.% (Sitka, Alaska, Letter.)
The sudden finding of gold in a hith
erto unsuspected country has made
millionaires out of poor men. In a
minute from poverty they came into
effluence. The United States will have
more multi-millionaires than ever,
more plutocrats, and more "sudden
riches." Canada has not struck it so
rich, for the successful prospectors have
almost without exception, been United
States citizens and residents of the
atates. In the sudden making of mil
lionaires it is difficult to tell who has
struck it richest, accounts are so wide
ly divergent. But all agree that no ac
counts have exaggerated the facts, so
far as the finding of great quantities
of gold is concerned. The richest man
among the new Alaska millionaires is
Joseph Ladue, the owner of the town
of Dawaon, and the finder of enormous
gold deposits. Ladue is a resident of
Schuyler Falls, Clinton county, N. Y.,
where. It is said, he is soon to be mar
ried to an old sweetheart whom he
could not before afford to wed. When
" the gold fever broke out in a mild form
two years ago he went to Alaska, after
a failure in the Black Hills, and.found
enough to tell him of greater things la
ter on. He returned to his home, but
later went back to Alaska, took up a
claim In the very heart of the country,
paid for a certain quantity of land
which was then for sale at a very low
figure, and started in to look for gold.
His first find brought settlers there by
tjie dosen. "Dawson” the place was
edlled,'and as the owner sold off small
portions of the land his fame grew and
Spread.. He now owns Dawson, having
^sold but little, and Is so many times a
millionaire that his wealth cannot be
estimated. He is the Barnato of Alas
ka, the man who struck it rich, and,
knowing a good thing when he saw It,
held on to It. It is only another tale of
Bouth African luck, but much nearer
Vome—enviously near. The rush to the
Alaska gold fields Is such that all out
going steamers are filled far in ad
vance. These steamers run intermit
tently after the cold weather sets in,
and there are long Intervals when few
Alaska voyages can be made. This ac
counts for the awful haste to reach
there before the inland waters become
unnavlgable. There Is also an over
land route, but this also becomes Im
practicable after awhile, owing to the
lack of traveling accommodations and
Ihe long distances that must be gone
kver without finding a habitation.
Masks has never been "settled," ow
ing to the great cold there, but it is
thought that It might in time be made
as livable as any of the other cold cit
ies, and, Indeed, as St. Petersburg or
Christiania or any of the large North
of-Europe Cities. But this is quite a
step ahead, though not at all Im
probable.
At present, it you want to get to
Alaska and become a Barnato, there
are two Ways ot going. One la by sea
and the other la overland. It you take
.the se4 route you can start by steam*
■ship from Seattle, It you have been for
tunate enough to secure accommoda
tions ahead, and crossing the Quit of
.Alaska, touch first at Unalaska, passing
through the Aleutian Islands. From
there the route lies directly north, get
ting colder and colder every minute.
Mere you will need all the arctic wraps
you have brought with you. The ship’s
tare will be warm, nourishing food
cereals, chocolate, meats and spices.
Bflt for all that, you will need fur over
coats, fur hoods, blanket wraps, woolen
mittens and big, warm, fur-lined bags
In which to sleep. For one going from
A very warm city Into this region the
change Is so great and so sudden that
there Is sure to be great suffering, and
many of the would-be Barnatos turn
back here. The crew, on the other
hand, an]oy It, being accustomed to a
polar latitude—for you are now ap
proaching the pole. In spring the
weather would be getting daily warm
er as the season advanced, but now you
would And it steadily growing more
biting. The steamship stops at St.
Michaels; and here, within sight of
Behring sea, almost within hailing dis
tance of the Behring strait, you leave
tho steamship and start Inland to
search tor gold. The Barnatos have
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TRADING STATION ON THE YUKON.
nearly all followed the Yukon. It leads
into Klondyke, and one of Us tribu
taries is the Klondyke river. Dawson,
Joseph Ledue Barnato’s town, is on
the Yukon: and Circle City, another
rich 8pot, lies on Its banks.
Land is for sale here very cheap.
Or you can de as many prospectors
have done—start in hunting for gold
without making too many inquiries.
The And is so sudden that there is no
sharp line drawn between that which
is sold and that which belongs to the
United States, and a man is free to
hunt where he will. For your own
comfort, however, it is well to have
some definite arrangement made with
the nearest authorities, so as to avoid
trouble in case of a rich find. An
other way to reach the gold fields Is
by the overland route. Many Journey
this way in wagons, as they went to
“Pike's Peak or bust” years ago. The
route begins at Seattle and follows the
coast north past Sitka, past Juneau,
and through the Chllcoe pass. And
so north through the gold fields to
Dawson. The “finds” here are rich,
and when Klondyke Is reached, on the
other side of Dawson, a man finds
•himself in the very middle of the gold
country. The distance to be traversed
is great and the Journey Is a long,
hard one, but notwithstanding this,
thousands are struggling Alaskaward.
It cost Ledue nothing to become a
JOSEPH LADUE,
The Gold King of Alaska.
Barnato. But those who want to fol
low In his tootBteps will need some
thing like $1,000 In money. The
country Is more thickly populated
now and pricss have gone up, whereas
they used to be next to nothing. At
Circle City you must now pay $40 for
a fur coat, when you used to get one
for $5. And flour, sugar and spices,
the absolute necessities,have advanced
50 per cent. The luxuries—tea, cof
fee, eggs and butter—are bringing
fancy prices, so that a man now needs
ALASKA COMMERCIAL CO.’S HEADQUARTERS, ST. MICHAEL’S BAY.
ten times the sum required a year ago
for traveling through the settlements
of Alaska. One of the party should
be a practical chemist, or understand
the compiling of drugs, and one should
be able to sew. A woman is of the
utmost assistance, but few of the sex
bave ventured out. In the baggage
which the four carry should be pieces
of tanned skins, shoe leather, flannel,
and wool, everything for repairing the
Alaskan wearing apparel. One of the
number should be able to cook, and
the fourth should understand the art
of putting up a quick shelter. All
Bhould be willing and ready to share
and share alike In hardship. One of
the hardest things the prospector has
to endure ia the sight of the sacks of
gold dust that are being shipped from
every seaport and the tons of ore that
are being sent down from St. Michael’s
and south from Juneau. In one day
there came advices from St. Michaels
that $1,400,000 worth of gold du3t
would be shipped by the Wells-Fargo
south, and that $768,000 in dust was
awaiting transportation. In one day
there came down on the Puget Sound
steamship $200,000 in Alaskan gold.
There is, as usual, a howl about the
exaggeration in values hereabouts.
But the facts are as stated and great
er. It was so when gold was found in
the West Rockies and in California.
There really was gold and plenty of
it, and so in Alaska. There is a
chance for twenty Barnatos, but, of
course, among 20,000—the present
number of applicants that have ap
P**— at the steamship and overland
offices—there must be many disap
pointed ones.
Even without making a Bamato for
tune, a man may do well here, for
there is a fine chance for Yankee in
genuity and the building up of fine
American cities in the very far north.
•LOUIS T. STOKES.
Canada's Policy Is Criticised.
On July 27 the Dominion cabinet de
cided to demand a royalty on the out
put of the new diggings of the Yukon.
Under regulations previously issued, a
fee of $15 per claim for registry and
a tax of $100 per annum were Imposed.
Now, in addition to this, a royalty of
10 per cent of the output is to be col
lected from all claims producing $500
per month, and 20 per cent on these
producing more than that amount.
Moreover, every alternate claim on all
placer ground is to be reserved as
the property of the government, to be
sold or worked for its revenue. The
establishment of such a system, which
is, we believe, without precedent on
this continent since the end of Span
ish rule in Mexico, is startling to those
who have already acquired property
on the Klondyke by right of location
and possession. If not by title from the
government, and to prospectors who
are proposing to go there. The right
of the Canadian government to make
such regulations is unquestionable; the
policy Is doubtful. There is a suspi
cion that they would not have been so
severe If It were not that most of the
miners in the district were Americans,
and the rush of prospectors thither
promises to be chiefly American also.
It was, of course, to be expected that
the Canadian government would take
measures to reimburse itself for the
expenses of administration in the new
district, and there is a plausible rea
son for a departure from the policy
of liberality in granting public min
eral land for the purpose of developing
the unsettled partB of the country,
sires it is likely that the Yukon dis
trict has few natural resources besides
Its mines, and when the latter are ex
hausted the district will be abandoned;
but this looks only to the easily
worked placer deposits, and fails to
take into account the lodes whence
they originated, which some day will
require capital and industrial freedom
for their exploitation.
The measures adopted, however,
seem to us unwise, owing to the re
tardation in the development of the
mineral resources of the Canadian Yu
kon which they will cause, and the
hard feeling they are sure to breed
among the American prospectors, who
are likely to clamor for retaliatory
measures. These will be, moreover,
difficult and expensive taxes to col
lect, since it will be nearly impossible
to watch every miner, and the Klon
dyke is so near the American frontier
that clandestine exportations cm
hardly be prevented. It is a sound
principle of government that revenue
needed should be raised in the most
Inexpensive manner possible, and any
other system is unjust to the people
who have to pay the taxes.
Most of all to be regretted, however,'
is —a possibility of friction arising
between two nations whose interests
are really identical; since recent his
tory has demonstrated that rich gold
mines are a prolific source of conten
tion and hard feeling.—Engineering
and Mining Journal.
Th* Hooter’s Mistake.
He was a rooter if ever there wae
one. His enthusiasm was at a boiling
heat all the time. He rooted with joy
when the home team scored, and he
rooted with disgust when the opposing
nine added to its score. In every move
ment of either team he saw an occasion
for - rooting. He knew the game and
understood it—at least he thought he
did. He made his comments whether
those around him liked his complaints
or not.
The rooter always claims the right
to be the critic of every one'connected I
with ihe game, from, the lordly umpire
to the mascott who hasn’t yet reached
his teens, and including the barefooted,
ragged urchin who gains admission to
the game by recovering the ball that
was batted over the fence. Our par
ticular rooter exercised that right, not
bothering himself a bit whether he was
allowed or not.
The result of the game was in doubt,
and the interest was intense. The
Hardfords were in the field, and the
opposing nine was at the bat. A batter
made a “swipe" at the ball as It came
like a shot from the hand of Vickery,
winding into a graceful inshoot when
it reached the home plate. The bat
whistled through the air, but didn’t
come within hailing distance of the ball.
Just then a sparrow rose from the tnrl
and flew toward the left field. The
death like silence was broken by the
rooter shouting:
“Go for it, Pettit!”
Every eye was turned toward the
place from which the loud bass voice
of the rooter came, and every one won
dered.
Bob didn’t obey the command of the
rooter, and this made the rooter mad.
He began to abuse Pettit, and for a
minute Bob’s reputation as a baseball
player suffered.
“What did you want to have him gc
for?” asked a person who was sitting
near the censorious critic.
“Why, the ball that was batted Intc
left field.
“The ball! Why, you blankety
blanked chump, that was a sparrow.”
replied the other.
The rooter’g rooting ceased.—Hart
ford Times.
Impossible—“See here. That horse
you sold me runs away, kicks, bites,
birlkes and tries to tear down the
stable at night. You told me that It 1
got him once I wouldn’t part with him
for $1,000." “Well,, ;,ou won’t.”—D*
troit Free Press.
THE IOWA POPULISTS
THE STATE CONVENTION
NAMES THE TICKET.
Charles A. Lloyd of Muscatine Coant;
Chosen ns the Standard Bearer—L.
B. Perkins Will Make the Race
for Lieutenant Governor
Text of the Platform
For the Center of the Road.
Prs Moines, Iowa, Aug. 30. —Two
hundred delegates were present to
day when the middle-of-the-road Pop
ulist state convention was called to
order at 11 o’clock by Chairman A. W.
Weeks of Winterset. A. W. Ricker of
Iowa City, temporary chairman, ad
dressed the convention in part as
follows: “The present condition of
.socioty, where a few take all that the
many produce, is the direct out
growth of the competitive system.
It is useless to apply palliative
methods to this condition. Heroic
treatment is demanded. Nothing short
of the absolute destruction of the com
petitive system as applied to those
things which are in themselves essen
tially public utilities or public necessi
ties will relieve society from the load
under which it is at present strug
gling. The competitive system Is at
variance with the laws of God, the
tenets of Christianity and that very
liberty which We hold sacred above
all things else, and no reform party, I
care not by whom championed or how
aggressive may be its campaign, can
over succeed in holding the suffrages
of the people unless it recognises this
fact ”
The speaker denounced the fusion*
ists and the Democracy as at present
constituted and declared that Bryan
was not now the Democratic party, as
he was practically in 1S90. He closed:
“When the absorbing power of capi
tal is constantly increasing no tempo
rary revival in business can change
the certain and fixed result. It is the
capitalistic system which must go,
and to relieve this condition and to
change this system the Chicago Demo
cratic platform offers not one thing.
Its one cureall is the free coinage of
silver. The free coinage of silver
will increase the volume of money and
raise prices, but will destroy no trusts,
no monopolies, will in nowise deprive
corporations of their enormous ab
sorbing powers; in fact, could they
but realize it, it would increase them.
Free silver will destroy the power of
no railroad king, nor will it in any de
gree lessen the burdensome tax which
our railroad management has placed
on commerce. Free silver will not de
prive a single land baron of his stolen
public domain. No party can ever suc
ceed-upon the single silver issue, for
its inadequacy to relieve society of its
stricken condition is apparent. Deeper
and more far-reaching must be the
reform, the banner of which will
gather to it the countless numbers
of the oppressed. Never again
shall we consent to compromise with
plutocracy, and from the dark night
of the present system of consuming
greed, of aggregated wealth and of
ernel injustice, we will turn to the
dawn of a brighter day, when the
commonwealth of the people
For Governor—Charles A. Lloyd of Musca
tine county.
For Lieutenant-Governor—D. L Perkins of
Lyons.
For Judge-Supreme Court—J. A. Lonburg
of Wapello.
For Superintendent of Instruction—Wm.
Blnln of Marlon.
For Railroad Commissioner—L. H. Griffith
ot Lee.
Adjournment was taken until after
noon. Senator Peffer addressed the
convention, saying in part:
“If recent discoveries of free gold
mines should he as valuable as present
appearances indicate, the silver ques
tion may soon be wholly eliminated
from republican discussions, except,
perhaps, as to those persons whose in
dividual interests are at stake. Silver
republicans want more metallic money
and they would probably be satisfied
with gold if there was enough of it.
“It is proposed that the populist
party shall do two things—limit the
range of our discussions to the silver
branch of the money question, and
ally ourselves with the democratic
party.
“These are the propositions on which
tee are divided.
“I am opposed to both of them. I
do not wish to see the people's party
merged into any other existing organi
sation. I would be willing to abide
by the conclusions of a national con
ference of' delegated duly appointed,
and accredited, fairly representing all
the elements among voters who are
apposed to the present gold standard,
high tariff regime. But until that can
be accomplished the populist party is
good enough for me.
“The alliance with the democratic
party in 189tt was only for the cam
paign. Now, though we may not be
juite ourselves again, and in our right
mind, we are free to. determine our
iffairs in our own way as a party and
is individual men.”
The platform adopted reaffirms the
St. Louis and Omaha platforms; de
clares for direct legislation; for a suf
ficient amount of sound and flexible
j money, for the issuance of money to
state, county, township and municipal
| governments, the principal to be paid
>ack to the government at two per
:ent per annum without interest; the
said money to be a full legal tender.
The Temple amendment is indorsed,
The reduction of freight, passenger
! md express rates, and salaries of
public officers is demanded and the
leduction of mortgage indebtedness
’rom assessed valuation is urged.
The “Sublime Porte.” j
The empire of Turkey is called the
Sublime Porte from the principal en
! trance of the seraglio being a huge pa
vilion with eight openings over the
gate or porte. This gate, from which
the Ottoman empire took its name, is
very high and Is guarded by fifty cap
itals or porters.
Preaching.
No book, no written discourse, orally
undelivered, can take the place of the
living preacher. The flash of the eyo,
the gesture of the hand, the tone of the
voice, can never be produced on paper,
i —Rev. John Scape,
GENERATOR GAS.
H» b(Uih An Ahead of Us u
Though the use of ordinary lighting
gas is customary In England In engine*
up to ten horse power, for larger sizes
a small convenient apparatus has been
devised for the production of a gas that
cannot be used for Illuminating pur
poses, but which gives very economi
cal results when burned ip the engine
cylinder. This Is known as generator
gas, the best fuels from which to obtain
it being anthracite coal and gas coke,
as these yield no tar; the thermal ef
ficiency is also described as low, it
having about 160 heat units per cubic
foot, as compared with 616 to 630 of
London lighting gas, soAhat about four
times the quantity is required to in
sure the same amount of power, the
great quantity obtained, however, to
gether with the small amount of de
preciation and labor necessary for pro
duction, It Is said, make it in many
cases comparable in cost to g»« at 2*
cents per thousand.
A powder to be shaken into the
shoes. At this season your feet feel
swollen and hot, and get tired easily
If you have smarting feet or tight
shoes, try Allen’s Foot-Ease. It cools
the feet and makes walking easy. Cures
and prevents swollen and sweating
feet, blisters and callous spots. Re
lieves corns and bunions of all pain
and gives rest and comfort. Try it to
Try Allen’s t'uot Kate,
DMf or Doffs.
Maine has a law that authorizes any
citizen to kill a dog1 that is engaged in
hunting deer. The old sports in that
state are a patient lot, and it angers
them when a hunter from the city
goes up there with a couple of yolpinjj
hounds to start the deer toward water.
Many an imported dog has met a vio
lent death in the chase and its owners
did not dare to complain, because tho
game wardens are pretty stiff en
forcers of the law.
The success of tin education At institution it*
lmitotlei in no small degree by the numbers
who vivo it their huttonaire from year to year.
A O' nsulfition of tho record b o -s of the New
K g und Conservatory of Music. Boston. Mass.,
reveals a student membership of something
like 00.000 since its found nc. with a present at*
te-d mce of from l.SuO to 2 non annually. This
evidert, e. when taken in connection with the
ca efut work do ie at the Conservatory, is con*
v.ncing proof of the efficiency of the school and
mak* s it little wonder that its reputation is
tor; d-wide. i
Friend—How soon will you graduate
from the Highscience institute? Mod
ern Girl—J*ext year. But after that I
must take a four years’ course at a
medical college, to be followed by a
special course in surgery. “Do you in
tend to practice medicine?” "Horrors,
no! I am going to write novels!”
Educate Your Dowels With Cascarets,
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
10c. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money.
Only 9 per cent, of amputations are
fatal.
Work of Preparation.
Try Grain~0!
Try Grain=0!
Ask your Grocer to-day to
show ycu a package of
GRAIN-O, the new food
drink that takes the place
of coffee.
The children may drink 1.
without injury as well as the
adult. All who try it, like
it. GRAIN-O has that rich
seal brown of Mocha or Java,
but it is made from pure
grains, and the most delicate
stomach receives it without
distress. % the price of
coffee.
15 cents and 25 cents per
package. Sold by all grocers.
?
Tastes like Cofree
Looks like Coffee
Wsu
SUCKER!
WILL KEEP YOU DRY*
Don't be fooled with a mackintosh
or rubber coat. If you want a coat
that will keep you dry In the hard
est storm buy the Kish Brand
Slicker. If not for sale In your
town, write for catalogue to
A. J. TOWER, Boston. Mass.
CURE YOURSELF!
■ Use Biff G for unnatural
I discharges, inflammation**
\ irritations or ulcerations
of in u c o n s membranes*
Painless, and not asixta*
UTHEEvANSCheMICAlCO. or poisonous.
n - I.."I Sold by Drugyh^
or sent tn plain wrapper*
by express, prepaid, for
•1 nr», or 3 (Kitties. #2.75.
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■ Cr W tck though, may: b« profitably ens
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city work as well sa country district*.
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rnCittHI rliU Roofln* or Wall and PeIMvm
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