The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 10, 1897, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1897. HUNDREDY CROWD THE COLLIER Departure of the Wil- lamette After Lofg Delays. PASSENGERSAND HORSES 'TWEEN DECKS. Eight Hundred Men Going by Way of Dyea to the Klondike. FIVE PECULIAR VESSELS WILL DEPART TO-DAY. Gold-Seekers Who May Be In Dan- ger While Journeying In Anclent Hulks. SEATTLE, Wasm, lamette, which, afier a week's finally departed for Skaguay and presented a sight as she drew away from the wharf at noon to-day whick wi be soon forgotten by those who witnessed it. She isa collier and has on her long reach of deck the merest apologies for houses, a pilot-house and forecastle for- ward and a half do: staterooms and emall cabin office. The 800 passengers which she carries are berthed in between decks was ab rigging of her two masts was crowded up to the tops with the passengers who wished to reach a point of vantage from which to wave adieu their friends. The Oregon Improvement Company’s dock was packed with people long before the Willamette finally ‘got away, and the low of the crowd extended down g water front for a mile or more. terprising photographers in number were on hand taking snap shots at the biz steamer and at the crowd. Among the rowd were quite a number who had put 2 the entire night on the dock with friends who were to leave on the Wil- lamette, waitinz hourly for her departure. The crowd on tHe Willamette was de- cidedly erent from north. There were several eattle men among them, but by far eater number were from the F was a considerable inkiing of d citizens among ccording to the Seattle police more than one face was seen on the deck which had adorned ry of half a dozen cities. se were, of cou the exception. In e main they were voung, energetic and respectable men, lured from their homes by the tales of the vast wealth to be gath- ered in the noith, and configent that they would return with their share of the golden harvest. ond the mere fact of the vast crowd which assembled to see her off and the crowded condition of the ship itself there was no incident to record. When the time came she drew quietly away from the wharf, moving slowly around in the bay, and siarted off for the straits with a farewell blast of her whistle, responded to vessels in port accompaniment of scattering cheers and waving handkerchiefs from those on the dock. In addition to her 800 passengers and 600 tons of freight the Willamette gone the rogues’ T carries 300 head of horses and burros. They share with the passengers the ac- commodatio. between decks and rank midway between the first and second class passengers. The first class is $40, second $20 and for horses $30. All the passengers have apparently the same character of sleeping accommodations. THE CALL correspondent inquired of a friend leaving on the Willamette what difference existed between first and sec- ond class passage, and was answered: *‘We pay twice as much as the otaer fel- lows. Aside from that the only differ- ence I can see 18 that they bunk with the burros while we bunk with the broncos.” It will take the Willamette agood many days after she arrives at Dyea before she | can get her freight landed. With her heavy drait she will lie a considerable dis- tance off shore, and freight and sen- gers will have to be landed on the beach in small boats and lighters. No more singular fleet ever departed from any port on the Pacific Coast than that which leaves to-morrow, destined for St. Micnaels. It consists of five vessels, kon Transportation Company, a new incorporation created since the Kiondike news rolled 1n. The leading steamer Eliza Anderson, an ancient side- wheeler, which in early days was on the route betwesn Olympia and Victoria. She has been given a strengthen her for the voyage. carry 100 passengers, who carry tickets .uaranteeing that they be landed at Daw- son City. If the weather proves favorable the guarantees of the ticket will be met; if not, it is unlikely that any of those hay- ing tickets will ever be beard to complain of the failure of the company to keep its agreement. 3 The remainder of the fleet consists of e handsome little pilot schooner W. J. Bryant, the stern-wheel river steamer e K. Merwin and the large Politkoisks, all in tow of the powerful tuz Holyoke. The Bryant and Politkofsky are both heavily loaged with provisions as well as fuel, and the latter in addition carries on deck the timbers and planking for a barge be towed by the Merwin up the Yukon after St. Michaels is reached. The Politkofsky, now reduced to the ignominous position of a barge, once floated the imperial flag of Russia at her jackstaff as the sole representative ol the ussian navy in Alaskan waters. She was built at Sitka in 1866 of hewn Alaska cedar, is copper fastened, coppered to the bends and as sound as the day she was launched. When first launched she was fitted up with copper boilers. She mount- ed two smooth-bore guns,which now orna- ment a scrap pile at Port Madison. She was turned over by Russia to the United States at the time of “the purchase of Alaska, was sold forthwith for a song to the Alaska Commercial Company, who substituted ordinary boilers for the copper ones, and by the sale of the latter realized The full length of the long deck | solutely packed with people and | belonging to or chartered by the Yu- | vessel of this fleet is the | new coat of paintto | She will | | y which has yet | promi- | | ful Kiondike stor | one o | Francisco railroad agent and brother-in- MAXIM GUNS FOR THE MINERS. OTTAWA, ONT., Aug. 9.—The Government has decided to appoint Major Walsh, formerly connected with the Northwest mounted police, administrator of the Yukon district. He has had large experiences in rough frontier life and is accustomed, at the head of a fesw men, to face large bodies of hostiles and quell dis- turbances. Saturday next, will take two Maxim guns with them. The mounted police, who are to leave Victoria, B. C., One is to be placed at the police post at Tagish, just over the Summit, and the other located at Fort Cudahy. Their presence, it is believed, will prevent any unlawful action by the miners, for a crowd would think twice before proceeding to resist Canadian laws or break any regulations if they knew that Maxim guns stood in their path. considerable more than the first cost of the boat. On her arrival in Puget Sound in 1863 a local marine critic remarked of her: “Shelooks as if she had been thrown together after dark by an Indian carpen- ter with stone tools.” The Polly, as she was affectionately called, did towboat service on the<ound for twenty-five years, nd was finally dismantled and retired to the bonevard, from wbhich she bas been resurrected to visit once more the land which saw her birth. STRUCK IT RICH. Wonderful Luck of a San Francils- can in the Klondike—Arrival of a Pigeon From Dyea. PORTLAND, Ozre., Aug. 9.—A wonder- told yesterday in Frank Juston, a San the hotels b aw of the hero. It seems almost incred- but, coming from the new gold fields, geration than many other stories of fortunes made in a short time and which have beer corroborated. Juston stated that Louis Gerston passed through here Friday night with the equiv- alent of $350,000 in gold in his pocketbook for San Francisco where his family now lives. Possessed of a somewhat romantic nature, this Croesus Gerston had been employed in the railroad shops of Port- land, but had been thrown out of work a ar prior and in the interim all his say- This was 1n the winter of 1895. Juston, who is a brother of Mrs. Gersion, wrote to her husband to send his family to San Francisco, and at the same time he furnished him money to go to Alaska. There he has been ever sinee till his recent return to the realms of civilization. Mr. Juston ys that bis relative had been in the mines just making both ends meet—that is to say, earning enough for the support of himself and family, when as the last winter was breaking up,so to speak, he and an East Portlander ven- tured to the Klondike. Gerston's partner is Peter Bruner, well known on the east side as having for years been a confirmed drunkard. He went north at the same ings were exhausted. time that Gerston did, and from the day | he leit here to now he has been a total ab- stainer. Long before any intelligence of tae Klondike district reached civilization Gerston and Bruner had thawed out ground to yield them more than §$100,000. They then, considering the transporta- tion of the treasure unsafe, left their little fortune nhidden in their hut. Bruner, whom Gerston left, stated that he in- tended sending his gold, amounting to as | | much as the latter’s, to the San Francisco Mint direct, the proceeds of which were to be deposited to his credit in a pank there. “‘Gerston told me,” he continued, ‘“‘that he was ceriain of getting a million or two out of his claim which Bruner is now guarding pending his return next spring. He intends erecting a palatial residence with amyple grounds somewhere across the bay and will give his three children all the advantages procurable with money.” In addition Mr. Juston remarked that his brother-in-law will pass but one more | season in the north, as he says that ‘or a nd with the | | | | [ man possessed of an independent fortune it is no country to live in. Gerston said that snowing what he does of the Alaskan winters he would not venture to Klondike at this season for $30,000, even were hea poor man. The steamer George W. Elder, with its load of Klondike-bound gold-seekers, has arrived safely at Dyea. Friends of the venturesome miners can rest with the assurance that the first part of the pern- lous journey has been safely passed over, Early this morning a pigeon wus seen to strike a telephone-wire on Washington street, between Tnird and Fourth, and fall to the ground, where it lay for a few mo- ments fluttering. A man stepped out into the street ang, picking up the bird, con- veyed it into Mish’s cigar store. It was a homing pigeon,and iiscontact with the wire had broken one of its wings. It was while those who bad gathered there were examining the bird’s injuries that a small roll of paper was noticed attached to one of the bird’s legs with a silk string. Amid much excitement the paper was removed | and opened, while visions of a inessage from Andree with news regarding affairs at the north pole floated before the eyes of the eager spectators. But this was not one of Andree’s pigeons. It was a Port- land bird, arrived home from a long jour- ney to bear good tidings from adventar- ous Webtooters. The message on the paper read: “Dyea, August 7. Arrived saiely e last night. All well on board. T. Caine.” Tom Caine was one of the Elder’s pas- sengers, and he took with him a number of carrier pigeons, which he proposed let- ¢ loose at different points along the roule with messages to friends here in Portland. It is expected that the pariy will again be heard from when the diffi- culties of Chilkoot Pass have been over- come, et FOR THE COPPER RIVER. Soon the Advance Guard of the Invading Army Wil Leave Port Townsend. PORT TOWNSEND, Wasa., Aug. 9.— What is believed to be the advance guard of the expedition that will go north next spring to the Copper River country to wrest the untold wealth known to exist there from the Indians, who have for many years zealously guarded it, is now being outfitted here by Henry V. Bailey, the well-known transfer man, who will leave at no distant date in the Norman Sunde, a sixty-ton craft. To partly pay the expenses of the trip it is the intention 1p carry a cargo of merchandise to Cooks lfiet, from where the vessel will immedi- aitly return, bringing, it is hoped, a cargo of golddust and nuggets, the fruits of tne vear's work on the inlet. On the trip dowh the mouth of the Copper River will be viited for the purpose of making a preliginary inspection of the locality, to be taken advantage of when the expedi- tion plpper arrives there. the original intention to make the start next month, but so many appli- cations Rr places in the expedition have been reciived that it has been decided to { i | which time more suitable vessels will be available. The number of applications received for places with the expedition is enormous, covering localities from Canada to Texas, the latter furnishing the majoritv, mary of whom openly assert in their letters that the possibilities of suddenly acquiring riches only take precedence over the pos- sible opportunities for killing red devils. As aresult of the postponement in the starting time it is believed that an army ol 500 instead of 300 men will next spring invade the Copper Indians’ rich domain. CAd S T TO ESTABLISH A COLONY. Enthuslastic Brooklynites, Headed by Journalist Blake, WIll Lo~ cate In Alaska. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 9. Frank Blake, a Brooklyn jourralist, and forty others, have formed an association to es- tablish a colony in the Alaska gold fields, to be called Brooklyn City. Each man will pay $1000 into the common treasury, and the party will proceed via Cape Horn in a chartered ship, or overland via San Francisco, which has not yet been de- termined. Blake says he has received in- formation that the Alaska border line at a certain mountain, which is the fountain head of the gold fields, will be the place for the location of the city. He will es- tablish a general store where zoods will be sold to the colonists at New York prices with freight charges added. All others will have to pay Klondike prices. Blake says he is waiting for information from Washington wita reference to the latitude and longitude of the mountain he mentions, and then he will begin the work of preparation for starting. He ex- pects the colony will have an immense growth after Brooklynites learn of the great strikes he is sure he and the colo- nists will make at the mountain he men- tions, - Ladue Going to Gotham. PLATTSBURG, N. Y. Aug 9.— Joseph Ladue, founder of Dawson City, left for New York to-night to pay his first visit to the metropolis. He will remain for a week arranging for new machinery. Ladue is accompanied by his lawyer, E. F. Botsford, who will stand between him and the gang of “‘promoters” and organ- izers of fake mining companies who have flooded him with letters. The writers of these letters are numbered among some of the best-known capitalists of New York and other cities. They make all sorts of propositions to Ladue, but he is crafty enough to ignore them. e Frank Yorke’s Enterprise. VICTORIA, B. C., Aug..9.—Frank M. Yorke, the well-known stevedore of this city and brother of Rev. Father Yorke of San Francisco, is epgaged in developing an enterprise that will be of the greatest importance to the Yukon. He has already dispatched a gang of men to build a saw- mill on Teslin Lake, and he is now com- pleting arrangements for the orgarization of a company to build and complete four steamers on the Yukon and its tributaries. Ssaeie o Only One Hundred Fret. OTTAWA, O~r., Aug. 9.—The Domin- ion Government has decided to amend the mining regulations in an important par- ticular. At present a miner is at liberty to stake outa claim of 500 fekt running along with the stream and back to ths bank. This has been reduced to 100 feet and the new regulation will go into effect immediately, A5 OLD GEUDGE. Scheme to Depose Frevident Andrews of EBrown University, BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 9.—To-day it was learned that the inauguration of the movement against President Andrews of Brown University by Hon. Joseph H Walker had something behind it. A member of the corporation whose action at the meeting in September will un- doubtedly be most prominent has taken Mr. Walker to task, but his name is with- held until the real fight in the board is at hand. Mr. Walker came to the last meet- ing, in June, for a purpose, he says. He had an old grudge against President Andrews. It came about in this way. At the time of the Witson tariff bill Walker wrote to Professor Gardner of Brown and reauest- ed him to write his views upon the effects of protection and of free trade. Professor Gardner evidently incurred the displeas- ure of Mr. Walker, for the letter contained more about iree trade tban proteciion. Mr. Walker wrote back to Professor Gard- ner indicating bis desire for a favorable view of protection. Professor Gardner informed Mr. Walker that he did not think he could come any nearer suiting his views. Mr. Walker thought he had a right to demand what he requested and he appealed to President Andrews, charging Professor Gardner with discourtesy. President Andrews turned the matier over Lo the executive committee of the corporation board. He wanted Mr. Walker to come forward and vresent his case, which was kept open for months, but he never appeared. It is learned that he had an idea that President Andrews should have cashiered Professor Gardner. Itis an old grudge and the af- 1air will be fully and completely opened up and ventilated at the meeting. S BOATING DISASTER. Two ¥oung Men Lose Their Lives Off dag Harbor, A, X. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 9.—A special to the World from Sag Harbor, N. Y., says: The body of Joseph Gilbert of the Gorham Manufacturing Company, New York, has been found floating in Notac Bay by the steam launch Lorna Doon. The sloop Eureka towed it to Sag Harbor, where it was identified by the young man’s brother, A. 8. Gilbert, a New York lawver. Young Gilvert, who was 20 years of age, left Sag Harbor with a l]ad named Bartella of Perth Amboy Wedneaday morning in a small sailing cance. Their destination was Riverhead. Thursday the canoe was picked up on the beach with a hole 1n it and the boom broken. Tie body of voung Bartella has already been picked up at Southead, near here. el Los Angeles Pastor Called to Chicag. CHICAGO, Iin, Aug. 9.—W. J. Chi chester, D.D., who has just finished a suc- cessful pastorate of twelve years in Los Angeles, Cal., has accepted the call of the First Presbyterian Church of this city to. succeed Rev. D. J. Barrows. He is a na- postpone \ae sailing until next spring, at | tive of Baltimore. NOST PAY THE BXTRA DOTIES An Important Question Raised by a Tea Shipment. Feeders of the Canadian Pa- cific Road May Suffer by the New Law. A Clause Intended as a Slap at Canada and Its Bearing Upon Transportation, WASHINGTON, D. C, Auz. 9.—Col- lector Russell of Chicago has called the attention of the Treasury Department to a case in his bailiwick which may have a tendency to revolutionize transportation methods now practiced in this country by the Canadizn Pacific Railway. A train- load of tea from Japan bLas been bronght into this country by tha Candadian Pa- cific for the purpose of distribution throughout the United States. There are upward of 1000 chests of tea involved in this particular transaction which has given rise to a construction of the recently enacted tariff law. According to section 22 of that statute Collectors “must im- pose a discriminating duty of 10 percenton merchandise which being the production or manufacture of any foreign conntry not contiguous tothe United States shall come into the United States from such contiguous country.” What the Chicago Collector wants to know is whether or not he is to impose an additional duty of 10 per cent upon the consignment of tea over lines which are jeeders of :he Canadian Pacific. This question has been referred to Attorney- General McKenna for his construction of the tariff law relative to products brought into the United States. It was in the closing hours of the extra session of Congress that it was injected into the bill, which is destined to prove so troublesome to railroad corporations out- side of the United States. For many years there has been a provision in the tariff laws of this country **That & diserimina- ting duty of 10 per centum ad valorem ir addition to the duties imposed by law shall pe levied, collected and paid on all goods, wares or merchandise which shall be imported in vessels not of the United States.” This section was amended and adopted by Congress at the session just closed by the addition of the foilowing words: “Or which being the production or manufact- ure of any foreigr country not contiguous to the United States shall come into the United States from such contizuous country.” - This last clanse is a direct slap at Canada, for according to the customs bureau of the Treasury Department it will not be permissible hereafter for freizht trains from that country to go direct to points in the United §tates without the consu'ar seal of the cars being broken. Asitisnow the Canadian Pacific staru train from Vancouver or any other point in British America and has it sent intact under a consular seal to New Orleans, Charleston or any other port in this coun- try with which the Canadian Pacific may have direct railway connections, Under the law, as it passed the called session of the Fifiy-filth Congresss, all merchanaise comin: into this country must undergo a customs inspection and the imposition of an additional tax of 10 per cent. This will necesstate breaking seals, consular and otherwise, to ascertain what further duty shall be imposed upon goods brought into tue United States from Canada or contiguous countries. Repre- sentatives of the Canadian Pacific are astounded to know that such a condition off affairs exists as the present complica- tion presents, and they are moving heaven and earth to have the mischief undone if possible. Thev recognize the fact that it will make a big difference in their trans- portation business, which has hitherto been sent through direct 1o its destination afier the United States Consul had affixed his seal, showing that the vroper duties had been paid. Pending a decision in this case by the Attorney-General instructions have been sent to Collector Russell at Chicago not to detain the consignment of tea in question, but to make an arrangement with the im- porters for the coliection of the additional tax it the tariff law shall be construed as the customs officials think it ought to be. IMI/A‘IM AGAIN ATTACKED. Great Effort to Dislodge the Cubans Results Disastrously—Seizure of a Schooner. HAVANA, Cusa, Aug. 9.—The insur- gents have again attacked Havana. Sai- urday the Spaniards made a great effort to disiodge the insurgent leader, Juan Delgado, from the neighboring town of Arroyo Apolo. The Spaniards were commanded by Colonel Paglieri, formerly Chief of Poiice of Havana, but were badly routed and Paglieri was wounded. Most of his men fled to the capital. The Spanish wounded were brought to the city at midnight to conceal the defeat. Colonel Andres Hernandez has notified the Spanish authorities that alter fifieen days the suburb of Marianso will be de- stroyed. He warns the Spaniards to with. draw all non-combatants. BRIDGEPORT, Co~xN., Aug. 9.—The Blanche Morgan, a small two-masted schooner of fifty tons burden, hailing from Staten Island, is tied up at Millers wharf in charge of the Custom-house officials. On board are Captain Wason, her owner and master, his son and a crew of two men, Rev. Mr. Marsden, a Baptist clergy- man of Port Richmond, Staten Island, is aiso aboard. Her cargo is 200 cases of cartridges. The seizure was brought about by the reported leaving of a Cuuan filibustering expedition from this city. Captain Wason, his crew and the clergy- man are suspecied as Cuban sympa- thizers, but the casesof cariridges are consigned to the engineers’ depar ment at Governors Island and are for the United States Government. The Bianche Morgan is practically a Government boat, and has been seized by orders from tnhe Treasury Department. The ship has been carrying cartridges from New Hav'n and this city for years. The captain will file a claim ior damages against the Government. g GARRISONS SURRENDER., Cuban Insurgents Kout the Spaniards at Several Towns, HAVANA, Cusa, via Key West, Fla., Aug. 9.—The town of Esperanza, Santa Clara province, was attacked by insur- gents last week for the second time within a month, The garrison made a slight re- sistance, killing one Cuban soldier and wounding several others, but surrendered after half an hour's fighting. The insur- gents were in the town from 8P. M. to 4 A. M., and sacked all the stores, securing a large amount of clothing, drugs and money. All the Spanish guerrilla forces intown joined the insurgents with their arms and ammunition. General Montaris, commanding 2000 Spanish soldiers, arrived at Esperanzaone day after the insurgents had left the town. The Spanish general was very angry over the news, and disarmed all the guerrilla forces and arresied a few Spanish soldiers who remained in the town. 7Then he set fire to all the houses owned by Cubans and shot several Cuban residents. ‘While this was occurring the towns of Encrucijada, Cruces and Placetas, also in Santa Clara province, were raided by in- surgent forces under Cayito Alvarez. The garrisons made no resistance, allowing the Cubans to take away everything they de- sired. Juan Antonio Quintero, a lieutenant of the insurgent army who surrendered to the Spaniards in the province of Pinar del Rio, and who was pardoned and set free by Weyler, has been murdered by Spanish police. The Inspector of Police, Senor Cuebas, drove Quintero out of his home at Cerro, in Havana province, and, taking him to the outskirts of Jesus del Monte, ordered his men to shoot him. Quintero died instantly of his wounds. ResEERT e o FENCED [N THE TRACK. Vain Effort of a Kansas Farmer to Keep the Railroad Off His Lands. LEAVENWORTH, Kaxs,, Aug. 9.—The Sheriff of Leavenworth County, acting on an order issued by Judge Myers, a Popu- list, this afternoon fenced in a part of the Leavenworth, Topeka and Southwestern Railroad track, and tried to prevent trains trom passing over the road. ouster was issued to place James Stone in possession of eighteen acres of land used as a roadbed by the Southwestern in pass- ing through the farm of Mr. Stone south- west of this city. The Southwestern rcad was abandoned for two months in the spring of 1892, while there was some trou- ble between the Santa Fe and Union Pa- cific systems as to which should operate it. Stone brought suii, and asserted that the land had reverted to him by the tem- porary abandonment of the road, and Judge Myers rendered a decision restor- ing the land to him. To-day the Sheriff notified the Soutb- western officials that they could not run The writ of | over the road and fenced it up. The Post- | master was notified not to send out mail. Shortly before train time a force of thirty railroad men cut and tore the fence down anrd the train went through in spite of the efforts of county officials. Acting on iu- structions from the head officials of the road Agent Chaplain this evening swore out a warrant for Stone’s arrest, charging him with obstructing the mails. Stone threatens a damage suit, but will do noth- ing more pending orders from Judge Myers. e S s SLASHING FREIGHT KATES. Texas Merchants Getting the Benefit of a Rattle Between Transpor- tation Companies. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 9.—More buy- ers representing Texas merchants were in this city to-day than were here in the whole month of August last year. Their orders filled the commercial air. Thue cause is a freight-rate war between the Lone Star line on one side dnd the Mal- lory and Morgan lines on the other. The Morgan line is owned by the Southern Pacific, and plies between this port and New Orleans. It ships freight for Galves- ton from New Orleans on the railroad by way of Houston. Rates have been given at ruinous rates. But to-day the jubila- tion among the shippers increased when it was announced by the Morgan line | through the Southern Pacific road that all classes of freight would be taken to Gal- veston at the absurdly low rate of 2 cents a 100 pounds. The Mallory line will doubtless reduce its rate to 2 cents to- MOITOW. s CAP HATFIELD FIGHTS, Four Offlcers Reported to Have Been Killea by the Fugitive. WILLIAMSON, W. Va, Aug. 9.—Cap Hatfield, who broke jail some ten days ago, is still at large, but four posses are pursuing him from different points. A, mountaineer came down to-day and told of a bloody encounter on Beech Creek be- tween Hatfield’s men and the Sheriff's posse under Deputy Johnson in which Johnson and four others were killed and several of Hattield’s wounded, possibly killed. According to the story Hatfield is strongly intrenched in a mountain pass where flanking is practicaily impossible, bence the great loss to the ofhcers. The <tory is believed to be exaggeratel. It is known, however, the oflicers expected yesterday to surround and capture or kill the fugitives. BLACK HILLS GOLD FIND, Body of Ore of labulous Richness Un~ covered at liagged Top. DEADWOOD, 8. D., Aug. 9.—0n the A. J. Smith group ot claims in Ragged Top a body of ore assaying $1048 per ton in gold has been uncovered. There are six claims in the group, or sixty-five acres, and the ore body is found on them all. The property is owned by A.J.Smith, Dr. J. A. Paddock and John Murrselman, of Deadwood, and Tobias Castor of Lin- coln, Nebr. From eight cars shipped be- fore the new strike a return above all expenses of $90 a ton was received. Yes- terday one man alone took out ore which netted $609. Suflicient ore is in sight to keep the present force of miners at work for many months. That it is one of the richest thinzs ever struck in the Hills no one who has exam- ined it for a moment doubts. The present owners have received a number of flatter- ing offers for the ground, but have con- cluded to work it themselves. The new find has caused no little excitement here and has served in a measure to allay the Klondike fever, which had taken hold of so many Black Hills people. L T DEATH CUVERS HIS SHOKTAGE, Fitohburg Railroad Company Robbed by the Late Chief Auditor. BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 9.—At the meet- ing of thedirectors of the Fitchburg Rail- road Company, which is to be held in about a week, the expert accountants who have been at work on the books of the corporation will make an interesting re- port. Already the experts have prac- tically completed their work and have discovered a shortage of from $12,000 to $14,000 in the accounts of the auditor's de- partment. It is stated that the late chief auditor, C. 8. Anthony, who died about a month ago, is responsible. There is not the slightest possibility of the shortage being made good now. ltis adead loss to the corporation. No one had the least suspicion that his accounts were not all right. President Marcy, when seen to- night, acknowledgea that the foregoing statements were true. ‘‘We shall not re- cover any of the money, although if Mr. Anthony had lived we might have done 50,” he said. He refused to go into details as to how the money was obtained, LAUGH AT WRITS OF INJUNCTION Strikers Board Trains and Refuse to Get Off. Pay Day at Plum Creek, but No Money for Men Who Have Quit. Pangs of Hunger Belng Felt In | Miners’ Families of Ssveral , Districts. INDIANAPOLIS, Ixp, Aug. 9.—The striking coal miners who are marching on Evansville expect to cross the Ohio River at that point and visit the Kentu mines to induce the men to quit work. They seized an Evansville and Terre Haute train at Vincenness last night and the crew ran it into the yards to await orders | from Superintenden: Corbett. Orders were received to go on, and the miners | | boarded the train and refu-ed to get off. The train was sidetracked at Purcell sta- tion and the crew started bpack to Vincen- nes with the engine and caboose, but the strikers boarded the caboose aad came back with it. Saperintendent Corbett secured a writ | of injunction against the strikers and Sheriff Oradorff served it upon the lead- ers. The strikers made fun of the officer and declared they writ but would board the Evansville, regardless of consequences, All the mirers of Southern Indiana are concentrating their forces at Evansville, whence they will proceed to Earlington, Ky., to persuade the miners there to quit work. J. D. Pickens, who led a wing of Coxey’s army to Washington, is in com- mand. The miners say they will go on the first train, notwithstanding the in- junction. The situation looks serious. HILLSBORO, ILL., Aug. 9.—The strike situation at Coffcen is still strained. The mine is running as usual to-day with a full force, but armed pickets are on guard. The visiting miners were not re-eniorced so strongly as they expected, and the de- termined attitude of Sheriff Randall and 200 armed deputies appeared to overawe them, They decided to make no attempt to force the mine to stop to-day, but to await further re-enforcements and the re- sult of “General’’ Bradley’s visit to Spring- field to coner with The visiting miners have received sup- plies suflicient fora ten days’ siege, and announce their firm determination to close the mine. permitted to enter the village to intim- idate the miners. Deputies are on duty again to-night, and will be on guard again to-morrow to protect the mine and pre- vent a demonstration. The strikers with a brass band visited De Armitit’s Turtle Creek mines early this morning, and so a tive was the music that the miners failed to go to work and started dancing and singing to the lively tunes of the banc. To- men who had quit work forfeited the wages due them, while the rest received cash for work thev say they had done. The strikers say the rest of the men will | zo out to-morrow. W. P. de Armitt says but few Plum Creek men have gone out. A mass-meeting will be held at Irwin on | Wednesday to induce the employes of the Pennsylvania and Westmoreland and other companies’ employes tostrike. Debs wili spealk. PITTSBURG, PA.,, Aug. 9.—The strike is beginning to cause hunger among the miners’ families along the Whesling di- vision and in the Fanhandle district. At the mines where company stores have been in opsration, the destitution is more marked. In most instances the stores were closed up snortly after the strike began and the miners have no places now where their credit is good. The male members of the families are living better in the camps than the women and chil- dren who are at home. The applications for an injunction to restrain the miners from congregating near the mines of the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company, which was to have been filed in the United Siates Court to-day on behalf of the non-resident stockholders of the company, had not been presented to the court up to the ad- journment at noon.} Judge Atcheson has gone to his home in Washington Uounty, and it is not likely that the bill will be filed before to- mOrrow. FAIRMONT, W. Va, Aug. 9.—Still another effort is to be made to get the Fairmont district miners out. Samuel Gompers, Henry D. Lloyd and James Wood will addreéss mass-meetings at this place Wednesday and at Monongah Thurs- day. The organizers are greatly encour- aged, as all of the Clarksburg end of the district is ont. Burird Alive in a Sewer Trench. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 9.—Charles Feldenstan was buried alive by the col- Indiana | would not obey the | first train for | Governor Tanner. | 'he strikers will not be | was pay day at Plum Creek. The | lapse of a sewer trench. When they finelly gotto the man he was found to be dead. —_—— LiV-D AS A CAPITALIST. | Revelation Hegar;f;g- the Chisf of a | Beggars’ ieague Which Muti- lated Children. ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, vidence at the trial of the men for mutilating a you girl in orde her condition would excite pity and there- by induce benevolent people to give money to her, has revealed that the pruncipal soner was the chief of a beggars' lea: which operated in the south of Russia with great success. He fonnded an estab, lishraent for the purpose of making chil- aren cripples and received 75 per cent of | the money and other things given to them when they were sent out to begz. He pose sessed a large house at Kieff, where he lived in luxury and was regarded as a benevolent capitalist. | Tne evidence showed that the girl stoien | from her parents was gagged and taken to the ceilar where her abductors discus=ed the manner in which they would muti ner. Finally they smeared her face with piich, which was then set on fire. The rl's’ face was terribly burned, and she s made blind. Then the torturers dis- inted her fingers, so her hands were practically useless, and cut her feet so that she could not welk without limping. The girl said that while in the ceilar she | saw the corpses of two boys Who pre- sumably bad succumbed to the tortures | inflicted upon them | | CHANCE TREADE, ONLY a How tho Ocean ‘iraffic Around Cape Horn Has Dwindled. WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 9.—Trade | between Atlantic and Pacific ports by | way of Cape Horn, once & roate of very nsiderable domestic ocean traffic, bas | dwindled until now it may be said to be | entirely a chance trade. During the last | tiscal year, as reported by the bureau of statistics of the Treasury Depariment, thirty-two vessels, aggregating 57,004 tons, made the voyage from Atlantic to p. ports, mainly from New York to San Francisco, and only ten, azgregating 17,786 tons, from Pacific to Atlantic ports. | These were not in the regular trade, but sailed by way of the Horn, either in b: last or, if fortunate, with cargoes of do- mestic merchandise, for the purpose of taking at their first destination other car- goes. — e THE BRITANMIA FOR SALE. American Yachtsmen Prevented by Law From Purchasing Her. NEW YORK, deal of inter yachtsmen in this in one of the morning papers of an adver- tisement offering for sale the Prince of Wales’ famous yacht Britanria. It has been known for a long time that the Leir yparent to the British crown desired to vose of his fast cutter. Several unsnc- | cessful attempts have been made to sell | her on the other side. The possibility of | her sale Lere is out of the question, as re- cent legisiation makes it virtually imp sible to buy her. A bill passed by Con- gress, and which became a law last Febru- ary, provides against the purc :ase of for- eign-built vessels by Americans. o et d DISCUSS THE SEAL QUESTIOY, Ex-Secrctary Foster Has a Conference | With the President. PLATTSBURG, N. Y., Aug. 9.— | Secretary John . Foster arrived ut the | Hotel Champlain this mornmng from Washington. He cailed upon President McKinley and Sceretary Alger was sent for and for nearly two hours the three were in conference over the seal fisheries in Alaska. At tne close of the conference Foster said tuere was nothing to give out for publication and he refused to be int viewed. At 11:30 the Presidential p: including Whitelaw Reid and Warn Miiler, went to Burlington, Vt., on the steam yacht Wassata, where thev dined with ex-Governor Woodbury, afterward making the trip through the south part of the lake as Woodbury’s guests. They re- turned to Biuff Point at7o’clock. The party will visit the famous Au Sable chasm to-morro el L TORTURED BY BURGLARS. Shocking Treatment of Two dged Bach= clor Brothers. ALTOONA, Pa., Aug. 9.—J. W. Dever was visiting his bachelor uncles, John and Philip Dever, in Munster, Cambria county, last night, when four burglars broke into the residence. All three of the inmates were bound and gagged. Philip, who is a helpless paralytic, had his feet blistered with fire after deciaring that there was no money in the house. The leader of the gang then applied fire to the armpits, feet and body of John Dever. The nephew slipped his bonds, but was knocked sense- less with a revolver. The burglars got only a small sum of money. The nephew finally got loose and gave the alarm. The Daver brothers are aged men and may not survive the terrible shock and agony. ke ey Kurds Slaughtered by Armenians. CONSTANTINOPLE, TuRkEy, Aug. 9.— The Vali of Van reports that several thou- sand Armenians crossed from Persia into Anotolia and attacked a Kurdish tribe, slaughtering 200 of them, including women and children. NEW TO-DAY. 5 CENTS YARD To-day’s price on Tennis Flannels for Dress:s, Wrappers; Children’s Clothes, Men’s or Boys' Shirts, night wear or day light, dark or medium colors, About wear for everybody, is 5 cents a yard— 80 PIEGES AT THIS PRICE. Quality, color and widtn are all =i other heavier goods ai 634c, Sc and 10c. A raise and sold at Bargain Pr.ces. g<ot. We have some fine Swansdowns and full stock of Dry Goods, bought before the We have the reputation, and certainly deserve it, of being the best equipped house on the continent for outfitting pros- pectors and miners, Our clothing room is a “‘curiosity shop” to many visitors. We bave largely increased our force of sales- men, packers and shippers, and are now prepared to bhandle quickiy all local, foreign and Klondike Trade. ALASKA! ALASKA! ALASKA! their e:elslnt as possible. Ve as CASH STORE We aim to give every one a welcome and to make stay, whether for a moment or a month, as _ Do not fecl that you must buy. e always “willing”’ to sell, but make no eifort to force goods on our patrons at | THE BIG NTORE AT THE FERRY—25-27 MARKET STRREL.