVcjton. •'• «■;» b> f- OT Tcrtaiteg Boinori,"fi««. %f*,&l O OWH Kitibj Ctticvxx 6o*r. tributary of Hunker. The kindly min ers pushed their boat up the creek a little way, landed, and carried their supplies up a ladder to a platform or "cache." The "caches" are adjuncts of not only eveiy camp but every cabin, the dogs being so numerous arid preda tory that nothing can be left within iii^-ii rtticJl. i\o mail t;er ciiraJJis liie ittiu.r aiiU iieli s h iiiS;.f i-nico^ a-LUi. ij iti i.itu; Liieii lie- i.a» ; cs ft 3 aa^ne a~d t uii,t.!)i. ite imping tooii an<t Otiicr ueuavta.re sue itic. uea." me "cache." XNOiiiina is 6VOS c:s,ar)>.:G, /say »» nr.-/ Ji..i..c:.i.j. ..i. <-\<_i V;3i!.tU Cli c.Sy iJ^t u.ct.iit a^o, t VB,i t;.0~g,; h* eat th.tu^li ! v.xi inch Doaid to get tv ctiiiriiQ g00a.3, j and open a whole gross o£ sardines vvitk His teeth. The minor ia onij' lai giied at for his fa:th in Incir.3i dots. SAT ON Ti?E f'LOOS TO EAT i Here at utcp anil'-er «iouLh of STOM-: HOT. SB. A Landmark on the Chilkoot Trail Two Miies From the Summit. Hunker I found a- little baby town, newly born, and we dined in the lit tle French hotel. Good beans, good bread, but nothing c-lsr. We sat on the earthen floor and ate from three little boxes laid together and were glad and grateful. This was the last place wh:re a man could hope to find, for love or money, anything- to eat, ■save what he carried on his back, as these interior mines were being hourly emptied of miners because of the need of supplies. Several of the returning miners offer ed $5 each if one of the owners of the boat would take them down the Klon dike to Dawson, and the boat was soon loaded. Trudging on alone, I met men at every town. It is the pleasantest bit of road for half a dozen miles. The trees are tall and dense, and red top grass grows all along the amber Hun ker, and beautiful wild flowers, in such striking- contrast to the frorty morn ing-, line the banks. Some birds flitted across my path, but they were shy and songless. No sign of mining along here ?3 yet. It is twelve miles to Hunker's; die man who discovered Hunker creek. After almost half of this distance the hills come down to the creek, the trail is dotted with quartz and slate, and il is hard on the feet. Labor as I might to get forward, it was hard work. Little gulches all along now, steep and stony banks to descend, and no sign of pick and shovel in any of them. Doz ens of places along- here look so like the little gold streams of Ei Dorado, Shasta, and Trinity that it la hard to pess them by. Surely all along this mountain side there must be rich mines seme day. At last the stars were with me. No returning miners came my way, and I camped alone by the frothing little quartz stream that had perhaps never yet heard the clang of the prospector's pick. Wood is plenty and of the best, and by heaping up a great fire, broiling a slice of bacon, and making a cup of coffee In my tin cup, between wraps I passed a delightful night, although it was a little cold. ENORMOUS COST OF SUPPLIES. More returning miners In the morn ing, and after a few miles I began to pass cabin after cabin, but nobody in them. Do you know what it costs to get supplies in here? You pay $1 a pound in Dawson. taking things all through; then possibly you may get some one to pack it over to and up Hunker creek to the mines for $1 per pound more. But, if you want to have things carried as far as Dominion Quartz, you- pay $1.50, making $2.50 for each pound. And even that is out of the question now. Men are worn out. Two Indians tried to carry Into Dominion not long ago. They were buried in one grave by the trail side. Wild beasts had killed them and eaten some of their bodies and packs. The first miner I addressed on Hun ker was Tibbits, of No. 33. Tibbits will be remembered in history as the companion of the old mountaineer, Mc- Cullough. They were made great In the discovery of the Cassea-Karsaw mines. You may recall that McCul lough was found frozen to dearh al most within call of Fort Wrangle, still standing erect and leaning on his pikestaff. More than thir_ty years ago this Tibbits and the old Seattle moun taineer began their"*researches, both learned and practical miners, and spent four years between the Red river of the North and the Yukon. I found him at the north of a slope in his mine. He is drifting. He has tunneled only twelve feet as yet. I forgot to men tion that the creek Is staked fully five miles below him, yet he is the only man that far in the bedrock. "Mr. Tibbits, is this creek as rich as El Dorado?" "There Is only one El Dorado, sir." "Is it as rich as Bonanza?" ROOM FOR THOUSANDS OF MEN. "There may be as much gold here as in Bonanza. At least I am quite satisfied with results. It is a great thing, but is not all prospected, as you have seen. Not a single hole to the rock yet in all the five miles you have seen below us." "Is this a good place for a poor man?" "Yes, but he must be a man, not a boy; and he must be a very strong man, too." "Would this creek employ 1,000 real men for five years?" "Yes, real men, with plenty of sup plies, and would give every one plenty of gold." This is the substance of what this conservative and honeet man had to gay in the line I was sent out to in vestigate, although he talked of his troubles, the book he Is to write, and his dear old friend, McCullough. No wonder, however, that he insists that only men, and very strong, resolute men, should come this way. For he can hardly hobble about from hard exposure; and he cannot forget the THE SAINT PAUL GLOBE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1897. to give you most delicious tea biscuit if you use Royal Baking Powder as directed. \l is a pure feavener. sad death of his old comrade. At last I laid my pack down on a brush heap opposite Mr. Hunker's cabin and went up to a work bench above the long string of sluices, where a young man was making a wheelbar row. "I am a newspaper man, sent out to find out from men who ought to know the facts regarding the mines of this country, and I must see Mr. Hunker." "Well, there he is down there among the men, with a shovel in his hand; the man with a sou'wester on his head." "Thank you. Will you take me down into the pit to see him? I hear he is cross as a bear, and I am in doubt how best to approach him." "Mr. Hunker is not cross. He is the kindest of men; you put your pack there in my cabin and stay all night. After he comes up and has had supper I will take you to his cabin and you car. have a talk with him." What gentlemen you meet in these miners! This young man's name is Crane, a relative of Step*hen Crane, I hear, and a writer of stories. He Is one of the partners here. I was made at home in a minute. Mr. Hunker is an American citizen, born and edu cated in Saxony, learned, kindly and wise- He discovered this creek early in September, soon after Bonanza was found. He came this way along with Mr. Johnson, of Ohio. They found a little rim of rock in the bank before their cabin door, and in a little time panned out $22. Then they went and told Mr. Henderson, after whom Hen derson Division is named, and who had already a set of sluices on Gold bottom, and he was their first neigh bor. The Dominion government gave both Hunker and Johnson a discovery claim and named the creek after the gentle Saxon. Mr. Hunker Is called a recluse, and Is reputed to keep all his affairs to himself, but Mr. Johnson seemed to have a different nature, and soon there was brought out and laid on the table enough gold to awaken the rivalry even of El Dorado. I never saw such gold; not a particle of quartz; great flat pieces, that made things rat tle as you turned them over. This gold is worth $17 an ounce. The buyers are only paying $15.50 for El Dorado gold. "What do you think of this creek as against Bonanza, Mr. Hunker?" "Well, we have some gold here, as you see. But you also see ti»at we are only getting ready to work. Only three claims at work in the creek — Tibbits,' Henderson's, and this of ours. Come along after a while and I may answer you. At present I can only say that we are all satisfied, and nothing seems to be for sale-" A new gulch had been struck the day before. "Come to this place, Bow en's gulch. Coarse gold, and plenty of it," said Mr. Crane. Ten claims had been staked. This is most important in making up the estimate of room and area. A creek that is only a creek may be worked out big in a few pans, but a creek in paying gulches and benches will last twice as long and give work to twice as many men.— Joaquin Miller. BLEEDING PILES And all other forms of this common and often dangerous disease readily cured without pain or inconvenience. 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Pozzoni'3 Complexion Powder I igiveait. | LOO WIPES' BIG HIT HIS MILWAUKEE SPEECH WON A CONVENTION FOR MINNE APOLIS. SET THE CONVENTION WILD, AND EARNED THE TITLE THE THIRTEENTH CHAPTER OF FIRST CORINTHIANS. DELEGATES SURPRISED THAT St. Paul Should Send a Man to Say Kind Things About the Other Twin, The fact that the next meeting of the National Association of Life Un derwriters will be held at Minneapo lis is generally known, but it is not 30 well understood that the success of Minneapolis in securing the convention is largely due to Louis D. Wilkes. Mr. Wilkes made a hit at the Milwaukee convention in seconding the nomina tion of Minneapolis. He turned loose a torrent of eloquence and humor that captured the delegates and won the prize for the town up the river. Full of his characteristic fire, Mr. Wilkes pleaded for Minneapolis as follows: Mr. L. D. Wilkes— Mr. President and gen tlemen, upon the button it gays "St. Paul, the Center ol North America." I desire, on behalf of the Minnesota delegation, if it is the center c-f North America, to second my friends of Minneapolis and ask you to choose that city as the place of holding the next annual convention. I think it is fitting that a man from St. Paul should talk about Min neapolis; because if anybody knows about Minneapolis the St. Paul people do. (Laugh ter.) I was at dinner the other night where a man said to his wife, "Aaaie, the Dickins' seem to be changing coachmen." "Why," she says, "you shouldn't talk about your neighbors." "Well," he says, "we have got to talk about somebody, so I have got to talk about them." Now it seems to me a great deal of stress has been laid on what the convention will do for tie city where it goes. May I be permitted to say what the city of Minneapolis can do for the conven tion? It is easy to say nice things, but much easier to say nice things when these nice things are true. Minneapolis, with due re gard for Milwaukee, cannot show you the biggest brewery In the world, but she can shorw you one flour mill whose production will feed daily the entire city of New York, as it now stands (applause); and the pom bined forces of the mills, which are lined with golden grain, can feed the entire city of Greater New York and London combined for one year, if their products went there. No doubt many of you have been in Ire land (laughter), and those of you who have not have heard the praises of her green turf. You come with me along the beautiful boulevarded streets of Minneapolis and I will show you a turf that will make every Irishman green with envy. (Laughter.) You may talk about the Lakes of Killarney. You come with me to Calhoun, Harriet and Minnetonka, and then if you are not satis fled we will give you the Minne-"ha-ha." You gentlemen who have for your alma mater old Yale, old Harvard, or Ann Arbor, come with me to the eastern shore of the Mississippi and I will show you the Univer sity of Minnesota, which contains as many students as any of those that I have men tioned, that we are educating to send out over the fair land of this broad world. (Applause.) "We are not so slow" up in Minneapolis. (Laughter.) I have been there myself and I know what it is. (Laughter.) I tell you another thing: Supposing you bring along your wheel — not the one in your head, but those that you revolve upon; I will show you a system of boulevards that you may take all that you have ever seen for natural roads, and It will excel them ten to one. And when you talk about climate, gentlemen, why, what we have brought up here this afternoon is Just a sample, the faintest scin tilla, of what the Minneapolis climate is. Why, there is a cocktail in a mile walk in that climate. If you are at all inclined to spooning we can give you moonlight that will even pale Luna's best ray In the soft, sunny land of Italy. (Laughter.) The river flows for ten miles through the city of Min neapolis; and besides the mills, which grind out the golden grain, giving the staff of life to this country, you will find there, cut Into lengths, the tall, nodding pine, which but a few weeks before even almost kissed the clouds with its topmost branches. Why, we don't need much lumber In Minnesota. We have it for the animals, because of the So ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; but for us the climate is so de lightful that very little lumber, or any other material, is needed for habitation. A young man once said 10 me In Omaha — and he was a judge — "You come with me to church to morrow and I will show you the finest church for the display of millinery in the whole state of Nebraska." You come with me to Minneapolis and I say, without contradic tion, that I will show you the finest retail street that .this world has got. I challenge anybody who has even seen Nicollet avenue to say that there is another such shop ping street on the whole face of this coun try. A Delegate— St. Paul don't say so. Mr. Wilkes— That doesn't make any dif ference. St. Paul is talking now. I will take care of Sit. Paul all right Now, these people have talked to you about what the convention can do. Do you want us to do any more for the convention? Now let me tell you a lot of your people have seen all these beautiful electric cars and ev erything of that kind. When they get through with you in Minneapolis, and want to do a little something on the side after business is all over, and will take you on the finest electric system, and bring you over to the city where I have the honor to reside, and which has the honor to assist them in get ting this convention. (Applause.) About the first thing which you will see when you come down into our city will be a magnificent, grand structure. Its basement is composed of the granite of the state of Minnesota. Its superstructure is composed, or will be, of Georgia marble; thus forming an everlast ing example of the cementing of the North and South, and perpetual to our children and our children's cnildren for future generations. (Applause.) As I said, they have the finest business street, but they will take you along upon the edge of the bluff and show you "Summit avenue," which I say, without doubt, is the finest residence street America has ever had, or ever will have. I Just say these things on the side, but I want to impress upon you gentlemen that this convention can have no better time to do good work, as far as the convention goes for the work it does for the state; and in return she can do no better for herself than to come to the tireless, resistless, sleepless milling center of the great Northwest. Commenting later on this speech, Young E. Allison, editor of the Louis ville Insurance Herald, wrote: Mr. Wilkes seconded the nomination of yinneapolis in a short speech so full of care fully expressed and discriminatingly modest praise of the town that it set the conven tion wild with delight. Mr. Wilkes' appear ance of conscientious conviction of the ac curacy of his promises concerning the natural and acquired advantages of Minneapolis did the business. It is said that a delegate leaned over to another delegate— probably to Mr. Shideler, of Indianapolis— during the closing pulsations of Mr. Wilkes' rhetoric and Inquired in a hoarse whisper: "Do you really think all he's a-saying can be true?" "Well, if he ain't," replied the- other— probably Mr. Shideler, of Indianapolis— in ac cents of rising scorn, "he'd better a d— m sight quit life insurance and commence pray ing, for If they are all lies— and I half be lieve they must be — it doesn't seem to me that this present age will give him more than about thirty years' time to clean sin off his soul. And if I had the job to do, it would seem to me that thirty years would have to be spread out hlghtr thin to cover 'em up— if they are lies, thta is." There is another story— probably not more than 76 per cent true— that a delegate, full of admiration for the scorn with which Mr. Wilkes' oratorical feet spurned the terra flrma of irrelevant facts, approached him and asked him what business he was in in St. Paul. "Why," said Mr. Wilkes, -"I am the man ager there for the Equitable." "I didn't notice your name on the list of delegates," explained the stranger, "an.d so I thought perhaps the Minneapolis folks hired you to go around and help hustle for con ventions." M , . "Now what made you think that?" de manded Mr. Wilkes. who Is as amiable as a dove. j "Well," said the stranger, "to be right frank with you, I can't exactly understand how a man could get up in public the way you did and say things for' true that you said . about Minneapolis in— a— ej;— purely voluntary way. But I can see how he might say 'em if he was paid a big prfce to do it." "Call the ambulance, Hurd," cried Wilkes, as his strong frame trembled: "I fear this is a fatal blow; and to think, too, that I was only talking for Minneapolis. What would he have thought if he had heard me rise to the sublime theme of St. Paul itself, hey?" Mr. Wilkea la the author of that sublime Garments that are made for particular J§ * S£4 men, in which we compete with merchant Mffl& wM of what is correct. Our Business Suits at mW I poetic apostrophe beginning thus: "A silver sheen's o'er the cloudless moon In Minnesota's cloudless sky: But, ah, the wheat thit the moon helps grow Will turn to gold— so we won't mind moons." The fact that a St. Paul man would come all the way to speak a good word for Min neapolis earned for Mr. Wilkes the title "The Thirteenth Chapter of First Corinth ians." A WOMAN'S DEED. A BENEFACTRESS WHO IS DOIXG INCALCULABLE GOOD. Devotes Much of Her Time to the Benefits of Children— How She Helps Them. From the Evening News, Detroit, Mich. Mrs. John Tansey. of 130 Baker street, Detroit, Michigan, is one of those wom en who always know just what to do in all trouble and sickness. One that is a mother to those in distress. To a reporter she said: "I am the mother of ten children and have raised eight of them. Several ye ars ago we had a serious time with my daughter, which began when she was about sixteen years old. She did not have any serious illness but seem ed to gradually waste away. Having never had any consumption in our families, as we come of good old Irish and Scotch descent, we did not think it was that disease. Neither did she have a hacking cough, yet she grew thinner and paler each day. Our doc tor called the disease by an odd name which, as I afterward learned, meant lack of blood. ' "It is impossible to describe the feel ings John and I had as we noticed our daughter slowly passing away from us. As a last resort I was induced to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peo ple, made by the Dr. Williams Medi cine Company, Schenectady, N. T., which I understood contained in a con densed form all the elements neces a-y to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerve?. Be fore she had taken half a box, there was a decided change and after three months' treatment you would not have recognized her, as her health was so greatly improved. She gained in flesh rapidly and soon was in perfect health. I have always kept the pills in the house since and have recommended them to every one I could. I have told many mothers about them and they have made some wonderful cures. One of the girls had a young lady friend that came to the house almost every day, and she was a sight. Honestly, she seemed almost transparent. I did not care to have my daughters asso ciate with her, as I was afraid she would drop dead some day when they were out on the street. I recommend ed and begged her to take Dr. Wil liams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and told her of their sterling qualities and how the cost was slight, being only 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, at any druggist's. Finally I induced her to try them. "They helped her wonderfully, and undoubtedly saved her life. She now recommends them to other young wom en. "Every mother in this land should keep these pills in the house, as they are good for many other ailments. I don't believe in doctoring and never spent much money in medicines, but I can recommend Dr. Williams' Pink Pills to every mother that has a daugh ter just coming into womanhood." AVOID THE KLONDIKE, But Get a Farm While Farms Are to Be Had. Under the heading "The True Klon dike" Frank I. Whitney contributes a valuable article to "Home and Gar den " After speaking briefly of the mart rush of thousands of people to fhf Yukon gold fields, Mr. Whitney Sa £n P advice of Horace Greely, that it is *h/?,?tv of every man and woman. to own a nation of their mother earth sufficient to S™ them a comfortable living, has never beln so forcibly illustrated as at Present Tne cities are congested and overrun with ■>i £!nrt« the great increase of population 'from^atufal sources, together with the im from natural". Unlted states from for e^n ra countr?es indicates that by 1900 we will reach the 80.000.000 mark. There has not hien and there will not be, a square mile %a a tn the tillable acreage of the earth's surface and It is only a question of time then the food requirements of the people will demand the cultivation of every foot of i«nfl Hence he that is wise will improve Ihenresent chance, and get a home and farm, while the price is within his reach." Sold Some State Lands. State Auditor Dunn visited Anoka yester day and sold about 700 acres of state lands in that county. The lands were not very valuable, and there was little competition, the sales being made at the appraised price values practically, averaging about ?6 . per WORKS BOTH WAYS THE RILE ABOUT RETURNING IN SANE PAUPERS IS DOUBLE ACTING, IN SOME CASES, AT LEAST. BOARD OF CONTROL THINKS THAT AGENT GATES HAS BECOMK CONFUSED. TWO MEN ARE THE CAUSE OF IT. One Returned Front Los AnueleM to Ramsey Comity, the Oilier it Flxtnre Here. The members of the beard of control are laughing with sinister glee at State Agent W. A. Gates, of the state board of corrections and charities. They say Mr. Gates has put himself in a hole at his own expense. Two paupers have caused all the trouble. In 1894 Joseph Lepschi and his fam ily, consisting of a wife and four chil dren, left Ramsey county, where they, at that time, resided, and went to Los Angeles, Cal. Within six months af ter their arrival In that city Mr. Lep schi was committed to an insane asy lum, where he remained until the close of last winter. During his detention at the asylum his family received aid from the state in Los Angeles. As one year's independent residence is requir ed in California to secure a settlement in that state, the authorities of Los Angeles declared that the Lepschi family had no settlement there, inas much as Lepschi had been an inmate of an insane asylum during practically all of his residence there and his family had lived upon the public. Accord ingly the Los Angeles authorities sent the Lepschi family back to St. Paul. The board of control submitted this case to the board of chanties and cor rection. State Agent Gates cited the new state law, which is the same as that of California in that it requires a residence of one year to gain a legal settlement, from which must be de ducted any time spent in any hospital, almshouse or other public institution, or in receiving public aid. Therefore the Lepschi family had not gained a legal settlement in California, but still belonged to Ramsey county. The board of control acquiesced in this decision and will take care of the Lelpschl family, as residents of Ram sey county, to which they have been returned. Mr. Lepschi has been transferred from California to the Rochester asylum. But the board has scored a point on State Agent Gates in a case where the shoe seems to be on the other foot. Here Pauper No. 2 comes in. His name is Gottlieb Rau. Mr. Rau, a crippled old man, to gether with his wife and s"on and son in-law came to St. Paul from St. Thomas, Pembina county, N. D., in 1895. They applied to the board for relief and the board refused relief .be cause the applicants were non-resl dents. The son, who preceded his par- j er.ts, was quartered in St. Joseph's j hospital undergoing treatment for his ; eyes. The son-in-law assured the j board of control that he was going to ' work for the Wood Harvester com- j pany in a few days, and wanted only j temporary relief, to support his fath- ; er-in-law. He got it, and then turned j his father-in-law out of doors, so the members of the board of control say. , Since that time, beginning six weeks \ after their arrival in St. Paul, the ! board of control has provided for the ■ support of Gotlied Rau and his wife. | Therefore they have net secured a 1 settlement in St. Paul. When this case was referred to State ; Agent Gates, accompanied by a state- ; merit of the facts and dates, as re lated, Mr. Gates replies in a letter, in | which he holds that Gottlieb Rau has j obtained a legal settlement in Ramsey 1 county. Mr. Gates concedes that Mr. j Rau received gome aid, but not sum- I cient to reduce his period of residence j in Ramsey county to less than one j year. In consequence, the board of control i wants to know what is the matter ; with Mr. Gates. The board took caro j of Mr. Rau, not because it -:vas obliged B to, but out of consideration of human ity. He was an aged cripple with a blind son. Mr. Gates, so the board of control says, must have misunderstood the facts. Get Yotir Share! $1,000.00 in God will be given away bj the Sterling Remedy Con pany. The conditions of this liberal off. r are easy, attractive and interesting. Everybody ought to try and secure a share of the Gold. Read the big ad on page 20 of this issue. PRESENT TO MISS BERG. 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Th» t >keu rests In a neat case of blue and whit plush. 56.11M11 AVEXUE RODDKRV. R. C. Jefferson's Residence Is Raid ed by Thieves. A clever sneak thief entered the residence i of R. C. Jefferson. 276 Summit avenue, while | the family was at dinner, last evening anr 1 . succeeded in getting safely away with $2'jd i worth of property. The thief secured an en i trance through the front door, and. tiptoeing ; up the hall stairway, hastily searched ;ho second floor for valuables. In a front bH» room the prowler scoured a gold-filled hunf • Ing case watch and two Smith and Wesson ; revolvers, and from an adjoining apartment i took a sealskin cloak and a cape of like mi- I terial. Tiie garments had Just been returned ' from the furrier's, and hung conveniently in a closet. From the expeditious nature of the theft, It is thought to have been the accom plishment of a professional house workt r. who ■ doubtless had a pnl on the outside keeping I watch of those at the evening repast, ready 1 to give warning should any one leave tha ; table. The house had probably been selects! by : the thieves beforehand, as it Is EC/me dtstflrt" I from the street, with a large front por\: ' partly in the shadow, and It was possible f the adroit robber to manipulate the lock o:: the front door without fear of being Inter rupted from the outside. The door last even ing, however, was unlocked, and a noiseless turning of the knob gave the thief easy a - cess. Nothing disturbed the family dur ! ■ the intruder's operations, and the theft wai not discovered until the disarranged appea- ance of the upper rooms was noticed aftPT dinner. The theft was reported at the Ror.Jo street police station. €oUg!)s ana £oM$ Dr A.L. 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