The herald., 1897-09-03
spring. and that the horses will be killed
and eaten.
BROUGHT NO GOLD

Cpl LIB, duu tudl tue nurses Will De killed
and eaten.
BROUGHT NO GOLD
PORTLAND, Or, Sept. 2.-The steam
er George w. Elder arrived today with
four passengers from Skaguay and
many stories of hardship. She had no
gold on board.
A SEA OF MUD
SEATTLE, Sept. "A letter bearing
date of August 25th was received in this
city today in which the reports of hard
ship and suffering at Skaguay are con-
f1rmed. At the time the letter was writ
ten 1t had been raining three days and
the trail was sea of mud. Many Of the
prospectorS are becoming disheartened
and are returning. On the goth over one
hundred left for the coast, and others
are only waiting for a chance to leave.
The soft ground, which was cut up by
the large numbers that have passed over
it, is getting worse. In some places the
mud is three or four feet deep. Several
horses mired down, and the owners, not
being able to extricate them, had to kill
the animals and leave them.
The miners are growing less and less
daily, and they are growing more de-
spondent as they travel inland. The
writer says any one who has no horse
or pack animal cannot expect to cross
the pass before winter comes on. Men
who are being used for transporting sup
plies are receiving from Sc to SO day
and board. They are required to carry
one hundred pounds from early morning
until late at night and are soon exhaust
ed. Those who have been more fortu-
nate are rushing on to Klondike and
hope to reach the lakes before winter
sets in. Hundreds will never get further
inland than White pass The suffering
is something terrible, and increases daily
with the unfavorable weather which has
commenced.
FROM BAD TO WORSE
CHICAGO, Sept. al have been
thrown out of the Presbyterian church
and starved out of the Peoples church,
all in one year, and I am through with
preaching" said Rev. Frank B. Vroo-
man, co-pastor of the Peoples church,
today. II am going to Klondike.''
Vrooman, who has been associated
with DR.. H. W. Thomas in the pulpit Of
the fashionable Peoples church for some
time. has turned his back on the pulpit
for good and has projected and partly
organized on large scale mining COM
pany for the Klondike region.
This scheme originated with me-" he
said, but it is backed up by my brother
in st. Louis. Our company has not been
incorporated or named yet, but it will
be on fully as large a scale as the Cud-
ahy-Weare enterprise, and be capital
lied at 100000. We thought at first we
would need only 100000 to start with,
but having decided to provide our own
boats, we saw that 100000 would be
needed, and the whole of that amount l..
already in sight.
II came in today on the Manitou from
a cruise extending from Mackinaw down
below Harbor Springs, and have sold
$50. 900 worth of stock almost without
effort, and my brother has probably sold
as much in st. Louis. 1 am going to
Alaska to work in the mines for a living.
The Peoples church pays me nothing,
and I am getting into necessitous con-
dition."
A MINE SOLD
SEATTLE, Wash, Sept. 2.-One Of the
largest and most important of the sales
of individual interests in the Klondike
mining district was perfected in this city
this evening. By its terms part of the
interests of two men pass into the hands
Of New York parties, the consideration
being $150,000. Harry Ash, the king
gambler, who holds interests in number
of mines on Bonanza, Ell Dorado, Hunker
and other creeks, sells out his entire in
terest in two properties, a third interest
in one and half interest in the other, for
the sum of $4,000.
Mayor" Joe Love Of Circle City parts
with his interests, or a good share of
them, for the same figure.