The herald., 1897-11-12
MINERS AT
SKAGUAY
Building WaterwOrks and
Church
RICH NEW FINDS REPORTED
ALONG THE BRANCHES OF THE
HO0TALINQUA
Shipbuilders All Over the Country
Building Vessels for Traffic
With Alaska
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
VICTORIA, B. c., Nov 1.-THE steam
er Farallon arrived from Skaguay ant
Dyea this morning with sixty returning
prospectors and several officers of tn,
!, customs and police returning from Lake
1,agish. She brings the news that n
horse tramway is being built at Skaguay
and that waterworks are being estab-
lished and undenominational church
erected.
CANADIAN DUTIES
SKAGUAY, Nov. 2, per steamer
Farallon, Seattle, Nov. 1.-THE Cana
dian government has recalled a number
of customs officials who have been sta
toned at Tagish house, between Lakes;
Bennett and Tagish, and the British
Columbia authorities have also reduced
the number of provincial police who
have been stationed at Lake Bennett
and Tagish house since the great rush
to the Klondike country began last July.
Deputy Collector Of Customs Fred w.
Davey, who has just returned from Tag
ish, said to the Associated Press corre-
spondent that duties had been collected
| during the season on 400 outfits Each
outfit represented from four to seven
men. The duty collected on each outfit
averaged $50, and the total collected ag-
gregated about $4,000. Duties were
levied upon everything belonging or in
anyway appertaining to an outfit, even
the clothes that man wore not being
exempted. Several cases of attempted
smuggling were detected, the goods be-
ing confiscated in most instances.
Travel down the lakes has practically
ceased, and Mr.. Davey says that hund-
reds of people will be caught in the ice
and forced to go into winter quarters
wherever they may happen to be when
the ice surrounds them.
Rich gold discoveries are reported on
the McClintock river and branches of
the Hootalinqua.f some running as high
as $40 day to the man. There has been
quite a rush to the new fields, which
will be prospected during the winter
THE CRAMP FLEET
NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-THE States
Steamship company has been formed
under the laws of New Jersey zith q
capital of $7,000,000, and with Charles H.
Cramp, president of the Cramp Ship
building company, as it's president. The
new company has completed arrange
ments by which it acquires from the In
ternational Navigation company the
five steamers, Ohio, Pennsylvania, In
diana, Illinois and Ccnnemaugh, and
others will soon be added to the fleet.
President Cramp was at the Waldorf
tonight, and said these steamers will
be sent around to the west coast as
from San Francisco or Seattle to ST.
Michaels.
The Ohio will be the first steamer to
sail, and will leave early in December,
to be followed by the four others, all
leaving New York by March 1st. To
act in conjunction with these steamers a
fleet of light-draught vessels is being
built as rapidly as possible to make
the service up the Yukon river. The
Ohio will reach Seattle about the end
Of February.
ANOTHER LINE
NEW WHATCOM, Wash, Nov. IL
Arrangements have been completed be-
tween Capt. r. A. Talbot of Sioux City
and e. w. Shirk of st. Paul and other
eastern capitalists and the citizens of
Bellingham bay to run steamship line
from here to Dawson City next sum-
mer.
An ocean liner making regular trips
will connect with the Yukon Ifver
steamers at st. Michaels.
STILL MORE STEAMERS
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 1.-THE Pa
nj Ar m,
pairing to place a new line Of steamers
on the st. Michaels route next spring.
The line will have it's headquarters at
San Francisco and will be direct route.
A large steamer is about to be chartered
in New York and sent around the Horn,
and it may be followed at an early date
by craft of similar tonnage.
A FISHERY QUESTION
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 12-The su-
perior court was called upon today to
settle a dispute over valuable fishing
rights in Alaska. The matter was pre-
sented through suit commenced by the
Pacific Steam Whaling company to re-
cover 100000 damages from the Alaska
Packers association. 3t.
1t appears from the complaint that the
Pacific Steam Whaling company has for
a number Of years maintained an ex-
tensive plant for the taking Of salmon at
the mouth of the Karluk river and along
the Karluk beach on Tanglefoot or Kar-
LUX bay. The corporation claims to have |
been seriously interfered with in this
years fishing by employees of the Alaska
Packers association, the corporation de-
fendant.
The trouble between the two corpora
tions is described as having. commenced
in July last, when the fishing season was
at it's height. A charge is made that in
order to prevent the taking of fish by
the employees of the plaintiff agents Of
the defendant corporation had resort to
force and the use OF firearms,
1t is the theory of the Pacific Steam
Whaling company that the fishing
grounds at KarlulS are public property.
The company AYERS. therefore. that the
exclusive fishing right or ownership can