The Red Cloud chief., 1897-07-30
CHICAGO GOLD SEEKERS.
They Charter u Special Train and Vessel
"A Big Party TO 90 North.

| A Big Party to do North.
CHICAGO, July 2 s.-One hundred and
City men expect TO leave here on q
special train next Saturday night for
the Alaska gold fields. The special
train will run directly through to San
Francisco. There the gold hunters
will remain three days TO purchase
mining supplies. They will then ship
for st. Michael's on n special steamer.
The trip will occupy fourteen days
Three steam launches will be
In waiting To transport them up
the Yukon to the mouth Of the
Klondykc river. The trip will require
fourteen days. Each tourist may take
500 pounds Of baggage from San Fran
cisco, but only q portion Of this will
be taken up the river with the party.
When the Klonfykc is reached tho
steam launches will be moored In win.
tee quarters Ind the tourists will LIZ
aboard them until spring. Tho trans
portntion company claims to have
made plans for carrying enough pro-
Visions to supply nil It's travellers with
plenty of food until next summer.
IL is the intention Of the promoters
OF the excursion to make the shortest
journey on record to the gold fields.
An effort will be made TO complete
the trip from Chicago to the Klondyke
within thirty dayA In addition to
the crew. guides and officials. goo men
will leave San Francisco on the special
steamer. Of these the larger portion
will be from Chicago, but II Is said
there will be q scattering number
from. all parts of the country.
SAN FRANClSCO'S EXCITEMENT.
SAN Francisco, July 2s. The
throngs about every shipping office
II a has even the remotest Alaskan
relations have not diminished and IL
would seem that the only circumstance
which prevents wholesale departure
Is the limit In transportation facilities
Not only strong men OF previous ex-
periencc, but clerks and professional
men and women In hundreds are
seeking. some OF them for information,
most Of them for transportation to the
land where nuggets are to be had,
they think, for the picking up.
Every day sees some new scheme for
overcoming the difficulties In the way
OF reaching the Klondyke and tho
feet OF steamers and schooners pressed
into the service Is growing steadily.
The latest Of the transportation
schemes is being engineered by Cap
tain HERMAN of the firm of Herri.
man & Mills. He has b.en approached
by number of persons anx-
ious to 60 to the region, and
In response to numerous requests
has mapped out plan for
reaching the diggings by the middle
OF. September. lie will charter a large
sailing vessel and the party will con-
sist Of sixty men, each Of whom will
take n ton Of provisions. No one
will be permitted to go unless he takes
this quantity. Each one will be
charged sa25 for the trip and Captain
HERMAN thinks that for this sum he
can land them In Dawson City before
September 20. The Alaska CONNER
cial c%ompany's steamer Excelsior,
which left to-day, was crowded to the
guards. 1t is its last trip Of this year.
TWO THOUSAND GRAVES DENIED.
Returned Yukonites deny the story
told by Frank Moss Of Great Falls,
Mont that 1000 graves at Forty Mile
post tell OF the terrible sufferings Of
the gold seekers. +. &. Bowker says
that, SO far from there being over
1000 deaths in the Klondyke during
the past three years, there was no.
body there to die until something less
than n year ago, and since then there
have been three deaths In hat whole
district, so far US known. In the
graveyard at Forty Mile post, which
has served for all that section for
some years past, there are only be.
tween thirty and forty graves.
Two moro miners from the North
arrived here on the City of Pueblo
yesterday - Henry Dorc and j. T.
Boucher-and both tell of the hardest
kind Of experiences. Thirty days ON
flour and water and $50 taken from the
ground in eight months Is but q por-
ton Of Dore's experience.
boucher left his home in Wisconsin
three years ago, went IN by juneau
and the Chilcoot to Forty Mile and
Ind the usual run OF poor luck. He
went to work for sl2.5 80 q day, but
that soon gave out and he then went
to prospecting. He said: II had no
better success at this than ut work,
and IA pretty we'll Disguised when l
heard of q strike at Klondyke. I struck
n good claim and cleaned up about
$4,000. am going back home To on.
joy myself till next spring. when !
viii go back again II l do not sell out
in the meantime.
ALASKA NEWSPAPER WARNINGS.
TACOMA, WASH. July 2S.-The Alas
ka newspapers, In doub le-leaded edi
,orials, arc warning gold seekers tc
prepare for all sorts Of hardshipA The
Juneau Se~archlight says that at . con,
sentative estimate there are 5000 per
sons already in the Yukon valley and