The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 7, 1899, Page 3

. 2 ETI PL LT I Le ec ca, masses 0 me SS ees . FOUGHT | BEAR Ce ee ee ee oe eeee ee ee Larsen's — Frightful Experience. i AWFUL GRAPPLE IN A DEADFALL Tells = Thrilling ic @ Whatcom County @. | It Ie doubtful ff more victous me- mentos were ever carried about in the pocket of & man than those in ponerstion of Ambrose ‘Larsen, of Sehome, Wash, now on his way to San Francisco to secure surmical treatment far a fearfully mangted arm, says the Tacoma News, The mementos are four tush taken from the head of a brown bear, the aoimel which inflicted the injury to the arm, ! Larten’s narrative of the incident leading up to the wounding by the bear lr thrilling in the awful agony endured by the man, and his oc intrepidity under the » was met ot the Grand Central hotel and sald | “f have pre-empted on @ quarter | section of land lying about eight miles back of Sehome. There I | have been living with my family for }the last six years, improving the) | plese, raising some stock and cut.) | Ung thingte belts. In the latter part jet inst September two of my piss were killed by bears. 1 hunted and | Waited up nights for bears, but could | hot meet them. Then I built a dead- | tall, placing it directly in the only (teail the marauders could reach the ‘ple pen by. September 28, visiting the trap, I found an immense brown [bear in it, the largest I have ever | |seen during « lifetime spent tn the woods. The i¢g of the trap had fal-| |len across ite haunches and broken | (ite beck, The animal was alive, | however, and full of fight. I put two bullets from my Winchester tn jita bead and the bear turned over jas if dead. | ST then climbed down into the pit (to nee the best means to getting | werk at akinning the animal. In do- jing thie it was necessary for me to | put my right arm under the bear's |head. No sooner had my hand touched tts head than, with a snap there was no avoiding, he raised land caught me by the right arm, Just above the elbow. sinking his tushes deep to the bone. At the | same time he sent his claws into the | \leg of thy right boot. Fortunately I | had brought my Winchester {nto the pit with me, and had leaned it against the side. as it happened within reach of my left hand. The | bear had me securely pintoned. and | 1 could feel his tushes crunching on | the bone of my arm. What the ag jony was you can only Imagine. leannot describe it. Getting the rifle | stock between my knees, I managed | to work the loading lever with my lett hand, and. placing the mu lof the gun fairly tm the bear's righ | eye, fired. The shock sent the big bruce inte its dying throes. Like « | vine ite Jaws settled down on my al- ready crushed arm, until It seemed | that Mesh and bone must sunder, and the weight of the bear's bead and shoulders would tear the arm away “However, endurance could not stand up under & long strain. Get | ting another cartridge into the rifte by the same tactics as before, I ram- med the barrel of the gun slongside | | this, where a space showed between | |my shirt sleeve and the bear's) tongue. (Larsen here showed the! turk with the Mark of the rifle bar-| upon tt), “and, shoving the wea pon as far down the brute’s throat) as my failing strength would allow of, fired. “The bear was undoubtedly al-| | ready dead, but only a slight relax- | ation of ita Jaws followed the seo- |ond shot. I could not free my arm. | With thie advantage gained I drop- | ped to my knees, and, using the rifle barre! as a pry, forced the animal's jaws open. God only knows the ow- | fol agony I endured during that pry- ‘ing operation, but at last I managed | to free myself. With my relief my grit gave out, and I fainted. The (next Toke my wife and a neigh | boring rancher were beside me in ‘the pit, endeavoring to stanch the bleeding from my arm. My wit had become alarmed at my long ab- Between the ages of 12 and 20 CARRY OUR NEWSPAPER * ROUTES. APPLY AT ap HOT Third Ave Corner Spring Opposite New Telephone Building — The Seattle r | sence, and, knowing my errand made her way to the bear deadfat! Unable, on account of her feel! paar strength to raise me from the pit she had walked three miler to the 4eIS o1F7LES SUL JO AdOO e sOoquBieu sanoK MOUS "Bhen 50 next cabin adjoining ours to pro le Pike 1 eure the neighbor's assistance “L was taken to Fairhaven and then to Victoria, Everything has been done that the surgeons of the Northwest are capable of, and that ably all that medical science in, for Thave had good doc The crunched bone of my arm It « tors. will not knit or form again, tinues to work out In small plecer: time one of these fragments ot tt comes to the skin it forme an ulcer of bofl in Ite effort to froe itself, The result | where the bear's tushes penetrated ina mass of uselons flee. The pain comes from it constantly, I had de cided to undergo an amp when « friend told me of in San Francisco who had performed several diMeult operations in cut ting away and piecing out of dis eased bone matter, and Tan: going to him as a last hope. If he « heip me the arm must come off, f cannot stand this awful, cons pain much longer.” Every tation A we reporter secured one of the tushes that was sunk into Larsen's arm. Looking at the vicious deadly fang, it ia not hard to imagine what | the woodaman endured while in his and-death grapple with the Reeth eee “eh & & & & Hands Betray Dis Many physlelans ean, simply by looking at the hand, tell that a per son is affficted with a certain dis enne. For many years clubbing of the finger ends hag been held to be one lof the most important signs of con- THE SEATTLE sumption, and the condition also ap | Dears in Keveral other dineanon, Keoently Dr, Badward Sake of London has written a work on the study of the hand for indications of local and general disease, in which many instructive and peculiar points in connection with the sub. Ject are well brought out In the introduction to the book Dr. (Soca ee et Gta wl oem te Gam temea aammypos © om STAT. (OLD ON —KOVUKUK ” ver it is giving trouble, and to t ¢ nd the president must ha troope. If the war goes on at all, it jin likely to last for a long tir un less gore extraordinary measures lare taken to end it, ‘The natives, of colt ne ho mateh for our soldiers in the open feild, but they know a trick worth to them a great deat | w than fair fighing, They Hiake makes mention of t fact | familiar with the trick of dra that on those rare casions when | ba ae oe white troops into the mountains and the ald of the Buropean physician forestn, and there exposing the to is sought for a fema inembe of ° the me jon of @& nature the Ie any Mohammedan family of distine- uKON Navigator." usanda where bullets would ¢ jon th part of the patient #troy one, Heat and dls are on which the doctor i permitted to see s the wide of nativ * they were on is tho hand, which is thrust through Has his Say the wide of the Madagascans when 4 wmall sing in @ curtain, | ' eo meny of the * of the The « t of Dr, Make's paper te) | French army of invasion died of fe- to answer to the best of him ability | vers that the government did not the question as to whether it is pos- ae ge aE ° | dare to publish the mortality Hot sible that a fairly reapectable diag: | | If the war with the natives goes on howls might be based upon the sight many American homes, of which our of the hand alone, In the first place, HE TELIS ABOUT THE PLAVERS politicians are vocifereusly fond, will it Is shown that the hand is often nt their dead in the far away dry In cancer and in partytic der — . Philippines by the — thousands. tla, If hand ts dry and claw- like (he pomaibility of diabetes en- tera the mind; if, hot, dry and ema ciated, the hectic of advanced tu berow in suggested. Wh one hand je persistently hot and oth- or cold the case may be one of sub- clay aneuriam, but it in much more likely to be gout or else lead poisoning. If the palm t# not only hot, but clammy, the causes may be excite ment, r nt exertion or hyperidosia. A cold and dry hand may mean atar- vation, anemia, or one of the in- numerable forma of vanc of atax ia, The hand is cold, harsh and swollen in myxoedema. If cold, clammy and tremul then hy. teria, dyspepsia, certain depressing emotions of the mind, and the action of soine nerve poisons, as aloohol, tea and tobace to ut—#t. Louis Post Di present themaelves patch, VIEWS OF OUR TASK the Philippines. MADRID, March T.—@enor Leon y Casilto, the Spanish Ambassodor to France, will return to Paris an soon a the bill ceding the Philippines to | the ited States is voted. Hin pres in the French capital is necessary on account of the agita- t ot the Orleaniats, which i» closely connected with the Cartist movement In Spain Gencral Rios, the Spanish military comander in the Philippines, cables from Mantia comenting on the ex- tremely difficult position ef the Americans. He says he considers it necessary for the Americans to have 100,009 men to suppress ths rebellion among the natives, Considering the orgamization and discipline of the American army, it is the opinion of experts that the rule of the Ameri- cane in the Philippines will prove a fiasco, i the stat Pri INDON, Maret 7 ‘entral News that an interview Aé from epatch to Madrid today me Minister Sagasta eald that the n oe of 4000 men which, it Is an- nounced, the United Btates will send reinforce General Otis at Manila, wil be quite insufficient. A numer ous ory wilt be required to merely t the Any attempt to maintain order or @ stable govern ment in the interior would be hope leww, YOUNGEST IN CONGRESS. artin H. Glynn, Elected From Albany, Is Only 26. ° “The youngest member of the 56th congress” has mailed to Washington a circular which is unique. It ts printed In @ pretty and captivating brown Ink, with a wie margin. It ts altogether a #weet and lovely thing. The youngest member” is Mar tin H an, of Albany. He is a tittle over years of age, an the circulation of bis laudatory broad side Is an evidence that he lacks not in self esteem. Me prides himself upon being born near the birthp! ot Martin Van Buren and Samuel J. Tilden, announces that his record as @ student was “peerlers” and congratulates himself on the fact that he has won all the prizes and carr off all the hon But let | Mr. Glynn speak for himacif “He swings a factle pen and has ptributed a number of articles tu ding maga of the coun But it is asa # prominence, the try. ppeared he hai x of praise from oh at the receht banquet of e ty of New York won him ¥v ne tices from the press of the metrope- lie. Although young, the opinion is prevalent that Mr, Glynn will be fa vorably heard in the h of repre sentatives should any measure call him to the floor during his term of Many me bouquets does “the youngest member” throw at him welt. He aks of his “success in the journalistic world,” compliments himael? upon his pluck and ability refers to himself as “the hardest kind of a student,” but admits rath- shyly he “finds time for social pleasures.” Altogether this dark- brown circular gives on the iMpres sion that there is no one in it with Martin H. Glynn, which is evidently the very impression Mr. Glynn de sires to ere All of which calls to mind Joba Allen's atory of the Missiesipp! eam paign orator who sald to a certain candidate for co he had Charges Against Emory. Ka t Mich. pI Tey t A ma f evidence has been rocured, intended to show that Em ry's onduct was unbecoming that of an officer and a gentleman and that the loss of the Purisstma Con cepeion wae entir hin fault. A formal demand ob nad upon the navy department to have Kmory court-martialed PAD CASE DRIETIN If the report of the war investigat ing © mmt on declares that the heef was not bad and at the same time censures Gen, Miles for not enlling the attention of the war de partment to ite b ut whith er are we drifting ul Globe No man’s conscience ean tell him rights of another man.~John- Captain James B. Kennedy, One of Captain James D, Kennedy, oldemt master of veasels on the Yu- the ke ingt river, recently arrived In Wash- , coming straight here from northern Alaska. During his #tay in) the city he was interviewed by the) | Waehingtoy Post, to whieh paper he anid that the lower Yukon and Koy- ukuk placer ground is as rich as the Kioncike and the Canadian part of the Yukon, and that as soon as a sufficient number of hard laboring men reach the American side the preduct of gold from the America: fields will exceed the Klondike. Con- tinuing bis talk, Capt. Kennedy re- morked recently visited the Koyukuk district and the Yukon district with teama, accompanied by some ing men. In figuring on the ‘unt of frozen ground now on the and the amount that will be ut before the apring thaw, IT estimate the total amount of gold jin the spring clean up will reach yout 60 tons of gold dust and nug- get “Gold dust, lean the dirt, Is worth about $500,000 a ton, making a total of $25,000,000 in money, This is pret- | ty good when one considers that all these mine owners were, until three lyears ago, poor men, and that 93 | per cent. them are citizens of the United States. ‘The greater amount lef this gold will come from the | Klondike next summer, but as soon jas the same number of workingmen | reach pointe in the upper Koyukuk and in the Ctrete City and Tanana districts, the output will reach from 10 Lo 150 tons of gold per anni “There is more placer ground on the upper Koyukuk river than can |be worked out In two centurtes. | There are too many men now in Al- eaka looking out for a soft job. They | want to lorate a claim on every creek and sell it, The man who will not take a shevel and pick and work in Ube wet gravel all day, or cut wood all day or do the hardest kind of work that labor tries to do, bad better remain away from Alaska Those whe cannot perform severe physical toll will be disappointed. They are in the way up there, a | burden to Qe country, and altogeth. ov undesirable. No one should go to | Alaska with lees than $1000 cash in his pocket, Provisions and all rup- jow can be had there at much less n they can be bought and ship- in by neweomers, The “oyukak viting etd for the energetic miner, Its future will lay the Kiondike in [the shade, | “The way to reach the new Eldor- | sot by way of Bt. Michael's and by boat to the head of navigation where the town of Peavey is locat Quarts and hydrauile mining, iu is golng to attract the attention of the world ° A Captain Richardeon, with hia 166 roliers, is maintaining splendid or- |der atong the Yukon river. He ar- |roete drunks and gamblers and mak- jes them work out thelr fines. Hin heapitals are of excellent service to the tenderfoot element, which, by reason of inexperience, does not know the best modes of combatting the climate, The captain ta wel liked, too, by all classes. In the jate spring I expect to return and work my property.” French Quit St. Matthews. | WASHINGTON, March 7.—The French embassy has sprung a sen- hington. The pew French government in Matthew's church has been sur- Bt concributed by the government of France to thé exchequer of that burch ever since France has been vented in the diplomatic corps been withdrawn, The French embassy hi leased a w in St. Paul's Roman Catholic church. The trouble between the embassy people and the rector of St Matthews, the Rey. Father Lee, re- lates to the services In memory of «ident Faure of France. demanded the money mase—$500—In advance; the tions and muste fell short of ench embaasy's idea of ap- a the m was ted before President McKin- notwithstanding that had been requested to Father Lee for the Father \it a short time, the president hav- been misinformed as to the time of the servic ee Major Wilkinson's Sword. Miss Evangeline Cary Wilkinson, dapehter of th »M. C, Wilkinson of the Third United States infantry, desirous of obtaining Major Wil- Kinson's meas chest, sword and belt The heat wae sent to Cuba with th ceage of the Third Unit ed Stotes infantry from Mobile. At rthe battle of Leech lake, when the bodies of Major Wilkingon and others were taken back to Walker, Min Gen, Bacon laid the sword between Major Wilkinson and Ser e Hutler and covered them with his It was in that position when last seen, though it is hard to understand why any, one would take t it from there. It is of little value In itself ae compared with the value it has tothe family of Major Witkin aon, Any information concerning it | will be thankfully received by Miss | Kvangetine Caxy Wilkinson, 10 West Thirtleth street, Los Angeles, Cal—Army and Navy Journal, | LET US DEAL WITH FACTS, While the fslands of the archipel- ago are now parts of the territory of the United States their people wer insurgents against Spain, and we have purchased the insurrection. Be- fore anything else can be settled this |twurrection mumt be put down of prements today’ the most tn-| placer mining in this region ) ered and the sum that has been | ‘Th with vigor; and a large army, fore the war munt be pus this | time under competent leadership, | with the necessary equipment of all | arms and tentag with Metent and wholesome food, and with abun- | dance of medical supplies, must be went to the grewsome tank which the government has upon its hands, This | time let there be no thought of “pull” commissions, no attempt to! deprive the country of the services of any soldier who may win fame | which may make him a formidable | rival for presidential honors, and no atteypt to make the war profitable for contractors. If we must have war let us have one entirely free from the smell of the syndicate, Taylor Stays at Vassar.~ PROVIDENCE, R. 1, March 7.— sident James Monroe Taylor, of | Vassar college, today sent a letter) | declining the unanimeus election to | the presidency of Brown university, | | recently tendered him. In his letter Dr. Taylor says if he should leave Vansar at this time it would give weight to the assertion that the type of work for which Vasser stands ts of leas Importance than that of a college devoted to men only. and Vassar's prospects might thus be hindered for years. The eyes of Brown's alumni are now fixed again on Prof, Adee Wheeler, of Corneti. —- —_ ‘ THE WANDERDRS, Past the happy bi and hollows, hand in hand to Derringtown When the bees in mazy tangles bent the dewey blossoms down, And the sunshine fell in silver on your tresses soft and brown, We wandered in the morning time of love, dear. The river rippled music and sang: “Delay—delay ‘The lites were like altars when we heard the low winds pray, And the rose that gave its crimson to your sweet lips whispered } “Stay!” | we wandered In the morning time of love, dear. Past the lonely hills and hollows, hand in hand from Derring- town, Whenethe aky was sad and suniess and the ruined leaves rained down your tresses, where the silver yelled the beauty of the brown, We wandered in the evening time dear. | On j } of love, And the eyes, once bright, were | weeping, but your cheek to | mine was pressed. | Yet still 1 hear you whisper: “Love | in with us—love ts best!"* Like tired little children we creep dome at last to rest In the evening—tn the evening time of love, dear! ~Frank Stanton. Strange Cure of Deafness. | WAUKESHA, Wis, March 7.—| King Bartell yesterday cured Mra. | R. J. Rogan of deafness. Mr. Rogan, | who is a dispatcher in the employ of the Wisconsin Central railroad tn this place, heard of Bartell and re. queried him to treat Mra. Rogan. He agreed to do so, and yesterday ef- feoted the cure by pla: one on each of Mrs. Rogan’s ears. | | | HOW TO HAVE A BBAUTIFUL NECK, A beautiful neck beautifully Areased makes a woman look fairer and younger than any other toilet dressing, and the majority of wo-/ men know it, and their worry Js }areate rover this score than any other in the beautifying line. ‘There is a way—in fact there fs al- ways & way when a woman wills— |and a Httle patience and persever- ance will make the ugliest neck look not beautiful always, but present- able “Gymnastic movements for devel- oping the muscles of the neck,” says a well known beauty expert, are: |i. Slowly but firmlybend the neck forward until the chin nearly touch- es the neck; then gradually raise the head, 2. Slowly but firmly bend the head backward as far as you com-| fortably can, Repeat this movement | twenty times. 3, Bend the head side- | ways to right twenty times and to the left th number of times. | 4. Roll the head slowly to the right, then to the left twenty times.” After these exercises the neck should be bathed in warm water and | olive oll soap and rubbed with a soft | towel, Follow this by anointing the | neck with retiring cream, and, if | persisted in, the fair patient will soon be rewa by being the | proud possessor of a beautiful white neek Watt» BOA ¢ 1 ry for « scrub. 8 g Deal in Zine Land JOPLIN, Mo, March ‘The big- Why don't you use a little » ina while? Higgine—Soap Is all right Indianapolis Journal, t mining deal ever made in the zinc mineral belt has just been com- pleted, It Involves the transfer of 1240 acres of zinc and lead mining land for a cash consideration of al quarter of a million dollars. ‘The sale was made by ex-Gov. W. C Renfrow to the American Zine Lead and Smelting Company, of Boston, “You seem to be happy over some- thing.” | “Lam. I feel as gay as a lark." What's up?” My wife has gone away for three | ks and T shall not have to take Jany medicine to keep offthe grip un- | | til she gets back."—Chicago News, | | | Mr, Andrew Lang says that he has | “never read Maeterlinek and won't.” | Various people who have read the Belgian's books wish they hadn't, and entirel® appreciate Mr, Lang's j feelings on the subject. o Cas S smnacs graces |hopes for lentenc: 25 - TOSELL Mexican Volcano Is on the Market. ODD STORY PROM THE SOUTH Offered Popocatepet to an Englis! Sulphur Firm for $50,000. CITY OF MEXICO, March 7.—The ownet of Mount Popocatepeti, Gen, Gasper Banchez Ochoa, is negotiate |ing with « leading sulphur firm of England, through Henry E. Taylorg of London, for the sale of the moun tain for £50,000, Mexican silver wilt greatly simplify and cheapen the ex< trection of sulphur. The plan em-< braces @ tunnel 600 feet long from the summit to the top of the sulphur deposits; a cable line from the tun to the reduction works at Timacasy half way down the mountain, and a cog railway thence to the tracks of the Interoceante railway. The ca+ ble line itself will have to be 15,008 fect long, making it the longest aer= jal noun the world. A rope of cru- cible steel wire one inch in diameter ayd enduring a tensile strength of 200,000 pounds to the square inch wilt be The buckets are to weigh 70 pounds with a capacity of 200 pounds, Thus 120 tons of sulphur ore will be delivered daily. The Mexican official figures made in 1857 established the height of Mt, Popocatepetl a 17,816 feet above tha jevel of the sea, The crater bed ta 9200 feet above the City of Mexico. Cortes, in 1628, firat extracted sue phur from this mountain for useim making gunpowder, The sulphur ig found pure, without admixture of dection works, but in one year extgacted 1,000,000 pounds. The con-~ sumption of the sulphur in the world last year was 10,000,000 pounds, and the market price is now from $36 to #0 @ ton. cementite If 18 CANADA'S OF FAIR, * ‘There were several reasons why Canada did not join in the resolu- tion, the most important being that the restrictions which hampered the oid colonies affected that locality lera seversty and the aspirations for Noerty whien set the thirteen colon- len ablaze appeared with very little forse to the French element which formed the majority of teh popula- tion in Canada. The latter reason was by far the more powerful. The error which Canada’s lack of fore- sight and civil virtue led her into at that time has impeded her ever since As a part of teh United States she would have had a much greater population and influence than she can ever obtain while her present connection continues, This error is responsible for the immense immi- _ gration fro mthat country to the United States which takes place ev- ery year, It has appealed to intel< Nigent Canadians and Englismmen, like Goldwin Smith, who has for a quarter of a century past advocated @anexation. The error will present inscif to the minds of @ majority of the people of the dominion at no dis- tant day. Then Canada will knocks admission to the American union, ndda has a much greater tnter- est in hastening that day than has the United States.—-St. Louis Globe- Democrat. Admits He ded Orders COLUMBUS, ©., March 7.—G. My Hyams, late salesman for the whole- sule hat house of Sweet, Dempster & Ce., of Chicago, left for that city tonight in custody of an officer. Hy- ams was arrested Saturday night as the result of a telegram from Chi- cago. Hyams freely admits that he padded orders to swell his commis< sion. He is much crestfallen an@ -f ss AN ODD HORSE. A friend of mine once shared thd ox seat with the driver of a stage coach in Yorkshire, and, being a lover of horses, he talked with the coachman about his tea: admiring one horse in particular, “Ah,” said the coachman, “but that ‘oss ain't as good as he looks; he scientific ‘oss.”” “A sclentific horse!" exclaim- ed my friend. “What on earth da you mean by that?” “I means,” re< plied Jehu, “a ‘oss as thinks he knows a good deal more nor he does.” —London Telegraph, in From Smallpox. PRINCETON, N. J, March 7.— Princeton undergraduates are m ing capital out of the smallpox scare, Upward of 300 have left town tonight and more expect to follow tomorrow, The excuse is sald to be based more upon a desire to obtain a vacation than a fear of an epidemic, The case of R. &. Steen is said by the doctors to be no more than a mild form of varioloid, and they say there is no evidence of a further spread of tho disease, ‘The members of the facul- ty say they will keep the college open no matter how many students leave. EDS A ROCK PILP, , PASCO NE France had its “reign of terror." And Pasco is having its “rain” of hoboes, and the history of our city ts fast becoming & history of holdups and knockdowns. Knights of , the brake-beam are the gentry that our wives and daughters have to meet on the sidewalks when they go shopping, visiting or to worship, and the rigid serutiny they are com- pelle dto undergo from the viltin- ous gaze of this riffraff is humiliat- ing in the extreme.--Pasco News- Recorder. let we have fatth that right makes might, and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we under. | stand it—Linooin,