The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-11-29


B veek9 a9o. only their most dire
& - nave been more than fulfilled.
IS - number CT people that
- Waiter In the country last yesr.
8 r. ~ : Il - scareeIy more than half enough
- e Eeep body and soul together until
|ssSsSs beats can reach the digSinxs.
#@4 1no women and children Of DAw-
q - teae face - face with eaunt famine
ae sa4 A4ow tna4 - get out OF the country
! ~ iano routes 10 tide water In q task
49, t11AS the fula strength Of the most
4 - Any season, and IL filed with
- thly possibilities II this season Of the
Netles u ~ imoroyiden. and unpro-
4 49, 70 1T out Of the country al all
qM11Ge has been served By the Canadian
ia lii 1he o1ieial notice vas posted
fype soon After Capt. Hznsoa
DAwson City September ~, with
Seeyify1nG in4elligence that no boats
IL 1904 could possibly reach the camp
fwo % n.aasrs, ~i,o had seen enough Of
# $1,000 - e0couraGe them into getting out
& q fast q they could. were posing up the
u1ao uve or Mn weeks ago, oa their way
y The coast and civilization.
THY passed frUm fifteen TO twenty-five
E0aO per day, all bound for the land of
nj ~ they poied iaboriousiy by TIE
efent paruA. one Of the t~o would
svhess re - from?"
1onefle," came over the icy waters.
yheEe re re goin'?''
winds.
'sYou'n - hsli fore spring."
= NAN with . truck load Of potatoes.
ooer md salt pork in the Kiondike today
eo0ld buy m interest ia almost any OF the
< GDoge valuable claims on the piacer-yielding
eteeAn4 Gold IL drug on the market.
0pA tpo4, dsarer almost than life itself.
~ tne prt4a of which men, women and chill
AEen dream through the long. troublous
nights.
Z Some u the people who live in Dawson
1eyo grub This IL reflection that las
ne1n made by hundreds Of improvidents.
M with e has come the thought that a
Nlfe o. gun might be brought to play
8 ~ N arbiter In 4 dispute between men,
NAefo The question Was one OF death or
fco4 Already two men have paid the pen
s Atty fer stealing the food that was held TO
; ~ Wofe precious than Iifs itself. ana 9TH
-, ez1ven TO desperation and suffering by
fht 1N34 consequences Of their own foot
Aau13ness. viii probably add their lives to
4he number Of famine's victims.
Only the fear Of the Canadian mounted
Police has prevented wholesale sacking
u the warehouses where was stored the
4 4oo6 that had been bought and paid for
W0utnA ago ana could nave Deen DDuRnt
{ And sold again q score OF times since then.
DNt It Ii entirely possible that the Cana
611u authorities will seize all Of the food
a the djsgings. and issue rations daily to
those In the camp who have nothing. taking
therefor cash or LABOR In payment.
Only the miraculous VIII prevent the fiii-
one Of the cemeteries around Dawson be-
4Ween now and the arrival OF those harbin-
esrs Of health and life-the supply boats Of
The transportation companies that may be
axpected TO reach Dawson by the middle
Of next June. 1t IL estimated by men now
on thu ground that at least two thousand
hapleee. luckless human beings are ice
bound In the KlondIke, with scarcely
enough food to keep them alive through
che long winter.
How to get these people 10 where the
food II cached. at Fort Yukon. 400 miles
below Dawson. or at Dyea. an equal dis
lance towards the coast line. is the grave
probjem over which the authorities at the
mining camp are now worrying. That
hundreds seized boat and padded for
dear life down the Yukon after the dread
news was spread throughout the camp, on
Capt. HanScn's Arrival. Is known. To hum
1redp OF others. however. the prospect In
that direction was little better than q life
and d6ath struggle with famine Itself. To
this class, the men who had iabored hard
through the long summer days for a grub
stake. the prospect was most terrifying.
Z 70 50 % Fort Yukon for the winter meant
the expenditure OF all their savings before
oprtng, with no means left them TO get
hack to the camp. To stay meant almost
certain famine.
The City Of 8eattie's passengers from
0yea Bkaguay and Juneau to Seattle and