Arizona republican., 1897-09-28
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 TMr. Joseph Ladue, tf-e founder Of 1Dawson City, and by long odds the most famous man that the klOndyke has thus far evolved, is at the Arling- ton. lie was invited to WaShintOn, as has been told in the Post, by Sec retary Alger, who wished to confer with him in regard to the practica- bility of getting supplies by way of the Yukon to the KlOndyke miners in order to avert the suffering that is sure to come by reason of the scare ity of food. It is the secretary's hu- mane desire to save the needless peo- pie who have rushed to those frozen fields in quest of gold from the con sequences of their own imprudence.
 Mr. Ladue is about 45 years old, has black hair and eyes, and dark mustache He talks readily, but there is weary look on his face, the result of answering 10000 questions from curious citizens, who have be- sieged him for information from Cal nornia to New York.
 AS it appears to me- said he, in answer to a Post reporter, there is no chance of carrying out any relief plans that involve the taking i'll of food supplies. To get goods trans ported over the Yukon is out of the question. No sort of machinery or appliance could be devised to get over the vast snow heaps that cumber it's surface. Posts might be established at intervals so that some little food could be taken overland, but it would be a very difficult matter to help the situation in that way. The best thing in my judgment, to be done is to get the people out of the country. It is the surest way to forestall the famine that is otherwise inevitable. Last year, with only 1,7G0 people, there was much suffering, and for weeks the miners had to go on half ratiOns There are about three thousand more people up there now than there are provisions for, and it would be far easier to deport them to a base of sup plies than to attempt importing the means of subsistence
 A waiter that lay on the table by which Mir Ladue sat contained an aS- sortment of gold nuggets that every one in the room was tempted to finger The dull yellOwish hue proclaimed their auriferous character. They were from the Yukon placers, and ranged in value from s1 to $50. Their presence led the Post reporter to ask MT. Ladue if he thought that those gold fields would soon be exhausted or would they continue to give forth vast quantities of the precious metal
 'sThe development so far,'' he an swered lis only starter. There is no telling what enormous quantities of gold remain to be taken out The work has just commenced. The boats that will come down next spring vii bring 15,000,000, though some goo6 judges say the amount will be $20, ,000, 600. Men who have been all over the world, and have mined in Australia South Africa, and our western states are positive in their belief that thi: is the richest strike that has beer made since men first undertook t6 dig the metal from mother earth.''
 'I had the unpleasant experience of being in .hold-up' of a stage coach out in Idaho within a shorl time of my settlement there,'' said Mr E. B. McCowlin of Boise at tht Raleigh.
 "A couple or road agents did tht trick One of the ruffians stood by the side of the coach and held his gu1 on the victims while the other wen through the passengers in the mos approved highwayman style. They didn't get much of my money, bu did relieve me of a valuable golt watch that am now carrying, havins recovered it from a pawnshop in Sc attle. Both the robbers were caugh eventually, and are doing time il Western penitentiarjes.
 t'The one that g2t my watch, il betting about the fair afterward said that his part was a colossa coward, and that any passengel had been nervy ,en, h while the mar rator was engaged in footing to hay, knocked him down, that his pal would have run like rabbit, and the scheme would have been a failure. I hay. no dOTht that he told the trrth am