The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 30, 1897, Page 1

- VOLUME LXXXIL—NO. 60. PRICE FIVE CENTS.. UNCLE SAM MAY IMPOSE REPRISALS Retaliation Is Now in Order for the Exactions on the Klondyke. MEANS BY WHICH CANADA CAN BE CALLED DOWN. Secretary Gage Favors a Policy That Will Cause the Dominion Government to Regret Its Hasty Demand for Royalties. y 29.—If Congress were in session cislation proposing various forms of reprisals or the Klondyke exactions would be in- Senate House. The most popular form of been the threatened abolition of by and n joyed Canadian railroads crossing During the first eveland administration club was used to protect American interests Manning sent a ringing ing of the bonded privil- of discriminat- Welland canal. issuing a long- es territory i that of Harrison this he v he withho i can vessels passing throu tege from Canadian rail road n Amer Windom at his mess . This caused a removal the was on the point. of the bonded privilege, which had been wstive public hearing at which both sides e of the quest represent in Washin nouses of both are absent, as well as all influential mem- in the Senate and House. There is little doubt, however, that whatever course the administration might recommend Nl ptly ess should of both parties be a WO nd heartil Ee Canada put in force the e The ex e mi lorsed, but it is not necessary that n to enact a retaliatory policy should alled be up ctions reported to have been agreed upon. power to place such reprisals upon Can: the hasty action ind as emanding royalties upon 1t cause her to r gold taken from the Canadian side. s not in Washir ton to speak for himself, but statement that he he there is authority for the policy, and there are several ways in whic applied. British m now allowed to gold in the Yukon fields on the American side. This privilege might be revoked. British vessels are now permitted to stop at Dyea, which was made a will favor a retaliatory h it could be successfully ners are mine tree sub-port of entry last week by Secretary Gage so all vessels might land passengers and cargoes there. This could also be revoked and American vessels allcwed to take a customs officer to Dyea on every VO o examine the cargo on landing. British vessels could not same privilege unless Dyca remained a sub-port of entry. MISS GRACE CRAIB, Who Goes to the Klondyke as One of “The Call’s” Special Correspondents, = } Nobody ton at present is able to indicate what Con- | ight do. 1T ker and chairman of the Foreign Affairs in the northern icy waste. =0 NEW TERRORS FOR RETURNING KLONDYKERS. Distorted imaginations of Kiondyke gold-seekers frame terrors on the high seas more dread than threatened famine Bugaboo tales of Chinese pirates now shatter the nerves of the Arctic miners, who doubtless tremble in their moccasins at the thought of such a contingency as that above portrayed. are to the effect that the revenue cutter Bear will convoy a treasure-laden ship from Alaska down. Advices from Washington jactment of alien labor laws. question. for prompt action. STEAMERS ARE CROWDED. Many Who Journey Northward W1il Have tc Occupy Swinging Canvas Burk:. SEATTLE, Wasn., July 29.—The steam- ship Cleveland arrived here at 8:30 o’clock this evening. She will be at once refitted for her irip to 8t. Micnaels, leaving here August 5. A straight rate of $200 is charged for passage to Dawson City, as against $150 charzed on the Portland. Those who were first to secure tickets will be given the staterooms on the sieamers, while the others will be forced to put up with swing- ing canvas bunks, between decks, of which 200 will be put im here. 1tisunderstood that tickets have been soid pretty nearly up to her full capacity, although the re- tion of a company of troops north has made some vacancies. A pecuiarity is found at all the steam- ship companie<’ offices. It is impossible to get a full l'st of passengers untii after tne steamer sails. In every office the <itatement is made that a certain number of b rtbs have been reserved, the names ot the takers of which do not appear on tha -sheet. These names, the steamship officers say, have been withheld by re- quest. The reason, it develops, is that quite a number of men who have decided to go to the Klondyke do not desire 1o have their creditors know of the fact until after tbeir departure. The sensational story which was sent out from Washington to-day to the effect that the Treasury Department had been asked to furnish a revenue cutter to con- voy a vessel of the Alaska Transpor tation Company from St. Michaels on account of fear of pirates has received no confirma- tion here. The local officials say the first they ever heard of the story was when it appeared in print. If Vice-President Weare of the company, who, it is said, made the application, had any intorma- tion on the subject ot pirates he has not communicated it to the office of the com- pany here. The Kiondyks craze is responsible for some new inventions. A Tacoma man has invented a portable blast furnace, with which to thaw out the frozen gravel f the Klondyke during the winter, to take the place of the exjensive and slow method of accomplishing that resuit by cordwood fires. Charles A. Barron of this city goes the Tacoma man one better. His inven- 1ion consists of a small high-pressure boiler, with steam-hose attachments and an iron nozzle. The nozzle is to be driven into the frozen ground and the steam to be turned on. It is a Jull between steamers to Dyea. No passenger steamer leaves here until day after to-morrow. The Rosalie then goes north with 150, and for the foliowing ix days there will be one steamer each day. o E s THE FEVER GROWING. A Company Being Formed to Prospect River Bot- toms. SAN DIEGO, CaL, July 29.—Kiondyke fever in San Diego is becoming more prevalent each day as new propositions are beirg made to the vublic to reach the new El Dorads of the north. The latest is | .bie formation of a company of San Diego calliug of tue orders for the transporta- | The officials of the treasury are very much interested in the It is possible that when Gage returns it will be taken up men who propose to build a smali ship here and stock it with a view of sailing into the Yukon River ani to establish several mining colonies - there. B. H. Burke and Cap:ain Pierce, the latter a ship-builder, are now preparing plans for the ship, and as soon as it is completed a company will be formed and a meeting of stockholders will be held to elect officers. The company is composed of thirty members, each putting in $500, making a total of $15.000, and with this amount a small ship will be built to carry thirty passengers and $3000 worth of provisions, which is expected to last one year. Itis proposed to take two small steam launches along, and as they sail up the Yukon the launches will be sent up the small tribu- taries and by means of a centrifugal pump they will prospect the bottoms of the streams for gold. ° When good indications are found col- onies wiil be established, and a larger ves- sel will pe put on the ran to Dawson City ior supplies, the smalier launches remain- ing at the colonies for the convenience of the miners. Over one-half of the stock 1n tie company was subscribed to-day, and the projectors of the scheme entertain no donbt of securing the whole amount. All trades and professions will be represented erty in the Territories, pending a recommendation to Copgress for en- | i A | in the company. All profits and losses of thp trip are to be shared equaliy by mem- bers of the company. 2ot s Demand for Pack Horses. TACOM A, WasH.,, July 29.—Owners of horsefless, which two weeks ago was a source of loss, are now in a cheeriul frame of mind and are only sorry that they bave not a whole drove of animals suitable for use in Alaska pack trains. Horses which were selling for $3 to §6 are now bringing $10 to $40 and the demand is on the in- crease. Local livery menand horse-dealers are receiving applications daily by mai! and wire for borses, and it is a hard mat. ter to procure them without going into the country. Horses are being shipped in from Eastern Washington and thirty head will be driven across the mountains from Ellensburg in time for shipment next week on the Willamette, which will carry 300 puck animals north. By August 15 no less than 800 horses will have arrived at Dvea and Skagaway for use in packing Klondyke outfits over Chilkoot and Whites passes. A SApi o sk For Kiondyke and Peru. NEW ORLEANS, La, July 20.—The Klondyke fever has struck this section. Two parties will leave, one unaer General Melver, formerly of the Confederate army and late Consul to Spain, the other under | W. D. Mayfield o! the Western Union. A third party, organized by W. D. O'Beirne, will go to Peru ana try placer mining there. Apvplications forenroliment on the expeditions are pouring in from all parts of neighboring State<. RUSHING IT ON THE | WILLAMETTE The Big Collier Is Being Transformed by Day and Night. WILL BEAR HUNDREDS TO THE GOLD LAND. The Local Exodus Will Be a Thousand. Multiplying Schemes to Get to the Klondyke Mines Quickly. was sold out several days ago to the Seat- tle rushers. The Seattle agent reserveéd the Al-Ki in advance and but eight béiths were assizned to the San Francisco office, It justgow appears a conservative estis mate to &y that a thousand people will have left San Francisco for the ¥ukon ten; days hence. Between 330 and 400. have gone aiready; probably the latter estimata would be conservative, for many have guiie by train to Seattle t0 outfit and take pas< sage there since the excitement begam. The steamers which have gone north from here since the Klondyke rush begin a few. - days ago have been able to take but a lini-: ited number of Klondykers on account of lack of room and of the pre-emption of accommodation by other travelers. . Last Saturday, the 24tb, the Cleveland . sailed with lifty-two passengers and with bookings at Seattle for 150 meore. Thé Cleveland has gone to St. Michagls, from where her passengers will «o up the rivér. On Sunday the Umatilla sailed: with room leit for but seventy-five of -the clamorous gold-seekers who wanted. "1 take the Juneau route. 5 S The State of California sailed on: Tuess day on a special trip to connectat ' Pois: land with the George W. Eider an special trip toJuneau. One hundre taken from here, the rest of the.Toom the Elder being reserved at Porthind. - | On Wednesday the Aiaska Comimereial Company’s Excelsior got. away. for.: St Michaels with 112 passengers.and wiiki - hundreds refused passage. 55 ¥ This makes about 3350 to actually’ San Franeciso for the Kiondyke by steanier - so far, with the number that have gone: by rail unknown. : gt The next important steamer to the Sound and the further nerih:will. be the Walla Walla on August' 4. She- witi dounb:less carry a crowd toward the zold fields. . 52 There are any number of spectaltrans: portation schemes being whoaped to:theé front here, and 1f all of them'should:sue-" ceed they would get several hundred oait through the Golden Gate anyway. ‘They. are private enterprises engineered by men or little companies who have bought or chartered vessels or who' are trying 1o.: do so. 2 All sorts of craft from old srdewheei steamers and gasoline craft to the Zsalan« dia are talked of. Some of the schemes seam good, some bad and some worse: The steam-schooner Noyo. is beini fitted Interest in the Yukon rush now centers in the big collier Wiliamette, which an army of workmen, working in shifts throughout the twenty-four hours, are transiorming into a passenger steamer. She will leave on her special trip on Sun- day, taking about 300 from here and more trom Seattle direct to Juneau and Dyea. This will be the biggest crowd to leave here at once since the rush began. This big collier never carried a pas- senger before. When the Klondyke sen- sation burst forth she was prosaically carrying coal from the Sound to San Francisco under the direction of her owners, the Orezon Railway and Naviga- tion Company. The Pacitic Coast Steam- ship Company’s vessels were all quickly swampea by the rush and the Willamette was chartered by the local company while she was at sea. She gotin on Wednes- | day, and then every stevedore that could be put to work began getting the 3200 tons 1 oi coal out of her and the unlonaing was bustled all through Wedmesday night. At 5 o'clock yesterday morning the empty steamer was at Broadway wharf, and a new army of workmen was rushed aboard. She wus quickiy cleaned, and theu carpenters, smiths, plumbers and so on were crowded to the work of trans- | formation that was kept up all yesterday ! and last night. Berths are being built in every available space below, and de houses for more berths are being has built on the upper decks. Plumbers, fur- nishers, etc., are doing necessary work, and electric lights are being installed throughout the ship. Each passenger will get a bunk 3 feet by 6 feet 4 inches in size. She will be able to carry several hun- dred passengers, but balf or more of her accommodations for the trip to Juneau will be reserved for the =Seattle crowd. Tickets from Lere to the sound will be sold to any one. Space in the hold is also being arranged to take 100 horses from Se- attle to Juneau. This remarkable enterprise is simply thie most notable among others ata time when an enormous rash of travel has made all regular transportation facilities utterly inadequate and there is an almost hysterical seizing on everything little and big in the line of a boat that can ride the sea. The City of Puebla will leave on her regular trip for the sound this forenoon and at Seattle will connect with the Al- Ki, which will proceed to Juneau. The|out to take 200 men at $200 ipr passage. City of Puebla will not, however, | and one year's provisions. 3 take from here more than eight| The steamer ( spar was yesterd or ten passengers for the Yukon, for the | 1 reason that the accommodaions had been pre-empted by the local travel inadvance, and for the further reason that the Al-Ki nounced to leave 1 ¢ for passage and eighteen monihs’ grab: The topsail schooner La Ninfa, a‘%hater last year, is being fitted out for a similar MILES CANYON, Two Hundred Miles From Dyea on the Juneau Route, One of the Dangerous Places for the Navigators Who Go Down to the Yukon in Boats,