Show IWONDERFUL DIRT Discovery That Caused a Big Stampede Stam-pede In Klondike TWO HUNDRED IN LINE SCENE PRESENTED I FONT OF RECORDERS OFFICE Excitement Attending Rich Strike On Divide Between Big and Little SkookumPay Dirt Sunning From S16 t 35 Per Pan Walsh Creek Klondike News Skaguay Alaska March 27Via Seattle Seat-tle March 27One of the bIggest stampedes stam-pedes yet recorusd In the Klondike region was occasioned on Feb 12 by a vcr rich strike on the divide between the Big and Little Shookum Litte N I The strike was made in bsnch diggings on a high hogback SOO or 100 feet above the level of tho gulches Pay dirt running from 16 to 33 to the pan was found Following the announcement announce-ment of the strike occurred a stampede from Dawson of immense proportions and the entire ridge was staked out In an Incredibly In-credibly short time The news was brought to this city this week by Mr A Plche official courier and dispatch i bearr for eo Canadian government govern-ment Mr Piche passed through Skaguay last December bearing government dispatches dis-patches for Dawson He came out over the Skaguay tri and has gone back upon his return trip STANDING IN LINE Mr Piche says there was Immense excitement ex-citement at Dawson when he left over the Skookum strike and that over 200 men were standing In line at tho recorders office to make a record of their claims 11 Piche also brings the news of anew a-new strike on Lewis river which Is of great promised importance if it develops as Is now On March 6 1 man named Connelly while prospecting a small pup leading oft the Lewis about 7 miles below Lake j I Le Barge found pay dirt which is big In promise Fiche I personally visited the i claim and took nf J3 from a single I pan The discovery Is about three miles up the stream from the Lewis The latest reports from the Salmon river country are brought out by Mr Charles Fitzpatrick who arrived here from that district yesterday WALSH CREEK I Fitzpatrick says the find on Walsh creek I is all that has been claimed for it as ho took from his own claim 5 to the pan Ho says thera are already about 1003 people peo-ple at Walsh creek which Is 500 more than can secure claims on that particular stream The creek is not tO miles In length as first reported I will not measure over 25 miles In length He says however that the whole country In that vicinity Is mineral bearing and that in his judgment the next three months will see some further remarkable strikes He I says For Instance I think the south fork of Big Salmon will turn out a paying Investment I Is about 123 miles from II Lewis river Then there Is the Loto or Lote creek which has already showii up favorably running about 75 cents to the pan and I could mention four or five other creeks In the vicinity equally good IN SIvAGUAYS VICINITY What Is regarded by many as an important Im-portant and rich gold strike has been made In the immediate vicinity of I Skaguay For some time past systematic prospecting hrs been carried on In tho hills surrounding tho Skaguay trail and at last it has been rewarded Thomas H Phipps and Ralph Smith claim to have unearthed a ledge of rich quartz bearing free milling gold The location is kept a secret but is described by them as being within an hours walk of the postofllci The value of thp find cannot bo letermr Ined until returns from the assay office at Juneau are made The prospect bears every evidence of being more than a surface cropping Samples picked at random were beaten up with a hammer and particles of yellow metal washed from th dust excited much Interest The locators claim to have abundant capital to develop the mine and I say a bucket tramway will readily solve I tho problem of getting out quartz I SHOOTING AFFRA vs Charles McCarthy a well oown ward I politician of San Francisco wa sl I through the legs in this city this morning by Charlie Rlttcr a wnte In the Horseshoe I Horse-shoe restaurant The row grew out of a drunken brawl McCarthys wound Is serious though not i dangerous drt about the same hour another shooting I shoot-Ing affray occurred on McKlnney street > in which several shots were fired No J I < visible results were left save a bullet holo through the sign of a newspaper ollice I 1 GOV BEADY TUNED DOWN II j I Asked a Favor of t Canadian and I Was Refused Seattle March 27A passenger who arrived ar-rived on the steamer Australia this afternoon after-noon from Skcguny reports that Governor I Brady and Collector l rf Customs Ivey w > rc recently turned down by Captain Belcher i of the Canadian mounted police They I asked permission to place two deputy cot j lectors at Lake Bennett for the purpose 1 I of facilitating the transportation of Ca I ot l ct radian goods In l bond Captain Belcher refused their application I is stated I that they were acting under instructions I from Vashlnsrton frfe Australia mado a quick trip down having March 24 left Skaguay on the cvenins of I o r |