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Show to soil tickets at prices from 50 cents to $2.50 ror the privilege of drawing for a slice. After $480 worth of ticket had be-en sold the drawing began, and, to the relief of those In charge of the sale, no trouble resulted. New York Press. J BEEFSTEAK AT $48 A POUND. Probablv the highest price ever paid for a beefsteak was that charged 't I Circle City, Alaska. The first steak that ever reached that town is said to have sold for something like $-1 a : ound. There were ten pounds of this i te.-,k. which was shipped 250 mlleh to Circle City. When the owner of the precious bit of meat reached the camp the miners turned out in a body to see it. It was placed on exhibition, and attracted as much attention as if It were the rarest of gems. Everybody Every-body wanted a piece of it, and the prices offered were such as would have resulted In v mining camp quarrel quar-rel if It had not been decided to raffle raf-fle the steak off Tor the benefit of a hospital that lllshop Rowe was trying to establish for the miners at Circle City. Dlds were started at $j a pound and rese briskly to $35. Finally, in order to avoid complications, It was decided |