Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, December 31, 1897, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextIf Residents Blamo CO lor nuii XCITEMENT IN HAVANA Are miming All Standing plnl:ili" Near l'lint City t Mills Fnim Grinding. ,i Dec. 27. Indimition 'ling of Colonel liuiz is in avatiu. i'ya t'10 HtJ'"nU cor Many blame Genural .ting tliiit lio fumed General in spile of the hitter's pro . . . i i.,; ,i..,iti, thai it I"' ""' "-'" u agree that Colonel Aran wrsuiiall.v opposed to to the i the extreme penalty, and fee eaved Uuiz, but his own' l,ave been sacrificed naa lie . minitinn to the orders of ram lias been received stfit leiieral Lee 1ms been instruct- tary Sherman to notify Oen . and other rebels that tliey tnoAmerienn sympathy if iied to permit firing on flags Ueneral Lee says he has re instructions, adding that he instnin'O of the display by iii of a flag of truee during it lias never been claimed nish authorities that Colonel iniler a flag of truee, that in- Iing unknown to the Spanish ba, its use being interdicted recognition of the insur- ligerents. itenient was caused on bun- :g when a small wnite war- f a strong resemblance to States gunboat Annapolis, bpproaching the harbor. A Mil that an American war ming in, and the people be- ej when the st ranger's guns salute to the forts, many ie city was being boin bard- soon apparent that the ves- Oerroan Bchoolship Stein, hours elapsed before quiet in the city. ght raging fires have been lilwest of Havana, onlv ten Standing cane on the Fotugalete stations, which io commence grinding, was by tlte rebels and completely The fire caused great oon- a Havana. IMi Sight of Havana. Dec. 27. The recent un- Usion of Colonel Kuiz to I If Colonel Araiiimen in this Is attention sharply to the circumstances that a Snan- and a lnessemrer from the psnlate could reach the in- ip in an hour after leaving ten the troops have never i causes sharp comment on operations. The camp is from a Spanish fortress. 'tion lias been known for Ms among the volunteers nremenof Havana censure aw, and call for venuenance I'gents. From their cauiD Pis have sent a defiant oom- io the troops to come and fUT FROM DAWSON. ! That There In Food KtLit All Winter, B- C., Deo. 27. D. V. N arrived here this after- won. lie says there is " uawson to last the there all winter, those --2,000 in number hav to't Yukon. TVn l.nn. Rout over the trails. who IS HOW flnnamnail will endeavor to break " " Uawson, but he does breach then, until -p-i,.... PT'he will Bn, i P'n blocks of 10, retain- iu lor the govern u claims on Quartz creek "i and it will .r,i...i.i.. ! EUorado and Bonanza !a l,..., . . . F l Vyckoff, of Tacoma, l" OKSffWav. , 4.: 'ItionnfPo i t ., It .i -cum j. iuoore '160 acres of land, r- "i me townsite of "a reieciBil ho .,:. j. j iwgiobcr I" In N. ....... Y.. Dan , . 1 1 teln ?ou"; 40 nearly lour h '"Hen in the last 84 v.u, continues with no Koails are blocked, ehut up in their -r and firemin run J south un,i ..,. )rt . "UUUIVt 581 Hiftl. T ' rl"' WU11 It Buff I 0 "iKe Knor 1 i f "l0 at 7:6 A. M., ' feet of snow near two hours. Fthtr Hear J w,tPlce were delayed. AS TO S3HOOL LAW. Opinion, hy WH.l.i,,,., Superintend. ... i u i.i ii- instruction. The superintendent ..f .,i.i: , Rtructiim litis filed opinions . fn,.. in answer to inquiries from various parts of the state: 1. Where a teacher's contract is not legally exe.-med, a teacher cannot claim any definite lime fr which l,e or fihomay be hired. Subdivision 9 of section i)3 provides th :it nr. r.i..il...w.. Vllllll WltllOllt tlO Ri.'mitnr.. ,.f county superintendent. If the law were not sospecilio. the i.i'i different, but the specified conditions in uie law must be complied with in order that a contract he valid. 2. A district does not have the right to draw public money for pupils who are over 21 years old. The law (sec tion 82, school code) provides that the direotor may arrange for the attend ance of adults, but that is construed to mean arrange for free attendance or charge tuition. 8. An old district consolidated with or merged into others shall retain its uorpoiato uilBlunoe, so fur as and until its former indebtedness shall have been paid in full. 4. A school warrant does not out law; the statute of limitation does not apply. 5. The only method to collect a ilistriot debt is by a tax levy against the property in the district. Waahliigtnn Nute. The Dnngeness river is raging and out of its banks. Hiree spans of the Biirlingtime bridge have been washed out. Dungeness has been flooded. Superintendent George Simpson, of the logging camp at Matlock, Mason county, says his road will have hauled this year, ending January, 160,000,000 feet of logs. Over half a milo of the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company's logging railroad south of Orting was under mined during the late flood, which compelled a temporary closing of the camp near Wilkeson. The Ministers' Union, in Walla Walla, last Sunday, listened to a re port made by Mrs. Hoxter, of Portland, of work done in Portland for fallen women. The union in Walla Walla is interesting itself in the subject. The recent storm has caused consider able damage to ranches in the low lands, and especially in the Lower Iliunptulips country, in Chehalis coun ty, where all logging camps were com pelled to stop work. Thirteen heads of families have been brought before the superior court, in Whatcom county, to show cause why they do not send their children, be tween 8 and 15 years of age, to school three months of the year. Squaw island, in Cowlitz river, is rapidly disappearing. The floods have washed the bank away until the old Nelson house will soon be flouting down the Cowlitz. The east end of the building is now without support, and it is expected to fall into the river at any time. Coyotes lately have been annoying the sheep of William Cook, of Smoothe Iron prairie, so that he decided to put out poison. Small bits of bait were distributed about the feeding ground of the flocks, and, from all accounts, it had a decided effect. The next morn ing Mr. Cook oounted 10 dead coyotes and three of his best dogs, that were victims of the poison. Solomon Marte, who has a small but well-tilled farm in the Chapman cove, in Mason county, raised this year upon a piece of ground a little less than one acre in area 280 bushels of potatoes, six tons of carrots, two tons of ruta bages, two tons of white turnips, seven sacks of squashes, two bushels of on ions, two bushels of beets, besides a small bed of parsley. Two of the oar rots weighed 18 pounds. Of the 207 shingle mills in the state of Washington, no fewer than 185 are Bhut down, and will make no outpnt until after February 1. The dailv product of the 207 mills when in opera tion is 12,560,000 shingles. The mills now in operation have only an output of 1,650,000. By a reduction of the output it is expected to raise the price of A Bhingles from 90 cents to $ 1.25. At a meeting held last week the land commissioners appraised the land ap plied for by the city of Seattle at $50 per acre, and improvements thereon, consisting of a city pesthouse, at $5,- 000. The appraisement of the local board.was increased 100 pertcen on tide lands, owing to a difference in values in Seattle and other cities. The board has extended the time for filing appli cations to lease harbor areas from Jan nary 1, 1898, to February 28, 1898. Rental must be paid on the date ol the approval of the application to lease, and annually thereafter on February 1, beginning in 1899. The construction forces of the Seattle & Northern railway have advanced to near Hamilton, and trains will soon again be running through to that point. The line was badly wrecked during the late flood, particularly be tween Woolley and Hamilton, and a rumor once gained circulation that the road beyond Wooley would be aban doned. The construction force has been at work ever since the waters sub sided, with the result that the entire system will soon be in as good condi tion as ever. A YUKON WHAT THE GOLD HUNTER SHOULD TAKE. OUTFIT ' ,ricts n!! n,a-v become populous, yet even venient for handling, and this Is often uiese iu ue oniy at points accessible as great a weight as one man can carry, to steamers. Those iioing to the cold I It is better to havo these canvna sacki I Sound Ailvlcf for Those Who Contfm plate 8erkliiB Their Fortune! In the New (iiilil FieliU of Alaska and the Ni.rtlnvrnt Territory. Special Correspondi'iice.) Iiel.ls must not expect to find claims near the present centers of population. They will be compelled to prospect dis tant streams and gulches, and if suc cessful, they may locate several hun dred miles trom the nearest store. To paraffined, to resist dampness. Do not use oiled canvas, as the extreme coliV ne.s causes it to crack, with consequent loss of tho contents of the sack. This is truo also of oiled clothing, sleeping lui'Jts, eto. Plain canvas is better than be compelled to make u journey after i oiled, and paraflined better than plain. biinpues miyiit cause tlio loss ot tho en tire season's prospecting, even assuming that the thincs needed could bo mir- The most practical and vital Question c'uispii at all. Every prospecting party emiiiui oo iuny eqnipepeu to subsist to bo decided by tlio man who intends to go to ihe Yukon next year is the composition and quantity of his outlit. What should he take and how much of it. This is far more important a ques tion than that of the routo ho shall se lect, since by any regular route he would probably reach his destination, while should he not have a proper out fit, he would bo likely to find his labor to have been all in vain, with failure and possible starvation staring him in llie face. Whatever a man would require to eat, to wear or to work with he should take with him. To go into that coun try depending upon being able to pur chase any of the necessaries of life or successful work is to run the risk of utter failure and calamity. Again and again was this asserted by experienced Yukoners when the excitement broke out in July. Publicly through tho press and privately on all occasions they advised gold seekers to take with them a complete equipment for 18 montliB, certainly not less than a year, and to place no dependence whatever upon being able to purchase what they might need from trading posts. This advice was bassed upon tlio well-known conditions of work and transportation in that region. The miner might bo located several hundred miles by a trail impassable in winter from the nearest trading post, while the post itself, even if accessible, might fail to secure a stock of goods. The soundness of this advice has been amply demonstrated the present season. Hundreds who did not give it sufficient weight, have rushed into Dawson City with not enough food to last them through the winter, only to find that not a pound of food is to be purchased there, and that they are but adding to the distress of those already threatened with starvation. They have not done this in ignorance, but in defiance of the advice of mon of experi ence. The golden mirage of their im aginations has blinded them to the practical, and they have rushed head long to needless hardships, if not de struction. Yet the majority of them took thiB advice seriously at first, and equipped themselves well for the jour ney. Very few, indeed, of those who have reached Dawson with almost noth ing for their support this winter, land ed at Dyea or Skagway with less than a thousand pounds of supplies each. The secret of their present shortness is the difficulties of the trail and their in tense eagerness to reach their destina tion. Thev have disposed of or aban doned the bulk of their outfits, trusting to luck, or the deity supposed to have fools in his special charge, to get through the winter somehow. They would have doue better to have camped at the lakes till spring, than to have gone on to Dawson short of supplies. They would have done still better, when they found they could not get through this fall in good shape, to have returned to the coast and waited until spring for another attempt fully equipped. Those who followed this course ure infinetly better off than those who sacrificed everything to their insane eagerness to get through, and are now at JJawson with nothing to do and threatened with being overwhelmed by a calamity of their own creation. The value of the advice given to those who started last full has been demon strated by their experiences. The same advice is as valuable to those who will go in the spring. Take everything with you that you anticipate to need for a year for any purpose, and do not depend upon being able to buy anything whatever. It is folly to take for grant ed that there will be so many new Bteamers on the river next year that the country will be amply Bupplied with food and other necessaries. Assuming that transportation facilities will bo in creased ten times, this will be offset by the undoubted fact that more than ten times as many persona will go in as are there now, and that the added trans portation facilities will be used to carry them and their outfits. To the thou sands who are already there and must depend entirely upon supplies brought in for sale, must be added the other thousands who will not heed the voice of prudence and will rush in lightly equipped, depending upon purchasing what they need for tho winter. It is extremely doubtful whether enough goods for sale can be taken in next summer to supply this demand. In deed, in view of the expeiiences of this year, it is almost certain that they can not Even if it were not lor this uncer Aven ii .mo - . - tainty, the conditionsof successful work Alaska. itself for a year. Otherwise it can not carry on its work under the conditions necessary for success. This is made clear when one understands the method of mining and tho difficulties of travel in the winter season, in a mountainous region without trails, the ground cov ered with snow and tho thermometer almost continuously below zero. The ground is frozen from surface to bedrock, a distance varying in mining claims from 20 to 40 feet. Kven in summer it thaws out less than a foot from the surface. The bent mv ilirt nr I gravel is just above the bed rock, and to sink a shaft down to this requires a great deal of fuel, and it takes many weeks of hard work in the open season to gather fuel enough to last through the winter for heating and working purposes. Water for washing out the dirt mid extracting the gold can be had only in the Bummer and early fall. In some districts water flows only a few weeks each year. All the dirt taken out of the shaft is piled up near it till the following Bummer, and until then the miner can not tell.whut will bo the result of his year's labor. This is the ordinnry programme of the Yukon miner. He reaches the gold fields in June or July. Ho spends the next few weeks in prospeotiiiB and finally locates a claim. There is then but a short timo left in which to gather fire wood and prepare for work. Dur ing the winter he sinks his shaft and piles up the dirt to be run through sluice boxes the next Bummer. When he can get water he begins washing, and by the time he has completed it more than a year has passed from the time ho first arrived in the gold fields, and it may then be too late for him to get out ot the country that season. If lie went in supplied for 18 months and has kept his supplies he is all right. If not, ho may be in the position of those Klondike miners this winter, who have not supplies to carry them through till spring and can not buy them at any price. So much for the necessity of an ample equipment. Now a few words about the nature of it. Some things nre absolute necessitites, and one of these is quicksilver for saving the gold. Take five pounds. To be without it would be liko a soldier without ammu nition. It should be in a metal flask of some kind, something that will not break, and care should be taken not to spill it. . A pick and long-handled shovel are necessary tools, also a gold pan. You will want a kit of tools for making a boat, as well as for building a cabin, flumes, eto. It should consist of whipsaw, handsaw, jack plane, draw-knife, axe, claw hatchet, ham mer, square, chisel, files, whetstone, chalk lino and wire and galvanized nails, also oakum, pitch, oars, row locks, calking iron, boat cotton, twine, sail needles, wooden block and manila cotton rope. The necessary camping outfit con sists of a tent, a Yukon stove, a nest of three camp kettles, fry pan, bake pan, water bucket, plates, cup and saucer, coffee pot, knives, forks, spoons, two large spoons and a butcher knife. The best materials for utonails are alumi num, graniteware and steel in the or der named. Mo tin, china or glass is desirable. There is no economy in not getting the best and a full equipment. Food must be good and properly cooked if one would retain health and be in condition to work. Insufficient or poorly cooked food, with little variety, is the chief cause of scurvy. Too much oare cannot be exercised in this par ticular. As for food, an adequate supply for 18 months weighs about a ton. The chief items are 600 pounds of flour, 800 pounds of bacon, 150 pounds each of beans and Bugar, 75 pounds each of rolled oats or other mush material and corn meal, 60 pounds of rice, six dozen cans of condensed milk, 85 pounds of butter in sealed cans, 160 pounds of evaporated vegetables, 100 pounds of evaporated fruit, 50 pounds of prunes and raisins, 80 pounds of dried fish, 40 pounds of coffee, with baking powder, soda, salt, pepper, ginger, mustard, yeast cakes, tea, Boap, matches, lime juice (very important), dried beef, ex tract of beef, soups in tins, sausage; to bacco, etc., as desired, bearing in mind always that variety of food promotes health. There has more or less been said in the papers atxmt various con vuntrated foods, but with tho exception of evaporated vegetables and fruit, condensed preserves, condensed milk and beef extract there is nothing yet been brought forwurd which has been proved desirable. One can not afford to experiment with his stomach in there' require that the miner tske in a fall equipment and havo it with him wherever lie goes. The Yukon gold fields cover a great area of country, while the trading posts ure few and at present on Oilier po! lished next All supplies should be carefully packed in canvas sacks of a total weight of 50 po'i'i'ls each as nearly as possible. Canvas of superior quuhty snouiu ne used, the object being to preserve tho A canvas tarpaulin is necessary as an outlit cover, and this may also bo fitted up and used for a sail. Tho canvas sacks should he numbered and a list of the contents ot each kept. The owner's name should be plainly marked on each. Such necessaries as mutches, candles, etc., should bo distributed throughout tho sacks, so that a loss of a portion of the outfit will not deprive the owner of these thinsis. Put matches in tin boxes. The camper will requiio a tout, 8x10 or 10x13 being the usual sizes taken. Each man should have a canvas sleeping bug, preferably paraffined, with a hood to draw over his head. He oan have an other heavy woolen sleeping bag to go mssde this, or nso bunkuU, a ho may prefer, though there is more warmth to the same weight in the sleeping bag. As for clothing, tho essentials aro mackinaw suits, heavy woolen under wear and overall irta, heavy woolen Bocks, woolen mitts and fleeco lined leather mitts, heavy leather boots, gum boots, overalls, woolen cap, soft felt hat and a waterproof olothing sack. To this equipment one may add whatovor lie may think desirable, but these r.t least are necessary. The question of footwear is an important ono. Gum boots are worn only while at work in the water, cither in a claim or along the trail. Leather boots crack and are easily ruined in the snow and cold. The Indians make a moccasin hoot, called "muckliick," which is tho usual footwoar ulong tho Yukon, but it will of course be impossible for them to sup ply the demand for them next year. This renders it advisable for the gold seeker to tuko at least one extra pair of boots with him. The most desirable is the stylo of boot worn by lumbermen. There are numerous little things that are a necessary part of an equipment. Every man should have a small kit of shoemaker'B tools and supplies, also a complete mending outfit for clothing, toilet articles, etc., all In a case with pockots, one that can be rolled up and tied. A few yards of mosquito netting are necessary, for mosquitoeB aro a peat. Goggles to protect the eyes from snow blindness are necessary. Pens, ink, pencils, paper and government stumped envelopes, both Canadian and United States, should be taken. A few books are worth their weight. Fishing tackle and shot guns are likely to prove of service, as the streams teem with fish and water-fowl are extremely abundant in summer. Trups are use less, as all taking of animals for their fur is done by Indians. A compass ia desirable, also snow calks for the feet. For travel on the snow a Yukon sled ia needed. No mutter by what route one travels or how he expects to transport his outfit, thero will be times either ou the journey in or later when he will have to puck supplies on his own buck, and he should be equipped for it. The ordinary packing straps cut and gall the shoulders and let the load lio like a dead weight on the small of the back and the kindoys. There are various devices for overcoming these troubles. The best of them are the Merriam pack, by which the weight is thrown upon the hips, and the Yukon packing frame, which places tho weight on the shoulders. Either is worth far more . than it costs to tho man who has to pack his outfit. In packing it in a great mistako to overdo oneself or to carry a load too far. The best plan in to niovo the entire outfit along by short stages, and then to atop work before completely exhausted. One should be especially careful not to sit around without a coat when heated or to woar wet olothing when not at work. Every man going to Alaska should take a small supply of medicines and sur-'ical necessaries. These out fits, botlf regular and homeopathic, may be procured in specially prepared cases, and cost about f 10. lio should also understand the use of the remedies and appliances. Finally, tho best advice of all is to lake only the best quality of every thing, whether clothing, proivsions or utensils, and to procure thorn from ex perienced outfitters, who know just what Is wanted and how to puok it. It is poor economy to save a cent or two pound on provisions and theh pay a dollar a pound to got this ohuup food to its destination. Theso things can all be bought cheap er and to better advantage at the outfit ting points from which the steamer suil than at any other place. It is both economy and widsoin to wait until the final starting point is reached before outfitting, as a perfect equipment, se lected under the advice of reliable out fitters and properly packed, ia half the battle for success. Mis Maud Parka of Lock Haven, Baltimore county, Md.,was sitting near a stove when a celluloid comb in her bair caught fire. Homebody present -got a bucket of water and emptied it over her. The oldest bank in existence ii the Bank of Naples, Italy, which has of late been passing through such troub- n ly a lo ng 1 1 1 e Y ii kon river, food 'from loss by dampness a. well a. Ion. times. The bank date, from 1 w II doubllcs be es.ab- by breaking or tearing of the packages. The Bank o Eng.d w. not .stub vcar near .uch ,,ew d..-! Fifty pound pa, k.. are .he most con- ! li.hed until 1694.