The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-20

Position Of the Seekers for KIon.
dixie Gold.
CANNOT GET THERE THIS SEASON.

CANNOT GET THERE THIS SEASON.
Some of the Adventures Are Selling Their
outfits for 30 Per Cent. of Cost and Re-
turning Home - Horses Worth Their
Weight in GOld-Condition of Affairs at
Skaguay BE IA Hot Town" Next
Winter.
Chicago, Aug. 2O.-The Tribune has
the following from one of it's special
correspondents at Skaguay. Alaska. 1t
was sent from that place on Aug. IL:
The miners held a meeting today at
a bridge they are building across the
river two miles UP the trail and de-
cided to allow no one to go over the
White pass who has not at least 800
pounds of provisions. Numbers have
started in with scarcely enough to last
them TO Dawson City, and the action
was taken to avoid the necessity of
feeding hungry people in the Yukon
country this winter. A miners meet
ing stands without a parallel among
things unique. 1t was recently decid-
a man cannot lick his own dog. What
miners meeting says goes. A team
ster named Cleveland was run out of
town two days ago for refusing to haul
a corpse free of charge. 1t was the
body of young Dwight Il. Fowler who
fell into the river and was drowned in
the clear water in sight of his compan-
ions owing to the weight of the pack
strapped to his back. The faces of the
gold hunters take on q very different
expression when they come from the
ships TO shore. The change is from the
very lively to the extremely grave The
naked truth stripped TO the bone, is
that at least 1900 miners must winter
here or return home. Every incoming
steamer makes the situation worse. and
there is no relief in sight. 1t has come
to he. a difficult thing to find a place tn
pitch a tent without asking the con
sent Of some other fellow, who has
staked out a town lot.
Whole Flnt - .i,ed on.
"The whole fiat Of 100 acres is stai1ed
out by the gold hunters, among whom
the belief is becoming strongs- each
passing day that here is destined to
grow up a great city. SkagUay is at
this date city Of eleven frame houses,
a saWmill, five stores, four saloons
crap game, a faro layout, blacksmith
shop, five restaurants which are feed
ing people all the time, a tailor shop on
which is hung the sign. BloOmers fitted
for shotguns,' a real estate cfice, two
practicing physicians, another profess
sional pathfinder whose speciality is
shown by the sign painted on a board
nailed to a tree, Teeth extracted some
500 tents, and a population Of about
1000 men and seventeen women. Four
Of the women are accompanying their
husbands into the Klondike. The 9TH
ers are unchaperoned. A dance hall
will he erected next week. Skaguay is
already a typical mining camp. It's
population is proud of it. They go fur
ther and say it will be a "hot town"
next winter. Streets have been laid out.
Broadway runs from high tide, four
miles back to the mountain base, and is
walled with tents piles Of supplies and
felled trees. The gold seekers never
overlook an opportunity to make fun
drown their impatience. The event Of
| today was a foot race for "a purse of
sos, in which fifty men entered. Lam
| terms are fiekering like firefies among
! the tents tonight. One turns his glance
/ with a shiver from the snow-topped
! mountains which, half a mile from
camp, point 1000 feet into the pale
night overhead.