The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 17, 1901, Page 21

C+4444443 444444444044 44440 Pages 21 10 32 R e e e e s S S DY OLe44444 + + + + + € + L] 1 G+FFFFF43F44 444440444444 00 : Pages 21 10 3] R AR A S R R R Critees s VOLUME XC—NO. 170. SAN FRANCISCO, - SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1901—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. PRICE FIVE CEN7S. BOLD CONSPIRATORS PLAN W SKAGWAY OF CONSPIRACY CALL has received correspondence from an au- vay telling the astounding news of f a conspiracy existing at Dawson and ramify- SCENE vay, Victoria, Vancouver and Seattle, for the over- I nt of the Northwest Territory and / with Dawson as its capital. v and provisions have been taken in over t strategic points. Prominent Ameri- way are said to be ringleaders in the con- kag: arms, ready to fight for the independence from Do- f the gold-field camps and towns. The plan is to 1 police, arrest the civil authorities and ir own hands. The rigors of the uld give the insurgents siz months’ immunity from attack by Canadian or British troops, and the adventurous arch-conspirators hope.for intervention or outside assistance by the time the melting of ice and snow will permit the invasion of their isolated republic. % - — to the number of 5000 are said to await the Evidence Discovered of - Plot to Form a Yukon Republic. Arctic Winter Trusted to Give Six Months’ Immunity. —_— K A GWAY, Alaska, Nov. 6.— Captain Corrigan, second of- ficer in command of the Northwest Mounted Police, ar- cagway from White yesterday evening’s intil midnight gvas Judge Brown of tes District Court, »s Marshal Shoup, ates Attorney Fried- r Hovey,commang- ted States troops at use of the hur- nce of the represent- : e two powers was the recent discovcr)t of evidence of es of the existence of one of the most astounding conspiracies ever con- ceived since men first began re- belling against unjust govern- ment or seeking to throw off the legitimate restraint of the con- stituted authorities. The purpose of the plotters is nothing less than revolt against the Dominion Government and Great Britain and the establish- ment of a “Yukon Republic,” with its capital at Dawson. To this end careful preparations have been made, arms and ammunition have been sent across the border, great stores of - provisions have been cached in the interior in strategic locations . for bases of THREE FEDERAL OFFICIALS WHO MET AT SKAGWAY WITH CAPTAIN CORRIGAN OF THE NORTHWEST ~MOUNTED POLICE IN HASTY CONFERENCE OVER RUMORED CONSPIRACY AGAINST CANADIAN RULE AND VIEWS OF TOWNS WHERE THE PLANS OF REVOLT DEVELOPED. Five Thousand Tliners Sai =+ d to fie Ready to Take Up Arms Against Dominion of British. Food Supplies and Arms and Ammunition Cached, to ‘Be Drawn Upon When Tocsin Sounds. supplies, and it is said that 5000 miners are pledged to hasten to the several rendezvous when the tocsin of war shall sound, take up arms and overthrow the local government, establishing a re- public in its place. Oificials Show Anxiety. Rumors of this audacious plot have been known to a few in Skagway for some time, and in Dawson and along the line of the railroad there has been evident 1 anxiety among the Canadian au- thorities. Communication after communication - has. been - for- warded by the chief officers of the Northwest Mounted Police to Major Hovey, the officer in com- mand of the United States troops stationed here. Several hurried trips across the border have been made by Canadian military au- thorities and consultations held with the civil and military repre- sentatives of the United States at this place, - The last and most ifh- ARy [ (5 .,. portant, both in the disclosures made to the United States offi- cials and in the agreement upon action to be taken to thwart the conspirators, was the one held ‘last night. The conferees came away from it with grave faces, and have since maintained the strictest silence concerning the subject of discussion, the stage reached by the conspiracy as shown by the evidence in the possession of the Canadian au- thorities, and the steps agreed ~ REVOLT IN THE KLONDIKE . gLt HASTY MEETING OF OFFICIALS HURRIED conference, lasting until midnight, was held at Skagway, November 5, at which 1 re present Captain Corrigan of the Northwest mounted police, who had arrived from across the Canadian border late that evening, Judge Brown of the United States District Court, United States Mar- shal Shoup, United States Attorney Friedrich and Major Ho- vey, commanding the United States troops at Skagway. This was the last of several hasty consultations between the civil and military representatives of the two powers in rela- tion to the my:t.crious transportation of supplics into the interior and rumors of a conspiracy to lead the miners in a revolt against Canadian government in the Northwest Territory. These present maintained subscquently the strictest silence concerning the new evidence laid before them, and their evident anxiety ' helped to confirm the rumors of conspiracy. Captain Corrigan took the early train back across the bor- der the next morning, while United States Marshal Shoup em- barked on the first steamer- for Seattle, which port he reached several days ago. The object of his visit was, presumably, to confer by telegraph with the authorities at Washington. He sailed yesterday afternoon on the Dolphin on his way back to Skagway. L Canadian Officer in Anxious B NUN— X Meets Americans Conference. PPREESEEEINES Marshal Shoup Departs on Hurried Trip to Seattle. upon to circumvent the leaders and prevent the insurrection. Early this morning Capta_nn Corrigan of the Mounted Police left on the train for the north, while Marshal Shoup began prep- arations to take the first steamer for Seattle. Itis pre- sumed that he goes, as a result of the conference, to communicate by telegraph from Seattle with the authorities at Washington and to secure instructions as to the part to be taken by United States officials and troops in the suppression of the proposed in- surrection, in which the ringlead- ers and many of the rank and file of the miners depended upon to carry out the attack upon a friendly power are subjects of the United States. Americans in the Plot. The plans of the conspirators involve.a modified filibustering expedition. Arms and provi- sions have been taken in across American soil, after being pro- cured, it is p\resumed, from Amer- ican sources. The army of revolt Continued on Page Twenty-Two.