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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JAN UARY 18, 1898. ACCIDENT | IN A SANTA [T TUNNEL BowldersCrash Down Upon a Force of Workmen. Roof Timbers, Weakened by Fire, Away. Give Roadmaster Lyons Killed and Foreman Matthews Is Dying. OTHERS BADLY INJURED. Had Been Engaged in Fighting & Blaze That Raged for Twenty- Four Hours. | The News Held Back [NSURGENTS HAVE WON | by the Spanish Authorities. Explosion of a Bomb Is a Cause of Great Excite- ment in Havana. | The Particulars of This Matter Also Are Suppressed by the Censor. PANDO AT SANTA CRUZ. Ordered Back to His Post Under More Than a Suspicion of Cow- | | | ardice. { | Spectal Dispatch to The Call. WILLIAMS, Ariz, Jan. 17.—One of the most dreadful accidents in the his- tory of the Santa Fe took place to-day at the Fairview Tunnel, about nine miles west of here. Sparks from the engine of yesterday’s passenger train No. 1 ignited the timbers in the roof of the tunnel. A gang of men was quick- ly dispatched from this city under Foremen Matthews and Parker. The men fought the flames all night with- out flinching and all day to-day. At 2 o’clock this afternoon, when the flames were all but out, the men were alarmed by a loud crash, and in a mo- ment a solid mass of rock and burn- ing timbers c down. Every one ran for his life. Roadmaster Ly- ons and Foreman Matthews not ap- pearing, the workmen went back into the tunnel to look for them. Roadmas- ter Lyons was found in the debris, and was quickly taken out. It was seen that he was quite dangerously hurt. After comsiderable difficulty Foreman Matthews ¥ found under a heap of rock d charred timbers. Unawares, the men had walked over him several He was finally extricated. He ly hurt about the head and Jlained of a pain in his her men were hurt, but not were Lyons and Matthews. ndent Hibbard and Parker, were standing within two feet of s and Matthews, barely escaped eir lives, the former being a huge bowlder in his dash t there are not more killed as there were about the tunnel at the time. s and some laborers Williams on Superin- bbard’s train. Lyons lived t time after being taken out tunnel. He is a widower and > children in Los Angeles. He en in the employ of the com- for ten vears and had but recent- the Arizona- -veral ot! y xico line. vs Is resting as easy as could d. It is very doubtful if he > until morning. He was gen- foreman of the building depart- ment, and has been a faithful employe of the company for many years. No through trains will be able to pass through the tunnel for several vs, for at this time it is a sheet of from one end to the other. Pas- sengers on to-day’s train had to be sferred around the mountain ugh the snow. WANTS ANOTIHER FASTERY OUTLET San Diegc Lets a Franchise for a Railway Through the City. Awarded to a Committes of the Coun- cil to Be Used in Furthering Its Object. Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN DIEGO, Jan. 17.—The Common Counell to-night awarded an fmportant raflway franchise. It is for a right of way 100 feet wide through the city limits. The franchise is awarded to the follow. ing gentlemen: Matthew Sherman, U. §: Grant, M. A. Luce, Willam N. King and C. L. Josselyn, all prominent citi- zens, who were appointed by the Cham ber of Commerce as a comrittee to take such m ir judgm seemed b securing a railroad d rectly eastward from this city te the Colorado River. Members of the Chamber af Commerce eommittee when questioned regarding their purpose in obtaining this franchis. wouid only say that their object' was procure for San Diego at the earlie: possible day & shorter and more dire castern outlet, and that they conside the franchise the important prelimin to_that end. TUnder the terms of the franchise the grantees are obliged to locate the pro- posed road within year and to have it in full operation within two years. SENDS A CHARGE OF SHOT THROUGH HIS OWN HEART. Suicide of the 22-Year-0/d Son of Rancher Collins of the Alexander Valley. HEALDSBURG, Jan. 17.—The residents of Healdsbu were shocked to-day when the intelligence reached them that | J. P. Collins, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. sarney Collins, prominent farmers of ander Valley, had committed suicide. parents of the unfortunate young man had left home and on thelr return found the body of their son lying in front of the house. The young man had shot himself through the heart. Filling a sack with rocks, he had tied a rope around the sack and attached the other end of the rope to the trigger of the gun. He then lay do placed the muzzle of the wea- pon to his heart, pushed his foot against the sack of rocks, which djscharged the gun. The young man was aged about 22 years. Melancholia, with which he had been afflicted for about two years, was the cause of his unfortunate ending. ——— Two Consuls Confirmed. WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—The Senate to-day confirmed these nominations: K. Pollard of Ohio, Consul-General at Monterey, Mexico; Louis Goldschmidt of New Hampshire, Consul at Guayra, Venezuela. Epectal Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—A spectal ca- ble to the Sun from Havana says: A dynamite bomb was exploded to-day near Dejame, Havana, at the moment when a Spanish military train was passing with soldiers. The explosion shattered the cars, disabled the lccomo- tive, destroyed the rails and killed and wounded many Spanish soldiers. The press censor has refused to allow any reference by direct cable to the num- ber of killed and wounded. At this time of general excitement in Havana the startling news of the ter- rible defeat by the insurgents of Gen- eral Molina is causing a great sensa- tion. Molina, with his 1500 men, met the insurgents at Camarioca and Punta Maya, Matanzas Province. The Cu- bans were led by Jose Clemente Go- mez, Rojas and Tabares, and num- bered 800 men. The engagement lasted four hours, | and was a sharp one. The Spaniards made three attempts to dislodge the patriots from their strong positions, but were repulsed every time with heavy losses. In the third baycnet charge of the Spaniards the Spanish captain, Emilio Cervera was killed, and Lieu- tenant Manuel Gonzales was severely wounded. Leaving fifty dead on the field, Mo- lina retired, reporting to General Blan- co that the positions of the insurgents were bravely defended by them in or- der to gain time to remove their wound- ed, but they w: finally dislodged after two hours' fighting, and left six | dead on the field.” | According to Molina, his losses, be- | sides Captain Cervera and Lieutenant Gonzales, were only three privates kill- ed and twenty-eight wounded. He re- ports also several soldiers bruised. General Pando has arrived at Santa Cruz del Sur, in Puerto Principe Prov- ince, from Manzanillo, Santiago de Cu- ba. He made a trip by steamer in or- der to ask for reinforcements from the | Spaniards in Puerto Principe. His sit- | uation at Manzanillo is desperate. His troops are threatening to revolt on ac- count of the ill-treatment they receive, | as they are starving and receive mno payments. Furthermore, the insur- gents under Garcia and Rabi have ex- | tended their control to the very doors of Manzanillo. As soon as General | Pando arrived in Santa Cruz, General Blanco cabled stringent orders to him to return immediately to Manzanillo and remain there attending to his duty. It is just reported from the Palace that Pando will return to Manzanillo to- day. Among military men here the whole affair {s making much comment. | _In spite of the decree of General | Blanco forbidding troops to destroy property in the country and not to harm women and children, an official report is published to-day of a savage | attack by the battalion of Canarias on | familles of insurgent soldiers at the farm Herrera, in Pinar del Rio Prov- ince. The report says that seventeen | modern rifles and twenty-six old rifles | were captured, and that everything | was destroyed by the troops, including | some acres of vegetables and stores of food and tobacco kept by the family. | Five women, ten children and four | men, the report says, were made pris- oners. The affair is a very good illus- tration of General Weyler's methods. Another officlal report to-day says | that twenty Cuban families, numbering ninety-two persons, mostly women and children, have been made prisoners near Sancti Spiritus and brought to town. This is another instance of con- centration. Five thousand more regu- lar troops were brought into Havana vesterday by Generals Salecedo, Ma- | rote and Bernal, who were summoned | by General Blanco to reinforce .Gen- eral Arolas against rioters. WASHINGTON, Jan. General Lee cabled to-day from Havana, asking that more re- llef supplies be forwarded by the Central Cuban Relief Committee. This request is considered to be ample evidence that no obstruction is being interposed by the Spanish Government | to relief supplies being forwarded from | the United States. WOMEN BEFORE THE GRAND JURY | | Questioned as to the Making | of Masks for the Uber 1 Lynchers. 18.—Consul | Members of the Mob Satd to Have | Been Identified by Persons Re- turning From = Party. | Spectal Dispatch to The Call. | _CARSON, Jan. 17.—The Grand Jury of Douglas County was in session for sev- eral hours to-day. The first witness called was Miss Hilderbrandt, who was | working for the family of Mrs. Anderson, the sister-in-law of the man Uber killed. | She was in the Jury room for some time, and it is supposed that she testified rel- | ative to the making of black masks for | the lynchers the day before the lynching | of Uber. Mrs. Ott and Mrs. Frey were | at a party at Walleys Springs on the night | of the tragedy, and they were called to [ tell what they saw on their way home, | and name the men they identified return- ing from Genoa. | "Will Seeman and Charles Lewis were | called on and were some time before the jury, but what they testified to is only a matter to be surmised. It was | the intention to cite any witnesses | | refusing to testify before Judge Mack for contempt of court, and as none has yet been cited it is presumed that they have answered the questions put to them. The jury adjourned at 4 o'clock to meet again 1o-morrow morning. BRAINED HIS WIFE AND TW AVICTORY‘Fearml Crime of a Despondent New York Me Committing Suicide. NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—John Mat their two children, a boy 10 years ol death with a hatchet. himself in the head. with the intention that asphyxiati store kept by Matthews. itated was evident. his hands and brained his wife. intended to end his own life. farther up town and had failed. A open and unaddressed: only have died alone. the thing over. I always wanted tc capsize. I knew that otherwise T wc From a letter left by Mrs N. Y. Matthews was 35 years old. tween last Saturday night and this morning, murdered his wife and Matthews then committed suicide by Before dying, it is believed, he turned on the gas work. The crime was committed in a small bedroom in the The tragedy was discovered by a milkman. On the floor of the sleep- ing room the officer who was summoned found the corpse of Matthews. In his hand was a revolver, and there was a bullet hole just above his mouth. There were two beds in the room. On oneof these lay Matthews’ wife. Her head was chopped and mangled almost beyond recognition. On the other bed the two children lay side by side. frightfully cut and hacked. ‘That the murder and suicide were premed- Matthews had waited until his wife and children were asleep. Then he stripped himself to the waist, took the hatchet in After that he attacked the children. From letters left it was ascertained that for some time Matthews had He had been cery store and had met with little success. woman, had recently undergone a severe operation. evidently, that prompted Matthews to write this letter, which was found “It is a terrible thing T have to do,” he wrote,” “to keep my word. T promised that all shall go with me, and delay is no good. I love my wife and little children. did not want to go in any business, that guess that my nerve is all that is left. Matthews that she was a party to the suicide agreement structions as to the clothes in which the dead children should be buried, and signified the place of interment for the entire family as Highland, O CHILDREN rchant Before thews, a retail grocer, some time be- d and a girl 12, by hacking them to shooting on should complete his murderous car of the Their faces, too, were in the dry goods business few months ago he opened the gro- His wife, a pretty little It was these things, If T could I told them I my mind was gone, and I For five years we have talked o go out in a boat and accidentally »uid have a hard time of it.” to a friend, it was gathered Mrs. Matthews left in- 2-E-Bn REEDY FLAMES TAKE HIS LIFE } 0Old John Williams Incin- erated in a Fresno Barn. Lamp Explosion Believed to Have Set Fire to His Couch. His Corpse Is Found Wrapped in Blankets in Which He Had Lain Down to Sleep. ch to The Call. FRESNO, Jan. 17.—John Willlams, aged 74 years, was burned to death at 4 o'clock this morning. He was a hos- tler in the employ of Dr. W. T. Mau- pin. Wiiliams lived In a barn back of the house at the corner of M and Cala- veras streets. He cccupied a room in the middle of the stable, and on both sides were apartments in which wood and household furniture were stored. The blaze was discovered by Night- | watchman W. M. Rodgers, and he turn- ed in an alarm. By the time the en- gines reached the scene the fire had gained great headway. When it was extinguished the body of the man was found in the ruins. It ghastly sight. The charred corpse lay in what was left of Willlams' bed. The legs and arms were burned cempletely—in fact, nothing but trunk remained, and that was tected by heavy blankets. Williams had evidently attempted to arise from his couch, but was probably | overcome by the smoke and fell back on the bed. The origin of the fire is not known definitely. Willlams had been drinking heavily Sunday night, and o’clock was taken home in a hack. The fire resulted either from sparks falling from his pipe, as he was an inveterate smoker, or from a lamp explosion. It is thought Willlams left his lamp burn- ing, and that it exploded after he had retired. Willlams was a native of England and an old California settler, having come to this State in 1849. He engaged in teaming and mining, and was at one time quite well-to-do. He came to Fresno six years ago, and of late had lived on the bounty of Dr. Maupin. He was a well-known character about town, and was not a stranger in the Police Court, where he had been ar- raigned several times for intoxication. He always made a plea of {llness. MRS, DORI (LAY LOVES BRYANT Reason Why the Child Wife Will Not Remain at ‘Whitehall. Special Dispatch to The Call. VALLEY VIEW, K Jan. 17.—That | General Cassius M. Clay's child-wife Dora is in love with Willlam Bryant there can be longer a doubt. This is the true reason for her refusal to remain at Whitehall, al- though both she and General Clay have declared to the contrary. Since Clell Richardson drove Bryant away from his home, where Dora was staying, he found Dora very hard to get along with. In- deed, so bitter had her feeling become to- ward her brother that there was a family row, and Clell shot at Dora and his own wife's mother, who was taking sides with his sister. Dora returned from Whitehall last night and weént to the home of her sister, Mrs. | Roy Kelley, who resides about a mile from this place. She says the General did not want her to remain at Whitehall be- cause he is afraid that someone would kill them Loth. This is absurd, and people of this place have begun to realize that it is young Bri:nt alone who is the cause of ihe separation. This is borne out by the fact that he and Dora have met at the postoftice here several times and every time they have walked away together, go- ing to the far end of the village, up the river. On these occasions they Eone several hours, and have been seen sitting on_the bank of the stream. Dora | went to the postoffice to-day and mailed | a letter. She said she came back because she wanted to and because it was Ge eral Clay's wish. Bryant was here wait- ing for her and the w“&" talked to- gether a long time. Roy Kelley has for- bidden Br{u.n! to come fo his place, as he fears trouble and )arobnbly bloodshed may be the outcome of Dora’s romance. 58828 E8EEeEEEua. presented a | off | the | pro- | at 12:30 | ave been | WOULD ABOLISH GRIND JURIES San Bernardino Judges | Opposed to the System. Say Its Field Could Be Cov-| ered by Modernized Court less and the Benefits Seldom Great. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. SAN BERNARDINC, Jan. 17.—| | Judges Oster and Campbell of the Su- | perior Court in delivering a charge to | the Grand Jury this morning gave the present Grand Jury system some se- | vere blows. The last Grand Jury in | this county was in session twelve days, | cost $1700 and returned only one indict- | ment. The charge was an argument against the Grand Jury and the system. Extracts from it follow: We belleve the sentiment to be very | general in this State that the present Grand Jury system has outlived its use- fulness and that its continuance is only a needless burden on the taxpayers of the commonwealth. No doubt it has in the | past performed valuable functions in the | administration of the criminal law, but | this consideration appeals rather to the antiquarian and the student of political | history than to the property-owners | seeking relief from heavy taxation. These | same functions can now be performed with less expense, greater efficiency and | more In accordance with the spirit of our institutions by the District Attorney, | aided by the examining magistrate and | the machinery of a modernized criminal Jurisprudence, as already established. |~ Secrecy and divided responsibility are the cardinal characteristics of the Grand | Jury system, as contra-distinguished | from the modern mode of instituting | criminal proceedings, and, while there | may possibly arise Umes in which the or- dinary channels through which justice flows become corrupted or powerful com- binations of criminals are to be ferreted ont, and when, therefore, this secrecy | and divided responsibility may give the | Grand Jury sysiem an advantage over | the simpler and more public mode of | instituting criminal proceedings, this pos- sibility perh constitutes an argument for the retention of the Grand Jury as an | agency of the court, to be invoked by it | only when in its opinion one of the ex- traordinary conditions suggested may require, but it is 1o argument for the | continuance of the present law necessi- tating the calling of a Grand Jury every year. On the contrary, and ordinarily, | this secrecy and divided responsibility | are among the most objectionable feat- | ures of the Grand Jury system, and make it possible for the coward to make a covert assault on the character of an | honest and upright citizen, at the same time depriving him of the usual means of redres: It may, perhaps, be urged in defense of the present scheme that no other body | except the Grand Jury possesses the | necessary inquisitoriai power over the officers of the county to investigate their accounts. and correct abuses; but in an- swer to such an argument it may be said that like power, including by necessary implication the authority to employ ex- perts, is already vested in the Board of Bupervisors, and it is expressly made part of their duty at least once a year to examine and audit the accounts of all officers having the care, collection or dis- bursement of county monevs. However, we believe it to be an easy | matter to suggest a better mode of au- diting the county books than by experts | to be appointed by efther of these bodies. | | Too often it has happened in this county that among the so-called experts em- ploved by Grand Juries were persons of such limited experience and knowledge as | to subject their reports and recommenda- tions, when adopted and promulgated through the Grand Jury. to contempt and ridicule, thereby visiting on tne Grand Jury itself odium which shouid have been attached to the expert himself. CHINESE CONVICT K LLED IN AN ATTEWFT TO ESCAPE. Folsom Guards Shoot /h Sam, a Kongol | Incarcerated for Murderous Assault. SACRAMENTO, Jan. 17.—Ah Sam, a Chinese sent to Folsom from this city Jast week for a murderous assault on a citizen, committed without the slightest provocation, was killed to-day while trying to escape. He was sent out with | the rock-crushing crew, but made a break for liberty. Before he could reach | the canal, into which he would have to plunge, a_couple of guards pumped so much lead into him that he could not oarry it. It is golllble he had intended to drown himsell o | Scareity of | made inside. | ating things. | beliet. | in Juneau. | or two when she felt cold. | good and improved her health. GOLD FROM THE YUKON HER CARGO Steamship Corona Ar- rives With Daw- son Miners. Over a Million Dollars in Dust Brought to Seattle. Fortunes Carried Over Winter Trails From the Northern El Dorado. OUTLOOK AT THE MINES. Candles and Kerosene Now the Gold - Seekers’ Greatest Drawback. Special Dispatch to The Call. JUNEAU, Alaska, Jan. 12, via Seat- | tle, Wash., Jan. 17 (by steamer Co- rona).—The Cudahy-Healy Company is | still buying claims in the Klondike. A party of Yukoners which has been waiting at ship to take it south has more of that company’s paper, which will be cash- ed in San Francisco or Seattle, than any other party which has come out | There are also | of Dawson this season. 500 pounds of gold dust and nuggets among the members of the party. The rule with Klondikers is the same as with sagacious business men. Those who really have large sums of money or a big buckskin sack heavy with gold say nothing or little about it. Those who have little or no money or dust are certain to be the least reticent con- cerning the large wealth For this reascn it has never been possible to arrive at an ac- curate estimate of the amount of wealth, collectively or individually, in a returning party. The gold and checks of the party aboard the Corona is variously estimated, however, at from $1,000,000 to $1,50 Dyea several days for a | they have | James O'Brien, one of the party, has | been in the Yukon country ten years, and has the reputation of not exagger- He said: I look for other rich strikes.” Several of the party left Dawson on December 14 and 15 last and are the latest out. The weather was mild for a Yukon winter, the mercury hanging between twenty and forty degrees be- low zero, and the trip out was made in from twenty-five to thirty-two days. In the party is one woman—DMiss Louise Kellar of Juneau—who has had quite a romance and returns to the States rich. Miss Kellar was fromerly one of the Venuses of a variety theater She went to Dawson last spring and is the second woman to come over the trail in the dead of win- ter. She rode most of the way on a sled behind 2 dog team, walking a mile Miss Kellar is a slender brunette of good figure. She ranked as one of the prettiest girls in Dawson. She was clad from head to foot in beautiful furs. Rumor says a man who had a good claim on El Dorado Creek fell an easy captive before the charms of Miss Kellar. He is known as “Butch” Sedg- wick. He sold his claim to the Cudahy & Healy Company for $65,000 a few weeks ago and laid his fortun= at her feet. They came out together and are going to Seattle to have the knot tied by a city minister. Miss Kellar says the trip did her The rosy glow on her cheeks bears out the statement. As to claims, development work is being greatly retarded by the exceed- ing scarcity of kerosene and candles. On account of darkness development work is at a halt on many claims. What few candles and comparatively | small quantities of Kkerosene remain | are held without price. They are worth more than their weight in gold. Tal- low candles at the last quotation were worth $2 25 each and coal oil $2 50 a int. i The river trail is spotted with return- ing Klondikers, who have sold their outfits or claims, or both, from Daw- son to Dyea. On this account the quan- tiy of provisions has increased among those who remain, and the probability of a shortage in food is greatly lessen- ed. Every man in the party says that | starvation for Dawson is now wholly a of the past. Iw::”numberp of old-timers, who have come out during the last few weeks, as well as men among the present party, say that Hunker Creek prospects look as favorable as the claims on Bonanza 1 Dorado. méio::sidera.ble complaint is made about the mail facilities to and in Dawson. There is no postmaster at the gold cen- ter. The mail is in charge of the police station, and when the watches shift or squads change, a different man has charge of a stack of several square feet of letters. The service is very unsatis- factory. It is said to be almost impos- sible to find a letter, and that there are doubtless letters in the pile that have been there for months undelivered. The principal dance halls and gam- bling resorts are again open after the fire, and are running as though noth- ing had happened. A large unfurnish- ed building on Second street was com- pleted and a large lodging-house was remodeled, and dance halls are run- ning wide open in each. Gambling has been put out of sight a little bit. The police have required the games to be confined to compartments away from the bar and dancing rooms. The report is current in Dawson that when Major Walsh reaches the town gambling and dance halls will be closed, and the gporting element isconsequently breath- ing in gasps. But Major Walsh is still at the Little Salmon River and will not reach Dawson with established relay police stations until spring. The tons of mail for Dawson are still stalled on the river in charge of the police. Frank Slavin, the pugilst, reported discoverer of the mother lode, is only several days behind on the trail. Tt is aid that Mr. Slavin is bringing out this mother lode, with a pay streak of vir- gin gold twelve miles long, on his sled. The discovery of the mother lode of the Klondike is not believed in Dawson, the present party says. Slavin or some one else found a large piece of quartz bearing considerable pure gold, a con- siderable distance below the surface on El Dorado Creek, and this was said to have been chipped from a quartz ledge. Methods. | “The Cudahy-Healy Company has | spent about $3,000,000 for claims. It will take out from two to four times | as much as it pays for the claims. It | Expenss of Maintaining It Is Need- |is a wonderful country—almost beyond | | as a result of which she was confined NEW TO-DAY. ©x C.000000000C00000C00000000 MAIL ORDERS Will receive our prompt attention and be filled as fast as received and in order, great care be- ing used in giving our customers the benefit of all goods as advertised. [HE 0000000000000 00C0000) @ CLOTHIERS, HATTERS, FURNISHERS, 14 DAYS MORE BALDWIN Creditors’Gons OF THE It seems all Frisco had turned out to take opportunity of the great ¢“clash” yesterday—values that are worth miles to come for-—not ‘sales prices,” but big bargains. For this Tuesday and Wednesday three trade-bringers that will startle you and challenge competition have been placed upon the tables designed for quick clearance. You’ll find many things on sale in store too numerous to mention, too smallin lots to advertise, yet small enough in price to make ’em move quick. olidationClash See! 25c. About 1000 MEN’S COLORED BORDERED HAND- KERCHIEFS, full size, beautiful borders and fast colors, excellent quality—in fact, worth Tuesday and Wednesday 5¢ CREDITORS' CONSCLIDATION CLASH. | MEN’S EXTRA HEAVY ! KLONDIKE ULSTERS, | cut extremely long, | very warm and dura- |5‘ ble. Tuesday and ki Wednesday only.. = o i Worth $8. CREDITORS' CONSOLIDATION GLASH, BOYS' BLOUSES AND WAISTS, about 800 alto- gether, some worth 50c, others 75c, but Tuesday and Wednesday go on Special Sale for only. 30 0000 ® before. We are now making elaborate preparations for our Great Jubilee and Birthday Sale combined, which, when completed, will eclipse anything ever seen or heard of Watch daily papers for particulars. 924-930 MA OO0000 00, X OO0 OO THE BALDWIN CLOTHIERS, HATTERS AND FURNISHERS, KE RO T STEREET. o Even the most enthusiastic take the | mother lode story with many grains of | salt. The legs and feet of Willlam Byrne | of Chicago, who had those extremities frozen near Little Salmon River and was abandoned by his stepfather, have been amputated a short distance below the knee. He is in a fair way to recov- | er. The young woman who eloped with a young man from Seattle and was frozen fast in a boat in Lake Marshall, to a bed in a cabin with inflammatory rheumatism, is being brought out on a sled by three men. They will reach the coast in a week or ten days. No man in the party is without a large or small buckskin bag fullofgold. There was a small row of these gold “soldiers” standing up behind the bar in a varlety theater last night for tem- porary safety, while their owners en- joyed themselves free from the burden of wealth. Willlam Kaufman has been on the Yukon six years. He sold his claim on El Dorado. Said he: “I won't say how much I've brought out, but I've got all the money I want for the rest of my life.” He is about 34 years old. The Pacific Coast Steamship Compa- ny has placed the steamer Wolcott on the run between Juneau, Dyea and Skaguay. She made her first trip to- day. Edwin Goodall is at Dyea and | Skaguay inspecting the present and | probable situation there when the rush begins. HAL HOFFMAN. DANGER GREATER THAN EVER. Season’s Rush H;ymkresult in a Yukon Famine Next Winter. From figures compiled by a local steam- shipman, who has naturaly a good in- sight into such matters, it would appear that the coming season in the gold-stud- ded region of the Klondike will be one of the greatest suffering from starvation it the rush assumes anything like the pro- portions it now promises. In the days of '49, when the famous gold flelds of this State brought thousands across a dreary stretch of prairie land, we are told that the traill across the great American desert was an easy one to follow; It was marked by the bleach- ing bones of thousands who In their haste to reach the land of almost fabulous wealth started without a proper equip- ment, or were physically unable to reach | the coveted goal, and fell by the wayside: grewsome reminders of the perils of the search for wealth. Alike and yet unlike this is the journey to the Klondike. While the way is some- what perilous, the dangers are not over when one reaches Dawson. The early ploneers found in California a land with marvelous productive resources, and the disappointed gold-seeker was enabled to turn his hand to agriculture, and the land provided him with a subsistence if not a competency. But how different is Alas- ka. The perils of the journey will have been somewhat overcome by the trans- portation companies which will take care of the argonaut on his journey, transport his veriest necessities, and then—leave him in a land which produces little or nothing and bandicapped by a long and hard winter. Placing the numbers at the lowest ex- treme, there will be, during the coming season, 150,000 people in the Kilondike re- gion for whom supplies must be found for one year. Taking for a basis the United States army calculations for ra- tions, it will take 108,000 tons of provisions to sustain life in these people for one year. Adding to this 54,000 tons for kit, tools, weight of packages, etc., and 20,000 tons for grain, hay, hardware, ofl and other miscellaneous 'supplies, there is a grand total of 182,000 tons as the verylow- est on which the 150,000 can subsist. There are now but five river boats ply- ing on the Yukon, but that number will perhaps be increased to twenty, with an average capacity of not over 600 tons each, and these making two trips to the season, which is hardly possible they will be able to do, could only transport 24,000 tons at the very most. There is a remote possibility that 200 tons a day could be hmu% into_the min- ing region via Chilkoot, ites Pass and other routes, but if this were attempted the pass would soon be blockaded. If it were possibie, however, and the supply could be kept up for seven months, only 42,000 tons of provisions could be calcu- lated upon. This total of 68,000 tons could not, at the most, supply more than 55.000 people, for it must be borne in mind that there are no stocks of supplies to draw on, and there are added to this the addi- tional dangers of prolonged seasons and disasters to transportation, which would sadly cripple this meager supply. If all the means of transportation mn sight were doubled they would not be adequate for the wants of 70,000 people. Considering former estimates and the rush which has already made itself ap- parent, and including the number llrea;y in the gold belt of Alaska, 150,000 i8 a very small estimate, and it will in all proba- bility at least be doubled, if not trebled. Of those who are going all intend staying at least a year, and few of these, par- ticularly those going on foot across the Chilkoot, will be able to take anything like a year’s supplies, while many seem to count on the food being dropped down from heaven and are simply taking along a good supply of blankets, mining tools and camp utensils. There will not be much difficulty in getting the supplies up to Dyea, St. Miche ael and other ports, as the steamship companies are well equipped for trans- porting them so far, but further they cannot go. NEW TO-DAY. 'WASTE NOT, WANT NOT. 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