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THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY. OREGON. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST. 11. 1897.
NUMBER 37.
CLAIMS ALL TAKEN
Clondyke Crowded With Dis
appointed Gold Hunters.
STARVATION IX STORE FOR MANY
Wot a Single Location Within
' Mile of Da-veon City Kemalas
Y to JJe Bad
ISO
San Francisco, Aug. 6. Speaking of
' the Clondyke output of gold, the chief
clerk of the mint said :
"All the gold brought to this city from
the Alaskan mines will not exceed f 800,
000, and all that has been taken oat this
j ear and sent to the other mints of the
country will not exceed $2,000,000. The
gold from that part of the country is
generally from 700 to 800 fine and some
' of it rates 900, the average being- worth
from $15.55 to $17 an ounce."
J. C. Butler, of the Pullman Car Co,
is in receipt of a letter from B. P. Tay
lor, a financial broker of Seattle,
few days ago Taylor received word from
some men whom he sent to the Clondyke
region last spring, in which tLey inform
him that every claim within 150 miles
of Dawson City has been taken op, and
that men are rushing all over the conn
try looking for locations. He says that
starvation and hardship stares many of
them in the face.
Captain Niebaum, of the Alaska Com
mercial Company, who has made a care.
ful study, of the situation, fears there
will be a great deal of suffering in the
mining regions this spring. ' He-thinks
the people going are far in excess of the
supplies that have been forwarded.
A letter from Hart Humber, a pros
pector, dated Dawson City, June 18th
just received, shows that the gold seeker
needs plenty of capital. After reaching
Dawson and paying the heavy doty on
bis outfit, besides 30 cents a pound for
getting it over Chilkoot pass, be will
have to pay 25 cents a pound to get bis
stuff from Dawson to the diggings.
- The rush to the Clondyke gold fields
is affect in k the mineowners of the
mother lode in the vicinity of Sonora,
Jackson and Sutter Creek, and if it con
tinuee will cause the closing down of the
mines in Calaveras, Amador and Tuo
lumne counties, or their operation with
depleted forces.
In the past week 200 men have left
Amador county alone for the gold fields
in the north and others are preparing to
follow. Some of them were hired by
. mineowners in Alaska, bat many of
them went on their own resources. The
other counties have also sent expert
miners in large numbers.
An Expedition From Brooklyn.
New Yobk, Aug. 6. A half dozen am
bitions Brooklymtes are organizing an
expedition to Alaska to search for some
of the Clondyke gold. David P. Wat
sons, of Brooklyn, clerk of the Repub
lican general committee, is making np a
party, of which he will be one, and
which will leave early in February to
seek fortunes in the gold fields of the
north.
Taeoma la Clondyke Mad. .
. Tacoma, Wash., Aug. 6. Desire to
rash off to the Alaska gold fields at once,
witbont waiting till next spring, is in
creasing all the time. Fourteen steam
ers are scheduled to sail from this port
between now and the 1st of September,
Among those who start tomorrow is W,
G. Seward, a relation of Hon. Wm. H,
Seward, who effected the purchase of
Alaska in 1867 for $7,500,000.
Approved by Prince Henry. - .
New Yobk, Aug. 6 A special to the
Herald irom Alexandria quotes Prince
Henry of Orleans as saying: .
"I have just received the articles in
the Figaro on the subject of the chal
lenge sent me by the Italian officers, and
I find the tone of those articles quite
just. It is qnite right to state the prin-
, ciple that the rights of travelers to re
late, what they have seen and beard
should be absolutely safeguarded. ' Leav
ing aside the duelling question, as it
stands apart, the Anglophile journals
here grossly insult the khedive for hav-
' ing received me. We leave at once. I
will accept no challenge at Marseilles on
landing. We go straight to Paris." .
Germany Again Protects.
Washington, Aug. 6. The German
government has again entered a formal
protest against the application to Ger
man sugar of section five of the new
tariff act, by which German sugar would
be taxed with a higher duty than that
from other countries. VV
The contention is made that the . addi
tional duty imposed is in effect discrim- j
nation against German sugar which is
incompatible with the most favored
nations rights that are secured . to Ger
productions by treaties now in force and
also with the provisions of the Saratoga
agreement of August 22, 1891.
BLOW PROGRESS AT PLTJAl CEEKK.
Ulnars
There Will Mot
Be Easily
Brought Oat.
PrrrsBDEQ. Aue. 6. Whether or not
the strikers will be able to get the Plum
Creek men to stop work is becoming
more serious Question than the strike
leaders first thought. Unlike other dig'
ging settlements about the Plnm Creek
miners live in company houses on com
pany land. The workmen do not have
to leave the De Armitt property to get
into the mines, and the strikers get no
chance to stop them on the road. '
The wives of 20 of the campers are
in
the field now. They have access to the
workingmen's houses, but deputies are
stationed all along the property line with
instructions not to allow a solitary man
to enter house range.
Euzene V. Debs left todav for Turtle
Creek, where he speaks this evening,
Before leaving the City Debs denounced
Judge Jackson, of West Virginia, for is-r
suing and injunction restraining bim
from interfering with the Mononagh
company or its employes. Debs said:
"This injunction annihilates the right
of peaceable assemblage and effectually
suppresses free speech."
To Sell Whisky to '.be Venesuelans.
New Yoke. Aue. 6. The republic of
Venezuela has granted a concession giv
ing a substantial monopoly for the estab
lishment of the distilling industry in the
republic wbicb was obtained in the in
terst of the American Spirits Manufac
turing Company. Representatives of
that company have paid a number of
visits to Caracas in the last twelve
months, and the company since the
granting of its concession has sent one of
its practical men to supervise the erec
tion of a plant, all the parts of which
have been assembled in this city ready
for shipment.
The import duty is practically prohibi
tory, amoanting to about 50 cents
pound equivalent to $3.80 a gallon. The
concession which is for Bix years, giyes
the right to bring in all the necessary
plant and raw material free,
It is said that ' the American Spirits
Company is conducting similar negotia
tions elsewhere, which, if expectations
are only partly realized, will result in
very large extension of the business of
the company.
A Michigan Tragedy.
Grand Rapids, Mich., Aug. 6. Last
April A. H. Dailey, of Jennison, sent
1 letter to Mayor Swift, saying be wanted
a wife. Tbe letter got into the newspa
pers, and as a result Dailey received 500
answers, t rora among tne otters ne se
lected Mrs. Hattie M. Newton, a Chicago
widow, and they were married. They
quarreled and finally separated. Dailey
gave his wife three days to return. The
time was np at midnight last night and
she refused to return. Dailey forced bis
way into ber bedchamber and shot ber
with a musket.
Dailey was arrested, and on his way to
jail was allowed to go into a saloon to
drink. He slipped strychnine into bis
beer and fell over dead in a few minutes,
Tbe woman will recover. '
Canada's Allen Labor Law.
Tohonto, Ontario, Aug. 5. Canada
has begun to take means to enforce tbe
alien labor law against Americans,
(Jommissioner llcureary us nere on
business in connection with work on the
Crow's Nest Pass railway through the
Rocky monntains, and he informed the
Canadian Pacific railway authorities
that any American laborers engaged ' for
that work should be deported to their
own country again. .McCreary has in
structions from ' the Canadian govern
ment to strictly enforce the new law.
A Lynching- Prevented.
Ibgn Mountain, Mich., Aug. C Ap
peals of leading citizens prevented a
lynching at Crystal. Falls, last nigbt.
The miners employed in the eurround-
ng locations are now . making threats.
A report is current to the effect t that
they have formed an organization and
invade the village tonight for the ' pur
pose of lynching Bons. Meantime it is
expected Seriff Waite will take the pre
caution to move the prisoner to another
county. : I ' , '
Baenola Miners OnL
Monongahela, Pa., ' Aug. 6. Be
tween 300 and 400 striking miner march
ed on the Buenola mite this morning.
beaded by the Grand Army of the Re
public of this place. The Buenola min
ers were brought out, ana the. strikers,
established a camp to see that work is
not resumed. . ,
Tbe merchant who tells yoa he has
something else as good as Hoe Cake soap
is a good man to keep away from. a2-3m
THE RUSH CONTINUES
bteamers" Leaying Daily for
Alaskan Porte.
950 ON THE STEAMER WILLAMETTE
The Walla Walla Has 490, Molt
Whom Are Tery Poorly Equipped
for the Lone Trip. '
Seattle, Ang. 7. -"Not since the be
ginning of the Clondyke rush have
there been such numbers of goldhnnters
in tbe city. Apparently the Btampede
to the northern goldfields is now at its
height. Steamers and . sailing vessels
will leave nearly every day for the next
ten days, and from tbe wav berths and
staterooms are eagerly reserved in ad
vance by the throngs of goldhunters ar
riving daily from tbe East and Middle
West, it is probable that all of tbe ves
sels in the list will be taxed to their
greatest capacity.
The North American Trading & Trans
portation Company has raised the rate
to St. Michaels on tbe last trip north of
the Portland to $1000. The Portland is
to sail September 10th. In selling a man
a ticket at the prices named, tbe com
panv will guarantee to land bim at
Dawson City on or before Jnne 15. 1898
and board bim all winter. It will also
provide work at cutting cord wood at $4
per cord. The nigh rate is made De,
cause of the chances of the Yukon freez
ing np, compelling the company to feed
the passengers all winter long at St
Michaels.
Tbe Queen sailed at 9 this morning
with all her accommodations crowded
From present indications no more
tickets can be procured for St. Michaels
via the steamer Humboldt after' Mon
day. Nearly 200 tickets have been dis
posed of already, and the company in
tends to carry only 220 passengers,
Tbe rush seems to be unabated, and
with the Humboldt, as with all other
companies, it is first come first served
The schooner Loyal, which has been
taking on supplies for several days, has
sailed nnder command of Captain San,
ger. She went heavily laden with lum
ber, besides a good quantity of miners'
supplies.' Captain Sanger is familiar
with the Alaskan coast, and after die
charging bis cargo at Sitka, will pros
pect the islands of Southeastern Alaska
PROTEST FROM BRITI8H COLUMBIA
Gold-Seekers Disgusted With the New
Mining; Regulations.
Seattle, Ang. 7. A special dispatch
to the Post-Intelligencer, from Victoria,
B. C, says:
All through British Columbia a storm
of protest has been raised by the pro,
mnlgation of new rnles for miners
operations in the Yukon placers, and to
day and yesterday the wires have been
kept hot with messages urging the un,
reasonable character of the laws pro.
posed. .very practical mining man
agrees that the ' regulations cannot be
enforced by anyone of mining experi
ence, for, as Chief Justice Davie advised
the minister of the interior today, the
100-foot claims are ridiculously large for
rich placer-ground proposition. To
collect royalties on sales proposed can
only provoke a collision between the
miners, who will never pay such a pro
portion of their output as proposed, and
the miners will have the support of the
public. Tbe reservation of alternate
strips to the crown is also viewed here
as quixotic and unworkable, and not a
single miner of some forty-six inter
viewed will admit that the' regulations
are either practicable or justifiable by
necessity of precedent." Public, meet
ings have been called for Tuesday next
at which the sentiment of this city will
be embodied in resolutions, for presen
tation to Ottawa. : i
SAILIflG ' bF THE WILLAMETTE,
Mine Hundred and Fifty Goldseekers
Bound for the Clondyke,
Tacoma, Aug. 7. The steamer Wil
lamette 'sailed at 8 o'clock this evening,
for Dyeaand Skaguay, Alaska. " She will
carry to the nonth 950 men, bound for
the Yukon country and 2000 tons of
freight, all supplies, and 200 horses, be
longing to the goldseekere. Two hun
dred and fifty men boarded the ' Wil
lamette here and took : with them - 200
tons of supplies and 57 horses. . It is
estimated that 10,000 people visited the
ocean wharf, where the vessel was lying
today, to see the ship of the argonants
and bid farewell to ' the intrepid ad
venturers.' :
The Willamette arrived at 9 :30 this
morning from Seattle, having among
others aboard 145 goldseekers from the
Golden state. Visitors began pouring to
the wharf early. They went in flocks
and as individuals, forming a perfect
stream of ; humanity, which, when ' it
reached the waterfront, overran the
docks, poured through tbe - warehouses
and spread along the piers. Ropes were
stretched to keep them, from getting
the way of the stevedores and 'long
shoremen who were loading tbe supplies
and animals on the ship. Burros, mnles
and horses were run aboard across gang'
planks. Some of the more obstinate
ones were lifted high in tbe air in ' port
able stalls, and squealing, snorting, and
kicking were dropped slowly into - the
big collier's nold. '
vvnen tne ship got away , there were
many pathetic scenes. . Men , who had
resolutely set their hearts on a journey
to beneath the Arctic skies, to seek for
tunes amid hardships and possibly . pri
vations, allowed the tender love of home.
wiie or sweetnart and mends to ' over
reach their sterner .qualities, : and, - for
the time, expressions of human sympa
thy forced visions of golden wealth into
the background. As the ship drew
away from the wharf cheer after cheer
went up from (he argonauts and the ad
miring multitude on the, wharf. .. Tbe
big ship's upper works - were covered
with prospective Clondykers, many of
whom are .arrayed in ' typical frontier
garb. '
' A Poorly-Kqnipped Crowd.
Pokt Townsend, Wash., Aug. 7. The
steamer Walla Walla arrived this morn
log from ban Francisco, with 420 pas
sengers, 300 of whom are bound for Alas
ka. Of the Alaska-bound passengers
120 are tourists, who will return in . ten
days, while 180 are bound for the gold
fields. Among tbe Walla Walla passen
gers for the north were several members
of the light-fingered gentry, and many
watches were lifted and pockets picked.
With tbe men of suspicious avocation
were several women, who will accompany
them to tbe Clondyke.; Many of tne
prospective miners wbo arrived on -the
Walla Walla are starting with less than
50 pounds of provisions. Many have
not a pound of provisions, freight or
change of clothes. They say they will
not starve so long as there is a pound of
food to work for, beg or steal. The pas
sengers on the Walla Walla are the
poorest equipped crowd to go north since
the rush beaan.
Prodnetion of Gold. ,
Washington, Aug. 7. Mr. Preston,
director of tbe mint, estimates the gold
production of the year 1896 to have been
$205,000,000, of wbicb the United States
contributed over $53,000,000: and for
1897, it is believed, the world's gold pro
duct will reach at least $240,000,000, an
increase of $35,000,000, over 1896.
"That the world's net product will
continue to increase for a number of
years to come," says Mr. Preston, "is
self-evident, as new mines will be opened
up in all parts of the world, and, with
the improved appliances and methods of
extracting tbe gold contained in the ores,
it is believed that by the close of the
present century the world's product will
exceed $300,000,000. .
The Pension Roll.
Washington, Aug. 7. The pension
roll of the United States has almost
reached the 1,000,000 mark. Commis
sioner .fcvans has lust issued a state
ment, showing that at the beginning of
this fiscal year the pensioners numbered
983,918, an increase of 12.S50 for tbe past
year. During the year 50,101 new pen
sions were granted and 3971 persons
were restored to tbe rolls. Old age and
disease, however, is working inroads
into tbe list, for there were 31,960 deaths
during the year.' Other sources of loss
were 1074, from remarriage of widows ;
1845 orphans attained majority; 2683
failures to claim pensions, and 3560
losses from unrecorded causes.
A Fugitive From Justice Shot.
New Orleans, Aug.1 9. Ex-Secre
tary of State Will A. Strong, who is now
serving in Ouchita' parish as deputy
sheriff, shot and mortally wounded A. B.
Cook on the street at Monroe this morn
ing. "Cook is a fugitive from justice, and
Strong arrested bim. While the warrant
was being read to bim Cook made a dash
for liberty, but Strong ran after bim for
two squares, and : then fired, bringing
bim down, mortally wounded. 1 '
A Negro Murderer Lynched. ''
Vicksbdeg, Miss., Aug 9. John Gor
don, tbe Negro wbo murdered William
Allen at Brunswick July 15th, by club
bing him with a gun barrel, and wbo
was captured in Louisiana yesterday,
was hanged by lynchers last night.
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HIS LIFE A FORFEIT
Anarchists Ordered the Kill
ing of Premier Canovas.
PIDAL TO SUCCEED TBE PREMIER
He Will Probably Be Appointed After
. the Usual Mine-Days' Period of
Mourning- Has Elapsed.
Madrid, Aug. 9. The assassination
of Prime Minister Senor Canovas del
Castil'.o, who was shot and killed by an
Italian anarchist, Whose name is be,
lieved to be Michelo Angeline Golli, at
tbe baths of Santa Agueda, yesterday
afternoon, was undonbtedly cold- blooded
and premeditated. Golli deliberately
watched for an opportunity to kill the
Spanish statesman, and he only fired
when he bad no chance of missing. : In
fact, the assassin, who was arreated al
most immediately when the premier fell
dead at the feet of his wife,' declared as
much to the examining magistrate.
Further details of the assassination
show that Senor Canovas del Castillo
and his wife were present yesterday
morning at tbe celebration of mass in
tbe chapel attached to the baths. After
mass the premier was reading and con-t
versing with some reporters when' tbe
assassin approached and fired three shots
at him with a revolver, hitting him in
the forehead, chest and left ear.
Tbe wounded man fell to the ground,
crying, "Assassin ; long live Spain!"
The premier was carried to his room
and expired at 1 :30 p. m., after extreme
enction had been administered -to bim
by a priest of the Dominican order.
The murderer was immediately seized
by the people in the vicinity, and would
have been killed had it not been for tbe
protection of the civil guards. . The
prisoner, who declared he bad killed the
premier, "in accomplishment of a just
vengeance," gave the name of Rinaldi
and claimed the . deed was the outcome
of an extensive anarchist conspiracy,
Later, however, ths assassin confessed
his real name was Michelo Angeline
Golli, that he was twenty-six years of
age, a native of Boggi, near Naples, and
left Italy and came to Spain in 1896.
After reaching Spain Golli, according to
his confession, resided at Barcelona and
participated in the doings of various
-anarchist societies of that place and vi
cinity. After sojourning at "Barcelona
for some time, Golli visited France and
Belgium and returned to Spain in July
last..
After his return the anarchists seemed
to have completed their plana for the as
sassination of the' prime minister. He
left Madrid for Santa Agueda at the
same time as Senor Canovas del Castillo
and waited an opportunity to assassin
ate the statesman. He says he is satis
fied with having done "his duty" and
asserts be has no personal grudge against
the premier, and was merely obeying
orders received from bis superiors in the
secret society to which be belonged. He
frankly : professes anarchist doctrine,
says be was sentenced in 1895 to eighteen
months' imprisonment in jail at Lucera,
Italy, and claims he escaped from there
to Marseilles, from which port be made
his way to. Paris. -
Senora Canovas, wife of the premier.
wbo was but a short distance from ber
husband when tbe crime was committed,
bitterly reproached the murderer for his
crime. - UolU in reply ,to tne agonizing
words of the distracted wife, said : . . .
"I respect you because you are an
honorable lady, but I have done my
duty, and I am now easy in mind, for I
have avenged my friends and brothers
of Mont Juices." ' - -.,
Mont Juices is the' fortress of Barce
lona, outside of which anarchists who
have been sentenced to death for recent
outrages have been executed by being
shot in the back. The'anarchists re
cently executed outside Mont Juices
were tbe last batch of friends who, were
guilty of throwing a bomb on the occa
sion of the Corpus Christi celebration
last year. Twelve persons "were in
stantly killed' and ' about fifty others,
several of whom , have since, died from
their wounds,, were injured. , For this
crime twenty-six anarchists were sen
tenced to death. " "
WILL EBCEIVB HO PAY.
The Rew York and Cleveland Company
.... v ' j. : so Declares. :,
' Pittsburg, Aug. 9. Ail the miners of
the New York & Cleveland Gas Com
pany, who are still at work, were paid to
day, but those who struck did - not re
ceive any money, the company insisting
upon tbe terms of the contract by which
the men agreed to forfeit all reserve in
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case they quit work. All the miners
who can give . a reasonable excuse for
attending the meetings , will . be paid.
The company has the names of all the
men who took part in any of the dem
onstrations. Unless they can give a
satisfactory explanation they will get no
money. ,
Owing to the carelessness of the guard
about the Sandy creek mine, 40 - men -
went into tbe mine this morning, and
are now at work. Last week there' were '
but three men at work. '
Some of the details for the march on
the mines in West Moreland county and
Pennsylvania have been arranged It
will probably be made. Tuesday. It ' is
intended to take a small army of ' men
from Pittsburg district and march to
the mines that are in operation. 'Sev
eral brass bands have been engaged.
Tbe strike is begining to cause hunger
among the miners' families along the
Wheeling division and in the Panhandle
district. ' At the mines where company
stores have been in operation the desti
tution is more marked. . .
An application for an injunction to re
strain tbe . miners from congregating
near the mines of the Ntw York & -Cleveland
Gas Coal Company,' which
was to have been- filed in tbe United
States court today on behalf of non-resident
stockholders of the company, had
not been presented to court up to ad- .
jonrnment at noon. .
Her Boy Was Ugly So She Killed Him.
Quitman, Ga., Aug. 9. Fisherman
discovered the body of a 6-year-old boy
floating on the surface of a pond near
this place and'later identified it as the :
son of Mrs. Idella Powell Banks, a widow
owning a farm just outside of Quitman.
The actions of the mother when noti
fied of tbe discovery aroused the sus
picions of tbe coroner and she was sub-
sequently arrested and placed in jail.
Here she was visited by a minister, . to
whom she confessed 'having murdered '
ber child. The reason she gave was
that be was too ugly to be permitted to .
live, and was a constant source ; of em
barrassment to her on that account.'
She said that she walked by the pond,
and when she tried to push him in. he
resisted with all bis feeble strength.
She has broken down completely in jail.
and says she wants to be hanged as soon
as possible. " ,- .
Tbe child's face was disfigured by a
birthmark.
From Mew York to Alaska.
New York,, Aug. 9. The first ship
sailing from New York diiect to the
Clondyke gold fields is advertised to
leave about August 21st. It is to be sent
by the New York & Alaska Gold 'Ex
ploring & Trading Company. ; The com
has has not yet selected its vessel, but
it promises to dispatch a steamship
capable of carrying 200 passengers and
1500 tons of freight. It says the ship
will make the voyage around Cape Horn
to Juneau in 50 pr 60 davs.
More than 50 names have been . listed
for the voyage. Not more than 200 pas
sengers will be allowed to embark. , The
cost per passenger, including bTth,
meals and transportation of 500 pounds
of baggage direct to Juneau is to be $175v
More Steamers for Alaska. ' .
San EbanciscOj Aug. 9. Two steam
ers will sail for the north - to day with
their carrying capacity taxed to the ut
most. The Umatilla will be sent to Seat
tle by the. Pacific Coast Steamship Com
pany, and the South Coast will be also
dispatched. The Umatilla will ' take
away about 400 passengers and transfer,
them to the City of Topeka at some
Paget sound port. -..",' . :'
Although the South Coast is not yet
loaded she Is very low in the water, and
seafaring: men say that with her load In :
a rough sea she will have great difficulty ;
in getting through. - ' . , :
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