The Oregon mist. (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.) 188?-1913, August 12, 1898, Image 4

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    HEALTH OF THE YUKON.
tin to Fifteen Millions of Dollars Will Be Cleaned Up This Year Dawsoo City,
With Ten Thousand People, Is the Greatest Mining Camp In the World
The Greatest Knows Gravel Deposit What the Districts Show.
The output of the mines of the Yu
kon district this year, while It has
readied between $10,000,000 and 18,
000,000, has disappointed eren - the
more conservative estimates made last
fall, and based on the proapeota then
existing. Three things have contrib
uted to shorten this spring's clean np
The Canadian royalty, laok of men and
luck of strengthening food. One of the
most prominent ctTll engineers on the
Faolflo coast, who has spent this winter
In the mines, has said:
"Considering the fact that lees than
8.000 poorly fed men have gotten out
this winter almost $15,000,000, the
Klondike has made a showing that
entitles It to consideration as the
greatest gravel deposit In extent and
richness in the . world. The placer
mines of California in early days are
Its only rivals."
The great riches of elaitns on French,
Chief, Utile and Big Bkookum gnlohes
are the wonder of mining men In the
interior ot Alaska. A claim owner on
Frenob gulch offers a standing bet of
$30,000 that he can rock out ot his
claim, single-handed, $5,000 on any
given day. - The benches are old river
beds, which have been broken np by an
ernption of the earth. A continuation
. of the old river bed has been found near
Ennker oaeek, and while little prospect
ing has been done, it is thought that It
will turn ont very well.
Eldorado and Bonanza creeks have
proven all that wag expected of them.
Much more could be seen In actual re
sults if theolean-nphad been completed
this spring. Bat hope that the roy
alties may be called off, and the
early drying op of the Water which
could be nsed in sluicing, ties oaosed
many big claim owners to leave about a
third of the dirt takes oat on the
dump. The wash-up has been com
pleted on very few claims, and on
fewer still can a statement be obtained
as to the real amount of " the clean-up.
This makes it Impossible to state posi
tively the ontpnt ot the mines.
Of the less known streams, Dominica
creek is giving evidenee of mineral de
posits which may make it known as the
richest strike yet made. The confliot
of claims, owing to the two discoveries
allowed, Is about settled, and there la
nothing to interfere with the develop
ment" of the mines. Hunker creek is
lich in placer, but, nnlike the rest of
the country, ia spotted. Gold Bottom
is not turning out as well as expected.
Many other creeks which promise well
have not been sufficiently developed to
make an estimate of their wealth safe.
So many are the disadvantages in
mining in the Northwest territory that
attention is being one more directed
to mines on tho American side. It is
believed that many surprises arej In
store in this direction. Forty-mile
creek has been" relocated and many new
oiaima recorded. Chicken creek, which
has been known for the last two roars.
but not worked, will be developed this
year. -;; Canyon, Nugget .galea .and
Franklin creeks snd the bars on Forty'
mile -will be worked by the hydraulio
process, and there will be a good camp
at the mouth of the river within two
years.'':' .. .
, American creek, 40 miles down from
Forty-mi la, is known- as goodi the
ground is high and well laid out. -Pans
are taken running from 60 cents to $5.
The litsBon creek district has three
formations placer, quart, and coal.
At its mouth Is Eagle City.' in which
will be established the United States
barracks and the custom house.
Twenty miles below Eagle City Is
Star Clty.'gnardlng the month ot Sev
enty-mile river ; The bars of this iie-
baa been worked (or many years. On
Barney Greek, from three to six ounces
to the day has been taken for. the last
three years. .The other tributaries are
as goad as Barney, bnt It Is only now,
when people are spreading out, that
much work will be done. A number
of men .are now at Star City getting
their outfits up to the mines.
f rom Seventy-mile to Circle City
has been prospected, and oreeka are
found here and there which give good
indications. Coal and Sheep creeks
Sromlee espeolally well, and also the
barley river.
Circle City has been practically de
serted since the rush to Dawson but the
riches of Mastodon, Independence,
Eagle, Dead wood and a dozen lesser
gulahes la the Blrob creek district
will revive the town. A moderate
fortune can be made in that district
In two years of hard work. : Miners are
returning to Birch Creek fiom Dawson.
They appreciate a district In which .
there is no royalty, no wood and log
tax and no timber grants.
"' Across from Circle OHy is Jefferson
oreek, which Is now being prospected
for Its whole length. It will be cheap
ly worked, because of being so readily
accessible to the Yukon river.
Farther down Is the Mlnook creek
district, which has been thoroughly
advertised this year. It has developed
some claims whioh have paid $27,000,
$35,000 and 1S,000 for the. winter's
work. The country ia to a great extent
an unknown quantity. The discovery
of Idaho bar, from which men have
taken out $100 a day with a rocker, is a
great boom tor the district, and . the
prospects of the camp are extremely
Might. i
A gieat country will be opened up
in the Koyukuk. It has been known
to miners for 10 years, and no pros
pector who went in there has failed
to bring out a good grubstake. The
territory to be worked is of a vast ex
tent, and offers manv opportunities to
the new comer. Xanana, Kuakouulm
and Chandler rivers have all been
brought prominently to the notice of
mining men this year. All things con
sidered, the American side would sesm
to be the place of the future.
As for uawaon Ciity iiwtif, it ii un
questionably the greatest mining oamp
In the world. Frank Canton, United
Status deputy marshal in Circle City,
and in former years an officer of the
peso In I many of the largest camps of
the West, has said that nothing he has
ever seen approaches Dawson as a model
mining oamp. Accustomed as he has
been to dealing with the roughest class
of criminals, his commendation of
Dawson, as a law-abiding town, has
great weight. The sidewalks are crowd
ed with men and women from morning
to night. People are even forced to
walk in the middle of the streets to
make progress. It is a great jumble ot
trie good and the bad, and the only
pledge of respectability required is
regular attendance at ohuroh. Daw
son's population has grown until It la
now between 8,000 and 10,000.
Nine-tenths of the newcomers are not
in the country to work, and when they
find that success In the Klondike can
only be bought by bard labor, they will
be ready to ooroo out. A great exodus
of ' unaucoeetrtul men will take place
this fall, and the cltios of the Faolflo
ooaet, to which these people will go,
will he bverrun With a rough, desperate
and altogether undesirable class. They
are now In Dawson as the advance
guard o the more substantial men to
follow. , It is a repetition of the his
tory of Circle City. When the Birch
Creek mines were discovered, two yeais
ago, double the usual Invoice of people
went there, but soon left disgusted.
Had they remained, they would have
been in on the ground floor in the Klon
dike discovery.
KANSAS SUPERSTITIONS.
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one's pocket
1 Thm Onbao SVtjehatau
Much has been said of the torrlble
machete, a deadly weapon Indeed in
the hands of a desperate man, and
when nsed against a defenseless person.
The machete was never Intended for a
weapon of warfare; it ia an instrument
of husbandry carried by the Cuban
peasant In times of peace, and la bis
one familiar daily companion. It cuts
his fire wood, aids him in building his
hot. hews bis path through the tnanl
gua, and performs many other offices.
The machette is a straight, heavy
blade about two feet long, with a
wooden ' or bone handle, having no !
guard; consequently it is ottorly un
suited as weapon to be used in a con
flict with an armed man. The Cuban,
of course, br reason of his long famili
arity with the instrument, is an adept
in its use, and its effect upon a group
of unarmed workmen Is truly terrible.
It is in the foray against the defense
less and unarmed that the most serious
work of the machete has been done in
the island of Cuba. "Cuba as Seen
from the Inside," by Osgood Welsh, in
the August Century.
Advices from Honolulu state that the
executive council of the island govern- knew
, Carry a potato in
cure rheumatism.
The skin of a black cat worn in one'i
clothing will curs rheumatism.
Moi J your nanus above your iim
and yout nose will oeaso bleeding.
Never let a chicken die in your hands
aud yon will nut have palsy.
Hold a silver spoon against the buck
of the neck to stop nosebleed.
Woar a red string or red beads
around the neck to prevent the nose
bleed.
The skin of a snake Worn around the
one's hat orown will cure the headache,
Woar a string of gold beads around
your neck and yonr nose can not bleed,
Headache mar be prevented by wear
ing in ouo a hat the rattles of a rattle.
snake.
The negro sometimes sleeps with a
young dog in order to transmit rheu
matlsm to the dog.
At Delphos, Kan., lives a young man
who gallantly ; procured -. bis sweet
heart's warts by purchase. ,
A sty may be ouied by rubbing it
with a gold ring, a sliver spoon, or
one's linger moistened with saliva. .
If yon sea any one asloep In church
say to yoursolfs "When yon awake
take these warts." ,
Bore a hole In the wall the height
of a child's head; when the child grows
above the hole it will be cured of
asthma.
In order to cure the toothache out
your finger nails on Friday. Another
sure cure la to wash behind your ears
every morning,
Write on a stove with a pioco of
chalk the number of yonr w.irts. When
the number has burned off the stove
your warts will be gone.
Rub the wart with sevon pobblua.
wrap tho pebbles In a parcel and throw
thorn away; If the parcel Is picked up
the wart will go away,
You may always prevent cramps in
the feet by taming your shoes upside
down every night beside your bed.
Gertrude C Davenport, in the Journal
of American Folk-Lore, .
Steal a dishcloth, rub the wart with
it. And then bury the cloth under the
eaves of the houau. If yon tell no one
and no one finds out your theft, your
wort will go away. ,.t- ,
If you have a wart and see a man
riding on horseback in the rain (or, as
another version runs, riding on a arav
horse), say: "Take these along;" rub
the wart and it will leave you.
Put into a red calico bag "hearts"
from grains of corn; "run down the
road;" throw sway the bag, not look
ing where they fall; run home agan,
and if any one picks np the bag your
warts will go away.
Some of these cures, which were col
lected lu Coffey county, were obtain
ed from colored people. The majority
of the superstitions, however, which
were collected in Douglas county, were
obtained from people whodeolarod they
no superstitions and believed
ment has signed a contract with the none; namely, students in -attendance
Schymser Company to lay a cable from
the Ameiican coast to Honolulu and
Japan - .. ; ; ?
at the Univeiaity of Kansas.- These
students came from nearly every
county in the state.
ITEMS OF INTEREST!
The liver Jordan makes the greatest
descent in the shortest distance of al
most any stream.
The average height of the human
luuo. la, man, Cvo foot six Im-nos; wo
men, Ave feet two indies.
rouduluine are affected by variations
of density of the all, as well as by
ohauglng temperature.
According to Professor Gallon, a
few person see mentally in print every
word they hear uttered.
Water pipes aro now often made of
glass and covered with aspnnitnm,
with highly satisfactory results.
The entire collection of coins and
medals in the British museum consists
of nearly 250,000 specimens.
Dartmoor Is the largest tract of un
cultivated land in England: It occupies
ona-flfth of the county of Devon,
The boll ring ot Madrid stands a
mile or so outside the city. It was
built In 1874 at a coat, It Is said, of
f 80,000.
. Millions ot pairs of doll shoes are
sold In this country annually, the great
part of Which are imported from Ger
many. The youngest volunteer In the naval
reserve Is Cadet Kolaml B. Ululow,
bugler on the training ship Hew Hamp
shire. -
Fourteen) children seven sets of
twins and all living Is the record of
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hants, of Rich
mond, Mo. - v
It is computed that when marching
Sold ion take 75 steps per mlnnte, in
quick marching 108, and in charging
100 slops.
British trade with the Philippines
last year was $9,884,660; that of tho
United 8tntee, $0,145,808, or about
half as much.
At its present rate of combustion it
Is thought thosnn will last from T,000,
000 to 18,000,000 years before burning
Itself out, ...
The average duration ot human fife
in Euroiwan countries Is greatest in
Sweden and Norway, and lowest in Italy
and Austria.
Barcelona Is now the most populous
city of Spain, the result of the oonsus
just taken showing 820,000 Inhabit,
ants, to Madrid's 007,000.
Tbs PI. Louis team of the National
Baseball league has been sold to Ed
waid Becker, a retired capitalist and
principal creditor of the olub. -
Alexander Gregg Belleville, of St.
Louis, who recently burled his seventh
wife, has married again, this time to a
girl of 18. He is 87 years old.
Judge John 8. Candlor, ot Atlanta,
who has been appointed colonel of the
Third Georgia volunteers, lost both his
feet in a railroad accident in 1081.
Mrs. L N. Barber, principal of the
St Paul school of fins art, committed
suicide at Mendots, Minn., where she
was In charge of the summer art
school. , , i
Owing to the' extreme drought placer
mining in the northen counties of Cali
fornia has been suspended. It ia
thought that operations will not be re
sumed nutil next spring.
1 S.rat.flo Vle Pr "
Mr Frederlok A. Ohar writes an
article oi the AnnustUentiiry on Aha
Island of Porto Rico." Mr. Obor.ay.i
Until It : was discovered that Porto
Rlw possessed gioat valuo as a strateg a
center" of naval operations, the lair
ials slumbered undisturbed, motelr
link, and no Important one In I he em
erald chain that separates the Atlantic,
and the Carlbboan. Suddenly naval
folks became aware of Us importnneaj
they saw that while it borders on the
Caribbean sea. yet It breasts tbs rough
Atlantic waters; that It is eqnadjs.
tant, or about 1.000 mile, troia hy
West and Colons fiom New York
1,800 miles, whioh Is half the distance
from Cadis; 1,800 from Newport News,
which ia half the distance to the Ciuinr
I os. It lies, in fact, at the very point
that we should have selected for
a coaling station, had we unrestricted
choice ol location. All the argument
that have heon advanced for the acquisi
tion ). IhIhihI of St. Thomas, 00
miles distant, and for which at one
time wo wore almost ready to pay seveu
million dollais, apply with tenfold
Ion. with Its six itood
harbor to the one of St. Thomas, and
It commercial as well as strategical
potentialities- " " l''
lost" aisura stvio othuhs.
A country boy vlsltlns Xw York stopped
Slrantlo runaway loam that was about lu
dh on the alilvnals- when llioro worn bun
dreita olwomou ami rhlldron. II sal! Ibolr
llviis. but lout his own. Hundreds ol iivi-saio
saved overy yr by Jlosumtir's Htoinatih Hit
tor. t'tonlo who are last Kolntt 10 tlielr
Kravoa Willi disorders ol stoiimnli, llvar.
bowels sud blood r brouxht liai'k to (ood
health by It. All tbo sick should try It.
Gov. McCord has received Indefinite
leave of absence from his duties as the
executive of Arlxona, and will take
oommand as colonel of the regiment of
infantry now being reemited in the
four territories.
TRY AIXKN'I! FOT-BS.
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Baker's
Chocolate,
celebrated for more
than a century as ft
delicious, nutiltlous, 1
sad flush forming ,
beverage, has our 1
well-known '
Yellow label
on me iront or every
package, and our
trade mark,"! a Itrlls
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Xllilury illrl.ilitti In etutruM of I', rt,
Army oni.vr, I'runary, iirriftr,.toiy
act'lt-mle i!ivarliiii.iiu. MttmtiU
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lalltM. Iloya 'f all asm ffcl.'!.
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O, lirawui 17, Porilua I, Or.
A nowdcrto be shaken Into ths shoes.
At this srusnii your f.t'l feel swollen, nor
vous, and hot, and get tired easily. If you
have smarting fuel or tluht shoes, try
Allen's Fixit-KuKO. It cools tha feet anil
makes walkinir easy. Cures swollen and
sweating feet, blisters and callous spout,
livlievea corns anil nunionaof all nin and
Hives rent anil comfort Ten thousand tes
timonials of curv. Try it (fxuv. Hold by
all driiL'uista and shoe siores for 2.V. Kent
ny mall lor ZV) in stamps. Trial packmen
t'HKK. Address Alien 8. OluisUd, U
Roy, New York. .
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I silks II tms. Korllllles lla0 Uwi
tiiad on a small beguming by trading in lis.
lures, w rtta for full liarttciilars. i,est ol rat,
retieaslveii. Hsveral years' ex iiaiifiieetm ths
('bleauo llnurd o( 1 radii, and a tlion.iieii Inmw,
ledsa of tlio biifcOii'1. Heiid lor our i relvr
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iik'hbu i.iwiu wi i-iiiiw nr., (Mile
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Knilway building In Africa Is pro
seeding with wonileifnl rapidity con
sidering the difficulty and erpoiialve
ness of most of the enterprises. .
WAOUNS IIMI-KOVKII,
Tim new Improved frUoiinliton wiifrnns
stand t lie racket. Tlirce more car loads are
onthewav. It pavs to have ths best.
Write for frf! eaUilot-ue. JOHN I'OOI.K.
sole BKent, foot ot Morrison street. Tort
land, Or.
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Microbes are so minute that 960,
000,000 oan be comfortably accommo
dated on a ponny postage stamp.
According to a German authority the
human brain is oompoaod ot 000,000,
000 nerve cells.
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dimes will Bisks you iwl bstter. tint H from
your druinrUt or any wholesale drus bimmi, or
worn Stewart A Uolmoa liru Co., Statu.
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aral njervlMiiidlM stores, or by
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