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WEALTH OF ...... llllllnna lt TtnUxrm Will Ttn to nuccD With Ten inousnnu ict-pit-, is inc i.rcaiest Mining Camp la the World The Greatest Koowo Gravel Deposit What the Districts Show. Ti,. output of thomlnoaol the Yu- lnn diatriot tbii year, while It has SU" A a A AAA AAA . .1 t V reached between iu,uuu,u ! io, .nnn. hit disappointed eren tho J. rtinservatlve estimate made lust I (nil, '"! b,,,M"' on t,,e I0"!3"' ,,,,,n I existintf- Three minus novo coniriD- .horton Uil spring's clean op: The Canadian toynlty, luck of men and lack of strengthening loou. woo 01 mo most prominent ciil engineers on the rwifk coast, who ha spout thia wintor in tlie niincf, bus said: "Considering wo uci inui lesa man 000 poorly fad men have gotten out ' . . I .... 4 AIR fuft AAA At... till Willi1'" U'"11" IW,VVV, HIU Klondike bus nimio a snowing umt entitle t0 co18,,,oral'tm tho greatest gravel deposit In extent and richness I" u,e 1,18 ym' rallies 01 CUlllorum iu cur. uujb are t only rivals. TI.a irrfHlt riches of claims on French. Chief. Littlo and llig fkookom golches ire the wonder oi mining nion in tno Interior of A Mhku. a ciunn owner on Ftench gulch olTori a standing hot of nun Unit he can rock out ot tils " ' .. .. I 1 An rm Claim. singio-nniiueu, f j.uuu uu unj given day- Tho benchea are old river Li. which have been brokeu up by an entption of tho earth. A continuation ol the Uli I rivet uuu una uitu iuunu nunr Hunker fVek, and while little prospect ing has boon done, it Is thought that it will turn out very well. Eldorudo and Bonanza ciecks have proven all that was expected of them. Jigcli toro cOU'1' 0,'n ot,,a' ,e' nits il the oleanup bud been compluted t!i in spring. . But hope that the roy alties muy be called off, and the esr'y drying up of the water which cduI.I be nsod in sluicing, has oaased niany big claim owners to leave about n third of the dirt taken out on ha dump. The wash-up has been com pleted on vory few claims, and on fewer still can a statement bo obtained ai to the real amount of tbe clean-up. Tliia makes it Impossible to state post tivi'ly the output of the mines. 01 tho lees known streams, Dominion creek is giving evidonoe of mineral de posits which may make it known aa the richest strike yet made. Tho conflict of claims, owing to the two discoveries allowed, is about settled, and there is nothing to intorfare with tbe develop ment of tho minca. Hunker creek is llch in placer, but, unlike the rest of the country, is spottod. Gold Bottom la not turning out ns well as expeoted. Many other creeks whioh promise well have not boon sufficiently developed to make an estimate of their wealth safe. So many are tho disadvantages in Diining in tho Nor tli west territory that attention is being once more directed to mines on the American sido. It is believer! that many surprises ar iu and you'll get your money's worth. The 10-cent piece of Battteto. is larger than the 10-cent piece of any other brand of the same high quality, and is larst niece of really good chewing tobacco that is sold K THE YUKON. torn fl.. A tt- -. ... . v.iuni-a tp mis mr Hanson City. store in this direction. Forty-mlle "v iibi ooen relocated and many new ciaime recorded. Chicken creek, whioh bus been known lor tho hint in , but not worked, will be developed this year. Canyon. Nncjot milch and irnnklin creeks and the Uu on Forty uiilo will ho worked by the hydruulio process, and there will bo a good camp at the mouth of the river withiu two years. American Clock, 40 miles down from Forty-milo, la known as good; tho ground is high and well laid out. runB are taken running from 80 cents to 5. The Misson creek district ius three formations placer, quartz and coal. At its tnouth Is Kugle City, in which will be established the United States barracks and tho custom house. Twenty miles below Kagle City Is Star City, guarding tbo mouth of Hey. enty-milo river. The burs of this live has been worked foi many yenis. On Hurney creek, from throe to six ounces to the day has been tuken foi the last three years. Tbe other tributaries aro as good as Barney but it is only now, wheu peoplo aio spreading out, that much work will be done. A number of men are now at Star City getting their outfits op to the mines. From Heventy-mile to Circlo City has been prospected, and oreeks aro found bore and there which give good indications. Coal and Sheep crocks promise esjteoially well, and ulso tho Charley river. Ciicle City has been practically de serted since tho rush to Dawson but tho riches of Mastodon, Independence, Euglo, Dead wood and a dozen leaser gulohea in the Birch creek district will revive the town. A moderate fortune can be made in thut district in two years of hard work. Miunis are returning to Birch creek fioiu Duwson. They appreciate a district In which there is no royalty, no wood and log tax and no timber grants. Across from Circle City is Jefferson creek, which is now being procected for its whole length. It will be cheap ly worked, becauso of being so readily accessible to the Yukon river. Further down is the Mi nook creek district, which has been thoroughly advertised this yeur. It bus developed some claims whioh have paid 1 27,000, 135,000 and 115,000 for the winter's work. The country is to a great extent an unknown quantity. The discovery of Idaho bar, from which mon have takon out $100 a day with a rocker, is a great boom for the district, and the prospects of the camp are extremely bright. A gteat coantry will be opened up in tbe Koyukuk. It has been known to minors for 10 years, and no proB pector who went in there has failed to bring out a good grubstake. Tho territory to be worked is of a vast ex tent, and offers manv opportunities to if you are dissatisfied with the size of piece or with the quality of the chewing tobacco you are using - for 10 cents erne the new com sr. Taaana, Koskoqulm ! and Chandler rivers have all been brought prominently to tbe notice of mining men this year. All things con sidered, tbe American side would soem to be tho place of the future. As for Dawson City itself, it is un questionably the greatest mining camp in the worl.L Frank Canton. United States deputy marshal in Circle City, and in former years an officer of the peace In many of the lament oampa of the West, has said that nothing he has ever seen approaches Daweon as a model mining camp. Accustomed as he tuts been to dealing with the roughest clas of criminals, hid common. latum of Dawson, as a law-abiding town, has great weight. The sidewalks aro crowd ed with men anil women from morning to night. People aro oven forced to wulk in tho middlo of the street to make progress. It is a great Jumble of the good and the had, and tho only pledgo of respectability required is regular attendance at church. Daw son's population has grown until it is now between 8,000 and 10,000. Nine-tenths of the newcomers are not in tho country to work, and when they find that success in the Klondike can only be bought by hard labor, they will be ready to conm out. A great exodus ,o( unsuccessful men will take place ( this fall, nnd the cities of the Tactile coast, lo which thece peoplo will go, will bo overrun with a rough, desperate and altogether undesirable chsa. They are now in Daweou ns tho advance guard of tho more eulistantiat men to follow. It Is a lepetltion of tho hit toryof Circlo City. When the Birth I creek mines were discovered, two yeais ago, double the usual invoice of peoplo went there, but soon left disgusted. Hail they remained, they would havo been in on the ground floor in tho Klon dike discovery. Tli Cuban Marhvtit. Much Iiiib been said of tho terrible macheto, a deadly weniHin indeed in tho hands ot a desjK-rato man, and ,whon used against a defenseless person. I The maohoto was never intended for a weapon of warfare; it is an Instrument of husbandry carried by tho Cuban ; peasant in times of peaeo, itud is his one familiar duily companion. It cuts his fire wood, aids him in building his ; hut, hews his path through the maul- gna, and performs many other otllces. The machotte is a straight, heavy I blade about two feet long, with a I wooden or bono handle, having no 'guard; consequently it is utterly un- suited as a weapon to bo used in il con , diet with an armed man. The Cuban, I of course, bv reason of his long famili jarity with the instrument, is an adept in its use, ami us enect upon a group of unarmed workmen is truly terrible. It is in the foray against the defense less and unarmed that tho most serious work of the machete has been done in the island of Cuba. "Cuba ns Seen from tho Inside," by Osgood Welsh, in the August Century. Advices from Honolulu state that tho executivo council of tbo island irovcrn- I muni Itiia ai, ,iial a ...int. til U'llli lint . I (, l)ifljv. u vvii.iuu, ...... ...v Sohymsor Company to lay a ouble from tho Ameiicun coast to Honolulu and Japan mbT the mm ton KANSAS SUPERSTITIONS. Carry a potato in onu'a pocket to cure rheumatism. The skin of a black est worn in one'i clothing will cure rheumatism. Hold your hauls alx've yonr head and youi nose mil cease bleeding. Never tela chicken die iu your hsn.ls and you will not have palsy. Hold a silver spoon against the back of the neck to atop nosebleed. Wear a rod string or ie. beads around tho nock to pievent the nose bleed. The skin of a snake worn around the one's hut crown w ill cure the heada.'he. Wear a string of gold U-ada around your neck and your nose can not bleed. TlcMdncho mar bo prevented by wear ing in one's, hut the rattles of a rattle snake. The negro sometime sl.cp with a young dog in order to transmit rheu matism to the dog. At Dclphos, Kan., liven a young man who gallantly procured Ins tweet heart's warts by purchase. A sty may tw cuied by rubbing it with a gold ring, a silver spoon, oi one's finger moiMcncd ith saliva. If you seo any ono asleep In church say to yourself: "When you awake tuko these warts." lloie a hole in tho wall the height of a child's head; when the child grows , above tho hole it will bo cuied of 1 asthma. In order to cure tho toothm ho cut ' your fiiigei nails on Friday. Another ; sure cure is to wash behind your ears every morning. Write on a stove with a piece of ' chalk the num!crof your w.irts. When the number has burned off the stove your waits will be gone. Kub Hut wart with seven pebbles, wrap the pebbles in a parcel and throw them away; if the parcel is picked up the wart will go away. You may always prevent cramps in the feet by turning your shoes upside , down every night beanie your tied. !(eitrudu V. Davenport, In the Journal of American Folk Lire. I Steal a dishcloth, rub the wart with it, and then bury the cloth undei the eaves of the house. If you tell no one 1 and no one llnds out yoor theft, your I wart will go away. ' If you have a wart and see a mun 'riiling on horseback in tbe rain (or, us another version runs, tiding on a gray horse), say: "Take theso along;" rub i tho wart and it will leavo you. Tut into a red calico bug "hearts" ftoin gruins of corn; "run down the road;" throw away the ag, not look ; ing where they fall; run home ugan, ' nnd if ally one picks up tho bug your wartwill go away. Koine of theso cures, which wero ool i looted in Cotley county, wero obtain 'odfioni cidoted people. Tbo majority lot the superstitions, however, which wore collected in Douglas county, wero obtained from people who declared they 'knew no supcrntitions ami believed 1 none; namely, Mudcnta in attendance 'at the UnivoiHity ot Kausus. Theso 1 students eumo from uoaily every county in tho statu. wm mm W W - W W W 0rm W W W W W mf W WW W w-WW vas- ITEMS OF INTEREST. The ilver Jordan makes the greatest ileset nt in the slioi test distance of al uust any atieiim. The nveratfe height of the human lace is, men, live feet lis im In s; wo men, live (ei't two III' lies. lYndiilir.n are alTe.tol by variations of deiisitv of the ail, as well us by rb.iiii.'iug tcmpcrattirti. Avoiding to Professor Oalton, a few pi r-ou see mentally iu print every word tin y hear uttered. Water piiM uro now often made of glass mil coveted with aphaltuiu. with highly satisfactory results. The entire collection of coins and medals In the British museum consists ot nearly 200,000 specimens. D.ntmoor is the laigest tract of un cultivated land In Kuglatid; it occupies one-llf tti of the county of Devon. The bull ring of Mudri I stands a mile or so nutei.lo the city. It was built iu at a cost, il is said, of f (0,OiU). Millions of paits of doll slides are old ill tli i it country annually, the gnat purl of which uro imported from tier many. The youngest volunteer in tho naval reserve is t'adet liolaud 8. Oielow, a bugler on the training ship New llainp hire. Fourteen children seven set of twins and all living is the record ot Mr. and Mt. K lward llaril. of Uicl nnuid, Mo. Il is computed that wheu marching toMieis take 73 stei pel minute, iu quick matching 108, and iu churging 1(10 step. 1 llriti-h trade with the Philippine last year was f'J.UH t.fitltl; thut of the United States, f14:.ao:t, or about half u much. At its present tale of combustion it is though! the mm will las! from 7,000, 000 lo 15,000,000 years before burning itself out. Tho aveiago duration of human fife iu Kuropean countries Is greatest in Kwedcn and Norway, und lowest in Italy and Austria. Burcelonu Is now tho most Hipulous city of Hpain. the result of the census just taken allowing CJO.OOO inhabit ants, to Madrid's 507,000. Tho SI. Uiuia team ot the National Baseball leagtio has been sold to Kd Wind Decker, a retited capitalist and pilueipal creditor of the club. Alexander Uiegg Belleville, of St. Louis, who recently buried his seventh wife, has mart ied again, this time to a girl of IS. Ho is 67 years old. Judge John K. Candler, of Atlanta, who has been apoinlod colonel ol the Thiid Georgia volunteers, lost Ixith his foot in a railroad accident in DS81. frs. I. N. Durbcr, principal of the St Paul tcliiKil of lino art, committed auiuidu at Mendotu, Minn., where she was in charge of tho summer art School. Owing to tho extreme drought placer mining in tho not then counties of Cali fornia bail been suspended. It is thought that operations will not be re mined until next spring. Pf3 p JLi J Qn tai Srtfl Valu mt I'arta lllao. Mr Frederick A. Obei write an article foi the Angus! Century on "The Island of Porto Cieo." Mr. (liter says: Until it wa discovered that Porto llico Miesed gieat value ns a "strategic center" of naval tieration, tint (air isle slumbered uiidisturlH'd, merely a link, and no important one, in the em erald chain that separate lite Atlantic and tho Caribbean. Suddenly naval folk became aware of it ituportuuee; they saw that while it Itordeia on the Caribbean sea, yet It breasts the rough Atlantic waleis; that it is equadis tant, or uIniiiI 1.000 mile, from Key West and Colon; ftoni New York 1,500 miles, which in half the distance from Cadis; 1.300 from Newport News, which i half the distance to the Canar ies. It lie, in fact, at the very point that wo should have sehs-led for a coaling station, had we unrestricted choice ol location. All the arguments that have been advanced for tbe acquisi tion of the island of St. Thomas, tiO miles distant, and for which al one time wo were almost ready to pay seven million dolluis, apply with tenfold force to Poi to Itico, with its six good harboia to the one of St. Thomas, and its commeicial as well as strategical potentialities. lost ins lira kimmi othkk. A rumitrv nor llt!n New Ymk (u'h-iI I IrrtllltC tllllHHKV ti'MIII tllHl Hit Utieill tl, ilitli en tlie slit.'tt ntlt where ltn-r,t weff linn- ! lilfW ol wetlii-ll me! rlilUlretl. He f.l tlietr llve. lull lest lllk ewtl II llli,lr'l el lllesitie i eil everv yvsr liy llimtetter's Htemiti-li Hit I'eei'le Him Nr. Innl ttultlK li, 1'ietr Ktsvei Willi itietili r of Iiiiiihi II. Il,r. ! tumels lnt IiIhihI re lirotwlil lm-k tit Kued ! hi sllli I') II. All tin' nii'k slniiilil try II. (biv. McCord has received indetlnito! leave of alweuco from bis duties n tho executivo of Arisoiia, and will take , cotninittid as colonel of tbe regiment of infantry now being reciuited in the four territories. THY AI.LR!T rOOT-KAiK. A iwiwdcr to tie shaken Into the shoes. At llils season your feet feel swollen, ner vous, ami bol. ami get tired easily. If you have smarting feel or tight shoes, try Allen's Kiml Kue. It cools the feet r.tiil luitke walking easy. Cures swollen and sw eat lug feel, hliMfra and rullotts shiI. ltflicvr corns and huniniisof all aiii and gives rest and muifort Ten thousand tes timonial of cures, Try It (miiiv. Sold by ull (IrugglNts and shoe tnre for'iV. Sent bv mail tor '.'.'' In stamps. Trial piu kaeo KUKK. Add rem Alieu 8. Ollinted, Lt Koy, New. York. llailway building in Africa Is pro ceeding with woudeiful rapidity con sidering the difficulty and expensive uess of miNjt of the enterprises. waiionm mriiovico. Yhe new Improved Stottiihtoii waKolt stand the racket. Tliree more cur hin.li are mi I lie v n v. It pnv lo have lite Im-iI. Write for five ctilHloL'tie. J Oil S l'(i(t.K, sole iDient, find ol Morrison street, Port land, Or. Miorolte are an minute that SAO, 000,000 cun be comfortably accommo dated on a penny postage stump. According to a (lerman authority the human bruin is ooniostid of 1)00,000, 000 nerve eel la OPIUM WIIIII'IIINIC IX'IK I. I'lltMH Stniied Htnnea lot. J.C. llorrH.MllH itl.ltt.c'litiiiKii.lll. EUblUbd I7SO. Baker's Chocolate, celebrated for more than a century a a .3 deliciou. nultiiieiiv ?jand flndi forming well-known Yellow Label on the front of every packjge, and our traileniark,"l.alh-lle (hocollirr,"oti the i 3 f a 1 NONE OTIII-B t:NHNU. MAOI ONLV ml ft WALTER BAKER & CO. Ltd., Dorchester, Mass. Bishcp Scot 4c da r y ' , lltll,.l.-4 i-;. ClHlf.M hii'I lio .-l'..l Itf li - MilttM, Im'Iiih- III i-liHri- ,r 1 . H. Arm, ,,ttl..-r. 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