THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, SATURDAY. AUGUST 28. 1897.
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FULL .OF FAITH.
Three young men from New
Hampshire, lured to Seattle by the
fabulous stories of the Klondike,
were buncoed ont of $5,000 by Scat
tie sharpers a day or two ago on a
story that a 5-year-old child should
have seen through. The bunco rren
found that the young fellows had
about $3,000 and that they wanted
to go to the Klondike. This fur
nished the ground for the sharpers,
One of them represented that he had
just come from the gold fields with
his partners; that they Lad a claim,
No. 18, on Bonanza creek, wcrth
$3,000,000, but that they would take
the young fellows in as partners for
. $5,000. Not that they wanted the
money, but simply because they
wanted to know the men they took
in were of the responsible kind. The
young fellows telegraphed home for
$2,000 more, and turned over $5,000
to the generous Klondikers who were
selling tbem an interest in mines
worth $100,000 for each $1:000 paid.
The young fellows have tele
graphed home for money to pay
their fares home, and state that they
have seen all they care to of the
wild, woolly and wicked West. It is
just as well that they went broke be
fore they got beyond the confines ot
civilization and out of the reach of
aid from their relatives.
Can prompt surgical aid save the
life of a man stabbed through the
heart? It has always been held that
any attempt to operate directly upon
the heart was worse than foolish, and
that to sew up a lesion in the heart
proper without killing the patient
would be absolutely impossible, says
an exchange. Yet Dr. Rehe of
Frankfort, Germany, at a meeting of
the surgical congress in Berlin re
cently, reported a successful opera
tion of the kind the first in the his
tory of surgery and produced his
patient living before the assembled
scientists to attest its truth. De
scribing the case, Dr. Rehe said the
man had been stabbed in the right
side of the heart. He was conveyed
with great haste to a hospital and
taken directly to the operating room.
The surgeon laid bare the heart in a
few seconds and found a wound in
the right side of the organ. He
sewed up the orifice and applied
general treatment for arresting hem
orrhage. The heart worked violent
ly during the operation, but the com
motion of the organ gradual'y sub
. sided, and in due time the wound
healed and the patient recovered.
It may not be generally known
that the American citizen who "grub
stakes" a man to prospect and work
mines on shares in the Klondike
country lias only the personal honor
of the prospector to depend upon.
On tbe 28th day of last June the
Canadian government put into effect
"an act to restrict the importation
and employment of aliens," and this
law i3 directly applicable to the
"grubstaking" system. By its pro
visions all contracts or agreements,
express or implied, made between
any person or company and any
alien to perform labor or service in
Canada, previous to the arrival in
Canada of the person whose labor is
so contracted for, shall be void and
of no effect. . Which means that if
the grab-staked pilgrim from the
United States desires to deal honest
ly with the ' person or persons who
staked him he can do so without fear
of bein overhauled by the Canadian
au hori;ies.
The election in- New York City is
to be a hotly-contested one, and no J
one can foresee its results. Greater
New York has about 520.000 voters,
and lietween the two old parties they
are pretty evenly divided. In 1896
McKinley had 283,11!) vott s Bryan
225,616, Palmer 9,965. la' 1892
Cleveland had 294,679, Harrison
181,813. In 1894 the Republican
vote was 224,000, Democratic 209.
000, and Independent Democrat 19,
000. In 1895 the vote in state offi
cers was Republican 185,000, Demo
cratic 237,000. It will be seen from
this that the vote is a fluctuating
one and" contains a strong element
of independent voters, who hold ihe
balance of power. -
It is not probable that we are to
finger much British gold on account
of the wheat crop. , That is, we are
not to receive any extra amount
from England. The crops there
have been above the average,. but of
course England will have to buy,
and to buy at the increased prices.
The heavy crop shortages have been
in Europe, France, Hungary and
Russia. France will have to buy
heavily instead of exporting, and
Australia and the Argentine instead
of exporting must import. The
same is true ot xnaia. rience, no
matter how good crops Enghnd has,
she must come into tbe world s mar
kets to purchase what she needs.
From present indications wheat will
command a good price for two or
three years. It will take more than
average crops for .two years to re
place the world's f bortage, and under
average circumstances it will take
five years to catch up with the short
age and create a surplus that will
again force prices down.
Thomas Lewis of Farmington at
tempted to commit suicide a few
days ago because a girl he was badly
smitten with refused to respond to
his wild waste waste of affection.
This is one of the most insane follies
of voutb. Before they arrive at the
age of discretion every beard-sprouter
imagines that if he does not get
some one especial divinity, the world
has gone wrong, and, like Pyramus,
he wants to go stabbing himself. He
does not realize that Dame Fortune,
who apportions things, is a kindly
old soul, and does much for such
blamed fools as himself. Puppy
love is a necessity, sweet as treacle
and just as sticky; but most of us
recover by escaping; otherwise two
souls are generally rendered miser
able, and each wonders how the
divine Klondicitis ever struck tbem.
Having built a great naval dry-
dock at Port Royal, tbe government
will now proceed to dredge a chan
nel from the sea so that the ships of
the new navy can reash it. This is
a wise precaution, because the ap
proaches to the dock by land are not
practicable for our naval vessels, un
less they are taken to pieces. After
we have dredged a channel to tbe
dry-dock at Port Royal and have
succeeded in pumping tbe water out
of the dry-dock at Brooklyn, it will
not be necessary, as it is now, to
send our naval vessels to Halifax to
be dry-docked by the kindly favor
of Great Britain. New Yoik World.
The miners at Skaguay have per
fected a sort of organization, and
are now going at the task of opening
the trail in a systematic manner.
The trail was declared closed, and a
thousand men went to work to put it
in shape. It is expected that the
trail would be made passable in ten
days from the time the men began
work on it, and that many will be
enabled to get into the mines who,
without this concerted action, would
have had to remain at Skaguay all
winter. The Rosalie, which made
the return trip a day or so ago,
brings word that nearly 10,000 peo
ple will winter at Skaguay.
An attempt is being made by the
National Bar Associatian to have a
uniform divorce law passed in all the
states of the union. This should be
done. Under tbe present laws tbe
condition of divorced persons who
marry again is a strange one. A
man married in New York, for in
stance, and divorced, may not marry
again for a given period. He may
go over into Ohio and there marry
legally. The morriage under the
New York laws would be void:
under the Ohio laws legal,
The
children of the .marriage would in
one 6tate be considered legitimate;
in the other not so, and in case of
the death of tbe parents this might
seriously affect the ' inheritance.
There is no branch of the law that
so badly Leeds being made uniform
as the divorce law.
THE KLOKDTKEZ
Perhapaf the best editorial com
ment that can be made on the Klon
dike is contained in the following
dispatch from Victoria, under date
of the 25 th :
More good news has come from
tee Klondike by the steamer City of
Topeka, which arrived tonight, leav
Ing Juneau just after the arrival
there of Joe Birch, James McKay
and Archie Shelp, who made the trip
from Dawson City to Dyea in twenty
days. They did not come any fur
ther than Juneau, but intend to go
back to the mines. They had a
pretty rough trip, having to paddle
and tow their boat up rivers.
In conversation with one of the
passengers who came down on the
Topeka, Shelp spoke very highly of
the Stewart and Indian river dis
tricts, although there has been no
sensational finds. From $10 to $15
per pan if being taken out of these
rivers.
Close upon $2,000,000 in dust has
gone down on the river steamers, the
owners intending to take the steamer
Portland at St Michaels.
Gold passed at $17 an ounce at
Dawson City.
Shelp gives tbe following list of
Juneau men who struck it rich:
Dick Law, $100,000; J. Smitt. $50,
000; Joe Brant, $30,000; Cornelius
Edwards, $25,000; Whipple, $10,000.
Henry Ash, who left on the last
toat for San Francisco, $100,000.
An old man, who a few months ago
was cutting wood around Juneau.
$60,000. Oscar Asbby and W. Leak
refused $150,000 for their claims.
About a dozen men who went
north within the last few weeks, in
tending to go to tbe mines, came
back on the Topeka, and they say
many will follow them.
Two surveyors have been sent out
to try and find a better route for the
Skaguay trail, and if they succeed,
the men have promised to go to work
on it.
Among those who thiew up the
sponge and came back to civilization
were Sam Brown of Seattle and Will
iam Albert Mr. Niles, an attorney
of Los Angeles, also came back, but
he is going to make another trial,
this time by the Stickeen river route.
Chief Factor Hall, of the Hudson's
Bay Company, who also came down
on the boat, having been to Cassiar,
reports the route a splendid one.
.4 GOOD POINTER.
The Klondike is apt to have an
anti climax. Instead of closing the
season Jwith a brass band and whole
lots of hilarity, it looks now as
though the curtain would be rung
down on as mild a mining boom as
even the far-off Arctic circle could
engender. The schooner Colman
has returned from St. Michaels, near,
or really at the mouth of the Yukon,
bringing just four Klondikers, and
these four and those waiting at St
Michaels to come down on the Pott
land had from 5,000 to 15,000 each.
There were twelve men at St.
Michaels waiting for the Portland,
and another steamer was expected
from Dawson City. The men com
ing out say that no clean-ups have
been made this summer. Hence it
is impossible to say what the produc
tion is, but it certainly does not
prove exciting to. see men coming
out satisfied with $5,000 when it
takes $1,000 and a year's hardship
and work to get it. The steamers
have been on too long, and if the
wild boom was to be continued com
munication should have been shot off
a month ago.
We size it up that there are good
placers in Alaska, but that the stories
have been grossly exaggerated in the
interest of the transportation com
panies. There are millions in Alaska,
but those millions have been there
for thousands of years, and are not
going to get away this winter. Those
who want to go to Alaska to tackle
the gold mines can go next spring,
or ten years from next spring, and
then find plenty of ground that has
never been prospected. T
Tbe craze is being fostered bv the
transportation companies, and those
who bitd at,' their bait are simply
suckert The millions the Portland
was to bring down have not yet ma-,
terialized, and it is extremely doubt
ful whether they will.
At the bullion rate the silver in a
dollar is now worth less than forty
cents. - The price goes steadily down,
and there really seems to be no limit
at which this downward tendency
must stop. The cost of production,
except under most favorable circum
stances, has already been passed, and
the question is as to what will be
done with silver coin. It is this very
question that is principally responsi
ble for tbe swift decline in prices.
Fears are entertained that silver will
become so cheap that it will be aban
doned as a money metal, and if this
were done and the thousands of tons
of silver com were thrown on the
market, it would be practically val
ueless. Mrs. L. C. Howland, whose hus
band is going to the Klondike, has
conceived the idea of taking a school
house ready built, and going along
with him to teach the youug Alaskan
how to read and write. The school -house
will be warm and comfortable,
and stoves and furniture will be
taken for it There may be plenty
of 8 chool children at Dawson City,
but it docs seem "funny" to see a
portable schoolhouse packed off to
a mining excitement.
Tbe St Louis Star says: "The
spectacle of a lot ot men being ex
amiued as to their ability to sweep
out a school building is one of the
things that makes all ciyil service
ideas appear ridiculous." This is no
more ridiculous than a civil service
commission in a city in this state re
quiring laboi ing men to pass an ex
amination as to their ability to labor.
If there is good in civil service,
there is also much humbug, and is
open to many objections.
Arkansas is having a boom in the
pearl industry. It has been dis
covered that the mussels with which
Arkansas streams abound are loaded
with pearls, and Arkansas people
have all gone to wading in the
streams hunting for them. Pearls
have been found valued at $800.
The scriptural comparison of casting
pearls before swine may, or may not,
have been fulfilled, according to how
Arkansas citizens are sized up.
The Moro Observer promulgated
a great truth when it said in its last
issue, "In a short time the world will
be divided into two great classes
those who are sorry they did not go
to the Klondike and those who are
sorry they did.
Better Resign.
The Tacoma Ledger says : "Deceived
by a irnsted reporter, the Ledger pub
lished Sanday morning an article based
upon an interview with one F. P. Riley,
who claimed to have brought $35,000 in
gold dust and nuggets from Dawson
City. Later developments and investi
gation show that the story was without
foundation. As the Ledger purposes
only printing reliable news, this explan
ation, is due its readers. The reporter
has been summarily dismissed from the
Ledger force."
If the Ledger follows its band, inside
of three weeks the editor, business man
ager, reporters and press association
will be fired. When a man's job de
pends on getting the truth from the
Klondike, he might as well resign.
A Good Reason.
The general passenger agent of one of
the Chicago trunk lines received a letter
from a Kansas man the other day re
questing a pass for himself to Chicago
and return. There was nothing about
the letter to indicate that the writer bad
any claim whatsoever to the courtesy re
quested, but tbe railway man thought
that perhaps the Kansan had some con
nection with the road in some way, pos
sibly as a local freight agent. So be
wrote back, "Please state explicitly on
what account you request transporta
tion." By return mail came this reply,
"I've got to go to Chicago some way,
and I don't want to walk.'' Exchange.
To Batter Makers.
I have one of the new Improved Elec
tric Churns and can do the churning in
one to two minutes. I can recommend
it to any one. The first day I got mine
Isold three: next day six; one day
eleven. Every churn told sells another.
I cleared $182 in 36 days. To show it, is
to make a sale. I advise any one wish
ing a churn or a good paying business of
their own to write to the IT. 6. Novelty
Mrg. Co., 1517 Olive Street, St. Lonis,
Mo. Subscribes.
MENEFEE RETURNS FROM ALASKA
He Will Go to the Klondike Next Spring
by Way of the To Son. .
ia(u b BLicuipt tiiv trip iu- me xliuk-
dike nntil spring, and when you go, take
the Yukon route via St- Michaels.!'
'This is tbe advice given by ex-Conn,
oilman J. P. Menefee; and he is in a po
sition to oner some sensible suggestions
that should be heeded by those contem
plating such a journey.
Mr. Meuefee was a passenger on tbe
steamer Elder's first trip, and after
thoroughly looking over the situation at
Dyea and Skaguay, concluded to remrn
to Portland and remain until spring,
and be arrived home Sunday evening.
"Skaguay is where most of the gold
seekers are landing," said Mr. Menefee.
"It is much more convenient place than
Dyea. Horses and pack animals can be
used over White's pass, while only In
dians can be utilized over the Chilkoot
pass from Dyea. There were at least
2500 miners at Skaguay a week ago last
Sanday, when I left, and 1 have no hes
itancy in saying that not over 25 per
cent of that number will get over tbe
pass tbts year. Tbe pass is in a terrible
condition and those w bo attempt to cross
at this time are taking their lives in
their hands. The trail is but one mass
of mud, slush and large rocks, and tbe
Dyea trail is much worse. I have no
idea that any effective work will be done
on either trail for months to come. At
Skaguay meetings of the miners were
frequently held and resolutions were
adopted, calling upon the men to go to
work and put the-trail in a passable
condition, but this is all that wiil ever
come of the effort. The men would not
undertake the job and the pass is worse
now than it ever was. So far not over
twenty-five men have succeeded in get
ting over White's pass, although more
have been successful in tackling the
Chilkoot pass. So far as I could learn,
not a Portland man has yet got over
either pass. Alex. Donaldson, formerly
a fireman of this city, and his party will
probably be the first to cross White
pass. They have two horses to the man
and are making fair progress.
"There are not many people at Dyea,
nearly all having pushed their way
about seven mi'es up toward Chilkoot.
Of this distance, there is about three
miles of portage, which is hard and
dangerous work. It is done by Indians.
One wades in the water and steadies the
boat, while two others on either side
drag the boat along by ropes. Indians
are autocrats at Dyea. They realize the
fact that they have the miners at their
mercy, and they will not touch a pack
age of freight unless an advance of from
28 cents to 35 cents a pound is made.
Even at these exorbitant figures the In
dians sometimes' refuse to work, and
threats and entreaties are in vain.
"From Skaguay', about four miles, can
be made by wagon. Then comes the
mountains, over which horses can be
used. The summit of White pass is
about 3500 feet high, and that of Chil
koot about 1000 feet higher. It is ridic
ulous to suppose that either pass will
ever be placed in proper condition for
travel unless the government does the
work. The miners will not do it. The
large bowlders will have to be removed
by blasting, and tbe miners will not in
vest money for such purposes. They
will do just what is necessary for their
immediate requirements and that is all.
"Skaguay and Dyea will undoubtedly
be lively places this winter, and living
will be cheap. Many prospectors came
in overloaded and are now disposing of
their provisions at a sacrifice. Flour
can be bought for 50 cents a sack and
bacon for 1 cent a pound. Fruit and
knicknacks come bigb; eggs bring 50
cents a dozen. Fresh meat cannot be
obtained at any price.
"It is useless to attempt to reach the
Klondike this year. Even could the
difficulties and hardships of the passee
be overcome and tbe trip made in
safety, it would be too late this year for
prospecting, which can only be done in
the summer time. As soon as the snow
comes and tbe ground freezes up then
the only thing that can be done is min
ing. I shall start out gam early next
spring, but will go np the Yukon. No
more White pass or Chilkcot pass for
me." '
Cayoses at 840.
N. A. Miller, an Athena business man,
passed through Pendleton Sunday on his
return from Seattle. He says the Alas
kan excitement there is exceedingly in
teresting to a man not afflicted with
Klondicitis. . He saw six-bit cayuses
sold at $40 each to gold-seekers, and tbe
humble burro was also in demand for a
pack animal. This ignoble brute, how
ever, is apt to sink up to its tars in the
mud on the passes, and when be does he
can't be lifted out with a derrick. He
will not help himself, and remains
where he is, "stuck." Oxen are said to
be successful pack animals, and they
command a good price. East Oregonian.
Works Bat One IV ay.
Washington seems to have a cinch of
considerable proportions on Oregon with
regard to sheep range. At their last
session the solons of the former state
passed a law which practically prohibits
Oregon sheep from crossing the Colum
bia into Washington territory.
It was learned from Charles Cunning
ham that grass is growing scarce on
Eastern Oregon ranges because of over
crowding of the sheep. The conditions
of the Washington law are such that
over 100.000 sheep thatwould have
crossed tbe Columbia at Arlington thism
Season have been kept on the Oregon-
side, making ranges hard to obtain.
Mr. Cunningham remarks that the
injustice of this law is made apparent
by the fact that thousands upon thous
ands of Washington sheep have been
driven all along the border fnto the
mountain ranges of Eastern Oregon.
Onr neighbor is perfectly willirig to
pasture her own sheep on our land, but
eays "nit" to reciprocity. E. O.
Dan Maloney Dead.
Dan Maloney died Tuesday afternoon
about 5 o'clock. He had been sinking
steadily all day. and only his remark
able vitality kept him up as long as it
did. An autopsy was held next morning
by Doctor Hollister and Doctor Brosius
of Hood River. The bullet passed
through the liver, then through the
right kidney and bedded itself in the
back, almost passing through, as it was
fonnd within an inch of the skin.
Daniel .Maloney was born at Independ
ence, Iowa, October 28, 1865. His
mother, three brothers and a Bister sur
vive him.
Wednesday morning Coroner Butts im
paneled a jury to inquire into the cause
of his death, and tbe following verdict
was returned:
Thb Dalles, Or., August 25, 1867.
We, the undersigned, impaneled by
W. H. Butts, coroner of Wasco county,
Oregon, as a coroner's jury to sit and
hear tbe evidence surrounding the death
of one Daniel Maloney, find as follows :
That said deceased came to his death
by a gun-shot wound inflicted by one
Jacob Prahl, on Tuesday, the 17th day
of August, 1897, death resulting from
said wound on Tuesday, the 24th day of
August, 1S97,- about 5 o'clock p. m.,
said shooting occuring on Front street
near Court, in Dalles City, Wasco coun
ty, Oregon. D. S. Dcfub,
F. W. Wilson,
James W. Fisher,
D. B. Gaunt,
E. J. Collins,
J, II. Cross.
Work of Firebug In Gilliam County.
A firebug, supposed to be the same
that fired George Hardle's hay near old
Joe Whyte's place some months ago,
Wednesday night of last week set fire to
Alex. Duthie's barn, about four mileB
from Condon, in Gilliam county, and
before the fire could be put out it had
consumed property of the value ot more
than $500, says the Fossil Journal. Be
sides the barn and fifteen tons of hay, a
granary and a year's provisions were
burned. The incendiary did his work
between 10 and 11 o'clock, when the
family was asleep, ' and Mr. Dulbie
awakened just in time to save tbe
house, which is quite close to the barn.
Old Mr. Hardie and Willie Hardie and
Mrs. Isabella Whyte were there, besides
the family, and by working hard with
buckets and a force-pump and hose
managed to save tbe house. Tbe horses
were gotten out of the barn in the nick
of time.
The Clet Club.
The University Clef Club which gives
one of their concerts next Wednesday
evening in the M. E. church, under the
auspices of the Epworth League, comes
very highly recommended. Hear what
Ernest V. Claypool of Puyallnp, Wash.,
says of them :
Miss Harriet E. Caughran and the
Clef Club gave us the promised concert
and reading last night. Miss Canghran
is a favorite reader in Puyallnp. Both
her dramatic and conversational work
on the platform are excellent. The
sweetest music the world holds is that of
perfectly blended human voices. The
music rendered by the Clef Club is with
out flaw in harmony, is artistic in ex-.
pression,-and the voices blend like fonr
flutes or four trumpets. We are de
lighted with the whole program. Fra
ternally,
Ernest V. Claypool,
Another Rich Find.
It is not an unusual these days to bear
of new and rich mineral discoveries be- .
ing made in the gold fields of Union
county east of this city. The greatest
strike to be reported since tbe finding' of
the fabulously wealthy ledge near Sparta
last week, is one just made on Paddy
creek above the Reed mine, about
thirty-five miles from Union. The new
find is gold-bearing quartz of such rich
ness that one man can pound out in a
common hand mortar $25 a day. The
ledge is quite extensive and the rock is
studded with native gold. It is only a
motter of time when many mills will be
operating on the ores of the county and
employing thousands of people. Re
publican. ATTENTION, SHEEPMEN!
Do you want the earliest and best
range in Washington, with 640 acres of
deeded land, and a chance to raiee on
limited quantities of alfalfa? If you do,
call on or address
J. H. Cradlebaugh,
ag21-tf The Dalles, Or.
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