The herald., 1898-01-15

REINDEER
Reach New York En- Route
for the KlOndike
PUT THEM IN G0THAM'S zoo
THE RELIEF EXPEDITION rs
ABANDONED
PUT THEM IN G0THAM'S zoo
The Steamer Elder Sails for Skaguay
With Full Load Of Anxious
Gold Seekers
Associated Press Special Wire

Associated Press Special Wire
NEW YORK, Jan. 14.-Eleven rein
deer arrived today on board the Wilson
line steamer Martello from Hull and will
be shipped to the Klondike region.
MAY START A ZOO
PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 14.-General
Merriam, commanding the department
of the Columbia, this morning received a
telegram from the war department in
structing him to postpone the departure
of the relief expedition to Alaska. Ac-
cordingly, the contract to ship the ex-
petition from this port on the steamship
Oregon January % has been withdrawn
The pack train is still held at Fort Van
couver, and the drilling of the guard for
1t will go on. The orders effect tenn
porary abandonment of the expedition,
and it is understood they were based on
the recent reports that there will be
no starvation nor suffering in the Yukon
country that the government relief ex-
peditlon could relieve. Agent Poston
of the Pacific Coast Steamship COM
pany states that his company Is glad to
be relieved of the contract to transport
the government pack train to Alaska,
as it has already more business offered
than 1t is possible to handle.
The steamer Geo. w. Elder sailed to-
night for Skaguay and Dyea, with $50
passengers and full cargo. Six hun
dred horses and nearly 600 dogs go north
by the Elder.
A STEAMER SURRENDERS
SEATTLE, Wash, Jan. 1.-THE Can
adian steamer Danube of Victoria vol
unfairly placed herself in the custody of
the United States authorities today.
Last December the Danube violated
the customs regulations of Alaska Or
ders were issued to seize her, but she
sailed out of American waters before
seizure could be made.
The Danube wants to enter the Alaska
trade this season, and her owners. with
a view of purging the boat of her Of
fense decided to bring her here and put
her through seizure process. in order to
block any similar attempt in Alaska.
libel service.
FOR YUKON SERVICE
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 14.-Six large
barges and three river steamers for serV-
ice on the Yukon and its tributaries are
building at the shipyard Of P. d. White
law & Son. The boats are for the Alaska
Exploration Company, in which the
Rothschilds are largely interested, and
will cost more than $250000. The boats
will be taken apart and shipped to Un-
alaska, where they will be set up and
towed to the mouth of the Yukon. The
pieces of the nine boats will be slowed
in the hold of the American ship SIN
tran, which will be towed to Dutch Ear-
Dor by the tug Fearless. The distance
to Dutch Harbor is 2030 miles and the
feat of the Fearless, if successfully ac-
complished, will break the Pacific Coast
thousand miles.
CANADIAN MINING LAWS
OTTAWA, Ont, Jan. 14.-A commit
tee Of the Cabinet has drawn up new
regulations for mining in the Yukon
which make important changes. 1t is
now stated that the alternate claim reg
ulation has been abandoned and that
the government proposes to reserve al
ternate blocks of ten claims, which, 1t
is thought, will give miners better op-
portunity to operate. The present in
tention Is to reserve the government
blocks until they are disposed Of at pub
lie auction. Another feature of the new
regulations is the abandonment of the
Of Inc n
even royalty of 10 per cent will be ex-
acted from all miners.
WHISKY SEIZED
PORT TOWNSEND, Jan. 14.-Cus-
toms officers seized 402 quart bottles of
whisky on the steamer City Of Seattle
Just before she sailed for Alaska. A
small quantity on the City Of Topeka
was also found.
CHARTERING TUGBOATS
PORT TOWNSEND, Jan. 14.-John
B. Libby, manager of the Puget Sound
Tug Boat Company, left last night for
San Francisco, where he will endeavor
to charter three tug boats. The in
creased demand for tug boats is due to
the Klondike travel.
TWO MORE STEAMERS
STOCKTON, Jan. 14.-C. M. Hamilton
and c. r. Glow, representing two Chi
cago companies today let two contracts
to the Jarvis ship yard in this city for
two steamers to be built for the Yukon
river. The steamers are to be built
complete except the upper works, and
calked, with all machinery on board,
and the contract calls for their being
One steamer will be 65 feet long, and the
other g. After being launched they
will be given their trial trips and then
taken to San Francisco, whence they
will form the deck load of vessel bound
for st. Michaels. There they will be
launched again from the vessels deck,
and will be almost Immediately ready
for work. The two companies do not
propose to go into the transportation
business, and the steambers are not to
be built for that purpose. They are to
he used by their owners for prospecting