The herald., 1898-03-06
TWO WRECKS ARE REPORTED
No List Of the Lost Can Be Obtained.
Colonel Fisher Had Both
Legs Frozen
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the rocks. and there are no indications Of
any survivors.
The Bessie X was owned by J. s. Kimball
& Co. of San Francisco. and left that port
for Alaska with a heavy load of freight
and passengers. She has a capacity of
100 passengers and 200 tons of freight, and
was scheduled to leave for Dyea on March
LIST.
She is supposed to have been wrecked on
her voyage south. having been in the track
of the late disastrous storm that swept the
northern coast. So confident is Agent
Grammar that she is lost that he has ar
ranged to send the passengers booked for
her next trip north on the Navarro. Owing
to the fact that the Bessie X was coming
south. ii cannot be learned at present how
many passengers she was carrying.
KNOW NOTHING OF IT
TACOMA. Wash, March 5.-President
Wallace and officers of the steamer City Of
Seattle know absolutely nothing of the loss
of the steamer Bessie x, and heard nothing
of 1t on her way down.
A SCHOONER STRANDED
SEATTLE, WASH, March 5-From let
ter received from Juneau. Alaska. today 1t
Is learned that the steam schooner White
law, which ran ashore four miles from
Juneau, had an exciting trip nearly all the
way from San Francisco. on the Oregon
coast she weathered one of the worst gales
of the season. Captain Lockyer abandon
| ed the outside course, and put into Port
Angeles. Taking on fresh water and
meat. the boat proceeded northward. On
Monday, February 2Sth. in Wrangel mar
| rows, she ran on the rock, scraping the
| planks off, When she struck the sand bar,
on which she now lies near Juneau, the
! Whitelaw was left in shallow water. and
careened at an angle of about 80 degrees.
She is likely to get off the beach on March
| Sth when the waters reach high lines In
the channel.
| AN UNLUCKY MINER
| SAN FRANCISCO, March 5.-Col. W. E.
| Fisher of this city, who departed from San
Francisco late last summer for Dawson
City by way of Dyea, has had both of his
| legs frozen, and is now at Dyea. He is
| q complete physical wreck. with but little
| hope of recovery from his present unfor-
tunate condition, according to a letter re-
ceived here few days ago by Frank Dali
ton. A letter conveying this information
| was written by George Gregson of Los An
geies.
A CANADIAN KICK
| NEW YORK March 5.-La Presse, the
leading French Canadian daily here, Sc
verely criticises the grant i'll the Klondike
region recently made to Mr.. Mercier be-
| cause he is to be permitted to dredge $50
miles of rivers in the Yukon district. Ac-
cordnS to La Presse, the regulations say
| that no grant to any one person or COM
| pany shall exceed thirty miles,
| Mr.. Mercier's grant covers dozen or
more of the best rivers of the Klondike re-
| IutD IN ho off al
pared by William Ogilvie. La Presse places
their minimum value at 500 ,000 1t
says that the grant is a gigantic job, and
contends that Mr.. Mercier can make clear
million by dsposing of his right to capt.
talists. 1t declares also that he has been
granted great privileges over the ordinary
miners.
| A CARELESS CONSUL
| WASHINGTON. March 5.-senator Will
son called the attention of the state de-
partment today to a recent report of Con-
sui Dudley at Vancouver. B. c., in which
Canadian ports and Canadian routes to the
Klondike were extolled at some length. He
| said that this report had been used by the
| Canadian Pacific road as an advertisement
| to the detriment of American roads and
American ports on the Pacific, which were
doing a large outfitting business for the
gold regions of Alaska. The state depart
ment has notified Consul Dudley that here
after his reports must not favor foreign in
terests In competition with those in the
| United States.
DUTY DEMANDED
| JUNEAU, Alaska, March 1. (Via Seattle.
| Wash, March 5)-Further confirmation Of
| the Canadian mounted police occupying
| the White and Chilcoot passes was brought
here today by James D. Esary. He says:
captain Strickland, from the mounted
police, is at the summit of White pass
with a force of eighteen men. collecting
duty and a lieutenant whose name did not
| transpire, with eighteen men, was at Chill
coot pass doing the same thing.
| 1.-THE White pass camp Of the mounted
police Is within twelve miles of Skaguay
and the Chilcoot camp is within eighteen
miles of Dyea."
The following letter shows that rights of
ownership are exercised at Lindermann
definitely by Collector of Customs Godson:
"BENNETT, B. c., Feb. N.-Willis
Thorpe. Skaguay: Sir-I have the honor
to request you will present yourself at
Bennett, B. c., within the next few days
with all invoices of goods and meat now
| in the province of British Columbia at
Lake Bennett. found @ notice of sale of
| your goods on train between Lakes Ben
nett and Linderman, and have forbidden
| your man in charge to dispose of single
pound until the duty is paid. Please give
| this your earliest attention. I have the
honor to be your obedient servant,
| (Signed) ]. GODSON,
Collector of Customs, Lake Bennett"
THE LATEST ARRIVAL
| SEATTLE, March 5.-The steamer Far
allon arrived here at midnight from
Skaguay.
| Among her passengers were s. Graham
OF Ontario and Thomas Elliott of Monroe.
Wash. They left Dawson Feb. 1st. They
say that but few more will attempt the
| trip overland this winter. Their trip was
| accompanied by severe storms Every
thing was quiet at Dawson when they left.
A large nugget worth over $1,000 has been
found in one of Alex. McDonald's claims
on Ell Dorado creek
At White Horse rapids Elliott and Ora
ham met a man with his feet frozen.
Captain Roberts of the Farallon reports
that the steamers Signal and Navarro are
but few hours behind him.
WILL CONCEDE NOTHING
| OTTAWA, March 5The passage Of the
Alaska homestead bill by the United States
senate and the withdrawal of the bond.
ing privileges from Canada in that district
| unless certain concessions are obtained
from the Canadian government In return
have stirred up much feeling here and
the result will likely be that the Canadian
| Yukon railway will be built from Tele.