The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-24
LAsHEs FOR ELI GAGE.
Twenty-Five Strokes ON the Bare
Back by Dawson City Miners.

Twenty-Five strokes on the Bare
Back by Dawson City Miners.
Correspondence of the Chicago Record.
st. Michael, Alaska, Sept. (via S. S.
Humboldt. The North American Trans
portation and Trading Company's steamer
Weare and the Alaska Commercial Com
pany's steamer Alice arrived from up the
river Sunday. and they report that people
are pouring into Dawson City at the rate
of over 100 day from overland. without
provisions, and that there will certainly
be q famine there this winter. The miners
are greatly worked up over 1t, ana many
who contracted with the trading COM
pany last spring have not received their
goods One of the boats came up loaded
with hardware and whisky instead OF pro-
visions, so they took ELI Gage, stripped
him and gave him twenty-five lashes on
the bare back for bringing whisky in
place of grub. They say they will staVe
in the head of every barrel of whisky
brought up. The Healy started out sun
day morning, met the Weare coming in
the harbor and returned and, II Is said
removed the whisky and took on provls-
ions instead. The North American Trans
portation and Trading Company has sew
eral thousand tons of goods piled on the
shore here, and is unable TO get them up
the river There are great many bar
rels of whisky here in bottles, etc. phea
UP among the stores.
We left Seattle on the Humboldt, steam
er of about 800 tons. which formerly ran
between Eureka and San Francisco, Cal,
and which was chartered by the Seattle
and Yukon Commercial Company OF Sc
attic, of which Mayor w. ID. Wood OF
Seattle is apparently the head. They
Ia..IA q q
$50 900 for the trip to this point. We were
TO sail from San Francisco Aug. and
Seattle Aug. 10. After some delay in coal
ing, etc. al Seattle we were ready to sail
on the nth, but could not, as the ship
was attached by the United States mar
shall and put in his charge on complaint
of some of the passengers as the snip at
tempted 10 sail without some of our pro-
visions, and 1t simply meant starvation
for those whose provisions were left be-
hind, as IL will be impossible 10 get pro-
visions for love or money on the Yukon
this winter. This was considered a low
trick on the part Of the company, as we
pay $500 for a passage to Dawson City
and can take 900 pounds of provisions at
10 cents a pound, which we have ell done,
in addition to $50 pounds of baggage al
lowed. When they saw the passengers
were determined TO make them take our
food or stop the enterprise il was all put
aboard, and we sailed on the 18th, packed
six to "a state room intended for two.
I have never seen Ia all my experience
such treatment as we received aboard
that ship. We were herded like so many
cattle, and the food and service were
vile. Fresh provisions soon spoiled as
the Ice gave out the second day and we
were eleven days reaching this port.
They gave us water TO drink that was in
the fire buckets on deck. l saw passen-
gers washing in 1t before 1t was dumped
into the tanks.
We arrived at Dutch Harbor Aleutian
Islands in seven days after leaving Sc
attle and before we could tie at the
Alaska Commercial Company dock there
most of the 200 passengers made a wild
rush for the company's store and laid in
a stock of canned goods, and some of
them lived on them until we arrived here
-Four of US at Dutch Harbor bought can
ned goods and took them to a native hut
had them cooked and had two good meals
ashore there. / was surprised to find the
islands as fertile as they are, for the
ground is rich black and the islands are
covered with grass a couple Of feet long
but there is no timber of any kind on
them. We caught a lot Of cod in the har-
Dor, weighing from ten to fifteen pounds
each. The waters are alive with fish in
Boring sea, and In throwing the lead
with four or five hooks attached baited
with salt pork, a cod can be brought up
on every hook. There must be the great
est cod banks in the world there The
whole sea is very shallow. and we had to