The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 18, 1897, Page 1

X The T VOLUME LXoCKIT - PRICE FIVE CENTS. STREAM OF GOLD FROM KLONDYKE Steamship Portland Reaches Seattle Laden With Yellow Dust. MINERS RETURN ENRICHED BY, THEIR Declare That the Reports From the New| FINDS. Diggings Have Not Been Exagger- ated—The Cargo Worth $800,000. “Will have a full list of passengers'and lots of golddust. nothing for me to give a receipt for $60,000. to pull all the golddust on board the Portland in my charge this last strike in the Yukon is the greatest the world letter from Captain Kidston of the Portland, a ton of gold dust to Seattle | 1 a private party of vesierday. SEATTLE, Wasn., July 17.—When the Norih Ameriean Trading and Transporta- | t Company’s gold laden ship Pertland, m St ‘Michae Alaska, steamed into | the hatddr of Seattle this morning at 7 , it had besides t souls in nature of human freight, a yellow metal carzo conservatively estimated at $800,000. All save five or six of the passen- miners who had from h. They had taken tt he famous Klondyke. s W and nuggets were scraped 07¢ nd dug out since last August, in w h m h the widely heralded daistrir: w safe, therefore, to 84 rumber worked t tae actual acquire- essions.. In truth, he wealth was taken out during three or four winter months. Scarcely any of it was dug from the ground later nuners It is It would take a good and | like this much gold shipping for the | down far in excess of $1,000,000. blank to disclose the amount of their gold sh ents, yet inquiry elicited the in- ormation thaisbout two-thirds of the | gold eznressed fo-day was consigned to | the n Francisco Mint. The Helena Mint eot 8 good share, and smaller ts were expressed to other points. Many of the miners were loth to give any information as to the extent of their pos- sessions. amo Some of the larger amounts taken from | the Klondyke were: Clarence Berry, Fresno, 000; William Stanley. tle, $03,000; Henry And erson, a resi- ient of this Siate, $65,000; Frank Keilst, $50000; J. J. Clement, | $50.000; T.J. Kelley, Califoraia, §$33 000; | Wiiliam Stoane, crowd the Portland must have brougmi The express compunies refused point- | Los Angeles, | PN LTS THE LATE COLONEL CHARLES F. CROCKER. interests in five claims. He has employed a manager at §400 a month to look after his interests and ke¢p men at work dur- mg the winter. Joseph Caselais of Montanas has from formerly of Nanaimo, | $17,000 to $20,000. He bas been on the The Steamship Portland, Which Arrived at Seattle Yesterday With a Party of Miners and Over a Ton of Gold Dust From the Klondyke. {han May 1. It was taken in the main from claims known as the deep diggings. They are prospects that can be worked to best advantage auring the winter. 00 men who went into the 1 the ear'y spring have accom- ed or willdo, 1s merely probiematical. While a greater sum of money, no will have been taken out by the rarrivals than those miners who went to San Francisco on the Excelsior and e to Seattle on the Portland, the two constituting the winter brigade, the prob- are that success will not attend al effort to such an extent with ate comers as i8 now known 1o have tained by the ear!ierones; in other swinter mining, at least on the Klon- , is more profitable thun summer min- the div the been w dy ing. It was a sight well worth seeing to watch the hardy miners come down the Portland’s gangplank. Someactually had more gold dust than they could carry. It was in valises, bags, boxes, tin cans and ry other conceivable receptacle. From the boat it was actually carted away in drays and express wagons. Fuily three- fourths of the dust was shipped outof the city to-day by the express companies. Judge H. G. Bond told Tur CALL corre- cpondent this aiternoon that he was in- ( med in the office of one express com- y that the concern had weighed out in ir shipments between 2300 and 2800 pounds of gold dust. 1 saw great valises and boxes of the stuff piled high on the scales,” the Judge observed. 1f the other companies did anything |B- C, a dry goods merchant. $:5,000; | Jobn Wilkinson of Nanaimo, $25,000. | Individual statements from the men | were taken on the street wherever they | could be found concerning the amount of | dust they brought out and the time they | were engaged in mining it. Their reports | 11 brief are as follows: Thomas Moran of Montreal brought out | 820,000, the proceeds of five years’ work. | He still has interests in several claime, and his partner is looking after his affairs until next spring, when Moran will go back. Victor Lord, an old Olympia logging man, brings out $10,000, after four years | on various parts of the Yukon. He owns | a haif interest in two claims and will re- | turn in tbe spring. | M. N. Maurcier ;of Shelton, Mason County, came out with about $16,000. He purchased several interests before leaving. He has been in the country three yen;a | and his share of the earning- of claim No. 9, on El Dorado Cr ek, amounts 10 about $25,000. He worked fiftcen men at §15 per day all winter on one of his claims, Murcier worked three months last winter on aclaim that paid $100 a foot, and on some days would get through a square foot of the claim. Ira McNulty, a young man from San Francisco, brings out $21,000. He went in three years ago and purchased for a song a half interest in the claim he has been working. H. Dore, an old Bound logger, who for- merly made Seattle his headquarters, came back with §6000. He was in the country about three years and purchased ® river nine yearsand is not going back, having sold out ali his property before he came down. He explains his small amount of money by saying that hedrank up ail he made each winter for a number of years. J. E. Boucher goes back to Wisconsin worth $12,000, after three vears on the Yukon. His partner, C. B. Turgeon, will look after his interests until next spring. Joe Bergeion, a Seattle logger, has been on the Yukon for five years and brines cut between $14,000 and $15.000. Heis working anumber of men at §i5 a day. W. E. R cotte of Montreal bas $23,000 for nine years’ work on the river. He leaves several claims in charge of his partner and will return in the spriag. T. J. Kelley ot California has between $15,000 and $17,000, and is one of the youngest men in the party. He will say nothing about his exper ence on the river, but is going direct to California. Cash Amcher, a Swiss, has $38000. He went in two years ago and bas been work- ing on a claim for haif the proceeds. Henry Proteau, a Frenchman who formerly lived at Mount Vernon, Wash., is at the Hotel Diller. He left a buckskin sack in the safe containing in coarse gold $5000. He has the credit of being the original discoverer of the Bonanza Creek diggings, which were the first on the Kiondyke. He will not wait until spring, but will go right back as soon as he at- tends to some basiness here. Others who came down on the steamer made statements as follows: Joun Wiikinson, Nanaimo, B. C.—I went into the Klondyke a year ago last spring with my partner, William Sloan. We located claims 14 and 15 on El Dorado {Cresk i we nave since sofu 14 1 brough: it $25,000. I shall go back again in thespring. gripsack, and in carrying it out of the so- cial hall of the steamer, in spite of the fact that he had three straps around the bag, the main handie broke and he had to procure a broad strap before he could carry his treasura ashore. Henry Anderson refused to talk, hurry- ing aft to get away, but it was said by his companions that he brought down $65,000, and that he had a claim like a river of gold. - He sold out a haif-interest for §45,000 cash. In six hours’ shoveling he obtained 1025 ounces from his ciaim. P. Coteland—I bad a claim and sold it for $600. The parties who bought it were offered $10,000, but refused to take it. I have been working for Wilkinson & Sloan, and have not brought ont very much mionev. } R. H. Blake—I was in the Yukon three years, but have not been mining. I have in the spriug, for it is too good a couniry to stay away from. Inspector Strickland of the Canadian mounted police came back with Sergeant M. H. E. Hayne and five men, whose en- listments will expire in Augnst. Inspector Strickland and Mrs. Strickland, Mr. and Gage all arrived on the Portland and are at the Hotel Butier. Inspector Strickland is very reticent about the money he brought out, and one story has it tbat the amount is $130,000. Another is that itis $96,000. Sergeant Hayne, who 1s at the Northern, said: “I had claim 73, above Discovery, on Bonanza Creek, and I sola it. I had it in charge of a man at $15a day. 1 will not say how much money any of us brought out, but all of the police have goud money.'” The others of the police who returned are P. C. Encle, H. N. Jenkins, E. New- brook and E. Tedford. Mrs, Gaze is a guest at the Hotel Butirr. She 13 a daughter-in-law of Secretary of the Treas- w1y Gage and went north on the steamer Portland and returned on it from St, Mi- chaels, Mr. Gage having gone up the river. Wilkinson had his gold in a leather | come home on business, but will go back Mrs. Clarence J. Berry and Mrs. Eli A. | “Mr. Gage to!d me that.he would come out this fall,” said Mrs. Gage, “but I learned from other sources that he may not. He told a friend of ours that he wobid probably stay, and that is how I found it out. Of course he is gowng on business for the Northwest Transportation and Trading Com- pany, but he will look after a little private business, too. Some very wealthy men came back with the steamer. One has §96,000. Hardly any have less :han $15,000. The country isenormously rich. The present gold diggings are only a very smail part of it and there is little doubt but there are millions upon mil- lions in zold that is only waiting for the miners to come and dig it out. “The reports irom the Klondyke are not i much exaggerated, for I have talked with | people whom I'know to be trnthful. Do { I think there is danger of a famine this | winter? Such a thing as a famine can- not occur in Alaska. - Everybody has plenty of money and the com:pany hus taken a much larger amount of provisions in than it did last year, and so has the Aleska Commercial Company. Many bave gone over the divide who have | taken their ‘grub’ with them. Iam go- ing to telegraph right away to my father- in-law and tell him ail about it.” Mrs. Gage met her brother, Mr. Weare, at St, Michae! He returned with' Mr. | Gage to Forty Mile. A J. E. Boucher of Wisconsin was seen in | s stateroom on board the Portland. **Are you one of the lucky ones?'’ he was asked. ¢ The Wisconsin man made a dive under the bunk for a blanket, and replied en route, ““We were all lucky; every man on the boat was lucky.” “How much have all of you brought | ouc?” § “None at all,” replied the miner, as he rolled three double blankets into a heap. “None at ali? Why, I thought you said you were all lucky.” “‘None at all in comparison to what is there’'—and never 2 grin at the sarcasm in the remark. ©0Ob, that's different. Are any of you going pack?’ “Nine out of ten of us will go back.” The blankets were nearly strapped and Continued on Second Page. CLASPED Active and SAN MATEO, Car., July 17.—Colonel Charles F. Crocker, vice-president of the Southern Pacific ‘ompany, passed peace- fully away at his Uplands residence at 7:15 o'clock to-night. For just eight days he haa lain in his chamber critically ill, at times seeming to hold his own and again seeming to yield slowly to the disease or diseases which | had their grasp upon him. Death re- | suited from Bright’s disease with compli- cations. A week ago last night he was stricken with paralysis of the right side, and this the doctors say hastened the end. The symptoms of paralysis, howaver, bad improved, and bad it not been for the Bright's disease, the Colonel's chances of reecvery would have been good. Last night the patient's condition was such that the doctors aznounced that the colonel had a fighting chance for life. Through this morning he seemed to hold his own, and the physicians ventured to Jeave thie house for some hours. Drs. Gardner snd Chismore went up to the city. Dr. Whitwell called at the hou e about 10’clock, and, although he saw then that the end was approaching, he did not expect the worst to come for some time. He left the house, but was summoned again about 2:30, a marked change for the | worse having taken place. Dr. Gardner arrived on the train leaving the city at 2:30. Dr. Chismore came Iater, on the 5:30. Dr. Whitwell remained several hours after arriving at Uplands at 2:30. Aiter leaving he did not return again until after 8 o’clock, when he found that the colonel had passed away. Templeton Crocker, the 13-year-old son of the colonel, was not present at Uplands when his father died. He had gone to a ball that was given this evening at the Hotel Mateo, and was not a witness to the sad scene at the house. The members of tne Crocker family at Uplands were at dinner when the fatal crisis came and were immediately sum- moned to Colonei Crocker’s bedside. The end was apparently pa niess. Col- onel Crocker seemed to pass away in sleep. Russell J. Wiison and Henry T. Scott, who have been here since the patient was first attacked, left the house at Uplands only a half hour tefore the end came. Henry Scott and Russell Wil- son were sitting down to dinner in Scott's house when the news was received. When Dr. Chismore-arrived on the 5:30 train he was met by Drs. Gardner and | Whitwell who told him to prepare for the | worst. Dr. Chismore realized at once on | seeing the patient that life could not last long. He was the last to surrender hope, but he finally told the friends of the colonel that the hours of life were few. In the house when death came were two of the three children of Colonel Crocker, Mrs. E. C. Wright, Mr. and Mrs. Wil Crocker, George Crocker, Mrs. Easton, Miss Dunlap and Drs. Gardner and Chis- more. Only Drs. Gardner and Chismore were actualiy present at the end. As has been stated before in THE Cavrr, Colonel Crocker had been in very poor health for some e vefore he was stricken with paralysis on Friday of last week. His neighbors and people of San | Mateo who knew him by sight had re- | marked ihe unnatural pallor of his com- “UPLANDS,” the Late Colone! Charles F. Crocker’s Home in San Mateo County. IN THE ARMS OF DEATH End of the Long Struggle of Colonel Charles F. Crocker. APPARENTLY PASSED PAINLESSLY IN SLEEP. He Died at His San Mateo Residence Early Last Evening---The Close of an Honorable Career. plexion and predicted that he would not last long. But others had realized the grave nature of the colon el’s trouble. Dr. Gardner, the bead surgeon of the Southarn Pacific Company, had told Colonel Crocker six weeks before he was stricken with paraly- sis that he was affected with Bright's Gisease and cou!d not get weli. But the colonel was hopeful; he thought that any danger wes in the distant future. Dr. Gardner had advised the colonel to consult another physician, saying that his auties as head surgeon of the railroad company did not allow him to give to the colonel the time and attention that his case needed. Colonel Crocker accordingly consulted Dr. Chismore. According to Dr. Gardner there has been no hope for the colonel’s recovery, and he would have died soon even had be not been stricken with paralysis. “If he had been free from the Bright's disease.” said Dr. Gardrer, ‘‘the paralysis would not have been very serious. The paralyxis was not the cause of his death, It only nastened death which was caused by the kidney troubles. “The recent changes for the worse have been due to the inroads made by the Bright’s disease. It became more difti- | cult for us to arouse him when we wished to question bim. “I have remained with the colonel all through this iliness, not because I thought I couid do much for him, but because Mrs. Easton insisted upon it, and also be- cause I was a personal friend of the colonel’s and thought it my duty to re- main with him up to the last. The mem- bers of the family have tried to remain hopeful. The colonel’s brotner, William H. Crocker, has been especially persistent in hoping for the best. Even this (Thurs- dav) morning he almost wanled me to say that the colonel’s condition had improved, when really he was worse,”” A representative from an undertaking firm of San Francisco arrived at San Mateo this evening at 9:45 on a special engine. 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