The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-08-27
YUKON RIVER FALLING.
LATE ARRIVALS PROM DAWs0y SAT-
FEW BOATS GET VP.
From Kloadike - Late ~ Auxr9at
6-IaspectoP Caam . Passenger
Hale 81 vses~saa Rvin9. . sack.

TIE steamer City Of Topeka arrived In
ec-. az - o'ctock fas. night from Lynn
canal ports wssh .orry~fzs=e -assergers.
anong wbam we're name~r 81 Yukoners.
When ,he steamer left Skagway Is had
ssn.aS aboard. hus2hs largest part 3: ,sae
money wa tn the possession ez John r.
Hais. who left .he boat 1t Victoria. whsre
he formerly resided.
orr Of the ether yukoners wac NJ W.
WhA.sn. who h r<asrning home sick A
n1rnbey Of prominent mea are aboard,
helssins 5ehn p. Cum. United States
possosfss inspector. Who has been e<taa-
listing pesiefficss ia Alaska ard otherwise
Improving the mall service; Z. c. Hawk
ins chief engineer and general supsrin-
seneent OF ire White Pass 4 Yukon rail-
road. and G. IL. Forbes. who has the con-
tract to furIkh the timber FOR the same
road.
A passenger who attracted much at,en-
Ton when she walked dewn the gang
plank was a French ballet lancer called
Freda, who has been in Alaska for eight
cen months. Freda vas attended BIZ a
so!ofed maid Her fingers were beaecked
With diamonds ard she had the appearance
o. having fiourished while al Dawspn.
Hale. the Wealthy Man.
j. F. Hale. the kIondiker who left the
Boat at Victoria. arrived a; Skagway o..
August II from Dawson via Lake Bennett
and the steamer Ora. With forty others
ne left Dawson on August s, but he intends
10 return there again this season. Most
Of his companions left for the Pine creek
strike. having heard about the new dig
gihss On their way down the river. While
at Skasmay Mr.. Haze was Interviewed by
Post-In, eiligencer reporter and said
nave great deal OF faith In the fu-
ture OF the mining country about Dawson.
and l believe that far greater results in
= mining way viii be accomplished next
year than have been this year. mining will
DO On better basis next season. There
Is a good deal OF complaint up there
over the manner in whish tho Canadian
officials are exacting the 10 per cent.
royalty but I think all these obnoxious
regulations viii be adjusted shortly In a
manner satisfactory to the miners and the
government should judge that there
are about SOD miners IN ana abosf, paw
son and the population II being increased
almost every day by new arrivals
There is a good deal Of sickness q.
Dawson, the form of ailment seeming tn
ne sort OF fighs typhoid fever. II IS not
exactly typhoid fever. but It runs into .hat
IL the pattent Is not Immediately cared for
There Is going 20 be great deal 81 dis
appointment over the corripalies with stores
at Dawson being una ne so get thelr e.ear,
ers up The rfver. At the line left only four
steamers had succeeded In getting III, The
river ard seven or eight corscany vessels
ws~e then ten and twelve days overdue,
with no good prospect Of their getting IN
During the two weeks was In Dawson
the river fell two feet and 20 think the
trading COMPARES counting on supplies
from down the river are going TO he tiis-
appointed. although there will he no short
aga Of provisions at Dawson. great deal
Of feed f. coming down the river In small
boats and barges. some Of the harxes car
rylng from ten 10 fifty tons each.
We made the champion quick trip up
The river" said Mr.. Hale. From Dawson
10 White Horse rapids we were Just four
days and twenty three hours. actual run
ming time. We came I'd on the steamer
Ora. Capt. Richie comma riding
Dawson Great Region.
~ W. Whalen left Dawson with the
II
Der. In an interview he said:
"r worked TOO hard while in the interior.
but az soon as | feel better I am going 20
return 10 Dawson. II is a great. rich re-
slon The only trouble ~ tha, tried to do
too much have dora enough I'm the pa y.
Ave months 20 do most any man have
done about two years work IN that time
and feel t.
There were SIX or seven men or the Ora
coming up the river who asserted from
morning until nies,t that IL any Of Us fell
laws came 20 Skagwav we would sse roAs,ed
bird. They told az that We would he held
up on White pass / was really afraid 10
come IN. ha; I came anyway and was
agre~aoiy surprised TO find that was as
safe in Skagwsy as in the streets Of nv old
home in the East
As Is usual with tie returning KlonsIk-
ers the man ara very cautious TN saving
anything about how much money they
have with tnsn
The passenger list of the City Of Topeka
follows:
" II. Smith. Z. HAYS Hicks G. W.
Dunno. X. tsstsas. r.. h. Reessor, Rent. Ap-
p'nyard, Mrs. Appenyard, " Il Mclean
Miss r Shelisse, Miss IL. sheIlee, j. Clark
H.ir J. T S..rrsanes g Watson Mrs Wat
con. F. s. Beatzner. Frceaa Moloot. Mat
pm wash. A. sweet. s collins. j Col.
Hrs. Mrs. r.. Hawkins. Manson Hawkins.
= lbsri hawkins. J. T. ttun. John H.
Moyle. Mrs III. e stevens J NJ Forbes.
Forbes. Miss BeSSse F0rtes. Miss Palmer.
Mrs a nr~ske. Mrs \ t,ettings L. p
Heiieg. ". tialsg, J. X. Lewis. IL Hen
derse,- & J. Garland. Miss Arsfa Leon
s-i. r. H. Shaw. A g. Ds1ssor. r. J.
RA thsune. 4. misery Mrs. x &. Nye and
j r. Crooks.