Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-09-17
IE MAD RUSH FOR GOLD
NH AND STARVATION OVER
TAKING KLONDIKERs.
VIII He Unable to Reach
Tbeir Observation-Disclosures OF
Cleveland.


nd. Captain Hall, IL days from st.
;cbaels, arrived last night with 65 pas
poers and about 100000 in gold. This
Mount is only approximate, as many
the miners on board refuse to state
Ia exact amounts they brought with
hem.
purser j. w. e. Whitbeck of the
,eveland had in his charge $4,000,
hid he states that this amount, together
;tb other sums on board to his knowl-
Hoe. will aggregate about 100000.
Thirty-eight of the passengers came
rom the gold fields and ~ were carpen-
ers who went to st. Michaels to con-
struct boats for the North American
Trading & transportation Company.
The Yukon river steamer p. B. Weare
II the North American Trading & Trans
portation Company, en- route from Daw-
hon City to St. Michaels. struck on a
md bar 80 miles below Circle City July
Rs. The river was at low stage and
the passengers remained on board until
august Is, when the steamer Healy, GO
ing down the river, took them off and
conyeved them to st. Michaels. where
&they took passage on the steamers Ex-
cesior and Cleveland for San Francisco
land Seattle. The Weare was hard
aground, and it is doubtful is she will get
3 off
Reports of fabulous finds on the Klon-
dixie, Eldorado, and creeks tributary to
n the Yukon, are told by the returning
miners, but the warning which has been
already given, to wait until spring., is re-
\ peated and emphasized by every one on
board the Cleveland. They say that hun
dreds must go hungry this winter, and
that they will certainly starve to death,
as the food supply is far below the guam
tity required to keep alive those already
in and around Dawson City.
If the steamers fail to get up the river
the suffering will be something terrible.
On July 26 the Alaska Commercial Com
pany and the North American Trading &
transportation Company were closed and
notices posted on their doors that no
more provisions would be sold until the
arrival of the steamers from st. Mi
chael
The steamer Excelsior of San Fran
cisco left st. Michaels two days before
the Cleveland, but when three days out
she broke her propeller blades by running
on bar in Boring sea, and put into
Dutch harbor for repairs.
The Excelsior has on board passen
gers, and it is stated she has gold dust
to the amount of nearly a million dol
lars.
Following is the passenger list of thu
Cleveland: A. j. Green, S. Croft, JOIN
Guyer, James Galliger, Mrs. A. p. Hen
derson, l.. V. Holder, P. Kelly, William
Lowden, +. E. Leonard. Samuel Mat
thews, John Quiner, George Reynolds
Frank Segerin, H. Shredder, William
Sherman, T. j. Allen, H. Anderson, B
Anderson, Mrs. f. A. Bieber, Miss Lott
Burns, r. H. Beaumont and child, A
Barker and wife, H. j. Burrows, A. Bolt
hoff, Mike Broolardig, j. o. Berg, S. R
Churchill, Fritz Kloak, Charles Engle
wife and four children, George Formar
Rudolph Fleur, G. II. Ross and M. Misc
mare.
Following is a list of the miners VIII
brought the largest amounts of gold dust
T. j, Allen, $35, 900; F. Segerin, $1,000
P. Shredder, $4,000; Miss Lolita Burns
$1,000; Charles Engle, $4,000; A. P. Bal
Der, $4,000; Fritz Kloak, $4,000; San
uel Matthews, $4,000; George Reynold
$4,000; NJ Misamore, $4,000; Hans Al
derson, $500; B. Anderson, $4,000; la
Galliger, $4,000; Bank of British Colun
bia, $4,000.
The Cleveland has on board three me
from the sealing schooner Aurora Bor
ais, who We're lost from the vessel durin
dense fog last month. The men wei
five days and nights in an open boz
without food or water, when finally tt
fog lifted and they put into Dutch ha
Dor.
M. Misamore of Portland, Or, who W;
about $4,000. He was the sole represe
tative on the Cleveland of the newly di
covered diggings On Minook creek.
was lack of food which forced him
leave a promising claim, and when
goes in the spring it will be with a col
plete outfit.
The Minook," he says, "runs into t
Yukon about 400 miles below Circle Cit
About 60 men are working on the N
nook and its tributary, Hunter creek. "
Two brothers, Robert and Charles Ca
son, rich claim owners on Bonanza cree
died on July of typhoid fever. TIL
mad sold their claims in the spring
$4,000, and were preparing to leave t
country for the winter when strick
down. The former partner of the Ca
sons is passenger on the Excelsior.
Is said to be lying at the point of dea
and may not reach San Francisco to {
Joy the wealth he has earned.
Mrs. A. P. Henderson of Chicago, o
OF the returning passengers, has been
the Yukon since spring. Her trip W
lor the purpose of gathering material
newspaper and magazine articles. M
Henderson said: 81 would not live
the Klondike country for all the G,
there is in it. Dawson City is one
the most immoral mining camps
world has ever SEEM"
The Cleveland brought informant
mat man named George German
Detroit. Mich who xvaS amnlovad th