The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 8, 1897, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXIL SAN FRANCISCO, SUN AY MORNING, AUGUST 8, 1897—THIRTY PAGE PRICE FIVE CENTS. HUNDREDS TET FLOCK NORTHWARD Departure of the Queen| With a Big Crowd of Gold-Seekers. TRAINS FROM THE EAST ARE PACKED. Twenty -~ Four Vessels Leave Seattle Before September. Will NO ABATEMENT IN THE RUSH TO THE KLONDIKE. One €an Franciscan Compelled to Return Because He Could Not Pay Customs Dutles. SEATTLE, Wasg., Aug. 7.—The Queen got away at 9 o’clock this morning, carry- ing 400 passengers, mostly from points outside of Seattle. vester fcoville, the correspondent New York paper who was imprisoned in Cuba some months since until released on the interventior the State Department. He was als Greece during the recent leasaniness between that country and Turkey. He isaccompanied by his wife, nth the ber husband across the trail married, who is a sis bicyclist. ter of Cabanne, accompany down the river to Dawson City. Willamette, with 860 passengers, rdly get away earlier than to-mor- row noon, at presentindications. A large of passengers from abroad are permitted to sleep in the bunks aboard, owing to the difficalty of finding rooms in number the hotels. Lhe are bringing in heavier crowds aow than at any time since the rush began. The railroad officers report t heir advicos are that trains due to arrive two or three days hence are packed. At present twenty-one Steamers and ng vessels are scheduled to sail Seattle to Dyea, Sk St. trains guay and aels between now and September, transportation lines are There will be little usein any on« attempting to reach the mines by any route after that date, or indeed aiter the next two weeks. J. H. Eserline, t ager of the Bri and new being projected. president and man- kon Company, is in company which built ite Pass, Mr. Eserline has engineeri , surveying a route, and Seattle. Tt the trail over W says that s company parties in rosd from Sxaguay to the ite Pass, before the summer | was cut purely for their own use in upplies in to the surveying and c ties which they bave in the 1. Th ve no intention of charging toll over it. As a matter of fact de pa Beyond that they have not as yet seiected their r The portion of e says, is easily passable he Leaviest grade does not exceed 5 per cent, and there are ten miles in which to make an ascent of 2500 feet after the bottom land has been left, the strip being substantially the same for the The worst portion of the trail is along a canyon where the trail is cut out along the side. In winter time, the snow is on the bowlders and loose rock in the canyon will be covered p,a sled can be hauled over this traii with the utmost ease. The Washington Alaska BSteamship Company has opened its general operat- ing and head ticket-office in this city. Wit of Mr. Dodd of Ta- coma all the officers and stockholders are Seattle men. to the lakes, the tr t for pa ire distance. whe the exception dispatcbed from Seattle the steamers Ro- salie and Edith and now has the splendid steamer City of Seattle Among them was Syl- | of a| She wiil ‘ ssable 1o the summir. | This company has already | under’ charter. | | | | | | | | | | The Steam Schooner National City as She Appear’d Last Night When Leaving Folsom-Street Wharf for the Yukon. She has on| i Board Over a Hundred Passengers, the Steam Launch Hettie B, the Barge Klondyke and a Year’s Provisions for Every | The National City Will Only Go as Far as St. Michae's, the Intention Being to Make the | One of the Passengers. Little Laurch Tow the Barges, on Which the Prospectors Will Live, to Dawson City. | "Sl‘.e is being fitted up at Tacoma, where | she bas been lying tied up ior some years, since the completion of the railroads | mtong the sound ruined the steamboat | business, Seattle will be the point of de- | parture for thewboats of this line. The generst menager 1s Frank Burns of this »‘cny, formerly with the Oregon Improve- | ment Company. S e '| SCOULER TURNED BACK. Hard Luck of a San Franclscan, | Who Cou!d Not Pay Customs Duties at Victorla. | PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 7. — W. J. Scouler of 815 Greenwich street, San Francisco, passed through Portland last evening on his way home from a Yukon trip. That is, he got as far as Victoria, | B. C., where he was held up by the Cana- dian cusioms officials, and not having the necessary funds to pay both the customs | duties levied and his packing expenses across the Chilkoot Pass was obliged to 1 sacr fice his outfit and return home. | “Itisadamnable ontrage,”’ exclaimed | Mr. Scouier, 'the manner in woich we Americans were treated, by not only the customs oflicials at Victoria, but by the booking agents of the Islander. “I arnved in Seattle on July 25, having been unable to secure through passage from San Francisco. At Seattle I met a party of four men from Fresno, Cal, in the same fix as myself, but who were Canadian steamer Islander. Along with them I secured a steerage passage on the | I:lander, and together we started to pur- | chase our outfit. I went deeper into an | outfit than my funds should have a'lowed, | never dreaming but what when placed aboard the Islander the supplies were to go through without further expense than the freight. In fact, I had but an even $60 left when we reached Victoria. Im- agine my dismay therefore when I was coolly informed by a br: buttoned Ca- nuck that T must pay $8260 duty on my outfit or I would not be allowed to pro- ceed aboard the steamer. My only friends were those of the Fresno party, and so | short were they of money that one of their number was obiged to tura back | the same as myself. While there were but eight of the 290 passengers who had | forced to zbandon the trip nortn, still the unexpected demand for customs duties is about making arrangements to sail on the | secured passage on the Islander that were | among them all, save the few Canadians who had outfitted at Victoria, found it was impossibie for me to raise the money wherewith to settle with the | Canadian highwaymen my passage was resold to a Canadian. Imagine my feel- ings. Out of pocket over $400, aimost one-third of my journey accomplished, and then to be headed off by a made-to- order robbery of the Canadians as un- neard of as unexpected.” “What have you done with your out- fit?” was asked. “I lumped it cff—half to a fellow from Winnipez and the other second-hand dealer of Victoria, who was on the dock looking for justsuch chances. Thue outfit stood me in cas. $36750. Ire- ceived §140 for it. Pleasant lines, isn’t it?” and Mr. Scouler clenched his fists at the remembrarce. “I have a tr.fling grain of consolation, however,” he continued. “From what I have learned since the Islander sailed, in | all probability I would have done nothing | | thougnt it fun. else this winter than to squat before a campfire at Dyea and eat the supplies that 1 sold at Victoria. Asitis I shall return | to San Francisco and work at my trade as a machinistduring the months I would be holding down a snowbank this side of the Chilenot Pasa. In the spring I will pre- sent myself at Dyea with a new and fresh outfit. There it is 50 chances to 1 that I will find my Fresno friends, worn and weary with tue siege of the long winter and out of grub. God knows, I wish them better luck, but the well-autheaticated reports of the biockade of miners and supplies at Dyea received by each return- ing steamer, however, cause me to fear for them.” —_— VAST FINDS OF GOLD. Mrs. Adams Writes From Dawson €ity That Hundreds of Pounds of Yellow Meta! Are Brought In. TACOMA, WasH, Aug. 7.—A breezy letter just received from Mrs, Chester C. Adams of Dawson City, who went north last April from Winlock, this State, was made public to-day. Writing the last of June, she says that the miners were then coming into Dawson City daily with all the goid dust they could carry. It was ~onsidered nothing for a man to have 100 pounds. Many were bringing that in as the result of seven or eight months’ work- ing of claims omn shares. Other men brought to Dawson 200 to 500 pounds of certain to have worked great hnrdihin‘gold dust, and she makes the startling portion to a| | pleasure rather | shade yesterday, {and he believes the | statement that one man brought in 1300 When I | begun to lose faith in the stories from | pounds, which would amount to over a | Alaska or were content to wait until next THE PRESIDENT ASKED TO STOP SLAVERY. quarter of a milliop dollars. It is regret- ted by her friends that she did not state who this lucky miner was. Mr. Adams estimates that the steamer then loading at Dawson would take over $2,000,000 to St Mictiaels, whence it will be brought out by the Portland and Ex- cetstor on their next trips down. Mrs, the Kiondike has not been told, and can- Dot be because the people would not be- lieve it. A week after her arrival Mrs. Adams went to work atdressmaking. She has more than she can do at these prices: Piain calico Mother Hubbard dress, $5; empire style, $6; plain woolen skirt, $8; waist, $10. Her first week’s work netted her.§45. Her busband has leased part of a claim, which will run at least $27,000. She speaks of the overland trip as one of than herdship, when properly mad-. She went through Five Fingers and Sink Rapids in a boat and She says: “The cold did not hurt us coming. I have suffered more in two hours in Mich- igan from cold than I did on the whole trip. They are finding new crecks and new mines all around us. Itisnotat all as 1 ex ected here. There is nosnow in sighl. We saw but littie after we zot fif- teen miles from the summit. Idon’t see any reason yet why we can’t live here just as well as in Winlock. The sun shines iill 11 o’clock at mightand at 3 in the morning. It was 86 degrees im the vet the ground isall frozen bard twelve inches under the sur- face.” The steamer Willamette got away this evening, but cannot leave Seattle before to-moirow night. She is loading very slowly, having been from 9:30 a. to 8 P. M. in taking on 200 men, 200 tons of outfits and sixty horses here. Checkin : over the outfits piece by piece in ware- houses is what delays. The big San Francisco contingent aboard the Willam- ette is beginning to think it will never get to Alaska.. Captain Elwards, pilot of .the Witlamette and formerly o! the Al-Ki, says the Willamette will be able to land at the new Skagaway dock and discharge freight very rapidly. When he left the passes ten days ago there was no blockade, miners . will get through all right. Clements’ Nuggets Displayed. LOS ANGELES, CaLn, Aug. supposit ToT Adams declares the whole truth regarding | » = 5 7 | vour consideration the following statement of conditions as they now exist in this City and State, and request that you 7.—The | n that Los Angeles people had : dowi-town pooiroomws. {HE PRESIDENT [§ CALLED UFON 70 STOP SLAVERY A Petition Reciting the Horrors of Chinese Bondage in This City Being Extensively Cir- culated. WANT CONGRESS TO INTERFERE, A Special Committee Asked For to Investizate China= town. : AY OUTRAGE O CIVILIZATION. Public Opinion Finally Aroused to Such an Extent That the Govern- ment Must Take Action. The exvosures which have been made by Tue Cavy during the past three weeks of horrible cruelties amongz the Chinese slave-owners in Chinatown and the open and notorious violations of the law and insolent defiance of authority by the men engaged in the treffic in humen beings as chattels has finally aroused public opinion to such an extent thata petition is being circulated for signatures, which will be sent to President McKinley, asking him to embody some recommendation in his coming message to Congress which will have for its object the suppression of slavery and the subsequent prevention of illezal importations of Chinese. This petition is now being extensively circulated among the ministers of the City | and will then be sent to ail prominent citizens ana officials in order to givea fuil expression of public opinion on this subject. As the conditions which now obtain in Chinatown are well known to ! every person in this Oity and as these conditions have long been of such nature as to call for constant police interference are from four to seven slaves who are kept in close confinement and used in vile ways. In addition to these there isnot a family house in the whole of Chinatown, except a few of the Christianized Chinese, where there is not one or two slaves. Ail of these human beings, ranging in age from infancy to the gray-haired old women who have never known a day of liberty since they were sold by their in- human parents, ere held in closer bond- age than was ever known anywhere else in any civilized community. The most conservative estimates that can be made of the number of staves held in this City to-day places it at 600, while many who are fully conversant with the ! facts put it as high as 800. Nor is it alone !in San Francisco that this traffic is being carried on, for all over the State are the ramifications of the slave-dealers’ asso- ciation, and there is not a city or town in the whole of California where Chinese live but there also are 1o be found slaves who are held against their will and theirrights under the constitution of the United States. These barterers of humanity have had immunity so long and have had so little orposition in their vile work that they have grown so boid that all who attempt to thwart them 1n their trade are put un- aer a ban, and open ihreats of death are sent 0o men who bave been instrumental in checking in some sma!l measure their unholy traffic. Not content with the financial results frem their illicit traffic in girls who have been in the country for vears, they openly violate the exclusion act and import others with little or no difficulty. The stories of slave girls who have been rescued show that there is a reguleriy organized trade between China and the United States, and that it has for its object the supplying of slaves to the Kkeepers of houses of evil repute. Girls are brought to this country and xmwa litile or no difficulty in passing HE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON, D. C.: SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 7, 1897. We, your petitioners, citizens of the City of San Francisco and State of California, respectfully beg leave to present for embody such recommendations as you deem fit in your forthcoming message to the Congress, in order that that body may take suitablz action in the premises and make such investigation through a special committee as shall be deemed necessary to arrive at a complete knoi&‘ledge of these conditions in order that some remedy may be devised and our Nation be relieved from the stain which now rests upon it through an open and notorious violation of the constitution and laws of the United States. The fourteenth amendment of the constitution of the United States exptesgly forbids the holding of human beings in bondage, and declares that the barter and sale of such human beings is a felony, y: City and State whereby more than 1000 females are held in bondage, bought and sold as chattels and kept in a condition of involuntary servitude. there is now a condition of slavery in this These slaves are scourged, beaten, tortured and even killed by their owners in insolent defiance of the laws of the land. The number of these slaves is annually recruited by importations of others from China, in violation of the e&clusi_on act passed by the Congress of the United States. While there are no records of the illegal landing of Chinese females, or the attempt to illegally land Chinese females other than those who are held as slaves, the Federal and municipal officials seem powerless to prevent such illegal landing and traffic in human beings. The workers in the Christian missions in this City are in constant receipt of appeals from these unfortunate women call- ing for aid to escape from their bondage, yet the attempts to rescue them and place them in that condition of freedom which is their natural right are obstructed to such an extent that it is a matter of the greatest difficulty to get them away from those who claim ownership.in them. . So bold have these traffickers in human beings become that they have even sent threats of death to those who have taken an interest in having the illegal business broken up, and they placard the walls of the City with notices that they will fight those who in any way interfere with their trade in human females. And your petitioners will ever pray, etc. year for more excitement was disproved to-day by a great crowd of both sexes that blocked Spring-street sidewalk so that the police were calied upon to make them move on. In the show-window of an op- tician, who may have had an inierestin putting people’s eyes to such a severestrain were exhibited some of the golden treas- ures of J. I. Clemen:s, the Los Angeles brakeman,who is reputed to have brought away from the Kiondike $250,000. In the center of half a peck of gold dust and nuggets of various sizes was his fourteen- ounce nugget, worth §210. Pool Sellers Score a Point. ST. LOUIS Mo., Aug. 7.—The ‘‘breed- ers’” law, under which poo.-selling and bookmakers are -prohibited, except on racetracks, was pronounced unconstitu- tionsl to-day by Judce David Murphy of the Court oi Criminal ¢ rrection. This will probably have the effect of reopening THERF'LL BE 9 TARO \.N\:cmmuo u7 QFORTANCE) A HOT TIME ON THE KLONDIKE ERE LONG. and necessitate a heavy outlay of munici- pal funds to maintain peace between the warring factions in Chinatown the gen- eral sentiment evidently nesded but some fresh incentive to crystallize it into something definite, and the publication of the burnings, t: e cutting with knives, the lashing, the confinement in that horrible place, the chamter of tranquillity, served to bring the matfer beltore the peoplein such form that now a determined effort will be made to put a stop to these con- stant violations of the law. The petition recites these outrages against humanity at length, and then calls upon the President to have such an inves tigation made as will give the peopte of the whole Nation a full and complete idea of what is being done on the west- ern coast of the United States. If the President embodies the recommendations asked for in his message, which he un- doubtedly will, 1t will mean that a com- mittee from Congress will come to San Francisco and make a careful investiga- tion of «®airs in Chinatown and at the same time look mto the actions of the Federal cflicials, whose duty it is to put a stop o this illicit traflie. Just where the fault lies and just what officiuls are to blame for this constant violation of the law will be discovered, and such action will be taken that there will be nofurther slave-dealing in California. While the peop'e of San Francisco have become accustomed to the existence of Isuch slavery, ana while they are prone to ook upon these matters as a part and parcel of Chinatown which is deemed a necessary evil, the luil extent of this ter- ribe traffic, so iar as ncumbers are con- cerned and so far as the condition of the poor unfortunates is affected, bas scarcely been realized except by the noble band of Cnoristrian workers whose duties take them constantly into the dens of iniquity, in the alleys and byways of Chinatown. These devoted people have long urged upon the churches of which they are members to take active measures to put a stop to the terrible outrages which are | daily being enacted in that part of the City. Every strect from Pacific to Sacramento and every alley between Dupont and Pow- ell in that district arelined with bouses of evil repute, and in each of these houses sxm-ii’fiTunen . 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