The herald., 1897-08-14
SIX MORE VESSELS TO SAIL
AND NOT ONE WILL LACK FOR
PASSENGERS
The Excursion Promoters Decline to
Guarantee Arrival Before the
Rivers Are Frozen Over
Associated Press Special Wire.

ed by the tales or hardSn1p from lnc
Yukon, six expeditions are now under
way for the Klondyke. One of the best
equipped parties which will search for
gold will sail in a few days on the gaso-
line steamer Bessie X. The promoters
of this trip are members Of the Encinal
Yacht club and will take with them the
fast sailing yacht El Sueno, to make
the river trip from St. Michaels to Daw-
son.
The North Fork will sail on Monday,
towing up the old river boat the Mare
Island. The Noyo, the Navarro and the
Caspar are all scheduled to sail next
week, each with a full complement of
passengers.
FEAR OF FREEZING
SAN FRANCISCO, August 1S.-Dur-
ing the past week the Klondyke fever
has abated somewhat owing to some ex-
tent to the discouraging reports from
Dyea. There are plenty of people who
announce their intention of trying the
Chilkoot route in the spring and of those
who are anxious to go at once large
proportion seem disposed to travel by
way of st. Michaels and up the Yu-
kon. Promoters of expeditions by this
route are ready with profuse assurances
that the trip can be made before the
closing of navigation, but in all cases
they are careful not to bind themselves
in any way to take passengers through
this fall
AT the offices of the steamship compa-
nies it is reported that the inquiry for
tickets is diminishing.
HENDERSON'S STORY
NEW YORK, August 13-The Herald
says: Confirmation of the stories of the
vast wealth of the Klondyke district in
Alaska comes from prospector now in
this city who has made two trips to the
new Ell Dorado. He is Henry Hender-
son, SO years Of age, native of Pic
tou county, Nova Scotia, who took out
his naturalization papers in this coun-
try ten years ago. To him the credit of
the discovery of the wonderful gold de-
posits of the Klondyke is in a measure
due. He told his brother, Rob-
ert Henderson, who is miner
in Colorado of the wealth of the district
and gave him 5000 to pay for his outfit
to the Alaskan fields. Robert estab-
lished a claim on Gold Bottom creek
which yielded $4,000 in coarse gold in
two weeks. When the first of October
shall have rolled around little steamer
will leave for Dyea Inlet with a hun
dred prospectors, mining engineers and
expert assayers with Henry Henderson
in charge.
MAI. WALSH TO COMMAND
OTTAWA, Ont, August 13.-Major
Walsh, who commanded the Northwest
Mounted Police during the Riel rebel
lion, has been appointed administrator
for the Yukon district at a salary of
$4,000 a year.
The Department of the Interior has
forwarded the following notice to Yu-
kon:
Clauses and of the regulations gov
erning placer mining on the Yukon
river and it's tributaries are amended
by reducing the length of a creek and
river claim to 100 feet and the length
Of creek and river claim to be granted
to the discoverer of new mine to 200
feet. The fee for the renewal of an
$10O to SIS.
LOST HIS JOB
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash, Aug 10.
II. S. Johnson, the newly appointed
judge for Alaska, was a passenger for
the north on the steamer Topeka today.
He is just from Washington city and is
authority for the statement that w. J.
Jones of this place, who left three weeks
ago for Circle City with commission for
the position of United States commits
sioner for Alaska in his pocket, has tel
egraphed himself out of a job. Jones
was appointed and instructed that he
would be located at St. Michaels. He
telegraphed the department that he
would not go to st. Michaels, but would
go to Circle City. The department took
Jones' telegram as his resignation, and
forthwith appointed J. B. Shepard of
Nebraska, who was then in Alaska, to
fill the vacancy caused by Jones' sup
posed resignation. In the meantime
Jones' commission arrived, but instead
of returning it, as the department. ex-
pected, he filed his official bond, sent j,
| to Washington. took the oath of office
! before United States Judge Hanford
and started for Circle City to mete out
justice in that region. Shepard has his
commission and is at St Mchaels.
COFFEE CREEK MINES
REDDLNG, August 13-Wiliam Matt
land of the Nash mines, on the head of
Coffee creek, came down last night on
his way to San Francisco, and corrob-
crates the report of the last rich strike.
Another gentleman also came in and
says that it is fact that Carter. the
mines left in charge of Graves Bros
property on Morrison Gulch, took out
$4,000 more gold after the brothers left
for San Francisco. The rich strikes
continue to be the topic of conversation
around the hotels and public places.
WILL COLLECT ROYALTY
OTTAWA, Ont, Aug. 13-The Domin.
ion government is fully detAmined tc
collect royalties from miners in the
Kiondyke and elsewhere ir the Cana.
dian territory in the Yukon Arrange
merits are now being made to- see that
royalty fees are collected. Inspector
STRICKLAND of the mounted police left
here today for the Yukon He takes a
detachment of police with him from Re.
gina.
SOBER ADVICE
PORTLAND, Or, Aug 13.-John E
Lathrop, we'll known newspaper mar
of Pendleton, Or, who went to Dyea OF
1.-THE steamer Elder, writes to the Associ