The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-29

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of disputed territory the roads and tele-
graph would have to cross to reach the
head of Lynn canal although that terri
tory Is now in the United States posses
SION
ADVICE TO ENGLISHMEN
LONDON, July 2S.-The colonial office
has warned intending gold seekers that
it will be useless to start for the Clon-
dyke before spring. as the journey is
possible only in the summer time.
BETTER TRANSPORTATION
SAN FRANCISCO, July 2S.-The
Klon dyke is promised close communica-
ton with the rest of the world in short
time. At least a telegraph company has
been incorporated which will get to
work Immediately, it's promoters say,
stringing the wires. Articles of incorpor-
alton of the Alaska Telegraph and Tele-
phone Company have been filed with the
County Clerk of San Francisco. The
directors of the new company are c. w.
Wright, Theodore Reichert, D. e. Bo-
harmon, ]. w. Wright and ]. F. Fassett.
The capital stock of the organization is
$3.50 000 of which 100000 has been sub
scrfbed by the directors. The PROPOSE
ton is to construct a telegraph line which
will conn ect Dyea with the town OF
Dawson :lnd branch lines connecting
Dyea and Juneau and Dawson with
Circle City. The estimated length of the
proposed line is 1000 miles. The plan of
construction will be after the style of
military lines in war times. Wire a
quarter of an inch thick covered with a
, kerite insula ton will be used. The wire
will be laid along the ground instead of
being stretched on poles. Trees or poles
will be used only when it is necessary
to cross a gulch. The promoters of the
novel enterprise expect to get to work
laying the wires in three weeks and to
have them laid six weeks later. The
company does not intend to have any
Geographic communication south from
Juneau unless some of the larger COM
panies construct line north from
Puget Sound.
THE FEVER IN CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, July 2S.-At the railroad
and steamship offices the same eagerness
for information about the passage to the
Klondyke gold fields was shown that
characterized the rush of inquirers a
week ago. There is no abatement OF
interest in anything pertaining directly
or indirectly to the new Ell Dorado. Not
less than an average of 1000 persons a
day have called at the office of the North
American Transportation Company
Thomas Cook & Son, the Northern
Pacific and the Great Northern Rail-
WAYS The number of earnest inquirers
yesterday exceeded those of Monday.
At Cooks agency the quota of the ex-
petition under the management OF
william Chase was filed at an early
10, ;,,o,, n Loot a.1x,
begun by wire for a second steamship
from San Francisco to st. Michaels.
Meantime sixty men who could not get
berths on the first steamer are waiting
for the result of the negotiations. Some
of them in their anxiety to reach Klon-
dyke. offered to sleep on the cabin floor
and be satisfied with the poorest that
could be offered them in the way of ac-
comm 10 dations The best that could be
done was to put their applications on
file.
At the North American Company
office the same story OF crowds in the
office from morning till night was re-
peated While the two northern trans
continental lines book gold-sekers from
Seattle to ST. Michaels by the steamer
Portland sailing September list, they
work principally for the steamships ply
ing between Seattle, Juneau and Dyea
About $50 men have been booked by tbs
Juneau route.
When the mining party booked al
Thomas Cook G. Sons leave Chicago al
least two Chicago women will go along
The first of these is Mrs. William Chase
wife of the manager of the expedition
and she will undertake the arduous trir
for the sake of love. The desire for golG
and a generous fortune will induce the
other, Mrs. Katherine Vromley, to DE-
likewise. Both declare themselves quite
eager for the journey and the novel ex.
periences attending it.
Other women who are soon to leave
Chicago for Alaska are Miss Paulin.
Kellogg of West Congress street, ant
Mrs. c. w. Romney of Windsor Park
Seven ether women will, it is said &C
company the Chase party but their names
could not be learned and as they hav.
not yet purchased tickets, their depart
ure is not certain.
OPTIONS HARD TO GET.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 2S.-Loca
capitalists who are endeavoring to Sc
cure options on mining claims in tn,
Klondyke country are not meeting witt
much success among the miners nov
here. The men seem to realize that the,
have good thing in what they have ant
are not disposed to submit to moderl
forms of conveyance, even though no
forced to sell until the value of the prop
erty is investigated.
A LABOR OF LOVE.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 2S.-Two sis
tiers of the Order of st. Anne have of
fered their services for ten years ardu
GUS Ia Dor in the frozen north and hav,
been accepted by the superior of thei
community. They have arrived in san
Francisco on their way north and wer
to have sailed for st. Michaels on tn
steamer Excelsior, but as it was consid
cred that the vessel would be crowGe,
with passengers, the officials of tn,
Alaska Commercial Company advised
the sisters to wait over for the sailin,
of the Bertha, either Saturday or Mon
day next.
The two who go to the north are Sis
ter Mary of the Cross, formerly Mis-
Peterson. She has recently been Ell
gagged in educational work at ,Holyoke
Mass. Her companion is Sister Mar,
Magdalen of the Sacred Heart, VIII
was Miss Goulet a native of Oueher