The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1897-12-01
GREWSOME REPORTS
Brought in by Those Who Are
Returning from the Arctic
FL Dorado.
FORCED TO FLEE BY STARVATION,
The Case of Hundreds Who Went Into the
Wilderness Dnprovided with Rations for
Year or so-Grand Rush for Country
Where There L. Something tn Eat-Goid
Is There But the Auriferous Metal Seems
To Be Hard To Get.

Seattle, Wash, Nov. 29.-Twenty-five
men arrived here yesterday on the City
of Seattle direct from Dawson City. The
party consisted of Thomas Magee. ST..
Thomas Magee, Jr., Swift Water Bill
Gates Joe Boyle, William Huskins, f.
Eckert, III. Robertson, II. Raymond.
Bert Mason. John w. Brauer. w. II.
Chambers r. w. Pond, Il. Ash j. Gill
lespie, Thomas Wilson, p. McGraw.
Jack Dalton. William Lesk, Arthur Ce-
line, Joseph Fan burn, j. Smith. T.
Warren and Jim Stephenson. They
came out over the Dalton trail, leaving
Dawson City oct. 16. They are re-
ported to have between them $50. 900. AL
in drafts and 100000 in gold dust. All
tell stories of food shortage in Dawson
that is almost famine. The last per-
son to leave Dawson was Jack Dalton.
When Dalton left the steamers Alice and
Bella had reached there loaded light.
"why bid You Get SO Much Bread? ?"
1t is said that the Bella's cargo con-
sisted of whisky and billiard balls. She
brought no provisions. The Canadian
government mounted police chartered
the Bella and gave all who wished a
free pass to the Yukon. The Bella is
reported to have left about Oct. IL with
200 men. According to the statements
made by members Of the Dalton party
there is liable to be trouble Of the most
serious kind this winter in Dawson.
Billy Leak says that all the people talk
about at Dawson is the food famine.
Men were gathering in groups and
cursing with might and main the new
corners that were constantly coming into
the Klondike with scarcely any pro-
visions.
Not Much Profit I'm This.
The men figured that il would take all
their earnings in gold to pay their liv-
ing expenses at Fort Yukon during the
winter and that in the spring they
would not even have enough left to
pay passage money back to Dawson, TO
say nothing OF purchasing enough food
TO subsist until they could get started
again. John w. Brauer, a United States
mail carrier who left Dawson Sept.
q. said: There is only one salvation for
miners who are now at Dawson City.
and that is for them TO undertake the
awful winter trip from Dawson TO Fort
Yukon. a distance of 400 miles. There
Is no 1000 at FOft ukOn, there is none
at Dawson, and just as sure as the stars
shine. terrible suffering will be the fate
of the Dawson miner unless he leaves
there before spring. The restaurant at
Dawson closed the night / left. II had
been selling nothing but beef steak. for
which the hungry paid $3.50
Stampeding Away from Starvation.
when the people realized that the
boats would he unable TO get up the
river they knew that starvation threat
ened them and the great stampede be-
gan. Thelittl steamer Kiukuk
which was to make the trips from
Dawson to Pelly, where the Jack Dalton
trail starts. was brought into play. She
was besieged by would-be passengers
who offered as high as $3.50 that they
might be aboard while she made her
journey Of 175 miles to Pelly. The Kiu-
kuk left Dawson on the afternoon OF
Sept. p with twelve or fifteen passen-
gers. The only thing you coulC
possibly buy at Dawson was sugar.
baking powder. spices and some dried
fruit No flour. bacon or anything OF
that kind could be purchased from any
Of the stores. simply because they did
not have them" Brauer told of a pri-
vate party selling a miner a sack OF
-four for SIS and bacon for 81 a pound