The record-union., 1897-08-11


ing at Her Dock at San Fran
cisco.
= SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10.-More
Klondikers left the city to-day in
search of wealth, and now there re
mains but one or two more steamers
10 sail before the exodus to the far
North will cease for the present.
The steamers to depart were the
Humboldt and the Farallon, and each
Were to carry a large number of passen-
gers destined for the gold fields. Their
sailing created q great deal of interest
and there were large crowds at the
docks from where the vessels were ad-
vertised to leave.
The Farallon left Mission street
wharf shortly after II O'Clock. 1t was
announced that she would sail at 10,
and long before that hour had arrived
"a crowd gathered at the dock to wit
ness the departure of the vessel.
The steamship Humboldt, which was
scheduled to sail for ST. Michaels by
way of Seattle at o'clock this after
noon, did not put to sea, as anticipated,
and is tonight lying at her dock pend
have arisen between her own charter
ers and Mayor Wood of Seattle. What
the trouble between the contracting
parties is is a mater for conjecture, but
it is given out that the methods en-
ployed by the expedition managers in
slowing the vessels freight did not
meet with the Bproval of the owners,
who had much Of it removed from the
vessels hold and repacked. There is
much doubt as to whether the freight
packing episode is the cause of the
delay, and several persons offered their
tickets for sale tonight and other in
cidents lead to the belief that there is
something rascally wrong between the
charterer and the owners of the Hum
boldt All parties interested deny that
there is any difference about money
matters, and say that the steamship
will get away some time tomorrow.
SAILED IN AN OLD HULK.
SEATTLE, Aug IO.-The steamer
Eliza Anderson, an old-fashioned side
wheeler, built in Portland, Or, IN
the early fifties, left to-day for Klon-
dixie via st. Michaels, with $50 pas
sengers. She is a wooden vessel and
for sixteen years was out of service, one
year of which time she was lying at the
bottom of the sound The Eliza Ander-
son will be conveyed by the tug Holy
oke, the latter having in tow the small
steamer Merwin, the schooner w. j.
Bryan, and the dismantled steamer
Polly, which will be used as barge on
4he Yukon River, plying between Daw-
son City and ST. Michaels. The Mer-
MY, mill leo y,4r7 Or1 the Yukon
No one knows how old the Polly is.
Her original name was "Politklofsky, ="
and she was included in the purchase
of Alaska by the United States from
Russia in 1867 At that time the Polly
was a Russian gun boat, located at
Sitka. She was later sold by the United
States to the Port Blakeley Mill Com
pany on Puget Sound Up to this date
nearly 1000 miners have sailed from
Seattle for Yukon and about 1000 more
have sailed from other points north
and south.
WARNING TO GOLD-SEEKERs.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.-Secre-
fary Bliss has taken cognizance of the
rush to the Klondike gold fields and
Alaska and has issued the following
warning to the general public:
ITO whom it may concern: In view
of information received at this Depart
ment that persons with 1900 tons of
baggage and freight are now waiting
at the entrance of White Horse Pass
in Alaska for an opportunity to cross
the mountains to the Yukon River. and
that many more are preparing to join
them, deem it proper to caI the atten-
1ion of all who contemplate making
that trip to the exposure, privations,
sufferings and danger incident thereto,
at this advanced period of the season,
even if they should succeed in crossing
fhe mountains.
ITO reach Dawson City, when over
&he Pass, seven hundred miles of diff
cult navigation on the Yukon River,
without adequate means of transporta-
tion. will still be before them. and it
IS doubtful if the journey can be COM
pleted before the river is closed by
ice
Il am moved to draw public notice
to these conditions by the gravity ot
the possible consequences to people de-
tanned in the mountainous wilderness
during five or six months of an Arctic
winter. where no relief can reach them
however great the need.
&C. n. BLISS,
Secretary of the Interior"
DISCOVERY OF THE GREAT
WEALTH.
SEATTLE. Aug. 10.-J. F. Butler, Z
miner well known in Nevada City, Cal
is a passenger on the steamer Will
lamette, now en- route for Dyea. But
Ter has never before had anything K
say to newspaper men regarding him
self. but it is now known that II was
he and his brother Frank who located
on the Klondike's rich placers before
Cormack. Berry and others, who claim
TO be the original discovers of tbs
richness of the diggings, located on Bo-
nanza and FL Dorao Creeks. Sale
Butler when interview OH the steam
er Yesterday morning:
MY brother and I went to st. MI
chaelss about fourteen months ago ana
prospected at various places on tbs
river. travelling up stream until w'
reached Circle City. At Circle City We
branched off to the southwest ana
,,inad on the little streams which
a,nn+v into the Yukon at or near the
--.,-,--o-+ rT7arrif0rv boundary line