The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-01-03
--LATEST FROM DAWSON

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Il Told by Jack Dodei,, Who 10 at Dyta
People yviihout Provisions Forced to
Leave Dawson city-A sleeping Bag.
wiatltts.
parlersburs State Journal: afr. Fred.
Boden, tho well known oil operator OF
this clty, whose son, Jack, ID at pyea,.
Alaska, permits The State Journal TO
publish the latest letter received by him
from his son. whose letter contains much
Information thatls valuable and Inter
cstlng;
DYEA. Alaska, Dee. II, 1851
My Dear Cow:
AS wrote You In my last letter, ! went
over the summit 'ot the chllkoot pass. TO
The hkes, aud to tell the truth. I would
not have missed the trip for a good deal
II was casy-and most beautiful.
AipEoMIsING ToN,s,S;
I left Dyoa I'M Ss@s..pe ,ese Started
zip the trail. ! got dinner OF Canyon
City. a new town started at the mouth
Of Tho canyon. This, In my opinion. viii.
be the busles. place in Alaska when the
rush starts. II Is situated nine miles
from Dyca, at the end OF the wagon road.
The Chllkoot Tramway Company have
their power house here, and It Is bound
to thrive. / went OF comcIslx miles, to
Sheep Camp, which Is the end OF the tim
Dor and some two and ,hree.quarters or
three miles from the summit, I stayed
there all night. 1t cost elk bits for a.
meal and four bits FOR the privilege OF
spreading ones blankets and sleeping
bag. early next day l was UP and start
ed over the summ!t. It was cold and
showing. but I got over easily with my
thirty pound pack, containing sleeping
bag, etc. l went to Lake Bennett. and
found the boys, and stayed all night viii,
them. I was IN o log house then, but It
was cold, being So degrees below zero.
A SLEEPING BAG.
But one has never slept until he crawls
into a sleeping bag in Alaska. a bag is
made {seven feet by four feet),o o fur or
sheep-sk!ns. turned Inside. and covered
with fourteen n alYas There Is a
hole at one end. with ray hide thongs
to tighten It up. with a little hole left to
breathe through.
In the morning I had the pleasure OF
breaking a little ice that had formed
frcm my breath, butt was never warm
er. When I returned TO the summit. It
was moonlight and II was u most beautl-
ful sight. Away of one could see the
ocean and al! around was the snow COW
cred SUBMITS. When one looked to the
north the Yukon river looked near. and
not some miles away; and the aurora
borcalls was in all It's glory. 1t was the
sight ot life time.
LATEST FROM DAWSON.
Regarding the situation inside" The
latest to-day by Jim Keller, OF Ohio. is
that there will be no actual starvation,
there being plenty Of beans. rice and
sugar; but coffee and tea sell 81 Is and
upward per spoonful; candles, At 81. 50 to
81 20 each: condensed milk, 81 80 per can;
flour. SITS TO 81 per pound and bacon
Z cannot be had.
ORDERED TIC FORT YUKON.
The miners of Dawson City passed a
resolution forcing all people without food
70 so to Fort Yukon, With the result that
there was quite an exodus from there.
Keifer left there November 10, so that is
the latest. He reports people camped all
the way down The Yukon.
The Canadian police have stationed de-
tails at Stewart and Pelly rivers, SO it
looks as If the reports regarding the dis
coveries there are authentic. In fact,
Keller told that he knew OF good claims
there lately claimed.
The rush IS getting started and by the
last of January It Will be going in good
shape. Yours, etc.,
hEq r-uN TACK