The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

will i lderstand, some of the snal
callbhs telegraph managers were
loadee with more work than they
could IFet off in many, many hours
| filedaspecial to the Globe Democrat
about this time and was informed
that it I light not get off in two davs. >
The tele graph manager was told by
me, in reply, that the two-dav limit
might apply to those not sin on the
deal, but that, really, the Globe.
| Democrat matter would have to 90.
1t went. Nevertheless, somebody
counted on the order of its going.
Captain Walters of the Vigilant let
| me take the wheel when we steamed
out c<fPort Angeles and | asked him
| to-~eep a sharp lookout for a sail.
We headed down toward the mouth
of the Straits of Fuca as night closed
IN. Ihe straits vary in width from
twenty to fifty miles and only prac-
ticed eye could detect sail or a
steamer at long range. Mr.. Powell
was thinking hard and fast. At that
! ti1lls tI's Fastest tugs on the Sound
were under charter to others and,
realizing the situation in all its bear
ings, he felt pretty blue But Captain
! Walters has an eagle eye and he was
constantly scanning the horizon, ''as
the man who writes the novel puts
it. He knew the Whereabouts of
every craft on the coast, and the
schOoners Fred. T.. Sanders, j. f.
Coleman, Ford and Alice Cook were
all due from Alaska and with news
from the land of gold. Presently
Walters said:
There's a schooner off there"
Nobody but sea dog could see it
though. Not by six or seven miles
could the land-lubber see it. 1t was
nearly pitch dark, but Captain Wal
ters saw the sail in the dark. Under
his direction ported the helm" and
logged along at ten knots for long
time before the captain said
III take the wheel now and speak
her"
He shouted orders down the pipe to
the engineer, everybody "stood by"
and presently a faint, timid voice
from the schooner called:
ship ahoy."
What schooner is that" asked
Walters
y, N. Coleman, " was the reply.
From St Michaels?'
Yes, sir
BY this time Powell had lost his
blues.
When did you leave st. MichaeI?"
July 26th, sir"
Has anyone spoken you?' ! was
prompting the captain.
NO, sir.
Didn't any newspaper men come
aboard off Flattery?'
mo, sir
That settled it. The Coleman was
our feast. We came alongside and
Captain Walters casually intimated
that he had bottle Whereupon
the captain of the schooner, Captain
TreanOr, became very anxious to
interEiew it. We found several min
ers aboard, all fresh from the Klon-
dixie, Mr.. Charles H. Metcalf, of
Detroit, Mich, more of a trader than
a miner, being the most experienced.
We unearthed a mine of klOndike
news on the Coleman, and even
though it was nearly midnight when
we boarded her, every man aboard
crowded into the captains room to
hear the news of the world, but they
were no more anxious for the news of
the world than the world was for the
news they brought from the klOn-
dixie.
The same night the schooner Fred
E. Sanders slipped into the straits
unObserved by the army of newspaper
men at Cape Flattery. Still it was
not thick or foggy at Flattery, and
Captain Carlson of the Sanders said
he saw one of the press tugs. His
passengers. six in number, brought
out about $40, 000 in nuggets. One of
the passengers, Jennie McNamee. is
q reputed Klondike millionaire, al
though he was not worth above
enough to buy n klOndille outfit ten
months ago. He made signed
statement for the GLOBE Democy0t in
which he estimated the output of
gold from the hlondike for the year
ending to-day at only - 900, 000. This,
he said, was because the claims had
not been worked to advantage and
not because the gold was not there
On the contrary, he, like all the other
miners from the Klondillc, say there
is plenty of gold there, McNamee
himself estimating the output be
tween this day and August 81, 1895
at $4,000, 600, Even after the cream
has been worked off, he says, there
will be good pay dirt" there for
many years to come.
The significant point in the state
ments of the klondikers, just arrived
by the schooners Coleman and San
ders and the steamer Portland, is
that the new discoveries outside of
the Klondike are panning out well.
many new strikes have been reported
and letters received here are so en-
couraging that extensive preparations
are being made to double the capac-
ity of the klondike outfitting houses.
Steamships will make the run from
Tacoma to Skagway and Dyea in
seventy hours, and some form of steam
overland transportation for the
mountain passes will be arranged.
During the past summer the KlOn-
dixie miners have been eXerting them
selves with preparations for the
winters work, and little attention
has been given to getting out gold.
OF total of nearly 5000, 600 in gold
that was brought down on the
steamer Portland sixty per cent. was
owned by actual miners. The trad
ing companies will send down between
S750,000 and $1,000,000 by the last
steamers of the season from st. Mi
chaels. The latter amount will be in
addition to the $2,000,000 estimate
of Mr. McNampa maxine a total of