The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 6, 1897, Page 1

O -~ £6 3 DL > - M =S VOLUME SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY XXH.—, N PRICE FIVE CENTS. WILL RAID THE CAMP AT SKAGUAY Officers of Alaska Intend to Drive Out the Lawless Element. SHARKS ON THE TRAIL WITH A SHELL GAME. | |4 : Hardships of Unfortunate Gold-Seekers, Who Cannot Go Forward, Increased by the Bold Operations of Criminals. SEATTLE, Wasg.,, Sept. bout reached a crisis at Skaguay. serted, cannot be averted, nof affairs is so alarming ent officers are gathering in e Americans. The steamer from the north at tock nd brings down latest tablished. In spite of the attempt of the miners’ committee to close the trail so that it could be repaired, oae party of twelve, with drawn revo!ve nd loaded rifles, announced their intention of going through to the summit. They passed a guard of miners and set out for the sum- o tne alleged that gamblers and nals, while robbing miners mit. The committee was called together e day and night, aredoing | and a number of armed men were sent their power to cause & er them to head them If trouble is te Pass and drive the erate men into a winter’s so that tke robbery can ome of the most notorious | of the country are tnere. The | me is being worksed with suc- th mit of Wrnite Pass m Smith, a renowned crook | OPening Up the Route From is. An ex-convict from Mon- | Skaguay. g him. Then, too, thieves | SKAGUAY, Arnaska, A 0% Nas 66997 oné aihors Scovel of the New York World landed vas relieved of $1490. vesterday morning at Skacuay by a spe- e Queen were George B. Kittinger | Ci2lly chartered tug from Juneau with e Cmsonolin Chadbourne | tWO tons of blasting powaer and the neces- co, a State Harpor Com- | SMTY 100ls to equip seven complete crews \foraia, From interviews | 10T Tock work on the Skaguay trail, and d with these men it is apparent that the | 25 fast as horses and as vet to 58 told concerning the | it W38 nf to the frout. Astihe mules Skazuay. Mr Kittinger, who | PAssed ti€ weary miners, wiio, us soon as representative of Millionaire | the¥ learned that the World had agreed Adicks, returned for addi. | '© furnish tools and powder for the hills with wiich to secure boats | 28d started to corduroy the muddy ansportation from their camp to | P1aCes, they were greeted with a shout that Before leav ng the trail Mr. [ M2de the weikin ring. ered two men $200 a thousand In the evening there was a meeting at ring lumber at the lakes for | the foot of the first hill attended by over The men refused the job, and | 900 Sturdy miners, wiio organized for the hally contracted to purchase | worls in front .ul them anfl elected an ex- each. Kittinger s ‘evcul_we committee, consisting of James eling is most intense among | Christie of Portland, president; Puil ners on ihe. trail. Trouble'of the | Abrams, secret C. A Cramer of Seat- ous nature is likely to break ont | /& Mr. Heacock and Mr. Day as super- ute. The miners’ committee, | Intendents, who in turn selected experi- the wholesalo stealing that enced rockmen for the work on hilis and ing on for weeks p. held a | veteran loggers for the work of corduroy- d announced that the first man | 1B2 the muddy places. theft would be strung up with- | Thereare30 Canadian mounted police on ality of a trial. the trail, and they have pitched in withas the men in the camp have been | €200 3 Will a3 any miner, and say that the emem= et e e e building of this trail now will enable e trail and by the terrible hard:hips averted it will be by the greatest good luck. The men have lost all sense of rea- son and are desperate and reckless. e BLASTING ON THE TRAIL. 28 —Sylves- horrors a 0 boa Kittinger at a Things | where the Canadian customs officers is es- | Two Tons of Expiosives for Use In | men could get at it ; | @ E i VIEW FROM THE ofl the h-Indian forces against and are holding the frontier lies. The city stands on a fertile plain, sou and the frontier. CITY OF PES the Hill Country of The city of Peshawur is now the center of the preparations for the advance the Mahmand Atrides, Orakzais and others of the Pathan hillsmen who have swept away the British advance posts, th of the Cabul River, between the Indus It is the administrative center of tbe district of Pethawur as HAWUR Westward the Afridis Beyond. ing on the frontier. is the most important city west of the Inias River. the mouth of Kohat Pass on the south, Khyber Pass on the west, and Tartara and Abkhana to the northwest, as well as the forts of Bara, Jamrud, Mutthea and Michni, which stand in a sort of semicircle between it and the danger to_the Mouth of Khyber Pass and well as of the province composed of Peshawur, Hazara and Kohat districts, and From its towers can be seen threaten- them to get in the seventy tons of provi- | sions 1n time to build and provision tne | mail stations in their territory so that | they can operate dog teams all winter, | and they agree to deliver the mail every ‘ two weeks from the Klondike to the Amer- | | ican line. Work 1s in progress for fifteen | miles along the trail, and all travei and | packing has been suspended until it is | completed. ‘ There have been some kickers, as usual, | but they are so much 1n the minority that they have to submit. While I believe that this trail will be completed in ten days so | that travel can be resumed, don’t start for this point expecting to zet oyer for at least | thirty days, as it will take toat long after | the trsil is completed toget all the miners | over who are now thzre. There would never have been so much trouble for { small parties, but the swarm of people, | 95 per cent of whom were tenderfeet znd knew nothing abou: packing and moun- !’ taineering, has been the cause of the con- gestion at this point. The first reports about this trail were inspired by interested parties who are | trying to start a town here and are also engaged in the whisky business. There | | are not nearly as many discouraged pros- | pectors selling their outfits for a song as | has been reported, but a good many who have started for the Klondike have given | up that idea and have turned townsite buyers, and are building all kinds of buildings and are establishing themselves for the winter as best they can. A week ago lumber could be got for $27 per thon- | sand; now it is $50, and none to be had. Rubber bocts, heavy shoes and oil cloth- | ing are in demand and fetch big prices. Hardware of all kinds sells well. The| | Aleska Pacific Express Company has made arrangements to open an office here and has appointed H. E. Battin, formerly of Portland, agent. The steamship Queen of Seattle, steam- ships Al-Ki and Danyte of Victoria have landed over 500 passengers, 300 tons of freight ana 200 borses and mules since August 25, and still there are more to fol- low. On board the steamship Queen on this trip are two parties, one organized in Chicago of four gentlemen baving 1n their party a dgetor, lawyer, commission merchant and assaver, all under the guidance of L. L. Bales, who has spent the last eight years in Aluska as a trapoer, bunter and guide. Toey will stay along the coast in the Alexanarian Archipelaro | this winter, and in the spring will thor- oughly prospect the. Copper Rivercoun- try. Fisher of Los Angeles,"Cal,, and will push into the Copper River country this winter. J. M. HAGERTY. Fecoagas RICH QUARITZ MINES. Valuable Properties In Southeast- ern Alaska May Be Sold In the Eastern Market. JUNEAU, ArasgaA, Aug. 29.—In Juneau at present there are quite a number of well-known mining men who are desirous of procuring for the Eastern market some of the vealuable mining properties of Southpeastern Alaska. An important sale \was made last week of a group of mines at Funter Bay, Admiralty Island. There are quite a number of fine claims in the immediate vicinity oi Funter Bay, some of which have already become well known in the mining world. A couple of promi- nent citizens of this town have secured The otber party i ceaded by E. H. | lobnons on over $1,000,000 worth of the best available properties in this vicinity, from Berners Bay, Sheep Creek, Douglas Isiand and Sumdum. Their intention is to be in Seattle early in September, where they have arranged to meet Eastern capitalists and submit these propo-itions, showing unquestion- able evider.ce of the richness of tne ledges and disposing of the mines for cash. This will prove a very good thing for Juneau, going far to maintain this town as the business center for all mining operations in this part of Alaska, | Both the Bald Eacle and Sumdum Chief companies have just struck very rich | ledges, and the Julian and Comet at Ber- | ners Bay are surpassing their previous rich outputs. It has been stated that | there would be upward of a hundred quariz mills betwéen Juneau and Seattle before five vears have elapsed, and the present prospects and activity in mining circles would indicate thatsuch acon- dition will be fully realized. —_—— More Rushing In. PORTLAND, Or., Sept. 5.—The steam- ship George W. Elder sailed to-night for Dvea and Skaguay, Alaska. She carried 100 passengers, 75 horses and mules and 25 head ot cattle. She also carried 80,000 feet of lumber to fill orders from Skaguay, where a large number of dwellings are being constructed. Among the passen- gers was the Colorado-St. Louis par.y, beaded by Dr. Schumann. S e Gold From Stewart River. SEATTLE, WasH., Sept. in a letter to the Post-Intelligencer from Skazuay, dated Aungust 29, after confirm- ing the worst accounts of the muddled ey have been compeiled toendurein the hopeless struggle against odds. The miners have become suspicious of each | other and quarreis are of hourly occur- | rence. y man’s hand is raised man. The lawl e much in evidence and dissensions and discords have broken out among the | miners until such a thing as co-operation | is impossibie. Words are utterly inade- quate to describe the trail. You cannot put it too strong, If there were 300 there | instead of 6000 it would be different, but | ith men ana borses—some of the latter | not more brutes than the men—there is much struggling and fizhting for a chance | to get beyond the summit. All efforts to | place the trail in shape for travel are ut- | every othe The attention of the authorities of | Alaska have b-en drawn to Skaguay, and | Governor Brady and Coliector Ivey feel and have expressed the st concern at the ovtloo! Colonel Chadbou talked to both these. He says Collector | Ivey detailed an S (e intention of raid of deputy whiskv smugg'ers, saloon men s esting the cor inoun d to him his i with a force | | Jeuk ol out the | i ; ana dive | ence men | id Colonel Chaabourne, ay in which they bhope to res of ail descriptions during | The whiskv men and thieves to keep the trail blocked be forced to wiu- They know that tve 1ot able to'cope with them | and they figure on getting every dollar | out of the tende t from the East before | spring sets'in. All sorts of traps are Jaid ior the unwary Easterners and men from | 1 ages of the Coast. Soapy Jim, one of the most notorious confidence operators on the Coast, condu a shell game right ocut on the open trail. Jack Joily, the murderer who has just been released from the Montana penitentiary, is on the | groands and says that Skaguay is the easiest graft in the country.” i Collector Ivey said that if he could break up the whisky smugglers and dive- | keepers the camp would disperse, the gold- hunoters return (o June and the Sound for the winter and qui would be re- ored. : Governor Brady is quoted as saying that the situation is laden with trouble, and that he intends notifying the department 1« Washington of the condition of uffairs, The action of the Collector’s deputies in ! taxing the Canadian mounted police $30 | per head duty for their horses has in- censed the Canadians, and as they passed up the trail they openly announced their intention of ‘‘cinchbing” the first of the American miners that got to Lake Tegish, s e winter. e conspired L e e Ut @ Vi GETTING READY FOR THE OPENING. ] The above‘ picture, which is from a sketch made by H. W. Nelson, represents a scene before the pioneer dance hall of Skaguay just previous to opening for business. The piano on the wagon was formerly used in Morosco’s Theater in this City, but four years ago it was taken to Juneau and placed in the opsra-house therF. When the Klondike craze set in and gave Skaguay a boom one of the first necessities of the new town was a dance hall. People couldn’t dance without music, and as all the fiddlers had thrown up their positions and gone to the mines, the piano in the Juneau Opera-house was purchased and shipped to the new town. The owner of the wagon in which the piano was transported from the beach was ordered out of town for taking $1o from the body of a man which he had recovered from the river. He accordingly disposed of his wagon and horses for the sum of $2250 and left. . The present owner is now earning $240 a day with the outfit. The rcpe with a running noose at the end hanging from the limb of a tree is termed * The Policeman,” and is intended as a warning to the criminal element. ! by shiplead ana condition of aifairs at the pass, states that two men, whose names he does not give, have just arrived overland. direct from Stewart river, bringing $7000 each in dust and nugeets. The news will cause an addi- tional move toward Stewart River, which has been graduaily coming into notice since it became a settled fact that all the claims on Bonanza and El Dorado creeks were taken up. No News From the Cleveland. PORT TOWNSEND, WasH., Sept. 5.— The steamer Claveland, now due from St. Michael, bas not yet been reported. The wire to Tatoosh, the point at which the steamer will be sighted, is down, and no news has been received from there to-day. L Sea s i NELSON TELLS OFSKAGUAY A Returned Rusher Describes the Boom He Found In That City of Many Tents. The Umatilla got in from the Sound at a little past noon yesterday a day later than ber schedule, owing to the fact that she left here a day late on her last upward trip. The steamer was well laden and had a large passenger list, but she had aboard only ons man who could tell a tale of Alaska. He was H. W. Nelson, a Kion- dike rusher on the retrest from Skaguay and the forbidding trails. He isa rustler recently back from Guatemals, and he says that he will tackle the trail up there again in the spring. He worked bis way back irom Seattle as second baker on the Umatilla. He was with the crowd that went from here on the Willamette several weeks ago, and says that seventeen of the hundreds who went packed in that big collier have sold their outfits to return. “It's wonderful how Skaguay grew while I was there.”’ said Nelson yesterday. ““When I arrived there were 500 tents and 1500 tents went up in two or three days. When I left there were nine buildings up and hundreds of thousands of feet of lum- er had been landed, It has gone there vargeload. Everybody has landed with more or less money and they are blowing it in. ““Men who want to work are making §5 to $15 a day packing, according to how much they can carry. Iknow one fellow who was a waiter and who is getting §10 for carrying a chain on the survey for that railroad, and flunkeys are getting §$5 a day, butthat is only temporary. Some fellows with money have been bound to get as far as possible and they would hire stout men wanting to work, paying as high as 40 cents a pound for packing. Lots of men see no possibility oi getting over the trail this year and they propose to waitthere and go in next spring. They want to keep as near the yola as possible. I was there when Stewart, Thorn and the other two came out by the lakes with a bi- sack of rold'dust ana a nugget haif as big as my fist. When you're there and see such things vou are ant to want to stick as near to the Klondike as you can and get there as soon as pos-ible. “When I left there was a dance ha!l go- ing in a big tent and the piano in it used to be in Morosco’s Theater here. Billy Cuapman, who used to be at Morosco’s organized a variety troupe and went to Juneau four years ago, where he opened the Juneau Opera House. He opened a saloon at Skaguay »s soon as the tide | 1| turned toward the White Pass trail. saw that piano hauled from the beach on a wagon with a history. It belonged to the man who refused to haul a corpse to the beach unless he was paid $10 aud was given twenty-four hours to zet out. He sold his horse and wagon for $2300 and the owner is now making about $200 a day hauling stuff from the beach, where 1t is landed, up out of the reach-of high tiae. When 1 leit about August 18 there'was one policeman for 5000 people and that was enough. There was a sign stuck up on a pole, ‘No thieves wanted town; take warning,” and a rope was hung beside it. Men were selling their outfits and leaving every day, but the great majority will stay. Juneau will be a hot town this wintér. People can’t win- ter in tenis at Skaguay and Juneau is al- ready crowded.” —_— Guasin of Senator Hannn, CLEVELAND, Omuro, Sept. 5—Secre- tary of War Alger, who was the guest of Senator Hanna to-day, started this after- noon for New York, where he will me-t Mrs. Alger. Secretary Wilson and daughter went riding this evening with Mrs. Hanna. They will depart for Wash- 10gLon LO-MOrrow. in this | BRITSH TRODPS MASSING Tribesmen Concentrate, but Appear Loth to Attack. AFRIDIS RETURNING TO KHYBER PASS. Heroes From Fort Lundi-Kotal Given an Enthusiastic Reception. AFGHANISTAN’S AMEER ANXIOUS. IS Now Doing All He Can to Prevent Hls Subjects From Participat- ing In the Revolt. PESHAWTUR, Ixpia, Sept. 5.—No fight- ing of importance has occurred between the Government forces and the tribesmen who have taken part in the uprising. The enemy are concentrating at various points, and it is estimated that 17,000 of them are now on tne Amana range, but they ap- pear loth to attack the government forces. It is reported that the followers of Had- dan Mullah in the Shabkdar district are deserting him and the Afridis are return- ing 0 Khyber Pass. The British troops are massing along the disturbed lines and several columns have been sent out in aifferent directions. A slight skirmish has occurred near Hangu, from which point a small column was dispatched and scoured the districts of Algimir, Nawimela and Turi. They found the enemy’s posts deser.ed. There was some firing, but the enemy refused to be engaged at close quacters. Tbe Subadar commanding the Mullagori levies and forty of his company, who formed a part of the garrison at Fort Lundi-Kotal, arrived at Jamrund on Frie day, and were given an enthusiastic Te- ception. the entire garrison turning out and cheering as they entered the town. The Mullagoris cut their way through tha enemy after the capture of Fort Lundi- Kotal, and marched to their own country, where they buried their dead and re- assured their friends. They then pro- ceeded to Jamrund, which they reached in safety with their arms. LONDON, Exa., Sept. 6.—The Times this morning publishes a dispatch from Simla saying that further evidence has been ob- tained of the desire of the Ameer of Af- ghanistan to prevent his subjects from going into the frontier disturbances. The British agent at Cabul submitted at the Ameer’s request a written statement show- ing the points upon which the Govern- ment laid special stress. 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