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VOLUME LXXXII.-NO. 74.
MANY MUST
NOW TURN
HOMEWARD
Reaction in the Rush to
the Gold Fields in
the Klondike.
HUNDREDS SCATTERED
ABOVE DYEA.
Letters Show that Some of the
Cold-Hunters Cannot
Get Through.
DUTIES AND FREIGHT CEAEG7
TAKE ALL THEIR MONEY.
Weary and Footsore Man on the
Crowded Trails Are Giving Up
In Despair.
SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 12.— There has
been a reaction in the rush to the Klon
dike gold fields, and very shortly the
steamers which arrive here from Juneau,
Dyea and Skaguay will bring a large tan
of the humanity that already admit they
made a mistake in leaving for the north
before the spring.
Letters are pouring into this city to the
effect that out of the thousands of men
Who are just now scattered along the route
above Dyea hundreds are sick of the whole
business. They know that WinJet is fast
approaching, and that they have no
money with which to pay the Canadian
duty and the big fees charged by Indian
packers, and as a result they long for
home and civilization.
Dr. G. M. Faulkner, one of the best
known men in the Northwest, went north
on the Islander, and in a letter from him,
received here to-day, be says that the
miners who made the trip on the Islander
are disgusted. With few* exceptions they
are without money with which to pay the
Canadian duty. They went not expecting
to pay one cent of duty, and with the lull
determination of packing their outfits and
supplies over the summit. The Canadian
custom Officers are meeting" them and
compelling them to surrender their last
cent. . .
"The officers," writes Faulkner, "are
kind and courteous', but the men are dis
gusted and are doing everything in their
power to give the officers the' slip, but I
don't think they win succeed. 1 know of
plenty of men who are going to return as
fast as they can get passage. Some of
them are without sufficient money to pay
their fares back to the sound. I don't
know what will become of tfese poor
devils. But to show" you that many are
Bick and propose to return I will say that
during the past few days I have bought
twenty sacks of flour for $30. I want to
say that from what I can learn White
Pass is a farce of the worst kind, and tnose
who get to Diwson City will only do so
after they have crossed Chilcoot Pass."
There is much talk In this city to-night
over a letter received here to-day from T.
ii. Cory, one of the best-known mining
engineers in the West. He was with the
Oregon Improvement Company some
limp before he left on the steamer Al-Ki
ior Dyea. The letter was written July bl
VIEW OF SKAGUAY, the Alaskan Harbor,; the Natural Key to the Yukon .Gold Fields, Which' the 'Secretary of
the Treasury Threw Open to the Canadians en Thursday Last, as Already Told in The Call."
The San Francisco Call
"What's the use of going to Klondike while they grow righ
here in California
from the head of Lske Bennett. Cory j
expected to be in Dawson Ci.y hy this I
time. In his letter he says: "I would not j
pack my outfit over the pass for all the J
gold in the Klondike."
Cory and his party employed thirty-one j
Indians to pack their outfits, weighing 3ooo i
pounds, over the pass. The Indians j
charged them. 17 cents a pound. The pack- I
ing price hr.s since been advanced to 20 j
cents. Cory further says: "I find many
people have been between Dyea and Lake
Linderman two months packing their
stuff over. It is the hardest work I ever I
saw. Some Indians carry 150 pounds, but ,
100 pounds is considered a good pack.
.'here is bound to be a hard time on- the
Yukon this winter. Lots of them will be
-tuck for the winter at Lake Linderman.
They are going to pack their own stuff,
and that means the river will be frozen up.
Last night there was considerable frost. j
People who come in say there are thou- i
sands more coming in. If they do, and do j
not bring money and "grub," they will |
stay at Lake Linderman, all winter. Lots i
of people are securing their own lumber j '
■nd making their, own boats, bat timber j
is getting very scarce, and you can hardly I j
get a board over six inches wide.
''Lumber at the sawmills, is worth $100
per thousand. The sawmills have hard
work to get lo.*s._ No one of the ,mill
hands will stay. All have gone to the
Klondike. They will give any one $.5 per
thousand for getting lons -and rafting
them down to the mill. They have to go
four or five miles for timber. None but
hard-working or strong-muscled men
should try to cross the mountains. Tell
the outfitters to put all the goods in water
proof sacks." A so tell them they do not
figure enouirii to the man. I hear lots of
complaints in regard to the matter, and a
great many will run out on this ac
count."
D. J. McKinney, who has been selected
chief of the Dyea miners' police force,
writing from Skagaay says:
"I went up the trail three miles this
morning, and such a pitiful sight it was
to see men tired out, foot-ore and their
backs raw from packing. Sime are giving
it up in despair, It is too: bad. Boys,
clerks, lawyers and doctors are all in the
SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 13, 1597.
common herd, and now comes another
lush on the Mexico. 1 hope there will be
plenty of horses on her or we are doomed
to winter here and wait till we can get
over on the snow. They are charging 17
cents a pound to the siimmi. — nineteen
miles — nn>l when a man gets there they
charge him 17 cents a pound to the lake.
Some have gone out part of the way and
then come back again and gone round to
Dyea. Every move costs money. Some
are paying 1 cent a pound to have their
goods hauled three miles. That would
mean $40. Then they turn around and
pay $40 to get back. . Then they pay $10 a
thousand to be taken around to Dyea.
"There are two two-horselwagons here
that are making from $60 to $80
day.and they charge just what tbey please.
Some have spent $100 already with no re
sults and are discouraged and tired out.
It was a shame tlio way we were treated
on|the Queen. You would not|^at the
grub.' It. was the worst I ever saw. There
were three meals in succession without
bread unless you paid the steward 25 cents
a loaf for it. Men that came without an
outfit bought complete outfit! from the'
sailors that were' stolen out of the hold
from stores belonging to men going to
the mines. You could buy anything from
a tent ready made to a whipsaw from the
sailors. The officers closed their eyes. I
went to the purser, but got no satisfaction.
By giving the steward $5 you could get
something to eat, until he had so many
he could not feed them at a private table
and they lost their $5."
The City of Topeka sailed for the north
to-day with an enormous cargo and full
passenger list. To-night the Rosalie left
for Skaguay with a big cargo and over
160 passengers, all bound for the Yukon.
HALF ARE DEMENTED.
Dr. LP.tlefle'd Writes of the Rush
of. Gold-Seekers Over the
Slushy Trails.
PORTLAND, Ok., Aug. 12 —Perry Hin
kle, the well-known contractor, who, on
July 22, in company with Dr. Horace R.
Lit tie field and ex- Policeman E. W. Mor
ris, left Portland for the sound that ihey
Continued on Second Page.
FAURE THE
TARGET OF
ASSASSINS
Canovas' Slayer Says He
Will Meet the Fate
.. of Carnot.
AUTHORITIES FEAR THE
ANARCHISTS.
.
So the French Officials Take
Great Precautions to Pro
tect the President.
SURROUNDED BY TROOPS UPON
RETURNING TO PARI?.
While* Escorting Faure Every Sol
dier Carries a Revolver In His
Right Hand.
PARIS, FRANCE, Aug. 12.— The*
Figaro publishes a statement, the
authenticity of which the- paper
vouches for, that Golli, the assas
sin of Canovas, declared in prison
yesterday that other "executions"
would shortly take place, and
Faure would be the next to meet
the fate that befell Carnot.
The fear of anarchists enter
tained by the authorities has be
come almost a panic, and extraor
dinary precautions for the protec
tion of Faure have been taken in
consequence of the declaration
that the President would be the
next to die at the hands of the
anarchists.
' Faure returned to Paris to-day
from his summer villa, and in pro
ceeding from the railway station
to the Elysee was preceded and
followed by a company of. cuiras
siers, while upon each side of him
was a line of soldiers, every one
of whom carried a revolver in his
right hand. ; «:??.
TO BE TRIED TO-MORROW.
Spanish Authorities to Lose No
Time In Dealing With Assas
sin Gom. yvy
MADRID, Spain. Aug. 12.— The trial of
Goili will take place Saturday.
Owing to the objections of Senora Cano
vas, the admission of the public to the
chapelle ardente, where the body of her
husband is lying, has been stopped. The
widow has been made a grandee of the
first class, with a pension of 30,000 pesetas
(about $6000) per annum. '-•>' -iy
A decree was gazetted to-day postpon-
PRESIDENT FELIX FAURE, Whom the French Authorities Are
Taking Extraordinary Precautions to Protect. According
to Assassin Go'ili the Anarchists Have Selected Faure as
Their Next Victim.
Ing the obsequies of the late Premier un
til Friday.
PARIS, France, Aug. 12.— The Matin
publishes a statement which purports to
come from a Carlist source to the effect
that 60,000 volunteers have been organ
ized and are bein.* rapidly armed in vari
ous provinces of Spain, ready to rise at
the signal of Don Carlos.
The pretender, however, according to
the story, "is restrained by patriotism and
will await the issue of the Cuban diffi
culty before making a bid for the throne."
LONDON, Eno., Aug. 12.— The executive
council of the Social Democratic Federa
tion bas passed a resolution that the death
of Senor Canovas del Castillo, the Spanish
Premier, "at the hands of a self-sacrificing
fanatic" was a "righteous retribution for
his cruel persecution and torture of Span
lards holding advanced opinions." T
"> General j Stewart L. Woodford, the new
United States Minister to Spain, started
for Paris to-day with his stuff, on his way
to Madrid.' ■ "'-*" *
NEW hOfiiHchN PACIFIC MEN.
Charles L. Mcl ten Elected President
and Dan Lamont 1/ ice-President
of the Company.
NEW YORK, N. V., Aug. 12.— Charles
L. Mellen was elected president and direc
tor of the Northern Pacific Railroad Com**
pany, at a meeting of the directors to-day,
to succeed Edwin W. Winters, who re
signed April 29. Ex-Secretary of War La
mont was elected vice-president. This
office has been vacant since the reorgani
zation of the company. Both officers will
assume the duties of their new positions
September 1. ,
Mellen will go to St. Paul to take charge
of the operation of the road. Lamont will
continue ,to reside here, and will give
special attention to the land interests of
the company. '■ Mellen was formerly con
nected with the Union Pacific system,
which he left to become second vice-presi-
dent of the New York, New Haven and
Hartford, which position he still occupies.
J. Pierpont Morgan is director and one
of : the 1 largest stockholders in the New
Haven, and in this way had much oppor
tunity to observe Mr. Mellen's capacity.
He is a man of much determination and
energy, and his election is an indication
that the independence of the Northern
Pacific Railway Company will be pre
served, and it sets at re.st rumors, hereto
fore circulated, that the Northern Pacific
would.be turned over to the Great North
ern either directly or indirectly.
Lamont is a close friend of many persons
identified with the Great Northern and of
others connected with . the Northern Pa
cific, and was practically determined upon
some time ago to fill an important posi
tion on another road with which J. P.
Morgan & Co. are identified, but his pe
culiar fitness for the- Northern Pacific led
to a change of programme which has re
sulted in bis being selected, to take an ac
tive part in the management of that prop
erty. "Mr. Coster of the firm of J. P. Mor
gan & Co., speaking of the changes, said
that while the friend y relations wh c i
exist with the Great Northern will be con
tinued and strengthened in every. way the
Northern Pacific will in future as in the
past be run as an absolutely independent
property. While the Great Northern and
Northern Pacific nave some stockholders
in common all parties in interest in either
company will recognize that each prop
erty must be allowed to stand on its own
merits, and . none of them . wishes to see
any other policy introduced. It is gen
erally, understood Mellen will select Fred
erick D.. Underwood ; as ceneral manager
of the Northern Pacific. .Underwood has
been in the railway service twenty-nine
years, and is now connected with the Soo
road.
MISSING GRACE STEVENSON.
The Father of the Girl States That
ha Does Not Know Where
She Is.
BOSTON, . Mass., Aug. ;'. 12:— James"
Stevenson, the missing father of the
; famous , Grace, whose ; disappearance has'
created such a sensation, surprised every
body by suddenly appearing in court here
to-day. .7 The exciting incidents; which
characterized the hearing given in the in
solvency court recently, in the case of
Louis E. K. Wilson and Sarah S. Kimball ;
• vs. 'James Stevenson, were ' eclipsed •by
those which took place this afternoon ,at
the hearing given in the same case in the
Supreme Court. Eliminating the excit
ing incidents, the bearing was replete
with technical questions and objections.
Indeed, it was a hotly contested battle on
technicalities. Instead of having one or
two lawyers against him, Stevenson found
that th.re were nearly half a dozen.
"They have robbed me. long enough,
and it's time I should strike back," was
the remark James Stevenson made as be
took his place in court.
Mr. Stevenson's counsel said that he
had called upon the counsel for the re
spondent and in behalf of .his client had
made a tender of every dollar that was
owing to them. This they did not accept.
The case was adjourned to September 6.
Mr. Stevenson was asked if there were
any later developments in the case of his
daughter, and he said . there was nothing
new in the case. He had traced her move
ments up to within two hours of her sud
den and unexpected departure, and fur
ther than' that had hot been able to follow
her.' In response, to a question as to
whether she had been at South Salem at
any time since ber. departure he said:
"That is all the merest bosh. She has not
been there at all." So it. appears that if
Mr. Stevenson' does not know where his
daughter Grace is he knows where she is
not-
CAPTAIN MER.iY ACCEPTED.
The Greater Republic of Central
America Waives Objections to the
New Minister.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 12.—Cap
tain W. L. Merry of California received
the assurances of the State Department to
day that the objections made to receiving
him as United States Minister to Nicara
gua, Costa Rica and Salvador have been
withdrawn by the authorities of the
Greater Republic of Central America. He
will leave Washington for his post at
once.
The failure of the United States to recog
nize the Greater Republic by providing
for a Minister to the countries composing
it, instead of dividing the duties of the
Ministers between two of the countries
of the federation and another Central
American country not in it, is said to be
one of the reasons for the objection to
Merry. It is also understood tbat the fact
tbat 'Captain Merry was the agent in San
Francisco of a steamship line suspected of
conveying contraband goods to revolu
tionists in Central America is behind tbe
declaration that he was persona non grata.
.- rrhhi.hin, of Toledo Dead.
MADRID, Spain, Aug. 12.— The Arch
bishop of Toledo, Monsignor Monsoilloy
Viso, is dead. He was . born in Spain in
1811, and made a Cardinal in 1884.
Map of the District in Which Fabulous Finds of Gold Were
Recently. Made. Hickory Creek, Near the Head of Coffee
Creek, Is About Ten Miles From the Graves Property, and
It Is There That Murphy and Eurgess Have Taken Out
Over $80,000 Worth of Gold.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
GOING TO
TRINITY'S
EL DORADO
Rush of Prospectors for
the Coffee Creek
Region.
STIMULATED BY REPORTS
OF RICHES.
Stories of Wonderful New
Finds Are Being Circu
lated Freely.
PLENTY OF PAYING CLAIMS
REMAIN TO BE WORKED.
So There Is a Great Exodus From
Redoing, and Two New Stage
Lines Will Be Opera'ed.
REDDING, Cal.. Aug. 12.— Coffee
Creek gold excitement still continue**,
and reports are coming in of various new
and rich finds on Coffee Creek and Morri
son Gulch. In one place on Morrison
Gulch, about ihree miles from the now
famous Graves brothers strike a vein of
quartz has been discovered. The ledge, so
lar as outward appearances are concerned,
extends for about 2000 feet down aud
along Morrison Gulch and averages about
18 inches in width.
The ore taken out from this ledge is of
a decomposed character and bears evi
dences of volcanic eruption, and a sack of
rough samples, .picked up indiscrimi
nately, assays all the way from $200 to
$1000 to the ton and carries a very small
percentage of silver.
Quartz mining in Trinity has not here
tofore been carried on very successfully.
The only quartz mine .of any great im
portance in the county that has been
.worked to any great extent, or to any
profit to its owners, is the Strode mine,
situated on the east side of Trinity River
and about four miles from the Graves
property, out of which the big finds of
Thursday and yesterday were made. . '.
Tbis Strode mine is fabulously rich, and
it is now almost an assured fact that it is
fed from the same deposit which has re
sulted in the increase of the bank account
of the Graves brothers. • i--<7'_
Morrison Gulch is a small, ever-flowing
stream, about two miles in length, empty
ing into Coffee Creek three miles from its
confluence with the Trinity River. Trin
ity River is a turbulent stream, and the
various fords are dangerous and almost
impassable .during the winter months.
Along its bank fishermen have at various
times taken panfuls of dirt and gravel,
und it is a usual occurrence for them to se
cure from $15 to $10 to the pan from sur
face dirt. Hickory Creek, near the head
of Coffee C«iek, is about ten miles from
the Graves property, and it is here that
Murphy and Burgess have made their
rich discovery and taken out over $80,000
worth of gold.
Coffee Creek heads in a large flat called
Big Flat. Meadow, which forms a divide
between it and the Salmon River. Salmon
Mountain forms the watershed. Along
Salmon River are a number of exceed
ingly rich gravel claims. One of these
claims, the richest perhap. of the charac
ter in , the neighborhood, is owned by.
Blackburn and Adams.
A rich English company owns a consid
erable acreage of land adjoining the
Blackburn mine and this syndicate is now
negotiating for the purchase of the Black
burn property. The first gulch flowing
into Coffee Creek below its head is Pack
ers Gulch, and along its banks are a num
ber of rich placer claims.
Two miles below Packers Gulch, Adams
Gulch flows into the same stream. This
stream has a few claims along its boun
daries, but has been prospected very little.
But tbe country between Packers and
Adams gulches is wonderfully rich. Pros
pecting parties are now proceeding to all
these, tributaries of Coffee Creek and
strings of locations will be made.
To-day not a saddle horse nor outfit ol