The San Francisco call., 1899-08-16
DAWSON|TtS WITH
SACKS OF GOLD
Special Dispatch to The Call.

and in the neighborhOod of S350,00O in
gold dust aboard. Her passengers left
Dawson on August . The principal
gold winners among them were J. G..
Burk and J. D. Rockwell of Los An
geles, who had $150,0O0 between them;
Flossy Barrett and Mrs. Barrett, who
own a claim on FL Dorado, and Jo-
seph Vincent a big property owner of
St. Louis. Vincent had 100000, While
the others who made up the passenger
list aggregated in the vicinity of an
other $100, 900 in lots of few thousand
each.
Vincent has deal on with j. Haddo,
another passenger, the discoVerer ana
principal claim owner of Thistle Creek.
He Ifill pay half million dollars for a
COLLECTION of claims on this creek Vim
cent is out now to buy thaWing ma
*chiIIes: and Will start for San Francis
co to=nforroW to purchase hydraulic
1naeh1nery.
=. Vincent is a close: friend of "Klondike
King Mcdonald, and he says that, al
:though no official announcement has
%beef1s made, 1T is common property
around Dawson that McDonald's finan-
:cial|: condition is not of the best. He
has: lately met some very heavy cash
payments on various properties and re-
Gently paid over 100000 in gold dust to
the Alaska. Commercial Company s
officers. This has left him for while
without ready cash, and what the re-
suit will be upon the general condition
of his finances repains to be seen.
George Hill, mining engineer, is a
San Francisco man who came down
from Omineca. in northern British Co
lumbia. He has been on the Edmon-
ton all Canadian trial to the klondike,
TOW lt.tri tStp
,:rIielf~Were given food and clothing:.a at
:hiSjcamps in the snow covered district
through which they passed. Hill was
:Serft%in last year by San Francisco :peo-
:ple5.to locate old hydraulic ground: He
sent out several prospectors and: OBJ
:tafned some fine property near Manson
. Creek The holding extends for sseY-
eral miles, and it's principal feature
consists in it's being operated by an
overflow from CariboO Lake :The
creek has been damned, and Mr.. Fill
claims the whole property is very rich.
All over the best parts of the bed of
the creek pans have been taken% out
going as high as $50 each in gold. The
property will be operated by machinery
and suicng will be done by the, fall
from the lake.
Several rich strikes of gold and cop
per have been made on the Skeena
River, Mr.. Hill says. and several bonds
have been made by Kootenai mine
owners. 80
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session, covering innumerable bust
ness dealings of his, l have found
during the day receipts from
him showing payments Of money to
the people mentioned as having been
defrauded by him! We have advised
Mr. Howard that he is neither civilly
nor criminally liable for any transac-
tion that he had with Mr.. Green. They
were jointly interested in large num-
Der of patents and also in this shale
land proposition. Green knew that
Howard did not own the Shale lands all
during his dealings concerning them.
1t seems to us a preposterous PROPOSE
ton that a man who is lauded to be
as shrewd as Mr.. Green would come
now and ask anybody to. believe that
he paid $150000 for some lands that he
had never seen. of which he knew moth
ing and which were situated more than
four or five thousand miles away from
his residence. AS matter OF fact.
from what we know of Mr.. Howard and
his record we do not fear comparison
with Willard R. Green. When these
cases are tried. if they ever are tried,
we have in our possession large guam
tity Of evidence about Mr. Green, the
prosecuting witness here, and we ex-
peCt to produce it.
THE sleuth story told by Detective
Gibson and his confreres of murder and
sudden death on the Alameda reads like
a messenger boys dime novel. 1t is alb
Solutely without foundation The case
of Howard seems to be the case of any
man who gets into serious trouble in
San Francisco. He is blamed for every
thing that is discovered in the criminal
f1, Il, h.a n
$2500 from Wells-Fargo's messenger
wagon and the 5000 guineas from the
steamship Alameda, are both laid to
Howard because the true culpritS have
not been discovered.
''The main warrants that are issued
for Mr.. Howard's arrest are on two
charges-one Of embeZzlement and the
other of obtaining money on false pre-
lenses. AS a matter of fact. the same
transaction and the same money are
involved in both charges, a dlfferent
amount being named. This. of course.
is done for the purpose of placing How
ard in a position making it impossible
for him to raise the bail required. When
Mr.. Mcdonald was arrested for steal
ing several million dollars from the
Peoples Bank his bail was only S10O, 1000.
while Howard is expected to furnish
cash bail in excess of that amount.
I'VE have not advised Mr.. Howard
or suggested to him at any time that
he leave the city because of these
charges. We, on the contrary. have al
ways advised him that he had nothing
to fear from them except. perhaps. the
inconvenience of being detained in the
City Prison for a few days. We know
that Mr. Howard had arranged for a
bail of reasonable amount when his ar
rest was threatened. Where he is now.
l do not know. Mr.. Howard Is over u
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whether he should surrender to the
police"