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ILL RECORDS BROKEN

CONFERENCE REPORT ON TARIFF SILL ADOPTED BY THE HOUSE

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Republicans Presented a' Solid Front, the Bill Being Adopted By a Vote of 189 to 115, -4:

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JFIER MIDNIGHT WHEN BILL PASSED

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MEASURES OF BILL BITTERLY R1" FOCGFLT BY DEMOCRATS.

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treasury Experts Make Plain the Fact That \t c-' Duty on Refined Sugar Is Reasonable. ,..r,KiV1

Washington, July 19.—The treasury de

partment, taking 107.47 pouiids of raw sugar

testing 96 degrees as required to make 100

pounds of hard refined, today made public a

statement estimating the sugar differential

fcs follows: Act of 1894, 19.82 cents house

schedule, 12.33 cents senate schedule, 19.83

cents conference schedule, 13.92 cents per

100 pounds.

Washington, July 20.—The conference report on the tariff bill was adopted by the house shortly after midnight by a vote of 335 to 118, and at noon today the report will go to the senate for action there. This eclipses all previous records. The result was accomplished after -twelve hours of continuous debate. But two speeches were made by the Republicans, one by Governor Dingley, in opening the debate, and one by Mr. Payne of New York, in closing it. The Democrats were thus forced to put forth speaker after speaker, but their bombardment of the opposition was unanswered. In all ten Democratic and Populist speeches were made, Messrs. Wheeler, of Alabama Swanson, of Virginia Ball, of Texas Lanham, of Texas Kelley, of North Dakota Fleming, of Georgia Handy, of Delaware McDowell, of Ohio Berry, of Kentucky Bailey, of Texas, and McMillin, of Tennessee, being the speakers.

The sugar schedule was the main point of assault, but the most interesting feature of the debate was obtained when Mr. Bailey and Mr. McMillin, the two rival Democratic leaders, crossed swords on the orthodoxy of the free raw material doctrine, the former opposing and the latter championing it.

The galleries were crowded up to the time the vote was taken, many distinguished people being present. Among them were a number of senators, several members of the cabinet and a few members of the diplomatic corps. Every Republican in the house who was present voted for the report:

The Democrats, with five exceptions, voted against the report. The exceptions were: Slayden of Texas, Broussard of Louisiana, Myer of Louisiana, Davey of Louisiana and Kleinberg of Texas. The Populists and silverites did not vote solidly. Mr. Shaffroth, of Colorado, and Newlands, of Nevada, silverites, abstained from voting.- Mr. Hartman, of Montana, silverite, did not vote.

The Populists who voted against the report were as follows: Baker, Barlow, Botkin, Fowler, Jett, Lewis, Marshall, Martin, Peters, Simpson, Strowd and Vincent.

Four did not vote, Howard, Kelly, Stark and Southerland, The other Populists were absent.

An analysis of the vote shows that 180 Republicans and 5 Democrats voted for the report, and. 106 Democrats and 12 Populists against it.

The floor of the house presented an animated scene today before the speaker rapped that body to order. Members stood about in groups and discussed, sometimes in excited tones, the result of the conference agreement on the tariff bill. The final conference report on the general deficiency appropriation bill Was adopted.

This out of the way, Mr. Dingley presented the conference report on the tariff bill. He took up each schedule, explaining in detail the changes made, and followed closely the formal statement given out by the committee.

Concerning the sugar, Mr. Dingley read the official statement, adding brief comments. By the new arrangement about $2,000,000 increase of revenue would be realized, as the increase had been placed on raw sur gars at the point where revenue would be received and at the same time, the beet sugar industry will receive substantial benefit.

Mr. Johnson wanted to know if the increase in the rate of refined sugar would not Increase the profits of the trust on the anticipatory importations of raw sugars.

Mr. Dingley explained the impossibility of preventing these profits, ai^d after a calculation, affirmed that the refiner of sugar under the present Wilson law had a differential of 22& cents per 100 pounds as against 12% cents in the pending bill as agreeed to by the conferees.

As to the question of revenue to be raised by the bill, Mr. Dingley pointed out "the difficulty pending from the large anticipatory importations. The bill next, year would raise $225,000,000, $75,000,000 mor£- thin the present law. Over $4O,0W,000 had belfi Idst' In this year's revenues by the importations Wf wool and sugar and other things, the duty cn which was raised in the bill Sd1 tifiat h£' oalculated that the bill this year wotild raise 1185,000.000.

Mr. Wheeler opened the debase for the Democrats, criticising the bill as the most burdensome ever imposed on th£,1A%ierican people. In particular, he discussed-lHe serious effect of the measure on the laboring and agricultural classes.

Mr. Swanson, a member of th£® waj^fend means committee, devoted his attention to assailing the sugar schedule agreed upon by the conference.

Mr. Lacey asked Mr. Swanson wheTBer Qie trust had not taade great profits in ilSty-l by anticipatory importations just as thti trust probably would make great profits ~*ow. Vheir profits were estimated at 115,000,000. Might not this account for the increased •alue of the stock? he asked. If the trust **as to make $15,000,000, it was not entitfed to a differential.

Mr. Swanson and Mr. Northway tfcen had brief controversy over the sudden ttoomed

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of sugar stocks in which the£,latter intended that sugar stock had gone- up in tympathy with the whole market.

Mr. Kelly thought that if an antitrust amendment had been placed in the bill lis most dangerous fangs would have been firawn.

Mr. Grosvenor interrupted Mr Kelly to say that the increase of the duty on lead ore. jn* placed i& the senate bill by (fee P»puK,

list senators and held in the bill by the Populist on the conference committee. Mr. Kelly challenged Mr. Grosvenor to name the senators. "The two senators from Nevada," replied Mr. Grosvenor. "I was not aware that Nevada had more than one Populist senator at most," said Mr. Kelly. "No man who votes for the sugar trust is a Populist."

Mr. Lewis asked Mr. Grosvenor whether it was not a fact that the duties on white lead gave the lead trust $3,o00,000 of protection. "I do not know and I do not care," replied Mr. Grosvenor smiling.

The house then at 6 p. m., took a recess until 8 p. m., under the agreement made earlier in the day.

BILL PASSES AT NIGHT SESSION. At 8 o'clock when the night session began the galleries were crowded, many ladies being present.

Mr. Dingley stated at the outset he hoped to secure a vote by 10 o'clock. Mr. Bailey said 10 o'clock was too early but he thought the vote could be taken by 11 o'clock. He would not, however, raike a definite agreement on the vote. Thereupon, Mr. Dingley gave notice that he would move the previous question not later than: 11 o'clock.

The Republicans still, pursued the tactics they had adopted during the day. None of them claimed the floor and the minority were compelled to put forward their speakers. McDowell, of Ohio, and Mr. Berry, of Kentucky, both Democrats, made brief speeches, when Mr. Bailey took the floor. He made a carefully prepared argument dealing more with the general principles involved than with details. Time and again during the progress of his remarks, the Democrats were aroused by his eloquence to a high pitch of enthusiasm.

Just before'the close of Mr. Bailey's remarks, the most sensational incident of the) debate occured. He had been assailing the doctrine of,free raw materials, as a comparative innovation in the Democratic creed. In order to demonstrate that it was a product of Clevelandism, he sent to the clerk's desk and had read an extract from a newspaper commenting on the fact that in the Forty-ninth congress, Senator Mills, then a member of the house, Mr. McMillin, of Tennessee, and two other Democratic. members of the ways and means committee had voted against free wool.

Mr. McMillin jumped to his feet, and demanded to know whether it was charged that he had voted against free wool. "William *R. Morrison told me so from his own lips," replied Mr. Bailey facing Mr. McMillin, whose face was flushed. "Not "only that but he said both you and Senator Mills voted against some reductions in the metal schedules." "Since the gentleman has seen fit to attack my record and to misrepresent' me," began Mr. McMillin, but Mr. Bailey quickly disclaimed any such purpose. "I desire to commend your action then," said he.

The disclaimer being accepted, Mr. McMillin hotly asked in turn why Mr. Bailey had voted in the ways and means committee against the woolen schedule of the present law when it was offered as a substitute for* the high rates in the pending measure.

A wave of applause ran over the Democratic side, at this question but is was drowned in a storm of approval that greeted Mr. Bailey's reply, that never as long as he was in congress would he vote for 50 per cent duties on woolen goods and no duties on raw wools. The Republicans and the jpalleries joined in this demonstration.

Mr. Bailey spoke for about two hours and a half. Mr. McMillan, who had twenty minutes of his hour remaining, consumed that time in denouncing the sugar schedule and in delving into Mr. Bailey's past and pointing out occasions when the Lone Star statesman had voted for free coal, free barbed wire, free sugar and even free -wool in the Fftysecond congress.

Mr. Bailey got the floor long enough to say that^when he cast votes referred to the endorsed doctrine of his party was free raw material, and as a loyal Democrat he supported its platform declarations. He now held a commission from the Democracy to oppose that doctrine and he would do so. He openly avowed that the schedule gave a slight additional protection to refined sugar but at the same time it raised raw all along the line. Trusts, he said, could not bo eradicated ly epithets. "The way to break down the trusts," he cried, "is to establish a beet sugar factory in every congressional district in the country and make competition. That is tne way to clip the wings of the trust."

Amid a storm of cheers, Mr. Dingley then demanded the previous question on the adoption of the conference report.

Vainly, Mr. Johnson ti ied to ask Mr. Dingley a question while the question was being put, but was not recognized by the speaker. The demand was sustained hy viva voce vote and the vote op the adoption of the report followed by yeas and nays.

Considerable excitement occured while the* vote was being taken. When the speaker announced the vote, 389 ayes, 115 noes, the Republicans broke into loud cheering.

The house then at 12,17 a. m., took a rccess until. Wednesday.

WELLS IS CAPTURE!,.

The Insane,Old Soldier Found in Company With Another Demented Man.

Thomas J. Wells, who cscaped from his brother last Thursday while being driven to the country, and in the search for whom several parties went out, was found Sunday evening near Darwin. He ha^been at large all that time and it is not known yet where he spent the time or how he subsisted.

Wells has been declared insane several times and discharged from the asylum. This last time Tie became dangerous, being under the constant impression that every one was plotting against his life. It was during the period elapsing between the inquest and the return of the papers from the authorities at Indianapolis that he was taken out to the farm of his brother, and while, on the way effected his escape, hiding in the woods.

He was found in the house of "Squire" John W. Fortune, once a prominent man in fhe community about eighteen miles south of here, but now gone insane. Proceedings' have been begun against Fortune, and both men will be sent at once to the asylum. They are now in the jail here for safe keeping.

FHrmer#bnre Old Settle™' Meeting John A. Curry, of Farmersburg, Indiana, was in the city Monday looking out after the interest of the annual Old Settlers' meeting to be held at that place August 12th. The speakers of the day •will"-be Hon. James T. Johnson, of Rockville, Hon. W. A. Cullop, of Vincennes, and others. The prospects for a big meeting' are very flattering. J§iit

Death of Kx-Vlce President Kane. Columbus, O., July 19.—John Kane, aged 48, national vice president of the United Mine Workers of America, died at his home, in this city, at 5 o'clock today— Death was the result of blood poisoning superinduced by pBeuxopQia a$d pleurisy.

TEMPTING OFFER TO BE MADE INDIANA AND GRAPE CREEK MINERS.

Plan on Foot to Break the Back Bone of Strike By Inducing These Miners to Make the Start.

EDGENE DEBS IN WEST VIRGINIA.

ENTHUSIASTICALLY RECEIVED AND MANY MINERS QUIT WORK.

Plan on Foot to Have Leaders of Railway Organizations Aid Strlk«sr»--J: ', Kane Dead.

The effort of the Indiana and Grape Creek

operators from this time on will be to get their men to accept the Columbus scale for

which the strike was ordered. That 3s,

some of the leading operators in the two

fields will ask their men to go to work at

that scale pending final settlement of the strike in general. The operators will make

the point that this would be the best method

of bringing the lower price places in Illinois

into line. It is this proposition that the executive board of the miners' organization

now in session at Columbus will have to pass upon. The operators expect in the event of the miners' organization declining to let part of the men work at the scale price, to get men to go to work regardless of their labor organization, and then trouble will begin.

President Knight and Secretary Kennedy of the Indiana district are in Columbus and it is not known how they will vote on the

proposition.

Mr. John B. Conner and Ex-Judge Terhune, the governor's commission to investigate the affairs of the striking miners of Indiana, arrived in Terre Haute yesterday evening and are stopping at the Terre Haute House. The two prominent Indianians had hoped to confer with the miners and operators officials last night but President Knight and Secretary Kennedy, together with President Talley of the operators are in Columbus, and nothing was to be done. However, acting on instructions from the governor, the commissioners will go to Fontanet, Coal' Bluff and perhaps Carbon.

There they will inquire into the condition of the miners. They will ascertain whether or not they are in need of assistance and will also inquire into the wage situation. The commissioners will visit the mines of Vigo, Clay, Sullivan and Parke counties. The commissioners are here under specified instructions from Governor Mount to determine the extent of destitution among the striking miners.

DEBS ROUNDLY CHEERED,

Many West Virginia Miners Throw Down Their Tools—Why Strike May Fail.

Fairmount, W. Va., July 19.—-Eugene V.

Debs addressed the entire male population

of Fairmount tonight, and about 200 miners

from the neighboring collieries. The meet

ing was a very enthusiastic one, and he was

frequently appaluded. Today at Monongah

ho held a meeting also, and about 300 of the

700 strikers of that mine today were in attendance. He organized a branch of the U. M. W. of A., with 200 members. Debs said in his speech that in five days the great miners' strike would be settled. Besides the 700 miners who laid down their tools at Monongah this morning, twenty-seven of the forty-ono men at Pritchard joined the strikers.

Ex-Governor Fleming said tonight that the men at West Fairmount would go out. He added that if the men strike and the Pennsylvania and Ohio miners get the rate they are striking for it will not*aid the miners or the operators in this region. His reason for this statement is that the freight rates being more will keep the wages of the miners down.

LEADERS MAINTAIN SECRECY.

Plan to Call Upon Leaders of Railway Organizations for Assistance. Pittsburg, July 19.—Some new features will likely be introduced into the struggle within the next two days, but the leaders are maintaining the greatest secrecy regarding their movements. It is believed they contemplate calling upon the railway organizations for assistance. Secretary Warner gave out the information today that a meeting of railway employes was held here yesterday and the situation of the miners' strike thoroughly discussed. Resolutions were adopted pledging support to the strikers and each member was assessed $2 for the strike fund.

Mr. Warner refused to,divulge the name of the railroad employing the men, stating that it might lead to an investigation and the discharge of the men.

AND STILL THEY COME.

Another Mess of Offenders Caught in Meshes of Commissioner's Net.

Deputy Fish Commissioner *Earle has not left the vicinity, as it was thought, and to thftt {act several wholesale ^ogiera, awfb

TUESDAY MORNING. JULY 20. L897

Information. has been received that the Standand Oil company has been making contracts with a number of former customers for Indiana coal in Chicago, by which they will use oil burners at their furnaces. At the time of the strike in 1894 Indiana oil was 20 cents a barrel higher thin it is now. At the time of that strike the Standard Oil company did not make much of an effort to sell oil to the industries for use a"S fuel. Now, with oil ddwn to a price at which it can be piped into Chicago and used at less cost for steel making than mine run coal, such as Indiana and Grape Creek has been furnishing the Illinois Steel company, for instance, at a price somewhere around 55 cents a ton. The result is that within the past ten days the oil company has made contracts which will displa.ee 200 cars of coal a day. The South Bend Tribune says: "The Studebaker Bros.' Manufacturing company has been using oil under its boilers owing to the prospect of a coal falmine. The company has about thirty-one cars of co.ai on hand, enough to last for several weeks, but decided the safest course was to use oil. The use of oil for fuel accordingly began this week."

the city, can testify. It was reported that the wily limb of the piscatory statutes had boarded the train for the city of Vincennes, there

steal upon the seiner, netter or

"trot-iiner" unawares, and remind him of the law he is breaking. But it Is to be presumed Mr. Earl changed his mind, for yesterday morning early saw him, with 'his trusty, Constable Ehrenhardt, driving out of Terre Haute on the north pike. The two swooped down on the hamlet of Tecuinseh without notice, where they confiscated ten nets from John Winters. The commissioner had found out in some way that there was a large seine somewhere in the neighborhood, and he also discovered that the. man Winters had an interest in the seine. Winters peached, and told the officer that the-seine had been taken to Libertyville, and waa in the hands of Robert, or "Tag" Collins. The location of the seine was also learned, and the twain started for Libertyville. Arriving there, Ehrenhardt went into the -little store while his superior made a "sashay" for the glen where the seine was hidden. In two minutes he had found it and was back to the buggy. They drove up and loaded it in. It was sixty yards in length. Warranfc have been issued for the offenders, and they will be tried at once.

Walter Shelton, the member of the canoe club, w4s tried yesterday and released. The commissioner said that he felt sure the seine found in the boat house had not been used for several years, and that there was no intention to violate the law.

The thorough work done" by the commissioner is^ causing a great deal of excitement among fishermen along the banks of the Wabash. It is told by some parties down the river that it needs but the sight of a canoe comujg down for the fishermen to flee like the wicked. There are very few violations of the law in that respect now near the city, and "nlghtline3," if found at all, are small and fastened in secluded spots. It is said that there are several families along the stream who live on the fish they catch, and the present scare is keeping them in hard lines. And reports come from the north, just beyond the city limits, that the seines are used every night with recklessness.

GREAT DAMAGE DONE

FINK8INER Jfc DUENWEG'S STOCK RUINED BY FIRE LAST NIGHT.

Two Alarms Were Turned In—The Bulldlt)g jtpd Its Contents Were Fnlly Insured.

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Two alarms of fire were sent in yesterday

evening about 7:20. The department was

called to Sixth and Main streets, where a

blaze had been discovered in tho hardware

store of Finkbiner & Duenweg. George

Watson, barkeep at the Manhattan, discov

ered the fire and the department was soon

on hand after he turned in the alarm. The

fire was burning under the roof of the build

ing, and was such that the department had

great traii^o getting at It,.

The wires diong the^ Jtreet prevented the

raising of the aerial truck for a time, and by

the time thfe firemen could get streams on the fire there was quite a blaze shooting out of the top floor of the big hardware store. Four streams were turned into the store, and the entire stock is believed to be almost ruined. The firm of Finkbiner & Duenweg are the leading hardware merchants of the city, and the stock carried by them would invoice between $15,000 and $25,000. Justhow the fire, which did such great damage, started is not known and probably will never be known,

However, ft is supposed to be from spontaneous combustion. Mr. Walter Duenweg was on theithird floor, where the fire originated, just before 6 o'clock. At that hour there w-as nothing burning, and at 6 o'clock the store was closed. At 7:20 the alarm was turned in and while the stock is covered by insurance the firm will sustain a loss of several thousand dollars. The "stock is practically ruined. On the third floor of the store the tinware, screen doors and windows, screen cloth, cross-cut saws and rope was stored. Onj the third floor, also, werfe hundred poimd| of aetna powder and giant powder. The water thrown into the top windows flooded the enure sLore, and the big stpek of cutlery and other hardware is to all purposes ruinel ,*

During the fire Mr. Hugo Duenweg was overcome by tic smoke and had to be carried to his residence, on South Seventh street, and a physician summoned. Mr. Duen^g ijent to theUop floor" to take out the powder and dynamite, fearing a bad fire and an explosion. He weftt

tw/ce, and while there

the second time, fell to the floor and had to be carried out- Dr. Wyeth attended him, and remained With him most of the night. Mr. Walter Duenweg aud some of the clerks of the storei opened the safe and carried the books and qiber valuable papers from the building. Mf. Duenweg was unable to give any intelligenX estimate of the loss last night. The insurance, will approximate $16,000.

There'* Going to Pe Serlonn Trouble. At the base ball park this afternoon there will be a base ball came bstw^en the motormen and cond:ietor*5 of the street railway company. The proceeds of tha game are to go for charitable purposes, the intention being to give whatever is taken in to the Old Ladles' Home.* More than 300 tickets have already been sold. The price of admission will be 25 cents, women admitted free. The two teams will line up as follows:

CONDUCTORS. MOTORMEN. J. Hanrahan, ss. B. M. Collins, ss. B. Bohanon. 2b. !?Frank O'Mara, 2b. E. Hereog, If. C. W. Peterson, 3b. r. McCabe, cf. John Roll. If. A. WriRht, rf. O J- Brewster, cf. W. Hol'Uday. lb. '-E. Wagner, rf.

Charles W. Conn Seriously Injured. Friends, ^n this city of Charles W. Conn, at

one

time cashier of the Vigo County

National Bank, will read with a feeling of regret of an accident* which befell him last weefcat Chicago. Mr. Conn while alighting from*a cable car. fell to the pavement and the wheels of the car passed over his leg. The leg will have to be amputated and even in case this Is done It may he the man's life cannot be saved.

The Strike I» Still ON.

Contrary to announcement no work waa done on the opera house ruins yesterday. Contractor Fromme made no attempt to put men to work. The strikers were to be found waiting about the ruins, but Mr. Fromme said he was too busy with work on the new theater to try the differences at ft? Old*

THE GOLD CRAZE IS ON

IT HAS STRUCK CHICAGO AND THERE IS A STAMPEDE TO KLONDIKE.

Innumerable Applications For Tickets to the Coast and Passac* By Steamer to Alaska.

SPECIAL STEAMERS 10 BE CHARTERED

SOME FACTS AS TO THE GREAT FIND.

Speculation Is Rife as to Effect the Great Find Will Have on Silver.

Chicago, July 19.—The gold craze has

struck Chicago. Today the offices of rail

road and Pacific steamer companies were

crowded with excited, restless men, who had

but two words onvtheir tongues, "the Klon-

dyke.' Two early birds winged their flight

over the C4 M. & St. P. tonight anS half a

dozen more will go tomorrow. The North

American Transportation & Trading Co.

during the day had so many applications for

tickets on an early boat that if it had had a'

steamer sailing within two weeks it could

have filled the complement of passengers

from those who applied today. The eager

demand for immediate transportation led the

officials of the company to telegraph the

agent at Seattle to charter a special steamer.

If this boat is secured it will sail for St.

will return in time to make another trip on

August 20th. From morning to night the

offices of the North American company were

fairly swarming with future prospectors.-

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THE KLONDYKE DISTRICT.*^'

Its Geographical Position—The Ground Has to Be Thawed.

San Diego, Cal., July 19.—An interesting letter telling of the recent trip of the steamer Excelsior to Alaska has been written by Captain J. F. Higgins, of the steamer, to a friend in this city. He says: "The, word Klondyke means deer river, and is called Reindeer river on charts. It empties into the Yukon fifty miles above the Big river. The geographical position of the junction is 'dejgteeaT" l^'toiHEftes north- nEMtu&eV^S* degreesftb-mimites tfest longitude. Bonanza ctoek dumps into Klondyke about two miles above the Yukon. Eldorado is a tributary of the Bonanza. There are nunlerous other creeks and tributaries, the main river being 300 miles long. The gold so far has been taken from Bonanza and .Eldoradty both Well named, for the richness of the placers is truly marvelous. Eldorado, thirty miles long, is staked the whole length, and as far as worked has paid. As each claim is 500 feet along the creek bcd, there is 500,000 to the claim.

"So uniform feas tTie fiiUput befen that on6 miner who has an interest in three claims told me that if his choice were offered him he would toss up to decide. One of our passengers who is taking $1,000 with him has worked 100 feet of his ground and refused $200,000 for the remainder, and confidently expects to clean up $400,000 and more. He has in a bottle $212 from one pan of dirt. His pay dirt while being washed averaged $250 an hour to each man shoveling in. Two others of our miners -who worked their own claims cleaned up $6,000 from the day's washing. "There is about fifteen feet of dirt above bed rock, the pay streak averaging from four to six feet, which is tunneled out while the ground is frozen. Of course, the ground taken out is thawed by building fires, and when the thaw comes and water rushes In they set their sluices and wash the dirt. Two of our fellows thought a small bird in the hand worth a large one in the bush, and sold their claims for $45,000, getting, $4,500 down, the remainder to be paid in monthly installments of $10,000 eaofc. The purchasers were twenty days thawing ani} getting out dirt. Then there was no water to sluice with, but one fellow made a rocker, and in ten days took out the $10,000 for the first installment. Then, tunneling and rocking, they took out $40,000 before they had water to sluice with. "Of course, these things read like the story of Aladdin, but fiction is not in it with facts at Klondyke. The'ground located and prospected can be worked out in a few years, but there is still an immense

Dally Established 1853.

company hy the miners. Each man was required to place his gold chest in the ship's safe, but many of the miners secured their dust in blankets and luggage, which was taken either to the state-rooms or thrown carelessly about the ship. Clarence J. Berry, one of the Klondyke kings, brough: down over $84,000 in nuggets, not a cent of which the Portland had any record.

The statement is made on the authority of Captain Kidson, master of the vessel, when pressed for an estimate as to 'he amount of the Portland's cargo, Captain Kidson said it was nearer $2,000,000 than the amount accounted or the ship's record.

At present only miners' laws rule tho camt, but next year Dawson City will be incorporated and municipal organizations formed. The miners are determined that prder will be preserved at all hazzards. No sure-thing gambles will be permitted in! either Dawson City or the diggings. Information comes that several strikes have recently been, made in the neighborhood of Forty Mile. It has been christened Minute creek, and is now panning out $22 a day to the man. Another discovery on American creek, fifty miles below Forty Miles camp, i3 said to be paying well, and a great number of men have flocked there during tho last few weeks. The pan runs from $10 to $18. It is thought likely many of the prospectors will strike for these camps, thus relieving the strain on Dawson City.

.THE FORTUNES MADE.

List of the Lucky Ones—Cost of Living la Dawson City. Seattle, Wash., July 19.—A complete list of the fortunate adventurers who have returned, and the amount of their fortunes, follows: T. S. Llppy $ 85,000 F. G. H. Bowkei' 90,00) Joe Mamue 10,000 IC.. B. llollingshead 25,500 William Kulju 17,000 James McMann 15,000 Albert Galbraith 15,000 Neil McArthur 15,000 D. McArthur 15,000" Ber. Anderson 14.000 Robert Krook 14,0Cfl Fred Leadessetf 13,004 John Marks 11,504 Alexander Orr 11.50C Thomas Cook 10,0(H M. S. Norcross 10.MXI J. Ernmerger 10.00C Con Stamatln 8,25& Albert Fox 5,10(1 Greg Stewart 5,004 J. O. Hestwood 5,C04 Thomas Flack 5.0C0 Louis B. Rhoads 5.00® Fred Price 5.0C0 Alaska Commercial Co 250,000

Michaels within ten or twelve days. The

Portland, which leaves Seattle tomorrow,

The fields are estimated to be worth $70,0(Xi,000. Dawson City is only a few months old. The descriptions given by tha returned miners make it a typical mining town with everything but guns.

Laborers, it is asserted, are paid as high as $15 a lay, but the advice is given that no mancan afford to go to the new camp without from $500 to $1,093 with which to support himself and insure the posa.o lity of'returning in case of adversity.

Living, of course comes high. The region produces little or no fruit or vegetables. The meat of the caribou and the moose is sometimes scarce, and there are seasons when no salmon can be obtained.

Here is a list of prices that prevailed in Dawson City when the miners started away. Flour, per 100 Tea, per lb:... 100 lbs $12 OOCoffee, per lb .. 50 Moose Ham, Dried fruits, per per- lb .... .. 100 lb

iEarlbott meat,, lb ........ .... Beans, per lb ..4 Rice, per lb ...JSugar, per lb t'i' Bacon per lb ifutter, per roll Eggs, per doz Better eggs, per doz Salmon, each, $1 to .. .. .... Potatoes, per lb Turnips per lb Tea, per lb ....

territory

touched, and the laboring man who cin get there with one year's provisions will have a better chance to make a stake than in ..any other part of the world.-'

ALL WANT TO DIG GOLD.

Business Men of Juneau and Sitka Closing Their Stores.

Port Townsend, Wash., July 19.—The excursion steamer Queen has arrived from Alaska with 170 passengers, principally tourists. The officers of the Queen state that the merchants and tradesmen in both Juneau and Sitka are closing their stores and shops and hastening to the new El Dorado. Fifty business men left Juneau for Dawson City on July 12, and 150 were to leave on the 16th, two days after the Queen sailed. The officers say by the time the Queen returns to Juneau on her return trip, nine days hence, there will not be an able-bodiel man left in the town. Many men are leaving Juneau for the gold fields without provisions, or means to buy them. The steamer A1 Ki sailed for Alaska at midnight. She carried forty horses and 1,000. sheep for Dyea, where they will be landetj and driven across the summit to the Yukon valley. Stock men say the sheep are ihe finest ever collected off eastern Washington ranges. They will be taken to Circle City and Klondyke and slaughtered. Any kind of fresh meat there sells at 50 cents a pound.

PROBABLY $2,000,000.

The Amount of Gold Carried By the Steamer Portland. Seattle, Wash., July 19.—The amount of treasure brought down from the famed Klondyke by the steamer Portland is nowplaced at $1,500,000. and there is good reason to believe the sum wis nearer $2,000,000. A^ort of & confidence game appears to have been worked on tie transportation

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Seattle Wash., July 19.—One hundred men took passage on the steamer A1 Ki today, most of them starting on what is called the overland trip to Klondyke. From Juneu' they go one hundred miles further by water to Dyea then over the mountain passes, down lakes' Lindorman and Bennett to the Yukon river, and from that river to the new discoveries. Among the crowd were many well known men who have been lone connected with tho grdtoth and development of the Northwest. An immense crowd was at the dock, and when the A1 Ki threw off her lines and pulled !nto the bav, thousands of people gave cheers and s'houts and bidd:ng Godspeed. Every inch of her passenger and cargo space

Cincinnati Enquirer, Sunday: Rev. Dr. C. G. Jones, of Covington, last night married Charles A. Day and Mrs. Mary E. Trowr.s bridge, of Terre Haute, Ind.

Edward C. Scarff, traveling auditor

DEATH'S SAD HARVEST.

Word has been received of the death at St. Paul, on the 17th, of J. M. Hammersley, who was once In the boot and shoa business in Terre Haute, heing at one tim« a partner in business with Mr. Bolsrtd. He removed to the Northwest nine years ago. Ills death was the result of an agg«m vated tumor.

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New York, July 19.—A special to the World from Washington says: The possibility of serious International compilations between the United States and Great Britain as the rrsult of the recent gold discoveries in Alaska, has become apparent to the s'ate department. Senator Davis?, of the senate foreign relations committer. has l:°»n rw.uested ti secure the immediate ratification of a treaty for determining the boundary line between Canada and Alaska in order to lessen the probable difficulty.

Chairman Davis has announced his intention of calling this treaty UD for action at the next executive session of the senate. There in said to be no objection and prompt ratification is expected.

THREE MATRIMONIAL EPISODES.

Louisa M. Fogary Married At St. Louis—* Day-Trowbridge Wedding. St. 'Louis Globe-Democrat: Joseph Hicks, 60*years old, of Patton, Mo., and Louisa M. Fogery, aged 40, of Terre Haute, applied for a marriage license yesterday, and wera afterward married at Judge Haughton's cdtlrt. Chief Harrigan received a letter about the same time from Terre Haute, asking for information regarding Louisa M. Fogery. The letter was signed by her .brother, C. E. Fogery, and said that Louisa haif come to St. Louis, June 15. He thought she must be in a hospital.

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Hlralm Woods, of Fontanet Drops Dead —Former Terre Hautean Dies. Hiram Woods, a prominent farmer of Kevins township, who lives just west of the Mt. Aetna church, near Fontant-t. dropped dead on the road near his houstv The cause of his demise waa he-art diseas. Mr. Woods was 74 years old, and was •well known, throughout the township. Coroner Payne was telephoned for.

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Nathaniel Emory, aged 24 years, died at his home in Grant of typhoid fever Sunday morning. He was buried yesterday afternoon*