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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAJT, PORTLAND, MAT 20, 1900. LIFE IN DAWSON CITY PORTfcAXD W03IAX DESCRIBES COXDITIOIkS THERE. Hoir EaKter "Wrb Observed Northern Lights Exodas to Some. Tke -Mrs, Hekate, a well-known Portland woman, writes to The Oregonian from Dawson, under date of April 9, as follows: Nature hag Jn many ways shown ypar tiality to this country, and especially can this be said of the scenery from Skag way to Bennett. The train winds its way around height after height until when the summit of the mountain is reached, one finds oneself riding among the clouds In reality. Then come in view the most treacherous but picturesque scenes Mlleo Canyon. "White Horse," Five Finger and Rink Rapids. Of course, coming In during the Winter the journey over the Ice involves many discomforts; but in Summer time, when daylight Is almost continuous, the trip is an ideal one. Although it Is claimed this Winter fias been more severe than any preious year since the discovers" of the IClondlke, the cold did not seem to affect travel over the Ice to Dawson many ladles came In and went. The bicycle, as" a rapid tran sit in the Yukon country, seema to have become a fixture. Records of 10S miles a day when the trail was In good condition hava been made. Dawson. Dawson Is rapidly becoming a metro politan city, boasting telegraph and tele phone systems, and there are electric lights In the streets and stores. There -are several department stores, and. Indeed, the window displays of thesa establish ments are equal to many of our big stores on the "outside." But there Is a painful difference in the prices asked and. to a "cheechawker" (as a newcomer is termed), it Is hard to become accustomed to high prices. Easter Sunday was observed In Daw son with special services In all the church. A large stock of millinery goods arrived last week over the Ice, giving all the ladles a chance to wear Tiew Easter bonnets. Very often, unless one is reminded of It. a holiday easily slips by unnoticed. An amusing Incident hap pened last Thanksgiving Day. One of the big stores closed Its doors for Thanksgiv ing Day a week ahead of its competitors, and discovered the mistake after the clerks had dispersed. There are many large business build ings In Dawson and one brick warehouse. A commodious postoGlce building Is to be erected this Summer, which will be adorned with a town clock. Time at pres ent Is regulated by the firing of a cannon from the barracks at noon hour; so that this Land of the Midnisrht Sun is fast be ccmlng recognized among the inhabitants as the Land of the Midday Gun. There Is no public school outside of the Catholic School, which has an attendance of about 50 pupils. There are from 300 to 400 children in the Klondike region. Better Sanitary Conditions. Owing chiefly to the much better sani tary conditions, the hospitals are not so crowded as they were a year ago. Last week I visited St. Mary's Hospital, In which there were but 50 patients, most of whom were elderly men. Until very recently the water used for cooking and drinking purposes, was ta" from holes cut in the Yukon River, as... delivered by carriers at 25 cents a bucket, apd when tho thermometer fell to C5 below, it lias been known to freezo before It reached its destination. At present the water is taken from a big viell and delivered In tho same manner. Aurora. Borealls. 6ne of the most beautiful sights In this high altitude are ths "Northern lights." These show In the Northern heavens In fantastic and weird shapes and magnifi cent colorings. They may be seen under the North star shaped Ilka an arch in many -colors, and remain In this position for many moments unchanged, when suddenly they will flicker to and fro. as If blotvn by a wind. Then they w.ll mount higher and higher in tho sky and, like a transformation scene, become a curtain hanging down directly oer one's head and shimmering as If being shaken by unseen hands. They grow darker and darker and soon fade away, but only for a few moments, for suddenly a light ap pears similar to the shaft of a search light, tinted with all the colors of a rainbow. They bound and flit through the heavens and the sky becomes a mas3 of V-azlng, flickering and waving lights. 'J. hey are very beautiful and at times it la brighter than moonlight. It Is an open question and one in which there is a great deal of speculation as to how these North ern lights are caused. How Clot mi Are "Worked. I have been up the creeks and have noticed with Interest the methods of wrork lng the claims. I find It very interest ing. Prospecting holes are sunk any where from 41 to 200 feet In depth. The deepest shafts being sunk on hillside claims, at which depth tho ground is yet frozen. I was lowered in a hole 50 feet deep, and as a fire had been built in the hole the night previous, the ground was thawed enough that one could see colors with the naked ce. There are many rich claims In the Klondike, but there are also many where colors are never known. Oftentimes as high as 15 holes are sunk on a claim and nro e a blank. Yet It has been discovered that while the 15 holes w ere blanks it hap been . struck rich In tho ICth hole, it to slmpjy luck and lot tery. It seems probable that this country will some day be a great quartz ra.nlng coun try. Coal has been discovered in it Is believed Inexhaustible quantities, and will no doubt be put into extensive use. This is of great Importance, as it is evident the wood supply will sooner or later be exhausted. The introduction of extensive machinery plants utilize a great deal of wood. IIlKh Price. Men boarding themselves get from 5S ta $10 per day and others $5 and board at the creeks. The general salary for clerks is 5100 -per month and up. including board and lodging. But, again, living expenses are 'high, especially during the Winter. I will quote the following: Flour, $7 30 per sack; beef, 50 to 60. cents retail; pork, 50c; veaL 75c; meat plentiful; fowl, 50:, canned goods range from 50 to 75c; fresh potatoes, 75c and scarce; bread, 25c a loaf, fresh onions cannot be had; butter, $1 00; fresh eggs, 52 50 -per dozen; fresh frozen eggs, $1 5; lemons, 50c apiece; oranges, 75c apiece, lumber $100 per 1000; native hay, 20c pound, outside hay, 30c and upwards; oats, 25c pound. Horses, of which there arc many, recentlj came over the Ice bringing In supplies. They are fed on rolled oats, oat meal, coarse meal and stale bread. There are but few milch cows in Dawson. I have quite a nice collection of Indian relics. I have one basket almost the 6lze of a market basket made of birch bark by St. Michael Indians. There is quite a difference In the ambition of the Indian in this countrv. In Wrangel. Sitka and Juneau, the Indians find themselves bus ily engaged In making baskets from straw and In carving wood, especially totem poles. Three miles from Dawson is an Indian settlement called "Moosehlde." The squaws have no time to devote to fancy work; they are fully occupied in trying to keep up with the fashion of the white ladles. The men fish and hunt. -At St. Michael again the Indians are of a more Industrious class. They work prin cipally in birch bark, constructing canoes and by making baskets and other rel ics. Exeiai to Some. Cape Nome has been the center of at traction this Winter. Over 500 people left with all kinds of outfits over the ice. At present the excitement has somewhat subsided, but it is believed when navifa.- tlon opens, hundreds from Dawson will follow the exodus, entering Into all kinds of business. O! for an Oregonian. News papers were not so plentiful this W.nter ana an OrecorJan was a nreclous irift given from friend to friend. I would like i to cay mucn in lavor or tne climate, out rcy. letter Is already too long. SIR HENRY'S SUBORDINATION He aad 3Cis Terry Are But Hireling" After All, "With Cruel Bouses. Chicago News. To the unprejudiced observer Sir Henry Irving looks anything but a hireling, and Ellen Terry rith all her sweetness pos sesses a natirc dignity that entirely does away with the idea of submission to others. The ordinary American who re luctantly parts with several hard-earned dollars for the privilege of listening to these great English stars cannot Imagine a rude man telling Sir Henry to come or to go as the fit takes him or sitting In Judg ment upon him and his company, jvhlie that light of the stage tremblingly awaits a scolding or a kindly pat on the shoulder and a condescending "Well done!" Ameri cans always fancied Sir Henry, when he struck London, owned the town, but it seems he Is not even privileged to say "Bool" In his own theater that Is, the theater the public has always thought his. It Is a solemn and blundering English fi nancial Journal which has let the cat out of the bag and adjusted w Ith a Jolt the re- lations betw een Sir Henry and the Test of the world on the near side of the foot lights. It seems, according to this re spected paper, that the "ordinary general meeting of the Lyceum Theatre, Ltd., was held at the theater last week," one C. Armstrong presiding. Was the meeting to vote a banquet to the illustrious star on his return? Hardly. The chairman arose and stated that the last six months had been the leanest and most unprofitable experienced in some time. No doubt the war had a great deal to do with the falling off of attendance at the theater. They had put the estimated balance of profit payable to the company on "Sir H. living's American tour" ob serve the irreverence of that "H." "at 515,000, but had since ascertained from the return made by Bram Stoker that this figure was exceeded." And America has been talking in awed tones of that $100,000 Irving took In from us on his recent tour, and has sat up nights figuring out the good times he could have on it. It is an abrupt awakening to find that all the time a grave and determined assemblage of ruddy-faced gentlemen have been sitting In conclave over In London estimating how much of that 5100,000 they could decently appropriate. "At present," the chairman Informed the meeting of the "Xyccum Company, Ltd.." "the arrangements completed for the ensuing season promise a good return, and with the profits realized in America we might hope to equal, if not exceed, the sums received from 'Robespierre.' " But they were not done et with the delinquent Sir H. Irving. When the chairman sat -down up rose one Comyas Carr. who in passing seconded the adoption of tho report and then said that "in addi tion to the malign influence of the past year already referred to, thev suffered from the fact that Sir Henry was for some time absent from the bill owing to illness." Comyas did not come right out and ask that Sir Henry should be docked, but the tenor of his remarks plainly shows that he considers the actor careless and dlsregardful of his employers' Interests and there Is a subtle threat of "never do it again" entwined about Mr. Carr's careful British diction. As the majority of Americans work with a person variously designated as "the boss" or "the old man" over them, they will after this have a more brotherly and sympathetic feeling for Sir Henry when he strides haughtily behind the footlights before $3 listeners w ho are unwittingly assisting a company limited to have cheerful meetings across the water. Musical Tnlk to Children. A delightful afternoon was spent at the home of Mrs. T. B. Trevett, 777 Flanders treet, 5 csterday. by members of the Carl Relnecke Club, who were entertained by Miss Nora Large, of Chicago. The latter gave an Informal talk, with musical Illus trations on the piano, to -enable the chil dren to understand the programme planned for her recital before the club next Saturday afternoon at Parsons Hall. The selections were most happily made, constituting a programme of rare Inter est, arranged in logical sequence in har mony with a central Idea. The charmlnc ease with which she adapted her talk to the plane of the young student, and her delightfully sympathetic interpretation of the composers meaning upon the piano, made the afternoon a very enjoyable one both lor young and old. Mr. Woodford's Manifest Opening:. PORTLAND. May 19. To the Editor. I notice in The Oregonian this morning that Hon. Stewart L. Woodford, for merly United States Minister at Madrid. speaking of the future of Spain, says: "The loss of her colonies means Spam'a national rejuvenation. ... The war with the United States was a blessing in dirgulse." Can It be possible that in ac quiring our insular possessions from Spain Uncle .Sam has bought a gold brick? X. mm DANES ARE COMING pivk Trrv-rmn va-wtues REAnY! TO MOVE TO OREUOJT. One Colony Who Settled Xear Eugene Started a lilg Xoveucst to lie "Wcbfeot State. Probably the greatest single immigra tion movement to Oregon for years is just now commencing, under the auspices of the United Danish Evangelical Church of America. The first lot of the Immi grants, consisting of 27 families, have arrived and been assigned to their ami, which is a part of a large colony being founded in the vicinity of Eugene This is said to be merely a beginning. Theso pious, thrifty, hardworking Danes have been attracted to the "Willamette Valley by the great similarity of the. climate here to their own Denmark, and the president of the American branch of the church encourages his Portland agents to bellevo a veritable tide is setting In for the state. It was some'time In April that the firm of Hartman, Thompson & Powers, in the Chamber of Commerce bul.ding, begun negotiations with the Rov. P. L. C. Han sen, who came to Oregon as the repre sentative of the American branch of the THE WVE OF PROSPERITY church. He was looking for suitable land for a Danish colony in a climate not too hot nor too cold. The Willamette Val ley Impressed him at once. The firm placed him In touch with information of conditions up the Valley, particularly at and around Eugene. His enthusiasm wasu Intense, and what looked like a small mat ter immediately developed into a project that jnay have far-reaching results in the state's Industrial progress. Rev. Mr. Hansen was a quiet man, of great eu ergy, however, qual sagacity and force, but his assurances seemed rather Incred ible. Arrangements were made by the firm for a large tract of Jand. 1200 acres, about two miles from Eugene. To this were added other tracts adjoining or near. Within a few days 2200 acres were sold to the Danes, the first payment made, and in less than three weeks from the time of beginning negotiations, a batch, of 27 fam ilies arrived to take possession of their new homes. Then It was that the magnitude of the colonizing project began to dawn upon those Interested. G. B. Christiansen, the American president ..of the church, ap proved the report of Mr. Hansen. Three years ago the church established one of J tneir colonies in .Kortn Dakota, where they placed over 450 families. This Is farther north than the Danes are ac customed to live, the temperature in Win- I much hotter than they had experienced at home, and they disliked their Dakota colony. Another co'ony established -In Texas was subject to the heat extreme, which made It undesirable, although a large number of families have located there. The Willamette Valley was the desired mean, possessed the moist, salu brious atmosphere in which the Danes arc reared, and more than all, was particu larly adapted to their old country occu pations of dairying and small gardening. All of them are enthusiastic over their prospects here, and the colonizing officials kstart forth to direct towards the "Wlam- ctte Valley agreat stream of Immigrants. In a few days Mr. Hansen goes East with a large quantity of literature, laying out the advantages here, and expect to Inter est hundreds of his countrymen. Hartman. Thompson & Powers found themselves confronted by a task greater than they had dreamed, and began to secure contracts on a large scale. They now have purchased or secured for tho church over 13.000 acres of land adjacent to that first secured, and still are at work. The work Is done through the church of ficers, who act as colonizing officials. One pament of 10 per cent Is made down, 15 per cent In SO days, 25 per cent soon thereafter, when the occupant is given a deed for his farm, which he mortgages for the other 59 per cent due. As about the limit of desirable land has been ob tained for one colony, the firm will look to another section of the Valley for an other colony site if the flow of Immlgra tln is as strong as now seems to be In- j dicated. There are over 200 Danish congregations of this church In the country at pres- j ent. The Danes of this denomination pre fer to live -near each other, where they may have their pastor and the pcasure of each other's company, so their plan of settlement has been largely by colonies. 1 i Wi fnmUlftc rt itcMalt-v fhKtfflr finrl i the best of husbandmen. Their presenca j 1 is of great value in any community. The ! ! citizens of Eugene arc circulating petl- I tlons to raise money sufilcent to build a j church on the grounds of the colony now j being established. The next batch of fam- j Hies Is about due. and from this time on ! the firm will run weekly excursions to j Eugene to accommodate these homeseek ers. Numbers of the Danes are to be ex pected every week, until -the colony Is fined. Time Kxtended for Cycle Tax. j The County Commissioners have made 1 ' an order extending the time for collection j 1 r vv Wovoin t.T5f until June 10 and after I that date will direct the penalty against! delinquents to he enforced. Recently the4 collections have been quite ood, out tnere are still a large number of wheelmen who must pay. It Is supposed, many have been backward because on aecoupt Of -rainy weather they have not been using their bicycles much. There la now no longer any excuse on that score, and the weather has been good for some time, and rrders are numerous. The. two bicycle paths on the Base line road have been completed, except being graveled. Twenty men are employed on the work. There will be no further extension for collectlonsuf ter June 10. , . AN ILLINOIS MURDERER. Wrote a. Confession and Tktn Tried to Commit Salcide. ' SALT LAKE. May lfl. A roan giving his name as Samuel Moser was taken into custody by the police today, after he had made an unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide. In his pocket 'ras found a slip of paper giving the name of Sam Moser, with his Salt Lake address. In his room was found a letter addressed to the Peoria Herald. The letter closed by say ing: "I am a murderer from Morton, Taz well County, 111. Write to my father, Ben Moser. Tazwell County, Illinois, that the body of their son Sam was found. I did not suppose that they want to see me any more." The Deseret News prints a long inter- -Denver Times, ftt - ji 1 . . .... j- .". w .. . . " view, in wnicn 11 is ciaimea, mat- ne gave the details of how he killed his wife; and rhree'chlldren May 13, and then took the train for the "W"cst, arriving here last Thursday. " - DAILY CITY 'STATISTICS. Real Estate Transferal Mattie E. Robertson et al. ta Julia Marquam, lot IS, "bloc"-" 77; May 12..J162S E, A. Van Vleet apd Lewia Van Vleet to Stella Van-Vleet', lot 5, block 15; Alblnar January 3lTlS93.... Z) E. A. Van Vleet and Lewis Van Vleet to Edith Van Vleet, lot 4. block 15, Alblha-. January 31 20 Guaranty Savings & Loan Associa tion to Bridget A. O'Neill, lots 10. 11 and 12, block 10, Portsmouth; May 15 S50 Nancy K. Nicholas and H. B. Nich olas to David Pennl, lot 2, block 109. Portland; May 2 900 H. H. Crosier and wife to N. A. Ba ker, lot 4, Troutdale Park; February 23. 1S3S f. 150 Phoebe Wager to A. J. Clark, lots 1, 2 and 3, block A, Dunlway's sub division, RIvervlew addition; May 17 ... 462 A. W. Powers and wife to Robert A. , Taylor. lot 1. block 16, Lincoln Park; May 16 1 Emma Marquam and P. A. Marquam to C. C. Prince, all Interest of gran tors in the D. L. C. of John Donner; May 15 1 Charles E. Warner to Wilbur E. Braggins, lots C, S 9 and 10. block 6, Third Electric addition; January 6.. 200 Marriage Licenses. J. M. Coegrove, aged 24, LlIHe E. Crow son, aged 20; J. R. Slavln, 23, Emma E. Ryan. 26; D. M. Flanders, 49, 2. V. Richardson, 47; N. S. Griffith, 33, Florence Rosenbaum, 26. Births. May 4, boy to the wife of Michael West- erfield, 410 San Rafael street May 15, girl to the wife of Ludwig Spady, 415 Tillamook street. Biff Stock: Shipments. Commercial Agent Gorham, of the Rock Island, reports having loaded six trains of 15 :ars each with cattle at Yakima yesterday. His company will ship the stock to Chicago over the Northern Pa cific via St Paul. During the week the Oregon Short Line sent out nine trains of sheep. A portion of these go to the Chicago market, and the rest are destined for the Colorado ranges, to feed. STRIKES THE SOURCE. - A Pile Care That Goes to the Root of the Disease. There are lots of lotions, oils and salves that will, through their soothing influence, relieve temporarily the pain Incident to piles. But is that all the sufferer requires? Isn'fit a horrible thought to realize that the ease Is only temporary, and that the disease goes on under the surface without a moment's interruption? Wouldn't it be wiser to select a remedy that seeks the source and regulates those deep-seated disorders which induce the disease? Pyramid Pile Cure not only re lieves the pain at once, but effects a per manent cure of the worst form of piles. You don't have to go through a tedious course of dieting while using It. either. It strikes through those delicate mem branes and tissues and sets the blood in healthful circulation, reducing at once the painful Inflammation and congested tu mors. TThJs remedy is not a haphazard1" combi nation of drugs, but It is a remedy invent ed by specialists who have treated piles and blood disorders successfully for years. Almost any first-class druggist has it on sale at 50 cents per package. Don't treat this disease with every lotion and salve that comes along. Remember the parts affected arc among the most delicate in the human body. "This remedy Is absolute ly safe, and no ono rreed fear to apply It freely on the most inflamed parts. The speed with which it allavs the pain Is an 'agreeable surprise to the sufferer. I Coaster - Be up-to-date and ride a wheel with. a Columbia tCoaster Brakethe only frictionless .coaster brake. Is of the outside type; does not strainthe spokesor hub. The greatest labor-saving device ever applied to the bicycle; adds one-half to thev pleasure of cycling. . 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