WEALTH OF THE YUKON.
the new comer. Tanana, Husteoqurm
and Chandler rivers have all Ireen
brought prominently to tbe notice of
mining men this year. All things cuu-
, eidered, tbe American side would seem
Ten to Fifteen Millions of Dollars Will Be Cleaned Up This Year—Dawson City, to be tbe place of tbe future.
As for Duw*w City itself, it is un­
With Ten Thousand People. Is the Greatest Mining Camp in the World—
questionably tbe greatest mining camp
The Greatest Known Gravel Deposit—What the Districts Show
in the world. Frank Canton, United
»
States deputy marshal in Circle City,
and in former years an officer of tbe
The output of the mines of the Yu­ I store in this direction.
Forty-mile pence i-n many of tire largest anuj« of
kon district this year, while it has creek has been relocated and many new the West, has said that nothing he hae
reached between $10,OOO.OOu ami $15,- ciaims recorded. Chicken creek, which ever seen approaches Dawson as a model
A 000,000, has disappointed even rhe has been known for the last two years, mining camp. Accustomed as he has
but not worked, will be developed thiB been to dealing with the roughest class
more conservative estimates made last year.
Canyon, Nugget gulch and
fall, and based on the pro-peers then Franklin creeks and tl»e bars uii Forty- of criminals, hie commendation of
Dawson, as a law-abiding town, has
existing. Three things have contrib­ mile will lie worked by the hydraulic great weight. Tbesidewalks are crowd­
uted to shorten this spring’s clean up: process, and there will be a good camp ed with men and women from morning
The Canadian royalty, lack of men and at the mouth of the river within two to night. People are even forced to
lack of strengthening food. One of tire years.
walk in the middle of tire streets to
American creek, 40 miles down from
most prominent civil engineers on tire Forty-miie, is known as good; tire make progress. It is a great jumble of
Pacific coast, who has spent this winter ground is high and well laid out. Pans tire good and tire bad, and the only
pledge of respectability required is
in the mines, has said:
are taken running from 50 cents to $5. regular attendance at church. Daw­
“Considering the fact that less thrtVi Tire Misson creek district hue three son’s population Iras grown until it is
2.000 poorly fed men have gotten out formations—placer, quartz and coal. now between 8,000 and 10,000.
this winter almost $15,000,000, the At its mouth is Eagle City, in which
Nine-tent lie of tire newcomers are not
will be established the United States hi tire country to work, ami when they
Klondike has nwie a allowing that barracks and the custom house.
find tlurt success in tire Klondike can
entitles it to consideration as the
Twenty miles below Eagle City Is
be bought by hard labot, they will
greatest gravel deposit in extent arrd Star City, guarding the mouth of Sev- I only
be ready to come out. A great exodus
richness in the world.
The placer enty-mile river. The bars of this rive- of unsuccessful men will take place
mines of California in early days are 1 hv > been worked for many years. On this fall, and tire cities of the Pacific
Barney creek, from three to six ounces coast, to which tlreee people will go,
its only rivals.’’
The great riches of claims on French, to the day has been taken for tbe last will be overrun with a rough, desperate
Chief, Little and Big Skookum gulelree three years. The other tributaries are i ami altogether undesirable class. They
are the wonder </f mining men in the as cood as Barney, but it is only now, are now in Dawson as tire advauce
interior of Alaska. A claim owner on when people are spreading out, that guard of tire more substantial men to
French gulch offers a standing bet of much work will be done. A number follow. It ie a repetition of the his­
$20,000 that he can rock out of his of men are now at Star City getting tory of Circle City. When tbe Birch
claim, single-handed, $5,000 on any their outfits up to the mines.
creek mines were discovered, two years
From Seventy’-mile to Circle City ago, double the usual invoice of people
given day. Tire benches are old river
beds, which have been broken up by an has been prospected, and creeks ate went there, but soon left disgusted.
eruption of the earth. A continuation found here and there which give good Hail they remained, they would have
of tbe old river bed hae been found near indications. Coal and Sheep creeks been in on the ground floor iu the Klon­
Hunker oreek. and while little prospect­ promise especially well, and also the dike discovery.
ing has been done, it is thought that it Charley river.
Ciicie City has been practically de­
will turn out very well.
Th« Cuban Machete.
Eldorado and Bonanza creeks have serted since the rush to Dawson but tire
Much Iras been said of the terrible
proven all that was expected of them riches of Mastodon, Independence, machete, a deadly weapon indeed in
Much more could be seen in actual re­ Eagle. Deadwood and a dozen lesser the hands of a desperate man, and
sults if the clean up hud been completed gulches in tire Birch creek district when used against a defenseless person.
this spring. But hope that the roy­ will revive the town. A moderate The maolrote was never intended for a
alties may be called off. and the fortune can be made in that district weapon of warfare; it is an instrument
early drying up erf the watet which in two years of bal'd work. Miners are of husbandry ourried by the Cuban
could be used in sluicing, has caused returning to Birch creek from Dawson. peasant in times of peace, and is bis
many big claim owners t» leave abac - They itHpreciate a district in which one familiar daily oompanion. It cuts
there is no royalty, no wood and log his Are wood. aids him in building his
third of the dirt taken out on
dump. The wash-up iiae been com­ tax and no timber grants.
hut. hews his jxrth through tbe mani-
Across from Circle City is Jefferson . gna, ami performs many other offices.
pleted on very few claims, and on
creek,
which
is
now
being
prospected
fewer trtili can a statement be obtained
The machette is a straight, heavy
as to the real amount of the dean-up. for its whole length. It will be cheap­ blade about two feet long, with a
This makes it impossible to state posi­ ly worked, because of being so readily wooden or bone handle, having no
accessible to tlie Yukon river.
tively the output of the mines.
guard; consequently it is utterly un-
Further down is the Minook creek suited as a weapon to be used in a con­
Of the lees known streams. Dominion
creek is giving evidence of mineral de­ district, which has been thoroughly flict with an armed man. The Cuban,
posits which may make it known as the advertised this year. It has developed of course, bv reason of his long famili­
richest strike yet made. The conflict some claims winch have paid $27,000, arity with the instrument, is an adept
of claims, owing to the two discoveries $25,000 and $15,000 for tbe winter’s in its tree, and its effect upon a group
allowed, is about settled, and there is work. The country is to a great extent of unarmed workmen ie truly terrible.
nothing to interfere with the develop­ au unknown quantity. The discovery It is in tlie foray against the defense­
ment of the mines. Hunker creek is of Idaho bar, from which mem have less and unarmed that the most serious
fe rich in placer, but, unlike the rest of taken out $100 a day with a rocker, is a work of tbe machete has been done in
' the country, is spotted. Gold Bottom great Iwom for the district, and the the island of Cuba. — “Cuba as Seen
is not turning out as well as expected. , prospects of the camp are extremely from the Inside,’’ by Oegood Welsh, in
Many other creeks Which promise well I bright.
tire August Century.
have not been sufficiently develope 1 to
A gieat country will be opened up
make an estimate of their wealth safe. in the Koyukuk. It has been known
Advices from Honolulu state that the
So many are tire disadvantages in to miners for 10 years, and no pros­ executive council of the island govern­
mining in the Northwest territory that pector who went in there has failed ment has signed a contiact with the
attention is being once more directed to bring out a good grubstake. The ! Schyniser Company to lay a cable from
to mines on the American side.
It is territory to be worked is of a vast ex­ the Ameiicau coast to Honolulu and
believed that many surprises ar/ in tent, and offers many opportunities to Japan.
I
KANSAS
SUPERSTITIONS.
Carry a potato in one’s pocket to
cure rheumatism.
Tbe skin of a black cat worn in one’s
clothing will cure rheumatism.
Hold your bunds above your head
and your nose will oeaae bleeding.
Never let a chioken die in your bands
and yon will not have palsy.
Hold a silver spoon against the back
of the neck to stop nose 11 low!.
Wear a red string or red beads
around tire neck to pievent the nose­
bleed.
Tire skin of a snake worn around tbe
one’s hat crown will cure the headache.
Wear a string of gold treads around
your neck and your nose can not bleed.
Headache may be prevented by wear­
ing iu one’s hat the rattles of a rattle­
snake.
The negro sometimes sleeps with a
young dog in order to transmit rheu­
matism to the dog.
At Delphos. Kan., lives a young man
who gallantly procured his sweet­
heart's warts by purchase.
A sty may be ctiied by rubbing it
with a gold ring, a silver spoon, or
one’s Anger moistened with saliva
If you see any one asleep in church
say to yourself: “When you awake
take these warts.’’
Bore a hole in tire wall the height
of a child's bead; when the child grows
above the hole it will be cured of
asthma.
In order to cure tire toothache cut
your finger nails on Friday. Another
sure cure is to wash behind your ears
every morning.
Write on a stove with a piece of
cjialk the number of your warts. When
the number has burned off the stove
your warts will be gone.
Rub the wart with seven pebbles,
wrap the pebbles in a parcel and throw
them away; if the parcel is picked up
tbe wart will go away.
You may always prevent cramps in
tbe feet by turning your shoes upside
down every night beside your bed.—
Gertrude C. Davenport, in tbe Journal
of American Folk-Lore.
Steal a dishcloth, rub the wart with
it, and then bury the cloth under the
eaves of the house. If yon tell no one
and no one finds out your theft, your
wart will go away.
If you have a wart ana see a man
riding on horseback in the rain (or, as
another version runs, riding on a gray
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 away the bag not look­
ing where they fall; run home agan.
and if any one picks up the bag your
warts will go away.
Some of these cures, which were col­
lected In Coffey oounty, were obtain­
ed from colored people. The majority
of the superstitions, however, which
were collected in Douglas county, were
obtained from people who declared they
knew no sujierstitione and believed
none; namely, students in attendance
at the Univeieity of Kansas. These
students came from nearly every
oounty in the state.
Strategic Vai»*« of l’orto Rico.
Mr. Frederick A. Ober writes au
EsteMtoiMd 1780.
article foi the August Century on “Tbe
Island of Porto Rico,” Mr. Ober says:
Until it was discovered that Porto c-
Rico possessed great value as a “strategic j
center” of naval operations, tbe fair ‘
isle slumbered undisturbed, merely a
link, and no important one, in die em­
erald chain that separates the Atlantic
and tbe Caribbean. Suddenly naval
celebrated for more
folks became aware of its importance; I
than a century as a
they saw that while it borders on the
Caribbean sea, yet it breasts the rough
delicious, nutritious,
Atlantic waters; that it is equadis-
and flesh-forming
tant, or about 1,000 miles, from Key
beverage, has our
West ami Colon; from New York
well-known
1,500 milt.«, which is half the distance
Yellow Label
from Cadiz; 1,300 from Newport News,
which is half the distance to tbe Canar­
on the front of every
ies. It lies, in fact, at tbe very point
package, and our
that we should have selected foT
trade mark,“LaBelle
a coaling station, had we unrestricted
Chocolatière,"on the
choice ot location. All die arguments
>ack.
that have been advanced for the acquisi­
tion of tire island of St. Thomas, 60
NONE OTHER GENUINE.
miles distant, and for which at one
■MOE ONLY SV
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million dollars, apply with tenfold R WALTER BAKER & CO. LtiL,
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its commercial as well as strategical
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