The San Francisco call., 1898-01-18
GOLD FROM
 THE YUKON
 HER CARGO Steamship Corona Ar rives With Daw-
 son Miners. Over a Million Dollars in Dust Brought to
 Seattle. Fortunes Carried Over Winter Trails From the Northern
 Fl Dorado. OUTLOOK AT THE MINES. | Scarcity of Candles and Kerosene Now the Gold Seekers' Greatest Drawback.
Fortunes Carried Over Winter Trails From the Northern
 Fl Dorado.
OUTLOOK AT THE MINES.
Scarcity of Candles and Kerosene Now the Gold Seekers'
 Greatest Drawback.
Special Dispatch to The can.

JUNEAU, Alaska, Jan. F, via Seat tie, Wash, Jan. r (by steamer Co., rona).-The Cudahy-Healy Company Is still buying claims in the Klondike. A party of Yukoners which has been waiting at Dyea several days for a ship to take it south has more of that company's paper, which will be cash ed in San Francisco or Seattle, than any other party which has come out of Dawson this season. There are also 500 pounds of gold dust and nuggets among the members of the party.
 The rule with Klondikers is the same as with sagacious business men. Those who really have large sums of money or big buckskin sack heavy with gold say nothing or little about it. Those who have little or no money or dust are certain to be the least reticent con- corning the large wealth they have made inside. For this reason 1t has never been possible to arrive at an ac- curate estimate of the amount of wealth. collectively or individually, in a returning party. The gold and checks of the party aboard the Corona Is variously estimated, however, at from s1,000, GOO to S1,50O.000
 James O'Brien, one of the party, has been in the Yukon country ten years, and has the reputation of not eXagger ating things. He said:
 '"The Cudahy-Healy Company has spent about $3.OO0.0OO for claims. It will take out from two to four times as much as it pays for the claims. It is a wonderful country-almost beyond belief. I look for other rich strikes"
 Several of the party left Dawson on December 14 and 15 last and are the latest out. The weather was mild for a Yukon winter, the mercury hanging between twenty and forty degrees be- low zero, and the trip out was made in from twenty-five to thirty-two days. In the party is one woman-NIss Louise Kellar of Juneau-who has had quite a romance and returns to the States rich. Miss Kellar was fromerly one of the Venuses of a variety theater in Juneau. She went to Dawson last spring and is the second woman to come over the trail in the dead of win ter. She rode most of the way on a sled behind dog team, walking a mile or two when she felt cold Miss Kellar | is a slender brunette of good figure. She ranked as one of the prettiest girls l in Dawson. She was clad from head to foot in beautiful furs.
 Rumor says a man who had a good | claim on Fl Dorado Creek fell an easy | captive before the charms of Miss l Kellar. He is known as Butch" Sedg- wick He sold his claim to the Cudahy ! & Healy Company for S65.O00 a few weeks ago and laid his fortune at her | feet. They came out together and are | going to Seattle to have the knot tied | by a city minister.
 Miss Kellar says the trip did her l good and improved her health. The rosy glow on her cheeks bears out the statement.
 | As to claims, development work Is being greatly retarded by the exceed ing scarcity of kerosene and candles. 1 On account of darkness development work is at a halt on many claims. | What few candles and comparatively small quantities of kerosene remain are held without price. They are worth more than their weight In gold. Tal- low candles at the last quotation were worth 8 % each and coal oil $2 60 a pint.
 The river trail Is spotted with return inc Klondikers who have sold their outfits or claims, or both, from DaW- son to Dyea. On this account the Quan- tiy of provisions has increased among those who remain, and the propaplllty of a shortage in food IS greatly iessen. ed. Every man in the party says that starvation for Dawson is now wholly scare of the past.
 A number of old-timers, who have come out during the last few weeks, as we'll as men among the present party, say that Hunker Creek prospects look 1 os favorable as the claims on Bonanza and Fl Dorado.
 Considerable complaint is made about the mail facilities to and in Dawson. There Is no postmaster at the gold cen fer The mail is in charge of the police station, and when the watches shift or squads change, different man has @f Flat of letters. The service is very unsatis foctorv It Is said to be almost impos- sihIe to find a letter, and that there are doubtless letters in the pile that have been there for months undelivered-
 The principal dance halls and gam hing resorts are again open after the fire. and are running as though noth- inc had happened. A large unfurnish- | cd building on Second street was com nIeted and a large lodging house was l remodeled, and dance halls are run ming wide open in each. Gambling has been put out of sight little bit. The police have required the games to be confined to compartments away from the bar and dancing rooms. The report | is current in Dawson that when Major ! Walsh reaches the town gambling and dance halls will be closed, and the sporting element is consequently breath ing in gasps. But Major Walsh Is still | at the Little Salmon River and will not reach Dawson with established relay police stations until spring. The tons l of mail for Dawson are still stalled on inc river in charge of the police.
 Frank Slavin, the pugilst, reported ! discoverer of the mother lode, is only 1 several days behind on the trail It Is said that MT. Slavin is bringing out this
 mother lode, with a pay streak of vir-
 gin gold twelve miles long, on his sled. 1 The discovery of the mother lode of the
 Klondike is not believed in Dawson, the present party says. Slavin or some
 one else found a large piece of quartz
 bearing considerable pure gold, con-
 siderable distance below the surface on
 Fl Dorado Creek, and this was said to