The record-union., 1897-12-29
Such is the Unanimous Expression OF Peo-
pie Just From the KIondike.
More Alarm Over the Situation
Outside Than at Dawson
While There May Not be a Sur
plus of Supplies, the People
Have Sufficient to Last Them
Until Spring.

this winter and the sending OF a rellef
expedition by the United States Gov
ernment is unnecessary. This is the
unanimous expression of thirty persons
who arrived here to-day from Dawson
on the steamer Al Ki. They came TO
Dyea, where they took the steamer IN
different parties.
The last party to leave Dawson left
November 25th All Of them came up
the frozen Yukon and out over the
Chilcoot Pass. Those coming out
We're: w. W. Cleveland, l.. w. Fox,
w. E. Knowles, S. G.. Coffman, c. Du-
gan, NJ Weinin, ]. ]. Mckay and Wife,
Dan Egan, W. A. Keistlein, b. Ander-
son, A. Hedstrom, w. Falker, ID. }.
Barnes, H. Dobson, George Monroe, f.
w. Foote, w. J. Christie, M. B. Crane.
c. ]. Christensen. F. L. Renaud, c. +.
Phillips, T. II. Mallory, Con OBrleh.
Ed harrington, James keating, L.
Cheney. u. G. Krock, f A I.ather and
J. Dobskysk.
The last to leave Dawson were Egan
and Keistlein. They made the trip
from Dawson to Dyea i'll the remarka-
bly, quick time OF twentythree and one
half days j. j. Mckay and wife made
the trip in twenty-five days Ihey
passed about 200 people on the trau
who were headed for civilization.
AS to the food situation at Dawson,
all say there is more alarm 90 the out
side than is felt by the people at DaW-
son, who, while they have not a sur
plus. have sufficient supplies to last
them until the spring. Whatever dan
ger of starvation existed has been
averted by the exodus of large num-
her of people from Dawson to Fort
Yukon. and the departure of great
many people up the river to the coast
AS has been reported, the most Sc
rious shortage is in candles and oil.
This will reduce the output OF the
mines. as an absence of artificial light
will prevent their being worked TO full
capacity.
Edward Conrad. when asked if there
is danger of starvation at Dawson, re-
Piled efnphatically:
NO. sir; there is no great surplus Of
food but there will be no starvation
When asked for an opinion Of the
Governmental expedition, he said:
TT is a humbug, and / doubt IL it
can get down to Dawson before the ice
breaks. The men who came out and
said that starvation turks there are
men who were there only few weeks,
got discouraged and homesick, and cry
starvation as an excuse for coming
out
Conrad's statement, so far as they re-
lated to the improbability of starvation,
were indorsed by all the other arrivals
seen.
But they qualified their statements
bv the assertion that the present sup
ply of provisions would be exhausted
by spring.
Barrington said: There is no need
of any one worrying over their friends
starving. OF course, provisions are
not plentiful, and supplies should oe
taken in in the spring at which time
all the provisions III the country VIII
be exhausted"
Speaking of the rush to file claims,
MIR. Darlington says: For some time
before l left the Commissioner office
was unable to accommodate the miners.
The men stood in line for days with
the mercury 40 degrees below zero, In
rder to file. The biggest sensation in
the way of a strike was No. As. on
Hunker. 1t paid SO to the pan. II
st had not been for the exodus TO Fort
Yukon, 100 claims would have been
worked on Bonanza, FL Dorado and
IIunker Creeks this winter"
s. w. Foote says: "A great many
people went past Dawson in boats with
the floating ice, unable to make land
ing. Many people are living in tents
at Dawson, though the temperature is
away below zero. Good strikes have
been made on Lucky Creek, a tributary
l.,Rs- SC a
turning out fine. On the way out we
encountered good weather nearly all the
time We left Dawson City on No
vember 23d. Part of the way we
threw off our coats and went IN SHIRT
sleeves and bare hands. II was only
IL degrees below zero then. AT the
Chilcoot summit we encountered a
fearful snowstoTm. and were lost for
a time II lasted all the way from
the head OF Lake Linderman TO the
summit. One man went ahead with a
stick. poking ii into the snow to nno
the hard place TO walk on.
Beef and mutton at Dawson are
being sold at 81 to 81 30 per pound
Nothing in the food line can be OBJ
tained from the companies without an
order The -four selling was at 500
per sack, while bacon and beans
brought 81 to 81 - per pound. There
was plenty of sugar at so cents per
pound.
The claims are all taken to within
a radius of forty-five to fifty miles OF
Dawson
j. d. Barnes states that the Alaska
Commercial Company and the North
American Transportation and Trading
Company have declined to receive any
more gold for safe keeping for the min
ers. as their safes are fun.
T. III. Mallory believes the output
next season will be between 81. 900, ,o0t
and S20,00o,0oo j. J. Mckay estimates
1t at $S,000,0oo.
On November Goth the English
Church known as the "Klondike' was
destroyed by fire. TWO or three ad-
Joining cabins were also burned.
All the creeks in the Klondike district
are reported as turning out well.
About 300 men are camped at the