Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 10, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 September 1897 — Page 2

LETTER FROM

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FKOM THE KLONDIKE.

MINER NOW IN THE DIGGINGS.

Says There la Gold Enough There to Pan the New Jerusalem—Wbere the Beet Paying Mlact Are Located—The Ultimate Outcome.

[Special Correspondence.}

VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 19.—There was once a man wbo resolved to pass a oertain saloon without going in to drink, and be did it, bat after getting past it be tnrned back and went in to take bis customary morning "snifter," in order, as be said, to "treat resolution."

I am in somewhat tbe position of tbe man wbo treated bis resolution, for, having resolutely resolved not to be drawn into tbe current now setting so strongly toward Alaska, yet I cannot wholly turn my back upon it and depart from this region without another glance at the argosies it is bearing northward.

It is easier, however, to keep from going now since many of tbe erstwhile gold eeekers are reurning, and without the stock of courage and provisions with which they started. Second thought is best, after all, even though it cost them dear. Better to wait till early spring, they all say now, than to brave the terrors of tbe wild passes, the mosquitoes and the deep snows of coming winter.

Still, tbey are richer in experience than when they started, and this experience they are very ready to give to others gratis. I have met several who regard their trip in the nature of a pleasure jaunt, and who are merely postponing their assault upon the golden banks of the Yukon and tbe Klondike. Some of them have been there before, and from these I gather the facts herewith presented. While it is asserted that the stories of loss and privation are inventions of interested parties who Wish to secure all the claims for themselves, yet I do not so regard it. There has set in a reaction, reason has resumed its sway and common sense returned.

A Miner** Experlenoe.

The following is one of the first letters that have been received directly from the mines. It was written by Joseph N. Frost of Chioago, wbo left for

YUKON MINERS AND NATURE

the goldfiolds last February. The former letter of which he speaks never reached its destination: "In my former letter I gave a detailed account of our journey hither, the very thought of which now makes me shudder. In this ono I will tell you how we located nnd other items of interest that come to my mind. There is no comfort in writing or in doing nuything else in this strange region, because of a pest of gnats such as you in the States cannot even imngiuo. They fill your nose, eyes, ears and prey on every square inch of flesh they can get at until they drive us half mad. The only prevention is to keep face and hands always covered with oil or grease of some sort, as this smeared paper bears witness. "I'm tired. I think I shall never agnin bo rested until back in a civilized country with my gold safely banked. Life here is oue continuous round of rush, bustlo and nervous exoitement that is wearing to the strongest. "At Dawson wo joined forces with another party, so that when we started on we numbered 16. We paid $100 apiece for two boats—rude, hewn plank affairs, but strongly made and only drawiug a few inches of water when heavily loaded. "We followed the main stream for miles between high rocky walls that discouraged us not a little. Where were tbe creeks and side ravines of which we had heard so much? we asked each other as we rowed aud poled our oumbrous craft along. "When everybody was tired out, we tied up and slept We lost track of timo completely in this perpetual light this loug day, and used to eat when huugry aud sleep when tired completely out Now, however, we divide things up with regularity, as better for our health.

An Expectant Moment.

"After a long sleep we started on, tying the boats to projecting rocks while we ate our dinner, for poshing against the current was hard, wearing work. It was then that one of the boys discovered a volume of water pouring into the main stream from under a bank of mow and tangled bushes. "Two or three of the fellows instantly set out to scale the bluff to see what lay beyond. was one of them and tbe first to reach tbe top. One glance, and, •winging my cap aloft, I gave a wild

exit we bad so providentially discover-

ed, and which was choked and hidden for several yaids by the mots of which I wrote before and which is the curse of the Klondike miner. "Quickly descending we related what we had seen, and all hands attacked the blockade with a will. It was hard work, but no one shirked, so eager were we to

cheer, for just ahead was the object of our search—a wide ravine through way of collecting revenues whose center flowed the stream whose

explore tbe ravine so skillfully hidden by nature from the sight of men. And we could noS help laughing as we thought of the hundreds who had passed it on tbeir way to tbe diggings and what wealth they bad perhaps thus missed so near at band. "It took six hours of mortal hard work to clear a passage for the boats. Then we only poled them around a bend to bide tbem from view of passersby. How quickly the search for gold develops avarice and suspicion I Selecting a barren level about 60 feet up the slope under some umbrella shaped trees, we prepared a temporary encampment to be a shelter till we should discover if there were gold in tbe ravine or not "No one could eat or sleep until tbe question should be settled. According ly, as soon as tbe tents were set up and came in sbape, all attacked the moss, which there covered every foot of ground to tbe water's edge and was from 4 to 6 feet deep. Soon a strip of soil was laid bare, still half frozen, and old Jose Gomez, a Mexican gold hunter, filled a pan or sieve, as you would call it, and, holding it in tbe stream, gave us our first lesson in gold washing. "That was a scene for a painter. Each face was a study in itself. Suspense, hope, fear and growing greed were on one and all. But we had not long to wait. Presently the old man lifted the pan from tbe water, picked out a quantity of pebbles and bits of moss, then, lifting his cap with a reverent gesture, held tbe pan toward us for inspection.

The Gleam of Gold.

"There was no mistaking the dull gleam of the precious metal. It was gold—ye gods!—as much as a cupful of lumps and scales. We all went mad for a time and shouted and stamped and hugged each other, swinging our hats and behaving like idiots in general. "All the perils and privations we bad gone through were forgotten, or at least no longer grudged, for under our feet was tbe object of our search. Gold was ours for the taking, and our thoughts went no'further just then. "When our excitement died out, we were weak and spent, and wi£h one accord ascended the slope to the camp. After ten hours' sleep we ate breakfast and then proceeded systematically to work, staking out a claim for eaoh man according to law and in whatsoever place be selected. "Mine by choice was near tbe mouth

SUMMIT OF CHILKAT PASS.

of the ravine, and there was not so much as a foot of it but was covered deep with debris and moss. As I dug this away I flung it in the stream, and so was rid of it for it floated away. This was in tbe middle of June and the mercury ranged from 60 degrees to 64 degrees, but the ground as I uncovered it was still frozen as hard as stone. There was still snow in places and lots of ice under tbe moss. The soil soon loosened up, however, when tbe air oould reach it, and we were soon each man washing gold for himself by the panful. 'For it is here on Bonanza creek, as we have named it, in quantities passing belief. For days we lived in a state of continual excitement, but now we have steadied down to business. "Some natives drifted in a week ago, and I have three at work at $18 a day, but that is nothing when each takes out a week's wages from two pans of dirt. With what I accomplish myself—and we lose no time—you can see I am growing rich. Whether I ever reach the States with my pile is a question not easy to answer. "I saw a party of late arrivals three days ago wben I was at Dawson after provisions, and they had a great story to tell of tbe action Canada is going to

TOKOS HIKERS SLKDD1KO OVXK ROCT*.

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all

true, it means murder and bloodshed, for there's a rough crowd congregated along tbe Klondike, and few will quietly give op a large per coat of their hard earned gold.

Sttflfertng and Reward.

"There's enough here to pave tbe streets of the New Jerusalem, but every man most mine his own, even Canadi-

an officials. Anyway, tbe men ara none 'of them losing any time, and, if the story is true, we may, perchance, get away before the matter is settled.

We shall start for home by tbe middle of September, for they tell us the Yukon freezes over as early as October, and we must ship our gold as freight by steamer. There's too much of it to thinfc of packing it overland. The thought of being caught here by winter is appalling, for the tales told of cold and snow and starvation all along tbe Yukon last winter are enough to daunt the bravest heart A ".v" "We don't mean to have all our sufferings and hard work go for naught, but instead hope to enjoy the resultB in a civilized land. There will be suffering untold here when the short summer is over, and no more provisions can be packed in. Tell the boys the gold is here for all who have grit and strength to come for it, but not to attempt it till early in the spring, so as to get here, make their pile and get away in safety. I do not know if I shall return to Chicago or settle in California. You shall bear from me as to that later on."

This is indeed an interesting experience and it proves that it is not in the larger rivers, like the Yukon, that gold in paying quantities has been found, but in tbe tributary streams, where it has been washed down from tbe mountains. There are doubtless immensely rich quartz ledges, from the disintegration of which the precious metal has been obtained by glacial and aqueous action, but the working of them will follow later, after the placers have all been exhausted. The surfaoe dirt of the frozen creeks and smaller rivers contains little or nothing, but after that is removed tbe rich "pay dirt" is fonnd, near and lying upon the bedrock.

Tbe problem before the miner is to get at this pay dirt, and be does it in the winter, by building afire over a certain area and thawing the earth at the rate of perhaps half a foot in 24 hours. Scooping out this earth, he then builds another fire, and thus, by successive firings and sbovelings, sinks a shaft to the bedrock, along tbe exposed surface of which he "drifts," or tunnels, through the auriferous layer. The earth removed is banked up till warm weather sets in aud the streams are again running, when it is panned and oradled, and tbe hard labor of the miner rewarded by rich results.

It is this necessity forrworking during the winter season, wben the streams are frozen, and their beds can be exploited, that causes all the gold seekers to aim at getting in before tbe coldest weather sets in, as otherwise tbey will have to wait till the summer is over.

The Best Paying Property.

Although perhaps $3,000,000 has been taken out of tbe Alaska placer diggings, and many individuals have been enriched after a short term of labor, yet tbe aggregate is not large, when we reflect that this amount is credited to a territory half a million miles'in area. The greater portion, to be sure, was taken from a comparative ly restricted region along tbe Klondike and some of tbe Yukon tributaries, but the largest amount brought out by any one person was only $135,000, the next highest being $113,000, and so on down to $5,000 and less.

As is now well known, tbe riobest placers have been found along tbe Klon dike creek on British territory, but we have every reason to believe that equally rich deposits will yet be discovered on the Alaskan side of tbe line. In fact, the first discovery of gold in 1878 was in our territory, near Sitkd, and. outoroppings of rich veins have been found all along the mainland and islands of the southeastern coast

TEEBE HAUTE SATURDAY. JEVEN£N MAIL, SEPTEMBER 4, 1897.

FRED A. OBEB.

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moval. and Its earl strongly advocated. insure tranquil rest, there is no surer and pleasanter means than the Bitters. Tbe effects of overwork and exhaustion, mental or physical, are counteracted by it, and the busy merchant, the tired clerk or operative, and the brain-weary student, author or newstaper man. derive from It present relief and uture energy.

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WOMEN IN THE KLONDIKE.

Bow They

Kndore Its Hardships and Privations.

IT my recent trip through Washington state I baa the good luck to become personally acquainted with a party of Klondikers. I arrived in Seattle at the same time as the steamer Portland and soon caught the gold fever to the extent of wishing to meet some of tbe returned miners, so as to be able to verify tbe wonderful tales told of tbe "ton of gold" tbey brought with them and the fabulous fiuds made iu tbe placer mines of Klondike. Fortune favored me, for I found several of tbem were on our train when I left for Vancouver, Englishmen mostly, traveling to Halifax to take the steamer for tbe old country.

While tbeir stories of tbe richness of the icy land lying along the El Dorado and Bonanza mines on the Klondike are well known, some of tbe stories they related were of particular interest to women, and while I enjoyed weighing the precious golden nuggets in my hands and the peep I was allowed to take into the bags of "dust" still more than all I was interested in tbe stories I heard of the women who endure all the hardships and privations incident to a residence of years in Alaska in the newly populated region.

Among our fellow passengers was Captain Strickland of England, with his wife an 1 baby boy and tbe regulation bag of dust and nuggets. I heard him tell more than once the story of one of tbe camp's greatest heroines, Mrs. Clarence Berry, whose husband sold out his claim to Wall street brokers, after taking out the snug sum of $130,000, and is now on his way with his wife to tbeir old home in Fresno, Cal., to live in ease and affluence the rest of their lives. Few thought who saw Mrs. Berry, and envied her what was called "her luck," of the four long years she spent in bleak, cheerless Klondike, when, instead of luxurious quarters at a high priced hostelry, she lived in a squalid shanty on a slim and carefully hoarded "grub stake" and helped keep the fires burning when the thermometer was 70 degrees below zero to partially thaw tbe frozen ground that her husband might dig up a few inches of the precious dirt How many women who envy her would endure, or could endure, tbe life at the "winch," standing all day long, raising tbe buckets as they were laboriously filled, or would be willing to go baok to the days when she went each morning in summer to the 'dump'' to get the "dirt" which she panned out at her shanty?

My own heart aohed for the little woman who clung wildly to her husband tbe day the steamer sailed from Seattle to go to the faraway frozen north, probably never to return. Tbe man was only one of many others who was willing while the gold fever held bim to give up home and wife and little ones on the chance of "striking it rich," but in the agony of the forsaken wife I read a fate worse than death and her fear and foreboding that their parting was forever.

But when tbe suffering in store for the hordes of onrushing fortune seekers is known the world will be appalled. That suffering has begun already for many the picture of that scene upon the dock at Seattle is a harrowing and living proof. ALICE LEE MOQUE.

FOR THE NURSERY.

A Simple Arrangement For the Care of the Baby.

Any-devioe that can be trwted to relieve the mother and to provide for the safety and amusement of the baby at the same time cannot fail to meet with a hearty weloome. The little one who is eager to creep and wbo is ever in danger of a bnmped head and like mis

haps is a constant sonrce of care to the anxious and busy mother. The simple contrivance illustrated herewith will, therefore, supply a need in every nursery. It not only is a safeguard against falls, but is an effective means of preventing tbe draughts and consequent colds to which every child is exposed wben seated upon tbe floor.

As a foundation procure a good sized pine top kitchen table. Place casters at tbe four corners of tbe top, then turn upside down and proceed to pad it on all sides. Make a vef/ soft thick mat that will just fit the bottom of cheesecloth well padded with cotton batting, and thoroughly pad both sides aud legs, after which cover tbem neatly with blue and white striped awning cloth. Then cut strips of the cloth, which when doubled will be about four inches wide. Baste the edges carefully together and stitch on the machine. Tack one end firmly to one leg of the table a few inches above the board and stretch it tightly round tbe outside of all four legs, forming a fencelike rail, and tack fast to eacb leg. When two strips have been placed, tbat portion of the work will be complete. If each part has been well padded, no matter how much tbe baby rolls or moves about it is impossible for him to come to harm. The oasten provide a means of easily moving the table about and selecting tbe sunniest and most desirable spot. To make it complete bang to tbe inder side of tbe straps a string of dleigb bells such as children love to jingle, soft worsted balis in bright hues aud similar objects for attracting the little one's fancy. When in use, add to these rattles and such movable toys as are easily placed upon the floor. You will find that the child will be happy and out of harm's way while the simple device will allow you many an hour of freedom.

CONNECTICUT MOSQUITOES.

This Tear They Are Quite as Malignant ....^.and Numerous as New Jersey's. f- [Special Correspondence.]

HARTFORD, Aug. 30.—This has been a great season for the festive mosquito all along the Atlantic coast, owing to the heavy rains iu July and part of August New Jersey has been reviled as never before, for in tbat state the birds, always able, have displayed both power and venom surpassing all previous records, but tbe mosquitoes of Connecticut, I believe—and I am a fair judge of such birds—have this year ontdone those of New Jersey.

A few days ago I paid a visit to the state prison at Wethersfield, two or three miles to the south of here. In front of tbe buildings I noticed a number of convicts at work trimming tbe grass, cultivating flower borders, and the like. Over his head each laborer wore a sort of wire cage, covered with a close black netting—altogether the most extraordinary headgear 1 have ever seen. I couldn't imagine at first what those queer contrivances were for, but it became quite clear to me that tbey were intended to protect the wearer from mosquitoes even before I bad passed within tbe institution's walls, for the vicious little inserts were buzzing about so thickly as aotually to produce a sound not unlike the hum of a swarm of bees, though, of course, not nearly so loud. Both myself and a friend, who was with me, were forced to fight vig orously to avoid being very badly bitten, and we found the situation almost as had as outside the portals, though this was true only on the ground floors of the various buildings. "The prisoners in tbe lower tiers of cells," said Warden Woodbridg9, "have suffered most Mosquitoes have the power of rising high in the air, though for some reason they don't seem to ex ercise this power here this year, rarely ascending more than five or six feet and the upper floors of the prison build ing are comparatively free from the little pests. They are undoubtedly small e* this year than usual, since tbey are able to pass through tbe meshes of the finest netting we can buy, and no mat ter hew oarefully we screen the doors and windows we cannot keep Uiem out'' CHARLES APPLEB&E.

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D. V. MILLER. Attorney for Plaintiff. gHERIFF'S SALE. By virtue of an order of sale issued from the Circuit court of Vigo county. Indiana, to me directed and delivered, in favor of Mechanic's Building. Loanomd Savings Association and against Edward Barnes, Sarah J. Barnes. Vigo County National Bank. Gilbert H. Lounsberry and Edward Richie, asslgneo

Carriage Com

hie. asslgneo W. B. Hoi ten ey, Holton &

of Overman Manufacturing Company, Brad Co. and Moline Wagon Company. I am ordered to sell the. following described real estate, situated in Vigo county. Indiana, towit:

The northwest quarter (H) of the northi). also one (1) acre in souththe northeast quarter (H) of

east quarter (M) east corner or the northwest quarter (M) also beginning four (4) rods east of the southwest corner or the northwest quarter (H) of the northeast quarter aforesaid, and running thence east sixty-eight (88) rods, thence south one hundred and sixty (160) rods, thence west soventv-two (?2) rods, thence north eighty (80) rods, thence east four (4) rods, thence north eighty (HO) rods to the place of beginning, containing one hundred and eleven (111) acres, all in section nine (fl), townslil thirteen (13) north of range eight (8) wesi in Vigo county, state of Indiana, and on

This 21st- day of August, 1807. LOUIS Pf. 110.40.

State of Indiana, county of Vigo. In the Superior court, June term, 1897. No. 5333. Axel Chytraus vs. The City Coal Company. Benjamin B. a

State of Indiana, county of Vigo. In the Superior court, Juno term. 1897. No. 5332. Axel Chytraus vs. The Grand City Coal Company, Benjamin B. Comegys and John H. Catherwood, executors of the estate of Daniel Cummins, deceased, Isaac T. Dyer, Edgar Coffee and the Grand City Brick, Tile and Terra Cotta Company. On vote and foreclosure.

Be It known that on the 3d day of August, 1897, it was ordered by the court that the clerk notify by publication said Grand City Coal Company. Benjamin B. Comegys and John H. Catherwood. executors of the estate of Daniel Cummins, deceased. Isaac T. Dyer, Edgar Coffee and the Grand City Brick, TIlo ana Terra Cotta Company as non-resident defendants of the pendency of this action against them. suld defendants are therefore hereby notified of the pendency of said action against them and that the same will stand for trial on the 21st day of September. 1897, the same being the September term of said ci urt In the year 1897. IU VID L. WATSON.

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SATURDAY, THE 11th DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1807, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m.. and

o'clock p. m. of said day. at the north door of the court house. In Terre Haute. I will offer the rents and profits of the above described real estate, together with all privileges and appurtenances to the same belonging, for a term not exceeding seven years, to the highest bidder for cash, and upon failure to realize a sum sufficient to satisfy said judgment and costs. I will then and there offer the feesimple in and to said real estate to the highest bidder for cash to satisfy the same.

SEEBURGER, Sheriff.

A. M. IIIOOINS, Attorney for Plaintiff. OTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS.

Grand

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and John H. Catherwood. executors of the estate of Daniel Cummins, deceased. Isaac T. Dyer. Edgar Coffee and the Grand City Brick, Tile and Terra Cotta Company. On note and foreclosure.

Be It known, that on the 3d day of August, 1897, It was ordered by the court that the clerk notify by publication said Grand City Coal Company. Benjamin B. Comegys and John H. Catherwood. executors of the estate of Daniel Cummins, deceased, Isaac T. Dyer. Edgar Coffee and the Grand City Brick, Tile ana Terra Cotta Company as non-resident defendants of the pendency of this action against them.

Said defendants are therefore hereby notified of the pendency of said action against them and that the same will stand for trial September 21st. 1897, the same being the September term of said court In the year 1897.

DAVID L. WATSON. Clerk.

A. M. HXOOINS, Attorney for Plaintiff. JSq-OTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS.

Clerk.

OTICE TO CONTRACTORS AND PROPERTY OWNERS. Notice is hereby given that on the 3d day

August. 1897. the common council of the city of Terre Haute adopted a resolution de-

of August. 1897. the common council of the

daring an existing necessity for the improvement of Sixteenth street from north curb line of Chestnut street to south curb line of Liberty avenue, by grading and paving the same the full width thereof, the sidewalks to be ten wldp and paved with cement concrete next to the property line the width of five feet, and curb with Mansfield sandstone, or oolitic limestone, the roadway to be thirty feet wide and paved with screened gravel. The said Improvement to be made In all respects in accordance with the general plan or Improvement of said city and according to the plans and specifications on file Iri the office of the city engineer, the cost of the said Improvement to be assessed to the abutting property owners, and become due and collectible Immediately on approval of the final estimate, unless the property owner

II have previously agreed In writing, be filed with said plans, to waive all Irregularity and Illegality of the proceedings and pay nls assessments when due.

Sealed proposals will be received for the construction of said improvements, at the office of the city clerk, on the 21st day of September, 1897, until five (5) o'clock, and not thereafter. Each proposal must be accompanied by a bond with good freehold sureties or equivalent security In the sum of two hundred dollars. liquidated damages, conditioned that the bidder shall duly enter Into contract and give bond within five days after the acceptance of his bid for the performance of the work. The city reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

Any property owner objecting to the necessity of such Improvement may file such objections In writing, at the office of the city cleric on the 18th day of September, 1897, and be beard with reference thereto at the next regular meeting of the common council thereafter.

CHARLES H. GOODWIN. C'lty Clerk.

TKEET IMPROVEMENT FINAL ESTIMATE. Notice is hereby given that the final estimate report of tbe cost of the Improvement of Elm street from tbe east building line of Lafayette avenue, was on the 17tb day of August. 18B7, referred to the committee on streets aggrieved before said ttn, at engineer In said city, and make objections

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thereto, which objections will be reported by said committee to the common council of the city of Terre Haute at the next regular meeting of said council after the said com mlttee shall conclude the hearing upon said objections and all persons interested may be heard In reference to such objections before the council. CHAS. H. GOODWIN\

City Clerk.

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