The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 20, 1897, Page 1

VOLUME LX " PRICE FIVE CENTS NOT STAYED BY TALES OF DISASTER Thousands Continue the Wild Scramble to Enter the Klondike. GREAT EXODUS FROM SEATTLE STILL GOES ON. Determined Men Crossing the Trails in Quest| of Gold Cause Packers to Keep Con- tracts by a Display of Arms. 1dikers have left Seattle thus With the exception of neur , went on the steamer Humboldt via ael, the balance sailed for Dye: N the steam lon, Kingston, Al-Ki and schooner nday the Queen will again go T followed on Tuesday by the Rosalie, both bound for Dyea, while the Bt er Noyo, from San F 15co, will 1 here for St. Michael on Wednesday nex A connecting boat wili sail from e on Monday next for Victoria, from where the steamer Bristol will leave the following day. She will take with her | the steamer Eugeng, whose capacity 1s ) passeng and about 350 tons of ) Toe steamers will n'ot go to St. M ael, but in Bering Sea, at the mouth of the Yvkon River, the passengers and freight will all be put aboard the Eugene, which will proceed up the river to Daw- son, expecting to arrive there about Sep- tember 15. Last night the bark Shirley came from Tacoma under escort of a big tug and is being put in Dyea and Skacuay ran. Tue Rapid Transit will leave on Mon- day for Dyea and Skaguay with 100 horses and a full carzo of miners' supplies and other freight. It is expected thaton Friday night the schooner Queen will leave for St. Michael th the lumber already cut and framed for a hotel, 60 by 120 feet, at St. Michael that will accommodate 150 people. Wor men will go on the schooner and as soon as they reach there they will commence ng the hotel together. It is calcula- ted that the ship wiil reach St. Michael in three weeks, and thatanother two weeks will be required to make the hotel ready for oc ancy. In addition to the knock- down hotel the Queen will take 450,000 lumber and a stock of hardware, lime, etc., for the building of the hotel, also in building boats and docks for the Yukon traffic. The steamer Al-Ki left this afternoon about 4 o’clock for Dyea and Skagzuay, with a fair complement of passeagers and freizht. Some of the Klondikers w go as far as Wrangel on the s m there they will go up the Stickeen River and proceed north over a new trail to Lake Teslin, The steamer Queen brouzht down 132 cabin passengers from Alaska last even- ing, most of them being excursionists, Among the number from Dyea were Messrs. Twombley and Doane, who have been in Alaska representing Cornelins Vanderbilt. The Queen stopped at Ta- coma last night before cominy to Seattle, and the two gentlemen took the train from there the East « that kept u very close mouth while on the way down, and the en haste readiness to go up ou the | | ing for $100 up. | Deputy 8 | bad the trail is. SEATTLE, Wasa., Aug. 19.—About 1000 | River, who he says took out ninetyAsix‘ vounds of gold in thres days’ work. James Siorah, who left Seattle on the steamer Mexico July 25, has written THE CarL correspondent, the letter coming down on the Queen. It is dated August 8, Sheep Camp, to which place Mr. Slorah bad just returned from Lake Linderman, where he sprained his leg. He says: “I ar- | rived at Sheep Camp aiter two days’ hard travel over rocks, hills and mountain streams. Youcan scarcely imagine how Itcould not be much If people nowin Seattie realiz-d tion they would never start at this season of. the year. *Iam sorry I did not wait until after winter. Icarried a 60-pound pack from Dyea to Sheep Camp, eichteen miles. This place is situated between two moun- tains at least 2000 feet high, with a moun- tain torrent running both sides of it. It worse. its con | is almost impossible to get packing done | | tkere as so many people are on the road. At Sheep Camp there is at least fifty tents and over 200 people at Lake Linderman waiting to get boats built. The price of packing has gonme up to 30 cents per pound from Dyea to the lake, so if any others intend to come youmight tell them what toexpect. Boatsat the lake are sell- The trail from Dyea to the lake 1s lined with people and provi- sions. It is very hot here to-day, a fact that may here.” Ad Baker, who gave up his position as seriff of King County, has written some of his friends from Skaguay under date of August Among other things he says: ~*‘We arrived at Skaguay Friday mornine. saw anything like it. goods against camp, where 1t was impossibie to patk They unloaded our tie goods along the hill to solid ground. | Small boats were there in plenty, but their owners demanded $20 a ton to curry | the goods about 500 feet. We finally got | a scow and loaded it at high tide and got | our goods across. Tnen we had to wade | 1n aiter them. We paid $2 50 a ton for our | goods on the scow. They put our horses on scows and then dropped them over- board, for which kindly act we were mulcted in the sum of §2 per torse. We | got all our stuff together by 11 » M. Some of the boys have not got all oi their goods yet, and many of them lost some of thei paraphernalia. A great many are dis. | zusted and are selling out. Some are | going to stay here and some have ‘hiv | the back trail, | ous to cross. The officers on the | | led another which carried a pack. with which thiy started East give | “One mile from the camp is a river ve surprising to those who | imagine that there is only cold weather up | In all my life I never | a sione pile opposite the | | | | | about 500 feet wide, and it is very danger- | There are some very bad places and people take chances in fording it. We rowed all our stuff up the river yesterday. Kalberg got on one horse and He started across, and when about half-way the impression that thev have somelhing | aver the horse he was riding stepped on a good to impart. Mr. Twombley is a son- | bowlder and went down about thirty feet. | Iran into the river and came to a little Among the letters brought down by the | island and intendea to run over to assist Queen was one to William Bryce of Vic- | him. A man grabbed me and said that I in-law of Cornelius Vanaerbilt. toria. 1t contained the information that | would be a goneraf I went in, that a horse | from Forest, a Cariboo miner who went north six weeks apo to the Upper Yukon, has already received $25,000 for wages. | He is working for a locator on the Stewart | could hardly live there; but Kalberg floundered around the horse and cut the Continued on Second Page. R A \ 2 7 R ST , Z //////M/) \ \ \W LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR JETER, Who Is Now the State’s Chief Executive Owing to the Absenc: of Governor Budc? in Oregon. 0 SMASH THE TRUST IN FRELCHTS New Line of Clippers and| Steamers via the Horn. BIG CAPITAL INTERESTED. The Johnson-Locke Company Local Agent of the New Enterprise. AFTER THE- HUNTINGTON COMBINE. Genuine Competition to Be Inaugu- rated Between San Francisco and New York. With the commission of the ship Iro- quois in New York vesterday begins a new era in freight competition between New York and San Francisco. At the present time it is claimed by well-known shippers there is no genuine competition in the freight-carrying trade between the Atlantic and Pacific sea- boards, despite the fact that there are no less than five distinct channels in which the iraffic can move between San Fran- cisco and Atlantic seaports. These are the Central Pacific Railroad, the Southern ARGONAUT LINE rom SAN FRANCISCO =, < | strong enough end diversified enough to | day at New York, and is expected to be Pacific Railroad, the Panama route, con- trolled by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and the Panama Railroad, the | Dearhorn clipper line, of which Williams, | Dimond & Co. are the agents in this City, and the Flint clipper line, of which J. F. | Chapman is the loca! agent. All of thess are said to be in one great trust to maintain rates, and form a combi- naion that its projeciors believed to be effectually stranele any attempt at inde- pendent and legitimate competition be- tween the two great ocean highways. This combination was formed since C. | P. Huntington was successful in breaking | up the independent service of the Panama Company, about nineteen months ago. The ruling spirit of this shipping trust is said to be this same Huntington. The new line has been started by the Merchants’ Shipping Company of New York and Philadelphia and is backed by some of the largest capitalists in the East- ern States. Itis to be known asthe Argo- | naut Line. Henry D. Walls.of New York is the general mana He was formerly the manager of the Ward line of steamers, The Johnson-Locke Mercantile Company of this City is to act as the general agent of the new line for the Pacific Coast. It is proposed to start the new service via Cape Eorn with a fleet of sailing ves- sels, which is later to be augmented by | the addition of a number of fast and com- modious steamers. The latter will make the trip in about fiity days, taking only five days more than the time now made via the Isthmus of Panama, and there will | be no breaking of bulk, which is one of the undesirable incidents connected with the transhivment at the isthmus. The first vessel placed in commission is the Iroquois. She is a ship of about 2500 tons capacity. She began loading yester- ready for her inaugural trip on the new line in about two weeks. She will carry ali kinds of merchandise, except perish- able goods. The Iroquois will be followed by other vessels at regular intervals of about three weeks. Negotiations relative to the new line were in progress for several months. From one of those intimately connected with the enterprise comes the statement that the new line is to be perfectly inde- pendent and free from any entangling al- liances with the existing lines. This gentleman added that the enterprise is not in any sense experimental, but that the new line had come to stay. An important advantage the new line possesses over the old is that all its vessels will be loaded at covered wharves in the East. The vessels operated by the trust lines are loaded at open wharves, and goods can only be loaded on them during fine weather. The Argonaut has its own covered wharves, where freizht can be re- ceived at any time and be weil taken care of. It was aiso reported in shipping circles yesterday that the Johnson-Locke Mer- cantile Company is to be the San Fran- cisco agent of thenew Japaness steam- ship company, whose four steamsrs are now being built in Scotiand. Itis ex- pected that the new trans-Pacific line will be ready to begin service early next year. — Wholesaln Murder by Kurds, LONDON, Exc., Aug. 19.—A dispatch from Tabreez says: The Kurds of North A natolia are apparently avenging the at- tack recently made upon them by Ar- menians, who crossed ‘into the Turkish territory from Persia. The Kurds have raidea Ralmas disirict, where they have massacred two hundred people. They wreaked vengeance. not alone upon Chris- tians, but upon Mobammecans as well. g Swat Palley Irides Submit, SIMLA, IxprA, Aug. 19.—The religiovs leaders of all the tribes in the Upper Swat Valley have written to the British politi- cat officer at Chakdara, offering complete - BUDD Y submission on any terms the Government proposes. Angell in Constantinople, CONSTANTINOPLE, Turkey, Aug. 19.—James B. Angell, the new American Minister to Turkey, arrived to-day. GOVERNOR [N ORECON tive Mantle to Mr. Jeter. WHY MISSTOCDMAN WENT TO SANTA CRUZ It Was to Notify the Lieutenant- Governor to Take Charge. THE CHIEF FX“CUTIVE SAID TO BE HUNTING AND FISHING. Meanwhlle Jeter Will Enjoy All the Powers Which Are Vested In the Governor. SACRAMENTO, Can, Aug. 19.—It is learned to-night that Governor Budd has transferred the duties of his office to Lieu- tenant-Governor Jeter and that he has left the Siate for Oregon, where he is spending his time hunting and fishing. Not long since an application was received for the | pardon of one Benjamin L. Hill, a wife- murderer. Notice of this application was sent to Budd in Oregon, and he imme- diately sent word to Jeterto attend to the matter and to fulfill the duties of Gov- ernor during bis absence. Budd’s act in leaving the Stare gives to Jeter all of the powers which are vested in the Governor, and to-day he can issue a pardon, make appointments, cause re- movals or do anything that the Governor is empowered by law to do. Jeter, who is now in Santa Cruz, will be in Sacramento Monday, and on the follow- ing day will listen to arguments for the Hill pardon. BTOCKTON, CAr., Aug. 19.—The Mail to-night prints the following: James Budd is no longer acting as the Governor of the State of California. William T. Jeter of Santa Cruz now occupies ‘the vlace of chief executive, an important change hav- ing been ma ie in the highest office of the State. Governor Budd has transferred his administrative mantle to the shoulders of his Lieutenant. The transfer was made last Monday, when Miss Todman, the pri- vate secretary of Governor James H. Budd, went to Santa Cruz on an important mis- sion. The objectof her trip was to inform Mr. Jeoter of Governor Budd’s determina- tion to make him the chief executive, For some reason or other the tranfer of authority has not as yet become public. As far as the Mail isaware, this is the first publication announcing the change. Mr. Jeter has had a singular political expe- rience. During the gubernatorial cam- paign he remarked, in the course of a specch on the plaza in this city, that he had had bad luck and that he expecied to be left by the wayside when the ballots were counted up, but congratulated him- self on the prospect of seeing Mr. Buda elected Goveruor anyhow. His predic- Continued on Second Page. | ROOPING TO THE TRINITY GOLD FIELDS Fortune-Seckers on the Way to the Coffee Creek Region. SOME ARE ALREADY IN FROM THE EAST. All Kinds of Outfits Carried by Those Who Seek the Yellow Metal---Graves Broth- ets Returning to the Blue Jay. TRINITY CENTER, CaArn, Aug. 19.— Coffee Creek is aboom with the life and labor of the 400 who have reached the stream and scattered along its canyons and its guiches. S'ill higher to-day is the rate of the rush past here. At 3 P. M. fifty have gone by or stopped with the crowd now here, although it is the hottest day of the season. The thermometer regis- ters 99 degrees, and scores have stopped | streams and | until evening by shaded springs along tha way. The walkers keep arriving from sunrise to midnight. A wajority come from Redding by horse- back, special conveyance or stage. Last night, between 9 o’clock and midnight, two loaded stages and a special load from Redding rolled in. A majority are from surrounding regions of Northern California, but quite anumber from the bay have got'in and they have even reached here from the East. Twomen who never saw a mine have | lett jobs in Iowa and reached Ccftee Creek | since reading the reporis of the Eastern papers. ranch. A doector irom Ohio was on bis way to the coast' locking for a location when he heard the news, and he is here. One of the batch of inquiries received by Postmaster MeDonald by last night’s mail was from a Chicago lady, who writes that her husband and two sons have the California fever. She wants to know if per is true or exaggerated, what the chance is for a strong, ambitious man, and asks is it safe as to life and morals around the mines. The entertaining rush is composed of plain and other foots, greenhorns, practical miners, old vros- pectors, men with money looking for snaps, fellows looking for a chance to bond and seil a claim and general rustlers wandering in, ambitious to better them- seives somehow. Clarence Somers has been working in | the Gwia mine in Tuolumne County and was staked by the other miners for the | wrip. W. K. Hoover of the Royal mine, Caiaveras County, has been similarly staked by his fellows. A train dispatcher at Dunsmuir secured a month’s vacation and is on the creek. A party of two saloon-keepers, a barber and a lumber- man of Sissons report that fourteen have lefc that town and a dozen more are coming. Joseph Morton and W. B. Frue of San Jose aré sizing up the country and look- ing for investments. A Sup:a Cruz capi- talist writes for pointers leading to lurge investments. The rush is profitable to tie old residents here as well as being three combined shows, which they enjoy every minute. Twenty owners of rigs from here to Red- ding are golng into the passenger and ex- press business and finding a little money by picking up partiss, and often cutting a dollar or so below the stage fare, which is $5 for the fifty-six miles from Redding to Trinity Center, the latter being six miles below Coffee Creek. . Drivers of the big freighting wagons make their own terms with trampers and often haul their outfits on ahead. Along the road during the heatof the day men may be seen nursing bottles of whiskey in the shade, and a few paose a day or two at stopping places whera there are bars and enjoy restful drinks. This morning a tenderfoot went into a store and bought a broom to take along up Co!- fee Creek to the hilarity of the public. A young red-headed Englishman came in with the tide, two companions he had picked up and & plug and cart the three had bought in Redding for $15. The Eng- lishman bad just come from London to San Francisco, headed for some Pacific Coast mming region, and he made con- nections for Coffee Creek, Last night he was frying the bacon for supbper where they camped on top of the Trinity Moun- tains, and as he turned the bacon a ireighter said: ‘‘What are yon doing, my friend? You don’t want to fry bacon out here only on one side.” He threw the bacon out and supped on . bacen properiy cooked on one side. ‘*li’s blooming ’ot, and ’'olding that bloody cart back down the mountains is 'ard on the feet,” he retorted. They bave much joy with the tender- feet who stop old residens to ask ques- tions. *‘Why, yes, this country is chuck full of gold,” said one old fellow down the road to an eager couple. ‘“Just let me take your pan.” The old man slipped some gold dust into his mouth and went down to the stream where he scooped up a pan full of dirt. hill over there he dropped the gold into the pan and went to washing. There was about two dollars’ worth in the pan and tho boys were going to stay right there. “Oh wo, this 1s nothing, boys; go on up Coffee Creek, where 1t is s0 much better,” said the old man, 4nd they went. One was miking cows or a dairy | Calling attention to a Another fellow washed out some sand with mica in it and showed the “gold” to another party. The two Iowa fellows were among those who came in carrying big revolvers, which are practicelly-un- known in this old, sparsely settled but peaceful and Arcadian mining region. “This looks pretty wild, and I feel safer with it,”’ said one brave voung fel- low with a big six-shooter, as he glanced around at the broken mountain side, clothed in primeval forest, in which may be found the most gentle peace that life may give. A working miner just from Randsburg is here, asking in a matter-of-fact and con= fident way if the outfits of people going back are for sale cheap yet. There will be bargains of that sort soon, of course. *‘[ have enough for a month's grub, and when that 1s gone I'll wash gold down along the river till I get a few dollars more, or 1'll g0 over to the quartz mines in Shasta and work for wages,” he said. *I'm going to stay here two or threeyears and work and | prospect tiil I tind something. Talways | believed in Trinity County, and I believe [ that it 1s the best field in the State for a prospector.’” | The fact that the dirt in the streets of Trinity Center will yield gold to every pan was to-day and is constantly being 1 demonstrated, to the wonder of the rush- S5 Iceadl ol 1in g o) Chioazs D | ers who watched with great interest the process of digging up a panfull and wash- ing a few ceats’ worth out ata littie ditch. The streets of the little town of & few buildings will all be washed away to bed- rock before long. It stands on a high beneh, about one mile wide and overa mile long, the upper part of which is being sluiced away into the river by the extensive hydraulic operations of the El- ilery & Reed Company, which owns 600 | acres of the bench since the purchase last | year. . This is the old Bloss & McCieary mine, and the total yield so far has been & haif-millron. The operations have left great naked banks back of the town, and all around the graveyard the gravei has been sluiced away to bedrock, leaving the little placo of the Cead sticking up asquare block of gravel forty feet Ligh, with raw, precipie tous sides. The portion of the town 1t is on is so low that the gravel will have to ve carried to a higher sluice by hydraulic elevators to secure enough fall to carry the debris tothe river. This will soon come, and the very foundation of Trinity Cenier will be wasbed away. Trinity Center is seeing the greatest bustie it has known fer vears, but 1t is preparing ior the tremen- deus time of racing and dancing that will come Friday and Saturday of next week. Tue Trinity Center Jockey Club has buiit a racetrack and raised $400 ior purses. Friday there will be three races for thoroughbreds, which will come from various places in the northern part oi the State, and on Saturday there will be saddle, scrub and mule races and a base- ball game between the towns of French Gulch and Weaverville, but the great thing will be the dance. A bigope platiorm will be ready, as will the string orchestra from French Gulch, and the fun will go on by moonlight all night long. They are coming from fiity miles around; from Weaverville, French Guich, Whis- kytown, Callahans, Minersville and the rest. Landlord Vollmers bas given notice that no man may occupy his room$ if needed for ladies, and those who want to sleep may do o in the barn orin their blankets by the river. Most of the outfits are bought in Red- dipg, where merchants are advertising Coffee Creek ' outfits. A good deal of smell trade and many smaller outfits are bought here at two little stores, which find business booming. It is reportea that a Redding house is about to open a branch store here. The two storek2epers don’t object to the invasion. “It won’t hurt 'em,” sa:d one to-dsy. “They would spend the money anyway and they see a lot of fun.” Here is a representative Coffe Creek outfit, to be packed by one man, embrac. ing supplies for two week=. Trinity Cen- ter prices are ziven: Pick, $1 shovel, $1; gold pan, 75 cents; twenty-five pounds of flour, 75 cents; four pounds of bic 50 cents; eight pounds of beans, 50 cents; rice, 50 cents; half-gallon can ol syrup, 50 cenis; coffee, sugar and tea, 50 cents each; pepper, 10 cents; salt, 15 cents; soap, 25 cents; matiches, 5 ceunts; oup, 10 cents; tin plates, 10 cents; knife and fork, 10 cents; fishing outfit, 50 cents; tobacco, 50 cents. 'Lotal, $10. This outfit is considerably scaled down by a good many who tramp a hunared miles with loads. The fishing outfits may be cheaper and may further cut down the bill, as may the gun whicha considerable number take along. Those who go with pack mules may provide