The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-08-17
WARNED FROM VICTORIA.
Seattle Miner Advises Friends TO Buy
0utfzts at Home-Gh per, Even
With Daty Added

That Seattle s the best place 20 outEt
fer the ksondike ard the Yukon basin Is
shown BY latter written ~ 3 c. Harnil-
ton 70 friend IN this city Mr.. Hamilton
was a passenger en- the Islander, and vas
forced 70 pay daty on his 0Etfsl az Nicto-
ria Nevertheless. he says &c saved EnoEsy
b. buying a. home. IL was Mr. Hamils51
who recovered Dwight FowIer's body after
the drowning 81 Sksggay. The letter,
which IS dated August l. says;
We are aground IN WrznssI narrUws.
having struck At 3 tsw minutes after a
IL today. They are trying 20 make -
without an American piAct ard the plot
they have. L woUlt seen does ROT know
the channel re i trying % get or BY re
yerslng the engines but Sill We stick. ard
Wei have 10 WaiS for the tie
W Gather has been cloudy ard cool since
the day we left Victoria thursday. ard
We seem 10 Dc getting into The region q
b@d weather.
health ard spirits. wiSa hope srid Sigh.
However. II ws had the start % make
over again, ! Do not believe ore Of the Sc
IA. or or an English ship They delayed
Is day at Victoria. and csachsd - for
double the amount OF freight we have.
Il any q your friends aEe coming, tell
them to keep away from Victoria ana the
- Elgtsa ard Canadians
They have some customs oHlcers
aboard Seine have paid their duties ard
others have not. We % not intend 70 pay
until we have 10. A United States Gus
toms officer came aboard yesterday eVea-
Tag. ard now the CanucAs are uneasy
one can outfit 81 Seattle enough cheaper
than AZ Victoria 70 pay the duty, which
s. our ease will bs 80 or - each.
The fare on the hoat = reasonably eood.
considering the number they have 70 feed,
except the coffee which IA vie. We have
slept on the hurricane deck n our blankets
every night except the night We LETT sat
Il from the start. and Think we are get
ting t0aghened 70 IL IN good shape
abos5 = c'cIock rhis morning. TIE cap
tain thinks We vii reach juneau about y
o'clock, and want 10 mall this 80 y VIII
core down on TIRE Mexico. Conditions are
came cut about 3 o'clocs. and remained
bright and warm al afternoon but We
had Iasssd ne g.ss.e ,s as !. a,eo eo. az
ard we we're sailing IN vide channel. 50
~ couldn't get any pictures
NE win ges to Dyea sire TIRE toner
dav or 50 behind We p2SSs1 the Queen
yesterday afternoon
We calculated NE had provisions
enough ~ ore year. bat z CIR a7pstfSss
coutirua a. ~ present We VIII probably
have shortage. Our hard york VII Froo-
absy begin about Tuesday.
oniy seattle Has Mastered the Art.
The htxh-class trailing OF Seattle cut
filters fo- The Yukon and kIond.ks trade
Is referred 20 by s p LSErstLea. 3
wealthy New Yorker. IN note . s1sT-
wood Glmespy yesterday. Nr. LzU-irzsu.
accompanied b. BIS wife ard son, Is pas
sezce- On Ire Humboldt. ard VIII spend
The wiE1er IN Jha Arctic he says:
- learn This morning that the Humboldt
Is a. neg dock. 50 We nay g. Cl- iE1s
afternoon OF evening and therefore take
this last opportunity 20 hank you s11-
cerelv for rre great trouble you have AK
e. r. introducing uys X and my soa ID
ths merchants e your czEy. In coming
over OF ne Canadian P2efae Tas-Tua1 !
heard 50 T1Gczz OF ina Advantage OF buy
irE z N.csCrta ttag ! o@EHD 20 feel i BAD
uaa6e q mistake = nv PLACES. sGE after
arriving 6Sre and seeing Ire StccE yo1r
merchants wSre prepared wl-1. ! a, oDce
came 10 Tie conclusion thai rot only VAS
I fortunate ia nos going . Victoria, ezE
ase1 in rot Netl-E ou- e New York as 1
srs- thuUxht % Go fer 7 Vii te1 wa.
IS have ;osa several q yosz- merchants.
thas New Gc~S does nos EEow ~ a = L
O. 1ettNT cUf Tor SllC1 Al sNnss4triCf ard
Eha aE=raE s prices htrs aEe s. 2ow fST a.
ordinary buyer IS Ia New York. I 1n4
that 7 have ca-teG rwo y lEcnasters VITA
ne frr-g Nm ] 1rk and could have eo1 GIT
saern EaTe for me same money. Dt course
: may save k4d c3El a6v4nIzgs OF a.
ceGnt u your k.1d assistance. AID nv
WEfl and SCR totr ire - expressing or
sharkx 20 yoa ard reEre- 1nst ws nav -o-
II sbls % calA CT yoa and yoGr family De-
f1Ss lsay3-g-
Everything at Reasonable Cost.
Tn4 Pnta3elphia party. which sailed ~
the FaTaIlo1 1asg uiga,, arrived here FRI