The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 13, 1897, Page 2

o pid THE SA RANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 189 any sort could be procured for any price in this city, and several prospeciors have been compelled to start out on foot for the | gold diggings. Stages and vehicles going | in the direction of the Coffee Creek coun- try are crowded daily, and traveline ac- commodations are taxed to their fullest extent. Two new lines of stages for passenger traffic willbe put on from Redding this coming week, and the appearances are that the days of 49 will find a fitting re- I production in the exodus to the Coffee Creek country. — BUSY DAY FOR GRAVES. Gold Golng $5 and $10 to the Pan in the Dunnivan and Butler Claim. John B.and Robert B. Graves, owners of the Blue jay, in whica the great $42,000 gold slab, the biggest in the world, was jound, had a busy day yesterday. ‘Men and women of all degrees, comprising friends and dcquaintances end total strangers on all kinds of missions, called on them at the Golaen West. The visitors had read of the finding of the unique chunk of gold, and also of the discovery of between $40,000 and $50 000 in the mine since the arrival of the owners here. About fifty people called up to 5 <lock. The Graves brothers read the dispatch from Redding that Dunnivan and Butler haa also made a rich strike in Trinity. “‘The Dunnivan aliuded to is Dennis Dunnivan, formerly of Sacramento,’’ said John B. Graves, “and his partner, Butler, was from Santa Rosa. I know the locality of their strike well. “'They Irave been panning from $5 to §10 | a pan, and their ledge is said to be 15 feet wide. They are a mile below where Burgess and Marphy’s property is. They own a placer mine and have woiked for two seasons. The biggest nugget they ever got out of it hitherto was worth $50. The gold averages $19 an ounca. ““Notwithstanding a daily stage runs from Redding to Trinity Center, which is six miles from our mine, I have received no Jetters or telegrams giving any added | details of the Biue Jayv strike.” ANY M NOW IR HONEVARD Continued from First Page. might sail on the steamship Mexico, sail- ing for Alaska July 26, has returned. He arrived. last night from Seattle, having come down on the City of Topeka from Dyes. Mr. Hinkle does not, however, return as one of the discouraged, outht-sacrificing adventurers spoken of in the dispatches of the past few davs. To the corntrary he comes back to secure additional supplies that he, Litilefield and Morris may win- ter more comfortably @t Dyea and also to arrange for the shipping to the frontof a | number of horses to Le used by the party in making the Chilcoot Pass in the spring. Dr. Littlefield has found a professional field at Dyea and Skaguay combined, which will more than warrant his open- | ing an office (log cabin)at the former place | and staying throughout the winter. Aside from the momentary side of his stay at Dyes the doctor fee!s that in the interests of humanity with the cruel suffering that is certain to ensue among the men who have blocked the Chilcoot Pass in the late mad rush it is his auty to stay. Writing to his partner, Dr. Cornelius, from Juneau, under date of August2, Dr. Littlefield says: ““We leave here for Dyea, but have given up the idea of crossing into the Kiondike. There are at present 600 tons of freight at Dyea, and all the [ndiansand pack-horses in the country cannot take what freight there is now on hand, let alone what is to arrive across the trail before the lakes and rivers freeze. “Freightis 25 cents a pound over the | vass, and then the Canadian authori- ties are to be encountered with their cus- | toms duties. They have established head- | quarters just over the boundary line and will charge duty on everything. They collected on sll the outfits they could yes- terday on the steamer Islander, while they 1 were in British waters. When they crossed theline they had toquit. It is only a ‘small’ duty they charge, about 32 yer cent of the purchase price of whatever goods we have. Add that to the freight and see where one would land. We could cross the trail all right, but there are thousands going in regardless of conse- quences, “Unfitted physically and unfitted with either money or proper supplies, they are plunging into the mud and siushy snow of the Chilcoot Pass 1n a mad endeavor to getacross. Actually one-half of the men striking for the Klondike are demented through the action of the feverish dreams of rapidly acquiring gold which have filled and still do fill their brains. As I hope and believe myself still sane, I wi!l wmake myself as snug and comfortable as possi- ble here at Dyea for the winter, sending to Portland for further supplies and push- ing into the interior with the first of the spring travel.” e WONDERS OF ALASKA. Joseph Ladue Tells of Resources That May Become a Greater Attraction Than Gold. NEW YOKK, N. Y., Aug. 12.—Joseph Ladue, founder of Dawson City, is being lionized hers. He dined at the Union League Club last evening and occupied a box st the theater afterward with his at- torney, E. F. Botsford, who is engineer- ing a big syndicate to manage and work Ladue’s holdings on the Klondike. Inan interview to-day Ladue said: “They say that the Lord has put gold in far-away places merely for the purpose of | drawing peoplé to these remote parts of | the earth, so that wnen there they will re- | alize the land possesses a far greater com- | mercial value than mere gold. California was that way. Gold took the people | there and then they discovered the State had far greater agricultural advantages and that its fruit industries were a source of untold wealth. It is the same with Alaska. You would be surprised to know that vegetables thrive there. Turnips, beets, cabbages, radishes and caulifiower grow luxuriantly. Potatces also grow, butdo not ripen well. In fact, all kinds of vegetables and grain grow in Alaska, and when gold shows to the people of the earth the hidden agricultural teasures of Alaska there will be an exodus from New York that will make people wonder why they ever lived o long without the amen- ities of the Kiondike. “Just look at the lumber interest, for in- stance. There is plenty of timber for building purposes. I own the bisgest sawmill in Aluska. Iltbrings me in $130a thousand feet. When I returned to this country laden with gold nugeets I began melting them up to put right back into machinery #r Dawson City. I have al. ready started to organize a stock company to be known as the Ladue Uevelopment Company, with a capital stock of $5,000,000. Of course, that will soon be subscribed by men in Wall street who are anxious to invest in bona-fide schemes. I bought my 160 acres from the Canadian Government for a mere sohg, and then 1 bought up eighteen acres adjoining the Government reservation. Thatgive me a moenopoly of the entire city, and whenever anybody wanted o build a house or erect a tent in the city I sold them a lot for $5000. If they didn’t hzve the (ash on hand gave them the option on the lot for eight days, which wou'd give tiem ample time to take a ran up the gulch and dig out enough nuggets to pay for a lot for their winter home. “Only a tew lots are left and they are going fast, so my agent writes me. You know I left on June 23. The thermometer then registered 92 in the shade, and peo- ple were hoping tiat when I returned I would bring a full complement of electric fans for next summer. “The talk about cola weather in Alaska is all bosh. When I passed a winter in Plattsburg, N. Y., two years ago I sul- fered ten times as much from cold as I} ever did in Alaska. Alaska will be a future summer resort, and when gold makes people alive to the great advantage of jce carnivals Alaska will also be the finest winter resort in the world. “I am overrun with invitations. All clubs in the City have invited me to dine, and I'am at a loss to know exrctly how I can honor all of them in the short week I will be here. Your city is tame compared to Dawson City. At this time of the year the sun shinestwenty-two hours a day in Dawson City, and it is never dark. There is no use for electric lights in summer, but, of course, I will supply electric lights to the city upon my return next March for winter use. I will also introduce tele- phones and the telegraph.” Mr. Ladue said further that there would be a few churches, more sawmills, a bank, free library, academy of sciences and a | Dawson university. It had not been de- cided when the endowment would be. It would depend largely upon returns from the miners this summer. - PLENTY OF GOLD THERE. But Sola, the Boomer, Would Not Advise People to Go In Quest of It. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 12—A. E. Sola, part owner of three of the richest claims in the Klondike, arrived to-day at the Murray Hill Hotel. the purpose of increasing transportation facilities to the Klondike and thus make it easier for prospectors to get to the gold fields. He asserts that the placer mines of the Klondike arethe richest ever dis- covered in the history of the world and that the mines are gooa for $120,000,000 or 300 tons of gold a year. If the Klondike hza the climate of California and the gold was as eacy to mine Sola is of the opinion that the Klondike would demonetize the gold in this country in less than no time. “T wouldn't go through again what I went through last yeur for $20,000,000," said Sola. He is a young man, full of en- ergy. “While I am here to boom Klon- dike, because I am organizing a stock | company for speculation purposes, I will say the chances of success in the Klon- dike are about one in a hundred. “When [ started out I had $500 and bought a claim. It cost me $1800 to work it. Most of the time I had nothing to eat but dried salmon and had to sleep on frozen snow, sleeping 1n bags with the temperature at 40 and 60 degrees below zero. Sometimes ray nose would freeze hard from just sticking it out of the bag. | 1t was about the toughest thing anybody | could go up against, and it was just my | luck that I came out at the better end of | the horn. “My impression is everything up there good has been grabbed and that it will be a very hard job to buck up ‘against the big stock companies now being organizsd ell over the country. I have been told that 15,000 people are now on their way to the Klondike. Many of these will die like flies, but then immense wealth awaits the lucky ones. I have been Iucky be- cause I was one of the first to get there, but I have had enough and am going to let others fight it out. Itis just aboutas bad as going to search for the north pole. Of course it is to my interest to boom the Klondike, but I haven’tthe heart to advise people to go up there, who I know will surely meet their death. I think the Klondike is the greatest bonanza of mod- ern times. It will have a tremendous effect on the interests of this country.” RETALIATION IN ORDER. An Investigation to Be Made of the Reports of Exorbltant Dutles Levied by Canada. WASHINGTON, D. G, Aug. 12.—At the instance of the Treasury Department, the State Department has begun inquiries to ascertain the truth of reports recently received from unofficial sources that ex- orbitant duties are being leviea by Cana- dian customs officials on goods imported into the Klondike country from the Unlited States. It was said at the Treasury Department to-day that nothing definite was known by the Government about the reported assessments, and that pending official confirmation or denial no con- sideration would be given the question of retaliation. No doubt retaliation will promptly follow corroboration. The treasury, however, will act within its powers in that regard and recommend to Congress the enactment of legislation for further reprisals. e OREGON GOLD : STRIKE. Chunks of Free Gold Picked From a New Ledge Are Brought to Sparta. - LA GRANDE, Or, Aug. 12.—T. A. Wright and P. L. Kelly of Sparta arrived in Union on Monday bringing with them chunks of are carrying big pieces of free gold which were picked from a newly dis- covered ledge a mile and a half south of Bparta. The find was made on Sunday by aman known in Sparta locally as *‘Ka- naka Sam.” A boy riding on horseback in the locality on Sunday also found an outeropping of an extension of this new ledge and picked out with his fingers $750 in gold. Claims have been located by J. A. Wright, P. L. Kelly and ‘‘Kunaka Sam.” The find has caused no little excitement and a big amount of quartz has been boxed for shipment direct to the mint. Of course no one as yet knows how ex- tensive the find may be. There is a well- settled conviction in the minds of all prac- tical mining men that there is in this vi- einity a rich feeder to the placer deposits of that district, which have yielded per- baps $1,000,000 in the last ten years. Some day this mother lode will be uncovered and Sparta will become one of the promi- nent mining tamps of the world Sola is here for | THE TUKON BOLD ST, ATTRACTS | The North Fork Will Start ~ for 8t. Michael To- Morrow. {0DDS AND ENDS OF KLONDIKE NEWS 0ld Sailors Say the Yukon Will Be Navigable for Two Months, THE LAST STIANER TO DEPART. Reports Afloat That Many Who Have Tried the Chilcoot Pass Have Turned Back Discouraged. There was not much excitement about the goldfields of the Yukon yesterday, though there was considerable activity about the offices of the companies that are about to send new steamers to the Yukon. The Pitcairn’s trip has been abandoned and her passengers have been transferred to the North Fork, which will start to- morrow. Speaking of the trip of the North Fork yesterday, C. P. Troy eaid: ““We have more than a hundred passen- | gers and more are making application. | We still have a littie room. Our advices are that the upper Yukon has never been frozen before the midd.e of October in the bistory of the country. That will give us nearly a month’s leeway. We have agreed to land our peopie at Dawson, and we have not the slightest fear of failure. The trip to St. Michael will be made in about two weeks. We will be delayed not to ex- ceed four days in making our barges, for they are all ready to puttogether. From there the trip to Dawson will readily be made in two weeks, so you see that places us in the heart of the mining district without any delav. Tbe people we take will be well supplied with food, and there is not any question in our minds that many will do well in the goldfields and in the work common in busy mining camps.” Letters and telegrams continue to come to those who have Kiondike expeditions under way. All these show that there is a great deal of interest in the gold discov- eries and that it extends all over the United States. Two of the most prominent passengers | on the North Fork will be Engineers O'af | Winningstad and Charles Rogers, botn of | whom have been prominentiy- identified with mining and construction engineer- ingon the Pacific Coast for many years. Tney are going for the purpose of making a thorough investigation of the ledges and formations of the Yukon country and will remain as long as there is any gold excitement. The steamer Navarro has been char- tered by the Yukon Exploring and Trad- I g Company. Jt will probably make the last trip from this port for the Yukon, and is booked to start on the 17th. At St. Michael her passengers will be trans- ferred to the light draft river boat, Thomas Dwyer, for the trip up to Dawson. The fare to be charped each member of the partyis $300. A physician is to go | along. The Klondike and California Mining mpany of 410 Montgomery street is still enrolling men for the expedition which is to leave on Saturday, every applicant be- ing subjected to a medical examination to | determine his fitness for the experience before him. | Passengers who came to Seattle yester- day on the steamer Queen report thata gren congestion of freight for the Klon- | ike exists at Skaguay and other plazes along the road. They say there will be | many thousands unable to cross the Chil- coot Pass, and that many grew discour- aged and offered to sell their outfits for a sonz when they had taken one look at the steep Chilcoot Pa: There was a rumor vesterday that there would be a great scarcity of men in the canneries of Alaska on account of the rush tor the mines. Inquiry at the office of the Alaska Packing Company disclosed the fact that there was no truth in the rumor. The president of the company said: “The rumor is ridlculous. Our Bering Sea canneri:s are so far away that the men have not heard of the mines of Alaska. We are just now getting word of things that occurred in the canneries in April. Itisover 2000 miles to the can- neries and there are no steamers running 10 the regions adjacent to the mines.” The president of the company says he left Alaska Iately and that there was no great excitement about the goldfields of the Klondike, most of the Araskans hav- ing decided to take no steps until spring. s AL THE RED ROSE OF KLONDIKE/ The Joy of True Love and Yukon Gold Doth Fill This Song and Tale. Tender California Romance That Has Inspired Rev. Dr. Boyer’s Muse. OAxLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALL,} 908 Broadway, August 12, A secret romance of the Klondike is told in a song publiched in this city, of which Rev. Thomas A. Boyer is the author and John W. Metcalf, the well-known organ- ist, the composer. The secret of the identity of the princi- pals is hidden away in the memory of Dr. Boyer and he says he has sworn not to divulge it, consequently as a mipister will not forswear his oath. His wo:d wmust be taken for tne truth of the story. There is a short preface to “The Rose of Klondike,” in which it says that “among the hitherto unheralded romsnces that have come from the Klondike is the fol- lowing beautiful little inciden “In the spring of '96, during the great rush to the newly discovered gold fields of Alaska, there sailed from San Francisco a young man from the interior of Califor- nia in search of fortune in the far-off mines. . *'As he bade bis betrothed good-by she plucked a crimson rose from the spra: whicn she wore at her tnroat, and, pin- | ning- it upon the lapel of his coat, she Lchnnce. said: ‘Good-by, take this little rose; let it be your talisman while you are gone. Keep'it and may it bring you safely back to me,’ ‘‘He took the rose, and through all tne shifiing hardships that came to Mim in his tireless queat for gold he carried this withered flower incased with her photo- zraph close to his heart. “At last in the frozen regions of the now famous Klondike he staked a claim | and made a fortune, and recently returned to wed the faithful girl who had waited s0 long to be his wife.” This fortunate miner is a friena of Rev. Thomas Boyer. Mr. Boyer is well remem- bered as the Christian pastor who came to aklana some months ago and held a sensational revival at the church of Rev. Edward Davis. Dr. Boyer was beraided as the Edwin Booth of the pulpit, and his macnerisms and peculiarity of dres: attracted large audiences. He made a specialty of wearing diamonds in the pulpit and always appearing in the most fashion- able attire. To add to his Booth-like ap- pearance, his sharp jeatures were always clean shaved, while his hair was permitted to repose on his shouiders. Rev. T. Boyer a little time ago_received a letter from his miner friend in which the incident was fully told, and in which herelated the circumstances of his bome- coming. The minister concluded to write a little poem based on the letter. and this is the result of his conclasion: I have kept the rose vyou gave me Th6 day hat I went aways It has laiu in my hear: v ith & magic art, And I dreamed of you night and day. Roses may blossom and perish, Fortune niay come aud depart; Zut .he faint peirfume of this tiny bloom thall never fade from my heari. 1 shall still keep this rose that you gave me; My taiisman it has been;: Itshall b iug me again my dear little rose, Ny sweetheart, to ma<e you my queen. It is only arose, a dear little rose, Ye: a @it that is more 1o me ‘lhan &ll the gold of the Klondike coll Because it came from . hee. A few days after writing the song Dr. Bogyer told the incident to John W. Mat- calf, the Oakland organist and composer, and he at once decided to set the words to music. A week later the musical com- munity was r-galed with “A Song with a History, the Rose of Klondike."” “The story toll in the song is abso- lutely faithiul in truth and cetail,” said Rev. Dr. Bover, “but it would be a breach of friendship to make public the name of my friend and the lady who by this ti10e is his wife. The incident is very pretty and beautiful in its poetic conception. To those whose nature contains no senti- ment it will probably appear common- piace. Batto the mind that abounds in the knowledze of buman nature as it really exists among men and women with hearts it cannot fail to appeal and to present an exampls of rewarded fidelity.” e i HIS BREAD FROZE SOLID. Adventures of the Brother of a San Francisco Policeman in the Frozen North. One of the most interesting letters that has come out of the Klondike gold fields since the great strike was made was re- ceived a few days ago by Police Officer Brownlie of this City, and is given here in full. It is from his brother, Robert G. Brownlie, who has been in Alaska for two years, and has been at the front since the rich diggings were discovered. The ‘‘Rosie’” who is referred to in the letter is the wife of the writer, who fol- lowed her husband to the frozen north when he reported that he was making bheadway working as a tinsmith in a shop at Circle City. Some of the incidents related will be of material aid to those who intend tempting fortune on the new gold fields. DawsoN City, June 22, My dear Mother, Brothers and Sister letter has 10 go 1or everybody this time, as the boat leaves for St. Micndels in the morning. 8he came down from Sixty-mile, and we did not expec: her so soon. The last letter we got irom you was the one Addie wrote and sent up by George Kiatch, the man that Jim was acquainted with. Well, I suppose you know thut we have left Circle City, and all Forty- mile and Circle City are here. Dawson City is on the flat in the same piace where Jim and I camped at the mouth of the Klondike River when we came in. Lotson the river iront sell for $2500 for 25 feet front by 100 feet deep. This is the best mining Gistrict that has ever been found in Aleska. A mining claim sells all the way from £10,000 to £60,000. Most everybody that was in Forty-mile last year is rich uow. Galvin, the man that I worked for, coula sell out for §50,000. Tell Jim thai Harry O.sen goes out with about $20,000 and only soid out one claim. He has one left that will bring him another $20,000. Jim Bell, the man that drove the dog team at Sheep Camp, sold out for $31,000. A whole “mob is going out ricn, and there will be four tons of gold dust go out on-the next boat. As high as $1700 has been found in one pan of dirt. It +eems beyond belief, butitisa fact, and only 1wo miles irom the Yukon River, where boats bave veen passiug ihe place for years. But I missed it. Hadl been one week later in leaving Forty-mile, I would have been in it as well as theresior the Forty-mile men. am now working for Guise, the man that kept the tinshop in Circ'e City. Galvin has goue out of the tin business, and if he had not, I would not work for him. as I think he did not give me a fair shake, and only paid $6 woie Guise pays $10 in Circle. 1did not make $2 50 a day and Galyin knew I was not making any money, but he uever wrote me a word about the Klondike strike, and to others he was writing and telling toem to come up as fast as they cou!d come. Well, I leit Circle City on the 17th of February#to come up on the ice. My load weight was 389 pounds, without the stove, blaukets or gruvhox. From Circle to Dawson 3s a/most 300 miles, and tell Jim coming in is almost child’s play to that kind of & job. I have slept in & tent when it was 70 below zero. 1was making bakiug-powder bread in the tent one night, end after mixing up tne bread I forgot to grease my van first. Isetthe bread down to grease the pan, and when I got back to il the grease was irozen and 1t took me a few minutes to dig the grease outand get it melied. When I got the baking-pan ready the bread was frozen solid, so that I had 10 mixX up more. After getting here I went to the minesand located & claim in the Honker district. This district has not been prospected yet. There is gold there, but 1 do not know if it is rich or not. When I got there all the Bonanza district was taken 'ug. After that I went 1o Dawson ana wen' up the Yukon River on the ice to get out a raftof logs, and when the ice broke three of uscame down with the raft and we lost it. Thaet raft was worth $1500,50 that was an- other setback. The steamboat came soon alter and I went to work 1n the tinshop, so that was all about myself. I was very glad to see the steamboat, as I was very hungry, not having had any- thing to eat but beans and tea for a week. I had no flour, sugar or bacon. Two or three days be.ore the sieamboat came an Indian was cooking some moose meat over a camp fire, and I sat down on a10g 50 85 to get the smell of it. That was the uext best thing to eating it. When Rosie came she had bread, doughnuts and coffee, and milk and sugar in the grip, and we had a great feast the nigth that Rosie came on the first boai—it was & freighiboat and had & barge along with her. Rosie camped on the barge with another lady. Sne has got a picture of the boatand barge, which she will send to you when she geisa When I said camped I meant ehe had tent pitched on the barge, where she slept, ana ate on the steamer. Rosie brought along 400 pounds of flour from Circle, Flour cost $50 & sack, and then one was in luck to flel it in Dawson until the steamboat came. It is only $6 now. We are living in the tent we came 1n with. Have got it set up ou a four-foot log wa. Huve got a floor in our nouse. Few houses in Diwson 18! have. There are but wooden or log houses in Dawson. Most are only frames covered with canvas. It has heen very warm—irom 80 to 90 in the shade—but we will have to build a house be- fore winter sets in. If Dave had come in with us last year we could have gone out with a $20,000 sack tnis spring. Dave could be making more money here in one week thau he could make driving a milk wagon in San Francisco in two months. Grub is higher here than in Circle City, but wages are also higher. Weages in the mines are $15 a day. Rosle does not say & word about going out now. Tell Addie to let the house go at $2000 and try some other agent. 1cannot think of snything else to tell you, but rememLer us to anybody that asks about us. I will now close with my love to you all, 1 remain your loving son, ROBERT G. BROWNLIE. Address Dawson City, Yukon Kiver, via Ju- neau, Alaska. P. S.—\Write soon. Mail &s you write them, as the: in10 this country now. our letters as soon is_a mail service THE SPIRIT OF NETY-EIGHT Preliminary Meeting for a Great Patriotic Movement. Irishmen Assemble to Celebrate the Year of Glorious Memories. Organization Effected by the Ninety- Eight Oentennial and Monument Association, Last evening Knights of the Red Branch Hall was filled to overflowing with a most intelligent and patriotic assemtlice of Irish ciiizens, calied together to effect a permaneat organization so as to celebrate properly the centennial of the year of glorious memories to the Irish people— 1798—and to take steps to erect a monu- ment io Theobald Wolfe Tone and the gallant men of that time. A preliminary meeting had been held at the Occidental Hotel some weeks ago, and last evening’s meeting was called to hear reports of committees and get to work on the move- ment in proper shape. Jeremiah Mahoney was in the chair. After the meeting had been called to order the following report was received from the special committee— Colonel Thomas F.Barry (chairman), Gen. P. F. Walsh, Captain T. P. Crowley, R. C. 0’Connor and J. J. Donovan. To the 98 Centennial and Monument Associa- tion: Your tommiitee on permanent Organiza- tion beg leave o report as follows: That the officers of tnis organization shall consist of & president, first and second vice- presidents, u recording snd financial secre- tary, a_corresponding secretary and a treas- urer. The duties of Lhese officers shall be such as are usnally performed by them, respec- tively, in like organizat'ons. Your committee recommend that there shall also be an executive committee, consisting of fifteen members, 10 be appoiuted by the presi- dent. Your committee further recommend that all moaey received be derosited in the Hibernia savings and Loan Society of San Francisco, in the joint names of the president, lreasurer and recording and financial secretary, subject 10 the order of any twiyof them. Thomas F. Barry, P. ¥. Walsh T. P. Crowley, R. C. O’Connor, J. J. Donovan,: ommittee. The report was adopted. The following permanent officers were elected: Presi- dent, Jeremiah Mahoney; recording and financial secretary, Daniel C. Deasy; cor- responding secretary, C. B. Flanagan; treasurer, John Mulbern. The appoint- meont of the executive committee was held over. The following address prepared by the abeve committee wasread and ordered issued to the Irish-American people of California as explanatory of the objects of the association: To the Irish People of California: Ninety-nine years ago the banoer of freedom was unfurled in lIreland, and beneath its folds was shea the blood of her bravest and best, who scorned longer 1o be the siaves of an alien power. Cen- turies of Engiish injustice ana oppression had impoverished the mass of the Irish people, desecrated their altars, ruined their inaus- tries, arrested their intellectual development and made outlaws of a race whose necks would not endure the collar of servitude, Not meekly and tamely had they submitted to these outrages of the dark and bloody past, but their frequent and abortive uprisings against the for-ign oligarchy, and the conse- quent relentless butcheries, simply provea that Ireiand’s wrongs could nev 2 righted save by a united people. The “United Irish- men,” mindful of the causes of past tatlures, as well as of present evils, sought in the union of all Irish patriots, without reierence to race, descent or religious creed, the same boon of freedom for their unhappy country that haa just been attained by the fortitude of the American colonists. Had the God of storms been as propitious to the barks that bore the tricolor of the uncon- Tuered republic to the aid of the gallant Wolfe Tone as when the lilies of France sailed across the Atlantic bringing arms and victory to Washington, we shouid pernaps to-day be inviting our fellow countrymen to participate in the celebration of the ceatennial anniver- sary of Irish independence. The cause was not lost through lack of valor or want of de- votion. The very elements scemed to fight againstit. Butsolong as records of human achievements shall be preserved for future admiration and emulation, the world will ever kindle at the recital of the glorious deeds of those who, in those heroic days, gave their all for country, whether on the battlefield or 1in the felon’s cell. 1t is fitting, therefore, that the commemora- tion nextyear in Irelandof th's immortal struggle shoulid testily not only that the sacri- fices of the past were not in vain, but also that Irishmen and their descendants throughout the world claim their share with those in Ire- 1and in honoring that glorious past which is their commou heritage. Whiie all hearts are nflamed with patriotic recollections and the universal impulte of enthusiasm that en- circles the globe, proves that union of the Irish race for which the martyrs of ‘98 offered up their lives, some lasiing memorial of those greatdeeds and the principles_that actuated them should be planted upon Irish soil as the tribute of the present to the pastand its ap- eal and reminder to the future. Itis be- ieved that in this resolve of the people in Ireland to erect a suitable monument in the coming year every man of Irish descent wherever found wiil desire to varticipate, so as 1o make the perpetuation of the prineiple ot Irish independence truly national. In this great movement the Irish people of California should not, and will £ot, be found wantng. Already an organization for the erection of such a monument, and forother proper recog- nition and celebration of the great anniver- sary thatis approaching, has been formed in Ireiand. Similar organizations are arising in this country, notably in New York City. The association ‘which sends this address to the Irishmen of California hopes to be no incon- spicuous member in the column of kindred organizations, animated by a common senti- ment and inspired by the loftiest of human motives, love of freedom and love of country. It earnestly invites the co-operation of every lover of Irish liberty in this noble endeavor to honor the men and principles embodied in its name. And when on the slopes of Vinegar Hill, or wherever eise beneath Irich skies, the lofiy monumentshall be erected let us hope that as 1ts beauties are unveiled to the tearful eyes of hundreds of thousanas of our race the niem- bers of this organization may proudly feel that the Irishmen of California through its. efforts have generously and devotedly, as of old, contributed 10 the success of this patri- otic undertaking. To make the movement as general as possi- ble subscriptions will be received in sums from $5 (which is the maximum) downwar mitted to the financiai and corresponding se retary, Daniel C. Dessy, at his address, rooms 97 and 98, Flood building, San Francisco. Let every Irish home in the State be repre- sented in the subscription list, in order that we of 1898, the successors and descendants of the men of 1798, may show that we have not forgotten the heroism of our forefathers, and that the spirit which actuated them still lives fresh and strong in the hearts of the Irish race of to-day. A letter from Hon. James D. Phelan re- gretting his inabiliy to be present was real, and he uskeu that his name be added the roll, as ne was in hearty sym- pathy with the movement. The address of the New York committee was also read. Brief and pacristic addresses were made by President Mahoney. Dr. O’ foole, T. R. Bannerman, J. C. Nealon, J, J. Conniffe, Judee Ononey and other gentiemen. Adjournment was’ bad till Thursday evening, August 26, at same hall, THE BLYTHE OASE. Motion to Vacats the Judgment Argued Before Judge Morrow. All of yesterday’s session of the United States Circuit Court was taken up with arguments of the attorneys in the Blythe case in the matter of the motion to set aside the judgment whereby the court awarded the Biythe estate to the English Blythes by reason of the default of the counsel for Florence Blythe-Hinckley to answer their complaint in the Circuit Court. Subsequently W. H. H. Hart of counse! for Mrs. Hinckley moved for a rehearing, alleging that Mrs. Hinckley had never been legally served with a copy of the complaint or of any paper apper- tainiug thereto. The argument will morning. be resumed this — - Ingleside Coursing. The big stake to be run off at Ingleside the coming Saturday and Sunday contains fifiy- four well-placed dogs. The meeting will begin Saturday at 1:30 P. M. and be finished Sunday. John Grace will be in the saddle and James Grace will handle theslips. William Halpin will act as slip steward and James Wren, Chai- lie Griswold and James McCue as field stew- ards. Following is the draw: James McCormac's White [ily and Pasha ken- nei’s Boowerang, Larky & Rock’s ¥ meraid and Eyan & Ryan's ‘Siouians, J-mes McCormack i rinc: aod D. Houper's um lfir..fi:rgny'fi Lady Grace and P. Olemas Visiv 8 , bire. F. C, Randal's Lissac and Pasha ken- hols PBY B GTBOC Gllligan's Blue Belle and Pasha kennel's Alamede, J. Flyno's Crystal and C. ~Curtis' ~ Commodiore, M. snllivan's Sir John Arnold and W. il O'aels Promise Me, H. G. Lang's El Dorado and Gibson & Moor's Monitor, Miramonte kennel's Lady Blanche and M Welci's Tippera Riley’s Shaon Rhue and J. Sexsmith’s Vigilant, J. Stouvs Lord Lousdale J. Quane’s Capiai Morse, 8. A. Porialls At Las: and Grace & Dean Deceiver. E. Jones’ Gasilht and k. Campbeil’s Lendaloug, J. N. Halton's Fair Elien and C. Strenl's Skylark, D. Ward’s Jack and Norton & Trezar's Mary K, J. J. £dmond’s Otd-n W and C. Strebl’s Jimmy Lork. W. Pavton’s Master Glenkuk and k. W. Dufty’s B B, James Byine's Nellle B and T. McCue’s Mounts P. Riiey's Wee Nell Jirky & Rock's Myr.ie, Richmond kennel’s Dan and F. Riley's Harcawsy IL S. A. Portel's Roll of Hono- and Miramonte kennel’s Lawrence Belle, J. Murnan's Whip Junior and Richmond :kennel’s Bobo'iuk, B. H. Beaverly's Oleo and Jimmy Anthony’s Tallamore, J. Mur- phy's Red Light and Kay & Trant’s ieéonora, K. Chella’s Happy Day and J. Maguire's Master McGregor, J. Sator’s Heicules and Ryan & Ryun's Lanky Bob. The purse is $235. ——————— Pictures of Klondike. The California Camera Club has taken ad- vantage of the prevailing cpidemic of “Klon- dicitis” for a benefitentertainment to take the form of an illustrated lecture on **Alaska and the Klondike Goldfields” this evening at Metropolitan Hell. The services of Professor George Davidson, presiaent of the Geogranhi- cal Society of the Pacific, have been secured. Professor Davidson made the first cfficial re- port to the Government relative to Alaska. His report really inauced Congress to pay to Russin $7,200,000 for the territory of 578,000 square miles known as Alaska. The members Dilon & | of the club have been very active in securing from some of the snccessful miners recently returned from the Yukon and Klondike re- gious the latest and mosi aulhentic photo- Graphs, and from these have prepareu the only set of Iantern-slides extant illustrating fhenew El Dorado. The entertainment will embody many other features, all having a Qistinct mining davor. A set of slides illus- trating “the humors oi the Klondike” will b especiaily enjoyable, e DRUGGIST ECOLES' DEATH. Found Unconscious on the Floor of His Little Shop. W. C. Eccles, an apothecary doing business at 342 Arlington avenue, near the Ingleside irack, was !o)m:l yeatgrdsy afternoon on the floor ¢f his shop in 2n unconscious condition. Policeman James Williamson was sum- moned, and rang up the Seventeenth- street police station for the patrol wagon, which arrived withcut loss of time and proceeded to take the suffering druggist 10 the emercency hospital 1n Go'den Gate Park, but Eccles died on the way thither. The body was removed to the Morgue to await an inquest. It is believed that the deceased ad committed suicide by taking morphine. On a table in the room wus a small card on which was written: Mrs. Jensen: Afier all T have done for you T am out on the street. ECCLES. The deceased formerly held the posi- tion of drugeist on the United States vessel Independence. e CAUGHT IN SANTA BARBARA. Nicholas Buja, the Defaulting Cashier of Scatena & Co., Arrested. Chief Lees received a dispatch yester- day from Sberiff T. H. Hicks of Santa Barbara that Nicholas Buja, the default ing cashier of Scatena & Co., wholesale fruit merchants, had been captured there and locked up in the County Jail afir a desperate struggie. Detective Ed Gibson left by last even- ing’s train to bring Buia back to the City. - — Divorce Grauted. Eugene A. Petrie has been granted a divorce from Ella V. Petrio on the ground of deser- tion. Itappears fiom the testimony that Mr. Petrie was not able to support his wife in the style that she considered requisite to her style of b:auty, soshe bade faurowell to his humble home and permitted him to obtain a legal separation. KLOND EST QUALITY RUBBER, WITH leading makes. Boots and high-cut Shoes. be opened this morning. Ladies’ Shoes . . . ... .. 50 Cents These are either Oxford Shoes or high-cut old-style Cloth and Kid Lace Shoe , sizes %14, 3 and 3% only In highshoes at 50 cents. Tennis Flannel .. . ... . 5 Cents This i3 elther dark or light goods like others sell at 8 cents, and some places higher. We make it 5 cents to draw trade. Library Books .. .. ... . 15 (ents These are regularly sold at 25 to 50 cents everywhere, reguiar bound books; Library edition: over 100 titles from best authors. Send .crhist. Knit Wool Skirts ..., ... $L7 They are dark; they are made full, long and ‘wide, of good yarn ana bome 'kni:. We nhave cheaper ones, but you'll like these best. The near-town purchasers find it con their Come to us for large sizs. Special values in the Boot and Shoe line will &euln care 10 force goods on our patrons at THE BIG STORE AT THE FERRY—25-27 MARKET STREET. NEW TO-DAY. IKE BOOTS. LEATHER SOLES, HIGH CUT, ALL Also heavy Waterproof Leather Yukon Folding Stoves . . ... $6.00 These are the 2-hole stoves to fold up and carry in the overcoat pocket. The 4-hoie of same kind is 87.50. Tiade supplied. Klondike Camp Stoves . . ... § You will llke this stove better, possib! than stoves vou are aske! $6 for atsome places. Itisa regular steam cooker and a lightning seller these days. Evaporatel Potatoes. . . . . I6 Cents We have two irades of these, A and B quality. at 20 and 16 cents a pouna. 23g ounces will make adinner for 2 or 3 people. Also Desiccawed Soups, Vegetable Soup Stock, Prepared Onions—everything good and cheap and safe (0 carry with you. Heavy Blankets . . .. ... . $10.00 We probably have the largest stock of Blankets and the largest var.ety on the coasi—from 50 cents a pair for nice cotton to $18 for wool that will defy an Alaska blizzard. Packing safely and with dispatch: is one of our strong points. venient to shop with us. The ladies’ workroom is busy now with gowns of all kinds. Our clothing department, where Alaska tourists are fitted out, is a curiosity. CASH STORE We aim to give every one a welcome and to make stay, whether for a moment or a month, as ssible. Do not fe:1 that you must buy. ways “willing”" to sell, but make no effort HO, FOR LAST CHANCE Sailing from here about AUGUST 22. to Dawson, AND YOU HAVE NO OT are inc!uded and 150 ibs of baggage GRAUMAN & D. J. GRAUMAN, General Manage: ALASKA! THIS SUMMER. FROM SAN FRI‘\J_IGISGO TO DAWSON IN FIRST-CLASS STVLE, ITA ST. MMICEIAEILS, By the Fast and Stanch Steamer NOYO and Our Fast River Steamer, Fare only $300 from San Francisco HER EXPENSE, as meals and berth , allowed FREE. WE WILL BE IN DAWSON BEFORE THE YUKON RIVER CLOSES, or agree to furnish you meals and berth until you do get there. freight will be tak=n at reasonable prices. THIS WE GUARANTEE. Apply or write quickly MACKINTOSH, 14 POST ST., San Francisco, Extra LAST CHANCE! DIREGT TO DAWSON AND THE GOLD FIELDS! Via St.Michaels, all the way by steamer FARE - - $300 INCLUDING ONE YEARS PROVISIONS FURNISHED FREE AND 150 LBS. BAGGAGE. Blegant Steamer NORTH FORK —SAILS FOR— ST. MICHAELS AUGUST 14, 1897. Transfers at St. Nichaels to Steamer MARE ISLAND For Dawson City Direct WANTED—100 1 ¥ DUANTED 1 ons of Freight for (OFFICE OPEN TO-DAY). Apply to C. P. Tn%‘.{’aaxco, Agents 3 K o S DUCAS'® O, promotens o 11 Montgomery street. MEN YU b0t NEED TO 60 AROUND WITH dark rings under your €yes, no energs, 0O spap about you. If you are troubled with seminal weakness you can be cured. Dr., Cook’s_Restora- tive Remedy will 8Lop all l0ises and make you a man once more. Cal or wnte for FREE trial "bottie. aAddress DR. COOK, Specialist for Men, 865 Market Strear, San Fonneiecn. FOR BARBERS, BAR- ers, bootblacks, ' bat th- BnusHEs houses, billiard - tables, brewers, bookblinders, candy-make dyers, "fourmills, foundries, lanndries, o printers, painters, shoe factories e, tar-roofers, tanners, tailors, etc. ey BUCHANAN BROS | Brusb Manufacturers. 609 SacramentoSt T0 KLONDIKE AND DAWSON CITY! ALL STEAM ROUTE. By the fasi steamer NAVARRG to ST MICHAELS, thence up the Yukon River direct to Dawsonaid ihe goldfields bvgehe lignt drate river steamer THOMAS DWYER, avolding barges and all risks of failure. Leave San Francisco AUGUST 17. arrive st Michaels about Septembir 1, arrive Dawnon Sen- tembe- 20. The only expedition that can possibly 20 through. Fare (including 100 ibs baggage) 8 Extra freight a¢ reasonable rates. Yukon Exploitation and Trading Co., 718 Monigomery Stree . DETAIL MAP OF KLONDIKE ROUTE. ETAIL MAP OF THE ROUTE TO THE Kiondike from the Chileoot Pass. Sbows on a large scaie all Lhe rapids, landings and portages and gives full instructions bow to procee: Com- plete, by CAPTAIN McLYON, who has had 19 | yéars' experionce In that country as pilot and | Balde. evers oue interested In Alssia shouid | one. Published and sold by GEORGE W, KNEASY, 718 Third st., Sau Francisco. KLONDYKE BOATS! LEDS AND BURROS, READY FCR SHIR pine. Boats 22 feet long wili carry 2 tons of GOLD and 4 men: the lightest and strongest thas can be made; fasteaed with screws G. W. KNEASS, 718 Third St. KLONDIKE Boats and Sleds. HE ONLY\CORRECT KLONDIKE BOAT IN the market: 20 to 24 f-et long: carries 2 to men; light snd strong: put together with screws; & built from personal experience in Alaska rivers. NC:SCO LAUNCH CO., Foor of Stock ton Strests B Take Green Kearny-stree: Cars. SAN FR GOLD FIELDS OF PERU. IRECT TO MOLLENDO. IF A SUFFL clent number of passenxers can be obtained the mail steamer Z<ALANDIA will be dispatched on or aboul Au Fare, $200 firat-class; 8100 s:eorace. For parciculars apply ¥. BACL GALUPI, 946 Market st