Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1897 — Girls for Gold Fields. [ARTICLE]

Girls for Gold Fields.

Charles Carrington of Seattle, Wash., has created no little stir among the young women of Auburn, N. Y., during the last week. Carrington announced his business there to be the selection of 300 healthy women whom he proposes to take to Alaska in the spring for the purpose of equalizing the disparity between the male and female population that it is supposed will exist in the gold regions next season. The matrimonial agent is an ex-minerand proposes to pay the expenses of the party, getting his remuneration out of the sums that will be paid for wives on his arrival. r Armed only with a shotgun, Capt. Porter of the little schooner World faced a full 100 Seri savages on the shore of Tiburon island, in the Gulf of California, and died fighting. When he at last fell, pierced by many balls, he had sent five of the red murderers to earth. He made his last stand in his boat, and even when mortally wounded raised his gun and fired i his last two shots. The death of Edouard Marie Ernest del l Devez, the well-known composer of op-j eras and ballets, is announced at Pari*.! He was bora in 1817.