The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-15

his anxiety 70 reach the Dawson reEso0
with all haste-the prospect OF big clean
up on the various claims which he owned
IN that vicinity. He said: Il want 70
get my hands on my share OF IT.
The greater part OF the provisions and
outfits which the party took with them
was bought here in Seattle. as was also
nearly all of the outfit for the party or
thirty-five men from San Francisco sent
by Gates company north On the steamer
Humboldt. which sailed from this port
about the beginning OF May. On this
vessel Gates sent TO the northern render
vous: Thirty-five men. 50 trained dogs.
number OF horses and many tons of
freight. He did everything on large
scale; always procured the best TO be had
in the market. and was, in fact, built
on a muniicent scale all through. Gates
plan was 20 proceed as far as possible over
the snow before making camp TO build
barges fer the down-river trip.
Gates was poor man when he went 20
the Kiondike. but he had not been there
more than few weeks before he STRUCK
IL rich" 10 an extent which gave him ev-
cry opportunity for developing himself into
a character. He rose from the person
TO the individual, from the Klondike miner
10 the Dawson sport. with every emphasis
upon the the" and soon made his name
known all over the Coast as the biggest
blood that ever came our of Dawson
Whether the piles OF yellow gold that
rolled into his lap by the hand OF fortune
led him to ape the magnificent. or whether
It merely developed the latent tastes or
the man. is neither here nor there. II
gave him the opportunity to roll nigh. and
he rolled.
Confirmed and Denied.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Skagway. via Victoria. received by the
Post-Intelligencer last night. says:
THE reported drowning Of saltwater
Bill Gates and members Of his party in
Lake Tasish has been both confirmed and
denied today by parties arriving from
Lake Bennett, and there is as yet an APP
parent uncertainty about the matter.
young man by the name OF Moore ar
rived in town this morning over the SkaS-
way trail. having left Bennett at noon on
yesterday. He states that at the time
he left the lake bulletin was posted on
the board maintained at the hotel for the
purpose of bulietining such meager news
as reaches the inside concerning the war.
to the effect that the reported drowning
had been confirmed. This notice gave the
victims as saltwater Bill DR.. Wolf
and two of the girls who accompanied the
party. Another report. which has not
been verified, gave the name. OF one OF the
two girls as Miss Nellie Lahore, and that
the OLler was SWuLWdleT WIG SiStei.
The DR.. Wolf who was with the party
when they left Skagway is DR.. ]. H. NJ.
Wolf, of Salt Lake City.
"T. c.. Wilson, of Seattle, and ]. NJ.
West, of Tacoma, on their way out from
Dawson, left Lake Bennett at an early
hour yesterday morning. reaching here to-
day over the Dyea trail. They say the
story was being denied by the Canadian
police at both Bennett and the summit.
They. however. did not meet the party
on the way up the lake, nor did they see
the bulletin that was posted at Bennett
at noon.
ssMessrs. Wilson and West left Dawson
on April II, making the trip out in twenty
two days. They report no later gold ex-
element than that at Monte Cristo island.
At Walsh creek everyone is building boats
preparatory to going down the river. the
river from the foot OF Lebarge 10 below
the mouth Of the Hootalinqua. or for
distance of seventy miles. Is already open.
but fun Of running ice. They report an
abundance OF provisions in Dawson 20
last till the liver opens.