The San Francisco call., 1897-11-04
CARGO OF
) ECCS FOR
ARCOuAUTS
:: Steamship Elder Expe-
dition Arrives at
Juneau.
LADEN WITH FRESH
PROVISIONS.
Frozen Fruit of the Henhouse
to Be SIedged Through
%, to Dawson.
SOME LIVE TURKEYS ON
: .... T.. TIE VESSEL.
CA 1ers Talk of Attem pting to
Drive Than Overland to the
::::. X Ondike.
Frozen. Fruit of the Henhouse
to. Be Sledged Through
>. to Dawson.
SOME LIVE TURKEYS ON
..*.~-:: THE VESSEL.
oA 1ers Talk of Attempting to
Drive Them Overland to the
K Ondike.
spacia, Dispatch to THE CALL

JUNEAU, ALASKA, Oct. % (via Seattle,
Nov 81 -Unprecedentedly high tides for
this time OF year have prevailed in Upper
Alaskan waters for the last three days.
The maximum rise has been about thirty
feet. The high tides and wind have
played havoc at Skaguay and Dyea, par
tlcularly at the former place. Sand in
vast beds, muck, logs, driitwood, seaweed
and ali the miscellaneous accumulation
that floats in harbor have been carried
in by The water and deposited on the beach
near by half way up into the town. Logs
riding on the waves have battered down
the. supports OF n mum Der OF buildings.
II the weather were not cold much of the
deposit would fester and be likely 10 cause
malaria. Sand covers spots in the streets
and there is 4 general appearance OF
wreck and garbage along the water front.
The floating hotel callea the Skagit,
which was formerly a Government snag-
boat on the Skagit River in the State of
Washington, met with good instead of i'll
fortune. 1t was carried nearly half way
up into the town and LETT hign and dry.
a dynamo which arrive on the steamer
. a few days before was being set 10 in the
SkagiC. The proprietor is nOw stringinI ,
wires through the town and will supply
a who want it with electric light to the
exrent of the capacity of the machine.
Thus electricity now lllumina es 4 city
where less than three months ago were
only few tents and the solitary cabin of
a pioneer.
A At Dyea there is a similar widespread
kde1osit of refuse on the wife tide fats,
tl. he town is too far back to be dam
ged by the tide. The wind picked up
tent and the sand lot on which it was
pitched and dropped both on Finnegans
Point, several miles down the beach.
But Dyea has other troubles of her own.
Much dispute and alterations have arisen
over the question of precedence in ioca-
tion and squatters' title to town lots. A
white man who gave the name of Smith,
usually gwen by people who get in trou-
bic, was arrested on the charge of firing
the Indian heart with tirewater and in
ducing the redskins 10 cut the tent stakes
and ropes OF a Eumb Der of people camped
on lots to which he claimed title. He
will be tried for giving liquor to Indians.
At Skaguay tomorrow the trial of the
three men caught stealing grub on the
trail is set 10 begin. The hearing will be
before United States Commissioner Smith.
There have been no new arrivals over
the trails from Dawson since my last dis
patches. The Dalton party, which was at
Fort Selkirb when last heard from, is ex-
pected out over the Chilcat Pass any day
now and others are expected behind them.
When the steamship Elder tied up here
tonight from Portland she had aboard
1000 dozen OF frozen eggs and some dead
and some live turkeys, which their owner
expects to rush through to Dawson in
time for Thanksgiving. The live turkeys,
he said, he intended to drive in over the
ChiIcat Pass and Dawson Trail. When
old Dave Thompson, a prosDector OF three
seasons experience in the Yukon country,
. DO came OIt Of Dawson up the river last
Y g eek, heard about this, he began TO
-laugh. Half an hour later Mr.. Thomp pson
was still laughing, black in the face,
pounding a table and saying this to him
self:
"Gee whiz, but that beats me-"
He says that the cold in the interior is
so intense in Novem Der that it burns the
skin off the face, and that the turkeys
wlll1be frozen on the walk
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