The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-27

made snch figures as were seea In the
frontier days in Kentucky. One tah
wsaxsned man. with a cooneEan fnsde lA'o
Q cap. stood at tae gangway, ANXIOUS %
get ashore Others with black Rsssttn
caps sad ysIsov raacktnas s STOOD bzsisnd
min. some carrying their packs On fneif
hacks As soor s~ ;he passengers NsHs
released. the kIsndfl<srs were sousht CUT
b. Sozsrs oe rrsea ana women, who eager
" inquired for r,szws concerning friends n
me metropolis o nugget land
Starvation Almost Certain
Ionp Lindsay q resident OF Olympia. who
left this city August 3, last for Dawson,
via the chlEkoof pass. believes mat certain
death stares hundreds Of residents % the
kior6Eke square IN the fare. he Asserts
with emphasis and with all tho positive
cess that he can command. that state
raerfs Indicating that nc danger threatens
tire reorls os the Kiondike camp are un-
true and told with purposs-to diseonr-
age relief expeditions. SO that those who
% take in supplies over the ice ard Stow
In The laG@ winter wiI! make fortunes for
themselves
1T IL my deliberate opinion said Mr.
Lindsay last night. "and my opinion IL
founded on sctQai observations made IL
Dawso;1. tina. unless feod il taken into the
can get up ths Yukon, actual starvation
viii reign there 7 make this statement.
not intending 70 nsedIesr'y alarm any one
who has relatives AZ rawaSn. The simple
truth Of rho matter is that there IL not
sncd enough 90 feed sae people there
through the winter. u Is almost useless
to talk about bringing food ny dog sled
from Fort Yukon. nearly 40 miles from
Dawson There T. TO great amount Of
provisions there Then. too. from 500 10
s@ people vert dewn there frorn Dawson
IN October and with these already there.
II does not seem reasonable that they
would have anr considerable quantity OF
provisions to spare
As "A matter ~ fact there was actual
want in Dawson when 7 left there DO
rot mean that any one was starving 10
death. btli there wers lots Of men who did
net see before them any way TO get
through the winter. and have anything TO
eat One miner from seatsle--h!s name IL
si"rrison~said within my hearing that he
could not possibly work e rich claim OF
which he Is possessed 80 he did not have
food enough. fie said that he might pos
sihty get through tiil next summer alive
hut u would oniy be by exercising the
greatest economy md strict self-denial.
The old timers In Dawson say that the
camp win see actual want before next
June They say they expect 10 have TO
pay from $50 % s. per pound FOR -four II
~ can BE brought from Circle CITY or Fort
ukpH. They told ME thar the Transfers
would charge a. least g So for fgeigh;ing
Provisions over the lee from Fort Yukon
ans that they would have ia pay from q
10 ss-so per pound for {. there This would
bring the osts4of food from Fort Yukon
up 70 the figure named
W hen left Dawson November . T was
tod by the mounted police that 50 were
preparing to come ont over the Tee 10
pyea- Many more were getting ready 20
80 down the river over the Ice TO Fort Yu-
Ron. have no doubt that miners will be-
coming out TO the coast during the entire
winter
I have heard some figures given as 20
me number OF people in the Klondika
camp. ineluding Dawson. II II my belief,
and this opinion IL founded largely upon
the estimates made by the Canadian r,a-
lice. that there were close on 20 10 nla
people In the place at the beginning Of Oc-
foher. ] was told that there were s0oo
People TN Dawson early in the summer and
thaf newcomers have arrived almost con-
stanfly during the summer and fall
believe that n relief expedition such
a. Is proposed by the war department. can
be gotten into Dawson I'm time to relieve
hundreds OF men from dire necessity.
cut trail through the Ice gorges OF the
upper Yukon so that a dog team could
make quick passage from the lakes to
DAWSON over the lakes 10 Is good travel.
Ing. From the Hootalingua river 10 Daw.
son the Ice Is piled up I'm great masses,
making II ont OF the question 10 take even
an empty sled along. But with trail GU.
through. dog teams ought 10 make the trip
frcns the pass 10 Dawson In twenty days"
baiiatre Saw No Danger.
II seems 10 ME that people I'm the
states are nsealessly alarming themselves
about the klonaike miners" said Frank
ballaine al the Northern last night.
When ] left Dawson. November 2. the
feeling that prevailed when IL was learned
beyond doubt that the boats would not
set up the river had largely subsidized
The residents OF Dawson were going
about their business. Many had gone down
the river before the fnal freeae-up and
numbers OF others were preparing to come
oht There Is plenty of frozen meat at
Dawson. They are short of -four and
some other articles. But no one I'm Daw-
son expects 10 starve this winter. al
though. doubtless. their Christmas din
ners were nothing like those you folks had
dosn here
The steamer that came rp the river
in the early part OF October took nearly
no people down to Fort Yukon and tayrd
tao aarges with 500 more In addition
there were nearly 80 that were xetting
their dogs and preparing TO 60 "a Fort
yukon ever the lee. It was stated nv the
agents Of the trading companies At pa,v-
son that there was food IN great rirn.,,
M Fort Yukon and all who cotfd vera
urged 10 so down there for the winter
At the same tigre. the trading companies
We're making al, preparations 10 bring
food by horse ara dog teams az soon az
the river frn~a un Sc IS 20 make travelling
possible They seat down a barge loaded
with eighteen horses and big Ia, ~ dos
80 So 20 have tho fre'ghtlng teams all
Fesey when the to- formed over the river
After the nFst freeze the river eraraf
again and there VAS two weeks I'm which
II seemed certain that some 90 the steam
trs would Tet ~ 70 Dawson from, fYrrIs
Cits. The trading companies said that BE-
vcua aotihs f9ei would bt hroush, nm he.
fo-e the final freeze. The river rose cen
ste.ahly, SO that II seemed possible Par
thc steamers 20 cross the bars Ru; :hev
never came
''>seariy AL travel II STONED on ,ha
river. sscsp. on fte rart of the Canadian
peisfe weo are taking TN supplies for ,As
reifcf % MAJ Walsh ard PARTY q, Rle
Salmon. We met ths relief expedition
~f'h about tortv horses ut Lake Hinder
mar They were making GOOD progress
anf hat ever txenty tons ~ provisions
Hundreds % men ara sucau,ncsi sar n,
Writer s1aeg re river from . point ~
r'''"s fro1n Dawson ~ - the Lakes
These reere visit help al who are shott
80 food as long they can
T." weather vas - remedy cold rcr,-
'~s o1t We started w''A s1eAs ana ~
"aa-ts - ~r'fh - tSe rre- W. walk,
sioae no shove - unt.t Nove.sNer -
~Aer ths river f~or~ svc~ Then We ia