The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-27
WORK AS ILLUMINANT is
sCARCE.
GOLD OUTPUT VILE BE SMALL
STORIES REGARDING SCARCITY OF
FOOD CONTINUEbTO CON-
FLFCT.
NO WAY TO GET SUPPLIES IN,
Seventy Below Zero Re-
corded.

SKAGUAY, Alaska Dec. 17,via Seattle,
Wash, Dec. 26.-John Lindsay of Olym-
pia, Wash, who has just arrived from
Dawson City, says there will surely be
starvation there this winter. He exam
ined into the food situation in thor
ough manner, he says, and after salts
fying himself that there would be star
walton, he sold his outfit and in COM
pany with Frank Bellaine, Of Olympia,
Wash; Tom Story, Of Victoria, B. c.,
and Bob Glynn, of Seattle, started out
on foot, each man drawing sled car
rying about 140 pounds of provisions.
Lindsay says the Dawson people believe
that there is no great amount of food
at Fort Yukon, as has been alleged.
The river rose sufficiently and remained
open long enough to enable food sup
plies to have been brought from Fort
Yukon, had there been any there. The
people of Dawson, believing that there
were not ample food supplies at Fort
Yukon, refused to go there, preferring
to remain at Dawson. No more than
three hundred or four hundred people
took advantage of the transportation
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Fort Yukon free Of charge. When the
miners at Dawson found that no
more provisions would reach the town
by the river route they announced that
a meeting would be held to take steps
for apportioning the provisions In the
town. Those that had plenty. they
said must share with those who had
none. Capt Constantin of the
Northwest mounted police, interfered
and told the miners that no such thing
would be permitted. The meeting was
not held.
Lindsay says the output Of the mi
ners will be greatly curtailed this win
ter because of the scarcity of food and
light Coal oil sold for $45 a gallon
and candles are as high as $3.50 box
of 100. Even If men were able to work
their claims they cannot get light to
do so.
These statements are borne out by
all returning Klondikers, quite num-
Der of whom have reached here the
past week. Few of them take as
gloomy a view of the situation as does
Mr. Lindsay. DR.. B. l.. Bradley, Of
Roseburg, Or, says that food is scarce,
but he does not think that there will
be actual starvation. Neither does w.
B. King, of MERGED Cal; P. ]. Hol-
land, of Butte; Thomas Story, Of Vic
toria, or Robert Glynn, of Seattle, all
of whom reached here this week from
Dawson, the most of them having left
there on Nov. 2. AS an instance of the
scarcity of food in Dawson, Lindsay
relates the case of DR.. Van Zandt,
formerly of Spokane, Wash. Van
Zandt is an elderly man, and, being
without provisions or money, he offered
a gold watch for a sack of flour. He
could not get it, and remarked to
Lindsay: God only knows how I am
to keep body and soul together"
Lindsay says 200 or more miners are
prospecting at the mouth of Stewart
river, but nothing is known as yet as
to what success they achieved.
Henderson creek, five miles below
Stewart river, and forty miles from
Dawson, is a promising stream, and
it is being developed this winter.
The weather about the Stewart and
Big Salmon rivers, had been bitterly
cold 70 deg. beloWz being recorded at
Maj Walsh's camp, twelve miles be-
low the Salmon, oniNov.3 The Yukon
river between Dawson and Fort Pelly
froze completely over on Nov. Is. The
river is piled full Of ice in great ridges
as high as the ordinary house, and a
roadway will have to be cut through
it before dog or horse teams can oper-
ate on it. The outlook therefore, for
taking supplies down to Dawson in the
immediate future is not good
Inspector of Mines 5IcGregor left
here a week ago with a. number Of dog
teams and horses to make the attempt