The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-22
WIDOWS TROUBLES ENDED
WEEDS OF LAMENfYNG EXCHANGED
.oR GARMENTS OF JOY.
City of Columbin at Last Brought
10 . Happy EndtDE-New Plan
for Operasinx the Biz Vessel.

The New York widows who came around
Cape Horn II the steamer City Of Column
hsa bound for tie K.oadlse were happier
yesterday than they have been since the
big liner was held up for debt. They
learned for the first time that The Efforts
OF Russell Colgrove and John p. jacobsen
10 have the iaeis dismissed have been
successful Better ssia taey were toid
that their tickets from The Columbia Navi-
CATION and Trading Company wouli be
honored by the new company that IS TAX
ing hold OF the vessel.
The widows. some CT them AZ least. have
hesn dreaming OF q long tramp back 20
New York, and nearly al OF them have
about given UP hope OF ever getting 20
Dawson Mrs Hacnah Csou.d. who engi1-
eered at least q portion OF the female ex-
odus 20 the great gold fields. - cvsrfoyed
AZ tire lucky turn things have taken She
was very much hurt that the old company
did not carry oae the contracts Il had
made All the other passengers. OF whom
there are some thirty-fsve. viii be allowed
20 continue the voyage TO Dawson In the
steamer without additional charge.
Shorty after the arrival OF the City OF
Columbia al this port from New York.
libel suits aggregating some ss.tso we're
Navigation Company held up their hands
in horror. The crew had claims against
the vessel for some sia,tta. and United
States Commissioner kiefer swore out
some fifty intervening suits President
Kent, OK the company owning the vessel.
then 1beled her for 81. loa assigned claims
Of Eastern concerns which QUILTED her.
The bostomry bond foated at Valparaiso.
Chile, amounting 10 some s-1.oo. was a-so
flied as a libel
Russell Coigroye, OF Washington city.
formerly with the Maine Coast Steamship
Company, had come 10 Seattle 70 be gen.
eral manager OF the steamer. He at o1cs
started in TO get the vessel out OF he.
financial difficulties, bat found il uphill
work. Money was the only thing thas
would do il. and money he raised. Il viii
take some Xo.ooo 10 straighten things our.
II is said that all the libe!s will be re-
leased on Monday. The Kent nhe. has
already been withdrawn. The crew have
assigned their claims and Coigroye and
his associates are ready 20 settle FOR them
An an1icahIe adjustment has been had
with the holders of the botto-nry bond.
The City OF Columbia will De operated
by the Empire line. with Russell Co.groye
and John =. Jacobsen as managers They
have leased the vessel from the Columbia
Navigation and Trading Company for a
term OF years. The river steamers W. H
Evans and Northern Light will carry the
Coiumbia's passengers from St. Michael
10 Dawson
Mr.. Co,grove was seen yesterday by a
Post-Inteliigeneer reporter and said:
The financial difficulties OF the much
talked of steamer have been Strengthened
out She will he run by the Empire line
company under lease from ner owners
We shall fix her up for the Yukon traffic
at once. Some boiler repairs. necessary
q a yxft To hS IL
but otherwise the steamer is In excellent
condition. We shat. dock her fin few
days. and she VIII be thrown open to the
inspection OF the public