The herald., 1898-01-28
Loaded to the Guards With
KlOndikerS
REGULATIONS NEARLY READY
GOVERNING THE COLLECTION OF
MINERS DUTIES
Alger's Reindeer Are Coming-Other
Idiots Elaborate Still Wilder
Transportation Schemes
Associated Press Special Wire

Associated Press Special Wire
= TACOMA, Wash, Jan. 27.-Loaded Ia
the guards with 24O passengers and SOC
tons of supplies, the steamer City of To-
I peka sailed from Tacoma tonight for
Juneau and way ports.
COLLECTION OF DUTY
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-Assistant
Secretary Howell has in preparation the
regulations which will govern foreign
goods entering the Klondke region by
way of Dyea and the Chilkoot pass.
Owners of such goods will be required
to give bond to the officer at Dyea for
the amount of the duties, which will be
cancelled by United States customs Of
fcer on the frontier if all the goods en-
tered are taken through to their desti-
nation, or If desired, the amount of the
duties may be deposited at Dyea, and on
presentation of a certificate from the Of
fcer of the frontier that the goods ar
rived at that point, the money will be
refunded by the Dyea collector.
Acting Secretary Meikeljohn is ar
ranging to send a military expedition up
eiiC SOppcI INlNCI IOult, Ill AldShd 10
map out the topography of the country,
and finally establish the value of this
route to the Klondike gold fields.
,ALGER'S REINDEER
NEW YORK, Jan. 27.-Bids for the
transportation of 500 reindeer and their
attendants from New York to Portland
Or, or Seattle. Wash, have been open
ed in the office of Deputy Quartermas-
ter-General T. A. Kimbal. About twen-
ty-five railroads We're represented at
the bidding, the lowest bid being that of
the Canadian Pacific, which offers to
transport the reindeer and attendants
with forage and food supplies for the
party at the rate of s47.60 per car. Other
bids ranged as high as $4OO per car.
These reindeer will be used in the gov
ernment relief expedition to the Klon-
dixie, for which 5000, 900 has been appro-
priated by Congress. The expedition
will leave the Pacific Coast about the
middle of February in charge of Briga-
dier-General Henry c. Merriam, u. S.
A. The supplies which the government
Is sending the miners in the Klondike
consist chiefly of bacon bread and cof-
fee. Lieut.. d. ID. Devore and the Rev.
DR.. Sheldon Jackson went to Norway
some time ago to buy reindeer to be
used in the expedition and succeeded in
buying 500 at from $40 to SIS head. They
also hired seventy-five Laplanders who
with their families and household eff
fects, will be part of the relief expedi-
tion. The Allan Line steamer Manitoba
has been chartered for the trip and is
now on the way from Alton, Norway.
with the reindeer, Laplanders and suf-
flcient supplies until they reach the Pa
cific Coast
A CANINE LIVERY
CHICAGO. Jan. 27.-James H. In
gram of New York and Thomas Wilson
of London are on their way to the Klon-
dixie for the purpose of dealing in dogs.
They will buy and sell dogs, and also do
dog livery business They expect to
take in large quantity of supplies with
the 200 dogs which they have already
shipped to Skaguay. They will arrive in
Dawson about April 1st.
Not only for the purpose of doing a
freighting business will the dogs be
used, but they will also be rented for
pleasure sleighing. Business can only
be done in the winter time, but the eX-
perimenters hope to be able to get such
rates as to enable them to take a vaca-
tion in summer. AS the use of dogs is
practically the only means of freighting
in the country they feel confident that
their stock will be kept busy
Another party of twelve fortune hunt
ers arrived from Kalamazoo, Mich, and
will depart for the Stuart river tonight.
The company Is we'll equipped, having
in its possession sawmill, an engine
and boiler, pump and small lighting
plant. The whole outfit only weighs fif-
teen tons. From Skaguay they go over
the White Pass to Lake Bennett, where
the sawmill will be set up and steam
boat built. The time intervening be-
! tween arrival at the lake and the break
ing up of the ice will be used in getting
out lumber which will be disposed of to
people desiring to build boats.
Sealskin pajamas are the thing on
which Luella Day places great emphasis
when she speaks of the costume in which
she will encase herself to shut out the
cold, icy blasts of the Chilcoot Pass. She
Is going to the Klondike and will sail
from San Francisco February 18th, and
she will be one of the few daring persons
who will brave the terrors of the pass
during the ice-bound season. The party
In which DR.. Day will be member will
contain no other woman than herself.
She will be the physician to the others,
When she Is accouetred for the overland
trip she will appear in a sealskin car
with flaps that will fall down over her
shoulders, sealskin jacket that will
reach to her knees, pair of sealskin ma
jamas and pair Of rubber boots that
will reach above the knees. She will also
carry fur-lined sleeping bag which is
like pillow case, with running string
at the open end. The other members OF
the party of which she will be member
have, been in the new gold country be-
fore.
STEAM SNOWSHOES
CHICAGO, Jan. 27.-George T. Glover
a Chicago inventor, has solved the prob
lem Of getting supplies into the Klondil,e
region this winter by means of his snow
traction locomotive. Seven of these To-
comotives are now building in Chicago
and New York, and thirty-two freight
and passenger cars will be made at
Portland, Ore, for this work. These will
be at Dyea by February 1st, and will
start by February 18th for Dawson City
over the Dalton trail.
1.-THE locomotives that are now beine
constructed for this Klondike trip" said
Mr.. Glover, will weigh about eight tons
oarh half the waipht of tbo 1o---