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About Western news-Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1898-1900 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1898)
MUST BE A CHANGE. exclKingp are productive of uji.cerlainiy and'loss in commercial tr.'nisactions ' difficult to eiaggrrat.V Prof. FoSwell say.s. "Therp art ; -1J12 prs : of'exchange ' dcpPsulSn.s oil tin * rafi'o ; : ' , ! arid silver.The'who > o'f Huso and-Jtlie trade that rests on ilsc'ui are J.cjft to fluctuate with every pacing change in the bullion market , Every , calculation of business and linamv hi thesp pars N enough to turn the line profit of mod ern trade into a loss. Take one of thorn the par between the rupee and the sovereign. The variation of this ' par in a single year has so upset the calculations of the Indian Finance Minister as to turn a surplus of 1.000- 000 into a deficit of ! ,000.000. " The fall in .silver exchange has been a con stant protection to the industries of silver-using countries and a bounty on their exports. While their mints were open to silver both Japan and India profited by this process amazingly. The progress of the former country for twenty years under the silver standard was absolutely unexampled among na tions , and similarly the trade and man ufactures of India thrived. Rut hard ly were the mints of India closed in 1893 , and scarcely had Japan taken her initial stops toward her recent adop tion of the gold standard , when each began to feel the evil effects of a con stricting money supply , falling prices and the competition of thp countries , like China and Mexico , whose mints re mained open to silver. During thp four sale for use in the arts of about half a billion silver dollars , and the contrac- lieu of our circulation to such a quan tity as should bo furnished by our dis tributive share of the world's gold , plus such a paper circulation as the banks could keep actually redeemable in gold. AItfrcl < l on Kccent Klcctions. When viewed as a whole , the 1808 election was favorable to the Demo crats. While the Democrats in Con- gre-s and out of Congress forced the adminisiraiion into the war they knew that it would give it a tremendous po litical advantage , for they knew the war must be successful , and a success ful war always strengthens the party in power. The Republicans should have received much larger majorities than two years ago. Instead of that they have lost forty Congressmen and a large number of others had their ma jorities almost wiped out. One more such a Republicai victory "will destroy that parly and forever end the hypoc risy and false pretense now reigning in Washington , The Democrats have not lost a single State they carried two years ago , but , on the contrary , have elected a Governor in Minnesota , "which is equal to a miracle. That element of the Democratic party wnich has fa vored the abandonment of all principle and has urged harmony for the sake of spoils has had a chance to try its scheme and has utterly failed. In Pennsylvania , Delaware , New Jersey , New York , Connecticut and one or two other States where they had refused to indorse the national platform they have ( suffered humiliating defeat , although In' some of these States the conditions fa-l TRUSTS REIGN. And the Administration at Washington still- Chicago Democrat. years succeeding the closure of rb minis India's excess of exports eve imports fell off over 60 per cent. , whil that of Mexico increased more than 4 per cent. Japan has been compelled t witness lately a marvelous awakenin In China and to feel her hated am humbled rival seizing the comrnereia and industrial advantages which sh herself had previously enjoyed , a against the Western nations , am which the adoption of an artificiall ; limited money accommodation ha compelled her to relinquish. Britisl capital is fleeing from India , her Indus tries are languishing , prices are falling the burdens of taxation are increasing and the mutteriugs of popular discon tPiu lend to the situation a politica complexion of extraordinary gravity as affecting English supremacy in In din , and , indirectly , the peace of th < world. It is safe to describe the situa tion as intolerable , and to predict tlia the nations will not permit it to con tinue mucli longer. Condition Intolerable. At present the experiment of the golc standard is In a state of incomplete ness. In almost no country has it ye been installed in its entirety. To go 01 with It to the logical conclusion of th ( gold valuation system is a practical im possibility , while it is equally out ol the question for the world to remain ir hs present monetary condition. Let us oxamjne these propositions somewhal more fully. The gold standard in Its simplicity means the abolition of everj other kind of money of full debt-paying power except gold alone , and the use ol various forms of credit based on golcl In the ordinary- transactions of busi ness. We may see an Indication of this Intended consummation In the various schemes of "monetary reform' ' recently proposed and now pending in Congress , the so-called Gage plan , that of the "In dianapolis sound-money convention , " and That embodied In the McCleary bll ] now on the calendar of the House of Representatives , all of which share the aim so distinctly announced by the Sec retary of the Treasury , to commit the country more thoroughly to the gold standard , and agree in thedr essential provisions. They contemplate the re tirement of all forms of government pa per money , our greenbacks and treas ury notes , and the reduction of out standard silver dollar Into a mere prom- IBG to pay in. gold. The Inevitable re sult of such a course would soon be the absolute disuse of silver for money ex cept as small change , the melting and vored the Democratic victory. I v derstand that nearly every Deinocra Congressman elected in these Stat was unsuccessful because he told 1 constituents , if elected , he would su port the national platform. That fran ulent sideshow called gold Democra will now pass out of existence , and t Democratic party from the Atlantic the Pacific will line up on high ground. It will assume the aggressi and not only fight for the mighty pri ciples enunciated in 1806 , but it w make itself the champion of strugglii humanity. It will pull this country o of the pool of coiTiiption into which t ! Republicans have dragged it , and it w lead our people toward a higher civi zation. Tuesday's election will mal Mr. Bryan more formidable than 1 ever was , because it is going to brii to the front the great principles whi < he has 'idvooated. John P. Altgeld. Changes in New- York Politics. Ne\v York can change its politics wi greater facility than any other State : the Union. In electing Roosevelt by majority of 20,000 it upset a Democrat plurality of 00,000 given a year ago the election for 'Supreme Court Judg The result in 1897 was a radical r versal of the vote in 1896 , when M Kinley carried the State by 268,000 m jority , and that was again an overtur : ing in the status of the vote as it stoc in 1892 , when the Democrats carric the State by 45,000. Kansas City Sta Quay Tr'umnhs Again. Standing under the shadow of an ii dictmentwhich , if honestly prosecute ! would probably laud him in the pen tentiary , Matt Quay proudly points 1 the election returns in Pennsylvani as a personal vindication. He not enl assumes that his own garments ai now white as snow , but he gives voic to virtuous indignation in speaking c those who attempted to defeat "his candidate for Governor and "his' ' cai iidates for the Legislature. Slow-Working : Peace Commissioner ! Judging from the deliberate way 1 which the American Peace Commii sloners are acting , there may be sonu thing in the statement that the Spat Ish war was a Republican war. Thing are not being closed up in the way I which Democrats have been , in th habit of closing them. Imagine , if yo 2an , Andrew Jackson submitting to th ielay and the Spanish and Europea Insults eaat are being heaped upon us Peoria Herald. MARRIED cY ORDER. Icussian Fcrfs Managed to Ev Their MasterCommand. . Marriages by order were so conn that among our servants each Urn young couple foresaw that they mi be ordered to marry , although they . no mutual inclination for each ot ] they took the precaution of standing gether as godfather and godmothei the christening of a child in one of peasant families. This rendered n riage impossible , according to Ituss church law. The stratagem Avas v ally successful , but ouco it ended i drama. Andrei , the tailor , fell in 1 with a girl belonging to one of neighbors. He hoped that my fat would permit him to go free , as a tai in exchange for : i certain yearly p ment , aud that by working hard at trade he could manage to lay so money aside and to buy freedom the girl. Otherwise , in marrying < of my father's serfs she would In become the serf of her husband's m ter. However , as Andrei and one the maids of our household fores that they might be ordered to mai they agreed to unite as godparents the christening of a child. What tl had feared happened. One day t ] were called to the master , and dreaded order was given. "We are always obedient to y < will , " they replied , "but a few wei ago we acted as godfather aud g mother at a christening. " Andrei a explained his wishes and intentions. The result was that he was sent the recruiting board to become a i flier. flier.Military Military service in those times v terrible. It required a man to sei twenty-five years under the colors , n the life of a soldier was hard in the treme. * < * Blows from the g ? cant and the officers , floggiug w birch rods and with sticks , for slightest fault , were the normal st 3f affairs. Thp cruelty that was < ) laycd surpassed all imagination. * ' Thus Andrei had now to face twenty-five years the terrible fate o soldier ; all his schemes of happin liad come to a violent end. Atlantic. Shaved in Time. The following story is commonly lated as true in France. Old Ilarpag was fast approaching his end. 1 sufferings were very urcat , but he co Cortcd himself with the thought tl is he could not eat there was so m\ saved at any rate. "Well , doctor. " he said , in a fee roiee. "how loni * have T yet to live ? ' "Only half an hour. Would you li .lie to send for somebody a clergyiu : L'or iiibtaucp ? " Ilarpirou was silent for a few n inputs : he passed his baud over ] - hill. bri&Miiiir with a grizzly beard several days' growth , when a sudd : hought struck him , aud turning to 1 lector IIP iraspcd , excitedly : "Quick solid for for a. barber ! " The brher soon afterwards arriv tvith his shaving tackle. Ilarpa.uon. whose voice was getti iveakev.n ! : i'rt him : "You charge tv ) oiicp for siiavingV" "Thar's thp price. " was the answer "And how much is it for shavi -a cojpseV" The barber patiMMl a inomeut , a hfii slid. "Five shillings. " "Then shave me quickly , " sta npivd old Ilarpagon. casting a feveri rlancp at the watch which the doct still lu > ld in his hand. IIas tuo feeble to utter r/uotli , vonl. bri tlu- doctor understood t m'tr : .p ] > i'tl .and said : "Fiftcm minutes more ! " A smile of satisfaction stole over t 'carrtri's ot" the patient. The barl ; et to wi-rl : . and in : i A pry short tii iniftlrod his task , notwithstanding t iprvnus t-.VJtellings that distorted t 'ace ol' ths dyinti man. When t ; ) orat : ui was over old llarpagou utt ( 'il ' : \ siu'i of relief , and was heard \l' " > -c'r ; : "TJia4' : ! cnoil ; ihiuic four shillings ml t. n ; ' : : cf s\ved : ! " Aud he breat . In--Tit-Kits. (11. ( : - - - pi-otn 3"iv > ? j ot * Celebrities. Mi. ; : i'-r.--s ; < : ; ml beauties ma ! iV'r IiK-r mi > out of the sales " : ' : -,1'u -ou'arhs. Few of the pulr L.\ : T.-.V iih-a of thpnnns paid by pli ' VIM i"f'i' " - - ' ( ) ! ' ' selling rights ! . - e - . i- ; < . -Vilite-l ! with being the fh ; . ) ! : ' . .l-'y : > exa : l'cv for the pri1 ic ' : ! ' t.ik.iu : IIIN portrait. A photo : rti'.i'-r ! : epl Iw'iicriHsr him for sittim " . ( lv 1-zv. : as'if'd and obtained uini'n * nri honorarium. On lear n : : i'.f1 ; Friy : K-'inblp refused to < . or ! > - tlun ou. and then Ada Cave ' i d.T.riudpd J5ii i ipcpived 300. Ma .111 . ? rs ; ii , IP ward < the elo e of her c eer , u- ; ! to ive-'ivp TOO guineas a s iuj ; . and Mrs. f'ornwallis AVest , at tl eight of her popularity , had near all'a < much again. Itpcently a firm 'arisiau pliU'togr.ipliers arranged wi arnh I t > nil > 'irdt for a series of sittiu ; t , " < > guineas apif PP : and for the prh > ge of taking thp latest snap-shot Irs. Laugtry. a linn of West End ph > grapliprs had to pay 1300. Glasgo lerald. Time's Active rapid and decisive that IP text of the present age. The c > rity with which great events eve late is illustrated by the experiem t' the Maine merchant skipper wl ; ft Mauila in a sailing vessel for oyage around the Cape , stopping ; t. Helena. When he started thei as no expectation of war ; when 1 iaclied Maine the war was over. Th ! the way the whirligig whirls. More "Ways than. One. Dyer Bullion lost a cool million ye > rday. Duell Got caught in wheat ? Dyer No. His daughter manned ) unt Puck. The lack of money is the root of nio Attributes of Money. Money must be a commodity of 1 Ited purchasing power given fluencj general purchasing power. Those Avho take this view diold t general value is no gain over limi value , and so that money value Is other than commodity value. But general use gives a larger niand , and this use is as a pricema and not value maker , while the limi be com use as a commodity cannot ered as under the actions , powers i functions of money at all , nor c therefore , mouey be in any relative v considered at or compared to comm < ties at all. As a * matter of fact , the commer < value of no mouey is known , whal so called being its exchange value o : fictitious , for money cannot be redu to a commodity ; yet there are th who think present money is so def < Ive as a commodity standard or me ura of value that other commodll should be used by the device of In < numbers , thus making two inconsist cies , the index numbers being based the effect of money in action , whicl not liked , and money itself put in c trol of things not money. Tihe basic error is in considering i commodity as money or as fit .to money because of intrinsic purchas power. When any commodity is so c sidered it is but a step to consider the labor cost of its production as real guide and another to taking any all labor as a base instead of mone retrogression. Harring disposed of money as a c ( modity it does not follow that ther < no truth in the proposition as a wih < or that paper or anything can be s fluency , something wider than c rency. There is held to be only < limit to tihe article selected as mone it should not be able to purchase much. A thing not so necessary as air n have limited value. It may have va 2ven if unnecessary. The time \ when paper had limited power or tnand on it , but the power of print ilenominations on it was never limit Just here it is seen that all of "a" cc aiodity , substance , must be used , a by use of weight or other natural lii DU denominations , a limit must be 1 before an article can be given gene power or be money. With a natural limit it is not ut ; ? sential that the material of money ) f something already in use or tra aor is the original power of the ma rial ever relevant matter. Natural limitation is not possible japer , so it is not money under I jroposition , lackiug general power , : ause consent cannot safely be given its USP , and so use , the greatest part ralue , cannot be a power of paper money. As a commodity of limil power the material of money ought satisfy few desires , while as money should satisfy many desires and so 3f more value. J. P. Dickson. Fallinjr Prices. What is it that determines the rewa ) f labor ? Supply aud demand. Legls rton cannot affect the supply of lab jxcept through immigration and ch abor laws , etc. Legislation , howev ? an , and does , affect the demand for jor in many cases. And bimetalllsts believe that the < nonetizatlon of silver by causing ti ng prices has materially diminish ; he demand for labor that would oth < vise exist. The goldbug says to the labor ! nan : "Prices will rise under free co : ige , and your wages will buy less th : hey do now. " If rising prices mean injury to t aboring man , why is every rise > rices pointed to by the gold press L sign of returning prosperity ? Did a workman ever get an advance in wag vhen prices in that industry were fa ng ? When prices are falling factor ] ; -lose down or run only part of the tin aboring men lose their : obs and go swell the army of unemployed , and < ; ry man seeking a job is a menace : he employment of those who are , so ; peak , on the ragged edge. What does it profit a man out of e iloyment to be told that prices are ow that his dollar will buy a grc leal ? Moreover , the laboring man , as eady pointed out , is dependent on t prosperity of the farmers , who ma ip the bulk of those who purcha jvhat the workingmen produce. Japan and Gold. The only reason that has been si jested for the change in the moneta system of Japan has been that idopting the gold standard she cot sorrow money in Europe more readi Chis was both absurd and untrue. To surender the great commercial i rantages which she confessedly bad i able to born ; he poor return of being noney with greater facility was p > osterous. It was almost idiotic. H jommerciaJ advantages were rapic placing her in a position to be al ; ether independent of borrowing. of told formal adoption But the mere ; old standard could not improve t 'redit , because it gave her command 10 more gold. If she ontained the o n jrship of that metal she had to buy prosperous she was t md the more nore she could buy. If the establishment of the g ( jtandard deprived her of commerc advantages , which it certainly did , tl letracted from her prosperity and lured her credit instead of improving rhis is BO perfectly clear that It Is ! banishing how any person calling lii financier can fail to see It NOSTALGIA ATTACKS BO" . H , War Horses Got Jnot as Ilomcaick the * oldier Hoys. " rpmarl "And those volunteers , the n'an with the ponderous diauic iiorspshoe embedded in his bosom. " ; not thp only warriors that pine : i\\ and die from nostalgia. Horses j far more susceptible to the disc : thpy were so in 1 than men that is. civil war. and I don't see any reas to suppose that thentemporamei have changed since then. "Of course , whcu a poor , four-IpgJJ brutp , with no shoulder straps , con down with nostalgia the doctors do dignify it with such a dude diajino ; They simply report that such and sn horses in such and such a troop i 'off their feed. ' aud let it go at th But it is precisely the same thii the disorder develops in precisely t same manner and the pquiup victi of it manifest identically the su. symptoms , and , what is more , 1 chances of their dying from it are finitely greater than are those of a s dier. simply because it is impo il to bolster up their courage by telli them they are going home soon. Tl is the only medicine that will keep 1 disease in check , aud. of course , y can't administer it to a horse uuh you speak its language. "And whpu you come to think abr " with the ponderous d it , the man mend horseshoe continued , "the pre1 lence of the disease among an horses is the most reasonable thimr the world. As is the case with the v of the w majority uuteers , a great horses coine from the country. Th Avere bred and raised in the couuti and until they were drafted into t service they spent all their clays the restful quiet of the farm. The g < eminent prefers to buy country hors both for political reasons and bccan the animals are more likely to be fr from the pavement soreness and otli disorders which , aillict city horses , also has its buyers select animals pn ty well along in years anywhere frc five to nine years old. "When these rustic beasts are to suddenly from their rural homes ai plunged into the bustle and coufusii of camp life it affects them just as does their masters who have eulistc Most natural thing in the world should , because both have bei brought up the same way. You tal a city bred man or a city bred her * And they would go through a thirt year war with never a touch of nc talgia. "Loss of appetite is the first sym torn of equine homesickness. Ilors that at home were the most hear feeders become daiuty aud particuk aud refuse to look at anything offer < to them. Then they become restle and nervous , pouud their feet to piece if you don't watch them , and fro sweet-tempered , honest workers tin become ornery and sulky rogues , uul [ or everything. It doesn't take lor to kill them off less time than it dot to 'do for' a soldier. Two weeks w : [ ix them generally. Working withoi nourishment is as disastrous as figh ing on an empty stomach , and tl beasts soon contract a cold or a feve ind either die or are killed. "Out of a consignment of 200 horsi sent to the army corps with which rt-as stationed in Tennessee , more tlia ) iie-third of them became absolute' useless from sheer homesickness i ess than a month. Twenty or thirl lied and the rest we disposed of t jest WP could. ' Another circumstance which pi- luces equine nostalgia among arm lorsps is the" fact that a great majoi bppn separated froi : y of them have i mate. Avith whom thpy have been a ustomcd to work for years. The m nent they realize their partner is mis nir thpy ire into the most abject inouri ntr. and refuse to bp reconciled. Tin uid time again I have seen horses li rally grieve themselves to death 5 in army ca.np because their farmnial , vas separated from them. "T'.KTP ' may be < ich a thniir a < mul lost-ilu'ui. but 1 never saw any arm mile that il' tir.r have sand PIIOUS ( i kp p it to himself. " Xew Tor Too 3iidf st to 31 sc. Mrdo-'ty ; s a great bar to MICCOS I'h % Intc d'Amnale was a priiv of th ouse of Orleans enormously \vt-altlp his that it wa : ; ul so popular in youth hortrhr that he eouM easily play th ole of Louis Napoleon and secure hi iwn election as Prpsidcnr or Stadtho ir > r of Francp. But he died in the pc itinir to which he was horn. Th jHirli'h writer wlio tpll < the story wa .tandintr . near th. ' door at a state ba v'orn the duke entered. "Announce me. " he said TO thp s& ] ; uir. "as ( General IP Due d'Aunmle. ' [ "h * man stepped forward , but th iuke topped him. "No. T = ; IP Du 1'Aumale. simply. " IIP corrected. B < oiv rhp servant could open hi * mout he duke interrupted him agai uitisly. . "Announce me as Hi loyal Highness the Due d'Aumale. ut nirain IIP stopped him. ' ! wi : lot bp announced at all. " and pa < ? se nto the room in silence. "Then. " said the writer. "I undei teed why IIP never had bt-en king o tadrholder of France. " PreferH Sometliinsr Else. Visitor Why do they call Col. Swa " HossV" t'rby "Old Native Because they can lead him t rater , but they can't make him drin t. Puck. How It Happened. Mrs. WackumHow did that naught toy of yours hurt himself ? Mrs. Snapper That good little boy o ours hit him on the head with a brict -Ally Sloper. We suppose the hardest task in th vorld would be to persuade a rec vorthless man to join a suicide dub. y , x V" * " i ff zff ? y * * M l \ T & \f s - * - t- IYJ of the The report of the surgeon general shows that on the thirty-one vessels navy commanded Atlantic squadron [ > f the North Sampson there were only ed by Admiral twelve deaths out of a. total of 5,510 men , which was at the rate of 2.17 per 1,000 , and only three of the twelve died from liscasc one from pneumonia , one from consumption and one from alcoholism rhrcc were killed or died from wounds ind six were drowned. In Admiral Dewey's squadron of eighteen vessels and deaths , at sis only 2,201 men there were the rate of 2.05 per 1,000 one from ehol- from appendicitis , one ira morbus , one "rom drowning , one from suicide , one Torn alcoholic poison and one from ivounds. This is the most remarkable -ecord that was ever known in any navy n the world. Within a radius of two squares , just to .he east of the treasury , lies the great lews-heart of our republic. The center ) this is the historic old "newspaper ow , " a dingy row of low buildings. At me time nearly all the important newspa pers of the country had their offices there , [ n later days many have moved into more nodern offices in neighboring buildings , nit still within the circle. Here are busy > raius and bright ; so many mind-mills nto which as into hoppers are poured day ind night all the notable occurrences of government , prophecies of policies , poli- ics and a perfect hodgepodge of small alk. and gossip , to be ground up into a ( lend flour tit for any and all palates , miler - ler the brand : "From our special corre poudent at Washington. " The dome of the Capitol is probably one 'f ' the most fascinating things in Wash- ngton after one has come under its in- luence. It looks so simple at first so mall after one's ideas gleaned perhaps rom pictures in the geography , that it is while before its grandeur takes effect. iut after that point has once been reach- d. it is only a question of time when you rill become thoroughly and completely ypnotized. The dome is no respecter of ersons. either ; it takes artist and layman like. It makes the arti.it think that it ; easy to draw. But of all the things ideously misdrawn after the human arm. none is more often than the Capitol omo. No one will be surprised if Spain repu- iates the Cuban and Philippine debts. It i a way she has of getting rid of cinbar- issing obligations. She has repudiated ivico before , but she will harm nobody so inch as her own people. Nearly all the punish bonds are held by Spaniards. The ' alone which is Govern- .auk . of Spain , a lerit institution , has at least 9150,000,000. 'here ' is perhaps $150,000,000 held , broad , mostly in France , where they' rive been worked off among the peasants y unscrupulous stock brokers. No finau- er in Europe has bought Spanish bonds > r an investment since the last repudia- on. President McKinlcy was the central fij- re in a picturesque scene at the White Louse the other day , when a delegation ' Ute chiefs called to pay their respects the "Great Father. " They were led by im Johnson , an old-time brave , who had eked up somewhere the uniform coat or captain of infantry , and he was so proud : this bit of finery that it interfered se- ously with the dignity of the reception. ' by Sauce-A-Knock- .c was accompanied : , David Copperfield , Happy Jack and harlie Mack. They all shook hands sol- nnly with the President. NOT A MAN ESCAPES. mployes of a Missouri Powder Mill Killed in an Kxplosion. Ten thousand pounds of powder , which as being prepared for shipment in the icking house of the Ilercules powder ill at Lamotte , Mo. , situated on the St. onis , Keokuk and Northern Railway , irty miles south of Quincy , III. , exploded S o'clock Wednesday morning , tearing to shreds the bodies of six men. who ere at work in the building at the time. Pieces of flesh and bone were found altered over the ground a half-mile om the scene of the explosion. These ere gathered up in buckets by the em- Dyes of the mill , but identification of any the parts found was an utter impossi- lity. Several men working in the mill , liich was some little distance from tbe x-king house , were injured by broken ass and flying debris , but cone was fa- lly injured. The cause of the explosion will neve' known : no eye-witness is left to tell th le. There was always some loose pow- r on the floor of the packing room , and is conjectured that some heavy article as accidentally dropped into it by one of e men , causing it to ignite. -JANKSGIVING AT SANTIAGC. itdoor Games Are Postponed Be cause of Heat. Thanksgiving day was observed at San- igo de Cuba for the first time in the 300 ars' history of the city. By a proclama- m issued by Gen. Wood , all business is suspended at the palace , on the reets and wharves. The employes of e municipality had a vacation , and only cessary work was done by the Ameri- n troops. ; [ t was a novel Thanksgiving day for e Americans. The thermometers regis- red 95 in the shade. Several projected seball and football games were post- ned on account of the heat. In the eninf : dinners and entertainments were fen by American officers and Cubans. ADE FORTUNE IN KLONDIKE. i-vv-Yorker Makes Hia Stake at Daw- aon City. Prank E. Simons has arrived in New > rk after a year in the Klondike with 40.000 in gold dust and a total fortune about half a million. He arrived on e gold fields penniless. He reached iwson City ahead of the rush. In addi- in to prospecting , he bought a lot at iwson City and built a two-story hoteL B claims on the opening day and ever' have taken in $15,000. The daily ipts thereafter averaged § 2,000. I
