The San Francisco call., 1898-02-07
Five Thousand of the Lit tie Brown Men Said
 to Be Going.
Many Of Them Will Be Taken From Hawaii to St. Mi
 chaelS Direct.
The Yacht Meranda, Which James V. Coleman Bought to Race
 the Jessie, Sold.

dike. A standing army of 5000 able
 bodied laborers is being got together
 for the gold fields, and in a month or
 so it will make a descent upon Dawson
 City. One of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha
 steamers will bring the men here,
 but as they will not land on the soil of
 the United States there will be no one to say them nay unless Great Britain takes a hand in the matter
 One of the Japanese steamers that has been carrying laborers will be used to carry the little brown men to their destination. Either they will go to
 Victoria, B. C., and thence over the British trail into the Yukon district or else they will go to St. Michael and then up the Yukon in the river steam CTS.
 Nearly all the Japanese who will go to the Klondike will come from Ha- vail" said Alex Shephard, on board the brig J. D. Spreckels yesterday. MT. Sheppard and R. D. Moler are from Honolulu, and have the gold fever. They will leave for Dyea as soon as they have purchased an outfit here. "A great many laborers in the islands are getting ready to go north as soon as their contract time expires, contln- ued MT. Shephard. "A big syndicate in Japan is behind the scheme, and the laborers will only get about the same pay as they do on the plantations. Overseers will go with them, and the coolies will be worked in gangs, l sup pose Outside of these, lots of Japa- nese who have saved little money on their own account will go, and 1 would not be surprised to see 1000 or 5000 of the little brown fellows stretched out along the banks of the Yukon. The steamer they will come on will prob ably be the Saiko Maru, while others will go on the Canadian Pacific Com panys boats to Victoria, B. C."
 With seven or eight thousand Japa- nese on the river, there is bound to be trouble on the Klondike next winter. If supplies were short this year, what will they be next, when there will be hundred times the number of peo- pie now on the ground there, and prob ably a totally inadequate supply of provisions?' The starving miners will consider might is right, and will help themselves to whatever the Japanese may have in the way of stores.
 The brig J. D. Spreckels came up from Honolulu in nineteen days, which Is good time for this time of the year and considering that 1t is nearly eight cen months since she was on the dry dock. Captain Christiansen spoke the British ship Glenpark, now out 162 days from Rio de Janeiro for Portland. The Glenpark was very foul, and cannot make more than a few knots an hour. Her captain asked to be reported all we'll, and said he was going to put into San Francisco to dock his ship.
 The barkentine Archer was lowed to sea by the tug Sea Witch, and the bark Albert by the Active yesterday. Both are bound for Honolulu, and were cast off near the whistling buoy, and made sail within a few minutes of each oth- CT. The captains are racing to the is- lands for a dinner, and the chances are that the Archer will win. Both vessels raced up here, and the barkentine won by a couple of hours. On this occasion the Archer is light while the Albert is heavily laden, and has a deckload of mules.
 The river steamer Sunol took party of excursionists to Mare Island and the navy-yard yesterday. In spite of the threatening weather, big crowd took advantage of the occasion and had a most enjoyable trip. While the steamer Monticello is laid up for re- pairs the Sunol will make regular ex- cursion trips to Vallejo and the navy yard every Sunday.
 James V. Coleman's schooner yacht Miranda has been sold to Charles N. Nelson of New York and MT. Coleman's career as a yachtsman is over When Commodore Macdonough's yacht Jes- sic was carrying all before her MT. | Coleman bought the Miranda and was going to bring her out to this coast to try conclusions with the crack. He l his mind, however, as it was | thought the yacht was not stanch | enough to stand a journey around the Horn. Some time ago MT. Macdonough | sold the Jessie to the Columbia River l pilots, and now MT. Coleman has part ed with his vessel. The Miranda was built in England and was bought by | George H. B. Hill of the Seawanaka | Yacht Club, and came to this country | In 1886. Mir. Hill decided that he want ed an American vessel, so he sold | the Miranda to MT. Coleman, and now he also has got tired of yachting.
 H. E. Kent, who is bound for the Klondike, was brought from the Con- mercial Hotel to the Harbor Receiving Hospital suffering from Jacksonian epi- epsy. Dr. Deas advised the driver of the patrol wagon to take the man to