The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-09-18

Henderson said: 81 would not live in
the Klondike country for all the gold
there is in it. Dawson City is one of
the most immoral mining camps the
world has ever seen"
The Cleveland brought information
that a man named George German of
Detroit, Mich, who was employed there
as carpenter, died on August Is from
complication of lung troubles. Before
his demise he was known to have in the
neighborhood of $4,000 in his possession,
but this money disappeared at the time
OF his death, and no one knows what be.
came of it.
The whisky traffic into the gold re-
gions has assumed enormous proper
tions. One boat on the river, having
more cargo than she could carry up, de-
stroyed a portion of the provisions
aboard in order to take on larger ship
ment of whisky. AS an inducement it is
said the company was paid an enormous
rate for the transportation of the
liquor. Several instances are related of
people going up the river who have sold
or left behind them provisions for the
sake of taking liquor, which sells at an
eXorbitant price in the mining region.
Captain Hall of the Cleveland is most
emphatic in his statement that intense
suffering will result at Dawson City and
vicinity this winter on account of the
scarcity of provisions. Half dozen
newspapermen paid 500 extra and went
up on the Hamilton.
Captain Hall thinks the Portland on
her next trip will bring down million
dollars
Charles Engle of New York city, who
has been in the Yukon for three years,
came out with his wife and four children.
He sold out his interests there and prac-
tically fled for fear of starvation.
Another of the Clevelands passengers
was Hans Anderson of Tacoma. He has
been in the country only since last
spring, but will return next year with
sufficient food to last for three years. An
derson brings with him about $4,000 in
gold dust and nuggets.
+. r. Churchill of the provincial
mounted police, stationed at Dawson
City, who came down on the Cleveland,
is interested in some valuable mining
property on Bonanza creek, and is re-
turning for the purpose of purchasing
supplies for the development of his claim.
There are only three hotels in Daw
son City, and meals, consisting of bread,
coffee and baked beans, cost $l.50, which
is considered cheap. Lumber costs $3.50
per 1000 feet, and is hard to get.
Among the passengers on the Cleveland
was Charles Ross, whose home is in the
Northwest territory. Ross accompanied
the first detachment of mounted police
into the Yukon country and has been
there ever since.
Ross believes that the American side
of the line offers the best inducements
to miners. He visited Forty-Mile creek,
and the camps on the tributaries, and
found them practically deserted, every
body having gone in the rush to the
Klondike, abandoning claims from which
good pay could be realized.
Albert Bryan of Seattle, an electrician,
who had been working at st. Michaels,
returned on the steamer Cleveland. Bry-
an said in an interview:
"The river steamer Hamilton, upon
which we were working, started up the
river on the 10th. About 90 of the pas
sengers on the Cleveland and Excelsior
on the up trip pooled their fortunes,
bought the river steamer St. Michaels,
and a barge, for $4,000, and started up
the river. Each of the 90 men took 1000
pounds of provisions and tools. p. G.
Richardson's steamer, which Captain
Worth is to take up, was about ready
to start up the river when we left. She
had full cargo and could have any
number of passengers, for there were
many there who could not secure any
transportation.
every one who came out that l saw
reported that prices at Dawson City are
away up, and in fact no supplies can
be bought at any price"