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:5 Into STAKED AND NAMED. The large tori: Spoken ot mmm an even the rich- est claim on Bonanza. §tutod up in a small boat to s {:1ch whntgr 911 Stewart River prospect-l ‘U W‘ “bu‘ With a similar lad]: difference of result 3+? ".bfflLfW “Pd main in 1893. _ -- -v w wvufiu have been foun ” I am nc that he believed that, but i acteriatic of the man to e was obliged to sell his H1 for a fraction of its value. Again, in Seattle, I saw He hag just come frqm Da‘ in at Circle Ci‘fy, where he rem; all Winter under the doctor’s care was in Dawson the summer of 1898 HENDERSON CREEK, which was named after him, and after River and staking a site at the mouth of the McQuesten, he returned. He applied to Ottawa for the grant of the town site, but his application was nev_er answered. own. A discovery had been made by Solomon Marpak on Bear Creek, which enters Klondike between Hunker and Bonanza. Being entitled to a location here also, Henderson staked another claim. When he reached Forty Mile and applied to record, he learned that the law had just been changed; that he could bold but one claim in the, whole Klondike. So, as it seemed to be the best, he recorded No. 3 above on Hunker Creek. Henderson was sick all the following winter. In the spring, far from being disheartened by the ill luck that had befallen him, he went up the Klondike prospecting, finding some gold on Flat Creek, then known as “Too Much Gold,” by mis- take in description a smaller stream below it was recorded as "Too Much Gold,” and now bears that name. Be- . turning, he went up to Stewart, mak- f mg a discovery on Another man than Henderson wbuld have been discouraged. He was still entitled, according to the custom and usage prevailing on the Canadian side, to his discovery claim on Gold Botâ€" tom, and as discoverer he was entitled tostill another. On the other fork just spoken of he was entitled to a, discovery claim and one more. He staked all four of these. The ice was commencing to form. Having made his clean-up and divided the money, he started to record. On the way he met Andy Hunker, who told him he had made a discovery on the same creek where Henderson made his sec- ond discovery, and he thought Hen- derson would not be able to hold dis- covery there. The whole creek was now called Hunker Creek, and Gold Bottom was a fork of Hunker Creek. 2 Bunker had found the splendid pros- i poet of three dollars in the pan. Henâ€" 1 derson, therefore, being uncertain, and seeing the latter was probably richer, staked No. 3 above Hunker’s discov- c It I: n Fascinating Storyâ€"Untold Wealth In the In Noniâ€"Hamlin of the ”hen-lla-y and Bttter Disappotnt neutsâ€"Stuupede From Circle Cityâ€" 'l‘old By a Speeul Correspondent or lapel”: Weekly. SOIETHING ABOUT THE COUNTRY AND ITS DISCOVERER. MABVELLDUS KLUNDIKE. i-Djm‘y ‘hgreceived on In- it I am nqi'aaiz; 5. but it iras cfia}: n to say so. He his Bunker claim value. up, and started ner of 1898, but to prospect as h_e remained. steamer 3 frozen He and . We re-‘ turned to mmp, and decided that we would prospect the large 'pup’ that came in just above on No. 7. tentior. had bee to 118.013 the the mouth of the av uuan" "u third day we reached 'ondike, and camped in our old camoinu.nlnnp and n... Klondike, and camped on the site of the present Ibmvsonl: at the very time Siwash George was making his discov- ery on Bonanza- of course unknown fn n- n“ -‘ J- *- A --_.._ wâ€" -w- you 0.580 IUD, ”UL “Bonanza was staked as far down as I determined to go away and try some of the ‘pups,’ believing it is never too Late in a camp as new as this. “Fred Bruceth, the man with whom I planned to go, said it was no use. So when, on the morning of the day that Ewe were to start from Forty Mile, we ’found that our boat had been stolen, he threw up his hands and refused to to whom they had promised the use of it did not return in fifteen minutes "The men did not turn up, and in half an hour were towing the boat :13 the 1"uk‘on; Oniy two weeks be- as they if they had known where to book. There is no end of stories of the curious luck that accompanied the filling up of Bonanza and El Dorado. The following account of how El Dor- ado came to be staked has more in- terest than ordinary in that it is told by one who was not only one of the; first who staked there, but also who supplied the readers of Harper’s Week- ly with the first direct. news and pho- 1tographs from the new diggi-ngsâ€" namely, William D. Johns. Mr. Johns was in the neighborhood of Forty Mile when word of C‘armaok’s discovery ar- rived, and was one of those who did not believe in the truth of it. He was therefore am in the first stampede. Confirmation of the strike was daily bemg received. thtehBO’s and as far up as the 70’s, but â€"â€"J vv“‘ cations beeâ€"ame e'vident to themselves.i “‘Don’tokno ' about. it‘ as They looked wise when the chechahko long as ‘ we migytggg we thought arrived, and tapped their heads With,we might as well stake somewhere,’ their finger so to speak as if to say and the ' ' ’ . ’ y burned on after then comb that any one nght have had as good paniong. They were rich men, but 9Q #1191! {f fho‘i hall ‘ynmim 1Irknrn ‘A 0 ‘fi had been staked as far below and as far above Discovery as was considered, in the light of past experience, to be worth while. The middle of the creek was considered the best part. Obvious- ly, as there was small time'to prospect, chance predominated. But as soon as the first holes to bedâ€"rock began to Show a richness greater than any- ? thing ever known in the Yukon, many, of those who had staked blindly, as a‘ mere speculaton, without plan org know ledge, laughed, and all but: cried, 5 in their overflowing joy. Then, when the novelty at sudden wealth‘ wore off, not a few began to think just‘ as men do the world over. As the ex- tent of the richness became more/ known, the more the wisdom they dis-z played ‘3“ pickingout such choice 10-, 1'11 DURHAM CHRONICLE, June 22, .1899 himsfeif,“ ggfi ’ '2 had all *up'per Bonan .3, been sincere :and Antone restaked the claim â€"th£ i present No. 6 El ‘ went above Empkins and Du; 8, and staked 10. ’ taked, he taking 11, and I 12 “Regarding the di custom in the 19w ,- , ~w-“ “Lire hu “C3. nters who have scented game, we lapsed into silence, and, with eyes and ears alert, kept on. \Ve had gone only a ly we came {them were little ways, when sudden‘r- upon four men. Three of standing around the was holding a gold-pan. ,was off on a little hunt. “We started toward the ‘pup.’ When we reached the m0uth, we followed the ‘ ‘Some one is working; the water is muddy,’ said he. “He left us: was off on a 1 thought no more of it then. 'Where are you going to-day?’ he asked us.” “ ‘To prospect that pup,’ I .replied. he “Next morning, before we were ready to Start, Keller came down to our camp dressed in corduroys, and with a rifle on his shoulder, as if he were startmg out on a hunt. Be in- inquired how we had made out. . We told him we had found nothing. He still favored upper Bonanza;he thought it. was all right. .We asked him where his camp was; we had. not! seen it the day before. _ ‘Over on the other side_’\ they did not knmgr it. " ‘On that pup,’ they. replied. “ ‘Any good?’ . “ ‘Don’t know anything about it; as long ae‘. we were up, we thought "Prgtty soon we met Demars and 3313151115. 'Where have you been?’ we as e . “ ‘Oh, they have gone up a WP to stake.” “ ‘Why didn’t you stake?’ “ ‘Oh, to hâ€"â€"-'1 with the pups ' was their answer as they went away down the creek. f, n ONO gOOd,’ ‘Skim “sings” cm‘ ,digginzs," 'Moose flat; were the an- swers received. “ ‘Did you stake on the creek?’ we asked. “ ‘No,’ they replied. “ ‘Where are Demars and Louis Emp- kins?’ we asked, referring to the two other members of their party. ‘ m cut his name off the stakes; Antone restaked the claim â€"the w m. c m - »ugn to be’ out of the and staked, he taking e discovery, it was the lqwer _coun_try â€" not .‘FIAA_ ‘â€" _W§ still thought he â€"â€" vvuv u the greek. Above Empkins ed toward the pipes are held and to their l.‘ 1' nbbfir tUbQRw 0f Wificicnt PA11nn finA._-_4 l. . -- -v-l. I'm manu- lactate oi calomm carbide, which will bide With Water. Son: tensive use will he get learned that there is i Niagara Falls a plant facture of calcium ear-‘1 . Acetylene gas, as is generally known, Ls produced by mm‘etening calcium car- swelling caused b' y the bites of i‘ T339 nggative electrode is place! the conduct the tee . volunteer manoeuvers. at Aldershot. Dr. Friedlander, oi Wiesbaden, re- commends 39.1va to relieve the pain and irritation and to reduce thnl uer being entirely adequate to gain- tain the proper warmth. The English intend experimenting with an automobile gun carriage for army use. A tricycle, driven by elec- tricity, forms the carriage and upon it is mounted a service pattern Maxim gun. The weight of the gun and car-: riage is only about 140 pounds, per- mitting quick movemean and early readiness when in position. The Twen- tyâ€"sixth Mddlesex, cyclists’ corps, will conduct the tests at the approaching volunteer manoenvn‘rn 9+ “A---L-. form of an -mately make house-to-house deliveries ~employmg more .cars as the servxce 'Which is fitted the axle bearing. Bolts pass from the outer plate to the inner Plate through the indla rubber sec- tors, therefore, are interposed between the carriage, supported on the axle and the wheel, and all vibration is ef- fectually prevented. ‘ TWO cars, carrying local freight, are DOW in use on the f‘nnonlidorgd flu.-- attempt a resilient vehicle wheel, and inner sides of the hub are covered by circular plates. into the centre of. which is fitted the axle bearing. Bolts pass from the carter plate to the inner “1.54.- L1 ”Next morning Fred Bruceth got up at five o’clock and went down after McKay, whom the miners had appoint- ed as their recorder, letting out the news on the way. Among the first to arrive were Cobb and his crowd. Hear- ing of the prospect, and knowing that the Whipple crowd had staked Bonanza also, Cobb stated emphatic- ally to Whipple that unless his crowd took their names off Bonanza, he would, jump their claims here. Just then Antone, Clements, and Keller came up to where we were talking, and Bruceth and I, who felt that though they had tried to job us, yet thay really had made the discovery, and were entitled to the ground, tried out best to per- ;suade them to go up and cut off their names, or they would lose their El Dorado claims â€" they certainly could not hold both. Whipple kept insisting that they could. At this juncture Phis- cater came along. with one claim on El Dorado, besides his Bonanza claim. He wm stoutly TRYING TO HOLD ALL EJHREE. “A party of Finns soon‘ came along, headed by a man named Cobb. They did not stake, but went on and turned up Bonanza. They were the only other persons on the creek that day. That night in camp we discussed nam- ing the new creek. Old man Whipple wanted it called ‘Whipple Creek.’ But we were rather hot at the Whipple crowd for having used us so ill in try- ing to steer us away from the creek; and, besides, old man Whipple had tried once to jump Halstead and Eric- ,son’s claim on American Creek. After several names were mentioned, Knut Balstead suggested ‘El Dorado,’ and that was the name determined up- on. I make this point, as certain later comers have claimed the honor of nam- ing, the creek. ‘ l SCIENCE AND INVENTION. To be Continued. is being erected at :armae, which win fine hundred tons lamps SDpply the the table has the her and within it f‘)!‘ thfl manu- utes of Insects. 18 placed over reduce the inch fhlpping it 01R of the country, a5 W ‘0‘8- The Furakawa Smelcing Works have tor some tithe employed electro' lytjc refining, producing in the past :3 ear 8” 130118, but they are to be no: esen ,mrged 9°.f‘0111‘ times their pr Ba ’ and It, 18 said that when the 611' “affluent '5 wmpleted their out-put as ”so far emd the domestic demand ”wt 8 considerable export. As the Norman tong . t uses several hug! red and m a Year, it may be Inffl" ‘ ' t thfl new works will have t The Japanese are preparing to “a" Fart fheir copper ore mm Wire for do- mestic and foreign markets. instead of _“___ - .--. H”, J .- some other parts of the Alum” the T3701 empire, however, Croatia. and Austrian-Poland, 1he ratio or illiteracy is much higher, bringing ‘t up among army recruits generally ‘9 12 per cent. them approximate thus: of. Ger-mm! and other countries of the Comment. In Norway and Sweden the army 99" Centage ifl nearly identical with that 9f_Germany, In Denmark the {3110 9‘ QIlteracy among army recruits 15W” hale higher than it is in Switzerland» and in Austna German pron-noes. the ’ ratio 0f _illiteracy is_ ve_ry low. hearseâ€"5.40; in Belgium it is 13.5; in Ital! ‘ it is 38; in Hungary it is 28, and in ' Russia, it is 70. There are no authen' tic figures of an official or quasi-ol- ficial character in Spain showing ”‘3 illiteracy of army recruits. In Spain as in Great Britain in the test of iHi' teracy is the record of marriages from which it is seen that about 65permt' of the population of marriageable 380 seems to be illiterate. According to the last figures 0!th signing marriage certificates in 5‘30“ land the ratio of illiteracy 910033 them was only 35 per thousand. 1.“ England it was 58 and in lreland “ was 170, but since then. of course. general diffusion of education .h” iprther reduced In) figureszmai‘fff 30.7 is 1.1. Of 1,000 recruits, 989 can read and write, 11 cannot. 1n. Switz- erland, the percentage of illiterpcy i5 one-half of 1 per cent.; in France i118 5 1-2 per cent.; in Holland it is a little Staflsth From Various Countries“ I50 Condh’lon 0! Education. Statistics of illiteracy are sought in Continental nations of Europe in the case of soldiers recruited for service in the army. Among German recruits, for instance, the percentage of illiter- County of Grey, including a valuable W Power. Brick dweni , and many 01 building lotw. will be so d in one or more. Also 10!. No. 60, Con. 2, W. G. R., T wash: Bentinck. 100 acres, adjoining own Durham. Mortgages taken for part purchase my A ply to J AMES EDGE. ’ Oct. 9nd. p Edge Hill P.0. capacity. and pains in the stomZtAWT was a sufferer until I gave it a trial, but have perfect comfort." J '_ ...\. gull-CU Wlta “aw“ Cramps or doubled up with Colic, ya want a remedy you are sure will ginyon relief and give it quickly, too. that MAYhel 1you. You want Dr. om Extract of 1d Strawberry, which cv one how: will positively cure Cramp; Coho quickly. ]u a dose Or two andyw have ease. Cramps and Cu eat meat, which I dared not touch . before without being in great distress. I always recommend B. B. B. as being the best remedy for 3.13 stomach disorders and e ' as a family medicine.” THE RATIO OF ILLITERACY. IN THE TOWN OF DURHAM. 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