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THE DALLES, OREGON, FRIDAY. JULY 1897
NO 159
FROM THE CLONDYKE
btories of Fabulous Riches
Come From the North.
A VERITABLE SECOND ELDORADO
Spot In the Yukon District Where Mil
lion May Be Hail for the Taking;
--Great xclteraent.
San Fkancisco, Joly '15. A Btory ri
valling in intensity of interest that told
of the fabulous wealth of Monte Cristo
was related by passengers on the little
steamer Excelsior, which has just ar
rived from St. Michael's, Alaska. Mil
lions upon millions of virgin gold, ac
cording to the story, await the fortunate
miner who has the hardihood and cour
age to penetrate into the unknown
depths of the Yukon district. There was
tangible evidence on the little steamer
of the truth of the story told by the
travelers, for in the cabin were scores of
sacks filled to the very mouth with
"dust" taken from the placers of the far
frozen North. The araonnt brought in
is variously estimated at from $500,000
to $750,000.
There came in on the Excelsior some
40 people among them some women
from what is now known as the Clondyke
district, though only 15 of these had
been actually engaged in mining. There
were among them men who had been for
more than 10 years facing the d augers
and hardships of the frozen North in the
hope of making a rich find, but signally
failed. But now thev come back with
fortunes stowed in their gripsacks, and
untold millions to be picked up in the
country of which so little is known.
The new Eldorado lies just acroes the
Alaskan boundary in British territory.
It is of a recent discovery, but already
there are at least 3000 people on the
ground and more are flocking in that di
rection as fast as transportation can be
secured.
The discovery of the Clondyke regions
presents a story that is uniquely inter
esting. Around Forty-Mile, on the Yu
kon, is a tribe of Indians known as the
Stickers, and with them is a man who
years ago was known as George Cormack,
but who is now called "Stick George."
In September last, at the head of a party
of Indians, he left his hut near Forty
Mile camp and started in a southerly di
rection, saying that he intended to find
a new gold field before his return. He
came back two weeks later and startled
the miners with the announcement that
40 miles away there was gold to be found
in plenty. The streams abounded with
the yellow metal, and all that was need
ed was for somebody to pick it up.
Many persons flocked to the place, and
in time the word reached Forty-Mile
camp that untold riches could be found
along the bottom of Bonanza creek and
its tributaries. Men who had failed at
the former camp immediately packed up
their belongings and set out for the new
fields. It was a bard and trying journey,
but that was nothing with the promise
of millions at the end of the route.
OF INCALCULABLE K1CBNE99.
Clondyke Region the Greatest Placer
Discovery Ever Made.
San Fkancisco, July 15. The follow
ing is an extract from a letter received
by the Excelsior, just arrived here from
Alaska. It was sent from the Clondyke
region by a prominent and wealthy
young business man of San Francisco to
his brother in this city :
"The excitement on the river is inde
scribable, and the output of the new
.Clondyke district almost beyond belief.
Men who had nothing last fall are now
No Healing Preparation
Ever brought into use
Has so -well proved
its value
And made itself a necessity in
the household
As Garland's
"Happy Thought" Salve.
- - - '. - in;
50c per jar at M. Z. Donnell's.
Absolutely Pure.
Celebrated for Its great leavening strength aud
nealthfulness. Assures toe food sgainst alum
and all forms of adulteration common to the
cheap brands.
Royai. Baking Powder Co. New York.
worth a fortune. One man has worked
40 square feet of his claim and is going
out with $40,000 in dust. One-quarter of
the claims are now selling at from $15,
000 to $50,000. The estimate of the dis
trict given is 13 miles, with an average
value of $200,000 to the claim, in which
some are valued as high as $1,000,000'
each. At Dawson sacks of dust are
thrown under the counters in the etores
for safe keeping.
"Some of the stories are so fabulous
that I am afraid to repeat them for fear
of being suspected of the infection.
"Labor is $15 a day and board, with
100 days' work guaranteed, so you can
imagine how difficult it is to hold em
ployes. If reports are true it is the big
gest placer discovery ever made in the
world, for though other diggings have
been found quite as ricn in spots, no
such extent of discovery has been known
which prospected and worked so high
right through."
J. Lippey, who, up to a year "go, was
secretary of the Y. M. C. A. at Seattle,
brought back $65,000 in gold dust. He
bad most of his pile in a large eripsack
and it was about all be could carry down
the plank. Mr. Lippey was accompan
ied by his wife, who went with him to
Forty-Mile camp and endured the bard
ships of life in that region of the world.
When seen at the Palace Hotel, Mr. Lip
pey said :
"The place is rich wonderfully so, I
might say. It would be impossible for
me to even calculate its riches. I am
loth, however, to talk of all this wealth,
for the reason that it might induce peo
ple who are not fitted financially or oth
erwise to go to that' district. It, is not
by any means an easy undertaking. It
is filled with difficulties and trials such
as one can hardly dream of, but if a per
son is inclined to make the risk I do not
believe that he can lose by it.
"The new mining camp was discov
ered in September last, and there are
now about 3000 people on the ground.
The place is about 40 miles from Forty
Mile camp, and has been called Dawson
City. I was among the first to arrive,
and to that fact I attribute in a measure
the success I had, though I do not by
any means say that there are not other
claims just as good as mine, and still
others which have not been located.
"How much did I take out? Oh, that
is something which I do not care to say.
People have told all kinds of stories
about my wealth, putting it from $100,
000 to $300,000, but that is a mistake. I
brought down with me, well, say $65,
000, though as I have not had the duet
weighed yet I cannot be certain as to
that." .
Proposals for School Building.
Sealed proposals will be received until
noon of Tuesday, August 3, 1897, at the
office of Dr. O. D. Doane, The Dalles,
Or., for the erection and completion of
the foundation of the proposed High
School Building for school district No.
12, of Wasco county, Oregon ; also bids
for the construction and completion of
the superstructure of said building.
A certified check for 10 per cent of
the amount of each bid must accom
pany the bid. Plans and specifications
can be seen at the office of C. J. Cran
dall, The Dalles, Or.
The Board of Directors reserve the
right to reject any and all bids.
O. D. Doane,
Chairman of the Board of Directors.
The Dalles, Or., July 7, 1897.' lw
Snbecribe for Thk Chronicle.
WATER SNKt FIGHTS EEL.'
Terrific Combat Which Finally Ended In
- the Eel's Escape.
"Did you ever know that there is a
deadly antipathy between a common
water snake and an eel?" asked the
fisherman, according to the Indianapo
lis Sentinel.- "Well, I never knew it
until an experience I had in witnessing1
a fig-ht between the two. Personally,
I have the greatest dread of eels. I'm
more afraid of them than I am of a
snake, and you can imagine my chag-rin
when I happened to hook one on one
of my fishing expeditions. I was afraid
to touch it, and all I could do was to
let it dangle in the air. I could not get
it off my hook, and I was meditating
what to do, when altogether unnoticed
I allowed the slimy object to drop into
the water. In a moment I saw a big
water snake make a dive for it. At
the first lunge it caught the neck of the
eel squarely between his teeth, and I
could see it sink its ugly-looking fangs
into the eel's flesh. I waited anxiously
to see the developments. With its grim
bold still on the eel's neck the snake,
quick as it takes to tell it, wrapped
its sinuous body around its antagonist'?
neck in an effort to squeeze it to death.
The body of the eel was too sleek, how
ever, and the snake's coils, despite all
it could do, wou'd slip down into the
water. Time and time again it tried to
squeeze the life out of its antagonist,
never for an instant releasing its hold on
the eel's neck, but the body of the lat
ter was too sleek for it and every time it
would slip down. Finally the hook
broke.and the eel made good its escape."'
HANS AND LENA.
"Ten 1 Hsf No Vork She Lofs Me Not,"
Says Malmgreen.
"I want you to put him somewhere so
he can't uodder me so many times,"
said Airs. Eerglin, of 291 Market street,
to Justice Kersten when she appeared
against Hans Malmgreen, who she
chrarged with being disorderly, says
the Chicago Journal.
"What has he been doing?" said the
justice.
"Veil he comes py my house all the
time and he bodders me and bodders
me. He never vorks, all he does is bod
der me."
"What have you got to say about this,
Hans?5-
A tail German- lad with light blue
eyes hung his head in shame, swung
one foot backward and forward, pulled
his cap nervously, and said in a low,
timid voice :
"We was in lofe, you know, and she
went ba-k on me two or three times
alrettj . When I haf vork she lofes me,
and when I haf no vork she lofes me
not."
"Well, you had better transfer your af
fections somewhere else, ofr if you
bother this woman again I will send you
to the bridewell. Do you understand ?"
"Yes, chudge; I vill say to her right
here: "Good-py, Lena, you vill never
see your Hans again.1 "
So they parted.
Death at the Stake.
Florence, Ala., July 15. A negro
named Anthony Williams, who out
raged and murdered Miss Rene Will
iams, an 18-year-old white girl, at West
Point, Term., Tuesday, was captured to
day in this county. A mob has started
back to West Point with the negro, and
proposes to burn him at the stake on the
scene of his crime. It will take them
three hours to reach West Point. Five
hundred men with bloodhounds have
been on his trail.
State of Ohio, City of Toledo
Lucas County, J
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he
is the senior partner of the firm of F. J.
Cheney & Co., doing business in the
City of Tiledo, County and state afore
said, and that said firm will pay the
sum of One Hundred Dollars for each
and every case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure.
Frank J. Cheney.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
my presence, this 6th day of December,
A. D. 1896.
A. W. Glkason,
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MUSLIN SKIRTS.
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At similar reductions.
THE FUNNEL TRICK.
An Interesting Problem Devised by Sport
ive Californians.
. Jerry Lynch h;is finally learned the
funnel trick. lie took it in two doses
qne on one evening-and the other the
next. The 'senator sauntered up to the
Bohemian club the other day and saw
two or threaof the younger members at
tempting a new feat, and he watched
them wit h interest. One of them, says
the San Francisco News Letter, stuck
a funnel in thetop of histrousers, threw
his head back, pi-need a 50-cent piece on
his forehead and tried to drop it in the
funnel by slowly lowering his head.
After all 'had failed Jerry insisted on
trying it, though all had tried to
dissuade him from attempting a feat too
difficult for them. The funnel was
placed in the waistband of his
trousers and he threw back his head to
receive the coin on his expansive brow.
At that juncture a pitcher of ice water
was emptied into the funnel, and by the
time Jerry ot- through dancing the
jokers had vanished. The senator's
temper improved with dry raiment and
the next night at the club he started in
to shor.v a couple of friends the funnel
trick.
"It's this way." lie explained, "you
put the funnel in the top of your panta
loons, so, then throw your head back,
so, and wow!"
Again Jerry was forced to change his
raiment, and he is not showing people
what lie ktnows about the funnel trick.
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