Show NEWS PROM XOTZEBUE XOTZEBU No Gold Pound In Vicinity of the 11 Sound Port Townsend Wash Aug 14A letter let-ter received here today announces the arrival ar-rival st Kotzebue Sunday July 14 of the steam schooner Elk which sailed from this port early in I June with a party of i nrn npntnr fnr the month nf the ATnlCpn zie r ver The Elk made the run from Dutch Harbor to Kotzebue sound in seven days arriving there July 14 The letter statesthatthero are more than 500 people peo-ple on the sound and that already provisions pro-visions are scarce The schooner had two years supplies for 15 men for which a handsome figure was offered Parties have commenced prospecting In the mountains and along the various streams emptying into Kotzebue sound but no strikes have been reported Many who are short of supplies are making preparations to return south The only gold reported from the vicinity of Kotze bue sound this season Is about 15 000 which was in possession of three men who had arrived at Dutch Harbor just before thb sailing of the Elk They had exhausted ex-hausted their supplies of provisions and had come to Dutch Harbor in the hope of replenishing their tock They refused to I give the exact location of where they had been working Klondike Royalty Vancouver B C Aug 14 William Ogilvle the newlyappointed commissioner of the Yukon said today he had no power to abate the royalty on Klondike gold or to deal with the matter of the government reserved claims x These he said are subjects which have been dealt with by our parliament The governor general himself could not alter l 1fyeror I |