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INTELLIGENCER AND to utter and to argue freely according to conscience all liberty ADVERTISER No paper Boot outside of North York paid in CO Vol XLVI No Copies Gents Each Newmarket Ont Friday October Terms per annum if paid in Galls for a good Granite kettle If you would have the Best Made A sir foV DIAMOND WARE It Is light blue color Manufactured by Kemp Manufacturing Company Toronto The line comprises all Kitchen utensils For the Bra Screen Wire Doors and Windows 1 all Size Try our Beady- Mixed Paints General Hardware Binder Twine Harvest Tools Machine Oils A BINNS and General Tinsmithing Promptly Done LEGAL DENTAL J RofaePtson Notary Public Office Main Street Newmarket to Loan on good Farm security Barrister Solicitor etc Solicitor for Township of King Money to Division Court Building Newmar ket Ontario p Barrister Solicitor Conveyancer etc Late with Marsh Cameron Barristers c Toronto Estates carefully managed and collections promptly made Money to loan at lowest rates Office Sax 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phosites wherever Scrofula manifests itself will prevent the development of the dis ease Let us send you a book Free SCOTT The are garnered fruits stored Again wo onr To word Seedtime and harvest fall nob Morning the fades before rays Of approaching light snowstorm Of Winters day Trees resume their dress The birds back days appear at length And fields of ripened grain Assure Tis again The rains Discouraged many a one Stilt the grand result Harvest Home Well may wo trust the promises Of one so good and true Who utilizes wind rain To make all Nature new Like shocks of corn ripened May wo be gathered in I To happier and brighter scenes Where there no more sin When we hear the solemn call That will moat sorely come May wo with happy millions join Tho final Harvest Home Newmarket A I The of 9 A Young Tells How He Got to Klondike GL1UB1KO MOUNTAINS SHOOTING Risking Life and Limb to Get at the Dust Oeborao son of Geo 188 Beverley street Toronto left on May for the Klondike gold fields Mr is years of age and a graduate of the Military College at Kingston He in New York when decided to go to the Yukon that time the reports of fabulous discoveries had not reached the East He left Victoria on May and since his arrival in Dawson City he has written two very interesting letters home As they are the first letters from the Klondike from a resident of Toronto and contain much interesting and reliable information they are here given in full PERILS OP THE July It seems an age since I had a pen in my hand last at Juneau My note I sent from the summit of the never reached you I suppose Well after five weeks of travelling over the trail we reaohed the mouth of the Klondike where Dawson now is the richest mining camp the world has ever seen but I wont tell you about the gold just yet It was in the morning when as we drifted down the Yukon we came in sight of the camp Hundreds of boats moored along the banks and tents with a few log cabins formed the town The current is very swift and if we had not pulled very we would have been carried past it was quite exciting and for a few moments it was uncertain wheth er we should make it or not After leaving Juneau we went by a small steamer called the Rustler to 100 miles distant and after hanging around for a day on account of rough water effected a landing Although I up to this time to remain with the I found that it would be better for me to join someone else as they would not be able to travel as fast I wished and subsequent vents proved thatl was wise as the party stopped at and the to do some survey work delayed them weeks Dyea is a small trading post in arm of the Pacific Ocean com posed of a few Indian huts Here we the hard work and old who have mined in California Austra lia South America all over the world in faofc said it was the hardest trail they had ever been over We left on Monday the 24th of May and taking our Indian dugouts poled sailed and paddled up the to head of navigation and then after making camp we unloaded and had dinner The Indians then fixed our baggage into packs of to lbs each so you see we had quite a pack train and off we started up the trail A PICTURESQUE It was a I can tell you as or more Indians in all colors of rainbow wound up tho pass in Indian file We reached Sheep Camp at p so you see we had been travelling than twelve hours leaving There was a here where we had a square meal for The snow line begins at Sheep Camp and aa summit can only be in fine weather you have to wait your chances to get over Early the following morning we were up and moving I carried a pack of about lbs I found was quite enough In an hour or two wo reached Stone House a natural formation of rocks and took a short rest tho steep ascent here And now comes the tug of war If live to be a hundred I shall never for got the ascent of Step by step we up the pass Each step had to be cut in the snow and ice A misstep and you would be hurled down the mountain I looked back several times andfeardly believed that a human being could crawl up that precipice of ice but wo did it some way or other After crawling for six hours wo reached the foot of sum mit and then began that part of the ascent that is so steep that in looking up if you dare to it seems to be fall ing back on top of you This last stretch is only about half a mile but it seems like a thousand Wo were unfortunate in the day as a snow storm was raging when we reached the foot of the summit but we had to push on as not a stick or brush of any kind was in sight Nothing but snow as far as the eye could see which was only six feet The storm was blind ing stinging burning as the wind whistled and blew around the summit of the coast range My face was very sore from the wind and snow and be came very painful Snow glasses are indiapensible as when the sun does break out the effect is dazzling We reached the summit at 10 oclock after six hours struggling I threw myself down on a box lying on snow and tried to keep warm I wrote a note to you then to let you know I had gotten safely so far on the journey I expected to get my death from ex posure but I guess I am tough as I came off all right with only a slight cold We started down from the sum mit after paying off the Indians which was an awfully hard job in the snow storm as there was no vestige of shel ter The ia not really a pass but a trail right over the summit of the coast range As paper is getting short I will have- to make my story short THE DANGEROUS Alter reaving the summit with all our baggage lbs in two sleighs we had an easy time till we got to Crater Lake the source of the Great Yukon In places we shot down at an awful rat of speed but it ia not dan gerous as there are no obstacles After getting to Crater Lake we cached some of the and pushed on to Trader Lake the next in the chain They were all frozen over of course and covered with snow The trail was very heavy- owing to recent snow falls At oclock that night we reached Long Lake whioh being at a much lower altitude was nothing but slush over the lake was awful and I think I suffered more crossing it than at any other time on the trip in Hauling those sleighs with lbs on was terrible work sunk up to the tops of our boots in the slush A dozen times we lay down in the sleds totally exhausted not able to move and then we discovered that the small amount of whiskey in the party was left in a valise at the head of Long Lake cached near the trail AU along that trail there were nu merous canoes left by some who found too much Well I thought that my time had come to pass in my chips but we finally got over safely with our stuff and just managed to pitch camp and warm our numbed feet and hands that had been in the slush for hours It was a great change from the sunny slopes of the Pacific to the cold of the early spring in the Arc tic regions It never gets dark in this northern country in summer time and itfeelsvery funny at first to dine at oclock at night and the sun shining This last we experienced near Dawson where we are only a short way from the Arotio Well to continue wo Lake Lindeman next afternoon and found about people camped there waiting for the ice to leave the lake BUILDING A BOAT After staying hero a few days wo sailed down the lake in a scow and reached thy head of whore we had to build our boat which took us two weeks hard work cutting logs and whipsawing them into planks Then wo started down on the great waterway in fact one of the greatest in the world as you can load your boat here and go right down to St Michael at the mouth of the Yu kon miles without unloading the boat providing you have the nerve and good not to come to grief on tho famous White Horse or the Five Fingers or the Canyon or the Reef We shot every rapid with our small boat and lbs includ ing Shooting the White Horse is something to be proud of not many Yukoners attempt it but we like idiots thought we would try it We got through all right but I would not do it again in that small boat for all the gold in El Dorado and that is about at a low estimate You may smile when you read- the above figures El Dorado Creek will be in everyones mouth Osborne IN DAWSON CITY Dawson Yukon Aug 1 1897 Your letter came up on the boat yesterday so you see it took about two months to reach me After quite an exciting trip I reached here June seven weeks after I left Toronto I was almost frozen to death on the summit of the Chilcott Pass as we were unfortunate enough to cross in a blizzard Then in shooting the White Horse Rapids we had a close call There is quite a graveyard be low them now and lastly I thought the time had come to pass in my checks in prospecting up a small creek near here when we were surrounded by a bush fire which had to be crossed five times so I think I had my share of picnics coming io After leaving Juneau the trip was a succession of tough times but I enjoyed it all the same Crossing the summit is an ex perience I shall not forget Every- j thing had to be packed by men up the steepest part the angle of which is so great that the hill seems to lean for ward You have to hang on by your eyebrows every step has to be cut if the trail is glassy and when you have a pack of to lbs on your back you can imagine what it is like for miles One Indian who packed for us carried 165 lbs Some of them carry which seems hardly credible Crossing the icebound lakes just the other side of the summit was our next trail with heavily laden sledges sink ing in slush and water Esquimaux dogs are used in drawing the sledges and they are certainly indispensable for travelling in winter time COVERED WITH WILD ROSES The chain of are perfectly beautiful surrounded by snowcapped peaks and the shores with a very luxuriant growth of underwood pines and beeches Then comes the Yukon which in June looks like a tropical river much to my surprise the were covered with wild roses and all sorts of wild flowers tall trees etc In fact the river is beautiful High mountains on either hand which are often sheer precipices of feet or more and glaciers and all sorts of things Then comes Klondike Dawson City and lastly the creeks or gulches where all the yellow stuff is The town is only a few months old but it has sprung up like light ning The houses are nearly all log cabins the chinks with moss and mud roofs The diggings are really rich I have seen them myself and out gold all over the country they are no easy thing to get to through bogs marshes moss three ft deep brush etc Mosquitoes are in deed an awful pest If it were not for thorn the country would be a pleasant summer resort but they make life unendurable while you are among them They attack you in clouds of millions and are bo vicious that cheese cloth is the only thing to keep them away from your head They last till the middle of August and then the gnats come So you see insects these little things are a great draw back to the The prices hero are perfectly enor mous are a samples A meal eggs have sold for apiece bucket of spring water The water of the Yukon is muddy here besides the town top close for it to be good Clothing is away up in fact every thing is from five to ten times the price in New York City The cheap est thing here i3 gold keep it in buckets and old tin and leave it lying around while provisions are locked up BACKS QY GOLD On the first bout that went out about 1500000 was taken out in dust As I am working in the atom they aro slinging around sacks of it ready to take on board the river steamer Well you want to know what I am doing I have staked sev eral claims but hove not prospected them yet I shall be in the diggings this winter either working my own claims or some one If I strike it rich I wont do a thing but ait and let men work for me at SI a day That is what the wages are in the gulches in town If I make a strike I am coming out next spring but I wont be much a loser as I think I can earn You see you cant tell what is going to happen in this country Youre a beggar one moment and a multi millionaire the next man who I can see walking up the street with blue jeans on is worth 20000000 Even a man with a claim among the good ones on Eldorado It is awfully hard to believe and I can hardly realize it but all the fairy tales about the Klondike are true They are the richest digging ever discovered I am going to record a claim on Eldorado which by this time I suppose is famous Now I must close I would like to volumes but the boat is going in a moment Dont expect me homo till you see me I want a sack first You carry your money in little gold sacks about to 12 inches long and when you buy anything you toss over your sack and they weigh out If you dont hear from me dont bo worried mails so irregular Osborne Hayne Coming Home A few weeks ago a party of six young men left Hamilton for the Yukon gold fields The following from the Hamilton Spectator tells why they are now all on their way home The dangers and hardships of gold hunting in the far north have been brought sharply to the notice of Ham ilton people by the death of one of the six young men who left this city a few weeks ago bound for Klondike The party started in good spirits dream of gold overshadowing the toil and danger of the way to then Dorado But the pleasant dream had a rude awakening in the rapids of a northern river where Patterson one of the brightest gayest and most hopeful of the little band sank in the treacherous current and became the first Hamilton victim of the Klondike gold craze The party lost everything it possessed and was obliged to tako the way home again five saddened men bearing woeful tidings of dis aster and death Poor Pattersons bereaved widow and orphaned child ren have the heartfelt sympathy of the whole community t Days It might be well to paste the fol lowing resolutions on the first page of your arithmetic to be glanced at oc casionally during the next year I will- go to every class with the de termination to gain and keep the re spect of my teachers As far as I am able I will obey every rule of the school I will attend strictly to my own af fairs and let those of my schoolmate alone A cup of very hot milk taken at bedtime will effectually prevent sleep lessness Last week the formal of the new steel arch bridge over the Niagara river at Niagara Falls took place The Mayors of Niagara Falls and Niagara Falls walk ed from the opposite ends of the bridge meeting in the middle and shaking hands while massed bands played national airs of their respective countries This was followed by a salute of guns inaugurated the three days carnival Eng Sept A des patch from Vienna says that steamer Ika with a of ton and carrying Austrian passengers was entering the port at at 7 oolook last evening while the bora blowing hard when she collided with the English skoaraor which was leaving bows of tho were stove in and sho sank in two minutes Boats hastily put off and saved the captain and seven others but most of passengers perished a