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2 ton is to be repaired with all possible dis- patch. Yesterday there were 1155 men on the payroll at the navy-yard and the number at work to-day is within 100 of yesterday’s totai. The continuation of this immense force, with nothing definite known re- garding the Philadeiphia, is ample proof that no tirae is to be lost in getting the Charleston ready for sea. Quite a force of men was at work on her to-day, and by Mondeay it is expected her decks will swarm with laborers as thickly as those of the Baltimore have done during tae past few weeks. The Char eston is lying at the quay just ahead of the Baltimore in a dismantled state. Extensive work is necessary on her hutl, engines snd machinery, and with Work rushed to the utmost it will require several weeks to get her ready for service. Considerable work must also be done on the wooden corvette Pensacola before she can g0 into commission as a training-ship, to which duty she has been assigned. Captain Henry Glass, who will be in command o6f ihe Pensacola, said to-day that it was very uncertain ¥hen she would be taken 1n hana, but that it was quite un- likely that anything would be done for a month at least. - Captain Glass is anxious to bave the ship placed in commission at as early adate as possible. e New Dock for Mara Island. WAEHINGTON, D. C., Oct. L—A re- vort has been received from the officers in charge of Mare Island Navy-yard recom- mending that a new stone drydock, feet long and capable of docking largest battie-ships, be construciei at that place. Tha estimated cost of the dock is§1,700,000. - The recommendation, which is entirely separate and distinct irom that made by the Bunce board, will probably be prasented to Congress at the next session, DOTY QUESTION N ABEYANCE Has Attorney - General McKenna Reversed Himself ? the His Letter to the Treasury Officials Regarding the Extra Duty. Certaln That He Has Submitted Another Oplnion to the Department. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 1.—There Wwas a report in eireulation to-night to the effect that Attorney-General McKenna was not yet domne with the celebrated sec- tion 22 of the tariff act and that he had in fect submitted ‘another opinion lo the treasury iL response 10 a request from the Board of Appeals. It is known that a test csse is now pend- ing before the board, which was especi- ally created vy Congress for the purpose of setuling disputes as 10 the rates of duty to be -imposed. Indeed, it is held by many good lawyers that the authority of this board is paramount to that of the Secretarv of tbe Treasury, inas- much as tke intent of Congress was ‘o take such questions out of the hands of the treasury by baving a special boarda created 1o passon atl such appeal cases in much the same way that the Comp- troller’s office was created to pass upon treasury accounts, It has already been held by the courts that the Comptrolier’s authority is para- mount to that of the Secretary of the Treasury, and these lawyers contend that the opinion of the Attorrey-General in the case of a carload of tea delivered at Clicago from Japan via Canada is not binding upon the board, but that tiey alone must settle ti:is matter and all other similar cases brought befors them. It appears, however, that a test case now before the Board of Appeals was sub- witted to the Attorney-General by an in- dividual memver of the board, and that the latest decision of Attorney-General | McKenna is likely to raise some new com- plications 1f it does not have the effect of reversing his former opinion. Itissaid that soon after delivering his first opinion McKenna telegraphed to the Treasury Department not to promuigate any .circular of instruction until he reached Washington from Massachusetts, Just why or how he could reverse bis first decision does not seem clear. It was suggested to night that he might contend that tea is not on the dutiable list, and ' that it conld not be dutiable or have a discriminating duty imposed on it. But in that second case the cargo is duti- able and rules therefore that the discrim: nating duty can be imposed *in addition.”’ But thisis not likely to be the reason for this reversal, if be hasin fact reversed his opinion, for in the cases first brought be- jore him a consignment of dutiable dia- monds from Europe (through Ogdens- burg,. N. Y.) was involved, as well as the tea which was non-dutiable. It appears certain, however, that he has submitted another opinion to the Secre- tary ‘cf. the Treasury, but whether it amounts to a reversal is merely a matter of conjecture, since the officials refuse to discuss the question, AN INSAKE BRIDEGROOM. Br. Robert T. Flagg Leaves His Newly Wedded Wife to Leap From a Hotel Window. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. L.—Dr. Robert T. Flagg, 38 years of age, of Yonkers, who was married there last night, attempted suicide to-day by jumping from a second- story window of the Murray Hill Hots His bride was in the room at the iime; and she went 10 the hospital with him in the ambulance. Dr. and Mrs, Flagg reached the hotel apout midnight and were assigned to rooms. Both appeared to be in good spirits. They breakfasted at about 8 o’clock this morning. They chatted with each other, and seemed not to have a care. Alter breakfast they re- turned to their rooms and had been there only about fifteen minutes when Mrs, Flagg rushied screaming down ihe stairs 10 the lobby of the hotel, sayine her hus- band had jumped out of the window. Dr. Flagg was vicked up. His skull had been fractured, his ieg broken and he had received severe bruises of the body. He was cafried into the hotel, where his wife him calmly. Tbe ambulancesurgeon said that the man wasdying. Mrs. Flagg; wiho was a fim Turzer of this city, is;about 26 years old and decia- edly good 1ooking. - She =aia at the hospi- tal that nversation with her husband the latter had become greatly excited and rushed .to the window ‘and jumped out: She tried to restrain him, but he thrust her aside and jumped. At Dr. Flagy's residence in' Yonkers it was said that when he left home ‘vesterday he wasia a very nervous condition. - Dl SR - Injiired by a Collivien. TOLEDO, : Onto; - Oct. 1.—Half & dozen persens were seriously hurt in a collision betweentwo'cars ‘on the Toledo and Bowl- ing Green electric road ' this evening. Miss. Mary. ‘Waite, daugliter of the late Chief. Justice Waite, one of the ‘injured, may die. : % TERRIBLE CONDITIONS AT DATSON Continued from First Page. “Return to St. Michael, discharge your liquor and take on grub.” Itis stated that after a confarence of the ofticials of the two transportation com- panies and the officisls of the Canadian Government at Dawson in Augustthe ments these. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, N SATURDAY, Discovery, and the Yukon Hamilton Ran Aground. OCTOBER 2, 1897. PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE YUKON RIVER From St. : Michael to Dawson, Showing Minook Creek, the Late Flats, Where the Steamer The Yukon flats, at the lower end of which the steamer Hamilton ran aground, extend from just below Circle Cit hundred and thirty miles. t0 some distance below the mouth of Birch Creek—about one There the river, which above and below is from five hundred to one thousand yards wide, spreads out to from threo to cight miles wide, the depth of the water lessening in proportion. The thousand or more small islands, however, which stud the expanse of water act somewhas as dams and- tend to increase the current, which winding devious and frequently shifting ways between them renders navigation, except with a careful and experienced pilot, both difficult and dengerous at ail times, especially at this season of the year, when the water in the river is very low. It is & very serious question whether there will be any rise sufficient to float the steamer befors the river freezes. Minook Creek, where recent good strikes have created some excitement, was first brought to public notice as a gold-producing stream and shown on a map by THE CALL in its issue of July 22 from information given by F. G, H. Bawker and others who came down With the first load of treasure on the Excelsior. Itrises on the north side of the Tanana Hills and empties Into the Yukon River just west of the 150th meridian and about eighty miles above the mouth of the Tanana River. Little over hall way between St. Michael and Dawson. This stream, with others near it, had been frequently prospected near the mouth, and with some show of color, but it was not until this season that any good strikes were made. When the first steamer from Dawson came down in June the passengers found nearly as much excitement prevailing at Minook as they had left behind them at Dawson, though on a smaller scale, and upon investigation severel of them were 50 well convinced of the good prospect for the place that they drew upon their sacks of Kiondike nuggels and bought interests in Minook claims. Their judgment will doubtless be well rewarded, as furtlier revorts continue to tell of richer and richer develop- The stream rises on the western slope of the same range of mountains in which Birch Creek and Forty-mile Creek take their head, and there is every reason 1o beiieve that it will prove very rich, as heretofore predicted in THE CALL. Itisa { companies at once took steps 0 allay the even violence on the part of the miners, because supplies had been left behind and Liquor takea into the country. When tie North Fork sailea from St. Michael there were several nundred men still awaiting an opportunity to go upthe river. The new steamer built to carry the 190 Humboldt cruisein a couple of days. She is named Seattle No. 1, draws nineteen inches of water light and three feet six incbes loaded. Itis not believed that ste can proceed far, aithough Mayor ‘Wood is anxious to get to Minook, where the passengers would go into winter quarters, using the boat as a hotel. The steamer Mare Isiand with her 103 passen- zers intended to make the stari for the gold fields on the 18th. Asshe draws nearly five feet of water, it is safe to pre- sume that her passengers will winter very close to St. Micbael. Then there are 125 passengers on the Merwin who hope to get into the interior. Harbor with the 110 passengeis from the old steamer Eliza Anderson, has not yet arrived at St. Michael. James Byrnes is returning to Seattle ater an absence of two months in the futile effort to reach the Kiondike. He says that at Fort Yukon, an old pros- peclor informed him, the river was eight feet lower than ever before known. He believes that Mayor Wood of Seattle wi be compellea 1o winter on the Yukon. He hoves, however, 1o return within the time allowed by the city charter for him to hold his office. His intention was to rush his boat up the river to Dawson, land nis ex- pedition and then hurry out by way of the river, lakes and Chilcoot Pass. J. L. Marks, purser of the North Fork, states that the Yukon River fell two feet | the lewest water known in the river. Ol- ficials of the companies are warning pros- river this season. It is utterly impossible, they say, to that the shortage of provisions will entail much suffering. Whisky is plentiful and selis on the river at $15 per bottle, while at St, Michael water brings 5 cents per gallon. The revenue cutter Corwin, which left this port with orders from Commandant Hooper to Captain Tattle of the Bear to quell any outbreak at St. Michael, arrived at the latter place op the 14th inst. The Bear took advantage of her presence 1o run over to Port Clarence for a week. This will slichily delay the Corwin, which had expecied to depart immediately for San Franoisco. She will leave as soon as the Bear returns, which latter will aiso re- port southbound about October 10. The appearance of a cutter haa tbe cffect of dispelling any inclination for an uprising among the discouraged and in some in- stances ill-used prospectors now at St Michael. Among the North Fork passengers is Elmer E. Maybarry of Seattle, who went north on the first trip of the Portland. He savs there are fully 1000 people at Minook Creek. They bave an abundance of supplies and are established in winter quarters, preparatory to advancing up the i river at the first opportunity. I have not a great aeal o! faith in Minook Creek, and { in my opinion the members of the colony {arenot so enthusiastic as when they be- Ran the journey. However, they will | persevere, and have hopes of making a rich strike. Claims in the Mincok dis- trict are staked out on Hunter, Badger and Littie Minook creeks. W. A. StEEL, S PORTLAND WILL RETURN. Scarcity of Coal Prevents the Steamer Reaching St. Michael. . Boat-Building at Dutch Harbor. UNALASKA, Avaska, Sept. 22 (via steamer North Fork 10 Tacoma, Wash., Oct. 1)—Contrary 1o general expectations the sieamer Portland will not again this year prove itself the treasure vessel upen which the returning niiners from the Ynkon fields will fina passage to tne States. With their golden dreams turned into glittering realization they will find other means of exit from their northern homes. In viewof the loss pf the schooner fecling of indignation on the part of the | miners. They feared serious consequences, passengers had been launched ana expected tostart on its river | The schooner Baranoff, which left Dutch | eightinches in three days, it now being | pectors not to attempt the trip up the | make any great progress, anc it is feared | Hueneme and the destrnction of her en- tire cargo it wasdecided yvesterday thatthe Portland should proceed no further this season on her third trip to St. Michael. This conciusion has doubtless been largely | brought about by the present coal shortage | here and the inability of the vessel to &t present take on an adaitional supply of | fuel. i By consuming such coal as she has in | | her hold for ballast she can about reech Seattle, for which port she will be within a week under charter to the North American Trading and Transportation Company. The Portland weas loaded with the machinery which about iorty of ber | | passengers expected to convert this win- | | ter into boats and barges for use on the Yukon. Bnt the scene of operations will now be transferred to Duich Harbor, two miles distant from this inner harbor of | Unalaska. The framework for these ves- cels was on the wrecked schooner, and is now floating on the sea-tossed waves. | Manager C. H. Hamilion, who also | came north on the Portlan i, has decided to make the hills rurrounding Dutch Har- | bor resound with indusirial activity dur- ing the ensuing long ana dreary months. | To this ena be has ordered tie unloading | of the machinery from the Portland and such lumber and supplies as she carriec at Dutch Harbor. Here a small army of mechanics will a!so be established in temporary buildings | now being constructed. When she fin- ishes unioading the steamer will immedi- | ately proceed to Seattle and get a dupli- cate for the lumber lost on the schooner. | As soon as possible it will be sent here and | | the work of boat - baildiog will begin. | | While it would be almost impossible, and | | certainly impracticable, to endeavor to | steam through Bering Sea and effecta | | landing at St. Michael a month or two | later, no difficulty will be experienced, Lhowever, with Datch Harbor as the ob- | | jective point. Rather than defer the | huilding of the boats until late next sea- son the N. A. T. ana T. Co. has decided to | be equal to the expected requirements for | the transportation to the Yukon early | next spring by having their boats built here this winter. Paul Moran of Seattle will be in charge | of the boat construction, and has already commenced on a frame cookhouse and dormitory forty by sixty feet, whare the workmen will be cared for during their labors, He expresses the belief that by | the 1st of June next all the boats will be | completed ready for removal to the| Ynkon River. Captain Kidston savs that there “will then be no difficulty in transferring the vessels, as at that season of the year the | weather ie more than likely to be favoi- jable. The run from here is about 800 ! miles, but the course is well sheltered, ex- | ecpt along a two days’ voyage in the open sea. It issafeto predict that the daylight will have been prolonged and the sun’s rays break forth in the glory of spring | and cut a passags through the ice-ribbed Yakon, so there will be absolutely no danger in the transmission of heir small but sturdy new crait through Bering Sea to St. Michael. | The Alaska Commercial Company ex- pects to have at least one new steamer of | about 250 tons on the run. Itisnow be-| ing brought on the Lakme from San | Francisco, and is a duplicate. of the steamer Bella, which has heavy machin- {ery, and is particularly strong for towing barges und making speed. One or two barzes wi!l also likely be built. Of the Portland’s passengers aboat fif- teen will continue from Lere to St. Micbael. They include Manager Hamil- ton, four newspaper men, one throujgh $700- passenger 1o Dawson City and a party of Charles Barber, who go to manage and operate a couple of hotels at points on the Yukon River. Arrangements have been made for their pas:age on the steamer Bertha, which is now loading lnmber and supplies here and will leave Friday morn- ing for St. Michael. ‘The trip. will likely be made in four days. There seems to be 2 general im- pression among the representatives of the two interested companies that the num- ber of returning gold-seekers will be quite large. Not only will those return who bave been fortunate in gathering 'rom the earib riches and wish to enjoy a winter amid comforts and pleasant surroundings but it is thought that hundreds may be driven from their primitive homes lest nine from Chicago, headed by Captain | ke gaunt ghost of hunger stalk broadcast through their midst. This impression may be erroneous, tut it cannot te dis- pelled until definite returns are received from the river boats now on their return run. In anticipation of this exodus, ana in order io sfford passenger accommoda- tion for those who desire to return to San Franci-co and Puget ESound, several sleamers will be at 8t. Michael within the next ten days. They will incluce the Ex- celsior, Lakme, Bertha and Cleveland. In view of unexpected circumstances the Portiand will not be there. This steamer, with its new M:xim gun, and expecting to have the B ar asa convoy, was to bave brought down the surpius earnings of tbe N. A. T. and T. Company, which, it is thought, will run upinto the bundreds of thousands of dollars. How- ever, this money will be brougzht down either on the revenue cutter Bear or Cleve- land. From all indications steamers should be abie to Ieave St. Michael south- bound by October 10, when all the river steamers will have reiurned from Dawson City. Tney all leit for up river around the 1st of September, some beifore and the last one on the 4th. They include the P. B. Weare and the J.J. Healy, owned by the N. A. T. and T. Company, and the Margaret and Alice, ownea by the A. C. Company. Twenty-eight days is the average run, and it is hoped thatall will return with miners who desire to connect with ocean steamers, so that the river steamers can again turn round and get some little dis. tance up the Yukon in winter quarters ere the freeze sets in. extreme cold and snowy weather already experienced it is believed by Captain Hays and Captain Bash that navigation on the Yukon will be tightly closed be- fore the 10th of October. The new steamer C. N. Hamilton was unable to get more than 800 miles up the river, owing to a fall of water, where, re- lieved of her passengers, she returned to St. Michael, and will make two trips a few miles up the river. She will take - chandise to the Russian mission to taci. tate the early transportation of provisions mto the Klondike In the early epring. W. A. Steer. S THIRTY-FOUR PASSENGERS Twenty-Four Are Returning Goid- Hunters Who Were Unable to Reach Dawson This Year. passengers came down from St Michaels on the steanmer North Fork, which arrived to-night. She brcught no Klondyke mi- ners nor goid. Two dozen of her passengers had been up the Yukon River as far as Fort Yukon, but decided to return when they saw they could not reach Dawson this year. The other ten passengers sre carpenters who went to St. Michael on the steamer Humboldt to assist in building Mavor Wood's Yukon River steamer there. They will remain on the North Fork until she reaches San Francisco with a cargo of Jumber to be londed between now and Monday. Her passenger list is as follows: For San Francisco—Peter Diercke, J. W. McKinnon, R. Keany, J. Pakamany, J. Keshman, O. O. Sen, A. Ross, J. Brandt, @. H. Weir, A. McKalach. For Puget Sound Points—H. C. Baller, W. H. Morse, J. Byron, W. Billings, D.: Eilis, J. Mullizan,, Ita Hand, Mrs. J. Mulligan, Mrs. Kennedy, J. Bloomingdale, . P. C.. Richard«on, Morgan ey, Mrs. Shepard, Mrs. We:- zell, H. Billing, F. L. McHallahana, M. R. Burns, W. E: Laugaton, C. T. Tippili ppy, C. Black; H. Meheny, J. C. Petteman, C. A. Bweniger. The North Fork left Dutch Harbor Sep- tember 22. Purser Marks reporis that she was unable to get any coal there, the 300 tons of fuel then on. hand being kept | for the reverue cutters Bear and- Corwin. The North Fork bad enough coal to last her with favorable -weather and she reached here with five fons left in her hold. ; Passenzers who got up the Yukon River to Fort Yukon, 400 miles' below Dawson City, report a most serious condition of affairs there. Only a few inches of water were run- ning over Yukon flats, which commence two miles above Fort Yukon, where the river widens toa width of many miles, It was utterly impossible for another steamer to reach Dawson this fall and Considering the | only a small proportion of supplies needed there can be taken up. At Circle City there are only 800 sacks of flour. Itisreported thai at the Birch Creek mines provisions are very plentiful and people at Circle City can draw on them if necessary. There will be plenty of suppiies at Fort Yukon, Minook Creek and all other points below Fort Yukon, but at Dawson, where the population is, no supplies are to be had. Miners there must get out of the pre- dicament they are now in by making their way down the river to Fort Yukon and having supplies hauled up to them 400 miles. It was claimed at Fort Yukon that rains in September sometimes cansed the Yukon to rise, but there was little prob- ability of a rise sufficient to allow steam- ers to get up before the river freezes. It would teke two or three feet more water to get steamers over the Yukon flats, The first steamer to leave Puget Sound for St. Michael aiter the discoveries on the Kicndike became generally known was the Portland, sailing irom Seattle July 22 | Many of her passengers got only as far as Minook Creek on the steamer Hamiiton. A few of tiem went to Fort Yukon, and several returned on - the North Fork. These report that between fiftean and twenty of the Hamilton’s passengers started to pole up the Yukon River to Cir- cle City. They were able to get only enough pro- visions to last them to Circle City, and what they would do after that was un- ceriain, The steamer Hamilton passed expeditions taken north by the steamers National City and South Coast, several hundred miles above St. Michael. They were proceeding slowly, with no expectation of getting above Minook Creck. The Humboldt expedition’s river boat was launched September 16, - All agree that i isa fine-looking boat, butthe question is raised as to her ability to get over the bar at the Yukon’s mouth, where the water is also very snallow. PR e RETURN OF PROSPECTORS. With the Backward Rush Come Stories of the Deplorable Condi~ tions in the Gold Fields. TACOMA, Wash., Oct. 1.—The steam schooner North Fork, which towed the Mare Island from San Francisco to St. Michael, arrived in port to-night, fifteen TACOMA, Wasi, Oct. 1—Thirty-four j days from St. Michael, with thirty-three disgusted gold-seekers. The representative of the Alaskan News Syndicate aboard the Portland at Dutch Harbor seuds the following letter by the North Fork: DUTCH HARBOR, Ux~Araska, Sept. 22.—The beckward rush of prospeciors has turned from the Yukon Basin. With the arrival last evening of the steam schooner North Fork came a crowd of disappointed and disgusted Klondikers from St. Michael, bringing with them em- phatic confirmation of the deplorable state of affairs in the zold fields of Alaska and the Northwest Territory. Tt is the oft-repeated preiiction of famine based on shortage of supplies ana aanger of death from starvation and dis- ease. Famine, typhoid and scurvy are a horrid triumvirate that lurk in the nugget-studded gravel of ihe north- ern Pactolus, and in the lengthening darkness of the polar winter prepare desolation and destruction for the argonau:s who toil under the gems of the aurora, along the rim of the Arctic circle, The prospectors brought here by the North Fork rewurn from a fruitless attempt to ascend the Yukon, and they declare in unmistakable terms that the transportation companies, which en- raged beavily in the liquor traffic early in the season, are chargeable in no small de- gree with the blame for the shortage of supplies. - Expeditions have been baffled on every turn, and the failure of the miners to get through to Dawson has re- sulted i the formaiion of a large camp on Minook Creek below the Yukon Flats. 1t is reported that the shortage in Daw- son may to some exient be overcome if the miners can reach Circle City, 300 milesaway, where there are said to be 3000 sacks of flour left over from last season. Conditio. «f the Treasury. WABHINGTON, D. €., Oct. 1.—To-day’s statement of t e condition of the treasury =bows: Available ca<h balance, §215,912,- 787; gold reserve, $147,663,105, - with | 1416, STAR POINTER BEATS PATCHEN Lowers the Pacing-Race Record by Half a Second. Six'y-Five Thousand People Witnessed the Wonderful Performance. The Third Heat Is Wildly Exciting, but Patchen Weakens Near the Wire. SPRINGFIELD, Iir, Oct. 1.—In a race that was witnessed by at least 65,000 pec- ple Star Pointer, on the [llinois State Fair grounds, this afternoon, not only | maintained bhis reputation as the king of pacers by defeating «Joe Patchen but he als=o lowered the worlu’s pacing record/in a race by half a | second, making a mile in 2:0034—the re- cord in a race having been 2:01, which Star Pointer made on Saturday, Septem- ber 18, at Indianapolis, when he defeated Joe Patcnen. Star Pointer way greeted with tre- mendous cheers by the assembled thou- sands as Le passed under the wire in the third heat, and the announcement of the lowering of the world’s pacing record in a race was received with tumaultuous ap- plause. : The great race between the two fastest pacers in the world bad the result of | bringing on the State Fair grounds the biggest crowd ever assembled there. It | is estimated that there were 65,000 people on the grounds—the largest numbsr ever | known at a State fair in Iilinois. 1 In the grand stand not even standing | room was obtainable. Thousands of peo- pie lined the racetrack on both sides for ful.y one-third of ite lengih. The track was in splendid condition. When the two great pacers made their appearanca they were greetsd with cheers, | They got a nice start, Patchen having the vole, but after going a few hundred feet Pointer broke budly, and before lie recov- ered Pzichen was about an eighth ofa mile ahead of him. Patchen finishea the heat in a jogz in 2:14, amid cheers, with Star Pointer 200 to 300 feet behind. The first quarter was made in :30}¢, the half in 1:0217, the] three-quarters 1n 1:363{ and the mile in 2:14. Star Pointer was given the pole in the secund heat ard the two horses started even, tut Joe Patchen soon broke and lost a d: zen or more lengths. He gained on Pointer toward the three-quarters and rapidly overhauled him, McCieary hold- ing his horse back. Down the stretch it was a pretty fight tetween the two, but Pointer maintained his lead and passed under the wire halfa length ahesd. Pointer made the first quar.erin :30, the balfin 1:03, three-quar- ters in 1:362£ and the mile in 2:06, the last quarter ber. g made in ;2914. The third beat was a wildly exciting one and was a race for blood from the start. After three ineffectual attempts the borses got off togecher. Pointer soon took th- lead and in the first quarter he was one and a balf lengths in the lead. The black pulled off some toward the half, and when ihat was reached Pointer was but three-fourths of a length anead. Then Patchen lost and gammed again, and at the three-quarters Pointer was not quite one length abead. ‘When near the wire Patchen fell bekind however, ana Pointer won by five or six lengtus. The tme by quarters was as 293{; second, 1:00; third, | :3014; mile, 2:001 Tne record for 1897 for stallions was also broken by Wiiliam Penn in the first heat of the 'ree-for-all trot, he making the mile 1 2:073% Penn won the race in straight heats. Best time, 2:073. The weather was intensely not, and scores of men and women who had stood in the sun along the racetrack for hours with the mercury 91 in the shade, fainted. e ON EASIEEN TRACKS. Harry McCouch, at I to 2, to Gold Band. CHICAGO, IrL, Oct. 1. — Numerous scratches in the different events of to-day at Harlem reduced the number of starters materially. The surprise was the beating of Harry McCouch, selling at 1 to 2, by Gold Band. Weather clear and track fast, Five furlongs, two-vear-olds— *Ruskim 110 (¥, Burns), 4 to 5. Surmount 110 (Nostrand), 8 to'T Baliverso 110 (H. ~hieids), 0 rime, 1:0314 Natbanson 110 Molin Cu'ter 105, MNannle Davis 102, May C] 107 and Chauncey Fisher 107 also ran. fiuns Second a e 10 avorite. One mile, s¢lling— Sea Robuer 105 (T. Murphy), 2to1 *Little Land 114 (Caywood), 7 to Gaston 105 (Keitz), Sto 1........ .3 Time, 1:41. Dan Huger 108, Littie Music 82, Sandoval 105 and Lettle 99 also ran. *Favorite. Seven furlonzs, selling— *Charies Cnris: 109 (T. Murphy), even 1 Queen Safie 103 (Donaldson), 6 to Adowa 103 (Counoily). 4 to 1, iime, 1:2735. Fonc i 106, Forfeit 103, Bar- | hl!;l 106 aud Little ireasurcr 103 also ran. *Fa- vorite. Five furlongs, two-year-olds— | Candleblack 110 (Caywood), 3to1.. H *Lepending i10 (Counoliy), 4 to'5. Daily Kacing Form 110 (<. Gray), 870 1 3 Time. 1:0Z Judge Quigley 110, jster Elia 107 and Judge Nap on 110 also *Eavorite. 4 One and a quarter mlies, selling— Gold Band 100 (J. Woods). 5 to 2 Harry MeCouch 101 (1. Marphy), Eyanaius 101 (A. Barrett). 6 (o 1. Time, 2:U8 'Three starcers. Six furlongs, selling— Mordecal 1.4 (Morrison), 4101, *Ben Frost 93 (Kitley), 410 5 Datechota 83 (Shephard), 20 to Time. 1:14. “Mamie Cailan 118, Tom Toher 93 also ran. *) DETROIT, Mici, Oct. L—Results at Windsor: Six furlongs, selling, The Planet won. Prima seqond, Nellie Baker third. Time, 1:1614 Five turiongs, Jim Lisle won, Royal second, Eurly Fonso third. Time, 1:08. Miie, seiling, Biacking Brush . Traveler second, Elsket third. Time, 3 Six futiongs, selling, Bon won, Farm Life second, Laura May third. 1ime, 1:154 Scully stikes, six Juriongs, Merry Chies | won, Dixie Lee second, Muriel T third. Time W S T Latonia’s 7all Mecting. CINCINNATI, Omro, Uct. .—The fall meeung of the Latonia Jockey Club will begin to-morrow. Over 700 horses are quartered on the track and surrounding barns,including some of the best-known racers in the We.t. Colorel L. P. Tarl- e POSTMASTER’S EXPERIENCE. He Tells Something of Interest to Many Others Hereabou:s. POSTS, CAL.—W. B. Posts, postmaster at this place, has made public the follow~ ing statement which should be of interest to many in this section: “My wife and I were suffering with severe coids and were run down in health, I procured three botties of Hood's Sarsa- pariila which cured us and rook away that tired feeling.”” Get HOOD'S, j Hood’s Pills act harmoniously with Hood’s Susoynflfis. 20¢. | Bound Boeks, for family tibrary.15,2), | ALASKA GOLD FIEI Ds ton wili be presiding juage,and Colonel “Jack’ Shinn will handle the starter’s Hag. 5 i i Terre Haute's Meeting Closes. TERRE HAUTE, Ixp, Oct. L—The meeting of the Terre Haute Trotiiag As- sociation closed to-day. 18 trot, parse $1000 (unfinished Thurs. day), Mackey won, Caplain Hanks second, Harry Barrett third. Best time, 2:1314 2:18 pace, purse $1000 (uniini day), Pinewood won, Hiubart Wilke! Ira Banks third. Best time, 2:11}5 2:25 pace, purse $1000, Satia Sippers won, Nora L second, Forest Herr th Best time, :10 B “u: jurse §2000, Elloree won, Pray flicm Fred ) Best time, 2:09'. 2:20 trot, purse $150 \g'e Plannigan won, King' Warlock second, Edmonia third: Best time, 2:12%4. ADVICE TJ Fu0iBALL MEA. Coach Brooke €ay548fanford's Team Lacks an Effective Second Eleven. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Car., Oct. 1.—This evening's Daily Palo Alto puo- lishes the following interes.ing article by Coach George Brooke: The football season at Stan begun 1n earnest, and all Su ord has now rd men wuo Bave the success of their university elevens at heart aud who are pavsicaidy qualified to play footbail snould now tura out for the daily jractice. The second team so far this season has been unable, except in few instances, to put up & game that gave the Varsity side ade- quate practice ior the purpose of de- velopment of ~good feam play. Al Stanioird this fali we hsave, I think, the mea with whom to butid up & winning tean, but they will never learn to play the game which they ure capable of playing until there has been ceveloped & stronx side to op- pos: them in daily practi At preseit W often have troubie in geriing enough men tor ihe secona cleven, and n one of them receives an injury that jays him off, or if the same casualty happens to the Varsity then the lack of mén puts a quietus on all good practice for the res: of the ufternoon. These are pla:n lacts and Stanford ean never hope to atiain the rank of & fiysi-cluss football college unill there are candidates for the sce- ond eleven just as eager 10 piay a3 the candi- dates tor tie first eleven. How are future Stanford teams to be built up except from players with “scrub” experis ence? Most of the elevenof this fal: leave 10 the sprip ub” men will be the Varsity players of next year. 3 3 ‘Lhe second eieven is & hard school in whieh to learn to play 100tbail, but it is the most storough and the school that has turned.out every pluyer of uny note in the East Berke- i ms to have « superabundanee of candi- , and on this fact they can base whatever success they atial — At the Chess Zournament. BERLIN, Germany, Oct. 1.—The seve enteenth round of ‘the International Chess - Masters’ tournament to-day Te- sulted as foliows: Albn was beaten by Winawer, Chareusek aefeated Caro, Schif- fers beat Zink!, Blackburne drew with Bura, Cobn defeated Teichmann, Schlech- ter and Janowski adjourned, Murco drew with Metger and Alapiu won from Susch- ting; Walbroat and Tsehigorin. had byes. NEW TO-DAY. 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