THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, AUGUST 10, 1397
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W. E. Dawson's DOBELL LINE.
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88. Acadian is due here from Mont- mal Wednesday, 11th inst.and sails for Sr. Johu’s, Nila., via {Sydney and North Sdney, carrying live stock on deck and produce under deck at lowest rates.
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N. RATTENBURY.,
PROVINCIAL
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The 4nual Prize Meetieg of the P. R. A.
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be held on the....ccc- ‘
KENSINGTON RANGE 4ueust 11 & 12
beginning at 8 o’clock a. m. sharp 5 ; Peaxcvr Doy cHEertTy,, 8. F. Hopesoyn, Lt. Colonel,
President.
Desirable Property
That beautiful property opposite Birch rove, Freetow: , at present occupied by is. Crosby. There are about 40 acres of toice wel] cultivated land, and the build- m8, including dwelling bouse, barns, Mabary, outhuilbings, etc.,are in good dition. The property includes al! of that large and beautiful grove very suit-
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thle for picnic parties, on the north side the main road,and isin a charm ing Pt, news rches, scl ool, hall, stores, fe, and wil s quarter of a mile from
étown Railway ftom Dunk River. tms will be made to suit purckasers. f hot sold by private sale before Tues- Y, August 3ist, it will then be offered # auction st 31 o’clock, p.m. or further particulars apply to ji). CROSBY,
Station, and two miles
4 Ry. Station Agent, Cape Traveree.
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: lender: for the construction of a brick md Stone ¢ irch, to be erected’at Mount mel, P i. for Rev. P. P. Arsenault,
il be received up to August 23rd 1897, t’s office.
QS and Specifications to be seen at undersiyn: 1’s office.
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; may be of practical use,
| To begin with, there isa wide difference,
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JOAQUIN MILLER
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Interesting Letter From tha Poet Cor- | respondent of the New York Journal.
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We tied up at Victoria some hours and I went right to headquarters to get some facts, Phey are in line with what has been stated, The two boats that left | Victoria were loaded down to the !ast man }and pound, possibly, and ar boat, | the Islander, pulls out on the 28th inst., every berth being taken betorehand. l found these stolid and conservative English leas feverish and wild than the
Americans in the Sound cities, but they are not the less alert. I was ld fidentially that some big news through the
French couriers had come to these men of
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Victoria. But as I said before, I don’ know one thing about the truth of it. I can Only say that Victoria is going to Klondyke as fast as she can get there. And now confining myself entirely to
the facts in my own hands, I am going to the personne’ of this boatload, everything from the dogs and! horses upto the men and women. This | I may mention | } thet most of the noisy little women, aad | probably the one with the dog under her arm, are no longer with us, having stopped
otf atsome port along the way.
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NOT A PIST@L IN SIGHT YET,
| both in bearing and dress, between the gold hunters of old and those on this boat. For example, I have not seen a single pistol yet. I have counted some twenty rifles aud shotguns, and speaking to a friend about the absence of guns, I think from whatI can gather that most of the gold seekers abroad have no more arms than myself, although my friend hints darkly that “all may be armed to the teeth.” All I can say is, you do not-see any display of arms, as ofold. A winer of to-day looks more like a bicyclist than a booted and crimson-shirted Argonaut. And there seemsto be no drinking. I have not as yet heard an oath or bad language of any Sert; not even bad gram- mar. But the adventurers are all young meno as of old. I, inthe middle fifties, am perbaps the oldest man by some years in all our “four hundred.”
We need not be surprised at all to know that there bas as yet been no lawlessness in the new mines. I know it ie being said that this good order isdue tothe better British lawe. Asan American and an observing scribe, am not ready to say that. I should say that it iedueto the better Armmerican=. S> long as the sort of Americans that are on this steamer go into the mines there will be no troubie, and I believe that ‘his |.tth shipload here is only a fair sample.
As to a few of the more than three hun- dred men on the City f Mexicv, es I write, bound§for the Klondyke, Juige U-borue will doto begin witt as o sample, He is a stout, hale man of aniddie aye. He isan author, ex—judge and prominent attorney, and he leaves behind him, I am told, one of the finest houses in Seattle. His son is with him, and the youth ie etil! in his aniversity uniform. You see, they like most of us, started at short notice.
Their equipmeat consists of 3,000 pounds of supplies. They expect to stay. ~ They have two strong horses on board, costing $30 each, besides $2 each for transporta- tion, and as much more for food and freightou the same. They have tue skeieton of a boat. They expectto drag the boat over the eo called “‘terribie” Chil- koot Pass as anIndisn squaw drags the poles of a skin tent.
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TAKING A SHAKESPEARE ALONG.
| A prominent Californian with us has | everything—almost everything—from a | frying pan toa copy of Shakespeare. His | list of medicine is @ marvel, matched only | by his variety of canned goods and the generous supply of bedc!otnes and clothes | of ali sorts. Here is another good-natured man, a ! mountain of perpetual smiles. He is alone. | His pack of supplies is 1,500 pounds. tiis | own individual weight isa little above 500 pounds. It is said that there is a big bet pending that he will not get through. This | is of nv impormance, but i think be will “cetthere.” He styles himself “the big- gest thing that ever started on ihe trail tor ithe Klondike—J. D. Thagard, Daweon | City, Northwest Territory.” If he does | get tprougn you ebalilearm it and can | judge of tue hardships accordingly.
A betver natured or broader minded lot of neu could not be founu. Among them is the sou a Congressuian, a legislator, a big | lawyer aud a professor. Some of those who first set out from Seattle, weil equip- ped with everything but health, have stopped off at one landing or another. There isa hest of rugged men in the steerage. They are there, some of them at leasi, because they could not get Into the cabin fer love or money. They are | peers of the cabin passengers as & rule.
MILLIONAIRE IN THE STEERAGE.
We have with us several whe are re- turning to the Klondike. One of them ts counted a millionaire in mines and gold in hand. He is in the steerage.
As arule,each man going into the mines bas at least $50@ worth of supplies; some have four timesthat amount. These, of course, will travel slowly, as they will have to pack their stuét on their backs at the many portages to be met on the way down the headwaters of the great river to Daw- son.
We have several sled dogs with us down They
look like coyetes, only they are larger, and doa’t have such “hang-dog” countenances. The women have mostly melted away as the Alaskan ice fields cropped out above
the clouds and black foresta on either hand. Those now with us, with a single exception, I think, are either going along “just for fun.” and will land at Juneau or
the last landing, one hundred miles above that.
Come to think, we still have one of the rag aud bone and hank of hair ” sort. She is too miserable to mention, but as she broke the harmony of the perfect whole a moment ago when I was going down to lunch, [ am to “put her inthe
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papers,” as she requested when we first set eal. She wasattable. ‘Heavens here’s a fly; ugh, aud she banged down the syrup
mug aod fled. RID OF @NE WOMAN,
“Well, she don’t sit here any more, This is the captain’s table, and he can’t bear cranks,” that is what the steward said, as she, like any other nasty little fly, disap- peared on deck.
I have been asked, as [ have asked ao may Our party, what equipment I have for the route over to the mines, and you may also want to know. ; i
Briefly, then, I have twenty pounds of bacon, twelve pounds of hard tack, half a pound of tea. I[huve a heavy pair of blank ets, the heaviest; socks, underclothing, boots, a rubber blanket, a mackintosh. a pound of assorted nails, 100 feet of smal! rop*,a sail and an axe. My pack is forty pounds all told. Ihave apocket knife
and ®n iron cup, a thermometer, and about ;
$100.
T Tope to build a raft, catry my own pack over all the places, and travel hastily on ahead and alone. You see, I have spent years alone in the mountains, and have been in almost all the * stampedes” forthe last forty years, and know what I am aboat.
Of course, I am not doing this thing for fun, but for the information of poor men who mean to go to the mines next Spring. This is what those who pay me to take this trip want and what I bave promised to do if it can be done without too much risk of life or limb. I shall report exactly all the desired detaile as I go along. I am to apply for work at the first mines I reach and report exactly, work or not work, wages, hours of work, everything, in fact, that a man of small means needs to know
ANY ONE CAN DO LIKEWISE.
If I make this trip thus equipped, find work and good wagee and all that sort of thing, why, any other man who wants to can doit. For Iam about fifty-five years old and a bit lame ofthe leg. Of course I may have to change some of my plans, may join some party and go down ina boat instead of on a raft and so on ; but I am going to ask for work at al] events, get it if I can, and do it, for I am an old miner and can do almost twice the work of anew man. Certainly Ican do more good just now in that way than by describing clouds, snow peaks and polar bears, slibough, of course, I shall not all the time keep my lace to the earth, eves thoagh my feet do cleave solidly to it.
After having got right down to the bed rock of the cold frozen facts, I shall take the steamer at Dawson and retura straight to San Francisco. So yon see my forty pounds will be about all I absolutely need. But the “‘stayer” will not follow my exam- plein thie. Still Iam bouad to say, right bere, that it does not at thie dista: e- look like practical common sense to waste s0 much time and strength in getting in sup- plies by thia land route when they are bringing thousands of tons by the water route. However,I am sent out to tell of things as I find them, and shail give plain facts, neither opinions nor ad- vice.
MEANS OF COMMUNICATION,
More than all this, if I find the mines limited, either in areaor thickness, my first duty is to let the world know. I[sball write again when we get to Alaska, also again from the other side or base of the so- called “Terrible Pass.” Bat once launched on the swift river and link of lakes flow- ing the other wav, there will be only a monthly mail. Yet, if we find anything of great importance in the way of facts, we will find some means of sending it back. If we do not find plenty of faint-hearted fellows coming back, even after crossing the mountains, it will not be in line with other excitements from 49 up to this hour.
And now let me lift my face from this pad. The railings of the densely packed little ship are lined on either side by sil- ent idolators of the grandeur. The skies are sapphire; the warm Georgia Gulf a sea of glass. Itseems like Suuday. We sail: ed out of Seattle on Sunday, and it seems like it has been one unbroken Sunday ever since.
The mighty black and broken mount- ains, a etone’s throw distant on e! her hand, it almost seems, are dappled, dimp'ed broken into billows of snow. Clouds as white as cotton, Sunday clouds surely, lie asleep along above the black fir forests that stand with their feet in the glassy waters of the gulf. Here and there a peak of snow pushes quite through the clouds, propping the porch of heaven and piercing the sapphire skies above us.
Color, color, color. partially on our own Sierras till we see these fearful walls of black forests, clouds and ice-built peaks of the North rising from the soft and dreamful levels of silver Georgian sea.
I tell you that if the Puritan and Cava- lier had set foot here first instead of at Plymouth Rock and Portsmouth, their descendants would today, in some mighty capital by the Pacific sea, be introducing bille for the preservation of the wild game and Indians in a natioual park reaching al] along the length of the Alleghenies to the entire Atlantic shore.
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After serious illness Hood’s Sarsapa- rilla has wonderful building up power. It purifies the blood and restores perfeet
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I. O. O. F.—Meeting of Court Avondale tonigi.t at 8 o’clock.
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DPPHEDDEPYE TNR PEDHPNEHHED ON PRET NET PF OHH E TH NPE HEE DTERD Ho pHTNenROnD pn RrEpHORDNOnD
Norice.—All poreons owing for poll tax had better attend to the same, as after the: l5th day of August executions will be issued, : tf.
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Anorrer Big Tea.— What promises to be the bigvest and best tea of the season will be held at Fifteen Point on Tuesday, Augast Lith. The proceeds of the tea
will go towards the fund for the con- struction of the new brick church at Mount Carmel. The tea will be managed by an energetic committee, and everything possible will be dune to make It pleasant for all whopatronize the gather- | Ing. Special trains to Wellington have | been arrat ved for. EFatber Arsenault has
beeu In town for a day or two completing arrangements, and be expects that a goodly number of his friends from the city will attend.
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PERSONAL.
Rev. Allan J. MeDoucld, of Fort Augustus, and Rev. RK. B. McDonald, of Rustico, are in the city.
Hon. W.3S. Fielding, Minister of Fnance and family, are sojourning at the Hotel Belleview, Rothesay, N. B.
tev. L. G. Maeneill. Mrs. Macneill and family, have arrived home after a pleasant | holiday in P. EB, Is'and.—St. John Tele-
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Miss Annie Murphy returned from Balifax last evening. Miss Emma Surpby will not return home for some time.
accountaut of the Amherst, formerly home on
Mr. B. M. Mcleod Bank of Nova Scotia, of the Charlottetown, office is his holidays.’
Mrs. Holland, wife of A. E. C. Holland, Eeq., passed away on Thureday last, afver vears of suffering. Her husband and family have the sympathy of the com- muniiy.
The annual Leard picnic will be held this year in the grove near the residexce of Thomas Moyse, Central Bedeque. Dr. and Mrs. N. S. Leard, of Jamaica Plains, Mass, expect to be present. The date of the picnic is August 16th.
Revere Hotel: A Fraser, Pictou N 8; M Irving, Cape Trave:se; D F Murphy, Souis; J M Boiener, Kansas; B Webster, Smith Falle, Ont; J M Severuaght, New Glasgow, NS; W G Armstrong, Ed C Tench, St John, N B; Chas French, Hamp- ton,
Professor Buell, who is probably the ! beat known giver of illustrated leeturs in the world, is in Charlottetown. He will | spend teveral days on tne Island, and will | take several photographs while bere. He is accompanied by Mrs. Buell.
Queen Hotel: W Cattett, Bostor; J Lemuel McLeod, Kensington. Rev A F McQueen, Quebec; W J Copp, Hamilton, Ont; WS Tait and wife, Amberst; A Mclonis, Mise Mary B Mclonis, Wallace, © Hennebury, Argyle Shore; J R Neilson, Brantford; Dr Miles Martin, Heatherdale; Daniel McLaren, Mre L G Munn, Belle River; Carl Owen, Georgetown; David Egan, Mount Stewart; David Hogg and wife, Miss Alice Dennis, Mre A MacGill— vary, Brackley Beach; Dr and Mrs E W Andrews, Haverhill, Mas ; William Croft, Toronto; Mrs W BPoneywell, Master Bruce Honeywell, Hunter River; Hon B Rogers; Alberton.
Hotel Davies: DF Murphy, Souris; O R Crabbe, city; E lL Philps, StJobn; R McNeill, Stonley Bridge; John Gaffney, S’side; A DesRoches, Miscouche; T Grace, Halifax; D Lally, Boston; S Edward Lyon, Edwin L Clarke, Providence; A Cushing, St Soho; F G Foss, L F Foss, Boston; A T Reid, Toronto; W F _ Stewart, Miss C A Stewart, Miss Virginia Stewart, New York; E Daniele, H Arbuckle, J D McLellan, H T McKenzie, Boston; 1 S Porter, St John; J R Matheson, Montagur; John P Brennan; Alberton; James Reid, Halifax; T RB Grady, S’side; Geo N Muttart, Boston; J McLeod, Brooklyn; R McLeod, Amherst; Mrs James McLellan, Halifax.
Clif Honee: Mrs Geo Hyman, Mrs H Baker, H Baker, Ray Jewer, Geo Hyman, Willie Hyman, Mrs G Moore, G Moor, Miss Helen Moore, Miss Edith Moore, Masier Fred Moore, D MeMillan, Mrs. D McMillan, GM Moore, city; T Haram, Quebec; Wm. A Faught, Fred Chandler, J A Hale, Alfred Farquharson, Artemas Saunders, Frederick MacLean, city; Richard Y Tavlor, Boston; Frederick : J McLeod, A J Houll and wife, H B Wright and wite, Miss Mabe! Allan, city ; Mary McKenzie, Pictou; John Birch, city ; Mrs Harvard, Miss Harvard, W B Belle- mont, Miss Bellemont, Miss McNiel, Boston; Lester Hovl, Mr Clements Miss Clements, H C McDonald, Mrs David Mc Lennan, Mrs Robins, City.
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ders from abruad, If you have any friends away from home, you
last week will no doubt be larger this
They are all broken lots at broken prices.
All Blouses formerly sold at 85c.
All Blouses formerly sold atf$1.25 to $1.40 at the clearidg
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should send them the book. It describes the Island thorough- ly, is profusely iilus- trated, got up in the best style, and the price is 25¢ a’ copy. May be obtained at all the bookstores, or done up in wrappers ready to mail, at this office.
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SCOTTISH GATHERING
The Annual Scottish Gathering of the Clans, under the auspices of the Caledonia Club of P. E. Island, will be held at
SUMMERSIDE DRIVING PARK
Wednesday, Aug. 48th.
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Train leaves Charlottetown, at 8.15 a.m., local, Tignish at 6 a. m., WWéal, and Cape Traverse at 7.55, a. m., Jocal stopping atall intermediate stations.
Return tickets from Charlottetown, 75c; from Tignish, 95c, and from Cape ‘Traverse, 60c; intermediate stations at
proportional rates,
For train arrangements, prize list, and full particulars, see programmes and advertisements in newspapers later A. McNemtt, Joun 8S. Macponarp
Rec. Secy. President.
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We the undersigned druggists of this city, hereby agree to close our several places of business, at 9 p m. every sight, excepting Saturdays, until the end of Sep
GEO. F, HUGHES,
A. W. REDDIN,
Wm. R. WATSON,
JOHNSON & JOHNSON,
REDDIN BROS, ,
Ss. W. DODD The above goes into effect on Monday |
evening, Aug. 9th.
Mchiil University. Montreal SESSION 1897 98 TE Thé curriculum comprises course in Arts, (including the Donatpa Sprotan Course ror Women), Apriiep Sctexce Mepicine, Law, and Vererinary Scrence Matriculation, Examination and Scholar- ship Examination wil] be held:—Arrs AND Mepicixe, AprLier
l5tnH Sepr.;
Science, l6rH Serr.; Law, 7rx Seer.
Vererinary Science, 22np Serr.
Copies of the Caluontaining containing infurmation, may be obtained on applica- On tothe Secretary.
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