The record-union., 1897-07-28
j. S. TROOPS
GOING TO ALASKA,
Company to Leave Seattle for Circle
City August 5th.
Additional Mounted Police Will Also be
Sent to CIondyke.
Time to Call a Halt in the Mad
Rush to the Gold Fie1ds-Hun-
dreds of People Now En- Route
Who Will Not See Dawson City
Before Next Spring and Scores
Likely to Suffer Hardships That
Death Alone Will Relieve.

SEATTLE, July 21.-Captain Ray, U.
S. A, with five officers and fifty-six men,
will leave Seattle for Circle City, Alaska,
via St. Michaels, August 9TH. orders
have been sent to San Francisco to ship
a years supply of clothing which will
include 100 woolen blankets, axes and
tools. Twelve improved conical tents
will be shipped to Seattle to-day from
Philadelphia by express. Passage has
been secured for the United States Off
GERS and their men on the North Ameri
can Transportation and Trading Com
pany's steamer Cleveland, which leaves
Seattle August 9TH. Each mans fare
will cost $50, and each ton of freight
will be charged for at $50
The Dominion Government is to send
seventy-five additional mounted police
to the ClOndyke, there being twenty-five
there now. The men will leave for Vic
toria on Pacific Coast Steamship Com
pany boat in a few days They will go in
from Dyea travelling light, getting pro-
visions after they get in.
The steamship City of Topeka will sail
tomorrow morning from Seattle with
210 passengers. She goes only as far
as Juneau, whence a majority Of the
passengers will branch out for the
mines. The steamer Islander will sail
tomorrow from Victoria for Dyea with
over 200 passengers. Nearly all those
going on the Islander are from Seattle.
The next sailing vessel leaving Seattle
for Dyea will be the steamer Rosalie,
chartered last Saturday for two trips.
Already the $50 passengers allowed by
the Inspector have been booked for the
Rosalie, and twenty more are hanging
around the office, awaiting the chance of
some one dropping out at the last min
ute.
The steamer Edith, chartered by the
same parties, and also scheduled to sail
July 31st, will take north sixty horses
at $22 80 head.
In an interview tonight with the AS
sociated Press correspondent, L. M.
Turner, who spent eleven years in
Alaska and the Arctic regions in the en-
ploy ofthe Government, said:
''It is about time to call halt on this
mad rush to the Clondyke gold fields.
Hundreds of men are going as far as
they can, relying on others to help them.
That help will be meager enough, and
scores will certainly endure hardships
that death alone will relieve. The trans
portation companies cannot possibly ac-
commodate the number going by way of
ST. Michaels. The small river steamers
will not afford room for One-third the
number gazing by that route. The pro-
visions will have to be furnished by the
transportation companies, and two
thirds of the passengers will board at
ST. Michaels or along the Yukon, and
they will not see Dawson City until next
spring. Many of those who go by way
of Dyea will be compelled to winter at
the headwaters of the Yukon.
mo person should go there with less
than four and a half to five and half
pounds of provisions for each day he ex-
poets to remain in the country. The
actual food supply for each person would
amount to fully 1,600 pounds. Highly
carbonacious food should predominate;
stimulants of alcoholic character should
be avoided. One pound of tea is equal
to seven pounds of coffee for drinking
purposes. An abundance of cranberries
may be procuhred, put in water and al
lowed to freeze. A chunk can be broken
off, thawed and cooked. Blueberries are
also abundant. My advice is wait until
March, 1898, and more will be accom-
plished with half the trouble and min
imum of expense.
'Some one should strive to build q
wagon road over Dyea pass to the lakes.
The Dominion Government will gladly
give consent for such an enterprise. Our
own Government should be asked to ap
propriate a sufficient sum for an imme
diate preliminary survey. and when the
money is ready the work can progress
throughout the winter, and be finished
by the end of April, 1885,
MANY STOCKTONITES WILL. GO.
STOCKTON, July 21.-The Clondyke
fever has reached Stockton in earnest,
and John O. Yardley and Robert l..
Ouizberry of this city will be among
a party which will leave San Francisco
on the 10th of next month. j. w Lo-
gan, an old miner and a furniture deal
er of this city, has already left for the
gold fields. Among other Stocktonians
who have signified their intention of
going to Condyke are: Ed w. But
ters. r. McTaggert, H NJ. Griffith,
Frank Cutting, A. l.. Brown, Dr. Mad
dox, Dr. Manley, Ed. Southworth, La
fayette Funk, Thomas Drace and
Thomas Hewitt.
THE STATE SAILS.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 27.-Spear-
street dock was the scene of more ex
citement this morning when the steam
er State of California sailed for the
north than has occurred there for
many years.
Fully loo people gathered to witness
the departure of the steamer. and the
departing miners for the Yukon gold
fields were given an enthusiastic fare
WELL
The wharf was piled high with freight
although the vessel was loaded to her
utmost capacity, even the hurricane
deck being utilized for the storage of
canned goods and other supplies.
Three hundred and forty-seven peo-
pie embarked in the vessel, 233 of
whom were cabin passengers.
THE FEVER REACHES SAN JOSE
SAN JOSE, July 27.-Excitement over
the rich gold discoveries in the Yukon
country is having some effect here. One