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■ NTY ON YUKON
gSitaiCiTaatilie Miners Seed Not SuL
|w for For Food.
ftlE* WHALERS WELL SUPPLIED
SSfvlceH Indicate That the Proposed Gov-
J fternment Relief (Expeditions Are
Wholly Unnecessary.
K-> WASHINGTON, Dec. 80.—[Special.]—Ac
[ deeding to the best information obtainable
■ he's, those American citizens who are
1 Spending the winter in the far north, and
fer whose relief Uncle Sam is moving
with characteristic energy and generosity,
have probably had a pretty good holiday
1 season, after all, and are not in danger of
•tar vat ion. In these dispatches I have re
peatedly pointed out a probability that
both the whalers at Point Barrow, in the
x Arctic sea, and the miners along the Yu
■kon are able to take care of themselves.
FNow comes evidence in support of this
ft theory. Two men who recently returned
F from Dawson say there is no danger of
starvation among the miners. Although
coffee and sugar may run out, there is
food enough in the country of one sort or
t another to last till the opening of naviga
tion in the summer. As there are 1,000
tons of provisions at Fort Yukon—the
U highest point the steamers were able to
Hget last fall on account of low water—it is
■ inconceivable that any of the miners
■ should starve, for it is no difficult matter
m for them to travel the 200 or 300 miles be
■r tween their camps and the Fort Yukon
■ supply station. Americans who venture
■ into the goldfields are not the men to sit
■ down and starve when there is plenty
■within reach by means of a snowshoe jour
■ney of two or three weeks.
B Still no one will criticise congress or
■ the energetic secretary of war for desiring
K,to make assurance doubly sure by sending
■Jn a relief expedition. If new supplies are
■ plot actually needed, no harm will be done,
ITat any rate, and the forwarding of these
■f relief trains will afford the world a lesson
| in the watchful care which Uncle Sam ex
I ercises over his citizens, whenever they
F may be.
F Relief Expedition Unnecessary.
I One of the readers of your paper, who
ft has just returned from Alaska, writes me
It a most interesting letter. He says he is
K familiar with the conditions which exist
■lup there, and that there is no need of a re-
P lief expedition either for the miners or the
whalers. Be points out that at Dawson,
i which is in Canadian territory, there is a
■ sort of governoi general, with autocratic
8 powers, in the person of Major Walsh. Up
■hto dute he has made no report to the Do
government of starvation or dan
■ ger in the Yukon region, which he would
■be very likely to doit there was any peril.
■ My correspondent writes:
jll “I have recently returned from the
■ Mackenzie river, and the Hudson Bay
p company had information from the traders
I on the lower river in November that the
| whaling fleet were gathered, as usual, at
| Herschel island and were so well supplied
with provisions as to be in a position to
trade with the natives at prices against
A which the overland traders could not com-
Kwete If this was the case, surely the
balers do not require aid by a tugboat
will never reach them) or by a
Bindeer caravan from St. Michael’s
||B-hich, in my opinion, will never get as
||Hr as Point Barrow). As for the Yukon
and the effort to relievo them by
from Lapland, I believe the
■steamers will be able to get up the river
1 to Dawson before the reindeer trains cover
&half the trail from Dyea to the goldfields. ”
Interest In the Arctics.
|y The arctic and subarctic regions appear
■to be attracting more than their share of
Btention of late. We have the government
HLef expeditions to the Yukon and to
gSHint Barrow, Dr. Nansen has just taken
F|Too,oooof good American money through
| his lectures, Professor Andree’s balloon ex
-1 pedition is much written and talked about,
and Lieutenant Peary is made a present
ft>f a ship by Mr. Harmsworth, the London
’editor who three years ago pent an expedi
tion to Franz-Josef Land, and with which
Mr. Peary will next summer endeavor to
reach the north of Greenland. There are
still other expeditions in the air, and it is
* obvious that for years to come public In
terest will be largely turned to the frozen
regions of the north.
| It is considered not at all improbable
“ that in a few years Alaska wIH be admit
ted as a state. Next year 200,000 or 300,-
■ftelds. Some will go to stake out claims,
to trade and speculate, and the lat
sfßr are pretty sure to make the most money.
F VY the Alaska gold deposits are as rich and
i widespread as they appear to be, then the
hj. future of that territory is a bright one. It
. likely to soon have a population of a
I smarter of a million souls, and this will be
’ ifa part a permanent population unless the
Aid plays out. Those who are familiar
with the territory say the greatest gold
dscovertes are yet to be made, and after
toe pan mining era then comes the use of
k Machinery. Thfs latter will go on for
ft many years. So we may expect to see
P Alaska a state before long, and hero in
Washington we shall soon have the pleas
ure of interviewing “the senator from
Alaska.” •
Permanent Improvements.
t Although it is true the richest gold dlg
tfftlsgp are I)ow on Canadian soil, it is said
men who have traveled through thf
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region that in the future the most promis
ing and most permanent mining indus
tries, those which employ machinery for
extracting the precious metal, are likely
to be on the American side of the bound
ary line. Already it is pretty certain there
will be a railroad Into Dawson City by
next fall, and a telegraph line is to be run
in early in the summer. With a great
fleet of steamboats upon the rivers, a rail
road, a telegraph line and many newspa
pers, Alaska will soon begin to hold her
head proudly and demands admission to
the sisterhood of states.
Walter Wellman.
THE WILDS OF CHICAGO.
Visitors to the Windy City Should Go Well
Armed.
[Special Correspondence.]
Chicago, Dec. 27.—Perhaps the one
thing that most excites the surprise of
outsiders who come to this city for a
visit is the equanimity with which the
people submit to highway robbery. It is
not that an occasional case occurs such
as might shock any community, but that
people are robbed with such regularity
in public places that no one but the vic
tims pays much attention to the facts.
Even the newspapers that are supposed
to be hunting for sensations do not re
port them at length or put scareheads
over the accounts.
In last Sunday’s paper, for example,
I find the accounts of three successful
highway robberies and one burglary
with a murderous assault all crowded
into a quarter of a column with a two
line head. All three were on principal
streets. One was in a crowd in front of
the Dearborn station, when a woman
was seized by a heavily built man, who
exclaimed, “You utter a scream and I’ll
put an end to your yelling right in this
crowd.” This, according to the report
er, he said, “in an ordering tone.” The
woman struggled, but did not dare to
cry out, and the robber, finding that
“the struggle began to attract the atten
tion of passersby,” gave her arm such
a violent wrench as to break it. The
woman fainted and was afterward taken
to a hospital. The robber, seizing her
pnrse, dashed through the crowd and
disappeared in an alley.
It doesnot appear that either this case
or that of a fire marshal who was drag
ged into an alleyway off State street
and stabbed and robbed was reported to
the police. Anyhow, no arrests are re
ported in either of the four cases, and
no special interest seems to be excited.
It is difficult to understand the coolness
of Chicago people under the circum
stances and impossible to think of sim
ilar occurrences in other civilized cities
being considered as everyday matters.
D. A. C.
The Greateat Discovery Yet.
W, M. Repine, editor Tiskilwa, HL.
“Chief.” says: “We won’t keep house
without Dr, King’s New Discovery for
Consumption, Coughs and Colds. Ex
perimented with many others, but never
got the true remedy until we used Dr.
King’s New Discovery. No other remedy
can take its place ip our home; as in it
we have a certain and sure cure for
Coughs. Colds, Whooping Cough, etc.”
It is idle to experiment with other rem
edies, even if they are urged on you as
just as good as Dr. King’s New Dis
covery. They are not as good, because
this remedy has a record of cures and
besides is guaranteed. It never fails to
satisfy. Trial bottles free at Curry-Ar
rington Company’s Drug Store.
DON’T GO TO THE’YUKON.
O/, If You Do, Try to Disbelieve What
Captain Barr Says.
[Special Correspondence.]
Detroit, Dec. 27.—1 t is not likely
that any one man by talking can stop
the rush to the Klondike districts which
is certain to come next spring, but what
one man can do toward that end Cap
tain J. C. Barr evidently does not in
tend to leave undone. Captain Barr,
who is now visiting in this city, is traus
portation manager for the North Ameri
can Trading and Transportation com
pany. He returned in October last from
a five years’ sojourn in the Yukon river
district, and emphatically advises ev
erybody to stay away from there.
In speaking of the routes that have
been planned out by study of the maps,
especially one byway of the Mackenzie
river and across the divide, where it is
shown as only miles wide, w;th no
the romb tribune. Friday, December 31, isi>7.
mountains, fie says: “People'w'ho pro
pose to go that way don’t know what
they are undertaking. The coast of
Alaska has been surveyed, but the maps
of the interior are all guesswork. The
United States maps of the Yukon coun
try v.ere made up largely on distances
given by myself, and I never measured
one of them. But even if it were only
40 ir.il eq across at the point indicated
and if the ground were level it is not
likely Hint any one can cross there. It
is boggy and overgrown with under
brush. The only practicable travel is by
the water courses. In summer the water
does not sink into the ground, which
only thaws a little way down, and in
winter there is no snow. It is too cold.
Eoar frost collects four feet deep, but it
is so light you can’t travel on it with
snowshoes. The so called mounted po
lice are mounted in canoes. They can’t
get around otherwise.
“The mining is done in winter by
building bonfires to thaw the ground.
A man can thaw out with a cord of
wood in 24 hours about two inches
depth in a space 6 feet by 8. Next day
he goes two inches deeper, and whu he
gets down four or five feet he begins to
tunnel to save heat, and so goes faster.
Then the summer thaws destroy the
winter’s work. The finding of gold is
all a matter of luck.
“I have known men who have been
there 10 and 12 years and have been un
able to get anything ahead because when
they find gold they have to spend it all
for food. Men die of gradual starvation.
I saw two young men die of excitement
after making their first strike because
they were so weak from starvation that
they couldn’t stand the shock. There is
gold there, of course, but it is purely a
matter of chance whether a man finds it
or not, and the chances of death are
greater.” . George Morley.
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QnHstion'bf Headlines.
One who has done institutional work
among the Italians for years wonders
why the printed stories of affrays among
those people always are headed * * Stabbed
by an Italian, ” etc. When the Irish or
the Germans fight, attention is not called
to their nationality in headlines, yet
whenever a man with an Italian sound
ing name commits a crime this distinc
tion invariably is drawn. Italians fail
to see the justice in it This particular
man whose life has been spent among
the Italians is sure that they do not
have recourse to the stiletto as often as
is represented. They are quick and sud
den in quarrel, but so are the Irish.
Why, then, should the Italian be singled
out for obloquy?
Often, too, it is a Greek with a mu
tilated name who gets into a row and is
credited with being an Italian. In the
lower Italian quarter the Greeks and
the Italians are hated rivals, and their
similarity in names leads frequently to
confounding their nationalities, when
there is no need, according to this ob
server, of bringing the nationality into
the question at all.—New York Press.
First Prize For Ugliness.
This is the story of an ugly man, as
told by a veteilin of the late war:
“My cousin was the ugliest man in
the regiment, ” said the raconteur. “He
was the ugliest man, in fact, I ever
saw. A general saw him and offered a
prize for. the ugliest man in the army
to encourage competition. A rival regi
ment had its ugly man. The two were
brought together. The general was
there to act as referee. My cousin came
up smiling and looked conteinptuously.
at his adversary The other freak gave
one look at my cousin. ‘Take him
away,’ he shrieked, ‘he ain’t human.’
Then he covered his face and fled. It is
needless to say my cousin took the
prize. ” —New Orleans Times-Democrat.
To Cure A Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets,
All druggists refund the money if it
f Ails to cure. 25c. The genuine has L. B.
Q on each tablet.
MRS. JOHN W. GRIGGS.
Probable Addition to the Ladies of tais
Cabinet Circle In Washington.
When Governor John W. Griggs of
New Jersey goes to Washington as at
torney general of the United States, the
circle of cabinet ladies will secure a
charming addition in the person of the
popular wife of Mr. McKenna's succes
sor.
Mrs. Griggs is the second wife of the
governor. She was married about five
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MRS. JOHN W. GRIGGS.
years ago and has one daughter, Eliza
beth. She is now about 30 years old.
By his first wife, who died seven years
ago, Governor Griggs has six children,
four boys and two girls. The eldest boy
is just 21.
Mrs. Griggs is a particularly attract
ive woman and agreeable in
manner. All the children are jealously
fond of her, and her love for them is
unbounded. She is a splendid conver
sationalist and a very keen observer.
She takes an immense interest in hei
husband’s career and has a pretty good
insight into things political herself. She
enjoys his pleasure and watches his suc
cess with eyes brimming over with ad
miration.
Governor Griggs, like Vice President
Hobart, lives in Paterson, and the two
families are on very friendly terms. It
was due to the influence of Mr. Hobart
that the governor is about to enter the
president’s cabinet.
There is more Catarrh in this section
of the country than all, other diseases
put together, and until the last few years
was supposed to be incurable. For a
great many years doctors pronounced it
a local disease, and prescribed local
remedies, and by constantly failng to
cure with local treatment, pronounced
it incurable. Science has proven catarrh
to be a constitutional disease, and there
fore, requires constitutional treatment.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo. Ohio, is the
only constitutional cure on the market.
It is taken internally in doses from 10
drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly
on the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. They offer one hundred dollars
for any case it fails to cure. Send for
circulars and testimonials. Address,
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
by Druggists. 75.
A Mean Dog.
He was a small boy—uot such a very
small boy—in an out of town school.
He had written a composition. It was
upon the subject of doga Now the
teacher of the school was a man, and he
was not popular He was what the boys
called * ‘mean. ’ ’ They disliked him thor
oughly, from tbe tips of his shining
shoes to the ends of his pompadour oom ti
ed hair In the composition there was a
story of a dog. It was the story of a
very mean dog, and as the composer of
the literary effort came to the last line
he read it emphatically and with great
distinctness of utterance, and the hearts
of all the othfer small boys in the room,
as they listened, quaked, half with de
light and half with fear, knowing what
was to follow, and gazing, fascinated, at
the upright coiffure of the master, aS
the reader ended, “And that dog was so
mean that his hair stood on end. ”
New Yor.k Tiipes
Wasting
in Children
can be overcome in almost all cases
by the use of Scott’s Emulsion of
Cod-Liver Oil and the Hypophos
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it is a scientific fact that cod-liver
oil is the most digestible oil in ex
istence, in
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It is not only palatable, but it is
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It is also combined with
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for the bones and nerves,
and will build up the child
when its ordinary food
does not supply proper
nourishment.
system.
8 j’l \
Be sure you get SCOTT’S Emulsion. See that the
man and fish are on the wrapper.
AU druggists; 50c. and fr.oo.
SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York.
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Retiring from Business or another kind of sales are not
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THE NEXT THIRTY DAYS!
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Choice of any suit in our house for sl2 50.
They are worth from sl6 00 to $20.00.
150 Good All-Woolen Suits,
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Our Entire Line of Trousers
at prices that have never been matched in Rome,
We don’t intend to carry over any winter clothing and are determined
to make this the biggest sale of big bargains ever seen
in Rome. Come and see us,
J. A. GAMMON & CO.,
New Stock of Short Pant Suits just Received,
The Oldest
Carriage Factory
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ITS FORTY/FIFTH YEAR IN BUSINESS.
AAAn Eighteen Hundred and Ninety/Eight Message,
We have made extraordinary preparations to meet the demand
of 1898. Our vehicles aie becoming so generally popular that
it has been impossible to supply the wants to the people.
Realizing this, we have added to the capacity of every depart
ment in our factories, and are now prepared to furnish you with
any kind of vehicle, and as many of them as you may want
We will not only have the Carriages. Buggies and Wagons
you want, but will be in a position to extend credit to any man
who is worthy of it.
Our vehicles are faultlessly perfect mechanically, thus making
them strong and durable, and in many ways superior to other
makes, and at NO POINT INFERIOR TO OTHER MAKES.
This being the case, are we not entitled to, and worthy of,
your patronage f
Remember. We G-uarantee our Vehicles,
And they are our Own make, thereby saving you the “Middle
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can afford to sell good work at.
Tile TA7"lxeel
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Remember Our Repair Department.
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