Show A detachment of captain aber abercrom crom bles bhea surveying vasty party consisting of 14 men under kelly U S A arrived st at seattle this monday morning from cook inlet on the steamer alakl the qc schooner hOoner woodbury arrived from apok inlet with 65 miners F M stone of hollister Hol Hster oal cal a passenger passe noer brings news of the accidental sho shooting otting of a brother in law lavi of L H it of scranton oranton iS pa sept 3 the man was known to stone only by the name of phil while oros sins a river niver itell fell out of his elbelt aad was wag discharged An another otheir pa passenger enger on the woodbury was andrew williamson Wil hamson who has been in the choik inlet country several years new gold strikes are reported about miles of atlin where it Is a sd said from froan 5 0 to o 6 to the pan is reg regularly werly washed out an alleged shortage has been discovered in the stores of the quarte quartermasters masters department of the iowa regiment amounting mounting ai in tle the value of the missing goods to several amundred dollars ML col loper commanding the iowa regiment admitted that he feared the loss would amount int into o the hundreds of dollars though I 1 it exact extent could only abe e determined by a careful survey which regimental quartermaster oady cady had already undertaken he said it was his hia fil intention to put some competent ac at work upon the books and stores store of the ithe department the colonel said that it was his conviction that no loss through dishonesty could possibly have occurred and whatever its extent he believed that it would be found to have arisen merely through ft r ea en nes nea or inexperience ot of those who had bad charge of the issuing of the supplies news just received from clairville plumes county oal cal a new town reports the burnnie of a hotel and the loss of five ives the dead are P Ped rint carson barney mrs corned Coma doi florence roberts 1 7 years year sold ald and a 4 woman chos nama has not yet been ascertained thre the ye broke out at 4 friday mo morning riding in chat roberts hotel mr roberts awoke in time to escape by jumping fro troa athe second story window in doing which he sustained severe injuries the other occupants of the building with the exception those bove above a named escaped unhurt but lost everything but the clothes they wore the five unfortunate people were suffocated bated while they slept the origin of the fire has not been determined but la Is supposed sup Dosed to have been caused by a defective chimney the property loss lose is not great T A baker of Portland Oregon who arrived broon alaska sunday night says he met two men and a woman at guay who had just finished a trip of hardships hardship over the edmonton trail they were henry mitchell Mi and ot of Go Godden Wendale dale and george le fevre of spokane who left spokane fourteen months ago tor for the klondike by the overland route when they started they had 2000 pounds of provisions viii ons and 21 horses now they have nothing all their supplies and animals were lost and they consider themselves fortunate in having escaped with their lives they saw provisions 4 scattered watt ered along the trull trail from theotime the time they were well up in the interior until they left for the coast and found several graves of those who had bad perished in attempting to reach the gold fields several times they lost thelt their way and it waa w only by good fortune that the trail was bound again A atter after trave travelling tra velling lag several hundred miles and perceiving that tha it was useless to attempt to get through by keeping to the regular route they made directly for the coast going down dap o one of the rivers to the south so ahi of mm amy guay the me san francisco Capo Chron alele tele ads tieta morang states that robert watt vice president of the san Frano Pran tsoo cism wast dmd san joaquin vahey railroad ac tarita that the pang ot or more shares of the stock lax in escrow virtually means that chiat ache the santa fe railroad is to tie be extended to that city bilty in an interview mr watt said the stock has been placed in evonow with the union tru com vany and ann am option given all for the purpose of the ithe san santa cantia ta fe to got get tato into san francisco Franc isoo the atoe newspapers news papera have made one slight error the option ot of th the stock now mow in the possession of the ahe amaon has not been given to the sa santa ata however Fe which amounts aan to the same thing I 1 do not care to say aay who holds the op P bm another Import aril fact which has bas just come to light is that the proposed extension ot of the valley road from bakersfield to the nearest po on the ahne of f the santa fe will be abandoned if U negotiations which have been undertaken toy by the santa pe fe with the object ot od securing curing Be a right over the tri acks of the southern Sou them fic between bakersfield Dakers field aina mojave result sa torry torb y Ref referring erTing to thiv motter ania itter vice president watt said A new liine from to mojave would parallel the boothem pacific tin in a region where not a odilard dott odi tars lars et f traffic is to be bad A line over the tehachapi moun ted ifa ainis dimply stai ply severs the purpose of a bave and aad might be used by several to thedr mutual advantage as Is fe the bridge over the MIss missoura ourt river at 11 during the trial trip of the torpedo boat bavis thursday an explosion occurred in one of the boilers seven men in the boiler room were scalded so 90 badly that they died from their injuries the accident occurred in the columbia river about twenty miles above astoria while the boat was on her trial run the nature of the explosion has not yet been made known as an examination of the boilers will be required to determine det armine e exactly what portion of the boiler burst one of the men on an the davis da vis said it is impossible to tell whether the tubes in the boiler or a steam pipe burst all we know is that an explosion occurred the boiler room was filled wih boiling water and steam and the men in the room was scalded to death the davis carted forty men all told she was one of two torpedo boats recently built by wolff wicker hewicker Se at portland and was soon to have gone into commission at the time of the accident the boat was in charge of the official trial board the officers declined to make any statement as to the cause of the accident the best theory obtain able is that some of the tubes in the forward boiler exploded owing to a derangement of the automatic water gauge which permitted the water to get too low excepting for the havoc naturally wrought in the fire room the boat is uninjured the hull and engines being in perfect condition the davis wt left up the river for the shipyard tonight in tow of the tug harvest queen |