The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 27, 1897, Page 2

[&] THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1897. YOuR | HOME LESS YOu STOMACH AT FOR FOOD WiLL BE ANDTHE GOOSE < 5 <|LAID THEGOLOEN EGa YOUHAD BETTER FATTEN UP [D0GGONE DEAR, BY GOSH |\wi, FEEL MORTIFIED, THRAT ORDER TO APPEASE THAT GNAWING SENSAT1ON! FANCY PAYING § 75000 FOR [[o A BUCKSKIN SHOESTRING IN T GREAT SCAEME =" WHAT! STARVE? NO- NEVER— |WE WiLL OPEN A BOARDING HOUSE. | OH IDONrKNow,YL)UI’R'E { ~vor SO warM® AND THUSE WHO STAY A1 HoM» | CANREAD AL ABOLT 47t ‘ A 4 FOOD FOR THOUGHT ON THE XKLONDYEKEE QUESTION. of business branci malated great man been i houses have s worth of supp some old many thousand dollars’ Kiondyke Talk, Excitement Enterprices Absorb the Inter- cf the Water Front Now. KLONDYKE. for a from 1:3 Our the 2P, hours discussi g placer mine 50 to and from 5:30 to 6 P. M. All our friends and patrons will oblige us by | observing this rule. The above notice has been printed on stiff ¢ most every business house on in the mai omen are rmation eacls the new Dorado. cann another v enger, the Siate ¢f Ca has been compelied to put in sixty celsior fo tt, have n difficuity in filling their lists. Those who ba Pacitic C sels will have no diffi reachi y in Juneau or Dyea, but after that, what? | and new M, one of them hung | as ecrazy d every ship- El ot take extra ze to accommodaste the | connect with the George Ider at Portland, and the peopie who made up special parties have had no e taken passage on the ast Steamship Company's ves- have | the freight for San Francisco put aboard. business | Every longshoreman looked upon him- self us a prospective millionaire, and he asn’t going to u\andle Cargo on a steamer at 25 cents an hodr when, in his mind, he could get §250 an hour for the same kind of work on the Klondyke. ¢ two’ sons are nowin the new El Commiercial Company at Dawson and A frea out mining. He is in partner- ship with an old-timer from Nevada, but whether he has done well or not I cannot His last letter is dated ‘about May | | The schooner’s gener tell. 175 ap th ireight over the summit tramway was 1% cents a pound and that jumber on Lake Linderman was 10 cents a ioot. <o they must have lost track of tin before winter. “‘Postage from Dawson City is §1 a letter and even at that figure the postman will | only carry a certain weight. Circle City and Foriy-mile are almost deserted and | Dawson is now the capital of the river. | now boast of thirty saloons, one It can theater, eight dance balls, three general stores, five bakeries, five resiauran two barber-shops, one watcimaker, one maker and three laundries. want is a newspaper and tnen the miners | | wouid be in clover."" Every steamer that leaves for any point in the direction of Alaska is going away Charlie is agent for the Alaska | re. In it he says that the rate for Even at | that rigure the mill coutd not fill orders, | and boats will be worth at least $200 each andy- All tney | on the Klondyke. portation wiil be §18 a head, the owner | on the Kiondyke luck to the extentof a having to supply all the feed during the voyage. Teddy is of the opinion that they will be pretty expensive donkeys by the time Alaska is reached. ‘Wiliiam Campbeil and ten others have purchased the schooner Elvaria and will sail for St. Michaels in her next month. ch man has put up $1000, and it is their intention to take up a sternwheeler 75 feet lonyg, 20 feet broad and 3 feet 4 inches deep, in sections, Another vortion of the caryo, which will also in sections, will be a lighter 20 feet long and 16 feet broad. cargo will consist of 300 tons of stores whicn will be trans- ferred 1o the steamer and lighter when they have been put together at St. Michaels, after which the party will pro- ceed to Dawson City as soon the river opens in the spring. According to stories told on the steamer San Rafaet last night the Sausalito pool- rooms will coon be deserted. Zeke Abra- hams, accompanied by Jockey Holmes, will be among the first to start for Alaska, and the chances are that *Billy” Benni- son and *‘Sam’’ Morton will zet away o the same boat. A racetrack will be es- tablished, and during the summer months there will be some notable racing events Billy Barnett, Jack McAuley, Lee Con- nor and Ed Clark are all propared to go, and the chances are that *Jim” Neil will take that good horse Perbaps along with s — b 127 N T_Aqf'%" YA Miners Whipsawing Lumber for Boats at the Head of Lake Bennett on the Juneau Route. them will not be able to il next spring, and in Nine-tentns of cross the divide the mea Fully 1000 miners from will have to winter in Dy and some of them will ha San and Junean, a hard time the; Those who le ixcelsior and reach Daws who are g schooners and sailing vessels may e to be tied up on :ome part of the riv ing the winter months. Latest reporis state that there iz very e this month in the Portland will probably th, but those Xpect dur- Mttle water in the Yukon, and some of | the old-timers seem to think that there may be a chance of some of the regular steamers being caught in the Areez--up. B Alter August 1 it will nardly be worth while for vessels fitting out at this port to start for Klondyke River. The only prac- ticable way is to send a schooner with a steam launch and barges aboard, and then make thie best possibie time from St. Michaels to D on City. The cr seems 1o be worse even on the water front than uptown, The chief offi- cer of the steamer Al-Ki is a deserter. The chief officer of the City of Topeka is & passenger on his own vessel to Juneau, and Chief Officer Willet of the City ot Puebla would now be on his way to the diggings were it not for his charming wife, who bas more attractions for him than Alaskan gold. Nevertheless Mrs. Wiliet has given him permission to go to tne gold fields next spring, and she is going with him The Ci generul y of Puebla got in from Puget Bound ports yesterday, but brought no miners. ‘I cannot describe Seattle, Ta- coma and Port Townseud,” s»id Captain Debney yesterday. *‘Everybody is crazy— plumb cr. Why, I bad a terrible time ne how are they going to live? Francisco | ch the land of prom- | e boats, sleam- crowded, The Al-Ki took every soul the law allowed from Seattle and the Queen out of respect to an order from the Britisk Government had to put ashore fifteen miners at Victoria, B. C. These men were in excess of the number allowed by the British admiralty laws and the men lived | on the fat of the land at the expense of | the steamship company | steamer arrived en route for Junean. until another In the case of the Cleveland, Captain Hall does not expect to get his vessel back toSan Francisco this winter. As soon as the steamer reachos St. Michaels all the men have avowed their intention of desert- ing and going to Klondyke. Ifthey can- Dol secure a4 passage on the river steamer by fair means they will go willy nilly. Oune cf the firemen on the Portland made iriends with a party of miners on the last trip of that vessel from Seattle to St. Michaels. He joined the prospectors and quit the ehip. The owners of the river steamers refused him a passagze and locked borns with the miners on the issue. ‘e latter held a meeting and ap- pointed a committee of six to bring the agent to reason,”” said Captain Debney when describing the incident yesterday. “Tuey walked into the office, planked down the regular fare, demanded a ticket for the fireman and then each man began to play carelessly with his six-shooter, The agent tried to explain that he had no | right to give transportation to anybody but regular passengers let alone a deserter, | but the only answer he got was from the teader, who pushed the fare to uim with his revolver and saiwi: ‘Write out the ticket.” Toeticket was made out and the fireman is now in Dawson City I suppose.”. *Teddy” Osborne is having more fun than a barrel of monkeys with his Tamal- pais mules. He 1s sending the animals to Dyea to pack lugeage 2nd provisions across the divide. Tney will go up on the of it getting the Puebla discbarged and | steamer Willamette and the cost of trans- PROFESSOR LE CONTE PREDICTED GOLD DISCOVERIES LONG AGO. BERKELEY, CAL., July 26.—Dr. Joseph Le Conte, the vet- eran scientist at the State University, predicted over ten years ' ago that gold would be found in great quantities in the Alaskan territo geolc He made a close study of the country and from thc ical formation there he came to the conclusion that the precious metal existed there in large quantities. Professor Le Conte declared that the action of glaciers had released enormous quantities of gold from its molds 1n the quartz, and expressed the opinion that the country was one vast goid field. He thought that it might tax the ingenuity of man to reach the treasure, but that means would ultimately be disco\eied, him. Otey Evens will go to make a book on all events that are open for George Rose, and “Piunger” Walton is also on the list, but he is goinz aione on a steam schoaner which has been especially char- tered to carry him and his books of in- formation as to form, etc. What will be Sausalito’s loss will be Dawson City’s zain. The offices of Herriman & Mills were crowded from morning till night vester- day. They have chartered a schooner and will send the launch Hettie B up on ner. The latter will carry the passengers to Dawson City, end will tow a barge with the provisions as well. JOLLY KLONDYKERS. Banquet Revelry and Reunlon With Greens. Gayety and French Songs. Eight of the lucky fellows from the Klondyke had alitile reunion, celebration and banguet last evening. They were all French Canadians and this common bond brought them together for a joyous time at the home of Edward Labordette at 724 California street. There were N, E. Picotte, “Ca:h” Amcher, Henry Dore, Joe Cazelais, J. E. Boucher, Thomas Morin, John Day, Alired Bouthellier and Thomas Gregory. These men bad al! been rustlers and sons of toil all their lives. They had spent from three to thirteen years in the Yukon country, with its hardships and scant re- wards, and now they had come back into the world again with money to throw at the birds. The poorest of them has $7000 in ready cash, and there are two or three possible miilionaires in the crowd, all of whom have Kiondyke claims to go back to in the spring. These newly rich are at play down herenow, reveling in “greens,” veg- elables and a few other thinzs. A Klon- dyker, coming to San Francisco, is some- thing i a Chinese goin: back to his Fiowery Kingdom whenitcomes to getting fun for his money. 1t's aiong jump froz four-bit drinks to 5 cent beer and 10 cent whisky. “‘We're having a good time now; we haven’t had anything to eat for years,” said “French Joe” after the banquet, amid the singing of “En Revenant de la Revue,” “Yvette’’ and the rest of the songs that filled Labordette's dining-hall before adjournmen: to other scenes, oL 2 PRIVATION BEFORE RICHES Dore Had Thirty Days of Flour and Water on Foriy-Mile Creek When He Went In. E. Dore and J. E. Boucher, who arrived at Seattle on the Portland some days ago, yesterday joined the large party of Yukon- ers at the Commercial Hotel. They are hardy Frenca Canadians who spent about three Years on the Yukon and they got iu | dyke discovery. 1 few thousand each. They both had bad Iuck throughout | their experienca until the lucky strike on the Kiondvke. The experience of the old prospectors up there during the past years in all the other gold fields known is likely 10 be about the experience of all the new prospectors who go in. As they can take up nothingin the Klondyk- divgings they | wi'l have 1o rustle eisewhere, just as these pioneers have been doing, and nothing but several new strikes equaling that of the Klonayke can make their chances any better than those enjoyed by the miners who bave been working on Forty mile, Sixty mule and Birch creeks and other | diggings. Dore had such hard luck for two years in the Forty-miie and Sixty-mile aigrings that he once lived for a month on flour and water, then worked for his board, and when the news of the Klondyke discovery first reached nim he couldn’t raise a grub stake to take him there. He is now 34 vears of age. He left Quebec seventeen years ago, rustled on lana and sea for years and two yearsago went with a part- ner to the Yukon. He and his partner worked for eight months on Bed Rock Creek,alittle tributary of Forty-mile Creek, and made but $30 in the whole time. They wentin with a short supply of pro- visions and for a month they had nothing | but flour and water. With starvation before them they went to Milier Creek =nd Sixty-mile and went to work for a simple grubstake. 1t was winter befor» Dore could get together enough grab to take him to Klondyke. When he got there he got a third interest in No.19 on E Dorado Creek and he is going back in the spring. Boucher’s ex- perience was similar, as, indced, have been the experiences of the great majority of the Yukon gold-seekers before the Klon- | ot MOSS’ STORY UNTRUE. Returned Yukoners Indignant at the Exaggerated S:atement | Concerning Deaths. | All of the returned Yukoners who have noticed it are quite indignant at the story | sent out from Great Falls, Mont., as told by one Frank Moss, as to the great num- | ber of deaths in the Klondyke. | F. G. Bowker says that so far from being over 2000 deaths on the Klondyke | during the last three years there was | nobody there to die until something less | than a year ago, and since then there have been three deatfisfin that whole dis- | trict, as far as known, and few occur that | are not known sooner or later. If any one is very sick or diesin the mining dis- trice the fact is soon known all over the camp and at Dawson. The prospectors who strike out f1om the settlements as a rule hunt 1n couples or threes, and any mishap to one of them would in time be | known at the setllement and to the au. | thorities. Of the three deaths mentioned | one occurred just before the steamer left | Dawson. It was of a man who had just sold his claim for $12,000. He died in his bunk with his head resting on the sack of gold which represented the final effort and crowning success of his life. In the graveyard at Forty-mile post, which has served for all that section for some years past, there are only between thirty and forty graves. Men journeying alone are sometimes lostin the river and never heard of efterward. These are not so many in mnumber, bhowever, 30 far as can be judged from reports of persouns missing. Others corroborate Mr. Bowker in this, as well as in regard to the disposition made of the gold and other effects of those dying, if they have any. Some die within reach of the settle- meuts without medical attenaance as well | us spirltual advice generally of their own choice, #s there are missions of various Protestant denominations, as well as| Russian and Roman Catholic, at quite | frequent intervals throughout the cour- try, each new settlement getting one in the course of a short time. Each of these missions has its own graveyard, and when death occurs in any of the camps away from the mission the body istaken by friends to tho mnearest oune of the dead maw’s own choice where practicable; if not, to the one most con- venient. Funerals are not as ostentatious as back in the civiiized world, but all that 1s necessary is reverently done by the rough bui kindly hearts about him, even if the man bappens to have no especial Iriends near at the time of his death, ‘The tale about the confiscation of the dead man’s effects by his friends and neighbors is branded asa malicious and gratuitous lie. These are invariably and sacredly turned over 10 the nearest Gov- ernment official and disposed of accord- ing to law, as in the more settled parts of the country. From Moss’ own account it is readily seen that even if ne were ever near the Klondyke country at all he has so dis- fizured his story with falsehood that the tact must be doubted. Three years back Moss could have seen nothing of what he claims on the Klon- dyke. His description does not fit the ustural features of the country at all. It only became a mining camp some eight months ago. Previcus to that, thcuszh prospectors passed up the river for forty or fifty miles from the month, no one ever made anything of a lodgment until Geor.e McCormac made his find on Bo- nunza Creek, and the people began to rush in. aty was begnn last December. Eetagass Berkeley Klondykers. BERKELEY, Car., July 26.—Another | meeting of the party of Yukon minineg en- thusiasts headed by Hansford Griffith will be held *o-morrow evening, at which | time it is expected that permanent or- ganization will be effected, and that definite plans for the journey north will b outlined. Griffith proposes to organize | a party of twenty men, who are to put up $500 each. They intend purchasing their own craft, and will set sail as _soon as the ice breaks in the spring. J. C. Berry, one of the prime movers in the scheme, went to San Francisco to-day to inspect a steam launch which the company intends to purchase. 10 MPOSE VERY HiGH BOVALTIES Continued from First Page. owner was booked on an Alaska steamer sailing from San Francisco to-morrow, The first hous2 ever built in the vicin- delphia insane asylum. The poor fellow could never get warm after making a | second trip to Alaska and while dying be was wrapped in blankets and piaced by wus almost unbearable lo the ordinary jperson. No explanation was ever offered | for his strange condition. | Mr. Keefer now resides here. In 1894 vas prompted to institute a search for the historic bit of bunting which he car- ried with him to Aluska. Greatly to his tion the flaz was found in a box bebind the orginal Declaration of Inde- pendence in the State Dapartment. Upon being unfurled it was discovered that a large portionyof the biue field had been entirely destroyed by moths, while the remainder of the ensign was in compara- | tively perfect condition. the portion of the flag which had been de- stroyed was once saturated with human blool. The story behind this blood stain 1s harrowing. As told by Mr. Keefer, it is as follows: “When the United States took posses- sion of Alaska it was inhabited by a low class of people, and aside from the half- civilized natives, there were numerous ticket-of-lrave men and ex-convicts from Russia. This latter class knew very well that when the Americans came upon the scene they would have to seek other climes, and therefore tried to make our lot as disagreeable as possible. They told the credulous natives that we were coming to It seems that | the schooner arrives from Lower fornia. Some tweive Sin Diegans and others have already set out on the lorg journey for the Arctic dizgings and otheis the furnace, although the heat of summer | are preparing to leave in the near future, Police Officer George F. Dow, one of ths oldest and best known on the force, re- signed his position this aiterncon and to- morrow morning he will leave for Seaitle by rail, where he will take the first steamer for Juneau. Dow is an ex- perienced miner and takes with him §$2002 in cash furnished by three local capiia ists, E. H. Boscher, B. T. Riggs and Samuel [. Fox. The two first will follow: in the spring. A. L. Myers has sold out & large business and will also leav2 to- morrow, and twenty others will leave within a week. - An Alrship for the Klondyk?2. RICHMOND, Ixp., July 26.—Dr. Samuel | Charles, one of the best known men in jhis city, declared to-day that he has com- pleted plans for an airship intended to carry a party to the Klondyke and is now for negotiating i le. st Klondycitis at Monterey. MONTEREY, Carn, July 26. — The Alaska goid fever has made its appear- ance in this town in an incurable form. The alluring tales which come pouring in of the wealth of that newly discovered land of gold and cold have so fired the imagination of several Monterey citizens that it now looks as if nothing short of WL One Style of the Dogsleds in Univ . = S Region. ersal Use During Most of the Year in the Yukon and he swore often and audibly. He mo- tioned to the captain to come back and cailed on the freight clerk to do the same, but the latier only motioned to that offi- cial, who seemed to hesitate between going and coming, to go ahead. Then the man from Oakdale appealed to the manager and was so disappo nted that Mr. Corco- ran conciuded to save him from expirin : right then and there of hopeless despair. The :teemer was then backing up into McLeods Lake, making the turn, and Mr. Corcoran signaleld for her to return. Shortly after the man and burros were safely stowed away on the steamer. The gold-seeker is_backed by a Mr. McGee of Oakdale. Sooven o PLANTED OLD GLORY. Joseph Keefer Tells a Thrilling S'ory of Raising the First American Flag In Alaska. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 26.—0f all the stories told and written of Alaska since the Klondyke fever set in there is none more interesting than that of Joseph Keefer, a resident of this city, who had the honor of as-isting in the planting of the first American flaz on Alaskan soil. Mr. Keefer accompanied the Seward State Department expedition to Alaska in 1867 as aid-de-camp to Captain T. E. Ketchum. The flag that was unfurled when Alaska was officiaily and formally taken possession of was the first ever hoisted over Russian America. As far as can be learned Mr. Keefer is the only sur- viving member of the famous expedition, having b-en at the time the trip was made into the far north a mere lad of 17, while the other members of the party were well udvanced in years. According to the best records obtainable the last member of the pariy to perish was Joe Rothrock, a young photographer, who died about ten years ago in a Phila- The Chief Eusiness Building at Forty Mile—a Saloan, Dancehall 4 and Restaurant, | make slaves of them, and that having pur- chased the country, we had aiso bought 2ll the inhabitants. These wild stories made some of the Indians feel resentiul toward us, and they did everything to bother and hamper our work. We first Custom - house at Sitka and afterward floated it to the breeze from Fort Cosmos’ flagpole. While the feeling was running strong against us a native happening by the fort tore down the precious piece of bunting. Ashe was about to stamp on it arifle shot rang out, the native whirled about and feli across the starry tield, his life-blood oozing from a wound 1n the temple. Afier this occurrence there were no more attempts at flag-desiruction.” cLT o Millitary Pcst at Juneau. WASHINGTON, D. €., July 26.—Secre- tary Alger has decided to establish a military post at Juneau. A commission of Alaskan Federal officials was here some- time ago urging the establishment of a post. It wasthen decided not necessary. Now the influx of dangerous characters into the neighborhood following the gold discoveries Is held to warrant the es- tablishment of a post. Secretary Alger will probably recom- mend the post's’ establishment to the President, There is still some doubt as to the right of the executive to authorize its establishment without permission from Congress and that question has been referred to the Atorney-General, Army officers on duty at the War Department who are familiar with the law of such matters said to-day that the appropriation for the maintenance of the army could be used to construct 2 post without the autbority of Congress. The question of transporting troops to the proposed site has already been settled by the War Department. The route agreed as the most feasible is up the Yukon by steamer and then overiand on foot. Army officers think there is yet timeto do this before winter. Capuain W. R. Abercrombie, Second Infantry, telegraphed to Secretary Aliger to-day from Fort Harrison, Mon- tana, that he would like to go to Alaska with sixty picked men from his regiment. Avercrombie made a request that he be sliowed to report personally to the Secre- tary toexplain his views. In order to pre- vent the garrison of the proposed fort from becoming impregnated with the gold craze, resaitinz in desertions, the depart- ment proposes that half the troops go to the fields every other year. el Excitement at San Diego. SAN DIEGO, CawL., July 26.—The ex- citement over the Klondyke strike con- tinues to increase hourly. Big stock com- panies are being formed everywhere and parties who cannot go themselves are staking others. Already telegrams are vouring in from the surrounding country engaging berths and passage ou the Gen- eral McPheggon, which sails for Juneau August 15, and it looks now as if the eighty berthsewonlid all be taken before boisted the Stars and Stripes in the old ! actual personal investigation will cure the maladv. No positive plans have as yet been made by any one, but much talk is rife and several men are engaged in forming a Monterey party to start as soon as possible for the *“diggin’s.” S e Ho, for Alaska! Klondyke District. A special steamer will start August 1. Fare $200, including one year’s provisions. D.J. Grannan, genersl manager, 19 Mont- gomery st. - NEW 7T0-DA GEO. W. DUDLEY, A Prominent St. Louis Business Man, Cured of Asthma, a Case of 10 Years’ Standing, by Dr. Charcot’s Kola Nervine Tablets. St. Louis, Mo., April 13, 1897 To whom it may concern: I am pleased to add my testimonial to the worth of Dr. Char- co’s Kola Nervine Tablets, I having been aflicted with astbma for about ten years, I have found great relief from the use of these Tablets, for alter having used one of t boxes the symptoms were nearly eftaced. Hoping that others thus afl cted wiil benefit from my experience, I am, truly yours, GEO.'W. DUDLEY. . N. B.—Mr. George W. 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