Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-07-19
NIB ALASKA FEVER
Wv Workers Of for The K''Hd'f'
Gold Fields
,,,,ronyrA FORTUNE SEEKERS
., Boundary Dispute
''''I ,la,kp Likely TO "'t L's''iA'
lion Now.

vo,,, July ls.-The Press
NE" i York has Uosn touched
nyn -. Alsskan gold fev'r. Zoe P'''
win 'n, 49,, houts have seen come 10
tTsn'y,,O u, least 1000 arsonsuts VINO
zoe 'loI ~ the way to the hlonuyho
v ',oIo " lust a, scOn as arIans'm Tn,a
"s'pa ' '",ar for transportation. Ih,s
c,n 5oIni,hei mora "iorty.oinef
lp,h - 81. strange at all iithls city Should
nV ". ~ ,be next SIX months n's1m'
,ns . cOrrobOratlOn Of the p's a,ors
r,s favorable r0pof'',oo mO, .
ID" j., ,.nIesented In the boats s'ow'y
lsfsvy ~ the currents OF the aRoh
stinln,nms tn. entire Pacific COAST
IhsD WI" r,i,,n Of how tue craze IL
leading may be had hom 'n a.
~. vItnin fOfty-eignt houis q" ~.
.h, ,,,sen,.nt calling for those VINO ue
',.S IN ioin an expeiiiion 10 aIaska
sIeu " hai from $500 to 81 OJO TO ia,
opu nae answered by more man l,zOo
'es' In this Particular case
was some MISUNDERSTANDING, in'
uon as the company puoiIshins
n ia in tue maIu u trading coW.
u While the applicants were eager
"a INSPECTORS or to any thsm-
lsss with "gGub.stak." conc rms.
L. tbirtysiwO men have entered
min III service and VIII start lot tuo
KIondyke regiun within three Weess'
Tnsv will 20 as employees OF the cou
Inv law essentially, but 10 The event OF
,nsi, Striking u paying claim or DE.
nln,ing interested In one, the company
Iii aid them by advancing money
sns,elsnt 10 develop promising strikes.
The interest displayed Is evidence
that the fever has reached the town
sd an indication that one OF the
'a,s..t colonies when VIII winter
.bont tue gold bearing region viii be
c1uposed OF New Workers.
GOING TO SEEK A FORTUNE.
FAN FRANoIsco, July lS,-The
clerks in the office OF the Alaska Com
m.Iclsl company were kspt busy ah.
Igerlpg questions and giving out
mans anu circulars descriptive oil the
Kl,nuyks mining region. While a
ueal minority OF the men VINO mGde
lt1uifes were labOreTs, not Few ca me
vno occupy lucrative positious in this
city, but who hope to RtquiIe fortunes
more quickly In tho lar lUrth.
WENT no alaska.
PORTLAND, Ore, july ls.-Russell
Montgomery, a Unned States naval
cliet who disappeared from A anapolis
over 0 yer ago, has been heard from
in Alasks. II 4. writes 10 his father, j..
B, Montgomery, a we'll known cipi,ul-
ist VI this city, that he hiss taken Il
4 calm In tue famous KIoudyKe district
aud Ia row working II successfully.
Young Montgomery fRiieI Ia mis- ex.
smlnsliOns al Annapolis, which fac
n 20 Inundated him that he lefI An
bspOlis without leaving any word bt-
hind him, and although ms father has
used every tGJrl 10 hnu his son,
nothing has Teen hea u OF him until
The lelIer from Alsska was Received.
THE STEAMER CROWDED.
IA SEATTLE. WASH, July Is. - One
huhdIeI men took passage on the
steamer Al HI today, most OF them
Starting ou what Is called the overland
ITip TO k!ondyke From Juneau they
10 100 mIles luther by water to Dyes,
then over the mountain passes uown
Lakes LlndeTmAn ana Bennett 10 the
Yukon rlver anu Down that river to
Ihs new discoveries. Among the
etw0 were many well known men
!. lbs Al X WAS billed to sail at 0
O'clock Is morning. AT O'CLOCK
efoNGs began 10 gather On Tue dock.
Az O'Clock II WAS announced that
sac would not ssil ill U'c.Ock. The
IoWG kept growing larger. Al
"olock II Nts said she would not get
away until D, anu at that hour she
Infew oh her lines and pulled intC
,ue Oay, thousands OF people that
hntd The waller front BendiBg ner god.
'p'ed with cheers ana shouts. Every
men Of her passenger Rud cargo space
was taken.
BOUNDARY DISPUTE IN VIEW.
NEW YoHl, July ia sp,elsl ts
'ns Woflu lTom Washington says:
lhe possibility Of seTous interim
"'"a' complications between Tia,