The herald., 1897-10-14
Good Enough to Put on the
Alaska Route
W0ULD-BE MINERS WARNED
NOT TO TRUST UNSEAwoRTHY
OLD HULKS
The Corwin Brings News From the
North-A New Territory With
Gage for Governor
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1a. The
United States revenue cutter Corwin,
Captain w. J. Herring commanding, ten
days from Bering sea, dropped anchor
in the bay this evening.
Captain Herring states that many of
the steamers going up the Yukon are
unseaworthy and he strongly advises
prospectors, especially those from the
east, not to buy tickets on any vessel
until they are satisfied that they are
able to make the trip. When the Corwin
left st. Michaels the steamer Hamilton
had started up the Yukon, expecting to
winter wherever timber could be found.
The Seattle No. was also going in with
Mayor Wood and party. She will also
winter on the river. The w. r. Merwin,
an old side-wheeler, carrying 140 pas
sengers, and the Mare Island have sailed
from Dutch harbor for winter quarters,
but it is doubtful whether they will get
further than st. Michaels, as they have
sixty miles of rough water to cross and
both are cranky river boats.
The steamer Eliza Anderson still re-
mains at Dutch harbor, but her passen-
gers have gone on to St. Michaels in the
schooner Baronoff. They wanted to
board the Merwin, but the captain de-
clared that he could not accommodate
them. They were persistent, and want
ed to draw lots with those already on
that vessel for the use Of sleeping quar-
ters. Upon the captains refusing this
request some of the Anderson's passen-
gers became aggressive and bloodehed d
was only averted by the action of Cap
tain Herring, who strongly advised all
parties against any breach of the peace.
There is intense feeling against the
promoters of the winter expeditions to
the Klondike, and serious trouble may
yet occur. Statements by Captain Her.
ring regarding the unseaworthiness of
the old river boats sent to the Yukon are
corroborated by DR.. Sheldon Jackson.
There is plenty of coal at Dutch harbor
and in Alaska supply having been re-
Gently landed by the steamer Bristol
AT Dutch harbor seventy-five men are
engaged in putting together two river
steamers, which were taken to that plac ce
in sections About 1000 miners and pros
pectors will winter at st. Michaels, COM
ing from both north and south. There
are two hotels already and another is
in course of construction and food is
said to be plentiful.
While at Unalaska the Corwin pulled
the sealing schooner Pearl off the rocks
where she had stranded. The sealer
was not seriously damaged. The steam
er Portland may be expected at Seattle
about October %, though the Cleveland
may come in her stead as it is doubtful
which will start first. The steamers
will bring the last batch of miners who
will leave the Klordike for the winter
with the result of their seasons work
1t is possible that a large amount of
treasure may be brought and the Bear
has orders to act as convoy to the first
departing treasure laden vessel from
the mines.
THE CORWIN BROUGHT
down from the north Dr. Sheldon jack
son, UniteGt States general agent of eGu-
cation in. Alaska; Lieut.. d. H. Jarvis
from the cutter Bear; Whaler j. A.
Peters of the wrecked whaler Navarch,
and Richard. ard Rollo Camden, who
went up on the Eliza Anderson, but who
returned to wait until spring before
going to Dawson.
DR.. Jackson has beer, spending the
summer in. the Yukon river valley in
the interests Of the United States gov
ernment. He reports the rein deer herds
as doing finely, $50 trained deer being
raedy for freighting.
The Corwin, after carrying dispatches
to the cutter Bear. sailed from ST.
Michaels on Friday morCing, Septem-
ber "a. Only two parties of miners re-
mained at st. Michaels, and they were
expecting to start in a few hours for
Dawson. On the 26th the Corwin called
at St. Lawrence island. Dutch Harbor
was reached. on the 30t.l, where she met
the steamship Portland bound for ST
Michaels. The original purpose of the
North American sportation and
Tracing company to build additional
steamers for their Yukon trade this wir,-
ter at st. Michaes has been changed
and the steamers will be built at Dutch
Harbor
On Friday, October 1, the steamship
Humboldt arrived at Dutch karbor with
Col Randall, United States army, and
a deua chment of United States troops,
and. left on the 3d for ST. Michaels. The
cutter Bear was at ST. Michaels waitis,g
her return trip with miners and their
to convoy the steamship Portland on
golG.
The new building for the Industrial
mission school at Unalaska, established
and erected by the Woman's Home Mis-
sion society of the Methc Sst Episcopal
church of the United, States, is SO far
completed that the mission has moved
into it, Mrs. A. F. Beiler, who has beer
superintending the work, is now en-
route to her home in Washington, d. c.
A NEW TERRITORY
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 13.-Special
correspondence of the Call from Alaska
brought by the revenue cutter Thomas
Corwin tonight via St. Michaels, con-
veys the news that it is proposed to es'.
tablish a new territory to be known as
Lincoln out of the northwest portion
of Alaska. Its boundaries have not yet