The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-29
FROM YUKON MINES.
A Daring Trip Through the
White Horse Rapids
Seattle Nan Accepts Canadian Protec-
ton Miller creek worked Out
IA xonsan's Death.

70 hss@ ssgos ere a4nxsruuz White Her~s
Fspses - tsss Yazgn or rsfE scased NsEh
reFs@s wAz iae exciting ezpeEsszee %
Henri Hyde asst us0rsh. Tse aexs % Tbs
AakShtRrt ~2s tA<s1 % Jnnssa BY VIII
BAN kAaosecnt &2a Joan Coke. 1zao had
e1sSe from f'crtY-&Eka a81 ovar TIE Sana-
East Ia shtrty-6se days. HyGes a4gen1Ere.
SsT~ TIE Minis Aeeera. resulted feFE0n-
aEs-y fnT HIM. On as ~sAy u ae pIcked up
std took wtfn AtEn shre@ hcgsas witch had
been tUrnsd loose ~ tAssr owner. wss o.
sne sASea sick bad ssEne.2 b@Ck. Tasss
horses wIth tire remainder q Hyassg e.
fscts, had been plaesa 81 8 rafE. which
somehow gos away from gts rn0oFsngs ana
ssArt~a down ire stream. tiushse 70 stop
Z ana determined 70 stay wsgh his o8ftts.
coEEss what so14d. Hyde ie4gsad Ga n TatE
ana 90 L sh0s canyon ard rapids IA a style
calculated % eEicig fz1e sdussF&tioa % man
KIND golag through without a m.saap.
tSosss be vas carried soETse seven niles
beyond the foos OF the rnpssis before Re
sga's land 70 await tie coming Of tse ftFt
OK ass patty
Tie Canadian police al Ferry mile have
levied a tax 81 81 Oh each nts ~ ella "a
IN the district. BAT wEsre there Is doubt as
20 whstne- the e2aisi Is upon British SOL.
payment - not exactsd. tsseusA ace1pi 81
II preferred. such pAymeat enlL.3ns the
cialEa owner to polaee protection, taaSs
vfslo do Uat pay being left - pFotec. them
selves Inis tender o. protection has hss
accepted Is a former Seattle man. IN OF Ser
% rid himself Of complications arising
from contract. The Aiaiag Record g9ves
The incident shuss
J. o. Hesfwouod has beeu very rnuca IN
evidence this spring. Last fall when be
and bis partner. Van Wagner came out
% the country they placed a miner named
In fx~a Of ffrssfr sfTFSF q
Glacier creek under contract 10 a5rN ire
claim for oae-fhird OF ths proceeds and
with additional Instructions 10 do certain
other work. To properly carry out TIE In
sirAettozs Gordon found ~ necessary 10
employ two men during tho ~inteI. The
proceeds were OF course bot sSsiiab.e u1ta
the gold could Re slutced osg Ia the spring
by which time Hestwood arrived saa char
aetsristically repuGiated the contract To
recover the sums due them. sac each, the
men appealed 10 F4ssofs mee1ing AZ
which the decision was THAI the claim
having been represented by an authorized
agent OF Hestwood, stood responsible Tor
the wages OF the men who had expended
their labor upon II. aud tnat Il default OK
payment Of Hestwood within sixty days
The claim should be sold 20 liquldate the
Just demands against II Hestwcod rush
ga 70 Forty-rnfie. paid his tax. thus ae-
knowIedglng British jurisdiction, and de-
manded police protection. a detachment
VAS started Tor the claim ana there the
matter rests so far as Mr.. Llsbleehts In
formation goes. The feeling against hest
wood ard Van Wagner has not been I'M
proved BY this incident
Miller creek. regarded as the bes; dig
elnSs In the Forty-AIIls district, and un8h
the present season sustaining its reputa-
ton is said 20 be practically worked oat
On the Pelgy claim men have peSn iAad
49, seNr
out their wages From the Miller claim
the owner. Johnny Miller. cleared sse.en
during the past year altar paying OUT
500 for wages. and then regarding the
claim as so nearly worked out as 10 MAKE
II doubtful IL ne could probably continue
operations upon u. gave It 10 TWO friends
who had been less fortunate. HusEet
Eulch over the ridge from Miller creek.
Welded but s. y day 10 the man and has
been abandoned. Ave OF The sax locAtofs
bpin, on their way 20 Juneau.
There were no saloons running on Mil
Ter creek last winter, miners neeahs
having decided against them
Mr.. IAeblecht reported the death early
last spring az Forty-Mile Of Mrs Hugh
Day. who with her children accompanied
her husband into The Yukon region IN
March. 1876 Her death IS supposed 10
have resulted from the effects Of trip
made from Sixty-Nile 80 Miller creek
iaas vtnter. when extremely cold weather
trexueete,ily overlook the party she died
AZ Fogty-Miis. where she had been re-
rncvsH for medical assistance, Mr. Day.
vgith tha children, and accompanied by
bls slster-sa~law, Mrs al Day. are now at
Dvsa and will arrive n Juneau by the
Grst avauahls means q trans portatioa.
IRE news - also brought out Of the
death % Patrick Wha1en. which occurred
vefv suddenly last spring WhAlen drop
seF fGze4 - a
assigned as the cause OF death. waioh oc-
cured in whalen's cabin on Poker creek
about April /
The close % the year iSss VII mark the
beginning OF n new era Tor heuslas iai-
re iaisr,i Of ali Islands Of hidden treas
nre Ten years ago, says TIE Juneau
Sn~,s ire sound OF = stamp falling upon
81. Ale had never been heArd throughout
he entire Length and breadth OF IFS area.
ana today there are $50 q tho steei-Snod
shoes producIng din and rear month n
and month out. year "a and year OUT
saeh - Which assists IN Wrestling from
- orc f,lfled is quota Of briEht-yellow
,,is sgnre The erection ~ the FIRST stamp
a. ene Paris lode claim there nave oeen
over = o. 60 taken from Mother Eafth
within a radius ~ ees yards ana YET me
,,,s,s,ster ledge la b0t barely scratched.
- the ralnirx Industry q the island IL
6~t a. ia hlrth The resent addition Of
-fxtr stamps 30 the Mexican mil makes
!, snN % the foremost cf It's kind n me
World. To the observer VINO views out
-. s-,-rsse vrrraxln-s lt would be almost
.,asfsr % tnere1ulsty for him 20 be
s,sgs re amount ~ tunuelsng, Gffttng
ara h,rrroWGng there exists underneath.
=, : tr,se fhere are tmt two leNcis- 'n adj
5ttfe, "a ne ada. bui these ceat2iu thoa-
esv8s AZ fees Of drifts ard Slopes running
-. ,,e-. 4trss,tfo,s through ths monster
- zexersl hundred sses IN Ntd,A. Even
~ - present capacity sufficient ore Is
gos0-n 10 exsst sn the Trea9weh ledge 30
80 sns rnN running nlgat and day FOR
ngsy years
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