The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 11, 1898, Page 2

(&) THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1898 nominated in the miners’ meeting, the! reasons given being that his candidacy | was simy play for the adsertising | of his newspaper. It was ure=d that if | he were selected to go to Ottawa, the government would look upon the whole affair in the light of a newspaper fake | and would simply throw the memorial in the waste basket. Livernash took this reference to him as a personal insult, he said, and made a violent speech in which he declared that he r :nted as much capital as any man in the room, that he was ac- tively interested in mines, owned a claim, and had interests in several| others, and that he was not a mer: wewspaper reporter, but was the as- sistant managing editor of one of the eatest newspaper in the country. This speech only quickened the op- | position and in order to get the quar- rel out of the way of the meeting and adjust the difficuity with the le: fense to anybody, it was proposed that ‘ a committee be appointed with power t the three delegates. Liver- first opposed this, declaring it | of- | was clear to him that the committee would be stuffed against him. He wanted the meeting to name the dele- gates. T committee was appointed, | however, and he was placed on it him- | self. I made no reference to any of this in my dispatch that reported the meet- ing because 1 deemed it a detail of small importance, the business having been concluded and Livernash named as one of the three. It becomes impor- tant, in view of the general expression test that has since been made as his going to Ottawa. A petition circulated in town and on the creeks, asking the committee of ten to reconsider his appointment and to name some other in his stead, secured in a few days 2000 signatur 1t was being actively pushed for even a larg- er list, and in the meantime members | of the committee were informed and asked to get together and decide upon some other man. Livernash was to have started out to-morrow. That was the date he had fixed. Hearing of the movement im, he got together what of against his out he could quickly and lefttown He went up the river a | nd made camp there to party. Frank Slavin, the who is going with Liv- ernash, is still in town, and says he hope et to-morrow. The mi ed the petition are greatly incensed at Livernash's action, and it is wre than likel 1 meeting will be called to make informal protest to Ottawa. Captain Hans 1 head of the ge r food every day that to grant. Men not only to pay for provisions, but offer the clerks all manner of bribes to fill their impossible, he says, | Jle believe that there thing in the store to sell in the pro- ion 1 of 100 r he is unabl times been worried be- responsibility 1 took in o to Fort Yukon,” said “but I am now con- If there were . without pro- e would be certain starva- ¢ cannot be brought here by The best dog team in the cowld not land more than 250 and no team can make more at the to <on, I was right. e in this pla country pounds, than two tri There are not dogs enougzh in the country to make any material impression in case of famine s of Nothwithsta scarcity of food, the a much easier feeling here in this matter. | The great exodus of men, first down | the river and now up, has brought re- lief in two ways—there are not omly | fewer men to feed, but nearly every | man going out has swelled the stock of | provisions here by leaving his surplus. | This has been such a material quan- tity that thr taurants have | opened. The price eal in any one | of these, cons! ry slim piece of meat, a dish of some ona vegetable, bread without butter, $3 50. Pie and coff taurants do a good busin They are backed by the gambling fraternity, to whom they are a godsend. With no place to get a meal, the miners on the creek did not dare to come to town. The terrible march over the ice is now fully under way, and there are now over 400 men on the trail. Very many go without any equipment for | such an undertaking and apparently without any conception of the danger they must encounter. 1 have seen half | a dozen start out with nothing mure} than what they carried in their packi straps on th bac] One man I saw | start no | n this way alone—no tent, stove, little clothing and little provi- | sion. His nam is Henry Pellet of Sioux | of men start out every | The great majority are without dogs and "have their outfits on clumsy eleds which they have made themselves and which are scarcely fitted for the ! work they will be required to do. These sleds are often loaded so that the men haul them with difficulty over level | ground; indeed, they must be so loaded | if the person car with him an equipment in any wise in keeping with the requirement of his journey. How they expect to make their way over the | d up masses of ice that lie in their } only desperate necessity can sug- | wa, For ten days the temperature has ranged from 40 to 57 degrees below zero, at no time rising above 40 below. There is little wind at any time and the in- | tense cold is still and in its effect One does not appreciate how The air is perfectly dry and exhilarating, there is noné of that searching shivering sensation that at- tends the cold weather of Cape Cod. Men who know the weather, and it does not take long to get acquainted with it, | go about dressed in furs, with head, hands and feet especrally well protect- ed. Others will venture considerable distances from a fire in their shirt- sleeves, The careless soon wear weath- er marks. They are frozen before they know their danger. The faces and fin- gers tingle a little. It is to be expected, as all cold weather has that effect, but a moment later the face or fingers are discovered to be frozen. A friend of mine had his hand frozen through allowing it to get from under the cover while he slept. A man got his feet frozen in his cabin before he got his tin stove working in the morn- ing. It is in weather like this that the army of the unprovisioned tramp to salt water and the outer world. Re- ports come in daily from those still headed this way, who were stopped by the closing of the river. George Welsh of Waverley, N. Y., was taken into the police barracks yesterday with a frozen arm. He had come down from his camp ten miles up the river to secure or prepare a safe cache for his goods | his arms. [an old man, has both feet frozen, his | overtake him. here. Welsh's arm was frozen on the tramp down. He was carrying a pack on his back, and the straps on the shoulder checked the free circulation in There are two others in his both of whom are severely one of them, George Winters, party, frozen; ankles being swollen and the flesh broken. James Stronach, the third, is also badly frozen. The party was caught in the ice crush thirty miles up, and has ever since been plodding on toward this city, having in three weeks made twenty miles with their entire outfit. Welsh says there were days at first following the jam that they struggled the entire day chopping a passage through the ice to make a distance of one mile. In their crippled condition they are going to try to bring their goods to this city without moving camp again until they move it finally here. George Winters is an old soldier of the Union army and James Stronach of the Confederate army, and both are suf- fering in the same tent. They say that the war developed no such hardships as they are now undergoing. James Carter, who came down after the ice stopped running, tells the story of the loss of a boat with three men, Judge Sullivan, Dr. Harvey and a Mr. SLEIGH Dillon, all of Colfax, Washington. Carter says he and his party had made | a landing before the ice jam took place and that from the shore he saw a boat caught out in the stream between two floes, crushed and carried under, and | that the three men went down with it. | The men were all fellow-passengers of | Carter on the steamer Elder, that| sailed from Portland on the 25th of | July. The fatality occurred only about | twenty miles above the city, from | which point Carter walked to town. With the slacking of the tension in regard to provisions, interest in mining | has intensified. There is a stampede at least once a week to some creek in the district near or far, and the work in the commissioner’s office has grown very heavy recording newly staked claims. | Reports of new discoveries come from all quarters. The reports from the creeks where systematic prospecting is going forward is of such a charact s to create and sustain this exciteme On Upper Bonanza, as high as 122, y rich gravel has been found and llle‘ greatest expectations sare sustained with regard to bedrock. The twent per cent tax proposed to be levied by the government on the product of the claims has had the effect of stopping | all boasting about the great yields of the mines, and it is now very difficult to get at the product of any particular claim. However, a very rich strike has the effect of driving the lucky miner to drink in most cases and then he talks. It was through this agency that | rich pay was reported from Bear Creek, | a few days ago, and another sweep of excitement spread through the camp. | George Howard took $76 from one pan on his branch claim No. 4, on the right | side of Skookum Gulch, a few day ago. He tried a second pan and got | $86. This is the first report from the right side of Skookum. The left was reported quite as rich some months ago. Deadwood Creek is known to be ver rich, as heavy covered gold has been se cured in the gravel. The Deadwood empties into the Yukon four miles be- low Dawson, but from the opposite side. The sale by Louis LePlant to Jim | Haggen of a half interest in 43 on | Hunker for $30,000 has precipitated a | very pretty race between dog teams to Circle City. Fred Trump, now in Cir- cle, offered a half interest in 46, three claims above Haggen's, for $2000 last summer. Since then 43 has developed big prospects, and the sale to Haggen, | a Snohomish, Wash., man, quieted all doubts as to its wealth. Two parties | started on Monday to go to Circle City | to find Trump, who is not supposed to | know the value of his property, to buy | it from him for those $2000 perhaps. Tom Lynch got out with five dogs last night. - He will travel as nearly all the time as he can. He goes on behalf of | a gambler named “Goldie.” There are | several others about to attempt to| a Despite the depth of snow that cov- ers everything and the intense cold, a good deal of prospecting is being done for quartz. Quartz in the Bonanza or El Dorado hills is held to be the thing most to be desired, and parties are spending the winter among them, look- ing for the white rock with the yellow metal in it. Several finds have been made, which the prospectors believe are the foundations of great fortunes. James Pyle yesterday filed a quartz claim on the point of the hill rounding out from Skockum Gulch to Bonanza Creek, and covering some 90 placer claims. The placer claims, however, have prior right under the law, and must be worked out before the quartz claim may be worked. The All-Gold group of quartz claims and the Too- Much-Gold group, covering the two lodes extending through the hills from one to the other of the creeks of the same names, are said to have shown very rich prospects. The following pages from my diary will take up the story of life in Dawson where my dis- patch of November 21 left it: Nov. 21—Nigger Jim walked into Jim- mie Kerry's saloon, scene of the recent robbery of $22,000, this morning about 6 o'clock and called for a drink. As the whisky was placed before him Jim said: “Now, T don’t want you people to get ex- cited, but T have come for that $80% that I left here, and that you stole from me."" As he said this Jim drew a revolver and | presented it at the breast of the bar- keeper, Ed Lord. Lord tried to laugh over the uselessness of the gun, and pro- tested that he knew nothing of the money and eould not give it up. “Then I'll kill you,” =aid Jim, cocking the revolver. Lord raised his hands and made oath that he did not know where the money was. “Glve up the money,” cried Jim, “give me the money or I'll kill you. I came in here to get that money or commit mur- der. Give me the money. Lord gave him the money, handing the sack with 35000 of gold dust over the bar. “Now,” said Lord as he did so, “kill you might as well kill me now, any- how.” “No,” said Jim, “the other feliows may do that. I've got all that I wanted out of you. Now everybody in the house come and take a drink.” They went and took several drinks Jim went down the line later and “gin- ned” up the town. It was not long before everybody knew that the robbery at Keery’s, which had been under suspi- cion, was the act of attaches of the house. Subsequently Lord conducted the officers who arrested him to the hiding places of $12,000 more of the stolen money. That left him but $2000 to be ac- counted for, and Lord said he could not do that. He was then taken to the lock- up at the barracks, where he has since been confined. ‘While Nigger Jim was entertaining the town further up the street a man stag- f{ered into the lodging-rooms over the londike church. e lighted a candle in a miner's candlestick and tried to thrust the iron point in the wall. The RIDE ON From a photograph by Sam W. Wall, THE KLONDIKE. There were twelve men lodging in the house. They all had their caches there, and there were besides twoothercaches. All the men were in bed and the fire de- veloped fast that they ad no time even to save their clothes. Many of them left their goldesacks in their trou- ser pockets and escaped into a tempe ture of degrees b w zero in their stocking feet. The building and its con- tents were completely destroyed and the adjoining buildi occupied by T Crawford & Dupras, was badly scorch Those who were burned out took refuge in this building and Crawford and Col a- nel Trett supplied them with clothes for the being. These twelve men, all of them previously well supplied, were rendered wholly destitute by th® fire Eleven thousand pounds of provisions were destroyed, which at the current rate of $1 a pound means a to them of $11,000, exclusive of cloth and other equipments and the money that was burned. Later in the day the Chamber guns of Commerce and Mining held a meeting: to take action for their relief. A com- mittee appointed composed of Colonel Trett and Falcon Joslyn of Seattle and Ed, Mizner of 2 , to secure subscriptions of f sthing for them. Their names are: Joseph Harris, Frank Walstons, McAfee and his part- ner, Captain Green of Seattle, and Messrs. Berry Lloyd, Davidson, King, Jones and a partner of the last named. The building destroyed was owned by | Napoleon Dupras of Seattle, as is also | the adjoining building. The burned build- ing had only been completed about .a | month, n temporarily rented by ¥ Ils Young as a Presbyterian mission, and services had been held in it only two or three times. Mr. Young was also about to start a public library in the building. Mr. Dupras had planned to connect this and the adjoining buiid- ing and open rge hotel there next spring. He was going out over the ice to bring in certain things needful to this purpose. The fire what, ney cut. There fire stored in one pounds of d plans some. utes the jour- | was at the time of the f the rooms sixty-five nite, toge:! r with a quantity of c t pow The | dynamite and powder d before the caps began to explode, it is presumed, or rwise there would have been still an- r story. The caps kept exploding at | intervals for hours after they began. | At 8§ o'clock this morning “out” with the Barnes party. with them all day in order to get : tical idea of the triy are | taking. Half the day's travel was over | and through ice piled in such c | s to keep the sled bottom up much of | the time. A large part of the day's jour- | | | ney was through a slough of the river, one of those horrors to the men poling up stream, but where the was com- paratively smooth. We made camp at 4 o'clock, as it was then too dark to travel. The temperature was 45 below. | We camped in the woods on a high bank, up which we carried the tent and camping outfit and left the sled on the | trail. The snow was a foot deep. We | felled a fir tree to get “feathers” for a bed, found plenty of dry wood and the | inside of the tent was made warm and comfortable in a few minutes. The dogs, | upon being released from harness, played in the snow and then disappeared for so | long a time we thought they had gone | back to town. They were probably after | a caribou, the tracks of which we had | passed an hour before, for they came | back about § o'clock showing signs of a long cha They were fed and all of them taken into the tent, for the night | was very cold, and Dobson got up along | toward morning and built a fire, which | he kept going. November 22—Broke camp at 7 o'clock, though still dark, and I started back, while Barnes and Dobson went on to- gether on their long tramp toward Dyea. I passed two camps of men who had been caught in the ice and who are mak- ing their way toward Dawson. I also passed three men, each dragging a sled, going out. They were Dr. E. W. Croup and R. H. Johnson of Walla Walla and Henry Pierce Arizona. They were | when I met them in the slough on the level ice, five miles south of Dawson, and were leaning in their traces, like men working hard. I taiked with them. They said they realized the difficulties of their undertaking, but there was nothing left for them to do. They had plenty of pro- visions for the trip, and aithough they would be compelled to travel slowly, ex- pected to get out all right. November 2+—A meeting was held this cvening at Pioneer Hall called by the Pioneers and the Chamber of Commerce and Mining for the purpose of taking steps toward the establishment of a pub- lic library. A committee was appointed to secure the loan or subscription of books from those who have them. Thursday, Nov. 2%5—The cries of men rendered faint by distance awakened ®me early this morning. I heard what seemed to be the crash of timbers also. 1 turned toward the window. A faint red glow tinged the frosted pane, and I knew that another fire was in progress. My cabin is on the hillside, just enough above the level to command a complete view of the town, that from this point extends under the line of the river. The white roofs of the little city were glistening in the light of a blaze that it seemed must certainly carry it out of existence this Thanks- giving morning. The flame rose from the very center of the town, rolling from side to side, like a flecing snake. The cries that announced the fire ceased and the red blaze waved in the sky, silently. Smoke, rendered dark and dense out of proportion to the blaze by the low tem- perature, rose in immense circles, spread- ing and remaining above the city. From back of the hills eastward, beyond the Klondike to the white hills on the fur- ther side of the Yukon, across the hori- zon, the shimmering fingers of the aurora reached up to the zenith. On the slopes of the hill to my right and left the little cabins of the new-comers were half bur- ied in snow and no sound or light from i fce I | tant to be s | tesque variety of their costumes. ness within of what was passing here. There was no wind: the night was as still as it i The thermometer regis- tered 52 below zero. I followed the trail down the hill and out upon the frozen swamp and there heard the scream of the snow under the hurrying footsteps of some others too dis- n, who had been roused by the fire and felt enough interest to come out into this weather at this time of night. Following First avenue straight down its length parallel with the river, the scene of the fire. The saloon and dance hall, a ge ory building, was burning and the < had already climbed up the side the opera-house adjoining. Roulette wheels and faro tab tin stoves and of the rough furniture of the saloon, ses of bedding and bedroom furniture, pianos from the dance h: and heaps of provisions were strewn along the edge of the fire in the front and rear. Although the streets were filled with people there was no noise save the roar of the flames and crash of the timbers Is |as they fell in the fire, or as men tore them from neighboring buildings. A few men, led by George Foster of Spokane, SWung a timber to batter down the burn- ing uprights of the M. and but the timbers were still too firm. There was nothing to be done to save the buildings already on fire, and excepting the few engaged fn carrying goods out of the threatened houses all were spectators, moving about to get the changing views of the fire, speculating as to where it would end and what effect the losses would have upon the food situation. The intense heat did not melt the snow from the street immediately about the fire further than to cause a surface ss that impacted it under the feet f the crowd and gave it the hard con- sistency of ice. There had been a masquerade ball in progress at the opera-house, which the fire interrupted. The masqueraders had been driven into the street in all the gro- With them had come the girls from the other dance halls and the men in furs almost grotesque as the masqueraders. Most of the »men had run out wearing only the light clothing in which they dance. ‘Thig aueer crowd moved about the edge | of the fire, compelled by the intense cold to keep close within the eircle of warmth, for just outside the touch of the weather was most ncute. A little donkey that was brought this spring. and has become a familiar figure beside the stove in the M. and M., ran continually so close to the blaze that his hair was singed. took permanent hold on the opera-house and ate through its northern wall, three windows of the sec- ond story were thrown suddenly out of the shadow, the light of the fire being behind them. In the middle window stood Mephisto of the masquerade ball, throwing hoxes and packages containing certain treasures of the saloon to half | a dozen workers on the ground below. The northern lights kept up their dance overhead, and on the heights of the white mountains to the east a line of skeleton fir trees stood out distinctly against the night sky. The tossed and broken icefloes of the Yukon lay on the westward side, and here and there, within a marrow circle, the fire touched some Jagged point into bright distinction, but the broad sweep of the inhospitable ice stretched north and south into darkness. The majesty and immensity of the setting made the grotesqueness of this act in the great tragedy most notable. ‘The story of Alfred Anderson, who has a lay on El Dorado, developed to-day. He came down from the creek for a little “time,” did some drinking, went | round into one of the little red-blinded houses in the back street and there met his wife, whom he had not Seen for sev- eral years. He had built home for her in Wisconsin, then went to San Francisco with the purpose of going with a whaler, got drunk, missed his boat, drifted to Circle City and then came here. She went to San Francisco, looking for him, learned he had come to this country, followed him, became discouraged in her search, and so they met again in this house of the abandoned. They decided to remain apart hereafter. Dec. 1.—Wise Mike, the little donkey, froze to death last night. His body was found in the street this morning in front of the El Dorado saloon. Wise Mike could not keep warm. He had the liberty of the saloons to a great extent, and kept 80 close to the stoves that his hide was constantly being singed. He was also a great nuisance to the men who wanted to get near the stove. At the burning of the opera-house he ran into the fire several times. It was too cold for Wise Mike. Dec. 4—Joaquin Miller and party ar- rived from Circle City at 11 o'clock this morning. Mr. Miller is badly frozen but in good spirits. He came with a miner and trader known as “Montana,” and was accompanied by Harold Canovan of Ot- tawa, with whom he started from Circle. These two started without dogs, pulling their outfit on a little red sled. I had a talk with Mr. Miller. “I have had a severe experience,” he said. “I have lost a toe of the left foot and my left ear is sloughing off. I have to wear my hair down over it. How- ever, it does not matter. I shall not need ears much longer. My cheeks are also frosted. We got into all this trouble just about Forty Mile. blizzard there, the breath of which was death. It was like confronting a bayonet charge. We were at the time within a mile and a half of a cabin, the location of which we knew and we were eight miles beyond Forty Mile. Rather than face that wind for the mile and a half a team that had kept with us turned back over the eight miles. Canovan, shortly after we met the wind, complained that his knee was freezing. He began to limp and lean forward. I saw the dogs in the other team turn back. I knew that Canovan could not walk that eight miles. It was death to turn back or to stop for a moment. Our dogs hesitated. Napoleon in | ‘We encountered a | could not have watched that charge at the bridge at Lodi with clos than did I the action of those dogs. In | watching the bank for the cabin I was compelled to keep my head to one side, the left being more exposed than the other and there my ear suffered. We passed on and with a turn of the river we saw the smoke of the cabin curling up to heaven like incense. It was a little | cabin, built by two miners who had been | snowbound there. They presented it to the Miners’ A se to which it cue. We found the cabin so full there was no room to lie down, and we had to take turns at sitting up by the fire even after the three Indians had generously withdrawn, going across the river into a protected gulch to make camp until the wind should subside. “Yes, I have had enough of it, but I cannot remain here. I must go on out. There are so many claimson me out there. I am getting old, I have no time to waste. I cannot remain in here. I built my lit- tle home you know upon the Heights and I want to go and enjoy it. That view of the Bay of San Francisco has a fascina- tion for me. “About my trip up the river? Well, we left Circle City on the morning of the 27th of October. They brought a dead man in there, the body having been chopped out of the ice, and another whose feet were frozen and had to be amputated. There was something of a panic in the camp. It was thought that there must be great numbers on the river probably frozen. They were going to hols A miners’ meeting to keep me from start- |ing out, but I told them to go to the devil; that I was determined to tarry there no lon The more of death and suffering there was on the river, the more I would have to go. Well, we could &et no dogs that were worth having, and so determined to come without any. We had robes and ev character two tents for protection against snow, but used only one. It was a little tent, ofen in the front. We car- ried no stove, but built a campfire every night and slept with our feet toward it We did not suffer at night, but slept comfortably enough. We carried crack: ers and canned meats and d little cooking or baking to do, but, oh, how | ts on the trail. And I have made scovery. Perhaps it is not a discov- ;, but it is new with me. While I was working along the trail, keeping the sled right side up—that is really the hardest job—while T was at that for hours, with | no one to talk to, I would see things here | and there that appealed to me in my trade. I would be forever putting them in place, arranging them in order, you know. Well, I discovered that that sort thing was most exnausting; I would suddenly feel that some one had touched the hem of my garment. This is a won- derful and beautiful country. There is endless material here for my trade. ‘It seems like a providence that the of this country should be reserved for me to the last. Well, we traveled to the place where the body of had been found and saw a valise there A raven was flying overhead. His croak was like chunks of ice. You could hear them falling on the floes. We tented there under a bluff and an avalanche of snow on our tent taught us to keep away from bluffs. We moved along very slow ly on the river ice. We got in the water once and directly sat on the changed our footwear. day we saw some people on the other side of the river and we spent the day Cross- ing over. There we found a trail and plenty of wood. We gathered some high bush cranberries also. They were so thick that we scooped them Into our hands. They were delicious. I saw a woodpecker there also. The second day after we crossed, the river gorged. It was terrific. We were on the ice above the gorge. It rose about ten feet and then the water fell. The ice piled up while underneath the river panted and gasped like some fearful and unheard-of monster. At times it kept up what seemed like the discharge of artillery. Our sled was wholly submerged in the water once. We saw some horses that had been on a barge as we were making our way out for a long time. The camps were very monotonous. We fed wit. Indians several times, and were glad of chance. We hired Indians to help us along over certain stages. “We passed boats almost every day that had been caught in the ice. We began to meet numbers of people, especially trad- ers. They nearly all feed their dogs frightfull One trader had a beautiful hound, a Newfoundland and a Mameluke. The hound cried pitifully under the treat- ment and he beat it for crying. He beat the hound to death. He left the New- foundland at Forty Mile. The Indian dogs endure everything, but the others can't. I know that this cruelty is not necessary, for I asked ‘Montana,’ the man who brought me in, how often he | beat his dogs. He answered: ‘Never, | that is why they are so fat and work so well.” The dog beating must stop. “We had a most terrible experience at the whirlpool below Forty Mile. They may speak of cold waves in other parts of the earth; I would call them ‘streaks.’ Here are places where the cold takes hold of you like the hand of death. You feel it instantly you. enter it, and again when you leave. At the whirlpool the wind has polished the ice smooth with the sharp points of snow. We struck the cold streak, and everybody cut loose and ran for shelter, but we went on to the cabin. We were two days making the five miles between the wreck of the Arctic d Forty Mile. “"At Fo’ny Mile we were treated like Princes. They gave us a musical enter- tainment, and we had a nice time. We stayed there three days. I received the surgeon's care for some bruised ribs. I had fallen on the ice and it caused me to bleed from the lungs. . = “A young man named Alfred Thayer, a freighter, who reached Forty Mile about the same time we did, fell in the same way at the same place, and had broken three ribs. He had to have them s¢t. On r_ivterest | ping of the lightest | Anderson | and some candles, also some flour, cooked. | sled and | On the seventh | the | the third day we started on again, and it was that day I was so badly frozen and that we found the little cabin, greatly to our relief. It shall be my one demand that a train of these cabins be built at convenient intervals along the Yukon by the Government. It is through such means that this country must be con- quered, not with guns. These cabins should have a man stationed who would be ready to lend aid to those who nced it. They might be utilized as postoffices. We miners have begun this work, and the Government should finish it. In the cab- ins established by the miners every man entering there finds wood and matches ready for him, and ,no man has been found so mean as to neglect to prepare for the next man what he has found prepared for him. “The small cabin up from Forty-mile is one of these. We found there Cap- tain Geiger, a Puget Sound man, Purser Ball, late of the Bella, and his partner, two small traders, one of them from Ma- rin County, Cal., who had a wrist so badly frozen that I was sure he would lose it. From Forty-mile I came on with ‘Montana.” He had dogs and a light load and I rode a part of the way. I shall rest up here at least a month.” Tom Nash was arrested to-day on the charge of having fired the M. and M. sa- loon, vesulting in the destruction also of the opera-house and the Dominion sa- loon. Nash was formerly bartender ar. gold weigher or cashier in the M. and M. McDonald suspected him of dishonesty and discharged him. Nash was very angry and made open threats that he would get revenge; that he would buin the place. That was a few days before the fire. In th2 ricantime Nash bought a half interest in another saloon, paying $10,600 sh for the same. The fire started in IcDonaid's own room while McDonald was downstairs. Mitchell, saw the smoke, ran in and saw the ved on fire, but was unable to extinguish it. He found the rear door open when it was upposed to be and should have been ocked. Nash retained his key to that door, and is said to be the only man other than the proprietors whoe had a key. Tnis is the circumstantial e‘:lden(:'e upon which the charge is bascd. Nash is still in the locku e VAST FORTUNES ARE BEING DUG FROM DOG CREEK CLAIMS. James Glover Writes of the Riches of the Kiondike, and Predicts That $7,000,000 Will Be Brought Down in July. POMONA, Jan. 10.—William Glover of Ontario, in this locality, has received a letter from his brother James, dated Dawson City, December 2. The letter was taken to Seattle and mailed from there. James Glover writes that he is among seventeen men who have located claims on a very small stream tribu- tary to the Klondike River that was not known until June. It is now | known as Dog Creek. Glover writes | that every one in the camp is making a fortune; that the best pay gravel there is but eighteen feet below the surface. He says that before the cold, freezing weather came on several miners on Dog Creek were each able to wash out $200 worth of gold every day, and none got less than ten ounces a day. He says he believes that over $7,000,000 will be brought down from Dawson City be- fore next July. Several men who have been mining continuously on El Dorado and Bonanza creeks since the first Klondike discoveries in September, 1896, are going to come down on the earliest boats on the Yukon River. These men have each about from $150,- 000 to $175,000 in nuggets and dust. | Glover says that he has now two oil | cans full of gold, preparatory to s | ing down to San Francisco next sum- | mer. e | BRING NEWS OF | THE DISCOVERY OF | THE MOTHER LODE. | Returning Kilondikers Tell of the Wonderful | Finds of the Quartz Origin of the Placers of the New EI Dorado. SEATTLE, Wash, Jan. 10.—The steamer City of Topeka, which arrived here this afternoon from Juneau, Alas- ka, had among her passengers nine men who left Dawson City December 9. They were: W. J. Jones, Port Towns- end, Wash.; D. D. Stewart, Juneau, | Alaska; A. Solder, Nova Scotia; E. C. Arnold, San Francisco; W. G. Stenger, Colville, Wash.; Harry Miller, Col- | ville, Wash.; J. Cordroy, Denver, Col.; George Anderson, Tacoma, and Robert Johnson, Tacoma. They bring news of the discovery of what is supposed to be the mother | lode and quartz origin of the placers of the Kliondike district. The discovery | was made within twenty-four hours at four different points, one of them at the Dome, a high mountain to the east of the source of El Dorado Creek by Frank Slavin, the second one at No. 31 El Dorado by A. H. Jose and partner, the third one on Nugget Guich at No. 16, and the fourth somewhere in the twenties on Bonanza Creek. The trend of the vein is northwest by west, west- erly from the Dome. It is found at about thirty feet below the surface and under the muck and alluvial deposit. The ledge is about eighteen inches wide and makes a uniform width. It is gen- erously sprinkled with free gold. One of the men brings down samples of the ore and every one who has seen them says the rock is precisely the same in character as found in the Comet mine at Berners Way, Southeastern Alaska. In no instance was the quartz discov- ery made by the men who owned the placer claims, and the locators of the quartz ledge thus acquire a separate and distinct title from the locators of the placer. The discovery of the ledge on No. 31 El Dorado was made by a man who was working the placer for the owner. A shot was put in and about fifty pounds of ore blasted out. The great- est excitement prevails and no man will | listen to any suggestion to sell his claim until further development has been made. Another Klondiker says: “The out- | put of gold in the spring will be from $15,000,000 to $25,000,000. This opinion is concurred in by the transportatioh companies’ managers and Alexander McDonald, the richest man in the Klon- dike. Five milllons of dust is now storfg }}n Dawson, $3,500,000 of which woul ave come out this boat reached Dawson.” T oande S ———— THE FLANNELLY TRIAL SET FOR FEBRUARY 14. The Slayer of His ther and Sheriff McEvoy Will First Be Tried for the Former Crime. SAN JOSE, Jan. 10.—The trial of Thomas Flannelly, who murdered his lather and killed Sheriff McEvoy at 'wood City a couple of months ago, was to-day set for February 14 by Judge Lorigan. He will be tried for the first crime. = Flannelly secured a change of venue owing to the prejudice against him in San Mateo County. The proceeding to-day was taken at the request of District Attorney Herring- ton, who urged the court to set an early date. Attorneys Boardman of San Francisco and Straus and Rheil of this city are Flannelly’s attorneys. murderer still retains a reticence and refuses to discuss his crime. his partner, | CONFIRMED BY THE SENATE Approval of Nominations for Office Made by the President. Men Who Will Fill Positions in the Consular and Other Branches. Quite a Number of California Post- masters May Now Take Charge of Offices. Bpectal Dispatch to The Call. Call Office, Riggs House, Washington, Jan. 10. The Senate to-day confirmed these nominations: , To be Consul-General, James M. Stowe of Missouri, at Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope. To be Consuls—Neil McMillan of Michigan, at Port Sarnia, Ont.; E. Z. Browdosi of Illinois, at Breslau, Ger- many, transferred to Firth, Bavaria: W. H. H. Graham of Indiana, at Win- nipeg, Man.; C. W. Erdman of Ken- tucky, now at Firth, Bavaria, trans- ferred to Breslau, Germany. To be United States Marshals—Gen- eral Miller, District of Utah; Z. Hou- ser, District of Oregon. A. W. Francisco, Collector of Cus- toms, District of Los Angeles, Cal. Appraisers of merchandise—J. T. Kare, District of San Francisco; Owen Summers, District of Willamette. Postmasters—California: A. Wiley, Arcata; G. Stickles, Angels Camp; B. Shaw, Hollister; B. A. Osborn, Watson- ville; R. J. Nixon, Yreka; L. McLaugh- lin, Sanger; S. Littlefield, Anaheim; A. B. Lemmon, Santa Rosa; F. Hickman, Hanford; C. Hapgood, Marysville; F. 1. Gardner, Soldiers’ Home; William M. Reeves, Mena; W. L. Jeffries, Claren- don; J. W. Lovie, Redwood City; I. Vandusen, Ukiah; R. M. Ryan, Gilroy; J. F. Payne, Sutter Creek; S. W. Met- calf, Sisson; G. B. Baer, Cloverdal: H. Anderson, San Rafael. Felix A. Reeve of Tennessee, Asi ant Secretary of the Treasury; B. K. Bruce of the District of Columbia, Reg- ister of the Treasury; Charles H. Mor- 1veyor cf Customs, Port of ) e Surveyors-Generai 1. I. B cf Utah, W. L. Distin of Quincy, 1il, of Alaska; Joseph Perrault, of Idaho. To be Registers of Land Offices— D. Ford at Denver; D. H. Budlong at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; I. T. Purcell of Wakeley, Kans.; L. R. Thomas at Blackfoot, Idaho: R. W. Dudley of ‘Washington, D. C., at Sitka, Alaska; H. Leland at Rosewell, Ill.; M. R. Otero at Santa Fe, N. M.; C. B. Moores at Oregon City, Or.; E. W. Bartlett at La Grande, Or.; J. A. Layton at Mont- | rose, Colo. To be Receivers of Land Offices—R. Shelley of Portland, Or., at Sitka, Alaska; G. B. Rogers at_Blackfoot, Idaho; G. A. Smith at Salt Lake, Utah; | J. L. Hill at Walla Walla, Wash. To be Associate Justices of the §u- preme Court for the Territory of New Mexico—F. W. Parker of New Mexico and Jonathan W. Crumpacker of In diana. Hosea W. Townsend of Colorado, Judge of the United States Court, Southern District of the Indian Terri- tory. To be United States Attorneys—R. V. | Cozier, District of Idaho; J. H. Hall, District of Oregon; J. H. Wilkins, Dis- trict of Indian Territory; S. Summer- field, District of Nevada. Not Seen Since Reported in Distress. 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