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 k '>taw myui fi^-iESLS/i*��n^j-,-"1*!t!����n��>w^ii IW M jMsuSf rti-i* jtf <iy��H W'*e��w.pnn����twly��i w?��.i wypw i y v������  lyitwtiiiwm-jgiwwwu.iii ,��� ��<liwft'*��wg-.ajatWnlrr��iB��a��ay^  �����^T*����MTj*rtcof*"-,*Tj.����a��(mt^a��'  -^n.^^AWJ^i^^-:  y';c^, y^--';^ ,y-   v  fe.     i     /% u  wi  4/  0  VOL.  14.  ATTJN,  B. C,   SATURDAY,    Al'l-i;,    2S,   .906.  NC 35;  TELEGRAPHIC.  I  1  <**  CANADA'S GIFT  .    WAS DECLINED.  Roosevelt  Decided' lo   Accept  no Outside Help.  CONDITIONS    AT    SAW    FRANCISCO.'  Western Provinces Sent Ship Load  of Supplies to Sufferers. '  .Business- Being' Resumed in Many  Lines ��� Insurance . Companies  ai'e Able to Adjust all Losses  ���Many.People Leave City-  Crater Enlarged ��� American;  Athletes Win in Greece���More  Trouble in Russia.  [Sl'l'.Ct.VI., TO TUP. CLAIM.]  St. Petersburg., April 26.���M.:  ������Shlackoff lias ope;:!}--declared that  -the present revolution1 iu Russia  was inspired and' directed by the.  American Masonic organization.  ��� Naples, April 26.--The -diameter  ���of the crater on Mount Vesuvius  .before the recent eruption was only  joo feet, but it is now reported to  be about live thousand feet.  Vesuvious has spent its force but  dense volumes'of black smoke still  issues from -the crater.  Soldiers are busy exhuming the  dead from Boscatrease and other  lava-covered cities and towns. It  .will be ten years before crops can  be grown on the devastated district.  Ottawa, April 26.���The Dominion government lias given one hun-  ���dred thousand dollars for the sufier-  ���ers from the lecent earthquake and  lire at San Francisco, but the gift  has been declined by the American  government.  Oakland, Cab, April.26.���All the  llarge insurance companies will be  -able to nia'ke satisfactory adjustments of the losses occasioned by  ithe recent disastrous fire in San  Francisco, the amount of which will  probably reach $200,000,000. There  ���are one hundred and .seven companies to share the loss.  San Francisco, April 2C.���Business in a limited area is already  being resumed. Seven meat markets were opened on Tuesday in  residential districts and tlie prices!  ��� were normal. .  The conditions at the Presidio  *uul Golden Gale parks, where vast  numbers of people are camping, are  ���biing rapidly reduced to a systematic basis.. All the refugees are be-,  ing gathered together in. one immense tented city with properly  ���defined streets, which are constantly  patrolled by soldiers.  ' Los Angeles, Cal., April 26.���A  ���boxing tournament was held here  ���on Tuesday for the benefit of the  Sau   Francisco  fire sufferers.    The  pany's   ste.'i.'.ne-r   Amur    sailed   on  Wednesday morning for San   Fran-!  cisco laden with relief supplies from  British    Columbia,    Manitoba,    Alberta and Saskatchewan..  Mayor Buscombc, of this city,i  sailed on .the Amur and will make  a formal presentation *af'the-ship's!  cargo to Mayor Sehmilz of San}  Francisco. Tlie .cash .contributions-  from Vancouver alone amount toi  over $25,000.      ' j  Hazellcn, Pa., April 26.���.One  of the largest collidries iu .this-district began operations on Tuesday  with a full force of non-union .men.  The  employees   are all housed aud  .fed   in   biri'ldings -which   are in a'  1  specially  constructed   enclosure -on'  the mine property.  Palerum, Greece, April 26.-Large  crowds of people are in daily attend-!  auce.'here this week at the games,!  competition'in which'-is open .to the  world. The American , competitors'  lead in'number of wins  in  all   the  athletic games so far decided.  . . i  St. Petersburg, April 26.���-The|  political situation here has suddenly  grown threatening. The draft for  a new constitution has aroused a,  storm of indignation and a general  distrust of thegovernment's motives  has furnished the stimulus needed  to solidify the entire opposition, the  result almost amounting .to a .political deadlock.  1  Warsaw, April 26:-���A religious  war occurred the early part .of .this-  week at Leanos. Ten people were  killed and seventy-seven others were.,  wounded. Agrarian troubles" have  broken out in the district of Nis-'  bini Novgorod. ,-  Washington, April 27.���In declining to receive contributions trora1  Canada, Germany and other nations'  i*.i aid of -the sufferers from the'  recent earthquake aud fire at San  Francisco, President Roosevelt said:  "The spontaneous contributions of  the American people will be amply-  sufficient to meet all requirements..  The proffered aid from all parts of  the world is greatly in excess of-the'  needs of the sufferers from tlie re--,  cent calamity and, in order to avoid  any discrimination, I have decided  that the best policy under the circumstances is to acoept no outside  help."  It is estimated that already.over  teirmtllion dollars have been sub-:  scribed by the citizens oi the United  States for the relief of the sufferers  at San Francisco.  San Francisco, April 27.���By  Wednesday everything w.as quieting  clown and the men of the militia  were withdrawn from the streets.  Telephone communication With  Oakland has been re-established  and the belt railroad is again operating, around, the water front. , The  city was lighted by electricity on  Wednesday night. Train service  with the outside was resumed again  yesterday. The Southern Pacific  railroad' trains  have alreacl}- taken  one hundred and fifty thousand people out of the city.  Saturday 'last t'hc 'police' broke  open every saloon which was still:  standing and-all stored liquors that-  had not been -destroyed by the fire'  were dumped into the gutters. -  ICleven clerks who had been imprisoned in'lhe wrecked post office  without food or drink for three',  days, were released on .-Saturday-  morning. \       :  All the-brmk'vaults were -examined ' as soon as possible after the  fires-were quenched and all were  found intact and-safe.  Fourteen men, who were caught on'  Friday night.last trying to commit  a .robbery.at theUnilcd States mint,  were killed by soldiers. Two other'  men,-caught -looting houses the next  day, were also shot and killed.  Good order prevailed throughout,  ithe duration -of the Tiie. :  It will'be several clays before any-  connected statement of the losses or  an accurate "list of the dead can be  obtained.  The 'first bread sold Saturday  by newly started  ba'keries  brought  one   dollar   a 'loaf.    The Oakland  1  bakers put a stop'to'this by supplying the needy at five cents per loaf.  E. A. Harrimau, railroad magnate, sent.-$200, coo'lo'tlie relief fund-  committee.  A message was received here on  Saturday by cable -slating that  Honolulu was severely shaken on  the 17th "inst."by an earthquake that  ���lasted six minutes and which caused  all the business'houses of the town  to-sway like reeds imthc wind. ,  ���GEN'MKAT, N1CWS.  United Slates -Consul Harris at  Nagasaki has 'informed his govern-'  ment that the famine iu northern  Japan is .more terrible than has ever  beeu depicted.  President Roosevelt '.has made  known to his most intimate friends  that it is his desire, after his present  term ol" office, lo become United  Stales senator for New York slate  and.fill "Blalt's place. Il is also believed that Roosevelt will again be  a icandidatc for the presidency .in  the j 912 elections.  A recent Washington 'despatch  said: Tlie mission -of .Maxim Gorky  lo America for cllie purpose of raising money tc aid ithe revolutionists'  of Russia lo establish their supremacy has received a hard blow owing  to some recent diplomatic correspondence between tlie two countries.  Russia has informed the United  States'government', that Gorky is  not a reformer but-a-rcvoluUDuist of  the most .rabid type; that Madame  Andervia -who accompanied him lo  New York as his wife, is not his  .wife but is also a revolutionist to  whom.Morosoff, a'.merchant prince  ��� of Moscow, .gave.$1,500,000 to aid  ���the-revolution. All .Russia is much.  concerned -and incensed at -the big  reception given Gorky on his arrival  in New York, the -opinion being  that the Americans have been  greatly .imposed upon. On receipt  tit the above news in New York,  Gorky and his companion were refused admission to all the hotels  and they have vanished and all  their baggage has been .shipped out  of that city.  STAMPEDE.  Wilson Creek is the Scene cl  a New Gold Strike:  Rush 'for   Claims   Started   Mondaj  Night ��� Discoverers    Locate/! '  Promising- Paystrcak.  Wilson creek, a tributary of the  O'Doundi river, was the scene ol a  stampede on Monday .of this week. '  Andrew Grier and John Tintingcr,  two well known miners who hav.e  been working this winter on Spruce,  left a 'few weeks ago to prospect on  Wilson .-creek, where they had done  considerable prospecting some three '  or four years ago. Ac that time  they .were unsuccessful in an endeavor to locate a paysireak, although course gold was found.  As .a -result 'of their recent search  they have discovered that the pay  lies in a hardpau about two feer.  from lhe surface, and from several  prospect holes which they sunk  in this lhe discoverers panned.out  an ounce of gold. Grier and Tin-  linger are now busy freighting -out  a summer's outfit and jl is their,intention to commence work on their  ground at the earliest  opportunity.  Quite a number of men from;Dis-  covery aud Spruce started- oiu'-'-uu  Monday night to stake claims at  the scene ot the latest strike aud  the,stampeding still continues.  As near as could be learned on  Thursday fully fifty claims had already beeu staked.  The new creek is reached via the  Blue canyon on Spruce and it is  about 26 miles from Atlin lo tlie  discovery claim. For several miles  each side of discovery the creek  bottom is from one hundred io two  hundred feet wide aud has very  little grade. There will be ample  water for ordinary placer mining  purposes.  CORRESPONDENCE.  [Tlie Claim is not  ruspuiiriihlo for views'ij.s-  prer,i-eil b,v eorj-espninlciit;,.]  Fditor of Tun Atlin Claim.  Sik,���As the formation of a Pioneer Association is "in contemplation, may T suggest the following  objects of such association as being  worthy of consideration by the  pioneers:  The promotion of good-fellowship.  Tlie acquirement-mid promulgation of all reliable information concerning these goldfields.  The encouragement of legitimate  mining-enterprises.  The   protection of the mining industry by all  constitutional means.  Yourobccliciit servant,  A .TriSLiNm-:.  Atlin, B. C��� April 2'<3th, 1906.  ���Hydraulic mining operations have  commenced 'very early this season.  Messrs. Brethcur and Dunham,'who  have -taken a lay on tlie Btackett.  ground just below Nugget point,  started two monitors,'to .work jcr  Tiiarsduy..  --r     s]  'I ATLIN,    B.    C,    SATURDAY,    APRIL 28. 1906  The Atlin Claim.  THE ATLIN CLA1A1 is published evcfiv gaturoav  MOn'IINfi.  ,   MAILED     THCC    TO    ANY    P/W1T   Of*  THT  ivoriLo   fan  co   ccnts'pcfi   month;   en.00   pen  YTAfl.       AllVCmtPIKG  nATCC:  St. OO PCniNP.H CARH  iNsniTJOfi:  nCADiriG noTicca. 2*i ccmts a linl.  SPECIAL    RATES    ON    APPLICATION.  .... __������O* ��� .  JOU IWNTINCi :  ILL-HCADS,   ' POSTERS. VISlTINtt   CAROC.  ItTTCn-HCADS, nnOGItAMMCS,   '   ETC..   ETC.  onntns   pmowptly   exetcuted.  PMCCS   MODCaATC.  Thk Atmn GrjAini Pihimkiiinci Co., I-ti>.  \V.    POM. A UP.     G HAN'T.       UDTTOTf-^lANAfJlSK.  THK  SAME  OLD  ?.   '  Is the mail in?    Why,   what   can  possibly be detaining il?    I-Ias any-  body seen the mail?  The scene was Allin; time, noon  of Monday List. Tlie answci to the  first question was easy and simple  euough-"-a plain NO! The second  question was unanswered���as no  one could find a reasonable excuse,  and to the third achap who arrived  Saturday night volunteered the in  formation' that he passed the mail,  which, had had a 12 hours start of  him, on the portage from Otter lake  Jo Hales City early Saturday a.m.  ' Shortly after  noon   on    Monday  the   mail    did,    at last, arrive, and  ever since we have been doing  oin-  utmost   to   find    an   answer to the  second question.   The driver looked  hale and  hearty enough.   ,Tha sled  dogs looked well  enough, even if a  little   lanky.    But   the driver probably believes that the  old   saying,  "a thin horse for a long race,"   applies as well lo dogs.    We are"' still"  unable to find the answer as to whv  tlie   mail   should   be two clays late.  Somebody   whispered     that    there  ���were excellent rust iiousks on the  joule.     But that seems a rather unkind   insinuation    in    view of   the  great   exertions   the contractor has  made to get the full amount of mail  in each week, and if possible away  ahead of time���just lo be accommodating, and in this endeavor,he has  spared neither dogs nor drivers.  But, to gel back to the insinuation, we feel certain that if the contractor knew or thought that, the  driver in question had loafed along  the trail, or had slaved too long-  taking the rest cure and had not  used every effort to gel iu sooner���  lie would instantly lire him.  Still, we have not got the aus .  1   tl:..: --ed districts  of-the  old f.\.i;iur\ '.v:r -,i adapt thi-msolves  to   ������grirui'.i.iYi!   hie.    Th ���.-:;.���   know  nothing   about   larming,   and they  find   it   impossible to learn.    They  find it dii'iio*)-! even to adapt  themselves   lo  the conditions which prevail in our cities,   and   they hocomc  'ci!.-co'.;r.igi:d   and  shiftless aud idle.  They arc as a  rule   impossible   as  settler", and   those  responsible   for  inducing ihem Income to this country are doing a poor service   lo   lhe  men  themselves and a worse one lo  Canada. ' The Imperial government  might,well interfere lo prevent  the  misrepresentation, 'regarding   labor  conditions   in Canada, which is .undoubtedly   practiced   by   a   certain  class   of   business   agents.    ��� What  Canada   wants   from   the    mother  country is the bona fide   settler   011  the   land,    who   has strength   and  resolution   1o work and    is ' thrifty  and   industrious.    This class, whether   they   understand    farming  or  not, will succeed, and the  more   of  them who come the better for themselves and the Dominion.���Vancouver Province.  Kills mm H&H^u^KhUu^ xs-v^  ' WHY.HKNH   OUT  AVIIKN   VfllJ  f!AS   fiJ'.T (lOOIli-  Mi C1I'"..M'   IIKIil'.?  ���   ���     Atlin, Nugget and   Grape   Risirjs  i-'"1 ���'" Minis of Jewelry nnnm  fm'tiiretl on the proiiMNO-*.  Fine  New  Stork  of' Watches,   Clocks,  Jewelry   ��'���'''    Diamonds  Wntrlies from $5.00 ii|i. ��� Ajti'iili for Columbia (���riiiiiiipli'iin':-.  Silverwar-c, Cut G-lass, Hsiiiii Puinta^S Cliina, Souvenir CSpeons  JULES EGGER1 & SON, Atu* a��� ��isc<>vkky,   ���  safety Deposit Vaults.      Watchmakers and Manufacturing Jewell's.  IN  They are   Waiting   for   Youl lT"> _, ^^y. ._, S-,���, ,-^.  CLotni  L  v \ ^ 41 a   Mats ��� and f&ry Goods,  o   GargscCs isaieS BSesssss FsaraiisMiff.isom'  FUrJv   'LINK    Ol'    HOOTS    anij    SHOES,  at.so    COM3    SEAE    HIP   CUM  BOOTS.  II  9  -��  Successors to  J.  H.  ' -Atlin nnd  *$&%��� B-Esttovary, B. C.  Richardson.  WRONG KIND OI- SETTLERS  Tlie suggestion on the pari of the  Canadian aulhoriiies that the Imperial government pass an acl to  prevent, through misrepresentation,  the sending of emigrants to Canada  will be endorsed by the general public of the Dominion.' According to  the despatches which are being re-,  ccived from Montreal, Toronto and  oilier centres in the east, the influx  of Ih'ilish laborers and artisans is at  present so greatthat a 'serious condition of affairs is being created.  With the ovcrsupply of this class-in  the big towns the, whole laboring  population will be affected, and we  may soon see, on a smaller scale,'  the unfortunate conditions prevailing in , our own cities which have  existed for so long iu the industrial  centres of Great Britain. This class  of 'emigrants- will not settle on the  A. F. & A.M.  , linttuliir   communications belli  on   tlio   flrHt'  lliiirsuluy of encb month  v -       /'[.tl'o A. O. U. W.ilull,'  laud.    Men who have.been brought]   vtaitiiiBtootiipeao^diauyliffi!jitoci.  REPORTERS OE TODAY.  A common charge broughtagainst  newspaper reporters is that they are  heartless, that   they revel  iu laying  before lhe world the closely guarded  secrets of individuals..   It constantly  happens that a reporter must do unpleasant things because others hive  beeu   guilty of those violations   of  custom,    law   or   convention    that  make news.    The opprobrium thai  belongs   to   the real offender is not  infrequently heaped upon   the innocent   ncw.-igalhcrcr.     There  is   no  work   a reporter detests so much as  that involving asocial  scandal, and  there   is   no   story thai a large percentage of readers will devour more  eagciiy.    There  is   not   a good reporter   living   who   has   not   been  guilty of that blackest, least lorgiv-  able     of   all   journalistic   crimes,  "throwing down" his newspaper to  protect a helpless person innocently  involved in a legitimate news  story  that   is   a matter of  public record.  On the whole,    the   news-gatherers  are a tender-hearted folk and generous, and that which often passes for  cynicism is an  intense haired   and  contempt for .-hams.   If they appear  suspicious it is because long experience   has , taught   them  that Ihey  must constantly guard   against  deception.    There is no walk of life a  good   reporter   is   not    compelled,  sooner   or  later, to invade, and his  position is the trying one ot   being  compelled   either  to gain the confidence of or outwit  those   lie   meets  there.���Hartley   Davis   in     Evcry-  boclv's Magazine.  Canadian  Pacific Railway Company.  Rwustanuxui xa l. J l-pJ i.  ALASKA   ROUTE   SAILINGS,  S,  'Si,   PrsBsoess IBesttrii&e  depails   from   Skagway  MpriS mm & ��&th; &-fflay Sih*  SuiniiK Ti'oi-.i Skagway S p.m. ' '  Direct   lo Vancouver   and Victoria. .  ,  Transporting by v.-iil or silisuiier to StwCfle withor.1 extra clm-r^e.  We (rive quick service.     No iiiturwciliiilr' ��.-;il1.��.  '  i'or rates ot* inioriiiiilion sipi'iy to  "P"'  LX.  B. Dunn,  Ajicnt, Slviiprv.-ny.  >-fr-*-*-��Q,J��*-��-��--�� -*-�����-��- *-*-*������*������*-*-*  THE   GOLD    HOUSE,  '   DISCOVERY,   3.  C. ���     .  C. H. Missen, Prop.      -       -    F. B. Wrong, Mgr. \K  Ivosluiirmit in Coiiiiftutian Under  New mill Cuiuiblo .Management.  ���-��<i'0<t>-��-��-��--*->-e-��-<  h-��-+~*-+-*<i>  <*^��^Nfc��>tftf*s<*^r^tf ^^iff'-^^^'tf-^ o^��'-��^^^^^^��v'4^��sa'��^��^��^��^r��^'��^  J��  **  The Picture that today__ is the talk  'of England aud the 33ritish Colonies::  being the first ever published showing  the Queen in her quiet home life,  (Frames 20 x 25 in.)  Don't encourage that boy in liis  idea that he has had enough schooling before he hasfiiiishecl a common  high school course. Keep him gor  ing even at the expense of some  stringent urging. The .successful  man of the fulure must be an educated man. Things, have changed  since you were a boy;' and are  changing more rapidly now than  ever before.. The-'chances for the  plug man are disappearing, so give  your boy'enough'education to raise  him out of that class.  lodge  | The ��� Family Herald m& Weekly Star,  of Montreal, the greatest family paper  ' iii America; for one year, ���  AND  Eor one year,  Cam, at omi oi'i'ici; and sek thk PREMIUM.  ',, This offer is open to both  present  and  new  subscribers  "    to "THE  ATUN  CLAIM.," ""' ~     "  ftP��AftftfefeI��*)��#>*)9)��4*^^ MiA.i'lSt-J.toOAlLj.. �����'**  +iarm MMumrw m wE��raeaoKou*wi*HU��i,wi,��.fWii wjr^y* wovu  ** ��^)wnr��ti^��Me.tt  rwia,t*WiMtWA^'^'W"^MrtwjWaM��w��s��  5  ��  AT1,1N,   B.'C:, 'SATUTROA^   'ATKn,  48,   190S  TWO    MILES   A   MINUTE.  Twomiiesaniinute,  Geehow welly!  iSwiftasaineleor  '{strcnkingfhesky.  "Whalisthatblurr  Oiilytheliees. <������  r.'Ookallliemwave,  ?.!yv.-lialabi'i.'CKe'!  Ahonkaiidarush,  Anashandasniell;���  Whaldichvchil? ���  Diclsomcbodyycll.?  Ajaiandascreaiii���  Jilookedlikeahor.se.  Notellingnow,  K'eeptolhecourse.'  Otilofthcroad'!  Givensasliow'!  T worn ilesa minute,  ���Geehowwegbl  . ���Newark News.  'How   Miners   Lose   Gold.  Mr. C. V'; Boys,   in   his   British  Association    lecture- at Cape Town  recently,    entitled    "Some   Surface  Actions of Fluids,1' referred   lo   the  ���subject of evaporation, and said he  wished also to refer lo   thai  attraction of the parts of a  fluid for itself,  in virtue of which its surface   tends  ,-to   become as,small as possible, so  that it might   be  considered   as   a  contractile   membrane  of a definite  ���strength, different, however, for different fluids.    Even the gold miner  ilost   much  of the finer particles of  gold owing to its floating   away on  the surface,' if he did not reduce the  rtension   by soap  or   other   means.  Different   solids    were   wetted    by  water   or   by oil   with different degrees of facility, and   a   number   of  processes   interesting to miners depended upon these preferences.   For  instance, certain sulphide ores were  mi ore   readily wetted  by oil than by  water, and when mixed  with   both,  '.the oil laid .hold of the valuable and  heavy  particles  aud   floated   them  ���away from   the  useless and lighter  particles that remained behind.    In  the  same  way microscopic bubbles  adhered to some materials in preference lo others and the  constituents  of finely ground ores were so separated.    One of the most remarkable  processes of the kind was   seen   in  the   "greaser'''   used for separating  diamonds and some other  precious  .-stones   from   the worthless gravel.  'This he could show on   the   screen  ���where    diamonds,    sapphires,    and  ���some  other  stones  travelled along  in the water till they came to a film  of butter, while  gravel  quartz  aud  emerald tripped over lhe butter and  even over the diamonds and passed  .away in the stream.���South Africa.  Isicfky   Mexicans.  Mark   Twain   tell a   good   story  about acouple.of California miners:'  '"Two miners used to go to the  ueighlooring -.village in'.the afternoon  and 'return -every iriglut with supplies. Pa it of ithe tdislance they  traversed a trail, ai��41 nearly always  sat .down lo i.esl.��n :a 'big' boulderi  that Ha>y beside it-he path. In the  course or il'lrirlecn tjifisvwi it hey had;  wo! 11 that boulder siMoociflniiUing oni  it. By-nnd-ljy two wagraivt Mexi-j  cans came along .and .oocupied the;  seal .and, lo amuse-t-bemseJ-ves, be--  gan 'chipping off tflakes from-the  boulder with a sledge ' Huimsner.;  They examined one of >tthe ;flakes!  and found it rich with gold. That;  boulder paid them $8oo"afterwards.:  But the aggravating circumstance:  was thatithese 'greasers' knew-therej  must be more gold where 'that,'  boulder came from,' and so went  panning up the hill, and found!  what was probably the richest  pocket that region has yet pro-;  duced. It .took three months toj  exhaust'it, and-it yielded $120,000.!  The ,two American miner* who used,  to sit on tlje boulder are poor yet,  aud theyta-ke turns about in getting  up early .in ithe morning to'cuss'  those Mexicans.'"- .      i  Q  ���"iiii aT>tf S H  I ^ i f %  $ ���  Great Reductions in  Prices at the  CMW3IM3 ir?j/jyjusj  1 rewonr ttt wn  r3  \.tlrn Trading Co's.  Stores, for.CASHJ  O1  An .exchange opines thai the re-  icent finding'of shark's teeth  in   an  oil   well  in   Texas   lends to cloud  John D. Rockefeller's title   as   the  ,;.original oil; shark.  ' " The , United States gold dollar  ��� .contains 2.5.8 troy grains. A troy,  pound contains 5,760 troy grains,  "but the ordinary pound of currency,  avoirdupois, weighs 7,000 troy  grains. Therefore, $1,000,000 in  ���United States gold coin weighs  .3,686.4 pounds, avoirdupois. A  United States standard silver dollar  weighs 412.5 Iroy grains, and $1,-  ���ooo,.ooo iu United States .silver .coin  i&f the;'present standard weighs 56,-  ���*J3l pounds avoirdupois, or.nearly  s>%% tons. '        ' "''  The profits made by the U. S.j  government ion pennies .pays, the:  entire expenses of the mint.  Experiments   which   have- beeuf  carried   out   with  a view'to deter-j  mining   the  area affected hy dyna-!  mite  explosions  in the   open   air,!  indicate   that   the   distance within'  which the destructive action is  felt,  increasesiin proportion to the square,  root   of   the  weight of .the charge.  Iu   the   explosion .of 55,   mo, 551  and 2,204 pounds  of dynamite, the  destructive  effects  were  limited to'  distances   of   57,   134:, 180 and'410  feet respectively.'   ' . . - .--  ��H  KS>  Send us your Job Printing  <��>������-.  H��.  .Ji  ,#1 ��",a ^i Ja ��*�� jjA'  \UR New printed Price Eist.(which we have just completed)  is now -readj' for the month of May,' and, iif you are  interested in saving money, you will'look-one of them over'before  placing .-an order elsewhere. '  '(DtUR present Price List will 'stand -good for MAY, aud then on  the 30th of May we will issue another Price List for June, when we  expect 'another reduction will take place as we intend to crowd prices  down to the (lowest possible notch and, remember, the quality of the  gooSs -will not be depreciated in the least. You .can rely oil always  ���getting tthe best goods at the A. T. Co's.  WE W&NW YOUR TRADE!  A.nd, if you give ns the opportunity, we will save  3-011 money and guarantee you satisfaction.  ���O   O-O  JUST  ARRIVED!---A big stock of GOLD SIC At' Rubber .Goods'.  .All sizes.  \We 'have a few -sizes '/left .in those 'MENS  ."56.-50' SUITS 'which we will close now at  $6.0(1. So, - if. you want a $12.00-suit at  .$6.oo, you .can get them at-the .A.. T. Co's.  ti,      <A     ' cfc       �����     .&       A       ct,  UiWITEBL  The Atlin' Market Co., Ltd.  FRESH   DRESSED   MEATS,   also  /WWVV/WVV\A/*^iMV*AiVVWWV>  C.   DOELKER     Manager.  DISCOVERY, Bi C.  A Strictly First-Class , Hotel.  ED.   SANDS,   Proprietor.  Choicest Wines, Liquors and Cigars  The Dining-Koom, under tlie management of Mrs. T. Hinchcliffe,  furnishes the best meal in town.  vw^A^<^A/vww^AAlVVvvwsA/^^  Hampton   &.   Durie, Proprietors.  WM  Discovery,  OPEN DAt AND N*OHT.  FIRST-CLASS RESTAURANT j  ��� .   '.' .in ;:  CONNECTION,  Heuduuartei'8 for Dixon's stage.  POULTRY  OF  ALL KiTMDS,  Dressed to Order.  -SUCCESSORS TO-  THOMAS   &   BENWELU  Wholesale  Wine   and  Spirit  Merchants.  USHER'S   WHISKIES*  VANCOUVEK, 13. C. -  P. O. Uoxiicre.  The  Canadian   Bank .:��ol  Connneree,  ���"'. ..CA.'PJvTAL   PAID    UP    ^io^oo^eo.  ��� ���..JRESEiWE,   $4,500,-ooo.  Braneh��s of tffae "Barik &t ,3eattie,  Saji Franelseo, .-���'.>.  PortlaiKl, '���.. ���  Sk��ii?wsiy -otei.,  Cixcthange soitf on all Points*  'Gowb Dust Purchased���Assay'Oiwigk in Connection.  '        ' ;v- .D. ROSS, ���Msu'i'ss.  1 S',1  fl  I  , 1  1 ���ATLIN,. B.   C,    SATURDAY,    APRIL  1996.  H-  Local Events.  Ercsh garden mud (lower seeds  and onion sels at C. R. Bourne s.  'fhe latest' magazines and papers  arc always on hand al Pilhuan's.  McDonald's , Grocery makes'a  specialty of fresh eggs,and butter.  Over a"'dozen miners arrived in  camp over the Pan Tail trail during  the past few clays.  Born.���At Atlin on Tuesday,  April 24th, to Mr. and Mrs. John  Nichol, a daughter. _'. .  .  Ai Nathaniel McNaughtou this  ���week applied to Registrar Young  for naturalization papers.  Souvenir Postals.���Several new  designs just arrived al C. R. Bourne's.  E. McPhee left town Wednesday  evening for a visit to Wynlon and  Conrad City. Fie travelled over the  ice on a bike.  Is your name on lhe voters list?  The voters list couit of revision will  sit at the Registrar's office on Monday, May 7th.1  Capt. Bragg and some of his crew  are engaged in putting lhe Scolia  in shape for the opening of lhe season's navigation.  All   sensible   citizens   are   these  clays raking   up, burning   aud   re-  ' moving all rubbish from their back  yards and gardens.  The local fishermen, by setting  their nets under the ice, are enabled  to keep the citizens well supplied  ���with lake trout and greyling.  I have opened the Kootenay hotel  dining room and make a specially  of serving first class meals.���Prices  moderate.���E. J. Edwards. 314  A meeting of those interested will  be held in the Arctic Brotherhood  ball, Discovery, tonight, for the  purpose of organizing an Atlin district pioneers association.  Thursday evening Gordeu Dixon  broke through the ice with a load of  oats when coming off the lake just  south of the \V. P. & Y. R. wharf.  Only part of the load got wet and  the whole sleigh load was quickly  recovered and carried ashore. ���  Never lose sight of the fact that  I keep on hand at both my Atlin  and Discovery stores complete stocks  of heavy and shelf hardware and  that all orders, whether large or  small, are attended to.���J. T. Regan.  ,Messrs. J. Cartmel and T. Hanna  leave for Volcanic creek next week  to lake out lagging for the season's  mining operations of themselves and  partners. A Cornish pump will be put  in their prospect shaft, which is already down 45 feet, and sinking-  will be re-commenced at as early a  date as possible.  Wm. Duncan, of Wright creek,  returned to this district last Sunday.  He spent since last fall on Graham  Island, one of the Queen Charlotte  group, where he took up one homestead and bought another, Pie  speaks very'enthusiastically of that  island and its favorable conditions  for stock raising and general farming, its extensive coal beds and  other mineral resources.  The mid-week mail arrived at 6  p.m. Thursday, thirty hours late.  Owing to soft weather and no crust  on the snow C. Glaye, the carrier,  did not get away from Log Cabin  until Wednesday morning. Pie  made the Tepee that night, and on  Thursday he came from there to  town. We understand that the  next few trips of the carriers will  be made lo and- from Car Cross instead, of Log Cabin.  VISITED   WYNTON.  And Says the New Town and Mining  District Has Good Prospects.  Chief Licence Inspector Owen returned from an official visit to Wynlon and Windy Arm lasl week. Mr.  Owen is quite enthusiastic over  Wynlon and the whole district and  predicts thai the new town will beat  anything in the -north during the  next few years.  -���Arrangements have been completed whetehy the Dominion government will extend their telegraphic system up as far as Wynton,  where  they will establish an office.  As soon as the ice goes out construction work on the government  dock and public buildings will be  rushed to completion.  The W. P. & V. R. boats will  hereafter make their week end lay  over   al   Wynlon instead of Taku  and Car Cross as formerly.  I. '  The two large hotels under course  of erection by McDonald and Anderson will be completed in a few days,  and will then be a credit to the  owners and the camp.  With lhe building operations, the  W. P. & Y. R. improvements and  the construction of the trunk road  to Log Cabin, via Tcochi lake and  valley, Wynton will���leaving aside  all mining operations���be . a very-  busy camp this summer.  Mr. Owen also visited Conrad  and Car Cross, both of which places  seemed iu a prosperous and., happy  condition.  ���o*a*a*o#o*D*i3*a*a*'C!��a��.*a* ��y  *ci*��*c^^&:4>c^o*��*'o*a*c��f*o<fr H I  ill 4  W  �� ���  STABLI  J$  IC  foO  The   Iron   Store*  nortftera  >2? w  ATLIN,  B.  C  Brewers   of L&M&r  Bemr  uifii>  i.d  SMALL AND LARGE ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED.  The KOOTENAyThOTEL  OPEN DAY AND NIGHT  THE  DINING-ROOM  IS CONDUCTED ON  STRICTLY FIP.ST-  ' CLASS   PRINCIPLES.  Stables & Lumsden carry a stock  of good groceries.  Read the A. T. Co.'s advertisement on page 3.    It's right.  Why use inferior gasoline when  you can get 76 and 86 per cent, at  Regan's.    Atlin aud Discovery.  The lumber company .have. put  their sawmill into operation for the  season and are prepared- to supply  all demands for either the rough or  finished product.  The team of heavy horses owned  by J. Christian broke through the  ice and fell, into the lake near the  Discovery street wharf at noon on  Thursday when Jake was taking  them to the watering hole. Willing  hands, with the assistance of a team  of horses from Dixon & Schulz's  stables, soon had the pairof unlucky  equine again on terra firma.  Scientists have recently brought  out some remarkable statistics about  gold. For instance, M. de Wilde,  of Brussels, says that all the gold  which has been mined by man  would not form a cube more than  thirty feet square. This wohld  weigh 33,5So.ooo pounds and have  a value at present of $13,559,-  946,000.  THE  9  ,    DIXON   &.   SCHULZ,   Proprietors.  Corner Pearl and First Streets, Atlin, B. C  FIRST   CLASS   RESTAURANT   IN   CONNECTION-  CHOICEST WINES, LIQUORS AND C1GAH5 CASL GOODS A SPLCIAIYY.  Joe  Palmer,  The Reliable Shoemaker,  -   -   -   Discovery, B. C.  Heated   and   Lighted  By    its    Own     Plant  V.  Tine   Sample    Rooms  For Commercial   Men  WHITE PASS HOTEL '  P.   D.   McMJLLAN,   Manager.  Largest and Best Appointed Hotel in Yukon.  ,Y.T.  Choice    Bar   Stock  Rates MODERATE  VSj<VW*AAAii^A/S/*VVWVWWV^^  4?  Executed Cheaply,   Promptly and Satisfactorily.  Rubber Boots a Specialty.  O.K.  BARBER SHOP.  THE CLAIM OFFICE.  AND  ��  KIUST STUKKT,      -       ATLIN'.  F. SHIELDS, Prop.  HOT BATHS 50 cts.  Tr>o.l>t��tlu-oom9 uro equiilly ns fjooil lis foiinil :  ia.citasat. R&roto Eutrouoe ��or Ladle*.  Fresh Eggs and Butter a Specialty  AT  v^fmmixfm!v.'rtwwrWrt^w,v^v*<g<.n,v,  fSsSiSmMMammm