The herald., 1897-12-21
To Be Taken Through Cam
ada Under Bond
ALL FACILITIES AFFORDED
CONSISTENT WITH SECURITY OF
REVENUE
Aleer Asks the Reindeer Herder to
Hurry Up, and Is Hunting for
Dried Onions
Associated Press Special Wire


WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.-A respons'
has been received to the recent lettel
from Secretary Gage to the Canadian
commissioner of customs, requesting
information as to the bonding Of miners
outfits through Canadian territory, er
route from Juneau, Alaska, by way o
the Chilcoot pass and the Yukon river
10 Circle City, Alaska. The commls
eioner says that the following regula-
tions have been prepared to meet the
case:
Imported goods, as above described
shall be reported to the Canadian Gus
tom house, Lake Taglsh, and may be
entered for expectation there in the
usual form, 'in transit" in duplicate
The goods may then be delivered With
out duty to be carried to their destlna-
ton out of Canada by any transporta-
ton company which has duly executed
a bond in the form prescribed by the
minister of customs for the due and
faithful delivery of all packages carried
by such supply and for the general COM
pliance with the customs laws and reg
ulations governing such traffic.
A duplicate of the entry in transit,
duly signed and marked, with the
proper customs stamp, shall accom-
pany each shipment of goods conveyed
by bonded steamer, so that the same
may be returned to the custom house
at Fort Cudahy, with a certificate there
on as to the landing of the goods in the
United States or of their having passed
outwards from Canada within six
months from date of entry.
If the goods when entered in transit
for expectation are not delivered to be
forwarded by a bonded carrier, as pro-
vided in the last preceding section, the
duty thereon is to be deposited with the
customs officer at Lake Tagish, subject
to refund of same at the port of Fort
Cudahy when the goods pass outwards
thereat, OF upon the certificate of an
officer of the United States or of the
Canadian customs that said goods have
been landed in the United States within
six months from the date of the in
transitu entry.
The duty deposited In such case is to
be endorsed on the entry and certified
by the customs officer in charge and the
duplicate of the entry, duly certified and
marked with the customs stamp, is to
be delivered to the person making the
deposit of duty.
A report of each entry in transttu shall
be forwarded by mail without delay by
the customs officer at the sending port
to the collector of customs at Fort
Cudahy for the collection of duties on
the foods entered in transitu and not
duly exported.
The articles usually classed as trav-
elers' baggage are to be passed free
without entry.
Commissioner McDougall, in a letter
accompanying these regulations, says
that they are framed with the desire to
afford the utmost facilities for the traffic
in question, compatible with security to
the revenue. He further says:
Responsible transportation COM
panies will be soon in operation for the
conveyance of goods over the Chicoot
and other passes, down the Yukon river
and its tributaries, in which case United
States goods may go forward in bond to
Alaska without payment of duties.
ANXIOUS FRIENDS
IOAA O1N, ItC. EU.-I1. Is. M. MIL
Ter, who is reported to have lost his life
on the way to Dawson, is brother-i in
law of Mrs. DR.. Lomax of this city
While the dispatches say that in all
probability he has perished at Lake
Tagish, Mrs. Lomax does not believe
that he is dead. She received message
from her son, who Is at present in San
Francisco, having gone north with Mr..
Miller last summer but returned a few
weeks ago, reassuring her of the mans
safety
Mrs. Miller was In the city yesterday
She does not believe that her husband
has perished. She said that there were
many others with him, among them J.
w. Logan, newspaper correspondent
Miller was an attorney in San Fran
cisco and an ex-assemblyman from Ala
media county His relatives expect to
hear from him just as soon as he can
get mail from Dawson. Mrs. Lonlax's
son, Oni, will leave for Dyea in Jan
uary, and will probably follow the
trail to Dawson.
HURRY THE HERD
WASH NGTON, Dec 20-Secretarv
Alger today cabled to William Alell-
mann, the government reindeer herder.
who is now at Alten, Norway. to form
the War Department herd, calling upon
him to report how soon he can have the
herd ready to aid in getting supplies TO
the miners in the Klondille region IF is
expected they will have to be transfer
red at New York to the railroad and in
that manner carried across the conti-
nent and again by sea from the Pacific
Coast to Dyea or Skaguay or some other
point that may be selected as the base
of operations by the expedition.
Secretary Alger has determined after
a discussion with persons who have had
much experience in Arctic regions +o
make large use of condensed food nren-
arations. Not only will the meats taken
be in the most condensed form, but mar
ticular efforts are making to secure con-
densed preparations of vegetables. such
as potatoes and onions. Secretary Alper
has begun an inquiry to ascertain tbe
amount of such stores available for
purchase by the government and the
prices demanded for them. The State
Department has already asked the Brit
ish government to request OF
the Canadian government permission tc
pass their stores through Canadian ter.
ritory free of duty 1t is Anticipated
that no objection viii be made to grant