Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1899 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

All the volunteers now in the Philippines, if they are mustered ont at San Francisco, are to mobilize at Minneapolis and St. PanL There they are to be tendered a rousing welcome, made the more notable by the presence of President McKinley. > With the return of spring to Dawson come renewed fears of pestilence and death. Stringent sanitary measures are being adopted. Physicians predict an unusual prevalence of typhoid owing to the accamnJated filth of winter which now incumbers the site of the city. The Standard Oil Company has acquired not only the Russian title, but also a mineral potent from the United States, for the famous coal lands on Cook Inlet, Alaska. A corps of engineers, nnder Alfred* Ray, the Standard company’s man* ager at Seattle, has left for the north. Fire did enormons damage at St. John, X. B. A leading underwriter estimates the loss at $500,000 and the insurance at $300,000. The district burned contained many tenement houses, and probably 1,000 persons are homeless, a majority of them laboring people. Two deaths are to be set down to the fire.

W. S. Harris, manager of the Harvey mine of Granite creek, B. C., reports that at about the 70-foot level, 120 feet in the tunnel, the mother lode was struck, showing about two feet of rich galena. The claim showed sssays as high as $5,580, and on several occasions the assays have gone from S4OO to $2,000.

A letter from Durango, Mexico, says that Fred L. Morris, secretary of the Missouri Talley Trust Company of Kansas (Sty, and H. E. Ellison of Abilene, Kan., who have been prospecting for some weeks ta the mountains, have struck a bonanza silver mine that promises a fortune. They claim to have $200,000 in sight. News comes from Sksgnay of the arrival there of a prospector named Charles Hartman, who had with him $5,000 in nuggets, which he said were taken from a new strike about fifty miles from Atlin. He is an American, and as he cannot stake his discovery, owing to theexclnsien art, he refuses to make any statement as to where it is situated.

Brndstreet’s report for this week says: “Favorable features of current trade still, as for a tong time past, largely outnumber those of an opposite character. Wholesale distribution is naturally less active as the season advances, bnt comparisons with last year are still very satisfactory. Industrial activity is widespread, and the prices of most staples are either very firm or tending npward, except in the cases of products affected by weather conditions. Reports from winter wheat become increasingly unfavorable. Wheat {including flour) shipments for the week aggregate 3,19R318 bushels, against 2,212,206 bushels test week. Cora exports for the week aggregate 3,845,81 S bushels, against 2.753,414 bushels Isst week.”