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ti lit I 111 United State Government into the Arctic his wu the only one that passed two years to JUve region without thViossof a stogie life and without meeting with a stogie mishap CaptalnRay was on duty on this Coast to lS85and 1S86 alter ward being transf erred to the Department of the Platte where he served for four yean In isn he waa ordered to Fort Washakie where he raised the iirit Indian company of Infantry He received his Captains commission to 1883 Captain Ray ha been fcse years a fellow of the Royal phical5odctyT ThereirariW KiejcjteraaylaThe Ur Comxolssaxlat bnlldlnrpaJrMoat fmerystreetbehindthe Palci Hotel In the QuartermiyteJdeiiinentsjeV eral men rjx hardjatArotk jHifttag to 1 gather kits of warm woolen clothing to cluding trtple llned orereoats stock In iArctte shcsterarmbui flap headgear and heavy woolen shlrtsJ The whole of the baggage will be ready for shipment to morrow morning The food that win be taken op from Seattle is being fast got together by the Commissary Department It consists principally of the regular Army rations Including as staples bacon alt beef beans and flour The weight of the provisions win amount to sixty fire tons which will cost the Government over 5000 for shipment to Circle City Every thing from the Quartermasters depart cent will be forwarded lb Captain Ray at Seattle and must reach there before the Mb of August Dr Edle has an enviable record as an Army surgeon He was for several years at the Rosebud Agency at South Dakota and has had considerable experience in colder regions of the continent The three assistants that are to leave here with him will be selected by him to day The following dispatch received from Washington last night seems to strengthen the probability that at least one company of regulars for Circle City win be selected here The dispatch says The President and Secr tary Alger are to conference at the White Honse to night arranging the necessary official action for the establishment of the proposed military post in the Alaska gold fields There was some talk about the practicability of the Step at to days Cabinet meeting and the question as to the right of the Executive to direct the establishment of a mlliUry command to the Territory without the approval of Congress was brought up The sentiment of the President and his Cabinet however was to favor of going ahead All doubts as to the authority of the Executive were disposed of by the result of a reference to the Attorney General for his opinion This opinion which was delivered later in the day supported the contention of those who desire that a post be established The Attorney General holds that the President has a right to send trqops to any of the Territories of the United States to protect the Interests of the country and that the appropriations for the transportation of troops and the maintenance of the Army may be used to carry out the project Officials of the War Department are making an earnest effort to secure the establlshment of the post before the Alaska winter set in Orders have been sent to Philadelphia for a supply of tents sufficient to accommodate a company of sixty men An offer for the transportation of the troops from Seattle has been received by the department from the North American Transportation Company The companys steamer will start on August Mh the latent date possible if any soldiers are to be land ed In Alaska before the winter begins The new post Jill be established near Circle City on the Yukon at the mouth of Porcupine creek The commercial company proposes to charge S130 per man and 80 per ton for freight to that place St Michael is the farthest point up the Tukon to which the steamer can go and it will be necessary to take the troops on one of the light draught river steamers from that place to Circle City The soldiers to be eent will be obliged to camp out the first season but the tents being purchased are guaranteed to be wind proof and are constructed to minimise the cold The enlisted men will probably be selected from the First Infantry stationed at San Francisco A teleram received at the War Department to day from BrigadierBrigadier General Shafter commanding the Department of California said that he could furnish two companies of Infantry for the new post but suggested that this might not be satisfactory to a number of soldiers whose enlistment would expire before they co ild return General Shafter will probably select men from several companies to make up the force A press dispatch from Seattle says Captain Ray 1 A with five officers and flfty slx men wfll leave Seattle for Circle City Alaska via St Michael August Tith The importance of this movement to send United States troops to the Interior of Alaska cannot be overestimated The Alaskan boundary dispute has already assumed a more important standing than ever before and It Is evident that the au SA JEAydSCO pHROmiEEEf frHPKESl 17 trtUea at Washington have at last awakened to a reallxaUon of the fact that the purchase toi jUaska Included more than Jajaere CeidMcaand aeoioayoX seaiav i TheSomtoidn Government ieVwMa IVtlU fAlhi VlMlflunlin tt imA kt rold It beabd mounted police patrolling Uieboundary since a year ago last spring and has also kept a party of surveyors to this desolate territory for the suoDosed Wpose of not only surveying the boun aary lines but to get Information which will assist Enriand in her rsthsr 1st Claim 16 good sUferAliski lnclndlng joneau and the wonderful Mulr glacier It the United States allows Erbmda vlaim will give her control of the route to the interior by way of Juneau Passage has been secured for the tnlted States officers and their men on the North American Transportation and Trading Companys steamer Cleveland which leaves Seattleon August Sth The Dominion Government is to send seventy five additional mdiinted notice the Klondike there being twenty five there now The men wUJ leave Victoria on a Pacific Coast Steamshto Company boat In a few days They will go to from uyea traveling light retting provisions mejr eijj iawsonr UIOR TURNS HfR TO Continued from Pare times the routes of the Hudson Bay Companys trading posts and at other times traversing an entirely unknown country traveled by way of the portage from the Mackenzie to the Porcupine river the Rampart House and old Fort Yukon and then up the river as far as Fort Selkirk Even in those days before Schwatka made his trip down the Tukon In 188 there were miners and prospectors in the country Most of these were old Hudson Bay Company men who had gone in by way of the companys routes from the east Some of these men have been in the country for twenty five and thirty years Captain MacLyon was with Schwatka on his trip down the Tukon in 1SSS and for several years prior to coming to San Francisco about a year ago was engaged in piloting Steamboats on the Tukon with headquarters at Forty Mile He does not think the dangers from snowstorms or the Chilcoot pass are nearly great as has been stated and as he has crossed the pass a number of times and at various seasons of the year he thinks he ought to know The drawback to the overland route at this time of the year he says is that people leaving San Francisco now If they are delayed in procuring boats after crossing the pass may find the river Icebound before they get to the mining regions The last two sea sons the cold has not set in until unusu auy late out there is no assurance that it will be late this season In fact the contrary is to be expected Experienced men can make the trip from Lake Bennett to the mining regions In eleven or twelve days but parties going over without guides or some one who has made the trip before are likely to take thirty five or forty days to the Journey In that event they are likely to find the river frozen be fore they reach their destination THE RUSH TO THE GOLD FIELDS CONTINUES SEATTLE Wash July 27 Ratlway and steamship Lines centering in Seattle as well as all the hotels are crowded to their fullest capacity wtth travelers most of whom are headed for the Klondike Every steamer and tugboat in the Sound that can be of any use has been put on to accommodate the rush of passengers and freight to Alaska The railways report trains are coming In from the East with provisions hardware and clothing for the Tukoners Many of the supplies are com i lng by express so great is the demand for the goods I None of the transportation companies organised in the first flush of the Klon dyke excitement are having any difficulty in getting passengers All steamship of flees running lines to Alaska have kxtn crowded all day The steamship City of Topeka will sail to morrow morning from Seattle with 210 passengers She goes only as far as Juneau whence a majority of the passengers will branch out for the mines The steamer Islander will sail to morrow from Victoria for Dyea with over TXj pas sengers Nearly all those going on Islander are from Seatte The next vessel stalling from Seattle for Dyea will be the steamer Rosalie char tered last Saturday for two trips Al ready the 130 passengers allowed by the inspectors have been booked for the Ro salie and twenty more are hanging arx lously about the office awaiting the chance of some one dropping cut at the last mo ment The steamer Edith chartered by the same parties and also schedultd to tail July Slet will take north sixty horses at 23 SO a head So great Is the rush to take horss to Dyea that Caine will send north the steamer Rapid Transit leaving Seattle August 1st She can accommodate 160 horses and at the present rate will be qOOOOOOoqq AO vc 9066066 CaptiffP Henry Ray WHcrls to Command theiWcvjMilIlary Post 1 1 Vs eeVaeerrVe ess oeoVeo Vss Veeeo Vsset Vj i vsifJDjErLi is jypttui firER THES JlIlBSf The Fees She Will Make Them Pay Upon the Goods They Take to the Klondyke The Canadian Government besides demanding royalties on the gold output from the new diggtar and taking every other claim to any district will make the miner pay heavily upon anything he takes Into the country The Ottawa authorities have already sent officials to the north with Instructions to collect duties and to use force If necessary to do so These are the rates the people now flocking to the district will have to pay on their roods according to the Port Town send Call Shovels and spades picks etc 25 per cent Horses 20 per cent Axes hatchets and adzes 23 per cent Baking powder cents per pound Bed comforters X2H per cent Blankets cents per pound and 25 per cent Boats and ships sails 25 per cent Rubber boots 25 per cent Boots and shoes 25 per cent Breadstuffs viz grain flour and meal of all kinds 20 per cent Butter 4 cents per pound Candles 28 per cent Cartridges and ammunition 30 per cent Cheese 2 cents per pound Cigars and cigarettes 52 par pound and it per cent Clothing Socks 10 cents per dozen pairs and 35 per cent Knitted goods of every description 35 per cent Ready made partially of wool 30 per cent Waterproof clothing 35 per cent Coffee condensed SO per cent roasted 2 cents per pound and 10 per cent substitutes 2 cents per pound extracts 3 cents per pound Condensed milk 3 cents per pound Cotton knitted goods 35 per cent Crowbars 25 per cent Cutlery 85 per cent Dogs 20 percent Drugs 20 per cent Duck from 20 to 30 per cent Earthenware 20 per cent Edre tools 35 per cent Fire arms 20 per cent Fishhooks and lines 25 per cent Flour wheati 7 cents per barrel rye 50 cents per barrel Fruits dried 25 per cent Fruits prunes raisins currants 1 cent per pound Fruits JeQies jams preserves 3 cents per pound Fur caps muffs capes coats 2 percent Furniture 30 per cent Galvanised iron or tinware 39 per cent duns 20 per cent Hardware J2H per cent Harness and saddlery 30 per cent Jerseys knitted 25 per cent Lard 2 cents per pound Linen clothing 32H per cent Maps and charts 20 per cent Meats canned 25 per cent In barrel 2 cents per pound Oatmeal 30 per cent Oiled cloth 20 per cent Pipes 35 per cent Pork in barrel 2 cents a pound Potatoes 15 cent a bushel Potted meats 25 per cent Powder mining and blasting 2 cents a pound Rice lk cents a pound Sacks or bags 20 per cent Sawmills portable 30 per cent Sugar 100 cents a pound Surgical Instruments 15 per cent Tents 324 per cenw Tobacco 42 cents per pound and 12 per cent comprise pari of the new router Tha dan geTOusTVhlte Horse rapids and tha whlrl podts of Miles canyon wfll eliminated yiCOCVintCBxCTnryzIAable grant srom uovavn states uai www oaa been subscribed for the construction of the Casaiar Central Railway to ths Casslar district in the northern part vof British ase of 7o6o acres of land and tb right to aU minerals including gold and silver found therein Parties connected with Transvaal mining enterprises are behind the coapany REPORTED LOSS OF KLONDYKE SUPPLIES TACOUA Wash July 2T A special to the Ledger from Port Townsend says British VIce Consul Klocker received to the last mall a private communication from a friend at Sitka Alaska which brings the startling and deplorable information that according to a rumor in dr eolation to Alaskas capital city one of the suamers bound for ths Klondyka country carrying supplies had been totally wrecked Beyond this plain statement the latter brought no particulars and since Its receipt speculation has been rife as to the identity of the unfortunate craft MINING LAWS FOR KLONDYKE DISTRICT VANCOUVER fBC July JJ Cllftord Bifton Dominion Minister of the Interior baa wired here that It Is not the intention of the Dominion Government to make the mining laws of British Columbia applica ble to the Tukon Special regulations applying to that district which have been csreiuiry revjsea oy Burveyor ugime wtu be administered by the staff on the ground Further amendments to the regulations win be made Miners will have to deal with the Dominion officials stationed on the Tukon CALIF0RNIANS WHO WANT KLONDYKE GOLD filled by to morrow night The charge on the Rapid Transit CO a head The steamer Cleveland chartered for one trip to St Michael by the North American Transportation and Trading Company wiU arrive at Seattle to morrow morning from San Francisco and begin loading preparatory to sailing on August Sih This will be the lait vessel on which tickets will be soid from here to Klon dyke via St Michael unless some new steamship company springs Into exist ene The river has frosen up as early as September 1st though usually the cold season begins in October The steamer Portland of the same company will return and leave Seattle again on September 10th carrying stores and provisions This will be tod late for passengers to get up the ukon river and it is not expected that any wilt apply for passage The Al Ki sailing for Dyea on August Id carries about 1M people Her accommodations are all sold The big steam collier Willamette sailing for Dyea on August 3d from Seattle has already over oo tickets sold It Is hoped to take in all TOO people on the Willamette most of them second class VICTORIA July ZT Seventy five miners outfits arrived from the Sound this morning for shipment Alaska on the Islander which sails to morrow The cwners of these outfits will arrive to mor row morning and will be met at the wharf by customs officers and compelled to pay duty on heir goods It Is considered better to collect the duty here than to cause the miners to be delayed at Dyea and the customs stations along the route where new officers will not be in as good position to handle the rush as will the experienced officers here Four provincial officers will go to Dyea on the Islander In charge of Officer Beuan to help the customs officers who go up with them to collect duties on the outfits of American miners MORE WARNING WORDS FOR GOLD SEEKERS Urged by Experience Wait Till Spring Dlfflcnltlea Tolnted Oat SEATTLE Wash July 27 In an In terview to night Turner who spent eleven years in Alaska and the Arctic regions in the employ of the Government gave some information and advice that intending prospectors might do well to heed He said It is about time to call a halt on this mad rush to the Klondyke gold fields Hundreds of men are going as far as they can relying on others to help them That help Will be meager enough and scores will certainly endure hardships that death alone will relieve The transportation companies cannot possibly accommodate the number going by way of St Michael The small river steamers will not afford room for one third the number going by that route The provisions wIB have to be furnished by the transportation companies and two thirds of the passengers will board at St Michael or along the Yukon and they wfll not see Dawson City until next spring Many of those who go by way of Dyea will be compelled to winter at the headwaters of the Tukon The spring is far the better time to make the Journey with the crust of the snon and lengthening days while now swamps hills and rough roads with Increasing cold and liability of frosen streams will be matters to convince those who will not heed them until brought face to face wtth these obstacles No person should go there with less than 44 to pounds of provisions for each day he expects tb remain to the country The actual food supply for each person would amount to fully 1800 pounds Highly carbonaceous food should predominate stimulants of alcoholic character should be arolded One pound of tea is equal to seven pounds of coffee for drink lng purposes Abundance of cranberries may be procured put to water and allowed to freese a chunk can be broken off thawed and cooked Blueberries are also abundant My advice watt until March 1398 and more will be accomplished with half the trouble and a minimum of ex pense Such nnnearo or scnemes were never brought to light as are now flaunted before tb public The idea of a floating hotel to winter to the vicinity of the Yukons mouth could tKtpossibly emanate from the brain of other than a town lot boomer from the prairies of JCanias who never rtad of sea ice or felt the winter storms that obtain at St MlchaeL Some one should strive to build a wagon minion Government will gladly give Its oonsent to such an enterprise Our own Government should be asked to appropriate a sufficient sum for an immediate preliminary survey and when the money is ready the work can progress throughout the winter and be finished by the end of April lfflg TREAT THE TRIP AS A SUMMER OUTING SEATTLE fWash July Jones who is Klondyke bound on the Mexico which left here 8unday sends a letter back He says every berth in every stateroom is occupied and every 2xf feet space on the floors of the saloons is utilised by the passengers Judging from their appearance and outfits a great many seem to look upon the undertaking more as a summer outing than a trip to the Arctic circle He thinks many will fall by the wayside and will glre up the contest before getting over the divide On board is the newly appointed Collector of Customs Ivy of Oregon He has choseii Charles Smith of the same city as chief special deputy the place being worth tlSnO a year PACK TEAMS AT WORK IN WHITE PASS VICTORIA July 27 John Es colme of the British Tukon Chartered Company returned to this city on the steamer City of Topeka He has been over the White Pas trail which has Just been opened up by his company and reports that the trail Is now open for horses and packers are taking goods through from Skagawsy bay to Foochal lake from salt water A large number of packers each having many horses are packing on their own account and they wiH be able to handle considerable freight These men hare entered into an agreement not to ex reed 15 cents a pound but It will be very difficult to control these charges owing to the enormous rust of traffic that Is dally going over at the present jime It is a very pktoresque sight Mr Es colme says to see these pack trains surt Ing over the pass heavily laden with out fits and provisions of eager miners who walk along the trail behind the pack trains Travel wfll be much easier he says in winter when the lakes will be frosen over solid His company proposes to build a wagon road over the trail which they have Just opened and they win petition the lro vtncial Government for aid in building the roa Afterward they Intend building three or four steamers perhaps ftvs to ply on the upper and lower water of the Lewis and Tukon rivers When the arrangements are completed travel during the spring and summer months will be much better as then the miner can leave Victoria and go to Skagaway bay by steamer from there he can have his outfit and provisions carried by wagon over the White Pass to fresh water where he will be able to meet the steamers of the British Tukon Chartered Company These steamers win in all probability be built and to service in time for the rush of travel expected next summer Mr Escolme says that no fears need be entertained as far as famine or dearth of provisions among the miners during next winter ts concerned for his company has arranged to send to large quantities They also Intend establishing posts aQ along the route sb that returning miners can come out light all the way On the morning of July 20th a party of fifty miners started in over whites pass FOR A RAILROAD TO THE YUKON VALLEY SEATTLE Wash July 27 George Garside a well known engineer formerly to the employ of the Government has recently completed the survey of sixty two miles of raQoad runntor rem Skagaway bay over the White pass to Lake Tagish and thence to the upper H6otalinoua river He is employed by the British American Transportation Company said to be amply supplied with funds with whieh ceapleuAhetundertaklngV It la saidxhat work win begin in the spring of IBS The new rouUwffl be MO miles longer than that at present fojlowed or mtners rotor Into the Tukon basin overland from Dresv Kim steamers are to be used tm tne xuxon ana Hootaimnua nrrs fm recover Dyea pass to the lakes The Dot Dawson City and on the lakes wtaa win STOCKTON July The gold fever which has been spreading to this State since the wonderful discoveries at Klon dyke were first reported has caused an organisation to be formed In this city which will be known as the Stockton Alaska Mining and Commercial Company Tardley and Quixenberry two local business men are at the head of the company and have associated with them Captain Rldeout of the steamer Alvlso and they propose to go Into business in the Klondyke fields on an extensive scale An optional charter of the steamer Scotia has been made She win be loaded and started before the 10th of next month The company proposes to take up a party of thirty five miners and prospectors and already has applications for nearly that many berths For XSOO in cash the company proposes to land the miner at Dawson City and furnish him wlih rations for a year or for 3300 will land the miner at the same place with 1000 pounds of baggage A tug purchased here will be loaded on the steamer and launched at St MlchaeL Lumber will also be carried and at St Michael flat bottomed boats will be built in which to tow the party and merchandise up the Tukon After the first trip the steamer will be used on the line between Vancenver end St Michael to carry provisions and merchandise for the tug and flatboats to take up the Tukon as soon as the river opens next spring FRESNO July The report that a second Klondyka gold company has been formed in this county is without foundation The original Klondyke Co operative Gold Mining Company of this county Incorporated some days ago held a meeting yesterday and elected the following offl cers President A Clark vice presidentpresident Haber secretary ghand Un treasurer Shepherd In a few days the company will send three experienced and trustworthy miners to the Klondyke diggings Reese at one time a candidate for election to the Assembly will make another trip to Alaska There will be no rush from this county to the gold fields WILL LOCATE CLAIMS FOR BERKELEYITES metirjjJjr sesJed Theresa be ppe to the north and kept for months or tl3 riadr or nsa -A company opeuKLiar miiw and is emptying abemtrtwentjr workmen st present but wm procaDiy pui wsa additional force nexf weekivT Asblpment Is being preparedrot the next jteaaer north ThJocalflmvnaaDlrcontrst with one of the Alaska companies to furnish desiccated potatoes and nloney Several large purchases of these vegetables have been made from farmers QUICK WORK OF THE GOLD COMMISSIONER SEATTLE WashO July 27 lntha rnsh of news about the wonderful gold discoveries In the Klondyke there hs bees men Hon made once to a while of the gold commissioner but a yet the public Is not fully informed about this Important personage It Is Indeed a hard matter ftr people la the TJnlted States to think of disputes Involving large wealth being sottled promptly and that settlement patting an end to all quibbling According to reports from the Klondyke the Ood Commissioner wields a power that fairly astonishing to this that he Helens to cases Involving the ownership to gold claims and renders his decision promptly If there has not been some big mistake to the reports his decision is final and the adjustment be announces becomes the law by which all interested parties must abide A case to direct line ts that of Ran Crawford formerly clerk of the Munlcl 1 pal Court to this city A year ago Micnaei Keller a well known Seattle pioneer went to the Klondyke with his son Father and eon located several claims In different creeks with the understanding that they woud share the proceeds ecrually The elder Kefley decided to return to Seattle last spring and left his son on the claim last located It was wcat was known as No 50 below Discovery on Bonansa creek At that time the Klondyke was not known to be a bed of glittering gold iplS British Camp Me CMlrai nana 5 ST 4i i SEVERAL SOLDIERS WOUNDED FAXATICS RETREAT BEPORE TsBsief CAVALRT ft Repulsed After a sharv Eaa agemeai 4d ly liie Had Mollah Special Dispatches to the Chronicle LONDOX July 27 A special freai Simla says a large body of trfbesmesmed an attack last night on Camp Melaind in I the Chltrat in the tight that asuei Private Leonard Manler ottbeFortr nfU Diuuiua jtitmi layiorwereaangirous i ly wounded and Major Herbert andXlrt tenant watting of the engineer core verely hurt The cavalry Is now punaiig the enemy who retreated thiamornirg A later dispatch from Simla says thj st 1 tacking forces comprised IfoO tribesscs under the leadership of a man knowias Mad Mollah The fighting was very ahirjC Re enforcements are being pushed kK ward to the scene of the conflict IONDON July 2S The Times t2s morning prints a dispatch from aim Kelley was anxious return to the hfch says yet another proof is grrenTf gold fields but desired to raise money in TZ wmcn order to ave his family to comfortable TonJLth WMt fronUr torr i si curious as Showing how emirH gamereo ana now read iney respona to tne appeal of fankti BERKELEY July ZT The Berkeley Klondyke Company of twenty men decided this evening to send one of their number to thanorthern gold fields to prospect daring the winter Berry one sf the organisers of th company was selected to go In advance of the others He will leave Immediately The plan is for Berry to locate good claims and familiarise himself wtth the country so that no time will be Jost when the main party arrives Berry Is a member of the tailoring firm of Mikkelson A Berry and Is an athlete of some ability He is con fident tnat he win be successful Hansford Griffith suited to night that the company would probably secure tht schooner Golden Gate of San Francisco which leaves for Dawson City February 15th DRIED VEGETABLES FOR YUKON TRADE SAN JOSE July 27 The Klondyke ex citement is giving a stimulus to business here in various lines particularly In the demand for dried vegetables The local evaporating company is delured with orders for dried vegetables Not long ago me company received an oroer for twen jrt packed for shipment north The order wu filled and nothing more in this line was expected ror uiis season at least Now however the company has orders not only for potatoes but an kinds ct staple vegetables which the company can ory Tne oraer is limited only by in companys capacity for it says to rush everything forward Just as fast and to Just as great quantities as possible The arw sxarrea up Saturday with all the hanos that could be procured and still there Is a demand for more laborers ivutoes onions carrots and string beans are being purchased or contracted for now and the company is In the market to buy many torsi of summer squash So far the company has nq difficulty to pro cere the potatoes and onions desired but carrots are mx so aounoant and many string beans and emtash are needed The fruit season has opened and the canneries and driers are running As al result there is a scarcity of labor something which has not existed for five years past Manager Peniman said this afternoon Tea we nave some large orders for dried I vegetables especially potatoes onions land carrots with a smaller demand To string beans and summer squash Our orders are so Urge that we are anxlousto nm to our rail capacity but Hate not been able to do so yet because we can not ret the hands There an unusual demand for labor of this class and while we iare eftertng good wages we nave not been able to secure all we heed The process followed to drying the rtf taoes is aimcst ir not exactly the same as followed to drying fruit The potatoes are peeled and sliced and then they go through an evaporator The other vege taosee are ireatea in tne same way STOCKTON July 2T The Ktoudyke gold fields hare opened a new Industry in this elty which is giving employment to a number Of persons It is the nrenaratlan ofrpoutoes and onions for shipment to Alaska The process is simple yet unique The egeublee are peeled svmj dried or desiccated farter the style of the cocoa nut then shipped to San Francisco where they are placed to large Ua cam and her circumstances and proposed to sell him a half Interest In his claims for tlOOQ Crawford mortgaged his property disposed of his Jewelry end taking In some friends wtth him got enough money to pay Kelley tlOOO Crawford went to the Klondyke last spring and to his dismay found that young Kelley not knowing what his father had done hid sold the Bonanza claim to an English syndicate for 110000 When the eider Kel ley found out what had taken pce he said that Crawford had made his purchase in good faith and that his rights must be protected The affair was referred to the Gold Commissioner who decided that Crawford and his associates were to have half of i was advancing toward Malakand JA asm Since the Chitral campaign ended A the Bwat valley has been perfectlvTii i fuL trade has developed and the Swells 1 unc ucij wmcumj ana nave shown Eft sign of disaffection On Monday however without the least 4i warning the whole population underwent ti a sudden change The flrat nw reached Malakand was that toe disturb HI i mans near ChaZ sr onup ji jew nours utter news was received that the Mollah a priest who is well known locally gathered a force of armed men raising the cry of holy war in ine evening was reported that he preparations were made to send iBtm In the morning to disperse ths gathering imc uiuu levies who neo as tseXOuah the claim but that they must pay to the English syndicate X1500 out of their first clean up while the KeUeys should return to the English syndicate J500O or half the advanced reported that Malakand wotii original psrenue pnc pai a oy mem 10 young Kelley This decision was accepted by all parties without a murmur and that is how a tange was settled In a day that would have been a source of endless litigation in the United States Miners say that Crawfords claim is worth between 1100000 and 2300000 CHICAGO MEN WHO WILL GO TO KLONDYKE CHICAGO July 27 A party of men ho wish to try the Klondyke goid cure will leave Chicago on a special train next Saturday night en route for the northern gold fields There will be ISO In the party The special train on which the party win travel will run directly through to San Francisco There the gold hunters will remain three days to purchasa mining supplies The party win then ship for St Michael en a special steamer The trip will occupy fourteen days Three steam launches will be taken to transport up the Tukon to the mouth of the Klondyke river Thl trip It la believed will require fourteen days Each man may take 900 pounds of baggage from San Francisco but only a portion of this win be token up the river with the party When the Klondyke is reached the steam launches will be moored in winter quarter The tourists will lire aboard them untn the spring begins to break An effort will be made to complete the trip from Chicago to the Klondyke within thirty days KLONDYKE STOCKS TO BE LISTED IN WALL STREET be attacked at 2 oclock in the mnrsts The camp was alert but the attack was delivered at 1130 at night An attempt was made to surprise the camp and a flgbi ensued which resulted to the tribesmen being repulsed Nothing ts feared now but that the report of the rising spreading rapidly may stimulate the tribesmen to attack the expedition to the Tochi valley MORE F1GHTISG IX AFRICA British Urea Lost la Contest Wit Xatlves LONDON July J7 A dispatch has beeV received at the Colonial Office dated Fort Baflsbury South Africa July 28th aa nounctof that a combined movement the Salisbury police and the hussars suited to the capture of the Maahlngws bos kraal at Fbrt 24Artto neatHartlerL on uaiuraay me Gisaatclr iava tM fighting continues Tfm Ttrjtl ih lusssf i were one sailed ana Vliwounaedvn is impoBsioie to estimate tne losses of tWS enemy ViiSr In a previous engagement which toekJf place twenty mile from thelCashlngoor oos araai me nussars lost one kined eMT another wounded NEW YORK July 17 At a largely at tended meeting of the New ToTk Mining LfjL iv vimj ii mm ucuura 10 mail extra call of stocks to the list In the future there will be three calls Instead of two the first at 1815 A second al ir15 and the third and last at BEPORTED AFRICA MASSACRE Portaansese Garrlsva Said to Have Been Ambushed LONDON July 3 The Dally Msfrs Cape Town correspondent says ho news has reached Delagoa bay of the expedltica oy governor Aiouquerque or uoxain bique to relieve Chamtsootu fort It IS rumored that the garrison while pursuing tne retreating rebels were caught in ambush and massacred The whole of Oaxaland the correspondent says Is seething with rebellion and tne oriuguese forces are few and in 1 Ja ct te ev th ca of sfu lo Ji kc The Brastllan sltaatloa LONDON July ZZ The Times publishes a dispatch from Rio de Janeiro saying that The Klondyke gold erase was freely dls i I VT bUlLUlehnrabnLifn viYlaP birwaTunCgrvSoPr Jubuant over the renewed feeling of inter menu before making an attack upon the esi iu me mining worm it is promised main position or tne rebels at canudos that to the future Klondyke mines will be listed on the Exchange The officials will watch for fly by night companies and no stock win be listed unless the officers are satisfied as to the standing of the officials GOOD STRIKE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA VICTORIA July 27 Vlctoria has got the mining fever bad It has been epidemic here since the first news of the rich discoveries in the CTnnrivfra nivn t1i7i ton P01108 t0 dried andj reached the city but became more Infec tious to day when known as Chllllwack A Wood better Wood until a few HUCEIXAKEOrx 4 Waste of Vital Force IN MEN HAS DRAINED THS gWEETXESS from millions of lives It unfits meai foe business or pleasure and makes tlf kotbsese ta thane wha auffee finiw it if rod sffili fat years ago a farm laborer arrived from stroaa in mind and bodrt If too would throw a Northern British Columbia with turn in of wretchedness teased by rartx 1 WUD abuse and the mistakes of toot life let as ss 5 Th one stxtn or Piato to you how It can be done la nalcresews the clean up of a hydraulic proposition to way by properly applied ELECTBICrTT i me yjcinuy oi Liorne creek a trfbutarr of tae essence oi vital loree asa wnea nr 3 tun Ml mi uj un OAASB ft vw tbe Skeena river As early as ISO there was a rush to this district but it was never prospected property the hard winters and difficulty of getting In provisions scaring oft the miners Again ten years ago a number of men went up but like the pioneers otthe sixties they were afraid of the country Two years ago Wood and three other men went up and prospected the country thoroughly They discovered the old bed of Lome creek and with crude tools which they had took out IIOOO each Thl they kept auiet and last year they returned and spent the winter to bunding sluices etc They were at work for less than three months and to that time they secured SttM Woods having one sixth interest to the claim got tisoo They IntendputtteT to some hydraulic machinery and If the old bed continues to pan outes It did dur lrvr the three months they were at work without machinery they have one of the btggest things tovthe province Paelfle Coast Peastons WASHINGTON July zfensioo have beta avaatsd to mtlnui of tfcsf PacUc Coast as follows Calltorala Orlglaat Albert Akm Oleander Aaron Fredericks aa Bernardino Issue lsaeGDtiviilaBursoar Wasninrton Increase Andrew Baker He Oregao Orlginai John san pp Alba Original widow Mary Ana Orwtg Mlst r5 Idaho Orlgiaal Edward HMun soldiers HnDwVAdssW cii vtiBeiiW AKX ARBOR CMIchi auiy S7 Jidge Thcmas Cooicy has been taken to a sanitarium atFllntMloh Judge Cooleys break down can be saidtb date from the hob he resigned from the Interstate Com merceCoarmlsstontonst There but little hope of his recovery his mad hav PC almost entirely left hia lT TRIC BELT It wfll renew vtmr IS weakened runctlons and restore manhood DR SANDEN ELECTRIC BELT With Improved Electric Bospensory cures Nerross I Debility Lame Back Loss nT Memory C06 luston or ideas Reomatism and uaav3i troubles restores vital power stops eUei jfl natorai waste etc iqu zest us comas orrs 31 forfeit IS00O rThet I got your Belt I was suffering frees Lost Manhood steepfessaerssd tndigestlca had losses and consUnatloti Ths Belt has cv Urery cured me and made me a strong mas aotuieb Bartimsim azXcPtee street sea Francisco A pocket edition et the celebrated eiectrs medical work THBEE CLASSES OF METf Illustrated Is sent free brmsIL spoo aroJk Uon EVERT TOUNO MDDLE AGEP OX OLD MAN suffering the sbattst weaioess mitmntA TmA tf r4tt thflv TlBTj SLKJi AND 8PEEDT WAT TO REGAIN 8TREN0TB AND EALTHTVHEX EVEBTTHINOr S3 UAS FAILED Double power Etectric En peneory free wtth an Belts tCall or address fAXDEX ELECTRIC CO G3Z Market strsetopposlta Palace Hotel rraactsco Cat OOce hours A ts 8uadar 10 to Consultatioas tsS and invited Los Angeles caceaM Broadway Tortland Or 235 WsiWftftea street DenTer CokS gtXteentB Strew rBSssWffejSSSSslH BSsHrirrBBBBBSW SSBBBr 111 SSSsr yv iS Srmii fejatiHf fa rWit.