The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 25, 1897, Page 2

(&) THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1897. its coverings. Wagons and carts are out of the question and should not be thought of as a means of carrying in supplies, “The expedition will procure Indian guides who are familiar with the country. After prospecting along Copper River, Mr. White says some of the party will getinto the S.xtv Mile Creek and Forty Mile Creek up toward Circle City and on the | American side of the 1international| boundary line. 3 | It had not been the intention to start | until spring, but Mr. White informed THE | CaLL correspondent that he felt satisfied 3 that the expedition woula be fully or-| ganized and enroute bafore the end of | October. Some glowing revorts of the | wealth of gold- in this unprospected | country have been received. Few of the | hardships must be endured as 1 the Klon- dike district. The climate nearer the coast is milder, as tke influence of tne Japan current is plainly manifest in the | Covper River basin. The ground thaws to greater depth while the summer season is th.rty days longer. L. L. Bales, who has been along the Copper River and is now in the city, says that there is plenty of game there, both large and small. In the interior are moose, caribou, mountain sheep and bear. | Mountain goats are found along the coast. | The fur-bearing animals are fox, wolver- | ines, sable, beaver and otter. On the| Jakes and streams wild fowl are to be found in great numbers and varioty during the summer, comprising geese, ducks, swans, cranes and pelicans, Mr. Bales further that back in the interior the natives e uniformly civil and nospitable. The Copper River Indians are no exception to | the rule. They are few in number, and d make little headway against pros- tors were they so disposed. Asitis, they are ever ready to render aid and as- sistanc2 where needed. The are scrupu- honest and will faithfully discharge | an obligation. Other prospectors from | | Seattle will explore the Copper Ri cour leaving here on the Berwick, which is due from San Francisco early in | Beptember, This sailing vessel will go to Dawson City, but will stop at Prince Wil- lism Scund. | e LATEST FROM DYEA. Good Order Prevalls Thera and atSkaguay Amongthe Five Thou- sand Men Assembled. VICTORIA, B. C., Aug. 24.—A dispatch to the Colonist from the Union mines says that the steamer Rapia Transit of Seattle arrived there at 3 o'clock this afternoon | from Dyea, bringing the latest news. She had 1o passengers on board. The reports state that abont 5000 men are at Dyea and ay. All are in good spirits and de- ned to reach the Klondike. The town is very orderly and quiet and | the weather hes been fine. ' The steamer pas:ed the Bristol close to Dyea; also the | Islander, Utopia, Edith, ALKi, Pioneer | (with two barges) and the Holyoke (with 1o0w). When the Transit left Dyea on the 16th the Willamette was there discharging a | very heavy Ireight and 1100 passengers The trail was finished, but a heavy rain rendered it necessary to do more work on it, which, however, should be completed now. Herses are selling at $200 each. The Portland from St. Michael to Seartle passed Carmanah Point, eighty miles from Victoria, at8 p. M. She is supposed to have an immense treasure aboard. The steamship Thistle sails to-morrow night direct for Telagraph Creek on the Stickeen, carrylng machinery for a river steamer and a complete sawmill outfit with a force of carpenters and machinery. The cargo will be transported over the trail from Telegraph Creek to leslin Luke, | where lumber will be gotten out during the winter, and before the time navigation opens next spring the party will have ready for lsunching a first-class river steamer capable of carrying 150 tons of freight and as many passengers. It is understood that the Dunsmuirs, the millionaire mine-owners of this city, are financing this scheme under the title | of the Teslin and Yukon Transportation Compauy, and a fleet of river steamers will be floated on the upper waters of the Yukon and lakes. A garrow-gauge line is to be constructed frot Telegraph Creek to Teslin Lake, and this company, which owns the steamship Bristol, now in the nortbern trade, will supply a direct meane of reaching the Klondyke through Canadian territory. \ A A TWO VESSELS OVERDUE, But the Greatest Interest Is Con- nected With the Expected Ar- rival of the Portland. EEATTLE, Wasg, Aug. 24.—The big collier Willamette and the steamer City of Topeka are both overdue from Alaska. Neither had been reporied this evening, so they are not likely to arrive before to- morrow afternoon. The Willamette left this port on August 9 for Dyea and Skaguay. She carried 775 passengers—the largest number that any vessel took north this season. She was also overcrowded witl freight, wi:ich required abonta week to unload. She is scheduled to depart for Skaguay again on Thursday. Her passen- ger list will not be very heavy, altLoagh there will be plenty of freight, some of it left over from the Queen last Sunday. The Topeka will go north on Friday. 2 The Rosalie steamed away again to- night for Dyea and Skaguay. Sne had over & hundred passengers on board, eight horses and considerable freight. Among the passengers out on the Rosalie was George Aleen of Snohomish, who is taking a stock of general hardware and outfitting goods to open a store at Skaguay. The schoover Moonlight finally salled | to-night for Alaska. The passengers are | very severe in their expressions over what | term the unwerranted interference | pector Bryant in compelling a sh:ft- ing of thair cargo. They say that more fayored vessels have been allowed much | greater privileges. Ttis the expectation | of the Portlana and Alaska Transporta. tion and Trading Company, which has just rent out the Bristol, to put the Hasslo | on the St. Michael run from Seattle next | spring and to connect with the Eugene for | the Yukon River trip. The city is all agog over the expected | arrivel of the steamer Portiand from St. M.chael. She is due Thursday, aithough there was a report circulatea lo-nighll that she had already passed through the | straits and would be in Seattle to-morrow. | The report bas not thus far been verified. INTERESTED. | WOMEN ARE They Incorporate a Company to Lo- cate and Operate Mines on th= Klondike. SEATTLE, Wasu, Aug. 24.—That the Klondike gold fever is spreading among ail classes and conditions of Seattleites is | again evidenced by an incorporation this aiterncon that is certainly novel in its in- tended workings, It is known as the Woman's Yukon-Alaska lining Invest. ment Company, at the head of which are Mrs. Fred E. Bander, Mrs. Nellise M. Mac- lochlan and Mrs. Alice Aizen. The cap- italization is $500,000, ana shares are sold al $1 each, thus affording women of mod- | craze. | town welcomed them with cheers. | The map is very d 7 [ the yielding, springy condition of soil and ‘erme means an opportunity to goin and bll DEALY participate in the strike that is hoped for. The idea is for the company to procure and outfit ten able-bodied men who will be personally conducted by Mrs. Mac- lochlen acress ihe trail from Skaguay into the Upper Yukon country. There they wili go prospecting, and a large propor- tion of the gains will be turned into the company. The woman manager will re- main on the ground and keep tab on the working of her subjects, while she will also do a little prospecting. It is intended to start the expedition out in March, and two or three of the other women In the company may also be detailed to accompany the party. Mrs. Sanders is d:sirous of poing if she can secure her husband’s cousent. A few s ago he was one of the heaviest cap- talists in the city, but ha lost consider- a2ble money in street gailways, real-estate holdings and oiher ventures. RECEIVED WITH CHEERS. Resldents of Juneau Enthuslastic Over the Proposed Rallroad to Teslin Lake. WILMINGTON, DeL., Aug. 24.—Private advices were received from Juneau by way of Seattle to-day by C. F. Hutchings of this city, one of the promoters of the propoted railroad from Taku Inlet, on the Alaskan coast, to Teslin Lake, at the bead of the Yukon. The communication was from P. L Packard, the Oregon man who left here seven weeks ago in charge of a survey party. The letter from Pack- ard says that the arrival of the party in | Juneau was one of the most sensational features of the prevalent Alaskan gold The news of the proposed railroad and the departure of the survey party from this city, he says, reached Juneau a week before the party, and the residents and miners who were lingering in the Pack- ard lived in Juneau for a year, and conse- | quently the older residents were especially considerate of him and his party, His party, he says, had not been in town twenty-four hours before he was be- sieged in his apartment in the Occidental Hotel by hundreds of gold-seekers who had become stranded in the town or who were revolving in their minds the prob- lem of the ascent of the dangerous Chil- coot. These men, he says, applied to him for the right to join his party and work in the quartz mines along the railroad. Many of them, he says, offered small sums of money for this right, while others were willing to give him their services as “*packers” for the privilege. = The merchants of the town became so greatly enthused over the railroad project that they made it their special business to advise miners to foliow him instead of facing the dankers of Chilcoot. On the day the party left Juncau to vpack over the mountains to the pass on which the road will be built Packard says they were cheered to the echo and were offered any amount of aid by the residents and mer- chants. The party leaving Juneau con- sisted of forty men, including thirty In- dians. Some of the miners in town trailed after the party. Accompanying his com- munication Packard included a large blue | print of Alaska, which he began to make in Seattleand finished aboard the steamer, complete and shows every important poini on the Alaskan goldfields. RS, GUARDING THE GUNS. No Weapons for Plrates WIiil Bs Permitted to Go Out From the Banicla Arsenal. BENICIA, Cac.,. Aug. 2 The possi- bility of a piratical expedition being or- ganized to intercept ships carrying gold from Alaska to Seattle and San Francisco has not escaped the obseruation of Colonel Babbitt, commanding the Benicia Arsenal, hence every application for ordnance is carefully studied. The colonel said to- night that no arms had gone trom the arsenal for any such purpose and that none would be permitted togo. Yester- day an order was i ceived from Washing- ton to supply & college in Iowa with a howfzer. The piece will be placed aboard the train and shipped to its destination, but good care will be observed that it goes to no other place than the point to which it is consigned. A shorttime ago an ap- plication was received to suppiy an inte- rior college, but the request could not be grantea. The commanding officer of the arsenal is on his guard and will carefully | scan every application. Shouid an order come from Washington to supply ord- nance to parties whose responsibility might be in doubt Colonel Babbitt would not allow the guns to go until the depart- ment had been advised of the details. The arsenal contains ten or twelve haif-pound rapid-fire Hotchkiss gans, which is just | the pattern of ordnance that a pirate would need to outfit his ship, but extra precaution will be observed tv prevent these guns from going out of the arsenal A Wait Until Spring. PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 24 —*“Don’t at- tempt the irip to the Klondike until spring,and when you go take the Yukon route via St. Michael.” This is the advice given by the ex-Councilman J. P. Mene- fee and heis in a position to offer some sensible suggestions that shouid be heeded by those contem plating such a journey. Mr. Menefee was a passenger on the steamer KElder during her first trip, and alter thoroughly looking over the situa- tion at Dyea and Sgaguay concluded to re- turn to Portiand and remain until spring, and he arrived home Sunday evening. “Skaguay is where most of the gold- seekers are landing,”” said Mr. Menefee. “It1s a much more convenient place than Dyea. Horses and pack animals can be used over White Pass, while only Indians can be utilized over the Chilcoot Pass from Dyea. There were at least 2500 miners st Skaguay a week ago last Sun- day, when I left, and I have no hesitancy | in saying that not over 25 per cent of that number will get over the pass this year. The pass is in a terrible condition and those wooattempt to cross at this time aretaking theirlives in their hands, The trail is but ons mass of mud, slush and | larze rocks, and the Dyea trail is much worse."’ - Luck of a Prisoner’s Brother. BAN JOSE, Can, Aug. 24.--Robert Lowe, a prisoner serving a twenty-day term in the County Jail for petty laiceny, uas learved that his brother, Joseph Lowe, has struck it rich on the Klondike, Newspaper reports place the latter's for- tune at nearly $500,000. The two brothers separated in the State of Washington about five years ago, and about a year ago Joseph Lowe went to Alaska. Lowe has writien a letter to his brother at Daw- son City, and at the expiration of his term next week will begin to work his way north, so as to be ready to gojinto the | Klondike ¢arly next spring. Saiad sl The Dwyer L'baled. The steamer Thomas Dwyer, which is advertised to be towed to the Yukon by the Navarro, which starts to-day, was libeled yesterday in the Unitel States District Court by Englebert Lux and Wil- liam Larsen, seamen, for $119 wages. It is expected that the matter will be settled to-day, so that the expedition to the Kigndike will not be delayed. BEING 2T THROUGH H. Z. Osborne Buying Claims in the Copper Creek District. OTHER PROPERTIES ARE BONDED. This Means a Substantial De- velopment of the New Discoveries. LEDGES WHICH PROMISE VERY RICH RETURNS. Boomers of Coffeville Expect Trinity’'s New Town to Have a Magic Growth. CARRVILLE, CAL., Aug. 24.—The first important deals of recently discovered Coifee Creek mines have been made by H. Z. Osborne of Los Angeles, who has bought one Hickory Gulch mine for $5000 and bonded another for $50,000. The transactions were rumored yesterday and the news was reliably confirmed to-day. Mr. Osborne mixes mining with run- ning the Los Angeies Express, and was about to start on a trip to Arizona when the Coffee Creek discoveries wera heralded to the world, and he at once came he:e ready to buy or bond any good thing he might ron across, He went up to Hick- ory Creek for this purpose a few days ago and is now on his way back. While there he inspected the promising prospect of Hardscrabble Gulch, just over the ridge from Hickory Guich, which Thomas Keat- ing bas been quietly developing for nearly two years, and when he left he had it bonded for two months for $50.000 and had paid Keatinz a bonus of §1000. Keating's is the only discovery in the neighborhood of Hickory Gulch which has been at all developed, and it hes been considered the best ledge proposition in that region. A broken liedge of quartz which assays high has been traced up the hill, but the ledge has not yet yet been found in place. Keating is running a tunnel fhrough a big porphyry dike 1o discover and crosscut the ledge, and bas it down twenty feet, with from 100 to 20 feet yet to go. This porphyry is settled with gold-bearing material, and the whole mass of the porphyry may pay for milling as well the quartz, and Keating has washed and mortared out about $3000 to pay expeuses. Should the transaction be completed it will give another impetus to the quar:z development of that region. Mr, Osborne also bought the claim on Hickory Gulch, located about six weeks | ago by Thomas Carroll and his partner Riley, and by them quickly sold to Messrs. Pitts and Manning for $250. At that time Carroil and Riley, Burgess and Murphy, Donovan and two or three others were working placer claims on Hickory Creek with little or no success. Carroll went to panning the hillsides for traces or ledges, and made the first vein discovery in Hickory Gulch. Tbue others left their sluicing and went to panning, too, and Burgess and Murphy soon made their find. Donovan also found a promising ledgs, which he i3 developing. It is the claim first located by Carroll and sold for 250 which Mr. O Lorne has secured for 1 $5000. It is a promising prospect with hardly any development. It is reliably reported from the head of the creek that a new find was made in Hickory Gulch yesterday by two San Francisco men who have been there a few days. Oneisa Frenchman and the other has been a steward on a coastinz vessel. Not far from the Burecess and Murphy wvein, or pocket, whichever it may prove to be, they found a similar deposit, but the pan yielded indications of only about $25a ton. A. H. Hubert of Sissons,whose wife is a niece of C. P. Huntington and who bas been out prospeoting for three days, to-day discovered und ‘located a quartz ledgze about four miles up Coffee Creek and gota good prospect with mortar and pan. A good many quatiz veins are being found ard located by prospectors. A ma- jority will prove to be of liitle or no value, Coffeeville was staked out to-day, and to-morrow lumber for the first saloon will go up the road from Trinity Center. E. T. Casey, th» manager and chief boomer of the enterprise, will go to San Francisco to-morrow to begin whooping up the new venture. In a few days the sporting p-ople brought from Ranasburg and San Francisco will by here and lots will be for sale in the city. Mr. Casey, with his ex- perience 1n townsite booming in Cripnie Creek, Oklahoma Territory and Rands- burg, regards this as a good location for a town. Next spring Mr. Casey will go to Skaguay. As one stands beneath the wild goose- berry and willows, and under tha pines by the banks of fretful Coffee Creek, it is hard to realize that ere the moon waxes again a dance-hall will rise besids the spiit-picket fence around the posies in Dick Graves’ quiet front vard, but that is what is coming, because a nugget of gold was found in Morrison Guich. The peo- ple who are coming in now to commence prospecting are not relied upon to buitd the town. The people will be s2nt in, and according to a master workman among the town builders the sports are the ones to get in first. Other business people and residents are to be got to follow, and with a season of cold-blovded whooping the new town will be created and made fa- mous. The inpouring of people to.day was at the diurnal rate of fifty, which has been kept up for several days. Six and four hor-e wagons loaded with ten or a dozen rushers and their outfits, and making the through trip of over sixty miles from Red- ding in two days, are becoming more numerous daily on the road. These loads are made up at Redding by owners of the teams, who get together parties from the trains, and San Francisco men are Jound in all of them. The several hundred campers along Coffec Creek and the Trin- ity are starting a good many small forest fires, waich keeps the mountains wrapped in a soft biue haze. Mz, and Mrs, J. L, Dutton of Santa Cruz arrived to-day in the course of a notable eycle tour from Monterey Bay to the Blue Jay mine and back. They are a young couyple well known in the bicycle world. They left Santa Cruz a week ago 2ad have come the whole way on their wheels. From Redding to here the trip is about as rough and tough a one as a wheelman cauld make, but Mf. and Mrs Dutton are jolly, bealtby ana triumphant. Mr. Dut- ton packs the baggage on his wheel, but there is not much of it. After crossing the summit of the Trinity Mountains on the county line there are five miles of very steep and winding road. They let Leavy brushes drag behind, put on brakes and coasted the whole distance without accident, They started out just to make the trip and the Blue Jay their goal. Mr. Datton has advice for any who may fol- ‘ow him on wheels. He used a 70-gear and his wife a 63. He aavises bringing extra chains and using a 46 or 50 gear iu the mountains, Trinity Center has plenty of supplies, despite Redding’s reports to the contrary, and it does a brisk business with the rusbers as they stop an hour or two, it being the nearest poiat of supply to Coffee Creek. Loads of vegetables and horse- feed are now being peddied up Coffee Creek, and to-day a Trinity Center man started a private mail and express line to the lower end of the creek. Trinity Center is busy getting ready for its festival ot racing and dancing next Friday and Saturday, and the big open- air dance platform is nearly completed. J. 0. DENNY. . ON GOES THE RUSH. Prospectors Passing Through Red- ding on the Way to the Coffee Creek Mines. REDDING, CaAL, Aug. 24.—This has without doubt been the liveliest dey in this city since the discovery of rich gold diggings on Coffee Creek was made, and far more prospectors and miners have to- day entered this city en route to the new gold fieids than any gingle day heretofore. Fully 120 prospectors arrived on the over- land train this morning, and this even- ing’s local brought forty or fifty men. Nearly all wera fully equipped for pros- pecting and the majority of the new- comers left to-day on all sorts of convey- ances for the gold fields. Notable among the arrivals to-day were two millionaire mining men, recently from Cripple Creek, Colo. These pentle- mer, early in the rush for the Trinity gold fields, sent representatives into the Coffee Creek country with instructions to press far up into the Hickory Creek and Salmon River districts. They did so, and it was on the strength of their favorable reports that the two capitalists are now on their way to the digeings. They go with the intention of buying and bonding properties and investing their money where they are cénfident it will bring back to them gold in sufficient quantities to pay. The first load of general merchandise to be placed on stock in Coffeeville, the new city of teats, left this city this mornina. A gentleman lately from Southern Cali- fornia will start the store, and the pros- pects for him to coin money on the start are excellent. This, with a laundry, will constitute the only business represented at present in Coffeeville, but it is safe to say that in five weeks nearly every branch of business will be represented and things booming as old Tnnity never dreamed of before. Transportation accommodations are be- ingarranged for 200 prospectors, who leave this city for the gold fields to morrow. The rush to the new camps has virtually just begun. e I e NEW STAGE ROADS. Two Companles Examining the Routes to the Copper Creek Reglon. Two stage companies are examining two different possible roads into the Coffes Creek mining district in the northern part of Trinity County. The recent great interest attracted to these mines has develoved travel faster than it has suitable roads to accommo- date the prospectors that are hastening into the diggines. The present route of approach for Cali- fornia miners is by train to Redding and thence Ly stage line to Weaverville, thence northward to the Coffee Creek country. A more direct stage road is being planned almost straight west from Delta, a railroad station thirty miles north of ~ WEAVERVILLE O e Redding. This, however, would have to be built throughout almost its entire iength, as no old road is available. Men are now examining the country to ascer- tain what work will be necessary. ‘The other route is to approach from the north of the mines, irom the railroad town of Gazelle, in Si:kivou County, southward through Callahans and on down into Trinity County and Oroville. This road is aiready constructed as astaze road, but heretofore regular stages bave run from Gazeile over to Caliahans and the road from there southward requires some attention to fit it for better staging. This nort ern route is shorter than the present one, but requires longer railroad travel and will probably be favored prin- cipally by persons going to the mines from Oregon. The prospective road west from Delta will te the direct and shortest one. Assistant General _Passenger Agent Judah of the Southern Pacificis now at Ga- zelle, where he will remain for three days making inquiries as to the possibilities of the stage tfavel from that station. PITTOBUKG PHIL A LOSER. Disastrous Day for the sheepshend Bay. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug, 24—'Pitts- burg Phil,” whose winnings on the American turf probably amountto $1,250,- 000, met with a sudden reveral of fortune at Sheepsh reat Fu- turity stake was run. s garing the afternoon are estimated at Plunger at $5),000 to $60,000. It was the first reai | hard blow “Pittsburg Phil” has received this season. The bookmakers determined to take a chance at *‘Phil” and accepied practically all the bets he made. He wagered thou- sands of dollars upou Mr. Keene's entries, Uriel e&nd Cock Robin, and lost. He plunged the heaviest in the fifth race, for three-year-olds and upward, NCKINLEY AT A . A B. BANQUET His Happy Response to “The Nation and Its Defenders.” Makes Another Little Speech to Old Comrades at a Campfire. Colonel Mack WIl Be the Next Commander-in-Chief, Cincinnatl the Mesting-Place. BUFFALO, N. Y., Aug. 24.—President McKinley was to-night the guest of Co- lumbia Post of Chicago at a banguet which was attended by all the distin- guished officers of the G. A. R. The scenes outside the banquet hall wers as in- teresting as those inside. When the Presi- dential party arrived, at 3 o'clock this afternoon, the route from the station to the hotel was lined with enormous crowds. President and Mrs. McKinley, Commander-in-Chief Clerkson and Augus- tus Scheu of Buffaio rode in a carriage be- hind twenty-five mounted policemen to the Niagara Hotel. There the crowd was S0 persistent that the President was obliged to make a speech, as he had done in Syracuse. The President's journey downtown again was the scene of excep- tional enthusiasm. Columbia Post was his escort, and as he stepped from the car- riage to the sidewalk cannon boomed and 50,000 voices joined in a great cheer. Four bundred diners assembled at the Ellicott Club. Commander McConnell of Columbia Post acted as toastmaster. On his right sat the President and on his left General Clarkson. Others st this table were Archbishop Ireland, General Alger, ex-Postmaster General B ssell, Governor Black and Governor Pingree of Michigan. Governor Black made an address of wel- come to the G. A. R. in bebalf of the State. The President’s toast was *‘The Nation and Its Defenders.” He sai I wish I might frame fitting words to make response to the more than gracious welcome you have accorded me to-night. I come with no set form of speech, with no stadied phrases to preseat to you, butin a spirit of comradeship, to talk to you as we have so often talked in the past, around campfires in war as well as cawmp- fires in peace. “My fellow citizens: Blessed is that country whose defenders are patriots; blessed is that country whose scld ers are fighting for it and wiiling to give the best they have, their own lives, to preserve it because they love it. Such an army the Unitea States has always commanded in every crisis of her history. From the War of the Revolution to the late Civil War men have fol.owed that flag in battle oe- cause they loved the flax and believed what it represented. That was the stuff of whieh vur volunteer army was made. Every one of them not only doughi but thought, and many of them did their own thinking and did not always agree with their commanders. “There was a young soldier who upon the battle-line went ahead with the color guard bearing the stars and stripes away | in front of the line. The general called out to the color-bearer: ‘Bring those colors back to the line!’ And quicker than any bullet that young soldier an- swered: ring the line up to the colors ! It was & voice of command; there was a man bebind it and there was patriotism in his heart. “And so more than 2,000,000 brave men thus responded, and made the army grander than any army thatever shook the earth with its tread and engaged in a holier cause than ever engaged soldiers before. “What defenders, my countrymen, have we now? We have the remnant of this old, magniticent, matchless army of which I bave beem speaking, and then as allies in any future war we have the braye men who fougnt against us on Southern battlefields. The army of Grant and the army of Lee are together in faith, hope, fraternity, purpose and invincible patriot- ism, and therefore the country is in no danger. In justice strong, in peacs se- cure, in devotion to the flag all one.” From the banquet the President went to the campfire, where he said: Gentlemen: I only came to this splendid presence to-night so that I might pay respect 10 my old comrades and lsy at their feet my tribute of love, appreciation and affection. When the war commenced we had no concep- tion of the great resuits. Nobody believed— I mean no great mass of our pecople—that the end of the war wou'd be the end of human glavery. But not from men was our issue; from Him who is the sovereign Lurd came our ordeal battle that men might be freed. Afd as a re- sult of the great struggle we have the greatest Government because we have the freest Gov- ernment, and we have the freest Government because we have equal Government, governed equally by equal citizens everywhere. And it is the business of every man and woman in every partof our common country to cuitivate tne nighest and best citizenship, for upon the nighest and best citiz nship resis the nighest and best duty of the Goverument Whiie every one else was talking of Mc- Kinley’s visit to-day Colonel Mack of Sandusky was working like a beaver to maintain supremacy in the race for the championship, and he met with great suc- cess. The attitude of Colonel Sexton of Chicago to-day is equivalent to with- drawal, so to-night Colonel Mack has Iili- nois, most of Indiana and Ohio and more than half of the Western Btates. He claims 100 majority on the first ballot. The Onio men are determined that Cin- cinnati sball get the encampment. San Francisco started in with renewed vigor for the encampment 10-day and offers a guarantee fund of $100,000, but the Cin- cinnati movement Is so well established that the ounslaught had little effect. It seems impossible to beat either Cincinnati or Mack, and so the precedents of the Grand Army are threatened. GALLANT SULDIEK'S DOWNFALL. General John Haye: Find in New York for Intoxication. NEW YORK, N. Y., Auz. 24.—General John Hayes, a brilliant member of Grant's staff in the war, was fined in the Tombs Police Court this morning for in- toxication. The friends of the old soldier were greatly pained to hear of his reeefit down- fall. For some time past he has been drinking bard and thers were many who said that it would not take long for Hayes 1o end in the gutter. When the old-time dashing general appeared in the Police Court this mnminr he was simply a shadow of his former self. He appeared to feel his disgrace keenly and kept his head down while the pro- ceedings in the court were going on. Giaieelny A Fremch Syndicate Thes Time, CLEVELAND, Onio, Aug. 24—The Cieveland Machine Screw Company, one of the largest in the country, has been boughf by a French syndicate and capi- talized at $3.000,000. The price paid wat over $1,000,000. 3 FARTHER APART THAN BEFORE Operators and Miners Utterly Unable to Agree. Conference Adjourns and It Looks Like War to the Bitter End. Preparatlons to Reopen ldle Mines, Which WIIl Be Reslsted by the Strikers. PITTSBURG, Pa,, Aug. 24—The great coal strike will continue. The conference between the operators and miners na-‘ journed. to-day without action. Both parties are farther apartthan before, and the feeling aroused makes an early settle- ment still more improbable. It now looks like war to the bitter end. Operators are preparing to reopen their idle mines with non-union men, and the miners are pre- | paring to resist. ‘The conference began at 11 o’clock and | by noon had adjourned sine die. The {operators made several offers to the | miners, the best being one granting a | wage rate of 6134 cents a ton, but ail were rejected. In retmn the miners made these propositions, which were rejected by the operators: To issue a call tora con- ference of represzentatives of competitive States; miners to return to work imme- diately at a 69-cent rate until the price is determined by arbitration, within thirty days; should the decision be for less than 69 cents the miners to be charged with the difference between 69 cents and the award of the arbitration board. | The miners refused the proposition to arbitrate the wage question, miners to | work meanwhile without the price being set and pald at the rate agreed upon by the arbitrators. President Ratchford, when asked why this offer was not accepted, replied: *‘Be- caus: it applied only to the Pittsburg diz- trict. If we go into arbitration of that kind we want the whole competitive field embraced. They declined to joinusin a call for a general proposition, <0 we re- fused their offer of mrbitration, knowing | that they are merely trying to harass us | with a whole series of petty arbitrations.” | The afternoon was spent by the opera- tors in preparing a statement ‘‘lor the | public and miners.” It recites the pro- | ceedings of yesterday’s ana to-day’s meet- | ings and continues: | “‘The operators feel that in making their propositions for a settlement by conecili- ation or arbitration they have exnausted every effort in trying to bring about a | settlement with the miners’ officials. The proposition of Ratchford cou!d not be ac- | capted, because it means an advance of | 373 per cent in wages, and would entail heavy losses on producers. The prices at which cosal contracts have bsen taken were enforced by conditions ruling the markets in open competition {rom other producing fields. “The operators are confronted con- stantly with two forces—pressure of buyers | to get coal at the lowest price, which is determined by remorseless competition, and by the miners, who at all times de- | mand the highest possible wage rate. In addition to these two factors is one of cost of transportation trom the mines to the market. ‘‘Amicable methods baving failed to | convince or move the miners’ leaders the | responsibility for whatever suffering fol- lows to the miners and their families must fall upon the miners’ officials. The oper- ators feel that they have exhausted all honorable means for a settlement of the strike. The miners’ officials having re- fused their propositions the operators can only ask the miners to consider the condi- tions that exist and answer the quesiion to their own and their families’ satisfac- tion whetber they ars justifi d in contin- uing the line of action they have been fol- lowing."” TRAGIC END 10 A WILD CAREER. Swicide in New York of a Unce Famous . German actress. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 24—Mrs. Olga King, a tall. handvome brunette who bad ocenpied a flat on Union street, Brooklyn, was found dead in her bedroom to-day, i lying face downward in a pool of blodd. A bullet wouna was in her right temple and a yard away was a pistol. Two of the five cartridges had been exploded. The police believe it was a suicide. They sought in vain a man known to the neigh- | bers as “Mr. King,” because he was a | more frequent caller than any of the | woman’s “other friends. They bad about given him up when ‘ King” surrendered wimself. In the meantime it was developed that Mrs. King was a nctitious name, and that the woman in reality was at one time a famous German actrese, known as Adttiiie Kiraly, who came to this country when cast off by her husband, Lieutenant- Colonel von Sehwarz of the Austrian army. Mrs. King’s escapades abroad were putlishea far and wide. She came to this counirv four years ago, but did not modify her conduct. She was about 30 years old and very pretty. The man known as King proved to be Placido Saitta, an [talian, in the produce commis- sion business. He says he visited Mrs. King this morning after an estrangement. Sneshot at bim, and as he fled she killed herself. OB TE STAMP COLLECTORS MEEZT. Their Next Convention Will Probably Tie Held tn Tais City. BOSTON, Mass, Aug 24 —Men who make stamp collecting their business ot recrestion assembled in Weslyan Hall Hall this morning, the occasion being the twelith annunal convention of the Ameri- can Philatelic Association. Representa- tives from nearly all the different States of the Union were in attendance. The gathering includes several women. San Francisco will be particularly inter- ested in this convention for two reasons. In the first place there s a big effort being made to get the next convention in that City, and second, two California citizens are opponents for ths office of assistant secretary. They are H. B. Phillips and Frank Koenig. The polls were opened to-day, but as it is a mail bailot the result cannot be made known for severa days. W. H. Suydam of San Francisco, who is present as a delegate, is leading the forces in the fight to get the next conven- tion for his city, and is apparently meet~ ing with considerable success. . There is only one candidate for presi- dent—F. F. Olney, ex-Mayor of Provi- dence, R. I, who is already holding the office of chief executive:and will be re- elected without opposition. He owns a | collection of stamps valued at $100,000. B Machinery for a New Refinery. CLEVELAND, Oxnro, Aug. 24.—One of the largest orders for machinery ever given any firm in this city has been re- ceived by the Kilby Manufacturing Com- pany. The firm will supply all the ma- chinery,costing over halfa million dollars, of the refinery and sugar house to be es- tablishe¢ av Crockeits, Contra Costa County, Cal. Kilby, wno has been on the Pacific Coast some time, returned to- day with the order. He will personally superintend the work of construction. o e Alger at the Throtile. ) SYRACUSE, N. Y., Aug. 24.—The Preai-b dent and party came into Syracuse drawn by the famous engine. 999 this morning, with Secretary of War Alger at the big lo- comotive’s throttle. The Secretary rods on the engine all the way from Utica, and assisted Engineer Veeder in manag- ine the machine. His gray hairs were recognized when the train drew into the New York Central station, and he was greeted with cheers. from Dswson City, Alaska. of the boys who worked here last winter. Blankeis—in fact, everything is first ciass, vance above cost. We have fallen beir to a | nent. Poor Woman's Seap, box. . . . . $1.00 With every 20-bar box of this full-weight soap for famlly use goss oue of cur big bath towe.s free. Castile Toilet Soap. .. .ovon. .36 This is eitter white cr blue gray color—size thatis €old a. 5 ceats On bargain counters, kast or West, and 10 cents in most places. Castalian. .ccooveeveenn. . 850 Large bottles of this grand remedy foc kidney complaint and impurities of the blood. Hun- dreds of Lestimonials. | Nuskin, Unbloaghed. ... ... ...56 Yourchofce of fourdifferent mi:Is at this price —all heavy, eveo threuds, Dut varying in tex- ture. kuy before a jump la price. Child’s Hose. ... ...6e Black or gray, from baby to 8 or 10 years old, 00d value, worth say 10 to 12 ceats. Our Ladies’ 50-cent Low Shoes, black SMITHS ‘CASH 'STORE NEW TO-DATY. PRIDE OF KLONDIKE. The fine outfit vou sold me last May is the “Pride of Klondike,”” writes a friend The Men’s Coats and Leather Soled Boots are the envy | The Bacon, the Flour, the Stoves, the and could be sold here at an immense ad- part of the Alaska trade and know how ta handle it, and what to sell, and where to get it, better t: an any house on the conti« At the same time we are not neglecting our near trade. B3 CALL AND COMPARE PRICES., Linolenm.....ovevvennne.. Bl This is English manufacture and will s00n be advanced. The 2-yard wide goods $1 a ruu- ning yard. Common Oil Cloth equare yard and upward. 26 cents a Hammocks. . R Thesa are good: but, to be candid with you, 1f buying for bie folks, wa prefer to recomme d thuse soid av 85c, $1, §1 25, 31 50 and even higher. Marysvillo Blaukls. - . ... .$4.00 These are the geouine all-wool blankets turned out by this justly celebrated mill. We have them heayier—bigger ad higker in price for Eastern and Northe:n trade. 0il Cloth for Table..........15 Do not pay 20 or 28 cents. We give the choics of 75 or 100 styles at 15 ceats, all siandard width, for general use. We Build the Ladder by Which We Climb. Outfitting miners for California mines and the Klondike is our business. ‘We are supplying pub'ic institutions and large buyers everywhere. Shipments to foreign ports are increasing every monta. Bring the boys in this week and we will fit them out at low figures. or brown, drive everything out. Our Men's $4 50 Button Shoes, reduced ¢o $1 37, win tiade. We welcome visitors to our store. Do not buy unless you need tne goods, and only then if pric.s are favorable. The Diniog-Room is open from 9 to 4. The service and cooking are the very bast. Frea delivery anywhere in town. Also to Alameda and Berkeley. THE BI& STORE AT THE FERRY—25-27 MARKET STRURT. ANY MAN \ WV EO SUFFERS OR JUST BEGINS TO SUF. fer fiom lost vigor, nerve-waste, weak back or any other weakness due to youthiul e etc.. can be “ntirely cured be DR. COUK’S Restorative ‘Treatment, I: never fails, Callorwrite. Address DR. H. COOK, Specialist for Men, 865 Market Street. Sau Francisco. he Perfume of Violets ‘The purity of the lil, rose, and {:e aflm of Beb’e 3&6’:: X:'P?:wn ‘wondrous Powder. NOTARY PUBLIC. A. J. HENRY, NOTARY PUBLIC, 638 MARKET rT., OPP. PALACH HOLEL Telephono 570. Residence 909 Valeucls sirest Telephone “Church” 15 i KLONDYKE BOATS! DS AND BURROS, READY FCR SHIR Sli:ng‘ Boats 22 feet 10ng wili carry 2 ‘ons of GOLD and 4 men: the lighttst and strongest thas can be made; fastesed with sCrews. G. W. 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