The San Francisco call., 1898-02-17
Two BarkS Laden With Miners to Leave for
 KOtzebue Sound.
Everything Now in Readiness for the Start Early Next
 May.
over Two Thousand Miners Vii Leave Here for Dyea and Ska
 quay Next Week.

Although a start will not be made until the latter part of next April, the gold hunting expedition to kotzebue Sound. on the barks Alaska and North ern Light, will be ready long before that time Another two or three weeks will see the wind hammers in first-class trim and the stern wheel steamer John Riley completed and slowed away in the hold of the Alaska. The gold-seek- CTS will then have to wait patiently for the opening of the ice in the spring. Many of them hold good positions in the city and will not relinQuish their jobs until the last minute. Others again like J. B. Brown and his wife, are going more for the love of adventure. MT. and Mrs. Brown have hunted all kinds Of game in all parts of the world save the Arctic. Now they are bound for Kotzebue Sound to hunt the polar bear and the reindeer and incidentally see if they cannot pick up little of the pre- cious metal.
 Mrs. Martin is the wife of an evan gelist, but she is not going to Kotzebue Sound on an evangelistic tour. MT. Martin will remain in San Francisco while his wife and her sister-in-law will brave the terrors of the Arctic. The passengers by the two barks are:
 Bark Alaska-W. s. Champion, John and party, E. J. Davis, F. W. Dicke and party, C. A. Haehl, c. w. Stader, W: A. Mouse, Eben Harris Sr., Frank Brazil, J. E. Rhodes, Thomas Fennell, Stewart Me ~ Qraxr K. A Barclay, A. A. Eubanks, F. J. PrlngIe' Harry Chickering, Steven Sims, J.: E. Brown and wife, T. T. Trushler, E. C' Remington. E. c. Meaks, c. ". Bowman. o. B. Hubbel, N. Iselmine. E. H, Black W. J. Phillips, pr. Gale, o. M. Farwell, ', T. A. Williams, H. Bauer, George F. Al len, Arthur E. Manchester, J: n; AIqrlc1' Benjamin A. Higgins, Albert F. Wood, w B. Ridgeway, W. F. Duryea, Charles Brill, D. Davenport, c. F. Madden, E. J. Adams, L. D. Ward, B. c. Donham, C. A Coultis. H. White, W. T. Putnam, Jacob Rice, T. R. Abell, Robert P. Dey, Mrs. Martin and party, W. ". Gingers, John Dahl. G. A Killstrom, A. Brown, D. T. McDanieI. Charles Johnson. W. H. Logan. F. Jones, J. L. Dood, Jacob Hummer, J.. knowlands and party, F. Harris, Eoen Harris.
 Bark Northern Light-John Miller, w. Bremner. W. P. Thompson and wife, C.. W. Watkins. J. E. Sinclair, George c. Sinclair, W. E. Sinclair, B. Brunner, E. II Erck, James McDonald, J. H. Mygant, James Clark, Archie, Mcleod, Thomas Pearson, Lewis Lloyd, NJ. Russell, D. W. Leach, J. c. Williams, J: W. North, Thomas L. Ford, Charles Mund. J. Hop ley, James MCCaw, E. M. Steele, G. w. Pickett, Milton Latton, W. Meinecke, Thomas Johnstone, F. Stetzner, Henry Edwards, A Joseph, Stanley strgya, Neil 4eAhaF A65ter E S S asyeTS cox E E T smith Milam h ; Ray, W J. Clark, Edward H. Webb, A. 4. Saiment, J. Silva, Doming Francisco, J. P Miguel, Manuel de. Mello, Foster Ramos, James Ackema, J. H. Johnson, W. COpven, Edward Morse, Harry Smith, Thomas Johnson and party of six, B. Johnson, Alexander Johnson and party of twelve, Thomas Haight, J. Tammen and party of twenty, James Ellison, John La Ford. Frank La Ford, George B. Allen, Charles Taylor, J. Begquist, Charles Leavitt and party, c. w. Samson and party.
 The Humboldt, scheduled to sail next Saturday, should have been here a couple of days ago. She has not been reported from Seattle, but may be com ing from Dyea and Skaguay to San Francisco direct. The agents of the vessel here think that she will get in in time to take on board her passengers and provisions and get away Saturday.
 The steamer WhitelaW was to have got away several days ago, but owing to the alterations not being completed her departure has been postponed from day to day. Yesterday she took on board a large consignment of horses and mules and one of the mules. in- stead of walking down the gangway, walked overheard. He was swimming about in the dock for over an hour and a half before the boatmen succeeded in getting a sling around him, when he was hoisted on board. The Whitelaw will take away over a hundred passen- gers and the men will find it pretty close quarters before the voyage is over.
 The Umatilla arrived from Puget Sound yesterday morning with one of the cabin passengers in a straitjacket Walter G. Sawlsbury got on board at Tacoma and seemed rational enough when he was paying his passage mon- ey. He said that he had been drugged and robbed in one of the Sound ports, and had been feeling queerever since. In any event, when the Umatilla was a day out Sawlsbury went crazy. He smashed all the furniture in his state room, tore the sheets. bedding and counterpane into strips, threw the camp stools overheard and was run ming amuck when the sailors secured him. After being confined in an empty stateroom for about twelve hours he seemed to be perfectly rational again and was released. A few minutes later, however, he was caught trying to smash all the glassware in the dining room, and he had to be again confined in the stateroom. He will be turned over to the Lunacy Commissioners, but if they refuse to receive him he will have to be taken back to Tacoma on the Umatilla-
 There was a fatal accident on the schooner Gem as she was making port last Tuesday night. When between Lime Point and Fort Point August Ol- sen was knocked overheard by the main boom There was very little wind st the time and a boat was instantly lowered, but as Olsen could not swim he sank before the boat reached him. The deceased was native of Norway. about B years old.
 Purchasing Agent Peterson and J. J. Kelly. his assistant, have been re- moved by the Harbor Commissioners. Wharfnger Angler gets Peterson 8 place and William Ingram gets Kelly's. Politics is said to be at the bottom Of the change.
 The British ship Powys Castle. lying at the Union Iron Works, was on fire I..4 c,,+,rdau Tho carpO of coal heat