The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1898-01-27
BOGUS KLONDIKER.
A British Company, Says the Swim
dIer, Has Bought all Steamers.
The Seattle Post.Intelligencer says:

The Seattle Post.Intelligencer says:
The workings of 81 highly imaginative
gentleman, whom some people would
designate by the plain term "grafter,
have been exposed and brought to light
by investigations and correspondents re-
Gently carried on by railroad officials of
Seattle and the East and South. The
man. who appears to be possessed OF
many attributes credited to Baron Nun.
chausen, and whose flights of fancy and
dreams oil prestige as transportation
manager have not been eXcelled, tri ves
under the name of Alexander MacDon
aid. His proposed victims are people
living in the territory tributary to the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, who are
anxious to get to the gold fields of the
Yukon and Copper rivers.
Macdonald has given it out to certain
railroad officials at Richmond, Va, with
whom he has been negotiating, that he is
better known as the millionaire Klon-
diker'' and with mis- associates. located at
Seattle, Victoria. Juneau and other
points along the various lines of travel to
the Yukon, he intends to control all the
main steamship con- panies operating be-
tween Puget Sound and the Yukon. A
syndicate, he has stated, has been form ed, ,
which has swallowed, in one fell swoop
all of the great transportation CON panies
operating ON the Yukon and the North
Pacific ocean.
A line of railroad from the tidewater
to Lake Teslin has been, it is alleged,
represented by Macdonald as part of
his through line to the gold fields. BY
this route he ffers to sell passage to
Dawson from Richmond for the low fig
ure of $3.50, of which sum $40 is TO be de-
posted by prospective passengers on the
date of making application for tickets.
Mac Donald, according to information
which has reached the Post-Inte!ligencer,
represented to the Chesapeake and Ohio
officials. so it is claimed, that his COM
pany. the British Yukon Transportation
and TRAILING Company, generally known
as the BIRTHS h-Yukon Company, would,
after January !, 1895, control the follow
ing steam ship lines: The Pacific Coast
Steam ship Con pany, the Alaska. CONNER
cial Com pany, the North America Trans
portation and 1rading Company, and the
Boston and Alaska Steamship Company.
1t Is not surprising, in view of the en-
element over the wonderful gold finds in
Alaska and the Klondike, that there have
sprung into existence, as crop of mush :
rooms over night, q lot Of fake schemers,
developed by men who are by nature dis
qualified for legitimate business, but who
are skilled in the ways of the crooked.
The Post-Intelligencer has exposed a
number of these people, and has. wher-
ever the matter has been brought to its
notice, warned the credulous AMI unwary
against their operations. The MacDou-
aid affair has been thoroughly investi.
gated by railroad men with whom he
sought to ally himself and by the Post
Intelligencer itself, whose agencies at
Victoria and other points have been
brought into requisition in the work of
sitting the matter to bedrock, with the
purpose of ascertaining the exact truth.
Ir Macdonald has made tie statements