The San Francisco call., 1898-05-02
Will Purchase Claims on the Kubuck for a
 Syndicate.
Charles w. Baumann, a Cigar Maker, Sailed on the
 Same Vessel.
HAS DESERTED HIS WIFE.
Several w eaIthy Men Sending Pros pectors to the New Gold
 fields.

The bark Alaska, which sailed for the Kotzebue Sound gold-fields last week. took away at least one important per souage and another who would be only too gladly welcomed back by his Wlfe and child.
 John D. Tallant. president Of the | al e lant Banking Company. accompanied ny his private secretary, boarded the vessel at the last moment. He is going with the intention of investing large sums III the mines on the KuhuCk River.
 Part of the Northern Lights cargo will be large safe and a full supply or pro visions for Banker John D. Tallant ana his secretary. MT. Tallant haS been con templating making the trip from the tune the Alaska was put on the berth for the new gold fields. He was working on private information, and interested number of Denver and New York bankers in the scheme. In consequence he goes north fully prepared to purchase any or the rich mines that. may be dlscoVereu on the Kubuck this season
 MT. Tallant's departure was Kept very secret, and Captain Cogan and Agent Wood only knew the day before the Alaska sailed that he was going. Ihen, in order to accommodate the banker ana his secretary, the hrst ana secoIlu il+ Ilid f had to be turned out of their rooms Tn . order that they might be htted up TOT the passengers. MT. Tallant is not eX-
 
 Other wealthy men who are sending north to the Kotzebue fields are Llppman Sachs of Sachs Bros. x Co. and A. B. SnTerllels A smart little 30-ton schooner named. the Mary Sachs has Just been turned out of Turner's yard and she 2, VII. WI! sail in a few days for the hubuch River with a party of proSpectorS.
 Mr.' Spreckels' interests will be looked after by Cy Mulkey and six miners; miner ;otb %ho are going north on the barkentlne Cath- crime Sudden. The latter vessel was open for inspection yesterday, and she was crowded all day. A better fitted out boat win not leave San Francisco. All her cabins are large and well furnished, while the dining-rOom can accommodate !Oo passengers at one slttlng. mike ee tIe other vessels, the tables do not run lore and aft, but athwart ship, thus SlNlnS every body elbow-room. There are nine tables in all, and twelve men can be com There is room on the barkentine for DOO passengers, but the chances are that not more than 150 will go away on her.
 Among others who will go on the Sud den are Frank Stone, the Well-knoWn at torney; $. E. Dutton, the book seller and publisher; J..S. Wills and a party from Pasadena, J. Nj. Schultz and a party from Tulare and pr. J. w. Sorrick and party from Ohio.
 river steamer, while the barkentine will take along two steamers and four boats or barges, now almost complete at
 CharIes w. Bautnann, cigar-maker, also went north on the Alaska, and now his wife is trying by every means in Tn Ier her called upon Captain Dunleayy at the ,Harbor police-station, and that gentle Wood, agent for the Alaska and North ern Light. All MT. Wood could tell her was that Baumann had purchased his ticket and sailed on the Alaska last
 iW:hiie Mrs. Baumann was telling her troubles Captain Whiteside of the North Hs -1,A lated her story. She and her husband have been married about five years and they have one child, so she says Busi- ness has not been good for some months back, so Mrs. Baumann sent the child to some friends in the country and then weI1t out to service. While she was at work she says, her husband sold out his interest iii the cigar business and every thing else that they had and made all his preparations to go to Kotzebue Sound without her. According to her story Baumann must have spent about S900 in getting his outfit together and then sailed away, leaving her destitute. She appealed to Captain Whiteside to take her along on the Northern Light, so that she could join her husband on Kotzebue Sound, but this the captain is not willing to do, he says if Mrs Baumann's story Is true and her husband deserted her here, he will have nothing to do with her when she gets to KotZebue Sound.
 What Captain Whiteside and MT. Wood cannot understand is how Mrs. Baumann failed to learn that her husband was go
 
 published in the list of passengers SeV- eral days before the Alaska sailed. To this the wife answers that she knew her husband was going away, but that he told her his stay would not be more than a month or so, and she only learned last Saturday that he contemplated remain ing on Kotzebue Sound two years. Cap tain Whiteside has not decided what to do in the matter but in the meantime his wife and Mrs. Cogan, wife of the Captain of the Alaska, are looking after the un- fortunate woman.