The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 28, 1897, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1.897. 3 claimed that seyeral thousand of the men from all sections of the country who are eager to reach the Klondyke at the earliest possible moment could be mobil- ized here during January and February and secure steamers enough to land them at Dyea by March 10. A large number of horses and sleds would be taken to haul the outfiis over the passes, and still a greater number of dogs to be used in crossing the lakes on the ice. A great camp would be made at Lake Lebarge, and each squad of foggpror five men would build its own boat. When navigation opened the entire fleet wounld be launched, and all would journey down the Yukon together. ‘Among the advantages of this ."l‘" would from a friend sojourning at Sitka, Alaska, | be the attendance of physicians who would join the party, and the services of which brings thestartling and deplorable 2 < infarmation that, acoording to s rumor in | CoOks, carpenters and. boatmen In'theix circulation in Alaska’s capital city, one of the steamers bound for the Klondyke country carrying supplies has been totally wrecked. Beyond this plain statement the letter brought no particulars, and since its receipt speculation has been rife as to the identity of the unfortunate craft. Sheriff Dyke of Clallam County arrived | this morning searching for John W. Troy, one of Port Angeles’ most prominent young citizens and ex-County Treasurer, Who is said to be short in his accounts to | the tune of $1500, and the expert’s labor is not yet completed. Troy, it appears, has been missing since Wednesday last, but the facts in the case were kept a close se- cret until divnlged by Dyke to-day. The officer thinks his man is lon the way to the Klondykemir he will be saie from molest at least. The news h sensation, as the culpri ate Hon. Smith Troy, one of the pioneers f Washington. He was a highly respected young mar- r'sd man. He bad for a lo ime edited | md owned the Angel Democrat-Trader, | o o ) ' | 10 charter a steamer i and served two successful terms as Audi- ox within s inextiitwo / : or three weeks to tak i being elected Treasurer. M. J. | 0" 008 Wo8 hei;w“;"‘l‘h“‘;‘:""h' TE‘“‘ whom Troy succeeded, is now | 5 . £loEed d00rs. 111080 ! 3 ; 5 who attended it are occupying positions serving g five y tarice dn'the Blate | T S e e S tenflary 8t Walla Walla as a penalty | g, i 0% 107908 BRC oFces and DD for the embezzlement of county funds. 5 100pAT ARSI A0S (DY EIVINK undue publicity to their purposes. = One of their numper said to-day that of - KLON?I?_("- ARMY. {he thirty men at last night's meeting, none of whom was more than 30 years Proposition to March Workingmen | g14 there was represented a cash capital to the Goid Fleld Is Con- of more than $30,000. He added that in sidered. the event thirty others similarly sita- TACOMA, Wasa., July 27.—It is pro- | ated can be enlisted by a week tfrom next posed to-organize a great army of work- | Wednesday the project can easily be ter and march them to | brought to a successful issue. He has >, where all can secure Work | spoken to several successful prospectors who have passed several years in the is likened to the Coxey | Alaska mines, and they agree in the state- movement, b would be unlike | ment that if those going north supply Klondyke army would be | themselyes out in proper style they anized and headed by re- | greatly diminish the natural hardships in leaders who would see that was well taken care of | for them to remain idle during the hard joining would be required to | s e himself %with a proper outfit and ast a year. n would be adopted for the ual protection and to iessen of the 800-mile journey from Dyea on ice and over snow. Itis at home this morning. They will spend the winter here and Mr. Berry will return to the Klondyke in the spring to look after his extensive mining interests there. He considers the rush to the far north at this season ill-advised and sure to result in much suffering. Itis impossible with the present transportation {acilities to take in provision eno ior ype people now there and half of the people going. SUPPLY STEAMER LOST. News of the Wreck of a Vessel Bound for the Klondyks Country. PORT TOWNSEND, Wasg,, July 27.— British Vice-Consul Locker received in the last mail a private communication respective lines. Arrived at Dawson, some of the com- panies would disband and secure work while otber companies would prospect n streams. It is believed this scheme | would considerably reduce the per capita expense of the trip. The projectors are not yet willing to make their names pub- lic. They intend now to further develop | the plan and then thoroughly advertise it through the country. deisd R B0 YOUNG MEN ORGANIZE. Portlanders Who Expect to Profit by the Kiondyke Gold Dis= coverles. PORTLAND, Or., July 27.—The excite- ment over the Klondyke gold develop- ment has indeed increased to fever heat among nearly all ambitious young men here who imagine they are not accumu- lating money fast enough. Last evening about thirty of this class of young men | beld & meeting in the Chamber of Com- merce building, with a view to securing a similar number of adventurers with means oW W A ng the large business houses where hraent in trade vas spend many a man valuable to them during busy times, there are many baving in contemplation the sending north in the spring of the very men for o them to the hardships GOLD AND SALVATION. Gale, the Rich Miner of Old Tuolumne, Who Will Sail To-Day to Proselytize the Klondykers. C. H. Gale, a weal Tuolumne County, will ail to-day for Dawson City . Gale is an old-timer, and is better k oughout the coast as “Old Hank,’’ a nickname which Mark Twain bestowed upon him in a San Andreas saloon many }'E‘IXXS 12 0. on the was also a friend of Bret Harte, and knew all of the shifty guns in the early days. He has mined and owned mines in every quarter of the globe, and made money out of all of them. He is now at the Russ House preparatory to sailing, and he tells why he is going north. Three months ago he was captured by the Salvation Army, and from a hardened sinner he has become a gentie and faith- ful Christian, It is not alone for gold that he braves the rigors of the Arctic winters, but to bear the flag of the army thither. He hopes to secure gold and at the same time establish posts of his adopted and beloved army in the most inhospitable parts of the north. His farewell address, to be delivered to-morrow, is as follows and is’self-explanatory: Dzar Brothers and Sisters of the Salvation Army: 1 came into your ranks about three months ago and am now-one of you. ‘‘Old Hank,” as th: boys call me in Sonora, was then a hard old case—that is to say, he was a heathen. But I never killed anybody nor robbed a widow or an orphan of a cent in all my life. Never stole a hog nor a sheep; yet you might say I was a tough critter. Yet, brothers and sisters, although I was on the square, I never had “sunshine in my ’suul” be- fore. I never knew the glory of God nor the perfect beauty of his handiwork until 1 was captured by the Salvation Army. Yes, I was captured and am now a willing prisoner, aithough | made a stubborn battle of resistance. % 1 h_we traveled all over the world, brothers, and roughed it in every way im- aginable, but 1 have never in ali that time found God. Through the instrumen- gahty of Captqin Eda Beck and the army I have become a Christian. = Never before in my life hasit been so hard for me to part with friends—friends, ave, God bless em—the only real friends I ever had. 1go to the far north now, in the search for £01d, as usual, and there | will take the army songs with me, because I know I will find God there and he will hear my prayers under the snow-capped peaks of the Klon(d;ykj is \\(ch] as he would in your elegant hall here to-night. 00d-by, brothers and sisters, and i i and that will be in two years if God is $|a|lvxn§°d e n 1 feel now like planting the Salvation Army banner on the north pole, and if I get there 1 will. In the meantime™pray for me, brothers and sisters, that 1 ma: keep the faith. I will surely pray for you. ; % Then say not _szood~by, but au revoir, for 1 come again, God helping me. In ‘tihi(mean'txme 1’tl_w:t1'l‘be n:jylendeavor to establish a Salvation Army post in the Klon- yke region. o this end I will give my mon i i b e aa e Satrotion Bis y money, time and influence for the saving God bless youl C. H. GALE the Kiondyke. And it also is not necessary | compelled | —THAWING OUT THE DIRT. v employed are quite unique. out with a pick and shovel. more. MINING ON THE KLONDYKE. Placer mining in the Klondyke country is carried on under conditions that prevail in no other gold-mining districts in the world, consequently the methods The narrow flat of from 100 to 500 feet in width along the streams is covered with a top layer of muck to a depth of from two to four feet, which can be taken Below the muck comes the placer deposits proper, frozen hard as rock, from ages back perhaps, down to bedrock, which is struck at a depth varying on differeat sections of from eight to thirty feet. Through this shafts are sunk, varying from eight feet square up. The material below the top layer of muck is frozen so hard as to render it impossible to be worked by any of the ordinary methods, so a way which may be called the “Klondyke method’’ 1s followed. at the bottom of the shaft and, setting it on fire, let it burn out, by which time the dirt and gravel on the bottom and sides are thawed to a depth of a foot or When the fire isout the embers are removed and the digging and taking out begins. goes to the bottom and shovels the dirt and nuggets into the bucket (generally a half of a barrel, with a rope handle), while the other hoists it te the top with a rove and winch and turns it on the dump. This part of the work is done during the winter. In spring, with the high water, the washing out or sluicing is done, while in summer the time i8 mostly devoted to getting a stock of wood for the next winter’s work. This is to make a large pile of wood sustained in his belief by geologists. Na« tives from upthe river were accustomed to bring in nuggets of almost pure gold. Mr. Rouilliard does not think there is any necessity for suffering from cold in Alaska. He says Alaska is a good, healthy climate, and thers will be more trouble from getting safficient supplies of food than from the danger from freezing. He says it is not true that work will have to be suspended from September to May on account of the cold weather. Dur- ing that time surface mining will have to be suspended, but underground work can be casried on as well as at any time. Mr. Rouilliard believes the men who will make the most money in the gola fields are those who go there to do busi- ness and take such articles as can be readily sold to the miners, and at prices which are fabulous. He thinks that many who are going to the goid fields will easily become discouraged, and the man who will be successful will be the rare excep- tion and not the rule. e To Be Listed in New York. NEW YORK, N. Y, July 27.—At a that the past week has been very fayor- able to the agricultural interests of the Pacific Coast and generaily in the States of the central valleys of the East, Gulf, South and middle Ailanticcoast. In New Eagland, New York and Red River of the North Valley and over portions of the Ohio valley there has been too much rain, while drought prevails over the greater part of Texas and portions of Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas, In the iast named State hot winds have proved injurious. Excessive rains have caused damage to graln in stock in portions of the Ohio Valley, Tennessee and middle Atlantic States, and severe damaging local siorms have occurred in portions of New Eng- land, New York and New Jersey. Tl UF MISs FUNERAL BARRETT. Policr Unable to Solve the Mystery of Her Death. BOSTON, Mass.,, July 27.—The funeral of Alice Bagen took place this afternoon at the house, 249 School street, Waltham. Rev. E. J. Young, & former pastor of the First parish and an intimate friend of the family, conducted the services, which 2—DIGGING #AND DUMPING. On a small shaft there are generally two men at work. One of these whom they now bave no occupation here. The head of one of the largest wholesale grocery-houses last evening said that he is holding in reserve six unemployed commercial travelers, for some years con- nectea with his concern, to send them to the Alaska mines with stocks of goods. In the meantime ha is paying their regu- lar living expenses here, which are being charged up to profit and loss. Other houses are holding back their unem- ployed drummers to fit them out with ample *‘grub stakes’’ at the very earliest spring. Most of these men have had more or less experience in the mines of Oregon and California, and 1 a country like the Klondyke, ‘‘where the gold bulges out of tne rocks merely by looking at it,” no intelligent and industrious man can fail to make a competency. i — STOCKTONIANS ACTIVE. They Organize a Company and Charter a Steamer for the Yukon. STOCKTON, Car., July 27.—The Stock- ton Alaska Company has at last taken tangible form. Before the 10th of nexi month a s eamer will leave San Francisco for the Yukon and a number of Stockto- nians will sail on it. R. L. Quisenberry and J. O. Yardley of this city and Captain Rideout of San Francisco will have charge of the expedition. Among those who talk of going from here are M Blanchard, Howard Griffiths, & young man named McTageart, who works at the woolen-mills, and others. Quisenberry and Yardley were in San Francisco Satur- day and chartered the steamer to take them un. E The conditions of the voyage are as fol- lows: The company will take passengers to Dawson City and furnish them with one year’s board for $300, or take them to Dawson City for $300, allowing them to carry 1000 pounds of baggage, most of #hich, of course, would be food. A small tug wili be shipped on board the steamer and daunched 1n the Yukor. Lumber will also be taken, and flatboats will be fitted up so as to be ready when St Michaels is reached. The steamer will be then used to run between Vancouver and St. Michaels for supplies, to connect with the tuz and barges when the ice on the Yukon breaks up. The principal business of the company will be trading. Miners who have good claims but little grub will be staked for an interest in the mines, and any kind of business which guarantees big profits will be prosecuted. Captain Rideout owns the steamer Alviso, which runs on San Francisco Bay, and is a well-known sea- man. Hesays he can get up to Dawson before the Yukon closes. Fiiteen apolica- tions have already been received for pas- sage since yesterday. T BY THE AIR ROUTE. San Dilegans Plan to Go From Juneau to Dawson in a Balloon. SAN DIEGO, CAL., July 27.—All manner of trausportation has been suggested to reach the gold fields of the Klondyke, but it remains for a party of San Diegans to make the most hazardous part of the journey in an airship. Several married men here have secured the services of Pro- fes:or Richard Earlston, an aeronaut, to take & party of gold-hunters from Juneau to Dawson City in a balloon, the ascension 10 be made from Juneau the latter part of October, when the winter winds are blow- ing in the direction of Dawson City. Professor Eariston stated tc-night that an order bad already been placed for an airship; that it would carry tive and per- haps seven persons, and that a sufficient charge of hydrogen would be carried to last five days. He expects to take two days only to Dawson City, thus leaving a margin of three days’ power. So far Artbur Baldwin, F. T. Barnes, a reporter, and two prospectors have been engaged to accompany the aeronaut on his perilous voyage. Earlston is confident he can make the trip successfully, and re- fers to the success of Professor Andree in floating through the air in search of the north pole as evidence. = The party proposes to sail from San Francisco next month, just as soon as machinery can be placed in the ship ready for shipment. The distance from Juneau to Dawson or Circle City, over the course usually traversed by doz teams, is over 1000 miles, and can be made during winter months only, accompanied with many hardships, and by the balloon route it is proposed to make the trip under two davs with comparative ease, and the party will be as comfortable as roiling over prairies in palace-cars, smoking, chatting and taking snap shots and birdseye views of the country as they satl over. ——— NOT TO RETALIATE. It Is Sald the Dominion Will Leave Canada’s Resources Open to All. TORONTO, OxT, July 27.—It is now certain that the threatened retaliation by Canada against the United States by en- forcing the alien labor law against Amer- ican miners in Canada mining camps will not come to anything, A semi-official an- nouncement in the Globe, the Govern- ment organ, says the Dominion has here- tofore followed the policy of the imperial Government in leaving the resources of the empire for development to all men freely without regard to race or nation- ality. The motives underlying this liber- ality are strictly politic. It is manifestly good policy to permit all willing workers to help increase the greatness of the em- pire without inguiry into their nation- ality. —— AN EXPERT’S VIEWS. Editor Roullliard Says More Money Is to Be Made in Trading Than In Mining. LEWISTON, Mk, July 27.—J. B. Rouil- liard, eaitor of the French paper, La Re- vublique of this city, a mining expert and for twelve years Inspector-General of Mines in the province of Quebec under the Canadian Government, has made frequent trips into the mountains of the great Northwest near the Aluska border. He is able to speak from an intimate knowledge of the chain of mountains which extend through Alaska, and in which are located the newly discovered gold fields in the Klondyke region. He has no doubt that there are rich deposits of gold in that region, and says he has known such to be the fact for fifteen years. While he was inspector-general of the mines under the Canadian Govern- ment, he met several times in Montreal Francois Mercier, who was one of the agents of a large Russian trading post doing business through Alaska, Mercier from his knowledge of the Yu- kon was satisfied that there were rich de- posits of gold in the country, and he was !meeling of the members of the Mining Exchange to-day the question of listing Klondyke “propositions” came up. It was decided the exchange should not list any development companies, but compa- nies that actually own claims. CHICAGO MEN GOING. One Hundred and Fifty Gold- Seekers to Journey to the Kiondyke. CHICAGO, Irr., July 27.—A party of men will leave Chicago on a special train next Saturday night, en route for the newly discovered Alaskan gold fields. There will be 150 individuals in the party. The spectal train on which the party will travel will run directly through to San Francisco. There the gold-hurters will remain three days to purchase mining supplies. The party will then ship for St. Michaels on a special steamer. The trip will occupy fourteen days. Three steam launches will be taken to transport up the Yukon to the mouth of the Klondyke River. This trip will require fourteen days. Each tourist may take 500 pounds of baggage from Ban Francisco, but only a portion of this wiil be taken up the river with the party. When the Klondyke is reached the steam launches will be moored in winter quarters. The tourists will live aboard them until the spring begins to break, some time next summer. The transpor- tation company claims to have made plans for carrying enough provisions to supply all ats vravelers with plenty of food until next summer. It is the intention of the promoters of the excursion to make the shortest jour- ney on record to the gold fields. An effort will be made to complete the trip from Chicago to the Klondyke within thirty days. In addition to the crew, guides and officials 200 men will leave San Francisco on a special steamer. Of these the larger portion will be from Chicago, but it is said there will be a scatiering number from all parts of the country. TWO LIVES LOST IN FLAMES. Wild Scramble of Employes to Escape From - Burning Factory Buildings- NEW YORK, N. Y., July 27.—Several buildings in the business portion of Yonk- ers, used for manuifactvring purposes, were destroyed by fire to-night. The damage is estimated at about $500,- 000, fuily covered by insurance. Two persons are reported missing and the police believe both perished in the flames. One was & young woman em- ployed at Reed’s hat factory, and the other Watchman Jacob Strauss. When the fi% started about 5 o ‘clock in the Waring building, a five-story struc- ture, over a thousand men, women and children were at work. They succeeded in getting down the fire escapes through a mass of flames. Halfa dozen men who jumped from the second- story windows received slight injuries. One woman received a fracture of the ankle by falling out of a window. The flames rapidly spread to other buildings and were not subdued until a late hour. —_— WEEKLY CROP BULLETIN. Favorable to Agricwttural Interests of the Pacifio Coast. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 27.—The crop bulletin of the Weather Bureau says were attended mostly by the immediate relatives and friends. The pall-bearers were her former school- mates. There were flower offerings from the friends and neighbors. A!thongh her body lies beneath the sod the strange mystery of her sudden death has grown until it is the all-absorbing topic not only in and about Boston, but throughout the entire State. The police seem to be no nearer the solution than ever. It is re- garded as a singular and suspicious fact that Mrs. Barrett steadily refuses to di- vulge the name of the mysterious man re- ferred to in Miss Barrett’s note as the per- son wiro lost her $800, the best part of her little fortune. Some of the detectives at work on the case insist that this is the starting point in the unraveling of the tangled mystery. It was learned to-day for tbe first time that the dead girl knew intimately many prominent men about town, and that she had of late been very extravagant, driving a great deal in hired carrizges and entertaining at the most ex- clusive hotels. Her employer, however, remains firm in his belief of her trune worthiness, and denies any embezzling in spite of the fact that the cashbook was destroyed, pré- sumably by her hands. He still sticks to the murder theory. MARQUIS ITO TALKS. Denies That He Is in Paris to Fro- test Against Hawaiian Annex- ation. PARIS, France, July 27.—Marquis Ito to-day denied that he was here to protest against Hawaii’s annexation. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 27.—The Herald prints a lengthy interview with Marquis Ito in Paris wherein he says: “JI do not think it possible that the op- position manifested in Japan to the annexation of the Sandwich Islands will take any more extended form than the mere protest made in order that the interests of Japan on those islands may not suffer injury. Japan is simply seeking to protect herself and her subjects, and this she has a perfect right to do, but that she will look after her interests in other than a dignified diplomatic way is absurd. *The Emperor I know will not support any bellicose policy. All my friends in the ministry or in control of the different branches of the Government are of the same mind as the Emperor and the Japa- nese public sentiment is one of strong friendship for the United States. Thus the Hawaiian question cannot possibly bring about a conflict, either armed or diplomatic, with the Americans, in spite of the jingoes.” Reo: River Methodist Reréval Opens, DIXON, Irw, July 27.—The Rock River Assembly, one of the largest annual out- door rallies of Methodists in the country, opened in the camp-meeting grounds to- day and will continue for two weeks. The gession will be notable by reason of the partici pation of many prominent Ameri- cans, including General Gordon, the ex- Confederate war orator; Rev. Dr. DeWitt Talmage, Amos P. Wiler, W. H. Crawford, the historian, and Dr. Carlos Martyn, the poet. ALgEE T Buicide of a United States Comsul. PANAMA, Coromsis, July 27.—Otto Munchmeyer, United States Consul at San Salvador, committed suicide last Sun- day. His father was appointed to the office from Parkersburg, W. Va., in 1895 and died that year from fever, the son succeeding to the office. NEW TO-DAY—CLOTHING. boxes will every purchasesn Suvenile lept, We know how to send boys to school. Been boys ourselves and went to school, and went to school right in this town; ain’t ashamed of the fact. So we Iknow just what the little fellow wants, because we experienced his wants once our- selves. We're showing the mew fall styles ridht now, and these yow are getting at shoveling-owt prices. And in sending the little fel- low to school we send him all equipped, even to his lunch bas- ket, which is quite a mnovel affair. Yow'll Zet these with every pwrchase in our Juvenile Department. The new fall style in the Reefer Suit differs considerably from that shown in the spring season, and the colorings are different, the manner of trimming is different; the collar is deeper, broader at the shoulders; the braiding is done in a different manner. As @ whole it's quite a new affair. These were to be $3 50 Reefer Suits, for lit- tle chaps between the ages of § and 10. We have gone to work and included one of our little Brownie Lunch Baskets and say for pick, and 17hat a lovely pick it is— > --$1.65.-- The same for older boys, those between the ages of 5 and 15 years, wearing knee trou- sers ; the same colorings, duffering only that they're made in styles more becoming to boys those ages. These, including a Brownie Lunch Basket— ~-~$1.65.-~ Another crowd of thrifty mothers that kept crowding our Juvenile Department all day yesterday, another crowd iike that to-day and it will see the last of those Blue Twill Che- viots; it will be the last yow'll see of 'em under 8 They're made in style like you sce in picture above, and they’re cleverly gotien up, for lads between the ages of 5 and 15. These, including a Brownie Lunch Basket, --$1.95.~~ The Reefer Suits of these rough blue twill cheviots are awfully swell affa This is an all-wool fabric, gotien up in a very novel and exquisite manner. You would willingly pay, &4 for em at any time. The braiding of the collar is done in a very novel manner. These, including a Brownie Lunch Basket, at --$1.95.-- While other shops are talking of spring’s goods we're showing you the siyles for next Fall already. There's nothing slow about the big Kearny-streat hovsg. THE FRISCO BOYS, 9, 11, 13, 16 Kearny St. 14,700 Square Feet Devoted, to Juvenile Apparel Alone.