The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-29
MORE GOLD FROM KL0NDIKE
PARTIES BRING S6o, ,00o IN DUST ON
 CITY OF SEATTLE.

Stories of Passengers Agree That There is
 a Shortage of Food at Dawson City That
 Fort Yukon Where There Are Some
 Provisions.
 men arrived here to-day on the City of Seattle, direct from Dawson City. They were divided into two parties, the last one of which left Dawson, October 16, and are reported to have between them S60,000 in gold dust All tell stories of food shortage in Dawson that is al- most famine. When Dalton left two steamers had reached Dawson loaded light. It is said that the steamers cargo consisted of whiskey. The Ca- nadian mounted police chartered the Bella and gave all who wished free pass to the Yukon. The Bella is re- ported to have left about October 12 with 200 men. According to the state- ments made by members of the Dalton party, there is liable to be trouble of the most serious kind this winter in Dawson.
 Men gather in groups there and curse with might and main the new- corners that are constantly arriving in the Klondike loaded with scarcely any provisions. The mounted police were offering free transportation to the grub placers to the Yukon, but the prospect was uninviting, to say the least. It would take all their expected earnings this spring to pay their living expenses. John w. Beauer, the United States mail carrier, who left Dawson, September 27, said: There is only one salvation for the miners who are now at Dawson City, and that is for them to undertake the awful trip from Dawson to Fort Yukon, distance of 400 miles. There is food at Fort Yukon, there is none at Dawson and just as sure as the stars shine starvation will be the fate of the people in Dawson. When I left Dawson the men who were there had only two monhts' food supply and some had four or five days supply, The restaurant closed the night left. It had been selling nothing but beef steak, for which the hungry paid g. When the people realized that the boats would be unable to get up the river, they knew that starvation threatened them and a great stampede began"
 H. A. Ferguson said: "'The situation at Dawson was relieved by the exodus to Fort Yukon. doubt if there will be any actual starvation there, but there will be shortage. The old timers have, provisions enough to carry them through The stores are nracticajly cleaned out. All they would sell was five pounds of sugar to the man. Flour could not be bought at all. One or two sacks were quickly picked up at $200 per sack. Wages are still $15 Q day, but they are sure to go down to $S next summer, and at that price there is no more than $1.50 day outside''
 Thomas Magee, the well known capi- talist of San Francisco, in an interview with the correspondent of the Associat- ed Press, said: 1.-The excitement over the failure of the steamers to bring food up to Dawson continued when the Dalton party left The policetook charg5 for two days of the stores and ware- houses of the Northwestern and Alaska Commercial company as a precaution only. No plans have yet been formu- lated to prevent the starvation of those who are short of provisions. It had not been discovered to October 16, who fatally shot the two men in Dawson who were caught stealing food. Dysen- tery and accompanying features were general at Dawson last summer, caus- ed by swamps on which the town is built poor drainage and sewerage.