The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-22
RUSH STILL CONTINUES.
Many People Will Go to Alaska i'm
the Next Two Weeks.


SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2l.-The last eX-
petition this year from California for the
Alaska gold fields will leave here on Aug.
25 The steamer Navarro has been char
tered by the California-Alaska Navigation
and Commercial Company, and will tow
the river steamer Thomas Dwyer to the
mouth of the Yukon river. The Navarro
will have accommodations for seventy-five
passengers, and the managers of the eX-
petition calculate in reaching Dawson City
in about thirty days. Two physicians will
accompany the expedition to look after the
health of the prospectors. If, by any mis-
chance, the Navarro reaches the Yukon too
late for the river boat to get through, ar
rangements have been made for caring for
the passengers until spring.
Reports from Seattle and other northern
ports show that several more steamers will
sail for Alaska this fall. A dispatch from
Seattle says: Notwithstanding the con-
gested condition of affairs at Skaguay and
Dyea and the approach of the time when
the Yukon river will close for the winter
there is not an appreciable decrease in the
demand for tickets to the three principal
intermediate points between Seattle and the
Klondike. If there has been any change in
the condition of shipping affairs during the
past few days, it is the result OF the nu-
merous letters from people on the Dyea or
White pass, telling of the hardships to be
encountered and the probability that not
one in five of those there will reach the
gold fields this winter These reports have
caused people who are anxious to reach
Dawson City as soon as possible to turn
their attention to the Yukon route in hopes
of reaching their destination without I'M
dergoing the hardshps incidental to the
other two routes.
The Portland and Alaska Trading Com
pany is spending money right and left to
get everything in readiness for the de-
parture of the Bristol Aug % for St
Miehaels. AS the Bristol is a British bot
tom, it will be necessary TO follow the same
plan as adopted with the Islander Passen-
gers Will be sent to Victoria from Seattle
and transferred to the Bristol Eastern
people are anxious to go on this boat be-
cause she will take only 250 passengers
whereas her capacity is twice that number.
The reason for taking SO few passengers
is that the steamer Eugene which is to
take the Bristols passengers up the Yukon
from St Michaels, cannot accommodate
more. The Bristol people say they will
land their passengers in Dawson Sept IL
If they do so it will be a remarkable run
<Ihere has been such deluge of news
from Dyea and Skaguay that the people
here are commencing to talk more and more
about the return of the North American
transportation and Trading Company's
steamer Portland. 1t is problematicai what
she will bring. and the uncertainty gives
an added charm to the situation.
The travel to st. Michaels will close
sept 10, when the Portland makes her last
trip Prior to that the steamer Noyo will
try that run, leaving San Francisco Aug
%, and Seattle Aug. 25
An ancient old schooner named the Shir-
ley and rechristened the klondike is in
port waiting for freight and horses. She
looks tough, and anyone who is foolish
enough TO trust even horses on her ought
to lose them. The schooner MOONLIGHT is
also having trouble getting her cargo. Re
liable boats destined for Skaguay and