The herald., 1897-10-30
Would Be Welcomed al
St. MiChaelS
NO RESERVATION IS WANTED
AS TENDING TO CHECK FREEDOM
OF TRADE
The Long Expected Portland Comes
Down From Alaska With
Small Amount of Gold
Associated Press Special Wire.


TACOMA, Wash, Oct 29-At meet
ing of the citizens Klondike committee
today the following telegram was or
dered sent to Secretary of War Alger:
Hon. r. A. Alger, Secretary of War,
Washington: We thank you for your
early response to our dispatch of Oc-
tober 9th. We favor military post at
ST. Michaels but earnestly renew protest
against military reservation. Being
fifty-five hundred miles from the war
department it would be impossible to
obtain permits within any reasonable
time. A reservation would practically
suspend business other than through the
powerful corporation now in occupancy
if not barring out all other citizens from
occupancy and trade, and reflect upon
the judgment of the administration
when fully understood in all its bear
ings."
The telegram is signed Tacoma Citi-
zens' Klondike Committee, by George
Brown, Secretary"
THE LAST STEAMER
SEATTLE, Wash, Oct. 29.-The
steamer Portland arrived here this
morning from St. Michaels, Alaska, with
s125,O0O in gold belonging to the North
American Transportation and Trading
Company.
Passengers on the Portland were ChaS.
H. Hamilton, Manager of the North
American Transportation and Trading
Company; Eli A. Gage and wife of Chi
cago and Miss Helen Healy, also of Chi
cago; w. A. Milligan, of San Francisco;
Horace Mcclure, Seattle; w. A. Steele.
Seattle, and twenty-five carpenters and
longshoremen in the employ of the
North American Transportation and
Trading Company. Mr.. Milligan was a
member of the Inflated Mare Island eX-
pedition from San Francisco.
The Portland left st. Michaels October
18th, stopping only at Dutch Harbor. She
brought down confirmatory news of the
release of the river steamers Alice, Mer-
win and Mare Island, which were caught
in the ice in Bering sea, off the mouth
Of the Yukon. The ice foes broke about
three weeks ago, allowing the steamers
to proceed on their way up the river.
All river steamers operating on the
Yukon had left st. Michaels, and the
Portland was the last of the ocean ves-
sells to leave. About $50 white people will
winter at St. Michaels. Work on the four
river boats of the North American
Transportation and Trading Company
was progressing rapidly at Dutch Har-
Dor and they will be completed by the
time the river opens in the spring.
THE WHALING FLEET
The Portland brings additional par
ticulars of the whaling fleet of eight ves-
sells that is imprisoned by ice IN the
Arctic ocean. The total number of men
on the vessels is 300. 1t is known that
all the vessels were short of provisions.
as they had expected to return to San
Francisco this month. The steam whal-
ers Orca, Belvedere and Jesse H. Free
man and the schooner Rosario were last
heard of on September 18th, when they
were solidly imbedded in a mass Of ice
cakes along the shore at Point Barrow
The crews We're seen shedding to shore
such small provisions as they had. There
is hope that they may be able to secure
a sufficiency of food at Point Barrow
as there is a trading post there, owned
pany. The supply, however, is not sup.
posed to be very great, and largely con.
sists of flour. The men who have most.
ly to fear starvation are those on the
steamers Newport and Fearless, thu
bark Wanderer and the Pacific Steam
!. Whaling company's tender JEANNE
They are further to the eastward, anG
are supposed to be ice-bound about 25t
miles from Point Barrow. They were
last seen about the 1st of September
and it is thought they are between Har
rison bay and Demarkation point o.
Herschel island.
The Alaska whale catch for this year
according to advices from Dutch har
Dor, is considered to be a very goot
one, considering the number of vessel.
engaged. The total amount of bon,
will aggregate about 10000 pounds, takei
from fifty-four whales. The steam
schooner Karluk, now on her way t.
, San Francisco, has $1,000 pounds O
, whalebone. The Orca has a catch O
, four whales, three spring and one fall
t while the Rosario has one, caught in th
t spring. AS these vessels are implante,
e in the ice, their catch will not be avail
q able this year. The catch of the othe
t vessels is as follows: Karluk, seven fall
0 one spring; William Bayliss, eleven fall
: Alexander, nine fall three spring; Jean
8 cite, two fall, two spring; Thrashel
four fall, two spring. On board the Kar
: LUX is second officer Egan and a sailo
who were among the wrecked crew O
the lost bark Navarch.
TOO MUCH LOAD
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash, Oct. 29.-
a The tug Pioneer with the bark Colorad
and a scow in town bound for Alask
! with 200 cattle and an equal number
q horses and upwards of a hundred dog
! put in here, tonight at o'clock for tn
purpose of devising ways and NEAR
4 for keeping the stock alive on the tri
= northward. While on the way from 81
attle several head of cattle and one hors
. died from suffocation. The scow
loaded with hay and grain with whio
to feed the stock while on the trip u
- and over the Dalton trail to the heat
waters of the Yukon.
r NO FAMINE
n SEATTLE, Wash, Oct. 29.-Eli /
Gage, auditor of the North America
Transportation and Trading compan
who arrived here today from st. Micl
aels on the steamer Portland, thinl
n, there need be no fear of starvation
J. Dawson this winter, although the cal
demands prompt attention