The herald., 1897-08-11
OFFICIAL
WARNING
That the Road to Dawson
Is Rough
BLISS WASTES SOME PAPER
IN CAUTIoNING KLoNDYKERs
AGAINST COLD
BLISS WASTES SOME PAPER
Steamers Go Crowded, and Ancient
Hulks Will Be Rehabilitated
for Alaskan Service

HulkS Will Be Hehab1l1tated
for Alaskan Service
Associated Press Special Wire.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.-secretary
Bliss has taken cognizance Of the rush to
the Klondyke gold fields and Alaska,
and has issued the following warning to
the general public:
To Whom 1t May Concern: In regard
to information received at this depart
ment that 1000 persons with 5000 tons Of
freight are now waiting at the entrance
to White Pass in Alaska for an oppor-
tunity to cross the mountains to the
Yukon river, and that many more are
preparing to join them, deem 1t proper
to call attention of all who contemplate
making that trip to the exposure. priva-
ton, suffering and danger incident there :
to at this advanced period Of the season.
even if they should succeed in crossing
the mountains. To reach Dawson City.
when over the pass, 700 miles of difficult
navigation on the Yukon river, without
adequate means of transportation will
still be before them, and it is doubtful
if the journey can be completed before
the river is closed by ice.
am moved to draw public notice to
these conditions by the gravity of she
possible consequences to people detained
in the mountainous wilderness during
five or six months of an arctic winter.
where no relief can reach them, how
ever great the need.
(Signed) G. N. BLISS,
Secretary of the Interior.
NOBODY SCARED
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 1O.-Two more
steamers left today for the north with
miners bound for the Klondyke fields.
The Farrallon carried a small number Of
passengers and a large quantity of Sup
plies, but expects to pick up more at
Seattle and other Puget Sound ports en-
route to ST. Michaels.
The Humboldt did not sail until some
hours later, but carried rs passengers.
who will be augmented at Seattle by
about 100 others. Among her passen-
gers was ex-Mayor w. d. Wood, of the
latter place. who is at the head of the
Yukon Commercial company, which
chartered the vessel for the purpose Of
transporting a specially prepared expe-
dition.
ANCIENT HULKS
SEATTLE, Wash, August 10.-The
steamer Eliza Anderson, an old-fash-
ioned side-wheeler, built in Portland,
Or, in the early fiftiee, leaves today
for Klondyke, via ST. Michaels, with
15O passengers. She is a wooden ves-
sci and for sixteen years was out of SER
vice. One year of the time the vessel
was lying at the bottom of the sound
The Eliza Anderson will be conveyed by
the tug Holyoke, the latter having in
tow the small steamer Merwin, the
schooner w. ]. Bryant and the disman-
tied steamer Polly, the latter to be used
as barge on the Yukon river, plying
between Dawson City and st. Michaels.
The Merwin will also rum on the Yukon.
Nobody knows how old the Polly is Her
original name was "Politkofsky," and
she was included in the purchase Of
Alaska by the United States from Rus
sia in 1867. AT that time the Polly was
a Russian gunboat located at Sitka. She
was later sold by the United States to
the Port Blakely Mill Company on
Puget Sound. Up to this date nearly
four thousand miners have sailed from
Seattle for the Yukon and about two
thousand more have sailed from other
points north and south.
SYNDICATE SCHEMES
NEW YORK, August 10-The Wo-
mans Klondyke Syndicate expedition
has been organized in this city. Mise
Helen Varick Boswell is President and
among the patronesses are Mrs. Jennie;
June Croly, Mrs. Laura Weare Walter,
Chicago; Mrs. Sarah Ebyrie, Cleveland;
Mrs. William Craighead, Leadington,
O., and Mrs. Sarah Thompson, Della
ware, o.
The Tribune says: Col. Archie E.
Fisk, formerly of Colorado, now a resi-
dent of New York, has organized a syn
dictate in the name of the "Ala-Klone
Expedition" to search for gold in Alas
ka.
LONG RANGE MINING
OMAHA, Neb., August 10.-By the
arrest of E. J. Davis, the local police
think they have discovered big swim
die under the guise of THE Washing
ton and Alaska Gold Mining Company"
Davis has a stack of contracts in his
possession from which it was believed
he was engaged in a questionable
scheme whereby he offered, to engage la
borers to go to Alaska and work in the
mines at a salary of $160 per month. To
receive free transportation all that
was necessary for the applicants to do
was to pay Davis IS to insure good
faith. 1t has developed that Davis had,
several names. He has been working in
Iowa and Missouri, and his receipt book
shows hundreds of victims.
THIS BEATS ALASKA
REDDING, Aug. 10.-J. B. and r. b.
Graves boarded the overland train to-
night, having in their possession $42, 900
in gold, the result of four days work in
Morrison gulch, tributary of Coffee
creek, beyond Carville in Trinity county.
They have been mining in the gulch for
year past and ran tunnel on the ledge
of red and black iron formation three and
half feet wide. They struck several
pockets of pure gold embedded in the
ledge, one of the pockets yielding $4,000,
while several others yielded from 50 to
$500. On August 4th, at point Is feet