The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 31, 1897, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATfiRDAY, JULY 31, 1897. TROOP SHIP WILLAMETTE IS READY The Big Collier Leaves To- Day to Take an Army Northward. ALL SOLDIERS AND MULES OF| FORTUNE. | Movements of Gold-Field Steamers—The| Old Men Say There Will Be Wo “on the Yukon Before : Very Long. Another whoop' will be given to the| rushing romance-of the Klondyke to-day. | The: Wirlla ‘Wialla will get in from the | sound “this morning, special expeditions | will be hustléd. alorig to success or disa: ter, and. iaié.in:t- @ afternoon, if all’s well, | the big.transiormed collier Willamette will sail northward for Juneaun and Dyea, to which points:ishe will carry nearly 1000 men, & big squadron-of horses and mules and a lot of supplies. fro: this City and from Seattle. | The Willamette is the biggest single fea- ture oi. this remarkable rush, so far. She | will be the second special steamer sent northiby the Pacific Coast Steamship Com- pany this week, since the rush madé the | regular day steamers-unable to supply half the transportation demands. Last Wednesday the collier got in with over | 3000 tons of coal, which was unloaded in a | night. "Under charter from the Oregon Improvement . Company she went to| Brozdway wharf early the day before yes- | terday, where a:large torce of workmen was put on. her by the Pacific Coast Steam- ship Company. Ste bas never earried a passenger in P“ her céreer pefore, but to-day the hundred speedy worknren of all tradesaboard will have her turned into a tioopship with bunks. for a thousand men. Ciosely set rows of rudely built bunks filled all the | big vacant spaces on three decks last evening, Rews of upper, midale and lower open bunks with just room to get betwesn them 2nd just room to crawl into | them" were hastily constructed of up- rights and boards for several hundred | teerage passengers. A dash of red paint | covered the wood and then a new cheap mattress went into each bunk. Twenty- j6ur tin wash basins sunk in a red trough | with plumbing-attached -are placed on each side’ of thie second deck. Four new cooking ranges ard .being made fastin a little : eompartment by the smoxestack and cratés of .cheap cookery -are going | aboard. But the steeragé.quarte's will be com- | Yortable and- convenient. enough for any who'are-not segsick-and they will be satis- | factory :énough to.a’ crowd of incipient! miners who are out to-rough it. The! cabin passéngers will have quite comfort- | sble:quarters. ! The Willamette: will- go north under | command -of . Captain Holmes, who has been her master for'a year and a half and | who.fan the :Umatilla . for eight or nine | yedrs. ‘She will ‘make the trip to Seattle | in three:days.ana will remain there two days, gatting aboard the bulk ef her freight and passengérs. The run toJu- | nesu will take :toree -days and another | day ‘will take heér tg Dyea, where the army | will émbark to assault -the pass in force. | On: the forward :part of the upper deck | narrow stalls for sixiy horses, to be taken | | Al 3. Choynski [ [ | | About half a dozen bought tickets to Juneau and not to Dyea. Those booked for the Willamette yesterday afternoon | were the following: | | Weaver Lawion D. A. B Witcher J. Heineverg, L Meyer L. Moss 3.C. Allen . 1. Ward F. Armstrong AL O. Mahan R. Keckies D. J. Broderick 5 . M. Brown F. R Barnes J. V. Losan Ois J. P. Montgomery B. K. Groves rgren liam Eerkoviteh T STEERAGE. G. Boyeson Flynn . Groshond Brown oks lley . Kelley G. F. Brook b McDouald . Kammueller Tne City of Puebla will connect at Seat- tle with the Al-Ki, which will leave there on Tuesday with 400 passengers for Alaska. Among the eight gold-seekers on the City of Puebla was James S. Johnson, | manager of the newly organized Alaska | and Yukon Gold Exploration and Trad- | ing Company, which contemplates build- ing sternwheel steamers Jor an opposition line on the Yukon and }xfl establishment | of trading stores. M?r. Jonnson has shipped fifty burros to Seattle by rail to take to Dyea for pack animals at the pass. | John D. Gray, a Fresno vineyardist, and | Lis son, DeWitt H. Gray, a Staniord Uni- | versity student, went with plenty of | money and supplies for two years to look | for opportunities to gain wealth. F. W. | Clemants, an insurance agent of this City, | and Jesse Van Winkle, a ranch soperin- | tendent of Tehama County, are among tie othe: The City of Puebla sailed for the sound | | at 10 & . yesterday, crowded with 300 | passengers, but as she carried only eight | passengers bound for the Yukon, she didn’t count muck in the Klondyke story. | She carried so few simply because her list | was filled earlier by the tourist and other | travel, and Klondykers could not buy tick- | ets for her. | The next regular steamer to leave for ‘ the north will be the Walla Walla. She | will arrive this morning, and sail to Seat- tle on Wednesday next, August4. Apout i 150 are now booked for Alaska for this | passege. The Walla Walla will go mno | | necting stearaer City of Topeka. The Collier Willamette That Is From gt Being‘Transformzd Into a Passenger Vessel to Carry 1000 Miners San Francisco and the Sound to Dyea. who left Juneau on the 21st inst. and ar- rived at Seattle on the 25th by the con- When the City of Topeka left Juneau only ore steamer with the very first of the rush had arrived there, and nobody and no news of importance had recently come out of the interior to Junean. So the Walla Walla will bring no gold dust or Klondykers. o WOE ON THE YUKON. Experlenced Men Say the Speclal River Expeditions Will Come to Grief. A lot of people who are rushing to- gether several special expeditions to Daw- son by the Yukon River are distilling woe for winter consumption 1n that mighty stream, accc -ding to every wise old head in which is seasoned knowledge of the Yukon. Here are a lot of people getting ready to sail in a week or two in any old craft to St. Michaels, at the mouth of the river, with the idea that they can carry up there stern-wheel steamers and barges, set them up on the river and steam the 2000 miles up the river to Dawson this season. The wise men wno know the river call these people fools, with the emphasis on the dash. 2 This is a yery alluring scheme, to be sure. It woula be the most sensible, cheap and comfortable plan of getting to the Klonayke if it would work. So would a trip on a through passenger train. There is an open sea for 2850 miles to the mouth of the Yukon and the Yukon is a daddy among waters and navigable when it is open for navigation. Two great trading and transportation companies run a num- ber of stern-wheel steamers with fair suc- cess hetween St. Michaels and the gola fields. So a lot of people don’t see any good reason why they can’t get to Daw- son on the Yukon, too. Several enterpris- ing people have bought or chartered small | vessels and are advertising that they will take so many passengers through to Daw- son and furnish a vear's suoplies for amounts ranging from $200 to $500. If any of thess parties get to St. Michaels, as they seem likely to do, the chances are a hundred to one that they will either get np further than St. Michaels or will fmd’themulveu stuck in the river a few hundred miles from any- where as a terrible winter closes in on that great a!most uninhabited-interior. The Excelsior and Portland, belonging to the Aiaska and the Northwestern com- panies, left for St. Michaeis days ago to connect with established river steamers run by experienced pilots and crews and having private depots of fuel and other supplies alcng the river. Yet it is quietiy said by many experienced men that there is considerable danger that some of these river boats will not get to Dawson before winter. It will be to aconsiderable ex- tent a matter of good luck. The freezing of the river is but the chief of several dangers ahead of any special expedition from here this year. The river freezes and navigation ends about the second week orf September. This leaves but five or 8ix weeks to reach Dawson if the start is made to-day. Some plan to start two weeks hence. It takes a good steamer to get to St. Michaels in fifieen days. Then there are the stern-wheel steam- ers and the barges to build or put together at the mouth of the river after a landing-vlace is found and the unloading irom . here, are. being built. At Seattle | farther north than Seattle, but there she | done. The {ob of building a river steamer abdut 250 more-horses and mules will be | will connect with the Queen and theand getting her to running up there, wiili- takén aboard, togéther witha vastamount | of provisions and baggace. There ~will -be_a.formiddble army be- twéen Dyea and the pass when the Wil- lamette has unloaded that great expedi- tion. ‘ There Will be'from-800 to 1000 men, 4 few women,:300 horses, mules and don- Keys, an uncerizin -number ‘of dogs, a| year's provisions and an outfit for every | man.and & varied -stock. of everything | that man may - Mexico, which leave Saattle for Junean | and Dyea on August 7 and 9 respectively. | The Queen is already sold for this tri, | and the Mexico will probably go crowded. | After the Walla Walla the following | steamer from here to the Sound will be the Umatilla, sailing August 9. The Walla Walla will bring to-day no Alaskan news amounting to more than rossip of the early rush. The Walla| | idly on these bars. out other facilities than those taken along, would vrobably h least. The steamers now running took months to get ready. At this time of the year the water in the river is low and there are many treacherous bars. The channel shiits rap- 0ld pilots often get their boats stuck on them, and their boats are flat-bottomed ones drawing little more than three feet of water. Experi- enced pilots run where they judge the nt to take into the | Walla brings from Alaska only passengers | channel is, or ought to be, aud now and Kiondyke country. And all this will be added to the “straggling crush” composed of tne.1500 or 2000 people who will have arrived at Dyea within tbe two weeks pre- ceding the Willamette's arrival. It will be about the most picturesque army of the size that the world has seen, and thiere’ll be a hot time getting over the steep and crowded paeses and building | a-Jew handred boats on the other side. | It is expected that not more than 200 ‘men will leave San Francisco on the Will- amette, but_that thé- crowds waiting for her at Seattle will tax her capacity. By the middle of yesierday afternoon forty- Cone” cabin and. thirty-one steerage pas- ‘sengers had been booked at the company’s ticket office here. The {ist grew before - closing time and there will bea big sale of tickets to-day. The regular fare is charged —cabin, $40 to Juneau and $48 to Dyea; steerage, §21 to Junean and $29 Dyéa. The Willamette - will carry passengers to Beattle only but none have been booked Aww-Beattle, all being bound for the mines. MR.MAGEE GOES WELL PREPARED & SURE RELIEF FOR Incidents in Oakland’s QRush” to THOSE WHO WOULD GO BUT COULDNT. the Klondyke, ) ) take several hours at | | chaels, leaving San Francisc then stop on the bar. Then men have to get out and dig the sand out from under one side and big poles are used to pry the hulk over toward the hole and loosen up the situation generatly, They may get her loose with much labor and cursing or the water may rise a little, or they nay stay there all winter, as they do now and then, making long journeys to a little company supply post or mission for sup- plies. There are snags in the river that old pilots know. There is a fuel supply to keep up, and it takes time to tie toa bank and cut a few cords of wood. The current is very swift in places, amounting to rapids, ana strong snd good engines are needed against the current. Getting stuck and frozen up anywhere on the Yukon will be no Sunday picnic. Oue of these Yukon River expeditions is getting ready at Bpear-street wharf. The gasoline schooner Chetco has deckhouses for the party about completed. and a party of eighteen is said to be made up. The plan is not to take along any stern- wheeler, but to go rightup theriver to | Dawson in the schooner—and the vessel draws six feet of water loaded. According to a dodger the Klondyke and California Mining Compsny “will send another party of 100 men to Dawson City by their own steamer, via St. Mi- August 12| to15, 1897.” Passage, a year's supplies, a complete ou ete., costs §620. The steam schoouer National City was chartered yesterday to go to St. Michaels with the sieam launch Hettie B and ma# terfal for barges, leaving August 17. The well-known steam schooner Faral- lon, now on her way here with lumber, was yesterday chartered from Costa & Co. by Seattle parties, to whom she will be sent empty to be fitted out for St. Mi- chaels. And thers are others. The most num- arous special expeditions being exploited are planned to go to Juneau. The steamer Caspar 1s being arranged for this trip at $200 for passage and ‘‘eighteen months’’’ provisions, a camp oultfit, boat materiais, ete. The steam schooner North Fork, which will be here next week with lumber from Humboldt, is going to Junean with gola- seekers. The schooner La Ninfa has been bought om \T. P. H, Whitslaw, and is being hade ready for a general prospecting trip with a party of twenty or so, starting in about two week-. = - SQME OLD WIVES' TALES. Grewsome Stories About the Ne- cessity of Furs and Poking Flres Contradicted. Awful stories have been told of the ter- rible cold winters under the Arctic circle. It has been said that life was unbearable and unendurable without the use of a full set of furs as clothing, and that such a suit would cost $500. It has also been stated that the miners were compelled to arise constantly in the night in the fearful cold and poke up and replenish their fires that had to be maintained to thaw out the gravel. This werk was pictured as ex- cruciatingly painful and oaly to be en- dured by those of herculean powers of endurance. Perhapssome old wives’ tales bave got mixed with these stories, for N. Mercer, a successiul gold miner of Ei Dorado Creek, now at the Commercial, disputed it flatly yesterday. **There is no need of any furs,”” he said. “Some people wear them, but only a few. The miners don’t wear them at all. They work in ordinary sirong miners’ clothes and are quite comfortable. As for the keeping up of fires during the night, all at is requisite is to start the fire and it will burn till mworning. There is no ne- cessity of getting up in the night at all.’” Mr. Mercer went to the Yukon first in 1887 and stayed there three years. Then hie came out and went to the sound. Two vesrs ago he returned to Alaska and on El Dorado Crerk secured a large stake, and now owns a rich claim there, o HAS STRUCK A HOTEL. Five Employes of the Occldentai Get Their Outfits for the Kiondyke. The Klondicitis has struck the Occi- dental Hotel—not that Major Hooper has it, but a lot of hig force about the place have, and have it bad. Already five people there have secured their outfits for the gold fields. A number of others are thinking seriously of going. Those who bave concluded definitely to brave the Arctic wilds_are Tom Healy, William Thurman and John Jordan, beil- boys, and Pat Rafferty and Robert Mc- Fariane, waiters. Rafferty is a well- known Puget Sound beomer who made considerable of a stake there in the old flush days of 1889-90, before the subsidence of the boom and av atime when carving up town lots and selling them Lo tender- feet was the leading industry. Rafferty unfortunately did not get rid of ail his lots, and eventually they swamped bim. It is therefore with the idea of retrieving his fortune that heis now setting out for the far-away land of ice and snow. His associates believe as firmly as he does that they\ will secure wealth in the Klondyke. eantime the fever razes in other quarters around the hotel and there is no telling how many others will start out. A s OAKLAND’S *“RUSH.” It Amounts So Far to a Smaill Num- ber of Men and Eight Burros. OAKLAND, Cav, July 30.—An enter- prising man from San Francisco came to this city 10-day expeciing to return with asmall fortune, but, instead, he returned with nothing more gangible or profitable than a changed opirfion of Oaklanders, He came because he had heard of the thousands of people who were anxious to quit the Pacific Athens and go to the goid field, and a few hours after his arrival the civy was flooded with circelars. They told a story of how a steamer would be chartered and passengers, with any amount of freight, couveyed to *“The Yukon. Alaska and Klopdyke.” and how only $150 was nec ssary to produce this start to a certain fortune. The warning to “apply early to secure berths” was whelly unnecessary, for not a single application was made and the man went home the price of his circulars and hiy ferry fares out of pocket. Although there are probably a dozen people in this City who will be at the Yakon before the close of the year, there will not be a hundred, and any talk of “the rush” from Oakland is purely fanci- ful. The most adventurous spirits of this city have already made one trip to the frozen north and came back bitten in more ways than by frost. Very fewof them are anxious to have a second experience. The excitement has cooled off and those who have gone from Oakland so far have been men who bave capital behind them, like W. M. Rank, and who have gone north, not to get rich on virgin gold, buvon the minted gold that the adventurers will have to pay for their food and materials. Tom Magee of Fruitvale left a few days ago with ample provisionsand eightburros to transport them over the mountains. Not a single member of the police force bas so far been convinced that five shin- ing twenties are to be sacrificed for an un- certain quest for gold. Several of the street railroad men have been quoted as saying they intended to quit and go, but s0 far there have been no resignations sent in, and there are six men anxious to fill every vacancy. No schoolteachers huve had a word to say about the matter, knowing full well that the Oakland School Depariment is a pretty good gola mine. Nocity or county officials have spoken of resigning, no business men have closed their stores and not a single newspaper man has gone. Ot1kland’s quota of “‘the rush” has been confined almost exzlusively to a few mem- bers of overstocked professions and real estate dealers. The city has lost none of its conservative reputation, and the church and school belis ring and are re- sponded to as fully and readily as before the arrival of the Excelstor. ———— WANT THE PROGRESO. Portland People WIill Probably Charter This Blg Steamer for an Expedition To-Day. The bigzest special charter for the rush, ibesides the Willamette, will probably be the big steamer Progreso of 2000 tons, which some Po:tland people wera nego- tiating for by wire yesterday with James Jerome, who represents the steamer’s owners., The steamer is now unloading coal, and the indications were yesterday that the terms by the day for her use would be accepted to-dav. If so, the steamer be rushed to Portland, where it is said she will be fitted out quicky,’as the Progresso has been hired to take a for- midable array of men, supplies, horses, etc., to Dyea. —_— PANNED OUT. Business Wisdom From the North. American Commercial Com- pany and Other Things. Great trading and transportation enter- prises for the Yukon are rushing to the fore from all quarters. Accounts of a number have been telegraphed from the East and a number of local ones have been named and given managers. The Yukon boom and the high prices there make the region an inviting one for merchandising, and the great momeutary excess of transportation demands over the supply make that an inviting field. The Yukon trading is monopolized by two great old companies, who are getting in about a million aollars’ worth of goods this vear, and that makes many businass mouths water. In this connection the fact that one of the greatest of all the trading companies of the north is not joining in this rush as | far as can be discovered is worthy of note. The North American Commercial Com- pany holas'the sealing privilege of Bering Sea, and does a big tradiug business besides. The firm of H. Liebes & Co. also does a big trading business in Alaska. These companies are practically the same in interest and proprietorship. more than tweaty points on the Alaskan coast, one of taem being at Point Barrow on the Arctic Ocean. They have steam- ers, boats 2nd all the equipments, knowl- edee and experience that go with such a trading business. But these people have competed with their big rivals on the coast only and have never invaded thé in- terior. People connected with H. Liebes & Co. said yeaterday that they were making no preparations todo so. It was explained that such an extension of their business would be a big enterprise, requiring the investment of $1,000,000 in cap- ital. River boats would cost $30,000 or so apiece, It would be necessary to lo- cate posts .at various points along the river, build, arrange and stock stores, buiid wharves at St. Michaels, secure steamers and so on. It was explained that it was not as easy to go into the trading and transportation business on the Yukon and stay in i¢ successfully as some seem to think. Lucky Baldwin has admitted that he is going into the Yukon country in the spring. He won’t go to stake out placer claims, but to look for investments, and especiaily for a chance to develop rich quartz mines. A new and worthy map of the Yukon gold region was issued yesterday. It is by A. L. McDonald, and is published by Edward Denny & Co. Mayor W. D. Wood of Seattle is atill here looking for a vessel to charter to take ap expedition north from Seattle. Quite a number of those who bave gone from San Francisco to Alaska in the past few days have gone incognito for one rea- son and another. The steamer George W. Elder will make another trip from Portland to Juneau, conuecting at' Portland with the Colum- bia, leavine here on August 11 C. C. Bruce, late commodore of the Corinthian Yacht Club, and now one ot the Trustees of Sausalito, Is going right away. His well-known yacht Rover is to be raffled off at §1 a ticket for Mr. Bruce's particular benefit. Lol Kiondyke Commerce. W. P. McFaull, B. R. Jones, K. D. Wel- don, C. L. Van Voast, G. H. Hurd, 8. Oisen and F. W, Parker have incorporated | appearance had to wait Together thev have trading posts at|. DAYLIGHT AT KLONDYKE. A Scientific Statement Showing' When ' the’ Sun Rises: and Sets in § That Region Throughout the Year. 5 . - - Sax Frantisco, Cal., July 30, 1897, Edutor Morning Call: Following is a table of sunrise end sunset in‘the Klondyke Territory which will beinteresting and which may .prove useful to-those contems plating the arduous trip to the Arctic gold fields, Itis computed-for every tenth day in the year and is correct to the nearest minute, It zives the time of sunrise and sunset for the Chilcat Pass, for Dawson and for Ciréle City: Intermediate dates and places may readily be approximated by simple proportion, The table shows that the shortest day at Dawson, for example, is’ the 215t day-of. December, on which day the sun rises'at 10:13 A. M. and setsat 1:47.p. M , an interval of only 3 hours and 34 minutes. The longEs_v. day falls on June 21, when the sun rises and sets at 1:47 A. M. and 10:13 P. M. respec:ively, the sun remaining above the horizon for 20 hours and 26 minutes. Ou toe 21st of March and Sepiember the days and nighis are equal, as they are in all 1atitudes. 5 G. B ALLARDY, C: E. CHILCAT Pa (Lat. 59° Dawsox 1|. CIRCLE CITY. 54° 03"y | (Law 65 24§ DATE. S ISR Rt D SR e T R Janusry 1 January 11 January 21 February 1 Feb: uary 1 Februury 21. March 1 March 11 Maren 21 April 1. & August 21, Septemper September 11 September 21 October 1. October 11. October 21. November 1 November 11 Novem per 21. December 1. December 11 December 21. S{ERE et Lonemaacs®uum ksl chief dangerlies in ‘being - carried into.them before knowing it, 4s happened 10 two Swedes, who ‘ound themseives in . tiecanyon and us- able to siop, £o they simply-laid down in: tbeir boat, whica, haviug:no. guiding hand, turned into one of the bigeddies and ‘there theyre: mained going-round and round -for six hours in p hetpless condition, until :by some stroke ot fortune the current caught theirboat again and drew it out of-thé influence of the eddy. Another and much-sadder case-happened in which one of the crajt capsized and .thé oceu- pants lost their outfits, -Orne.of .ihe perty was 80 completely discouraged that he. puta rifle 10 his head and blew his.brains out. Mr.. Boatman left Oakland abouttwo weeks ago, having left the position of sec- retary to Congressman Hilborn ‘st Wash- ington to come West. to go'to-hisnew ap- pointment in Alaska.. the California and Alaska Navigation and Commercial Company, with a capital of $200,000, to do business in the northern mining country. Rl WENT ON THE AL-KIL C. Boatmen Writes of His Trip From Seattle Over the Pass and Onward. OAKLAND, CaL., July 30.—The follow- ing letter from Fish Commissioner J. C. Boatman of Alaska was received and pub- | lished by Frank A, Leach of the En- quirer to-day: KITCHIKAU, ALASKA, July 22.—This is one of the unusual trips of the steamer Al-Ki. The arrival of the lucky miners from the Kionayke atSan Francisco on the steamer Excelsior, fol: lowed by the Portiand from the Yukon that came into Seattle on the 21st instant with sixty-eight Klondykers and $700,000 in gold nuggets, scemed . to whet the appetites and raise the excitement to fever heatall along the northern coast from Portland to Juneau. In Seattle all kinds of business except do miners’ outfitters was practically suspended. Crowds were gathered on the strezts listening 1o stories irom the unew-comers that sounded like pages from the Arabian Nighis, and under ordinsry circumstances would have J. Crushed on.the Kooks. | LONDOY, Exa., July 30.—Cable dis- patches from Melbourne state ‘that the steamer Tasmania, bound: from Welling- ton to Sydney, N. 8. W., . sirucka rock. off Cape Mahia, between.the. towns of Napier and Gisborne, and sank in three hours. Three boats containing passengers and crew escaped from the . wrecked steamer and were.missing for some time. but were later picked up, Itis r@poneri that six of the créw were drowned. i e been about so regarded bad not the “real stuff” been there to attest ihe truthfulness of | £ducators of Denj-Mutes in Conventian. sl .they ssserted. business men and the |' -GLASGOW, . Scorvasp, Jily: :30; — A workers on the docks were elbowing each omder eager to catch every werd that was said. I the stores the clerks nad apparently gone daft over the wonderful reports they had heard and the few customers that put in ah until they got through talking Klondyke before being at- tended to. - 5 At theexpress office the Tooms were jammed with a curious throng, craning their necks | looking at more than & ton of bags containing the precious nuggeis of gold thai were being shipped to the mint in San Francisco. At the mining-outfitters’ stores ths piaces were packed all day sSaturday with persons securing their supplies, so as to take the steamer AL-Ki thatleft on the following Sun- day morning for Dy€a, Alaska, thestariing point for the overland trip to the-newly dis- covered p.acer diggings. The proprietor .of one store lone told me he haa done ‘the iarg- est business in a retail way behad ever ex- | perienced—taking in during the day $5000. The steamer Al-Ki of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, on which the. gold-seek- ers expecied o ¢ail, was billed to ieave at9 o’clock on tue foliowing morning, buton ac- count of the extraordinary amount of freight gfl’ered it did not get away from its dock until P. M. Among the consignments in its cargo were 1000 nesd of sheep, 100 cattle and about-fiity horses, besides a vast amount of other ireignt, | all going to the Kloudyke. On the passenger list were eighty-five persons forward and forty in the cabin, bound for tne same destination, | ¥ Most of these people are young, strong and ’ inured to roughing it, but there aré many.past ! 60 years of ‘age, and about twenty or twenty-' i No-operation. No clamps or compressors. No detention from work. No possible danger. No lotion or medicine: five clerks from various stores in Seattle: In Simply Galvanic Electricity. largely attended international convention of educators of deaf-mutes opened yes- terday. The United Staies is represented -Dr. Thomas Gaullut and. Rev.- A, Mann, the latter being the general missionary. -in- charge of the .dedf-mute mission in the Midd!e and Western State NEW ‘TO-DAY: one store every clerk deseried his post to wor- ship at the shrine of the goddess of fortune. There are also five ladies and one smaii child in the party. All seemed to be enthusiastic and determined to vrave the hardships and dangers of the terriole long journey of 700 miles from Dyeus to the Yukon, 50 as to reach there before the winter, when tne thermom- eter recoras in some instances 100 below zero, setsin. After they get there logs must be cut and hewed and cabius built, and other prepar- ations made to endure such a feariul test for the next seven monihs, commencing about the 1st of October. Tne first thirty miles ‘over the mountains, on what is calied the divide, is by all odds the most difficult partof the journey. The trail over tue mountains is both ‘tortuous and treacherous except to one who is thoroughly famidar with its daugerous character. - Ouly the Indians who bave lived in that vicinity for years can hop: o 2o over it at this seasan, f“?,”‘ at the cost of many a bruise or broken imb. s The water from the melting snow on the mountains runs over it in torrents, and at tie very best it is a case of wade in mud and slush from start to finish. 1learn hera jrom persons who are- familiar with the pass that even the Indisns who make a business of packing goods over the difficuit trail will not undertnke (o carry anything over for less than 20 cents a pound, if they will even do it for that at this time'of the year. In some places the gradesare so precipi- tous that horses must be let down by block and tackle. The omg time of the year when the trail 1s in passably good coudition is in the spring, when the ground is frozen and the snow is on the gronnd. Then a pérson can drag a sled with a moderate load of perhaps fifty 1o sixly pounds with comparative safety. AnIndian who is u-<ed to tnis kind of work can pac much as 100 to 125 pounds. . Last season many persons became utterly | discouraged in trying to make this trip, so.d their outfits and returned home. Many of the old-t1mers in this country will be much surprised if thatshould not be the experience of many who are now rushing pellmell to the new gold diggings without asceriainiug the fearful cost toeir rashness must-necessarily subject them to. All the imber has been cut off in the imme- |- diete vicinity of the lake and the logs must be- cut several miles up a small sream, which flows in at tue head of the lake, and floated down to where the boat is to be built and 1s to be launched. When' these rude affairs are constructed then will commence the real race for gold. 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