The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-09-18
THE MAD RUSH FOR GOLD
DEATH AND STARVATION OVER
TAKING KLONDIKERs.
Many VIII he Unable to Reach
Their Observation-Disclosures of
Cleveland.

Seattle, Sept. 1.-THE steamer Cleve-
land, Captain Hall, II days from st.
Michaels, arrived last night with So pas
sengers and about 100000 in gold. This
amount is only approximate. as many
of the miners on board refuse to state
the exact amounts they brought with
them.
Purser j. w. 4. Whitbeck of the
Cleveland had in his charge $4,000,
and he states that this amount, together
with other sums on board to his knowl-
edge, will aggregate about 100000.
Ihirty-eight of the passengers came
from the gold fields and 81 were carpen-
ters who went to St. Michaels to con
struct boats for the North American
Trading & Transportation Company.
The Yukon river steamer p. B. Weare
of the North American Trading & Trans
portation Company, en- route from Daw-
son City to st. Michaels. struck on a
sand bar 80 miles below Circle City July
2S. The river was at a low stage and
the passengers remained on board until
August 10, when the steamer Healy, go
ing down the river, took them off and
conveyed them to st. Michaels. where
they took passage on the steamers Elk
celsior and Cleveland for San Francisco
and Seattle. The Weare was hard
aground, and it is doubtful is she will get
off.
Reports of fabulous finds on the Klon-
dixie, Eldorado, and creeks tributary to
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 million dol
lars.
Following is the passenger list of the
Cleveland: A. ]. Green, S. Croft, John
Guyer, James Galliger, Mrs. A. p. Hen
derson, L. V. Holder, p. Kelly, William
Lowden, f. e. Leonard. Samuel Mat
thews, John Quiner, George Reynolds
Frank Segerin, H. Shredder, William
Sherman, r. j. Allen, II. Anderson, B
Anderson, Mrs. f. A. Bieber, Miss Lolita
Burns, L. II. Beaumont and child, A
Barker and wife, H. j. Burrows, A. Bolt
hof, Mike Broolardig, j. o. Berg, S. r
Churchill, Fritz Kloak. Charles Engle
wife and four children, George Forman
Rudolph Fleur, c. II. Ross and M. Misc
mare.
Following is a list of the miners who
brought the largest amounts of gold dust;
T. j. Allen, $4,000; F. Segerin, $l7 900
p. Shredder $4,000; Miss Lolita Burns
$1,000; Charles Engle, $4,000; A. p. Bar
Der, $4,000; Fritz Kloak, $4,000, Sam
uel Matthews, $4,000; George Reynolds
$4,000; NJ. NIisamore. $4,000; Hans An
derson, $500; b. Anderson, $4,000; Jas
Galliger, $4,000; Bank Of British Colum
bia, $1,000.
The Cleveland has on board three me1
from the sealing schooner Aurora Bore
ais, who were lost from the vessel during
a dense fog last month. The men wer,
five days and nights in an open boat
without food or water, when finally tn,
fog lifted and they put into Dutch har
Dor.
NJ. Afisamore of Portland, Or, who was
a passenger by the Cleveland, bring
about $4,000. He was the sole represen
tative on the Cleveland of the newly dis
covered diggings On Minook creek. i
was lack of food which forced him t.
leave promising claim, and when hi
goes in the spring it will be with com
plete outfit.
THE Minook," he says, runs into thu
Yukon about 400 miles below Circle City
About go men are working on the Mi
nook and its tributary, Hunter creek"
Two brothers, Robert and Charles Carl
son, rich claim owners on Bonanza creek
died on July OF typhoid fever. The.
had sold their claims in the spring 70
| $50 000 and ,,.nrn r,rernrinnr To leave fh