The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 23, 1897, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1897. S e Although the Excelsior Does Not Sail for St. Michaels Until the 28:h Inst., the Few Who Have Been Lucky Enough to Secure Passage on Her Are Even Now Taking Their Baggage Aboard. Canned Goods Were Being Rushed Into the Hold Yesterday and When the Steamer Leaves Port She Will Be Crowded From St:m to Stern. 21 a souvenir ever since. 1890, nearly two years after he went in. He first went to rocking on Forty-mile Bar, and next vear he was in Frauklin Gulch above where he found this nugeet while dieging a drain. He could get $4050 for it. He worked there three years | aud once sent out $525 in nuggets, and he | says that when the Klondyke find was | made he had amassed probably $10,000 | during all those years and spent it all. He went to the Kiondyke last October with the rush and bought a claim for $600 that turned out worthless, so he was one | of the old timers who got left. | Then he and his partner, Charley | Meyers, took a “lay” on claim 20 on El Dorado Creek and didn’t find pay dirt | there. They touk another lay with two other men on claim 30 and went to work March 20. They worked through dirt giving $10 to the pan and kept on for | something better, and got it at bedrock. | After twenty-nine days of work and getting out $28,000 they bad to guit work because the charcoal fumes from the fires | in the drift became too strong and the season became too far advanced. Heis now here with what he has left of his $7000 and next spring he is going back to prospect for new finds way up the Pelly River. | The others who arrived yesterday were | T. Morrin with $17,000, Joseph Cazelais with $10,000 and Joseph Derocker with | $7000. STEAMERS OF THE NORTH. The Eertha In With More News. Crowds on the Excelslor. More gold arrived from Alaska on the steamer Bertha yesterday. The fact that it came from Unga Island did not detract | from the interest manifested by the crowds | who awaited the docking of the vessel,and | ‘when $20,000 in builion was brought ashore one man would nudge another and say, *‘that’s from Kiondyke.” | The bullion came from the Apollo mine, and the Unga mines sent down 600 tons of concentrates, which were taken to Selby’s smelting works late yesterday afiernoon. | Among the four passengers who came down on the Bertha from Kodiak was Dr. | Dennison, the Alaska Commercial Com- | pany’s phbysician at that point. He says | that the Klondyke news reached Unalaska by the steamers Excelsior and Portland last month, and that the town has been in a ferment ever since. Business men have sold out their stores, policemen have quit | their beats, carpenters refuse to work any | more and many'a half-completed building | is to be seen, while the buildersare vainly seeking transportation to the new Ei Do- rado. Among those who are bound across the divice are Superintendent Baldwin of the North American Transportation Com- pany at Unalasks, and R. Handry, the United States Custom-house officer at the same point. Handry cannot leave until his successor is appointed, and | when the Bertha left Unaleska he was | fuming and fretting like a caged lion be- | cause he could not leave for the golafields | at a moment’s notice. | It was the same story at every !'mintK touched at by the Bertha and tie chances | are that labor will be very scarce around i Sitka, Junean, Unalaska and other Alas- kan ports this winter. The Alaska Commercial Company has not yet decided what to do with the Ber- tha. The heads of the concern are more than anxious to get plenty of vrovisions into the Klondyke district as they fear a famine during the coming winter. A*the same time they have to get the winter supplies into Unga Island and the Bertha must go to either one place or the other. In the event of her going to St. Michaels another boat will be chartered to carry | provisions to Unga. i | Prospectors and gold-hunters need not | buoy themselves up with the hope that they can secure accommodation on the | Bertna. She will go, if she goes at all, as ! a freight boat. Nearly all her cargo will ve for Dawson City and the hopes are that the river will remain open long enough to allow it to be brought to its destination. | The steamer Excelsior, which sails on the 28th inst. for St. Michaels, was be- sieged with visitors yesterday. All who attempted to ascend the ganeplank were confronted with the sign “No admit- tance,”” and a burly quartermaster was there to enforce the order. The wharf | was stacked twelve feet high with cases of canned goods, and the ship's winch was | | men were stowing cargo, while on | despair, and hanging around of daylight. On the wharf and on the steamer it was a continuous rush. Between decks the main deck the cabin-boys were preparing the staterooms for the favored few who will go airect to Dawson City. 1f the Bertha will carry nothing but merchandise to St. Michaels the chances are that the George W. Elder will carry little else but passengers from Portland to Juneau or Dyea. Sheis scheduled to sail on or about the 30th inst., and last night Captain C. Miner Goodall of Good- all, Perkins & Co. went to Astoria to su- perintend the getting away of the steamer. The Elder will not stop at any Puget Sound port, but will go direct to Juneau via Alaskan ports. Many of those now leaving for Juneau will not attempt to cross the divide until next spring, but then again many others will take the chances of being frozen in on the upper Yukon and many tales of danger, if not disaster, may be expected. THE DARK SIDE. There Are Many Who Go to Dig Gold, but Find Only Death. Alonz with the stories of wonderful finds of claims yielding aimost fabulous wealth, and of men who had struggled suddenly found themseives rich, come others with a tinge of sadness. They are | the stories of those who vigorously started out full of hope and courage to win for themselves a share of the vast wealth; bold adventurers, who pushed out farther than therestand were never heard from un- tilmonthslatera party of prospectors would find in some unexplored gulch a little pile i could get any of human bones whitening in the sun—a melancholy reminder of the curse of gold telling their own story of death and the fatal trail would be droves of gaunt, wild-eyed wolves. Many of these sad finds have aiready | been made, and in all the eager strugpgle and thirst for wealth not one instance has vet been known where the little band has not taken the time to dig a shallow grave and decently inter these remains ot one of their fellow argonauts, In the more thickly settled regions, however, the struggle is not so hard, and | deaths, except from natural causes, are less irequent. There also the dying man can at least have medical assis the ills of the body and spir: tion for his soul. Missions of the Episco- val, Roman Catholic, Russian and other denominations are quite plentiful, there being an average of one to every 100 miles, and in most cases the missionaries are | both doctor and preacher. When a man dies on any of the claims he has generzily a friend or acquaintance with him who sees that the body is brought 1o the nesrest mission of his fa- vorite denomination, where it is laid away with the solemn rites of the church. If any one is missed from one of the numerous camps information is always carried to the nearest mission, from which a searching party, consisting mostly of Christianized Indians, is sent out, and if the body is found within a reasonable dis- tance, it is carried back to the mission. If too far away a hole is burned in the ground and the Lody interred where found. The death rate is generally hizhest in the spring, when niany lose the:r lives in the attempt t0 make their way up or down one of the over-filled streams. The bodies of the many who perish 1n this manner are seldom found, although as many as fifteen have been known to lose their lives in this way in one season, With the exception of those at the mis- sion stations or scattered trading-posts, there are no regular graveyards, but here and there throughout the country are lone graves, some marked with a cross, others with a fence made from the stunted shrubbery, where some old miner who never struck his bonanza has been peace- fully laid to rest by his comrades. T T TERRORS ARE MANY. Arctic Perils, Famine and Desola- tion Abound In the Klon=- dyke Land. OAKLAND, Car, July 22.—Albert Rol- son Shippey of Haywards has recently re- turned from the Klondyke region. He spent three years treversing the territory and is well informed about the prospects and hardships that are in store for the prospectors now on tue way or ready for the trip on the Excelsior, He is anxious to return to the El Do- rado in the north. He ieft the vicinity of Dawson in the middle of July last, just two months befere the discoverv of the Klondyke fields, His return home was He found it in | notidle a momentduringthe fitteen hours | forced upon him by his poor n | now he is anxious to return. Koowing | | the field as he does he feels that he could the | | Company cannot carry sufficient food for | | { | | fifty-pound | for years for a bare subsistence and then | | These only grow in sheltered nooks. | weather which they will have to endure. go through a trip without any mistakes | or many hardships. | “Lspent three years in the Klondvke | region and camped on the very spot wnsre | Dawson City is standing,’” said Mz Ship- | this afternoon while at work in a hay- | “[ saw the whole country, tested my strength in packing grub over the | trail, going on short rations, freezing in the winter and paying fabulous prices for | sup “Iam sorry that I am not there now. 1 left owing to ill health. Men going up | thers in the quantity that they are will suffer for food. The Alaska Commercial | all that are going, and there is no other | way to get food but from them, | “If men with money wanttomakea | fortune they can do it easily this winter by fitting out a supply-boat and sending up an immense supply of flour, dried fruit, bacon and the like. It will sell in | large quantities and for big prices, They | would have to take aleng a boat and put it together at St. Michaels. Above there it is impossible to get freight carried, as there is only the one line, and they will carry none excepl for their own stores. 1t | taxes them to keep them supplied. “In ordinary times, when there is no dearth of supplies, flour sells for $4 per eack, bacon 40 cents per dried fruits from | to variety. Tea pound. beans 1214 cent 20 to 30 cents, accordin and coffee are $1 a pound. “The clothing worn is mostly the heavi- est of woolen with fur over them. Under- clothes come at $6 to §8 per suit and over- alls $2 50. The fur garments are called parkeys and cost from $10 to $30, accord- ing to quality. When the supp'y becomes | limited then the prices go skyward, and the man that has the money to purchase | is lucky. | “1 have lived for two months with noth- | ing to eat but tlour and lard. It is not much, but when it is ali we could get it was pretty good. Our bacon, when we | , was of the ‘pay-streak’ va- riety; that is, there was streaks in it that was not spoiled. The greater part was so badly spoiied that it was streaked with col: ne weather is so cold that thereis very litle snow. Early in October it snows two or throe feet and thatis all we have. Every aay a frost nearly as heavy as snow falis. It lays on the trees for weeks as there is not wind enough to blow itoff. Theground is covered witha heavy growth of moss from four to eighteen inches in thickness. The only trees that grow there at all are the spruce, and the tallest of these are only two feet high, The worst drawback of the whole | country is the mosquito. There are two | kinds there. One is a larger fellow than | the California breed, while the o'her is a | smaller insect, perfectly black. They will make a straight dive for a man for ten feet and their bills seem to strike in be- tore their feet touch one. They attack the dogs around the nose and eyes and nearly kill them. Great sores result from their bites. The biz ones are about the size of our big spiders. *‘We packed everything into the Klon- dvke on our shoulders. I made eighteen trips over the trail. Half of these saw me playing pack mule with enormous ioadson my back., The discoverios are about fifteen miles from Dawson City, and | every man that goes in there must pack everything in on his shoulders. It will not be a very p.easant task in the cold ““I located one claim there which re- sulted in making me quite a little return. Ifound a rich spot and brought the gold to San Francisco, where I disposed of it. 11 I could have stayed I might have been one of the richest. Of course when my health gave out that settled me. But there is plenty of time for me yet, and I | may return in the spring.” 2 igee T RATIONAL POINTERS. The Make-Up of Those *Year’s Supplles” That Gold-Hunters Must Take Along. There is much important inquiry about the food that a man should take along to last him during that first year of gold harvesting on the Klondyke, since every man should be his own sutler up there. People who want to go are all trying to find out just what provisions they ought to take along, and how much. The popular ignorance of how much one will edt in a year is remarkably wide- spread. People who have been eating all their lives are no more competent fo figure the thing out than a baby, and those who have been eating the most seem to know tne least about if. The established rations of the regular army may be of interest to many. The army ration issuppoeed to embody the accumulation of generations of practical experience with able-stomached men and the highest type of dietary wisdom. The army allowance for one month is as fol- ealth, but | con or beef, 4 candles. 1 pint vinegar, 8| will leave their bones there. ] child’s play to go to Alaska at any time, | vepper, 4 pounds coffee or 3 pounds tea, | and to zttempt to travel over the moun- | pounds beans, 2 pounds salt, £ pound | 13{ pounds bread per diem or an equiva- | lent1n flour. Soldiers may substitute cer- tain equivalenis for these items. 2 Various riptions for_a year’s outfit | of provisions for the Yukon country have | been given. They are gzenerally given off- | hand by experienced men, who 2pproxi- | mate it with a faicly good guess. Such | off-hand biil of paruculars was given | yesterday by N. E. Picotte, who brings out $24000in ecolddust after nine solid vears in_the Yukon country. The fact that Mr. Picotte has been secretary of the Yukon Pioaeers and estimates that there is $1,000,000 easy in one of his claims, gives an added value to his dietary aa- vice. | ““We generally ficure on a ton of sup- ples to a man for a year, but this includes | his clothing, his stove and his mining tools, and so on. Provisions ought to be é&om like this: Figur, 500 pounds, though pounds wounid\do until the boats get | in with supples pext summer; bacon, 150 pounds; beans, 150 pounds; sugar, 100 pounds: dried fruit, 100 pounds; coffee, | 20 pounds; tea, 20 pounds; rice, 50 pounds; | butter, 100 pounds; condensed milk, 1| case; salt and pepper. These are the sta- | ples, and other things can be added Lo; suit. “Clothing shouid include three suits of good woolen underclothes, a dozen pairs | of warm woolen stockings, two pairs out- side stockings. a good mackintosh coat, two pairs of iubber boots for summer. Foot- wear for winter, preferably mooseskin moccasins, and mooseskin mittens and{ cap can best be got in the country itself. | So can shovel:, picks and soon. I paid $18 apiece for three shovels last spring, but that was exceptional, and they gener- ally sell for about $2 50, R. Crooks, a miner, who has made sev- eral trips up anda down the Yukon, has | further suggestions to offer regarding out- | fits. He said yesierday in the office of the Alaska Commercial Company that every miner who want into the Klondyke dis- trict should take with bim 400 pounds of flour, 75 pounds of bacon, 75 pounas of brown beans, 2 cases of evaporated pota- toes, 75 pounds of assorted dried fruits, 75 pounds of assorted dried vegetables, 1 ca<e of condensed milk, 5 pounds of baking powder, 5 pounds of tea and 15 pounds of 1 coffee, about pounds of spices, some salycilic acid, 75 pounds of sugar, 25 pounds of oat or corn meal, 3 cases of as- sorted canned meats and = case of sea- biscuits, 3 or 4 suits of flannel undercloth- ing, half a dozen pairs of socks, overalls, gum-boots, Indian boots and mitts. HE WILL TRY IT AGAIN. One Who Was Years In Alaska for the Government, Golng for Gold. Fred Funston, formerly 'connected with the United States agricuitural depart- ment and later captain of artillery in the | Cuban army, left last evening by rail for Portland, whence he intends to start for the newly discovered gold fieldsof the far north. Mr. Funston is a son of ex-| Congressman Funston of Kansas and spent nearly two years in Alaska in the interests of the Government, making studies of the flora of that region. He says that he discovered gold indications several times while he was working there, careful investigation. reporter yesterday : “I think tuat now, since all eyes are turned toward Alaska, there will be de- velopments in mining there that will as- | tonish the world. It hasalways been be- leved by tcientists that large quantities of goll would some day be found in | Alaska, and while there have not been many reports of big strikes there I know of quite a goodly number of miners up there who have made good money out of it. The great trouble has always been a scarcity of provisions and of company. It takesa very nervy maa to go alone, or even with one companion, several hnn- dred miles from the base of supplies, ana this hasdeterred many miners from work- ing claims that they have located. “Now that the rush is being maae for the Arctic regions there will be further ef- forts to locate mines closer to civilization than the Klondyke River country. I know of two men who have assured me time and again that if they could get companions and supplies sufficient to en- able them to work two seasons through without returniag, they would devalofi mines worth millions of dollais. T thin that they will now be able to carry out their intention, and I am going to try to get in with them before the rush comes to the nearer placers. “The two winters I spent in that coun- try put me in position to know how to take care of myself there and I feel that I shall be able to locate good claims at lesst 500 miles nearer to Juneau than those to which these gold-crazy people are going. I am much afraid that of the lows: 4)4 ponnds sugar, 313{ pounds ba thousands who are going il NOW many t«ins in winter is almostsure death. The storms there are simply awful and they come witha suddenness that upsets all | the calculations even of the old-timers. The Indians up there remain very closely noused up from the beginning of winter | until 1ate in the spring, and never go any distance from home after winter sets in. “The question of provisions can easily be overcome. it is simply a matter of calculation that has been figured out in | every mining district in the world. Any | ¢ old miner can tel: you just how much | ‘grub’ it takes to last a man a month, and | if you will multiply this by the number of | months to be spent there vou will come close to knowing how much to take. be careful to have necessary transporia- tion for the provisions, or you might as well stay at home. igloo, or snowhouse, to live in, and they are really much warmer thau the honses built of lumber. It will take as least a month to reach the diggings and then an- | other two weeks to prepare for the winter, and as the summers are not more than three months long you will see that it will take fully two seasons to make any show- ing at all. “The ground is frozen down as deep as | you can dig, and it is necessary to have fires burning all night on the place where you expect to dig next day if you expect to make any progress at ail. There is a great deal of game up there and plenty of fish. I have Kkilled deer, caribou, moose and the big Arctic hares right trom the door of the cabin where I spent the time I was there. There are polar bears, but they are difficult to get. In tne summer the streams are full of wild fowl, and fish are very plentiful. If a party were to dele- gate one of its number as hunter he could supply a dozen men with fresh meat all summer long. In the winter it would be a piece of rare good luck if any game were | | Killed, for the weather is so treacherous that it is as much as a man’s life is worta to get away from the camp. And it gets so cold that it is almost impossible to handle a gun even with heavy mittens on, and any hunte: knows that to do good shooting you must have bare hands. 1 have had my hands stick tight to the steel barrel of my nfla and have the skin so badly torn from this cause that I was un- It is no | Burt | It 1s easy to build an | able to use them for weeks at a fime.’ Alaska gold mining is all rightif you go fully prepared to meet all emergencies, but otherwise it usually means starvation and death, I venture to say that out of the many thousand people who will be enticea there by the wonderial stories one-half will never make enough to repay thom for their first outlay for provisions and transportation.” AN ASSAYER’S ACCOUNT. Byron E. Janes’ Early Reporton the Mining Conditions and Methods of the Klondyke. Amid the dearth of competent and in- telligent reports by exper:s on the Yukon diggings the following letter written in January last from Forty-mile will be of some interest. It is from Byron E. Janes, an assayer and a university graduate, to the Mining and Scientific Press, in which it was pubiished March 20 last. Mr. Janes a little later went to the Klondyke, where he now is: This winter there are about 1200 men in the country, distributed as follows: Abont 700 at Cirele City ana the tributary diggings. possi- bly 25 on Seventy-mile and American creeks between here and there, about 125 at Forty- mile and the diggings on the head of For'y- mile and Sixty-mile rivers, and at least 330 in the new Bonanza and Hunker districts. A fair idea of the gemeral location of these places can be had from a United States Coast and Geodetic Survey map. Bonanza and Huuker creeks are tributaries of the Klondyke River near its mouth. It is about fifty miles alove here and three miles above old Fort Reliance, on ine east branch of the Yukon. The town s arted at the mouth of the Kien: dyke River nns been named Dawson, and al réady boasis a sawmil,, three saloons au acout fiily cabins. Bovanza Creek wes discoy- ered in thie latter part of August. and in_one anonih tne discoverer took out $1000. Since the cold weather b-gan, so that holes could be sunk vy thawing ihe gravel, commonly called ““burning,” the creek proves to Le as rich as | any yetfound in the Yukon conntry. One of the richest claims has a pay streak 30 feet wide of ihree feet of bedrock and four feet of grave', which will average, it is claimed, $1 to the pan, but I think 50 cen's is nearer it. For two mites each way from this claim good pay nes been located at ¢ ose intervals. About hali a mile above the Discovery claim s a tributary ot Bonanzt, called El Doraco, which hus very good pay for a mile &nd a hu:f from 1ts mouth, though it is not equal to th.ai on the first ciaim meutioned. Hunker Creek has not been prospected much yet, but will doubtless have some good ¢laims. Bonanze Creek 1s sbout twenty-five miles long,and on it and its tributaries there are located probably 400 ciaims of 500 feet each and haif that many in Hunker district. Of that number some will never pay, many will pay weges and maybe a Jittle more and a | Boodiy mumber will” give their owners snug sums. The prevailing wages of the country are $1 per hour, depending on the distance from the supply point. From five to eight hours is a winter day’s work. The digzines at the head of Forty-mile and Sixiy-mile rivers are from one to ted yearsola, and while none of them are o extensive as Bonanzu's the: e hnd_diggings us rich as any but the vary best on Bonanza. Now as Lo the methods used: The diggings are of 1w —summer and winter. ost of the creeks have a slight fall and wide bot- avel being covered by 1 to 10 feet | soil (not glacial drift). The bed- | rock isofien 20 feet deep, and since the ground | never thaws more than 2 or 3 feet from the surface draios and ditches are expensive; so | each winter mora “burning” is done, which conslsts in thawing the gravel by fire, remoy- ing it and vepeluni‘ The muck thaws but Jittle and makes a good roof for diiiting. The dumps are siuiced with the first water in the spring. Sometimes the croeks do not freeze up soiid and the water gives trouble—that being the case this year in places where the average temerature for the past five weeks was 10 deg. below zero. There | is promise of a cold speil—the coldest, 45 deg. beiow zero, beivg recorded to-dey. Last year | at this time the daily mean was 55 deg. to 65 | deg. | Summer diggings are expenaive to open for | work, but the net returns are often more than | if “burning” had been the method. In most s lum ber must be whipsawed, the average cost being $150 per 1000 feet. Other things being in proportion considerable expense is | incurred befors the ground is ready to shovel into the sluice boxes. In all probability there will be work for all | that come in this spring. Bonanzs isinan | unprospeeted section of ihe country, thougn | there may not be inany new creeks found. | No one snould think of coming unless he can land with $500, if he purchase his outfit at Juneau, and iwice that if he purchase after arrival here. | Batlittle attention has been paid to quartz, particularly as the hilis andvalieys are cov- ered by a heavy growth of moss. S0 far noth- | ing but small stringers have been found in the | bedrock. Nuggets are often found which are more than haif quartz. | Al | Capital for Kiondyke. | Articles of incorporation of the Alaska and Yukon Gold Explorstion and Trading Company were filed in the office of the { County Clerk yesterday with a capital of $200,000, which is filly subscribed. D. C. Hovart takes $198,000, and Edwin J. Car- | ter. Witcher Jones, Jacob Stencil and James 8. Johnson $500 each. The cor- poration is to last fifty years. uska! Klondyke District, A special steamer will start August 1. Fare $200, including one year’s provisions. D.J. Grannan, general manager, 19 Mont- gomery st. % e e Laborers Fight. Charles Dugan and John Donovan, laborers in the Street Department, working at Twenty- second and Guerrero streets, quarreled last night. Donovan struck Dugan on the wrist with a shovel, inflicting en ugly wound. He was treated at the City and County Hospital and Donovan was booked at the Seventeenth- street station for making an assault witha decdly weapon. Ho, for Alusk | \ NEW TO-DAY. e A A A e A A A A A A A A A A A e A A A A i YUKON GOLD R OTHER CURRENCY IS ACCEPTABLE TO US IN PAYMENT FOR “OUT- fits for Alaska.” We have the Blankets, the Clothing, the Rubber Goods, the Provisions—everything to make the stay comfortable and profitable. DISTANCES IN MILES FROM JUNEAU T0— 80 100 06 14% 2 Haines Mission (Chilka! Head of ¢inoe navigation. Summit of Chilcoot Pass Head of Luke Lindeman, Foot of Lake Lindeman Head of Lake Bennett. Foot of Lake Bennett. Yoot of Lake Marsh Head of Ganyon. . Hend of White Horse Rapids. /. Tahkeena R.ver. Hesd of Lake Le Barge. Foot of Luke Lo Barge.. Hootalinqua River. Cassiar Bar.... Big Salmou Rive Little Salmon Rive 8514 Five Fingers Rapids. 244 Rink Rapids. 450 Pelly River... STAY AT HOMES list and try it. THE THE 503} | Wrangel.. Will find our house the best place in town to trade. Every one who commences life by buying supplies for cash and sticking to it through life meets with succass. CASH STORE TRADING PURPOSES. | White River.. | Stewart River | Sixty-Mile Post. 'CLONDYKE. Fort Reliance.. 68215 | Forty-Mile Post. 728 Fort Cndah 7283 898 | Circle City.. Forty Mile to Digging Circie City to Digging Mouth of Cooks Inlet | Turnagain Arm | six-Mile Creek.. | Funter Bay. | Berner Bay. | Sitka.. | | Snettisham. Sum Dum. Send for 44-page free price STORE THAT BELONGS TO ALL PEOPLE OF THE COAST FOR NEW TO-DAY-CLOTHING. THE REMNANTS [SO000GO0C0000O0CHOI0C000COC --OF A-- BUSY SEASON We're engaged in getting these owt. Never yet in all its history has our house received such a severe overhauling as it's detting these days. We're house- E E cleaning and we're doing our work with zeal and: cleaning house. All small lines, all this season’s doods, and all —nothing spared. Such bargain-getting as yow'll enjoy to-day and to-mor- good. e A WHIRL IN BOYS’ TROUSERS. Some 200 pairs of ’em; lows betweew the ages of 3 a and 7, with buckle at knee ; others for lads between the & ages of 5 and 15. Your pick at t&muuuwnmumfi ‘The Remnants high - class reefer suits. Wherever and 3 of a kind we have bunch- Sether; they are ‘made with a deep ous sailor collar with braid on tily - gotten up, in fashionable colorings. These at MEN’S DEPT. ment has been visited, for the purpose of of all small lines. Some 200 department for' young men be- tween the ages zest with the purpose of this season’s choicest soods row will do your heart some made for little fel- R, Of a lot of we had two ed ’em to- and gener- collar, pret- —$1.25.— This depart- clearing it out swits in this of 12 and 19, long trousers stylishly gotten ' up. For the purpose of ef- fecting an im- mediate clear- ance of 'em we \ have marked : -—$2.95.— Youw know what it is to go howse-cleaning ? We might take page upon page and then not have sufficient space at owr disposal to tell you what we're doing. We're house - cleaning, and yow know what it means, and the early com- ers enjoy the bigdest bene- ts. 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