The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 5, 1897, Page 6

serene reat st Si a 8 A SO ALL GENERALS. — Not a Single Private in the Gold Bug Party of Kentncky. Hon. James R Hiudman of Col- umbia, Adair couaty, Ky., nominee of the recent gold democratic con- vention at Louisville, for clerk of the Court of Appeals, was at the Gibson yesterday probably getting Buckeye pointers for bis forlorn race among the unterrified of the grand old commonwealth, which will | redeem, disenthra'l and emancipate herself from republican rule this fall. “Do you have any idea of being elected, Col. Hindman?” asked the Enquirer man. “Ob, no,” be replied, with a merry wink in his blue eye, “but I oughtn't to talk that way. They told me down at the convention that I must not talk that way. Yet I am going to stump the state, but I am not going to make speeches that will widen the breach between the two wings of the democratic party. My apeeches will be conservative. We democrats ought to get together, and I believe we will before a great while. I bad no ideu of getting the nomination, and come near not go- ing to the convention, but finally got on the train and went down to help find another fellow for the nom- ination and got it myself without seeking, surely. It is a curious state of affairs in our state among the democrats. There are more cf the old-time leaders of the party off to themselves, without much support from the rauk and file “I gat on the stage at the conven- ‘tion by the side of ex Congressman Aleck Montgomery of Elizabeth- town, who humorously remarked to me: “Jim, look at this convention from Carlisle back to the furtherest auditor in the hall, thera is nota one of us whozcould be elected con- stable in the precinct in which we veside. Isn't ita strange state of affairs? I laughed and agreed that be was about correct. I have no estimate on the vote we will poll. ‘Without having consulted them I vather think the republicans haven't smuch hopes of carrying Kentucky thie year.”—Cincinnatti Eoquirer. Cass County’s Debt. Harrisonville Democrat. When we come to understand the onded indebtedness of Cass county is $1,057,600 less $531,660 due from Polk, Camp Branch, Pleasant Hill, Austiv, Grand River and Dolan townships, the head whirls, or ought ‘to; that is a vast amount of money, and is interest bearirg at a rate of 5 per cent for township bonds and 4 per cent on couoty bonds. Town- ship bonds are due in 1909. Of the county's debt, $250,000 comes due in 3913. Grand River townsbip owes the greatest amount of the towr- ships, $162,000; Everett the least, $25,000. At the last annual settle- ment the county treasurer had on hand $145,816, and there was loan don real estate $122,877. From delinquent taxes there is the sum of $40,000 due, which the collector as using all diligence to get. With good crops, which appears almost certain at this time, and better prices for farm products, and the outlook in this direction at this time ia flattering, particularly with regard to wheat, the worst that may come to us can be met. War Talk ja {London. London, July 28.—The Globe, after referring to. the cynica! inso- lence of the American Minister, gaye: “Should it be our misfortune to engage in a quarrel with our kin be- yond the sea, we must seize Hawaii immediately; but the state of things against which it is necessary to take precautions now is the by no means remote contingency of war between the United States and a European power able to take Hawaii, which would become a strategic point of Great importance against ourselves. if Japan abdicates or commutes her rights, it is the clear duty of this country to interfere. even at the risk | of another abusive dispatch from Sherman.” On the evening of the 24th. just | Bowen, in a quarrel with a brother before dusk, A. D. Nance, living Just north of Excelsior Springs, was shot and killed by two men who Were seen driving by in a buggy. He was a simple-minded man, end it is supposed he had but little money. Notorious Outiaw Escapes From a Jail in West Virginia. Huntingtor. W. Va, July 29 —| To night, on the banks of the Ohio} from the mouths of the Guyandotte | to the Big Sandy, 500 mea lis on | their Wluchesters, aud the growls of | the bloodboands tell of the forces} that watch every ferry to prevent | the escape of “Cap. Hattield, the/| notorious out'aw, from West Vir-| givia into Ohio | Last night be Mingo) county jail, seemingly weary from receiving friends during the preced- ing day. At 4+ o'clock in tha mor- ning the jailer while making the rounds gazed through a huge hole in the 16inch brick wall into an empty cell. Hatfield's wife bad been true to him, and the hatchet which lay on the floor told tbe rest of the story. The maz who bad for twenty years defied the authorities of two states, and who bas on the butt of Winchester eighteen notches for the men he had killed, is again in the mountsins, and the posses from Wayne, McDowell and Mingo are on his heels. It is sup- posed he ia headed fcr Obio. ‘He wes held in Mingo for trie] for murder in September. Ken- tucky has three indictmeats agairst him for the same offense. A reward of $500 is offered for bis body, dead or alive. was ia his Dr. Norris Better. Palmyra, Mo., July 29—Dr Nor- ris is better than be hes been at any time since wounded. His symptoms are all favorable, and he himself is now of ihe opinion that he will re cover. Norris says he can feel Jife return- ing to his paralyzed limbs, and does not think his injury is permanent. Dr. Haye, the Hannibal surgeon who performed the operation on him, is of a contrary opinion. He says the ball undoubtedly touched the spinal ecrd, and that Norris can not be otherwise than a cripple if he sure vives. Kate Rose is sti)l in seclusion on her brother’s farm in Monroe county and no statement of any kind can be obtained from her. “It has been a terrible trial to us,” Mrs. Rose is reported to have said in speaking of the ehooting, “but it may be the means of saving Katie.” The preliminary examination of Ross is set for to-mcrrow. The One Sure Thing. New York World. ; The one thing absvulutely certain about the new tariff bill is that it will increase the cost of living. Sugar will cost more, clothing will cost more, lumber will cost more, china, crockery and earthen- ware will cost more, tobacco will cost more, soap, scda ard fsa!t will cost mcre—nearly every article of com- mon corsumption will cost more. The Dingley bill does not reduce taxation on a eingle article of neces. sity. It {increases taxction on nealy every such article. The reveaue producing capaeity of the new law is largely a matter of guess work Its effect upon busi ness and upon wages remains to be seen. The one sure thing is that it will considerably increes3 the cost of living to every family in the United States. idleness for Thousands. Boston, July 27—T. Jefferson Coolidge, treasurer of the big Amos- keag cotton mills of Manchester, N H.,says regarding the shutting down of the mills, which was announced yesterday: ‘We have made up our accounts for the first six months of the year and find that we have made no money and have not moved our goods, so I have ordered the mills closed for the month of August at least.” The dividends of the Amoskeag mills have been reduced during the past twelve months. The closing of | have brought more than two tons of gold dust and nuggets. It iS a parallel chapter to the his tory of the gold find of the Wit-| watersand. For years Experts Couldn’t See any Gold in the Klondike-Region. there has/| been vague stories cf a great gold | field hidded in South Africa. Tra-| dition said that the ancient mines) out of which the gold for King So!-! omon’s temple had come were locat-) ed somewhere in the republie of the) Inexperienced Miners Find the New Fields— Expert Metallurgists Sent to the Trans- vaal—Built Their Homes of Payrock a “CAP.’’ HATFIELD AT LIBERTY. |THE TENDERFOOT FOUND IT. and Didn't Find anv Gold. From the New York Journal In the froz:n gold fields of the Yukon and Klondike there are solemn mining experts who can hammer knowingly on a piece of ore, put it through assaying fire and tell to the ultimate pennyweight what it will “go to the ton.” They are still there. They are expert metallurgists, who when shown a nugget can tell whetb- er its crystals are actathedral or tet- rabexabedra!. Aud when led into a newly discovered vein of gold they can tell you in many learned worlds whether the formation is paleozoic, silurian, devonien or carboniferous. Theee experts are still grecing the valley of the Klondike with their brilliant preeesce Somehow they didn’t find for-} tunes, for, while they scught to trace the links that bind the ravines of that Aretic Golconda to the geo- logical ages, other men who dcn't know the difference between a pel eozoic period aud an exclamation point, carried off the nuggets. Yes, fortune smiled on the Klon- dike ¢ |8py. but with a suspicion of humor in the smile, as Zangwill would:ay It was the raw recruite, the inexperienced men, who found gold Fortune awaited the “tender- feet” who stumbled out of paths Here is the story as told by Ar- thur Perry, in a letter written from Dawscn City under date of June 18. “The first discovery of gold on the Klondike was made in the mid- dle of August, 1896, by George Cor- mack, on a creek emptying into the Klondike from the south, called by the Indians Bonanza. He found $1.60 to the pan on a high rim, and after making the find knowo at Forty Mile went back with two In- dians and took out $1,400 in three weeks with three eluic3 boxes. The creek waa soon siaked out from one erd to the other, and all the small guiches wsre staked and recorded. Prospects as high as $4 to the pan were found esrly in the fall. Many of the old miners from Forty Mile went there and would not stake eaying the willows did not lean the 1ignt way and the water did not taste right; that it was a moss pas ture, it beg wide and flat. Both creeks were staked, princi- pally by “Chee Chacos” (new mon in the country,) and as early as they could gat provisions about 250 went there and commenced prospecting by sinkiag holes to the depth of from nice to twenty feet, doing so by burning down, es the ground was frozen solid to bedrcck. This is probably therichest plac r ever known in the world) They took it cut so fast and so much of it that they did not have time to weigh it with gold sceles They took steclyards and all the syrap cans were filled ” Such is the history cf mining camps. That which bas happored ia the Klondike regions happened in the Cceur d’Alenes, in Montana in the Transvaal and in Australia. The coming of those two argoeies, the Pertiand and Excelrior, is par ticularly dramatic, inasmuch as of- ficial reports from the Yukon dis trict haye disccuraged prospecting there. The eleventh cousus reports of the United States, in the treating of the sixth Alaskan district, in which Forty Mile creek is situated, declsre that the ore of that region is beaten |too low grade to b3 worked at a profit. The government mining en- these mills will affect about 6.000 | ginecr who mede the report also ex- operatives | a ene perens ‘tory for several hundred miles, and | Killed His Wife’ ther. este | ae pace - _ Wm, | 0 bim there was co lure of fortune 8 ee “lin the ore be es:ayed and the gravel in law last might, shot the latter five na rem A be pase ase times and killed him. Bo | sonics J 5 vel hin wits ‘had “been seston the very creeks whence a crew of or- words, when Charles Haris, her i dinary citizens, who haven't the brother rushed into the room. | genius to be great mining engineers —— claimed he shot in self-|and write big-worded reports for efense. | plored the British Northwest terri-/ | Boers. great reef failed. Finaily the Brite ish government determined to settle what is now the famous Witwaters rand reef or the Rand, as itis popu to stay until they had fully examin- ed the entire surrounding country There was no lumber, and they wanted a house; so out of the loose rock abounding they constructed comfortable headquartere. Grave men they were and erudite. Nota rocks escaped their furnaces, but all tono purpose. Their retorts show- ed nothing but valueless slag, and 80 they reported to Her Majesty's government. Afterward a Boer farmer. a simple minded sheep herder and hunter, discovered that his pigs and sheep were grazing on top of a go!d mine. He sold out fora fortune and the bocm began. In the progress of the great smelting work that ensued the reckhouse of the British mining engineers was pulled down and its wall and foundatioa sent to the bat- teries of one of the big mines. The metallurgists had built their house cut of the surface croppings of the marvelous gold reef. Just so have these plain, everyday workingmen of the north spoiled the reputation of the Alaskan ex perts. Aninquirer, wishing to get some definite knowledge of the ore forma. tions of the Klcndike yalley, sought one cf the fortusates who returned on the Excelsior. The man was found ecmfortably seated and smok- ing a cigar at the Occidental hotel, San Francisco. “You came down | Meny attempts to discover tbis | | | the matter for all time, and it chose! its most eminent metallurgists to go! down there and exploit the country | A corps of these distinguished | scientists pitcked their camp on/!iam Williams, tha negro who ki led larly called. There they detsrmined | Wil Not Hang. Kanses City, Mo, July 28 —Wil- Lawrerce Schueubei ia November of last year becinse his victim cheered for William J. Bryen, will not be hanged to-day, although this was the date set by the trial court for his execution. His attorneys have perfected an appeal and the case goes to the Supreme Court, although the appeal has not a thread to hang upon. Williams isa Jarge, vicious looking negro, and his ‘crime was a peculiarly atrocious one. His vic- tim was slightly under the influence of liqucr one sfternoon a couple of days after the November election Schneubel was a Bryan man and as be walked along East Eighteenth street with a companian he shouted: “Hurrah for Bryan.” This angered Williams, who, without the slightest provocation, shot Scbneubel dead in his tracks. Schneubel bad not ad- dressed a word to Williams nor the latter's companions. The jury which dict of guilty after being out twenty minutes. Mier Killed by Black Fhes. i Superior, Wis., July 29.—A wierd | tale comes from Wabigoon, in the | new Canadian gold country, about 300 miles north of the head cf Lake Superior, to the effect that two pros- | pectore, one of them a former resi- dent of West Superior, have met with a bercible death in a strange manner. The story is that they have been literally stung to death by what are known as black flier, a mosquito-like on the Excelsion?” he was asked. “Yes, Iam one of the company.” “Do you mind stating the extent of the fortune you brought with } you?” “Well, something over $20,000.” «I want to kaow about the coun- try up there; is the general run of the gravel low grade!” “I don’t know what you mean?” “Why, the gravel,is it low grade?” “Low grade?” he repeated. “I don’t know what ‘low grade’ ie; I suppose that’s a miniog term.” “Well, aren’t you a miner?” “Ob, uo, I don’t claim to be a real mining mar.” A MISSOURIANS PICTURESQUE TALK. High Hill, Mo., July 25 -—B. F. Purcell, the first Missourian to re- turn from Klondike, arrived, after fifteen months’ absence, at bis home here Monday night with the third fortune that he had made in mines. He szid that Klondike wes “a three- ring cireus and California and Mon- tama merely sideshows. Nowhere else,” said h>, “unless it be on the golden streets of Paradise, can gold be found so easily and in such abur- dance.” He said that nowhere else could a man extract from a pan of dirt in a quarter of an hour enough gold to pay his laborers $15 a day, but that this is being done along half a dczen cf the creeks that feed|4~ the swirling flood of Klondike river. A LUCKY MISSOUBIAN’S ADVICE. Mexico, Mo. July 29.—Frank Parcel’, who is just beck from the Alaska gold mines, adyises people not to go there until spring. He will retura next Msrcb. Mr. Purcell is now estimated to be worth from $65,000 to $75,000. He left this! country a very poor man in Febre- ary, 1896. Marshall, DL, July 29.—One un-! dertaker of this city conducted seven | funerals yesterday, the largest nom-| ber for one day in the city’s history. | Among these was that of Mrs.} Mariia Cromrise, cf Wabash. to! whom eeven childrenhad been born, | all of them surving ber. Six of them are men, the youngest now 32, and} they acted es pall-bearers at her imposirg government publications, j funeral. insect which infests the swampy re- gions and the sting of which is deadly poison. ; The men’s names sre John B. Lore and Elmer Montague. The body of Lore is said to have ben found where death overtook him and will be sent to his Canadian home for interment as s20n as it can be gotten toa boat. It presents a hor- rible appearance, the skin and flesh baing bloated and I+prous looking. Montague is in a dyiug conditicn in one of the camps a fsw miles out of Wabigoon, and he has completely lost bis sight. None of Japan’s Business. Washington, D. 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