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VOL. VII. NO. 29. 0S OF THE WEEK From all Parts of the New and Old World. BRIEF AND INTERESTING ITEMS Conipr»-ri«n«''« Iteriew ef the Import- ant Happenings of th* Ou> re At Week. The supreme court of Forresters is in session in Denver, Colo. • The coffee crop of Brazil promises to reach 10,000,000 bags, as against 9,000, --000 last season. Two young ladies from Alameda and ? ; in Francisco have gone to Trinity county upon a prospecting tour They are equipped with complete miners' out fits and are determined to work bard to find a paying claim. Edwin Ortrbin, of Chicago, has closed a ileal amalgamating the United States and Canadian Lakes Fisheries Com panies, whereby the control of 20 com panies passed into the hands of the British company with $5,000,000 cap ital. The British, Russian and. French ministers to Greece have notified their respective governments that it is ira possible for Greece to pay an indemnity exceeding £3,000,000 Turkish. It is understood that negotiations are on foot to induce Turkey to accept a smaller sum than the amount originally demanded. The county recorder in Great Bend, Kan., has reported the release of over (60 '"«l in chattel and real estate mort gages since August 1, and half of the crop has not been threshed. ; It is pre dicted that by the new year the county will lie in better shape than ever before and will look back on the largest acre age of wheat in the history of the county. •" Paul J. Henning, who has just ar rived in San Francisco, says the Amer ican flag is flying on Clipperton island. He has been living on the island with two other men and they successfully blocked the attempt of Captain Murt ray of the ship Kinkora, to hoist the British flag there three months ago. The Kinkora was wrecked and the three Americans held as wreckage nearly a million feet of lumber, which * was washed ashore. H. M.S. Com us vis ited the island later, but did not dis turb the Stars and Stripes nor enter a claim lor the lumber. ~ Peters & Roberts' furniture factory, of Portland, Or., was damaged by fire to the extent of $6,000. President Faure, of the French re public, visited Russia, and was royally welcomed by the czar at Cronstadt. ._■ It is reported that the government of Brazil is negotiating with, a European nation for the sale of one of her war ships in course of construction. .-.*; Governor Lord has pardoned Clar ence Wade out of the Oregon peniten tiary. He has been adjudged afflicted with consumption and not expected to lire. It is officially announced at Buenos Ayres that a.very large crop of grain is anticipated in the Argentine Republic. The wool clip, it is further stated, will be a heavy one. \7 A Seattle man has gone to Boston to secure 200 young ladies for an expedi tion to the Klondike gold fiel Is. It is said he will fit out a steamer and start early in the spring. '7 The warehouse of W. ;P. Fuller & j Co., in Portland, Or., was completely | <lestroved by fire. The "loss is ■ about ; $50,000 partly insured. The origin of i the tire is uncertain. * j A special from Lander, , Wye. says: i Daniel Tracy, a miner from - Leadville, \ has uncovered a vein of [ gold ore two feet eight inches wide in • the Wind I'iver range, on Gold creek. The ore ; is literally gemmed with gold the full j width of the vein. \X -'- 7 G. 11. Steel, sheriff, and Sam Young, ex-sheriff of Leslie county, both killed in a combat at Hyde, Kyy7 Both men fought to desperation With,pistols, \ and both fell dead in the fifth round 7 •Steel was a Democratic 7 leader and Young a Republican". They quarreled over politics. A great strike is on in "the building trades at Buda Pest. More than 20, --000 men are involved. 7 The strikers, in the endeavor to prevent . others from working, came repeatedly in conflict with the police, and desperate} pitched battles ensued in several of the princi pal streets of the city. Two hundred 1 arsons have been injured, some . dan gerously. The police have arrested; 100 of the ringleaders. 7 "■. XX^ ;..-• 777 Telegraphic advices | from 7 the i New York Herald's correspondent in Rio Janeiro state that the official report of oi>erations against the fanatics! around Canudos during the 7 last few weeks show that 2,400 Brazilian troops have been wounded;;^Gf^^difilculty^ is found in transporting arms, ammuni tion and stores to the government ow ing to interference by the fanatics. -In the meantime large forces (ofj fanatics, all well armed, have appeared : in c : the states of Sao Paulo and - Haran. They have invaded several : plantations' and small towns. * '. * S. J. Hatchett, formerly, secretary of the Los Anglees chamber of commerce, *ho had charge of the Los Angeles ex hibit at the world's fair and mysteri ously disappeared before the exposition dosed, is ; said ;to have been seen in Chicago. His wife has mourned him a3 dead. The informant states that Hatchett told him he had concluded to •hop out of sight, and cautioned him to say nothing about having met him. President McKinley spoke at the Grand Army encampment at Buffalo. 8W_ ill- ■ ■ ■ S^lSililHflvf^ ' ■ -I- m\ " l^J/_m\mm^^m\\vmi M - ___t''"" "''"--!■_ :_j_;-:' "• ■ ':- FRIDAY HARBOR, SAN : JUAN COUNTY, WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER^T^^. DIRECT FROM DAWSON The Column Bring,, Four Klondike™ and Lots of News. . Port Townsend, Wash., Aug. 27.— The schooner J. M. Colman, which left St. Michaels, at the mouth of the Yu kon July 28, ,was > spoken last night off Race rocks at 9:30 by the tug Vigilant,. which was in the straits watching for the arrival of the steamer Portland. 7 The Colman brings four passengers who have been on |the Klondike, and who left Dawson City July 17. The passengers are { Charles ' H.:; Metcalfe, of Detroit, Mich.; B. E. Jones, of Berk ley, Cal.; an assayer for the Alaska Commercial Company, at Dawson; C. B. and Z. B. Patrick, brothers from Humboldt, Cal. ; 77*7 ■" H They left Dawson 10 days 1 after the Thorp party, who arrived at Seattle last Saturday on the steamer George E. Starr, from Dyea. They all tell stories of the richness of the Klondike, Bonanza and Eldorado creeks, but all say that ., few clean-ups have been made since the early sum mer. :- 77-'-T ** -■ Mr. ; Metcalfe hast been engaged in the merchandise business at Dawson City, Circle City and other points for three years past, and has been out every year. He goes in each year over - the Dyea trail, and last spring took in 20 tons of freight. It took him from March 6to May 1 to get his freight over the pass with one man, two horses and eight dogs. From Lake Lindemann to Daw son City he was 14 days. 7 When the Colman left St. Michaels, there were about- 12 \ men waiting to come out on the Portland and another steamer with passengers was expected down the river before the time set for the sailing of the Portland for St. Michaels. The men waiting at St. Michaels all had from $5,000 to $15,000, but no phenomenal strikes were - reported by them. -; With regard to ascending the Yu kon, Mr. Metcalfe" said it takes from 20 to 25 days to go from St. Michaels to Dawson City, and passengers leaving Seattle later than August 20 will have about as much* chance of reaching Daw son City this fall as they have of flying to the moon. The Lippey claim, on Bonanza creek, from which gold amounting to $112, --000 was taken, he said, was one of the best-developed claims in the group. Others will doubtless prove just as rich when fully developed. ... 1 The first claim located on Bonanza creek was named discovery, and ?is recognized by the miners as the center of the field, other claims being num bered each way from it. Sixty claims are now located above and •90 below; discovery, in all 15 miles being taken. On Eldorado creek, which empties, into Bonanza, 60 claims are located, the 20 nearest the conjunction of the creeks being fabulously rich. • ; - From one claim located on Skookum gulch, tributary to Bonanza creek, N. W. Porters, of Denver, .and ;. Joseph Goldsmith, of Juneau, took $5,000 in nuggets, ignoring fine gold. They af terwards sol_ the claim for $25,000 in cash. They worked only four weeks. Bear creek, a small tributary to the Klondike, is also remarkably rich in gold.:- -.',-; 77"- X ; >* ':X^X B. E. Jones, of Berkley, Cal., said: "I should say there are about 2,500 people in Dawson City and on the creeks around there. . "This summer only about 20 claims have been worked, and thus far not a large sum of money has been taken out. Most everybody is getting ready for the winter's work^ which will bepushed as vigorously this year as last. "As far as I can estimate, the great wealth of the Klonkide is heading out. Still, the amount of gold that will come; down this fall will not; be as large as estimated in some quarters. I should say that there will be in the neighborhood lof 175 men down by the Portland and Excelsior, and a very fair average to each man would not exceed 110,000. 1 Many will bring down prac tically nothing. . "* "I would not care to say What the Alaska Commercial Company has in gold on hand. "7- v . - "At one X time gold was so plentiful at Dawson that people did not know what to ;"■ do with ; it. Trading com panies' safes were filled, and the stuff ? was packed away in-saloons and in any place miners could find. But most of the gold was taken out when the clean ups were completed last spring. Since then, there has not been such a large amount of gold coming out, as the wet season does not -permit of excavating. XV "This winter there will be about 600 1 claims in active operation. They will nearly all do well..accord to present indications/ and next winter's output \ will be proportionately as large as last, although there will not be as many very rich strikes. "The -bench claims are turning out well; much better in fact than was ex pected. v The upper end of some of the creeks that are rich at the mouth range from 15 to 20 cento to the pan.. 7 77 ; Vi "As to supplies, I.believe r there will be fully 4,500 tons taken up on the ; river boats owned by the trading com panies. Only about half of this, bo ever, ? represents provisions, the ' other being supplies. ... - , ,': 7. "Last year ice began run in tne Yukon as early as September 28, and (if the river begins to freeze as early this year, many of the boats now going np and intended for the Klondike will not get though until next year." San Francisco, Aug. 27.—Professor W. Campbell, of the Lick observa tory, will head the expedition to India, made possible through the i generosity of the late Colonel C. F. Crocker, to observe tbe next total eclipse of the _un. The Lick expedition will be the only one leaving the United States. Tbe time of the eclipse would, be in California ju»t before midnight Janu ary 21, 1898, but in India it will take ; place *hree qnartera ol aa hour after [ noon on tbe 7^ •-■. . ■ • . - . - ' " ', • . " . * . • - • -X- . - '•'- > . XV .--^:.xx, ... <:..X.x. X X. AN ASSASSIN'S BULLET Death of Borda, President of Pepublic ot Uruguay. THE MURDERER WAS A YOUTH Crime Occurred as the President Was Leaving; the Cathedral—Previous Attempts Made on His Life. Montevideo, Aug. 27.—During the national fete ■'. here today,. President Borda was shot and killed by an assas sin. 'XV V 'XV 'V-'cVX :77 : :XX:'X> The assassin is a youth named Arre dondo. ;;>■' . 7. President Borda died almost imme diately after he was shot. Senor Cuedtas, president of the sen ate, has assumed the presidency of the republic ad interim. The assassination of President Borda j occurred as he was leaving the cathe i dral, where the "Te Deura" had been | sung. The assassin was arrested. Other attempts had been made re cently to assassinate Borda. A few i days ago the president, accompanied by his aid, Lieutenant-Colonel Terrehene, I was horseback riding. Just as lie dis | mounted in front of the government palace, a youth approached and drew \ a pistol. Lieutenant-Colonel Terrehene 1 struck up the arm of the would-be as sassin and the ball passed over the i president's head. _* Another attempt to assassinate him was made May 10, when he received a bomb sent from La Plata, Argentina. It was arranged to explode. The box was turned over' to the police, and de stroyed. LUIGI IS SUCCESSFUL. '.' • The Italian Party Reached the Summit of Mount St. Elias. '" Seattle, Aug. 27. —A special to the Post-Intelligencer from Nanaimo, B. C, says: Prince Luigi, of Savoy, and party of Italians, reached the summit of Mount St. Elias, July 31, at 12 o'clock noon. The altitude indicated by the mercurial barometer is ; 100 feet. It was the most successful expe dition ever undertaken. The party was 51 days on the snow and ice without sickness or accident. The Italians are returning on the Topeka. The Aggie left Sitka with the Seattle packers aboard August 20. The Bryant party abandoned the trip at the foot of Newton glacier on account of the sickness of Packer Hix. Major E. S. Ingraham, of Seattle, is on the Topeka. The Luigi party was 41 days ascending the mountain and 10 days descending it. Benefits of the Expedition. 7 Seattle, Aug. 27.—-A Victoria special to the Post-Intelligencer says: The ex pedition has determined two facts of prime importance to the scientific world. It has fixed once for all the altitude of Mount St. Ellas at 18,100 feet. The figures are subject only to such slight correction as may change the total 30 or 40 feet either way. 7 The expedition has also answered de finitely and in the negative the question so long asked by scientists as to wheth er or not St. Elias was not at one time a great volcano. -There is not the slightest indication of volcanic action anywhere. The mountain, like'; its neighbors, appears to have ;been raised in the - ocean, I tangible - evidence of its; cradling, in the deep being found in many fossil shells, sandstone and beds of pebbles. - i 7"77 A new glacier Was discovered on the eminence of the mountain between the August 7 mountains and Great Logan. It takes' its ;course;; apparently to the sea,-and was named after Prince Co lombo. This was the ; only geograph ical christening during the trip. The Russell expedition landed at the head of Yucat bay, quite a distance from the point ft which Luigi made his debarkation. The route was abso lutely unknown. Advancing up the glaciers and. moraines took 39 days, dr. until July 4, which day the | prince de clared for the entire party a general holiday. They had then risen no more than 8,000 feet, in covering a tramp of 50 miles, but so difficulfand rough had I been - the t journey that all were quite ready for the 24 hours' rest. The Americans in the party raised the Stars and Stripes over the camp in the great hills, and Prince Luigi and his party cheered again and again in honor of the flag. 77 '■'.;;7 rXXX -77 At Pinnacle pass was found the first evidence of Mr. Russell's expedition in 1891, in the shape of . a.; tent; bottom; and a single fork. * Finally, the; foot .of the divide connecting Mount St.; Elias and Mount 'J Newton was reached, with a supply of 'provisions to last 12 days.; r >At 1 o'clock on the morning of July 31 they commenced the ascent of the great mountain. For 11J hours the up ward climb was made, and exactly five ■ minutes before il2 o'clock the Vsummit; of St. Elias was• beneath the feet of the explorers. Tbe hour upon Ilhe summit , was employed in planting tbe flagstaff, from which the Italian flag was given to the wind. Wsmi' Gold Found in Illinois. Canton, 111., Aug. 27.—G01d auartV has been dicovered near here, and the find is said to bericb in ore. ; X A Bicycle Tibe Combine. London, Aug. 27.—The St. James's Gazette ' this afternoon says Jan agree ment has; been reached between the leading bicycle tube makers of Bir mingham and America by which no ■ one will be supplied under a fixed price. Tlie organizers claim that every tubemaker will be compelled to join. Electricity has been adopted as the motive power of the machinery con nected with the drainage system of New Orleans. - lMmx ■■ ' ■ -. - ' RESULT OF THE CONFERENCE Meeting Between Miners and Operators Ended in a Disagreement. j Pittsburg, Aug. 26.—At the coal operators' meeting this afternoon, the miners'. ultimatum to return to work at the 69-cent rate, pending 1 arbitra tion, was rejected. - The operators will now carry out the plan made at the Cleveland conference, and will open all \ their mines. 7 7 ' -.■.'-:]'■-<■- • The operators' conference was in secret ', session for several hours, and when the doors were opened the press committee ; announced that the mines would certainly be started with the old diggers if possible, or with imported men, if the old men refuse to ork. A committee was appointed, composed of representatives of every firm in the dis trict, to map out the mode of procedure for the resumption. ' - ' The press committee issued a state ment tonight purporting to be -an ac count of the proceedings in conference. After reciting the several propositions under discussion in the conference, and which assert that the j miners peremp torily reject all the propositions sub mitted by the operators, the report says that the operators have exhausted every effort in trying to bring about a settle ment with the officials of the miners, whose proposition could not be accept ; ed, because it meant an advance of 273, per cent in wages, and would entail irre parable losses on the producers. The report adds: :..'.'■- , "Amicabli and conciliatory methods have failed to convince or to move the leaders. The responsibility for what ever privations follow to the miners and their families must rest upon the miners' officials. The miners' officials having rejected the proposition made j for an agreement, the operators can ' only ask the miners to consider the ex isting conditions and - ask themselves whether they are justified in continu ing a line of action which is dicta torial. - Then it is broadly stated that the action of Ratchford is not above suspi | cion, and it is strongly intimated tha_t : the miners' officials are acting in league I with the Hocking Valley operators, i against the interests of the Pittsburg district miners. At noon the conference between the coal miners' national district officials I and the operators closed, and the con . ! ference adjourned without day. The miners' representatives did not recede from their original proposition ! to settle the strike by arbitration and j start the mines at the 69-cent rate. | The operators offered to divide the dif erence between the 54 and 69-cent rates, making the price at which the miners should start 61>_j cents per ton,, but this was rejected. Then .additional propositions were made. ; One was to j start the mines without fixing any price j for 30 days, and then to pay the rate | agreed; upon by the board- of arbitra ! tion. This was also refused the miners, as they said they had * been fooled too often to trust the operators. They de -1 clined to work for a month, giving the operators the output for that length of time without knowing what wages should be paid. 7 .-- --: A proposition was then made to operate the mines for ten days without fixing the price, a board of arbitration to fix the price for that time. Presi- I dent Ratchford insisted that nothing j but the 69-cent rate could possibly be I accepted. The operators were * firm, but the miners were equally determined. Every . argument of the operators was met by the miners' leaders. It was, I therefore decided to end the conference. President Ratchford gave out : the fol lowing statement: 7 ~ "We have disagreed. Our .proposi tion remains unchanged. Beside our ! proposition to arbitrate we made them a second one along the line of ' bringing about a general conference of the miners and operators of all the mining states. They refused to lend their efforts in that direction and ] the 1 strike was con tinued. We have no other plans for j the future." ' Immediately after the close of the conference, J. B. Zertue ■ called a meet ing of operators for 2 .'o'clock, this after noon to discuss the plan decided upon at the Cleveland jj conference ;to make a fight to; start tbe mines with the old men if they can be induced to dig at 54 'cents, or to import men to take their places. Others, however, say they will not aid in carrying. out this plan, and ' favor a complete surrender. •; 7 Quiet prevails in the strikers' camps about the DeArmitt mines. Both sides are awaiting the decision of the court iin the cases of the five men arrested on^ Saturday morning.; 7 -■.-•-■;-, The Stickeen Route. San Francisco, Aug. 26. —A new route is to be established to the placer fields of -the Klondike.; The journey will be made from this city to Wrangel," where a steamer be / taken up the ■ Stickeen river, a distance of 70 miles. From that point to Lake * Teelin the ; trip will be made .by, stage. Lake Tes * lib is at the head < of the ~ Hootingula river, and from there * steamer will ply on Lewis and Yukon rivers to Daw ; son City, a distance of 450 miles. The stage line* will: be {owned and man aged \by ; John Allman, the well-known stage proprietor^ -X He will -place7o coaches and 100 horses on the^road.;- The fare for the staging is to be $1 a mile for passengers. ~. •■--,'- • ■-;__■■■ -■_ --•■"-■ _ ', ■" •". •■■ '"-T: Parchment used on the best ban is made from wolf skin. ■ 577J7 - — ~~i ~ ,^777 ■ Paris, Aug. 26.8ar0n Macau, one of the chief promoters of the charity bazaar, of the Rue Jean Goujon, which was burned May 3, with the loss of ■ over a hundred lives, has been senten ced to pay a fine of 500 francs. One of the employes of the oinemetograph establishment, the section in which the fire broke out, was sentenced to one year's imprisonment and fined, and I an- 1 other employe was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment and to pay a! fine. ' j*£-v-V,*^^>z?:;~x:{ r ' : x ; 7 - -* FIDS FOR MINERS Scheme by Which Strikers Hope to Raise Money. THEY WILL START UP THE MINES Hope to • Secure the Co-operation :of . Friendly Operatorsßow Between Workers and Non-Workers. Pittsburg, Aug. 24.—Developments in the coal mining situation in Pitts burg district will be watched with un usual I interest this week. Both sides were apparently at rest V today, but it was developed that at the conference tomorrow there will j probably be dis ruption. By many it is believed that M. D. Ratchford, president of the miners' organization, will not be pres ent. It is claimed he will stick to his. assertion that he will not agree to arbi trate unless all the states involved are represented. It is a well-known fa<_t that the operators of other states will not join local operators in a movement for arbitration. If Ratchford is obdu rate, the conference will be useless.. This, in brief, is the situation and it is apparent that both sides are making preparations for movements that will be to their benefit. X V:. 7/ From a reliable source it was learned that if the operators start mines on the lines laid down, other mines will also be started by the miners. It is pro posed to select operators who are not represented at the conference, and who are friendly to the miners. They will be given permission to mine coal at the rate demanded and the coal stored. By this means it is expected: to get a fund from the union miners that happen to be working, and with this fund pay ex penses of a fight against imported labor. The miners' officials are making ar rangements to have a fund on hand to send foreign labor home just as fast as it arrives. With mines operated under the jurisdiction of the labor leaders, and with friendly operators who desire to make a profit, they hope to have an available and large fund. . This plan has been outlined, and will be submit ted to the national officials if the con ■ ference proves a failure. Religious services were held in the several camps today, and all were largely attended. Notwithstanding the religious air pervading the camp, a con flict between workers and strikers took place in the afternoon, . during which three strikers were badly hurt, but none are in a serious condition. Five of the men who are working for the New York & Cleveland Gas Coal Company this afternoon went to W. A. Semon's boarding house, half a mile from Oak Hill tipple, where a number of strikers are quartered, for the purpose of per suading the strikers to go to work. The meeting was a stormy one, and resulted in Antonio Podasky being shot near the heart, the bullet going nearly through his body. Gonronng Pimold was shot in the eye and Bostiste Dal meise was cut with a razor. The in jured men are all strikers. This was the only disturbance recorded at the camps today. The aggressive workmen escaped before the men in the Oak Hill camp were aware of the fight. : The .report that ; Sandy Creek camp will Ibe abandoned is denied by the strikers today, and they say that the men will be sent there from Plum Creek and Turtle Creek. In addition to the general missionary work for the week, the leaders have de cided to 1 direct especial work to the pre vention of V operations at the Sandy Creek mine. The strikers say they will resume their marching tactics in the morning, ; claiming that under / the ruling of Judge Goff, in the West Vir ginia cases, they are given this right. Samuel DeArmitt says tonight that 150 to 175 men will be at work in the Plum Creek mine tomorrow;-: 7:;; : It is announced | that the -New York & Cleveland Gas ; Coal Company will make eight ; evictions, tomorrow j from different ■■ company houses. 7lt is ". not probable there will be any trouble. ||§ The sheriff does not say tonight what course he wills pursue Hin; the morning should marching begin, but thinks he is ready to meet every emergency. 7■'■'■ Sympathy for the : strikers by the farmers and citizens is not diminishing in the ,least. Today there were about 700 visitors to the camp from Sandy creek, and many . farmers V who came brought wagonloads of provisions. Citizens of New j; Texas sent word that they had plenty of food for the men and wanted them to call on them '. when needed. - 7. Ratchford'B Expectation*. Columbus, 0., - Aug. President Ratchford ; said tonight V before leaving Pittsburg that he expected ;as the re suit\ of the;conference % tomorrow with the Pittsburg operators a conference of all coal operators fand miners of the country would •be called soon to con sider a settlement of '•: the strike. ;He did not anticipate any other result from; ! this conference. 'Xi SecretaryPearce will j also attend the conference. ; 7 Lagos, West Coast of Africa, Aug. 24. The king of Benin,-; after wandering _ in the bush since the capture of Benin City by the British last February, came ;i in' son 7 August '7, with 800 un armed blacks, and surrendered to the British commander. - Murder Followed by Suicide: Nashville, Aug. 24.— J. B. Rich, a young white man, shot and killed his wife tonight, at the home of her mother, in the East Nashville. He then killed his brother-in-law, shooting him twice. He shot himself twioe, inflicting fatal wounds. Rich, a week ago, filed a bill for divorce, alleging infidelity. Today he was ; arrested, charged with kidnap ing one of the children, and it is sup posed tha arrest enraged him and led to the commission of the crime. feafie?' *-r- -~ .--/ t. - 7 7 \ A REINDEER EXPRESS. Government May Furnish Connection Between Alaska Points. 7 Washington, Aug. 25.—Some inter esting t statements relating to the gold region in Alaska and the reindeer ex periment there are brought out in the annual statement of United States Com missioner of Educatoin Harris, sub mitted today. Touching on the import ance of extending the introduction of reindeer into that territory, the report says the reindeer stations ought to be able to furnish 500 reindeer trained to the harness at once for use of miners on the Upper Yukon river. ,", V- • "It was my purpose," the commis sioner goes on "to > detail three 'of the skilled herdsmen and 800 tarined rein deer to the Yukon region the present summer.' 7 | If this arrangemment is carried * out as intended, an important experiment will be in progress I during the - coming year at the gold mines. The plan of the bureau has been to arrange a rein deer express, connecting towns in a line from Behring straits to Kodiak island. Superintendent of Reindeer Stations Kjollmanni last September proved the practicability of this by making a trial trip on this route. Two of his party were able to take the steamer at Kat mai, sailing to Sitka in March. This ararngement once completed, it will be possible for business companies in San Francisco and other cities to hold com munication with their whaling fleets during the winter, north of .the Arctic circle. There have been maintained in Alaska 20 day schools, under the supervision of the interior department, with 23 teachers and an enrollment of 1,267 pupils. A public school was opened at Circle City in the Yukon mining dis trict, but the department's agent, writ ing from St. Michaels, says he is afraid he will be forced to discontinue it, be cause of the exodus of the city's popu lation into the region nearer the re cently discovered mines. The influx of miners into the Yukon has caused a demand for reindeer for freighting purposes. In the original plan of the purchase and distribution of reindeer, the purpose was to secure a new food supply for the famishing Eskimos of the Behring sea and the Arctic ocean region, but it is now found that reindeer are as essential to white men as to Eskimos. The wonderful Yukon placer mines are situated 25 to 100 miles from the great stream. Pro visions brought from the south and landed on the banks of j the river are, with great difficutly, transported to the mines on the tributary streams. Last winter mongrel dogs, for transportation purposes, cost from $100 to $200 each, and freight charges from the river to the mountain range from 15 to 20 cents per pound; The trained reindeer make in a day two or three times the distance covered by dog teams, and have the ad vantage that they can use the abundant moss as food. TRAMPS ARE BLAMED. Misplaced Switch Derails an Excursion _ Train Near Chicago. Chicago, Aug. 25.An engine at-; tached to a heavy excursion train on the Chicago & Calumet Terminal Rail road was derailed last night near Riv erdale. The passengers were thrown from from their seats by the jar and one man was 7 probably V. fatally injured. Seven others received slight injuries. After a delay of two hours the engine was raised to the track and the train proceeded. - 7/i It is very evident that the accident was caused by ; a misplaced switch, be lieved to have been the work of tramps. The switch was \ found broken in two places. The baggage-car was telescoped over the cab and coal tender. Murray, one of the injured, was riding in /this car, and was caught in the debris. He was dug out unconscious and may die. The force of the shock was so great that the track was literally torn out of the ground. There were 500 passengers on board, and had the train not been running at a slow rate of speed, a ter rible loss of life would have resulted. California's Klondike. - Carrville, Cal., Aug. 23.—William Truax and his partner, an actor named Dillon, have struck what is said to be one of the richest ledges that have been found in this district. The men only arrived here about noon on Monday; and before sundown Truax, who is / a miner recently from Cripple Creek, had foun i what will: probably mean . a for tune for both. This latest find is sit uated on Morrison creek just below/ the Graves brothers' claim and above the Davis placer mine. The two men were up at daylight yesterday morning, and by noon had stripped enough to /show them a ledge two feet wide of "wonder^ ful richness. ; Dillon came from Sacra mento, where he was stopping. t .*7// Gold in California.;;/-// VVV X TQuincy, Cal., Aug. 25.—The re port - which came from > the vicinity of the Thistle shaft that "Lucky Antone," an Italian, had made ,SIO,OOO strike in a week, 7is -. confirmed by J. W. Cordoroy, a stagedriver, who also brings the news that /Charles Fish, who has a gravel claim at the \ junction of Nelson creek and Feather river, took $3000 'from his claim last week. Nel son creek vis ' considered /the y ; richest stream •. in V Plumas county and \ many paying * claims ' are located along; itr banks and bed. . - -".->,, ./„ 7 ; Ice Blocked the Way. London, Aug. 24.—A special dispatch from Gjaetsvar, Norway, says that Captain Beade's polar expedition, com posed of Austrians and Hungarians, has safely returned from the icy sea. The ship was unable to proceed beyond lati tude 80 degrees 40 minutes north, on account of great masses of ice. Messrs. Eaton and Faxon have made collections of nearly 40 species of North American sphagna or peat mosses, with ■any varieties, in all 172 specimens. PRICE 5 CENTS.77 NORTHWESTBREVITIES Evidence of Steady Growth and Enterprise. ITEMS OP GENERAL INTEREST From All the Cities and Towns of the Thriving Bister States ..".•-»■ ■■"-'-'■' '"__ .'.'■'-".•' >j>,v:, j' j —Washington.,.. Seven cents Is now paid for fish in Blame. L 77v;77 ; The season for shooting ducks and geese began on the 15th inst. Huckleberries from the Blue moun tains are selling in Dayton for 50 cents a gallon. --*.'' The Star route daily mail service be tween Blame and New Whatcom will be re-established September 1. The assessment of Douglas county this year is increased nearly $1,000,000 over the valuation of last or any previ ous year. The constitutionality of the grain in spection act, passed by the legislature of 1895, is to be tested in the supreme court. - 7*7 "7 .?".- The asssessor has completed the assessment rolls for Whatcom county. The total amount of property ia $10, --238,578, of which $748,000 "is personal property. 7 The Northern Pacific Railway Com pany became owner of 9,000 more acres of land in Chehalis county, having re corded a government patent for that amount of land last week. The Island County Horticultural So ciety has met and. decided to hold a fair at Coupeville about the middle of September. The executive committee is busy selecting premiums. The fair will be larger and will be continued longer than last year. The state land commissioner is pre paring a schedule of the state school and granted lands in each county of the state. These lists are to be posted in the county auditor's office of the sev eral counties for information of those seeking to lease. A schedule for Yaki ma has already been completed, and other counties will be taken up as fast as possible. Better wages are being paid at pres ent for harvest hands than ever before in the history of Adams county. Farmers have bid as high as $3 per day for help to do the same work that had been done in the past for $1.50, and not half enough men could be secured even at that figure. All spring-sown grain is now ripe, and in order to save it farmers must harvest soon. The hay crop in the Kittitas valley is pretty well cut and is rapidly getting into the bale. During July 85 car loads, of 10 tons each, a total of 850 tons, were shipped, most of it going to Puget sound. This month's ship ments will still be heavier, and as the price has ranged from $7.50 to $9, it has brought a good deal of money into the valley. The prospects are good for the price going still higher. ■ An important meeting of shingle and lumber manufacturers was held in Ta coma last week, for the purpose of adopting a uniform list and to prevent the cutting of prices. Star shingles were set at $1.30 to $1.35, clear at $1.40 to $1.45, with the usual differ ences on lower grades. An advance of $1 per 1000 was made on cedar and I spruce siding, and all | other grades of dressed and rough lumber were held at j the prevailing scale of the larger mills. The total cargo shipments for July/ from 11 of the leading mills of Wash ington show 30,486,493 feet of lumber and 4,894,762 lath, of which 15,768, --499 feet of lumber were foreign, an in crease over June of 6,000,000 feet. Oregon. -./, .Lane county warrants are selling at 102 cents on the dollar. - Seven carloads of old wheat were shipped from Sheridan last week. A Pol k county, farm located near An tioch was sold for $10,000 ; last week. The foundry at Oswego ; has started up on a two weeks' order, and may run longer. -, ■ - ■-•■ ■■-,■', ',- / '-X^^s^M 7.The -board of management of thel Commercial Association 'of Umatilla county has decided to send an exhibit of Umatilla products to the Spokane fruit fair. '■ .\_ ' -. _ An injunction has been granted by Judge Fullerton against Coos county, restraining the sheriff; from selling the | property of the Southern Oregon com pany, attached for delinquent taxes. / /There are : 26,000 acres planted jin !; prunes in Oregon— 15,000 -of ■; them in 7 the Willamette valley, 6,500 in the Rogue River valley. The coast coun- _' ties . and i Eastern Oregon have '{ 2,000 mat, ' ' ~ , - - : A miner arrived in Marshfleld a few. days ago i from the Salmon /Mountain,/ mines with about five ounces of gold. -/ He had with him one nugget worth about $88./ He found the gold on John son creek. --'■ There are nine combined harvesters V operating in Sherman - and Gilliam / counties. 7By this; method of harvest- >/ ing, farmers near the /railroad / are en- -.._ *. abled to "start their' machinery and 7 teams going ;in tbe morning g and by noon have their wheat in the ware- i bouses. Engineer J. G. Holoombe is making / preparations to survey the Tillamook and Nehalem ; bars. Alfred • Williams and Fred Arthur have engaged ,to assistg in making the sounding. It is done with a view of preparing a « estimate for.tbe improvement of the bars. Elk and deer hunters on the Lower Nehalem and Salmon berry rivers report game very scarce this year. . Two and \ • three years ago elk were so plentiful that they oould be easily tracked, bat m this season they are so scaroe that tracks are not to be found, only rarely* :• . :•' ■