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it 1 mai the; pm l'Lfa plea To alo or WI Robertson. nipeg that a.‘ It is rcporwtl at Win . Commons wnu be ap- commitwe of the 're into thd.e.levator I Since the death of County Clerk Comnvseu at. Hamilton no one knows the combination of the sate, in his office. and all attempts to open it, haxe fail- W. Ninety applications have, been made to the mpartment of the Interior for dredging locations on the Yukon. Stewart. and other rivers in the Yukon district. A n ..... . “Am- WV- “ The Welland Aqueduct Power Conr‘ ganized, with a cupi- tai stock of $24,000, to supply electrxcxty Erie. Huron. an mar. The eggs are in the Sandwich hatchery. The C. P. R. has just issued a. map of its roads and. connections. showing routes to the Yukon gold fields. Alas- ka. Klondike and. the northwestern ruining territories of Canada. . Mr. T. \Vhite, C. E., of St. Thomas, has left for the Yukon to commence this duties as chief migineer of con- structian oif tihe new railway. -‘Ir. J. H. Kennedy. C. E., and Mr. E. E. Web 0 ‘ by fire. on Saturday, and the presby- ' fining! was also badly damag- ed. The loss will be $175,000 or $200,â€" Mvvs. The Department of tawa. has been giving consi the question of improvements in the EM“ 811" cold storage arrangements for ' Herr Trojam editor of the I season. and will. it is predicted, give :datsoh. of Berlin, hos been ti 3. weekly service to both Liverpool an . . Glasgow such as we now have to Bris- ? tress for lose majeste. m. c: L: 'mm amnmmodation in many of 1 Emperor William. . . 1 g __ T nnr‘nn ‘ ' U" DEV.- â€"â€" -- URI-35 _ tol. The accommodation in many of the boats will also be improved. GRE AT BRITAIN. The new tattleship Implacahle is to cost over £1,000,000. The engineers in Great Britain have voted in favor of accepting the em- General Sir Iianiel Lysons,Constal_>lc of the Tower pf London, since 1890. is London police have st ot street advertising by placards. Gen. Sir Fred Middie mded t_l_n forces of . I â€"L ‘AL V‘â€" ing a signal-man. has provoxea a 3 lauu strike which threatens to spreadi Th throughout all Irish railways. 3 tan. Jabez Spencer Balfour. nuw serving '3 of w 14 years for fraud in cannection with ish 5 Water Group was examined in the deal Imdon Bankruptcy Court on Thurs- in w day. The convict was in ill-health. Hie arm said [D had left th: country in 1892 bras owing to the advice oi those who dught was -_LL-_ “‘4 E’. R. has just issued a way: u. u.-°_ _ ds and connections, showingland Great Britain. lprese-nts w “W“ ”w ____ - Yukon 801d fields. Alas-l The .etatementsregardjng G°¥mw3"‘~* as against three million five hundredl um and the northwestern : mltention to open the port of Kia Chou thousand dollars mined. and in reality 1 ten million dol'lars would be nearer the 1 rritories of Canada. . l of the world are prac- at Madrid that Gen. I the expenditure in reaching l White, C. E., of St. Thomas,' or the Yukon to commence It is understood need to LWO the Yukon alone. Again, if we accept i at at least a hundred? l as chief engineer of con- ‘ \Veyler Will he 803$?» rt for the of the new railway. in J. months' imprisonment and then D111" the pgtimate th . . ' 313.13. E.\\'el-- . -- 1) C E , and 'd-OD-“d' . ts “o tluowsaml [erecns W'lll sta - l . . ., - . e experimen lmmes in [83.5, at an average of five Russia will mak lpany him. \Iv:Creary. immigration Com- 1 find means of communication between a ‘ - ' , who has been at Regina, I her north coast and Siberia by cross- ‘ hundred dollars. the amount expended at the records show thatOLn ting the Arctic sea. :“ill Le fifty million dollars (or one it 10,000 immigrants came {'1' . An Italian warship is about to will year. While the expenditure for one :bamziid 31:9 lerritories o‘er l0? Hayti to elncforce Italy'sl (llamandsl‘ year reaches a total Of fifty million for the treatment to “huh ta "ma ”1 ‘ dollars. the gold that will be taken out incorporate a com-t General Sir Herbert Kitchener has . . . . ' ' l: . t'v 0“.“ t . he officers at Cairo that next term years is estimated at sixty- or ”F er mo ‘ e p "it is needbess that they should 8§C90€1 . live or seventy-five. million dollars. lend on Lake Huron. ' . the derwshes. are (1111812: l‘The individual finds and clean-ups 't J Ba tiste Church on” An ice blockade Shes again closed the. range from {we tho “ d dollars to ’ ’ can 1) ’ harbour at St. John'B, N-fl'd. Absolute- I one hundred and iii thousand dol- treet. Montreal was destroyed; ly the worst Arctic floes in years are? lars. Barns of gold have averaged all the way (rom $1.50 to five hundred $.11“? “:33: )g‘GaOngmflkf’; £322: 1 reported from the northern coast. l ‘ . . . lanes-hill be 3175000 or 3000;: Political leaders at Madrid have pes- l dollars. In the rich diggings, .hom- ' - ’ 3, simistic views of the Cuban war, and ‘ ever. 310 and .312 a pan was a fair av- ‘Annlam that the insurgents haveierage. "from the eude’nce of Mr. Ogilvw CANADA. have stOpped the 1mm sin; by girls carrying v“ 7.--- been 1118416 were rescuei, but of a d it is feared ing has been heard, she has gone down with her crew of on Thursday, elevator shaft. He carried the scaffold .. n1, __ -..:Hn him_ and. t\\'0 ‘VIIl IIBCLJ “Ov- 'yers were Oheinstich, one o lions of Budapest’ , . the object of their quest. occupled a maniac’s cell at the county asylum.| Chicago. His death is recogded, with npauper's nu“ ber opposate It, on the books of the asylum. Bismarck's conditipt} is not perilous according to his ptbymcxan. ‘ The consorahip at Havana over for- ! ' ' ' 'shed. : ute, in Borg“ berri'tor y of BOYS“ is: disputed . Political leaders gsimistic views of Ideclare that th ‘ meanso 31 lav; v v-~-~ declare that the means. mabssador to Ger- . ' - less competent to iorm an opinion, it is u;;zloul_:ted that the whole Yukon l - (1 Cross of the Order of . . . . . . cerve the Gran from the Emperor. terrltwry ls. rich in pnecxous minerals, R e that out and that it will take marry years Le- (2131: tfiglannuiment gore (levelgpment has reached its . eight." durung “113,93?“ yea-2:133 A description of several of the two Car mas g ‘ hundpeg and seventy-eight claims of marriage Congregation of but am. . 1. along Bonanza anti El Dorado Creeks ' Herr Trojan), 9di1=t0r 0f the Kladdera- l is given. in which it is stated that one : datsch. of Be-rlmr». 11938 been sentenced l hundred of those on Bonanza will yield .to two months’ imprisonment in afor- i thirty 111:1”in dollars; that claim No. ' ‘ ~ in cartooning!1 2.0__}':1ll yield one million dollars by it- .L.,..... Aln;-mQ Will ViPlC chhdhchess EllZflLeth w Lne 51“!) U‘ ““"' "“ " v 1 A TREMENDOUS RUSH l ‘ , .. ' . , , . oltcheff formâ€" 1| t ‘ t,” Y' n . the S rin i‘ antle'i- l mu )ou \\ lll neVentlunL o; letung “ .. . b- m? In.” m b w 40“ ”3 * “39 M g 3’. * ‘ '. me bum! the kltchen fire? she said, as W Tag-Egg: "mume o2 mm t “ “5 eatunated ’ she shook the rice out of her parasol. 'flwfnfitd‘ 22‘:th? w a“, 21.th cant irttf‘if ' hut ix “:1? . ‘ Erly aideâ€"de-;-a.mp to Prince Fergidnat‘lzg pateg. l‘ust autumn 1 ! ° 0 ea j '- . 1, e 'l" 1‘- . red “I“ bk“ m Lu, .lues an be P'lCl lc LOJS‘L that , No, he answe earnestly; I never-.4,- of the Ta mam dJ. ‘ Pg" ' v m Lu c fr . from the sentence h D . ' e " .Ix. ‘ v ' \‘1‘ 5' I 3 ‘ o ‘ . e .or the murder of hxs Intstress 0:313:21: . i;o:[1”t-113 \mf'ff .1 ad ltd) one httilndrtti1 '. “ m. If It lecomes necessary w ' ’ l. .‘L 4.».an 13‘5“" 90“.- pass . rpug it“), stove out in the dining-room. .§W° okxm.‘ at 3 Life): ports lor the lukcn Wlthln a iaepyélhnlb. and 51h pa» at, . ,. ' 0.4 30 “I - note to 3 year. “from the increased number of em...;;_ ...-._..___._.___ ..._.-.. . ALL 0000 GROCERS KEEP .T- Russia is about to present a . . . . . 3 Turkey demanding payment for the .‘ 1nqulr1es, 1t 13 now theught that the 1 whole balance of the indemnity of; the ismmpede northward wall exceed all (35- E F” RNI I U R F : “WWW do“ w keep it, tell him \ ‘ ° .1 ° , '2’ ,- ‘ trmates. Anywhere between one o'hun- l ‘ ; "ER 5!. 00. 000000, with a View of making the Sui; ! dried thousanfl and 1131: it} mains: ll ___,_ 1 « n 81:31:" 1": t E L tan more docile in the settlement 0 persons m a. .quaroers 0 he go , . 1 on non tree as: ' mm Mn. nee reeemnelUNDERTAKINGa Klondlke 1n the Spl‘lng. 1t 1:} alike a E ’ z The “Chrnnicle‘: The Berliner Tageblatt says It learns commentary on the rage for wealth Price- Out. ' . .- iI‘P-l’ 010 Local 3¢“"'l""' *hat Russia and England have arrived‘ and the tremendous energy and di- ....._. EWestern «Marlo. / at an agreement... whereby England hit-3'. ' “ lemmas afforded by modern agen- ‘ , , o , . consented to dmp her demand for thelcies for the concentration of eitort A “RST'CLABS E‘AR“ 1" cosxi-CT‘U‘ . ,.... (mini? 0? Ta'lzi?§es\vffi11;t%:ra £32533“ on a given point. Nothing in history .,,_, .. an n ,m, ha i th Ch' c Se lquite equals the enterprise thus dis. l . . ~ W1 ,.\ A mini}. MtIOI 0 6 1118.8 3 ‘ Emm‘ming k apecmlty. . MINOI“; {Q‘SES CH“ :i'1‘.( ‘ .. ( ,V ' . The appeal of Capt. B â€"â€"- waved . ”7‘ - q ' ‘ ‘ ' -â€"â€"-â€" ' ln the realm. 01 L394 -- , ithe gangway ' 11 Lord Brassey and the E boatswain on it. They narrowly escap- ‘i ed being crushed betwee launch. 11 the yacht and i-l {3‘ O 0 fl '6 n E O H. R D“ Q m 5? p B ('9 "1 a 9 H fl 0 L)" p “P 3d being crusueu LOLVVGGu vuv 4..---- --__ Uta,“ “I ....___--_ __ - ‘ time from one hundred thousand to launch. ‘- ' i two hundred thousand persons. whose tan. loaded with arms and munitions‘3 livelihood must depend on mining. and. the ahsence of success in that. «.n of war in the Gulf of Oman by a Brit- t in ish gunboat is thought to throw agood‘ the resources which they carry with ° ‘ . . ‘j'l‘he Year Book" describes the was intended for . cents of Baluchistan. vvwv~ 1rday. . nhixdrcn. but they 333' vâ€" e _ , hur...lred m1 oor with him, and; two 3 i hU-IL'CIFP'J a ‘1. All 1 mg about. u] miIBS, rich I a and lawyers were; been found. have occupied 01>? cry The possession bed between France .1 have to im- wheat before. of Acroumu of a Va“ Ifucxphfl“ "‘0‘ TIM-mud figure miles flailâ€"Co“ 0‘ 9mm- -- vac'lfly Largrr Than “mu. I: MIMI-g Gold. The “Year Book of British Columbia â€"-.A nan- for 1897," 00:11:11.1 able information (11111 Yukon. T1 digest of all of .“Ilo I log team. The “Year Book of British Columbia for 1897," contains valuable and reli- able information regarding the Cana- dian Yukon. The manual is really 3 digest of all official reports. and of all facts. collected personally by trust- worthy travellers regarding the whole fascinating region of which Klondike at present the centre of attrac- is Lion. one hundred and ninetyâ€"mac W-.. ° nadian ter- SQUare miles." ’lhe goldâ€"° itm same, miner mum is a continuation of Ca ' Cassiar. famous for their gold diggings In an area that is When it is considered that Klondlxe ich is the only part of this territory wh has been exploited, one is prepared to expect that the Yukon will prove the largest and RICIiESl UULAU Dnuuu , ____ __O - ' Since 1887 it has been commune“ known among sailors along the l North. Pacific coast that Chinamen‘ hundred thousand dollars was taken were washing gold far up in the; from the creeks near Dawson City. northern interior. Ragged and toil-l ' worn Orientals have come to thei “ . ' V 'f ' r- . . . dlEvery; (1011“ mt 80.1d.ll ted‘lu 'tfie 1(1) iooast trading-posts during the last; war) pretess o mining costs a 0 M1 ten, years, with bags and small sacks to produce it. This will be found par- i of l ticularly true oi the wealth of the Yu- ‘2 THE PRECIOUS METAL. ‘. kon. Of the ten thousand people whol As Chtnamen have been washing 80m“ started this year, five hundred dollars 1 at various streams in British Columbia ‘ for years earning from twenty dollars each. by way of expenditure would bel 1 da\ to a f “ 9mg “eel: “herel . .v e ' o a, O p 7 l - .., ' ‘ _ s l c l 0 . ‘ I '_ . ‘ e- ‘ . . “l m demte eetlmate indeed '1th r white men would not consxder reward} rious fel- i ”“59““ in itself five million (1011313 ‘ worth the labor. these myste as against three million five hundred g lows from the interior. attracted lit-l thousand dollars mined. and in reality l the attention. but now their V151“ “’2 ten million dol’lars would be nearer the i the trading posts are recalled and l “ ', ' , , . ldeemed significant of undiscovered total 01 the expenditure in reaching lwealth. "ll a man." says , ' the Yukon alone. Again, if we accept l Bookil’ “examines the map, the estimate that at least a hundred’ that there 13 an enormous S 'ltlhomszuoxd [.erzcns w'i ll start for the m} ringing??? gigghbof the Rockies lamm‘i“ :n lseS. at an average of five ‘on the east, and the l'fiard on the . l hundred dollars. the amount expended SOUUL 0V9? “111011 the “'hlte man's {“0” i“lll to fifty million dollars (or one fifthfizg :{fi‘iien' tgd yet “if :3 21:: ' While. the expenditure for one 1 ev-eryppromise “5:231:31” Thae Pglly; total of fifty million 1 the Ross. the McMillan. and the Ste- ‘ l___-__ um anrnn from the ever known. During 1897 wme three million five 3‘ ('4‘1'. ralu'llés it "The individual. finds range from five. L110: (me hundred and hi l ill be ea r. " 'ear reaches a itvllll 1‘5. fifty million dollars 101' out-.1 While the expenditure for one l total of fifty millionl the gold that will be taken out. . birthplace of large streams l-uul. 5.... , every promise of wealth. The Pelly. the Ross. the McMillan. and the Ste- wart. entering the Yukon from the' least, all have their sources in this dis- ‘. xi the creeks of Klondike during the 3 trict South of thr‘ unknown (“de , nest teni seventy-five million dollars. . live or "The individual finds and clean-ups . ran-"0 from five tho ‘ Dav one hundred and fit lars. the way from $1.50 to i do! in rs. ‘ d dollars to thousand dol- Pams of gold have averaged all ive hundred In the rich diggings. hom- ever. 3w and .312 a. pan was a fair av- erage. "1’er Liza evidence of Mr. Ogilvie. Dr. Dawson, and many others more or less it is undoubted that till territu competent to form an opinion. a whole Yukon r1," is rich in 'premous minerals, and that it will take many years Le- ' fore devele 'ment has reached its , . ‘ grows richer the farther it extends 3 along l is given. in w \ hundred of time . thirty i 1.0 Will yield one years is estimated at sixty- l the Francis, Hylan ' (1 Black. and Beaver ; .rivers drain large areas toward the .Liard. All these streams have been. lproved to bear gold at their mouths. ; ‘: but the exploration of their upper wa- i 'g ters has always proved a task beyond 3 ‘1 the power of the poor prospector. South i l of the Liard again. lies another little- 1 Eknown area. emlbraczing the Omineca? iannd Peace River districts, stretching; laway to the scene of the old Cariboo ‘; lexcitement of 1.862. All this country i 1lies in the mineral belt extending; L'northward from California. and hasi proved wherever examined to be rich in precious metals. The statement has been made that the mineral belt. towards the north, but there is 1:0 t f several of the two , , ‘ hundred and eventy-eight claims 1 foundation 101‘ 3113' 941011 prOphecy. ’ us be content t I suppose that It 18 only Bonanza and El Dorado Creeks l _ ‘ , , , ‘as I'LCh as (allflornla, hevada. Color- hich it is stated that one I . e on Bonanza will yield ‘ ado. Montana. Idaho. and the 120°" million dollars; that claim No. RWY. 0‘ British 0‘ lumllla." This 18 million dollars by it- i 8 . . ton Pike, the explorer ()1 the Barron ‘I_:...'- .ll;“ ‘7;nll‘ iven on the authority of Warbur- is given. in which it is stated that one 8' hundred of those on Bonanza will yield l thirty million dollars; that claim No. 3 2,0 Will yield one million dollars by it- I an, and ten other claims will yield not less than a hundred thousand dol- lars each. Needless to say, all the ground within miles of Dawson City has already been staked off. -..,_-- RICH EST V [fow a country like the Yukon can support and successfully accommodate the thousands of people who are about to rush in. is a question which cannot; easily be determined; but axiom of warning is necessary as to the capa- bilities of a country wholly undevel- oped tio maintain for any length of __ ‘_.__’ LLn-nmA-‘J‘ ‘A LWV‘sLV \- w-â€" fort'n the terrible hardships of pros- pecting a. country where the bed-rock is under a crust of moss“ and frozen sand. tells what mining under thgse GOLD FIELD 3 goldâ€"held lies 1n belt as California. .’ f Cariboo and ‘7 A [ondike “W NOTHING IN m Information may be 4." diffem'nt descriptions A I . ' “* VII" find NOTHING IN KLONDIKE. Information may be gleaned from the different descriptions of various sec- tions of the vast Yukon region. which ' ‘wnderfoot" and proar- will guide the ‘ pector to other districts more prom- ismg.The1)osition of the great gold- ° tohing from Califor- mugt be uhder- region; north of bins. mm, has described as practically ‘ l T’Inn_ unknown. unexplomd. and unnamed; ' Equally signitigant is the fact .tllat the waters flowync i . . . . l northern .ml‘erlor. Ragged and tell- wor‘n Orlegtaéls have come t rcoast tradmg-posts during the. last "" "M“ with ham; and small sacks As Chtnamen have bee at. various streams in B for years earning from ;a day to a few osmts : “‘whéw men would not c ‘worth the labor. these glows from the interior {the attention. but now Ithe trading posts are Lands. Undertaking and Embalming Furniture healer III all Island; at H IS PROMISE. GRIS'HNG AND DROPPING DUKE. on shorten notice sud satisfaction (nuanced. THE SAWMILL \Ve are now prepared to do ot'custom work. 2‘858. THE FINES? Ttl IN THE WORLD “9917.4: Tu PLANT I'll-JV- .. quickly anaemia. true. whewer .u. .. \ .. probably pnwnuble. Commu'nv'?‘~ ..~ -'?" “Y c‘onfldenflnl. O|deat "envy for w- -'.' "'1 " "u m Amen-wt. We hue a \\'a.<i;n~;ag~. Payouts taken through Mum: :; L 1- P-W'" I E In the realm 01 1;) gym. . -- ;., was hum 3129103. in v;.1.:1: c‘ t-~ ' . , .J ,0": '2 DTO’ZUC‘UZ H‘ laden» L: ». I u ‘ rate (.i (SEQ; ‘fi’ ‘21.)... 2'0 C' ;. .1 '1' F L ‘it h "lahne '., m '.n mun-v- v- iprovinz he ic-ar'nr '“ -*"‘ "“ "f _ qtiaily ‘ vai. tn 1?." " ‘ 1". - ‘f lsulstltuticn at am Hv"“~"“' "3:30;: h'u ""1 for a sun ta; 1. ant the g4. . ,omno '{or in a‘mmn ‘ 1*)? Hugh lOtPfll'n! inti‘aTJ‘ 1"”. la‘fll' sect-OOIIefletc“ tile mum 05"?“ . ‘ 34100 lumen-m! t; n la't or alt.” her nocturntl iepidoptera and 0‘ 5117.039 9920‘.“ f. campus -.. uv -~= and once:" the! much are uncured. IN ITS «pl-Iv: punmv. 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