\ noun unsure . A Man Who Knows Tells Something of Prospectors’ Troubles. A CAMP AT SULPHUR GREEK. Reported Discovery of Deposits of Excep- tional Richness There—A Gold Claim In‘the Business Center of an Important City. Seattle, Wash., Sept. 14.—Among the various reports of hardship from Skag- guay, one of the most vivid descriptions of the trail is given by J. M. Hagerty, who writes in part as follows: Less than $4,000 would make a wagon road from Dyea to the head of the can-. yon, but one bridge would have to be built at the canyon, where the first per- ceptible climb and the first mud are en- countered. The trail from Camp Pleas- ant to Sheep Camp is fairly good, an average of about 500 feet elevation with no sharp pitches. Sheep Camp is 15 miles from Dyea, and the character of the country sud- denly changes and becomes more rough . and rocky. Mountain torrents keep up a continual music. There is scarcely any soil or timber from there to the summit. There were not many people camped on Lake Bennett. only those who had come over the Skaggiay trail, about 20 in number, and only one complete out— fit had got through on Sept. 1, that of Robert Cahel and wife. Detective W. H. Walsh, who was the first man to break through the trail, only had a part of his outfit, and it was scattered from there to the summit. Expensive Outfits. What he had got through had cost him 60 cents a pound. All the rest were in the same fix, their supplies being scat- tered all along the trail. The trail over the summit is just 1,000 feet higher than had been claimed for , it and 200 feet higher than the Chilkat1 pass. At the third hill we found over 200 people camped where there was room for only about 20, and in a district of a mile and a half over 1,000, and as many horses, mules, burros, bulls and oxen. Not one packer in 50 on the Skagguay trail knows how to pack an animal, and half of them never had anything to do with a horse before. Near the third bridge we met Mrs. M. L. Wommack of Seattle, formerly of Butte, Mon. She started for the Klon— dike last March by way of Dyea and Chilkat trail, got her stuff all on Lake Bennett and then received word of the sickness of her children in Seattle. She sold out her outfit and returned there, arranged to have them cared for and started again. On her first trip she was accompanied by another woman, Mrs. Smith, and two babies. Mr. Smith has a claim on B0- nanza creek and sent for his wife and babies, but Mrs. Wommack heiped;,~her to bury both of them on the trip before she got to Lake Bennett. No road over this pass can be made to compete with the Chilkat as a trail, though 'it may as a railroad proposition, as the grade is more gradual from this side. The steamer Portland got away for St. Michael’s with a big cargo, consist- ing principally of machinery for four steamers which are to be constructed by Moran Bros. at St. Michael's next Winter. Cr: the Portland‘s forward deck was a maxim rapid 'firing gun which can be made to fire 300 cartridges, weighing a pound, per minute. Secre- tary Hamilton cf the North American Trading and ’fi:ansportation company was on board. l.-side the captain‘s cab- ln are a dozen new rifles, which will be used. if need be, to pro’cct the treasure which the Portland will bring down from the Yukon mine. Sulphur Creek Now. Sulphur creek, a branch of Dominion creek, which is a tributary of the In- dian river, is the scene of the latest gold excitement on the Klondike. From ac— counts of the new district brought down on the schooner South Coast, it seems that the new diggings will rival even the famous Bonanza and El Dor‘ado. Gold was found just below the surface running $34 to the pan. The men took out $300 in a day by simply prospecting their claim. A stampede followed the reports of the new find, which reached Dawson City 'Aug. 13. In a Week 500 men had crossed the mountains between El Dorado creek and Dominion creek. They traveled day and night, and in two weeks the whole stream was staked out. This information, the first au— thentic story of Sulphur creek, was giv- en out today by John E. Light of Chi- cago. He left Dawson City on the ~steamer Bella Aug. 18. He owns a claim on Sulphur creek. He says: “When I first heard of the strike on Sulphur creek, I went over the mour— tains to investigate it. I spent one day With two brothers, the McKinnon boys of Wellington, B. C. I saw them Like out $300 in one day from simply sinking two prospect holes. The formation is the same as at El Dorado, and Sulphur creek bears the same relation to Do- minion as does El Dorado to Bonanza, The streams empty into the. Indian river. Of course when the neWS of the new discovery reached Dawson Cit;r there was a great stampede, and hun- dreds left the K‘ondike for Sulpher creek. It is now all staked out.” Gold Claim In a City. Victoria, B. C., Sept. l4.—Charles Hay- wood and other prominent citizens have staked off a claim in the heart of the city. They say they have good specimens of rock from a ledge which runs from the water front through the buslrless portion of Victoria. Torpedo Boat Men Scalded. Washington, Sept. 14.—Acting Secre- 'tary Roosevelt of- the navy has received a dispatch from Commodore Dewey concerning the accident to the machin- 'ery as a result of w ich the torpedo boat Rodgers failed :' iake contract speed. Six members‘o-f the crew re— ceived scalds by escaping steam and Engineer Edwards was badly burned. Nicaragua to Investigate. Managua, Nicaragua, Sept. 14.——The Nicaraguan congress has appointed a committee -to investigate the charter and affairs of the London Bank of Cen- tral America, limited, of Managua, with the object of annulling its charter, if .Ippssible. AT oust: __fl_————— Thai is the Way They Do Things in Ilorwalk. Mrs. C. A. Mullings, 3; Van Zandt " avenue, East Norwalk, says: “Both my. son and myself have been bothered with catarrh, it troubling us very mu. h alike; the head being badly stuffed up, while the matter dropping into the throat caused continual coughing. I procured a. bottleiof California Catarrh Cure at Plaisted’s drug store in South Norwalk, and we began using it We didn’t have to wait long to learn its value, it. relieved at once. My head and throat are now much clearer than they have been for some time. I will gladly recommend the medicine to any- one who is sufi'ering with catarrh.” California Catarrh Cure is especially prepared for the treatment of the mu- cous membrane. It allays the inflam- mation, checks the disease, and arrests and repairs the decay of this delicate lining. The ravages of catarrh may be increased by impure blood, but purify— ing the blood Will neither cure catarrh, relieve hay fever, nor clean and purify the nasal passages after a cold; while no case of catarrh, even‘if the patient has impure blood, fails to yield to Cali- fornia Catarrh Cure. In the case of a cold, the treatment may be begun as easily as possible, but should be Continued tilhthe last trace has disappeared. In nasal catarrh the directions on each bottle have only to be followed till a cure is effected, then, with care «of each cold, one may be free from chronic catarrh forever. Catarrh of the stomach presupposes nasal catarrh, and is cured in the same way. California Catarrh Cure is sold at- all drug stores. A big bottle for 50 cents and one three times as large for one dollar. GAPOTE GUBA’S PRESIDENT. The Report. of Masso‘s Election Turns Oul: to Have Been Incorrect. New York. Sept. ‘14.—T‘he Ward line steamer Seneca arrived from Havana today and brought confirmation of the report that Brigadier General Mendez Capote has been elected president of the Cuban republic, and not General Masso. ‘ The election is held every two years, and, despite the fact that Masso was strongly indorsed by Gomez, Capote was successful; President Cisneros was a candidate for re-election, but his age was against him. Capote was born in Cardenas in 1863 and graduated from the University of Havana, and for years was the pro-fess— or of law in that institution. He joined the insurgents near Cardenas in De- cember, 1895, and served under the lead- ership of General Gomez. General Capote was in the attack on Havana that was made shortly after his enlistment and distinguished him- self by his coolness and daring. He was soon afterward m-ade civil governor of . Matanzas and later of Las Villas. He held both positions at‘ the time of his election. Though choice of General Capote over lasso. the declared preference of Gen- eral Gorge—z, would indicate that there is some dissension among the voters, the Cubans in this city do not attach any importance to the fact. They declare he is a man of great ability and vast energy and say that his election is one of the most important events that have taken place in the war riven is- land for some time. It is enthusiastically forecasted that he will bring the war to an end' within the next year. Japan’s New Battleship Ordered. San Francisco, Sept. 14.—Th-e follow- ing Japanese advices were received per steamship Gaelic: The Japanese gov- ernment has given an order to Messrs. Thompson & Co., the . famous Clyde shipbuil‘ders, for another first class bat- tleship of 17,000 tons, a sister ship to the Sk'ikoshima, and also contemplates building a first class cruiser of 9.000 tons at Yokosuka. Movements of \Varships. San Francisco, Sept. 14.—On Wednes— day the gunboats Wheeling and Ma- rietta will come down from Mare is- land, and after taking on supplies the Wheeling will start for Alaska waters and the Marietta will go to the China station. The latter vessel will be used principally on the rivers of China, while the Wheeling will do patrol duty in Bering sea. " Will Search Clironometers. San Francisco, Sept. 14.—Collector Jackson has issued an order that here— after all chronometers taken off foreign ves‘sels to be regulated at this port shall be searched by the customs officials. Small but valuable articles might be smuggled ashore in the chronometer case, and it is to prevent this that the new rule is to be enforced. May Have Been In the Wreck. Salt' Lake City, Sept. V14.—John Mas- ker of Peoria, Ills, is supposed to have‘ left Denver on the ill fated train which was wrecked at Newcastle. He tele- graphed to a friend in Salt Lake that he would start on that train, and noth- ing has since been heard of him. Cuban Revol‘utionists Expelled. Havana, Sept. 14,—Word has been re- ceived here that the Mexican govern— ment has expelled from Vera Cruz the representatives of the Cuban revolu- tionary junta of New York. —-———g——N—_- Milwaukee Brewer Married. _ London, Sept. 15.——Gustav Pabst of Milwaukee was married at Ventnor, isle of Wight, today to Miss Hilda Lemp of._St./Louis. ‘ . If the valuable properties of Tarrant's Effervescent Seltzer Aperient were universally known. no family would be without it. It is the best known preventative of and cure for Billousness, Sick Headache. Constipation, Imperfect Digestion. Disordered tomach, Vomiting, Loss of Appetite, Eruptions on Face. Prickly Heat. and'all bad effects ansmg from excesses in eating or drinking. ‘ ' 503_ and $1. 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