The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-05-05
skagway and Dyea.

yl!ilA4f ~ s4ssFssey ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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uq.8u. skagway and Dyea.
thriving little city, and
. r -lbstantial than Wrangel,
.e. -Nea Like other Alaskan
.med in on three sides by
. fountains. Not being an
.. uut of departure for the
g.. navlng within its own bor-
...... VIZ miles away the largest
me world-the famous
l50 stamps, with as many
..s he added-Juneau depends
sient excitement for her
Treadwell mines, ON Doug
.. Sc bnilt up around them a
called Douglass City.
a,- an immense profit on ore
ID. HobJ B in gold to the ton;
...Ir-.s so large, the ore so album
and labor so cheap, that
0a lining riches for its own
H-.l U.s. "a tFeS0Nterlan tnurcD ana
hurch; but no other. There
uua-- i Methodists in the place,
eligious home. Just as we
~ Wrangel, Mr.. Nordwig, of
I-- Inference, Informed us that
laeGiately proceed with the
4 IT 4 church in that place.
...- he the next to introduce
ua at Skagway Sunday morn
RS I.41l it to be the muddiest and
81 ,l-r-elble place we had ever seen.
is The entrance to the White
y living rapidly. Owing to the
atT-Ia.ruee Of crime, it is now under
-4 ln There have been within a
7ek~ a large number of sudden
l doctors say from cerebo
Ja mea.g gifts: but Skagway's business
b ASST -lat it is pneumonia. The
.t-- are ulubably correct. The victim
Ia4 -, within twenty four hours
e % Etacked, and not one case has
M VIZ had talk with a leading
.a. .s44l If Skagway pierre Humbert,
Of BOSTON, and he says that
.r sicEness and death in the place
el.el. ggerated There is a Union
lr- 1.t town.
f-l.-at great disadvantage in dock
Ion-far behind Skagway,
It is distant but four miles
anal. There is bitter ii
p He etep these two places -Dyea
--f ulrance of the Chilkoot Trail
a- Ids and Skag way at the en-
HI a= White Pass or Skagway
'a IL, mt one church, and it is a
-tIch. Rev. c. j. Larsen, the
member of the Scandinavian
church, and had his home
81. t-.iSco. His little church is
& >sful. was present sun
--al- March -. There were fully
-4e service, filling the audience
- 81. 44t about ten being men. Mr..
F1 WUoonage consists of one room
inns being the size of his cabin.
alPpg, hopeful and full of plans
ri9-Vre Of onr church in Alaska.
3rs to follow the hundreds of
8@laa If cold seekers now pressing
'-5 .-'eror He needs and deserves
SUBSTANTIAL sympathy of Methodism.
s1lra- Dyea is The First Metho-
Auloh Il Alaska"
= "4sHd yesterday over the Ohilkoot
9 & The Summit-the most difficult
'..- 9i Inc route to the Klondike. The
1'-l' vas ike that of a perfect June
z alI the Walking excellent. l spent
lgl. at sheep Camp. bunking with a
III .Ast miner. found thousands of
,sN 70 The trail, and was told that
r. E-t+ no less than three thousand
,1 il 'ar vicinity. To stand on the
-'l. A11 look down you saw creeping
.-e ia white snow what seemed to
'- endless army of ants. Here were
-'.l.s "f men, and a few women,
'' H1Iling loaded sleds up from
a'Gp to the Scales and Summit.
'.lF Vi .Irses, of dogs, of goats, and OF
,. 'f.- eNeIywhere discernible, Some
A77 were more than sixty years of
.7 one half were Scandinavians
Rere Americans, with large
s"'!'- AE lIishmen. The Americans
'f llom the Pacific States.
"'4 hing seems to us like ter
81, +.aT There are certainly no far
BENEFITS in it. Here are at least
4'a'.1ed thousand men-many of
families for hardship and
.a n'{ 1t is estimated that not five
IT. VIII succeed in finding gold.
o r''F " Rs murder in Dyea yesterday
No. T. sheep Camp to-day. There is
Nj. a-a Gambling, drinking, pro-
ri. every where. What will be the end
tn hondike craze?
ig. Weather here is like that of New
'al brightest June days, and the
Ii, r ia,St Inylgorating. Your correspon-
h y 'S'eFday walked twenty-six miles,
I'm lay about twenty miles, with less
qua fatigue than would be caused
Ne England by half the distance. We
.o+ ,'ea three trails, and find the Chill
lior ns best by all odds. ["A Layman"
avn Herald.