NEWS BOILED DOWN
WHISPERINGS OF THE WIRE IIS
FEW WORDS.
HlMWllancoiia Nrwi Notes Gathered From
Th.e and Other Countrleo—Accidental,
Criminal. Political, Social and Other
wise—ftrlop Condensation* From All
Quarters.
Honda;, Jan. 10.
The twenty-first victim of the Lon
don. Ont., city hall collapse died Sat
urday.
Fred Shlebcr and John Bellows were
trilled by a rock fall in Slatlngton, Pa.,
Saturday.
Warrants for $244,440 were drawn
Saturday by the United States for In
dian treaty obligation.
Jacob Rosenberger, a Sou.lerton, Pa.,
farmer, sheltered 1,148 tramps in his
ham during the year 1897.
The Standard Flbreware company
assigned in Mankato Saturday. As
sets $25,000; liabilities, $.j,000.
The Spanish cabinet has decided to
Increase the number of consulates of
Spain in China and in certain islands
of the Pacific.
Tuesday, Jan. 11.
Sidney Clendenning, the twenty
first victim of’the city hall disaster,
filed in London, Ont.
The Standard Fiber Works Com
pany, of Mankato, Minn., have made
ai> assignment. Assets, $25,000; lia
bilities, $40,000.
The Steer mansion at Nyatt, one of
the besi known residences along the
shores of Nararansett Bay, was totally
destroyed by fire.
The secretary of the interior bai
approved for patent 1.920 acres of
land in the Sundance district, Wyo
ming. for the use of the Agricultural
college.
Mr. Kleberg, of Texan, has Intro
duced a bill to further define the con
necting lines of common carriers,
their relationship, to each other, and
to those dealing with them.
A careful poll of the republican
members of the house of representa
tives is being made, with a view to
learning exactly how many can be
depended upon to vote for a repeal or
modiflcvatlon of the civil service laws.
The advence figures from the No
vember report of the Bureau of Sta
tistics shows the exports from the
United States during that morth ag
gregaled $114,639,664, a net gain of
nearly $7,000,000 over November, 1896.
Railroad Commissioner Reagan, of
Austin, Tex., who has been an avowed
candidate for senator against Cov.
Charles A. Culberson, and Senator
Roger .. Mills, issued a formal card
to tho public, withdrawing from the
race.
Wednesday, Jan. IS.
Candles at Dawson City cost 60
cents each.
Miners about Taylorsville, 111., have
decided to strike.
The governor of Iowa will be in
augurated tomorrow.
The London Times predicts a silver
majority in our next congress.
Secretary Alger is Improving, and
will shortly leave for the sea coast.
The IUilnols senate commtttee is
examining the Chicago police depart
n$nt.
Turkey as yet refuses to -attle for
mission property destroyed during the
Armenian outbreak.
Some of the Massachusetts barbers
want the five and ten cent shops legis
lated out of existence.
The cold weather has done consid
erable damage to the orange growers
Of southern California.
Seth D. Tripp, whose inventions
have revolutionized shoe manufactur
ing, died in Lynn, Mass., aged 72.
There is reason to believe that
Great Britain will again take the lead
o fother nations in the negotiations o*
reciprocity treaties under the Dlng
ley tariff.
Oyer one hundred young men, from
nearly every state in the Union, are
undergoing an examination at the
navy yard in Washington, as a pre
liminary to their possible appointment
ms paymasters in the navy.
The United States supreme court is
asked to pass upon the constitution
ality of the Illinois inheritance law
of 1895, which places a heavy tax
upon the estates of persons dying in
that state, and upon the property of
aliens dying elsewhere.
Delegate Callahan, of Oklahoma,
has introduced a bill to attach the
Indian territory to the territory of Ok
lahoma, and to erect the two territor
ies into one. The bill Includes all the
lands of the five tribes of Indians and
the Quapaw Indian tribes.
'*'■ Thanriay, Jan. IS.
South Dakota commissioner: of the
TransmiMlBgippi Exposition visited
the ground and were much pleased
with the outlook.
Justice Norman, of the Wisconsin
supreme court, fell on the ley side*
walk, receiving Injuries that will
likely prove fatal.
Andrew H. Hunter, of the ninth dis
trict of Illinois, was elected Illnois
member of the democratic congres
sional committee.
Cashier M. T. Caverty, of the State
Bank at Elmwood, 111., shot himself,
: sad Is not expected to live. He has
# keen la poor health for some time.
j As the Arbuckle sugar refinery In
f ;v Brooklyn approaches completion, the
•war of the sv^sr trust people upon the
toffee trade ot the Arbuckles grows.
The customs receipts on the 13th
were $399,024, the heaviest since the
new tariff went Into effect. Treasury
officials are gratified at the Increase.
* Patrick A. Largey, president of the
State Savings Bank, and one of the
best known cltlsens of Buttte, Mont.,
i- was shot and killed In the
. .wilding by Thomas J. Riley.
ht a meeting of the Kansas free su
rer state republican committee resolu
tions were agreed upon condemning
Secretary Cage’s financial policy and
praising the Leedy state admlnlstra
*r1lbs iryrtjra* court la Wisconsin af
■’rJL'
■Mrjy
.V. .-w, :
r,:
Armed the decision of the lower court
and the costly French murder case
ended in conviction of murder in the
second degree. French killed A. D
S telle.
The bill appropriating $65,000 for
an Indian congress at Omaha during
the exposition came up in the house
committee on Indian affairs, and after
a short discussion it was referred to
a sub-committee, of which Represent
ative Curtis, of Kansas, is chairman.
Capt. William C. Oldrieve, of Bos
ton, has planned to walk across the
Atlantic ocean next July. He* will be
gin his Journey July 4, and will be ac
companied by Capt. William A. An
drews, famous by reason of his voyages
across the Atantlcl in a small sailboat.
The Mexican government has can
celed the valuable concessions of the
Mexican Southeastern railway com
pany, on account of the failure of that
company to comply with the import
ant terms of the concession granted
by the government. The company
was composed of Cleveland1, O, men.
Saturday, Jan. 14.
The house has passed an urgent de
ficiency bill carrying $1,741,843.
Oen. Gouzales Munozans, the new
captain general of Porto Rico, died im
mediately after arrival there.
Thirty-five men direct from Dawson
City arrived in Seattle on the 12th on
the Alkl. They brought down $100,000
in gold dust.
Latest advices from the Orient say
that the Japanese transport steamer
Nara was wrecked December 24 and
eighty lives lost
An official dispatch from Batavia an
nounces that the capital of Amboyna,
one of the Molucial islands, was com
pletely demolished by earthquake.
Fifty were killed and 200 injured.
All the local detachments of the Sal
vation Army in New York City are
waiting the word to turn out in honor
of Oen. William Booth, the world's
commander-ln-chlef, who is due in a
few days from London on a special
mission. , ,tu;4
New eastbound ratea on grain and
grain products (except corn), effective
January 25 have been recommended
by the managers of the Joint traffic as
sociation on the basis of 20 cents per
hundred, Chicago to New York, with
usual differences to other eastern
cities.
Crazed by the death of her children
and the suicide of her mother, Mrs.
Mary C. Campbell, wife of R. O. Camp
bell, a traveling man of Peoria, 111.,
committed suicide in Chicago by hurl
ing herself through a plate glass win
dow of the third story of the residence
of W. J. Blrdsall.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Howell received a telegram from the
Canadian minister of the interior,
stating that the Canadian council had
dopted a provision th1. wearing apparel,
personal effects and toilet articles
taken into Canada by minors going in
to the Klondike will be exempted from
duty.
Saturday, Jiin. 15.
The plague is getting many victims
In Bombay.
South Dakota reports Increased In
quiry for land.
The story of an uprising of the Sem
inole Indians was a pure fabrication.
Leroy D. Brown, a prominent edu
cator, died at San Luis Obislo, Cal.
The death list in the Fort Smith
cyclone figures up thus far forty-three.
Life insurance policies have been de
cided as non-taxable by the supreme
court of Indiana.
Mrs. Mary Cowden Clark, author of
"The Complete Concordance to Shakes
peare,” died at Genoa.
One of the celebrated $100 count ef el t
treasury notes turned up at the Cnited
Sates sub-treasury in Cincinnati.
The body of Murderer W. H. T. Dur
rant was incinerated at the crematory
of Reynolds & Van Nuys, at Altadena,
Cal.
The steamer City of Seattle, sailed
from Seattle for Alaska with 600 pas
sengers and the City of Topeka with
250 passengers.
The executive committee of the Lea
gue of American Municipalities has de
cided to hold the next convention in
Detroit on August 1 to 4, inclusive.
A special dispatch from Shanghai
says the treaty providing for a lease
of Klao Chau to Germany is not yet
signed. Japan is opposing the final
signature.
The hill granting the right of way
to the Muscogee Coal & Railroad com
pany through the Indian Territory and
Oklahoma has been favorably reported
in the senate.
At a session of the lower house of
the Prussian Diet Herr Koeller was
re-elected president by acclamation.
He declined the honor, however, and
Her,* von Kroecher was thn elected
president.
A 925,000 damage suit has been filed
against the Pullman Palace Car com
pany by Dr. T. D. Morgn, who claims
that he was bitten by a centipede
while occupying a berth in one of the
company’s sleepers.
nr. Bryan Points to Nebraska.
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 15 —Fusion of
all silver elements in Minnesota Is of
ficially Indorsed by the state central
committee. Chairman Rossing made
the announcement emphatically at the
Jackson banquet in this city. William
J. Bryan in his speech devoted con
siderable time to indorsing the fusion
idea and illustrating its efficacy by the
results in Nebraska. This is regard
ed as a decisive blow to the adoption
of the Ohio plan in Minnesota.
No Dtnyrr of on UprUln*. ' '
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15,-Gen.
Brooke at Chicago has telegraphed the
war department that his inquiries di
rected to the commanding officer at
Fort Reno, I. T„ bring the response
that there is no danger of an Indian
rising. The railroad authorities, Gen.
Brooke says, made the same report, so
he has suspended the orders to the
cavalry to proceed to Wewoka.
Gov. Barnes, of Okalahoma. has re
ported to Secretary Bliss that the Ind
1 lan massacre story was wholly false.
STATE INDEBTEDNESS
A REPORT SHOWING THAT IT IS
DECREASING.
Auditor Cornell Pat* the Redaction at
•500,000 for the Year—Nearly Half of
the Recreate la In the Kouded Debt
Which Became Due During the Year.
Nebraaka la All Right.
Auditor Cornell has Issued a state
ment for the fiscal year ending Novem
ber 30, 1897, showing that the sate
debt has been reduced over $500,000
during the year. Nearly half of this
reduction was due to the fact that
state bonds became due and had to be
provided for. The statement of Audi
tor Cornell shows that during the year
ending November 30, 11,917 claims
amounting to $1,791,636.63, divided as
follows, were adjusted in the auditor’s
office:
Claims.
State library fund. 82 $
Nor. school library. 14
Nor. interest fund. 9
Hosp. insane fund. 34
Tern, school fund.. 180
Penlt'n’t’y spec, lab 30
University funds.. 1,738
General fund. 9,830 1
Amount.
2,989.92
1,647.62
2.065.00
3.750.00
594,184.33
10,879.09
136,073.77
,040,046.90
11,917 $1,791,136.63
Warrants have been paid during the
fiscal year ending November 30, 1897,
as follows:
Institute for feeble-mind
ed youth fund.$ 15,086.96
State library fund. 2,884.23
Normal school library
fund . 1,647.62
Normal interest fund^.... 3,030..00
Hospital for insane fund.. 3,750.00
Temporary school fund... 595,772.76
Penitentiary special labor
fund. 10,867.58
University funds. 151,248.66
General fund. 1,350,725.60
Total.$2,135,013.46
The present Indebtedness of the
state is as follows:
State funding bonds.$ 261,267.35
General fund warrants_ 1,576,063.52
Temporary university fund
warrants . 12,027.27
Institute for feeble mind
ed fund warrants........ 16,476.51
State library fund war
rants . 105.45
Penitentiary special labor
fund warrants. 11.51
College of agricultural and •
mechanic arts fund war
rants . 181.65
University cash fund war
rants. 80.72
Total indebtedness Nov.
30, 1897.$1,866,194.01
Less available cash in state
. treasury . 87,943.00
Net outstanding.$1,784,251.01
Reduction in state debt during the
fiscal year ending November 30, 1897:
debtednessETAOlN r’.. .. fundo
Reduction in outstanding
warrants. $343,376.83
Reduction in bonded indebt
edness . 207,000.00
Total .$550,376.83
The treasurer’s books show a re
duction in the amount of warrants
registered and drawing interest of
$416,403.60, showing that there was
afloat $73,026.77, which had not been
registered and drawing interest.
Kfo ts to Rcleimc Kmbew'pM.
Friends of Whitney and Mills, the
two embezzlers from Hanan county,
who are now in the penitentiary, are
making a move to secure their release.
William M. Ervin, a prominent poli
tician from Harlan county, arrived in
Lincoln and went to the penitentiary
to see Mills. It is said that he was
empowered to conduct negotiations
so that in case Mills could be released
from the penitentiary for a short time
$3,000 would be raised to use in mak
ing a compromise settlement with the
board of supervisors of Harian county.
The friends of Mills seem to have gain
ed the impression that in case such a
settlement could be mado the sentence
of Mills could be revoked. However,
when Mr. Ervin arrived at the peni
tentiary the warden would not allow
him to see Mills, having made the rule
that the newly registered prisoners
could see no visitors except their regu
lar attorneys. Cobb & Harvey, attorr
neys of Lincoln, have been employed
by the friends of Mills and an attempt
will be made to secure the release of
the ex-banker on habeas corpus pro
ceedings. The grounds upon which the
application is to be filed will be that
the supreme court handed down its
decision in the case at an “adjourned
term" and a test case will be made on
this point.
Mercer Opposes Free Seeds.
Washington dispatch: Representa
tive Mercer today made an earnest
speech in the house against the pro
vision in the agricultural appropri
ation bill for the distribution of free
seeds. He urged that it was a needless
expenditure of money, because the ob
ject of the law as flrst passed, was to
benefit the farming community by
giving to farmers for experiment rare
and uncommon varieties of seed, in
stead of sending thousands of bushels
of ordinary and common farm and
garden seeds for planting. Mr. Mer
cer advocates the sending to experi
mental stations by the agricultural de
partment of rare varieties, there to be
tested, and if found suitable for culti
vation to be afterward distributed from
the experimental stations to farmers
who would make reports as to the re
sult of their cultivation.
Distribution of Reports.
The state horticultural society sent
representatives to Secretary of -State
Porter to ask for the privilege of dls
tributing the printed reports of the so
ciety. There is no law governing the
distribution of these reports except
that the volumes shall be delivered to
the secretary of state. Secretary Por
ter agreed to give 4.000 volumes to the
society and he will keep 1,000 volumes
for distribution. Tne society claimed
It waa in a position to distribute the
books where they would do the moat
good.
IS EBRICHT SHORT?
The Committee of Investigation Cou*
Conclude# that He Is.
The investigating committee is
about to submit a report in which a
shortage of about $2,000 .will be
charged against Wiliam Ebright, a
former superintendent of the insti
tute for the bind at Nebraska City.
The report will Bhow that after Mrs.
Ebright bad been promoted from
matron to assistant superintendent of
the institution a young woman who
was an inmate was carried on the
rolls as matron, and the vouchers at
the rate of $50 per month were drawn
in her favor for about eight months.
The committee has discovered that
the young woman did not receive the
money, athough the vouchers are in
dorsed by her.
Another Instance is that of a boy in
mate who was on the pay roll as a
teacher, and whose vouchers were at
the rate of $25 per month. The boy
testifies that he was not employed as
a teacher and did not receive this
money; that he was during that time
| employed as a bell boy and received
$5 per month.
Two girls reported as teachers, and
for whom warants were drawn at the
rate of $30 per month each for two or
three months, testify that they did
not receive the money.
These items foot up to about $1,000.
According to the committee the
other $1,000 shortage comes from tfce
padded bills made out by a man
named Shuman, who operated a drug
store at Nebraska City at the time
and who furnished the drugs for the
institution. Schuman made up his
bill at the end of each month, giving
the numbers of the prescriptions and
making a total charge without item
izing each account. His bills were
audited and paid.
It has been ascertained from the
books turned over to the committee
by the successor of Schuman in the
drug business that all the prescrip
tions made out for private individuals
during each month were again charged
against the state, the numbers of the
prescriptions in the bills rendered at
the end of each month being in a ma
jority of cases, as those which had
been ordered and paid for by private
parties. The overcharge in the drug
item is found to amount to about
$1,00.,.
Sheris*’ Fee* Reduced.
Auditor Cornell has decided that
there Is no law for the payment of
75 cents a day for the board of con
victs who are kept by sheriffs after
sentence, so he will reduce the pay
ment to 50 cents a day except for the,
first six days. It has been the cus
tom of sheriffs to . keep convicts as
long as thirty days after sentence is
prononunced before taking them to
the penitentiary and to draw 75 cents
a day from the state as pay for the
board of such convicts. Auditor Cor
nell consulted the attorney general,
who gave it as his opinion that the
only law governing the matter was
section 5, chapter 28, laws of 1895,
which provide that 75 cents a day
may be drawn for a period of six
days, or if longer than' that period,
then only 50 cents a day. The aud
itor will enforce this rule hereafter.
Under this ruling if a sheriff keeps a
prisoner six days he may draw $4.50,
but if he keeps a prisoner eight days
he will get only $4.
The attorney general gave an opin
ion also In regard to mileage of sher
iffs. He had decided that the old
mieage act, under which sehriffs drew
10 cents a mile each way and $3 a
day, was repealed by the act of the
late legislature. A sheriff Is now al
lowed actual expenses and $3 a day.
Packers are Pleased.
Managers of the packing houses at
South Omaha are pleased to learn that
the proposed tax of 5 cents per piece
for meat inspection has been aban
doned by Secretary Wilson of the de
partment of agriculture. According
to the plan suggested this tax was to
be paid by packers whose meats were
inspected for export. It is claimed
that the promulgation of such an or
der would have proved a serious
drawback to the packers whose export
trade is extensive. This tax, it is
claimed, was to have been used to de
fray the expenses of a microscopical
examination.
LOST AN ARM IN A CUTTER
Wayno dispatch: Hon. J. R. Man
ning of Carroll, one of the most prom
inent and well to do men in the
county, met with a terribe accident.
His right arm was cut off inch by
inch to the shoulder in a cornstalk
cutter, the help starting up the ma
chine before he knew it. All but one
artery was severed and the flesh torn
some down his side. He is in a crit
ical condition and it is not expected
that he will live. Mrs. Manning was
a member of the Nebraska state legis
lature in the year 1889, and served
from the Eleventh senatorial district
Has Hauled Many Cars.
Engineer Douglas, running between
Grand Island and North Plattte, on
the Union Pacific, has for the past
eleven months kept a record of the
number of cars hauled by him over
that section, and finds that the average
Is about thirty a day, consisting of
7,240 loaded cars, 3,499 empties, one
dead engine, a steam derrick and three
consolidated locomotives. His engine
is no. 631, one of the standard eigne
wheelers.
At a recent meeting of the city
council of York it was decided to ex
tend an Invitation to the Nebraska
Volunteer Fremen’a association to
hold its annual state meeting at York
in January, 1899.
Mrs. Delilah V. Wakefield, aged 60
years, wife of Orson Wakefield, of Wa
verly, was found dead in bed. She
had been ailing for several weeks, but
was up and around the house most of
the time. The cause seems to be
heart failure.
William Ayers, a prominent farmer
living ten miles southest of Humboldt,
was brought Into court and bound
over to the district court to answer
to a charge of bastardy, preferred by
Miss Lizzie Schaefer, the daughter of
s neighboring farmer.
I
BELIEF FOB CUBANS.
THE GOVERNOR NAMES MEN
WHO WILL ASSIST.
Nebraskans -Will Do Their Fart Toward
Aiding the Starving Patriots—Central
Committee Named by President Ke
Klnlejr Enlists the Cooperation of Some
Representative Citizens.
Relief for the Starving.
Lincoln dispatch: Governor Hol
comb has appointed, the following per
sons as members of the Cuban relief
committee: Rev. H. C. Rowlands, Gen
eral P. H. Barry and M. D. Welch,
Lincoln; J. E. Utt, W. N. Nason,
Omaha. The appointment of the com
mittee was prompted by the receipt ol
the following telegram from New
York: i
Governor Silas A. Holcomb, Lincoln:
Central Cuban Relief Committee ap
pointed by President McKinley urges
upon your excellency the immediate
formation of efficient committees .for
the collection oi funds, food, clothing
and medicine in your state for Cuba’s
starving people to be transmitted free
by this committee to Consul General
Lee, Havana. May we depend upon
your hearty co-operation? Wire
insurer. STEPHEN E. BARTON,
Chairman.
In reply to the telegram the gover
nor sent! this answer:
Stephen E. Barton, Chairman, New
York City: Nebraska will heartily co
operate in providing for the relief of
the suffering Cubans. Have just ap
pointed strong statq relief committee
to take up the work. I feel, however,
that I represent the unanimous senti
ment of Nebraska people in express
ing the opinion that would our na
tional government extend to tue
struggling Cuban patriots the recog
nition to which they are entitled and
which humanity demands, these con
tributions fon the starving would be
unnecessary.
SIALAS A. HOLCOMB,
Governor.
Bloodhounds in Demand*
Beatrice dispatch: Dr. Fulton’s
bloodhounds were returned from Lib
erty today, where they succeeded in lo
cating goods to the value of several
hundred dollars which were stolen
Thursday night from the store of O.
C. Aspinwall by several young men of
the place. No arrests were made and
an effort was made to hush the matter,
it being claimed the offense was the
first the young fellows had ever been
implicated in and being sons of prom
inent people. It is said that among
the stolen property were forty-two
watches. Soon after reaching) home
the dogs were taken on a trip to Lin
coln. During the past eight days these
dogs have detected eight persons, fug
itives from: justice. About ten days
ago a magnificent female English
bloodhound whom Mr. Fulton had pur
chased in Michigan escaped from*the
office of the express company here and
was not captured, unUl today, when
she was brought in by a man from
Holmesville, to whose place she had
wandered. Dr. Fu.-on values her at
$500. She is a handsome/ specimen
of the breed and is perfectly trained.
Train Wreckers Acquitted.
St. Pauli dispatch: Ben Brown, a
farmer boy of about 17 years, was ac
quitted in the district court here of
the charge of attempted train-wreck
ing.
A special state fair train on the
Burlington struck a tie that had been
placed on the track between St. Paul
and Palmer one morning before day
light, but was not derailed. The com
pany’s detectives claimed that they
had sufficient evidence to convict two
boys living near the scene of the at
tempted crime. Ben Brown and Syl
vester Lawson were placed under ar
rest. The acquittal of FPown will
probably result in the action against
Lawson being dropped, as the evidence
is said to be Identical in both cases.
A Peculiar Affection.
Pender dispatch: Ex-Sheriff John T.
Lenton of this place died this morn
ing of a peculiar affliction. About a
month ago he was doing his chores
one Sunday morning when he felt a
little soreness in the calf of ..is left
leg, but thought nothing of it till a
little while after he felt it swelling.
On examination he found his leg to be
turning black and in a couple of hours
the member was swollen up badly
clear to his body. A physician was
called and bandaged his leg and treat
ed him carefully. For a while he
seemed to grow slightly better, but
about a week ago began to get worse,
until he died. He was a prominent
citizen. He leaves a wife am| three
daughters, (
Nebraska Pension Bills.
Washington dispatch: Represent
ative Strode has introduced pensions
as follows: Minerva C. Barnes, of
University place, at $20; Elizabeth M.
Ahle, of Brownvllle, $12; Emma
Thurston, of Nebraska, at $30; Martin
V. Harbour, of Nebraska, at $72. Also
a bill to pay damages to Mrs. Marlou
I.awson, of Lincoln, in the sum of
$10,000, for the loss of an eye by the
state militia while under command of
a United States officer, in the course
of a dril(.
Henry Haskell, wanted at Fort
Madison, Iowa, for forgery, was ar
rested in Beaver City, by Sheriff Mo
arrival of Iowa officials. Haskell was
arrival of Iowa officials. Haskill was
under an assumed name and in dis
guise.
Prosperous Gates College.
Neligh dispatch: The first day's
enrollment of the winter term of
Oates College exceeded that of any
farmer year. The faculty has beeu
strengthened materially in the col
lege course, and the conservatory of
music has been fortunate in securing
the service of Mr. Logan, the violin
ist of the Oberlin Glee Club of 1896.
Two members of the last oragnization
are now connected with the conserva
tory. The percentage of male stu
dents in the college is larger than
usual. Gaylord hall has not s if
feient capacity to accommodate all
the young women with rooms.
Look out for colds
At this season. Keep
Your blood pure and
Rich and your systcr
Toned up by taking
Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Then
You will be able to
Resist exposure to which
A debilitated system
_Would quickly yield.
THE CANADIAN COLD FIELDS.
They So Not All Lie In the Tnkon.
The ex
citement of
the past
few months
has drawn
a great
many peo
ple to the
C! fl. n nrifan
Yukon in the search for gold, and hat
diverted the attention of many others
But in order to get there It is necessary
that a man should be possessed of the
best of health, strong powers of endu- •
ranee and considerable means. He
leaves his wife and his family for a con
siderable period, and the hardships he
haa to endure are all unknown to him.
Canada has other gold fields, though.
They are the fields that produce her
golden grain. This year the crop of
Manitoba, lying directly north of North
Dakota, yielded 21,000,000 bushels of-J
wheat alone. The current price aver-' 1
ages 76 cents, which, as a local paper 1
puts It, “makes the product in gold this
year, for wheat alone, equal to a value
of $15,960,000.” Twenty thousand farm
ers did this, or an average to each pro
ducer of about $798.
“But these same farmers are not liv
ing by wheat alone. This is only one
source of revenue to them out of many.
They have also beef, butter, potatoes,
oats, barley and poultry to sell, and
sometimes other things, so that it may
bo fairly estimated that- their incomes
will average at least $1,000 per farmer.
Thus Manitoba’s fields have yielded
this year fully $20,000,000 in gold, di
vided among 20,000 actual producers,
and a general population of about 200.
000.”
Auer counting the cost of stamp
mills, expenses of men, etc., rich as is
the Klondike, such vast wealth as is be
ing taken out of the soil in raising
wheat in this one province, cannot pos
sibly be secured in any mining district.
Of course mining development assists
agricultural development, and that is
why the Government of Canada feels
so much assurance in predicting pros
perity to all who take up farms in Can
ada. Western Canada today promises
more than any other known field that is
open to immigration. Farms of 160
acres, capable of producing the best
No. 1 hard wheat, yielding thirty to for
ty bushels to the acre, are given away
free. Railways, markets, schools,
churches—all are convenient. The
Canadian form of government is one ot
the most liberal known, and a hearty
welcome is given to settlers of all na
tionalities. Already there are many set
tlers gone in from the states, and the
reports from them are highly favorable.
Those desiring information as tonteee
homestead laws, low transportatrotf*
rates, etc., will have pamphlets, etc.}
sent free on application to the Depart
ment of the Interior, Ottawa, or to any
agent of the Government.
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