The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 13, 1897, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXIL_N PRICE FIVE CENTS. HANT MUST NOW TURN | | ! i [ | | | i | HOMEWARD Reaction in the Rush to| the Gold Fields in | the Klondike. | - i HUNDREDS SCATTERED ABOVE DYEA. Letters Show That Some of the Gold-Hunters Cannot Get Through. | DUTIES AND FREIGHT CEHARGC TAKE ALL THEIR MONEY. Weary and Footsore Men on the Crowded Tralls Are Glving Up in Despalr. EEATTLE been a reaction dike goid WasH., Aug. 12.—Ther: in the rush to the Klon- ery shortly the has fields, E ] rom Juneau, i ay will br.ng & large part of the humanity that already admit they made a mistake in leaving for the north | b | nginto this city to the of the thousandsof men who a. t now scattered along the route above Dyea hundreds are sick of the whole | bu y know that winier is that they have ch to pay the Osnadian fees charged by Indian as a result they long for tion. . Faulkner, one of the best n in the Northwe: vent north | nd he says that the | de the trip on the Islander they which to pay the They weni not expeciing 1o pay one cent of duty, und with the full determination of packing their outfits and supplies over the summit. The Canadian excepti Canadian duty custom offfcers are meeting them and compelling them to render their last cent. “The officers,” writes Faulkner, “are kind and courteous, but the men are dis- gusted and are doing everything in their | power to give the ofticers the slip, but I don’t think they will succeed. 1 know of plenty of men who are going to return as fast they can g ge. Some of t m are without su t money to pay t fares back to the sound. I don’t know what will become of trese poor aeviis. But to show you that many are pick and propose o return I will say that during the past few days I have bought twenty sacksof flour for $30. I wantto say that from what I can learn White | f the worst kind, and tuose | who get to Dawson City will only do =0 after they have crossed Chilcoot Pass.” There is much talk in this city to-night over a letter recerved here to-day from T. B. Cory, one of the best-known mining engineers in the West. He was with th Oregon vement Company time before ue left on the steamer for Dyea. The letter was written July 31 | e | should try to cross the mountains. | the outfitters to put all the goods in water- | “What's the use of going to Klondike while they grow righ here in California?” from the head of Lake Bennett. Cory expected 10 be in Dawson Ci.y by this time. In his letter he says: I would not | pack my outfit over the pass for all the gold in the Klondike.” and his party emplovea thirty-one s to pack their outfits, w over the pass. Indians charged them 17 cents a pound. The pack- ing price cents, Cory further says: pounds, “I find many peo two months packing their It is the hardest work I ever saw. 100 pounds is considered a good pac There is bound to bea hard time on.the | them will be | Yukon this winter. Lots of tuck for the winter at Lake Linderman. They are going -to pack their own stuff, and that means the river will be frozen up. | there was considerable frost. | Last night People who come in say there are thou- sands more coming in. If they do, and do not bring money and ‘‘grub,’’ they will stay at Ldke Linderman all winter. Lots of people are securing their own lumber | end making their cwn boats, but timber is getting very scarce, and you can hardiy get a board over six inches wide. “Lumber at the sawmills 15 worth $100 per tbousand. The sawmills have hard work to get lo:s. No oneof the mill- hands will stay. All have gone to the Klondike. They will give any one $25 per thousand for getting logs and rafting them down to the mill. They have to go four or five miles for timber. None but bard-workinz or strong-muscled men Tell proof sacks. A so tell them they do not fizure enougn to the man. I hear lots of complaints in regard to the matter, and a great many will run oui on this ac- count.” D. J. McKinney, who has been selected chief of the Dyea miners’ police force, writing from Skaguay says: “I went up the trail three miles this morning, and such a pitiful sight it was to see men tired out, foot«ore and their backs raw from packing. Someare giving it op in despair. It is too bad. Boys, clerks, lawyers and doctors are all in the zhing 3000 bas since been advanced to 20 e have been between Dyea and Lake | Some Indians carry 150 pounds, but | | common herd, and now comes another | 1ush on the Mexico. 1 hope there will be | plenty of horses on her or we are doomed o winter here and wait till we can get over on the snow. They are chargine 17 cents a pound to the -ummi.—nineteen miles—and when a man gets there they charge him 17 cents a pound to the lake. | Some have gone out part of the way and then come back again and gone round to Dyea. Every move costs money. Some are paving 1cent a pound to have their goods hauled three miles. That would mean $40. Then they tumn around and pay $40 to get back. Then they pay $10 a thousand to be taken around to Dyea. “There are two two-horse®wagons here that are making from $60 to §80 a | day,and they charge just what they please. Some have spent $100 already with no re- sults and are discourazed and tirea out. It was a shame the way we were treated 1 onjthe Queen. You would notfjeat the | grub. It was the worst I ever saw. There | were three meals in succession without | bread unless you paid the steward 25 cents a loafforit. Men that came withoutan | outfit bought compleie ontfits from the | satlors that were stolen out of the hold | from stores belonging to men going to | the mines. You could buy anythingfrom | a tent readv made to a whipsaw from the sailors. The officers closed their eyes, I went to the purser, but got no satisfaction. By giving the steward $5 you could get something to eat, until he had so many | be could not feed them at a private table | and they lost their | The City of Topeka sailea for the north | to-day with an enormous cargo and full passengzer list. To-night the Rosalie left for Skaguay with abig cargo and over 160 passengers, all bound for the Yukon. —— HALF ARE DEMENTED. { Dr. Littlefie'd Writes of the Rush H of Gold-Seckers Over the Siushy Tralls. PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 12—Perry Hin- kle, the well-known contractor, who, on July 22, in company with Dr. Horace R. Littlefield and ex-Policeman E. W. Mor- ris, leit Portland for the sound that they Continued on Second Page. FAURE THE TARGET OF ASSASSING Canovas’ Slayer Says He Will Meet the Fate of Carnot. AUTHCRITIES FEAR THE ANARCHISTS. So the French Officials Take Great Precautions to Pro- tect the President. SURROUNDED BY TROOPS UPON | RETURNING TO PARIS. While: Escorting Faure Every Sol- dier Carrles a Revolver in His Right Hand. PARIS, FRANCE, Aug. 12.—The Figaro publishes a statement, the authenticity of which the paper vouches for, that Golli, the assas- sin of Canovas, declared in prison yesterday that other ‘‘executions’” would shortly take place, and Faure would be the next to meet the fate that befell Carnot. The fear of anarchists enter- tained by the authorities has be- come almost a panic, and extraor- dinary precautions for the protec- tion of Faure have been taken in consequence of the declaration that the President would be the next to die at the hands of the anarchists. Faure returned to Paris to-day from his suthmer villa, and in pro- ceeding from the railway station to the Elysee was preceded and followed by a company of cuiras- siers, while upon each side of him was a line of soldiers, every one of whom carried a revolver in his right hand. e TO BE TRIED TO-MORROW. Spanish Authorities to Lose No Time In Dealing With Assas~ sin Golll. MADRID, Spain, Aug. 12.—The trial of Golli will take place Saiurday. Owing to the objections of Senora Cano- vas, the admission of the public to the chapelle ardente, where the body of her husband is lying, has been stopped. The widow has been made a grandee of the first class, with a pension of 30,000 pesetas (about $6000) per annum. A decree was gazetted to-day postpon- 7 e, e Smaai) (e VIEW OF SKAGUAY, the e Alaskan Harbor the INaiural Key to the Yukon .Gold Fields, Which the ‘Secretary of the Treasury Threw Open to the Canadians cn Thursday Last, as Already Told in “The Cafl.”; PRESIDENT FELIX FAURE, Whom the French Authorities Are Taking Extraordinary Precautions to Frotect. According to Assassin Golli the Anarchists Have Selected Faure as Their Next Victim. ing the obsequies of the late Premier un- til Friday. | PARIS, France, Aug. 12.—The Matin publishes a statement which purports to | come from a Carlist source to the effect that 62,000 volunteers have been organ- ized and are beinc rapidly armed in vari- ous provinces of Spain, realy to rise at | the signal of Don Carlos. | The pretender, however, according to | the story, *‘is restrained by patriotism and will await the issue of the Cuban diffi- culty before making a bid for the throne.” LONDON, Exe., Aug. 12.--The executive council of the Social Democratic Federa- tion has passed a resolution that the death of Senor Canovas del Castillo, the Spanish Premier, “'at the hands of a self-sacrificing fanatic,’”” was a ‘‘righteous retribution for his cruel persecution and torture of Span- 1ards holding advanced opinions.” General Stewart L. Woodford, the new United States Minister to Spain, started for Paris t6-day with his staff, on his way to Madrid. NEW NORTHERN PACIFIC MEN. Charles L. Mellen Elected Fresident and Dan Lamont Vice-President of the Company. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 12.—Charles L. Mellen was elected president and direc- tor of the Northern Pacific Railroad Comdf pany, at a meeting of the directors to-day, to succeed Kdwin W. Winters, who re- signed April 29. Ex-Secretary of War La- mont was elected vice-president. This office has been vacant since the reorgani- zation of the company. Both officers will assume the duties of their new positions September 1. Mellen wiil go to St. Paul to take charge of the operation of the road. Lamontwill continne to reside here, ana will give special attention to the land interests of the company. Mellen was formerly con- nected with the Union Pacific system, which be left to become second vice-presi- dent of the New York, New Haven and Hartford, which position he still occupies. J. Pierpont Morgan is director and one of the largest stockholders in the New Haven, and in this way had much oppor- tunity to observe Mr. Meilen’s capacity. Heisa man of much determination and energy, and his election is an indication that the independence of the Northern Pacific Railway Company will be pre- served, and it sets at rest rumors, hereto- fore circulated, that the Northeru Pacific would be turned over to the Great North- ern either directly or indirectly. Lamont is a close friend of many persons identifiad with the Great Northern and of others connected with the Northern Pa- cific, and was practically determined upon some time dgo to fill an important posi- tion on another road with which J. P. Morgan & Co. are identified, but his pe- culiar fitness for the Northern Pacific led to & change of programme which has re- sulted in his being selected to take an ac- tive part in the management of that prop- erty. Mr. Coster of the firm of J. P. Mor- gan & Co., speaking of the changes, said that while the friend y relations which exist with the Great Northern will be con- tinued and strengthened in every way the Northern Pacific will in future as in the past be run as an absolutely icdependent property. While the Great Northern and Northern Pacific have some stockholders in common all partiesin interest in either company will recognize that each prop- erty must be allowed to stand on its own merits, and none of them wishes to see any oiher policy introduced. It is gen- erally understooa Mellen will select Fred- erick D. Underwood as zeneral manager of the Northern Pacitic. Underwuod has been in the railway service twenty-nine years, and is now conneeted with the Soo road. —_— MISSING GRACE STEVENSON. The Father of the Girl States That He Loes Not Know Where She Is. BOSTON, DRiass, Aug. 12.—James Btevenson, the missing father of the farmous Grace, whose disappearance has created such a sensation, surprised every- body by suddenly appearing in court here to-day. The exciing incidents which characterized the hearing given in the in- Solvency court recently, in the case of Louis E. K. Wilson and Sarah 8. Kimball vs. James Stevenson, were eclipsed by those which took place this afternoon at | the hearing given in the same case in the Supreme Court. Eliminatiug the excit- ing incidents, the hearinz was replete with technical questions and objections. Indecd, it was a hotly contested battle on technicalities. Instead of having one or two lawyers against him, Stevenson found that there were nearly half a dozen. “They have rcbbea me long enough, and it’s time I should strike back,” was the remark James Stevenson made as he took his place in court. Mr. Stevenson’s counsel said that he had called upon the counsel for the re- spondent and in bebalf of hisclient had made a tender of every dollar that was | owing to them. This they did not accept. The case was adjourned to September 6. Mr. Stevenson was asked if there were any later developments in the case of his deughter, and he said there was nothing new in the case. He had traced her move- ments up to within two hours of her sud- den and unexpected departure, ana fur- ther than that had not been able to follow her. In response to a question as to whether she kad been at South Salem at any time since her departure he said: ““That is all the merest bosh. She has not been there at all.”” 8o it_appears that if Mr. Stevenson does not know where his daughter Grace is he knows where she is not. SR CAPTAIN MERSY ACCEPTED. The Greater Republic America Waives CGbjections to the New Minister. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 12.—Cap- tain W. L. Merry of California received the assurances of the State Department to- day that the objections made to receiving him as United States Minister to Nicara- gua, Costa Rica and Salvador have been withdrawn by the authorities of the Greater Republic of Central America. He will leave Washington for his post at once. The failure of the United States to recog- nize the Greater Republic by providing for a Minister to the countries composing it, instead of dividing the duties of the Ministers between two of the countries of the federation and another Central American country not in it, is said to be one of the reasons for the objection to Merry. Itisalso understood that the fact that Captain Merry was the agent in San Francisco of a steamship line suspected of conveying contraband goods to revolu- tionists in Central America is behind the declaration that he was persona non grata. L gt Archbishop of Toledo Dead. MADRID, Spary, Aug. 12—The Arch- bishop of Toledo, Monsignor Monsoilloy Viso, is dead. He was born in Spain in 1811, and made a Cardinal in 1884, of Central GUING 10 - TRINIY S El, DORADO Rush of Prospectors for the Coffee Creek Region. STIMULATED BY REPORTS OF RICHES. Stories of Wonderful New Finds Are Being Circu- lated Freely. PLENTY CGF PAYING CLAINMS REMAIN TO BE WORKED. So There Is a Great Exodus From Redding, and Two New Stage Lines Will Be Opera‘ed. REDDING, CAL., Aug. 12.—The Coffee Creek gold excitement still continues, | and reports are coming in of various new and rich finds on Coffee Creek and Morri- son Gulch. In one place on Morrison Gulch, about three miles from the now famous Graves brothers strike a vein of quartz has been discovered. The ledge, so far as outward appearances are concerned, extends for about 2000 feet down aud | along Morrison Gulch and averages about 18 inches in width. The ore taken out from this ledge is of adecomposed character and bears evi- dences of volcanic eruption, and a sack of rough samples, picked up indiscrimi- nately, assays all the way from $200 to $1000 to the ton and carries a very small percentage of silver. Quariz mining in Trinity has not here- tofore been carried on very successfully. The only quartz mine of any great im- portance in the county that has been worked to any great extent, or to any profit to its owners, is the Strode mine, situated on the east side of Trinity River | and about four miles from the Graves property, out of which the big finds of Thursday and yesterday were made. This Strode mine is fabulously rich, and it is now almost an assured fact that it is fed from the same deposit which has re- sulted in the increase of the bank account of the Graves brothers. Morrison Gulch is a small. ever-flowing stresm, abont two miles in length,empty- ing into Coffee Creek three miles from :ts confluence with the Trinity River. Trin. ity River is a turbulen: stream, and the various fords are dangerous and almost impassable during the winter months, Along its bank fishermen have at various times taken panfuls of dirt and gravel, | and it is a usual occurrence for them to se- | cure from $15 to $10 to the pan from sur- face dirt. Hickory Creek, near the head of Coffee Craek, is about ten miles from the Graves property, and it is here that Murphy and Burgess have made their rich discovery and taken out over $80,000 worth of gold. Coffee Creek heads in a large flat called Big Flat Meadow, which forms a divide between it and the Salmon River. Salmon Mountain forms the watershed. Along Salmon River are a number of exceec- ingly rich gravel claims. One of these claims, the richest perhaps of the charac- ter in the neighborhood, is owned by Blackburn and Adams. A rich English company owns a consid- erable acreage of land adjoining the Blackburn mine and this syndicate is now negotiating for the purchase of the Black- burn property. The first gulch flowing into Coffee Creek below its head is Pack- ers Gulch, and along its banks are a num- ber of rich placer claims. Two miles below Packers Gulch, Adams Gulen flows into the same siream. This stream has a few claims along its boun- daries, but has been prospected very little. But the country between Packers and | Adams gulches is wonderfully ricti. Pros- pecting parties are now proceeding to ali | these tributaries of Coffee Creek and | strings of locations will be made. To-day not a szddle horse nor outfit of Map of the District in Which Fabulous Finds of Gold Were Recently Made. Hickory Creek, Near the Head of Coffee Creek, Is About Ten Miles From the Graves Property, and It Is There That Murphy and Eurgess Have Taken Out Over $80,000 Worth of Gold.