The evening times., 1897-08-28
Big Treasure Laden Steamer
About Due at Seattle.
WILL BE Conveyed NEXT TRIP
Miners Are Said to Be Somewhat I'm
easy, Rut Transportation Officials
Say She Is Not Really Due Until
Early Next Vessels sailing
for Skaguay.

ton officials acquainted with the situa-
tiGn are hot expecting the Portland before
Monday or Tuesday. They say she is not
really due before then. She left for st.
Michaels with "a big cargo and may have
been delayed longer than was expected
in discharging it.
Though il is possible for the treasure
ship 10 arrive at an time, the probability is
thai she VIII not be in Seattle before the
middle OF next week The revenue cutter
Rush, which has been inoored in the harbor
for several DAYS, left last night for the
north to Join the Bear in Bering Sea, and
1t is SAID they VIII prepare 10 convoy the
| Portland on her next trip out.
The custom has been for the Pear to be
the last of the Arctic fleet to come cut OF
berIng Sea, following about a month be-
| hind the other vessrls; but Capt. Tuttle,
| of the Bear. has write "A tiis wife that heck
| poets 70 come down this year with the seal
ing fleet.
II IL quite probable that all the revenue
vessels in Bering sea waters will be de-
| layed 10 convoy the Portland on her last
| trip of the season Some doubt is eX
prcSsec OF the prudence OF the Portland in
attempting &c transport SO much treasure
as VIII probably come down about Octo-
| bCr L.
II has teen thought thatit would be bet
| ter To transfer the treasure TO revenue cut
ters, or divide il among different vessels
coming down at that time. Then If one
boat is lost, was the Mexico, all or the
| gold would not be lost.
Il ic S..ih hat h.a .intr feel
safer if their treasure were in the nGga
Zine of revenue boat. On Government
boais tslere are always twenty uIen awake,
and one OF these boats rarely meets withan
accident. To carry gold the revehue cut
ters would need to have orders from the
| Treasury Department.
The steamer Topeka sailed Yesterday
afternoon for Dyea and Skaguay
A letter has bean receivedin n Seattle from
| w +. SSiIlings. an architect who designed
and built the Washington State Worlds
Fair Building in chicago. Sklings is now
trying to make his way to Dawson over the
Skaguay trail Ia his letter dated August
/ 9, Mr.. SkillinGs says:
I'VE held miners meetlnglast nj ght and
| shuttle the trailoa which several hundred
n en- are working and wiillet no one through
until the trail is completed. | learned from
Jack Scurry that the trails not nearly 50
bad as Ia any Ire has seen in Washington and
even in King county.
Jack Day. a Dawson mail carrier has just
arrived with the regular mail, Ia wing made
a quick trip. Day purchased claim be-
fore he left Dawson from a man who was
compelled to leave the country OH account
OF Illness He paid $4,000. for it. and 1t
will make him Independently wealthy.
Day sa VS. il seems funny that the papers
maze 30 much fuss over Jack Lippy down
| below. Why, in Daw son. he was hardly a
factor. There wei cman : who hadmuch bet
ter claims and more c money. Dayis going -
take his wife with him next trip. He told
me that from what he knew of people who
had gone down the river TO come IA tie
States on the Portland, that the vessel
would bring cut not less than go, 000,oU0.
Another letter which S full OF int crest
comesfron Dawson City, and itwas written
by william Kerr, who says:
I'VE arrived here safely a few days ago.
and are rapidly getting acquainted with
the greatest gold camp in the world. 1t
is strange how other camps along the
river have been deserted for Dawson
and Klsndike. Forty Mile is absolutrlyde
prteG, and there are but three or four
people at Circle City. Men left what were
considered most valua BILE claims to come
TO this new field. Perhaps YOU will be
Interested in some Dawson prices.
Flour is 81 . per one hundred pounds;
bacon, 65 cents per pound; sugar, 35 cents:
Leans, 2 cents: butter, 81 so per pound:
rice. 25 cents per pound: corn meal $40
per sack; canned goods, rs cents per can.
ChJthing is very dear. Underclothes. the
kind You can buy in Jun eau for 81 a suit,
will bring SO and more in Dawson.
There is going to be zig shortage ofpro-
visions here this winter, unless every one
brings in a big supply There have been
veryfew accident son the river this year All
the accidents that did happen were caused
by insecuoe anG narrow boats. Tell every
one 10 build wide boats, and the kind that
cannot upset easily Very little work is
beng done now on the Klondike claims, and
prospecting is very difficult, owing to srnoke
from foreS. fires and countless mosquitoes