The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-30
Food Already Running short at Dayv-
and on the hIondike.

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 29.-W. A. Ryan
one of the special correspondents of the
Associated Press, eISroute to Yukon gold
fields, writes from st. MichaeTs. under date
of Aug. To- to the effect that there is grave
danger of a famine on the Klondike this
winter. According to all reports received
from the upper country it will be impossible
to land sufficient food at Dawson City to
support the population already dependent
on that base of supplies b. T. Lying, local
agent of the Alaska Commercial Company
at St. MichaeTs, declares that there are al
ready over two thousand idle men in Daw-
son and new parties arriving every day
via Chilkat pass, while the total amount of
freight landed there this year will
not exceed four thousand tons, of which
not more than three-fourths is pro-
visions. Miners returning from Klondike
who left there in July report that the food
was running very low then, and it was
disposed of as fast as discharged from the
steamers. Old timers realize the situation
and predict distress and death as result
of the Klondike craze.
William Ogilvie, dominion land surveyor,
who has been making Typographical sur
Veys of British possessions along the Klon-
dixie has been recalled by the government
for consultation to important matters
affecting new gold fields, and is now en-
route to Ottawa via San Francisco. He Will
make report embodying suggestions for
new mining laws, governing the sale of
liquor and taking wood for fuel etc. He
made census of the production of the new
fields and finds tWenty-three claims pro-
duced $S26 600 and says that $70,000000 is no
exaggerated estimate of the amount that
will be produced by $50 claims on Bonanza
Hunker's and EldOradO creeks in three
years.
There were twenty persons at st. Mi
cheats when the Excelsior arrived who
had come down the river from the dig
gings, fifteen of whom were miners. They
are said to have all the way from 100000
to 100000 among them. Few care to say
exactly how much they have, preferring
to remain silent on that point, giving as
their reasons the fact that they have too
went out earlier took away with them.
c. B. and Il. b. Patrick, father and son,
brought out $4,000. They took passage on
sailing vessel which left port two days
after they arrived. F. w. Cobb of Boston.
is credited with $4,000 and c. K. lilly with
a like amount Thomas Rowan, of Sitka,
Denver has $40, COO Timothy c. Bell, of
Vancouver, has $3l, 900 in Canadian money,
s. Lansing, of Bozeman, Mont, has $10.-
600. The others refuse to say how much
they have. The remaining members of the
party are W. Oler. of Baltimore; William
Zahn, of Minneapolis; B. H. Farman, of
Goodell, Ia; A. Buckley of St. Joseph,
Mo; H. n Cooler, of Winnipeg; Thomas
er, of Tucson. Ariz. Each has won what
is called in this region home stake"
namely, the amount which he believes suffi-
cient to take home to remain Very few
intend to come back. The hardships they
have endured make them dread the coun-
try in which they won their stakes.
Orrin Gray, of Grand Rapids, Mich, went
into the country this spring to try to save
some remnant of the fortune his son AL
bert had won. The boy had made $25, 600
and, according to reports that came to the
father was spending thousands in drink
and gambling. So the old man came in
he is coming out in hopes that tt the ' boy has
not spent it ALL but has taken some of it
home to his mother. NJ. II. McIndoo and
f. X. GerVais went into the country to
prospect, but were discouraged, and did
not stop.