The San Francisco call., 1898-03-28
Rush From Dawson to the Scene of a Rich
 Strike.
Paw Dirt Found Between the Big and Little SkOokum
 Creeks.
Charles Mccarthy of San Francisco Shot in a Bra WI at
 Skaguay.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SKAGUAY, Alaska, March "A, via Seattle, Wash, March 27.-One of the biggest stampedes yet recorded in the Klondike region was occasioned on February F by a very rich strike on the divide between the Big and Little Skookum. The strike was made in bench diggings on high hog-back, 300 or 400 feet above the level Of the gulches. Pay dirt running from $lo to s35 to the pan was found.
 Following the announcement or the strike occurred a stampede from Daw- son of immense proportions. and the entire ridge was staked out in all ln- credibly short time.
 This news was brought to this city this week by A. Piche, official courier and dispatch bearer for the Canadlan Government. Mir. Piche says there was immense excitement at Dawson when he left over the Skookum strike, and that over 200 men were standing ln line at the Recorders office to make rec ord of their claims. MT. Piche brings the news of a new strike on Lewis River, which is of great importance II 1t develops as now promised.
 On March 6 man named Con- molly, while prospecting a small pup leading off the leads about seventy miles below Lake Le Barge, found pay dirt, which is big in promise. Piche personally visited the claim and LOOK from g to s3 from a single pan. The discovery is about three miles up the stream from the leads
 The latest reports from the Salmon River country were brought out by Charles Fitzpatrick, who arrived here from that district. Fitzpatrick says the find on Walsh Creek is all that has been claimed for it, as he took from his own claim g 50 to the pan. He says there are already about 1000 people at Walsh Creek, which is 500 more than can obtain claims on that particular stream. The creek is not fifty miles in length, as was at flrst reported. IL will not measure over twenty-five miles in length. He says, however, that the whole country in that vicinity IS min eral bearing, and that in his judgment the next three months will see some further remarkable strikes. He says:
 For instance, I think the south Fork of the Big Salmon will turn out a paving investment. It is about l2o miles from Lewis River. Then there IS the Loto or Lote Creek, Whlch mas al ready shown up favorably, running about 75 cents to the pan, and l could mention four or five other creeks ln the vicinity equally as good.
 What is regarded by many as an 1rn- portant and rich gold strike has been made in the immediate vicinity or Skaguay. For some time past system atic prospecting has been carried on Tn the hills surrounding the Skaguay trail, and at last it has been rewarded. Thomas H. Phipps and Ralph smith claim to have unearthed a ledge of rich quartz bearing free milling gold. The location is kept a secret, but is de- scribed by them as being within an hours walk of the post office"
 The value of the find cannot be deter mined until returns from the assay office at Juneau are made.
 The prospect bears every evidence Of being more than a surface cropping. Samples picked at random were beaten up with a hammer and particles of vel much interest. The locators claim to have abundant capital to develop the mine and say a bucket tramway will readily solve the problem of getting out the quartz.
 Charles Mccarthy well-known ward politician of San Francisco, was shot through the legs in this city this morning by Charley Ritter, waiter in the Horseshoe restaurant The row grew out of a drunken brawl McCar- thys wound is serious, though not dan- gerous. At about the same hour an- ether shooting affray occurred on Me Kinney street, in which several shots were fired No visible results were left save a bullet hole through the sign of a newspaper office.