The herald., 1897-11-24
FOE 4 LONG VOYAGE 70 THE
XLoNDIK1
vessels From the North Bring Only
Hard Luck Stories From Copper
River Regions
!. ...oe,.t.d Pres. Special wire.

Orlando J. Hosford.
Unlimited capital. which eastern peo-
pie have put up. is said to be back Of the
corporation. In the papers the objects
of the company are stated as the ex-
ploration and development of gold and
silver mines and placer claims along the
Copper river, mining for lead, copper.
coal and iron: the building Of reduction
plants and concentration works; con-
struction Of railroads, gas and electric
plants, street railways, etc. 1t is UNDER
stood that the company has force OF
prospectors and advance men on the
ground and will send a large delegation
Of miners and workmen in the spring
to carry out the various plans outlined.
The capitalization is 100000.
BOSTON EXPEDITION
BOSTON, Nov. 23.-Two schooners left
this port today bound for the Klondike.
The Nellie Colgan. which carries two
passengers who will take her owner, A.
e. Clafl!n. aboard when she reaches
Seattle. The. Stowell Sharman has IL
passengers who constitute o co-opera-
tive organization.
A HARD LUCK STORY
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 23.-Late this
afternoon the Alaska Commercial COM
steamer Dora, Capt. Anderson.
arrived from Sitka, from which port she
sailed on Nov. 16.
The Dora sailed from San Francisco
March and has since been engaged in
carrying the mails from Sitka to Una
laska. During August and September.
she carried three loads of miners from
Sitka to the point where the inland
route to the Copper river begins.
Captain Anderson says that none Of
these men were able to get up the river
on account of the early winter and will
be forced to winter at Unalaska.
Miners who left this city and Puget
sound ports bound for the Copper river
those who started for Sitka- OF these,
the latest to arrive on the ground are
the forty men who sailed from this port
Oct. 9 in the schooner Phelps. The
Phelps arrived at Unalaska ON Nov. /.
A HARD ROUTE
SEATTLE, WASH, Nov. 23-The
steamer Alice Blanchard, after a une-
ventful trip from Copper River Alaska,
arrived here this evening. The Blanch-
ard had but one passenger, Howard
Griffin of Los Angeles, who was q pas
senger on the upper run. The officers of
the Blanchard do not bring very flat
tering report of the conditions at Orca
They say thus far no one has succeeded
in ascending Copper river.
FORMAL CHARGES MADE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2s.-Formal
charges have been preferred with the
President and with the Secretary of the
Interior against John U. Smith, United
States Commissioner for Dyea, Alaska
Specific allegations are made Of usur-
patton. Of unwarranted authority, Of
taking extortionate fees for his services
and other grave irregularities. An In
vestigation has been begun, and It Is
probable Smiths removal will follow
Smith was appointed last July.
OUT OF MONEY
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 23.-Early
today an unknown man committed sui
eide by jumping into the bay from the
Folsom-street Wharf. The body was
subsequently recovered by a boatman
and turned over to the Coroner, when 1t
was ascertained from the letters and pa
pers in the pockets Of the deceased that
the suicide was Frederick Rakeman,
formerly an employe at the immigration
station at Ellis Island, New York.
Rakeman left his wife and family In
New York and went to Seattle, WASH,
intending to seek the Klondike gold
fields in the spring. He was out Of mon
ey and had lost hope.
RELIEF PLANS
NEW YORK, Nov. 2S.-secretary of
War Alger, who came to town today to
attend the annual banquet Of the cham
ber Of commerce, said in an interview
that he favored change in the duty
imposed by the Dingley tariff law OIL
white pine imported from Canada. Ho
thought the rate OF 81 a thousand feot
as at present is excessive.
Speaking Of the plans for the relief
of Klondike miners in case Of a famine
Gen. Alger said:
II met Sir Wilfrid Laurier while he
was in Washington and we had a talk
in regard to the Yukon country. We
agreed to work together II 1t becams
necessary to send relief to the people
in that frozen country who are seeking
gold. The cooperation Of Canada be-
Ing assured, believe that we could
manage to get provisions to Dawson
City In some way before the summer
opens the Yukon river. Capt. Rea, who
represents the war department, has
gone to Alaska to report, but Just where
he Is cannot say. He left st. Michae
on August 20, and in the middle Of Sep.
| tember heard from him at Fort Yukon
about 1900 miles up the Yukon river
and 500 miles from Dawson. The Yukor
river is frozen and 1t Ia not easy to travc
on the rough ice. Therefore, to send re-
lief In midwinter by that route is moi
practicable.
"The government has about HOO rein
deer in Alaska, but they are scattered
Mr.. Bliss. secretary Of the interior. hal
placed at the disposal of the war DE-
partment 100 reindeer that are withli
100 miles Of st. Michaels It IL just pos
sible that with the reindeer and the ait
of Indians small expedition might b
| sent by this route.