The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 5, 1897, Page 1

VOLUME ORNING, AUG PRICE FIVE CENTS. PAEPARIN 0 RENEW THE WAR Turkey Determined to Brave the Powers of Europe. SENDS MORE SUPPLIES TO CRETE. Wa { hips of the Concert Move Intercept the Sul- tan’s Fleet. to TO CAUSE IT BACK. WILL USE FORCE TO0 TURN Late Moves on the Eastern Check- erboard Portend a Resump- tion of Hostllities. CONSTANTINOPLE, Tt nary ac RKEY, Aug. vern- ord vity in hold auaiences hours of the day thorities are nd more war ing points to a d 1ation to renew hostilities in 4.—The admirals 1d a meeting to-day hat Turkey had e entrance of the ce if necessary. bave been seat to li, Hierapetra and ports, presumably for venting the entrance of structions from suit te-day of the Young or ultan. thy owing to the sym- 1o of the Judge and the \ tor, end the outspoken e witnesses in favor of the ic prosecutor made distaste of the d to the accused a witness. n a tirade against the , denouncing him as a coward’ and evoked applause, which surpress. - pected that Henri Rochefort, ould be a witness, but he was , however, reaffirming had made in his paper sent Yia Pasha to cor- Sultan’s em that Emperor g the ts, occupying two he speech con- i denunciations of the 1d guilty, but the he universal reproba- nexciled by the Arme- :d o expiain their i therefore merely con- e of sixteen francs em the benefit of the hich would exempt to puy a ive t paying the fir s thLey This decision wes received cheers and shouts of ‘“Long live ance,”” and “Down with e Sultan.” MIDRIGHT RIOT AT BOSTOY. An Excited hob’s Lesperate Attempt to Release a Prisoner—Many Lroken Heads. Mass, Aug. 4—A mob of v and excited men and women the police station at midnight to rescue a prisoner. Twice they \entrance, penetrating clear into room, and were finally repulsed he combined effirts of all the rolice force with drawn re- M fnju in the riot, with broken heads from nd the women fainting cers’ clubs crushed in the mad rush of ible was caused by the arrest of - ders, who was cr: is home at 23 Ba: tery Nixon of station 1 entered & » arrest bim, as he was assault- 6 "his wife With a chair. The whole tamily pilched upon the policeman, driy- bim into the kitchen, when he fired olver out of the window for assisi- Several officers responded, but they tried to take him out a crowa tructed the street, so that they had to take him to station 8 instead of station 1, and had to torce their way through the threa ng mob with drawn revoivers, When the station was reached the fierce crowd charged into the building and a ious riot was the result. . I'he offic>rs on duty at the station were cet ser bips to Crete. They | | ary had | William | d a bribe frcm the Sultan of utterly unable to withstand the shock of | e charge. The crowd literally swept them from the doorway in soite of their na pistols and swarmed into the room. The detail asleep upstairs 1d ail the officers on the beat hastened the rescue, and the mob was slowly vressed back into the street, after the nghara had been beaten down by the nrciless swing of the night sticks. But. by this time this entire s:ction of the city, which is densely populated with toughest fo:@ gn element, had joined in tbe riot, and with ano*her rush fte mpylibuide swept forward wish irr:sistible .force, ;amming the policemen to the very | sufli ient force | $3000. i it —_— iy i I I Ji i A Pl i Gold-Seekers, En Route to Dawson via the Inland Route, Engaged in Building Rafts and Boats at the Foot of Lake Linderman, the First Water Reached Aiter Crossing Chilcoot Pass. walls as they filled the stati@n-house azain; but the prisoner was scfely locked in a cell below. Again t’e desperate of- ficers rallied with more re-enfo rcemen and with cruel execution w:th their clubs | the m. b was driven out. By this ume a uad arrived outside to| quell the riot and disperse the crowd. i Mary women fainted and were badly crushed, while scores of men had broken heads and bad bruises from the officers’ blows. Although the yolice were rougnly handled d their clotnes torn, none of them were siy i ed. MISS BAFRETT A DEFAULTER. . » Dabbled in Bucket-Shops and Got Be-] yond Her Lepth—+bout $3000 Short. BOSTON, Mass, Aug. 4. —Alice M. Bar- rett was a deiaulter (o the extent of about A swtement to this effect was given out by W. C. Codman, her employer, to-day. He declined to go into details, ana reluctantly makes public what he would prefer to keep private. This dis- covery explains the circumstances of her death and some of the peculiarities of her life. Sne had been dabbling in bucket-shops and when she found herself unable out of her own means to maintain her margins, she dipped her hand into the cashbox of her employer, covering up the fact by false entries on the books. This had been going on for anout a year. When Miss Barrett first came to werk for the Codmans she was a tali, plain- looking girl. About a year or so ago she suddenly developed into a smart dresser. Her salary was but $8 a week, but she gave itout that she got $i4. The fever for speculation had obtained a strong hold on | her, and she went into the mire deeper and deeper. The examination of the books showed that the money was taken in small amounts and carefully concealed on the books. She might have gone on in this way for an indefinite length of time but for a chance remark of Mr. Briggs, one of the | clerks in the office. The senior member of the firm is an old man, unable to take an active part in the business, and his son is an invalid, who for six months has not been atv the officx. Miss Barrett ac-| knowledged the authority of no one but W. C. Codman. It is easy to see, there- fore, how the amounts which she ab- stracted could bave been taken without any difficulty. There was no one there to audit her books, snd her monthly state- meuts were accepted as final, A few days before her death Mr. Briges remarked that there was a possibility of a change in the concern. It was not good news. Bne knew that her books would show 1hat she had taken different amounts of money. She did not have of her own money the means to make good | the defalcation, and she knew uo one from whom she could borrow it. The only thing left for her was to Gestroy the books. It seem« perfectly clear thatshe committed suicide, in view of the facts which are now known. The girl and her story will zodown into history as a physi- ological studv. The D:strict Attorney has ordered an inques g e e DRIFTING TO SEA DEAD, Young Man in @ Pleasure Boat Acci- dentally Kille Himself. EASTPORT, Me., Aug. 4. —The skipper of the steamer General Leavitt had his aitention attracted this alternoon to an unmanagable pleasure boat which was being carried to the open sea. When found it was carrying summer boarders from the Campo Bello Hotel, nearly all young women, who were in paroxysms of terror. The oars bad been lost and in the stern sheets Iay the body of a young man, dressed in an outing rig. Tne entire apper part of his head had been blown away. The young man, whose name is said to be George H. Coon, had been shooting at 8ulls and seals. He bad put the weapon away under the thwarts, when a seal rose to the surface near by. In trying to drag the rifie out the trigger caught and the piece was discharged with the muzzie not tWo feet from the young man’s head. | morrow for St. Michaels. ALLLAND TRIP 10 THE YORON Entire Distance Could Be Traversed by Pack Trains. Overland Trail Leading From Stuart Lake to the Gold Fielas. Water Craft Are Not Needed, Say Thcse Who Tell of the New Course. SEATTLE, WasH., Aug.4.—The steamer George E. Starr left early this morning for Dyea and Skaguay, carrying seventy-five vassengers and seventy horses. The Starr 1s a side-wheel steamer, built for work on the sound, and has never ventured on a trip as far north as Dyea before. Her pas- sengers, however, have no fears as to the resnlt, and their friends, to the number of 600 or 700, stayed up to bid them a fare- well, Tune Cleveland is scheduled to sail to- Her passenger accommodations have been engaged for some time. The three-masted schooner Sailor Boy has been chartered by the North American Trading and Transporta- tion Company to take freignt to St. Michaels, She has commenced loading, but there is no exvectation tkat the freight she will carry will get up the river before the ice closes in. She will simply be on hand to meet the first spring rush, “Jack” Bethel, credited with having been at one time superintendent of the famous Sutro tunnel on the Comstock, is in this city on his way to the Klondyke. He leaves to-morrow for Dyea, the first stage of his jouraey, taking passage on the Willamette. There are every day announcements made of the openring of new routes to the Klondyke. Asan introduction to an ac- count of the latest route, it may be safely said that by far the preferable method is to walk the entire distance. The descrip- tion is as follows: This route starts from the upper end of Stuart Lake about 500 miles above Ash- croft, the British Columbia mining town. For 16) miles above Asbcroft there isan excelicnt wagon road, which brings the traveler to the Upver Fra-er River and whsch is navigable for 350 miles for light steamers. On the river route there are said to be one or two bad places, which the Dominion Government pronoses to fix immediately ior steamer travel. Even above Stuart Lakea series of waterways are found which can easily be converted into a steamer ronte. Freight can now be taken as fur as the lake for 6cents a pound. Of course the big Yukon party wou'd use its own means of trausportation and make the cost mueh less. Feom ihe lake 5 Fort Connelly the water rotte Wou'd be through Batcher River, Cross Lake, North Tatlah Lake and Driftwood River. A miner well provided with pack-horses need not, so those who bave been over the trail say, bother with the rivers and iakes, as the entire distance to the fort can be traveled with ease by pack-train. ‘The beauty of this route is that no food need be carried for the horses, as there is an abundance of grass the entire distance. ¥rom Fort Connelly the route would be to Telegraph Creek over a prairie country with plenty of grass. Aithough at pres- ent there are no trails, it is said none are needed, as there is little danger of gomng far astray. From Telegraph Creek to the Klondyke country travel is easy, and, in fact, the entire route is alleged to present many preferable features to the water route via the coast and through the lazes to the Yukon River. g WARNING TO CANADA. Bloodshed Certain to Result From Its Proposed Klondyke Policy. VICTORIA, B. C., Aug. 4—No little uneasiness is felt here at the possible out- come of the attempt to be made by the Dominion Government to reserve every al- ternate claim henceforth discovered in the Klondyke, and the thousands who have rushed into that territory in advance of the new regulation cannot be expected to take kindly to having their prospects re- duced by half. Appeals have been made to the Ostawa Government to reconsider its decision ir the matter. The Colonist of this city says: The attempt to ressrve alternate claims under the plan proposed is full of danger. ‘Two men go upon a creek to prospect for gold. Both find it within 500 feet of each other. The firat man to locate gets his claim; the next man must measure off 500 feet for the Government before driviug his stakes. Who shall settle as to Who it f%st? Let it be re. membered that the country is a vast one; that it is utterly impossible to ‘palice it; that miners will meet in the heart of the wilder- ness to settle between themselvesas to which is the first to drive his stakes. D.ad men.tell no tales, and many a prospector will find that might will make right when it comes to a contest on the ground, far from the police, as to who shall drive the stakes on adjacent dis- | coveries and who shall abandon his claim and move away 500 feet. We warn the Dominion Government that the course which it proposes 10 take will in- evitably lead to violence aud bloodshed when the lust for gold has hold of a man and the | nuggets are in sight. In many cases he will not allow murder to stand in his way. The Colonist also urges that the pro- posed royalty is so high that it cannot be successfully collected. British Colambia would gladly add to its provincial revenue the expected rer turns from the gold deposits of the Klon- dyke, and An atiampt is to ba made te cstabtish tdad tha. far northern territory should be uihder the control of this prov: ince. This is based on an imperial order in council, passed in 1862, whereby the Stickeen territories were declared to ex- tend to the sixty-second parallel and to be under the administration of the Govern- ment of British Columbia. Itis claimed that this order in council has never been repealed, and that the jurisdiction thus established could not be affected by the purchase of the erritory in 1869 by the Dominion Government from tone Hudson Bay Company. Theissue will, it is expected, shortly be formally raised. Official reports on the Yukon country hitherto neglected, are now being eagerly scanned, and great importance is at- tached to one impressive stalement by Burveyor Ogilvie that the mountain of gold near Forty-mile Creek is richer than the famous Treadwell deposit. What Ogilvie says is generally so, as the depart- ment is more than ever convinced, since it recalls that last December he sent out word that there would be 10,000 miners in Klondyke within a year. All preparations are being made on a basis of the expected permanency of the mining. Notice was given -to-day of an application to be made to the Legislature for a charter to construct a rallway from Portland Canal to Teslin Lake and to establish tollroads in the district. s The Fever at San Luis Ob!spo. SAN LUILS OBISPO, CAL., Aug. 4.— Klonayke gold fever still claims victims here. This morning John Barneberg, hardware merchant, staked his son, Jokn Barneberg Jr., and started him to San Francisco. A. C. Schow sold his place of business and left also. They leave San Francisco for Dawson City via 8t. Michaels Friday. George Van Gordon of Cambria, this county, leaves the same day. e Boats for the Yukon. VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 4.—It is re- ported on good authority that the Dunse muirs of Victoria and San Francisco are about to place orders for a fleet of boats to ply on the Yukon. MERCHANTS TO WAR FOR THEIR OWN John Bull Is Grappling for the ~ Great Trade of the Yukon. UNCLE SAM HAS OPENED THE GATE AT DVEA. A Mighty Protest Against Making Dyea a Port of Entry Will Soon Be Heard Our own Government has just dealt a vigorous blow at the trade cf San Fran- cisco and the Pacific Coast of the United States, and in favor of the Canadians, by handing over a great share of the great and growing Yukon trade to the business and shipping interests of British Columbia. Leading local merchants are just begin- ning to realize that this is and is to be the ury kinaly issned the other day in re- sponse to a simple request from agents of the Canadisn Pacific Company and other business interests across the northern border. A large portion if not the bulk of the great and to-be-greater Yukon trade isin- volved in the situation, and leading local merchants, who are alive to the im- portance of this trade to San Francisco and to the necessity for this City’s looking after its business inter2sts, will very soon have the matter before the Chamber of Commerce and other similar bodies for action. About a week ago it was first reported that the Dominion Government would rigidly exact heavy tariff duties on the ontfits of all miners comin - into the Ca- nadian side of the Yukon. Wien the rush began the Yukon trade assumed quie enormous proportions. Several thousand miners spending on an average $200 or more for outfits and supplies to take into the country meant a retail trade amounting to hundreds of thousands. The large amounts of mer- chandise to be shipped in for trade made another big item. The travel was a great thing to the shipping interests. Seattle became the chief outfitting cen- ter, with Juneau a close and jealous sec- ond. Portland and other cities of the Northwest did a lively business. In two weeks the Yukon outfits and supplies sold in 8an Francisco at retail to individuals and to retail merchants of the Northwest by wholesalers here have added some hundreds’ of thousands of dollars to the trade of this City, besides booming the shipping trade as it has not been boomed in a generation. The Victoria merchants naturally en- tered vigorously into the fierce competi- tion for this supply trade, and they ap- vealed quickly to the Government at Ottawa to come to their assistance by coll-cting duty on all American goods that went into the Canadian territory. The Government, guick to protect and foster its own, ordered out a big and ac- tive force of deputy customs collectors to see that no pound of bacon gotinto the Klondyke =withont paying a high pro- tective tax if it did not come from the Canadian side. As all the army pouring into the Klondyke merely crossed a nar- row strip of country in going from Juneaun and Dyea into Canadian territory collect- ors were ordered to proceed to the boun- dary just beyona Chilcoot Pass and to collect the duty along the trails. The Seattle merchants at once sent up a vigorous protest and telegraphed on July 30 to the Collector of Customs at Victoria to know if the report were true. The re- ply was: “Duty wil! be collected on min- ers’ outfits in every individual case.” It i learned that the duty will be collected on every poor miner's little stock of clothes, beans, bacon, tools, etc., unless they are bought in Canada and the owner has a certificate to that effect. effect of the order making Dyea a sub-port | of entry, which the Secretary of the Treas- | Here. This preduced consternation among the | vast crowd of rushers, nearly all of whom | are from the American side, as well as | among the Seattle merchants. The situa- tion has had the very serious and coxu- tinued consideration of the Seattle Cham- ber of Commerce, which has vigorously denounced the policy of the Canadian Government against Americans by levy- ing this onerous duty on men’s small personal bageage, in addition tolevying a | rovalty of 10 an per cent on the oute put oi all mines, and reserving hali the claims discovered for itself. But the Victoria merchants are feeling good and are getting quite an avalanche of trade that they would not otherwise have secured. Within three or four days Americans who had about every dollar invested in their outfits have sold them | and abandoned the trip in a disheartened | way up there on meeting this new imposi- | tion. One little local illustration will | show how this tariff imposition may af- fect the trade of San Francisco, as well as of otber Pacific Coast cities. In afew days the schooner Pitcairn 1s going to sail from here to Dyea with one of the many local expeditions. About ninety are now | registered. 1t was stated yesterday that about sixty of them, on learning that there would be a duty of 35 per cent on the average to pay on their outfits and supplies if bought here, have decided that they will buy in Victoriu, where the Pitcairn will put in, Each man will spend about §200, and thus on this one expedition San Fran- cisco loses $12,000 worth of trade which the Canadisn Government has forced into the hands of the Canadians. But this is not the sub-port of entry question itself. It merely has a very close relation to 1t and furnishes much of reason and justification for the indigna- tion. Until a few days ago Juneau was the only port of entry on the route to the goid fields, and no foreign vessel may Jand at any other than a portof entry. Juneau is nearly a hundred miles from Dyea, to where nearly all the travel and freighting for the mines now goes direct without stopping at Juneau. Belore last week a Canadian vessel with freight and passengers for the Klondyke would have had to discharge at Juneau and the ireight and passen ers would bave been transferred to local American craft for transportation to Dyea, while an Ameri- can vessel from San Francisco or Seattle could discharge directly at Dyea. This would have preserved to American shipping almost a monopoly of the busi- ness, as a Canadian steamer running from Victoria would be greatly handicapped competition with American vessels. Keeping the transportation in Ameri- can vessels would have tended strongly to keep the outfitting trade in the American ports, from which they sailed, in spite of the Canadian tariff. But now Canadian vessels may ply be- tween Victoria and Dyea, lanaing at the latter place on even terms with American vessels, and Canadian vessels are rushing into the trade and leaving Victoria loaded down with passengers and with supplies bought in Canada to save the duty. This is taking the transportation of thousands of people away from American vessels, and with it is naturally going a share of the trade. The fanadian Government has thus THE RUSH OVER THE CHILCOOT.