, post. tralian Premier, visited his native city | the express. purpose of - assaili; _of Liverpool recently, and, speaking at | y belplens people« oryof* ked : © summer and autumn 1 . SNF THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1908. EE --------------------------------------------_---------------------- A GOLD DISCOVERY, sows or mers | . iscovery of the Rich Coolgardie--Un- | RICHNESS OF MACKENZIE successful Prospectors' Find. { VER {| In the history of gold-digging and RI REGION. "gold finding many 4 romantic and : {tragic story is 0 be found. Few of | Baid to Be the Greatest "Gold these stories, however, possess more | Diggings in the World--The Eyatast Shan thas of bok he fa mous | Trip of T. O, Oliver Described. tralia. were discovered in 1892-mines | A > sspector named | Which have since yielded millions of | 7.0, 'Oliver, who 'recently returned | PeSids worth of eid. Luck played a from four years of broapecting on thé | Steal _part in the discovery, bat it] ckenzie, Peace and Le Lard rivers, . reward of perseverance, i during which time he crossed the Bar- n April, 1892, two Victorian min | ren Lands to the first cache of the jo Higwd Bayley und For ra | Franklin expedition brings news of fon or the northeast of Australia, but gold discoveries which he says sur- | Saas Sruversing 250 miles they lost] the early finds in the Klondike. | ielt horses and had to tarn back. | e will head a party that will leave | a lipped with fresh horses, they start | Seattle to return to these discoveries. | ©1 So Jain on what proved to be a long, { When seen by reporters Mr. Oliver lous utile journey, for once | said: "The greatest gold diggings in Ria 'hey wese forced to turn back-- | the world are' in the Mackenzie river this time for want of water. The | country. The strike at Herschel is third attempt won them fame and land is one of the biggest discoveries ane, 3 { of recent years, but the richest fields | First they found that which to them | will be found in the Barren Lands | Wa8 more precious than gold --namely, near Oreat Blave Lake, I have pros- | Water, They found a natural well, pedted for gold since I was fifteen | Knows te the scattered tribes of that years-old and { have been in all of iar way country as "Cool die. the best known mining cam urin, camp beside the well | know z pa Shey turned their horses out to feed | and started i that time, including two ygare spent hn Su in the Klondike, but the Mackenzie ospecting "ovumtey" surpasses. all around. 'Ford picked up a half ounce | river coun surpasses all of the b Places IY ever been discovered. | 2 t and before night they had | "The wonders of this wild region red In over twent will astound the world when it be- | §9ld. Two or three weeks more sur- comes known. This year there will | face prospecting was rewarded 'with be a big rush into this country, but [ver two hundred ounces. By this | time food supplies had given out, 50 | keeping their jown counsel concern- | ing their discgveries, they returned | Yo civilization, laid in a fresh stock | of provisions back to | thels EI Dorado, ithin a few days of their return hey fed upon the reef that made rdie. Beginning with al slug" we 50 ounces, they pick- | ed out from a of that reef in a | pt hocze upw of 500 ounces of . yley, carrying 554 ounces of | gold, journeyed back to the nearest | mining town, exhibited his find to | the mining warden, put in a im | for a lease of the land on which this | marvelous fincovery had been made | and hurried off to field again with a party that numbered 150 men, be- | sides | it will be larger next year rod the year following. "The country is extremely difficult | to prospect, and this is all that has revented the great gold disgbveries fore. I went into this coubiry in A907, by way of Peace river, striking that stream at Peace river crossing. We went down the Peace river in boats about 700 miles to Vermilion falls, and from there on to Fort Smith, an old Hudson Bay trading The only difficult part of the river to navigate was sixteen miles before reaching Fort Smith, which we wese forced to portage on account of the rapids. Prom this point it is 200 miles to Great Slave lake. On Great Blave lake, thirty miles from Peace river, is Salt river. We prospected up this stream thirty miles and found salt beds where we were able to dig 'out sufficient salt to cure a winter's supply of fish, "We went up the Great Slave lake in a 24-foot birch bark canoe, a three weeks' journey t% a stream the In. dians call Copper river and then struck across the Barren Lands, which the Indians call Liftle Sticks, because there is no timber. We went across {bis country until we reached what ® believed to be the first cache of the Fanklin expedition, about 1,000 miles from the nearest Hudson Ba trading post. This trip we made wit coaches and horses and all the paraphernalia of prospecting and | camping. In their wake in course of | time came gold-seekers in hundreds | and thousands. From Bayley and | Ford's mine there was taken in the | first nine years of its history 134,000 | ounces of gold, valued at $2,650,000. | Almost as sensational as Coolgardie | were the Londonderry and Wealth of | Nations "finds." Londondé was discovered by a party of unsue- | cessful pros; rs on their way back | to Coolgardie. Two of them picked | up some tich gold bearing specimens. | | After a brief search the outcrop of a | dog teams. In crossing to the old | reef was exposed, from which in the | eache we were foreed to carry what | course of a few days they took out | fuel we needed for cooking purposes, | from 4,000 to 5,000 ounces of gold. only using enough to boil a pot of | From the cap of the Wealth of N. tea and to cook a little meat. Bome- | tions reef gold to the value of §1, times we would find a little wood and | 000 was secured in a few days, replenish the stock, but there is very FOOTPADS IN:LONDON. little that ean be used for fuel after Franklin cache is reached." { leaving the Copper river until the Gangs cof Robbers. Attack i Residents The Future of Canada. In his address at the annual dinner of the Canada Club at New York, Chiet Justice Longley of Nova Scotia expressed the view that Canada was not destined to remain a portion of the British Empire. He also flung defi- ance at the United States. His clos- ing sentences, which did not get in the press reports, were as follows: "Aggression from our big neighbor, I dismiss as unworthy of considera- tion, but if, by any such mischance, power me vested in the United States in any body of men so as to attempt to infringe Canada's rights and liberties, I can only say that there ia some good stufl on the other side of the line, and when Canada has 15.- 000,000 people she will not be averse to challenging the issue with all the spirit of a proud and independent race." Right Hon. James Rryce, British | ambassador at Washington, whe fol- lowed, without alluding to Judge Yongley by name, administered a re- buke to the opinion exprevged by Judge Longley. ruffians are infesting | n and are making | for respectable' people. At 1, and sometimes even intthe Jot fay. omen, children and ocensionally men have been: mol and 7obbed; ted Cases have been reported. in. which eo have Jeet Suiidenly attacked ers, who are, in fact, nothi but footpads, and, taken by surprise | in Sheer self-defence paid tribute to | these" hooligans of the road. A resi-| den Yin the Upper Richmond road, | Putney, was unexpectedly, faced by a couple , of ruffians who' demanded money, While he was remonstrating | with them some one flicked him over | the eyes with what he describes "light "twig"* He tamed quickly | around, but was then seized ™ the other two, while the man behind" pin- | ned hie arms to his side. His wl rh were rifled and when they had taken | \all hé'had his assailants' fled. { i No Loy For the Colonies. | A ERNE oF aotigam. mast of them Mr. Thomas Price, the South Aus: | Gerrattlane, haunt the Common for and | : ack- | m hy . i A police. official* assured" of news. paper man recently that, though' the | Contmon 'is well patrolled, it will not | be secure until the general public | unites: with the police in suppressing | fia latests development - of. hooligan. sm. * { "L think," he said, "that the cul- Jai are some of Mr. Galdstone's re- eased convieta, and they ought to be | back in prison. Meanwhile a bold | . front and a stout ash-stickywill prove | Some people, he remarked with a! a wholesome corrective." i smile, would regard it asa little "infra | 1 dig. for a Premier to come here with Hogt Wave In Melk . a pound of butter in one ket, a : bushel of wheat nearby, and a bottle] The recent heat wave in Melbourne | of wine sticking out of the back, but | broke all records even. fi 1 he didn't mind, for he was advertising | city, he i South Australia. Want Canada's Weather Reports. W. A. McKinnon, Canadian trade Saumissionier. at Bristol, haa Jorwand ed to the partment of Trade N Pe . } Commerce et Ollawa a suggestion A i i} hisation. The em from the Provision Trade Association a ohural country appen ora} the service kept of England that the Canadian Gov- i i- | installed, d ernment be induced to supply busi i uring 1 ep i clergyman who had ness men of Great Britain with regu. morning service as a uw Produce, Market, remarked : "There isn't much love for your eol- onies about you after all. If you can t butter a shilling a keg cheaper rom the prisons of Siberia, you will do 80 and leave Australia to take care of itsell™ He dwelt on the prospects of his ecuntry, which was seven and a half times as large as the British Isles, yet populated by only 400,000 people---con- siderably less than the population of ve over 30 years. About a hundred deaths | resulted from heat a oxy, and for | a time the peeple of Melbourne were ' ic-stricken by the dread of | lar weather reports during the spring, # SEASONS. v flannels, as he in place of the garments in in the broiling to the Town the heat. ' DO 0 LE he A Cruel Thought. p--If you refuse me I shall go out "hang myself to the lamp-post in g of you house. kiaw She--Now, George, you father + he - wouldn't have you hanging Hall The St. Aj Picton have exentsivn to Kingston ib nih oN we » Campoand" 4. WL Gib Rest " store, 1 5 Cross x shoag >» {ons carry jolly enough and lovable ounces of | | I { tion 'because it spells 'our horses, Short and Sweet make a a | Was hooked up we left the shepherd and 105, for | ie dog standing lonelily atthe camp been the 30 miles distant officiated in the sf. | ho. - *s /Churoh people of | -------- HOLIDAY IN ALBERTA ACROSS THE PRAIRIE ON A HAY WAGGON. | The Tale of An Expedition is Graphically Described--Night in a Rancher's Hut, It's haying time out upon Etsi-Kom ! Coulee! Our blue bend is forty-five | miles from everything but life and | love and skies and winda! There's a i richness and a rareness in feeling free to revel in such intoxicating things ! #for a whole fortnight--it's a big, wild, | luxurious sensation, that would smother one if he weren't on that | blessed wide prairie. i There are to be three hay wagons | g0, and the cavaleade forms in front of the village grocery, where we pack our last supplies. Before we cross the railway track, and while we are | still tamely in sight of heme, there is | time for you to be introduced to my | ipanions-in-arms (the "arms" be- ing hayforks). The two leading wag- characters, but they're scarcely with- in shouting distance, 80 at present you will meet only those of our di- vigion. Of primary rank i= Short Sarensen, who herds along the four | harnessed horses, the two saddle- ¥ and a straggling, erratic, little hérsikin. The leaders, Blaze and Nig, inclining to playfulness over the prospect of hay-hauling, and the heel- ers, Grace.and Beauty, resenting this playfulness on the part of the horses in front, Short has during these first miles only occasional opportunities of chipping in Sweet Clark, his boon cow-puneh- ing comrade (I may state neither Short nor Sweet sign those names to eourt documents), is a carolling, rol- licking man who will never recover from his chronic malady, boyishness ~forever with a snatch of a love song or a cosn melady on his tongue, or else a chocolate or cigarette be tween his teeth, just a roguish, eurly- headed, sparkling sort of fellow. Miss Clark is a bewitching, blue- sunbonoeted, demure thing to which you would entrust your purse or your friend or your soul. She has héavy, soft, eclove-colored hai great, seri- ous, eornflower-blue eyes, and gentle, love-speaking fingers, which ean pre- pare delectable dinners for ravenous haymakers withal That fluffy, "petite maiden seated gipsv-fashion at the side of the rack Kit Clark--dancer, rider, fiddler, ginger, coqueite, anything that is de- lightful. She has ed this expedi- mid-afternoon. tete-a-tetes with the haymakers while they eat the Ianches she carries, and moonlight flirtations as they return to camp from the couleeside. Wealthy companions, all, van will admit, with whom to amble aleng for hours over the serpentining trail, under the magic blue of skies so dazzlingly clear and endlessly wide. We establish ourselves in easy, lounging positions on the rolls of tent- eanvas, bedding and clothing. Before fairly losing sight of the town we dis- cover that it is noon (forty-one things had happened '0 delay our setting- out) and candy, pop-corn, currant cakes and the water jug are produced and stacked in the eentre of the crowd. Wo munch away as deliberately and meditatively as 80 many lazy squir- rels. Kit has been tenderly guarding a banjo and now she picks away upon it lovingly. One of the other men having come back to offer to drive is nest for themselves on the bed springs at the end of the wagon, and, fran- tically hugging each other, allow themselves to be strummed to sleep to the tunes of "Kerry Dances" and "Twickenham Ferry." When the boys waken they mount their saddle-horses apd lope off across the prairie in search of fresh water Wo lazily wateh the long, graceful bounds of the horses. through the flank-reaching grass. © The motion hints hauntingly of beautiful, pleas- ing, solemn pipe organ strains, or of strong, swinging lings from the grand- er poets. These horkes of the prairie seem altogether to Belong to the age of Homer and heroes and gods--they are so 'full of life and grace and strength. For a moment the riders halt outlined against the sunlight on the brow of a distant butte. then they vanish. The sun is an hour lower when they return. They ahnounce that they have descried a sheep-camp some miles ahead at Horse Ranch lake, where the teams may be out spanned while we prepare a meal Then they ride off again to warn the shepherd that ladies are to be enter- tained by him. . The herder, who had seen no human face for three weeks, received us with a sheepish, 'scared sort of welcome He produced generous quantities of "sour dough' bread and choice lamb, and the men prepared supper upon the grass while we girls rearranged our hair and bathed our burnt faces What a merry, informal meal we had! The sun was low down, the horses were cooling themselves standing in the lake, while away beyond on the hillside the sheep were peacefully grazing. When the horses had again been door and we pulled on still eastward, Behind us was all brightness as of the open portals of heaven--before us the curtains of night had already drooped. In the darkening blue-black sky the silent stars eame out, and then lower down at the horizons verge there flamed up the weird, hastly lights bf prairie fires. We uddled closed tq each other for com- panionship and quoted snatches of all poems we could reeall which fit- ted into such an eerie setting. Riding ever eastward, we watched a pale, hay-colored moon break her way through the clouds. bleaching the prairie grass and throwing a mystical softness, not to be called light, over all the evening. Then we sang, first rag-time, then .college-time, then church-time. The restiulness was brok- on all too soon o~jes from the leading wagons: "Here we are' Hur rah for the canyon! Prepare for the perpendicular. You behind, don't leave any gates « . After hme a serenade at the shack window, we girls were invited | sport is to be obtained. sons ducks and teal are to be | ing dingoes scrub where there were mallee hens, | put the dogs on their tracks and ean- | | ter after | sunset fly to water. QUEER AUSTRALIAN GAME. Nat of Kangaroo Tail. | ive Pheasants and Quails -- Soup | It is on the billabongs and creeks | of the back. country J shot, and in the ranges between the Mur ray and the Murrumbidgee rivers the to be found quite equal, In my opiniod, to any English pheasant. It is very shy and not easy fo obtain. I knew a man who kept a few bloodhounds for hunt He used to go into the them, The birds would sometimes rise in an open space in bring down a brace shooting from the saddle. Good duck shooting might be had at | the large water holes if it were pos-| sible to get near without being seen, | and in the sammer evenings excel | lent sport is obtainable by waiting for the bronsewinged pigeons, which at There is also a small quail, like the Egyptian, to be shot in New South Wales after har- vest. There they strip the wheat, ie., take merely the heads off with a stripping machine, leaving the straw. I have known half a dozen guns make a capital bag without dogs. The Australian game bird, however, is the nativg bustard, or "wild tur- key," as it's there called, although it 18 now very searce excepting in the extreme back country. At one time it was common enough in Vie- toria, though now rare in that state, but on the back blocks of New South Wales it was plentiful a few years ago. They were, nevertheless, difficult to stalk on foot, but, curiously enough, will allow one to drive quite within range, and I have seen many shot from a buggy toward the Darling riv- er. They arc capital table birds, of- ten larger than the biggest turkey one | could buy at an English Christmas | market. The flesh of the breast is brown and tastes like wild duck. Pro. perly cooked the Australian bustard has hardly its equal. Tt prefers arid plains, and I have shot them on the goldfields of Western Australia, where there is little or no water They must be able to fly great distances, for one never sees them about the country of West Australia in the hot weather _ Imported hares are very numerous in certain parts, and the rabbit is ubiquitous. I remember an Austra- lian squatter, who was ruined by rab- bits, saying that he had not much left, but he would be glad to sub scribe a pound toward a monument | to the idiot who introduced rabbits and foxes into Australia! Rabbit shooting is to be had almost any- where, and as they are trapped and poisoned by the hundred thousand perhaps they too may become extinct in time. No one who has not seen the rabbit warrens in the sandy back country of the Darlipg would credit the enormous number which exist there. I have passed miles of sand- hills at dusk which seemed absolute- ly alive with the vermin, as Austra- lians call them. This reminds me of an Englishman engaged to cook for the shearers on a back station, who by way of a treat made a rabbit pie for the men. dered for his pains. Australiin shear ers had not come, they said, to cat vermin! Twenty or thirty years ago the back country squatters, in order to destroy kangaroos, used to dig huge pits at the corners of their paddocks, running yards of calico along their wire fences and then drive the kan- garoo into the pits, clubbing and shooting them. In those days kan- garoo skins were of no value; now that they are almost extinct there is a great demand for them. The flesh of a young kangaroo is by no means to be despised, and kangaroo tail soup is a delicacy now hardly to be ob tained. London's Increasing Traffic. The problem of how to deal with the ever-increasing London traffic be- comes more complex every year. The principal railways have more than doubled their facilities in the last 20 years and in many instances have, { trebled the size of their principal ters minals, but still the traffic increases, bringing in its train perpetual discom- fort from overcrowding London travels by an immense and | complicated. system of communica tions. The ten railways which con- verge on London from different diree- | tions, have 473 miles of rail and 378 stations in the London area alone, and they employ as signalmen, plate- layers, ete., 22.000 men, whose wages average $144,000 weekly. To. and from the termini of the ten companies run daily 2,125 suburban and 444 other trains are employed 3.000 locomotives, 27.- 000 coaches, 6,000 drivers and stokers, and 3,000 guards. The passenger traffic of the Great Eastern Railway amounts to 250.000 daily, the Bouth Eastern 200,000, and the London, Brighton and Routh Ceast 160,000 every day. The three roads convey every year 41,000,000 workmen passengers. Trials by Bread -and Cheese. There were many odd ways in ane cient times of detecting criminals. Our ancestors had not lived long enough to lose their faith in the gnawings of conseience, and divine interference in earthly justice was superstitiously regarded as a daily oecurrence. No queerer example of this could be found than the ancient mode of try- ing prisoners by "bread and cheese." The uhiortunate offender was led, with a halter round his neck, to the parish church, and there in the pre- sence of all the people the priest put pieces of cheese and rye bread in a patien on the alter. These Roles ed, and then the supposad minal 'had to eat them dry before the con- tion. 5 he managed to swallow them Naturally easily, he was uitted, bat choked be was condemned L enough scores of innoceat folk were thus done to death. » 4 ---------------------- J: a 1,000 Islands--Rochester, Steamer North King leaves Sun days at 10J5 am. for 1000 Island ports and at 58 pm. for Bay of Rochester: (Quinte Poris snd Hg de He was nearly mur. | ¢ In the working of these there | that the best | In wet sea- | | "native pheasant," or mallee hen; is | This is a fine table bird, i Remember: One fare for the round trip -- for the message and the answer { tbe scrub, and 1 have known him to | of them when | i on the line." | (fl the difficulties frequently desert | This point in long - distance tcle- phoning is worth thinking over! : A Chain and Its Links. A chain is no stronger than its weakest link. In telephoning there are three links in the chain that' constitutes "good- service" : 1. The person calling. 2. The operator. 3. The' person called, No matter how much any one or any two of these links do to develop good service, the result is determined by the measure of co-operation of the third. If the person calling fails to consult the directory and gives a wrong num. ber, the operator inevitably repeats the error. answer promptly, and the caller leaves the telephone, naturally 'there is no one If the person called fails to : Being human, the operator--the third link--is liable to err occasionally, but careful analysis demonstrates that she is not fairly chargeable with many of ascribed to her. | If Link Ko. 1 gives the right number and calls distinctly, and Link No. 3 answers suffice. promptly, the Telephone Company will be responsible for its part of the chain, If no higher motive actuated it, the motive of economy, or self-interest, would ¢ speak to anyone in Quebec or the United States From anv Pay Station you Ontario, in a radius of a thousand miles. 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