The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 29, 1897, Page 1

BER 29, 18 PRICE FIVE CENTS. KLONDIKERS ARE IN DESPERATE SAM WALL OF 1 CAlLL> IS5 AT DAWSON the Graphically Describes Alarming Condition of Affairs. | +Police Powerless to Prevent the Miners From| Seizing Provisions Wherever They May | Be Found, and Those Who Do Not Work Must Leave. < **t**t****i*fi***tiii’*ii’***i**t**t*t**fi**tttt**i; In a letter dated at Fort Yukon, September 1, which was published in THE CALL October 5, Sam Wall, after describing the vain attempts to get the steamer Hamil- ton over the shoals at that point, wrote. ** The captain, satisfied that the passage could not be made, asked the passengers to decide what they wished as an alternative of going forward, and they decided for Mannook. All the one e of the at rr, who carries newspaper correspondents return with the boat besides myself. As I leave considerably in advanc one other equipped better speed, I shall arrive Dawson several days in the lead. Jack C for He says there the mail from Junecau, arrived here to-day. are 4000 people on the trail bound for Dawson and about i 4000 alrecady there; that Healy’s store (the North Am can Trading and Transportation Company’s) has been closed, as they have nothing to sell, and the store of the Alaska Company limits purchases to two ks of flour and admits but two persons to the store at And in that condition they are waiting for the Commercial one time. up-river boats that I go now to tell them will not come.” How well Mr. Wall has fulfilled his promise of reach- )¢ Dawson and “7*ning the people of their misfortune the following K ter Will show. T sk g A ek e ek e e ok ke e e ek e o e ek O b - \ - X B e R LT DT P TR T Srpvepvpvpvporrosvigoy NN NN NN YN NN NN NN X XX N KRR o G DAWSON CITY, NW. T, SPTLV";S per cent of the miners will have to e of Se-|shut down, and according to Captain Healy of the North American Trading S and wooli- | and Transportation Company, the output | mining camp in world. 1 found | of gold will be $15,000,000 short of what | . so Saturday night when 1 arrived might be expected of the mines in the | SAM W- WALL, the Int]’epld cerrespondent Of “The Ca,l] = WhO Ha,s Hnging to it the news that the six | year. | 2 boats upon which the people de- Major Davis, in temporary command of . r their winter’s provisions canno! | — = the bar at Fort Yukon. That fact | the destruction of the | almost untl now it is comparatively a gloomy | tion is extraordinary. There i e here, and every day every hour sees the aft load of people [here are said to the river and re and Juneau, few of han enough provisions There is rmcncallyi them here. ing here to eat. se of this news from the | ats, the little steam- ve men up the | river to Fort Selkirk, where they may i the Dalton trail and so get For this carriage of 175 miles they | paid $200 each, and the tickets were held | at a premium. The little boat is the only one here hav- hg steam power, and she can carry no ® :ore than twelve. It is impossible now tccatch the ocean steamers at St. Michael. | asthat place cannot be reached by any | mans at hand before the last sailing | dat—so that all that are here and all | hecome are locked up for the winter. I» sure, there. is the one recourse of goinz out over the ice after the river freez=, but that is an experience that not many will dare. Besides, it is very sve, and the great number \\ho‘ previsions lack money also. { So the situation is extraordinary. At Fort Yukon, 400 miles down the river, | L mpassable bar, 1500 tons of | stored. Itcannotbe brought the river freezes, and then doz-team. A team of dogs can- one trip bring more than enough for There are not many dogs and the freight ate was last winter $1 per This winter it will probably be at. Instead of bringing the pro- by that means, therefore, a e down the river to the provisions = LINING ALONG THE & e HORE FrRELIANC <on, however, there is noth- Reached Dawson After Overcoming Great Difficulties. TE STRAITS MISSION OF THE CORRESPONDENT IS CARRIED OUT. Imparts News of the Failure . of Steamers to Get Up | the River. {Now That the Residents of Dawson Fuly i Realize That Provisions Will Not Atrrive They Are Preparing for the Worst. :it*itt*t*i“t**ii*i*tittiitiititfittttt* Tk kA kAR NO MAIL AT DAWSON SINCE LAST JUNE DAWSON CITY, N. W, T,, Sept. 28.—One feature that aggravates the situation here is the lack of mail facilities. No mail, except a stray letter, has arrived here since June. There are said to be five tons of mail piled up in the postoflice at Victoria, as letters addressed to the Northwest Territory go there to be carried by the Canadian Government, which so far has provided no meansof bringing them here. Theonly letters sent throuzh the mail that stand a chance of getting hers are those addressed care of the United States mail-carrier, via Seattle or Juneau. These are brought through as regularity as the carrier comes—:upposed to be oncea month, leaving between the 1st and 5th, and after that contingent u and other circumstances. The establishment of mail faci Canadian Government is anxiously looked forward to, 22,4 * > weather ities by the 8ax W. Warr. B R R R S R R LT R B I i Py v oy v v pv o, e e e e ke s e e sk dkeok e e ke ek ek ek Aok L R I T S T T T T S Yukon. For fifteen days the land has been wrapped in ice and snow and every day increased the hazard of that journey, for the eddies are freezing, preventing the boats from following the shore line; but to go up meant to go all the way out, for this side of Dyea there is no food. It means, under the best conditions, a month’s hard traveling. The best record from this point is twenty-eight days. Pro- visions for that length of time must be carried along, and to do that they must first be secured. To go down the river is to go to Fort Yukon or Minook, and that gamblers, women of the town and those who live upon them are generally‘ well provided for and with the best, hav- ing early bought up, piece by piece, the | choicest provisions to be had. Many also believe that the stores have provisiong de- spite the denials of the agents. Itis known that some men have pro- visions. When men are hungry the line between right and wrong fades out. A miners’ meeting will be called, and what- ever that meeting decides upon doing will !'be done. Unless something happens within a few days to relieve the situation, | something wholly unlooked for now, des- | winter where provisions are and take perate steps will be taken. Those who | chances of finding some means of making have will have to settle with those who | a living. Fokk ek kA AR AR AR AR A AR A A A AR RIR AR AR AR KRR ARAAR KA AR AR AR AR A A A A Ak ONLY EXCELSIOR PASSENGER TO REACH DAWSON CITY. DAWSON CITY, NW. T., Sent. 28.—Of all that company that started from San Francisco just two months ago aboard the Excelsior, bound for Dawson, I alone have arrived. Of the other company that left Seattle on the Portland three have arrived, Sam Bonnifield, T. F. Lawson and Sam Ogden. A few are toiling up the river in our wake, but the great majority remain with the steamers below Fort Yukon. SAM W. WALL. o3 Jede Ak ek ek e ek e A ok ek ek ke Ak ok ek e sk e A ek ke e e ke e ek ok ek e ik ke t*t: Ean SRS R TR ey LI R e T e veves The gravity of the situation here is | forced upon the more unthinking by the | | the mounted police here, anticipates much [ have not. That is the whole tenor of the trouble as the result of the suffering that | talk of the town to-day. “‘Is it possible he thinks is certain. He to-day received | to find food, and if so, where?"” instructions to buy at any cost, from the i Those who can fly the danger are mak- stores or from individuals, provisions for | ing ready to do so, sume up and some his sixty men. If he finds it 1mpossibl:!down the river. The journey up the to purchase it, he says he will then use | river, except for the little party of twelve his right of power and take it wherever |referred to, must be mad= in light boats he may find it. And the miners by the | that are towed or pushed with poles along same right say they will do the same | the banks and through the swift currents thing. Nor is it likely, if the spirit mani- | of the river 175 miles to the Peily River, fested by Major Davis, in an interview | where the trails lead overland to Juneau to-night, is maintained, that the police | or Dyea. would interfere. ‘“We are here to see| Itis in this wav thatlhave just accom- that justice is done,” hesaid. It is held | plished the 4oo-mile journey from Fort A rosy, happy, laughe ing baby brings the great. est_happiness in all this wide, wide world to the wife and mother,—a babs that does not know ill- ness, a veritable romp- ing, rollicking cherub. It rests with woman herself to enjoy this great hap- piness. 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Dector Pierce’s Common Sense Med- ical Adviser contains several chapters devoted to the repro- ductive physiology of - women e b St the organs distinctly feminine. It containg over one thousand pages and every woman should have a y 2 er - covered, Qrwmmmnn"nrrrmu LLLL] wm‘rnn’wnva NEWS OF THE DAY. Weather forecast for San Fran- cisco: Clondy Monday; probably showers Monday night; south- easterly wind. FIRST PAGE. Sam Walil’s Dawson Letter. SECOND PAGE. Magee and the Klondyke. THIRD PAGE. Miners Raid Steamers. Bear Seamen Buy Clothing. Americans Slain by Africans. Prehistoric Battle. FOURTH PAGE. After San Jose Boodlers. Ebanks Not to Die Yet. Austria’s M nistry Resigns. Butte Beat Reliance. Homage to Sloan. Dreyfus Scandal. FIFTH PAGE. Dal Hawkins Wants Cash First. After the Baden Roboer. Burglary on Geary Street. Coursing at Ingleside. Death of John Trubody. Machines for Canal Work. Tropical Experiment Station. Surplus Cash in Kansas. A Well-won Victory. Personals and Queries. The Coast Press. News of Foreign Navies. SEVENTH PAGE. Trouble Over Police Helmets, Yestercay’s Baseball. 3 News of the Water Front. Three Poker-pliying Policemen EIGHTH PAGE. Notes of the National Guard. McBride Knew No Suicide Club Masked Robbers Arrested. Abstinence Day Celebrated. NINTH PAGE. Alameda County News. TENTH PAGE. Rifle Shonters’ Scores. ELEVENTH PAGE. Births, Marriages, Deaths, TWELFTH PAGE. 0'd Maids to Have a Show. by sending twe: ing at which men may work to earn a livelihood. : The new Mannook diggings 1 = Yuin ot RS Map Illustrating the Remarkable Journey of Nearly 400 Miles Made by Sam circumstan destroys Dawson as & » i booming camp may work to the benefit of | Wall, “ The Call” Correspondent, in a Small Boat, From Fort Yukon, Mannook. But at Dawson, if the agents Where the Steamers Were Stopped by Low Water, to Dawson City. of the two companies are to be believed, i SIXTH PAGE. Wedded in the Lions’ Den. L B R R Prinei FRditorial. Phelan’s Dual Siatements. 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