The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-08-21
ABANDONS HER SCHEME
ROYALTIES WILL NOT BE TAKEN
IN KLONDYKE.
Wild, Excited Mob in Juneau, Alaska
People Are Taking Desperate
Chances-Blockade at Dyea.

OTTAWA, Ont, August 13.-Influ-
enced by "A protest from both poll
ticians and business men of the north.
western portion of the Dominion, the
Government has decided to abandon
its scheme to force miners in the plac-
or regions of the Klondyl<e to nay
royalty of 10 to 20 per cent on all gold
taken out there. Many business men
| declared i'm their representations to
! the Government that such rule, if
put in force. would undoubtedly lead
to infinite trouble and might cause
! bloodshed.
The storekeepers and outfitters of
| British Columbia are busy now ar
ranging their plans to compel all pros
pectors to buy their supplies of them
by enforcing the payment of duty on
all outfits which are carried into the
upper Yukon valley.
VANCOUVER, b. c.. August "a
Fifty more mounted police arrived in
Vancouver today in command of Lieu
tenant Harper. They are picked
giants, averaging 100 pounds in
weight. They have Maxim guns and
a large supply of ammunition. They
start for Dyea from Victoria August
18th.
They will establish dog mail line
system and lay out telegraph lines.
Major Walsh, the new Yukon Gold
Commissioner, it is said. will take
command. Walsh is the man who,
with two others. arrested Sitting Bull
when he escaped to Canada He is the
man who volunteered to suppress the
Canadian rebellion with 500 mounted
police, and who said soldiers were no
good to fiUht Indians.
JUNEAU, Alaska, August Ga wild
and excited mob rushed from the
steamship George w. Elder, from
Portland last night. Not head in
the crowd was cool. With intlamed
imaginations many fastened to buy
grain sacks and other receptacles to
J bring the Klondyke gold back in. Ju-
|, neau is the last-chance town on the
, way to the diggings.
The blockade at Dyea and Skaga-
way is daily growing worse. At the
!: two points there are now not less than
1000 men unable to go over the sum,
nit. The crowd is estimated as high
as 1900 by conservative business mer
of Juneau, who went there for the
6 sole purpose of making an inspection
! of the situation. The outlook is more
;; certain that hundreds will never see
: the Yukon side of the mountains this
year, and many others will winter on
the route to Dawson City. Some, dis.
couraged at the prospective failure
of getting their supplies packed on
and being unable to do the heavy work
themselves, are starting in light
with insufficient outfits. This mean,
a great risk of life, and. at best, pri
walton of the severest kind.
The scene is one of indescribable
disorder and confusion. There have
been number of fights over the ques
ton of precedence in employing pack
erS.
More people are arriving than ar,
able to get away. Miners on the
ground ten days ago are still here. \
days work by pack trains makes M
perceptible difference in the size O.
the piles of merchandise. Experienced
prospectors who have been in the Yu
kon before are returning to thei1
homes and will wait until next spring
Prices per pound for packing are ris
ing so steadily that it will present.,
be better to be an Indian than to hav,
a claim on Bonanza Creek. The pric,
is now 25 cents pound to Lake Ben
net by the Chilcoot Pass.
The excitement continues as grea
, in all the settlements of Alaska as i
is in the States, which are pouring
from 800 to 500 people into the terri
tory nearly every other day.
G. b. Swinehart, proprietor of tn,
Alaska Mining Record, has purchased
two outfits and will publish the frs
newspaper at Dawson City and Circl
= City, as soon as the plants can be Sc
y up.