The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 12, 1897, Page 2

SAN FRA THE CISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPT IBER 12, 1897 not the eternal prosperity of New Jerusa- rinly prosperity, enduring as long as human nature would permit. New York Central was 112, and went to 130. Northwest common rose from 60 to 91; prefer 0 104; St. Paul from 2910 preferred from 66 to 100, and all the resto! them in like proportion. Of course, Green- back leaders explained that this was all temporary, be se no real prosperity could come without greenbacks. Never- theless, the world went o There was no lack of money, because we had business which p: whenever a nation has business whic it can draw on the money of the whole werid. How like those are the events of the last twelve montl Prior to the passage of the tariff act, we had schemes like those which preceded the first day of 1879. Offerers of the pateni remedy stood by and jeered. They mocked at us when our fear came. But when due legislation had been had and there was nofurther change to be looked forwarda to, when business bad reached its sound basis and there wa a reasonable chance to calculate the future, there came a repetition of the phe- nomena of 1879. Stocks have zone up, not | ve played, but be- ave changed and the because cause men mblers whote Natic < utterly different views of the future. A stock which is worth 40 when everyt:iing seems on the down siope, easily becomes worth 80 when When u may go, a ie sunlight nobody rt may Fear in- : hoy ses the rise. akes prosperity and what makes vou incre the base of nt each time s ngs, causes at work the ith ali tion. New . D be- ated mo t The prosper simul at comes, smash 873, there is the busi- i medicine men and rattles man. When foundly shaken it It has been shaken by causes, and those causes must be removed. Men and zed part 10 anot ita- itself. tions and the whole avil- f the race gofrom one extrem= These alternations seem as bb and flow of tides of ne the gcean. W inflated @t certain periods it will go too d then there must be a settiement. It must be settled who owns the property, and until that is established nothing else can be Those who nominally own property this. They hope some far, resist miracle will help. Then, after settlement, if any laws be deemed necessary they t be passed or tbere will be further me false starts may be taken like that o whicn the Venezuelan war a chilling frost. when all things are ready, ays happens which devel 1ai conndence has returned, and lo! the whole world hasa different aspect. Wheels begin turning, freight be- gins moving, commerce resumes her full sway, one by one each employment tak:s up its march, and the Nation asa whole goes 10 work again, urged on by the never- cloud gave s ops the fac! dying yearning for an increase of wealth | to be consumed for pleasure, or wealth to be hoarded for reprodnction, until the time comes when all stand fearful on the brink. When it will come no one can teli beforehand, but it will finaily come every wise man knows. Has it come now? Isitclose upon us? It is always unwise to prophesy ahout the immediate fature, fi may be remem- nst you if you go wrong, and as 3 only mortal the chances of being ght are It better to prophe; things to happen in a hund or preferably in a thou- if you go wrong you are all nd distributed theless, ali symptoms of prosperity or it is are here. Men are wiiling to lend money, #nd sensible men are witling to take it and risk it 1 new enterprises. In a word, it leoks like 1879, Another enconraging symptom is that the financial medicine men are now ex- jlaining in a low tone of voice why what they.said 1n such loud tones last year was not so. This is a prelude to the utter silence which will fall upon them in due time—a silencs which will be a signal that the world has settled another financial probiem in the only way it can be settled, d that is in the minds of the people. A good many questions have been set- tled these last few vears. In all debates in the House this past session there was but one man who even mentioned the “‘consumer In other years, if you could believe our debates, we had no nopulation except “consumers.” Producers did not exist. Not a word did we have in the devates of tuis year about the need of low pr ces. We already had them, and mouths which used to start echoes in wild longings for low prices were devising plans for raising prices, and acted as if they had never helped on what Mr. Thomas Carlyle calls *'a career of the cheap and nasty,” At this moment thase biind leaders of the biind are explaining why the rise in wheat isno beip to the farmers. *It is only anaceident,” they say. *Poor erop« elsewhere, and so we sell ata profit; that isall. You will be no better off in the end, for such accidents cannot happen in the future. You wiil have to pay high prices for what you buy, and so you wili be 1n the same case in another year as you were the year before last.”” What idle talk tuis is. Returns from the wheat crop and other cereals spent in purchases start the Nation 10 work. W hen a nation once gets to work it will not stop until it gets out of gear azain, and then it will halt, and then it will go on agnin 1n a succession of like events forever and jorever. These eminent gentlemen might #s well say to the pendulum of a wound- up clock, “You had better give up this weary job. You were started witn a push, and novody is going to sit up nights 10 keep on pushing you.”” Every historic period of revival has been like this, Some eventataripe moment that is t| which was sent out by Herriman & ose of the world gets | " and he was from Kentucky. | pivments, the setting of money in motion by a reduction of the interest on’a part of | tariff bili, which, rightly or wrongly, peo- | vle believe in. Human nature and bu- man affal made ready for the chang», | bave aiways done the rest. | This talk of these gentlemen about | pr.ces and accidents and their recrimina- tion about dead and buried speeches show them to be still groping among the under- brush, while sensible men are standing on the mountain top and beholding earth to the very horizon edge. The view may not be of the whole round earth, buu it is better than a view from the jungle. Tuomss B. Reep. [Copyrighted.] | bappens, like the resumption of specie | | the National debt or the passagze of the | prietor of on: gambling-house now boasts that he has been making $1000 a day. Dockie McKinnon, an experienced Y ukon prospector who now keeps a hotel here, went up to Skaguay last week. He started to walk a few miles up the trail, but was stopped by a watchman with a shotgun. McKinnon was empty-handed and only wanted to 0ok at the trail. The watchman said his orders were to aliow no one to pass, and McKipnon was com- peiled to return. He is one of many others who now claim that it was never intended to put the trail in good condi- tion and that the scheme was to let it re- main impassable so as to keep the Kion- dikers in town. Many men have spent all their money and are now * broke.” The spendthrift element sent away from tbe cities by fond parents has run through all its money, sold outfits to get more and written home for money, The pursers on the regular boats on Alaskan runs now YNCHED AT LAKE Continued from First Page. lion dollars aboard is the veriest nonsense, it is not every man by any means who comes out from the mines with asmall | fortune.”” Regarding the situation at St. Michael, Mr. Leasaid: “The accommodations are miserable and the outlook is anything but bright. There is one thing, however, that I was pleased to see before I left, and that is the effort which is now being made to get food in to the miners before the river closes up. At the last moment every one | seems to appreciate the necessity of sirain- | g every possibie effort to prevent a amine in the Klondike this winter. “The steamer J. J. Healy leit St. Michael a week ago last Saturday, loade) to the | | suards with $0od supplies and provisio Passenger space was forfeited to make | room for edible freight, and a very larze cargo was started .or Dawson. Tomy knowledge this is the first boat that has carried food chiefly, or has sacrificed pas- senge: space in order 1o carry necessaries into the mines. Ii is understood that ev- { erything possible in the way ot boats, big d le, will be used to carry food up he river before the cold weather.” | Messrs. Lee and Howard tell a hard | story of the Nationa! City expedition, Mills | ot San Francisco. They allege that they toox passage under acontract to be landed | lin Dawson City this winter or be properly | | carea for until the river opened next| { spring. They say that they were notified | | upon reaching Si. Michael that the terms | of the contract had been fulfiiled and that | they must sbift for themselves from tiat | time on. Both men left for San Francisco on the Walla Walia to-day, and declared | tneir intendon of bringing suit against the projectors of theexpedition for breach | of contract. The assertions were borne out in part by the statement of Captain Hall of the Cleveland, as published in to-aay’s CALL, and by Captain F. Zaddert of the Soutu Coast, who said to-day that noattempt whatever had been made to carry the | National City’s passengers up the river. The little launch Hattie Gage that was taken up on the National City's deck to tow passenzers on a bargs to Dawson was { ridiculed by Captain Zaddert, who said | she was unable to tow the empty lighter ! | from the steamer to the shore, and that | | with the passengers and their effects on | beard it would be imjossivle for her to | bold her own against the current of the river. Just before the South Coast left St. | Michuael the steamer Weare arrived, hav- | ing been draggea from the sandspit be- | ‘ow Circle C.iy, where she had been bung | | up for several weeks, after great difficulty. } It was announced that the Weare would proceed to Dawson at once with a fall | cargo of provisions, but a report wasin | circulation that her boilers were in such | | condition that she would be unable 10| start until new boilers were put in. | This rumor was denied by the company, however, and if the Weare succeeds in resching Dawson hers will make four car- goes of supplies to be landed there this | | fall. This will relieve the distressto a | | considerable extent, but the passengerson | the South Coast were a unit in the state- ment tha at best there was bouud to be | privation at Dawson this winter. One of | ;u:e passengers on the South Coast was | | Robert Wigg, & half-breed Indian of Ju- | | neaun, who owns a baif-interest in claim 25 above Discovery on Ei Dorado Creek | | (hat wiil make him rich. Wisg is hese | | for the purpose of purchasing supp ies, as | he was unable to obtain a pound of pro- | | visions at Dawson at any price. He will | endeavor to take his outfit in overthe | trail this fall. Last winter Wigg and iis partners took out §20,000 from their claim in a short time, and they expect Lo clean | up a haif-million in two years. i SAusad BUNKOED AT SKAGUAY. Hundreds of Disgusted Gold-Seek- ers Wiil Soon Return on Ex- cursion Steamers. JUNEAU, ALASKA, 8ept.6,—Counterfeit- ers have loaded a lot of lead half-dollars and quarters into Skaguay. Lhey are ex- cellent imitaiions so far as appearances 2o and are difficult to detect except by the ring. The circulation was made com- paratively easy, because change has been so scarce in Skaguayv that saloons and stores have been buying silver at the rate | oi $5in gold tor $4 50 in change. Some | of the counterfeits have found their way to Juneau., The bottom has dropped en- | tircly out of the town-lot boom at Eka- guay. Lots which were held at $100, $200 | and up 10 $500 two weeks ago and changed | hands at those figures now go begginz at | $25. United States Commissioner John U. Smith from Poruand is reported to | have made $3000 in recording Skaguay | town fots. Bales of hay are rotting on the beach, never having been taken from the spot on | which they were discharged from the ship. Oats find no buyersat 75 cents a | sack. Horse feed is cheap and hor.e- flesh is cheaper. The usefulness of the | horse at Skaguay is a thing of the past, | at least for this season. Horses which were worth $300 three weeks ago cannot be given away naw and in a few more weeks will be killed. As indicated in pre- vious dispatches, 1t has at last b gun to dawn upon the Skaguayans that they have been flies in a web and that the spider has sucked their blood. Many signs now show that the main promotersof the | townsite never intended to open the trail | so that it could be traveled over in good shape. They have had runners at Junean | and as far south as Seattle and San Fran- | cisco booming ‘he Sksguay trail and the | Woite Pass. Runners thouted aloud on | | the wharves here that Skaguay wus the better trail and interested persons talke. Skaguay on the ships coming north, ‘While the crowa has been idle and unable to move on, gambling-houses and saloons BENNETT | 1o Puget Sound, says carry .large sums to be delivered to “husted” boys and men at Skaguay. 1f the trail was improved in one place by the expenditure of considerable money, 1t was found im passable in another. Money and time have both been wasted ana the crowd, though now beginning to wake out of its dazed condition, is still at Skaguay. It the crowd makes up its mind that the trail has been purposely tampered with, there will the form of rou- neglected and be 2 wreek of muatier in | lette wheels and faro layoutsana adouble- quick exodus of a hali-dozen men who are now prominent cilizens. W. B. Lansing, an old Yukon pros- | pector, who hus arrivea here from a visit | there will be great suffering from lack of provisions in Daw- son City next winter. The fact thatthe steamer P. B. Weare, with ner cargo of gold, did not connect at St. Michael with the steamer Portland is a suflicient indi- cation to his mind that the river isshal- low, and vhat the last boats up with sup- plies may not get through to Dawson City. Ho says the Alaska compauies will supply their old customers first and t the others must get food where they can. He does not see where the provisions to feed the crowd through the. winter are coming from, and predicts that many will die from cold and starvation while trying to get back to the coast. The Klondikers are still making steady progress over the Dyea trail and Chilkoot Pass with a fair prospeet of getting through, even atso late a dste as this, if if they can get boats. George Van Buren, aid to be from Chicago, and aged about 60 years, dropped dead at Skeguay vester- day. He had packed his outfit over to e other side of the summit. He said: then he fell dead. His wife is waiting for bim on the other siae of the puss. It has been raining hard for nearly a week on | the traii. Thoussnds of dollars’ worth of provisions have been ruined, and the goid-seekers are becoming more discour- aged each day it rains. Tons of supplies can be bougnt for 25 cents on the dollar. including cost of freight and packing to where it lies. There will bea r turn excursion from Ska- | guay to Willawette and home to-morrow. | The steamship Seatile has made an ex- cursion rate of $30 from bkaguay and Dyea to Puget Sound, and yesterday the names of 163 return excursionists had been listed, As the ship will not leave till to-morrow or next day the number of retarning Klondikers promises to run Into the hundred Har Horrymax, - IN HUMANITY’S CAUSE. Promlnent Men in Seattle Will Take Steps to Prevent a Focd Famine in the Klondike. SEATTLE, Wac<n.' Sept. 11.—Repre- sentative members of the local Chamber | of Comimerce are preparing to take the initiative in a thorougbly mediate sieps toward the alleviation of the prospective foed famine in the Ki dike. It is theic int-ntion at the next regular meeting of the chamber on next Wednesday evening, or possibly at a spe- cial meeting before that time, to address a petition to Secretary of War Alger asking that his department at once adopt the necessary measures for sending food into the Klondike and thus prevent starvation among the Americans located there. The matter haa been quietly discussed among the more active and prominent | members of the body here and it is the opinion that the moment the Seattle people act other cities wil! fall in line and bring pressure to bear to carry out the desired project. Samuel Crawford, one of the board of trustees of the chamber, who is taking an active partin the preparatory measures, said to THE CALL correspondent to-day: We have not yet decided whether to wait for our regular meeting Wednesday night or to call 4 special meeting Monday night for this purpose. In any event, it is deci led that we will petition the Gov- ernment, through tbe War Department, to assume control in this matter, and without loss of time to take such stevs as deemed most advisable to get a suflicient food supply into the Klondike to prevent a famine. There 1s scarcely a city in America that has not one or more of its people interested directly or indirectly in the Klondike gold fields; the son orother nearly every city in the country is.in the Kiondike or on his way thers, and we feel quite certain that if thisagitation is be- gun in the manuer we propose the project will have the indorsement of the entire country. “It is no more than right that our Government should take hold at once. We all know that the Canadian Govern- ment shows no hesitancy under like cir- cumstances, and stops at nothing to as-ist its people when they are in distress. We feel here that the only effective manner of handling this serious affair must be through the Government. If the War Department takes the initiative and begins a movement to relieve the distress in the mines it will receive the indorsement of the people all over the country. We do not expect to act alone, and are simply making the first move in the right direc- tion. Not only Pacific Coast cities, but cities in the Middie and Eastern States are alike interested in this cause, which is uothing other than one of humanity., It is our intention te act as quickly as pos- sible, to communicate with the War De- partment by wire, if necessary, and we are now only wailting to decide upon the manner of a ldressing our petition ana to get our leading members together so the movemeni may be one of unanimity,so far as we are concerned.” Further inquiry into the proposed move- ment develops that represeniative men in all lines of business are preparing to push this matter.. Included in the list nere are Robert Moran, president of Moran Bros., shipbuilding establishment; David E. Durie, capitalist; John Leary, Judgs Eben Smith, Erastus B-ainerd, Harold Preston, ex-Postmas'er Griffith Davis, J. W. Pratt and Thomas W. osch, prominent newspaper man of the rthwest; Samuel L. Crawford, H. C. Henry, E. O. Graves, president of the Cuamber ot Commeérce; Jacob Furth, have been piling up mouey. The pro- president of the Puget Sound Natignal atl Tbank God, my stuff is nearly over,’’ and 1 determined | manner in the matter oi effective and im- | relativé of some well-known family in | Bank; Lester Turner of the First N tional Bank; James Golasmith, manager Schwabacher Bros.; J. B. Macdonald, Frank Black, A. A. Baillargeon, A. M. Brooks of the Boston Nationa! Bank, General J. B. Metcalf and others. NOT A COWARD ABOARD. Captain Lewis Tells of the Bravery of the Men on the Battered Steamer Eugene. PORTLAND, Om, Sept. 1L—‘“There was not a shirk nor a coward among the men on the Eugene,” said Captain Lewis, wholeft with the sieamer from this port as navigator and hias returned, after land- ing his craft safely in an American port. “I have followed the sea and the deep water nearly all my life; have been through wreck aad disaster, but never have I seen a gamer set of men than those under me on the Eugene. ““As I supposed in leaving Portland it had all been arranged that we were to keep th=inland passage as far north as Cross Sound and then strike out to the westward. Instead of that we were taken hold of by the Bristol after passing through Seymour Narrows, a heavy steel cable with aboui 100 fathomso! rope was passed to us, and rounding the head of Vancouver Island above Fort Rupart passed out into the: North Pacific with a tow of some 1830 m:les abead of us. Then we struck into the heavy gale that has been meuntioned in the papers. A strong breaking sea was soon kicked up and the timbers of the Eugene were not stout enough to withstand any such pounding as the huli began to receive. “During the cresking and straining that followed, however, there was not a whis- per amon ; the boys of the Eugene. None of them hada ever been on the sea before. The tremendous seas roliing down upon us and the tug of the fonr-ton steel haw- ser as it straightened out from the bits woula bave sent the scare into the hearts of many sailors usel to the Horn weather. But not a man on the Eugene crawfished. insteag they set to work to repair dam- ages. Particularly is this so of Captain Young, late of the Orezon Railroad and Navigation Company’s steamers on the Columbia, and Mr. Weston, who left Lip- man, Woli & Co.’s empioy to goto the Kiondike. Young is a man with the beart of a hero. When he was not help- ing me at the wheel he was down in the hold of tne Eugene bracing the timbers or setting oakum into strained seams. Weston wasnotable to do hardly so much, but what he could do was dene w.thout ever a flinch. The Lord knows the boys deserve credit, They were all brave- souled through what even to me wasa mighty rough experience. Without that brave band I don’t know what 1 would have done.” WILL BUILD THE ROAD. Satisfactory Investigation of the Route From Taku Inlet to Lake Teslin, In the Interior. SEATTLE, Wasu., Sept. 1L.—W. A. Pratt, the engineer who was sent 1o the Northwest Térritorv by the Yukon Min- ing, Tradingand Transportation Company of Wilmingion, Del., to make a reconnois- sance for a railroad into the Yukon coun- try , returned to-day from Juneau on the steamer City of Topeka. He left this afternoor for the East. Accompanving him was his assistant, T. G. Janney of | Baitimore. The resultof Pratt's investi- | galions was so satisfactory from an engi- neering standpoint that it is probable sev- eral engineering parties will be put in the feld within a few weeks making prelimin- ary sucveys for the line. The proposed railroad is 162 miles in ieneth and the route runs from the head of Taku Inlet to Lake Teslin, in the in- tertor., Lake Teslin is at the head of the Hootalinqua River, one of the principal tributaries o1 the Yukon, and both are navigable, so that the line will be from salt water navigation to steamer naviga- tion on (he river. Speaking of the pro- posed railroad Mr. Pratt said: *It is a very favorable route indeed for the line. [t goes up the Taku River to the junction of the Clocloheen and Nakima rivers, thence up the latter river to Silver Salmon River and finally overland to the head of Teslin Lake. The heaviest grade is 3 per cent, and the route is remarkably direct for a mountainous country. The company has secured concessions from the Canadian Government of 5200 acres of land for each mile of roaa buili.”’ L VESSELS IN A GALE. It Is Believed the Steamer Eliz1 An- derson Reached St. Paul Har- bor In Safaty. SEATTLE, WasH., Sept. 11.—Captain J. B. Libby, manager of the Puget Sound Tuguvoat Company, to-day received a let- ter on the steam schooner South Coast, from Captain Frank W. Clinger of the tug Holyoke, which has in tow the barge Polytofski, bound for St Michael. The letter is dated Dutch Harbor, Au- ust 31. Regarding thesidewheel steamer Eliza Anderson, which was in company with the Holyoke and reported to be in distress, the letter says: “I stayed with | of Kadiak, We had rather a heavy west- erly gale for three days and on the second nizht we got separated and I think she must have got into St. Pau! harbor, for 1 have not seen or heard of her «ince. “‘If the westerly gale had lasted another day we would have lost the steanier Mer- wan, for when it moderated she was half fuil of water and it was gaining on them. If it had not been for the Anderson I would have been here three days sooner.”” Speaking of the Anderson, Captain Libby said: *The Anderson reached St. Paul’s harbor in per.ect :afety and her detention is occasioned by her taking on coal there. Captain Hooker, commander of the United States patrol fleet, informed Captain Hall of the steamer Cleveland that considerable coal which was shipped to St. Paul for the revenue cutters last year was still there.” ———— Bound for Copper River, PORT TOWNSEND, WasHu., Sept 11.— At 7 o'clock this evening the schooner James, the eight-ton craft from Astoria, ted up to the wharf here. She carried twelve men and seven tons atove her reg- istered capacity of provisions and §s bound for Copper River. The passengersall hail irom San Francisco and Oaklar:d and are out wi h provisions for a8 two years’ stay. Each man is armed with a Winchester rifle and two 44-caliver revolvers. The party is headed by G. J. Renuvick of San Francisco, who came out from Copper River six weeks ago with gold dust aumounting to $6300. il s Arrival of the Umatilla. PORT TOWNSEND, WasH., Sept. 1L.-- The Pacific Coast steamship Umatilla are rived from Sen Francisco at 6 o'ciock this evening with 220 passengers, thirty-six of whom are bound for Dawson City via Dyea. The Marsh Air Compressor, Exhibited this week by the Simonds Saw Company at the Mechanics’ Pavilion, is es- pecially interesting to those engaged in min- the Eiza Anderson until we got abreast | GREAT BRITAIN IN A TURNO Agitated by Her Indian Troubles and Labor Strikes. Famine Threatens Ireland and the Poorer Classes of London. Popularity of the Yorks "Among the Irish Increases—Klondike Fever Raging. [Copyrighted, 1897, by the Asiociated Press.] LONDON, ExG., Seot. 1L —The past week in Great Britain has been n by efferv scence in the labor wor. quieting of the Indian troubles, with more or less confession of the Govern- ment’s impotence in dealinz with the Ameer of Afghanistan, and the defeat of the Marquis of Salisbury in the case o! the German bondholders in the dreary struggle over the Giwco-Turkish peace ne- gotiations, which defeat has been caus- tically criticized, and has been followed by the Sultan sending winter clothing to the Turkish troopsin Thessaly. The trades union congress at Birming- bam, which bas been siyled by Tom Mann, the labor leader, as the “‘Congres of Fatheads,” adjourned to-day after a session chiefly poable for the proposal to form a gigantic trades union out of every conceiveble trade, in order to confront capital with the threat of a general paralysis of all indusiry and by the pro- posal to stand by the engineers in their present siruggle. The balance of the time of the congress was mainly occupied with reaffirming time-honored resolu- iions expressing, as the Morning Post says, “pious opinions of little value in practical life.” Even the Daily Chronicle says: suppose there is nothirg for it todo, ing a political rev.val, but to 0 on ing the same good old resolutions.” week o the eneineers’ strug- 22,000 engineers, 12,000 :rades unionists, 8500 non-unionists and 5000 la- borersout of work, with strike pay amount- ing to £33,000 per week. New firms de- pending on engineering are sioppin work daily and some of the locomaotive manuiaciurers have posted notices as lol- R H Eight hours a day with the present rate of wages would be di-astrous to tne locomotive trade ot England, in the 1ace of American and Continentai competition. We, therefore, feel it our duty to counsel the meu Lo refrain from any encouracement or support of the eignt- hour movement. I..e so-called “jingoism’ in the United States is finding an echo here. An anony- mous correspondent has written a long ietter to the Spectator, in which ne al- tempts to prove that the Untted States is reaily frien ly to Great Britain, in spite of the American newspaper statements to the copir.ry. The Spectator replies to this letter saying: “While official Amer- \cu treats England as at present, can any one believe in American friendliness.” The rise in wiheat to 40 shillings. has dragged up the price of bread 0 6}4d and 7d, and in the poorest quarters of London where bread is sold in siices” the loaf is fiching 1s. -On top of this the Miilers’ National Union has started a demand for fewer hours of labor, with a threatened strike if their demand is not accorded. Bince the announcement of the exten- sive discoveries of gold in the Klendike region the company promo ers of London have been busy taking auvaniage of the newspaper boom given to tnis part of the worla. Fifteen Klondike (limited) com- panies which have recently siarted have brou-ht out capiial to the amount of £2,046,883 steriing, of which £1,137,691 is offered (0 the public. In the meanwhile there is an immense demand for anything Kiondikian, in order to float further com- panies in the spring of 1898. United States Consul-General Burke has received a very satistactory reply 1o his demand made 1o the Sulitan of Morocco for satisfacuor and com' ensation for the assault made by three Moors on the pro- tege of an American citizen residing at Tangiers. Tue assault was committed in June last. The assailants are now in jail at Tangiers. The Sultan bas promised to pay an indemnity and _he has ordered the prisonersto be sent to Fez. Prisoners are only sent to Fez for grave crimes. They suffer the most terrible agony on the way there; they are loaded with chains and are starved and beaten all along tne road. In the interests of humanitv Mr. Burk objected to tue tiansfer, and demanded that the punishment should be meted out to them in the local prisons. The Sultan acecded to this. Tne result is all the more gratifying when 1t is remembered that the Moorish authorities shruzged their shoulders and refused (o take any action in the matter when Colonel Burke first demanded the payment of an indemnity as a result of the outrage. ‘The tour of the Duke and Duchess of York, which was continued to-day at Giaszow, Scotland, where they met with an enthusiastic recepiion, forms the sub- jeet of t heartiest congratalation in many years, particularly in Ireland, whera the people, poiiticians and others admit that i _has done a good deal for Irish irade. The Duchess, for instance, nccepted a Galway fisher-cloak from Mother Doolev. The cloak was made at a factory which Father Dooley started 1n Gaiway, and alreaay 100 of these cloaks have been ordered, either in white or crimson. The latter color is correct. The Duchess won all hearts and the Duke was “We pend- pess- alwost as popular, though he did no: es-| cape criticism. Across tue rejoicings, however, fall the shadows of the coming famine. The Daiy Nation, afler geiting » ietter from every pa<tor of a parish in rural Ireland, says: “‘Since black '47 the Irish !aborer has never faced a winter more full oi priva- iion, The harvest is as bad as can be in the west of Ireland, and itis pret.y sure that there will be not ony a food buta fuel famine. Not only are the po:atoes rotting in the ground, with the grain crops beaten down by rain and not worth reap- ing, but tne turf cut will not dry. Unless there is exceptional weather within the next few days, a famine is a certainty.’’ L smith Arvested. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 11.—The World will to-morrow publish the follow- ing: Al Smith, a sporting man, was ar- rested yesterday at the Gils y House on an order issued by Judge Maddox of the Superior Court of Kings County as the delendantin a $50 U0) su't for breacn ot promise of marriage. The plaintiff is Miss Agnes Hinch, a mu-ic-teacher of Long 1.land C.ty. Albert F. Smith is about 57 years olu and is known all over the United States as a sporting man and backer ot pugihists. aragst Mgr. Tonor Kitied by the Heat. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 11.—Mgr. P. G, Tonor, missionary apostolicand hon- orary chaplain to bis Holiness Pope Leo XI1I and chaplain-general to the Ameri- can warships, was siricken by the lieat in his room in a hotel here to-duy. He died shortly afterward at the Jefferson Hos- 1ug or using compressed air for auy purpose. * | pital. AFW 7T0-DAY —DRY G OODS. 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Jones, a centieman of the old Southern school who got his early education in New Orleans, has challenged tbe Attorney- General of Colorado to mortal combat for the reason that the latter declined to no- tice an official letter calling f judicial hearing of a case that had been decided adversely to Jones in an EI Paso County Justice’s court. Jones asked that the State Supreme Court take cognizance of the matterin dispute, and the Attorney-General told a reporter that Jones’ complaint was un- worthy of serious notice. He added that the bad writing of itselt would preclude reading and that the letter was fit only for the waste-basket. That was several days ago. Jones to-day invited General Byron Carr to meet him on the field. General Carr is an old soldier, who lost one arm in defense of his country, and his courage has never been questioned, but he was not prepared for the invitation and made no reply to the inquiries of reporters. Jones has peen a resident of Colorado for eighteen vears, and has large mining interests in El Paso County. He claims to have projected the Mobile and Ohio Ratlway, and to have been its first presi- dent. The language of the challengein part is: ““As the code of honor among gentle- men in my school of education does not hold a man responsible for his obtuseness, I shall pass that by with only an expres- sion of pity; vut the former, being an ab- solute falsehood, and when taken 1in con- nection with the other newspaper cx- pressions of the conduct of your office in the premises must be regarded as mal: cious, I, therefore, demand tuat you at once publish a denial of having_ writien the false statements to the Governor, or I shall feel compelled munder tie code of honor among gentlemen to hold you a rigid personal account after proper public denunciation.” CALIFORNIA '49ERS CELEBRATE. Seventh Annual Picnic of the Western Association of Pioneers of the Golden State. CHICAGO, ILL., Sept. 1L—All Califor nia pioneers in Chicago went down to Jackson Park to-day and celebrated. 1t was the seventh annual picnic of the Western Associaticn of California P.o- neers and the celebration of the forty- seventh anniversary of the admission of California into the union. The old eola- 1 DREADED HIS WORK. How a C»lifornia Man Was Helped by a Friend’s Adv.ce. HERMITAGE, CAL.—*1 was troubled with a tired and worn out feeling. I dreaded to attempt any work. A friend advised me to get a bottle of Hood’s Sar- sapar.lia. I did so, and, after taking the medicine a short time, I feit better. That tired feeling left me and I was able to sleep well.”” C. C. PrTMaN. 3 Hood’s Pills cure Liver Ills; easy to take, easy to operate.25¢. FIELD OF HONOR hunters did not attempt to camp out, as they preferred to do in 1849, but went straight to the German building, carrying baskets of luncheon and prepared to en- tertain stranger or friend. The regular dav for holding these pic- nics has been Sep ember 9. but it was thought more convenient to make it Sat- | urday, and so the change came about. Aw | usual reminiscence, anecdote ‘and the re- | newing of old asscciations were features of the gathering. The celebration lasted until well into the evening. Dr.J. Q. A. H nry and Dr. P. 8. Ben- son delivered addresses of congratulation to the pioneers, and recaling the early history of California. The center of in- terest was D. R. Nickerson, the oldest member of the association, he having reached the age of 84. Nickerson went to California in 49, and was one of the framers-of the constitution of the State. He played .an importast partin the'maks | ing ofithe early bistory of Celifornia. 'He was the first Mayor of Placerville, when it was buta mining camp and familiarly known as “Hanztown.” Nickerson also put on foot u scheme for building the big South Firk canal, near El Dorado, and in conjunction with others, raised $400,000 for that purpose. i R The Russian Imperial crown is valu at £1 200 000. W A i 72 NS Full Set of Teeth for $5. Seeour new Combination Plate. It is the thin. nest, ligutest, strongest and coolest plate made. it does not in erfere with Lhe Laste or spe:ca nor make the mouth sore. WARKATED FOR TEN YEARS, Amalgam Filling: Plaiins Fillings. Pure Gold, from 22-Karat Gold Crowns. £ OPEN EVENI Chicago Dental Parlors, 24 SIXTH ST., NEAR MARKET. ALASKA GOLD FIELDS. STEAMER to COPPER RIV*R and roturg, magnificently equipped; Smw- ')Pl“‘x' 'ruvlul‘oun. otc. S, have relia- e inforation r i ble inform egarding this porion Secure passage of J. S. KIMBALL, Market st Trensarer 5k For information, E. C. 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