The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-11-29

Flour Ohiy SottS go anu Pounu OF
Bacon Can be Purchased for 81.
sATTLE. Wash. Nov. 2S.-Twenty-
FIVE men arrived here to-day on the
City OF Seattle direct from Dawson
City. They were divided into two par
ties, the last one Of which left Dawson
october l6. They consisted of Thomas
Magee, sr., Thomas Magee. jr., of San
Francisco "swift Water Bill" Gales,
Joe Boyle, William HuslSins, +. Eek
ert, II. Robinson, II. Laymond, Bert
Mason, John w. Brauer. W. II. CHAINS
bers, E. W. Pond. E Ash, j. Gillespie,
Thomas Wilson. P. NJ. Graw. Jack Dal-
ton, William Leak, Arthur Celine, Jo-
seph Fairburn, j. Smith, I. Warren
and Jim Stephenson. They came out
over the Dalton trail. They are re-
ported to have between them $4,000 in
drafts and 100000 in nuggets.
All tell stories of food shortage at
Dawson that is almost famine. The
last person to leave Dawson was Jack
Dalton When he left the steamers
Alice and Bella cad reached there
loaded light. 1t Is said that the Bella's
cargo consisted of whisky and billiard
balls. She brought no provisions.
The Canadian government mounted
police chartered the Bella and gave all
who wished free pass to the Yukon.
The Bella is reported to have left about
October IL with 200 men. According to
the statements made by members Of the
Dalton party. there Is liable to be
trouble OF the most serious kind this
winter in Dawson. Billy Leak told one
OF the men in the party ahead OF him,
whom he met at Dyea, that all the peo-
pie talk about at Dawson was the food
famine. Men were gathering in groups
and curslug with might and main the
newcomers that were constantly coming
into Klondike loaded with scarcely any
provisions. The mounted police We're
offering free transportation to the grub
placers further down the Yukon to Fort
Yukon, but to the countless hundreds
who had labored hard all through the
summer accommodating grub stake,
the prospect was unlnviting, to say the
least.
The men figured that It would take all
their earnings In gold to pay their liv-
ing expenses at Fort Yukon during the
winter, and that in the spring they
would not even have enough left to pay
passage money back TO Dawson, to say
nothing OF purchasing enough food to
subsist on until they could get started
again. To these poor fellows the offer
OF the mounted police was no better
than the prospect at Dawson of being
compelled to live on half rations until
the supply boats could reach the dig
gings In the spring.
John W. Brauer. the United States
mail carrier, who left Dawson septem-
Der q, said:
There is only one salvation for the
miners who are now at Dawson City,
and that is for them TO undertake the
awful winter trip from Dawson to Fort
Yukon, q distance OF 400 miles. There
is no food at Fort Yukon, there is none
at Dawson, and Just as sure as the stars
shine. terrible suffering will be the fate
OF the Dawson miner unless he leaves
there before spring. I will make my
statement that when left Dawson the
men who were there had on an average
four months supply OF food. Some OF
them did not have O months supply and
some had four or five. The restaurant
closed the night l left. It had been
selling nothing but beefsteak, for which
the hungry paid $3.50. When the people
realized that tho boats would be un-
able to get UP the river, they knew that
starvation threatened them and the
great stampede began.
ffTt. a.. Fn,.N a. TNaFt W.
kon. / guess there were about ten In
the party that left the first day. one
boat that came up from Fort Yukon
with several newspaper men aboard,
among them correspondent Sam Wall
and Mr.. MoGllyray. They brought
the news that the Hamilton had un-
loaded all her cargo and tried 10 get
over the bar Hight and failed In her
efforts, though she drew but two feet
Of water. This news Increased the ex-
element and made the rush townrd
food CenterB oil the greater. on Sep
tember ~ Bert Nelson, OF Seattle. and
myself left Circle City and started TO
pole up the river to Dawson city, n dis
tanco Of 900 miles. At the time we
started from Circle city the miners hnd
about taken their departure. II took
81 eleven uAyH and three hours to make
iho Journey, arriving at Dawson CITY
September 90 Captain Ilanson, with
two Indians who had left Fort Yukon
heat us into Dawson by about ono hour
ANA half Hanson gathered the Daw-
ron city miners together ana made q
thort gprcch, In which he advised nll
"ha dtd not hnvo provisions SO last the
whtcr 10 10 to civilization or try and
reach points In the Yukon river country
Whmo II was known food could be ao-
cured.
That night wna the greatest ono IN
Tho history ot Dawson city. rho miners
Hr soon mn they heard the ncwn. mnho
nasty preparations TO rot out and
hightiall saw tho gold ncokcra and mcn
VINO can To-day sell out for many thou
tluln NJ dollars leaving by thousands
2t down Tho river or up the river points.
no lllllo ntcnmct ltluluk, which waH
u. nnko the lrlna from Dawson 10 pclly,
Nh'fo the Jack Bniibn trail Ntnrih. waa
drought INTO play Pho war bcaloged
F NnuldsbH passengers who offered co.
NIFll nn $3.50 that they might BE- aboard
Nh.ln nhr inndp her journey W lb miles
n PollN The Kluhuk lrfl Dawson on
~" afternoon uf 9npt"mbHr ~ Win
lW,INn or ifteNn pnfsungrrH
The ucAl day $50 made up q papty