Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-01
AL KINDS OF Gold
Sailors Stories Of Wealth Coming
from theKlondike.
Officers or the Cutter Grant Take a
Different View and Do Not Think
the Portland Will Bring Down a
Great Treasure-The Holyoke In
From st. Michaels.

From st. Michaels.
Port Townsend, Wash, September
30.-According to Capt. Munger, OF the
cutter Grant. it is the Bear and not
the Corwin that will guard from all
despoilers the tons Of Klondike mug
gets that the steamer Portland is to
bring from st. Michaels. Orders from
Capt. futile to thus act as police
man of the seas were taken to him
by the Corwin which left Unalaska
for st. Michaels the same day the
Grant started for this point, Septem-
Der 10.
The Alaska Commercial Company's
steamer Bertha, brought to Unalaska
news from ST. Michaels up to the l2th
inst. There were over one hundred
men from the upper Yukon waiting to
come down on the Portland, and, &C
cording to sailor gossip, they had AL
kinds of gold.' But the officers OF
the Grant say that according to their
information no vast amount of treas
ure will be brought down.
The tug Holyoke arrived last night
from st. Michaels, having left on Sep
TENDER II with the schooner J. Bryant
in tow. On the 21st of the month
while off Kodiak Island, heavy
storm prevailed and the tug was
forced to heave to for a period of Is
hours. During the storm, the hawser
which Connected the schooner to the
tug, parted and the schooner went
adrift, nor could those on the tug
afterward see her. While it is not
thought the Bryant is lost, grave fears
for her safety are entertained. She
carried a crew of seven men and two
passengers, the latter two being En-
gineer Turner and wife, of the steamer
Eliza Anderson. The reason given for
the probable safety of the Bryant is
that she was known as one of the best
sea boats of her tonnage in the North
Pacific waters. She is of SIS tons meas
urement, and for many years was used
as a pilot boat off Cape Flattery, and
the Columbia river bar. Capt. Ginger,
of the Holyoke, says the Bryant may
be expected to sail up the straits at
any time.
Capt. Tom Powers, of the Eliza An
derson, returned from Dutch Harbor
On the Holyoke. He Indignantly de-
MES the report that the Eliza Ander-
son will leave her bones where she
now lies, but says the old craft will
be on the sound and Alaska run next
season and that a scarcity of fue, is all
that prevented him bringing her back
to the sound now.
The Ginger of the HolyOke says the
report that there are three tons of gold
at St. Michaels awaiting shipment on
the steamer Portland is untrue; that
unless the gold arrives from Dawson
after the tug sailed very little will
be brought down before the river opens
and the boats get down next June. He
added: "I judge there were $50 to 40(
men at st. Michaels when we were
there. All seemed we'll and cheerful
There were none that | ran across who
talked Of coming back, and no one ask
ed for passage with me. I did not see
any miners from Klondike at st. Mich.
aels, and do not believe there were any
there, for no steamer had come dowI
lately, although one was expected any
day. 1t was cold and hailing while we
were there, and snow fell the day after
we left.
Travel from st. Michaels UP the Yu
kon was still going when the Holyokt
left, but the river was not expected tt
remain open longer than between thu
list and 10th of October.
People at st. Micaels are we'll pro
ter, and many of them are engaged il
building boats which will be operated
upon the river next season.
Cripple Creek, Col, September 30
Joe Wolff has had donated to him b,
Joseph Ladue. the bonanza king of tn
Klondike, a half block of ground il
Dawson City, Alaska. upon which h
intends to erect a mammoth hotel. Hi
partners in this enterprise are fifteel
Chicago business men. MIR. Wolff viii
be remembered as the only person VIII,
ever succeeded in pulling off a genuine
Mexican bull fight in the United States
This Wolff succeeded in doing at Gil
lett in the summer of 1895.
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