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The San Francisco call., 1897-07-19
NEW TO-DAY.

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When any part Of
the body isn't doing
the work that nature
intended it to do, II
puts the whole sys-
tenn out of tune-out
of harmony. When
all of the parts do
not work well to,
gether, none of them
can work just right.
Sickness in one part
of the body is likely
to run into all parts
of the body. 1t isn't
necessary to be sick
all over the body. in
order that you may
fe e1 sick all over.
When children stand
a row of bricks on
end, they knock the
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There Will Be Services at San
Mateo and by the Ma
sons Here.
THE DEAD MAN KNEW HE WAS
DOOMED.
w. II. Mills Tells of the Late MIL
lionaire's High Sense of
Honor.

Regret that Colonel Charles F. Crocker
is no more is far reaching and the sorrow
is genuine that so kind hearted and
noble a man has been CIT down almost in
his prime.
There was little rest for the grief
stricken family and their friends at the
residence at Uplands Saturday night and
yesterday. All Saturday night messages
of coincidence from all over the United
States were transmitted by telephone and
telegraph TO the family of the dead mil
lionaire, while scores of personal friends
called 10 give what comfort they could TO
the bereaved in the night of their great
gloom.
1t was decided yesterday that it would
be inadvisable to give these private tele-
grams 10 the press for publication. 1t is
said that nearly 1000 messages were re-
ceived. The mem bers of the family we:e
so thoroughly exhausted by the constant
pressure during the past eight days that
they practically closed the house this
afternoon TO all but intimate friends,
whose presence had been requested and
sought repose.
The heaviest weight of grief has fallen
sympathy is expressed by those who have
observed her suffering. Yesterday after
noon William Crocker and his wife left
the house at Uplands for brief epose at
their own home. Mrs. Russell ]. Wilson
arrived from Santa Cruz yesterday in re-
sponse to message inviting her to COM
fort the family at Upan6s.
Alta family conference at Uplands yes-
terday it was decided that the interment
should be in Laurel Hill Cemetery, San
Francisco. where his wife was buried
eleven years ago. In this selection the
desires of Mrs. Easton and Mary Crocker.
the coIonePs eldest daughter, were re-
spected.
The funeral ceremonies at Uplands will
take place at noon on Tuesday. A special
train consisting OF the late vice. presidents
private car and g funeral car will leave
the depot at Third and Townsend streets
at 10 A. NJ. Returning the train will leave
San Mateo at 12:45 and will arrive in San
Francisco with the remains at 2 o'clock.
The services at Uplands will be private.
1t is expected that only the immediate
mem bers of the family and few invited
friends will be present.
rev. Or. M acKenzle, VINO lett Ogden Sat.
urday night, will arrive in time to conduct
the service at Uplands. Charles Green,
Russell J. Wilson and Henry T. Scott to
whom the funeral arrangements here are
intrusted, say that the wishes of the fam
lily in respect to the privacy of the funeral
ceremonies at Uplands will be enforced
When the funeral train reaches San
Francisco the coffin will be borne to the
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SACKS Of
NUGGE IS IN
THE BUNKS
Value Of the Portland's
Freight Was Under
estimated.
GOLD SMUGGLED IN BY
KLONDYKERS.
Nearly a Million Dollars in
Dust Not Listed on the
Register.
SPREAD OF THE MINING CRAZE
ON THE SOUND.
Men Resign High Salaries and Sail
Northward on the Steam
ship Al-ki.
Nearly a Million Dollars in
Dust Not Listed on the
Register.
SPREAD OF THE MINING CRAZE
ON THE SOUND.
Men Resign High Salaries and Sail
NorthWard on the Steam
ship Al-ki.

SEATTLE. WASH, July 1S.-Later and
more authentic news places the amount
of treasure brought down from the famed
Klondyke by the steamship Portland at
$1.500,000 and there is good reason to be-
lieve that the sum was nearer 81 100000.
In this connection something in the ma
ture OF contide nee game appears to have
been worked on the North America Trad
ing and Transportation Company, or its
officials in charge Of the Portland, by the
miners. Each man was required to place
his gold dust in the ships safe, but this
was not done, By any means. Many of
the miners secreted their dust in blankets
ard luggage, which were taken either to
their staterooms or thrown carelessly
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has family of stfen children. When he
left Seattle for the Yukon year ago last
March he was very poor. One Of the sons
cared for the family, while another and
the father sought fortune in the Alaskan
placers. They were successful beyond
their boldest and most fanciful dreams.
Stanley made the statement to-day that
he would not take 81, 900 900 for his pos
sessions in the Klondyke. In less than
three months he and his partners took
out SIP 900 from claims 25 and 26 on Ell
Dorado Creek. This great sum OF money,
incredible as it may seem, simply repre-
sents the yield of prospect-hoies and
shafts sunk here and there in order to find
bedrock and ascertain something as TO the
actual value of the claim. They have
actually in sight on these two properties
over 81, 100000. They are 500-foot claims,
and every prospect-hole gives up dirt run
ming over $1,000 to the lineal foot.
Stanley and his partners. the Worden
brothers, also own claims Nos. 80 and "a
on Ell Dorado Greek, known to contain
equally as high paying dirt. They pur-
chased for $40, spot cash a half interest
in claim No. 80 on El Dorado Creek and
they also own valuable claims in Bear
Gulch, Last Chance GuIch and on Indi an
Creek. The pans on the claims being de-
veloped (Nos. % and 26) run from $500 to
$3.50. Five pans taken at random yielded
$3.50 and now and then single pan goes
as high as $500.
When the owners first began sinking
prospect holes, so general was the excite
ment and the rush TO get claims that men
could not be found who would work for
wages at any price. Eight men were
finally induced to work claim No. % Tor a
while on shares. They stayed with it for
six weeks and Stanley said their proper
ton for the labor performed averaged
$500 to the man.
OF his trials and good fortune in the
Alaskan placer fields Stanley said:
Il went to the Yukon year ago last
On the steamship AK, en- route to Ju-
neau and Dyea, my sou, Samuel Stanley,
and met Charles and George Worden,
and we entered into kind of partnership,
since which time we have been continu-
ously associated together in mining and
other business affairs. The Wordens were
formerly from Sackets Harbor, n. Y,
where their mother now lives. In Cali
fornia, where Charles lived for a number
of years, he worked for a Petaluma dairy
concern.
I'VE had been wandering through the
Yukon districts for several months with
little or no success, when in the latter
part of September we heard of the Klon-
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Yes, in March; but not to work. | am
through When we had taken out the
last of the $4,000 l threw down my
shovel and said 'Good-by, old boy; will
never pick you up again, nor will l.
have been very poor at times in my life,
and was when / went to Alaska, and l as
sure you it is very comfortable feeling
to know that you have competence for
life.
MY son Samuel and Charles Worden
are in charge of our interests in Alaska.
Gage Worden and / came out, and we
will go back in March and relieve them.
Then they will come out for short time.
Gage goes from here to his home in New
York State to make his mother comfort
able.
II am an American by birth, but of
Irish parents l formerly lived in West
ern Kansas, but nv claim there was not
as good a, the one l staked out on Eel Do
RADIO Creek"
Captain Kidston is enthusiastic over the
Klondyke dIggings.
THAT country is all right" he began.
at is q poor mans country, though he
should take plenty of grub with him in
going in. The stories told of the Klon-
dyke are not exaggerated. There is no
telling what is in the country. There are
hundreds of good creeks and many OF
them just as rich, I think, as the Klon.
dyKe. Indeed, | think better strikes Will
be made by the miners who went in this
spring. They are securing the country
and are liable to make some great discov-
to- of fO<> IN,
there sufficient 10 keep them alive. The
papers should warn men on this point.
Plenty of grub should be taken in. and
also money to buy more in case OF neces-
slty.
The two transportation companies are
straining every nerve, but fear they will
not be able to carry enough provisions in
for the crowd that goes In next spring.
The Portland goes loaded to the gum
wales. and she will be back here in Au-
gust, probably with Klondyke news and
possibly with some gold. But the big
treasure will be brought out by the vessel
on her last trip. She should then bring
some of the summer gold.
"Think of all those miners we brought
down. Not man has less than $4,000 and
many of them had $50. 600 and upwards
The only amount less than $4,000 brought
was by kid, a mere boy IL years old.
He had no partner, but he gathered $4,000
just the same. / don't know his name.
but think he went on East from here.
Frank Phiscator took out big money up
there, but he was not saying much abouti it.
''The steamer q. II. Hamilton, which
the Morans are building for our company,
will be put into service on the Yukon in
about thirty days. She was taken up In
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Continued on Second Pa9s
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Dawson City by August Is at the far
| thest.
| Among the Axis passengers were
Joseph Green, colonel of the National
Guard of Washington, and George Gill
more, railway ticket t-broker of some
prominence. Ex-Governor McGraw and
E. NJ. Carr. ex-br gadier-general of the
State militia, sail for the Klondyke on
Tuesday on the Portland.
| They go not as spectators. but as active
miners, expecting to take their chances
along with the prospectors. The dis
covery of shortage in Governor Nc
Graw's accounts as Sheriff of King
County led to his financial ruin, as he
decided to the county all of his property,
| in order to sec ure the payment of the de-
ficiency.
There are no signs of an abatement of the
excl ement in Seattle regarding the Klon-
dyke discoveries The affair has almost
| resolved itself into the situation that all
thase who can are going. The assertion
may seem little far-reaching, but it is
substantially true as regards the condi-
ton OF affairs in this City. Some OF the
Klondykers who returned via the Port
land are advising all who contemplate
going to the new dlggings to wait until
| spring, but the advice is not needed. 1t is
safe to say that from 300 to 400 will disre-
gard the warning and go in during July
and August.
| One of the very best Endorsements OF
the Klondyke is found in the fact that
nearly every one of tn ose who came out
in the Portland is going back, but will
rest until spring before doing so. Several
return physical wrecks, not SO much from
labor as from want of proper food, espe-
cially nourjshment of the vegetable kind.
One man had been on the Yukon nine
years. and he said he came out because he
at last began 10 realize that an exchange
of health for riches was very bad in
vestment.
Wilkinson of Nanaimo, one of the M n .
ers who returned from the Klondyke with
| 40,O00, the result of three months labor,
/ says that large and exceptionally fine
specimens of ivory were found last sea-
son, solidly i'm bedded in the icy gravel.
The ivory tusks of mastodons, weighing
as much as $50 pounds, have been found
in an excellent state of preservation.
Piles and piles of bones have been taken
out and there is every indication that dur
ing some OF the prehistoric period large
bands of mastodons grazed over the great
plains of the Yukon Valley. This was
during an age, no doubt, when the coun-
try was subject to tropical influences.
There are indications on every hand to
show that rank tropical vegetation once
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A SPRING BLIZZARD
III LHlLkOOT PASS

dyke discoveries. At this time we were
en- route along the Stewart River, being
bound fAr Forty mile, and il was at Sixty-
mile that the news of the strike first
reached US. We hastened to Klondyke,
stopping first at the mouth of the stream.
The day following our arrival the little
steamer Ellis, with $50 wildly excited
miners, who had also heard OF the news.
arrived. There was rush and mad
run Tor the new discoveries along Bonanza
and Ell Dorado creeks
I'VE brought Up first on EI Dorado
Creek, locating claims 25. % SO and 54.
That was about the 1st of October. We
prospected Nos. % and 26 until we satis-
fed ourselves that we had good pay dirt
in each. Then we set about making per-
manent improvem for the winter.
This done we set to work sinking prospect
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took out $3.50 in five pans and did not
pick The pans either. l took the pan
against my breast and simply scooped it
in off the bedrock.
"To make long story short think Ell
Dorado Creek is the greatest placer propo-
sition in the world. There has never been
anything discovered on the face of the
globe like it.
"How much do / think Ell Dorado
Creek has and will yield? Well, we have
all done more or less figuring on that and
with about the same result. For my part
1 would not be afraid TO guarantee $21 .O00,-
600, and it will probably reach $25, 00O, 600. I"
"Will other creeks be found in the Klon-
dyke district anything like as rich as Ell
Dorado?" was asked.
Certainly: and in my opinion there
will bo a number of them, too. Bear
Gulch is almost another Ell Dorado. There
ia double bedrock in Bear Gulch, though
but very few know it. The bedrocks are
three feet apart. The gold in the lower
bedrock is as black as your shoes, and in
the top bedrock it is as bright as that
found in Ell Dorado. We own No. 10
claim, below Discovery, on Bear Gulch,
and also Nos. 90 and q on Last Chance
Guich. above Discovery. We prospecred
for three miles on Last Chance, and
could not tell the best place to locate a
discovery claim. The man making dis
covery on a creek is entltled by law to
stake claim, and take, also, an adjoining
one, or, in other words, two claims, so you
see he wants to get in good location on
the creek or guch.
"Hunker Creek Is highly looked to. l
think it will prove another great district
and some good strikes have also been
made or Dominion Greek. Indian Creek
is becoming famous.
"Wnat are we doing with all the money
we take out2 Well, we paid sac, 600 spot
cash for a nalf interest in claim Nc. 80 on
El Dorado Creek. We have also loaned
$4,000 each to four parties on Ell Dorado
Creek, taking mortgages on their claims,
so you see we are well secured. I don't
want any better security for my money
than Ell Dorado claims. l only wish had
mortgage on the whole creek.
"We had great deal of trou BILE securin Q
la Dor in the prospecting OF our properties.
Old miners would not work for any price.
We could occasionally rope in a green
horn and get him to work for few days
al $15 day. Six or eight miners worked
on sharss Tor us for about six weeks. and
when We settled it developed that they
earned in that time $1,000 each. That was
pretty good pay, wasn't il? We paid one
o,d miner $12 for three heurs' work and
offered to continue him at that rate, but
be would not have it, so went out to hunt
a claim of his own.
Am going back to the Klondyke
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holes in different parts of the gulch. Good
pay dirt was taken from every hole and
at the end of three months we cleaned up
SIP 600. In getting this much gold we
did not drift over 200 feet altogether up
and down the stream, nor did we crosscut
pay streaks. We calculated that these
two, and also Nos. 53 and 81, would run
upward of $1,000 10 the lineal foot and, in
reality, figured that we have fully 81
600 GOO in sight in the four claims.
There Is little or no difference in the
fftY-hve or sixty claims on Ell Dorado.
In fact there are no spotted claims on
the creek. 1t is case of all gold and
yards wide and yards deep. Anywhere
you run a hole down you find pay
streak. Oar pans will average $3 through
out all OF the claims. Many go as high
as 500 and $3.50, and Isome still better. l
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ARRIVAL oF6eLD HUNTERS
AT FoRT GUbAHY

about the ship, the passengers of which
on this occasion were persons possessed
of plenty of the precious metal. Gold was
not one of the things they especially
craved.
Others there were who deposited small
bags of gold in the ships treasure box
and carried large amounts in their val;ses
tucked away in stateroom hunks.
Clarence ]. Berry, one of the Klondyke
kings, brought down at least $S4 coo in
nuggets, not cent OF which the Portland
had any record. This statement is made
on the authority of Captain William KID
sion, the master of the vessel. who
learned of the matter only to-day. Berry
shipped the money by the Northern Pa
cihc Express Company from Seattle to
San Francisco. Several persons saw the
receipt. Frank Pscator, formerly of
Chicago and Raroda, Mich. was part
owner of this vast wealth.
In addition to this Berry, who, while at
Klondyke took out S130 900, had several
bags of gold nuggets on deposit with the
proprietors of the Butler Hotel, where he
stopped while in Seattle. These he took
along with him to-day when be left for
his home at Fresno, Cal, via San Fran
cisco. There were, no doubt, several
amounts equally as large smuggled
through this way, to say nothing Of far
greater mum ber of smaller ones
"We had an account OF not less than
5000. .000," Captain Kidston observed.
"and how much more was hidden away
in the valises and blankets, OF which We
had no charge, am unprepared to say,
though do know that Berry got through
the lines with almost $84, 900, for l saw
the receipt"
When pressed for an estimate as to the
grand total of the Portland's gold cargo.
Captain Kidston said it was no doubt
nearer $l,C00,000 than the amount ac-
counted for on the ships records.
One OF the most interesting OF many
klondyke stories is ale told by William
Stanley. He is man 90 years old and
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sections on the Portlands last trip. and is
now being set up. On our way out we
spoke. on July 9 the San Francisco whal-
ing bark Gay Head, outside of Bering
Sea, going into the sea, but she had no
whales"
The steamship AL XII sailed for Alaska
this afternoon. She carried the advance
summer guard for the Klondyke. num-
tutes those who have in consequence of
the sensational news made preparations
within the past seventy-two hours.
They are very small percentage OF
those who will depart on the Portland
and the Alaska boats of the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company within the next forty
days. Dyea, the mountain pass and the
lakes appear to be the popular summer
route. One reason for this is that the
North Anne rican Trading and Transporta-
tion Company will not take freight to ex-
ceed 150 pounds for passengers. 1t Will.
however, sell passengers supplies from
the company's stores in Alaska, but at
very advanced rates. By the Dyea route
one can take in as much in the way of
supplies as he chooses, though transpor-
tation az thiS oeasoh u VIC Jo"i' o"-'S
to the absence OF snow, is more dimcut
than in the early spring.
All told the Al-Ki had over 100 passen-
gers and full cargo. including 800 head
OF sheep, 40 head OF cattle and 60 head of
horses. The sheep and beeves are being
driven to the Yukon and Klondyke, so
the prospects are that the miners will
have bountiful supply of fresh meat by
the 1st of Septem ber.
George Miller, who is taking up the
sheep, calculated that he would reach
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whole row down by upsetting one brick.
That is exactly what happens to the health
when the bowels fail to perform their prop
eT function. Constipation makes trouble
all along the line-puts the liver out of
order, is bad for the kidneys-bad for the
stomach. 1t holds in the body poisonous
matter, and because it cannot go any place
else, it gets into the blood The blood car
ries it all over the system. That makes
sluggishness, lassitude, bad breath and foul
taste in the mouth, fills the stomach with gas
and causes windy belching, stops digestion
in the stomach, causes sour stomach, heart
burn and hatuience. 1t makes pifnples
and blotches and causes sick and bilious
headaches. Nine -tenths of all human all
ments are due to this one seemingly trivial
Cause. DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure
constipation. They really cure it. No
body becomes a slave to the use of the
Pellets" They cause no gripping and are
as mild as they are efficient. At any drug
store. Look out for the druggist who tries
to sell you something which he says is
"just as good There is nothing just as
good There is nothing that is nearly as
good Anybody who tells you there is 10
mistaken-or worse.
A GREAT 1EDICAL WORK FREE.
We have arranged to give away absolutely free
200 900 of DIR. Pierce's great book, Common
Sense Medical Adviser 1t contains 1905 pages,
and more than 900 illustrations some of them in
colors 6Soo 900 copies of it have been sold at the
regular price. 81 50 per copy. The profits on this
immense sale have been used in publishing the
present edition, copy Of which will be sent to
any address on receipt of zI one-cent stamps to
cover cost of mailing only. Address Worlds Dis
pensaTy Medical Association. Buffalo. N. Y.
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Creek
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left Yukon Kondyke which flows the south
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-06-22

guaranteeing civil liberty To tho people on
United States models There would be
money for goods and schools and sanitary
measures and there would be no necessity
Of internal administration, except such
measures of self government AS would
maintain order through a police force, with
American and Cuban volunteers to deal
with briEandaee.
The municipai problem should b. dealt
with bv the municipalities, and adjustments
made for thr administration of justice
With fhe introduction of American energies
aud the security and capital made plain by
the visible presence OF security, Cuba
would WELD wealth beyond the dream Of
avaricc "
The revenue Of the days Of reciprocity
with the United States was IN excess or
$50, 0.OOO and 1t would rise FAR Sr5nd
that figure within few yearN Of this mag
niflcent business management.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-06-22
LIBERAL PROGRAMME
Viii Not Sit 10 Carries While Tctuan
Remains Minister.
GEN WEYLER SHOULD De RECALLED.
And Real Reforms, Looking to Peace,
Instituted In Cuba.
SUGAR TRUST WANTS, CUBA,
Alleged Tint II In Cons idcrinR
Making "A Proposition To Spain
To Duy the Island.

London, June a2-Thc Madrid CORE
spondeut OF the Standard says: The
Spanish liberals have adopted an atu-
,ude which viii probably crestc profound
sensation both here and in the United
States. but which is little calculated 10
improve the situation.
AZ meeting OF cx-ministcrs OF the
liberal party on sunday Senior saSasa
made AZ energetic speech denouncing the
home and foreign policy of the premier
and his conduct during the recent crisis
which. Sagasta insisted. had led the peo
pic TO criticize the decision of the crown.
The meeting resolved to issue a mani
fcsto declaring that the liberals would
pcrs,s. in abstaining from all relations
with tho government so long as the duke
~ Tetuan is retained in the cabinet. The
manifesto will also assert that tho liberals
we're the authority for the first colonial
reform scheme in 1894 but curtailed 1t in
1895 in order to obtain the support OF the
conservatives.
The manifesto will characterize the
proposed reforms OF Cnnoyas as made
quite and suggest the replacement Of
Captain General Weyler hy governor
who will continue the war in accordance
with tho civilized practices, the stopping
OF the reign Of terror and devastation Of
property In Cuba and the appointment
Of a civilian commander with full powers
distinct from The military authorities, to
execute reforms Of the widest autonomy
in political. administrative. economical
tariff and legislative matters compatible
with the preservation OF the imperial
sovereignty
The manifesto will promise to 80 very
far In the direction of a sacrifice TO Span
ish commercial interests and of sharing
the burden OF colonial war debts in the
| interests Of peace