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D3 = THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1897. wire-cable system, ana it has proven so satisfactory that $5000 has been sub- scribed in the new company, that amount being necessary to thoroughly complete the road, including rails and cars. When completed this cable railway, itis said, will be the most substantial of its kind ever constructed and will be capable of carrying all kinds of freight, no matter of what burden. For the present a temporary structure will be got up, so that ithe army of men now at Dyea reach Dawson City be- fore winter sets in. To do this McCor- mack proposes to transport the men mile by mile, as the progress is made in ihe construc.ion of the tramway. He thinks he can reach the bead of the lake in twen e days from the time work is commenced. He figures that all the iule men at Dyea will only be too willing to assist in builaing this cable. The neces- sary materiai, horses, mules, "elc.,, were shipped on the Al-K The schooner Mo ht,which has been Joading for Dyea ar aguay, is all ready to sail, but will not leave untii {o-morrow afternoon. The cause of delay is two- toid. o-day is Fr v, and the sailors dislike 1o cast off on the proverbial un- lucky day. The schooner is also waiting forthe tug Colmin that is on the ways at Ballards, #nd will not be ready before to- m rrow. The Moonlight will take seventy- five passengers and forty tons of freight. J. E. Lilley of Seattle and K. C. Lilley of Whatcom are taking up lumber on the Queen for building a feedstore at Skaguay. “Uhey will putup a building 30560 feet. Captain Peterson of Neah Bay is load- ing the schoone van with flour feed to take to Skaguay. Daring the p st few days s al inter- esting letters have been received in Seat- e from miners in the Klondike country, hich tell of important strikes. Ore let- ter conveys the news of a strike on a creek sixty miles from the Klondike, near the Stewart River. “Forty-seven pounds of gola taken out of the Discovery hole, and the creek a biz one,’ was tue news that reached Dawson City. This immediately started 150 men up the river in one of the North American Transportation Com- piny's new steamers. The letter was dated Kiondike, June 22, and was written by James O'Brien. The greater part of the letter told of personalities, but he finds room to predict that grub wili be very scarce winter. According to O’Brien, Adams Creek is no good, but the six tributaries of the Klondike are be- yond expectation. I'he news of the rich strike near the ewart River will be welcome to those down the river from lakes Bennett and Linderman. Many of thcss who left eattle to go in by way of Dyea and intended 10 stop near this river a time at least. A letter from Mrs. John Horne was received in Juneau a few days ago and forwardead to a friend in this y. She w into the Yukon from Ju- neau, where she was a hardworking wasberwoman. The letter is dated June 14, but the postmark shows that it was not mailed uutil June 23, when the steamer Aiice left for St. Michael. The Jeiter made the trip dowa the riverin ecven days according to the postmark, and reached Unalaska July 17. Itis given below : . W. T.. June 14, 1897. vell, owning a half inter- of No. ing . u yards from the house, pan out y me while Jack (her husband) re sewing lumber. The price Ay up in the thousands. 1f we of claims sell we p y come out this fal, otherwise we ujy here. Among olhers who have unes is Dick who 15 worth half nillion. He toc . Life on the Y In anticipation o 300 in two pans of on is 10150 bad, aiterall. 1 small stampede over the new route to the Yukon preparations are making to facil:tate transit by way of the Stickeen River. The Teslin ana Yukon Transporiation Company hes been organ- ized by a Victoria ¢ pitalist who proposes to establish a line of steamers on Teslin L and the Hootalinqua and Yukon rivers. The rouies will include the Btickeen River and Telegraph Creek. Here a trail gf about 100 miles will be taken toc Teslin Lake, where the route to the new placers of the Kiondike begins. A steamer line will be put in operation between Seattle and Te legraph Creek, at tne head of Stickeen River. The company will operate a pack train over the trail and will undertake to deliver a miner in the Klondike couniry for $200 and 20 cents a pound for bis supplies. A representative of the company is now in Seattle and has purchased here thie machinery for a new mill plant, an electric light piant and the engine boilers for a steamer. —— HARDSHIPS ENCOUNTERED Charles S. Whistler Is Ona of the Kiondikers Who Does Not Palnt a Very Gilowing Picture. PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 20.—Charles 8. Whistler of San Francisco, who laid over a: Seattle since lie came down from the Klondike, ten ds 20, 18 in the city, en route for his home. He is one of the few Klondikers, baving come south during the past six weeks, who does not allege being the owner of a claim worth more than a million. “I have a littie more than cleared my indebtedness in more than two and a half vears at the nardest work in the most se- vere climate on earth,’” «aid Mr. Whistler 1o a correspondent. “‘But when I square my debts not h more than $3000 or $4000 lefi. All this Seattle newspaper talk nd or third man coming from summer bringing from $100,000 to 0,000 with him isrot. The Seattle papers have run this sensational stuff to make business for the town, and in that they have not failed. “There is no denying. the fact that the K'ondike region is the richest gold field ever discovered on this earth. Perhaps, before the close of this century, it may vield more gold than has been produced by California up to date; but now it is scarcely in the infancy of its development. There are lots of mines to be taken up; there is ample work for thousands of men willing 1o labor hard and forego all the comforts of the commonest civilization at the highest wages that bave ever been paid for manual labor in the history of the world. Bt the ordinary man’s im- agination is imvotent to picture the kind of life that will be his until he gets there. “I am going back in the spring to work my claim, which I think is a fairly good one., If I am not mistaken Ishail then take out enough gold before the end of the summer to do me and my famlly the rest of our lives. ButItell you at my age, 45 years, I would not hive in Alaska five years longar if I were assured that at theend of them [ would be a muiti-mil- lionaire. “I want 1o tell you something though,” continued Whistler, “that may enlist the atiention ot scieniists, 1 have a partner in my claim, whicnis at the base of a huge mountain, with a fine stream of waier ciose by. When we first began work we used some dynamite to blast the hard- irozen ground. At a depth ‘of four seet, unlike most of the surrounding ground, we found no trouble in digging with a pick and shove.. Upon reaching a depth MAP SHCOWING the Portion of Stewart River SCALE sratute Miles X Are Leaving the Klondike. /80 Where Rich Strikes Have Lately Been Made, and for Which Crowds | of six feet cne day in the latter partof June my pick struck a hard metallic sub- stance. I cried with delight to my part- ner that I had iocated a great bonanza. We both continued delving a few mo- ments more, but discovered the hard sub- stance I siruck was a metallic casket. On the lid was a copper plate bearing unde- cipherable hierogiyphics, excepting the tigures '1741." Upon opening the casket we discovered it to contain nothing but a quantity of dust and a plain gold ring. The day following we unearthed two simi- lar caskets, also empty, with the excep- tion of dust. They also had copper plates with odd hieroglyphics on their lids. When I return home next fall I'll bring the plates with me.” —_—— TO MAKE A NEW TRAIL. Plans to Follow the Course of the St'ckeen River Into the Yukon Country. PORT TOWNSEND, Wasn., Aug. 20.— If success crowns the efforts of a party among the 150 passengers for the north on the Al-ki, by the time the spring rush for the Klondike begins there will be an- other and perhaps the best trail into that country. The advance guard of the pro- moters of the new scheme which prom- ises to make traveling to the land of gold an easy matter consists of Messrs, Thomp- son and Remington, representatives of a syndicate of Montana cattlemen, who will, if practicable, survey and put in firsi-class condition for packtrains a new trail connecting at Fort Wrangel and fol- lowing the course of the Stickeen River into the Yukon country. The promoters of the trail have been assured of the practicability of the scheme by old Alsska frontiersmen, and will, if successful, be amply repaid for their outlay by collect- ing tolls from those who pass, and at the same time be in s position to control a monopoly of the fresh meat suoply of the entire Kiondike country. In course of time, if the route proves a success, the trail will be widened intoa wagon road ana a stage line established. Another Alaskan road promoter to go north on tne Al-Ki was J. P. McCormick, representinga New York syndicate which intends putting in a steam tram to be utilized in hauling heavy loads from Dyea to the summit, obviating the worst part of the Chilkoot Pass trip. s e WALKED OVER FORTUNES. Hard Luck Story of an Oid Yukon Miner Who P:osp:cted Through the Klondike. JUNEAU, Arnaska, Aug. 12.—Charles Sperry is an old Yukon miner. He spent five years in thai frozei country. He has been up the Yukon past the Klondike River, and has actually waiked over the stores of gold that are now being dug up by ‘tenderfeel’” in the region around Dawson City. When he thinks about it now Sperry does not know whether to weep Or hire somebody to kick him. He is the most disgusted man in Alaska to- day. He is now operating a pack train on the Skaguay trail over the White Pass. He is well known in Juneau, and will go into the Klondike again next spring and try to redeem a fortune that was literally overlock d. His story is an iliustration of the iact, made moze clearin the Klon- dike than ever before, that the oldest prospector will not trouble himself to look for gola where the greenest novice will dig and find it. “‘Three of us prospected below the iittle creeks that empty into the Yukon above Forty Mile and below Fort Selkirk,” said Sperry. We were in there two seasons. We found gold on nearly every bar, would rock a little and then go on up the river. There is gold in tho:e bars yet. Ido no: | River. believe it has all been taken out. We | see them fallows look at me. I couldn’t were not satisfied with what found and | buy & cent’s worth of grub from them. the second season we started up the river to find the place where all this zold came from. We believe! that somewhere up the river was a golden bar, so to speak— an original storehouse of gold. Ii we could find that vlace we knew we would never have to prospsct any more. Up the river we went, taking up a few pans here and there and not infrequently striking rich but small pockets iu the sand. We passed many little creeks, but did not go | up them very far. A few parns would be taken from the surface, but we generally found little more than a color or a few cents to the pan and on we wentup the main water course. “We passed by the now famous Klondike Think of it! Walked over a for- tune without looking atit. We went up the river # short distance and yprospected a little, but found nothing encouraging. My partners insisted that we were wast- ing time, so we dropped back withi the current and went on up the Yukon, still uopeful of striking the orizinal bank of gold, which should make us so rich that we were dazed when we thought of esti- mating tha gold in figures. We were thinking about pounds of goid. Now I believe that where we missed pounds tons of gold are likely to be taken out. It is up there, if it can be found. I calculate thut enough people are go- | ing in there to find a good deal of it. Well, we never found the original bar, or source of the gold. The ‘tenderfoot’ from the States has got the most of it. The formation of the country did not iook just right to us. OQur grub began to run low and we had to put back. “My partners deserted me.” he con- tinued, “‘but I was determined to stick it out aloneas long as I could. I kuew the gola was up there somewhere and 1 hated to turn tail. So I continued to prospect alone. I found a pretty good place on a bar and went to work. I was rocking away cneday, when suddenly I heard a familiar sound. It was the click, click of the poles of a boat coming up the river. I stopped and listened. Yes, there was no mistake, Isaw three men in a boat coming around a bend below me. I wanted more grub. I thought they were tenderfeet to be coming up the river at that time of the vear. I knew that they had not seen me, so I siipp:d across the river where I had gone into camp, and built a fire. It wasabout supper time. I figured they would see the smoke and come over, and they did. I haa caught a salmon that weighed about fifty pounds. the Indians catch salmon in the upper Yukon that weigh 100 pounds—en? Yes, I know that is a fish story, but it is a good one and trne. By the wiy, the name Klonaike is an Indian word and it means plenty of fish. Well, I had a baif loaf of bread left. To keep it fresh I wrapped it in cloth and buried it in a hole I made in the saud. I cooked plenty of fish that night. Those fellows stopped, came over and Iinvited them to supper. “Thet fish was fine. I gave them all they could eat and then went down to the bar and dug my bread out of the sand. 1 sliced off a very thin piece for each of us, renlaced the loaf carefu.ly and went back o the supper-table. The supper-table was a chunk of wood. They thought the bread was delicious, I pride myself that I can produce as good bread as any live man can make in a frying-pan. My flour had rearly run out’ and I wanted more. One of those fellows, after eating his slice, said, *Id like to have another piece of that bread, mister.’ *‘Oh, no,’ I said, ‘bread is too searce an article in this conntry to have more than one slice a day.’ “There is where I overdid myself,” said Sperry. *I scared ’em. You ought to | They had a boatload of it, too—every- thing! I offered big prices for it and showed the gold, but they wouldn’t sell a pound. The more money I offered the [ more scarod they got. Whit do you | think they did? They maved off up the river that night and camped by them- selves. Blast me, they were afraid I'd steal their grub. I never saw tkem again, but I heard that every mother’s son of them stayed in the country, thanks to their boatload of grub which I couldn’t getany of, and were amon the first into the Klondike iast spring. Nobody came out, and thev must nave been on the ground. Well, I am going back into that country next spring. Maybe I'll strike it and maybe I won’t. But I can tell you that next time I'il do more than pan on the suriace. I can dig, too, but I hate like —— to follow where a tenderfoot has shown the way.’ HaL HOFFMAN. S g S THE DANUBE AFFAIR. Rumor That the Vessel Was Selzad at Juneau for Smuggling Is Untrue. SKAGUAY, Araska, Aug. 9 (by steamer Danube via Victoria, B. C., Aug. 19).—A big row occurrod aboard the Canadian steamship Danube this afternoon. United States customs officers were ordered off the bridce and ashore by Captain Meyers of the Danube. The fact that there is a wharf in Skaguay Bay and the erowing jealouty between Dyea and Skaguay caused the trouble. The ramor at Juneau that the Danube was seized for smuggling whisky here is untrue. The Danube cleared at St. Marys for Dyea ana returned with permission 1o land freight at Skaguay. Ex-Deputy Col- lector Hammond +of Juneau, who has re- signed, and whose resignation it is said has been accepted, ordered the captain to stop discharging cargo. He refused on the ground that at any vlace in Dyea Inletis Dyea, as the limit of the new Dyea district has not been fixed. In this he was supportzd by the United States Customs inspector, who was taken on at St. Marys Island. This inspector considers that the merchancise is in transit and has a right to go through unmolested, the same as if landed in bond or at Dyea. He says Jones, the customs officer here, has no | list of duties ana is heipless to collect at Dyea or any other place and will remain helpless to coliect. Ex-Deputy Hammond was ordered off the bridge, and he went, Noduty is being collected on the goods. Har HorFFMAN. Officlal Correspondence. VICTORI1A, B. C., Aug. 20.—The follow- ing seif-explunatory correspondence is the outcome of the trouble the Dinube had recsntly with United States customs of- ficials. Mr. Earle is & member of Parlia- ment tor ibis district: VicToria, B. C, Aug. 19. To Sir Richard, Cartw:ight, Acting Premier, Ottawa, Ontario; The Deputy Collector will not permit Canadiun vessels toland freight and passengers at Skaguay Bay, the gateway to White Pass three miies from Dyea. American vessels doso. All travel and freight are going that way. If possible get permission from the Unitea States Government for Cauna- dian vesscls to land at S8kakuay Bay. Itis very urgent that such privilege should be se- cured immediately in theinterest of Cnnadian trade and shipping. T. EARLE. The following reply is from the Cana- dian Secretary of State: OTTAWA, Ontario, Aug. 20, To Thomas Earle, M. P., Victoria, B. C.: Am advised officially by the Treasury Department at Waskington that all vessels may enter at Skaguay and American officials have been wired accordingly. B. W. BcorT. e e One Exopedition Fails. LOS ANGELES, Can, Aug. 200—The steamer Caspar that was to have taken a { large party from Southern California to Dyea and Copper River in Alaska sailed from San Pedro to-day, thouzh Friday. As a sufficient number of passengers did not put up for their fare the charter of the boat was canceled, and instead of going to Alaska the Caspar cleared only for SBan Francisco, where other plans wi'l be made. The few passengers she took from here ex- pect to go on her no further than San Francisco. ON STE SNy e WART RIVER. Description of the Country Where Some Rich Strikes Have Been Made. Stewart River is the largest tributary on the eastern side of the Yukon proper, that is below the junction of Lewis and Pelly rivers, until the Porcupine is reached, which comes in at the great bend just under the Arctic Circle. It is seventy-five miles above the Kion- dike and about ten miles below the mouth of White River, which empties into the main siream irom sn aimost exactiy op- pos te direction to the Stewart. It takes its rise well up in the Rocky Mountains, and just over from the west forkof the Peel River, the principal branch of the Mackenzie. While the general course of the main siream and its principal tributary, the Beaver River, have been known mostly from Indian reports for two score years or more, but little or no exploration has ever been made of the adjoining country. It may be said, however, that it drains all the region west of the Rocky Mountains between the Pelly River and the Kion- dike, an area of a..out 33 000 square miles, or about as large as the State of Maine. .In the earlier days a trading post, the old Reid house, was established about eighty miles above its mouth, through which something of detail was learned of the country in the immediate vicinity, especially on the south side of the river, where, as along other streams in this sec- tion, the mountain slopes are not so for- bidding as on the north side. From the first the presence of cold on the bars and shoals of the river was well known, but little or nothing was done in the way of prospecting proper, that is, going down through the older gravel de- posits and bedrock in search of the pre- cious metal. Within the last three or four years, how- ever, more extended work has been done, and men with rockers have washed out $10 and $15 a day. These were mostly those who stopped over on a venture while en route to Forty-mile and other points below, and their work was conflned to the lower section of the stream. Sev- eral of those who recently came down Iaden from the Klondike had tried their luck previously on Stewart River. Among others, Messr:, Picotte ana Marcier, who for some weeks took out with rockers an average of $15 a day about twelve miles up the river. The recent strikes show that, taught by the experience on the Klondike, the min- ers understand better how to work the Stewart River deposits, and large returns may be looked for as the result of this sea- son’s work, The main river is approxi- mately abont 350 miles long, and the Beaver, its longest branch, about 150 miles in length, while there are other tributaries of consideratle length as yet unexplored, atl of which may bold in their untried beds treasures a5 rich or even richer than those lately unearthed on the Klondike. % S Convicts Have the Fever. SING SING, N. Y., Aug. 20.—The fame of the Klondike has reached the 1400 con- ’wm-ks on the Yukon country, and any in- formation the officials are able to give iy eagerly sought. The terms of twenty men expire at the same time early next spring. One of their number on Monday sent Warden Sage a letter requesting him to secure a statement of traveling expenses of a party from the prison to the Klon- dike. This was given to-day at $450. All were disappointed, as each wiil have only $25 in cash when released, but they say they will get there somehow. s RAILROAD TO KLONDIKE, From Tidewater on the Pacific to the Head of Navigation in the Y ukon Basin. A railroad from tidewater on the Pacific Coast to the head of navigation in the Yukon basin, and its completion by the earliest possible day, is now weil assured; also that it will follow the Taku River route over the divide to the head of Tes- lin Lake. Juneau merchants and property-holders are taking a most iively interest in the matter. It was at first proposed to make the western termiinus of the road at the head of the Taku Inlet, some thirty miles east of Juneau. Now, that the building of the rosd seems near, the merchants and property-owners of that city are avaken- ing to the fact that it will catch all of the overland Yukon trade, and if they arenot aliveto their own interests Juneau will be left out on the side, hence they are urging that that city be made the starting point, or if that cannot be secured that an extension be run from the Taku Inlet ter- minus up the beach to the city. Whether they will succeed on either proposition re- mains to be sedn, as the parties at the head of the enterprise are more interested in making money for themselves than in the present and future prosperity of Ju- neau. While making Juneau the terminus would mean a great enhancement of property vaiues there and justify her people in making large subscriptions toward the cost of building the road, at the same time the terminus on Taku Inlet would mean the founding and buildine up of a new city that would soor eclipse Juneau and bring large returns to its proprietors. The concern having the enterprise in hand is the Yukon Mining, Trading and Transportation Company, composed of Charles F. Hutchins, Willard Saulsbury and others of Wilmington, Do, and several New York and Canadian capital- ists, witn P. J. Packard of Portland, Or. The company was organized about two years ago and soon after sent Mr. Packara to examine the several routes and report as to the most practicable one for & rail- road, which was from the first one of the leading features of the company’s plans, Mr. Packard spent the whole of last sea- son in the field, and after examining the Chilkoot, Skaguay and Stickeen River routes, as well as the Taku, returned to the East in Octover last and laid the re- sults of his investigation before the di- rectors of his company, with a recommen- aation in favor of the latter route. It was adopted and charters were sought and ob- tained from the United States, Canada and British Columbia. The latter Gov- ernment, in addition to granting the charter, gives the company a bonus of 5120 acres of land for every mile of roza constructed, As the road will be some 130 m:les long this will give them a total ot over 650,000 acres in a promising min- eral region. Teslin Lake is drained by the Hoota- linqua or Teslin® River, which empties into the Lewis River some distance beiow Lzke Levbarge. Light draught steamers of 150 or 200 tons can run the whole length of the lake, and there are no obstacles in on the Chilcoot and Lake Linderman either river,such as the White-horse rapids route to hinder free passage. It is in- tended to run a line of such steamers be- tween the head of Teslin Lake and Daw- son—connecting with the railroad—and it is calculated that the trip from Taku to Klondike can be made in five or at most six days. Mr. Packard was engaged in making further examination of the Taku route preliminary to putting a locating party in the field when the news from the Klon dike came down, and this decided the company o begin the work of location and follow with the construction without delay. While the Taku River route presents no such heavy grades as would be encoun- tered on the Chilcoot or the Skaguay route nor any engineering problems as se- rious us have been overcome on the Oana« dian P.cific or several roads in the United States there will be some entirely new ones. In several places between Juneau and Taku and up Taku River tue road will have to be carried across the face of broad glaciers whica, starting high up in the mountains, thrust their broad fronts quite aown to the water's edge. Just how these difficulties will be met will, of course, be governed by the peculiar conditions of each case. With thisroad in operation it is not probable that any other will be started, as the advantages all lie with this route. B s SOUND CITIES CROWDED. But trhe Miners Will Not Start for Alaskan Gold Flelds Until Next Spring. The Umatilla arrived from the Sound yesterday morning with fresh news re- garding the mining excitement in the north. Officers of the ship say the excite- ment over mining is very great, though most of those intending to go will wait until spring. In all the cities of the norin, both in the United States and the British territory, the streets are thronged with miners, and in many of them the miners havetad a hara time in securing lodgings. The miners who have made the most careful study of the situation say they bave no desire 10 go to Alaska until spring, but they want to be near, so as to make a start without delay. The Thomas Dwyer has been made into an ark, almost the enrire deck space being inclosed. She came from Portland here without being inclosed, and there is little doubt that she will be able to make the trip to St. Micbael in the same way. Sha will be towed up by ihe Navarroand wi.l run up the Yukon to Dawson. Connty Clerk, providing for a capital stock 0f $1,000,000, of which $100 000 nas been suv= scribed as foliows: F. G Lacy, $50,000; Frederick Bralich and Roderick D nels, $24,900 each; Emelio Lastreto and F. We Reade, $100 each. S A GOULDS NOT INTERESTED. They Wiil Have Nothing to Do With ‘‘Gas” Addicks’ K ondlke Enterprise, NEW YORK, N. Y, Aug. 20 —George Gould took a hanl in Kiondike, T:ursday by reremptorily vrdering E. F. J. Gaynor, auditor of the Manhat‘an Railway, (0 re- tire from the treasurership of the Yukon, Caribco and British Columbia Gold Min- Ing and Development Company, of which ':Gun" Addicks is president. Gonld is in Europe, but he cabled the order to Gay- nor. It is under-tood that Gotld ob- jected to Addicks’ boom adyertisements predicting immense sirikes, and did not want the Manbattan roal identified with the company throngh its anditor’s con- :ectlon therewith. Frank Gould said to- a “Some misapprehensions arose because of the name of an employe of the Manhat- tan Eevated Railway Company being counected with the Klondike company. None of the Goulds are interested in any Klondike enterprises. Becauss of these misapprehensions Auditor Gaynor was asked to resign from the Kiondike com- . pany. He has done so.'” ‘‘Gas” expects, or sy representative in the Klondike, ex-Gover- nor McGraw, to secu e claims of fabulous ys he expects, his richness, 21.d has been making represen- 1ations accordingly, flooding the New York and other papers with sednctive ad- vertisements of grand prospecis and offer- ing the stock at $1 a suare, - Minister Sifton Golng. OTTAWA, ONt, Aug. 2.—Hon. Chr- ford Sifton, Minister of the Interior, has decided to accompany Major Walsh, tne new provincial Governor of the Yukon district, as far as Tagisi, so that he may be able to see the condition of affairs con- nected with the transportation of supplies tothe Yukon. The party leaves on the Victoria Government steamer Quadra on the 26th inst. for Dyea. The new regis- trar, Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Ayimer, has resigned his position. He will not be able on account of his health to stand the climate. Mr. Jennings, a clvil engineer of Toronto, and surveyor of the party, will leave Victoria about September 2 He will go to survey a route for a railway on Canadian seil leading toward the interior. Jennings is now preparing for the trip. e el A LULL IN THZ RUSH. Klondikers Are Not so Numerous Along the water Front. The rush to Kiondike was not very great on the front Tuursday. The departure of the North Fork with the Mare Island in tow gave the curiosity-seekers no occasion to visit Mission-street wharf, and in consequence tieir atiention was directed to the Thomas Dwver. The iatter came down here from Portland under steam and made a lair-weather pissuge all the way. A few planks in her deckhouse were siove in, but taking it all in ali the stern-wheeler made exc. llent time to this port. 8he i1 now to make a longer trip, how- ever. She is to be usea a: a tend-r o the steam-schooner Nuavarro, and ill be towed by that vessel to Si. Michael On arriving at that point the Navarro’s passengers will be transferred to the Dwyer, and then the start for Dawson City will be made. Should the river freeze up the passenpers will be fed und taken care of until 1heir destination 1s reached. Only seventy-five passengers will be car- ried on the Navarro. The Cabifornia-Alaska Commercial and Navigation Company isto bhuve two swift river steamers constructed here this winter that they may be employed on the Yukon as soon as navigation opens next season. The boats will be taken in sections St Micbael and there put together early in the spring. The company building them Pproposes to establish trading stations ana stores a.ong the Yukon, and will also en- deavor 1o send its crait up the Stewart and other effluents of 1he great waterway of Alaska and the Northwestern terriiory if it prove possible. The steamer Walla Walla got away from Puget Sound yestercay morning, but haa very few passengers en route tor Dyea. The rush seems to be over and the chances are that very few peopie wiil leave here for Dawsen City before nex: spring. MUsT PaX¥ THE DUTY, Attorney-General McKenwna Will Decide Against the Canadian Pacific. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 20.—The CaLL correspondent was informed by a re- hable party atthe Devartment of Justice this afternoon that Attorney-General Mc- Kenna would decide the discriminating 10 per cent duty case againstthe Canadian Pacitic. This additional duiy will hav: to be paid on the carload of tea from Japan which came by way of the Canadian Pacitic irom Vancouver to Chicago, thenge by otner roads to New Orleans. This will bea beavy blow to the Canadian Pacific Railroad, as it will deprive them o1 a vast dealof traffic that will now come via the American trunscontinental lives in order to escape the impo«ition of 10 per cent on goods from a foreign country entering tne United States from a contiguous coantry. T S G 5 A New Postoffice. WASHINGTON, D. C.. Aug A postoffice was to-day established at Bal- larat, Inyo County, Cal, and John . Stotler was avpointed Postmaster, NEW TO-DATY. 1 CUREHITS When Isay I cure I do not mean merely to stop them for a time and then have them re- turn again. 1 mean a radical cure. I havemade the disease of FITS, EPILEPSY or FALLING SICKNESS a life-long study. I warrant my remedy to cure the worst cases. Because others have failed is no reason for not now receiving a cure. Send at once for a treatise and a Free Bottle of my infallible remedy. Give Express and Post Office address. Prof. W. H. PEEKE, F.D., 4 Cedar St., New York. MADE ME A MAN AJAX TABLETS Y CURE AEE Nersous Diaccsce-aiing, Moss potency, lessness, etc., coused B A B iher s and surely an o Indis- ek T e T CT T o Prevent i Tusanity’ and piion 1t The old coast and geodetic survey steamer Hassler has been bought by Ma- gee Bros. of Portland and will run from tue Sound to St. Michael in the spring. Tue owners have already sent the stern- wheeler Eugenie on the Bristol. She will connect with the Hassler and run to Daw- son. The Bessie K, with the El Sueno on .board, will sail for St. Michael this morn- ing with a tull passenger list. s Prenag et Klondike Exporers. L Articles of incorporation of the Klondike and Alaska Gold, Exploration snd Trad- ing Company have been filed with the ————————————— DIED. A. 0. U. W.—Burns Lodgs No. 68, A. 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