The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 21, 1897, Page 1

AUGUST 21, 1897 " PRICE FIVE CENT W, J. BRYAN AND A PASS tit; RODE ON Red Bluff Learns the News and Now It's the World's. THE CONDUCTOR WHO TOLD. And It Was Such a Little Pass for a Big Man, Too, SOME BEIS NOT QUITE MADE. A Delicate Distinction Between the Pass That Is Free and the One That Isn't. s of William J. Bryan are slow that while in this State the raskan rode on a pass issued by the Pacific. If forced to admit it a distinction between a pass e pass—a distinction so delicate a credit to their powers of dis- 1calls to mind the justly ence 'twixt tweedledum secret leaked out at Red Bluftf, | Bryan was up to his usual ndard of eloquence in denouneing cor- ons, T ularly railway corpora- ns, more particularly the railway cor- 2 whose lines he had been rid- led and avetted in the process by n of a pass. Little wonder the Populists grew ruddy with rey made denial; little wonder fer-d to bet their monmey that it rast asn’t so. They didn’t bet, however. heir faith was strong, but betting is and besides, people had been | known before now to accept railroad | sses with one hand and denounce the | ad with ihe other, as it were. And van ewed even his friends admit it—Bryan, in the fierce lisht that usually beats upon the place where he happ ns to be, is only human. So the Populists and the Democrats didn’t bet. No. Now they are glad of 1t nere are warm Bryan partisans in Red Bluff, i there are partisans just as warm the other way. When the charge that Bryan had ridden on a pass first be- gan o circulate there were sounds ot con- ent night and by day. They have | died away now. The plain facts | t and silence seemed the most | naiural consequence. Tue story was un- | folded in this manner. The night of July | 8 Mr. Bryan left Sacramento for Red fl. He spoke in the latter city on the day following. It was known to the con- ductor in ch e of the tra'n from Sacra- mento te Red Bluif that Bryan was riding on a pss issued in San Francisco. The conductor in charge of the train from Red Bluff to Astland came into posses- sion of the secret and on his return to ct in confidence friena. A resident of who is now in this City yester- day gave this version of the disclosure. ““During the last campaign I was an pporter of McKinley, ant into many hot disputes got | with my Popu- hstic and Democratic neizhbors. Another tanch supvorter of McKinley was a rail- road conductor, and we exchanged notes during the campaign. One day, shortly | alter Bryan's recent journey by rail from | Red Biuff to Ashland, the conductor | called me aside and toid me he had knowledge that Bryan rode on a pass be- | tween the poinis named. I expressed my doubt. He assured me that there was no mistake—that he had positive proof to sustain the statement in the form of an entry giving the date of the the | name of the officer by whom it was issued and the name of the person to whom it pass, | of the Omaha Bee last evening. | announcement of Biyan's VIEW SHOWING JUNEAU AND TAKU INLET, With the Route of the Proposed Extension of the Taku, Lake Teslin and Yukon Railroad. the conductor’s book, and I saw the letter which Mr. Mills wrote in which it was ad- mitted that a pass was issued to Bryan,” Mr. Mills was appealed to for a version of the incident and gave it. It wasin his statement that the nice distinction alluded tc above put 1n an appearance. cannot deny that a pass was issued to Mr. Bryan,” said Mr. Mills, “‘but it was not a Iree pass. He applied for the transportation on ad- vertising account, and it was so issued and duly charged against the paper which he represented. Hundreds of other jour- nalists have made similar application and received passes on advertising account. The amount invoived in the contract was $10—equal to the rednuced fire from Sacra- mento to Portland. Mr. Bryan paid his fare on all other trips through tle State. This pass from Sacramento to Portland was the only one he applied for.” These are the circumstances, and the right to draw conclusions from them be- longs to anybody.” 1f a passis nota fres vass when Mr. Bryan uses 1t in his mis- sionary tours, all right. tion between Mr. Bryan and the World- Herald is remote, a memory of the time when he converted the editor paper and was hired by the convert to bring others into the fold. Mr. B:ryan re- tired from the Worid-Herald when he went into the campaign. Since the cam- paign he has baen practicing law, oratory, bookmaking, the proper handsiiake, the | correct bow, the pursuit of the dollar. If he has returned to the practice of journal ism he has been strangely rsticent about, it. If he hasn’t returned to it the pasy and the free pass merge into each other But the associa- | CROWTH OF THE CORFEE Fresh Arrivals Invade the Country in Quest of Gold. ALL KINDS OF OUTFITS TAKEN IN, of that| Stories of New Discoveries | Encourage the Many Prospectors. MORRISON GULCH STRIKE MAY | PROVE A BIG THING. until no break in the beauteous continuity | can be descried by ordinary means; fact, there’s your dledee. In order to ascertain whether Mr. Bryan was connected with the World-Herald at the time the pass was issued on its ac- count TrE CALL made inquiry of the ediior in tweedledum aud twee- the following messeg» was received : *MAHA, Nebr., Aug. 20, 1897, ‘“The Call,”’ San Francisco: Bryan’s connection with World-Herald ceased | the date of his nomination at Chicaco. OMAHA BE The following came in response to similar inquiry from the World-Herald: OMAHA, Nebr.,, Aug 20, 1897, “The Call,”’ San Francisco: Editorial resignation a was made August 8, 1896. WORLD-HERALD. BREAD IS 1700 HIGH, S0 the French Scek o Reduction in Duty | on Forei:n Whet. was granted. 1 replied, ‘Say nothing about 1t, and the next time I hear the praises of the great orator sounded in Red | 3laff 1 will make the assertion that he ac- cepts favors from the corporations while professing to plead the cause of the people against the trusts and the corporate ty- rants of the country.’ “In a short time thereafter I happened to meet an ardent Populist, a great ad- mirer of the silver-tongued siatesman. His admiration that day was at high tide and he spok= of Bryan as a man like Abrzham Lincoln, who had been raisea » to plead for the people against the | tyranny of wealth and the oppression of corporations. I remarked to him that it was singular thaca man of such high and lofty principles should denounce corpora- tions on the stump and then accept free passes from the corporations so de- nounced. My Populistic neizhbor became exceedingly angry, and characterizing the statement that Bryan had accepted a pass from the railroad company as a | cownright falsehood he offered to bst me $150 that it was a lie. I took his bet and demanded that he should put up his mouney, but the coin was not produced. This caused a general discussion ot the storv. “The Democrats and Populists wers in- dignant and persisted in chullenging proof of the accusation. Republicans were not too confident, fearing that the story coula not be confirmed, so the editor of the Red Bluff Sentinel was urged to write to W. H. Mills and inquire if the statement was true that a pass had been issued to Wil- liam J. Bryan oa advertising account of the Omaba World-Herala. The editor wrote as requested and received in reply a letter stating that such a pass had been jssued to Mr. Bryan. Mr. Mills, however, declined to give the editor permission to publish the letter. There is no doubt that Bryan rode an a pass. Isaw the entry on | consumers. PARIS, FrRANCE, Aug. 20.—An agitation has been going on here some days against the advance in the price of bread. The discontent is increasing, and radical so- cialist members of the Chamber nave con- stituted themselves champions of the poor M. Richards, the well-known socialist deputy, has written to Prime Minister Meline, asking the abolition of, | or a reduction in the duty on foreign wheat imported into France. He will raise the question in the chember on re- assembling, complaining that the Govern- ment has not applied the law empowerin it to suppress duties under certain circum- stances. Some of the newspapers are also making attacks upon the Government for | not taking action which it is empowered by law to take to relieve tha distress. - CONFIRMED BY HEK MAJESTY.} The Queen Regent Establishee a Truce With the New Cabinet. MADRID, Spary, Aug. 20.—The Queen Regent has confirmed the selection of Azcarraga as Prime Minister and also confirmed the ot.er members of the Cabinet in the offices previously held by them. Her Majesty requested the Min- isiers to continue the policy of Canovas, and endeavor to consolidate the conser- vative groun . This is regarded as a truce until the Queen Regent returns from San Sebastian to the capital and convokes the Cortes in October. EXPLOSION UF 4 BOMB. It Causes the Arrest of Several Armen- ians oh Swspicion. CONSTANTINOPLE, TurkEy, Aug. 20, A harmless explosion occurred yesterday on a hill behind Buyukdere, where is situated the summer residences of European Embassadors. It is believed the explosion was caused by some person experimenting with a bomb. ' Several Armenians have been arrested on sus- picion. In reply | | An Investigation of the Truax and Dillon C alm Made by a *'Call” Correspondent. CARRVILLE, CiL, Aug. 20.—The { Coffce Creek boom had a delightful day of growth to-day, and thirty or forty recruits arrived at the lower end with the usual mules and all sorts of vehicles. One big four-horse freighting wagon, two days irom Redding, deposited a crowd of eleven from Oukland at the mouth of Coffee Creek. Six guns and eleven picks and shovels | struck out from the mass in all directions, | and all sorts of big and littie bundles and packs constituted bed rocks. When they unloaded at Trinity Center for refresh- ments five languages were heard in the | babble from the strangers and the resi- | dents. The day brought its share of stories of strikes. The chief one in point of sublimity is about the city editor of a San Francisco paper and a fcur-ounce piece of unclean rock. J. M. Carroll, journalist and tens derfoot, got here the other day to rest amid the boom, and yesterday went a mile or two back into the hills and located the Tom Cook claim for luck on the big porphyry dike on which the B ue Jay and | the Truax and Di lon discoveries in Morri- I‘ son Gulch are located. [tis the same dike that puts out on the | Oregon stage road below here, where two ladies bave located on the scam which has been neglected for forty years. Mr. Car- roll bought a pipe and a pair of overalls, Lecame a typical miner, climbed 1000 feet | and dug all day finding a vien of some- thing or other. The vien does not yield anythbing, according to the great horn spoon, but he picked up a little piece ot loose rock in his claim frem which an assayer hers got 25 cents worth of gold. The expert says the rock is worth $300 a ton, and Mr. Carroll will detail a miner to find where the rich chunk came from, The ladies wbo located that promising seam the stage wheels have scraped for forty years have named it the Bonnie Briar, and Mary Calkins Johnson, the newspaper writer, has located the Biue Top as an extension. With not and tremendous labor I visited to-day the discovery in Morrison Gulch made by Truax and Dillon, which accord- ing to reliable reports, may prove a big thing. Dillon had gone trout fishing and Truax to buy powder. e Blythe ditch, twenty miles long, winds around and along the upper part of Morrison Guich up hundreds of feet above the creek, where the dry and un- used ditch was dug out of the rock where Truax found his sulphurets, At this point about three cubic feet of rock have been dug out from the bottom CREEK BO0M picturesque var ety of pack-bearers, pack | wall of the ditch, and samples of this have ndicated a value in base ore of $150 a ton. To the aye the gold-bearing belt of por- | phyry appears from fifieen to eighteen feet wide, but no average for the width has been made in an assay. Three hundred feét above -imilar values are said to be in- dicated. The claim is called the Iron mine and is in a large formation of porphyry nexi to source of the gold in the pockets the Graves brothers found. This is the sita- ation and present measure of the Truax | and Dillon discovery, which is heralded as a great one and which may be great for | all anybody knows. i On B'g Bouider Creek, several miles up Coff:e Creek, Thomas Bighouse has been prospecting along ‘the Blythe ek, as found a ledge of doubtful value. E. A. Wagner, owner of the Eleanor and part owner of the Black Warrior and other promising quartz mines in Coffee Creek, reports that Bighouse announced to him to-day that he had found a very rich deposit of quartz conglomerate along | the ditch high on the mountainside yield- | ing 50 cents to §1 to the pan. | A working miner from McCloud Johnson's new quartz mine on the east fork of Trinity River, ceven miles east of | Trinity Center and three miles west ot the out a site for a stampmill at that mine a 12-foot ledge of rich quariz was found the day before yesterday. | Along Coffee Creek to-day I learned of | four discoveries and locations of quartz | ledges of the value of which there are no indications. The prospectors now flocking to Coffee Creek will find many quartz, porphyry and other veins bearing a little gold, but of small value, and a few ledges and pockets of value wiil doubtless be found. Some rich aevelopments will likely fol- low when the exaggerated tales about the | discoveries have been forgotten. E. T. Casey of Randsburg is here and announces that h: is going to locate and form a townsite on Coffee Creek near its mouth. Coffeeville may or may not materialize from a boomer’s energy, but business be- gan in Coffee Creek to-day. A rancher hirea a man and went up the creek with a pack mule, peddling 200 pounds of pota- toes, cabbages and turnips among the campers. J. 0. DExny. NEW FINDS REPORTED. Increase of the Excitement Among Those Who Are Headlng for Trinity. BEDDING, CarL., Aug. 20.—This has been another day of intense excitement here over the Coffee Creek gold rush and hundreds of people have fitted out and left here during the past tweive honrs. Some seveniy-five prospeciors arrived from the south on this morning’s over- land train and about thirty more came up on the Jocal this evenine. It has been a great day with stores and hotels and thou- sands of dollars’ worth of outfits have been put up. One of the largest outfits yet sent out was taken to the mines this afternoon by John Middleton. It consisted of a four- horse outfit fillod with provisions, etc., and fourteen prospectors perched on top. i Allalong the Sacramento Valley there is | a general exodus this way. Two large outfits from Gridley arrived here this evening. They were typical prairie schooners loaded down with prospectors, They will have traveled 160 miiles by the time they arrive at Trinity Center. Min- ers in the mines around Oroville, Butte County, are leaving for Trinity. The rich strike reported yesterday above the Tower House, 1s even of a greater magnitude than at first statel. The strike is arich quartz mine and was made by Alex Gavin, E. Morse and W. A, Hartt of Los Angeles, who arrived here to-day for supplies and who will return immediately and develop theirmine. They have taken out several nuggets varving from $5 to $25, and the dirt laying on the bedrock is ex- ceedingly rich. Reports from S8almon River. just beyond Coffee: Creek, to-night give an account of a rich discovery on the banks of that stream. A large party of prospectors were looking for a gravel mine and found a deposit that yielded on an average $7 50 to the pan. When it is said that 100 pans Continucd on Third Page, the Blue Jauy mine and probably the | many others are.doing, and-the oter day | & | county line, reports that while digging | FRESNO'S -~ VERY RICH New Finds Reported in the Vicinity of Laurel Creek. “NEAR L. RABORDORE’S GREAT STRIKE. | Good Diggings Reached by | Penetrating to the Bed- rock. {LUCK OF MR. BENNETT AND | HIS PARTY. i M!ners Who Are Now Preparing to Carry on Operations on a More Extenslive Scale, | FRESNO, Car., Aug. 20.—A letter was received in this city to-aay from Samuel Jennings, the store-keeper at Kenyons station on Pine Ridge, in which he stated that a8 man named Bennett and nine other miners had found rich placer dig- gings about the falls on Laurel Creek, [ near wiere Louls Rabordore made his ereat str.ke last week. The source of Mr. Jennings' information is not known, but the report he sends down is credited. How rich the new placers are he does not state, Laurel Creek, above the falls, has many small flats alone its banks, and on these the new diggines have been located. They have always yielded fairly good indica- tions of gold, but never before have been thoroughly prospected. The miners have always confined their work to the surface, and never went down to the bedrock, having a mistaken idea that it was no use to penetrate very far into the earth. Mr. Bennett formerly ran a sawmill on the ridge, and after be gave up the lumber business he turned his attention to min- ing. Barly this season he began prospect- ing for gold on Laurel Creek. He picked out a flat above the falls and worked in- dustriously till he reached bedrock, where, according to the report, his efforts were rewarded. The lucky prospector said nothing about his strike, but quietly came to Fresno, filed a iocation on his claim and organized a party of nine relatives and friends. They purchased a good store of supplies and a complete outifit of mining tools, and with pack animals quietly made their way back to the Sierras, where fortune was awaiting them. It was last Wednesday that the party passed Jennings’ store. The travelers stopped there to rest awhile, and one of them remarked to Mr. Jennings that they were bound for goldfields that might rival the Klondike. The party has sixteen pack animals, which are now engaged in carrying lumber back to the diggings for building living-cabins and constructing sluiceboxes. Siuieing will be commenced as soon as the rains set in. The miners are Lusy running a tunnel from the bed of the creek dewn to the bedrock of their claims, several of which have been located by the memuoers of the party. The tunnel will facilitate the mining very mue B Minister to Kussta. WASHINGTON, D. C., Anz. 20.—The President to-day appointed Ethan Allen Hitchcock of St. Louis Minister to Rus- sia, vice Clifton R. Breckinridge of Arkansas. PLACERS RUSHING 40, THE STEWART RIVER NOW Discovery of Gold Fields That Are Richer Than the Klondike. BUT THERE IS A SCARCITY OF FOOD. Reports That May Cause an Additional Stam- pede to the North -More Gold Comes Down on the Steamer Starr. VICTORIA, B. C., Aug. 20.—Confirmation was received to-day of the indefinite report current for some time that the discovery of a richer gold field has caused a rush even from the Klondike. A letter which has come through Juneau states definitely that this great strike has been made about sixty miles from Dawson City in the direction of Stewart River, and that the news of forty-seven pounds of gold having been taken out of the Discovery hole caused an immediate rush of 150 men from the Klondike for Stewart River. The same letter says that all the tributaries of the Klondike are proving even richer than at first reported,’and that the only fear in those parts is whether there is going to be enough grub at any price to feed the gold-diggers through the coming winter. Every day makes it more evident that it will be a matter of years to exhaust the rich placers already discovered, and capitalists are making preparations accordingly. On Monday next F. M. Yorke of this city, who represents a Vic. toria company of abundant means, goes up to Teslin Lake to erect a sawmill and prepare for the construction of two large stern-wheel steamers for use on that lake and the Teslin River. / The opinion is gaining ground that there are quite as rich placers in Cassiar and Omineca as have been discovered in the Klondike. This opinion is based on the positive statements of miners who after a very brief experience abandoned this territory in the early sixties because of the then enormous cost and almost insuperable difficulty of getting in supplies, and next spring is expected to witness a rush over- land from Ashcroft of men who will prospect Cassiar, Omineca and Northern Cariboo on the way to the country now monopolizing attention. More Klondike gold came down to-day. The steamer George E. Starr of Seattle called at Union for coal and reported having a number of successful miners on board. One Seattle man who went in last year brings back $16,000. A Victoria party of four bring $25,000, and say that they are going right back to Dawson City. THE RUSH SUBSIDING. But the Steamers to Depart From Seattle WIill Carry Plenty of Gold-Saekers. SEAITLE, Wasn.,, Aug. 20.—The next news from ihe thousands of prospectors who are endeavor ng to cross the trails from Dvea and Skaguay to reach the solaen Klondike beyond will be brought down by the steamer Rosalie, which is due in this port on Sunday. The Rapid Transit is also expected the same day. | These vesseis are also likely to bring let- ters from Dawson City which may have been sent overland. But the createst ex- pectancy is in the coming of the steamer Portland from St. Michael. She may get in next Thursday or a day or two later, and it is believed that the returning min- | ers will have in their possession the most glittering and substantial evidence of the continued richness of the Upper Yukon country. It seems to be the general impression { that the rush for the Klondike country is beginning to subside. A prominent hotel-keeper, in speaking on the subject to-day, said: “A month ago we bad to turn people | away. We had as bizh as three in a| room and improvised beds were the | | | order of the day. A good many people | were actually compelled to wa'k the streets becatse they were unable to find a decent lodging in the city. Now 1t is| differen:. True, we are comfortably filied | up now, but it is not the stampede it was “ three or four weeks ago. These repons[‘ that have come down from Dyea and Skaguay concerning the difficulty of cross- | ing the summit this season are deterringa | good many from starting out this year. I look for a tenfold bigger rush about next March than we have had this summer, but it is my ovinion that the stampede for this year is over.” The rush may be pretty well over, but the list of passengers on the outgoing steamers for Alaska does not seem to in- dicate it. The Pucific Coast Steamship Company is seliing tickets rapidly for the | Queen, and it is settled that she will carry a heavy load of freicht and passengers when she sails on Sunday. The company eapects to keep its full complement of steamers on the Dyea route until about the middle of September, possibly until the last of the month. The Rosalie, be- longing to the Alaska Steamship Com- | pany, is due in Seattie Sunday, and will sail again for Dyea next Tuesday. Carl Stoltenberg, agent for the company, said this morning that nearly every ticket for her next trip was sold. The various transportation companies figure that if the Portland brings dowu a large amount of gold such as she brought down the last trip, all the rigors of an Alaskan winter will not prevent several thousand people from going up this fall, It was the return of the Portland last month that fanned the flames of the Klondike excitementand which threatens to do it again. There- fore it is very probable whether the Kion- dike rush for this year is over or not. The Washilngton and Alaska Transit and Tradicg Company has been organized at Tacoma to operate the bark Shirley on the Alaska run. She is now at the city dock in Seattle, undergoing repairs and being refitted, at a cost of $1500, and is causing considerable comment among those who talk of water craft. One thing is true, it is not an esthetic spectacle to look at. But this hardly argues that it is unseaworthy. The Shirley was built in 1850 at Medford, Mass., and nearly all the time since then she has been engaged in t 1e Puget Sound trade. Sheis 180 feetlong, 30 feet beam and 21 foot hold, having a capacity of 1000 tons. The Shirley will leave the Sound the latter part of next week for Dyeaand Skaguay. Freight will be carried in the boid, and in the 'tween decks will be built stock and horse pens. | She will carry a large number of horses. On the upper deck passenger accommoda. tions will be placed. Among the passengers who c- me north from San rancisco on the City of Puebla was [. P. McCormack of New York City, who took the steamer Al-Ki last night at Port Townsend for Alaska. He announcad his intention to commence the beginning of next week the construction of a wire- rope tramway from Dyea to Lake Linder- man, so that transportation facilities will | be aftorded all persons who may desire to g0 to the Klondike. 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