The East Huron Gazette, 1893-03-30, Page 2•
LATE FOREIGN NEWS
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ADRIFT ON AN ICEBERG.
It is one of"our foreign importations which
still within a mile of each other until field -
is
absolutely unobjectionable. Minnesota ice had wedged between and frozen solid
is the home,of the sport in this country, A Remarkable Experience or Five Sailors.- : The bergs were two mountains, d thefild
The Czar of Russia personally - spends and the National Association has its head- The noon observation bad placed ua eighty ice was the plain between, only
anthe plaine
about $10,000,.000 annually, quarters in that State. The champion ski- miles.south of Cape Farewell, and from the
w
great cakes of ice peapod up in the
Emperor William toasts the Czar in runner of the world, Thorger Hemmestvedt, crow's nest there were five Iarge_icebergs in grandest confusion.
who has won the greatest honors in Norway sight. The wind had been dying away for The gale was still piping away and a tie
him. public, but in private they say.he roasts and America, lives in the little city of Red the last couple of hours, and at length as we mendous sea running when we awoke, and of
Wing, in that State. He has a wonderful rounded the west side of a great berg it fell course we had no thought of leaving the
a dead calm, and two miles away we beheld shelter we had so luckily discovered. The
cant. tax on the income derived from prop -
Naw ,o ;nth Wales will impose a five per record. having jumped, by official measure-
went, the great distance of one hundred another whaler. It was early spring at the first move after breakfast was to get to the
erty in the colony by absentee owners. and three feet. When the runner reaches 'cape, but a finer day in that latitude no top of the nearest mountain and have a look
The Czar's present to the Emperor of Ger the precipice he
holding his body firm and yet not in an warm, the air was balmy, and except for the upon himself, -but he made no discovery to
gives a spring, and then, sailor ever saw. The sun shone bright and for the ships. Mr. Davis took this task
many was a, Russian diadem in pearls and
diamonds and worth $50,000- awkward poise, he sails like a bird through icebergs there was no reminder of the sea- reward his efforts. He, however, got a
The Iandau used by Marshall Bazaine the wintry air. son and its dangers. good idea of the size and lay of our island,
luring the siege of Metz is now used as a The skis are used for commercial pur- Our bark was the John Stafford of New and selected a place for landing. When he
1osta.l wagon between two villages in Lor- poses, too, and in Scandinavia they are in- Bedford, and the other craft proved to be returned we left the bay and pulled along
g dispensable adjuncts to the comfort of the Mermaid of Liverpool. When the whal- to the east and landed upon a sort of shelf.
Tame. travellers in the wild, mountainous regions. ing ships can make it convenient to do so, We had the material at hand to build a hut,
- Nikita, ruler of the Montenegrins, is said Men, women and children make use of them they always board each other and compare , and before noon we had an ice cabin big
drive a thrifty bargain with such of hi for all the purposes of locomotion. notes, exchange books and papers, and if enough to comfortably hold the five of us
- aople as need loans, the interest being any As the sport becomes better known in one ship is lacking in medicines or supplies, and the stores from our boat. While the
'here from 18 to 30 per cent. this country, through the efforts of its ad- the other always sella her what is needed. stores were being unloaded Mr. Davis and I
A new party is being formed in Germany herents to promote it, the native Americans It had been seven months since any of us made our way over the hummocks to the
_hose object is to dump Caprivi The in- take more interest, and it possesses so many had seen a strange face, and all were highly north to a heap of driftwood he had caught
ntion is to attack him on his commercial, advantages that there is no reason why it debghted at the idea of e, " gam," or visit. sight of when on the mountain. We found
is colonial, and his military policy. 1 should not become a very popular'and per- No matter if only five or six out of our crew three or four dwarf pines, a log, two planks
Sir Archibald Alison, son of the famous man.ent sport wherever there are the req- of fifty could go,..they would exchange our from a ship's bottom, portions of a cook's
i torfan, is about to retire from the Queen's unites now and the hill and dale so neves- books and bring back all the news. Ten galley, two wood -bottomed chairs, and a
eervice,inevhich he has had a half a century's sary for its utmost development. minutes after we caught sight of the brig broken cabin table." Those things told of a
terperience as a soldier, winning distinctionn - her Captain was on his way to pay our wreck, but we did not extend our search
in all the campaigns of that period. A TR&GEDX OF THE ARCTIC. Captain a call. Our chief officer, Mr. Davis, until three days later. The temperature
A woman at Redruth died recently from thus obtained permission to pull off to the began to fall, the wind to veer to the north -
Wood -poisoning caused by rubbing a small The Fate or Thirty men Who Remained stranger. Indeed, it was etiquette that we west, and by the time we had made two
acre o i her.face with her black kid glove. While Their Shipmates Went Houle, should make the echage, While the four trips for fuel we were
Inflammation set in, her head swelled enor- of us who were to go with the mate were • DRIVEN TO THE HUT
While on a recent visit to St. Johns, Nfld., cleaning tip and ragging out in our beat he for shelter. We started a fire and blocked
illneaey, and she died after a very brief Mr. Tetlow, an Englishman, related the was getting the boat ready. When we came the entrance, but so intense was the cold
following story to a reporter concerning on deck we found the men slyly poking fun when night carne that not a man could
Tobacco and snuff has long been supplied . Capt. Momsan, who is to take charge of the at Old Careful, as Mr. Davis had been nick- have lived out doors for five minutes.
to the paupers in the Lambeth workhouse, ship in which Dr. Nansen is to attempt named. He had stoceed the boat as if intend- Next day it grew somew hat warmer, but
and now the Board of Guardians bas passed this summer to reach the North Pole: ing to make a voyage of a thousand miles. the gale increased to a hurricane, and it was
a rosolution : "That the old women in the "A few years back Capt. Momsan and He had once been cast away and undergone impossible to move out. On the next the
plied hsweets."pikhtwho not tale snuff be sup. another Captain were out whaling near the great suffering, and after that he would not gale blew itself out, and we had rain, which
coast of Spitzbergen when they were frozen even lower for a whale without having his froze as it fell. When we finally got out to
The British Isles, as has been fully told in earlier than they expected. A confer- boat provisioned. While he was a splendid make a further search of the island for
aneed unusually severe weather this winter.
t'
hi ,e cable despatches, have also experi- enee of the officers of both ships was held sailor and a fine officer, and while every one 3 wreckage, we solved the fate of the ship
on board Capt. Momsan's vessel, when it gave him credit for bravery, this notion of Golden Horn of New London,which had
Altogether, as reports from all quarters was found that they had not'sufficient pro- his was considered " womanish" and held been missing for five years and as thought
Agree, the present winter has been a remark- visions to last them till the following sum- in contempt. to be frozen up in the polar sea. We found
able one for weather in Europe. mer. On the opposite side of Spitzbergen, We reached the stranger after a pull of one of her staved boats, the mate's chest,
Packs of wolves haveappeared at Belgrade ninety miles away, there was a cache con- ten or twelve minutes over a sea almost as her mainopmast, two cabin chairs, and
and other owns in Servia. At Pozarewatz taining food supplied by the Danish and Quiet as a mill pond, and for two hours strangest of all finds, a , mirror three feet
girl was devoured by the famished brutes, Swedish Governments for the use of ship• were royally entertained. We did not put long by twenty inches wide which had hung
pd stories of similar tragedies have - come wrecked sailors, the existence of which was ofi until the Captain's boat returned. He in her cabin. The name of the ship was
from various parts of Europe. The cold in known to Momsan, and he found that by sent to Capt. Clark ajar of pickles, six cans painted on the frame of the mirror. How
hernia and Servia has beer' extreme. sending thirty men across the island to the off preserved peaches, a pound of tobacco, a -thing of that sort could have knocked
.The King of the Belgians, accompanied cache there would' be sufficient provisions and a smoked ham. What articles were about the icefields without the glass being
by several of his staff, will visit the Congo on board the two ships to last the remain- given him in exchange I did not learn, but even cracked is a matter to excite wonder,
country in April. The old man will thus derty.
the ice broke up in the following it was a " dicker" between the two Cap- but that same glass is hanging to -day in an
Ju
rid himself fora time from the attentions ,l tains. When we left the brig the sky was office in Eastport, Me.
- of the Belgian anarchists. Volunteers were called for, and thirty as clear and the sun as bright as yon ever When the wheather finally cleared away
were selected from among the crews of both saw them. We had not pulled half .the our chances of rescue by either one of the
War and glory have been costly things vessels to cross the island in sledges to the distance when
to France. Between 1792 and 1815 she cache, which they expected to reach in a SQUALL CAME DowN bashdly damaged thes had become am selves thohey won dless.f cert
sacrificed one-half of the 4,500,000 soldiers thirty days. The men left, and.a few days on us from the north with the speed of a tainly look for us, but we were now so far
whom she sent to fight her battles. War afterward Momsan and his fellow Captain bullet. There was not the_slightest warn- south that the whole sea was covered
has cost her in this century not far from got clear, owing to the unexpected breaking ing of what was coming. In au instant with floating ice, and icebergs were to be
- 6,000,000 lives. up of the ice. They immediately set sail
A truly Arcadian community was dis. for Norway, knowing that the cache con- the sky grew dark and the squall .struck seen in every direction. It would be al -
covered recently, quite by' accident,in rained sufficient provisions to keepthe and beiore we had pulled three times our most suicidaio follow us into the icefields,ourfa
Sardinia. A petition was received by the thirty men who were left behind alie till length it was snowing as no man ever saw and Mr. Davis plainly told us that our fate
Government from "the inhabitantof the following summer. In the ensuing Jul the squallflakes come htdoboth except off Cape Horn, lay inl our own hands. What we could do
Salta " askinga rescue expedition was sent out from Nor- The caught shins totally un- to help ourselves, however, was the quer-
, permission to form a separ- Pprepared, and both suffered considerable tion. To leave the berg would be to freeze
ate community instead of their remaining way in charge of Capt. Momsan, and, hay damage. to death in the boat. To stick by it would
an intergral part of Baddeso, a town forty was situated,
the bay near which the cache It •wasn't two minutes before the spray be to drift with the gales and soon consume
miles away. No one knew where Salti , they fired a gun, but got no was flying over us and to save the boat from our last morsel of food. . The mate now
was, and a commission was sent to discover response from the shore. foundering she had to be brought bead to made an inventory of all our
it and report on it. "Capt. Momsan says that hs went ashore gpossessions,
with a sinking heart, for he feared the the north. The fierce gusts seemed to dig and it was figured that the five of us could
There has been a great yearly diminution worst, and the resultproved that he wase great holes in the water, and we dropped live for four weeks on what provisions we
during the last ten years in the number offrom one into another in a way to startle had. This would cut every man terribly
soldiers in military or civil prisons in Eng- right,chhe found on entering
t ringethe f in hut
built
over
toe everybody. The bark was due west of us short, but would sustain life. If the winds
land and Wales. In 1884 there were 1,117 presenceand a mile away when the skull struck. were not too furious the current sweeping
- soldiers in English prisons ; in 1891 there thirty dead bodies. 'The leader of the ex- Even if she could have held her position we down through Davis Strait would carry us
were 433, and on the 31st of last December pedition sat at the table dead,with his open could not have reached here Had the light into the north Atlantic, and once down as
there were but 44. Last year not one diary before him, written up to within ten craft been brought broadside to the gusts far as ' he coast of Labrador we stood a
soldier was sentenced to penal servitude. days of Momsan's arrival, and in it he ex- she would have been upset in a trice. A good show of being rescued.
The expulsions for misconduct have de- plained that the men suffered such hardship sailor is always proud of his officers when The storm I have described proved to be
creased since 1888 from 2,020 to 1,590• in crossing Spitzbergen that they ate they prove themselves sailorly Hien: I have the tail end of winter. On the sixth day
French- War Office experts are divided in
ravenously when they reached the cache. always remembered with pride how 'quickly the weather became so mild that the ice be -
opinion concerning the value or danger of "In that climate, he said, it -abs°- Mr. Davis grasped the situation. We were gan to melt', and Mr. Davis told us that our
lutely necessary to health that exercise pulling four oars. Under his order they island had been caught in a current of the
German Tower mtan sofficers have siege
rParis.
writtenquite should be taken in the open air for a certain were lashed together and flung overboard strait and was drifting south at the rate of
freely about the matter, principally hold- number of hours every day,btM he had been for a drag inside of two minutes. Almost two miles an hotir. We were in peril now
8 Y powerless to enforce discipline among them, any other mate world have made a push for from the breaking up of the mass. On that
ing the view that the tower would afford a and t•he result was that one after the other
fine target.. Some French officers agree the bark,and therebymet with disaster. same sixth day it turned completely
with this g sickened and died. One man was actually With her head to the wind the boat rode around, and a -greet rift appeared right
the city would - others the tower fortof ran found dead in his bunk with a parcel of ?oaf like a duck, blit while the sea was strum
through the centre. We launched the boat
while it would afford an excellent post for sugar grasped in his frozen hands. The relief gling to get up it did seem as if she would be and pulled to what I called the°east moun-
observation. From it the operatios of an party could do nothing but bury the dead, knocked to pieces in the turmoil. If you tain. This was blue -white ice from a gla-
enemy could be observed for a radius of and so hard was the ground frozen on the were to be seated in a box and drawn over cier. In size at the base it would have cov-
forty-four miles. island that dynamite had to be used to the surface of a mountain you would find ered twenty acres of land, while its highest
hollow out the graves. Capt. Momsan then it a pretty fair comparison. If you were point from the water was fully 200 feet.
The cold has been excessive in St. Peters- returned to Norway." - standing on the walk and a man were When the ice field connecting it with the
burg, and for weeks wood fires have been cleaning a house roof of snow you would other berg should break up this big lump
burned in the squares and streets of the city A Great Military Balloon • get no more of it than fell upon ,us. We would be in nowise affected. By noon of the
in an effort to make necessary outdoor busi• A large dirigible balloon is being con- had to throw the water out with the bailers seventh day we had transferred ourselves to
ness endurable. The streets have, however, structed at the military balloon works at and the snow with - our hands or find the the berg and erected another shelter, and
been practically deserted. The double win- Chalais-Meudon, under the direction of boat sinking under us• we were not an hour too soon. The rift
dows in the stores and houses are mostly Commandant Renard. It will be similar in " It's not se bad as it looks," said Mr. through the centre continued to widcn and
iced over and frozen up. From north and form to the La France of 1884-5 but longer; Davis to us, as the sea began to get up and deepen, and by and by there was a great
central Russia a temperature of thirty to measuring about 230 feet in length and 43 the boat rode easier. " The chances are crash and the two bergs were separated.
thirty-nine degrees below zeio is reported, feet in its greatest diameter. By a new that the squall won't last long, and we The waves then made short work of the
whieh Is twenty-seven degrees below the arrangement of motor it is expected to be shall find the old barkie in sight when the fringe hanging to their bases. Before sun -
average. In Siberia it has fallen to forty- able to make headwayagainst air currents sun comes out again." down our majestic berghad no encumbrance,
five degrees below zero. not exceeding 40 feet ersecond,cor 28 miles We felt that we might almost. count on and was drifting alog so steadily that it
The bitter cold that has prevailed and an hour. The motor is net fully described,than, and yet we were doomed to disap• was hard to believe it was afloat. For three
was still prevailing two weeks ago through- but it will act either with gasoline or the pointment. There wasn't over an hour of days and nights nothing happened worth
out Germany has far exceeded in intensity gas of the balloon, giving an effective force daylight laft us when the squall came down, relating,- except that we harpooned and se -
anything experienced there for many years. of 45 horsepower on the shaft. The total and when night fell the gusts had settled cured two seals as they crawled upon a ledge
The snowfall, too, especially in Berlin, has weight of machinery, with supply of gaso- down into a steady gale. The snow -storm on the sunny side of the berg. As the winds
been the heaviest in years. Traffic in the line, etc., will be about 66 pounds per horse passed away with the puffs and gusts, and were light our craft had no motion except
streets of the capital has been completely power. Previously it bas not been possible then, of course, we looked for the lights of with the current. Or the morning of the
• interrupted several times this winter. Two- to make petroleum motors with a less weight the ships. No one was more than tempor- fourth day, before daylight had yet come,
weeks ago the temperature in the city was than 150 to 200 kilogrammes per horse pow- arily disappointed that we could not make our craft crashed into a berg which had
9 ° below zero. Railway traffic has been er. The screw will be in front, and a large them out. , We would drive much faster probably grounded, and our escape from
- interrupted all over the empire, and the rudder behind ; the former will make about than the bark or brig if they lay to, and if INSTANT DESTRUCTION
Cold has been most severe. Many people 200 turns per minute. The first experiments they had to run before it they were miles
have perished from cold, and three such with this balloon are, it is said, to be made ahead of us to the south. At about six was miraculous. The south side, or a Iarge
deaths occurred in Berlin on Jan. 18. Theportion of it, was split off, leaving our but
in the early spring, o clock each man snuggled down to make standing on the very edge of a cliff sixty
{p�aoort of Hamburg has been completely closed himself as comfortable as possible, and it feet high. We had to cut our way through
` by ice, and some twelve days ago all the no was an hour later when the roar of breakers
shipping in the harbor, including 126 large A New Luminous Compass• came to our ears. Every one instantlythe back wall to escape. Our boat
steamers and over 100. large sailing ships, The luminous compass recently intro- divined that we were drifting the hent heeledcovand within two hours
er on its side. This
were ice -bound. Navigation in the Baltic duced in the French. navy consists of an or- g
a has almost entirely ceased. denary Thompson compass. During the DOWN IIPON AN ICEBERG, movement took place very slowly, and
day it is employed in the usual way, but atbrought us on the crest of t p, instead
4 night a vertical line of light is thrown frpm and that we were also perfectly helpless in of being on a shelf near the water. We soon
The Sport of Ski-Runnin • the binnacle light upon the interior side of the matter. To have pulled in. that drag hod another hut up and our goods inside of
Of all the sports which your typical the compass box, between the card and the would have been fatal. - Before the oars it, and the next day we made another
Norseman enjoys there is none he loves glass, by means of a combination of lenses could have been detached and flung out the
strange find.
more than that of ski -running. Upon the and mirrors. This line is, for the time .be- "beat would have been in the trough of the Inclosed in that portion- of the berg
- long slender wooden runners, which are less ing, a fixed line, and bears a known rela- sea. Perhaps every man was praying to which must hat e been forty feet under
than six inches in width and from eight to tion to the direction of the ship's keel. hghostly
God as the roaring grew nearer and the water before the collision was a native
ten feet in length, he can travel over moun- Feom another combination of lenses and ghostlglare of the berg came to us through Greenlander in full dress, with a sealing
tain and plain, up the precipitous hills, and mirrors above the center of the card, a sec- the darkness. ' We missed the northwest spear in his hand. We figured that in
down long, steep declivities ; whilethe and ray of light is thrown upon the interi- corner of the berg by not more that twenty crossing some glacier he had pitched for-
swifte`st steed would be" left far behind. or side of the compass box, and this, after feet, and the spray of a breaking wave half ward into a rift, though when we chopped
The skis are boitnd about the feet by strong suitable- adjustment, moves around as thefilled our craft. him out we could not find that he had been
straps or wither, and they remain fast when card moves. This line being of different We drifted along in sight of the great ani a y the fall. His eyes were open,
it would seem they would be lost at every length, is easily distinguishable from the island of ice for ten minutes before reaching his lipsslightly parted, and but for -his stif-
step. One of the most interesting things other, and it may be temporarily set so as its southern face, and then a current drew nese one would have been -inclined to speak
abouts the sport of ski -running is the act of to bear any desired relation to any point on us into the lee of it, and we knew that we to him. We could not get the spear with.
speed-contesting—the racing down long?the card. In steering,the helmsman has were temporarily saved. Now we got in out knocking off his hand, and so we did
snow -clad hills,- sometimes several miles ;j simply to move his wel so as to keep the our drag and put out the oars, and after not take it. We got his knife and a sort
length, at thebottom of which there is atwo luminous lines in the same straight rowing to the east for about a milewe found of game bag, however, and also some hand -
steep break in the course called a "precipe." line. an inlet or bay and -ran in and made fast, made horn buttons from his clothing.- He
From, this` rireoipitona point the runner This bay extended back into the berg a might have been dead one year or 100 years
=sips high in the air, while going at a .4 "protected art "of forty-nine women widths It wasof likea re riivr fiowin as about 100 down to • er all preservedd could tell, body the ice would have
p P y y g adit the indefinitely. itd
jumps
rate of speed, and, after describing emigrants lett England for Western Aus- the sea through great cliffs. We were er-
- an are in the_ sky, he"alights on the snow tralia two weeks ago, under the auspices of fectly sheltered here, and by the light ofthedisappeared from sight into the sea �like e. stone. For
below. the United British Women's Emigration boat's lantern we made a hearty meal off the next eight days -we moved steadily
This feat, whiich at first sight seems so Association. The aim of the organization our provisions and then turned in for an all southward with the current, and the weath-
dangerously near the suicidal line, is, as a is to assist young women to better opeor- night's sleep. The weather had"-b'eoome er continued to grow milder. At9 o'clock
matter- eif fact, no more dangerous than trinities of securing employment, and one of freezing cold but all were warmly clad, and on the morning of the ninth day we sighted
many another sport, and the accidents are its of vers furnished the information to the Ove had the sail of the boat to cover us in. a sail, made a smoke as a signal, and at
lewi fur these who -make the jump have long newspapers that -" A11 the wgpnen of this We could hear the wind howling above us noon were taken off safe and sound by the
six trainein the skilnae's arts. In tut party had either been in domestic service or and feel the berg tremble as the great waves brig Frost King, bound from
atlter raid the annual tournaments held in had had such home training as would Make flungthemselves against the o' p opposite face N. F., to the Shetland Islands. Itwasa
-:hie set adhegenities are the great 'sporting them useful in a colonial household." Then but ata slept till daylighpt without a year before we heard from' the two whal-
e uttre t the
f year,
ndtheKinngre tsrthe the reporter
epos rrnatvelymad the interesting in- break. Ihavecalledthe mass ofice anioeherg. nag ships. Both were sadly knocked about
$ colony to which Perhaps ice island,
would be a abetter term in the furious gale, but both weathered: it,
fel Mier to titer' the..lists, they are going, with a .pop elation slightly for it,: as when we came to inspect it b d
t ideVeis wonde''fn ry-tptereating over 60,000, thte sen outnuinber the waren light we found_ :it to be over long ap and so it came about that the. moss rofo the
4 i ,, g a mile to onyawl was the onlyone sustained throe h-
. lac aprreeiated. by.11;6Ot._ s $
each face. It was as if two bergs had stood out the whole adventures.
CANA 3A'8 ELDORADO.
interesting Interview With Mr. Mara, M. A)lian Throws Ilia Friend Into a Bute
P. for Yale and Kootenay. or Unconsciousness, but Fails to Re.
store Bim.
Mr. J. A. Mara, M. P• for Yale and Ko-
otenay and an old Toronto boy, is at pres- A despatch from New Yerk says :-�
ent in Ottawa, Mr. Mara is never tired of Thomas Esmonde, whe lives at 222 Christie
singing the praises of bis constituency, of street, New York, was hypnotised by his
its prospects and its mineral wealth. In friend, Robert Kreemer, 224 East 85th
an interview the other day he gave some
valuable information in regard to mining Kreemer has for a long time believed he
street, the other night in the latter's room.
prospects. He said : was a born hypnotist, and he became a
ecuted more vigorously and with greater
Mining in Yale -Kootenay has been pros- pupil of Prof. E.G. Johnson. Esmonde wan
a bosom friend of Kreemer's, and was
North Thompson, 60 miles above Kam -
success than in any previous year. On the the latter's favourite subject. Esmonde
_
called on Kreemer last night, bringing a
loops, several silver leads have been dis• friend with him- Kreemer was anxious to
covered that will be worked this year. The exhibit his wonderful power over Es -
Kamloops Coal Company are working a four monde, and after some hesitation the
foot seam of bituminous coal and expect to latter consented. The amateur hypnotist
ship as soon as navigation_ opens 1,200 tons placed his subject in a chair and then fac-
a month. The Glen Iron Company at ing him passed his hand over Esmonde's
Cherry Creek have shipped last year 2,000 face. Gradually Esmonde became passive.
tons of iron a month to Tacoma for fluxing He was pinched, pricked with a needle,
purposes. At Fairview Camp, Okanagan, his hair pulled, and he was otherwise
English and Montreal capitalists, represent- maltreated without giving any indication
ed by Messrs. Reynolds and Atwood, have that he experienced pain. Kreemer was
purchased a group of mines and intend delighted He had never before been so
erecting a large stamp mill either at Fair- successful. " Now I'll bring him to,"he
view or Okanagan Falls- In East Kootenay said. He made more passes, but Esmonde
the Thunder HU1Company are erecting con- continued to stare vacantly before him.
centrating works, which they expect to have Kreemer became frightened and redoubled
completed in March. They intend shipping his efforts, but with no result. After half
the concentrates to Golden, B. C., or Great . an Hour of vain effort Kreemer, frightened
Falls, Montana, almost out of his wits, sent for Dr. Loewen-
The North Star, a mine that was diseov- good. The physician hastened to Kreemer's
ered last fall and sold to Messrs. Mann and room where he found Esmonde completely
Holt for $40,000, is being developed
this winter. The mine shows an extra- prostrated. He was breathing heavily and ordinary body of ore ; the'in an alarming condition, his body being
vein is over 30
feet wide and the galena assays 60 ounces rigid and his hands and feet as cold as ice.
While the doctor worked over the young
in silver and 60 per cent. lead. It was at man Kreemer summoned his teacher, iohn-
first thought that the ore would leave to be son. Johnston quickly arrived; but his ef-
shipped to Jennings on the Great Northern, forts to restore Esmonde were no more suc-
but now there is a probability of it being cessful than had been those of Kreemer and
brought to Golden and treated there. the physician. At one o'clock this morn -
THE KOOTENAY RIVES ing Esmonde was still partly unconscious
from Fort Steel to Canal Flat, is navigable though his condition had improved slight -
for light draught steamers if a few obstruct ly. Esmonde was restored to consciousness
tions are removed. This the Government early next morni ng by Prof. Johnson.
contemplates doing, and Capt. Armstrong, ' —
of Golden, is building a steamer for that North Greenland -
trade. But it is in West Kootenay that
the richest discoveries have been made Professor Angelo Heilprin recently gave
and where the greatest amount of develop- a very interesting address on " The Scien-
ment work have been done. The Slocan tific Results of the Peary Expedition, ill -
mines were only discovered a little over a uatrated by photographs projected by the
year ago, and that district is to -day lantern, before the Engineers' Club of Phil
pronounced by experienced mining adelphia.
experts to be the richest miningThe expedition under Lieutenant Peary
fielin North America. The ores ardid not have for its object, as many errone-
chie fly silver and lead and are much ously supposed, a nearer approach to the
higher grade than the silver mines in the North Pole than had yet been reached, but
neighbouring states. Hundreds of tons of was planned with a definite object, the de -
ore have been shipped to Tacoma and Great termination of the northern boundaries of
Falls at a cost of from $75 to $100 a ton, Greenland, which wasacarried out with un-
yielding a handsome profit to the mine usual fidelity. The basis of operation was
owner. A number of the mines will be not, as usual, the steamship, but the main -
worked all winter and the ore hauled over land, and the trip extended from Mc -
the snow on raw hides to Kaslo and Nakusp. Cormick Bay northeaatwardly across the
Kaslo is an illustration of the rapid growth ice cap.' The entire return distance -1,300
of a new town in a mining district. A year miles --was accomplished on foot, sledges
ago there was a single log cabin on the town being used only to carry supplies, etc.
site. To -day there is a lively, progressive The country was found to be bounded by
town, with a population of 800. The build- a chain of mountains on both the eastern
ings are of a substantial character, the streets and western shores, and the trip started at
are graded and the people support an enter- the western shore at an elevation of from
prising weekly paper.
North of Slocan are the Lardeau mines. 2,500 to 3,000 feet, and continued rising to
the apex of the Humboldt Glacier. The
These discoveries were made late last fall
ioe cap terminated about82° north latitude,
and bid fair to rival the Slocan in richness. and open country followed it northward.
The ore is not as high grade in silver, but The northeastern coast was reached in
carries some gold, and the ore bodies are latitude 81° 37', about 4z° furl her north
larger. Several claims are bonded to than had yet been discovered. From this
ENGLISH CAPITALISTS, point the directions and general character
who will proceed to develop them upon the of the coast in both directions were estab-
opening of navigation. Between the Lar- fished for a considerable distance, although
dean and' the C. P. R. are situated the Fish it could not be closely explored, on account
Creek mines. Mr. Ryckman, M. P., spent of the rugged basalticbowlders with which
last seawon there, and believes he has several it was everywhere covered. The physical
valuable locations that will be worked by features were found to be quite uniform
an English syndicate. He has a specimen throughout the country. The mountain
in room 16 that assays 175 ounces in silver ranges averaged about 5,000 feet in height,
and 60 per cent. lead. occasionally reaching 10,000 feet or higher.
The richness of tnest Kooteney is an as- The basaltic bluffs and bowlders on the
sured fact. The mines have passed the pros- coast, and the numerous ficrds, made it
petting stage and are now being developer.
Developmentproceededbetween ithe lar tmouutain nges,ytheren is an
that transportation facilities have not has so rapidly r apparently endless sea of ice, entirely cover•
kept pace with it. What we require now ing and hiding the true topography.
is railways that will tap the centres The expedition solved the problem of the
of mining districts and reduce the cost northern termination of Greenland, by
of transportation. There are thousands of showing that it does not extend so near the
tons of ore in Slocan and Lardeau that will pole, or northeastwardly, as has been gen-
stand a $5 freight rate from the mines to erally supposed. It was also found that
navigable water on the Arrow or Kootenay glaciers were projected northward toward There i
Lake, but cannot be shipped on pack ani- the pole, and therefore Greenland could of energy
mals at a cost of from $30 to $50 a ton, hardly have had any connection with the
With a railway either from Kaslo or Nak. American ice of the great Ice Age, as has A f:.fir 1
use into the heart of Slocan, ore can be de• often been supposed by geologists. the infiue
livered to the C. P. R. company or to the A narrow border country, having a good Allegor
Great Northern at a reasonable rate. I be- vegetable growth and an animal life identi fliustratrc
lieve cal on' the east and wort sides, extends all Goodc
RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION arcund Greenland. The summer tempera. very sine
will be commenced in earnest upon lure there is about the same as that of a How e
the opening of navigation. The C. P. R. mild winter here ; the winters are such
intend building a branch from Revel- colder than in this locality, but not nioro so happines
stoke to deep water on Arrow lake. than in some of our Western States.
Expert
And • Nakusp and Slocan Comapny There is a very perfect,"but very diminu• ' sole help
pany will build from Nakusp to Forks of tive, forest growth of birch and willow. He iiia
Carpenter. The Spokane Falls and North- Poppies, anemones, buttercups, and other dem goo
ern are extending their line to the bound- bright colored flowers bloom in favored local- The er
ary, and the Nelson and Fort .Sheppard, ties, and butterflies and mosquitoes are lively se
for which tenders have been called, will abundant. To be
connect at that point. The Kaslo and Slo-The country, up to the 73°, belongs to
can Company also promise to have their Denmark ; north of that is No Man's Land, son agar
line running to Bear Lake this year. probably because its resources have not made More.
" Where do you think the principal Com- it worth an official claim and protection, The d
mer-cial town will be `s" asked the reporter. The true Esquimaux are found north of vents OU
ea
Nakusp. I think Nelson will be the dig. cooked food, are quick of perception and in
tributing point owing to its geographical adapting means to ends, and are a,bsolutely
There will be several towns in West Melville Bay, and now number s,pprox imate- Do no
Kootenay, but the most important will ly 250. They seemingly observe no religious Huse the
Lake, and is the only town in proximity hoTnbeset.expe
dition to be underta.ken next
be .T_l___ Tr__,_ Forks r ,. arpenter _ formsmore than 300 of his silver pieces were re- than :nut riti°
position. It lies at the foot of Koo enay ..
neaten with the outside world. The C. study the open sea beyond. economy
and K. railway to Revelstoke, via Slocan
applied for a charter to build from the C. Use Of the SteamtarEnge. ine in Oyster Cul- st:Coineeau..n t
are ferti
to the mines that is likely, in the near season will attempt to completely locate the
future, to have uninterrupted rail con- northern boundary of the country and to
P. R. evidently realize this, as they have ..._______m________ e
sensitive to extreme cold, and the recent in living
river. Nelson will then have direct rail
communication with the transcontinental Certain varieties of the oyster are ver
lines and will have competitive rates.
..., severe frost so seriously threatened the la:_t tEni:
several days a steam engine was employed a sllenetetn
20,000,000 oysters stored for the winter in
— The Effoot of Drink on Industries. the ponds at Hayling Island that for
The industrial progress of many European
to keep the ponds thawed and sapplied should k
ing habits of wage-earners. In England
Scotland and Ireland alone Prof. Leone Levi were kept burning night and day upon the tatFioiNnelto
nations is materially retarded by the drink -
with water, and large coal and coke fires
eating drink. There has recently been a
dances half the night, and yet eats only —ability
where the working population can hardly be
The Smyrna, porter eats only a little fruit 8,nd. im
The et
has estimated that the wage•earning classes
are spending $425,000,000 a, year in intoxi-
The Spanish peasant works every day e.nd
ponents of the movement insisted thet the
regarded as -models of sobriety. As the op-
t nd some olives, yet he walks off with his thaift ;frit,.
ment by way of settling the question so far as derful roads and carried a weight of ht °0 fonut sh et he h aocl
strong temperance movement in Belgium,
his black bread, enion, and water melon.
distributed them in equal shares among his bread and sour wine. They were temper- nus.
oieOdnkein
load of 200 pounds.
evil had been greatly exaggerated, a menu-
facturer made a curious and practical experi- The Roman soldiers who built such won -
workmen when he paid them their wages-. ate iu.diet and regular and constant in ex- touchsto
his own employes was concerned. He armour and luggage that would cruth the
of the saloons adjacent to his works to hand In France there is an unwritten but im- tf .11) reE it lel 1 tl e. uY
marked 700 5 -franc coins with a punch and average farm hand, lived on coarse brown
At the same time he requested the keepers ercise.
over to him all the coins so marked that mutable law that a painting shall not be
caihe into their possession. Two daye After exhibited without the artist's consent, no
AMATEUR HYFNOTI NG.
RAI
The Annan
The nam
tion during
of miles y`_
(besides i,6
869 were la
14,009 mile
The paid -u
78 ; the gr.
number of
and 21,753,
ed by then:
run by tr.
amount ex
constructs.
sidles to r•
was $1',3,4
Governme.
$612,204.
The nu
.ntercolon
572 ; the n
was 904,91
3,778,677
The quant
8, 713,984
was 7,640
quantity o
tons. Th:
was 21,63,
and of refi
16,12, to•
With r:
that the
30th June
pen dit i_ --'e
for constr
$349,•178 f
total cana
With r=
tolls the
here toh re.
to the to'
wheat an •,
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the year 1
abolished.
represent.
terested i
cil were p.
abolition
reduced f.
half; the t
and and t.
and certai
Montreal
Montreal.
tolls were
to 2 cents
year up t.
sion has
Council.
was cond
should be
ly export=
States a..
Sault Ste.
ton on ami
Dorninion
;hat the
ierred fro
tgan to
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,orever fr
`took plat:
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state, co.
subjects s
terms of
the Unit-
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was mad
by which
July 1, l
width at
of 23 fees
with a w'
vessels a
work da
Between
a further]
and the J
far has bn
.:
turned to him by the saloon keepers. Sub- matter ono a literary "` the a weer may
regnant calculation showed that in leas than be. And now a literary and aY ie con -
two days each workman had ent more guess in session at Milan, Italy, lass decided
half
his
- salary _ saloon. sP that the right. of reprodeetis does stet pass
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