The herald., 1898-02-03
train from Chicago made up of seven-
teen cars. all loaded with canned meats,
aggregating a half million pounds.
A ST. LOUIS PARTY

train from Chicago made up Of seven-'
teen cars, all loaded with canned meats,
aggregating a half million pounds
A ST. LOUIS PARTY
ST. LOUIS, Feb. "A party of eleven
men, eight from st. Louis. and three
from Massachusetts. left here today,
bound for the Klondike Among them
are: Ira e. Fletcher, Frank f. Short,
Charles L. Vaughan, Thomas A. Devin,
| Arthur Eveson, j. c. Stone, Sebastian
Wehrle, Ed Deitz, e. A. Harris and
Charles Hoffman.
| They will spend at least three years in
Alaska, having invested $4,000 in sup
plies of food and implements.
| Another party, numbering seventy
| five, mostly st. Louisians, are preparing
to leave about the 18th for the same
destination. Among the number who
will try their luck in the gold fields are.
Miss Sarah Hickman a prominent Epe-
worth Lacquer. of st. Louis, and Nj iss
Virginia May. Miss Hickman will w 'Ste
to the several religious papers of the
city, descriptive of the country and ex-
periences there.
MeSsrs. Darrow and Markle and Fred
erick Kay and wife. of Dallas, Texas,
and j. II. Cowles, of Louisville, Ky, will
be in the party. DR.. Button, of ST. Louis.
will be the attending physici an of the
little colony.
A STEAMER IN SECTIONS
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2-Whitelaw
& CO., ship owners. and proprietors of
the steamer Whitelaw, have closed a
charter with the California Yukon Trad
| ing Company to take two barges and the
|
Harbor, the latter part of March, for
| rebuilding.
Some twenty or thirty mechanics will
go up to reconstruct this steamer, which
will be put on the Yukon River in June
next.
The steamer Rideout is being pushed
to completion by the contractors at
Stockton, who will have the boat ready
for shipment by March Goth.
| The full capacity of the steamer Ride
out and two barges will be 300 passen-
gers and 500 tons Of freight or merchan-
| disc.
TARIFF TALK
| VANCOUVER, B. c., Feb. AT a
public meeting held here last night res
olutions We're passed urging that Klon
| dixie miners and timber licenses be
granted only To British subjects or citi-
zens of countries that afford a similar
| privilege to British subjects within their
own territory: that so long as Canadian
| lumber going into the United States is
taxed an equal tax should be placed on
| American lumber coming into Canada;
THAT there is no need for the United
States troops to accompany the relief ex-
pedftion to the Yukon; that the disputed
territory should be administered joint
ly; that American vessels be prohibit
ed from carrying goods from one Cana
dian port to another in accordance with
the coasting laws.
TRAINS CROWDED
ST. PAUL Mimi, Feb. S-As the gate
way between the east and the klondike,
this city has been for some weeks the
witness of many returning parties of
gold finders and of parties of gold seek
ers.
The daily trains to the coast over both
the Northern Pacific and the Great
Northern are crowded, many of the par
ties being made up in the northwest and
Quitting here, but more are coming
from the east and stopping off here to
add to their supplies and outfits. Two
new local companies have just been or
ganized and started for the gold fields,
but they have no present intention t.
both formed dog train companies and
planned to make their share of the mon
ey by hauling supplies.