The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 27, 1897, Page 1

) VOLUME LXXXIII.—NO.<27+ Call FLEE FROM DAWSON AND THE Klondikers ful Hardships in Returning. )}:ood Scarcer and Hundreds Living on One Meal a Day. Two Thousand Must Now Leave. ©C000000 CO0000CCCOLCTOCO00L000 COVTOSHOHOOCOOOITOOOOTOC SOCTOTOCOOOCO0 00O0OTOTOOTOOC DYEA, Alaska, Dec. 17 (by ship Rosalie to Seattle, Dec. 26).—John 4,,:nd.=ay of Olympia, Wash,, after a rrible trip, one flying from the star- ! vation of the Klondike, arrived from Dawson on the 13th inst. He just made his presence known this afternoon, and the Rosalie sails north within an hour of the #ime with him ended. He brings out more important steam- my interview and interesting information than any man who has come from Dawson with- in the last thirty While pur- chasing a pair of new shoes in a store here Mr. Lindsay talked to me, saying: “T left Dawson November 3, and am told that I have made the best time out of anybody. Well, I had to. If it had | been otherwise I would have starved to death on the river. Our party num- | bered four, Frank Blaine of Olympia, | Tom Storey of Vancouver, Robert Glynn of Seattle and myself. The others have not reached the coast yet. They were too slow for me. I wanted to get home for Christmas and left them at Lake Lebarge. The river is late in freezing over—later than for ten years, I was told. But when we got to Fort Selkirk it did freeze. To that point we traveled on the side ice. At Fort Selkirk we were so situated on account of t days. e ice and for other rea- gons that we were compelled to aban- | don most of our slim supply of grub | and all our blankets and come over the rough ice. | “The thermometer was 31 degrees below zero. So you see at a man can do when he must. We were assisted considerably by the Canadian police post. The farthest post down the river yet established is at the mouth of the Little Salmon River. The police there were without food and hungry when we came along, but that same day they were lucky enough to buy an outfit that was going in, and we all had | plenty. Major Walsh, the chief of the Canadian police, lost seven tons of grub and one man near White Horse Rapids, Except at Lake Lebarge, where there is plenty, the police are short of food, but they had begun to distribute it down to the Lewis River posts before we got out of the country. “When I left Dawson the exodus down the river to Fort Yukon had | stopped. This was on account of a| fear which had arisen that theré was not the abundance of provisions below that had been reported. The river was | high for three weeks. Everybody at | Dawson was betting on whether a boat | would come up or not. I saw as much | as $1000 wagered that a steamer would | arrive with grub. The only thing in the shape of a steamboat that ap- peared was a small boat, and it, in- stead of having a cargo of provisiops, | was loaded as lowas the depth of water | would permit with whisky. I believe, also, that a pool table was aboard. | That whisky came very near being | tapped and let loose into the river. This | vessel arrived on October 12. The non- arrival of the expected steamboats, af- ter the Bella and Weare, placed lhel people in Dawson between the devil | and the deep sea. More were afraid to g0 below on account of the suspicion that there was no grub down below the Advices from Dawson up to November 3 show that there is already suffering of the most trying de- scription in the new El Dorado of the north. Hun- dreds of people at Dawson are living on one meal a day, which indicates how scarce food is getting. About 2000 people will try to get up the river to Dyea, Skaguay and Juneau this winter, because to remain in Dawson means certain starvation. ment relief reaches the Klondike before spring the death list from starvation promises to be appalling. | People were afraid to go and afraid to | creeks in October miners were living on | as they could so as to save their grub. FAMINE Face Fear- COOCOCO02 g Unless Govern- flats, and all knew they could not re- main in Dawson. “This situation made matters 'worse. remain. Grub was getting scarcer every day. Hundreds of people In | Dawson are living on one meal a day. | Sugar is cheap, 35 cents a pound, but a man can’t live on sugar, any more than he can, after the Biblical saying, | live on ‘bread alone.’ | “Our party took the bull by the | horns. We saw it was a case of come | out or starve, and we faced retreat | rather than the other horror of the dilemma. I wonder that we did not freeze to death in 71 degrees of cold. At night we buillt a fire just large enough to curl ourselves around and try to sleep. We took turns to watch, to feed the fire, and slept stomach to back, spoon fashion, to keep from freezing to death. But myself and several of the others came from a cold | country, Carada, and that perhaps helped us to stand the exposure. Blaine's feet are frozen, and Storey's ears will require nursing to save them. | “No, there are no new strikes in the Yukon that I heard of. There were no reports to that effect up to the time we left Dawson. There are bushels of gold to ounces of food. Very little work is being done on the claims on Bonanza or El Dorado or anywhere else, owing to the lack of food. When I left those PR e R R PR R R R PR R LR PR one meal a day and sleeping as much This was also the condition of things | at Dawson when we left. Miiers who had good clalms were hibernating like bears; that s, sleeping most of the time, In order to hold down their claims against the shortage of grub. “If some relief does mot get In there before spring many will go to sleep, | weak from lack of food, and awake in | that other country with its streets of gold. | “Matters were made worse on the Klondike by a big strike of laborers. It was gathering strength and extending to all the diggings in the region when I left. The men want $1 50 per hour, but the owners of claims would not pay more than $1 per hour. The men must find their own grub, and that is almost impossible at any price. Owing | to the strike, work on claims is at a standstill. If the difficulty is not ad- Justed soon the output of gold for next season will be very small. It is in the | ground—there's no doubt about that, | but it takes grub and amicable rela- | tions between employer and employes | to produce it, the same as in any other | country. If there is a shortage in the | output of gold next season, this will | be the reason. Gold, why there are | sacks of it all over Dawson. Some little work has been done in prospect- ing for quartz. The man who finds | quartz in that country ought to find | an immense fortune. “‘About 2000 people will try to get up | the river to Dyea, Skaguay, Juneau | and home this winter. They must do | it, for if they remain in Dawson they | will starve to death. There is already | suffering of the most trying descrip- | tion. One meal a. day shows how short grub is getting. The Canadian THE COMPREHENSIVE GRASP OF AN AUTOCRATIC MAYOR “yolice are helping fugitives from Daw- son, and they deserve some credit for the assistance they render regardless of nationality. I think you may ex- pect at least 2000 people this way if they can get out. We passed several hundred on the way.” Mr. Lindsay brought no mail from Dawson. HAL HOFFMAN. GREAT DISTRESS NOW CERTAIN ON THE KLONDIKE. Those Who Returned to Escape the Terrors of the Winter There Tell of the Scarcity of Food. SEATTLE, Dec. 26.—Seven Klon- dikers reached the city this afternoon, coming from Dyea on the steamers Rosalie and City of Topeka. They came In two partles, the first having left Dawson on October 27 and iIn- cluded Dr. B. F. Bradley of Roseburg, Or., W. B. King and P. J. Holland. The others left Dawson on November 8. They are Frank Ballaine and John Lindsay, of Olympia, Wash, Tom Storey of Vancouver, Wash., and R. Gwynn of Seattle. In coming out over the frozen river | and lakes these food hunters passed a Continued on S FREREREERKERARRRRIL R ER RS NEWS OF THE DAY. ‘Weather forecast for San Fran- clsco: Cloudy Monday, but prob- ably without rain; light northerly, changing to southerly, wind. Temperature for the past 24 hours: San Francisco Portland Los Angeles Ban Diego FIRST PAGE Famine at Dawson. Far East Complications. Wrath of Epaniards. SECOND PAGE. Changes in the Navy. Suicide of Miss Wells. THIRD PAGE. San Jose Officlal Trapped. Robber Stabs Himself. Chicago's Big Wheat Deal. An Aged Couple Slain. FOURTH PAGE. Editorial The Freeholders' Election, The Duty of the Day. The Business Situation. The San Domingo Parallel, A Lie As Usual. The Phelan and Hearst Idea. Individual Thoughts by & Modest Critte. Personals. FIFTH PAGE. Depot Agent Robbed. News of the Water Front. Burglars in the Tolls. SBIXTH PAGE. The Ticket to Vote. Elopers in a Cell. National Guard News. ' Robbers Still Busy. SEVENTH PAGH. An Examiner Lie Nafled. On the Shooting Range. Pensions for the Police. EIGHTH PAGE. News From Across the Bay. Teachers Here in Force. NINTH PAGE. Births, Marriages and Deaths, TENTH PAGE. Mrs. Castillo Dies of Fright. Examiner Libels Poor Men. Police Capture Stroh's Pal. i*i***l*fifiii“*’*i*ii“*'z' e 30 3036 00 0NN L 2R * ENGLAND'S FIRM STAND [N TAR EAST Seventeen Warships Are Off Chemulpo, Korea. Ultimatum That the King Must Not Yield to Russia. Japan Irritated by the Arrival of the Czar’s Troops in Korea. | WANTS TO PLEASE CHINA. | Willing to Drill the Chinese Army and Consent to Postpone the War Indemnity, Special Dispatch to The Call YOKOHAMA, Dec. 26.— Count Matsukata, the Pre- | # mier, and Admiral the Mar- quis Saigo Tsugumichi, Min- ister of Marine, have re- signed. It is probable that Marquis Ito will be the new premier. | | | LONDON, Dec. 27. —A speclal dis- ‘palch from Shanghal says: It is re- ported that seventeen British warships ‘are off Chemulpo, Korea, southwest of | Seoul, supporting the British Consul's | protest, really amounting to an ultim- atum, against the King practically | yielding the Government of Korea in- | to the hands of the Russian Minister. ’ The protest is specially directed | against the dismissal of McLevy | Brown, British adviser to-the Korean | customs, in favor of the Russian nom- inee. The news has produced con- sternation at Seoul, which is height- ened by the knowledge that Japan has | a fleet of thirty warehips awaiting the result of the British representation, which Japan fully supports. Japan is irritated by the arrival of Russian | troops in Korea, and it is believed she will oppose them. According to advices from Tokio, Japan has offered to assist the officers at Peking in drilling the Chinese army and to consent to a postponement of | the war indemnity. Many of the offi- cers and Peking officials favor the pro- posal. According to a dispatch to the Daily Mall from Shanghai it is reported there and caused the reinstatement of Mec- Levy Brown. | The same dispatch says there is a | native rumor that the Union Jack has been hoisted on an island in the mouth of the river Yang-Tsing. The Peking correspondent of the Times says: “The Government refuses to place the likin under foreign control as security for the loan proposed .by the Hongkong and Shanghali Bank, and asserts that unless the loan is procurable without this condition ar- rangements will be made for Russian guaranteed 4-per-cent loan of 100,000,- 000 taels to be issued at 93 net. “The security will be the land tax which would remain under Chinese administration. China in return would give Russia a monopoly of the rail- roads and mines north of the great wall, open a port to the rallway and would agree that a Russian should succeed Sir Robert Hart as director of the Chinese imperial maritime cus- tom If these conditions should be permitted British trade interests would suffer severely.” | The Shanghal correspondent of the Times says: The sloop Phoenix sailed to-day to join the British squadron. The utmost secrecy is preserved with regard to the latter's movements, but gossip here suggests that its destina- tion is Tae-Lien-Wan. ot TO EXTEND A RAILWAY TO PORT ARTHUR. Russia Determined to Lose No Time in Strengthening Her Foothold in China. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 26.—It is asserted that the newly formed Russo- Korean Bank will organize a company to extend a rallway to Port Arthur. The . Russian vice-president of the Eastern-Chinese railway will start for Manchuria in February to inspect pro- posed variations of the route and to make a final decision as to other mat- ters. BERLIN, Dec. 28.—An inspired Chi- nese organ published here says the Chinese Emperor, in order to avoid the reproach of having lost territory, will lease Kiao-Chau'to Germany in per- petuity at a low rate with all the right of a sovereignty that England ex- ercises at Hongkong. MELBOURNE, Dec. 26.—The Gov- ernment of New South Wales .is ar- ranging to supply frozen meat to the Russian authorities at Vladivostok. e o e IMPERIAL DIET OF JAPAN IS DISSOLVED. Done Before a Discussion Had Started on a Motion of No Confidence in \ the Cabinet. YOKOHAMA, Dec. 26.—The Imperial Diet has been dissolved before the House of Representatives had started a discussion of the motion of no confi- dence in the Cabinet. It is expected that there will be several ministerial changes. The Japanese Diet was reopened on Monday last with such a union of the three chief political parties as to make it certain that a vote of confidence in the Government would be carried. On Friday last the Mikado in the speech from the throne declared that the re- lations of Japan with. all the foreign powers were friendly, though he made no specific allusions to the complica- PRICE FIVE CENT ENRAGED BY THE NOTE OF - WOODFORD Spanish Newspapers Furious Over Uncle Sam’s Stand. Declare It Is Necessary to Increase the Fleet Against the Eventuality of a Conflict. ’ in view of the character of El Heraldo says: Minister Woodford to the note of the Spanish Govern- ment in answer to the first communication of the American Government through him, it is necessary to increase the Spanish fleet, as against the eventuality of a conflict with the United States. “The encroachments of the United States upon the internal policy of Spain have become intolerable and must be resisted energetically. The situation is difficult, but at whatever cost the Gov- ernment ought to put an end to such a shameful state of affairs for the sake of the dignity of Spain.” 000000000000000C00000000000 MADRID, Dec. 26.—To-day the Imparcial urged that, the reply of United States DO0000000003VTTO COTTIVOTOOOT DODOOOT COOCODOOSOCTOOOCTTOCICIVCOVTTCOVTITTOTOTITOITCOOCOCOD LONDON, Dec. 26. — The Madrid correspondent of the Standard savs: General Woodford's note dwells at length upon the Spanish compla,inE against fillbustering and other morai and material assistance given in the United States to the insurgents which the Washington Government reasserts it has done all in its power to check, with the view also of satisfying the representations made by Spanish diplomacy. The Madrid papers say the note is so very friendly and so laudatory of the present home rule policy in Cuba and Porto Rico that there is a general impression in official circles that the relations between the two Governments had a decidedly re- assuring aspect. At the same time papers of every shade of opinion, including the minis- terial organ, censure very sharply the conduct of the United States Govern- ment and are unanimous in saying all thecomplimentsthe United States pays the new Spanish colonial policy can- not make a proud nation loyal to the pretension of a forelgn Government to have the right to criticise and condemn the conduet of Spanish generals and of the late Spanish Government in deal- ing with the rebellion. They equally resent the American Government'’s pretension to interfere in | the Spanish West Indies, which is re- peatedly claimed in the notes and the Presidential message and more recent- ly in Secretary Sherman's advocacy of | relief for distressed Cubans. The press is most dissatisfled with the Woodford note on account of the arguments used to refute the Spanish complaints against filibustering. America s charged with infringing all the rules and usages of international law in order to sult the aims of its encroach- ing policy in the West Indies. It is an open secret that the note has caused surprise and displeasure in of- ficial circles because the Government had hoped that President McKinley and Secretary Sherman would refrain from increasing the embarrassment of the situation in Spain in consideration of all the concessions already made to Cuba. The Government will delay replying to the note for several weeks, as the United States took nearly two months | to reply to the Spanish note. When it | does reply Senor Sagasta will rebut the | arguments of the note in a friendly, but ‘firm tone. The Government cannot longer risk the accusation of not be- ing in touch with national feeling which is getting very weary of Ameri- | can interference. The Spaniards think the notes give them an excellent op- portunity to reply to criticism which naturally could not be challenged or noticed. The Madrid correspondent of the Daily Mail says: General Woodford's | note differs greatly from the first he | presented and contains several state- ments that should be refuted. It 1s| inspired, on the whole by the senti- ments pervading President McKinley's message. Senor Gullon, the Minister of foreign affairs, will'reply traversing the points raised. CRUISERS WATCHING FOR A FILIBUSTERING EXPEDITIOI.‘ Authorities Appear to Be Determined- to Prevent the Departure of a Sus- Ppected Boat. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Dec. 26.—A special to the Times-Union and Citizen | from Punta Gorda states that the | crulser Montgomery and cutters For- ward and McLane arrived in Charlot Harbor this morning in search of a filibustering expedition that was re- ported to be about to set sail for Cuba. Vessels In port were searched, but nothing ef a contraband nature was found. MOBILE, Ala., Dec. 26.—If the pilot- boat Somers N. Smith of Pensacola gets out of this port with a filibuster- ing expedition she will have to run over the cutter Seward in the river and the cruiser Montgomery off the bar. The Smith was here in August last, was docked and black leaded, had a speed wheel put in, and also took off the figure 3 from her smokestack and went to sea at night, bound, ru- mor afterward said, to Cuba, with elghty men on board and a lot of arms and ammunition. No trace of this expedition was af- terward found, however, and Willlam Bazzellle, commodore of the Pensa- cola Pilots’ Association, presumably the owner of the tug, denied emphati- cally that the Smith was in the filibus- tering business. Two weeks ago the tug reappeared in Pensacola and came immediately under suspicion, the papers there say- ing the cruiser Montgomery was on watch over here. The papers also said the Smith needed docking for repairs, but that the Mobile docks were too busy to take her. Nevertheless she ar- rived here Thursday and went on the Mobile ways at the foot of Augusta street to be repainted. The manager of the ways says the paint on her does NEW TO-DAY. At first thoughit it seems impossi. ble that any hu. man being should wilfullv _embrace death. Yet thou. sands of women daily court the (Mgrim-visaged N monster. Some § do so through ig- norance and others through wilful neglect. 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