The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-08-31
EXPERIENCE TN CHUNKS
BROUGHT DOWN By THE MINERS
FROM DAWSON
ONE IN TWENTY WAS LUCKY
Some Were Doubly Fortunate In Sue
cessfully Guarding Their Hard
Won Hoards Against Theft
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SEATTLE, Wash. Aug. 30-The steamer
Roanoke arrived here today from st. Mich
ae.s, Alaska, with 45S passengers and gold
dust which a conservative estimate places
at s., 5O0, 900. The bulk Of 1t was the property
of the Canadian Bank of Commerce and the
North American Trading and Transports
ton company. The amount credited to the
Canadian Bank of Commerce is 5000 900. A
majority Of the passengers were men who
went to Dawson In last years rush. They
have no gold, but lots of experience. The
fortunate passengers numbered about
seventy-fve. OF these probably twenty
i've had over $4,000 each. The amounts
held by the remaining fifty ran from $500
to $5OO0 The following is a list OF the richest
ones and the amount they brought out:
G. w. Jenkins, $50 900; Theodore Ander-
son, $5O, 900; George Carmack, s35 Stick
Jim, $4,000; TagIsh Charley. $4,000; Ike
Powers, $4,000; D. Doane. $4,000; F. Rem
aud. $4,000
These men were among the first who went
INTO the Klondike. George Carmack was
the discoverer of the Klondike. He located
the first claim on Bonanza creek. Stick
lin and Tagsh Charley are full-blooded
Indians.
An unusual incident attending the arrival
of the Roanoke was the holding and search
ing here of passengers and their baggage
for three sacks of stolen gold dust. Each
individual passenger was examined as he
came out Of the steamer. but the missing
THn nnlFc
about $4,000 The owners Of the stolen gold
were Albert Fox. whose sack contained
$14, 1000; William Folmer, $4,000 and DR.. c. F
Adams OF Chicago. The gold was taken
from a stateroom on the Roanoke while she
was lying at st. Michaels. There Is no clue
to the thief A search Of the vessel was
made at st. Mchaels before she left, but
with no better success than was achieved
today.
Another robbery is reported to have &C.
Cured on the river steamer Cudahy, be-
tween Dawson and st. Mlchaels. Someone
got hold of a sack belonging to "stick
jim, an Indian. containing $1,000. They
dumped out the gold and filled the sack witt
shot. The substitute was not discovered
until st. Michaels was reached
Among the Roanoke's passengers were
DR.. Sheldon Jackson. United States com.
missioner of education for Alaska, and p
3. Weare OF Chicago, general manager OF
the North American Trading and Trans
portation company.
Conditions at st. Michaels and Dawson
have undergone no material change since
last reports. People are arriving daily at
ST. Michaels from up the river in small
boats.
The steamer Noyo, which left St. Mich.
aels TWO days before the Roanoke, relieved
the congestion of stranded miners by taking
away about one hundred of them.
Dr. Sheldon Jackson, United States com.
missioner of education for Alaska, who ar.
rived today from St. Miohaels, returns
from his annual inspection Of the govern
ment schools and reindeer stations on the
shores of Boring sea. The second week In
August was spent on the coast of Siberia
where he was successful in securing and
transporting to Alaska 1871 head of domes-
tic reindeer, which were sent to Cape
Prince of Wales to replace in part the herd
which was taken last winter by the gov
ernment and driven to Point Barrow for the
relief of the imprisoned whalers. The rein
reer herds received a gratifying increase
in the spring by the birth Of large num-
Der of fawns.
Dr. Jackson also established the head
quarters of the Laplanders at Unalaklik
whence they will be sent to various parts OF
Alaska where their services may be needed
In carrying the mail with reindeer. Many
Of these Lapps have already taken out theiI
first papers looking to naturalization.
DR.. H. X. Gambel of Iowa has been ap-
pointed government physician at the rein
deer station at Unalaklik.
W. F. Dody of New York, graduate Of
Princeton university. has been appointed
teacher at st. Lawrence island, in place Of
", G. Gambell, who went down with the
schooner Jane Gray.
DR.. Jackson reports that the steam
whaler Belvidere, one of the fleet that win.
tered in the ice off Point Barrow, was al
Port Clarence Aug. 5th, taking on a supply
of coal and provisions preparatory to re.
turning to the Arctic. The whaler Rosario
was reported to have been crushed in the
Ice off Point Barrow last July. The cap
tain of the Belvidere said his was the only
one Of the fleet that had gotten out of the
ice up to the time he left, but he believed
the remaining ones would get out all
right.
Nothing had been heard of the revenue
cutter Bear, which had gone to the relief
Of the whaling fleet, but she was daily ex.
pected at Port Clarence.
P. B. Weare estimates the amount Of gold
dust and drafts brounght down on the
Roanoke at 100000. The steamer Port
land was to have sailed for San Francisco
the day after the Roanoke left st. Michael.
It was reported that she would carry a
large amount of goldA the Canadian Bank
Of Commerce alone shipping 81. 100000.
Kentuckians Safe
FRANKFORT. KY, Aug. 3O.-A local
paper prints letter from r. Chilcoot of
Seattle to the family of Captain John
Murphy, stating that there Is absolutely
NO foundation for Seattle dispatches widely
published that Captain Murphy and IA
other Kentuckians had been drowned on
the steamer Jessie In branch Of the Yu-
kon. The letter closes by saying: II do
not write this to assuage your grief. /
know they are perfectly safe"
HAWAIIAN MAIL