The San Francisco call., 1899-03-11
CANADIANS WILL
Be DRIVEN OUT
Trouble Brewing on the
Porcupine.
AMERICANS TO RETALlATE
WILL BAR ALIENS FROM THE
DISTRICT.
The Miners Are Planning to Formu-
late and Put Into Execution
an Exclusion Act of
Their Own.
By HAL HOFFMAN.
Special Correspondence of The Call.

| JUNEAU. Alaska, Feb. PA report
which came down from Porcupine
| Creek bv the steamer Wolcott, plying
| between Juneau and Haines Mission,
| caused excitement here. 1t. was 10 the
effect that the Canadian flag had been
moved down the trail from Pleasant
camp, on the Dalton trail, four miles,
so as to take in the Porcupine, Salmon
Creek and other placer mining districts
in American territory. Coming as II
did about the time sensational stories
were wired from Washington, D. c.,
concerning the acquisition OF Lynn
Canal by the British, it received con-
siderable credence. Investigation mas
proved the report untrue up to the pres
ent time. 1t is known here, however,
that a Canadian police officer left Lake
Bennett recently for Lake Tagish with
instructions to secure there an extra
detail Of police, return to Bennett and
proceed thence to Porcupine post.
The situation on Porcupine Creek Is
strained anyhow. There is little doubt
that should the Canadians get that sec
ton of country many claims would not
be abandoned without bloOdshed.
Sentiment is crystalliZing there
against allowing any Canadian to make
a location or to mine there in retaliation
for the exclusion Of Americans from
Atlin. AS is we'll known some OF the
Canadian police at Pleasant camp post
have staked claims at Porcupine. A
movement is on foot to quietly notify
all aliens holding locations in American
territory to get out of the country. Thls
would be done through a miners meet
ing, and such a meeting would pc
secret as the law gives aliens equal
Il II, I'm FtNA~G
anything about miners meetings knows
that what the miners decide on is
usually carried out to the letter No
man would dare to stay in mining
camp of the West or Northwest after
having been notified to vamose. 1t IS
ten to one that the proposed action Will
be taken in the POrCupine country.
c. P. Cahoon of Minnesota, the loca-
tor of discovery claim on Mckinley
Creek, is now here. He says he has
heard a large number of men express
themselves against allowing any Can
adian, policeman or not, to work
claim there. Other locators on Mckln-
ley Creek are G. G.. Lewis of Los Ange-
| les, Cal; Carl West of Los Angeles and
Charles LeitCh of Los Angeles, w. >.
Halves of Minnesota, Alexander NC
Conaghy of Colorado, Bert Wooden OF
Colorado and Ed Hackley of Washing
ton State. Mr. CahOon says these men
are opposed to allowing Canadians to
mine.
Some claim jumping is now going on
in POrCupine, but not to any great eX-
tent. Small steamers on Lynn Canal
are carrying more freight and passen-
gers to Haines Mission each trip. At
the present rate there will be at least
5000 people on the trails and creeks
back of the mission in thirty lays. The
weather is now very cold and windy,
] r oTRE 20 f<NVA h
1t has been unusually cold at Atlin
and over the summit Of White Pass re-
Gently, ranging from 80 to 60 degrees
! below. Many men-more than half the
construction force-on the Skaguay
| Railroad will quit work in a few days.
! partly on account of the cold, but
mainly owing to a reduction of wages
] from s. 80 to 81 70 per daY