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WAR m TBE BORDER
SERIOI S CLASH BETWEEN AMERI
CAN AND CANADIAN MINERS -
IN ALASKA
FOUR MEN REPORTED KILLED
1 uiMiill.-iiis Hart Planted Their Flag
on American Territory and Pro
ceeded to Take PossesHlon Bat
tle U :is Brought on by Some One,
Vnkuovvu, Firing A Shot Daring a
Parley.
NEW YORK, March 17.— A special from
Vancouver, B. C, says: Carl Slummer
fclt, a German, who was a passenger on
board the steamer Tees, which has ar
rived here from the Lynn canal, brought
the news that a battle had been fought
between American and Canadian miners,
a few miles off the Dalton trail. Four
men are reported to have been killed out
right and a number of others are said to
have been seriously wounded.
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Columbia was enforced a few months ago
the American miners left Atlin, the new
Canadian gold district, and struck north
a short distance off the Dalton trail, on
the Porcupine river, a district rich in
placer gold. It was generally conceded
that the new placers were ln American
territory, and that Americans vowed that
no Canadian should stake a claim. Some
Canadian mounted policemen, however,
did stake claims ln the American terri
tory, and justified their acts by moving
the Canadian flag from Mt. Pleasant on
the trail, so as to make the line take in
a rich part of the district.
They were followed by at least forty
Canadian miners, who all located good
claims. A fortnight ago, about 100 Amer
ican miners held a meeting and decided to
send notices to all Canadians to leave the
country within five days.
HOW IT HAPPENED. J
The notices were sent out, but no heed i
was paid to them. Slummerfelt, who I
left the Porcupine river district two weeks j
ago, says:
"Early in the morning of the sixth day
the American miners met and proceeded
to the Canadian camp.
"I don't believe they intended bloodshed
although they were fully armed. Before
they could even state the object of their
visit, some one— l don't know from which
party— fired a shot, and then every one
seemed to be shooting. Several rounds
were fired and four men, I was told, were
killed outright— an American and three
Canadians.
"The battle was very brief and resulted
in the Canadians, about fifty ln number,
flying across the border. The Americans
then retired to their own camps. I was
Informed that the following Americans
were leaders In the battle, but cannot say
for certain: C. G. Lewis and Charles
Leiteh, of Los Angeles; W. Shaw, of
Minneapolis: A. McConnaughy, Chicago,
and F. Will Borough, of Denver.
"I did not ascertain the names of the
killed. From my location, abou_ fifteen
miles north of the Porcupine 'river, I
heard that a squad of Canadian North
west mounted police had left Lake Tag
ish for the Porcupine, the news of the
fight having reached them. The Ameri
cans are determined, and I fear there
will be another conflict.
"There is no doubt in my mind that
the new district ls in American territory."
Slummerfelt's story is unconfirmed, but
reports received here about two weeks
ago from the district predicted a clash
if the Canadians did not leave the terri
tory.
TROUBLE WAS EXPECTED.
WASHINGTON, March 17.— The hostile
collision between the American and Ca
nadian miners, reported from Vancouver,
is exactly what was apprehended by the
representatives of the United States gov
ernment in the late Canadian conference.
It ls said by one of these officials that
they were sadly embarrassed ln their ef
forts to settle the Alaskan boundary dis
pute by the British Columbia legislature,
which, so far from endeavoring to se
cure a peaceful adjustment of the bound
ary difficulties, had, by the passage of
irritating legislation, done much to re
tard an agreement.
With infinite difficulty tha joint com
missioners had succeeded in reaching an
agreement to which all could subscribe
looking to the settlement of this bound
ary question, and of the conflicting min
ing interests generally. Within" a week
the British Columbia legislature had
passed an act nullifying completely all
of the interests which the American
miners had so painfully and expensively
acquired in the new Atlin district. This
caused great irritation, and was the sub
ject of considerable discussion before the
commission. It was believed, however,
that, with the ratification of the treaty
which was expected to be negotiated, car
rying with it the proposition for the set
tlement of the mining controversies, the
THE ST. PAUL, G1,08_3, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1899.
obnoxious law would be vacated by the
superior force of the treaty.
Apprehensive of trouble in the failure
of that instrument, the two governments,
United States and Great Britain, reach
ed an arrangement, in the nature of a
modus vivendi, roughly denning by cer
tain landmarks the boundary between
the British and American possessions ln
the Klondike section, down to Britsh Co
lumbia. The officials here cannot tell from
the vague report brought by the "Van
couver dispatch just where the collision
took place between the American and Ca
nadian miners, so it is impossible to tell
who is at fault. It is said, however, that
the Canadians have been particularly ag
gressive in this boundary matter right
along; that they have several times ad
vanced the lines of the boundary claim
ed by them, and that in each case this
extension coincided or followed very
closely the discovery of new gold fields in
the vicinity.
JUDGES REMAIN HIDDEN.
Missouri Court in the Brush Cannot
Be Found by the Marshal.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.. March 17.— 15. R.
Uurham, United States marshal, has re
ceived information from Osceola, in St.
Clair county, that the judges of the new
county court, Nevitt, Walker and PeJen,
are still holding secret sessions hidden
in some unknown part of the county, so
as to avoid the deputy marshal, who is
waiting for them with a process from the
United States court as soon as they ap
pear in the court house. The county clerk
and the sheriff attend the secret sessions,
but will not divulge the meeting place.
They have, in fact, disappeared in the
brush, and the county clerk's wife has
been making Inquiries as to her nu3oand a
whereabouts.
Judge Gill, the member of the old court,
who says that he is willing lo pay the
county's great debt, has been holding
sessions all alone in the court house at
Osceola since last Monday. Today he
turned in a bill to the deputy cr.unty
<*lerk for $15— three days' attendance at
court.
These facts may add to the Rt. Clair
county complications, but the whole mat
ter will be settled by Judge Phillips next
Saturday.
TO REACH SOUTH POLK
Borchgrrevlnk and His Party Are
Sow ln Vletoria Land.
PORT CHALMERS, New Zeland, March
17. — The steamship Southern Cross has ar
rived here from Victoria land, where she
landed Brochgrevink and ten of his com
panions of the antarctic exporting expe
dition.
Borchgrevink sailed on the Southern
Cross about five months ago. His plan
was to spend the antarctic winter, which
has just begun, in camp at Cape Adare,
Victoria land. He will start on a sledge
journey inland next October, the begin
ning of the antarctic summer, for the pur
pose of getting as near the south pole as
possible, and also of collecting botanical
and mineral specimens. The expedition ls
expected to be gone two years.
Borchgrevink vistied Victoria land ln
1893, with a commercial expedition, on the
steamship Antarctic. Whale, seal, and
fur-bearing land animals were sought,
with little success. In August, IS9I, he
lectured on his trip in London, and three
years ago repeated his lectures in this
country, with a view to raising money for
a scientiflo expedition. He was not suc
cessful then, but later procured the neces
sary funds in England. Until Borchgre
vlnk's visit ln 1893 no white man had set
foot on Victoria land since the visit there
of Ross, mora than fifty years before.
SOLD BEEF TO EUROPE
CANNED MEAT SENT BACK FROM
SOUTHERN CAMPS DISPOSED
OF ABROAD
THE BOARD ( A~ KANSAS CITY
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Packing: Houses There Inspected
and Eleven Witnesses Examined,
None of Whom, Ho— ever, Gave
Evidence of a. Sensational Char
acter— Can* Often Rejected Be
fore They Left Packing- Houses.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 17.— The;
army beef court of Inquiry arrived here
from Omaha this morning, Inspected the
Armour packing plant, from which more
than 1,000,000 pounds' , of canned roast beef
was said to the, government during the
recent war, and examined eleven wit
nesses. Nothing sensational was divulg
ed. Tomorrow further evidence will be
taken and later, probably tomorrow af
ternoon, the court will go to Fort Leav
enworth, Kan., and take the testimony
of some of the regulars recently returned
from Cuba.
Mr. Miles, of the Armour company, tes
tified that Armour & Co. had furnished
the government with 1,000,000 pounds of
canned roast beef. It was sold to Com
missary General Eagan, at Washington,
and Commissary Woodruff, at New York.
The meat was inspected at Mobile and
other points of delivery ln the South.
Two carloads of the 1,000,000 pounds was
returned from Mobile and three carloads
from Jacksonville. On its return from
Kansas City the company inspected the
meat and found that less than one-half
of one per cent was bad. That from Mo
bile, the witness said, had never been
inspected there. The returned meat was
put back into stock and "possibly some
of It was resold to the government."
One portion of it was resold to a foreign
government, and accepted.
Mr. Miles said the poorest grades of
meat were not used ln canning. Because
of the big demand for "canners" last
summer it was necessary to kill fresh
cattle of a higher grade than usually
used. All cans were Inspected four times
before they left the plant. The rejections
amounted to one-half of 1 per cent.
L. T. Rambo swore that ln June, 189S,
he was employed ln Armour & Co.'s can
ning department. He frequently nailed
up cases. Cans would often swell up and
burst. In reply to a question, witness de
clared that some da?s as much as a third
of the cans prepared were rejected for
this and other reasons.
L. H. Antone, foreman of the canning
department, denied that Rambo had
worked ln the canning department at the
time stated, or that the number of cans
rejected reached, the amount alleged by
Rambo. -
S. B. Morse, who has charge of the kill
ing at Armour's, said that all cattle pass
ing through his hands bore tags showing
governmental Inspection. He had no
knowledge of chemicals being used in pre
serving meats, and said they could not
have been so used without his knowledge.
Dr. Ernest W. Flusher, hospital stew
ard of the Third Missouri volunteers, said
that while stationed at Fort Meade, Pa.,
he was one morning called to attend fifty
members of the regiment who. were vom
iting. It was his opinion that they had
been made sick by eating spoiled canned
corned beef. The matter was not investi
gated.
HOT SPRINGS TRAGEDY.
Coroner* Jury Making: Progres*
With Its Inquiry.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark., March 17.— The
coroner's jury did not complete its in
vestigation of yesterday's tragedy before
adjournment today. Five witnesses tes
tified to seeing Sheriff Bob Williams fire
four shots at James Hart at close range;
one witness testifying that Williams held
Hart by the lapel of the coat when he
fired the first shot. Williams then fired
three more shots into Hart's body after
he fell.
Mrs. Toler, wife of the chief of police,
who was killed, was a witness, and saw
a smoking pistol in Bob Williams' hand
after seeing Hart fall. She also saw her
husband fall, but did not see who shot
him.
Coroner Shipey has assumed the duties
of sheriff and has placed Bob Williams
and his brother, Coffey Williams, and Ed
Spears, under strong guard until the ver
dict is rendered.
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PRINCESS KAIULANI DEAD.
Hawaiian Princess Succumbs to an
Attack of Rhenmatlim.
HONOLULU, March 10 (via San Fran
cisco, March 17).— Princess Kalulanl' died
March 6 of inflammatory rheumatism,
contracted several weeks ago while on a
visit to the island of Hawaii. She was
the daughter of Princess Miriam Like
like, a member of the Hawaiian royal
family, and A. S. Cleghorn, and English
man, and was born in 1875. In 1891 Kalu
lanl was proclaimed heir apparent by
Lilluokalani, who was on the throne of
Hawaii.
The funeral of the dead princess will
occur on Sunday, March 12, from the
old native church, and will be under the
direction of the government. The cere
monies will be on a scale befitting the
rank of the young princess. The body ls
lying ln state at Anlashau, the princess'
old home. Thousands of people, both na
tive and white, have come out to the
place arid the whole town is in mourn
ing. Flags on the government buildings
are at half-mast, as are those on the
residences of the foreign consuls. Bishop
Willis, of the Church of England, will
conduct the funeral services.
BATTLE IS*EXPECTED.
Cattlemen ln Dispute and the Sher.
ill Hai Gone to the Scene.
CHEYENEE, Wyo., March 17— Unless
Sheriff Shaver and deputies of this coun
ty reached the scene ln time a battle has
been fought on the range between the
towns of Pine Bluffs and Salem, Wyo.,
forty-five miles east of this city, between
rival stockmen.
The big cattle concerns of Mark Coad,
of Central City, Neb., the "T.-O." outfit
and the Heyshams, of Hillsdale, Wyo.,
some weeks ago drove in several thou
sand head of cattle and ranged them on
ground which has been for many years
the feeding place of cattle owned by
Robert Perry, Lew Solgren, John Extrom
and other small ranchmen who live on
Horse creek and adjacent to the disputed
range. These men objected to the tres
pass of the big cattlemen and warned
them off.
They served notice on the trespassers
last week that if the cattle were not re
moved by midnight on Wednesday the
ranchmen would drive them and their
owners off by fore« of arms. The cattle
men came to Cheyenne and applied for
protection. An injunction was lssuod and
placed in the hands of the shcrilT, who
with his deputies and relays of horses
started for tha scene at once.
A resident of Wyocena, Wis., a veteran of the late war,
writes that he had suffered from stomach and bowel troubles
ever since the war, and had been treated by more than a dozen
doctors, besides trying almost all kinds of patent medicines. He
tried Ripans Tabules and says that " they are the only thing I
ever used that has begun to fill the bill for all kinds of stomach
trouble. My daughter," he adds, "is eighteen years old and
rather delicate ; poor appetite and inclined to be consumptive.
Of all the medicines she has tried, the ' Tabules ' have done her
the most good ; she has gained in health and strength so that
she has gone to Missouri on a visit."
A new style packet containing ten r_>a~ tabu_u ln a paper carton ( wit h< ,ut ___■) !» now for sal lat some
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BOODLERS FLEE.
Republican "_eg-tslatorw In Oklaho
ma Territory "Will Be Prosecuted.
GUTHRIE, Okla., March 17.— The terri
torial grand Jury today began an inves
tigation of the boodllng and corruption
In the Republican legislature Just ad
journed. The members are leaving the
territory as fast as possible, six going
last night. Six others today sent doctors'
certificates, but a number of the mem
bers will be arrested tomorrow and como
pelled to testify. Startling developments
are promised.
WEDDED IN HASTE.
Mrs. Hnttle Stoner Divorced and
Married ln Ten .Mi nut cm.
VALPARAISO, Ind., March 17.— At
Knox today Mrs. Hattle Stoner was
granted a divorce from J. P. Stoner.
Seven minutes later she was married to
John H. Harry, who had been waiting in
the court room.
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