The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 26, 1897, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXIL-NO. 118 ¢ all 'SEPTEMBER 26, 1897—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. GRUB TAKEN BY DISPLAY OF GUNS Dawson City Videttes Jse Force of Arms to Get Provisions. BUT THE FOOD IS PAID FOR AND DIVIDED. Typhoid and Pneumonia Increase the Horrors of the Hungry in the Klondike—Hun- dreds Are Il and Many Are Reported Dying. nel O. V. Dawson City, who the Kiondil vn the river were held up, if necessa within 200 miles of = Dawson from the z down , always got nd that was The pro- for In money or came in. up pro rata pard says that there is as great up the river by the overland t of Dawson f ndreds are coming behind him as fast ey could travel, but he had a great will beyond y winter and ns must perish. ia are raging Hundreds A number of people these afflic- i compe!l=d to stop 1wson. w they can ven if they recover from the 1 SS A baby was at the and there women ill with the Dyea trail not traveled ed region, has been buried Man rdoning th y Klondi rgrub kers on both and be- passes and com the summits Dawson City | | was fo { money occurred last night at Skaguay, was followe! by self-destruction. a woman and not disap- | poined Kiondike hopes was the motive. Several ago George Buchanan, who employed as clerk in the Hotel here, furnished the Kossuth to set up a restaurant at Skaguay. Buchanan was madly infatuated with the woman. Furi- us at having suddenly caught her in the company of another man he awaited his opporiunitv. Hali an hour later she stooa in the open door of the tent. He Circle City for a Mrs. ipproached swiftly and shot her in the : e that parties going | plac ulous g to Dvea and Skaguay “light.” I to get back home. A body ( lice has left ten tons of provi n the lakes and returned tc Dyea, satisfi hat they could not get to | Dawsen City with it. Canadian Government about $5000 to get the grub in that far. The long bridg: the river on the washed out. aguay trail, has been Every departing steamer It has cost the | the first one across | takes down scores of returning gold- | seekers, who. have hard-luck stories to Scores on the Dyea trail are suffer- ing from ‘‘mountain fever,” an enerva- | tion, but not necessarily a fatal disease. There have been reports here for three n City had been burned down five weeks ago, but this is not cor- oratzd by either Colonel Davis or Mr. Shepard, ths lattsr having left Dawson City since that time, and it is probably | 1 The report came through In- George A. Taylor of Ashland, Wis., jentally shot himself with a revolver iday at Crater Lake, and it is said ataliy. Colonel Dav He calls Skaguay ‘‘hell’s cannot sp:=ak bitterly ands as to thz condition of that trail. Shepard is a mason. He will arrive e to-morrow and go to San Francisco tho M I . on the next steamer. is starvation at Dawson and starvation cn the trail, which cannot be avoided. HAL HOFFMAN. —_———— TRAGEDY AT SKAGUAY. George Euchanan Kiils Mrs. Kos- cuth, Whom He Had Started in Business, and Commits Sulcid=. JUNEAU, Arasga, S:pt. 21.—The first enough of what he calls the deception of | He says that there | rt with a revolver. Then he turped weapon against himself and nearly blew his head off. He fell across her body. Mrs. Kossuih’s aged motber and sister beheld the tragedy, as did also people nside and in front of the Buch children at Enumclaw, Wash. He had said he intended to divorce bis wife and marry Mrs. Kossuthi, who was a well- known character in Juneau. Buchanan me here early last spring. His own Lis wife's people in the State of Washington are said to be weli-to-do. HAu HorFMAN. THAT NEW EL DORADO. Authentic N=ws Concerning the Great Gold Discoverles Made Near Mount Baker. SEATTLE, Wasn., Sept. 2 -The first ashington’s Dorado near Mount Baker and get there, with ali intermediate details, was brought to Seattle yesterday by E. W. Saportas, who, with Frank Crydo and Gus Wagner, experienced min- ers of Dawson City, the former baving been in the Klondike five years, lefi for t e scene of ihe latest excitement last authentic news concerning V to how Saturday morning.. Accordiug to Mr. Saporias the route is possible and not very difficuit until the investigator is within five miles of the promised land, but the last five miles present obstacles that would forever discouraze any one who was not an experienced prospector E mountaineer. There is Mount Baker and iis sur- rounding heights enough gold, says Mr. Saportas, to keep prospectors busy for the rext ten vears. All thestories of the fab- discoveries are corroborated. In samples of ore that were brought back by he informant Mr. Bogardus, the assaver, a cursory inspection, declared that gold existed in exceedingly good juantites. *I met many free men who came from Mount Tomohoy,” said Saportas, ‘‘an: they all reiterated the stories that have been told concerning the great strike of $10,900 to the ton made in Bear Moun- tain. Among them was a man named Leith, who has a claim. Post and Lam- ert’s claim ie on the east side. “In Tomohoy Esterbrook and several others have found ore equal to the discov- ery in Bear Mountain. A man named Johnson and several otbers have been there two weeks and are still remaining, ocating mining clalms. ‘‘East of these mountains is Silicia Creek, along which, my people tell me, is placer gold. There is enough yellow metal there to occupy prospectors the uext ten years. There are 300 people on the mountains now, and I met sixty more going in when I was returning. I believe the mineral is rich, as rich as has been reported, but I cannot know definitely about it until my Iriends return. My ad- vice is not 10 g0 in now, as the rain and rough weather are grest obstacies to suc- cessful prospectir A special correspondent of tne Evening Times sends word from Sumas as follows: “The gold discoveries in the mountains of Whatcom County are bevond any doubt tne rickest in the annals of the Pacific Coast or even in Alaska. So say the most experierced prospectors, whom 1 have just accompanied to the scene of the re- cent find. T e recent find isin Bald Moun- tain, situated in the noriheast portion of Whatcom County, northeast of Mount Baker. The mineral range runs north- west and southeast, and to-day is located for thirty miles. There is no teiling how much further it extends. Every hill in the immed:ate vicinity of the find 1s covered with location stakss. Atpresant there are 370 prospectors in the tieid, rurning from experienced men to ‘office-seekers.’ who have forsaken their emplovers' offices to try their luck in the new fields. “The vein in the five claims—Lone Jack. Bennie, Siiney. Luiu and W nist—varies from three to five feet ir thickness. It runs northwest and southeast vnder a layer of porphyry ledge in a serpentine manner, and auriferous shale appears in the "ledge. It is free milling quartz ot sugar and rose color, carrying copper and nan had a wife and several | EX-SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY JOHN _ “The Call” With an Interesting Exclusive Article on the Future of the Sound Money Democracy. G. CARLISLE, Who Furnishes | silver. The vein can be traced half a mile. The cropping is under solid porphyry. “The gold is known as ‘wire’ gold, and can be seen without trouble by the naked | eye, and picked out with the finger nails. That there is great quantities of it there no one who has seen the ledge can deubt. The formation of the range in which the find is located does mot look to be very rich iu minerals. However, it is no place for a tenderfoot. If there is any placer mining, it bas not as yet bean demonstra- ted to be a paying proposition. Teuder- feet cannot go where the rich claims are 10 be found without the gravest danger of losing their lives. I went over piaces in company with prospectors that all the gold in the range could not hire me to go over again. As to whether it is advisable for men to go to the new finds at the pres- ent time opinions of the prospectors differ. | Those who bave been there the longest say it is safe for from one to two months yet. One tbing must be borne :n mind: That all claims in the immediate vicinity of the great finds have been taken. New men must go farther on. I would not ad- vise any one to go in until nextspring. ted is as rugged ascan be imagined. will take enormous sums to develop it.” S —— Four Gold-Hunters Drowned. VICTORIA, B. C., Sept. 25.—The report comes from Dyea that a large number of boats were swamped while running White Horse rapids and in Miles Canyon, and tuat four men were drowned. Nobody seems to kpow the names of the men, but a packer named Reynolds stated that it was a fact that four men had lost their lives. GLOOMY GUTLGGK FOR IRELAND. Dilion and Karrington Oemand That Farliament Take Steps to Avert the Impending Famine. NEW YORK, N, Y., Sept. 25.—A World special from London says: There is no appreciable improvement in the outlook for the winter in Ireland. John Dillon, asked the grounds for his action in de- manding the immediate assemblage of Parliament to deal with Irish distress, said: “We want to force the Government to take timely measures to avert the im- pending danger in my own district. Ina fortnight the potato crop was lost; there have been failures in very many places of grain crops, and this comes on top of the bad season of iast year, which left the people without any resources. The Gov- ernment should not wait, as they are doing, until famine comes to provide a remedy. They should take sieps by pro- viding relief works of yermanent advant- are toearn money to enable the peasants to put in spring crops next year.” T. Harrington, M. P., who hus joined | Dillon in demanaing the immediate sum- | moning of Parliament, said: | “The outlook in Ireland is more gloomy at the present time than during any per- iod since 1878, and unless remedial pre- cautions are taken without delay most lamentable consequences must ensue. My informant knows what the loss of the po- tato crop means to men and women who even in good years bhave to make a con- tinuous struggle against poverty. The re- sources of the laboring population of West Ireland are practically nil."” At Cape Clear Island, off the coast of Southwest Cork, a choleraic outbreak has taken place among such asdepend mainly on the fishing industry to pay their rents. At Schull the people are in a vitiable con- dition, and unless something is im- mediately done by the Government they will bave to face a second 1817. But at Glengariff, on Bantry Bay, the tale reaches iis climax. The inhabitants along the seaboard, in a chronic state of destitution, are attacked periodicelly with famine fever, and in their present awful state they are being pressed for food. Tue country in which tke finas are loca- | I WEEP OF THE DEADLY AVALANGHE Correspondent Hoffman Sends a Description of the Disaster. BIG GLACIER FORCED DOWNWARD. Gold-Hunters and Their Tents Swept Away by the Rush- ing Waters. WARNING IS GIVEN, BUT IN VAIN. Two Lives Known to Be Lost—Fif- teen Are Missing—Valuables of Many Carrled Away. News of the avalanche on the Dyea trail was published-in THE CALL yesterday, but additional de- tails and -a graphic description of the disaster are given in the ap- pended account from Correspond- | ent Hal Hoffman. JUNEAU, AwvAskA, Sept. 21 (via Vie- toria, B. C., Sept. 25, per steamer City of Seattle).—A catastrophe has added a great horror to the Dyea trail. An an- cient glacier - tottering on the mountain side has fallen into the canyon of the river, letting loose a flood of water which swept evervthing before it with even greater force than the memorabie Johns- town fiood. Two dead bodies have already been found and fifteen others. among them a women, are missing. It is the greatest misfortune that has yet over taken the Kiondikers. The dead found are Aaron Choynski of San Francisco and Fiynn of Seattle, the pariner of the first named. G The norror happened between 6 and 7 o'clock last Saturday moraing. There was a slight warning, but it came too late to be taken advantage of except by a com- paratively few early risers. After pack- ing all day on the trail or over the summit of the Chilcoot Pass the exnausted gold- nunter does not bestir himself in the morning before 7 o’clock, and it was at 7:45 that a warning cry echoed down the canvon. All bands were fast asleep. The flood of rushing water overtook them while they-were asleep in their tents rolled in their blankets. The wonder is that ail seventeen were not killed instead of there teing only iwo corpsesand fifteen missing. An old man, hali-dressed and looking like some new Rip Van Winkle sprung up in the hills, ran down the canyon as rap- idly as ne could through the muddy, slushy trail, toward Sheep Camp, wildly waving his arms. He shoated: “Run, boys, for your lives! Run! the avalanche! | | mountain side. | rent thundered down the valley. The glacler iscoming down; get out of the way, or you wiil all be drowned!” Those who heard stood a moment unde- cided, then ran for their lives for the Tuey were not a minute forewarned. They had not reached the side hulls before a rushing torrent, with a comb of foam and throwing spray high in tbe air, was seen sweeping down the can- yon. At a place where the wails come to- ward each other and thecanyon narrows to a gorge, the wave is variously described as from ten to twenty feet in height. It carried bowlders as big as freightcars and bogshesds and rocks as bi: as barrels, The rocks crashed together with the boom of cannon, and with the roar of the tor- What is known as the Stone House, on the Dyea trail, adout a mile from the summit, is a huge solid rock, nearly fifty feet high and about forty by forty at the base, with the top shaped like a roof. It was struck by the bowlders carried by the torrent, roiled over and uprighted again into its original position, severzal hundred feet below where it first stood. Not a rock in the upper canyon was un- moved. The smaliler rocks and pebbles cracked arainst the siaes of the larger ones like the rattle of infantry, but the sound was almost subdued by the overwhelming warer. On irresistibly poured the torrent. A moment more and its frothing mouth overhung the camp and devoured it at a gulp. Seized by the fluid hurricane, tents with clashing ridgepoles and snapping ropes were swept from the face of the earth. The sleapers awoke to find them- selves immersed. Men, siakes, logs, camp- stoves, sleds, boxes, tinware, clothing, frying-pans, red blankets, kettles, hats, glittering spouns, loaves of bread and all kinds of camp utensils were heid poised on thecrest of the water and then rollied over and over on its suriace. The camp was picked up as easily as floating down from a thistle. How the men enveloped in their blankets got out alive, even they cannot imagine. It was a miraculous es- cape.- Afier-the flood had passed they lay choking and gasping on the dripping rocks like so many suffocating fish. Of the 250 and more tents only about one- thira remained. These lay near the foot of the mountain, or over on the other side of the canyon out of the course of the tor- rent. Flour, sides of bacon, sacks of sugar and other provisions, clothing and other Klondike property lay wet and ruined, all except the bacon, among the rocks. In five minutes the stream had receded to its normal proportions at this time ‘of the year. The surv.ving campers met at once, organized, appointed large investi- gating and retief committees, and before 8 o'clock these committees were out tramping in the path of the flood at work. Choynski was found lying near the Stone House bleeding and dying. His body was nearly torn asunder. It was so badly lacerated that his clothes bhad to be cut from him. He had been caught in the center of the tidal wave, tumbled over and over, banged against rocks, crushed by bowlders and partly buried in sand. He and his partner, Fiynn, had come down to tue river to wash their faces and get a bucket of water to use in preparing breakfast. They heard a terrible rush and roar, stood up to sce the torrent al- most upon them and could not escape. He hud time to gasp these few particulars before he died. The search for his partner, Flynn, was next begun. He was discovered about 300 yards down on the other side of the can- yon,' between two bowlders and lying partly under one, dead. The face was partly cruched. The clothing resembled that worn by Flynn. If not Flynn it was some other man unaccounted for. This completes the list of the dead so far as is known. The scattered property was rounded up from the various locations along the mile and a half over which it was strewn. The Continued on Fourth Page. FUTURE OF " GOLD MONEY DEMOCRATS Ex-Sectetary of the Treasury Catlisle Sends His Views to “ Flhe Call” from tional reputation and official Mr. Carli not agree with him. East. It was in answer to inquir statement : WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 25.—Ia re- ply to your inquiry, *“What is your opin- jon of the future of the gold-money Democrats?’ T will say: I presume you refer to the *National Democratic party”’ orgamzation. I can only repeat whatl said to the convention of national Demo- crats, assembled in State Convention at Columbus, Obio, on Sepiember 10 last. I am of the opinion that the elections this fail will show a loss of strength by the free-silver people and that the next three years will witness a change toward con- servatism in the Democratic ranks, and I hope that by the time the national con- ventions to nominate Presidential candi- dates are held in 1900 the party will be fully reconstructed upon the o!d conserva- tive lines; that is to say, on the linee of sound finances and good government. Those Democrats who did not subscribe to the revolutionary declarations of the Chicago corvention, but who remained faithful to the tree principles of the Dem- ocratic party, should keep their organiza- tion intact by nominating cindidates not only in California, but in (very State of the Union, and making vizorous contests in the elections. As I said to the Columbus convention, Iam of the opinion that Democrats who have remained faithful to the true princi- ples of the party, as they were understood prior to the revolutionary declaratians of 1896, should preserve their organizations. 1f we honestly believe in the rectitude of the course we have heretofore pursued, it is our duty as loyal Democrats and patri- otic citizens to maintain, by all the means at our command, the independent and conservative position we now hold, and io appeal to our old political associates, who still entertain many opinions en public questions in common with us, to repudiate the new and dancerous doctrines incon- siderately proclaimed at Chicago and St. Louis, and return to the simvle and honest faith of our fathers. Populists and free-silver Republican protectionists are neither competent advisers nor trust- worthy allies in a contest for the genunine principles of Democracy, and it may be safely assumed that public policies sug- gested or dictated by them, or to which as will conduce to the general welfare of the people or promote the permanent success of the politicai party to which they have been opposed. Those who, at the dictation of their own enemies, discarded their old friends and attempted to revolutionize the creed of their old party will ju-tly be held re- sponsible for ail the results that have heretotore followed or shall hereafter fol- low their departure from Democratic prin- ciples and traditions, and we who have refused to desert the old standard and coalesce with the advocates of fiatists, socialism, protectionism or any other form of government paternalism, can well af- ford to stand where we are and wuit for the deliverance whicn is sure to come. The advocacy of free, unlimited and inae- pendent coinage of legal tender silver by the United States at a ratio which would at once have destroyed more than half || the exchangeable value of our currency, while it was wholly inadmissible a¢ an exposition of Democratic doctrine, was not by any means the only objectionable feature of the new declaration of prin- they can give their support, are not such | “The Call” has presented to its readers the vi situation of Speaker Reed and the Honorable William J. Bryan, and now follows up a series of papers from eminent party leaders by one x-Secretary Carlisle, who spzaks with authority of the future of the conservative wing of the Democratic party. No man in the Union is better fitted to deal with thi Mr. Carlisle, for he was not only one of the most distinguished of those who supported the conservative, or so-called gold, Democracy in the election last fall, but is at present the only statesman of na- experience taking an active part in holding the orzanization tog:ther and trying to establish it as a permanent factor in our politics. eis an intense partisan. anism or in Republicanism, but he pleads his caus: with zeal, and his earnestness renders his argument interesting even to those who do “The Call” is glad to be able to present his state- ment to its readers, not only because the elaborate exposition of the views on the political situation of a man of such eminencs an important part of the news of the day, but because having given a review of the conditions of the time from the standpoint of Repub- licanism by Mr. Rezd and from the standpoint of radical Democracy by Mr. Bryan, it is gratifying to show also how they appear from the standpoint of conservative Democracy. The immediate reason for the publication of Mr. Carlisle’s paper is that his recent address before the conservative Democratic conven- tion in Ohio was one of the notable political events of the month, and has been made the subject of extended discussion throughout the :s of ““The Call” correspondent at hington that the conservative leader furnished the following WILL NOT DESERT . THE: OLED STANDARD. Prodigal Sons of Democracy, Says the States- man, Will Return to a New Party That Is to Arise Out of the Political Confusion. :ws on the political subject than in high office who is He s:es no good ecither in constitutes ciplesgfupon which the allied forces of Populists, Repub'icans and so-called Democrats claimed the support of the peopie during the 1ast campaign. ‘The whole tore and spirit not only of their platforms but of the canvass made insnpport of them was un-Democrat'c, in= tole:ant, revolutionary and dangerous to the peace and good order of society and the prosperity of the country. 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