The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 19, 1897, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 19, 1897. Masonic Temple, whera Blue Lodge ser- vices will be conducted by California | Lodge No. 1. The escort will consist of California Commandery No. 1, Knights Templar, and the Grand Consistory of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish rite, of which latter body Colonel Crocker was grand master. Itisnot contemplated that the escort shall come to San Mateo. The coffin will be taken to the temple by the | friends of the deceased. There will be twenty pall-bearers'whose names are not yet definitely known. There | will be two from Stanford University, two | from the University of Californis, two| from the California Academy of Sciences, two from the order of Native Sons, two from the Masonic fraternity, four from | the Southern Pacific Company, one from the Market-street Railway Company and | four personal friends of the Iate Colonel | Crocker. Mayor Phelan will be one of the pall- | bearers. Those from the Southern Pacific will be: H. E. Huntington, Julius Krutt- | schnitt, J. A. Fillmore, J. C. Stubbs and | Ceptain N. T. Smith. The Market-street representative will be Charles Holbrook. Russell Wilson and Henry T. Scott will | be chosen as personal friends of the late | Colonel Crocker. Martin Kellogg of the University of California will very likely be chosen as one of the representatives of | that institution. It is left largely with | the umversities ative Sons and the Academy of Sci to make their own selections. Among the representative men who called at Uplands yesteraay were H. E. Huntingion, J. C. Stubbs, J, A. Fil!more, J. Kruttschnict, A. Cheseborough, presi- dent of the Pacific-Union Club; Mr. | Wiider. freight auditor; Mr. Ric son, master of transportation, Southern Ya- MARY CROCKER. | called mister even asa boy. | men, and was ever careful not to hurt anybody's feelings. He was _pleasnd to have friends, and I think he liked to be well thought of by his fellow-men. It was nis gentlemanly deportment and defer- to others that won him the great es- teem of his schoolmates. He was atthe Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute ag a class- mate of ‘Walter Gifford Smith, the news- | paper man. Smitn says he was always called 'Mr. Crocker,” not because he was the son of a millionaire, but because he was 80 polite in_his manner that nobody thought of addressing him as ‘Fred. Others were all calied by their Cbristian | names as a matter of course, but he was | A strange thing about his early life is | that his ambition was to be a great scholar — nothing more, His eyesight failed and that was the only reason he did not pursue his studies to a conclusion. He told me once that be had an ambition to learn everything that man had known—to delve into all the lore of libraries and ac- quire all the learning of the universities. He was reallv disappointed that his career fall in the channels of business, but he made a success of whatever he undertcok.” Mr. Mills says there was not the slight- est disagreement of any character between C. P. Huntington ana the dead vice- president at the time of his death or for more than a year previous thereto. They were good friends and in perfectaccord, in spite of occasional rumors to the contrary. The family of the deceased regret thata statement was circalated to the effect that | Templeton Crocker was at a ball the night | his father died. They sav he was at the hotel in charge of Mr. and Mrs. Green and that he was not near the ball. | ble. MAY FIGHT FOR THE FREE LIST Democrats Threaten to Tie Up the Tariff Bill for Months. Republican Leaders, However, Confident the Measure Will Soon Be Law. The Sugar Schedule Agreed Upon Is Different From Any Before Presented. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 18.—Notice has been served on the Democratic mem- bers of the tariff bill conference commit- tee that the report as completed and signed by the Republican conferees to-day will be submitted to them for approval to-morrow at 9:30 A, ». The conference agreement will be presented to the House promptly after it meets at noon, and a special order will be adopted for its con- sideration. The wheels have been greased for prompt action in the House before the | session ends to-morrow so the conference report can be presenied to the Senate Tuesday, in order that it may be passea upon by that body as promptly as possi- Speaker Reed is confident this pro- gramme can be carried out. Chairman Dingley of the House Ways and Means Coemmittee, and Allison, act- TEMPLETON CROCKER. JENNIE CROCKER. The Children of the Late Colonel C. F. Crocker. {From a photograph by Taber, March, 1894.] cific; W. E. Brown and W. Frank Pierce, the last-named a representative of the Masonic fraternity; F. S. Douty of the Pacific Improvement Company and | Charles Green, secretary of the Crocker | Estate Company, residing in San Mateo. Nathaniel Gray, the undertaker, and Otto Dobertin, the well-known sculptor, | went to San Mateo yesterday to take the | death-mask of the late millionaire. They returned to the City in the afternoon. Among tke many messages of sym- pathy sent to Mrs. Easton was one from | C. P.'Huntington, president of the South- ern Pacific. It was telegraphed to H. Huntington in San Francisco and sent by | telephone from the City to Uplands. [ The will of C. F. Crocker, which was drawn some months ago, is supposed to be in San Francisco. Theimpression pre- vails that the estate is bequeatned to the ihree children, although there may be some public bequests, but nothing of great magnitude is mentioned. No changes in the management of the Bouthern Pacific are expected by reason of the vice-president’s demise. The hold- ines of C. F. Crocker in the corporation were merged in the Crocker Estate Com- pany and the death of the colonel will not cause a segregation of interests. It has come to light tbat those who intimately associated with the dead mil- lionaire have known for some time that he bad no hope of living. Nothing in the | life of any man calls for more admiration | than the fortitude with which he received the news that he must die. Hetold the story of his doom 10 all tie directors of | the Southern Pacific, to Irving M. Scott | and to other intimate personal friends, | and all agree that he was calmly resigned to his fate and that he knew his term of | life must be very short. Speaking of the matter last night W. H. Mills, who was the colonel’s lifelong iriend, said: “‘The unfortunaté man cams 10 me two weeks ago and told me that Dr. Chismore had made a thorough diagnosis of his case and had riven him no hope. He believed the doctor was right and he | said: ‘At best I can never hops to see mv | forty-fifth birthday, and my only chance | to live is to give up all business and go to | some of the South Bea countries, living quietly near the equator.’ “‘He intended 1o go on the 27th and to | take with him Dr. Ainsworth of Los An- | eles, one of the company’s physicians. | e told me all this sadly, firmly ana | withouta tremor in the voice or any | moisture of tue eye. He said he disliked | to leave Lis beloved children and to quit | life so young, but he believed he had no | chance of recovery. He was positive his | condition was hopeless, for he said he had Bright's disease in an advanced and aggra- vated form. His utmost hope was of temporary relief, but he was inclined to think there was noth:ng which could prolong life for more than a few | months. He was going where he could not be communicated with, and had made up his mind to give up business forever. He said he reeretted to leave his family and two beautiful homes, as well as mcany warm personal iriends, but he | realized that he was abont to fight a des- perate battle, for a few years of life at best.” Mr. Mills was full of reminiscences last night, and there was deep sorrow in his | tones as he pzid a tribute to his dead friend. He said, among other things: “‘As I sit here and recall my gentle and dignified {riend, I must say that the pre- eminent characteristic of the man was his high sense of justice. He was like the better side of his father in this, that he always asked of any cause, ‘Isit just? Is it right?’ He never pulled the statate of limitations on a just cause, never refused 10 give up the stakes, 8o to speak, on his bets, On the other hand, he would not tolerate an injustice, but he always foaght manfully for the right. “Next to his high sense of honor Colonel Crocker was known and loved for the con- sideration he showea his subordinates. He never issued his orders in an offensive or dictatorial manner, and always re- frained from appearing to assert even the authority he bad. if I am to judge by the way he treated me and others with whom I saw him come in contact, he was one of the most delicately considerate of | seems certain that a break in the district SIGNS OF SERIOUS TROUBLE. the Strikers— Wemen Urging Their Husbands to Fight. | PITTSBURG, Pa., July 18.—Hunger and discontent are appearing in the Pitts- burg mining district and there is trouble ahead. Before morning the Boone and Allison mines at Canonsburg will be in- vaded by 1000 miners. A few days ago the operators made a requisition upon the Sheriff of Washington County for ad- ditional deputies, and it is supposed that there are at least thirty deputies at each | mine well armed. To-day the miners of the Mill's and Tom’s Run district held a | meeting, at which women openly branded their husbands as cowards, and argued that they mizht as well fight as starve. The men said that victory could be won providing every coal-miner in the sections where the lake trade is supplied would join the general movement. Plans for bringing out the miners at the Boone and Allison mines were discussed, «nd it was decided to march on the Canonsburg mines to-night. A brass band and drum corps was engaced. Tne procession marched in three divisions from diiferent | sections, mobilized at Bridgeville, and will tramp twelve miles across country. Several prominent local financiers to- night sent a telegram to President Mec- Kinley urging him to use his best Influ- ence, 'as far as convenient and proper,” to persuade the mine owners to adopt the uniformity plan and arbitrate the price question. They conclude: “This seems to be the only hope of ending the struggle, the consequences of which, if psrmitted to continue, can hardiy be foreseen.’” WHEELL Va., July 18.—The feeling of unrest among the miners of the Monongahela district the past few days has been increased by news of the success of the union agitation in the Norfolk and Western district, and in view of the re- | newed efforts of the miners' agents it | will occur to-morrow. A crowd of several hundred Monongahela ~diggers neld a secret meeting to-day, at which the situa- tion was discussed, but the men refused to state whether detinite action would be taken. 2 One of them intimated that matters | would remain quiet until the Debs meet- 1ng, which may be heid on Tuesday. 1In | the southern part of the State, where 4000 men struck yesterday, efforts will be made to get the Flat-Top miners out. Dingee’s miners have promised to sirike Monday. They will very likely be followed by the Flat-Top men, and thus the entire pro- duction of coal in Southern West Virginia will cease. I R Sales of California Fruits, NEW YORK, N. Y., July 18.—There was an active midsummer demand for fruit last week. Prices were generally satisfactory to wholesale dealers except for plums and prunes, which were in over- supply and sold at unusually low rates, The market was firm on all other kinds of seasonable fruit and strong at the close of business on Saturday. There were sixty-one carloads of Cali- fornia fruit sold at pubiic auction, against fifty carloads the previous week and forty- | nine carloads the corresponding week of | in<vyear. Bartlett pears sold readily at from $2 50 to §3 10 a box, according to size and condition. Receipts were large and areexpected toincrease for several weeks, Peaches are in ample supply, but many Wwere sc_soft they sold only at nominal rates. Sound ones are in good demand and command $1 to $140 a box. Plums and prunes sold at 85 cents to $1 20 a box. —— Powderly Denounced. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 18.—The Cen- tral Labor Union to-day passed a resolu- tion condemning the appoiniment of ex- Labor Leader Powderly *‘as the greatest insult ever offered by the Federal Govern- ment to organized labor.’” Friends of Powderly present were shouted down when they attempted to say anything in his favor., Scveral delegates charged him with first beinga free-silver man, then coquetting with trusts and monopolies, and finally speaking in favor of the gold standard. ing chairman of the Senate Committee on Conference, have been at work all day at Committees on Appropriations, respect- ively; Clerk Lord of the House Ways and | Means Committee, 8. N. D. North of Bos- ton, who has acted as clerk of the sub- Committee on Finance since the consid- eration of the bill was begun, and three typewriters and stenographers, They bad a herculean task before them, and at first it was thought they could not con- clude it to-night. They did so, however, and the conference report and manuscript of the bill as it will appear when the pro- posed changes are made was sent to the printers early in the evening ana ap- proved by the full meeting of the con- ferees at a late hour to-night. The Senate conferees have no hesita- tion in saying the bill as it comes from | the conference committee will fail short | temporarily of producing the necessary amount of revenue by $15,000,000 or $20,- 000,000. When the House bill was re- poried to the Senate, Aldrich, speaking for the Senate Finance Committee, said it would not at once produce revenue enough, and he is of the same opinion still. Chairman Dingley does not publicly make this admission, buv it is well known that during the session of the conference committee he agreed with the opinions of the Senate conferees that it will be neces- sary for the appropriations committee of the two houses to cut down expenses very materially in order to make up the defi- ciency in the new tariff bill for a year or two. At least two-thirds of the amend- ments placed in the bill in the Senate were adhered to by the conierence, but many of them were verbal and unimport- ant in character. Some o! the most important changes made by the Senate, however, will be found in the new bill, and nearly all of them are designed for the purpose of in- creasing the revenue to be derived from it. Notwithstanding the persistent and widespread statement that the House sugar schedule was adopted by the con- ference, this is not a fact. The schedule agreed upon is a new one and entirely dif- ferent from any sugar schedule ever be- fore included in the tariff bill. It is a scientifically-constructed schedule,and one of the Senators said to-night that when it was read and understood by the public it will be accepted as an honest, sensible piece of work. It is as follow: “Sugars not above No. 16 Dutch stand- ard in color, tank-bottoms syrups of cane juice, melada, concentrated melada, con- crete comma tested by polariscope not above 75 degrees, 95-100 cent a pound, and for every additional degree shown by the polariscopic test 35-1000 cent per pound additional, and fractions of a de- gree in proportion, and on sugar above No. 16 Dutch standard in color and on all sugar which has gone through the process of refining, 1 95-100 cents per pound. Molasses testing above 45 degrees and not above 56 degrees, 3 cents a gallon; testing 56 degrees and above, 6 cents a gallon. Sugar drawings and sugar sweep- ings shall be subject to the same duty as molat for sugar, as the case may be, according to the polariscopic test.” 1t is admitted by the SBenate and House conferees that the new schedule will pro- vide $2,000,000 or $3.000,000 revenue more than under the schedule as it was pre- sented to the conference. Senator Lodge's pet scheme for a tax on stocks and bonds, which was adopted by the Senate with surprising ease and unanimity, was dropped by the conference committee in the same hasty manner,as it did not seem to have a friend at court. It was not thought the revenue sought to be derived from it would be seriously missed, and it is the general opinion of the members of | the conference that it would be a very dif- ficalt provision to carry out. Any loss that might possibiy be sustained by this tax on bonds and stocks is more than made up by the action of the conference :n the restoration of argois to the dutiable ist. The very last item in tbe bill to be agreed to in conference yesterday and one that caused a very prolonged, heated con- troversy, was the Senate asmendment re- !nting to reciprocity. The new provision is a combination of the Senate and House Propositions, there being a radical change in the list of articles that are to form the base of reivrocal arrangements. Aldrich was the only member of tne conference who remained loyal to the proposition to keep works of art on the freelist. In the new law paintings, statuary and all works of art, except books for libraries (which remain free), are restored to the dutiable list, 'logelher with cotton ties, burlaps, matting, etc. Cotton ties take a specific duiy of a half cent, and on other articles there has been a light decrease of the Sen- ate rate. The wool schedule as agreed to provides for a duty of i1 cents a pound on first class, 12 cents on second class, ard on third-class wools 4 cents a pound on that below 12 cents a pound in value and 8 cents above that of 12 cents in vaiue. Duty on hides has been fixed at 15 per cent ad valorem, instead of 20 per cent, as fixed by the Senate bill. The House made a strong fight to have hides restored to the free list. This para- graph may provoke some debate in the Senate, and indeed the Democrats declare there are many of the provisions to which they will not agree. Some time ago the Democrats served notice on their Reoub- lican colleagues that it articles placed on the free list by the combination of Demo- cratic, Populist and Xepublican votes should be restored to the dutiable list, they would debate the bill for months, if necessary, in order to have their way. They are still muaking their threats, but the Republican leaders are not at all fear- ful they will carry their point. They ex- pect Lo bring the bill to a vote after three or four days' debate. SACKS 0 NUGGETS IN THE BUNKS Continued from First Page. covered the great frozen region of the northwestern part of Alaska. While working one oi the claims Wil- kenson found a leg bone of a mastodon covered with flesh, It was taken from a bed of ice and was afterward sent to the Domipion museum at Ottawa. M. O. Henry of this city, who returned to Seattle on the City of Topeka a week ago, stated yesterday that a new route to the Klondyke had been surveyed and par- tially constructed by the Canadian Gov- ernment. Pack trains ere already run- ping over it. The route is by the regular passenger steamers to Fort Wrangel, from which place the Hudson Bay steamer is taken to the head of navigation of the Stikeen River, From that point the Gov- ernment has cut a trail to a point on the Yukon River below the rapids. The route is said to be popular with many. The Alaska excursion steamer Queen arrived in port to-night, but brought no later Klondyks news than that received by the steamer Portland. Great excite- ment over the good reports from the new digrings prevails at Junean, though Cap- tain Carroll, the Queen’s master, stated that the dispatches to the effact that the town was all but depopulated were ex- sggerated. Many had put out for the new camp upon the receipt of the news. but the most of the people, the captain de- clared, were still doing business at theold stand. - PORT TOWNSEND EXODUS. Men Resign Fine Povitions and Take Passnge on the Al-Ki PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., July 18, —As a consequence of the reports of unprece- dented riches in the Klondyke aistrict, every able-bodied man in this section who can scrape together enough to pay ex- penses is going north. The steamship Al- Ki, which sailed at midnight, was loaded 1o its fullest capacity with miners and out- fits, all with El! Dorado Creek as their common destination. The crowd going from here is in marked contrast to the general throng in point of equipment, not a single man leaving without provisions enough for a year’s stay, aside from some ready cash, The craze is making deep Inroads into the ranks of the Puget Sound Tugboat Company’semployes,the departing throng wcluding masters as well as deckhands. Manager John B. Libby will probably go to St. Michaels on the next boat to look over the field with a view to establishing an oppositicn steamboat line on the river. Captain James Carroll of the excursion steamship Queen will leave that vessel on its next trip to the north, and, in coun- pany with his son, who is now purser of the Queen, will go to the new diggings. Reports brought by the Queen to-iay deny the exaggerated stories about Juneau ‘merchants closing up to go to the Kion- dyke, although th2 exodus is general. The enthusiasm here may be judged from the tugboat company contingent, which includes men who relinquished $250 a month jobs to woo the fickle god- dess in the Klondyke. e ‘THE KLONDYKE CLAIMS. Interesting Information Given by For- tunata Gold-Seckers. F. G. H. Bowker, one of the fortunate treasure-seekers just returned from the Klondyke, e some new and very in- teresting information concerning the country and its riches to a CALL reporter last night. Bonanza Creek, along the banks of which some of the best claims are located, is from thirty to thirty-five miles long, and practically all of the ground bordering it and its several branches has been prospected and taken up. On El Dorado Creek the claims are numbered from No. 1 at the mouth on up to the very heaa. As a rule the claims have a frontage of 500 feet on both sides of the stteam and run back to what is called *“rim rock,” where the ridge prop- ecly begins its rise. Extra width of the creek bottom is allowed for by making the claim narrower, so that as a rule they are of about the same area—on the low ground. Mr. Bowker had an interest in claim 1 at the mouth of Kl Dorado Creek, which he disposed of before leaving for $90,000. This claim promises well. Out of a space 43 by 46 feet and nine feet in depth to bed- rock Bowker and his associates took out $16,700 worth of the precious metal, al! of which they expended for labor, ditching, | | dancehall and gambling-place at $200a ete., toward working the rest of the claim. From the mouth to the head Mr. Bowker says the claims are equaliy good, 36 being fully as promising as 1. Cldim 2, next to Bowker's, is owned by Frank Phisceator and another, and has paid them most handsomely, though as yet but a mere beginning has been made in development. Mr. Phisceator brought down with him $70,000 worth of dust, over and above $16,000 paid to his partner, who remzains to work the clzim. Clarence Berry is interested in claims 5,6 ana 7 in El Dorado Creek. Tney have got down to bedrock, where the dirt runs $1 to $1 50 a pan, some pans running to $¢ and §5. So all up the creek. While the details vary, the results are proportionate to the amount of work done, and the dirt panned over has been about the same on the aver- age. In some places, however, exceed- ingly rich hauls haye been made. Claim 32 yielded $6000 in dust and nuggets to four buckets of gravel. From one hole 4x8 feet on another claim fourteen pans of dirt from the bottom yielded $1565, one pan giving $283 50. Claims 14 and 15, owned by a party of four from Nanaimo, B. C., gave many pans worth $125 each. Claim 30 yielded richly, one pan giving over $800. Claim 21 cleaned up $40,000 as a result of the winter and spring work. Mr. Bowker savs that Klondyke River is from 150 to 200 miles long. according to the Indian reports, but that white men have not gone iarther up than about forty miles from the mouth as yet. Thestream is quite rapid, but a good oarsman can run a canoe some thirty miles up. From what the Indians say the best fields lie higher up the river. They assert that in El Dorado there is ‘some gold,” in Hunker *more go!d,” but that another creek further up is “‘too much gold. Itis safe to say that before the present season is over, if such a realization of Sir Walter Raleigh’s dreams actually exists, that iv will be found by some of the numerous prospectors who are thronging to the Klondyke from every quarter. Mr. Bow- her has been in Alaska for the past ten years, He was with Lieutenant Schwatka on his trip to the Copper River, besides going over a large part of the upper Yukon country, and he says that he has seen ‘‘color” on every creek throughout the country. Yet with all that he bas seen he deprecates anv one going into that country without full information and a realization of what they will certainly and what more they may possibly have to | encounter and being adequately prepared for the worst. There’ll be many a move in the direc- tion of the Yukon to-day, for the fever is getting a trifle higher, if anvthing. All day yesterday end last evening young, middle-aged and elderly men who are screwing up their resolution called a! the Commercial Hotel, the chief Alaska head- quariers, 1o talk with some of the crowd of lucky ones who came down on the Ex- celsior theother day. Most of these have been on the far Yukon for two or three years, and they are soberly enjoying their good clothes and the sights of the City. ‘When the Orpheum was suggested to one cld gentieman as a good place on last night's brogramme he found that it was a variety show, and be declared at once that he was going to see a ‘‘Shakespeare piece.” About this victorious littls bard there may be caugit the sweet charm of 4 ». M. in June just after a rattling thunder- storm. They sit around the hotel lobby in such a restful way, wear their brand new store clothes and gold watches with such satisfied and genuine respectabitity, start for the barroom now and then with | such a genial conscioustess of their very good right to do so, and life seems o fair and good and peaceful to them just now that one gnesses it must be nice to ‘‘come out’” with $35,000 in gold dust and sit and realize it over a gold-bound briar pipe. But then there are 2000 or 3000 of the other fellows up there who feel good that way only when tie dreams come to their cabins. Ivs nice to hear them tell about the life up there that goes with the gold-digging and gold-seeking up on the Kiondyke and adjacent parts; and, by the way, use a long On! when you pronounce it. It was a remarkable shifting of popula- tion that followed the K ondyke discov- eries. Circle City was the metropolis of the whole placer region and had a popula- tion of several hundred, with hundreds in other posts and diggings tributary to it. The early spring rush to the Yukon prom- isad to boom and crowd Circle City greazly. Among the earliest to leave here was a man who owned a log building at Circle City, which he had leaced for a2 saloon, month. He figured on re-letting it for about $300 wnen he got there this sum- mer ana found a population of at least 1500. When he got up the river Circle City was nearly as deserted as a prehis- toric ruin. Five or six people bad to stay there, but the boat had to toot a while to get somebody to take the hawser at the landing. The whole population was 200 miles up the river—at Dawson. Dawson, which has just now concen- trated the whole Yukon population into a town of about 3000, with hundreds more pouring in, may become Klondyke. T. B, O'Brien, a well-known trader there, went back but a few weeks ago. He had visited Ottawa and got the appointment as post- master and said before he left that the postoffice name of the place would be so changed. Miners who certify to Mr. O'Brien’s worth and standing give as evi- dence the fuct that he has secured this year a permit to send in 2000 gailons of liguor. The Dominion authorities are very careful about who takes whisky into the country. There will be no dearth of whisky there this winter whatever may happen to the provisions. It is stated that the Alaska Commercial Company and the North- western Transportation and Trading Com- pany, which enjoy & trading monopoly, have each received permission to ship zcross the border 5000 gallons of liquors. Mr. O’Brien is getting his 2000 gallons over the mountains and another man is taking in 600 gallons--nearly 13,000 gallons to cross the borders, and what remains on the American side not counted. The miners say that some of the river steamers they passed coming down had their car- goes half made up of casks and cases, ana now and then there is a complaint that the trading companies are shipping in so much liquor that they cannot get in pro- visions enough to last all winter. Drinks are four-bits up there, and the boys say that when they left some of the saloons were taking in $1000 to $2000 a day. The saloons, dance halls and gam- bling-houses are piling up the gold dust that has come pouring forth from under the muck of the Klondyke Vailey. They did not do so well before the big strike made gold dust plenty and opened things wide. There are several of these resorts in low log houses at Dawson—bar at the front, gambling tables at the rear and dancing- floor in the miadie. Tha Yukon has just Pozzoni’s Complexion Powper ces a soft and : it oo Pl;d:'m b ln‘ L tflfltl’lklnl purity. o | Whinnery, adelaide Detchon, struck the typical wild, early-day mining camp pace. Faro and poker are the favor- 1te routes for parting with golddust, of course. You can hear of regular games with a §20 ante and $50 to call the blind, and winnings of $1000, $5000 or §9000. They don’t. have any money in circula- tion to speak of. What goes in gets to the trading companies’ safes and stays there. You weigh out your golddust just as you used to up around Red Dog and Hangtown. “When you go in you just leave your sack at the bar and say 'Give me five hun- dred’ or ‘Give me a thousand’ and get your chips,” explainea one of the Excel- siors yesterday. “‘Then 1f you !au you can call for what you want, and it’s just put down, and when you get through they weigh out what you owe. I've seen fellows go in with $5000 they’d cleaned up and go out with an empty sack and go to work again.”’ The Jack Hamlins and lower order of sure-thing men and professional tin-horn gamblers had not struck the Yukon yet when navigation opened —but don’t worry; they’ll get there with the tide. The elderly wild women with red faces and reputations that have drifted in from the coast recently got an odd setback from Captain Constantine of the territorial police, the ruler of the diggings. The women naturally puton bloomers in com- ing over the mountains and making the wild ride down the streams, and when they got there they began tke fashion of wearing bloomers altogether. Bloomers were more than Captain Constantine would stand, and he gave orders that if the bloomers did not go, the wearers would. The Yukon is a good place to go to for mosquito stories. The Yukon mosquito is the king of beasts, He actually hunts and kills bears along that mighty river. This is told and pictured by no less an authority than Lieutenart Schwatka, in his well-known published account of his exploration of the Yukon a number of years ago. Bears under stress of hunger sometimes come dowan to the river in the mosquito season, he relates, and are attacked by swarms of these insects, which sting them about the eyes so that they go blind, rage blindly around awhile and die of starvation. He tells of sceing one bear so attacked. The beast clawed about his bead for a time and tbrust it into the grass and bushes and then he arose on his hind legs in rage and struck wildly atthe swarm. This bear was not tracked, but he undoubtedly died. A Yukon miner said yesterday that the Yukon mosquito had been known to bite through a thick mooseskin mitten that was put on for the experiment. The Yu- kon mosquito comes with the glory of the brief stmmer and the sluicing of golden ground, but he is gone in six weeks and he is not so bad away from the Yukon itself. So it is that in summer many wear mosquito netting over their heads. They say that it is healthy enough up there. The most prevalent tronble is often the scurvy, which results from the scarcity of vegetables and fresh meats. A diet of beans, salt pork and bad bacon, with flour at $50 a sack, brings trouble. Canned and dried vegetables and fruit are a considerable part of the greatly varied cargoes the trading companies are crowd- ing in, but there is likely to be a shortage of vegetable food again this winter. Fresh meat is always scarce. The moose and caribou have been killed off and :cared away pretty well, as nave the mountain sheep, and the chase would notsupply a fraction of the population, even if many men left their claims or their $15 a day to go hunting. There are graylings and other fish in the Yukon and they can be hooked through the ice, but who is going to stand out on the middle of the riverat sixty degrees below zero, with time worth $15a day? Last winter a quarter of becf was sledded into Circle City with dogs. It was viewed with wonder at a store for a while, and then raffled off for $400 for the benefit of a projected miners’ hos- pital. This spring an enterprising Juneau man drove forty head of cattle in from the coast, 800 miles, and the beef went at 50 and then 70 cents a pound like a free lunch at a Sunday picnic. If anybody gets sick there are patent medicines at the stores and four or five doctors, who diagnose a patient's ciaim before present- ing the bill. There has been no newspaper published there because, aithough there are type- setters and a diminutive printing press in the country, no printer could be hired to leave gold digging for $15 a day. There are no roads in the country, and hardly any horses, which are nearly useless and very costly to keep. Boats, Eskimo dogs, sledges and packs on one’s back are the transportation methods. Good dogs have been commanding $100 to $150 apiece. Some day the slowly multiplying reindeer the Government is experimenting with may bless tne Yukon country. Even Americans are glad that the new diggings are in British territory, owing to the difference in governmental methods. Most of the mining and population has been on the American side until this vear, and the region has never been able to get the slightest care or at- tention from the Federal Government. There has been no mail service, no court, constable, marshal or other shadow of authority except a Deputy Revenue Col- lector, and wails have been long and strong. A mail contract has just been signed, however. When the miners rushed to the Kion- dyke they found an efficient force of twenty-five police there, and a govern- mental care of law, order, private rights and the good of the mining industry so zealously and liberally fostered by all the British colonies. Some of the Americans do not like the collection of duties for the venefit of the Canadian treasury, and now and then one ‘‘kicks’ at the Canadian law of location, which allows a length of 500 feet to a placer claim, while the American law allows about 1300 feet. But most of the miners agree that tbis limitation is best for the community. As five or six men cannot locate a whole creek bed, there are more claims to go round and the develop- ment is much more rapid. The only routes to the Yukon are now the overland one of 800 miles from Ju- neau, which is taken by the vast majority — VOICE—SINGING. OICES SUCCESSFULLY DEVELOPED IN volume, compass and qualitv, and carefully nd prepared for Parior. Platform. Con- uir, S'ase or Overa. Former pipils and references:’ Franz Vetter, Dan Morrisou, Abbie Barrilli, Albani, Lagrange, Marchs )Il. oy ot i, J ange, Marches|, Am; 1] Grace Greenwood, Helen Potter ¢té. i ‘or terms and instruciions apply 10 CLARKE'S VOCAL STUDIOS, 933 Narket st who go in, and the Yukon River route, where the seven river steamers are utterly inadequate to the freight demands. There is now a strong movement in British Co~ lumbia to open an all-Canadian route from Vancouver by surveying and buila= ing a trail over the long distance. Tais is rart of the new scramble on the part of Juneau, British Columbia and the Amer- ican Sound cities for the Yukon trade. There is also an inchoate but much dis- cussed project to shove a railroad northe ward through the Northwest Territory to the new gold region to secure the trade and especially to hasten the development of the mining resources of that part of the British domain., British Columbia has recently subsidized several railroadsinto new mining regions and the Domiuion Governmeént is quite liveral with subsi- dies. Extensive new discoveries, espe- cially of quariz ledges, would probably be soon followed by such a railroad, and it seems to be a part of the near destiny of the great and wide-spreading gold fields of the Yukon. The railroad will end the golden age of the Yukon—that is the romantic age, which is perhaps now reaching its best days. There’ll be no $15 a day wages when a railroad cets in, and no more ro- mantic trips up a vast river or over wild mountain pas:es. When the railroad arrives there will follow mining machin- ery, quartz mining and all the waysand looks and scales of enterprising civili- zation. The life of the Yukon is changing now very rapidly. Daring the past year and before, the men who wentin have been honest, hardy and poor ones, with no thought of anything but persistent toil. Until the Klondyke development the gold was amassed slowly, and no great fortunes were made. There was nothing to lure birds of prey. It has just been at the stage correspond- inz to the earliest of the California days when the red-shirted miners never locked their cabin doors or lost their gold dust. The miners back from the Yukon tell that when a man caches part of an overload of provisions along a trail he may find some missing when he returns, but if so he will find other provisions exchanged for them or a bag of gold dust in payment. Now all suddenly tons ot gold are roll- ing around the diggings, und the speed and excitement that came to California when the gold began to pour forth have begun on the Yukon. Now the parasites, the gamblers, the sharpers, the dangerous classes will flock in for gold and for ad- venture and this winter and next year will bring a change to the social life of that ut- termost Ophir. HEADACHE WEAKNESS LOSS OF APPETITE NERVOUSNESS SLEEPLESSNESS LOST VIGOR LOST MANHOOD | I R Cured permanently by the greatest discovery of the age. Itis absolutely cer- tain that Hudyan will cure you. Hudyan is a remedy treatment and can be had only from doctors of Hud- son Medical Institute. Cir- culars free. Hudson Med- ical Institute, Stockton, Ellis and Market streets. @ONSULT HUDSON DOCTORS FREE. CONSULT HUVSON DUCTORS FKEE, CONSULT HUDION DOCTORS FREE CONSULT HUDSON DOCTORS FREE. CONSULT HUDSON DOCTORS FREE, REFEREE'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE. Y VIRTUE OF TWO DECREES OF THE ‘Superlor Court_in and for the City and County of San Francidco, State of California (Department No. 10), the flist of which decrees was made and is dated the 424 day of November, 1895, and the second of which decrees was made and is da‘ed the 25th day of June, 1897, snd boih of which de- crees were made and extered 1o an action peading in said Superior Court, wherein Adam Grant is plaintift ana Daniel T. Murphy and ohers are de- fendants, being case No. 49,033 in the sald court, the nndersign+d, who was by suld court appointed referee In sald action, will sell au public auction, at the suction-rooms of 6. 1. Umhsen & Co., 14 Montgomery 8t., in sald City and County of San Franclsco, Thursday, the 2d day of September, A. D. 189 g 12 o'clock noon of that day, to the highest b dder for cash. in lawfol money of the United States, and subjact to confirmation by said court, all thag certaia loi, piece or paroel o land sizuate, lying and being in the City and County of San Fran- cisco, State of California, and bounded and par- ticularly described as follows, (0 wit: Commencing ac point where the northerly line of Bush street is intersected by the easterly [fve of Sansome stree:; running theace easterly along th + northerly thirty-seven (137) feet and six () inches; thence at right angles northerly and paraliel with San- s0me street one bundred and thirty-seven (137) thence st Tight angies treet, one hun- d six (6) inches, ireet: and e of San- Ll fect aud SIX (6) inches: westerly and parailel with Bus! dred and (biriy-seven (137) fees and to the eas.erly side of Senso thence southerly along the easterly some streer. feet and six (6) Inches to the point of commence- gether with the bulldirgs and {mprove- ments therson. i I he purchaser shall take 1d lot subject to the right of John F. McCat and Henry Thoro- ton Templeton, their heirs assigns, to use the £ brick wall along the norther.y line of said lot here- in described as & party wal Terms and condiiions of sale—Cash inlawfol money of the United States of America; ten per kenz of the purchase price to be paid o the ref- eree on the day of sale, when the lot is knocked Mown to the purchaser,ani the balan.e on con- firmation of said sale by said court. Dated San Francisco, Ca)., July 1, 1897, GUSTAVE H. UMBSEN, Referee. Ja Medical Dr. Doherty’sinsticese Class of Cases Treated. TTEE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL DISEASER , PRIVATE and CHRON. gfigl‘)" the ERRORS o? YOUTEM!?O!!I", IDA‘z DISEASES, from any can: MENTAL v, speedily . BLOO: KIDNEY and g&m DISEAS] &na PHYSICAL w!AKK!‘.‘fiS'pfiv‘ml and permanently cured. Thirty vears' praet) experience. Consultation fres. Oh u reasor~ able. Patients in the cou: > or add: ntry cured at home. Uall DE. W. K. DOHES 850 Market Street, an Franiie Big & is a nop-poisono Temedy for nrrhu“. Gleet, Spermatorrha . .L(‘B:‘. nnnttlurnll di , Or any inflamma. tion,"irTitation or ulcera- on of mucous mem- Non-astringent. line of Bush stree: one bumdred and _ - one bundred and thirty-seven (137) .