The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-31
COPPER RIVER HUHT
LARGE PARTIES OF AMERICANS
LEFT ST. PAUL YESTERDAY
TO TAKE PART.
GYPSY QUEEN CREW DEPART.
WILL TAKE A BOAT TO LAKE
TESLIN.
Passed Through the Twin Cities on
Their Way to the GiIded
KIondike.

Passed Through the Twin Cities on
Their Way to the GiIded
KIondilke.
Yesterday was a busy day for repre-
sentatives Of the overland coast rail-
road lines in the matter Of sending
out passengers arriving in st. Paul
from Eastern and central states en-
route to the Alaska gold fields, and
the regular Northern Pacific and Great
Northern trains carried westward at
4:30 o'clock fully 200 gold hunters. In
one Of the parties were five women.
Every party was more or less heavily
burdened with baggage, and several Of
them had from three to a dozen dogs
to be used in shedding the Alaskan
trail into the gold district. All of the
fortune seekers had a definite destina-
ton, and every party Of more than
two or three was under the direction Of
some chosen leader or captain. A no
ticeable coincidence in yesterdays ex-
odus was the fact that the majority of
the fortune seekers were bound for the
Copper river district and not Dawson
City or the Klondike region. Among
| those going to Alaska this spring there
seems to be a belief that the Klondike
fields will be overcrowded, and the de-
sire, besides, to be in American terri
tory is influencing many to seek less
explored districts.
The largest party that has so far
passed through st. Paul went to the
| coast yesterday in a special car at
tached to the Northern Pacific over
land train, being the Gypsy Queen Min
ing company, of Chicago. In the party
were five women, who will brave the
hardships Of the gold fields in hopes
of winning a fortune. In the party
were:
Mr. E,t and 5 Mrs P, D. Henry Finch.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles DR.. A. j. Richter.
Bachem Charles Nickett,
Mr.; and Mrs, Percy H. Neubert
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. B. Stevens. .lHA-n'
johnson, w H. Gilmore
w. w. Winward P. McGuirn.
The party is under the leadership of
P. D. Whitehead and arrived in ST.
Paul over the Wisconsin Central yes
terday afternoon, half an hour before
the Northern Pacific regular left for
the coast. The stock Of the company is
largely owned by Chicagoans.
The first stopping place Of the gold
seekers will be Tacoma, Wash, where
four more will join them. From there
they go to Victoria, where they will
embark by steamer. Landing at Fort
Wrangel they will take lighters up the
Stikeen river twenty-eight miles and
then go by sleds overland to Lake Tes-
lin. There the party will put up the
Gypsy Queen, the steamer, and will
live in it until the summer.
The gold seekers expect to reach the
Klondike early in March, They take
with them six tons of baggage. In
cluded in this is the steamer, that has
been built in sections that it may cas-
dredge, centrifugal pump and tripl1cate
saw mill plant are also among the
conveniences. Thirty heavy sleds and
forty horses will also be taken.
The most sanguine lot of Klondikers
to leave for Seattle yesterday was the
keystone party, under command of
Col. Creighton, which went out on the
Great Northern. There are nine mem
bers in the party from Braddock and
Beaver, Penn, including a minister a
physician and a lawyer, but the hopes
of the entire party center in Col
Creighton, who is an Alaskan pioneer,
having spent ten years in the Yukon
country. Col Creighton has Travelled
the Yukon river from source to mouth,
party hopes for more advantages in
the search for gold than will fall to the
lot of others The party is thoroughly
equipped for two years stay in the
gold region, and will seek the yellow
metal first in the Copper river country
and afterward wherever indications
point to the richest deposits. Col
Creighton is enthusiastic over the pros
poets of the party, and thinks it wise
for any one who can to go to Alaska,
but he says much disappointment and
some suffering will result to those in
experienced in gold hunting and I'M
accustomed to the seventies Of a cold
country, who are rushing to the new
fields without ample preparation or a
party will sail from Seattle Feb r.
It's members are Col Creighton, T w.
Sharp, B. w. Rayl, H. w. Richards,
o. A Richards, Robert Brice and LIE
Roy Townsend.
Caspar Keer and George Forrest. two
young men of Bay City, Mich, were in
the Klondike rush over the Great
couver to join party, of which Keer's
father is the head and which will To-
cate in the Lake Teslin country.
A party of ten members from Albion,
Ind, left for Seattle over the Great
Northern. H. F. Riddell is in charge
OF the gold seekers, VINO are bound for
the Copper river fields. His associates
are Daniel Winerbrener, Mart Winer-
brener, Howard Surfus, Fred Kimball,
John Yangyen, Gustav Hahn, John
Holman, Curt Simmons, A D. Hostel
ter and G. Reed. This party numbers
among it's members mechanics, carpen-
tiers and several practical miners. They
will sail from Seattle Feb. Is, and pro-
coed inland to the gold fields by means
of dog sledges. The party brought two
large Newfoundland dogs from Albion.
and, while stopping in st. Paul yester-
day, purchased a third of the same
species for SIS At Seattle more dogs
will be bought.
party of sixteen Southerners from
Jacksonville, Miss, left over the Great
Northern, with full equipment for a
two years stay in the gold fields.
G. J. Ryan and John F. Spaulding,
Of Big Sandy, Mont, who have been
East on a visit, went west on the
Great Northern road to embark at Sc
attic for Alaska. Both have spent
much of their time in mining through
out Montana and expect their previ-
Gus experiences to be valuable in the
Klondike fields. Ryan and Spaulding
had eight big dogs Of the Newfound-
land and ST, Bernard species careful
ly boxed UP in crates in the baggage
car of the overland train. The dogs