The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-29

On Hanker creek, and that creek is ex-
peFt&uc3Eg boom
There are 1850 o. 500 people az Daw-
son and vicinity and two-tairds OF them
are engaged in mining or prospecting.
wages are s. 70 $50 per hour. Every
Maa WHO has 81 outfit car get employ
the weird.
L would like 20 impress the people with
re Tact that they must not SO IN there
"Nheet outfits, depending upon getting
supplies from the companies. for the com
pa'ses VIII hare all they can do % supply
old customers
The storm which we encountered .,
tue summit was the worst ] ever saw and
we were lost time and again. / would not
atterapt 20 get through again n such a
storm FOR Thousand dollars. When we
got 10 Sheep Camp and got square meal
We were the happiest lot Of men you ever
Safes Corded With Gold.
DoeSon. OF Seattle, made a quick trip out
and Dohsor met with the most terrible
experience Of any man who got through
IL - only through the exercise Of fore
slght and thought that he lives TO tell the
story or how nearly he came 20 losing mis-
legs oy freezing. They started November
Win I'VE dogs and 675 pounds OF sup
j hey Rad TWO sIeds fastened together with
rope and found this arrangement very
advantageous. The dog teams and sieds
COST sl.aoe and when they got ready 10
leave they were offered 81. 800 for them
Dobson was running ahead and mile
neiow Little Salmon he broke through the
thin ice and went down in the
zero, and there was no timber
handy. But Barnes had taken the
precaution 20 have his kinding ready
IN the stove. He got the stove of and lit
a nre as soon as possible. but Dobson's
clothes had frozen the instant he stepped
out or the water. So quickly did Barnes
get fire going that Dobson escaped with
only the bottoms Of his feet frozen. 1t
was 275 miles out and Dobson had 10 walk
on frozen feet all that distance. He came
out by Dyea, while Barnes pushed
through by the Skaguay pass. Harry
Jones and William Kingston left Dawson
with them, but they were not out Yet
when the steamer left Skaguay
L brought out the first dog team that
ever came out over the Skaguay trail.''
said Mr.. Barnes. Il have been In the
Yukon two years and have claims on beth
Eidorado and Bonanza. AS had no grub
10 work them. / got permission to leave
them. let lays on them, but the men
had TO leave for Circle City on account
Of the lack OF grub. l just got up few
weeks ago from an attack OF typhoid
fever 1t took Us twenty-seven days to
come OUT
Speaking OF the food situation, Mr.
Barnes said: ''In my opinion there will
be no starvation at all. There is limited
amount Of provisions at the present time.
but Circle City and Fort Yukon are so
near that they can be reached. l think
at least 5000 men have already gone down.
A dog team is not needed to go there and
IL takes eighteen days 10 walk down and
haul the sled. There are many sloughs
and bayouS below Dawson which makes
shedding easy. The police advised all TO
go and both eompa MES furnished trans
portation. Hundreds who came down be-
fore the river closed never stopped at
Dawson to cook a meal. but went Eight
on down. There is a cord OF gold IN the
Alaska Commercial Ccmpany's safe the
size of piano, and the same in the North
American Transportation & Trading
Company's safe. They have so much that
they decline to keep any more for the
miners"
OF Snohomish county people on the
klondike. Mr.. Barnes said: Mr.. Petit,
OF Snohomish. located claim on Boz
nanza In the nineties above. Pete Boyce
has two claims just above. George James
is rustliug hard 1t was reported that ex-
Sheriff Hogan and party had been
drowned, bu. he turned up all right
party in a boat disappeared opposite
Lousetown and was never seen again.
THE newcomers took up claims which
we old men would not touch. They make
money out Of 10 and 15-cent ground, White
we wanted nothing less than 50 or S..
Sulphur and Dominion creeks Will hardly