The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 21, 1899, Page 3

o | on Star TS AN ee Evening Newspaper Containing all of the News ~~ World Crisp, Condensed Form, | Adapted to the needs of busy . The average man or woman always likes to swiftly scan the moving panorama of the globe during the leisure half hour that follows the evening meal, and then turn attention to other mat- ters. The publishers of the THE ‘Star ciate this fact and have modeled the paper so that Directness of Statement | Will be a noticeable feature. An interesting, breezy style of para- graphing finds increasing favor in these days, as to the old- time fashion of ponderous ‘‘write- " and editorial utterances, HE STAR will have All of the Local As well as the Don’t doubt it forone minute. The paper will not claim to be the best on earth with the ‘‘largest circula- tion’’—that is, not yet awhile, but the effort will be made to steadil improve it. In the meanwhile please remember that news ‘‘tips’’ telephoned to the office (Pike 150) will be much appreciated; also subscribers. It only costs Two Bits To seeure The Star for ONE MONTH 1 ' Show your neighbor a copy of The Seattle Star. TRY IT F 66% 6 6 66 ee eh hee & & & & & & | 4eIS 920ES euL jo Adoo e soqusieu anoA MOUS ere & & @ & &aaehe & & & &@ ° COLD ON The Story Told by a Preacher. HE FOUND SOME RICH CLALMN Will Return to Alaska to Work and Develop His Promising | Properties. | ones PORTLAND, Or., Mareh 21H, 0. |] | Noravig, wr of the Norwegian and Danish church in Portland, re turned from the Aretie circle y terday after an absence of 13 month: |] from his family, He has secured |[ some valuable placer claims the if Koyukuk river, as far north ax laut {fF tude @8, and the nuggets he brought Been wiih | Memes eee cater 9 Mayo bea The Koyokuk |e « tributary of the Yukon, emptying into the north side jf of that bie river about 500 miles | from St. Michael, He was up the Koyukuk some 90 miles from ite mouth, and says there are good dig- gings all the way along, Captain Young, of Portland, has the pilots dredge Lavaile Young tied to the |} bank about 715 miler from the Yu kon, Me found the v impracti cable as a dredger and does not use her for that work, but the w has good placer diggings and are doing well, Mr. Nordvig held services on the boat on December 1%, and there were about 175 miners in the congre- gation. He thinks there are five or six white women in that region and that one thousand or more men are doing well in the diggings along the river's length. The country is mountainous, but spruce timber attains a larger growth than it does further south. The streams abound in salmon, |[ | white O#h, pickerel and pike: the |] ame consists of caribou (a species I] of reindeer) amd the moose, while |] | ducks, geese and arctic grouse ot |ptarmigan make fine eating. Dur- jing July and August the woods are | Mile with red currants, raepherries, | blueberries, huckieberries and cran- berries, the largest wild berries he ever saw anywhere, and very mweet There are several prosperous vil- |lages along the banks of the Koyu- |keuk. Bergman, 6 mites from the mouth, has « population of 2. The | Alaska Commercial company has | several stores at Bergman and doer if} a big business with the miners. Peary, & miles further up the middie | fork, is the headquarters of the N A. T. & T. company. There are |some 20 buildings, a church and a | schoolhouse there. | Jdimtown, | main distributing point. This tx 65 miles further up, on the south fork |} of the Koyokuk. The river ts navi gable to Jimtown during the sum- mer months. 1 There are now 53 steamboats win- tering along the Koyokuk. These moatly belong to prospecting parties from the various states, all of whom | Mr. Nordvig feels assured are doing | | well, The owners claim the diggings if) will pay from 4 cents to S11 to the | pan. His own claim, on Davis creek, neta him $49 to $40 a day per man, for four months of the year. and the hydraulic projects along the river If} wilt pay big when opened. Several found but very little has been done jim the line of development work as ‘Dp ovet |]\" ‘The weather gets very cold occa if stonally up there. Freesing began last year on October 16, but snow {8 | did not fall until December 15. On | December 21 the apicit thermometer Indicated 74 degrees below zero, but the air was #0 dry that no one would |] suspect that it was so cold. And in this peculiarity the danger les, as If} a man t@ liable to stop out doors until overcome by the extreme cold. |} A miner on the Alatna, In Decem ber, became very cold while working his prospect hole, some distance |] from his cabin, and started for th ificamp. On the way he evidently | came alarmed and started to build a fire under a tree. While in the act of shaving some kindling he was if frozen stiff, his body being found a IT few days after, where he had eat down. His knife was in one hand and a atick in the other. Many min- ers have frozen thelr feet during the past winter. Mr. Nordvig came out by dow team down the Koyokuk and up the Yukon to Bennett and over the pas to Skagway, making the 1000 mi in 59 days, He had a companion, ¢ |] Hf. Wilson, of Browning, Mo., on the II journey with him, They bad six good “inside” dogs, an he calls the dogs raised In the frozen north. The | “huskies” cost $125 apiece where he \fi started from, but he sold the six dogs for $60 at the end of his Jour- ney. BIG WATER i} CONSUMER MILWAUKEE, Wis. March 21 A warrant was issued thie fore noon for the arrest of C. L. Dana, one of the biggest milk dealers in Wisconsin, charging him with sel! ing milk not up to the standard re quired law. ‘The was iasued on complaint Field, state dairy and food inspec tor. Dana supplies the National So! diers’ Home with 72,000 gallons of milk a year. He was arrested and convicted in May last for using “freezine” in milk delivered at Camp Harvey and consumed by the sol diers who were preparing to go to Rising Wages. very from the n which ached th lant 1993 has r etage The reductic |P i one of the ry first |] jes by which manufacture to meet the strain of hard ‘The increase of wages, | the end of a long series of portents an in time coming at rich quarts ledges have also been’ ™ ATTLE STAR. hat for tell the repurn of promy ' that ¢ % Accrue to Seattle. is destined to become yet more ae. | | tive hd The commercial agencies estimate | | that the advances In wages already ere and tinplate workers have been |e advanced generally, the two elasser | firat named gettin reane eraging 1. per cent. The rine te in progress and will ultimately fect almost the entire body of wage! workers in th country | | A moment's reflection brings Into view the Inevitable e uences of| The itnoorporation of the New an Incrense in the Income of millions | York @teamship company, which ts f persons, It aug the retail | to xe in the Pacific coast and gor Ft! of cng country tt Hawallan trade, foreshadows the the Increane in wavings |290m of the nae ane) in the at once to fund Much of it deferred wants, to purchase ts and to provide enjoyments and luxuries, Trade will be increas ed and the manufacturers will be pushed to the limit of thelr capacity to meet the new demand In the years that lie befors us pro- duction in thie country will far out run the ree ds of the most fruitful past years Pump Trust Was Easy. CINCINNAT!, March 21.—A letter recetved from J, V Dunn, ¢ th Laidiaw-Dunn-Giorden company, th Cineianatl ce rn th has been merged into the International Steam ompany, says that the $27, 100,000 capital stock was oversub ner! jth Wafiret 4 bourne. Dunn has & fered a ponition with the new trust, and may take up his residence In New York, INCREASE OF MAIL CLERKS SPOKANE, March 21.—Alexander Grant, of Washington, D. C., al superintendent of the railway mall Perkins, of St superintendent of the tenth mall district; MH. P. Thrall, superintendent of and Chief Clerk mener- «; Norman 1 railway of fan Francis the Bighth district Cotterms holding ne tod: and de- termine how the railway mall clerks in the eighth and tenth districts shall be distributed so as to handle the additions! work made by the new daily mail train on the North- ern Pacific. What they have done so far is to divide the men up now on the orthern Pacific cars and let half work on one Northern Pacific train and the other half on the new train. Thureday the half crews are able to handte the mail all right on each | train, but the mail is increasing and | probably additional men will have to | be employed A Stream of Earth. Capt. Roberts, of the Pritish army, writes to Sir Martin Conway, the ex-| | plorer of the Himalayas, a curious! phenomenon he has n among the mountains of the extreme north western part of India, not far from |the upper Indus. There is a very he thinks, will be the | narrow valley of nullah among the) @POKANE, March 21.—A $350,000/ |mountains, the head of which is About 12,000 feet and the foot about} UO) foot above wea level. The earth | Jon the floor of this nullah in moving down toward the foot of the valley at the rate of about @0 feet a year. |The eatimate of the rate of move | ment is made from the porition of trees that are growing on th face and every year are rer the foot of the valley, The surface of the moving mass fille the bottom of the nullah, and ts about 609 feet wide, An far as he ts able to ascer- tain, there is no te r snow above or within the moving mass. The surface is undulating and looks like waine-covered glacier, except that erase ie growing upon tt. The! neighboring villagers have made a f upon the w cultivation terraces om In 4 | moving m both sides of It stre tween the mass and the hillsides. New ¥ Sun | WILL THIS NEVER STOP! CHICAGO, March jclothing manufacturers have receiv ed invitations to join the $100,000,000 | "ready made” combination forming lin the East in the shap pectus outlining the ways and the which ¢ dividends are t “Chicago of a pros. means b: | be earned | Upward of 25 local establishments have into possession of the} tan, which is signed by Samuel Ro- nthal, §r., of Baltimore. The cor- poration Is to be known as the Am- erican Clothing Manufacturing com- pany of New Jersey, and is to form an alliance with the lately organt American ‘Woolen company, wh by the latter's product ia to be cluaively controlled by the clothing makers. Part of the “trust’s' capital will be 7 per cent stock and part common. come plan .|does not become operative until op- tlons secured show an annual output of $60,000,000, Locked in a Ce’ NW YORK, March 21 | Howard, at ne time a hall Field & Co., dup at the police headquarters 1 with swindling New York anta out of $50,000 worth of Mra, buyer for of Chicago, is merc goods, On the death of her first husband several years ago she be came buyer for Mars 1P 1, and 1 unusual consideration for one of her sex in the field of the trade Her misfortunes b an when she married Charles Howard, oaten sibly a real estate dealer of Chica £0. Wheaton Withdraw MANILA March 2. Wheaton's brigade, which during the t the country clear from Manila to Laguna hdrawn with the ex F Washington volun teers, 10 hold Pasig and Taguig ichurman, of the Philip n, has been inatruct a draft of a‘proclama tt inhabitants of the Phil Examiner—What is your opinion on thin question? | Candidate—The same as yours, sir, Jenth and Columbia, , round-theeH ther iMustrates the carrying trad itate to a # fur- to the people of the northwest as to whether their erried to the world's markets by steam or sail, On account of the long and dangeroun journey or through the Strait of Magélian, with numerous stops at expensive coaling stations, the steamer ts ob liged to keep rates up to a figure which cannot eliminate the sailor from the question on short notice, . but its advent as a regular factor in the trade is bound to aid in hast- ening the construction of the Nicar- canal, thia is done the broad- Thi = Voitomey” Tainmy, freighter whieh now makes the ‘orth Pacific grain ports ite special preserve, will go the way of the fa- us clippers which raced secrons the Atlantic in the latter part of the forties and in the fiftie It je a diMoult matter to arrive at the maximum joss suffered annually by the producers of the Pacific coart through their inability to reach the markets of the world except by a 17- )-mile journey around Cape Horn by @n expensive overland haul reshipment by water on the At-/ lantic. This lose, direct and indi-| rect, would run #o far into the mil-/ lions an to surprise the general pub- lic, who realize in a vague way, that the canal would be of great value to the coast, but are far from realiz- ing the extent of this benefit which would be conferred on Pacific coast | producers. | The grain growers of Oregon and Washington alone suffered @ direct lows of about $5000 per day for every day of the Jast cereal year, ending July 1, 1808, through having no oth- er route to Kurope except by way of Cape Horn. During that period there was shipped to Europe from the three porte—Portiand, Seattle and Tacoma—667,917 long tons of wheat, valued at $18,256, and the total (reight pald to ship owners amounted to $4,715,770, an average per ton of 230 pounds of $8.30. Something over 10 per cent. of thin BEET SUGAR | FACTORY. an beet sugar factory is to be erected near Puirfield, tn thie county, at once and will be in operation this year, The capital will be furnished by D. C. Corbin of this city, al- though the factory will be conducted by a company to be organized by him in the near future. Work has already begun and the plans for the uildings are now being drawn and contracts for the machinery will be let soon. j “About 1000 acres of land have been secured,” said Mr, Corbin yen) terday,” for the factory eite and for | the cultivation of the beets, Men) who are familiar with the raising of | sugar beets will be brought here and given every inducement. We may make the land rent free and furnish the need t t things started. want men familar with the business here #0 they can Instruct our home farmers how to raise the most pro- fitable crops. } “The factory will have a caparity of about & tons of sugar during the season and will be built with a view | to increasing the capacity should cir- | cumstances warrant. The price paid | for beets will be #4 per ton and up- wards. Experiments have demon- strated that the beets grown here are as rich or richer In sugar than thome In states where beet sugar fac- tories are in successful operation. “In other states where such fac- tories have been operated, they have eulted In great benefit. They not only give farmers a profitable mar- ket for a product but keep much money In the country. By rotating beet crops with wheat the land is kept In & more productivs ate. The additional pay roll to @ county of such an enterprise is also a consid- erable benefit.” | Christian Science at Work. | One of the most appealing stories | about Christian Science that have yet come to light has just been com- municated to me, Its authenticity is vouched for, though I do not de- sire to be numbered among the vouchers. A gentleman met with an accident which resulted in his be- ing left with one leg shorter than the other. Medical seience failed to put him to rights and In despair he determined to try what Christian | lence could do, He waa intro- -duced to a “healer,” who was said to have had miraculous successes with similar cases. Unfortunately the lady had engagements on the Continent, and was only able to see him personally onee. She, however, commenced the treatment at this in- terview, and departed for the Con- tinant, promising to continue the course In absentia, The attentive reader of Truth js aware that in hristian Selence, absent treatment | ia very much the same as present | treatment. So it proved in thia| instan The leg began to grow It continued to grow. It got as long as the other, but it showed no dis- position to stop growing at th point, The owner became alarme: He made inquiries after the absn sr, but falled to find her. His} kept on growing, and In despatr advertised In the newspapers in of stopping the absent | nt, but without success. His) w three inches longer than | e and js still growing.—Lon- don Truth, Prize waltzing next Saturday, Sev- | RESERVES *| the hills of the De: |a numt erain wae carried by tramp at ers, and an several of theme ston ers have since been engaged in car rying wheat across the Atiantic, it tx an easy matter to secure a compara tive statement of rates, These name steamers have made repeated trips acrons the Atlantic (one way in bat lant) and carried wheat and corn at @ profit at considerably less than 1-10 of a ¢ per ton per (90,07143), and on th grain could be carrh eifle coast, through canal to Kurope at a r per ton, a dire waving ton, or, on the 17, tons exported in the last cereal year, $1, This is the minimum of direct sav- ing that would be made in the transportation of the Northwestern grain crop by the short route. The indirect saving would swell the amount very materially, The annu al passage of the grain-carrying fleet around the Horn was about 70 days, and the sailors required from Len Hv basin, thugs keeping nearly $20,000,000 worth of grain tied up out of reach of from 4 to 100 days longer than would otherwise be necessary. The bleak shores of Patagonia, and the region around Cape Horn and the Strait of Magellan has been the Jast resting place of more fine ships than have been lost anywhere else in the world in the same area, and for this rea- son insurance has always been very high, mort of the grain cargoes pay- ing not less than 1% per cent. The route by way of the canal presents no such dangers, and the insurance companies would undoubtedly make enough of @ reduction to add a frac- tion to the value of every bushel of wheat raised in the Northwest. In- surance on vessels, which frequent- ly runs up to & per cent. where they are engaged in the round-the-Horn business, would be lower on this ery much dangerous route, and the ben- efit would be apparent in corre- spondingly lower charters. From these figures it is apparent that the Nicaragua canal could save mile the wheat producers of Oregon and | Washington alone, approximately, $2,000,000 a year. There would be proportionate saving in aaimon and lumber, and in the latter business a veritable boom would strike the coast whenever it became possible to land cargoes in Europe from one- third to one-half less freight than is now demanded, TO CRUISE WASHINGTON, March 21.—The secretary of the navy has decided to turn the converted yacht Prairie over to the naval militiamen of the various states for practice cruising. This magnificent little vessel is now at the League Island navy yard un- dergoing a few slight repairs and an armament, consisting of € 8-inch rapid-fire rifles, 6 rapid-fire 6-pound- s and 2 Colt automatic machine guns of the latest improved type, hae been Prairie. The militias of the various East- ern states are to have eight days’ cruising each, starting with the Lou- ‘na militia in April and finishing with the Massachusetts militia in September. The Prairie can carry 48 men in addition to the comple ment of officers and men, who are now being selected by Capt. Crown- inshield, chief of the bureau of nav- igation. m LEAPED TO HER DEATH NEW YORK, March 21.—The at- tention of the deck hands on the ferryboat Montclair was drawn to a heavily veiled woman, who stood on the forward deck when the boat left its plier at 9 o'clock last night for Hoboken, When the craft reached the middle of the North river one of the men noticed that the woman had disappeared. Where she had stood were two letters, a bottle Ia- beled oxalic acid, a pair of spec- tacles in a case, bearing the name of a Boston firm, pocketbook and a brick, wrapped in a@ paper. One of the letters showed that the writer was @ person of culture and refine- ment. The tenor of the letter Indi- cuted that she had been Induced to leave her husband for the man to whom it was written, It was signed “Jennie.” The other letter was addressed to “Jenn: and signed “Charley. Tt was @ request that the woman meet the writer at a well-known restaur- ant. The woman in her letter id that she had hoped to end the man's life as well as her own, If she could haev got into a room and turned on the gas. The body has not been re- covered, Horses’ Tails Cut Off. At a recent wedding in Chestatee district in this county, the tall of every horse rode there by a visitor was cut off by some unknown party or parties, Even a lady who dress- ed up and borrowed a horse and went from Yahoola district, lost her horse's tail. This is certainly a ne way of treating guests.—Dahlo Ga., Nugget. The Comradeship of Peril. An in cident of the forest fires tn canso neighbor- hood in southern California, illus trates the comradeship that commbn peril brings about among beasts as well as among me: After the flames had completed their work of destruction and spread a pall over the hills, a rancher went forth among the charred stumps and smoking brush-heaps to look for r of cattle and colts, which he feared had been hemmed in by the fire, He went across gully and manufactured at the) Washington foundry and shipped to | Philadelphia to be mounted on the | ° ‘ 3 ridge tn his search, until at last he naw his wtock some Ht distance ahead, He wae more than aston- ished upon coming up to the group 1 not only his nd colts, er, three wi 4 coyote, veral rabbits, all alive, and apparently in no fear of him They wild cat's honesty shining in the «face, The rabbits sat aches, as meek aw the pets of children, But the poor coys te was in 1 as the farmer am “ robber of the roowt dra ipleww hind- quarters towar man jn mute supplication # of the ani- 1 had been frightfully burned. r was tin no mood to deer, no venom in the and eray coyot n their hh ranch friends of such strange crea- tures, and at once drove the stock through the smoldering brush, the r going along with the cattle, the * hopping along at the ranch- in, the wild cats slouching along behind, awd the coyote, unabl to follow, whining @ pathetic appeal for succor. When the burning fleld was parsed the deer broke into @ run for the distant hills, the rab- bits were away like a flash, and the old defiance and snarling leer came ack to the wildeats, who scorned to make # rhow of haste, They walke nlowly out of ~ San Diego Union, WANTS TO CATCH UP _ Russia Will Change Its Cal- end NEW YORK, March 21.—Inas- much as all nations of Europe and America, except Russia, have been using the Gregorian calendar since 1582, and as the Julian calendar, used in Russia, is known to be un- scientific and inaccurate, the czar, is considering the desirability of changing to the Gregorian calendar jin the year 1900. | The Julian calendar takes tts name | from Julius Caesar, who, at the be- «inning of the year 46 A. D., fixed the length of a year ak 165% days, jand threw in a day in February once jin every four years. But as the real jlength of a solar year was eleven | minutes and 14 seconds shorter than | the year adopted by Julius-Caesar, it was found tn 1982 that the vernal equinox had retrograded from the Tist of March to March 11. In that year, therefore, Pope Gregory XIII. directed that ten days be suppressed in the calendar and ordered that in every fourt) year ending an even hundred years there should be no extra day in February, unless the year was exactly divisible by 400. Russia, however, has never adopted the Gregorian calendar, and as Feb- ruary in the year 1700 and 1800 had 29 days in Russia and had only 28 days in the other European coun- | tries, Russia is now 12 days behind | the rest of the civilized world. An Indiana Ghost Story. The residence of James Kile, in the southern part of this city, has been visiied frequently of late by a mysterious personage—presumably @ ghost. The doors have been open- ed, peculiar sounds have been heard, and articles are often found scatter- ed about the rooms. Last night a party of six men, headed by Officer Bowlin, visited the place with a view of ascertaining the cause of the mysterious disturbances. ‘Their trip was not without its reward, for they saw a figure in the form of a woman robed in white appear on the veranda about midnight. She con- versed freely with the men and tn- quired concerning the welfare of many well known people of this city. When they attempted to advance in the direction of the figure it dis- appeared as mysteriously as it came. Indianapolis Sentinel. ————-—_—— Competition in Armor Plate. A new factor is introduced tnto the controversy about the cost of armor plate by the offer of a steel company of Philadelphia to furnish the navy armor plate “equal to that furnished by any new process at a price less than that which the department is now paying.” This means new pri- vate competition, and amounts ta an accusation that the present man- ufacturers are charging the govern- ment more than a fair profit for thelr product. It now appears that the restriction placed upon the price of armor plates for new ships need not delay their construction, as was at first feared, Contracts for plates may be made as Jate as 18 months hence without Interfering at all with the earlier building of the hulls, There is, therefore, time enough for the technical subject of plate to ar rive at a settlement in the next con- gress that shall be just to the gov- ernment and fair to capital invested in costly plants—New York Mai} and Express, joe ———$——— PUERTO RICA MINERALS. WASHINGTON, March 21.—Rodt. T. Hi, of the geological survey, wha is the author of an excellent work on Cuba, has just returned from an examination of the mineral resources of Puorto Rico, and has prepared a very Interesting and valuable re- port on the subject. He estimates that nine-tenths of the island is mountainous and the remaining tenth is foothills, composed of rock of sea origin, a peculiar type of trop- lical white limestone, and alluvial | formations of rich sandy loam. The ordinary prospector for minerals, he says, will find the conditions there so foreign to those in the United States that he will be entirely lost in endeavoring to follow what are to him ordinary indications of mine leral wealth, He thinks, however, that the mineral resources should receive thorough scientific study and that thi ds and alluvial depos- its of each of the 1200 streams should be carefully examined, for it is pro~ bable that they obtain platinum and other r minerals. There is plen- ty of material for construction, and it is utilized with great skill by the inhabitants; brick and tile clays, building stones of great variety, lime, sand, cement, gypsum and pav- ing blocks in great abundance, and plenty of pottery clay, although but few potteries on the island, There ts a belt of marble of great lmrdness, variegated in color and of much gage ca - . .