The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 26, 1897, Page 1

"VOLUME LXXXIL—NO. 56, JULY 26, 1897. PRICE FIVE CENTS, HUNDREDS SAIL AWAY FOR DYEA Departure of Mexico From Seattle for . the Yukon. ON GOES THE But All the Gold Is Not in British Ter- ritory, for Some Paying Claims Are Being Cooks Inlet. ATTLE, Wasg., July 2 Mexico, the th —The steam- of the vessels which assengers for the ince the news es went out, left at She carried for Dyea some hd as freight about 4 cipally supulies for the el with the horses intended pack-animals, makes up a heterogene- cargo. of the t hardly a public event which lace in this city which called 1t us big a crowd as witnessed the depar- ture of the Mexico. The wharves for nearly a mile were lined with people wav- rchiefs and sending rting voyagers. Toe cheers artily returned from the Mexico's ich appeared black with people. cheers Tnere will be no other departures of steamers until 28th, at which time the City of Topeka is billed to leave. Her cer accommodation is already pretty well taken and considerable freight also ts he ke is not the cnly portion ding out news of gold dis- schooner Stella E:land ved her o’clock from Cooks In- bringing down news which under ordinary circumstances would excite a KLONDYKE. | incredulous when informed of the fact the Steamship RiiSH 10O 'FRE Wotked at 1 good deal of attention among mining %ad on board eight passengers 000 in gold dust, besides what to the trading company having | her chartered, which amount was in a sealed package, and its value was not known to Captain Johnson. George T. Hali, one of the passengers | |and an old mining man, informed THE CaLrL correspondent that the 300 men who wintered at Cocks ynlet have put ina very profitable summer’s work. Seventy- five claims have been opened, which have paid from §5 to $40 a day to the man. There has been work for every man in the | camp, not having claims receiving at least $3 50 a day and board ever since | last April, and this work would continue until October, when the streams freeze up. | Some small prospecting parties have been | out during the greater par:of the sum- | mer, but without reporting any very ex- | tensive discove although gold has | been fo on the bars of every creek. The gold brought down by the Eriand closely resembled in appearance that from the Klondyke. The news of the Kiondyke discoveries had not reached Cooks Inlet at the time the Erland left, and probably will not until her return. | The men whocame down on Ler were | ,_i’This Is a Scene of the Ascent of Chik oot Pass When the Influx Was Nothing to the Present One. Scene on Broadway Wharf Just Before the Umatilla Departed With Passengers‘ for the Gold Mines. | but later in the day were suffering from a severe attack of Klondyke fever them- selves. It is reported among the sporting fra- ternity of this city that among the pas- sengers to St. Michaels on the steamer Portland was a well-known gambler of Puget Sound, who has, in consideration of & large sum paid to the North Ameri- can Trading aud Transportation Com- pany, been granted the privilege of run- ning a gambling game on the steamer on her way down from St. Michaels. Asitis believed that the Portland will bring out alarge number of miners, having with them not less than §2,000,000 in gold dust, the good luck of this particular man is re- garded very enviously by his confreres here, who have not turned a trick in many moons. During the rush to Alaska last season the schooner Lincoin left Seattle bound for Cooxs Inlet heavily laden with a cargo of miners’ supplies and carrving some twenty passengers. She has never been heard of since, unless a message from the sea discovered to-day 1s authentic and not the hozx of some idiotic practicel joker. Peter Dabl yesterday picked up on the beach at West Seattle, just around the point from the bathing-house, a brown quart bottle containing a piece of water- stained paper, on which was written in lead pencil: “The fate of the schooner Lincoln is sealed. We took to the boats five miles off Campbell Island. As we leave the ship she is fast sinkinz. “Good-by. CHARLES SWANSON, “Schooner Lincoln.” No such name appears in the list of the Lincoln's passengers and crew as pub- lished at the time of her loss; but the list was made up from interviews with rela- tives and friends, as tha vessei’s owners bad kept no list here. The story is lo ked upon as a cruel hoax by seafaring men, who claim that the currents slong the coastall run in a northerly direction, and that every bottle thrown overboard from the Lincoln wonld be much more likely to zo into the Arctic Ocean than back to Puget Sound. Among the freight that went north on the Mexico to-day were eizht long-distance telephones and a quantity of wire. This would apparently indicate that some per- sons intend to put in a telephone system into the Yukon, oriat least some portion of it. No hint of such a purpose has leaked out here, and if such a scheme is really on foot the projectors may congratulate themselves on the manner in which their secret was preserved. The most diligent inquiry has failed to discover who the persons are concerned in the scheme or anything about it, except the bare fact of the shipment. The telephones were among the last articles taken on board, and are consigned to Dyea. PR BT FOUND THE FIRST NUGGET. Early Exploration of David R. Brackett, an Oid Alaska Miner and Trapper. BOSTON, Mass, July 25.—David R. Brackett, an old Alaskan miner and trap- per, ciaims to have found the first goid on the Klondyke. Mr. Brackett said to- day that he first went to Alaska in 1877. He said he carried the mail and supplies for the miners up in tha country. “It was on one of those trips,” said Mr. Brackett, *'in 1879 that I crossed the great B Continued on Second Page. PASSENGERS CROWD THE UMATILLA Thousands Flock to See the Adventurous Army Depart. SCORES TRY TO GET ABOARD AS STOWAWAYS. The Rush to Buy or Charter Vessels Is on the Increase and Big Premiums Are Offered—Schemers Are Blooming. The biggest exposition of the Yukon rush displayed in San Francisco so far attended the sailing of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company’s Umatilla for the Sound yesterday. Sbe was crowded with 400 passengers, mainly of those Klondyke bound, and more than that number wanted to get aboard. When the passengers reach the Sound they will transfer themselves to some of the rapidly multiplying steamers running from there to Juneau, and then they will join in the flocking over Chilkoot Pass. The local hustling ior special steamers of all kinds and sizos that can be put on the way to Alaska continues, and several | sternwheel river steamers have been the | object of bi offers by people who want to | rush a river boat to the Yukon. | Gold is yellow, and the want of it is red and white. The first flush of the fever is still mountine. This Yukon delirium, this auriferous | swoqp on the frigid zone, is quite interest- ing in the wa!chingof it. Hundreds have joined in the charge, and some thousands here in San Francisco are wanting to start. Anarmy of them nsre saying that they are going in the spring, Those who are going now are in a great measure not taking coun-el of their heads, but are af- fected by the contagion of impuise, and are moved by that exciting, toriliing emo- tion somewhere inside that loosens the springs of haste and makes man-jams one of the features of human life, Itis with the steamer lines as it is with the picnic excursion trains so often. Boarding par- ties are ready for almost anything, littie or big, that can float on the ocean sweils. They are staking much agiinst tremend- ous odds with the spirit of a gambler, and they are not reckoning on the fearing and the paling, the chiiling and the weary- ing, that go with the “outfit.”” Some who are going grubstaked will need to be heart-staked before they get | back—but then there's gold on the Yu- kon, somebody will get it, and the devil may not take the foremos “I tell you I'd go you can hear every hour as the stay-homers discuss the Kloniyke everywhere. A vast number really would go “il—" and tie ifs call attention to how people get anchored to tittle hills and spots like an abalone to its rock. It reallyis distracting to know that millions are wxiting for one’s scoopshovel somewhere and that one can’t break camp and go after them. A few, however, are fairly tearing them- selves loose by the roots to get all that gola. Some are making great sacrifices 10 go. Good, vermanent jobs are the simplest of these sacrifices. Some who have their accumulations in- vested in business or property are seliing quick and for almost anything to raise the money. The Kiondyke discoveries have made many bargains for people who don't want to go. Some of them are dis- played in the newspaper advertising col- umns. ‘*‘Alaska or bust—all for sale’’; “Going to Alaska—best paying saloon on | street for a man Wwho wants to ; “Will deed my ranch for a stake for Alasxa’’; “Poultry business for sale on account of going to Alaska,” are typzs of them. The universal rusiling for grubstakes is gettinginto the advertising columns, too— “A practical miner wants $500 to make wwo people rich with,” and adde the un- necessary pointer, “Will o at once.” There's a ‘*‘doctor and druggist” who wants a stake with which to make a stake without driving a claim stake. One rustler is trying to make a lant play, to-wit: “Wanted—Twenty ladies to or- ganize a company to send eight men to Alaska; $200 required.” (“If the men wera all transported far beyond the North- ern Sea.”} A Yukon gold excitement fairly scts the prains of schemers to sizzling. The schemes are coming along on time with the “Ho! for the gold fields!” tooted ahead. The exploitation, exploration, development, investment, mining, etc., companies are getting out their pros- pectuses with enormous capital, and non= subscribed that people may get rich off the Kiondyke at home. There wil! be but two more considerable parties arrive from the dizgings this year. They will arrive in about six weeks, one coming here on the Excelsior and the other landing at Seattle from the Port- land. On their return trips these steam- ers will bring down those who go down the river to St. Michaels on the last down- ward trips of the river boats. Few will come ont by the other route, as itin- volves several hundred miles of poling against currents, and is taken by but few. The Juneau route is a popular inward but not a popular outward route. Nearly all those now in the country will remain. cdgge o THE UMATILLA HURRAH. The Big Steamar Carries Four Hun= dred North and Refuses Passage to More. “Hurrah for Klondyke!” was the last cry heard from the steamer Umatilla as she backed out from Broadway wharf at 10:30 a. M. yesterday. Thousands were down to see the vessel off, and very few of those who watched the big liner make her coursa for Victoria, B. C., were there out of curiosity. Nearly every one of them | had a relative aboard, and women with threadbare gowns on their backs watched their husbands and sons branch out for a mythical fortune in the far north. It was a pitiable and yet an exhilarat- ing sieht. With dozens it was ‘‘neck or nothing,” while others had a syndicate bebind them, or, ii not ‘a backer,” rich relatives who would see to it that they did not starye in the frozen north. Such a combination bas not been seen on Broadway wharf in years. The laborer rubbed shoulders with the millionaire, and the latter was ready to go down on hisknees when it came to a question of getting a favor from the officers of the ship. Hundreds who could not procure tick- ets attempted to stow themselves away, and hundreds more passed themselves off as coalpassers, oilers, deckhands and Tire- men, only to be landed on the wharf again by Chief Engineer Lacy and his assistants. . When Chief Steward Curtis came to make a tally of the boys, he found that - there were at least fifty more than the company allowed him, so there was a weeding out about 9:30 A. M. Neverthe- less the Umatilla took away at least 400 people who will make it the attempt of their lives to reach the new El Dorado. When Dyea is reached the rush for the divide wil: begin, and then the trouble will commence. Guides will not be pro- curable; Indiansto carry the supplies will be as scarce as hen’s teeth, and boats to carry the prospectors from Lake Linde- man to the gold fields will be anywhere but where the miners expect to find them. In spite of all the drawbacks that a:e plainly set forth, there were dozens of men who were wiiling to pay a premium for a chance to reach the sound on the Umatilla. Men who ba d steerage accom- modation with the privilegs of a berth on the City of Topeka were offered a $50 premium, but all the answer they got was NEW TO-DAY. E ‘Why is it that one P’ man is old and de- crepid at 45, and another hale and hearty at 80? The cident of birth has mething to do ith it. Some men are born stronger than others, but fre- quently the strong man becomes weak and the weak man strong. It depends on the care he takes of himself. 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