UNTUUTUU ABOUT 60”)
Exaggemted Repm ts of the Quantity
Received by Mints.
LATEST WORDS or WARNING.
Argonauts Likely to Have a Rough Time
and to Find All the Best Claims
Taken—Three Treasure Seekers
Meet Death on a Glacier.
San Francisco, Aug. 7—Speaking of
the Klondike gold output, the chief
clerk of the mint here says: “All- the
gold brought to this city from the Alas-
kan mines will not exceed $800,000, and
all that has been taken this year and
sent to other mints of the country will
not exceed $2,000,000. The gold from
that part-of the country is generally
from .7 to .8 fine, and some of it runs
to .9, the average being worth from $15
to $17 an ounce.”
J. C. Butler of the Pullman Car com—
pany is in receipt of a letter from R. P.
Taylor, a money broker of Seattle. A
, few days ago Taylor received a letter
from some men whom he had sent to
the Klondike section last spring. in
which they informed him that every
claim within 150 miles of Dawson City
~ has been taken up, and that men are
rushing all over the country looking for
locations. . He says starvation and
hardship stare many of them in the
face.
Captain Niebaum of the Alaska Com-
mercial company, who has made a
careful study of the situation, says
there will' be a great deal of suffering
in the mining regions next spring. He
thinks the people going are far in ex-
cess of the supplies that have been for-
warded.
A letter from Hart Humber, a pro-
spector, dated Dawson City, June 18,
just received, shows that the gold seek-
ers need,plenty of capital. After reach-
ing Dawson and paying the heavy duty
on his outfit, besides 30 cents a pound
for getting it over Chilkat pass, he
will have to pay 25 cents a pound to
get it from Dawson to the diggings.
i ~ Gold Hunters Frozen to Death.
Seattle, Wash, Aug. 7.—News has
been received from Cook's inlet telling
of the tragic fate of three men, C. A.
Blackistone, George Bolscher and J. W.
Malique. They were hunters for Alas-
kan gold, but they found a terrible
death from cold and hunger.
The men left Seattle on the steamer
Lakme,'with 260 others, in March, 1896,
bound for Sunrise City, Cook’s inlet,
where a placer strike was reported.
They staid in the district until March of
this yeai, when they decided to return
to Seattle by coming to Portage bay,
an arm of Prince William sound, and
taking a steamer from there. In order
to reach Portage bay they had to cross
Portage glacier, which is about 50 miles
in width and which extends almost the
entire distance from Sunrise City to
Prince William sound.
They started their. journey across
frozen fields of ice to the sound, carry-
i’ng provisions enough with them to last
until they took the steamer. They also
carried mail from Sunrise City. They
have not since been seen alive. Search
was made for the men and kept up by
George Hall,who was a friend of Black-
istone. Hall found traces of men and
started out on their trail.
1t would seem that instead of cross-
ing the glacier direct to Portage bay
the men lost their way and ascended
the mountain, coming out on the wrong
side. There the glacier ends abruptly
and drops into another arm of Prince
Williamsound in almost a perpendicu—
lar cliff.
Mr. Hall found how Blackstone, Bot-
scher and Malique, after reaching the
top of this perpendicular cliff, had
crawled under a ledge of ice. From
notes found in Blackstone’s diary it is
evident that most "of their provisions
had been lost in crossing the. mountain.
However that may be, both Botscher
'and Malique perished under the ledge
of ice, as evidenced by a note found on
Blackstone's body.
“Don’t,” Says Miles Standish.
Portland, Me., Aug. 7.——Captain Miles
Standish of Montreal, who has been
spending the summer in Alaska and is
'now returning, writes that he knows all
about the Klondike gold craze and his
advice to intending prospectors is
“don’t.” In a letter received here to-
day he says that the situation on the
Klondike is not very dissimilar to that
in other goldfields. The gold is there,
but it doesn’t lie around the ground in
“chunks” waiting to be scooped up. It
can only be secured by patient -and un-
commonly laborious placer mining. in-
terspersed with many weary miles of
tramping around from pocket to pocket.
He further says that the journey to the
d-iggings from Juneau is an enterprise
calculated to pail the stoutest heart.
Any one who starts now must stop over
at Juneau or somewhere. else until next
May. He says that the larger part of
the Klondike region is in Canada with-
out
line an inch,” and that the Dominion
police will have something to say about
Yankees coming over there. and taking
away all the gold. \
A Freight War Ended.
Taconfa, Aug. 7. —The withdrawal of
the Kruse steamers Lakme and Cleve-
land from the San Francisco- Puget
sound run, to enter the Alaska trade,
leaves the San Francisco sound field
to the Pacific Coast Steamship com-
pany, and ends the freight war which
was begun by the establishment of the
Kruse line last spring. The Kruse
steamers carried freight from the Gold-
en Gate to the sound for $1 a ton. The
Pacific company out its rate to the
same figure every time a steamer of the
Kruse line sailed from San Franc1sco.
With the absence of the Kruse vessels,
the rate of $3 a ton again prevails, but
it is not expected that there will be
any advance in passenger rates.
High Death Rate In Bombay.
Bombay, Aug. 7.—The death rate in
the city for the past week has been
alarmingly high. The total number of
deaths for the week was 1,071,'equaling
65' to each thousand inhabitants.
An Andree Pigeon‘ Captured.
Paris. Aug. 7. —The Gaulois says that
a carrier pigeon bearing instructions
regarding the arctic explorer, Andree,
has been captured. at Gradlsca, near
Goritz, Austria.
“stretching an elastic boundary.
‘The words
adopt the gold standard.
WIIII ARE THEY 1'
that "carry
_Weight.in Norwalk Are
. from Norwalk People.
When anything that promises relief ,
is offered you, the fi1 st thing you Wish to '
know is if it ever helped anyone else;
and the amount of faith vou will have
in t1 ying it will depend upon the reli-
abilitv of the testimony ofiei ed in its
behalf. TVhen this is from remote
st1ange1s. way bevond the reach of your
cOnsultation, doubts mav remain; but
when it comes from d1s1nte1ested N01-
walk people, Whom 1'ou can consult at
any time, its reliability IS appai cut; its
truth not to be doubted. And the tes-
timony of Norwalk people, and of prom-
inent people among them, is united in
declaring that California Catar rh Cure
cures catarrh, that it removes all in aces
of this persistent and humiliating“ dis-
ease. Note the words of a man you
know you can believe.
Mr. D. C. Croft, 11 East avenue, East
Nor walk, after suife1ing with catarrh
for years, tells of his relief as follows:
“ I find that Qalif01 nia Cata1 rh Cure
has relieved me ve1 v much. It keeps
my head and throat much clearer than
they had been for a long time, and the
relief 15 wonderful. Anyone sufiering
f1 om catamh in any f01m will surely
find it an excellent lemedy. It 1 elieves
at once, and I believe the 1elief 1s per-
manent. ”
. California Catarrh Cure is the great-
est reliever of hay fever and the great-
est cure. All dealers, 50 cents, three
times as much, one dollar.
THE FALL IN SILVER.
Business Apprehension In )l'cxico—hlore
Tail .1 0 he Cold Standard.
City of Mexico, Aug. 7.—°The drop in
sil1 er yes Us (12511 sent exchange on New
York to its highest point (132) after
banking houis. Mei chants have largely
canceled foreign orders and will await
something like permanency in ex-
change. The government is making all
its estimates based on even lower prices
for silver. The leading bankers are not
dismayed and continue to predict a re-
action, although not until lower prices
have been reached. There is undoubt-
edly much apprehensive feeling, espe-
Cially as to the rapidity with which ex-
change has risen. One of the bankers
declares that the United States will
have to take the initiative in bringing
about a solution of the silver question,
but the bankers allege that there is an
opinion gaining ground that although
silver 11-111 iegain some of its lost value
its role as a money metal will soon be
ended and this country will have to
Native manufacturers are in some
cases raising prices on account of hav-_
ing to buy foreign raw material. There
is no panic in business circles, but ra—
ther a feeling of amazement and won-
der as regards the final result and what
changes will be effected with this dis-
turbance in calculations.
The treasury people insist there is no
thought, entertained of adopting the ,
gold basis. The government will meet
its gold interest at any cost, even to the
adoption of the most rigorous economy,
and will pursue a waiting policy. Many
contractors who have bought machin-
ery and supplies abroad find their prof-
lts reduced to nothing.
Postmasters Appointed.
Washington, Aug. 7.—The appoint—
ments of fourth class postmasters today
were:
Vermont—Groton, S. C. Carpenter.
Connecticut—West Torrington, E. M.
Eggleston.
New York—Aurora, C. B. Morgan;
Cayuga, ,J. R. Van Sickle; De Peyster,
T. P. Day; Fishkill, H. F. Walcott:
Mahdpac Falls, M. F. Agor; Niles, D.
M. Greenfield; Walloomsac, C. E. Dur-
fee; West Windsor, C. A. Rider.
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A Vicar General Fined.
Tecumseh, Neb., Aug. 7.—Bishop Bo-
nacum and Vicar General Hartig of
Nebraska City came here to install Rev.
Father Corcoran in the priest’s house.
The Rev. Father Hartig, Father Cor—
coran and his housekeeper forced an
entrance to the parsonage. Trustee-
Shaughennessy arrived on the scene
with an officer, and Father Hartig was
arrested. Judge Brandin found the
vicar general guilty of housebreaking
and fined him $25 and costs.
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The Chitral Trouble.
Simla, Aug. 7.——The British political
officer at Malakand reports that prac-
tically all the tribes joined in the late
attacks on the British forces in the
Chitral district. He adds that 2,700'01?
the enemy were killed and that in ad-
dition many of the tribesmen were
wounded.
Glencairn II to Represent Canada.
Montreal, Aug. 7.—Glencairn II has
been officially selected to defend the
International cup which Mr. Crane’s
MomO‘will seek to restore to America.
Glencairn II won ten out of the dozen
trial races which have been completed.
Fire In Rubber \Vorks.
Danversport, Mass. ., Aug. 7. —The
Danversport Rubber works caught fire
today. The works made rubber sheet-
ing and employed from 25 to 40 hands.
The building was of wood, and as the
flames broke out quickly the entire
building was soon burned to the ground.
The loss is about $35,000.
Detection In the Harem.
Berlin, Aug. 7.——A dispatch from Con-
stantinople to the Lokatanzeiger says
that fourteen women of the sultan's
harem have been banished for connec-
tion with the Young Turkish party.
Countess‘ of Aberdeen Coming.
Southampton, Aug. 7.-—Among those
who are booked to sail for New York
on the Paris is the Countess of Aber-
deen, wife of the governor- -general of
Canada, and her children.
known positively to
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