The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-16
Passengers on the Excelsior Fear
Great Suffering.
ELI GAGE WAS NOT ASSAULTED
Man Horsew hipped by Miners Was
Not the Secretnry's Son-Safe
Cracksmen Attempt a Big Rob-
bery-A Concert Singers Experi-
ence Among the Gold Seekers.

San Francisco. Sept. 16.-The long over
due searIcr, Excelsior. OF the Alaska
Commerciai Company arrived this morn
Ing from 81. Micliaels with great aiuoun
dust and nuggets aboard worth nearl,
S250rO0. 1be Excelsior brought sixty
two passengers, ali from Dawson or Circl,
City. Among them were Louis sloss
| ir-, Domiaion Land Surveyor orilvie and
Jack Moo Question, who had spent twenty
! four yeats in the Yukon country.
All OF the Excelsior's passengers re
port the situation at Dawson to be sc
riouS. They repeat the story thats pro
visions are very scarce, and predict thai
sickness and death viii follow il provis-
lone are not rushed up in time TO save
the settlement Nearly all of the new
coInefs failed TO bring more than q halr
gea;'s supplies. and many have been
forced to return via Chilkoot.
TIE Alaska Comnaercia al Company'sa gents
estimated that there are a bout 5,oo0p people
al the mines about 1900 OF whom have
arrived sdncelast April.
W ntb tie EAStADf pdSSeueeTS ie IL
Dawson the people there tad mo iae
of the great rush of fortune-seekers to the
north.
Louis SIoss. jr-, OF the Alaska Comrner-
cal Company, said:
Il ADVISE any man with the klonelik q
fever to stay away from the YrE.- .his
RiEter. IL there is not famine In Daw.
son this winter then I will be greatly
surprised. Our company VIII do it's hest
to supply the demand, and other con-
panies VIII do likewise, but ii is almost
il. psssi bic 10 feed this unprec e,erited
rush up there this winter"
AI. William Cannon. of Montana, a ras-
seIirer ON the Montana, says the man Gage
reported horsewhippcd by miners for bring
Irc ia whisky, WAS not Eli Gage, son OF
Secret aiy Gage.
Il went up in company with Gage and
his wife. said he, land he cane down
with US 10 Forty Mile.'
Cannon SAYS he escaped sickness by
caIupng on a hill above Dawson swamp
and blinking water from a mountain
spring inSteadOf che muddy Yukon.
He declares that the Canadian govern
ment is strict, but Just, in dealing with
thdt SuSht 10 10 10" hcS>iitsn
Talescf duties un outfits and horses are Idle
and untrue.
Miss Oussie La nIure, who went to Id wsun
CITY via Chilkoot r ass last April to sing d.
the Arctic cperatic HOUSE, returned on the
Excelsior.
My SIN weeks put in at the diggings W as
by no means an enjoyable PERIOD she
Us. There was plenty of money to be
made, but food was poor and scarce. and
mosquitoes were something dreadful. They
gave Tue no peace all day and night. l do
moi think money issny return for the misery
one must suffer in that country
Jus: before the steamer cleveland sailed
from 81. Mchaels on her last trip an at
tempt was made TO rob the bg safe in the
North American Transportation and Trad
ing Companys office at that point. The
safe contained quantities OF gold and other
: slualles, amounting to about 81 ,oco 600.
The attempt was Eaade by expert safe
crackers, and h AL they had half an hour
more tiIne. it is thought they would have
been successful. The burglars must have
been frightened away The folio wing morn
Ing the agent of the company found the two
outside doors of the safe wide open, and a
little pile Of steel filings on the floor Sus-
picion pointed To two individuals who came
up from San Francisco. An attempt will
b. made 10y the local police to trace the
fwo men an,: arrest them