The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1897-10-27
ESCAPED
STARVING.
EIGHT MEN BACK FROM THE
ALASKA GOLD FIELDS.
The Yukon River Frozen Over
and No Way OF Reaching
the Gold Fields
Until Next Spring - Dawson City
People on the Verge of
Starvation.

SEATTLE, Wash, Oct. 20. -The steam.
or Humboldt arrived last night with
five men from Dawson City, leaving
there Sept. 3. and three men from
Minok and other points on the Yukon
They say no gold will come out this fall
as this steamer has taken the last of
those who have come down the Yukon
The river is already frozen hard and
boats are laid up for thewlnter.
The Humboldt left st. Michael's Oct
8. The five men from Dawson are
John f Miller and Frank E. Sims Of
this city, @. A. Harrison of Atchison,
Kan. William Dubel of New Jersey,
and William Braund of Black Diamond,
Wash. They were passengers on the
river steamer Margaret. When they
found the mouth of the river blocked
with ice, they resolved to come overland
at all hazards. For seven days they
crept forward through terrible wind and
snowstorms. Some of them fell in their
tracks and had to be helped by their
stronger companions. They crossed the
river covered with thin ice by lying
down and pushing their pack before
them and at night they sought shelter
from the storm by budding in an Eski-
mo tent or lying unprotected from the
biting wind save by blankets.
OF the 5000 or 5000 people in Daw.
son and vicinity at least 900 will be
obliged to fee from impending starva-
ton. Up to Sept 3, when the Miller
party left Dawson, new arrivals num-
bered from three to 20 people daily and
there is no doubt that that ratio will be
continued all winter. Three hundred
men were won king in the gulches and
in the hills were several prospectors, all
of whom knew nothing of the shortage
and was depending ON the company
stores for provisions. One way of re-
lief is open to the miners. Five hun
bred or 1000 could winter at Circle
City, 100 miles below Dawson, and
draw their supplies by dog train from
Fort Yukon. Circle City has 800 houses
and is said to be the largest log cabin
town in the world.
John f. Miller says there will not
necessarily be starvation but certainly
miners will suffer extreme privations.
Five hundred men intended to come
down the river, but 1t is closed and they
can not get out
There is nc doubt that the people Of
OhMbOu nave UCGu ullNC luG
for six weeks.
"Our leaving" says Sims, Twas tn .
beginning of stampede for grub,
Transportation companies at st. Nj.
chaels and Fort Yukon claim the
liquor traffic has no appreciable effect
ON the supply Of provisions. Not more
than 30 tons of liquor, they say, has
gone into the country.
With tho hlOckaua ~ XuLon avaru
possibility vanishes of treasures by the
steamer Portland. No gold will come
out this year.
There il any amount of gold at Daw-
son. 1t is not unusual to see horses
loaded with dust. But the mines are
owned by men who know their value
'One sees it ON every hand" the re-
turning miners say. ut seems plenti-
full, bat you must remember it was more
plentiful in the United States treasury
and is just as hard TO get. People who
flock to the mines expecting to pick up
gold in the grass roots do not realize
what they are up against"
There is no doubt that large amount
of treasure will come from the Yukon
basin next year, if the miners can get
enough to eat to continue mining dur.
ing the winter. Gold sent out early
this year will not be a circumstance to
next springs output of the sluice- boxes
Mr.. Miller says nothing of considera-
BILE value has been found this summer
There is not an inch Of ground I'm.
staked ON the Klondike.
The following named creeks have
been located; Sulphur, Quartz and
Moose Hide, for instance for 2 miles
above the mouth Henderson, Domin.
ion and Victoria gulch.
Henderson creek is 10 miles above
Stewart river and Victoria gulch is q
miles below Stewart river.