The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 21, 1897, Page 2

THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21 897. pem—————— them on the navigable waters of the Upper Yukon, say at the mouth of White River, or Sixty-mile Creek, or on the head waters of the Tanana River, which, though rising | within six miles of the head of Sixty-miie | Creek, empties into the Yukon some 800 { miles below the mouth of that stream. The basin of the Tanana is as yet an unknown country to white men, but afew | of the hardiest prospectors ever having | ventured over the divide, and the country south of it, a vast area of metallic prob- abilities, is likewise equally unknown. Not far above the mouth of this stream is one of the late discoveries, Minook Creek. It is not down on the Government chart of Alaska and must be located from the re- ports of those who have b en there. It empties into the Yukon about ten miles in a straight line west of the 150th meridian, between and with the sams | general direction as Whimper and Klam- arcbargut rivers, which flow into the main stream about half way between the mouth of the Tanana, and where the 150th meridian crosses the Yukon. The other discovery is on American Creek, which takes its rise in the mount- ains between Seventy-mile Creek and the head of Cariboo, and following first north- east and parallel to the former, turns east after crossing the 142d meridian, and empties into the Yukon some three miles west of the boundary line and twelve miles below Forty-mile Creek. Coming as 1t does from the same hills in which Birch Creek rises the finds already made point strongly to a large future for this stream. So, too, with Minook Creek, though its vicinity has not been brought to much | prominence beretofore. | In that country, however, no man can | tell what a day may briag forth, to say | nothing of the months between steamers. - | ON GOES THE RUSH. A Full List for the Excelslor—The Choke of Transportation Routes. The Alaska Commercial Company yes- terday closed its books for the Excelsior, which will leave for St. Michaels on the | 28'h inst. Scores flocked to the company’s | office again yesterday, and enough decided | to go that way to make up the 200 which the steamer can carry. A great majority go from San Francisco, but a number belong to the interior of the Etate, which is greatly supplying recruits | ior the Yukon. This 200 is but asmell part of the California army which is mus- tering for the advance. Thousands in San Francisco long to go, hundreds have about made up their minds toeo and scores, and perhaps hundreds, will go this summer, a majority taking the Juneau gation opened, about seven weeks ago. The Yukon freezes in September, so that navigation lasts hardly three months. The Excelsior, which leaves here on the 28th 1nst., will be the last steamer of the Alaska Commercial Company from here to connect with boats going up the river. The other company expects to get the Portland back to Seattle for one more trip. ‘The season for travel by the Juneau route is as brief. It begins when the lakes and streams tributary to the Yukon are free enough from ice to permit of boating and rafting for the 600 miles or so down to the diggings and it closes early in September. When boats cannot be thus used it is a Jong and perilous tramp of 800 miles, which is rarely taken. Thus those who go in by the Juneau | route tbis year must get over the pass, get their boats built and make the trip within six or seven weeks. Comparatively few realize the magnifi- cent distances involved in the trip. By the river route itis 4650 miles, the main distances being as follows: To St, Michael... To Circle City..... To ¥orty Mile. To Klondyke .. To Juneauthe distancefrom San Fran- The distances from points cisco is 1650 miles. there to the principal follows: Juneaun to— Chilkat Dyeal Tl Head of Canoe Navigation. Summit of Chilkoot Pass Head of Lake Linderman Foot of Lake Linderman. Head of Lake Bennett Foot of Takish Lake Head of Lake Marsh. Head of Canyon Head of White Horse Rapids. Tahkeena River.. Head of Lake LeBarge Foot of Lake LeBarge. Hootalinqua River. Big Salmon River. Littte Salmon Rive ¥ive Fingers Rapid Rink Rapids. Pelly River White River. Stewart Sixty-mile Post. Klondyke..... Foriy-mile Post Circle City e i THE BOUNDARY LINE. Professor Davidson Says the Lo- catlon Is Certain Within but Sixteen Feet. are as River. route. A great many will let the season | for travel close with a firm intention of | going in the spring, but there will be many | a story to read and digest before next | spring. R i Yesterday the talk sbout the Yukon ! was even more general and the fever | higher that the day before. Many little | parties are completing arrangements to go. One feature of the talk is the run of | popular imagination in the way of enter- price. It is one man’s idea that it would be a brilliant stroke to ship in a lot of burros, as transportation is so meager and | cosily. A great many see the brilliant op- | portunity afforded to charter vessels or | otnerwise ship in stocks of whisky, provi- | sions, ete. The transportation situation | does promis» many developments within | a few months. Seyeral schemes to start | transportation lines by sea and the Yukon | River ure already talked of, and if the | boom last another year some of them will | develop. | The one great need of the Yuxon coun- try now is freight transportation. The present rush makes the situation like a herd of sheep jammed at a gate. The Alaska Commercial Company and the NorthAmerican Transportation and Trad- ing Company own all the boats plying on the Yukon, the former baving five and | the laiter three. “They also have a practi. | cal monopoly of the merchandise business | of the gold region. Their own steamers are inadequate to carry in all the mer- | chandise with which they want to stock | their stores, and they refuse to carry any- | | | | thing but a little personal baggage for any- body. They would probably refuse freight from rivals if they had steamer-room to spare. To ship goods to the Yukon country by river would involve not only an ocean vessel to St. Michaels, but the building of a river steamer at thenorth, to make the trip of over 2000 miles up the river. So these two companies have a *‘cinch” in river transportation for this season at least, It is nearly as bad by the Juneau route. That 25-mile climb over the passto the lake from which boats and rafts may be used involves packing everything for that distance. That is long, hard and ex- pensive at best, but in the present crush and craze it would be next to an impossi- bility to hire men to carry a small stock of goods over the mountains. Nearly everybody up there is going to the Kion- dyke, and in this rush the few packers | left are hard to get at fabulous prices, ! All this explains the danger of a short- age of provisions in the interior this win- ter or nextspring. Nothing can be packed ina few weeks hence. The commercial companies are sending in all the merchan- dise they can crowd on their boats, but liquors take up such 4 great proportion of the room, and hardware, dry goods and 80 on take up so much more, t! the amoust of provisions thus going in is lim- ited. From early in September until next July the population of the Yukon must subsist on what bas already been brought in, and in this time of excitement the proportion of provisions 1o population must be accidental. CLIMATE AMD DISTANCE, Long Days and Nights, Short Sum- mers and Short Time for the Journey. The Yukon climate is one of the chief things that people ask about constantly, with bazy ideas of how the days and nights lapse up by the Arctic circle, The Yukon goid fields lie on both sides of the circle, but mainly just below it. The new Klondyke diggings are the ones farthest south, and are about 250 miles below the frigid zone. Up there the days ere practically six months long, as sre the | nights, At Circle City, just a little below the Arctic circle, the sun sets for eleven minutes on the longest day, and iis set. ting at Dawson is for but a few minutes longer in midsummer, and there is a bright twilight for that period. In spring and fall there is an almost constant twi- light, and there is a bright twilight throughout the winter. The snow disappears and the streams open about the middle of June, and it is late in June usually when the Yukon is sufficiently free from ice for ravigation. Then the Yukon boats begin their plying, taking up the freight and passengers brought to 8t, Michaels by the connecting ocean steamers of the two commercial companies. Then two boats start down the river. The miners who arrived a few days ago on the Excelsior at San Frzn- cisco and the Portland at Seattle were the first to get out of the country when navi {line with boundary posts across More or less mistaken talk about the supposed uncertainty of the boundary | line between Alaska and the Northwest Territory-and the importance of having it settled is accompanying the discussion of the Yukon tield. The boundary line in- volved 1s that of the 14lst meridian and | the matter has nothing to do with that other boundary question, the location of the frontier along the ‘‘panhandle” of Alaska. From Mt. St. Elias north across the Yukon country the boundary is decisively fixed at the 14ist meridian, and the prob- | lem is wholly the simple geodetic one of | the location and demarcation. The popu- lar supposition appears to be that the lo- | cation of the meridian across the new gold fields in the Yukon Valley has not been determined and that it is all guess work whether a lot of gold beds are in American or British territory. But in fact there is not the slightest uncertainty about the point on the Yukon where the line crosses it, for the point has been officially and scientifically deter- mined for both the American and Cana- aian governments and the locations re- | spectively Jetermined astronomically are but sixteen feet apart. What remains to | be done is for a commission to jointly de- | termine the precise line by splitting the difference or otherwise and to work the | the country. Any surveyor can now run a | line north or south from either points on | the river, sixteen feet apart, and sixteen feet represents the uncertainty of where the line runs tirough the Yukon Valley. The Klondyke diggings sre fifty miles or more up the valley in British territory. Practically ail the other Yukon placer fields yet discovered are in American ter- ritory. The Porcupine is over 200 miles down the river from the bounaary. The rich valley of Birch Creek with the gold- laden gulches is wholly in Alaska. The next field up the valley is that of Forty- mile Creek. This stream and its tributaries are wholly in American territory except the very mouth of Forty-mile Creek, the stream crossing the boundary tc enter the Yukon. The lower streich of Sixty-miie Creek is well within British territory, but its headwaters and chief tributaries, in- cluding nearly all the placers of this val- ley, are in Alaska. The Klondyke, still | farther up, the only valley in which | gold has been developed so far on the Yukon River, is wholly in British territory. The boundary line cuts through about the middle of a gold - becring region, four hundred miles or more long, the prospecting of which has haraly be- gun and which promises many great dis- coveries on both sides of the boundary. Not only are placers to be looked for, but quartz, copper, coal and other minerals await discovery and development. Profeesor George Davidson, who was for many years superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey on this coast and un. der whose immediate direction the Ameri- can location of the boundary on the Yukon was determined, had this to say about the boundary question yesterday: “There is nomore trouble or doubt about the location of the boundary at the Yukon than there is about the location of Mont- gomery street. There is just sixteen feet difference between the locations on behalf of the two Goveruments, and what does that amount to? The determination was made by means of transits of the moon over the meridian and of occultations of the stars by the moon. The determina- tions were made by John E. McGrath of the United States Coast and G eodetic Sur- vey and by Mr. Ogilvie for the Canadian Government. Mr. McGrath’s obserya- tions were made in the winters of 1889and 18%. His series of observations were much longer than Mr. Ogilvie's, ana, 1 think, better, though both must have been remarkably good to agree so nearly, The observations were made by Mr. McGrath on the north bank of the river about twenty-three miles south of the English station at Forty-mile Creek. He carried his triangulation from his station east to the meridian. Ogilyie made his observa- tions about the same time, Only one point was marked, but any surveyor can run the line from there as far as he pleases, An- other location was similarly made about tne same time on the Porcupine, 200 miles north, by John H. Turner'of our survey.” ———— Land Offics on the Yukon. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 20.—Com- missioner Hermann of the General Lana Office stated to-day that he will recom- visit the Klondyke mines. son. [ i i I Al g e 8 Seel;ing Information at the Alaska Commercial Company’s Office. There are two kinds of yellow fever prominently before the San Francisco public just now. in Central America was brought to mind by the arrival of the Mail Company’s steamer Colon, while the Klondyke fever was amply illustrated in the offices of the Alaska Commercial Company. climbed over each other in the vain attempt to secure passages on the steamer Excelsior for the gold fields. miners were among the throng, but all present seemed to be well-to-do, and all had the necessary cash to pay for their tickets, and a few hundred dollars besides. The women seem to be even more eager than the men, and all of them look forward to making a fortune in one sea- It will be a gala day when the Excelsior sails on the 28th inst., and thousands will be down to see the vessel off. None of the men and women who crowded the corridors of the Commercial Company were exuberant, but all seemed to be thoroughly imbued with the knowledge that it was no light undertaking they were entering upon. dently weighed the pros and cons, and, having decided upon the venture, were carrying out their plans methodically. Men and women crowded the corridors and m /] ) The kind that is raging Very few One and all had evi- tricts on the Yukon or its tributaries, in anticipation of the number of conten- tions over land claims, - Goling From Loulsville. LOUISVILLE, Ky., July 20.—W. E. Greenaway, assistant chief cierk of the railway mail service, applied to-day for six months’ leave of absence in order to He will take five young men from here. CHAMBER GF HOREOSS. Discovery of a Mysterious Dungeou Evi- dently Used by Scme College Secret Scciety. BOSTON, Mass., July 20.—A mysterious dungeon has just been unearthed on the Bowdoin College grounds, at Brunswick, Me. The authorities recently decided to remodel Appleton Hall, one of the dormi- tories on the college grounds, and the workmen have begun operations. When the work was begun of tearing out the in- terior of the old building the workmen were surprised and so were the faculty to find beneath the building a subterrenean basement, which, if its existence was ever known, had been forgotten and left undis- turbed for many years. In this basement, at one end of the building, was found a dungeon cell or cave fitted up in a most terrifying man- ner, Its walls were lined with black; no light could penetrate it, and in this vault was a grotesque array of skulls and skele- tons, and, strangest of all, several ceffins. The only visible entrance to this place was an air shaft which found ventin ihe roof of the building,and which was secretly connected with closets in the rooms of various students of the building., Opinion is greatly divided as to the dark deeds which have been transacted in this gloomy cell. Some think that it was a chamber of horrors used by the famous Phi Chi Hazing Society of long ago. Others attribute it tc the D. K. E.’s,whose mystic rights of initiating thrilled so many timid boys in past years, Certain it is that to the present time no graduate has been found who is ready to unravel the mystery, and the black chamber stands, with the dust of long years over- lapping the somber tints and shadows. ol ek THE UNION PACIFIC'S DEBT. Resolution Relating to the Sale of the Road Deba'ed by Senators Morgan, Stewart and Thurston. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 20.—Soon after the Senate met Monday the doorswere closed for executive business and remained closed until 2:30. From that bour until 5 o'clock the resolution relating to the sale of the Union Pacific Kailway was debated, Morgan finishing his speech in favor of the resolution, Stewart arguing agaiust it as designed to delay the much-vexed question and Thurston beginning his op- posing speech, which will probably ex- tead over several days. Thurston began by saying that the Gov- ernment has already some $70,000,000 in- vested in Union Pacific property, and now it was -proposed to invest another $34,000,000 in it. The Government had already placed enough money in the in- vestment, and without any further ex- penditure it should proceed in the ordi- nary, legal method through the courts to enforce its legal rights. The passage of the resolution meant, he said, the abso- lute loss of millions to the Government, If any iriend of the railway company had introduced any such resolution he would have been denounced as an attempted robber of the treasury and asin league with the railway interests, Thurston as-erted his belief that the resolution emanated from firsi-mortgage bondholders, who were endeavoring in that way to have their bonds paid with- out taking any chances or paying any partof the expenses involved in the reor- gonization plan. There was nothing be- hind the resolution except the same old nypul to the rabble and to the prejudices of men, When Thurston had completed the first installment of his speech a brief period was devoted to other business before ad- journment. The nomination of Charles McCawley assistant quartermaster of the Marine Corps, which was sirenuously opposed because he is a civilian, was con- mend the establishment of two land dis- nrmed, | reporter at noon that during the morning WILD RUSH | 10 THE MECCA OF THE NORTH Continued from First Page. man has {m-ee five-gallon oil cans filled, and is not'‘fully washed out yet. But, re- member, he is one ot of perhaps 5000. The many have nothing, though great wealth doubtless exists. A town has sprung up here at the mouth of the Klon- dyke that has killed Circle City, Forty- mile, Fort Cudahy and all of the other towns dead. “The Alaska Commercial Company and the North American Trading Company have abandoned or nearly abandoned their places of business there and come bodily up here. Euch is erecting three large warehouses and store. This will be their headquarters. In factthe only town on the river—a sawmill running night and day, saloons by the score, etc. Prices are high. A couple of fellows brought in 400 dozen eggs along with us. They ar- rived at 3 o’clock this afterncon and now, 10:30, are mearly sold out at $6 ver dozen. Bacon is 65 cents a pound, flour $6 for fifty pounds and other things in proportion. Flour is cheapest of anything. A stecmer came in this afternoon from Forty-mile with more goods from that point. No steamers have arrived from St. Michaeis, but one is expected by the A. C. Company wny day. “June 18.—Harry hasreturned from the diggings, and speaks of some claims that are wonderful in their wealth. The country is a queer formation. One creek is wonderfully rich, while another running parallel few milesaway is worthless, There will be great activity here this fall and winter. New discoveries will doubtless ba made. A couple of stampedes have taken place since we have been here, but they amounted to nothing whatever. On the boat to-morraw a great many are going out with ten, twenty, thirty and as high as fifty and one hundred thousand dollars. The nights here are so light it is hard to sleep. It is now 11 o’clock and as light as midday. The mosquitoes are getting more numerous the last few days. This place is building up very rapidly, and town lots booming as in Seattle years ago. Some very good log houses building.”” A subsequent letter received from Harry Sheafe, Miller's partner in his mining ventures, says they have ‘‘staked out’’ what appears to be a good claim, and that they are now preparing to build cabins and make other preparations for the de- velopment of their property. From present indications the efficiency of the Seattle police department will be somewhat izapaired owing to the Klon- dyke fever, which has taken bold of pa- troimen, detectives, cergeants and cap- taing, all alike and with equal severity. The men who have decided to go north are among the best officers on the force, and it is this fact thay is troubling the heads of the police aepartment. Many business men are willing to stake a big, strong policeman, and the *“cops” seem to have no trouble in getting a grub-stake to go north on. The men dropping out so many ata time cannot belp but injure the department, but to what extent can only be determined by the men who had taken their places. From ten to fifteen patrolmen, and possi- bly two detectives and one captain, will leave for the Klondyke and other parts of Alaska on the next two steamers. praaR Ay EASTERN EXCITEMENT. The Gold Fever Has Reached New England and Many Are Start= ing for the Yukon. BOSTON, Mass, July 20.—The Alaska gold craze has siruck New England very Dard, particularly Boston and the pine- tree Slate. Beveral large parties will leave here at once. W.iliam Burrell of the Great Northern Railway told a CaLL | party of a dozen or fifteen men will leave | thousands of idle men 1n Maine and Mas- alone he had sold three tickets to Seattle, and all of them were to men whose final destination was the Klondyke district. A Bangor, Maine, on Tuesday of next week. The party is being arranged by Stephen Crane, an old miner who spent many years of hislife in the mines in California and in the Black Hills. It will be made up of men from Bangor and surrounding towns, and from Houlton, Calais and other places in Eastern Maine, There are sachusetts, including many who have some knowledge of mining, who are anx- ious to go to Alaska, and it is likely that in the coming month there will be a re pe- tition of the excitement of 1849, L TO BUILD A RAILROAD. Bold Enterprise of the Yukon Min- Ing, Trading and Transporta- tlon Company. WILMINGTON, Den, July 20.—The Yukon Mining, Trading and Transporta- tion Company, which was formed here last year and which is just completing final arrangements for operations in the Yukon district, will shortly put into ef- fect a plan which will solve the vexatious problem of shortage of suppiies and meager facilities for the transportation of supplies into the Kiondyke and other camps in the Yukon territory. The plan proposed by this company is the result of three years’ investigation by exploration parties and the accumulation of informa- tien gathered from reliable soarces, In 1896 P. I. Fackard of Portland, Or., who is interested in the company, went to the Yukon district to locate a route trom the coast to Teslin Lake, the head of the navigable waters of the Yukon, upon which a railway could be built. With the aid of Indians he located the pass leading direct from Taku Inlet, on the Alaska coast, direct to Teslin Lake. This pass, be learned, was then known only to five white men. In QOctober of last year he re- turned and made his report to the com- pany, and immediately it applied for charters in West Virginia, British Colum- bia and Canada, all of which were granted last spring. To augment the enterprise British Columbia made the company a grant of 5120 acres of iand. In an interview to- night Mr. Packard, who is here complet- ing arrangements for the beginning of operations, said that the road will be a great boon to miners as it will reduce the cost of their supplies and remove the most dangerous delays to their .present transportation up the Yukon River. It will be 150 miles lorg and will connect at Taku Inlet with steamers from San Fran- cisco and Puget Sound points. The road and its connecting steamers, Mr, Packard said, will land a miner and supplies at Klondyke in five days from Taku Inlet or Juneau. The present route by way of St. Michaels 1sland consumes thirty days under favorable conditions. The connect- ing steamers will winter at Teslin Lake and when the ice breaks in the spring will godown the river safely with iv and re- turn to the lake thirty days before a steamer from St. Michaels Island can. Mr. Packard will leave here on Friday in company with a civil engineer for Beattle, where he will be joined by a sur- veyor for Juneau. The syndicate back of the enterprise has a capitalizaiion of $3.000,000. The road, which will be the firstin Alaska, will be completea in two years. Charles F. Hutcbins, superin- tendent of the Wilmington City railway, is president of the company. President Lea, president of the Equitable Guarant and Trust Company of this city, and Wil- 1ard Saulsbury, vice-president’'of the Wil- mington City Railway Company, as well as several New York -capitalists, are heavily interested in the enterprise. SR FOUGHT FOR RAW ONIONE, How the Ravenous Klondykers Welcomed a Change of Food at St. Michaels. BINGHAMTON, N. Y., July 20.—In a letter dated St. Michaels Island, June 27, A. H. Sianley, president of the Evening Herald Company, describes the arrival on that day of the Weare, the first passenger steamer from the upper Yukon district, Before it reached the wharf news of the great strike was shouted across the waters, those aboard waving nuggets ana bags of gold. Continuing, Stanley writes: From all T can learn, on El Dorado and Bo- panza creeks and both branches of the Kilon- dyke, the richest strike 1n all American his- tory has been made. The e has been a com- plete stampede from Cirele City, only a few white men remsining, and Dawson, ‘the Iargest town 1n the region, 1s booming. I can- not learn exactly bow much the Weare brought dowa, but 1 should judge taat the value of gold Is n excess of $1,000,000. The men won't talk, but with gripsacks and bags, strong-boxes, belts, tin tomato cans aud other odd receptacles filled with the glittering motal, they £it on guard in thelr 4x6 state- oms. Ty, Clements of Los Angeles bad #50.000 1u gold dust and nuggets and had left ‘12?,- 000 invei in other claims tnan hisowan. He was going 10 Los Angeles 10 invest in ,e:;‘ estate. He showed me one nugget worth §231 and others of smaller size 7anging fom $75 to $150. ;?e begged of me an orenge and in exchange offered me $6, which [ rejused. Raw turnips and even potatoes were eagerly sought, and as & crate of onions came from the newly arrived steamer Portland there was almost & riot so strong wes the desire for them. Several lucky miners went about the Portland and geve the steward §30 for a dinner of seven plates. The men ate like famished wolves and as the various courses were brought on laughed 11 pleased chi dren. Most of the sixty passengers aboard the Weare, which started from vlnter quarters after the ice started in the Yukon, had been living on beans, bacon and hardtack for from six months to & year. The little agercy store at St. Michaels was besieged for bottled cider, canned pineapples, apricols, cherries or anything tart, and at $1 a bottle cider went like gumdrops. After my dinner on board the Portland I followed the seven diners to the Weare and there met the captain of a mounted police, who refused to allow me the use of his name. He was of the Gold Commission of the British Government, and knew to an ounce whateach man aboard the Weare had brought out. I asked him if what they had brought aggre- gated $750,000. He laughed and said: “You're not very warm.”” “‘Was it over $1,000,000, captain?” “You're getting warmer, but I shan’t talk of those boys and their findings. Do you want & history of the find? If so, I can give you th You're the first newspaper man who reached the Yukon since the strike was made. The richest gold strike the world has ever known ‘was made in the Klondyke region last August and September, but the news did not get even 10 Cirele City until December 15, when there was & stampede. Circle City is deserted. But threc white men and several Indians and women cama out o greet us as we came down. Of all the 200 claims staked out on the Bo- nanza snd El Dorado, not one has proved a blank. “As I came out I had authentic information of equally rich finds made from June 6 t0 10 | on Dominion Creek. This creek heads at Hun- | ker Creek and runs into Indign Creek and | both run into Kiondyke. Three hundred claims have already been staked out on this creek, and surface indications stow that they are as rich as the others. “‘You will find more gold in circulation in Dawson than you ever saw in all your life. Saloons tuke in from $3000 to §4000 each night. Men who have bzen in all parts of the world where gold is mined say they never saw such & quantity taken in so shorta time. “You may safely say that $2,500.000 has been taken from the ground on the British side within the past year, and abovt $1,000,000 ifrom the American side. The diggings sround Circle City and in the older placers are rich enough to satisfy any ordinary demand, but they have nearly all been temporarily left for the new fields. The new diggings cannot be. exhausted in ten years.” —n BUSINESS IS BOOMING. And the Treasury Go'd Reserve Is Being Increased by Yukon River Shipments. WASHINGTON. D. €., July 20.—Busi- ness throughout the country is booming, according 1o reporis received at the Trea: ury Department. The demand for small notes is an excellent ind.cation of cash sales still increasing. Nearly ail calls are for $5 pills. It is a remarkable fact that gold is being deposited in sub-treasuries in exchange for silver certificates. Mer- chants and others say they don't care what sort of money they get, as they want to put it in circulation, not to hoard. For that renson silver certificates are as de- sirable as notes redeemable in gold. The Treasury Department has taken time by the forelock, and a large quantity of small bills, sufficient to last a long time, are be- ing printed. The gold reserve gained $254,770 to-day by deposits, principally at San Francisco and Bt. Louis. Reports from St. Louis in- dicate that business there is improving rapidly, and the demand for small notes is very great. Yukon river gold is being shipped East. It 1s expected that much of it will be deposited at the sub-treasury in New York and the Philadelphia mint in exchange for small notes, Captain Tuttle's Report. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 20,—Captain Francis Tuttle of the cutter Bear writes from St. Michaels, on the Yukon, under date July 1 that the old days of 49in California were a mere sideshow to the ex- citement prevailing there. He says ha cannot afford to keep the cutter there long as the whole crew will go daft over tbe gold fever. “St. Michaels,”” he writes, “isnow full of miners awaiting a chance to get to Paget Sound and Caliiornia. Every other man of them has $50,000 worth of dust. There is not one with less than $15,000. When we arrived yesterday we found a man who last September was discharged as a deck- hand from s seamer on Puget Sound. He made his way into Aiaska, worked seven months on the Klondyke and has now reached St. Michaels with $150,000 in gold. I almost feel as it I woula like to w0 up the river myself, and certainly would wére I twenty ounger.”’ Pl ez f Coming From Kentucky. NEWPORT, Kv., July 20.—A meeting was held to-day to organize a company of 100, each to pay $1000, then to proceed to San Francisco to purchase an iron ves- sel of sufficient tonnage to carry the men and provisions, and then proceed to the goldfields. The vessel being the property of the company, it is the purpose to hold it at the nearest point to the goldfields us a headquarters. Before the meeting ad+ journed twelve of those present signed the agreement. Wil Begin Criminal Proceedings.’ CHICAGO, Iiv., July 20.—The depos- itors of the Dime Savings Bank, which re- cently failed, intend to begin criminal proceedings against the directors ana | officers. NEW TO-DAY. BRIGHT MEN ND WOMEN ALL OVER THE LAND ARE SMILING AND CONFIDENT that the near approach of better times is at hand. The tariff bill bas passed the House, and surely the Senate will not long delay 1t. This will mean better times, better prices for Iabor, for produce, for manufactured articles. 1t is as much the duty of a nation to care for its own as it is for the head of a family, Until the bill is in force we'll sell at *“free-trade” prices for cash only. THINGS TO WEAR. Summer Undershirts, child’s, 33 year to5 yrs. 5o summer Under Paa:s, giris’, 8 10’1 0o Summer Drawers, boye, 8 to 12 Bummer Vests, giris' or boys’, 10 to 14 (No other sizes, a closing lot.) Ladies’ 25-cent §'eaveless Vests, white. Ladies’ High-grade Ribb-d Underwear. Girl® Ribb-a Vests or Pants, good. Ribbed Underwear, ladies’ wool 7 Summer Goods at safe prices to the buyer a.l alony the wearing apparel lines. L 13 g Mep's Summer Coats f0- store wear Men’s Cassimere Coats, 84 to 87 Men’s Light Sults, 812 50 valu Men’s Sraw Hats, reduced i Girls' Uanvas Shoes, §1 25 grade, 13 to Boys' Canvas Shoes' only size 4. Iniwuts’ Litte Oxfords, biac«, 5t0 7 Girls' Oxfords or Sandals, al13%4 THINGS TO EAT. Ralston Breakfast Food, each pack: Ralston’s Fancake Mea', Postum Careal, each pac) Arabian Fig ( offve, per Ib. E‘ll‘!fitlfild Sweet Corn, Dry Cora Kindergarten Coffee, very fine grads Heck: Farioe, & bealthy Lily Cream, big caas, condensed Milk. Rex's Corped Beef, 2-ib. cans. Macaroni, in bulk, fine goods. THINGS TO USE. Carpets, yard wid; Carpats, 27-inch, T's Otlclotn), standard width, Oilcioth’for sbeives. pr Our July Home Circle and price-list, 44 pages, is being sent free to 20,000 fami- lies. A furniture ollllf)gua. 32 pages, will be sent to all who ask it. We are glad to cultivate pleasant business relations with their patronage. all who are willing to entrust us with 'CASH STORE THE STORE THAT BELONGS TO ALL, THE PEOPLE OF THE COAST FOR:: TRADING PURPOSES. : 25-27 MARKET STRRET, 1N FRANCISOO. CAL, Year Ferry, DR. TOM SHE BIN, Chinese Tea and Herb Suni- tarium, G15 Kearny St., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL This Is to certify that Dr. Tom She B cured me of kidney trouble and stricture. Was sick for some time, but found no rehief umiil 1 tried this doctor. He entirely cured me, and I been troubl since. AL II: DIL":; o Care of Wells, Farzo & Co., San Frageltco, SAN FRANCISCO, March 20, a 1 have been 1l for two vears ahd A WAk with womb trouble. Could ge: no relief untfl I tried Dr. Tom She Bin. He eutirely cared me, I have not been troubled In the least since ticing his medi- cine. 1can honestly recomm - Sufering the same as T ajq -0 DI 0 any oae MBS AL I. DILLEY, Dr. Doherty’ Medical Institute Class of Cases Treated. TEEAEDIOAL AXD SURGICAL DISEASES g;'s'xs?fl" PRIVATE and CHRONIC DIS 00D, the ERRORS 0! YOUTH, LOST MAN. . 'BLOOD DISEASES, from any can: KIDNI'Y and SKIN DISEASES, and MENTAL &nd PHYSICAL WEAKNESS privately, speedily and permanently cured. Thirty years' practical experience. (onsultation free. Charges able, wadlents In the country cured at home. oAl or ad¢ DR. W. K. DORERTY, 850 Market Stroet, San Francisee. FOR BARBERS, BAR- IS, ers, booblacks, bathe LAl D hoises, biliard - tabies, ook | | yeInake cal dyers, flourmills, foundries,” laundries, papes bangers, printers,’ painters, shoe factori men, tar-roofers, Laun = 00 o 3., BOCHANAN Brush Manufacturers. 609 SacramentoSte REFEREES SALE OF REAL ESTATE, B, VIRICE OF TWO DECREES OF THE'. Superior Court_in and for.the City and Cou ’ ©of San Francisco, State cf California (Department - No. 10), :he fits: of which decrees was made and . - is dated the 22 day of November, 1895, and tha second of which decrees was made and is da: the 25th day of Jupe, 1887, and both of which de- crees were made and enteréd in an action pending in ldfl!!llp!‘t)mf"sol:lfll,ll'hthnln Adam Grant is ana Daniel T. Muiphy ana others are Rndun: belog case Xo. 491033 1 the maid 3 the undersign: d, Who was by said court appointed referee 10 said sction, will sell av public a at the auctioa-rooms of re ook i 6. . Umbsen & Co., 14 gomery 8t.; In said City and County of Ssa franetsco, Thursday, the 2d day of September, 4. D. 1597, & 12 o'clock noon of that day, to the highest b ddes for cash In iawful monvy of the United sta and subj-ct to confirmation by sald court, ali that . ° certaie 10, piece or parcel of land situste, lying and being in the City aud County of San Frane ¢isco, State of California, and bounded atd par - ticuiarly described as follows, (0 wit: @ a point where the northerly ling Intersected by the 'ufar}{ line ot y alo of thirty-seven (187) feet nnd six () inches; thence' at right ngfo- Aeriherly and. paraiier With San- sOme street one hundréd and thirty-seven (187, fectand sIx (6) inches: thence ab right augles . " westerly and parallel with Bush street. one hams : . drel and thiriy-seven \“1) feet and wix (6) inches, erly side of Sanso rest: and - y along the easterly side of Sane € bundred aad_thirty-seven (15:1, ot Tent. {05 ihe? wiih e buTIOens Hagjumenee: : together wi and ‘ments therean. R ... 1he purchaser shall 1he sald lot the right of John ¥. McCauley and Heary Thoroe. ton Templetun, their helrs And ass 0 use thie - brick wall along the northery line of said lot hers- . 1 described as'a party wall. S Terms and condiiions of sale—Cash inlawful . - money of the Unfled States of America; ton per centot the purchase price (0 bepald 0 'the ret- . ;ru o:nlhh. fllyu::all"!. when the lot 1s knocked own 10 the purchaser,and the balan. Semation of said sale by said court. . - 0T San Francisco, Cal., July 1, 1897, a 1 - GUSTAVE H, UMBSEN, Beferes. ect te