The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-10-18
GOLD SEEKERS RETURN
Men Who Failed to Reach the Rich
Alaska Territory,
A NEWSPAPER MAN SACRIFICED,

Started out to Locate Claims aud
Dropped Dead From Exhaustion.
Many of the Gold Seekers working
for Wages at st. MichaeIs.
Victoria, B. c., oct. 1S.-stsamer Dan
ube has arrived, ten days from st.
Michaels. She brought 50 passengers,
most Of them men who failed to reach
the mines by the all water route. Some
got as far as Fort Yukon and had to
turn back There are - miners from
Circle City who bring about S72 900 in
gold dust. Most of them have been
working around Circle City, but a few
are interested in the KlondilSe claims.
A lot of provisions are at Fort Yukon,
but it is feared that II there Is a rush
from Dawson it win cause a shortage
further down the river. 1t is predicted
that many men win perish in the at
tempt to escape from starvation by
coming down the river.
The steamers Mare Island and Mer-
win tried TO get up the Yukon river
but failed. The Merwin and Alice at
last accounts were on a bar and freez-
ing up. The Mare Island had returned
to Stebbins, II miles from st. Michaels.
Few men with very little gold were at
st. Michaels when the Danube left, and
they will all come down on the Bertha.
The North American Transportation
and Trading company viii build their
river steamer at Unalaska, on account
/ of the schooner Hueneme having been
lost in Uniak Pass. Five other river
steamers are to be built at st. Mich
aels. The ice was in the upper river
when the Weare started down, and
icicles were a foot long on her when
she reached st. Michaels.
Passengers who started up the river
on the steamers Merwin, Alice and
Mare Island were endeavoring to get
to st. AIichaels overland. The steamer
Healy, which, with a barge, was load
ed at St. Michaels, unloaded when the
news came from Stebbins. The Excel
sior and steam schooner Navarro. with
a tow, arrived at st. NIichaels on oct. 3.
/ II. Is. Tucker, a newspaper corre-
/ spondent, of Troy, n. Y, died of ex-
haustion on the tran a few miles from
Rampart city He and friend started
out a night with little food to locate
claims on Hoosier Creek. They spent
two days and nights in the woods, and
then turned back, when Tucker fell
assistance. but when it arrived Tucker
was dead
OF the men who reached st. Michaels
recently most of them have been work
ing for wages in the vicinity Of Circle
City They made the trip to Fort Yukon
in rowboats, and from there came down
in steamers. There was not $1,000 in
the whole crowd so that the rest Of
the boats this fall win bring very lit
tie treasure. There is considerable talk
among the men who failed to get in of
taking action against the steamship
companies which took them up, par
ticularly against the owner of the
Eliza Anderson.
OF a thousand odd men who started
snce July, not one-third are miners.
. Some are stll at Fort Yukon hoping to
get in early in the spring but a large
majority are coming south. Mayor
Wood Of Seattle, and his party got
their steamer built and started up the
river, but they cannot go far, as they
are sure ia. meet floating ice if they
escape the sand bars. There are now Is
steamers on the river as against five
last year, so that there win be plenty
Of food at Dawson soon after the river
opens i'm the spring.