Norwalk gazette, Friday, July 30, 1897 · page 8

 

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THE ROLE CRlZE LIMIT

A Party of lien VV ho Propose to Wall;
All the Way to Klondike.

 

WILL WORK ALONG THE ROAD

A Miner \Vho Has Returned With a. Nice
Stake Made Just as Hope Was Desert-
ing Him—Another Prospecting
Company Incorporated.

Worcester, Mass, July 30.—:1‘hirty-
lour Hebrews started from Boston en
route for the goldfields of Alaska, leav-
ing behind them families, houses and
lands, many of them taking their de-
parture without the knowledge ofthei1
families.

It is their intention to make the jour-
ney, after leaving New York, on foot
and to pay for their subsistance by ply-
ing their respective trades and peddling.
Their leader and president is Charles
L. Wise. Mr. Wise said that the party
were all aware of the dangers and perils
of the trip, but were willing to face any-
thing. There were two things for each
man to promise before he was entitled
to join the party. First, that he had no
regret lealving his home; second, that he
would abide by the wishes of the ma-
jority. It was also necessary for each
' man to be a Hebrew. That will prevent
any race distinctions and quarrels on
the way.

Each man was requested to deposit
such a sum of money in the treasury as
he felt able to, the deposits ranging from
$15 to $200. The oldest man in the party
is 50 years old and the youngest 17. The
party start today for Hartford, and
after leaving Hartford will go to New
York and then will begin the overland
journey.

Instead of traveling due west they
take a southerly course, peddle through
some of the southern states as far as
Texas and from there go up the Pacific
coast to Washington. They expect to
reach there in the spring and will buy
provisions, wagon and horses to go into
Canada along the western border. They
expect to reach the gold regions in the
middle of May. They will travel and
rest alternately six hours at a time un—
til they reach the promised land.

In the party all kinds of trades are
represented. One man has a knowledge
9; medicine. Another is a taxidermist
and a skilled hunter and is expected to
shoot game for the party.

President Wise is but 27 years old and
says that he was the candidate for
mayor of Hartford on the Socialist tick-
et in 1891.

Luck at the Last Moment.

Sioux Falls, July 30.—-William Kolju,
a Finlander, has arrived home after
an absence of. 18- months, bringing
with him $17,000 in gold nuggets from
the Klondike country. In February he
Was on the verge of starvation and had
no :money to buy food. A short time
after this his fortune brightened. He
struck pay dirt and began taking it out
and packing his sluice boxes. This re-
quired arduous labor, as pay ground
lay in bedrock, beneath several feet of
solid ice and frozen sand. The only way
to get it out was to build immense fires
and thaw the dirt, after which it could
be shoveled.

In May the water came in torrents.
Kolju began sluicing his dirt and met
with success. He at once set to work
to clean up as much of his dirt as pos-
sible and took out a little more than
$17,000 in gold dust, which he brought
home. He sold his claim for $20,000.

Kolju says that there is much gold in
the country, but that the percentage of
men who get it is no greater than it is
in the average mining camp: Some of
the oldest settlers are poorer than when
they went there, although they work
untiringly. All of the pay dirt lies on
bedrock, beneath the beds of streams,
and the only time it can be reached is
in the winter while the water is frozen.
In summer it cannot be reached because
of the water.

The weather is terribly severe, and
for over a month the sun never shines
there. The earth is frozen to an un-
known depth, and although the weather
becomes very warm- in summer the
ground never thaws to a depth of more
than 14 to 18 inches.

Two trading companies, Kolju says,
have a monopoly in the matter of sup—
plying the inhabitants with clothing
and provisions under a charter from the
Canadian government, and all other
dealers are , excluded. A man is not
even permitted to take his own supplies
in with him, the two trading companies
compelling him to buy of them.

To reach the Klondike a journey must
be taken that is attended with enormous
diSComfort. There are two routes, one
of which lies over the range from Ju-
neau and down the Yukon, and the oth-
er is up the. Yukon from its mouth. The
range that must be crossed in going by
way of Juneau is the highest on the
American continent, although the dis-
tance across it is not very great. In
either event there is a long stretch 01
region across which everything must be
packed laboriously along rude trails.
The country is almost devoid of animal
life.

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l Klondike Fever In Albany.
Albany, July 30.—A number of Alba-
' nians have formed themselves into the
Alb'y Gold Mining and Prospecting
company. This company was incorpo-
rated today with the secretary of state
and proposes to send three prospectors
to the Klondike region at an expense 01
$1, 000 each. The company has a capital
of $3,000, divided into $5 shares, and the
35 shareholders owu stock ranging in
value from $5 to $100, which is the high-
est individual subscription. Two pro—
spectors have already been selected to
go to Alaska for the company.

 

 

 

Decrease In Cattle.

El Paso, Tex., July 30.—It is said by
stockmen that in the past three years
there has been a decrease in cattle
amounting to 4,900,000 head in the Unit-
ed States. In 1890 we had our greatest
number of cattle, 53,000,000 head, and
63,000,000 population, and now with a
population'of 70,000,000 we have but 48,-
000,000 head of cattle. In view of these
figures higher prices are predicted for
beeves.

 

 

De Jeltsch’s Suggestion Unpopular.
Constantinople, July 30.—-The demand
of the German embassador, Baron Saur-
ma de Jeltsch, that a provision be in-
serted in the peace treaty between

Greece and Turkey for European con-
trol of Greek finances meets with dis- ,
favor among the other embassadors.

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CELREEEEEPE MURDER

[born and Mrs. Nook Poth Refuse to
Plead to indictment.

THE OOURT’S INSTRUCTIONS.

He Directed the Entry “Not Guilty”—A
Novel Mode of Procedure—A Fur-
ther Protest Against the Juris-
diction of New York County.

New York, July 30.—Martin Thorn

derers of William Guldensuppe, the
Turkish bath rubber, had a little change
from their everyday life in the Tombs
today when they were arraigned in
part one, general sessions, to plead to
the indictment charging them with
murder in the first degree. The plead—
ing had long been delayed awaiting
Iudge Newburger’s decision dismissing
the demurrer to the indictments.

Mrs. Nack was informed from reading
the papers of the decision that the case
can be tried in this county. She ex-
pressed herself as being pleased to have
the trial come off in this city.

Thorn ~read all the papers, but said
nothing that could be construed into
any opinion on the subject. Mrs. Nack’s
preference is based solely on her liking
for her quarters in the Tombs. She de-
clared that she felt quite at home, be-
cause it was a convenient place where
her friends could call on her.

Mrs. Nack held something of a levee
in the hospi a] ward of the prison be-
fore she rea the decision. She had no
less than five callers, amdng them a
number of witnesses who are. expected
to testify for the people.

These visitors included Henry Stewart
and Mrs. Stewart, who live on‘the top
flat at 439 Ninth avenue, where Mrs.
Nack lived when Guldensuppe disap-
peared; Mrs. Schenck of 445 Ninth av-
enue, and Paul and Pauline Nenkin.

- Mrs. Nack was feeling in good spirits
when she began early today to deck
herself in a becoming fashion for her
appearance in court. She has the most
complete confidence, it is said, in her
ultimate acquittal.

A Novel Stand.

When court was opened by Judge
Newburger it was found that counsel
for the prisoners were prepared to take
a novel stand. They said—both William
F. HOWe and Frederick B. House—that
they would be mute and allow the court
to direct the entry of the only plea pos—
sible for a capital charge, not guilty. In
addition to this Mr. House still showed
fight on the questions which were
raised on the demurrer by handing up
the following formal plea. The lawyer
styled it a “plea ” though it was really
a formal announcement of a refusal to
plead to the charge in this county.
Stripped of the introductory verbiage,
the plea was as follows:

“The defendant,_ Augusta Nack,
through her counsel, Friend and Gross-
man, doth plead as follows:

“First.—That the said indictment does
not conform substantially to the re-
quirements of sections 275 and 276 of
the cede of criminal procedure. -

“Second. —That the said indictment
charges more than one crime within the
meaning of section 278 or 279 of the
code of criminal procedure.

“Third. —That the facts stated in said
indictment do not constitute a crime.

“Fourth—That the crime set forth in
the indictment was committed in the
county of Queens and not within the
city and the county of New Yerk, and,
therefore, not within the jurisdiction of
the court of general sessions of the
peace, in and for the city and county of
New York, or in any other court having
jurisdiction in said city and county.”

The Prisoners Arraigned.

There was but a small crowd in the
courtroom when Clerk Edward Hall
called out:

“Martin Thorn and Augusta Nack to
the bar!"

When the pai1 appeared, it was seen
that Mrs. Nack wore a bell shaped
sailor straw hat with ablack band. She
was dressed in a handsome black silk
dress with large sleeves. Martin Thorn
had on the same clothes which he wore
at the previous arraignment. His face
was covered with a. week’s growth of
beard.

called to plead, and after expressing his
gratification at the manner in which the
demurrer had been decided, he said:

“Your Honor, we stand mute to the
charge."

“Enter a plea of ‘not guilty,’ " ordered
the court.

Mr. House read the plea he had pre-
pared and asked to have it entered as
a plea. The court refused to have it
entered on the records. Mr. House took
an exception.

Mr. Howe wished to be informed when

the case of Martin Thorn would be put
on the calendar. “I am- ready to pro—
ceed tomorrow," he said. The court re-
plied that the question was hardly a
fair one, as the day was set aside only
for the pleading.
’ The prisoners were taken directly
back to the Tombs. Neither spoke or
even looked at the other while in the
courtroom.

Severe Storms In Spain.

Madrid, July 30.—-A dispatch from
Barcelona says that severe storms have
prevailed throughout Catalonia for the
last few days, with devastating effect
among the vineyards. Out of 130, 000
hectares of vine lands barely 5,000 have
escaped. In the districts of Tarragona
and Gerona at least 80,000 hectares of
vine lands have. been seriously dam-
aged.

 

Moy Release Irish Prisoners.

London, July 30.—As the result of the
efforts of Mr. John Redmond, the Par—
nellite leader, it is probable that the
government will soon release the five
remaining Irish prisoners, Wilson, Bur—
ton, Dalton, Flanagan and Father-
stone, now undergoing sentences of
penal servitude for life in Portland
prison. '

 

John _\V. Foster Coming Home.
London, July 30.—Hon. John W. Fos-
ter. special representative of the United
States‘ on the sealing question, will sail
from Southampton for New York on
Saturday on board the steamship St.
Louis.

Lebaudy's Horse Wins.
London, July 30.-—At the third day’s

 

racing of the Goodwood 1897 meeting
today Mr. R. Lebaudy's 5- -yea1- -old
chestnut horse COunt Schomberg won
the Goodwood cup.

and Augusta Nack, the accused muri

Mr. Howe arose when his client was .

 

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Mowers and Mow-
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We have taken this mode of advertising for the last few
months. We have made ten persons happy,rfor every one who has
a wheel seemshappy. This week we shall give away our last one.
August is the dullest month in the year, and in order to create bus-
iness we shall have special drives in every department this week.
Save your duplicates and you may be the lucky and the eleventh
happy one, this week, by winning the Bicycle.

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CLEARING SALE OF DRESS GOODS.
10 pieces Bicycle Suiting, 15c kind, 8;- per yard.
39c Fancy Mixtures. 25c per yard.
750 Black Sicilian, 54 in, wide, 500 per yard.
9°c Black Silk Mohair, 75c per yard.

BATHIN-G SUITS.
Ladms,’ $2.25 to $4.50. Childrens,’ $1 75 and $2.98.

 

BLANKETS.

1 Case handsome double Blanket, 980 value ior 69c.
1 case of Domet Blankets, 49c.

 

' SILKS.
39 and 49c Summer Silk, in Navy, Green and Elk. 25c.

 

LINEN CRASH.

27 inch Linen Crash for Skirts, 12%..
30 inch Linen Crash for Skirts,l5c.
The former prices were 19 and 250.

 

CHILDREN’S DRESSES.

$1.49c ones, 98c. 98c ones, 50c.

 

 

LIN ENS.

The Tarifi‘ will put. Linens higher than they ever have
been before. We were wise enough to buy before
the bill went into efi‘ect.

5 pieces Half Bleached Damask, 250.

6 pieces Half Bleached Damask, 32c.

3 pieces 66 in. wide full bleached, 500.

4 pieces 2 yards wide, Half Bleached, 600.

10 pieces 68 inch full Bleached, 89c.

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$3.98 Crash Suits, for $2.98.
4.75 Crash Suits for $3.75.
6.75 Crash Suits for $5.00.
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Picnic Basket, 15c.
Nickel Bread, 100.
Lawn Mowers, $2.25.
Table Tumblers, 20c doz.
. Bicycle Bells, 10c.
Toe, clips for bicyclists, 10c pair.
Granite Iron corn boilers, 980.
Granite Iron Soap Dish, 10c.
Sticky fly paper, 10.

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HAMMOCKS.
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$2.25 Woven Hammocks, $1.69..
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