Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1898 — MOTHER LODE FOUND. [ARTICLE]

MOTHER LODE FOUND.

*TnE NEWS OF ITS DISCOVERY IS CONFIRMED. / Returned Klondikers Estimate the Winter’s Output of Gold at from $12,000,000 to $15,000,000— Eloping St. Louie Couple Arrested in Chicago. The Rich Klondike Fields. The news brought by the treasure-laden miners who arrived at Seattle, Wash., from the Klondike on the steamer Corona is important chiefly in that it is confirmatory of the discovery of the great mother lode. W. H. Welch, H. T. Coffin and H. L. Burt are authority for the statement that the original strike was made at the tipper end of claim No. 3, Eldorado, while two stringers, one at No. 27 and another yet lower down, were subsequently located. Throughout the district the discovery is accepted as assurance of the permanency of the district as a rich gold mining field. As to the placer diggings, they continue rich. Powder Creek, an affluent of Quartz Creek, has been having a boom, pans of $3.75 and $4 being a common thing. Of course the stream was located as soon as the first important discovery was made. All Gold Creek shows pans of $lO to SIOO, while the miners on Hunker creek, Henderson, Dominion, the Big Salmon and the Stewart all declare them-| selves satisfied with the prospect. Replying to a request for an estimate of this winter's gold dust of the camp, Joe Campbell, one of the returning miners, said: “We have done a great deal of figuring on that and it now appears that the output, notwithstanding the scarcity of food and light, will be from $12,000,000 to $15,000,000.” D. 11. H. Littlefield of Skagttay came in on the Corona. He has just closed a contract with the Canadian Government to pack provisions to Lake Bennett for 25 cents a pound. L. L. Grady, formerly a banker of Fairfax. Minn., paid S6OO for the privilege of walking from Dawson behind a brisk dog team. Muret Anderson, an elderly gentleman of St. Louis, made the trip after the same fashion.

DRY DOCK A SHAM. Government Determined to Locate the Blame for Faulty Construction. The scandal in the construction of the large timber dry dock at the navy yard, officially known as No. 3, continues to grow, and from present appearances there promises to be a lively and interesting time when the engineers are brought before the court to answer the many questions which are now being prepared. As the work of making the repairs continues, the weakness and faulty construction of the big structure is met with everywhere, and it is doubtful if the dock can be made serviceable again. The blame for the weak and faulty construction will not alone rest with the engineers. Both the contracting firms —John Gillis, who started the dock, and T. nnd A. Walsh, who completed it —will be brought before the court. Civil Engineer Meuocal, who represented the Government, is on his way home from Nicaragua, having been ordered by the Navy Department to return. The other engineers who will be brought before the court are U. 8. G. White, Franklin C. I‘riudle and Lieut. R. E. Peary of arctic fame. All are inspectors of the work and it is to determine where the responsibility is to be placed that they will l>e called before the court, * ELOPERS ARE ARRESTED. St. Louie Couple Flee from Home to a Cell in Chicago. The flight of an eloping couple from St. Louis was cut short through the efforts of the girl’s parents and the Chicago police department. Instead of wedded bliss which they expected would be theirs, Fannie Weiskopf, 16 years of age, and Max Posbalsky, who has not yet attained his majority, sighed for freedom from the confines of dingy cells in a Chicago ixtlice station. The girl, who is very pretty, is the daughter of highly respectable parents. She left her home at the request of Posolsky, who had been meeting her clandestinely for some months. The parents of Fannie would not allow Posolsky at their home. The girl cried bitterly when placed under arrest, and asked to be allowed to go home. Raced from Honolulu. Six sailing vessels which started from Honolulu sixteen days ago have all arrived in San Francisco within a few hours of each other. The trip across the Pacific became a raee after the first day out, and the contest was made exciting by the fact that the vessels were in sight of each other most of the way. Old shipmasters say that the performance of the six vessels is without precedent, and may be reckoned as one of' the things that occur once in a thousand years. Will Defy Federal Courts. Judge Wat Starr is out with a sensational manifesto at Chelsea. I. T., in which he declares he will resist the Federal courts and their right to suspend the Cherokee courts until he is arrested. He further says the Cherokee delegation will help him out and defend him $20,000 worth. Starr is a Cherokee and judge of the Circuit Court. He is the only tribal officer in the territory to make such a declaration, all the rest having submitted gracefully. Villers Goes to Prison. The jury in the Villers murder trial at Jamestown, N. D., returned a verdict finding Villers guilty of .murder and fixing the penalty at life imprisonment. Chicago Men Given a Verdict. A case of importance to grain men was settled in the Assize court at Ottawa, Ont W. Dunn & Co. of Chicago brought action for SIO,OOO damages against the Prescott Elevator Company for alleged improper care of grain belonging to Dunn. The jury returned a verdict for Dunn. 1 Pure Food Congress. A pure food and drug congress, in which all bodies interested are invited to send delegates, will be held March 20 in Wash-' ington to urge Congress to pass a pure sood and anti-adulteration pill. , Durrant’s Body Is Cremated. ! The body of murderer W. H. T. Durrant was cremated at the crematory of Reynolds & Van Nuys at Altadela, Cal. The ashes, when removed from the furnace, were delivered to the parents. No one saw the inside of the crematory exeei. t the employes and the Durrants.' I •' I New Fusion in Kansas, I Kansas free silver Republicans held a meeting in Topeka and resolved to support the Populists Ju the.coming campaign in Kansas. The resolutions indorsed the St. Louis silver convention pintform and recommended a closer union With the Democrats and .populists.