The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-02-14

TntelIsgencer. The children of Enalaska
had never seen a Christmas trE- until
able Christmas Of their lives. ana VIII
never be forgotten By them.
sswa From Dasch Hnrbor.
When he Lakme arrived at Dutch Har-
her the Bear had unrhipped her lines and
was preparing to set out In search OF hef.
They had been expecting the steamer .or
some tine. and Capt. Tuttis. OF the Bear,
decided that she .nust have come 20 grief
IL the gaaxses- According 20 the offcers OF
the Lakme tnere is slight shortage OF
certain kinds OF food at DUtcn harpor.
Pctar oes ard condensed milk could not ~.
purchased when the steamer arrived, ana
whisky would bring almost any price The
officers OF the Bear seized twelve bottles
o. y Risky on the Lakms. and, looking AZ
the matter in one light, The yesse! might
hav been seized The law says thai IL the
value OF distilled spirits imported into the
territory exceeds S4s. the vessel itself
should be seized. l. Il said that there are
men a. Dutch Harbor ~ 40 would give more
than 500 for twelve bottles Of the fiery
liquid bat the Bears oficeFs Were satisfied
with simply se.zing the whisky. Work on
the three steamers thai the North Amerl-
can Transportation Company is building
al Dutch Haroor for the Yukon Is being
rushed az rapidly possible. although
work has been delayed on account OF the
non-arriyal OF lumber shipments. One OK
the boats Is almost completed. and tbs
other two are well under way. The Lakme
Will go 10 Skagway on her next trip out Of
this port
Excitement ON the Bear.
The Bear. fitted especially for work in
the ice. has a steam pipe leading TO each
opening through the bottom OF the ship.
SO that they may be thawed out should
they become elogged with ice. AT 1880
.. m on January II q plug in the pipe
leading 10 ore OF these cupboard coanec-
tons blew out The IRE room and engine
room Immediately filled with steam. Moth
ing could be seen, even IL the stationary
lamps had noi gone out. Mr.. Bryan, who
was on watch. could not tell but what the
boiler or main steam pipe had given away
Finally, by means OF lantern, aided by
the sound of escaping steam, the leak was
found and the steam shut of; but not BE-
fore all engaged In the search had got
thoroughly wet and somewhat scalded.
The Chance. of Success.
The officers of the Bear have figured
great deal on the success or failure Of the
expedition. AS summed UP BY ons Of them.
their conclusions are as follows:
I'VE cannot come anywhere near TO an
accurate estimate OF the length OF time
that IL viii take the overland expedition
10 cover this Lilo miles. There is moth
Ing to figure on. They may have some
exceptional good luck. But they viii.
without doubt. have delay after delay.
The sun does not rise now until "a. m.
and its sets az 3 p. III. The natives them
selves viii not travel in darkness. This
reduces the available day to six hours,
unless the moon shines. Owing 10 the
fact that the moon viii be as far south
as the sun itself part OF the time. / doubt
II they viii get much beneGt from Il. Be
sides this. storms will drive over the coun-
try with great frequency. keeping them
within the native huts for days. even
weeks, al a time. Snow storms Will over
take them between stations. In such u
case we cannot tell what will happen
They viii lose their way time and time
again. Mountains one or two thousa nd
feet high must be crossed. Rivers that
may or may not be frozen completely over
Will deceive them. Finally. members Of
the expedition may fall sick or be injured
50 that IL Is necessary to wait q long time
for them. The colder the weather with
in reasonable limits OF course, the better
they can travel Over hard crusted snow.
under favorable conditions a dog sled
sixty miles day. Kol,choff claims to
have made over a hundred miles day
for two days on "A dog sled But moth
ing Is so discouraging TO a traveller "a
soft snow. especially snow thu. lets on
that II IL going 10 bear you and then goes
back on you at the last moment Any
way that you look al ii, they have a ire
mendous job on hand"
Hew the Party Landed.
An officer OF the Bear who went ashore
with the relief expedition 10 bring back
the boats writes an interesting account OF
the landing. as follows:
"BeE1holf went sailing along merrilv nm
III ne got opposite the place selected fo1.
The landing. when he found himself down
To leewaTd. devised his sail and pulled ia
the shore. II was Blowing a gale and the
sails On both boats were reefed with The
spirit out. We had not much more than
gotten clear of the ship In our boat be-
fore the mast went over 10 ,h. side. Ak
ing xith Il the thwart IN which II was
stepped so We had 10 row the whole
i~o miles TO the shore, mostly against the
wind The spray dashed over the boat
bertho.f had unloaded his boat and sent
II back 10 the ship before we reached The
beach When We arrived he was stand
ing in Tire midst OF - pile Of goods and
several natives had gathered around -
take an account OF his stock and To Won
der what such an interesting young man
could have done that he should have been
mAf0oHed on such a barren SHORE. tie =
Hot proficient in InaEt anG cont ersat ton
was dragging.
JARVIS. upon landing. began 10 talk 20
TIE Eskimos with his forefnger pointing
out that he wanled the goods taken IN
their kyaks 10 the village They prompt
ly began leading the skin boats They
ave an obedlent race. I coGld net helm
contrasting their behavior with what enc
might expect from Caucas!ars who had
g corner IN boats
Then the members of the expedition
began to take an account Of stock AVID
l began - lake list OF things that had
been forgotten.
'Ldtut ksT;hoif had everything excant
a supply e cigarettes and wanted ne "a
bring him a box = them. cAi,ea his
attention. - TIE incongrulfy Il an Arc5.
hero smoking cigarettes. But as MS hap
pinesS appeared 20 Gepea al en- e., | put
them oD The list
M Rnv nile the beat was un,oadeE AMI
fhe supplies were carried about fifty feet
up the beach 10 ee clear n the rising t5s!s
Then ksf ne is a.. a.