The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-01
GOLD STRIKE ON
THE HOOTALI NQUA
Bonanza Diggings Near
TeSlin Lake.
P0SPECT0RS ARE RUSHING IN
DAZZLING REPORTS BROUGHT
TO WRANGEL.
POSPECT0RS ARE RUSHING IN
The Fortunate Discoverer San
Franciscan Who Went Into the
Northern Country With
out a Dollar.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

VICTORIA, Aug. 31.-The steamship
Horsa, Captain Hackett. arrived this
afternoon after a fine trip from Skag-
uay and Wrangel. She had fiftytwC
passeng gers, twenty-five of whom were
from Dawson, having come up the river
on the stern-wheelers Flora and
Anglican.
According to advices brought by the
Horsa, a big strike has been made on
the HootalinQua River, near Teslin
Lake. y great many people have al
ready left Glenora and Telegraph
Creek for the new diggings, and many
more Will follow as soon as provisions
can be rushed over to Teslin. The
strike was made by D. d. LaWney of
San Francisco, who has spent two
years ATOMS the HootalinQua-
Mr.. LaWney was a passenger from
the headwaters of the StiCkeen on the
steamship StrathcOna, which reached
Wrangel shortly before the HOrSa sail
ed south. He said that the strike ran
from $40 to $40 a day to the man and
bedrock had not yet been reached.
Mr.. Lawney. who went into the Hoo
talinQua country "broke," has pur-
chased big outfit, including pack ami
mails, and is going back to winter on
and develop his claim. He has built a
cabin and will take his wife in, hav-
ing procured a claim for her alongside
his own.
Mr.. Lawney says the Hootalinqua
has never been prospected properly.
Hundreds of people have passed down
to Dawson City and lower points and
the great HoOtalinQua has been treat
ed much as was the Klondike by early
prOspectOrs. The present rush, he be
1ieVes, will develop another great gold
f.s ~ II, ~
r. II. Hall, manager of the Hudson
Bay Company, who was interviewed at
Wrangel in regard to the new strike,
corroborated Mr.. Lawney's story. Mr.
Hall stated that a five-foot trail had
been completed to Teslin Lake and
was in perfect shape. Hundreds of
people had built narrow gauge carts.
on which they put 500 to 1000 pounds
of provisions, and, hitching horses. cat
tie or mules to the carts, they were
heading for the new Ell Dorado The
Hudson Bay Company is rushing all
the supplies possible into the interior
in order to meet the great demand.
More finds are reported from the
Stickeen. William Reed of Chicago.
the owner Of the discovery claim of
the placer find made on the river, has
returned to Wrangel He says his
claims are worth from Sc to IS a day to
the man. The principal trouble ex-
perienced by him and his fellow work
ers was lack of water. Mr. Reed says
a number of other people were at work
on the bars of the upper river, but
the tide being so high at present, work
was temporarily suspended.
The steamship Baranoff, which
reached Wrangel on Saturday brought
news from Chakan that an Indian fam
lily had been murdered there by tribes
men at the request of a medicine man
who claimed they were witches. Po-
lice have gone from Wrangel to arrest
the murderers.
From the Atlin gold fields news
comes that Fritz Miller cleaned up $500
in four days. He is taking out from
S25 TO S45 day per man. The town
site is already beginning to resemble
Skaguay.