The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-11-22
Plans to Loot Mines
After the Fall Of
Dawson.

w VICTORIA, B. T., NOV. zL-1Heie
VA I was an organized conspiracy to
Va seize Dawson. secure the bar
w racks of the Northwest mounted
police with their arms and am
munition, loot the banks and Pill
lage the metropolis of the r1cn mortimer II
gold fields.
James Seely, formerly of this city. ana
now head of the secret service OF the
Northwest Mounted Police, is now here'
and he says that not only was there
conspiracy to overthrow Canadian rule IN
the Yukon and loot Dawson. put t s
scheme Matched by the conSpiratoIs ioI
the project was very f feas dseover we're by
the members of the secret service oi z er.e
Yukon and nipped in the bud, the raluers
could have accomplished their purpose,
and after taking Dawson they could nave
held that place and the YUKON lol siA
weeks or two months, but by then lhey
would be overwhelmed and eacn man u
the raiders would be r fugitive from the
avengers.
Pro-Boers Were Wanted.
The conspiracy was born at Dawson,
and it had a branch at Skagway, but nau
no existence in any other point 70 ene
south of Skagway, although enorls Weoe
made to secure the assistance OF pro
Roer svmpathizers in Seattle and other
points in the United states. c.
The plot was made last summer sew
eral American Fenlans VINO mo- n forn uai- an
organization which was caHeu i.ls
Order of the Midnight Sun" NUMBER
of cranks and pro-Boers, matters OF br!t5
ish rule, and others were gathered IN, ana
the order grew until there were nearly
thousand adherents In September, Wnon
the members Of the secret service oihcia!s
in the Yukon became aware OF It's exist
ence. -
Seely declines to give particulars OF
those affiliated with the scheme, out IL
is learned that noted Fenlan OF Cntca az y
went into Dawson to take charge OF the
scheme and delegates were sent TO SKag-
way to form a branch of the order there.
In Skagway the order grew apaee VIII VIII
over 500 adherents tn the projected ralo
in the north.
Seizure of Police Posts.
It was decided to act as soon as the
Yukon was G osed to travel, and had not
the police of the north checkmateo the
pl1t the raiders had lail plans whereby
the Dawson conspirators were to rise at
signal and seize the barracks OF the
N orthwest mounted police while the
Skagway detachment were to march In
AMI seize the mounted police posts along
the Yukon trail, having. first cut the
through wire to enable them TO surprise
post after post.
plement of Northwest mounted police In
the Yukon and these are widely sepa-
rated, none being left at the barracks at
Dawson, Seely says the scheme was re-
garded by the authorities as an easy one.
Having surprised the small force in Daw-
son, the programme was to seize the
arms Maxims, caFbines, ammunition and
other weapons of war and thus have
Dawson at their mercy. Then the banks
were to be looted and the rich mines of
the creeks contiguous to Dawson ratded
by attachments of the conspirators. For
three or four weeks they expected to be
in charge of Dawson, having disposed of
the Northwest mounted police and conf
dent that troops could not reach them
i0a for q 16QSt six weeks and
the whole place would be pillaged, and,
with the treasure thus secured, they
would then make their escape.
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Americans; excessive duty on all kinds of
miners supplies; boundary line dispute.
1.-The seeming unwilfngness of the Brit
| iSh Columbian Government to meet the
United States Government half way in the
boundary line dispute is condition which
grows worse and more acute with time
and will eventually cause trouble, perhaps
ent capital hesitates to invest in this dis
| puted district and the development of the
country is retarded thereby. We pledge
ourselves If successful in this undertaking
to send delegation to Washington, d. c..
at the earliest possible opportunity to the
end that the boundary may be permanent
| ly fixed
Death Among Penalties.
| The above is an abstract of the declar-
alton Of grievances issued by the head
| quarters of the insurrectfonists in March
last and which was used in secret along