RlPACITlll CANADA. Her Policy With Reference to the Klon- ‘ dike Denounced. THE GOVERNMENT DEFENSE Sheers at “Adventurous Individuals” Who "Grab .Up” Mining Claims—The Pro- posed Dog Train Mail Service. Collection of Royalty. Ottawa, July 31.--"While governments have been devising new means of rais- ing taxation and of filling their treas- uries none has ever before adopted the rational policy of retaining and work- ing for the public benefit mineral de- posits which may be discovered within its territory. A royalty has been the furthest in this direction that has been gone. As to the mines and mineral de- posits, themselves, they have been free to be grabbed up by every adventurous individual who might happen to run across them, and the utmost that a rich mining district has done has been to make a score or so of millionaires with- out otherwise adding to the general wealth". This statement may be taken as' a general defense put forth by the gov- ernment and its organs for the unusual step taken by the cabinet in imposing a royalty on all placer diggings in Yu- kon, in addition to the $15 registration fee and $100 annual assessment, the royalty to be 10 per cent each on claims with an output cf $500 or less monthly and 20 per cent yearly on every claim yielding above that amount. Critics of the government’s proceed- ings declare that the royalty is a bare- :aced robbery and that its imposition is the last resort'of a government which, having hopelessly exceeded its esti- mates in the matter of expenditures, is now seeking to take advantage of the discoveries on the Klondike to rehabili- tate~its finances from the hard earned findings of the miners. Route of the New Road. It is announced as probable that the road selected by the government for the establishment of the dog train mail service to the Yukon during the winter and for the erection of the police posts will be from the head of Lynn canal to a: point west of Teslin lake, going up the White pass, thence to Fort Selkirk and 30 to Cudahy and Klondike. An editorial in a New York paper of last 'VVednesday dealing with the diffi- culties which the Canadian government is likely to encounter in the collection of a royalty on the gold found in the Klondike _by American miners has at- tracted a great deal of attention here, where it has been reproduced. it‘I‘he government has no precedent for the collection of the royalty on placer mining. In Nova Scotia and in the Transvaal a royalty is enacted, but there itf is on the output of crushers, which much simplifies the work of inspection and collection. However, the Hon. Clifford Sifton, the minister of the interior, thinks the scheme is practicable, and he will at- tempt to get the proposed percentage “some way or another," as he puts it, adding, “Most difficult things are valu- able, and this is a case where that say- ing holds good." Among practical miners, of whom there are a number in Montreal, the opinion is expressed that to collect a royalty from American miners in the Klondike simply means a constant ~es- pionage of each individual digger, and this is not regarded as a scheme“ that would be either practicable or profitable. Colorado Klondike Companies. Colorado Springs, ‘July 31.—-Incorpo- ration papers for two Klondike com- panies were filed with the clerk of the county court here. The first is the Klondike Gold Exploration company, with a capital of $1,000,000. The second is the Alaska Klondike Gold Mining com- pany, also with a capital of‘ $1,000,000. Both companies are backed by W. P. Bonbright and H. J. Hagerman and other well known mining men of this state. Gold at Cook Inlet. San Francisco, July 31.——It is confi- ' dently asserted and believed here that there . as good a chance of getting gold 2 Cook inlet as on the Klondike. The hardships to be endured on the way and after arrival are not so great and the locality is much nearer a base of supplies. Cook inlet is on the southern coast of Alaska, in American territory. It is about 450 miles west of Juneau. An Absurd Canard Denied. San Francisco, July 31.—The dispatch from Washington to the effect that a convoy of revenue cutters would be sent to accompany the steamer Portland out of the Bering sea when she leaves St. Michael’s with $2,000,000 of gold for this port in next September, because her owners feared that she might be at- tacked by pirates, creates considerable amusement among local shipping men. No credence is given to the pirate story. Sufl'ocated by Gas. Plainfield, N. J., July 31.—Mrs. Kate W'hissett. until recently housekeeper at the Hatel Hunterston, engaged a room at McVey’s hotel, and the chambermaid detected a strong odor of gas coming from the room. The door was broken open; The woman was found on the bed dead, with the gas jet turned on full force. It is said that she previously threatened to commit suicide. 1897 AUGUST. Su.‘ MO. Tu. We. Th. 1‘ 2 ’3 4 5 8 9 10 1112 15 16 ,17_ 18 19 22 23 24 25 26 29 30 31 moon's’PHAsr-zs. 1897 Fri. Sat. 6 7 13 14 20 21 27 28 — rim 1:24 Third ' am ’guaner 1"; 6 gm: 2Q 13.0 :19. all 9: : . con 12 um. 0333's- 27 pm. TIIEY WILL BOLT. The People on... lorwalks a. VI- laIIy Interested. ‘One Case. and There are Others. , There is alarge body of bolters in the Norwalks and vicinity. ’ The movement has been gaining force for some time and has become so powerful that those interested are anxious to declare themselves. They are bolting ancient and useless methods of'treating catarrh and hay fever, and they have come over in full force for California Catarrh Cure because they have tried it and know its worth. Here are the words ’from a N orwalk man who has tried many medicines and tr atments before he got what he wanted California Catarrh Cure the greatest and only known cure for ca- tarrh: Mr. Alfred Platt, 9 Maple street, Norwalk. says: “ I have been a great sufferer from catarrh for over thirty years, having contractedthe disease during the war. My whole head seemed full of scabs, and the discharge from the, nose and into the throat was something awful. My head ached al- most continually, and I never got a good night’s sleep. I procured a bot.- tle of California Catarrh Cure at Plais- ted’s drug store, South Norwalk. It has given me more relief than I have had for years; my head is very much improved and I can now sleep all night. It is certainly a great reliever, and I am glad to recommend it. Nothing among all the things I tried before helped me one quarter as much in months, as C. C. C. has in a few weeks.” You don’t have to wait. to find out. if it will help you for it relieves at once. To avoid Hay Fever in its season, use C. C. C. now. It is a sure preventive of this and all mucous-diseases. Use it to break up your colds, and to prevent colds “hanging on. ” Price 50 cents; three times as much for one dollar. A DAY OF RAILROAD. WREGKS. Smash Ups on Sewn-.11 Lines ‘Vhich Res suited In the Loss of Life. Indianapolis, July 31.——-Passenger train No. 34 on the Chicago division of the Big Four railroad, clue here early today, was wrecked at Thornton. A pin placed in the switch caused the train to leave the track. The engine and the baggage and express cars were overturned. The engineer, Winslow, and the fireman were killed. According to the information given out at the Big Four offices in this ‘city no passengers were injured. The en- gine is a complete wreck. Another Account. incinnati, July 31.e—A dispatch to The Times—Star from Thornton, Ind., says that the Chicago express on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis railway, due in Cincinnati at 7 a. m., was wrecked there at about 2:30 o’clock. Four persons were drilled out- right and several were slightly injured. There was a deliberate plot to wreck the train, as a coupling pin had been driven into the switch so as to hold it open and throw the fas't train from Chicago to Cincinnati off the track as it passed that point. The engine and tender and the mail, express and bag- gage cars were thrown from the track and wrecked. The coaches and Wagner sleeping cars remained on the track, and none of the passengers was se- riously hurt, although they had a live- ly shaking up. It is reported that none of those in the cars that were throwu from the track was seriously hurt. Seth Winslow of Greensburg, Ind., the engineer, and B. Crickmore of In- dianapolis, the fireman, and two un- identified tramps were killed outright. While there were many reports about the number of people injured, there was none seriously hurt, although they were so badly frightened at first as to give credence to the reports about many be- ing injured. Two DIen Killed on a Freight Train. Buffalo, July 31.—Two Lehigh freight trains came into collision'at Dapew Junction, seven miles east of here, early today, killing Engineer George Ellersbee of Manchester and Fireman Charles Eddy of Sayre. Fireman James Ratcliffe of Sayre was slightly injured. Eddy’s body was soon re- covered, but Ellersbee's lay for some time under the wreck. The trains were heavy freights, one west bound from Manchester to Buffalo. the other east bound from Buffalo to Sayre. It is said that the signals at Depew Junction .were disregarded by Ellersbee. or that he did not see them. The engines. were a complete wreck, and 50 cars were strung along the tracks. The coroner, with ambulances from here, went at once to the scene'of the wreck. . An Erie Passenger Train In Collision. Salamanca, N. Y., July 31.—Passen— ger train No. 8 of the Erie road ran into a freight train -in the lower yard early today, telescoping several cars. Engineer Newburg of No. 8 jumped, sustaining slight injuries. No passen- gers were hurt, though badly shaken up. A dozen freight cars were wrecked. Suffocated by Foul Air In a Tunnel. Hinton, W. Va., July 31.—A freight train was stalled in Lewis tunnel on the Chesapeake and Ohio road, and the crew was overcome by foul air. Con- ductor Edward Bray is dead, and Sam Hamilton, Edward Womack and Tom Kammewood are in a precarious con- dition. ' A Freeholder Pleads Guilty. 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