The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-02-21

sseamshlp AK arrived yesterday morn
ing al 7.s5 Geek from Alaska fs4lAas
h,rornafa~ vas aoticed al the say down.
"a - raa~trg the straits q sHow storm
vs. srrorufarea TIE low barometer Is
se~anntas fer IS the fact Of the AK
huxxing close to the shore on Ehe down
re steamship city OF Topeka, which
saI.ea from here Saturday morning, Feb
YTsarT IA encountered the most severe
starna OF ne winter in Queen Charlotte
sound Her decks we're washed by great
s4as and water broke into the cabin win
ssows aoosEnR the floors knee deep. IL
CRY lasted an hour. but was furious for
the ,fn,e being This was probably the
storm reported several days ago as work
ing northward along the Coast from Cali
foTnia.
The AK had the following passengers
for Seattle. afr. and Mrs. William Muir
phv. Mr.. and Mrs. r. Mason. Mrs William
4 bhots. r Burke. Mrs. Julia GOWNS. "a
]. Hooley. r E. Swinson, L Sanders, Ar.
and Mrs. r. \ Boyle. A Raymond, I. &.
Purgass. Mrs. j. Caldwell. r. A. Barclay.
W. M. CowIey, z. Gage. Miss x Newman
y l. SDatts Mr. and Mrs. q. ". sher-
wood a.lss Grace Sherwood. J. Birch. H
Ettinger, c. {. Burns. Miss VI. Wilson.
Miss A. Ross. SIR. and Mrs w. Halder. c.
Orr, c.. B. Swinehart. Capt W Moore,
Mrs. Mary & Evans and six second-class.
Steamship Al-hl VIII sail for Alaska
Tuesday morning, February =.
@. c. BEETLES. Of Alaska, Is at the North
ern hotel with a party of Montana miners
who are going 10 ina Yukon. Mr.. Beetles
Is connected with a far North publication
called the Yukon Pioneer which IS owned
b. a missionary. Rev. ]. L. Provost. There
are thirty men and ten women in the
party that has already arrived, and by the
time the list is made up Mr. BEETLES viii
have 209 going with him 10 the Eldorado.
Incidental TO his arrival here IL may prove
interesting 70 know that Mr.. Beetles is
the man who gave a truck driver in San
Francisco box 70 deliver. The box con-
tanned SIS Go. and Mr. Beetles was some
what worried and annoyed to discover
that he had forgotten the number and the
box had gone sstray. II was afterwari
discovered among some miscellaneous
freight in a warehouse. much 10 Mr.. Bet
ties relief. The san Francisco papers
gave the story columns OF space.
Another Yukon Party Out.
Another party has made the perilous
winter journey from the Yukon basin TO
juneau and has arrived in safety. Among
the party were Henry Hyde. William Cow
ley. y A Bonniheld and George F. Gage.
The last named is a son OF Lyman j. Gage.
secretary-elsct OF the treasury. and is
brother-in-lsw of =. B. Weare, president
OF the North American Trading and Trans
portation Company. Mr.. Cowley arrived
in this city yesterday on the steamship
Al-KL Mr.. Cowley, accompanied by two
Indians as guides, left Circle City Novem-
Der q, almost a month il advance or the
Richardson party. which arrived here re-
Gently. When about half the journey had
been covered Mr.. Cowley was overtaken
by the Richardson party, and they finished
the trip in company AT Dyea Mr.. Cowley
waited for steamer, while the others
went through TO Juneau by canoe.
Ndr. Gage has been on the Yukon all win
ter, looking over the ground for the North
American Trading and Transportation
Company. lie favors the addition Of one
or more boats TO the fleet now plying on
the Yukon river. and on his return to Chi
cago will press that recommendation with
the directors of the company. This viii
reduce to a minimum the chance Of star
walton among the miners wintering at
Circle City. At the time he left Circle City
his company alone had 700 sacks of -four
and a quantity Of beans. tea, coffee and
dessicsted vegetables.
The Canadian Mail Contractor.
Among the passengers on the Al-Ki who
disembarked at Victoria was Capt. William
Moore. the Canadian NAH contractor, with
mail from the Yukon for Victoria. Capt.
Moore left Victoria 10 take mail into the
Yukon August IS. arriving at juneau
August % aud delivering the mail at Fort
Cudahy September u. at Fort Cudahy
Capt. Moore waited three days, expecting
the steamer Arctic TO come up the river,
and then started down the river for Circle
City 70 meet her. He waited In Circle City
until September * and then started on the
voyage down the Yukon TO St. Michaels
In a small boat, accompanied by four men.
He expected 10 connect with the steamer
Bertha In St. Michaels, but while on the
way down met the steamers Arctic and
Bella and was informed that the Bertha
intended leaving October !. AS he could
not possibly make thu Journey down the
river IN tine 10 catch the Bertha. Capt
Moore and his party boarded the Bella and
started TO return TO Circle City. They
reached their sestinati don late in October
or October /. while three men were taking
the steamers line ashore. their boat cap
sized and ore OF the men named Otto Lin
gren, q native Of Neustat. Finland. was
drowned Capt. Moore eft Forty-AIlls
FOR the trip overland December Z.
Juneau Opera House Burned.
Fire destroyed the juneau opera house
Saturday morning, February 6 Only ths
four walls wers left standing. The fire Ia
thought 70 have been OF inceudiary orig