The herald., 1897-07-31
With Her Cabins Crowded
With Miners
TONS OF FREIGHT DECLINED
AND HUNDREDS OF APPLICANTS
REFUSED
The Steamer AL XII Is Believed to BE
Lying at Dyea Deserted by Her
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PORTLAND, Or, July SoCThe Ore
ron Railway and Navigation company's
steamship George w. Elder sailed for
Dyea, Alaska, at IL o'clock tonight, with
S83. passengers nearly all of whom are
bound for the Klondyke. She carried
1900 tons of freight her full capacity:
100 horses and burros, and rs dogs. AL
day long hundreds Of people congre-
gated in the vicinity of Ainsworth dock,
where the Elder was moored, and to-
night at o'clock it was estim ated that
10000 people were on the river bank or
on the bridges to bid godspeed to the
gold hunters. The steamer was sched-
iuled TO sail at o'clock, but it, was four
hours later before she left her dock.
Hundreds of applications for passage
on the Elder were refused and the COM
pany also declined to take several hun
dred tons of freight which was offered.
Among the passengers are five women
who intend to make the journey into the
gold fields. Nearly every man on the
as many of them go prepared to4stay.
MAY NOT SAIL
SAN FRANCISCO, July 30.-Whether
the federal authorities will allow the
departure tomorrow of the steamer Will
lamette is a question that will greatly
bother those who have engaged passage
for the Klondyke. The steamer has never
had a license to carry passengers, and
unless a special license is granted her
for this trip there will be many disap-
pointed gold seekers leftin the city. An
allotment of $50 berths has been made
for the San Francisco contingent, while
Seattle and Tacoma will furnish the
rest Several other steamers have been
chartered and will sail for the north
within the next two weeks.
NINE MAD SAILORS,
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash, July 3d.
In view of the fact that the steamer AL
XII from Alaska is past due, some ere
dence is being placed in the 81 atement
of member of tn steamers crew while
the ship was here on the way north
thirteen days ago. At that tim e one of
the crew remarked, that it had been ar
ranged by the entire crew to desert the
AL XII at Dyea and strike across the
summit for the Yukon valley and the
Klondyke.
STOCK FOR SALE
TRENTON, N. j., July 30.-The United
Stairs Alaska Gold company, with an
authorized capital of $1.0O0,000, was in
corporated today by the fling Of arti-
Giles in the Office Of the secretary of state.
The company is formed for the purpose
= <r011 ~, tha 1nn dx.1r O
The capital stock paid in is $1,000
ANOTHER SHIP STARTS
SAN FRANCISCO, July ,80.-The
steamer City of Puebla sailed for Puget
Sound ports at 8 o'clock this morning
and will connect with the Al-Ki for
Juneau and Dyea. She carried nearly
300 passengers and the departure was
witnessed by an immense crowd of peo-
pie. There was not nearly so much ex-
element manifested, however, as upon
the departure of the Excelsior.
DUTIES ON OUTFITS
SEATTLE, July 30.-There now re-
mains no doubt of the intention of the
Canadian government to collect duties
on all American goods en- route to the
Klondyke district. For a time it was be-
Iieved no duty would be imposed on in
dividual miners outfits, but only on
stocks taken into the country for mer-
chandising purposes. Today the follow
ing dispatch was received from Victoria,
which has stirred up much ill-feeling in
Seattle:
VICTORIA, July 29.-To E. E. Ling,
Secretary Chamber of Commerce, Seat
tie; WASH Duties will be collected on
miners outfits in every individual case.
(Signed) "A r. MILNE,
collector of Customs"
There will be meeting of citizens to-
morrow morning TO consider the propo-
sition and take some definite action re-
garding the same.
ALASKAN CLIMATE
WASHINGTON, July 30-Under the
direction of Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson, Chief Moore of the weather
bureau has made public a statement in
regard to the climate of Alaska.
Mr.. Moore says: The climate of the
coast and the interior of Alaska are I'M
, like in many respects and the differences
are intensified in this, as perhaps in a few
other countries, by exceptional physica
conditions. The mean winter tempera-
ture of Sitka is 62.5, but little less thar
that of Washington. d. c.
The rainfall of temperate Alaska is
notorious the world over, not only as re-
CARDS the quantiay that falls, but also
as to the manner of it's falling, viz: Ir
long and incessant rains and drizzles
Cloud and fog naturally abound, there
being on an average but sixty clear
days in the year.
North of the Aleutian islands the eli
mate of the coast becomes rigorous il
winter, but in summer the difference
is much less marked.
The climate of the interior, including
In that designation practically all of the
new country except a narrow fringe Of
coastal margin, is one of extreme rigol
in winter with brief but relatively ho
summer, especially when the sky is free
from cloud.
~ In the Klondyke region in midwintel
the sun rises from 80 to 10 a m anf