The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-04
Muscular KL0kDIkERS.
Coserove Returns From the Coast With
News of Them.

news III
| Missoula. March 3.-Ml<e Cosgrove re-
| turned last night from long visit on
| the coast Most of his time was spent
| at Seattle and he brings news from most
of the Missoulans who have started for
the Klondike. He says that the Lyon
Taylor-Mix party got off in the best
shape of any of them. They were not
delayed as long as Seattle as are most
of the parties and their outtit was an ex-
ceptionally good one. Their dogs were
all good ones and their supplies had been
well selected. j. w. Ferguson is keep
ing house in Seattle and expects to re-
main there for some time. Mr.. Cosgrove,
in speaking of the later arrivals from
Missoula, said:
The Brayton- Beaulieu party had
about as hard time as any that | saw.
In the first place, their carload of dogs
that they expected to sell at Seattle was
no good. They could not sell a single
one of them when they got there. Their
friends adv seI them To kill the dogs
and save further expense. but they de-
cided that they could find market for
them at Skaguay. and they loaded them
for shipment to that point. They had
such a large outfit of dogs and horses
that they could not Well afford TO so by
steamer so they took passage on sail
ing vessel that was booked to start at
once. They loaded their outfit and dogs
horses and all We're ready for the start.
The skipper told them that he would
sail as soon as he could get "a tug to
take him out of the harbor. That was
nearly three weeks ago. and they have
not been able to get a tug yet. Their
dogs are dying and they have lost two
of their horses. Each day they were as
sured that they would surely get away
on the next morning, but the tug never
came and when / left they were eX-
pecting to leave on the following morn
ing. Ferguson and | used to make reg
ular trips to the wharf to see them IT,
but each time we had to go back with
out having said goodbye to them.
Finally, two or three days before L left,
Ferguson figured UP that we had been
down there SO times and he had made
up his mind that we we're hoodoos ana
he said that he would keep away and
see If the boys would not have bette:
luck. He stoppei going, but the ship
didn't sail. Maybe they did get away
after | left | hope they did. If they
stay there much longer they VIII not
have a dog left.
j. w. Ferguson did not send any word |
60 his friends here, and Mr.. Cosgrove |
did not know what hi5 plans were He |
will probably return to Missouri later |
in the year when the summer weather |
gets good.
of burros and goats are now being |
shipped up to Alaska instead of dogs. |
He says further that there is absolutely |
no market for dogs either in Seattle or
Alaska. There have been thousands of |
them shipped into the region there and |
but few of them are any good.
In conclusion, MIR. Cosgrove said: Il |
saw all of the klondike that | wanted |
at Seattle. The suffering that will exist |
up there later in the year will be terri |
BILE. I do not believe that the country |
is half what it has been represented to |
lNn ft-t .a,l
that | know of. No man who has good |
sense will think of going up there. The |
real Klondike is Seattle, where every |
body is making money"