Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-08-08
STRUCK MOTHER lode
KL0NDlkE TREASURE
SOURCE IS DISCOVERED
Tales Of Distress Among Seekers for
Many Strive But Few Sue
CeSSful - Steamer Lost
Wildcat Schemes.


from the gold country that the mother
lode Of the klondike has probably been
found.
II. Knabel, n rich Dawson miner.
who arrived by the steamer Cottage
City from Skagway today. is auth ,r-
ity for the report. He says that when
the news came of placer strike at The
head Of the Stewart river he sent men
In there and before he left Dawson,
on July II, one of them had reported
to him that find had been made on
the right bank of the river near lts
headwaters. The miner thought II
was perhaps the mother lode which
fed the creeks Of the Klondike with its
treasure.
Dawson news of July IL says that
the fact is becoming more apparent
with the results Of every clean up on
the various creeks OF the district tia:
while the output in the aggregate wa,
iui SCI IMAM s'dl y Wy 10 UtI
cent, the actual cost OF production was
so much greater that few mine own
ers find balance on the credit side of
their ledgers and a large majority Of
lay men find themselves utterly ruined
while the wages of hundreds of their
workmen remain unpaid as the out
come Of the winters futile toll. The
cause Of It lies in the bad laws, tx
cessive taxation and the defective lay
system that has SO long prevailed, af-
fording protection to no one and per-
hitting of the rankest kinds of Wild
cat speculation with prospective mines
at the expense largely of poor work
ingmen.
The Cottage City also brings news
that the topneavy river steamer.
Florence s.. on which were seventy
five Klondikers bound to White Horse.
with much gold, turned turtle in
Thirty Mile Canyon OF the LewCs
river on July 16 and her purser and
two women passengers lost their lives.
The other passengers managed to
reach the shore. Many had very mar
row escapes. The Florence S. sailed
from Dawson on July 10. She and the
Flora had been cutting rates and car
rying large number of passengers.
She was very topheavy. Captain Sid
Harrington, who, with his fatner vas
engaged for a long tine IN the steam
ship business on the Sound, was In
command. The accident occurred dur
ing heavy storm.
The purser was named Maltby and
was long connected with the customs
service at this point and Juneau. lie
has a brother at Junea. The Florence
S. was owned by Humboldt Gates OF
Dawson, who purchased her from Cap
tain James Fairburn.
Good reports continue to come from
the Tanana, on the American side. a
half-interest on Faith Creek was sold
for $4,000. There are claims on Faith.
a late arrival says, averaging all the
way from $50 to $3.50 per day. There
were a number OF rich men on the
steamer Cottage City and sacks of gold
estimated In value somewhere In the
neighborhood OF sl5O,OOO.
From juneau comes news that the
whole city and Douglas Island is still
in the throes OF the excitement cauS,l
by the finds I'm Glacier Bay district.
String after string of boats have hurri-
ed from juneau to the scene Of the
strike. Purser Curtis says that when
the Cottage City was there over 500
persons had gone to the district. A
steamer is to be put on between juneau
and the bar, which Is the head of nayi-
cation of the Glacier district. A ten.
hotel was also being put up. The dis
trict where the new strike has been
made is on direct line between Sheep
Creek and Berners Bay. The gold al
ready taken out by the miners who
have located there is very bright ana
seems much richer than that taken
from the Porcupine.