New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-24
RUSHING or TO CERTAIN DEATH.
GOLD HUNTERS ~ THE WHITE PAss-NoT FOOD
ENOUGH or THE YUKON

GOLD HUNTERS ~ THE WHITE PAss-NoT FOOD
ENOUGH or THE YUKON
Seattle Wash. Sept. 23-One Of the passengers to
arrive in this city on the steamer queen from
Alaska was Burton +. Bennett, who was sent
North bv President Cleveland to FIJI the Office OF
Irnited states Distilct-Attorney for Alaska.
"From what can learn" he said. there Is not,
and Will not be- enough food at Dawson city this
winter with favorable weather the trading COM
panles may get more up the river than was ahtci-
pated but It is not likely. il Will be Impossible.
under the most favorable circumstances, 10 get
Sufficient in 70 supply al those who are there. /
feel sure Of that after careful inquiry and from
letters have received from Dawson City.
But. as ] say II Dawson city suffers. think OF
the men on White Pass. The world may not
realize It, but there men up north who are
walking right into death. The snow Is probably
nying On White Pass and II not, soon VIII be
Many propose to winter at Skaguay. but. from
what | can learn, hundreds do not propose 10 stop
there, Will they return to CIVILIZATION Thcy nav"
the gold fever as no other body Of men ever had
II. Every time they hear OF n strike in the Yukon
country they get crazier than ever. They will not
stop for snow; they will not stop for storms. They
will keep pushing over White Pass all winter
Il am satisfied that while the snow Is coming
down in all ~ fury the pass and the wind -
blowing awful gales this winter you Will see men
on White Pass. 1t is frighful thing to think Of,
but Il is true. and these should be stopped. /
would not be surprised TO learn Of any deaths up
there this winter. IL is the most damnable rush
ever heard OF or read Of. These men do not know
ANYTHING about the horrors OF White Pass I'm the
winter time yet they keep on. and just about the
limo that winter IS at Its worst of them will
he caught on White Pass. They viii never escape.
81 am satisfied that those who remain at Skaguay
,tis winter will be ali right Spring VIII be
with them and they start for the North. Once
,hore they Will all come back rich. II they
uillinv 10 stay and work for q few years There Is
"om In every body Of water, big or little. in our
eonntrv Why. the people OF the states. with all
yin he IN the coming spring. From the letters
ha"o received from the States there VIII be ten
,brusnn6 people FL Alaska elk weeks after the
sny,no ru,k has begun. I think the reports about
on mitch crime 81 the vicinity OF Skaguay have
heen eyaegerated. We are doing what we can TO
Deeh s6rder is preserved, and have been
seey,,v snccnssful OF course there are some GRIM
insIs there bat crime IS very small we nave
og;ce,s al sksguay. They VIII winter 'here. ana
look for 10 trouble -. 49,. {. ,h., ,ho t-r,,ed
"0nc thing IS certain. and that Is that INC niIea
s,aIrs Governrnent will have TO take steps at once
-. ct,.. AiasEn new government AT present IL rs
one judicial district. favor threc,oie IG' ,ou,I.
cas-, Alaska one for Western Aiaskh ana onS iof
he Yukon ia that way the country Wouiu Di
VIZ , I Ln'pr roycrnsd II Il murder Is committed
nun ,h Ynn Country in the winter tim" the mur;
dcrer could not be brought 10 the soutn coast u,it
spring think that there shouid De ~, LIZ ~
apOlntcd by our Government 10 iHhP oht u - 80 ~,
laws for The country. At present we u.poiu "pohn
tbs pcvlsed Statutes OF the Initcd oiass. am
when we cannot find what we Whht W ,i. 81, 1871 81
And The land laws should be extenuyu. ~ nin,
one cannot get title 10 land IN Aasn,, , new new
is very Important in Advancing inc ei""" '"' Nv"
legislation for the country"