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o THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1897. expedition by T. P. H. Whitelaw, the wrecker, and Harry Hoimes. The plnu’ is to take a sternwheel steamer along to St. Michaels and go right up the river. The gasoline schooner Chetco is enzaged jor another expedition, and a Eureka par- 1y headed by the Kay brothers and Harold Wandesford are fitting up a schooner | there, on the deck of which they plan to | take an 18-ton stern-wheeler and a barge | for the trip up the Yukon. The schooner | Elvira has been bought by William Camp- i bell and others to go to St. Michiels next | month with a sternwheel steamer on deck for the river trip. Herriman & M have chartered a schooner on which to | take the launch Hetty B and a barge to | the Yukon. ‘ A number ot similar enterprises are be- | ing exploited and new.ones come to the | front daily. Some are as chimerical as | the San Diego scheme of going from J neau to Dawson by balloon. Dispat say that a party of 150 will leave Chicago to-morrow night to come to San Francisco, charter a boat and skip to Dawson. | The Yukon River route is the one that | a majority wouid prefer, naturally, on ac- count of its lack of bardsbips; but the passenger capacity of the river boits is| amall, and the last steamer by which pas- sengers can reach tue river steamers of the two big trading companies at St. 1 Michaels this year has gone. So the 1dea of sailing to St. Michaels | with a river steamer on deck to go right | up the river, nearly 2050 miles, to Daw- son, is an alluring Some of the plans | to try this may be put through, but wise | heads say that the chances are in favor ot disaster. This has been even #aid of the regular river boats that will make the | trip with the passeagers of the Excelsior and the Portland, Tho:-e expeditions which have Yukon in | view are pleased to get away during the | first week in August. Navigation closes about the second week in September and five weeks at the outside can be counted on in which to reach Dawson. The trip to St. Michaels néar the mouth of the Yukon is 2850 miles and tte Alaska Com- mercial Company’s steamer Exce!sior | makesitin about sixteen davs. Arriving at St. Michaels the regular steamers | sometimes have to anchor three miles | irem the port and lighter freight and | possengess ashore. Then St. Michaels is nearly a hundred miles up the coast from the month of the Yukon. The speed with which a stern-wheel | steamer ana barges could be put together and made ready on the river for the trip might be imaginea, but not accurately told. Then ther- are nearly 2000 miles of | river. Toue great stream wanders and rips | through desolate region, and little posts and missions are very far apart. Thers is | & constant fuel supply to be looked out for. The two companies operating cn the river have woodyards here and there, ‘where their own sieamers are quickly sup- plied. The stream at places runs at a | speed of eight and ten miles an hour. | There are snags and bars in the river, and the bars shift frequently. Experienced | pilots always run the Ynkon steamers and | Yukon pilots are scarce. i There are a hundred dangers of delay | and disaster for inexperienced crews, es- pecially, to face, and they have simply got to get there by six weeks hence or they w not winter on the Klondyke. But the expeaitions go forward, and som! of them may get there a-flyinz, Some of the special expeditions are planned for the Juneau route, the idea | being to go to Dyea in a spegial craft and | land the passengers and outfits for the trip over the pass. One of these is the Chilcoot Pass and Lake Transportation Company, which has | chartered the cld missionary vacht Pit- cairn for this trip. This scheme includes taking along boats to be packed over the together with 1350 pounds of pro- | visions for each man. S A THE RICH AMERICAN. A Yukoner of Experience Found Nearly Pure Gold on Ameri~ can Creek In Alaska. H. C. Anderson, who, with A. D. Gray | and half a dozen other Klondyke miners, | is at the Golden West Hotel, says nobody | will lose anything by weiting till spring to 2o to the new diggings. Anderson has heen credited with bring- | ing $50,000 in gold out of the Northwest | Territory and Gray $30,000, but be does | not wish to be guoted as to the amount. | He formerly lived in San Francisco and also in Beattle. He was two years in the | employ of the North American Transpor- | tation and Trading Compeny in the Yukon and a few months ago quit to Jo- | cate a claim on the Kiondyke. I *I lived.in a tent last winter,”” he said. *I did not get in soon enough to bnild a cabinas the others did. We put in our | time burning wood fir nd digging and | - the final result was very satisfactory. We | would start the fires going at about9 o'ciock at night and in the morning, after the fire bad burned all night, we would dig out the soft gravel and windlass it up for sluicing in the spring. { “In burning we fired the wood in a cir- | cie for a distance of some thirty feer, workinz under to get at the pay streak as . required. Each morning we found the ground free of frost for from twelve inches to two feet. “Sampling was done oceasiorally where we could. I have got from $300 to $400 out of a single pan. Tnen we eaca had a cud-box in thecabin or tent that we used. | mud-box is a box about 2x3 feetin | size and a foot deep. We used to heat twn‘ s | { | int | officer ol | Collector of Customs here. | well as other firearms may be freely sold. | persons as secure a permit from the Gov- or three buckets of water and then putin the haif-frozen and frozen dirt, and by swashing it around and tilting the water and mud ran off while the gold went to the bottom, and we managed to get out uite a lot of dust aud nuggets at times. “The richest go!d up in the Yukon country is on American Creek, near Fort Cudaby. By the ricbest I mean that which assays the most. I nad a testre- cently of some of it, an4 it went $20 10 to the ounce, while my El Dorado gold went but $16 37, and some even as low as$15 75. American Creek is quiterich. I beheve it is one of the best in the whole Yukon country in which to mine. Ii is on the American side. & “The Canadians on the Klondyke and other parts of the Yukon have been very kind to all Americans. A man from the nited States is protected equaily with the Canad The laws are executed with justice, and, though I am an Ameri- can, I like tham a littic better than those of the United States. I know Mr. Ogilvie 1ately. He wintered with u Ialso am well acquainted with Captain Con- stantine, Inspector of Police for the Yukon. He is a verv superior( official, and is highly es:ieemed for the manner in which he maintains order. The Ameri- cans all like bim.” Mr. Anderson brought out a lot of new | and excellent photographs, among which others of the steam- nnloading goods | there, one.of the feariul Myles Canyon, Klondyke se were taken at the now The picture of Dawson City was is one of Dawson Ci ers Weare and Belia and another of a group of miners. Ail of th gold camp to which turned. taken at 5 o’clock on the morning that Mr. Anderson leit. WHISKY IN ALASKA. The Creature Is Plenty In That Pro- hibition Country Where Pro~ hibition Is a Failure. all eyes are There’s a strong dash of whisky in the story of the Yukon and of ail Alaska. Alaska is the Liggest prohibition country on the face of the globe, but ¢he per capita consumption is not exceeded in many re- gions reported upon. The United States laws and the reguiations of mentof the Treasury rigidly prohibit the ry and sale of intoxicating liquors for amental, medicinal, me- and scientific purposes,” and whisky is about as plentiful as anywhere else on earih. . Alaska z2ffords an interesting itlustra- tion of bow easy it isto enforce prohibi- tion in & new and a mining country. The Jaw is apparently little more than a fret- ful thing that annoys some people now and then. Un tratlic on placer miners at all. It’s on account of the Indians. A gailon of whisky can work more woe and deviltry in an Indian camp than wmost any place else. When ! the act of May 17, 1884, establishing the ghust of a Territorial Government for Alaska was passed, it coniained in section 14 the following * % “and the importation, manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in said district, except for medicinal, mechanical and scientitic purposes, is hereby prohib- ited under tbe penalties which are pro- vided in section 1955 of the Revised Stat- | utes for the wroengful importation of dis- tilled spirits. the President shall make such regulations as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.” This is all of the statute law on the sub- ject. The Treasury Department on May 4, 1887, promuigated regulations which in- cluded the followi “No intoxicating liquors shall be landed at any por: or place in the Territory of Alaska without a permit from the chief tbe customs at such port or place, to be issued on evidence satisfac- tory to such officer that the liquors are imported and are 10 be used solely for sac- ramental, medicinal, mechanical or scien- tific purpo: This order prohibited the entry and sale of breech-loading rifles and ammunition other than for a citizen’s personal use that the Indians might not be armed and | get ap more Indian wars, Six mont is ago this probibition was re- moved. from here to Alaska hecould not take a with him without & permit from the Now rifles as March 12, 18 were modified ¢ 2, the liquor regulations or tie purpose of more ef- fectually carrying out the law of Con-| gress.’” The law had never been a howling success in that paradise for whisky smug- | glers, and someiow or other human nature and its ways kept saloons going in open violation of the law. These latest regulations, which are the existing ones for all Alaska, may seem hLumorous to some peobple. “The existing regulations relating to the sale of intoxicating liquors shail be strictlv- enforced.”” Liquors may be sold only for medicinal, mechanicai and scientific purposes, by such erncr of Alaska, after having made oat that liquors will not bs sold or furnished 10 any person not known personaily to the vender, or 1o any minor or intoxicated person, or to be drunk on the premises. Sales for medicinal purposes may be made only on the prescription of a reputable practicing physician, stating the kind and quancty of liquor necessary to be used by the patient. The vender swears that he will report monthly to the Governor his sales and the persons sold to. He'must give a boud of §500 to observe the regulations. But whbisky is plenty in Alaska. Most of ‘it is smugeled in. It goes from the Sound, from Honolulu, from this port and eisewhere. Cheap whisky is hidden in boxer, packages, as canned fruit, and in all sorts of ways vise to elude customs officers, and in this way it gets there on nearly every ve that strikes the coast. It just appears there 2na is not very hard to get. The Excelsior, which sailed for St. Michaeis day before yesterday, afforded an illusiration of this business. The crew had smuggled about fifty gallons into the the Depart- | e Sam does not prohibit the liquor account of the inroadsof the | Bejore that time if a man went | that ingenuity can de- | 2 BOUND ALY e BOYNB AT BT EDRNA AL 30 (24 area of some 32,400 square miles, ora lit of the river. | g0 M —————] SCALE OFMILES /20 tle less than the State of Maine. & Y. =8 | Map of the Famous Copper River Region in Alaska Which Is.Said to B;e_Exceedineg Rich in Gold and Other Valuable Minerals. The Copper River drains that part of Alaska lying just east of the National boundary, and between the Gulf of Alaska on the south and the Alaskan Mountains, which separate it irom the Tanana River Valiey, on the north. Though within quite easy reach of Sitka, the capi- tal of the Territory, by sea, it 1s comparatively unknown, having been but little explored and never prospected to any extent, the hostility of the Indians living along the coast having hindered or turned back every party of white men who have at- tempted to exvlore or prospect the country, exceptin one or two cases where they confined themselves to following the course This region has an In the upver-part af its course the river makes a complete letter U around the high section of land in which stand Mount Wrangell, Mount Drum, Mount Tiliman and other peaks, which rise to heights of from 13,000 to 17,000 feet. This region lies in a line between the gold-bearing lands about Cooks Inlet on the southwest &nd the Forty-mile, Sixty-mile and Klondyke couniry o the northeast, and there is every reason to believe that discoveries as rich or even richer than those lately made on the Klondyke will eventuate in the near future on the Copper River. The attention of the world having been turned toward Alaska, prospectors are sure to follow the trail of the huge nug- gets which the Copper River Indians are said to bring down to the coast unti! they uncover their natural bed. Already a laree and well cquipped party, thoroughly organized and under good leaders, is said to be getting ready to start from one of the cities on the Sound for the purposa of forcing their way inland and prospecting the country in spite of | the Indians who live at Alganik, Fidalgo and other places along the coast. This region lies wholly within the territory of the United States and can easily be opened up to settlement by short roads from several points along the coast to the west of the river. Government will most probably support any proper effort to open up and develop the country. Should prospectors make any great find the United States ho'd, and customs officers found it and confiscated it about four hours before the | sailing. Ana then the regulations are not en- forced with unreasonable stringency, and a good dealof whisky getsin legitimately “for » medicinal purposes.” Collector Moore at Sitka, the head of the custu?u service in' Alaska, was removed about fix months ago, and the newspaper dispatches rumored that it was becau-e he allowed too much liquor entry ‘for medicinal uses,’ Every vessel that leaves San Francisco for Alaska takes along some liquor by per- mission of the Collector of Customs. There are now deputy collectors or in- spectors at the following points in Alaska: Silka, Juneau, Wrangel, Mary Island, Kodiak, Unal, Cooks Inlet, St. Michael Island, Unga and Karluk. In view of the stringent regulations it is odd to read in the Alaska Record of recent date that | since the Yukon rush had boomed the saloon business at Juneau the saloon- | keepers there have been discussing the sending of a delegate to Washington to get the Treasury Department to loosen up a little more on the annoying regulations and $1500 was subscribed by some of them. The Record advises, editorially, that it would be a useless mission, as | there would be the strong opposition of temperance influences in the States to meet. At Circle City, before it was de- populated by Dawson, the liquors ‘‘for medicinal use’’ were dispensed to patients in big log-cabins, dance-houses and gam- bling-houses. The Alaskan hostility to these regula- tions is intense and there is a somewhat humorous demand for “local option.” The Dominion Government, which rules the Klondyke, permits t1e sale of liquor, but is supposed to condition it on the vender being a reputable and decent sort of fellow. It has issued permission for the entry of over 13,000 galions of liquors into Dawson this year, “The Alaska Commercial Company and the Northwestern Transportation and | Trading Company have naturally the | bulk of the wholesale liquor trade at Daw- son, to which place they promptly pushed their business across the boundary. Each ;s sending up the rivér in bond 5000 gal- ons. Tom O'Brien is getting 2000 gallons in, and some smaller lots will get.there, so that there will be no whisky famine this The Topsail Schooner La Ninfa, e { AR i v SHaldls Now Being Fitted Out at Spear-Strzet Whatf for an Expedition to the Klondyke. Her Charterers Expect to Get Away the First Week in August, winter atleast. At the boundary line the American customs officer is supposed to knock in the head of whisky-barrels and the Canadian officer to coliect revenue accordingz to the direction the whisky is going. When a United States customs officer smashes the head of a keg of whisky up [ the Yukon the f#te of the siuff dependson the weather. Pure spirits freez»s at sixty d-grees below, and it is often cold enough to ireeze spirits. But Klondyke whisky will quit running nearly as quick as the water, so that sometimes a fellow may come along to the wreck, pile the chunks of whisky in his sled and go on rejoicing. That has actually bappened up ghere, ac- cording to some of the Yukon®rs now here. TO THE YUKON BY WIRE. Some R:levant Facts About the Almost Forgotten Survey by the Western Union Company. Inquiries received in this City by per- sons engaged in the construction of tele- graph lines and the sale of material confirm the belief that the Western Union, having faith in the truth and per- manence of .the Alaska goid devosits, is about to extend its lines either to Fort Wrangel or Juneat, with_a iuture exten- sion to the valiey of the Yukon. This company in 1864 undertook the con- strugtion of the trans-Siberian line, and surveyed a route from New Westminster, on Puget Bound, to Anadye Bay, a few miles belew Bering Straits, which was to be crossed by a cable 206 miles in length and continuned across Kamchatka, along the eastern coast cf Asia to the mouth of the Amoor River, where it was to connect with a line from St. Petersburg, forming an unbroken circuit from New York to the capitals of Europe. This project was conceived by Perry McDonough Collins of this City, and its success was depenaent upon the failure of the altempt to lay a cable across the Atlantic. The success of this latter scheme caused the abandonment of the Collins attempt, but not beioge the sur- veys had been completed for the entire distance. 'he survey from New Westminster car- ried the line up the vailey of the Fraser River to the foot of Stuart Lake, a dis- tance of 700 miles, whence the line crossed over the watershed into the Pearce River country, which it followed to the junciion with Pelly River to the Yukon. Construction followed after the surveys with such rapidity that the line was ac- toally in working order before the close of 1865 to Simpsons River, a distance of 850 miles from New Westminster, where tid- ings of the success of the Atlantic cable was received, and all extensions were abandoned. The surveys and building of the line were accomplished without ex- cessive difficulty. Timber was found in ample quantities, and only the wires had n}'bs transporied from the base of sup- plies. - Another route was also surveyed from Fort Wrangel up the Stickeen River to its headwaters, and thence into the valley of the Yukon, a route which had the ad- vantage ot being entirely within the terri- tory of the United States. At Fort Wran- gel the company collected an immense amount of material, conslsting of several thousands of miles of wires, hundreds of crates of giass insulators and other articies, which have remained at this point ever since and are now available. From Fort Wrangel to Forty-mile Creek the distance is 850 miles by a route of which the Western Union has the surveys and which, it is estimated, could be built for less than $1,500,000. One season would construct the line. The Western Union, in_order to connect with Fort Wrangel, will have to do ir by submarine cabies, following the inside route for steamers from Seattle to Fort Wrangel, 2 distance of 726 miles. The whole cost of the exten- sion by cable and land from Seatile to Forty-mile Creek, a distance of 1476 miles, could be built, it is estimated, ior less than $3,000,000. Should the revorts of the inexhaustible riches of the Yukon discoveries be sus- tained by future developments the com- pany will run through a telegraph line in short order. —_—— Mail for the Yukon, Two thousand leiters for points on the Yukon River in Alaska went out on the | Excelsior last Wednesday. The steamer Bertha, which will leave San Francisco | to-morrow or Sunaay, will also take mail for the Yukon. P A R GOSSIP OF THE CRAZ:. Louls Sloss Advises a Revenue Cut- ter for Stranded Miners In- stead of Pirates. Louis Stoss Sr., the head of the Alaska | Commercial Company, smiled and said littie regarding the wild tale from Wash- ington that the rival company wanted thereturningsteazer Portland and $2,000,- 000 in gold dust protected from pirates by a revenue cutter. “We will risk the Excelsior when she comes back, and we have no favors to ask of the Government,” he said yesterday. ‘‘There certainly ought to be a revenue cutter up there at St. M chaels, though, to look out for the busted and stranded men that will get out of the country by going down the river. There will probably be some this year, and there will certainly bs many nextyear. Many of them will build boats and rafts and float down the river, and they should be looked after as a mat- | ter of humanity.” They came yesterday from far Aus- | tralia after the Klondyke gold. cables flashed the sensational news there early, and yesterday the Alameda bronght the advance guard of Australian rushers. They were S. Benetti and Barotte Raf- faelo of Perth, West Austraiia, and they came in bound for the new diggings. ‘The first of probably many plans to establish a newspaper at Dawson is an- nounced. J. W. Scott, a practical printer of Seatile, and Jack Carr, an all-round rustler, are shipping a smal!l press on tue Eiiza Anderson from Seattle on which to print The Yukon Nugget. The last word that was received from ‘The | the Excelsior after she passed out of the Golden Gate on Wednesday came by car- | ier pizeon to G. M. Cobn Sr. Mr. Cohn’s son was aboard and with him he took one of the homers from the cote of William Leydecker in Alameda. The bird was released off the Farallons, and in less than an hour was home with the message, which was telephoned 1o Mr. Cobn in this City. The message said that things were badly mixea up aboard, and it would be 10 P M. before everybody knew where his berth was. It wound up with “KEverybody happy and no Kkick coming. Expect §1000 oa account by next steamer.”’ i One of the passengers on the Excelsior was David Tobin, long known as proprie- tor of ““Tobey’s” saloon. As the steamer swung from the wharf he threw his derby hat into the crowd on shore. s Donkeys are strong and rapidly rising. This is on account of :the limited supply and the local demand for pack animals to take to Chilcoot Pass. A few days ago an owuer of donkeys agreed to sell three at $10 each, and yesterday he raisea his price to §50 when they were wanted. tatereorgefd s o An avalanche of “Guides to Alaska” is W 7 \% 1labout due. Several are mow. in press. 2 i - Bocks and maps of value regarding Alaska e LA\ are hardly to be found at all 1n bookstores - Mud or so great has been the recent demand. The Morsh Lake Alaska Miner says: ulf = We are in wantof good experienced min- N Tegsnlake B | ers, but we don’t \van:gflny Tabhstre A proat - number of men from the mines and miils of Voie gt | Southeastern Alaska, stiracked by the glow. ing reports {rom the Klondyke have resigned eir positions and staried for the interior. © know of men earning ¥5 a_day who think they can better themselves by joining the | ever-increasing crowd. ' | The consequence is that some of our mines | ar -handed, and we can encourage the right kind of men tc come here. But we want it understood, to save_ disappointment, that the men We want must be miners; the town is well supplied with laborers. To the former we oen promise immedinte employment, the latter class had better stay away. STRONG MEN ALL RIGHT. | A Springfleld, Prospector Who Says Such Need Not Be | Afraid. SPRINGFI1ELD, Omro, July 29.—Letters were received bhere to-day from three | Springfield prospectors—J. R. Fitzgerald, Will Berg and Tom O’Brien, who left last spring for tie Klondyke gold fields, giving a reliable account ot the state of affairs there. Fitzgerald says that a boat which he and two companions had built was wrecked while on the trip to Dawson City, and they lost everything they had, bat Alaska Commercial Company and went to work at §10 a day as soon as he got there.* He says the most dangerous places are the canyon of White Horse Rapids and | Lead River, many peovie being drownea | a1 those places. Regarding the trip Berg We had a fine trip in here, for it was not cold and I didn’t see har ip about it. Part of the trail was hard, but after we struck the river it was easy enough. | The hardships ana cold are all news pepers’ wind; good strong men need not be afraid. The river was not without danger, but that made it exciting, and it was grand. There were four of us in the boat, with ! but one and a half tons altogetner. It | gets very warm here, just as warm as it ever is at home, but it gets pretiy cold in | winter, from 75 to 80 degrees velo: They don’t seem to mind 1t much, and asa number wintered in tents last winter I | guess I can stand it in a log cabin.” Fitzgerald says that repors as to the richness of the Klondyke fieid have no‘ | been exacgerated and that he knows of as | high as $1600 worth of dust being taken out of a single pan, while some claims | now pay as hizh as $12,000 to $15,000 s day. | The prospectors are locating new claims every day, and these seem to be paying as | well'as theold He says miners frequently come down from the digegings loaded with | sacks of dust weighing from one to 300 | pounds. One Eastern young man sold his claim for $30,000 and died of heart dis- ease just before he was about to board the steamer ou his return trip. Fiizgerald says Tom O’Brien of this city prospected the Yukon side of the river ten years ago, near to the summit, and that if he had passed around the sum- mit he would have discovered the Klon- dyke fields, . IT HAS STRUCK BOSTON. Gitizens of the Hub Discussing Plans by Which They May Reach Alaska. { BOSTON, Mass.,, July 20.—A party of twelve prominent professional men of Providence, R. 1., have become enamored of Alaska and its gold dizgings and have had several meetings to discuss the mat- ter during the past week. A meeting was held last might in the too tloor of the Bannigan building, and although nothing definite in regard to plans was arranged, it was decided, that they should form a stock corxpany, the stock to be taken by themselves and other wealthy gentiemen in this citv, and- that a small steamship would be purchased for the conveyance of the party and itssupplies 10 the Klonayke gold fields, and _thereafter to make regu- lar trips on the Yukon River from Seattle. Wesley E. Barrows, a blueprinter in the Banvigan building, is one of the prominent movers. Mr., Barrows was seen this morning by a CAry man, but would say nothing more than has been mentioned. Another meeting will be held within a few days at the same place. There are some of the old forty-niners in = G = A T. HATCH, the Once Prosperous Fruit-Grower, Bidding San Francisco Fatewell From the Departing Fxce sior. he had some friends connected with the | East Greenwich who can hardly be re-". airained from starting for the Alaska gold- fields at once. A sturdy blacksmiih de- - clares that he will start in the spring. [John scLasughlin, a resident of Green- ville, R. I, but who has during his ex- istence of forty-three vears circled’ ‘the plobe twice, left Providence to-day for - Dawson City. Six From New York. v : NEW YORK. N. Y., July 20.—A party" of six under Dr. William Chase leit for* the Klondyke well equipped to-day. They expect to reach Seattle in five days. They expect $900 to land each of them in the gold fields with a proper outfit. and have taken along enough money to last a long time. Crippled by the Desertlons. g WASHINGTON, D. C., July 29,—The" . ship-building firm of Moran Bros. of Seattle has notified the Navy Department that so many workmen have deserted to- 2o to the Kiondyke that they are unable to complete the torpedo-boat Rowan in: contract time and ask an extension. Organ'zad for the Kiondyke. The Victoria Dredging Company has been organizad, to do mining and a gen- eral mercantile business in Alaska and eisewhere, The capital is fixed at $100,000, of which $500 bas been subscribed by sach of the incorporators, Maarice Selig, Louis Hagan, Leonara Evereit, R. W. M. Payng and ?, Humphrey. HANGED HIMSELE. Theodore Appel, Old, Penniless and Insane, Committed Suicide. The body of Theodore Avpel, a Ger- man, aged 65 years, was found hanging to a bedpost vesterday morning in his room at 347 Edinburgh street. The deceas:d had been an inmate of tke Pacific Hebrew Home, but on his becoming insane and breaking down doors with a hammer he was expelled from the home and went to live with Peter Marque at 347 Edinburgh reet. SK’I‘h: deceased had got up in the night and made a noose out of a piece of tar rope. He tied one end of the rope to a bedpost, placed the noose around bis neck and swung himself off, with his knees almost touching tne floor. The body was taken to the Morgue. ————————— Sergeant Brown Seriously Il Police Sergeant Fied T. Brown, one of the desk sergeantsat the City Prison, is danger- ocusly ill as his residence, 2304 Webster str eel; frem pleuro-pneumonia. He has been off'on his vacation and Friday night caught a severs cold that rapidly ceveloped into ppeumonta. He was insuch a critical condition Wednes: day night that his physician, Dr. Mahoiiey, called 1n Dr. Simpson for consultation. Yester- day his condition wes siightly improved and nis numercus friends hope that his rabust constitution will pull him through. o During her entire reign Queer Victorsa. has not worn her crown twenty times. NEW TO-DAY? 5 S ) ALASKA EXPEDITIONS EXPEDITED, Large or small parties cutfitted at specially low rates on short notice complete with Arctic Clothing, Evaporated Cereals, Evaporated Vagetables, Mining Tools, Boatbuildinz Tools, Cocking Utensils, Everything, in fact. Rex Corned Beef, 2 lbs. Best Cornmeal, 1b Best Rolled Oats, 1b. Estimated lists ready. Packing properly attended to. MITHS Sast 25-27 MARKET STREET, NEAR THE FERRY. - The haneciest, cheapest and most. re‘li; able Alaska outfitters in town. Call and see if we can prove it. MEN Men who suffer from that shameful disease called Lost Manhood. with Vital Drains, soon be- gin to show it in their faces and reel it in their brain. And, more than that, they areliable, even in a single day. to become suddenly Blind, Impo- tent, Paralyzed or Insane BE WARNED by tue sad fate of thousands-of ung men who have drained their strength away by seli-abuse and secret excesses and who bave suddeily dropped dead on the sireet of heart disease. ‘Thousands are dying of consumption aud Bright's disease of the kidneys who have but themselves to tbank for their terrible condition. Look ai the wretched creatures who sre haddled together in our insaue asylums! Deprived of their vitality, drained their manhood, they have bus ashort time to live. COME AND BE CURED, For twenty years I have made a special study of WASTING DISEASES, and daning my great ex- perience in the i @ hospitas of Europe I saw thousands of these awful cases. And as the crystailization of years ofexperience and study I have found that the “VITAL RESTORATIVE” is the great and oNLY True Remedy for tis disease. 1t 13 no new and untried preparaiion, but a wonaerful combioation of the most powerful and potent drugs of Europe and Asia. We nced no certification of cures, as our FREE SAMPLE speaks for iiself and needs no furiher vertising. If you cannot call at my office write to me and I will send you & SAMPLE FREF, securely sealed from observation. Address - DOCTOR COOK .5e KLOXDYKE: YUKON The cheapest aud most practical way of reach- ing the KLONDYKE is by river, using a “UNION” KEROSENE OIL ENGINE. ‘This engine will ran a 25-foot boat 1900 miles in 260 hours, uskig under 150 galions of kerosene. Boat will carry five men and on» tor. Kerosens can be obtained a!most everywhere—price 11 ~ cents per galion here. Cos. for irip 1900 miles, $16 50. R Patentees and Manufacturers, UNION AS ENGINE COMPANY 339 Howard St., San Francisco. KLONDYKE BOATS ! READY TO SHIP. Ready to put together in three hours. Size 24 feet lonz, 514 feet beam. 2 fee: deep; wiil carry twoions: w-gnt 200 pounds: no piece over six feet long. Large ones built to order. SAN FRANCISCO LAUNCH co, North Point and Stockton sts. FOR DARBERS, BAK- B ers,bootblacks” bt by R “ s H E s houses, billiard- tables, rewers, ~ bookbinders, caudy-mak dyers, flourmils, foundries, Iaundries, - papes m:m‘ &:;mn. munmu.nou factories, .utr» ; tar-) ers, Launers, tallors, et BUCHANAN BROS., 609 Sucramentoste Brush Manufacturers. FOR SALE, AIN BAGS, SLIGHTLY DAMAGED . just received per British ship *Fallg . of D-e.” Inquire of Caimen Island Sal; Company, 136 Main sireet, or 219 Front sireet. *.

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