Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1897 — WILL RAID SKAGUAY. [ARTICLE]

WILL RAID SKAGUAY.

AUTHORITIES TO RAID CAMP OF DISORDERLY ELEMENT. Miners Who Can’t Get Through White Paas Are Heins Fleeced-Negress Afflicted with Smallpox Is Murdered at Columbus, Mies. Place la Full of Criminals. The authorities of Alaska have .awakened to the serious nature of the situation at the White Pass. They see in the continuance of the camp at Skagway, as now constituted, possibilities for crime and various other evils of great magnitude. Steps have been taken to break up the camp by dispersing the lawless element that has gathered there from every State in the Union. Col. F. S. Chadbourne, State Harbor Commissioner of California, v. ho was a passenger on the steamship Queen, brought down advices to the above effect. Col. Chadbourne says Collector Ives and a force of deputy United States marshals had determined to raid the town of Skagway and clean out the whisky smugglers and saloon men and rid the camp of the disorderly element. Heretofore the authorities have been utterly unable to cope with the disorderly people in the camp. It was the refuge of the worst class of criminals, confidence men and thugs on the coast. These, with the whisky men, had combined to block the trail, so as to keep the tenderfeet there all winter and fleece them as long as there was a dollar left in the camp. Serious as is the situation at Skaguay and White Pass, as portrayed by letters and by the men returned from the camp, disconsolate and appalling as is the condition of the trail over the mountain barrier between the 6,000 gold hunters and the paradise on the other side, the accounts published from time to time seem, to have but faintly portrayed the actual state of affairs. Need More Inspectors. The Agricultural Department is finding difficulty in supplying the demand from the live stock centers for inspectors required to examine the dressed meats for foreign shipment. There has recently been a very pronounced improvement in the European market for American meat, which the law requires should be inspected before it is shipped, and as a consequence inspectors are called for from Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha and ether Western points. The shortage in inspectors is due to the fact that the civil service list includes no eligibles for the work. The deficiency has been temporarily supplied by permitting"!he reemployment of persons who have heretofore been engaged as inspectors. Athletes of the Diamond. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: • W. L. W. L. Baltimore .. .77 33 Brooklyn ... .50 63 Boston .... .7!) 35 Washington .48 61 New Y0rk...71 39 Philadelphia. 50 64 Cincinnati . .64 46 Louisville .. .49 65 Cleveland .. .57 53 Pittsburg ... .47 63 Chicago ....51 63 St. L0ui5....28 86 The showing of the members of the Western League is summarized below: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis. S 382 Detroit .....64 58. Columbus .. .76 43 Minneapolis. 41 85 St. Paul. ... .77 46 Kansas City.3B 89 Milwaukee ..73 49 G'nd Rapids. 35 85 Congress of Trades Unionists. The trades union congress met in Birmingham, England. There, were 390 delegates present, representing 1,250.000 unionists. The Parliamentary committee reported that the legislation in many decisions of the courts during the year 1897 was not based on the principles of equity and justice and was calculated seriously to injure the cause of labor and give capitalism an unfair and improper advantage.