The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 7, 1897, Page 1

o {7, VOLUME LXXXIIL— SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER PRICE FIVE CENTS. GG PECESIN ALERT BAY Fate of the Rickety Old| Northbound Steamer Eugene. ABANDONED BY THE BRISTOL. Passengers Also Refusz to Further Risk Their |Lives and Leave in Disgust. OTHER INCIDENTS OF THE RUSH FOR GOLD. | Governor Brady of Alaska Deter- mined to Suppress the Lawless | Element at Skaguay. | VICTORIA, B. C. of the Sept. 6.—The maa cruise river ne, which Lade defiance to the I tom offi- cers ut U d sailed | for St. Michael with the steamer Hope in | il pursutr, has come to manner quite as 1re and escape. elding to the repre- ons of marine men that the Eugene e probably be a‘coffin for all on fnot picked up, gave the desired | 1 1o allow the Bristol to pick up | stol then made speed and took the river bo ast as the latier was | passing througtk mour Narrows. About way between Cape Scott and the ower ena of Queen Charlotte Sound, | ere there is particularlv rough water | il seasons, a heavy blow from the heast sprang the Eugene’s timbers, | she commenced to leak badly. The 13, not caring to further jeopard- ives, held a meeting and decidea no further. ain Lewis, knowing that to return itish port would entail severe pen- nd his command. de- | es upon himself an id keep on to St 'Mich- — broke loose.” Then ed and took possession | the s aptain MeIntyre of the | Bristol being apy ecided that | their action was stifia He accordingly towed the filling river | where she was aban- | The passencers by the Eugene at | y met the steamer Capillano and at | red ber a charter for St. Michuel. | Ca Powers had to proceed home for orders, however, and reached Vancouver this morning with the news. e Bristol, ker trip blocked by the se- f misadventures to the Eugene, has now no other course open than to return | to Victoria, and 1n fact she may be ex- | pected hourly. | e BRADY 1S NOT BLUFFING. A'aska’s Governor Will Suppress | the Lawiess at Skaguay Ir It | Takes the Whole Navy. 1 PORT TOWNSEND, Wasn., Sept, 6 — | From officers of the tug Pioneer, whicn arrived to-day direct from Skaguay, it is | Tearned that previous reports relative to | legal action to be taken in suppressing gambiing and sale of l.quor at that place | is no joke, as Govermor Brady hassent | word that order must be preserved there, | even if the entire United Staies navy has | 1o be ceiled upon to enforce order. Ola | Alaskans here who are personally ac- | quainted with Governor Brady say he is man who means all he says, and that it | he es a stand he will carry out his | promises. e EXAMINED BY ENGINEERS. Reports Made on the ExIsting Con- ditlens at the Skaguay and Dyea Tralls. SEATTLE, WasH.,, Sept. 6.—After an exam:ination of thirty daysof the Skaguay trail R. H. Stretch, a mining engineer of this city, sa aguay Valley was once occupied by a huge glacier. Near the lower end the rocks are ancient sedimentary or stratified deposits with innumerable dikes and stringers of granitic aspett, but all the upper portions of the valley and the sum- | mit of the range are nothing but a very | coarse granite without a trace of any structure, but with Very strongly marked | nearly horizontal bedding planes cut by | nearly vertical cleavage joints: The zction of the ice which tormeriy plowed its way | down the valley has ground these rocks to polished surfaces, the vertical faces sup- | poriing only 2 few lichens, while the horizontal benches before the advent of | the gold-seekers were covered with a thick | carpet of moss and lichens, which, though | with but a very frail hold on the rocks. gave a sure and satisiactory foothold. Only in a few places are there pebbies or | bowlders and but few rock siides, but | where these do exist ttie .ndividual bowl- ders are so larze and massed so irregular.y that travel over them is more difficuit than gver the solid unbroken benches. wOf earih there is practically none, but in the course of ages a black vegetable muck has accumulated in some of the crevices and in - potholes along the river bottom. Ecrubby timber—spruce, birc) and alder—finds a foothold in the crevices, the latter chieflv in the wetter bottoms. Over such material the trail finds its way. Distances from Sk y are: Firstcross- miles; end of road, 3% e. 5 miles; Porcupine 714 miles;. second crossing of river (bridge), 1135 miles; third crossing of river (bridge), 1314 miles; fourth crossing of river (bridge), 1434 miles; fifth crossing of river (ford), 17} miles; summit, 19‘ | the 1 | human lie i THE SAN FRANCISCO LETTER-CARRIERS as They Appeared in the Parade on Market Street Yesterday Afternoon. Carriages Nea: the Head of the Procession. A Postmaster Montagde in One of the miles; Meadows, 26 miles; Lake Bennett, 42 miles, “Five miles ont, at the smal! lake, the elevation i< 460 feet, The trail quickiy ascends to 810 feet, and then sinks to 470 at Porcupine Creek. down to the second crossing, 1000 feet ele- vation. The fourth bridge is 1400 feet ove 1he sea, and the trail almest at once es upward to 2100 feet. A descent is then made to the ford, 1800 feet high, and then comes the climb to the summ:t, an elevation of 2600 feet. From this point tc lake the trail 1s nov extremely dif ficu Mr. Stretch says there is no danger to making the trip. Dvea traii has been reperted on officially by John A. Miller, a railroad engineer. "“A gool road,’”’ he says, “‘extends for eight miles; then it gets muddy, but not | very bad. Pack trainsof horses make the round trip to Sheep Camp, fourteen miles, in a day, carrying 250 pounds. From there to the foot oi the nil! the road good, and here is whera the sezkers of gold are delayed on this trail. For about two miles the difficuities to overcome are equally as bad as on the Skaguay trail, but, baving once got over the summ the trail i1s comparatively easy. After talking with reliab e men, who have noth- ing at stake and who have been cver both s, alter talking with Indians who know every inch of the country and afier my own experienca on both trails, I can only come to one conclusion and that is that at the present iime the Dyea trail is the only practical one and it is getting too late to attempt that now.” - CLOSED &Y THE RAINS. Dismal Story of the Skaguay Trail Brought Down by the Tug Pioneer. PORT TOWNS I'be tug Pioneer, aptain Neilson, which | four weeks ago towed the barges A jax and | Bjax, laden with horses, from Seattie to Dyeaand Skaguay, retvrned at 9:30 o’clock this morning with the barge Ajax in tow, | having sold the Bjax to be used as a lighter at Dyea. The Pioneer was at the | two 1andings over two weeks and Captain Neilson says the half has not been told of the miserable condition of the trails over | which the gold-seekers are striving to | Captain Was- | son, banker and ex-Collector of Customs | cross to Lake Linderman. for the Puget Sound district, is reported as peing camped on the bsach at Skagray with not one chance in 5000 of getting through this fal!. He has ten horses. One man at Dyea offered $750 to have 1200 pounds packed over, but the packers refused the offer. Less than fifty persons have succeeded in crossing from Skaguay and Dyea. The trail is practically closed on account of the mud. LR DR. SMITH’ Declares the White Horse Trail Is the Blggest Humbug Ever Perpetrated. PORTLAND, Or., Sept. 6.—Dr. Andrew C. Smith, who leit for Alasks on a vaca tion about a month ago, taking with him three men with an outfit, whom he hoped | to send into the gold fields of the K oa- dike, returned home last night. He came down by the steamer Queen to Seattie and then home via the Northern Pacific. Dr. Smith is outspoken in the assertion that the White Horse trail is the biggest hum- bug ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public. “This trail,” said he, *“is advertised by a lot of townsite boomers who bave no other object in view than to boom tie town. Miuers have been working on this trail for a year; they are still working on it and they will work on it for years to come betore they wili eyer succeed in making people believe thav this is the most feasible route to the gold fields. The people now congregated at Skaguay are the most disgusted crowd I ever saw in In a shortdistance | the elevation is 1400, and the path zigzags | | di: 1SNOL 80 4, 1 arted for the northern gold lands a few | fally, DISGUST. | | sail from Chicago in about my life. I myself was lea into the trap and haa I kept away I would have beern money and time ahead. After prospect- ing the trail thoroughly I came to the conclusion that my men would never get across. It is enough to discourace the strongest mountaineer. Seeingthat I had been cau:ht for a ‘sucker,’” along with thousands of others, I reduced my outfit from 4500 pounds to 1500 and called two ot my men off. I then wentto Dyea and had no troudle in getting my one pros- pector and his 1500-pound pack over the de.” Dr. Smith is one of Portland’s most sub- stantial men and absolutely reliable, too. CRAZED BY THE KLONDIKE While Her Husband Is Struggling Forward Mrs, Carscadden Be- comes a Manlac. PORTLAND, Or, Sept. 8.—Sorrow and ction have come upon the home of J. J. Carscadden, a restaurant man who weeks since. His wife, who was left be- hind in charge of his business, has become so wrought up over the horrors of the long trail to the Yukon that she bhas lost her reason. She is in ironsatthe County Jail, and to-morrow will be taken to the Salem Asylom. Mrs. Csrscadden manifested a violent desire to kill her Iittle son at the County Jail last night when be was taken in to see her. By direction of Judge Northup Mrs. Carscadaen was examined for insanity this morning by Dr. Coe, who found that the woman's mania was of a very violent, hvsterical kind. Somewhere up in the snowbound moun- tains of Alaska, Carscadden, the hus- band and father, is toiling along hope- thinking of the day when, with riches realized and the hard task over, he will return to his waiting wife and boy. But it will be many montks before he knows of the misfortune that has befallen his house. His restaurant business will be left to other hands, the home broken up, and worst of all—his wife in a mad- bouse. To-night the woman’s cries, as they rang through the cells, were biood- curdling and dreadfal. Mrs. Carscadden’s hallucination has re- cently taken complete possession of her. She believes ti.at her husband is perishing beyond the reacn of help. With every report from guay trail from the time the steamer Eider made its first trip, she became more and more worked up. She was unable to subdue her imagination. When she received a letter from her hus- vsnd it did not reassure her, and in the days of silence following she awoke each morning to fresh terrors. “KLONDIKE OR SINK.” That Wil Be the Motto of a Party Saillng From Chicago In a Schooner. CHICAGO, ILL., Sept. 6.—"Klondike or Sink,”” will be the motto of members of an expedition which proposes to navigate from Chicago to the mouth of the Yukon River in the schooner George Sturges, a well-known lake vessel. The Sturges will a month, manned and provisioned fdr a trip of six months’ duration. At the end of that time, 1f ail goes well, the craft will be | among the icebergs in Bering Bea, and the doughty mariners ready io ascend the Yuzon in the spring. The Sturges to-day was purchased by a party ol men, headed by Adolph Frietsch, tue bold mariner of the little yacht Nina, which crossed the Atlantic, and it has been figureq out among members of the party that a large number of man can get to Alaska cheaper in this way than any other. They propose to sail down the great lakes and St. Lawrence River-to the Atlantic, and thence, rounding Cape Horu snd back up the Pacific Coast to the Continued on Second Page FAMINE 1S THREAT [N IRELAND Failure of the Harvest Causes a Gloomy Outlook. CEREALS RUINED BY FLOODS. Potatoes Will Also Be Very Scarce, and the Prospect Is Dismal. PEOPLE WHO AIDED POOR MAY NEED CHARITY. In Some Localitles There Is Dang=r of a Repetition of the Scenes of Black 1847. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 6.—A special tothe World from London says: The World’s special inquiries throughout Ire- Iand fully corroborate the alarming pre- dictions of a failure of the narvests and the consequent impending famine. Cries of warning to the Government are rising from all parts of Ireland. From Mullin- gar, one of the most prosperous parts of the midlands, a World correspondent tele- eraphs: ‘‘Crops are now irretrievably de- stroyed. It will be impossible for farmers to make anytaing from their cereals this vear, as they are quickly rotting. Int e churches yesterday prayers for fine weather were recited, and if a change does not come immediately the crops might as well be left to manure the ground.”” From County Wexford. noted as one of the richest in the country, the tidings are: “The green crop may be described asa gigantic failure this year. The greater part of the potato crop is only fit for feed- ing cattle.”” From Fermanagh, in Ulster, a corre- spondent telegraphs: Ata meeting held here to ask for a reduction of rents, the parish priest presiding declared teat not <ince black 1847 has the prospect for the farmers in this district been so bad. In several places polatoes have been a fail- are. Hunareds of tons of hay have been ruined by the heavy rains and floods. From Carlow, known as “The Mcdel County,” a dispatch says: There is before our farmers an outlook as disastrous as is possible to conceive owing to the frightful weather. A great deal of corn cut early remains in the stalks, injured beyond re- covery. In many districts the farmers have been unable to cut their crops,which present a saddening spectacle, being lev- eled to the earth by persistent rains while 4. mass of second growth snd weeds have come up. The apprehensions concerning tatoes have also been dismally realized. At a meeting of-the Board of Guardians at Mitchellstown, County Cork, Saturday, the chairman said: *“The potato crop is generally a failure, while other crops have been hopelessly injured by the unparai- ‘that leled 1nclemency of the season. We are on the verge of a great agricultural crisis. The outlook in farming affairs is gloomy | in the extreme, and to ageravate the con- | dition of affatrs cansed by tne failure of the potato crop the prices of provisions are con iderably incressed, and Dbefore long people who are supposed to contrib- ute to the poor rates will be in the work- houses themselves.” The Irish Government has adopted no measure yet to cope with the threateneu famine. SCATTERED BY THE ANEZR. Indian Aatives Realizing That Afghan- istan’s Ruler is Keeping Fuith With -Great Britain. LONDON, Exg., Sept. 6.—The Times | Simla correspondent says that in addition to dispersing. the Lughmanis, who had been collected by the Mul lah’s disciples and who were about to join the Mullah, the Ameer’s troovs also scattered a body of Shinwaris who had as- sembled near Peshbalak, intending to en- ter and hold the Khyber Pass for the Afridis. 3 The Ameer, the correspondent says, is plainly determined to keep the tribesmen in check, and measures will be taken by his orders that will cripple the Mullah’s power and probably prevent further risings. SIMLA, Inpra, Sept. 6.—A dispatch from Jamrud says it is reported that Maddah Muliah has gone to his home and that his followers have dispersed, owing to the refusal of Halimazai Mah- thands to join in the uprising. All the Afridi tribes held a palaver at Tiran on Friday last, when a majority of those in attendance opposed the plans of the lead- ers for the adoption of hostilities against the British, on the ground that every house was already in mourning for those who fell at the capture of Fort Luddi- Kotal and that the crops were ready to be barvested. g VICTGRIA SAVED THE UNION. Personal Intervention of the Queen Averted War Between England and the United States. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 6.—It was the direct personal intervention of Queen Victoria on her own iniuative that avert- ed war between the United states and Great Britain over the seizure of Mason and Siidel on a British ship during the Civil War in America. This highly interesiing historical factis mentioned in an article by a writer for { Current Fact in the latest issue of the British Quarterly Review, whose contrib- utors, though anonymous, are all men of high standing in literature and politics. He says: - “We are in a position to state on the | authority of the most prominent States- man of our time, who had the distin- guished hozor of enjoyine in a special manner tue confidence of her Maj:sty, it was the Queen . herself, in opposition to the views of her Ministers and of the distinguished man in question, who averted -war. Sbe insisted that the dispatch which was sent to America demanding peremp- torily the surrender of the envoys should be communicated at once to all the powers, and the grave consequences of such a con- flict from an international point of view, were pointed out. The result wasan able state paper was sent . to Washing- ton by M. Tuouvenel, stating that France regarded the act of the Ameri can captain who had arrested the Confederate envoys on board of an Eng- lish ship quite nnjastifiable and expressed tbe hope that the Federal Government would accede to the demand of Great Britain. Aunsuia and Prusiia immedi- ately followed suit. Prince Gortschakoff, on the part of Russia, urged Lincoln to surrender the envoys without delay. These remonstrances from the powers enabled the Government at Washington to escape without humiliation from an un- tenable position, saved England from en- tering into a war which would in all hu- man probability have ended in the disrup- tion of the American Union and sown the seeds of a deathless enmity between Eng- land and the Northern States. - KOT COND:MYED TO DEATH. Candid Anarchist Barril, Who Tried to Kill a Police Chief, Sentenced to Forty Years’ Imprisonment. BARCELONA, Spars, Sept. 6.—The prosecutor at the court-martial yes- terday of Barril, the anarchist who attempted to assassinate the po- lice chief on Friday last, asked that a sentence of forty years’ imprison- ment be imposed upon the prisoner. The defense urged that ten years’ imprison- ment would be adequate punishmert for the accused. Barril admitted before the court-martial tuat he came to Spain with the intention of assassinating Cnief of Police Portas on account of the measures taken by the lat- ter against anarchists. The request of the prosecutor was granted and the court sentenced Barril to forty years’ imprisonment. Much sur- prise was manifested when the sentence was announced, as it was expecteo that the prisoner would be condemned t death. - SALISBUKX’S FEESH PLOPOSALS. His Reply to the Jiussian Foreign Minis ter's Inttmations LONDON, Exc., Sept. 7.—The corre- spondent of the Times in Constantinople says that owing to the note of Count Muravieff, the Russian Foreign Min- ister, implying that Englana was responsible for the incalculable evils from which Greece and Turkey are suffering throueh the delay in the con- clusion of peace between the two coun- tries, Lord Salisbrry has submitted iresh proposals, name'y: The constitation of an international commission repre- senting the six powers, under whose control Greece shall place the revenue, guaranteeing their interest to the holders of the bonds and the inaemnity loan, to be followed by the prompt evacuation of Thessaly by the Turks. AR My el Frightful Evuption in the Philippines. LONDON, Exe, Sept. 6—A special dispateh from Madrid says that Mount Mayon, south of the island of Luzon, Philippine Islands, s in a state of violent eruption, and the streams of lava thrown out by the eruption reach to the seashore, a distance of twenty miles. Several vil- lages have been destroyed and 500 persons are reported to have been killed. CARRIERS FROM THE FAR EAST The National Convention of Men Whom We- Like to Meet. WERE HOSPITABLY RECEIVED, Royal Reception Given Them by the State Board of Trade. THE CONVENTION OPENED WELL. There Was a Large Attendance in 0dd Fellows’' Hall in the Evening, The San Francisco letter-carriersand the visitors from abroad to attend the Letter- Carriers’ National Convention celebrated the opening day of the convention by a parade. It showed as fine and as intelligent- looking body of men as has ever been seen on the streets of San Francisco. The start was made from the ferry land- ing at the foot of Market streetat 3o0°clock in the afternoon, and the route lay up Market to Montgomery, to Kearny, to Market, to Golden Gate avenue. Captain Wittman led the van with a file of mount- ed potice, followed by a company of po- licemen on foot. After them came the delegates from Pennsylvania, Chicago, New York, San Francisco and elsewhere, Postmaster Montague, Bookkeeper Rich- arason and other guests of the convention following in carriages. In the evening the convention opened at Odd Fellows’ Hall, which had been elaborately decorated for the occasion. There was a large crowd in attendance, and the proceddings were of more than usual interest. The State Boara of Trade tendered to the visiting letter-carriers a royal recep- tion yesterday. At the last meeting of the board Eecretary J. A. Filcher and B. N. Rowley were instructed to make preparations to entertain theé visitors, and they fulfilled their instructions to the letter. In response to the invitation about 300 carriers assembled at the exhibition rooms at16 Post street yesterday morning and they remained there until nearly time for the parade, which of itself shows how much they appreciated the reception that was tendered to them. Mr. Filcher made an address of wel- come, which was responded to by Georgze W. Youst, the chairman of the entertain- ment committee. A few appropriate re- marks were made by Mr. Rowiey and George Wisewell. A very palatable light lunch was served, as well as every kind of liquid refreshment that the State of Cali- fornia produces. The visitors enjoyed themselves hugely, and expressed the greatest admiration for the large and artistic display of California products. Not a few acknowledged they had no idea that the State was so pro- ductive. Thursday will be known as ladies’ day, and it is expected that the ladies who ac- company the carriers will attend in very large numbers. Light refreshments will also be prepared for them, and evervthing done to make their reception a most pleasing affair. CE A ROYAL WELCOME. The Convention Opens With Fit- ting Speeches. The convention proper was opened last evening in Odd Fellows’ Hall, under aus- picious circumstances. Early in the even- ing crowds flocked to the hall and by the opening hour standing room was at a pre- mium. From time to time the vast audi- ence mads the building echo with their cheers, for they were all assembled in one common cause and for one end. The hall was very prettily decorated, From roof tocei.ingit wasall ablaze with red, white and blue streamers. From the center of the ceiling depended a huge canopy of red, white and blue, with gar- lands of eschscholtzia cunningly worked through it and & carrier pigeon suspended from the bottom by an invisible wire, The clever work of the decorator, how= ever, was particularly manifested on the plgtform, where, as elsewhere, the National colors were predomi~ nant. The chief features here were a handsome banner of the local associa- tion, dependent from which was a mono- gram, “N. L. C.” of purple and yeliow eschscholizias, surmounted by a carrier pigeon with a letter in its mouth, in the act of flying away. To the right of the speakers’ stand was a street lamp with a red letter-box attached, and looking so natural that one of the committeemen stooped absent-mindedly in front of it and instinctively felt for his bunch of keys. The background was formed of bhuge American flags, the whole being lighted wi'h red, white and blue electric lights and forming a beautiful effecr. Here and there thiough the hall, dependent from chandeliers and sides of the balcony, were the familiar leather bags to which so many precious missives are entrusted each day. The entrance to the hall was flanked on each side with a verdant mass of paims. ferns and tropicsl plants, eiving a visitor the impression that he is walking into a tropical garden. The exercises openea with an overture by the Letter-Carriers’ band, after which the convention was declared open by John L. Meares, superintendent of the San Francisco deiivery. When Mr. Meares stepped forward om