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at home this morning. They will spend
the winter here and Mr. Berry will return
to the Klondyke in the spring to look
after his extensive mining interests there.
He considers the rush to the far north at
this season ill-advised and sure to result
in much suffering. It is impossible with
the present transportation facilities to
take in provision enough for ye people
now there and half of the people going.
SUPPLY STEAMER LOST.
News of the Wreck of a Vessel
Bound for the Klondyke
Country.
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash , July 27.—
British Vice-Consul Locker received in
the last mail a private communication
from a friend sojourning at Sitka, Alaska,
which brings the startling and deplorable
information that, according to a rumor in
circulation in Alaska's capital city, one of
tbe steamers bound for the Klondyke
country carrying supplies has been totally
wrecked. Beyond this plain statement
the letter brought no particulars, and
since its receipt speculation has been rife
a? to the identity of the unfortunate craft.
■ Sheriff Dyke of Clallam County arrived
this morning searching for John W. Troy,
one of Port Angeles' most prominent
yonng citisens and ex-County Treasurer,
who is said to be short in his accounts to
the tone of $1500, and the expert's labor is
not yet completed. Troy.it appears, has
been missing since Wednesday last, but
the facts in the case were kept a close se
cret until divulged by Dyke to-day. The
officer thinks his man is now well on the
way to the Klondyke mining region, where
he will be safe from molestation for a time
at least. The news la* created a great
sensation, as the culprit is a son of the
laic Hon. Smith Troy, one of the pioneers
of Washington.
He was a highly respected young mar
r jd man. He had for a long time edited
_*nd owned the Angel Democrat-Trader,
and served two successful terms as Audi
tor before being elected Treasurer. M. J.
Clump, whom Troy succeeded, is now
serving a five years' sentence in the State
penitentiary at Walla. Walla as a penalty
for the embezzlement of county funds.
A KLONDYKE ARMY.
Proposition to March Workingmen
to the God Field is Con
sidered.
TACOMA, Wabh., July 27 — Jt is pro
posed to-organize a great army of work
ingmen this winter and march them to
the Klondyke, where all can secure work
nt high washes.
The scheme is likened to the Coxey
Army movement, but would be unlike
that in that the Klondyke army would be
thoroughly organized aiid beaded by re-
sponsible leaders who would see that
every member was well taken care of.
Each man joining would be required to
provide himself "with a proper outfit and
provisions to last a year.
The army plan would be adopted for the
purpose of mutual protection and to lessen
the hardships of the 800-mile journey
from Dyea on ice and over snow. It is
GOLD AND SALVATION.
Gale, the Rich Miner of Old Tuolumne, Who "Will Sail To-Day to
Proselytize the Klondykers.
C. H. Gale, a wealthy miner of Sonora, Tuolumne County, will
--ail to-day for Dawson City on the Excelsior. . Gale is an old-timer,
and is better known throughout the coast as "Old Hank," a nickname
which Mark Twain bestowed upon him in a San Andreas saloon many
years ago.
Hank was also a friend of Bret Harte, and knew all of the shifty
boys with guns in the early days. He has mined and owned mines in i
every quarter of the globe, and made money out of all of them. He
is now at the Russ House preparatory to sailing, and he tell s why he is
going north. Three months ago he was captured by the Salvation !
Army, and from a hardened sinner he has become a gentle and faith
ful Christian. It is not alone for gold that he braves the rigors of the
Arctic winters, but to bear the flag of the army thither. He hopes to
secure gold and at the same time establish posts of his adopted and
beloved army in the most inhospitable parts of the north.
His farewell address, to be delivered to-morrow, is as follows and
is' self-explanatory:
Dear 'Brothers and Sisters of the Salvation *Army: I came into your ranks about
three months ago and am new-one of you. "Old Hank," as the boys call me in
Sonora, was then a hard old case — is to say, he was a heathen. But I never
killed anybody nor robbed a widow or an orphan of a cent in all my life. Never
stole a hog nor a sheep ; yet you might say I was a tough, critter. Yet, brothers
and sisters/ although 1 was on the square, I never had "sunshine in my soul" be
fore. I never knew the glory of God nor the perfect beauty of his handiwork until
I was captured by the Salvation Army. Yes, 1 was captured and am now a willing
prisoner, although I made a stubborn battle of resistance.
I have' traveled all over the world, brothers, and roughed it in every way im
aginable, but I have never in all that time found God. Through the instrumen
tality of Captain Eda Beck and the army I have become a Christian. . Never before
in my life has it been so hard for me to part with friends— friends, aye, God bless
'em— only real friends I ever had. Igo to the far north now, in the search for
gold, as usual, and there I will take the army songs with me, because I know I will
find God there and he will hear my prayers under the snow-capped peaks of the
Klondyke as well as he would in your elegant hall here to-night.
Good-by, brothers and sisters, and may God bless you all until we meet again
and that will be in two years if God is willing. .'-
I feel now like planting the Salvation Army banner on the north pole, and if I
get there 1 will. In the meantime* pray for me, brothers and sisters, that I may
keep the faith. I will surely pray for you.
Then say not good-by, but au revoir, for I come again, God helping me. In
the meantime it will be my endeavor to establish a Solvation Army post in the Klon
dyke region. To this end I will give my money, time and influence for the saving
of souls through the Salvation Army.
, God bless you I C. H. GALE.
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claimed that several thousand of the men
from all sections of the country who are
eager to reach the Klondyke at the
earliest possible moment could be mobil
ized here during January and February
and secure steamers enough to land them
at Dyea by March 10.
A large number of horses and sleds
would be taken to haul the outfits over
the passes, and still a greater number of
dogs to be used in crossing the lates- on
the ice.
A great camp would be made at Lake
Lebarge, and each squad of fou^'or five
men would build its own boat.
When navigation opened the entire
fleet would De launched, and all would
journey down the Yukon together.
Among the advantages of this plan would
be the attendance of physicians who
would join the party, and the services of
cooks, carpenters and boatmen in their
respective lines.
Arrived at Dawson, some of the com
panies would disband and secure work
while other companies would prospect
new streams. It is believed this scheme
would considerably reduce the per capita
expense of the trip. The projectors are
not yet willing to make their names pub
lic. They intend now to further develop
tbe plan and then thoroughly advertise it
through tbe country.
YOUNG MEN ORGANIZE.
Portlanders Who Expect to Profit
by the Klondyke Gold Dis
coveries.
POBTLAND, Or., July 27.— The excite- !
ment over the Klonayke gold develop
ment has indeed increased to fever heat
among nearly all ambitious young men
here who imagine they are not accumu
lating money fast enough. Last evening
about thirty of this class of young men
held a meeting in the Chamber of Com
merce building, with a view to securing a
similar number of adventurers witb means
to charter a steamer within the next two
or three weeks to take them north. This
meeting was held with closed doors. Those
who attended it are occupying positions
in business houses and offices and do not
desire to jeopardize their places by giving
undue publicity to their purposes.
One of their number said to-day that of
th.; thirty men at last night's meeting,
none of whom was more than 30 years
old, there was represented a cash capital
of more than $50,000. He added that in
the event thirty others similarly situ
ated can be enlisted by a week from next
Wednesday the project can easily be
brought to a successful issue. He has
spoken to several successful prospectors
who have passed several years in the
AlasKa mines, and they agree in the state
ment that if those going north supply
themselves out in proper style they
greatly diminish the natural hardships in
the Klondyke. And it also is not necessary
for them to remain idle during the hard
season.
Visiting the large business houses where
diminishraent in trade t.as compelled
them to suspend many a man valuable to
them during busy times, there are many
having in contemplation the sending
north in the spring of the very men for
THE SAW FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY .28, 3 897.
MINING ON THE KLONDYKE.
Placer mining in the Klondyke country is carried on unaer nwuw-i sum
prevail in no other gold-raining districts in the world, consequently the methods
employed are quite unique.
The narrow flat of from 100 to 500 feet in width along the streams is covered
with a top layer of muck to a depth of from two to four feet, which can be taken
out with a pick and shovel. Below the muck comes the placer deposits proper,
frozen hard as rock, from ages back perhaps, down to bedrock, which is struck
at a depth varying on different sections of from eight to thirty feet. Through
this shafts are sunk, varying from eight feet square up.
The material below the top layer of muck is frozen so hard as to render it
impossible to be worked by any of the ordinary methods, so a way which may be
called the "Klondyke method" is followed. This is to make a large pile of wood
at the bottom of the shaft and, settins: it on fire, let it burn out, by which time
the dirt and gravel on the bottom and sides are thawed to a depth of a foot or
more. When tho fire is out the embers are removed and the digging and taking out begins. On a small shall there are generally iwo men at wor*. *.v. u_ i™=»
goes to the bottom and shovc-ls tbe dirt and nuggets into tie bucket (generally a half of a barrel, with a rope handle), while the other hoists it to the top with a
rope and winch and turns it on the dump. This part of the work is done during the winter. In spring, with tbe high water, the washing out or sluicing is done,
while in summer the time is mostly devoted to getting a stock of wood for the next winter's work.
whom they now have no occupation here.
The bead of one of the largest wholesale
grocery-houses last evening said that he
is holding in reserve six unemployed
commercial travelers, for some years con
nected with his concern, to send them to
the Alaska mines w.th stocks of goods.
' In the meantime he is paying their regu
lar living expenses here, which are being
charged up to profit and loss, Other
houses are holding back their unem
ployed drummers to fit them out with
ample ''grub stakes" at the very earliest
spring. Most of these men have had
more or less experience in the mines of
Oregon and California, and in a country
like the Klondyke, "where the gold
bulges out of tne rocks merely by looking
at it," no intelligent and industrious man
can fail to make a competency.
STOCKTONIANS ACTIVE.
They Organize a Company and
Charter a Steamer for
the Yukon.
STOCKTON, Cat,., July 27.— The Stock
ton Alaska Company has at last taken
tangible form. Before the 10th of next
month a s earner will leave San Francisco
for the Yukon and a number of Stockt'j
nians will sail on it. R. L. Quisenberry
and J. O. Yardley of this city and Captain
Rfdeout of San Francisco will hive
charge of the expedition. Among those
who talk of going from here are M.
Blanchard, Howard Griffiths, a young
man name! McTaggart, who works at the
woolen-mills, and others. Quisenberry
and Yardley were in San Francisco Satur
day and chartered the steamer to take
them up. . •
The conditions of the voyage are as fol
lows: The company will take passengers
to Dawson City and furnish them with
one year's board for $500, or take them to
Dawson City for $300, allowing them to
carry 1000 pounds of baggage, most of
fthich, of course, would be food. A small
tug will be shipped on board the steamer,
and -launched in the Yukon. Lumber
will also be taken, and flatboats will be
fitted up so as to be ready when St.
Michaels is reached. The steamer will be
then used to run between Vancouver and
St. Michaels for supplies, to connect with
the tug and barges when the ice on the
Yukon breaks up.
The principal business of the company
will be trading. Miners who have good
claims but little grub will be staked for
an interest in the mines, and any kind of
business which guarantees big profits will
be prosecuted. Captain Hideout owns
the steamer Alviso,' which runs on San
Francisco Bay, and is a well-known sea
man. Ha says he can get up to Dawson
before the Yukon closes. Fifteen applica
tions have already been received for pas
sage since yesterday.
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BY THE AIR ROUTE.
San Dlegrans Plan' to Go From
Juneau to Dawson In a
Balloon.
SAN DIEGO, Cal., July 27.— A1l manner
of transportation has been suggested to
reach the gold fields of the Klondyke, but
it remains for a party of San Dienans to
make the most hazardous part of the
journey in an airship. Several married
men here have secured the services of Pro
fes or Richard • Earlston, an ; aeronaut, to
take a party of gold-hunters from Juneau
to Dawson City in a balloon, the ascension
to be made from Juneau the latter part of ,
* in iiu ii'iiiifliilliimftniipwaiiiii i aiiia ■!___-■ mn
October, when the winter winds are blow
ing in the direction of Dawson City.
Professor Earlston stated to-night that
an order had already been placed for an
airship; tbat it would carry five and per
haps seven persons, and that a sufficient
charge of hydrogen would be carried to
last five days. He expects to lake two
days only to Dawson City, thus leaving a
margin of three days' power.
So far Arthur Bald win, F. T. Barnes, a
reporter, and two prospectors have been
engaged to accompany the aeronaut on
his perilous voyage. Earlston is confident
he can make the trip successfully, and re
fers to the success of Professor Andree in
floating through the air in search of tbe
north pole a . evidence.
The party proposes to sail from San
Francisco next month, just as soon as
machinery can be placed in the ship ready
for shipment. The distance from Juneau
to Dawson or Circle City, over the course
usually traversed by dog teams, is over
1000 miles, and can be made during winter
months only, accompanied with many
hardships, and by the balloon route it is
proposed to make the trip under two days
with comparative ease, and the party will
be as comfortable as rolling over prairies
in palace-cars, smoking, chatting and
taking snap shots and birdseye views of
tbe country as they sail over.
NOT TO RETALIATE.
It Is Said the Dominion Will Leave
Canada's Resources Open
to All.
TORONTO, Ont., July 27.— 1t is now
certain that the threatened retaliation by
Canada against the United Steles by en
forcing the alien labor law against Amer
ican miners in Canada mining camps will
not come to anything. A semi-official an
nouncement in the Globe, the Govern
ment organ, says the Dominion has here
tofore followed the policy of the imperial
Government in leaving the resources of
the empire for development to all men
freely without regard to race or nation
ality. The motives underlying this liber
ality are strictly politic. It is manifestly
good policy to permit all willing workers
to help increase the greatness of the em
pire without inquiry into their nation
ality.
AN EXPERT'S VIEWS.
Editor Rouilliard Says More Money
Is to Be Made in Trading
Than In Mining.
LEWISTON. Me.,' July 27.— J. B. Rouil
liard, editor of the.French paper, La Re
publique of this city, a mining expert and
for twelve years Inspector-General of
Mines in the province of Quebec under the
Canadian Government, has made frequent
trips into the mountains of _ the great
Northwest near the Alaska border.
He is able to speak from: an intimate
knowledge of the chain of mountains
which extend through Alaska, and in
which are > located the newly discovered
gold fields in the* Kiondyke region. , He
nas no doubt that there are rich deposits
of gold *in that reeion, and says he | bas
known such ;to be the . fact for fifteen
years. While he was inspector-general
of the mines under the Canadian Govern
ment, : he met several ; times in Montreal
Francois Mercier, who was one of the
agents of a large Russian trading post
doing business through Alaska.
Mercier from his knowledge of the Yu
kon was satisfied that there were rich de
posits of gold in the country, and he was
sustained in his belief by geologists. Na
tives irom up the river were accustomed to
bring in nuggets of almost pure gold. .
b Mr. Rouilliard does not think there is
any necessity for/suffering from cold in
Alaska. He says Alaska is a good, healthy
climate, and there will be more trouble
from getting sufficient supplies •of food
than from the danger from freezing.
, He says it is not true -that .work will
have to be suspended from September to
May on account of the cold weather. . Dur
ing that time surface mining will have to
be suspended, but underground work can
be carried on as well as at any time.
Mr. Rouilliard believes the men who
will make the most money in the gold
fields are those who go 'there to do busi
ness and _ take • such articles as can be
readily sold to the miners, and at prices
wbich are fabulous. He thinks that many
who are going to the gold fields will easily
become i discouraged, and the man who
will be successful will be the rare excep
tion and not the rule.
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To Be Listed In New York. ,
NEW YORK, N. V., July 27— At a
meeting of the members of the Mining
Exchange to-day. the question of listing
Klondyke "propositions" came up. It
was decided the exchange should not list
any development companies, but compa
nies that actually own claims.
CHICAGO MEN GOING.
One Hundred and Fifty Gold-
Seekers to Journey to the
Klondyke. ,
CHICAGO, 111., Juiy 27-— A party of
men will leave Chicago on a special train
next Saturday night, en route for the
newly discovered Alaskan gold fields.
There will be 150 individuals in the party.
The special train on which the party will
travel will run directly through to San
Francisco. There the gold-hunters will
remain three days to purchase mining
supplies. The party will then ship for St.
Michaels on a special steamer. The trip
will occupy fourteen days. Three steam
launches will be taken to transport up the
Yukon to the mouth of the Klondyke
River. This trip will require fourteen
days. Each tourist may take 500 pounds
of baggage from San Francisco, but only a
portion of this wiil be taken up the river
with the paVty.
When the Klondyke is reached the
steam launches will be moored in winter
quarters. The tourists will live aboard
them until the spring begins to break,
some time next summer. The transpor
tation company claims to have made
plans for carrying enough provisions to
supply all its travelers with plenty of food
until next summer.
It is the intention of the promoters of
the excursion to make the shortest jour
ney on record to the gold fields. An effort
will be made to complete the trip from
Chicago to the Klondyfce within thirty
days. In addition to the crew, guides and
officials 200 men will leave San Francisco
on a special steamer. Of these the larger
portion will be from Chicago, but it is said
there will be a scattering number from all
parts of the country. ► i ... *
TWO LIVES LOST IN FLAMES.
Wild Scramble of Employes to Escape
From Burning Factory
Buildings.
NEW YORK, N. V., July 27.— Several
buildings in the business portion of Yonk
ers, used for manufacturing purposes,
were destroyed by fire to-night. * ;',
The damage is estimated at about $500,
--000, fully covered by insurance.
Two persons are reported missing and
the police believe both perished in the
flames. One was a young woman em
ployed at Reed's bat factory, and the
other Watchman Jacob Strauss.
When the fire started about 5 o'clock in
the Waring building, a five-story struc
ture, over a thousand men, women and
children were at work.
They succeeded in getting down the fire
escapes through a mass of . flames. Half a
dozen men who jumped from the second
story window's received slight injuries.
One woman received a fracture of tbe
ankle by falling out of a window. The
flames rapidly spread to other buildings
and were not subdued until a late hour.
WEEK!. I CROP JB VLL ETIN.
Favorable to _ Agricultural Interests of
the , Pacific Coast.
WASHINGTON, D. C, July 27.—
crop bulletin of the Weather Bureau says
that the past week bas been very favor
able to the agricultural interests of the
Pacific Coast and generally in the States
of the central valleys of the East, Gulf,
South and middle Atlantic coast. In New
England, New York and Red River of the
North Valley and over portions of the
Ohio valley there has been too much rain,
while drought prevails over the greater
part of Texas and portions of Arkansas,
Missouri and Kansas. In the iast named
State hot .winds have proved injurious.
Excessive rains have caused damage to
grain in y stock in portions of the Ohio
Valley, Tennessee and middle Atlantic
States, and severe damaging local storms
have occurred in portions of New Eng
land, New York and New Jersey.
FVXERAI. OF MISS BARRETT,
Folios Vnable to Solve ths Mystery of
Her Heath.
BOSTON, Mass., July 27.— The funeral
of Alice Barrett took place this afternoon
at the house, 249 School street, Waltham.
Rev. E. J. Young, a former pastor of the
First parish and an intimate friend of the
family, conducted the services, which
were attended mostly by the immediate
relatives and friends.
The pall-bearers were her former school
mates. There ware flower offerings from
the friends and neighbors. Although her
body lies beneath the sod the strange
mystery of her sudden death has grown
until it is the all-absorbing topic not only
in and about Boston, but throughout the
entire State. The police seem to be no
nearer the solution than ever. It is re
garded as a singular and suspicious fact
that Mrs. Barrett steadily refuses to di
vulge the name of the mysterious man re
ferred to in Miss Barrett's note as the per
son who lost her $800, the best part of her
little fortune. Some of the detectives at
work on the case insist that this is tbe
starting point in the unraveling of the
tangled mystery. It was learned to-day
forthe first time that the dead girl knew
intimately many prominent men about
town, and that she had of late been very
extravagant, driving a great deal in hired
carriages and entertaining at the most ex
clusive hotels.
. Her employer, however, remains firm
in his belief of her true worthiness, and
denies any embezzling in spite of the fact
that the cashbooK was destroyed, pre
sumably by her hands. He still sticks to
the murder theory.
MARQUIS ITO TALKS.
Denies That He Is in Paris to Pro
test Against Hawaiian Annex
ation.
PARIS. France, July 27.— Marquis Ito
to-day denied that he was here to protest
against Hawaii's annexation.
NEW YORK, N. V., July ' 27.— The
Herald prints a lengthy interview with
Marquis Ito in Paris wherein he says:
"J do not think it possible that the op
position manifested in Japan to the
annexation of the Sandwich Islands will
take any more extended form than
the mere protest made in order that the
interests of Japan on those islands may not
suffer injury. Japan is simply seeking to
protect herself and her subjects, and this
she has a perfect right to do, but that she
will look after her interests in other than
a dignified diplomatic way is absurd.
"-' "The Emperor I know will not support
any bellicose policy. All my friends in
the ministry or in control of tbe different
branches of the Government are of the
same mind as the Emperor and the Japa
nese public sentiment is one of strong
friendship for the United States. Thus
the Hawaiian question cannot possibly
bring about a conflict, either armed or
diplomatic, with the Americans, in spite
of the jingoes."
Rie'-i River Alet/iodi't Revival Opens.
DIXON, 111., July 27.— The Rock River
Assembly/one of the largest annual out
door rallies of Methodists in the country,
opened in the camp-meeting grounds to
day and will continue for two weeks. The
session will be notable by reason of the
participation of many prominent Ameri
cans, including General Gordon, the ex-
Confederate war orator; Rev. Dr. De Witt
Talmage, Amos P. 1 Wiler, W. H. Crawford,
the historian, and Dr. Carlos Martyn, the
poet.
Suicide of a United States Consul.
PANAMA,, Colombia, July 27.— 0tt0
Munchmeyer, United States' Consul at
San Salvador, committed suicide last Sun
day. '.*: His father was appointed to the
office from 'Parkersburg, W. Va., in 1895
and died that year from fever, the son
succeeding to tbe office.
NEW TO-DAT— CLOTHING.
of c* $ m
these \* * * /
Brown Je i^^W
Lunch W jf
w///t every ft 5L
purchase ink.
Juvenile /?*>fr'ti *)
We know how to send boys to
school. Been boys ourselves and
went to school, and went to
school right in this town; ain't
ashamed of the fact.
So we know just what the
little fellow wants, because we
. experienced his wants once our-
selves.
We're showing the new fall
styles right now, and these you
are getting at shoveling- out
prices.
And in sending the little fel-
low to school we send him all
equipped, even to his lunch bas-
ket, which is quite a novel
affair. You'll get these with
every purchase in our Juvenile
Department.
The new fall style in the Reefer Suit differs
considerably from that shown in the spring
season, and the colorings are different, the
manner of trimming is different; the collar
is deeper, broader at the shoulders; the
braiding is done in a different manner. As
a whole it's quite a new affair.
These were to be $S 50 Reefer Suits, for lit-
tle chaps between the ages of S and 10. We
have gone to work and included one of our
little Brownie Lunch Baskets and say for
pick, and uhat a lovely pick it —
—$1.65.—
The same for older boys, those between the
ages of 5 and 15 years, wearing knee trou-
sers ; the same colorings, differing only that
they're made in styles more becoming to boys
those ages. These, including a Brownie
Lunch Basket —
—$1.65.—
A^sX li_JL-i_ PL?
<®/^%
Another crowd of thrifty mothers that kept
crowding our' Juvenile Department all day
yesterday, another crowd like that to-day and
it ill see the last of those . Blue Twill Che-
viots; it will be the last you'll see of 'em
under $4 They're made in style like you see
in picture above, and they're cleverly gotten
up, for lads between the ages of 5 and 15.
These, including a Brownie Lunch Basket,
at 'rryfry -■ ■.fyf-'.y.
—$1.95.—
The Reefer Suits of these rough blue twill
cheviots are awfully swell affairs, This is an
all-wool fabric, gotten up in a very novel, ami
exquisite manner. You would willingly pay
$4 for 'em at any time. The braid ing of the
collar is done in a very novel manner. These,
including a Brownie Lunch Basket, at ■'■ • i ~r;
— $1.95.— _
White other shops are talking offspring's
goods we're shoxving you the styles for next
fall already. There's' nothing slow about the
big Kearny-street housj.
THE FRISCO BOYS,
9, 11, IS, 15 Keamy St.
14,700 Square Feet Devoted to
; Juvenile Apparel Alone.
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