The herald., 1897-11-08
By the Route Around the
Horn
STEAMER CITY OF COLUMBIA
TO TAKE MEN AND WOMEN
FROM NEW YORK
The Whaler Winthrop Set Afire by
Sailors Mad With the Desire
for Gold
Associated Press Special Wire.

associated PreSS Special wire.
NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-THE steamship
City Of Columbia. which will leave this
city for the Klondike gold region via
Cape Horn on December LIST, was WIS.,
tied today at her dock, foot of East Ninth
street, by over 5000 people, half Of whom
We're women and children.
Nearly all of the 300 men and women
already booked for the passage visited
the steamer during the hours it was
open for inspection, besides large
number of invited guests.
Among the latter We're II. A. Herbert,
former secretary of the navy; Gen. II.
V. Boynton, Il. V. Camack, of Philadel-
phia, the venerable ex-Secretary Mich
olas Biddle, c. p. Huntington and d. o.
Mills and delegation of seventy-five
business men and bankers of Philadel-
phia, who are interested in the project
of sending out the Columbia.
Sixty of the passengers already booked
are females, the majority of whom are
married women. There are few wild
ows among them. Thirty-five of the
women are chaperoned by Mrs. H. s.
Gould.
The youngest passenger will be a boy
of seven years, who will accompany his
father to the far north. Three hospital
nurses and five physicians are among
the passengers. The men in the party
include six lawyers, one banker and
twelve Yale students who have aban-
doned their studies for the perils of the
Klondike. The passengers come from
all over the country and Canada.
The City of Columbia will be in charge
of Captain e. c. Baker. 1t will reach
Seattle in April, and on the way to the
horn will stop at several of the South
American ports.
THE LUST OF GOLD
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. L. The
whaling bark John w. Winthrop, Cap
tain Macomber, arrived today from Ber-
ing sea. She reports catch of seven
whales, which yielded 10000 pounds OF
bone and 900 barrels of Oil. Early in
July the Winthrop spoke the whaler
Galhead and for the first time heard of
the Klondike gold discoveries. The
crew became greatly excited, and three
of the sailors, j. A. Krueger, o. W. Dig
man and H. j. Jones, formed a plan to
destroy the vesscel and make their way
to the Alaskan coast, with view of
ultimately reaching the gold fields. The
men stole tar and turpentine from the
ships stores and with other infiammable
material started a fire in the forehold.
Fortunately the flames We're extin-
guished before much damage was done.
The three conspirators were at once
placed in irons. Digman made a written
confession, stating that Krueger was
the originator of the plot, and that he
even desired to blow up the bark with
powder taken from the whaling bombs.
During the rest of the voyage Kruger
was kept in close confinement, but Dig
man and Jones were allowed partial
freedom. The Winthrop brought no
news of the ice-bound whaling fleet
THE TELEGRAPH ROUTE.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 7.-Chas. r.
Hosmer of Montreal, Canada, general
manager of the Canadian Pacific tele-
graph, general manager of the Pacific
Postal Telegraph company and vice.
president of the Commercial Cable COM
pany, arrived here today and is the
guest at the Palace hotel Of John w.
Mackay.
Canadian government will undoubtedly
construct and complete a telegraph line
to Dawson City, and by the identical
route originally surveyed thirty years
ago by George Kennan, the Siberian
traveller
A MONTANA STRIKE.
CHICAGO, Nov. IA special to the
Tribune from Butte, Mont, says: A
great gold strike has been made on Uu-
per Sage creek. A ledge running for
many miles and the quartz running S1OO
to the ton has been discovered and the
people in that part Of the state are wild
with excitement. Another report of the
discovery of a rich placer deposit was
brought today from Elk City, Idaho,
where Judge Lindsay and other Butte
parties have been interested in mining.
A $4,000 cleanup has just been made
and the deposits are said to be richer
than anything yet discovered in that
state.
Burned to Death