The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 22, 1897, Page 2

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T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1897. on the snow they can ge! over a full year’s outfit. Thena camp is made on the lake, and boats built in readiness to follow the 1ce down the stream when it breaks up | in the spring. 3 Warnings ara given by all of the re- turning miners against going in at ail unless equipped with provisions for at least a year. They all insist that it will be impossible for the trading companies to supply the cumbers which are e_xpacxed to flock into the camp thisfall. Theman | who goes withou: provisions is taking desperate chances, according to their pre- dictions, < This is probably true, but it is also true that strenuous efforts are being made to nut into the country pro- visions sufficient to subply any pros- | pective demand. The jobbing houses of | this city are doing a heavy business, work- ing their forces day and night. In front| of the stores are big piles of flour, each | ack being covered by an additional oil | ckin sack, as a prevention against pr pective dumps into the creeks on the pa or into the river after the divide is crosse A pbase of the Kiondyke matter men- tioned in TrEe CALL several days ago is in. terestingly treated in a letter received by | Mrs. William Walker of South fea:tle from her husband, who has been mining in the great go!d fields. From the muel of Walker's letter it would seem thatthere | will be too much whisky and too little | | substantial food for comfort on the Kion- dyke during the coming winter. He says that ev steamer has more or less saloon | fixtures, and a big stock of whisky and | liquors is being brought in. Walker went north with the party that took up machinery to build a steamer on | Lake Linderman. They started over the | mountains from Dyea, but after going a | considerable distance the men besan to | leave one by one. All were in haste to | reach the Yukon and get down to the dig- gings. Finally Walker and the owner of the mactinery were the only men left out of the big crew tnat had been hired to take the machinery over. They couid do nothing with the heavy machinery, soit was dropped, and both joined in the mad race for the Kiondyke. This was but a few months ago. Walker had enough money to p visions for the summer and work at §15a day, He sent his on the last steamer and saved enough out | of his earnings to keep him the re-| mainder of the summer and bring bhim | out before winter begins. He expectea to leave on the t of the month on a pros- pecting trip on a new creek where few lo- cations had been made. He intended to stake out a claim, do a little work and come home for the winter. A new transportation company was or- TENC B PG \The Newly NDiscovered LMERICAN COLY FIELY ShamansVil anized here to-day, which will er the eld in comy th the North Ameri- can Tradi P J on Com- ) 20 oo ) pany, on t from — Seattle to St. ) ) up the Scare or MiLES riverto Dawson C e members of this company are Captain Bryant and C. C. Cherry, the local United States Inspec- tors of st a ; D. K. Howard, a local capitalist; Captain Primrose, an old steam- boatman,and Carr,the Yukon mail- carri~r, who brou first word of the Klonayke s ey have pur- based the old steamboat Eiiza Anderson, h they propose to T from here to chaels; and the W. K. Merwin, a| tern-wheel river steamer of good capac- | The latter will be towed up to Bt | chsels by a tugboat. The Anderson I leave in ten days. Itis expected that | — vicinity. | | Mount Wranget 17800 Feet Map of Part of Ea:stern Alaska, Showing the Position of the Newly Discovered Gold-bearing Streams, Minook River and American Creek, and Their Relation to the Klondyke Field. American Creek, which empties into the Yukon some twelve miles below Forty-mile Post and three miles west, or on the Alaskan side of the National boundary line, takes its rise in the same range of hills in which head tbe main fork or Birch Creek on the west and Caribou and other branches of Forty-mile Creek on the east. Minook River is several hundred miles further down toward the mouth of the Yukon. the Yukon between the Whimper and Klamarchargut rivers, just west of the 150th meridian. It rises in the Tanana Hills, just north of the river of that name, and flow: It is a fresh field, as but little prospecting has ever been done in that into one round trip to Dawson City can be made before the river closes. -—— PORTLAND STEAMSHIPS. | fortnignt, | staple provisions to trade. First of a New Line to Leave for | :‘vl::n‘(l;hx:n f the modern Golconda by | es of the m 3 Alaska on or Before | boat, and if they cannot dispose of them August 1. | at once at *way-up’’ figures they will pack PORTLAND, Ox., July 2L.—It is now ) them into Klondyke. A score of such rced on reliable authority that on | €U are now maki preparations to re. e | sign their places and leave for the north: -?“_‘ t1a "e“m;“‘l"li”j'j“’“f rn gold fields as eariy as possible. t for Alaska, to be foliowed by Yesterday Frank Swanson, well known as justitied by the trade. The | ation and excitement from the rich | the bay from Dawson City. of gold in the north have put new | briefly :m:i tbat bis langu war inade- ifa intp Basltiass mnen. /Who iare.awake guate to describe the rich ground on the sl S e N e | Klondyke, in the vicinity of which he and the vast trade that may result. All are |}y prother had been prospecting for sev- unanimous in the opinion that Portland | eral months with phenomenal success. must make an effort to capture a8 due por- | He expects that he and his brother will tion of the commerce, and the proposed enterprise will find hearty support. They realize that thereis a rn:‘h field for invest- | about returning to California when he ment in supplving provisions and cloth- | made a rich strike. The dangerous ill- 1ng to those visiting the Yukon. | ness of his mother takes him to Oskland, All those persons must live. The rugged | and during his absence his brother guards country and id climate compel con- | their property. siderable attention to clothing and food. There can be no doubt that greatnumbers | WILL NOT BAR AMERICANS will flock to tho Klondyke this fali, and many more in the spring. Whetner or | Britlsh Government Not Likely to not the Klondyke possesses permanent | Place Restrictions Upon worth, the excitement now prevailing is | Mint sufficient to gatber fortune-seekers from AL 8ll parts of the world. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 21.—In view of .the report that the British Gov- They say that annot or befo! this por Swanson their claim before next year at this time. Excitement is running high among the | in San Francisco, passed on the way to | | right to do so, as the mines were almost within British territory. Itis not , however, that ths Cavadian Government will prohibit the American miners from operating there, as the Americans have never debarred British subjects from the Alaskan goldfieds. A number of miners have written to the State Department seeking to invoke the Government’s aid in protecting their min- ing claims, but in each case the depart- ment basreplied that nothing can be | done until the Alaska and British Colum- He has been in Alaska iwo years and was | | bia boundary tine is definitely determined {and marked which is now pending in the Senate. take between $500,000 and $1,000,000 out of | in pursuance of & treaty A great many Pacific Coast men who are reparing to sail for the new mining re- gion bave wriiten to the State Department for passports or other papers that may be of protection to them in British territory. THE CaLL correspondsat ascertained at the passport division ot the State Depar: ment that passports were not required in the British possessions. are no collectors there to inspect pass- ports. (upon request of a Senator or a Repre- sentative) issues a special letter to Ameri- can Consuls indorsing travelers and tour- ists, and these leiters are much better than the formal passport, but as there are asvet no American Consws in that part of British Columbia special letters would Besides, there | The State Department frequently | young business men here. Many bolding | ernment, through the Uanadian officers, | be of no service to the party. There is good clerical positions, having saved up a | contemplated issuing orders restr cting | absolutely no paper that the State De- little money, wiil leave here in less than a | the privilege of gold mining in the Kion- | partment can issue to prospective travei- taking with them stocks of [ dyke regior to British subjects, officials of the State Department said to-day taat the | 1 carry their stocks to within | Canadian Government had an undoubted ers in Klondyke that would afford them any protection or insure them any courte- sies. If they insist upon having a pass- port they must sign and forward to the State Department a formal application, inclosing $1 for tne fee. The passport will | then be mailed to the address given. R ALIEN LABOR LAW. | Canadlan Press Urges That It Be | Enforced in the Klondyke | District. | OTTAWA, OxtaRI0, July 2L.—The Do- mdnion Government ing on the Kiondyke. The Govern'nent | | | matter, but it is understood the Minister of Justice contemplates tbe appointment | of an agent un the Klondvke under the ! alien labor law of last season for the pur- | pose of putting the law into operation. |~ In consequence of the latest phase of pine Jumber duties proposed by the United States the demands of the press and the country have become vehement for the enforcement of the aiien taw. The Gov- | ernment will ord:r an extra detachment of mounted police into the Klondyke. Inspector Strickland, who has been in the Yukon territory for some tiwe, is expected to arrive at Regina to-morrow night anda forward to the depariment here full infor- ! mation. COULDN'T STAND THE CHILL PENURY REPRE 35D TRIP FROM TONEAG THER NOBLE RAGE" THE TIRED HOTEL CLERK AND THE DEMAND FOR MR BERRY LATE OF DAWSON. SOME FANCES BEGOTTEN UNAVOIDABLY aETAwE! SUCH A LOVELY TRIP Toa! - FARE THEE WELL AND IF FOREVER STu: ForeveR FARe Twes weel ¥ | For , 1™ THE Man / /wnouoxs /7 THE RECORD ON THE = KLONDYKE THE PADDED ceL- FOR SomeE ’ BY THE KLONDYKE FEVER. is being strongly | urged to exclude Americans from work- | officials will make no statement about the | STILL THE - GOLD DUST POURS IN Continued from First Page. there is a great gold deposit up there that | can be had for the washing of it from the | gravel, and I shall try to get there.” Dutton is a great reader, and he is now convinced that Richard Henry Savage, the ucvelist, knew a great deal more | when he wrote ““The Princess of Alaska” | than is contained in the story. All| through the tale are references to the | stories of Indians wno told of gold that was in existence in great quantities, but who refu-ed to tell where it could be tound. The search for these ricn goid | deposits forms the basis of the story, and | Dautton believes that the author had con- | | versed with some of these Indians and | probably made a search for it himself be- | fore writing the story. | Goling to Klondyke. | ALAMEDA, Caz, July 21.—The Klon- dyke fever has struck Alameda and a! numbver of people are salready talking | | not leave until abont February 15. | waiting until that time we will not only winter. As for the rest—well, fg;nyh;ia honest adventurers, probably all of them, but their stories canuot be told so early. The passenger-list of the Excel- sior to date is as foliows: ¥our Sisters of Meroy L. Jaccard B, Jaccard ¥. Jaccard A. C. Butcher A. C. Bryan E. A. Williams J. Morgan George F. Bemis J. C. Lee James Adams W. T. Bell ¥. O’Donnell T. C. Tracy P. Heitzelman Mrs. Matilda Ruhle C. H. Galle E. Claxton ¥. K. Grosscup Mr. Moore Sr Mr. Moore Jr. William 4. Ray John C. Taylor Louis E. Geppard Gabriel M. Coln Jr, M. F. Brown Archer Clark A. Bistromes J. C. Johnson T. D. Polkinghorn M. C. Glenn H, B. Crittenden H. Jacobs . H. Loughery P Hancock Edward Craft R. Ashienbagen C. E. Carlson William Cleaves N. P. Cole Jr ‘W. H, Moore Vernon Gray J. S. Kieley N. C. Faroum R. S. Heath A. Martin Charles Green Don Ferguson R. B. Kilpatrick C. H, Jones Mrs. C. H. Jones John T. Fields James F. Mitchell Mrs. Bessie Thomas J. L. Schroeder George Thisley Hanos Ricker W. G. Foley A. K. Spetzer Mrs. A. K. Spetzer Steerage— S. Bradlle. E. Hoffschneider. A, Hoffschneider. Silas Peters. E. S. Peters. P. Clarken. B. B Alm. Charles Syltwig. L ¥. Baker, H. J. Grifin. William Parker, Gustav Soderblum. T. H. Peterson. L. Hiuge. Gustav Gerstsen, G. Euutson. A. Enutson. —_— THE BERKELEY PARTY. Planning and Preparing to Leave the College Town In February. BERKELEY, CaL., July 2L.—The party of Klondyke gold-seekers which is being organized in Berkeley and headea by Hansford Griffi'h, an attorney-at-law, will hold a meeting to-morrow evening to formaily organize jor the expedition. men who will each put up $500 cash, and form a_joint stock company or corpora- tion. aving orzanized he proposes to secure a tugboat or some other small craf: and equip it for passage to St. Michaels, taking atoard eight or ten horses, a nnm- ber o: dogs, and groceries, provisions, clothing and genersl equipment to last the prospecting party through one season. ““We will organize at once,” said he to- day, “and begin preparations immedi- ately for our journey, but we will probably By have plenty of opportunity toget togetber proper equipment and thoroughly pre- pare ourselves for the hardships of “the north but we will also be there in time for the next season of work. Having formed It | is the purpose of Griffith to secure twenty | about going to the new gold fields. Con- | our joint stock comvany of twenty men ductor William Parker of the electric road | Who can put up $500 each, we will have a has engaged passage for Alaska, and will | capital of $10,000 tostart on. Wecalculate go prepared to spend the winter and to | OD spending avout $3500 on some sort of Severa!l other men on tha road | POssibly a short way up the Yukon. “Havine gone as far up as possibla in our big vessel, we can let down our steam launch and mnke the run right up to Dawson City. This plan is mere specula- tive, however. It may be found more ex- pedient to strike overland from Juneau to ihe gold fields rather than attempting the his lot. T 1 Geclare their intention to go mext spring. | —_———— 1 BY THE YUKON ROUTE. The Chosen Few From Amid the Rush to the Steamer ! undergo any hardships that may fall to | craft that wiil carry us to St. Michaels or | WHIPPED TO DEATH By CAUEL KUKLUX Dastardly Crimes of an Organized Gang in Arkansas. Parents Beaten for Refusing to Send Their Children to Public Schools. Farmer Carrled Off a Few Nights Ago and Nothing Heard of Him Since« LITTLE ROCK, Ark., July 21.—The people of Randolph and Lawrence coun- ties are wrought up over a series of out- rages commiited by a band of Kl}klux, whose depredations have been goingon for a month. To-day a report was received from Pora- hontas, Randoipn County, that last night a Kukiux gang took a widow from her home, just across the line in Lawrence County, and whipped her to destb.A In one case a man and his wife are said to bave been tiad to a tree and whipped be- cause they refused to send their daughters to the public school. A few nighs ago they visited the bome of Newton Grey, a farmer of Lawrence County, and carried him off. Nothing has been néard of him since. 2 Whitecaps were operating in Richwoods settlement last week. Thirteen well- known residents of that neighborhood were arresied and charged with various crimes, but at the examination all but three proved their innocence. These are J. T. Fletcher, J. Y. Bishop, Fred H. Yates, all farmers, who were bound over to the Circuit Court. BRITISH VESSELS BARRED. May Not Carry Passengers From American to Small Alaskan Ports. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 21.—Unof- ficial information was received to-day to the effect that the British companies con- trolling steamer lines between British Columbia and Alaska intend applying ta the Uaited States tor permission to lana at smail places in Alaska not ports of. en- try. The intention of the companies is to secure an advantage in passenger and freight traffic which has become so valu- able on account of the rush to the Klon- | dyke. Under the provisions of the laws of this country, foreign vessels are per- mitted to land only at ports of entry. In | Alaska, Sitka is the only port of entry where a Collector of Customs is stationed, and fortune-hunters who go to the gold fields do not want to be landed at Sitkaj therefore, the vessels of British register | will lose =ll of the increased trade | unless they can secure tne desired concession. 1f any application is made by British | companies for permission to take passens | gers and cargoes from San Francisco and { other American ports to Alaska points it | will be denied. Trade between ports of | the United States and Alaska has been | construed to be coastwise trade, which is restricted by law to American vesseis, ‘The department has no authority to make excsptions or grant any privileges to for | eign ships. . Pacifie Const drmy Orders. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 2L.—The | following army orders have been issued | by direction of the Secretary of War: Artificer Louis Genton, Battery A, Alca- traz Island, California, will be placed on the retired list. Peter Meyer, Company H, First Infantry, now a: San Diego bar- racks, is transferred to the hospital corps. Ordnance Sergeant Charles Maurer, now at Fort Winfield Scott, California, istrans. ferred to the Presidio at S8an Francisco. —_— Indsmnity for the Sowthern Pac'flo. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 2L.—The Secretary of the Interior has approved the selection of 200 acres of land in the Los Angeles Land District granted to the Southern Pacitic Railroad Company as in- demnity. e Congressman Loud Coming Home. WASHINGION, ». C., July 21.—H. F. Dodge, private secretary to Congressm. 1 Loud, will leave for San Francisco to- morrow. Mr. Loud will leave on Saturday or Sunday. ——————— Ho! For Alaska. Klondyke District. A special steamer will start August 1. Fare $200, including one year’s provisions. D.J. Grannan, general manager, 19 Mont: | you to 8t. Michaels, but because we can’t Excelslor. “‘The chances cre9 to 1 that there will be a shortage of provisions before spring.” “The next steamer for the Yukon, after | the Excelsior, will leave next June—in 1808.”" “We can’t take your money, as much as we would like to, not because we can’t get take any more people up the river with the amount of provisions we are trying to get in."” These were among the things that Lou is Sloss said again and again yesterday to in- dividuals 1n the crowd that thronged the office of the Alaska Commercial Company from morning till night yesterday. Amid the city-wide talk and excitement about the Yukon goldfields it is impossi- ble to measure the extent of the actual hegira from this City. Thousands and thousands want to go, and many thousands would go from Ban Francisco alone if things were different— if they were footloose, if the wife said “Yes,” if they only the money, if they were a little younger, if this and that were not so. Hundreds will go within one, two or tiree weeks, and they will scatter for Ju- neau and the overland route by various sl:;nms to an extent that cannol be fore- told. Bat one conld “horn spoon” the pros- pect at the office of the Alaska Commer- cial Company yesterday. Noi a berih on the Excelsior was to be soid, and the crowd that came was greater than on any day since the craze developed. Besides there were ‘“‘inquirers,” and probably 250 peopie called at the office of this com- pany yesterday ready to pay their pass- age, but not a cent of passage money was accepted, because the transportation limit was reached. The youthful craze had reached the age where consideration had developed into resolution, and more people were ready to 2o than on any other day since the Excel- SOMETHING TO EAT. Yukon trip. gomery st. > NEW T0-DAY. ALASKA, 10 A. M. OURISTS, PROSPECTORS, GOLD SEEKERS, EVERYBODY HEADING Tlor Alaska or the North, should visit our store when the trip is decided upon to get posted on the kind of ontfit needed in that country. We give information freoly, show goods and name prices cheerfully, expecting buyers to make comparis #ons Lo anoertain where they can do the best. CLOTHING. Ityon want oheap articles In medium-weight £00ds we have them, but ifyou profit by others’ experience you will buy heavy wool Shirts, Jumpers, Underwear, Blookings, Sweaters, Trousers and (1oves or Mitiens. ; RUBBER GOODS. Not every one fs able 1o judge of quality in Rubher Wea . We show you all. tel vou the Aiff ;rence in wearing, and you decide it your- self. It is wise 10 have someihing reilaols when you are remote from markel aud need it. BARGAIN NO. 1. About 50 pleces of Mobalr in medfum colo-s, modes, grays, tads, neat siripes, 15¢ goods. We have not soid less than 10 cents. It i3 38 inches wide, pretty and dulable. Price to-day 5 cenis. BARGAIN NO. 2. 30 pairs white 53 snow. fln wolght 51bs; vaue $ BARGAIN NO. 3. Scarlet Flannel. California weave, 8-03. zoods. You pav 30c everywhere. We took the lot to sia tthe muli, and to-day It 5oes 8% 20 ceat. | BARGAIN NO. 4. 1alles’ Kcra Vests or Drawers, Jersey kait, all reguar sizes loog aleeves, ficaced OF plain, e MACO Yare, noi dear at T3¢ each gar- meat We mase today'a price simply to S145¢ UP DOW trade—323 cents c a3 feathers, 80X76 in. To-day's price #3 75 We know how o put up goods for hot or cold c'imate, for a'l kInds of travel, from reindeer 8l6dges Lo pack trains. We have seat f.rward supplies this year for all Governmen't sta fons in Alasks and many scho. n Alns iy ols and missiosacy | sior arrived with its firebrand. The steamer Excelsior can carry 200 passengers to St. Michaels, but the Alaska Commercial Company has limited its pas- senger traffic by this steamer to about 100, on account of the overcrowded condition of its river boats from St. Michaels up the river. Mr. Sloss repeatedly said that he did not propose to send north any more people than the number for which he could guarantee a passage up the river. The Excelsior will carry a representa- tive lot of passengers. Four Sisters of Mercy have one siateroom, and their blessed ministrations will somehow be re- ported lrom the Kloadyke 1o Reaven this l IT 'CASH STORE THE STORE THAT BELONGS TO ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE COAST FOR TRADING PURPOSES. 25-27 MARKET STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, Near Ferry,

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