The herald., 1897-09-13
NEWS FROM
THE NORTH
Brought Back by Dis
gusted Miners
SKAGUAY PASS IS CLOSED
ROUTE FROM DYEA IS ALMOST
AS BAD
SKAGUAY PASS IS CLOSED
Miners and Mineresses Repeat the
Stories Of the Richness of the
Alaskan Fields
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash, Sept H.
The steamer City Of Seattle arrived today
five days from Skaguay. Among the
pass engers are twelve men who started
for the Kiondike, but failed to cross the
pass. A. C. Warner of Seattle, an artist
who has been getting views on both the
Dyea and Skaguay passes for the past
week, was a returning passenger on the
Seattle. He says the Skaguay pass Is
closed for the season, but that many are
still floundering around in the mud IN
vain attempt to get through The hrst
fourteen miles of the trail from Skaguav
beach iy strewn with the carcasses of six
horses.
Eleven saloons and three dance halls
are doing. business there, but Warner
saws there is no trouble, there being n O
fighting or thieving. At Dyea the peo-
pie are still moving slowly forward, al
though greatly impeded by mud and rain.
With the exception. of two days, rain
has fallen there continuously for three
weeks.
Collector Of Customs Ivy is doing a
rushing business in the confiscation of
whisky. He has thirty inspectors on
the beaches and trails, and but little stuff
gets through. Frank Cain, Canadian,
was caught in a sloop few days ago
with an $4,000 stock of whisky. The stock
was seized and Cain sent to the Juneau
iail Whisky sells at $36 per gallon at
| III, 4, orty.
started across from Mission to Yukon
valley few days ago with eighty head
of cattle. They expect to make the drive
in thirty-five days.
BEATEN BACK
SEATTLE, Wash, Sept. 12.-The
steamers George E. Starr and City OF
Seattle arrived today froH Skaguay bay
The Seattle left there last Tuesday at
a. m. Both steamers brought back mer
pass. Ahey ps,,,.nd the trialessve come
south to winter, df ,n,< .~e>.4 n.home.
Two of the schooner Moonlight's pas
sengers were on the Starr They heard
OF the impossible condition of the Skag-
uay trail, and concluded there was no
show for them.
Captain Harry Struve of this city spent
thirty days in trying to get over the sum-
NIT and failed He went from here with
one of the best equipped parties thai
have gone north, including Mat. and
Jack Scurry, J. ]. Madigan and John
Mather. They. had ten horses and
about half a. ton of provisions per man.
After thirty days hard work and the ex-
penditure Of large amount of money.
they succeeded in getting their outfits
70 the Ford river, just below the summit.
Ihen they gave it up and sold their out
fits.
Captain Struve said today: "Its a
crime' to tempt men to try to go over the
Skaguay trail. There is no trail there
1t cannot be described. You cannot
paint 1t black enough. 1 stored my pro-
visions and will try again next February
Inc Bond party will get through all
right, but 1t will cost them $40, 900 to get
their outfit to the lakes. The partv is
headed by Marshall Bond, the son of a
ealthy Seattle man. who is supplied with
ample funds"
captain Struve brings another story
OF the wreck of the Eliza Anderson. AT
Mary 3 Island he was told by the customs
o1hcials there that schooner had touch
ed that port from Kodiak island. report-
ing that the Eliza Anderson was wreck
ed in the vicinity of Kodiak with all
hands lost. Captain Struve did NOT
learn the name Of the schooner which
brought the news. The statement was
made by the customs officer with anna
rent confidence in its truth. The A nder-
son was last seen by the tug Holyoke
near Kodak Island. She was headed
that way for fuel and to get out of the
way OF furious gale blowing from the
southeast. While the story told Captain
Struve may not prove the fact of the
Anderson wreck, it gives rise to grave
fears for her safety.
TWO BAD TRAILS
SEATTLE, Wash, Sept. 1.-THE fol-
lowing special correspondence to the
Associated Press was received here to-
day per the steamer City of Seattle:
SKAGUAY, Alaska, Sept. 7, 1S97.-Not
being able to satisfy myself as to tho
relative merits and condition of the two
trails to the Klondike from the contra
dictory reports brought in, I determined d
to make personal excursion to both
so as to be able to make an intelligent
report. induced Charles King of Ia
coma, railroad contractor, to accom-
pany me to secure accurate elevations |
and slopes.
At Dyea there is no townsiting or hur-
ly burly boom as there Is at Skaguay.
Near the beach there are few tents be-
longing to recent arrivals who have not
got their goods ashore. and little fur
ther up about 100 tents occupied by In
dian families who do packing There is
only one store, Healy & Wilson's, an old
trading post and few saloons. There
was no evidence of any blockade there:
every one was either packing or getting
'eady to start the next morning. The
price that day was 3S cents to Lake Lin
ierman, raise of cents in one week.
and is now 40 cents. Anyone able to pay
the price can get his entire outfit picked
up there in the morning and set down at
Lake Linderman the next evening,
whether 1t is 1000 or 5000 pounds. I
From Dyea for one and half miles
here Is good wagon road to the ferry