The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 7, 1897, Page 1

I XXXIL VOL UME =N 68. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 7, 1897. PRICE FIVE CENTS. WILL LESSEN DANGERS OF THE TRIP Surveys Are Being Made for a Railroad Over the White Pass. BY ‘NEXT FALL BE IN OPERATION. Unless Rail Communication Is Established | the Fifty Thousand Men Going Over- land Next Spring Connot Reach the Klondyke. TACOMA, WasH, Aug. 6.—Engineer Garside has returned to Skaguay from Juneau to continue his surveys for a rail- road over White Pass for the British Ex- ploration and Development Company, composed of Canadian and English capi- talists. As near as can be learned, it is »any’s intention to build about | les of narrow-gauge railroad. miles will connect Skaguay Bay i T Lake. Another thirty miles parailel the dar s and rocky Thirty- River, connecting Lake Le The re- a rail d Hootalinqua River. ng torty miles will cross the other lakes and rivers and If the surveys are satisfactory eved the company will begin con- provide portages between around dangerous canyo s b struction work next spring and have the line in operation by fall. Connecting boats will b= run on the rivers and lakes and the time of passage from Skaguay to Dawson will be redunecd 10 ten days. s coming in from all sections of the country it is now estimated that not less than 50.000 men will go to the Yukon country by theoveriand route next spring. So great will be the rush that it is extremely doubtiul 1f all can get down the rivers during the early summer unless a railroad is provided, at least over the pass. As near as can now be told the fall rush will carry 7000 or 8000 miners into the Yukon co Between now ana Sep- tember 1 no less than fourteen vessels will rudging by 1pquiri ry. leave Puget Sound for Alaska with every berth taken weeks before the time of sail- ing. The steamer Wiliamette, sailing to-mor- row, will carry 200 men from T#€oma. Among them will be W. G. Seward,a cousin of Hon. W. H. Seward, who, while Secretary of State, effected the purchase of Alaska irom Ru Young 8 ward ia beiieves thut Alaska owe. him a living and will endeavor to secure a competency as well by hard work. Slayden, Dentist Blasher and George Ball form one perty sailing on the Willamette with 3500 pounds of provisions, three pack liorses, three carts and a large boat. They have also prepared for a Christmas dinner | in the shape of an eighteen-pound fruit | cake, which they will guara jealously till the 25th of December. All sorts of delicacies are being taken north to make life on the Klondyke more worth living to the argonauts, or to sell. One outfit taken to the wharf consisted of jam and jelly, by the sale of h the Klondyker taking it hopes to pay for baving his outfit packed across White Pass. The old bark Shirley wiil be renamed the Klondyke to-morrow, and Sunday she starts for Skaguay behind a powerful tug. and many horses. AWAIT TRANSPORTATION, whi Steamers Cannot Leave Fast Enough to Take Away Gold- Hunters and Ou fits. SEATTLE, WasH., Aug. 6. —The steam- liamette, advertised o sail August 3, has not yet succeeded in getting aw To-day she discharged her , consisting principally of 1000 tons of flour, beans and dried fruits, imported 1 California to meet the serious gap in attle merchants’ outfits caused by the ting of nearly 2000 men for the The Willamette is entitled to 800 passengers, and when she does she will have on board the full num- It is givel out that she will sail to- night, but there is a large ware- er mines, mo hcuse ha< to be taken on board first. Thijs freight consists entirely of miners’ oultfits. To avoid the confusion which would oth- erwise result when the freizght was landed on the beach at Dyea an effort is made to keep each man’s freight saparate, and the wharf and warehouse presents a pecaliar appearance with the outfits piled up in this manner. Nearly every one contains a sheetiron stove. e have also iarge sleds, while the wharves are piled with lumber in the form of “’knockdown'’ boats, which are to be carried over the pass and put together on the lakes to carry the prospector and his provisions down the river. The Queen, which sails from Seattle for Dyea at 9 o’clock to-morrow morning, will carry about 400 passengers, of whom less than 100 were booked in Seattle. She has had rough bunks put in between decks to | secure ¢ | Dyea a sub-port of entry. Undertaker J. W. | She will carry over 200 men | lis to end. nally to | piled full of freight for her which | A very large percent- | THE EINE MAN | accommodate the extra passengers. Two | steam-barges, the Ajax and Bjax, loaded | | with horses and freight, are also to sail | to-morrow, so it will be a record-preaking | | day. Inno previous day have one-half | | as many persons left Seattle for the Klon- dyke as will depart to-morrow if the Wil- lamette succeeds in geiting away. Active inquiry was mads along the water front to-day for whartage iacilities for a 1000-ton steamer, which, it is said, would leave New York in the early fall with a carzo of goods, and would arrive heve carly in the spring and go on the route between Seattle and St. Michaels. The steamship Mexico is dwe to arrive | here to-morrow morning from Dyea and Skaguay. No Klondyke n-ws is looked for by her, but it is hoved that the exact condition of the passes may be learned; and also whether if any of the parties which have gone in from here have actu- | ally succeeded in crossing. Senator John L. Wilson, on Monday next, wiil confer with tue Chamber of | | Commerce and merchants, to consult with them in regard to action to be taken to vacating of the order making - UNABLE TO GET THROUGH, Flve Hundred Gold-Seekers Re~ ported to Be Stalled at Skag- uay Bay. VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 6.—The | Capilano arrived from Dyea this evening, | after aelivering thirty head of caitle and ten horses, which had to swim ashore, owing to no wharf accommodations. The | vessel brought down no miners. At Junean there was no bacon and only a few sacks of flour. At Bkaguay Bay a | ‘arge crowd ot miners were unable to get | through the pass and were living on their supplies. Nearly 500 were unable to leave, Packers cannot be got at any price, all being engaged at & tremendous premium. A party of gamblers from Vancouver left at Skaguay Bay the horses they had brought up, and engaged all the Indian packers they could get. Thev represent a Vancouver sporting syndicate, and hope to make more during the winter than they would if engaged in mining. g R | TO GO THROUGH IN BOND. An Arrangement for Shippling Goods That May End the Customs Warfare. PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 6.—F. C. Da- | vidge & Co., agents in Portland for the | steamsnip Bristol, which is to convoy the stern-waeel steamer Eugene to the Yu- | kon, have received a telegraphic message that arrangements have been perfected whereby American goods and horses in | transit could be bonded through via eith, Dyea or St. Michaels to the North- west Territory and the Klondyke, There is more of importance in this | messaze to the prospective passenger for the Klondyke than would at first ap- | pear, for it virtually conveys the news | that tne retaliatory customs warfare | which has been waging of late between the American and Canadian Governments While American goods will ave to pay duty on passing the line into Canadian territory in the interior of | Alaska, the arbitrary action of the Cana- | dian customs officials at Victoria 1n | forcing the payment of duties at that } point or refusing the owner of the goods in the event of non-payment permission to take passage on the steamerleaving has | come to an end. - JOINS THE EXPEDITION. | I”rs. R. L. Quisenbearry of Stockton to Go North in Quest of Nuggets. STOCKTON, CaL., Aug. 6.—Mrs. R. L. | Quisenberry is the latest Stockion an re- ported to be infected with the Alaska gold fever. Yesterday she surprised her friends here in the city by announcing her deter- mination to accompany her busband’s ex- pedition to the Klondyke, and diviaed the day between making preparations fof the | venturesome journey and saying farewell |to the numerous iriends who called to bid ber godspeed. She left for San Francisco to-night, and to-morrow em- barks on the steamer South Uoast, which 1s under charter to Messrs. Yardley and Quisenberry to go as far as 8t. Michaels. Mrs. Quisenberry will have a suitable outfit of woolens, fur clothing and other arctic necessaries and will be well pre- pared to withstand the rigorous weather and the hardships of walking over moun- tains of snow and fields of ice with which, there is no doubt, the land of go'd is lav- ishly supplied. She willtake $400 in bard cash, stowed awey in her inside vest | the city, and pocket, to be prepared to meet ermer- gencies of any kina that may not now lp—l On the Way to the Klondyke—A View Near the Foot of Lake Bennett. Rafts and boats carrying the advance guard of gold-seekers are passing from the lake into Caribou River and on to Tagish Lake. are Mount Landsdowne and Mount Lorne, each over 6000 feet high. In the middle distance pear on the list of her hope of fortune. The plucky little woman intends to act independentiy of her husband and any- body eise asfar as mining is concerned. She is going to the Klondyke to bunt for gold, and if she finds a paying piece of ground 1t will be her own individual prop- erty, which she will operate for her own profit and with her own hands, if neces- sary. Her proposed venture has excited an emulative spirit among other women of it would not be at all sur- pricing if others of her sex should follow her example within a few weeks. AR IT IS VERY WEARY WORK. Cap‘ain Miles Standish of Montreal Draws a Gloomy Plcture of Gold-Digging. BOSTON, Mass, Aug. 6.—Captain Miles Standish of Montreal, who has been spending the snummer in Alaska, writes a letter on his way home. He knows all about the Klondyke gold craze, and his advice to intending prospectors is worth some consideration. He says that the sit- vation on the Klondyke ‘is not very dis- similar to other goldfields. The yeilow metal is there, but it does not lie around the ground in chunks waiting to be scooped up. Itcan only be secured by patient and uncommonly iaborious placer mining, intersp-rsed with many weary miles of tramping around from pocket to pocket. He further says that the journey to the “diggings'’ from Juveau is an enterprise calcalated to appall the stoutest heart. Beyond all this, it is beginning now to be winter in that region, and one who starts must stop over at Juneau or somewhere else until next May. There is not iood enough in all Alaska to keep the people for a month. He drops a hint that the larger part of the Klondyke ground is in Canada with- out streiching an elastic boundary line an inch. He says that there has been con- spicuous activity in Dominion police cir- cles for some time and adds that it would not surprise him in the least to see a cor- don of men with repeating rifles and Gat- ling guns surrounding the gold district when spring opens. Twenty resolute men, the oldest 74 and the youngest 27, left Boston for the Klon- dyke Wednesday afternoom. From the Union station they left for Chicaxo and from there zo via the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific and connections to Seatule. —_—-— Stealing Klondyke Dogs. LOS ANGELES, CaL., Aug. 6.—The police have a suspicion that thieves are engaging in a new villainy in this city. Prompted by the demand for dogs of cer- TO MAINTAIN LAW AND ORDER. |Owing to the Increased Rush to the Klondyke Another Detachment of Mounted Police Is Ordered to the Yukon District. OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Aug. 6.—At a meeting of the Cabinet to- day it was decided, oh account of official reports from Dyea relating | to the increasing rush of miners_ for the Klondyke, that it was neces- sary to send another detachment of 100 Nerthwest mounted police to the Yukon district at once, a Targer forve to@maintain law and order | A process of ‘civil law also is to be A Judge, however, cannot be appointed having been demanded urgently. established without delay. nor can a particular judicial distsict be defined until special legislation is outlined by Parliament for that purpose at the next session. One of the Northwest Judges therefore will be charged to have the Yukon district especially under his jurisdiction temporarily. tain breeds to be shipped to the Klondyke 1 years old. country for beasts of burden and drawers of sledges, thieves are muaking a syste- matic campaign azainst Newfoundland, St. Bernard and other large dogs.. Owners of valuable animals on which the license tax was paid bave reported already more than a dozen losses and some of them feel so badly about it, they may go to Alaska in search of their pets. —— GOULDS ARE INTERESTED. Robart B. Reading Coming to Take Charge of an Expadition to the Kiondyk-=. PASSAIC, N. J., Aug. 6.—Robert B. Reading, who has been for the last two years superintendent of the Continental Match Company’s factory, leit to-night for the Kiondyke. He will have charge of an expedition fitted out by the Pacific Coast Mining Company, in which Jay Gould’s sons are said to be interested. Millionaire I. V. Lipman 18 president of the comvpany. Reading took no men with him, but at Portland, Or., will employ iifty experiencel miners at $10 a day. Provisions have already been ordered in large quantities. The perty will leave Portland on Au- gust 14, proceeding to Alaska by boat. Then striking inland they will make the trip to Dawson City with dogs. Reading expects to reach Dawson on October 15. The company has twenty claims about twenty miles from Dawson City. They pan very rich gold. Reading is about 30 He made several mining expe- ditions to ttie West in the interest of George Gould. —-— |GOLD FROM THE DESERT. Plenty of the Yellow Metal to Be Found in Balmy Southern Californla. LOS ANGELES, Can. Aug. 6.—Gold- hunters who do not feel able to withstand | the rigors of the Kiondyke latitude can have experience of an opuosite character as regards climate, and with probably as good hope of success by doing a littie prospecting ncar home. The wealth of certain mineral lands in this. county was amply demonstrated to-day by the arrival in this city of §30,000 worth of goid, in bricks, from the Red Rover mine, up near Acton, in the desert. The gold was brought to the city by Henry T. Gage, the lawyer, who, with Judge E. M. Koss of the United States Court, George J. Denis, ex-United States Districi Attorney, and others, own the mine, which has passed from the de- velopment stage to a sure and rich pro- ducer. The owners of the mine and their friends who are aware of the facits agree that the Red Rover 1s a veritable bonanza. The thirty gold bricks brought in to-day are worth a thousand doilars each and represent thirty days’ run, and it is said the richest body of ore has not yet been reached. To controvert the theory that gold in Southern Colifornia could not be founa at great depth the owners of this mine went down 700 feet before milling | couragin< infacrmation, not only about the | | ago, but its original owner could make | was begun. All this bullion was obtained between the 600 and 700 foot levels, and | the hole is growing richer every day. The | ledge can be traced a great distance and the company has locations for a mile. Mr. Gaze does not say much about his mine for obvious reasons, but others are weil erough informed to give much en- Red Rover, but about that district where l other rich districts can certainly be found. | The mine was discovered several years | nothing of it, and he abandoned the claim because of lack of water. The present owners obtained it, found the necessary water and with a 10-stamp mill have achieved the resu's here'reported. il i 10 Br Apetied ‘‘Klondike,” WASHINGTON, D. C. Aug. 6:—The | geolovicul survey has announced officially | that Klondyke shall be speiled with “K” | and “i,” and will hereafter appear on | m ps and books issued by the survey as | “Klonaike.” AN OLD MAN'S JEALCUSY. Shoots His Brida—nf Thres Months and Ends kis Own Life With itrychnine. GRAND RAPIDS, Mick., Aug. 6.—H. E. Daley of Denison snhot his wife at mianight. This morning he took poison, dying 1n the custody of the police. The woman may recover. Last April Daley sent a letter to Mayor Swift of Chicago, saying that Lie wanted a woman of mature age for a wife. The Mayor gave the mis- sive to tbe newspapers. The result was | that Daley received nearly 500 answers. | Out of the lot Daley selected Mrs. Hattie Newton, a Chicago widow, and three months ago they were married. Dy was 70 yesrs old, and his briae 45 Daley became jealous when his wife reiwurned to Chicago for a visit, and he gave her three days to return. The time was up last m dnight, when he entered her room and shot her. Daley was arreste). He was | allowed to enter a saloon and drink | seversl glasses of beer, and at the bar he | fell lackward in spasms. He had man- | aged to slip strychnine 1nto the beer, and died in a few minutes. A b L Cholera in India. BOMBAY, Ixpia, Aug. 6.—Considera- ble alarm has been caused by the official statistics of the public health just pub- lished, Théy show that there were 1701 deatt's here during the past week, of which number 220 deaths from cholera and 18 were deaths from the plague. This total death rate is+ qual to 65.61 per 1000, | or double the normal rate. THE FLEET THAT SALLS FOR GOLD | Local Expeditions Will Clear Rapidly for the North for a Week. NATIO! AL CITY SAILS TO-DAY. Hundreds More for the Crush of Three Thousand Men and a Thousand Mules. TWENTY VESSELS ENGAGED HERE. The 0ld Ferry-Boat Mare Island to Be Towed to St. Michaels—Open~ ing the Stickeen Route. The height of the present rush from | 8an Francisco to the Yukon country was reached with the sailing of the Walla | Walla and the Noyo day before yester- day. The 200 or so who left in these ves- sels brought the number going from here since the rush began up to neariy if not quite 1000. There were no departures yesterday exe cept stray ones by rail to Seattle, but the National City will leave to-day, and twelve or fifteen special vessels will get away with parties and outfits for ths Yukon within the next ten days. The Umatilla, one of the regular steamers to the sound, will leave on Monday, and yes- terday fifty of the large number booked for passace are going to Juneau. Between 500 and 750 will probably leave to join the invasion within the next two weeks, most of them getiing away next week. The seam schooner N:tional City is expected to be ready to leave this after- neon for St. Michaels, and is the first of the special expeditions for which the Yukon River route has been chosen. This is quite a pretentious expedition, | and has an interesting if nota perilous trp ahead, as have all the expeditions which are going to brave the dangers and take the chances on the Yukon River this late in the season. The capacious coasts ing steamer is heavily loaded with outfits and supplies, a tank holding several hun- dred gallons of water is on the deck and coal is piled in bins on the deck. The steam iauoch Hattie B was hoisted on board last evening and two large barges, to be towed up the river by the launch, ar» to be taken along. Nearly a hundred pian to go on the National City. The little gasoline schooner Chetco, with which an effort will be made to make the entire trip up the river, will leave to-day or to-morrow. The steamer Humboldt will carry to St. Michaels a large and brave expedition up the Yukon, stopping at Seattle for the biggest part of uer load. Shs will probably leave here ou Monday and will take between sixty and seventy-five from San Francisco. The steamer South Coast is alto ex- pected to get away to-day for St. Michaels, taking along the tng Governor Stoneman and a steam launch to tow barges up the river. The steamer North Fork is booked to sail on the 14th inst. for St. Michaels, and eighty-three ure now enrolied for the trip. An effort is being made to securé 150 pas- sengers, Yesterday telegrams were re- ceived from many points asking that berths be reserved. From Fresno came requests to hold three berths, from Liver- more-seven, irom San Jose one, from Med- ford, Or., oue, and a telegram from North Yakima stated that if the vessel would stop there forty passengers could be secured. The steamer arrived from Eureka yesterday, and will be at once fitted out. According to arrangements perfected yesterday the old ferry-boat Mare Island, which once was familiar at Vailejo and which later ran between San Francisco and Berkeley, will be towed trom here to St. Michaels by the North Fork, and there she is to ship up the river, Not many water-front wise heads think The Race ‘tor the Gold Fields— Shooting White Horse Rapids.