The Stephenville Empire. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, October 29, 1897 Page: 1 of 4
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AYERS
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How. WM. F.. MASON, Chicago, III.
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fa aotton, oorn and caraala.
Landr In diflkmt CotmUm and
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I THE DEVELOPMENT HAS BEEN
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taking Into oonridmlton all Ik
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South Side Houston street.
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KING & VINCENT,
Stephenville, + Texas.
Lawyers 0 Real Estate Agents.
H»v© all kinds and cIampr of land* for sale. Soma choice farm# at bar-
gain*. We make abstracts of land title*. something that all land buyers should
be Inteleited in i^-wotaev wore »»« rime iwiii7»Aifc»,«^i
orncx in court houik.
A RAILROAD OVER CHILKOOT FANS.
The Trip to the Klondike out Soon be
Bade to ( omparaUre Safely, aad
to ■ Month*. Lew Time.
. .
Men bound for the Klondike
next spring ere arriving, and on*
of the men who has done more
than any other man in the coun-
try to lighten tne hardships of
the journey overland to the gold
fields, has just left for the other
side of the world. His name is
Qeorge B. Dodwell, and he makes
About as muoh fuss about estab-
lishing a new steamship or rail-
road line as the average man
does about investing in a new
puit of olothes.
Mr. Dodwell makes his home
at Yokohama, London and Ta-
coma. He was returning from
London when the Klondike ex-
citement broke out in a virulent
form. He had the chief manage-
ment of the Northern Paoifio
Steamship Company ’e lines from
Tacoma to China and Japan on
his hands, but this did not deter
him from pitohing into other pro-
jects. Anticipating the greatest
gold-hunting rush since the days
of ’49, Mr. Dodwell at once put
three large surveying parties in
the field to locate a railroad route
over the mountain passes to the
headwaters of the Yukon. They
agreed upon the Chilkoot pass,
and while other projectors were
building Klondike railroads on
paper, Mr.Dodwell, assisted by
Hugh C. Wallace, late national
democratic oommitteeman for
Washington, and a son-in-law of
Chief Justice Fuller of the United
States supreme court benoh,
quietly filed maps of locations
and right-of-way with our gov-
ernment at Washington City and
at 8ifku, the capital of Alaska.
Thhs the first Alaska and
Klondike railroad was started by
Tacoma gentlemen, who hold
oontraots for the completion of
the same before noxt February.
A large part of the material has
already gone to Alaska. The
railroad will be from Dyea, eight
miles to the head of the Chilkoot
pass canyon. It will be standard
broad gauge and oapable of car-
rying all the freights that is of-
fered. From the head of the
canyon an aerial tramway will
transport the miners’ supplies
over the summit, 3,200 feet high,
to the headwaters of the tribu-
taries of the Yukon river. The
tramway will be operated by a
forty-horse power engine, whioh
will be located at Sheep Camp.
This tramway will have a capac-
ity for carrying 120 tons of
freight daily.
During the past season the
established freight rate for carry-
ing miners’ supplies from Dyea
to Lake Linderman was from 26
to 60 cents per pound. By mak-
ing the average from 30 to 40
cents per pound the rato per ton
would be from $000 to $800. At
that rate the aerial tramway
would have a daily earning
capacity of from $75,000 to $100, -
000. But the freight rates over
the passes will tumble once the
tramway is in operation. At
present it is estimated the pre-
vailing rates next spring will not
be over 10 or 16 cents per pound
and, perhaps, even less. The
owners and operators of the new
rail and tramway own and oper-
ate extensive steamship and rail-
road lines, and are particularly
interested in the latter, and can,
therefore, afford to advance their
rail and water business to cut
prices of the Klondike and Alaska
traffic to the minimum.
With the Chilkoot pass railroad
and tramway in operation the
difficulties and hardships that
have been a veritable nightmare
to those desiring to enter the
minee overland will be removed-
There will be rio more pulling
and hauling and drudgery in
getting supplies to the head-
waters of the Yukon, and, in
faot, the possibility of a food
famine in the itew district in the
future wilt be averted. Onoe
supplies are landed at the head-
waters of the Yukon they can be
floated down stream with com-
parative ease, and the time re-
quired heretofore, in making the
journey, will be reduoed at leaet
_
Following the opening of the
railroad and tramway over the
mountaine, an organized effort
will be made to clear the rivers
and lakes of all and any obstruc-
tions to quick and safe naviga-
tion.
The open fag of the new rail*
ueing the ski oan travel very faet ewltoh board, which can be
and with greater ease than when plaoed on the operator’s table or
road and tramway route over the
pasaee was in oontemplatlou and
was being fostered by the practi-
cal Klondike and Alaska miners
looated at Taooma at the time
when they warned all prospeotors
not to attempt to get into the
Yukon qountry late in the fall.
They knew with the facilities at
hand the attempt to get in would
be a failure and time has Bhown
that their advioe was worth heed-
ing and their judgment sound.
But their are always excep-
tions, and, in the faoe of hun-
dreds of prospeotors returning
from the “impassable passes’‘
two young Norwegians left last
week for Dawson City, oarrying
an outfit that weighed 1,600
pounds.
“You will certainly freeze to
death. ’ ’ they were told by their
friends here
“Oh, no we won’t,” they
would reply, “we think nothing
of a trip of this kind at home in
Norway. It will be merely a
pleasure trip for us.
“We will travel on the Nor-
wegian ski, and draw our sleds
after us. Where it is too steep
to draw the sled we will paok our
supplies on our baoks. We can
go anywhere with fifty pounds
on our backs. With such a paok
we can coast down the mountain
aide on the ski at the rate of a
mile a minute. ’ ’
The names of these two daring
sons of the north are Adolph
Mosheim and Adolph Shilling.
The latter is a practicing dentist
fresh from Norway and the for-
mer has seen service in the Nor-
wegian army and has traveled
extensively. At one time he res-
cued sixty Chilian soldiers from
starvation in a blinding snow
storm in the Andes mountains in
South America. For this deed
of bravery he will be pre-
sented with a medal by his
native government. Both of
these gentlemen are athletio, in
perfect health, and are used to a
cold and mountainous oountry.
They will, however, find the
snow on the passes, at this sea-
son of the year, very dry and
light, and it is very doubtful if
the ski will bear them up. I
have talked with them for a long
time during the Dast ten days,
and, while I am oonvinoed they
will encounter great hardships,
and have little opportunity for
ooasting down the mountain sides
at the rate of a mile a minute,
they will, I believe, reach Daw-
son City before the new year.
It will be the first time that suoh
a trip has been accomplished at
this season of the year with an
outfit weighing nearly a ton.
Some idea of the dreadful ob-
stacles that are In store for these
young men (they are in the
neighborhood of thirty years of
age) may be imagined when it is
stated that the. pieroing oold
winds that now whistle and howl
through the jagged peaks of the
mountains at the edge of the
headwaters of the Yukon have
the velocity of a hurrioane and
would blow a Chioago girl off her
feet. Men who are olad for the
trip inland have found it impos-
sible to stand up and face the
hurrioane ooming from the enow
fields of the snow mantled Yukon
basin, where the thermometers
register HO and 70 degrees below
zero. Even horses and burros
refuse to face these deadly winds.
They turn about and run away if
an attempt is made to foroe them
on. ,
The ioe in the Yukon and its
tributaries freezes up rough, so
rough, indeed, that travel over
it is impossibls. United States
mail carriers succeed in getting
into the interior, it is true, but
they travel with dog sleds, and
without supplies other than those
needed for a small part of the
trip.
The Scandinavians of the coun-
try in partioul&r, and all the peo-
ple in general, will watch with
interest the progress of Mosheim
and Shilling. The ski whioh
they wear when traveling over
deep snow corresponds to our
snowshoe and is pronounced
ekes. ” It is merely a long
stick, or runner, with th« end
urnedup. Persons aooustomed to
up a mountain side, even though
the snow is deep. “Blooking’ ’
oonsista in putting a blook at the
end of the ski to prevent it slip-
ping- _ T. 8.
(auM Tall h, Their Leek*.
A political speaker said from
the stump that he oould tell a
man’s politios from his looks.
He pointed to a man in the orowd
and said that man was a demo-
crat. The man answered yes.
To another he said * ‘You are a
republican.” That man said:
“Yes, but how oan you tell?”
“From your looks,” said the
speaker. To a third man he said:
“You are a populist.” The
man acknowledged the faot and
wanted to know how he oould
tell, and the speaker replied as
before, “From your looks.”
To a fourth he said: * ‘You are a
goldbug: demoorat. ” “No,
I’m not,” replied the man an-
grily, “I’ve had a bad spell of
dysentery’s what makes me look
that way. “—Texas State Dem-
oorat.
WORLD’S tiREATENT TELESCOPE.
Ulft of Char It* T. Verkna to the Univer-
sity of Chicago The Dedica-
tion ExerciiieN.
Lake Geneva. Wis., Oot. 21.
—The greatest telesoope in the
world was dedioated here today.
It is the gift to the University of
Chioago of Charles T. Yerkes,
the muoh maligned street railway
baron, but who, notwithstand-
ing the trials and tribulations to
whioh he has been subject of late
years, has given to two-thirds of
Chioago’a area the greatest street
oar system on the faoe of the
earth, and in doing so, has con-
tributed to the City's develop-
ment to an extent that will war-
rant future generations in re-
garding him as a public benefao-
tor.
Five years ago the street oar
magnate founded the Yerkes ob-
servatory at this place, whioh at
onoe took rank among the simi-
lar institutions already in exist-
ence, and today he capped his
benefaction by handing to the
representatives of the university
the deeds to a telesoope that has
a diameter one-ninth larger and
a light-gathering power nearly
one-fourth greater than that of
the great Lick telescope at Mt.
Hamilton in California, until to-
day the most powerful glass in
tho world.
A teohnioal description of Mr.
Yerkes’ gift to soienoe would oo-
oupy a page of a metropolitan
paper. In brief it may be aaid
that it will pieroe the eeoreta of
the skies as has no other lens,
and that already it has partially
unmasked hitherto unseen worlds.
Sinoe it was plaoed in position
Professor Barnard has been able
to view with unnatural distinct-
ness most of the objeota con-
nected with the nebula lyra, the
great olueter in Heroules and the
dumb-bell nebula.
The objeot glass of twenty in-
ohes dear aperture is plaoed in a
tube whioh with its accessories,
has a total length of not lesa than
seventy-five feet. The instru-
ment oomplete possesses the
enormous weight of sixty tons.
The tube alone weighs six tons.
The polar axis, whioh carries the
entire weight of the tube and its
attachments, weighs five tons.
The driving dock, whioh is to
move automatically this immense
tube with a motion oorreeponing
to the exaot apparent motions of
the stars being observed, weighs
one ton. The weight of the ool-
umn supporting ths mechanism
of ths telesoope Is not less than
thirty tons. It is seven by ten
feet in dimensions and the height
from the floor to the oenter of
motion is over forty feet. The
dome of the observatory is sigh
ty-five feet in diameter. Ths
instrument is provided with all
the oomplioated motions whioh
are neoeesary ip suoh a large
telesoope. The maohinery at
fording this variety of movement
oan be operated by the hand of
the astronomer, or by eleotrio
motors at the will of the ob-
server. The eleotrio motors
are governed by a small
We Sell Them Cheap.
the equipping of the observatory
and its minor and main teleeoopee
ie a secret with the donor, but It
must have been enormous.
The dedication exercises took
plaoe this morning. At 9 o'olook
the final session of the interna-
tional astronomical oonventioft
was held. One hour later two
•peoial trains arrived from Chi-
oago bringing visitors from other
states, prominent men and wo-
men of the oity, the board of
trustees, students and guests of
the University of Chioago. A
procession was formed, and tha
maroh taken up to the observe
tory grounds.
After prayer had been offered
and a musical selection rendered,
the oration of the day was de-
livered by Prof. J. A. Keeler,
L. L. D., director of the Allsf-
gheny observatory. At the oon-
olusion of his address, Mr.
Charles T. Yerkes formally pre-
sented the deeds to the institution
to Dr. W. L. Harper, president
of the University of Chioago.and
the latter made an eloquent and
impressive address of aooeptanoe.
This concluded the simple exer-
cises, and after lunoheon had
been served to the guests an
hour was devoted to inspecting
the observatory. This afternoon
the visitors departed lor Chioago.
Ootober the 21. 181)7, will here-
after be a red-letter day
calendar of astronomers throu
out the globe.
THE BLIND ORATOR WORE.
lie-arrested on Two Indletmanto Found
Airalimt lllm by the Uiwsd Jury j
of Navarro County.
Corsicana, Tex., Oot. 21,-^-
The grand jury today returned
two true bills against Hon. T.
P. Gore, the blind orator and
populist Teader of Texas. One
bill oharges eeduotion and ths
other an attempt to have an aft-
oration performed on the viotlm
of this alleged lust.
Gore was already under bond
■ubjeot to the action of the grand
jury, and was re-arrested. To-
night he furnished a bond in ths
above two oases returned against
him by the grand jury.
The particulars of the offenses
of whioh Gore is aooueed have
already been published. Ths
affair oreated a great sensation
in thie oity and muoh consterna-
tion in populist politioal oiroles.
The poor blind girl, who it is
alleged was deoeived by Gore,
has many friends and sympa-
thizers here, who are determined
to see that she gets full justice.
If the etate of Texas Instead of
employing her oonvlots in fac-
tory or farm work in competition
with other labor, would etnplpy
them in road making, great good
would be aooomplished. County
authorities should supplement the
state’s work in this matter, and
greater tax levies should be mads
for road purposes. Money ex-
pended in making good roads
and in keeping them in rspoirs,
is well invested, and adds greatly
to the value of the farms wbOM
products are hauled over them to
market.
The editor of tbs Louisiana
(Mo.) Press has at lest one sub-
oubsoriber who does not appre-
ciate the paper, and who writes
in the following fervid fashion or-
dering the disoontinuanoe of it:
’ ‘ Bryson 1 rots you to atop my
paper i want you to stop it i am
getting enough of your scheme to
make me take your paper i state
onoe more i don’t want your dog
gun paper the post Mrs. has no-
tified you and she has got reoord
of it if you don’t stop the dam
thing i will give you a pieoe of my
raina 8top that paper i haven’t
taken none of them out of the
ofes.” V
Erath (feisty Apple*.
, A
. m
using ths snowshoe.
Many miners from ths Rooky
Mountain states are already here
for the winter, and most ofOhsm,
I find, are acquainted with the
ski. By ‘ ‘blocking’ ’ (hem,they
•ay, a person oan readily travel
■m
in any other convenient position.
The magnifying power of the
new instrument ranges from 260
to 3,000 diameters, and is twen-
ty-five per oent greater than that
of the Liok telesoope. The out-
lay involved in the building and
A farmer, from fifteen miles
north ot Dublin in the Ungleville
oountry, George Dougherty, was
here last Saturday with a wagon
Joad of very fine apples whioh he
had raised on hie plaoe. He in-
formed ue that he has an orchard
of six hundred thrifty tress>
most ot whioh are now bearipg
and says he will have a great
many bushels ot the fruit to mar-
ket thie year, aa his orop is ex-
ceptionally good. It is general-
ly presumed that Texas is aot an
apple oountry and that apples
cannot be raised here, but Erath
county is in Texas and Mr.
Dougherty is only one of those
enterprising farmers in ths ooun*
ty who oan
good apple
Progress.
they will have a
orchard.—Dublin
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