The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-18
No CALAMITY THERE
klondike is a Land Flowing
With Grub and Nuggets,
ALSO A HEALTH RESORT
5kaguay is Making the Trans
greSSor's Way Hard,

Skaguay, March Y, via Seattle, Wash,
March 17.-Ben Atwater arrived here last
night from Circle City and Dawson, N
W. T, bringing one pounds of mail from
the above places. Atwater's former home
was in Morrison, Illinois. He went to
the Yukon country in 1856 and has resided
there ever since.
Atwater says that there is food enough
In the Klondike country to last the pres
ent population two years. AS a conse-
quence of the food scare, the output of
the mines will be curtailed. He estimates
it at about $S.OOO00O.
Atwater says that many claims which
were considered to be only wilt-cat prop
critics on various creeks are turning out
well. Dominion is paying finely and will
have a big cleanup next spring. Sui
phur and bunker are also good and so is
Indian. Quarz lodges have been found on
the latter creek which look well. There
Is quite a settlement at the mouth of the
Stewart, but no reports have as yet been
received from the prospector who went
up the river early in the winter.
On Walsh creek, five miles below the
Big Salmon, dirt has been found which
yields 10 cents to the pan.
A stampede occurred from Circle City
about January 10 to American creek,
about 800 men leaving for that section.
Atwater met three or four hundred from
Dawson making their way thither. Amer
lean creek is fifty miles from Forty Mile,
and about twenty-five miles below the
international boundary on the Alaska
side.
\ courier from Minook arrived at Cir
Gle City just before Atwater left that
place, with about fifty pounds of mail.
This Atwater brought out. The courier
had a quantity of gold from Minook and
he stated that the prospectors had Struck
it rich there.
Atwater says there are but few cases
of scurvy at Dawson. The hospital has
but four or five inmates. The general
health of the people is good.
SKIN GAMES ARE BARRED.
u nited States Commissioner Smith and
Deputy United States Marshal McInnis
C losed all Of the gambling houses here
Wednesday night. 1t is said that an
agreement was made whereby the gamb-
ling will be restricted to so-called legi-
innate games and all sure thing or
bunco games will be prohibited.
The weather here for the past week has
been mild and the warm south wind and
sun are playing havoc with the winter
tran. which follows the river eight miles.
Hundreds of people are making their way
over the divide. however, undeterred by
wind or weather.
The streets are muddy beyond concep-
ton.
The strike of the longshoremen for IS
cents an hour has been declared off by a
vote of the local union. The wages now
paid is 50 cents an hour, the steamship
companies agreeing not TO employ Indians
in hauling freight on tbe1ocks.
STAMPEDE ATNIMPKISH.
Victoria, B. c., March 17.-Dr. Van Wag
ner Of Seattle has returned from Nimp-
kish River. bringing news of large finds,
both placer and quartz, along the banks
of that stream. He says that a large
crowd of prospectors is hurrying to the
new diggings and already twenty-five
claims are being worked with success, the
dirt said to be returning as high as an
average of S to $40 a day.
"SOAPY'' SMITH GETS ORDERS.
Seattle, March 1.-THE City of Seattle
brings the news that at Skaguay last
Saturday night the committee of 1O1 sat
down on "Soapy" Smith and ordered him
10 leave town within twenty-four hours.
lie was still there when the City of Seat
IL Lee s1r,.-