Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-08-31
STEAMER ROANOKE BRINGS RACK
$50 KLONDIKERs.
MAJORITY HAVE NO GOLD DUc
FIVE MINERS BROUGHT OUT s350OO
OR MORE EACH.
All the Passengers Searched for Three
Missing Bags of Gold Dust,
Worth $24,OOO-Two of the
Lucky Ones Are
Indians.

SEATTLE, WASH, Aug. 30.-Staamer
Roanoke arrived here to-day from st.
Michaels, Alaska, with 459 passengers and
gold dust which a conservative estimate
places at 81 100000. The bulk of it was the
property of the Canadian Bank Of Com
merce and the North American Trading
and Transportation Company. The amount
consigned to the Canadian Bank Of Com
merce is s600e0O.
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-five
had over $4,000 each. The amounts held by
the remaining fifty range from $500 to 1000.
The following Is a list of the richest ones
and the amount they brought back:
NJ. W. Jenkins, $4,000; Theo Anderson.
$50, 900; George Carmack. Sc. 900; Stick Jim.
So. 900: Tagish Charley. s35.O 900; Ike Powers.
SIS. 600: H. Doane $4,000; F. Renaud. $4,000.
These men are 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
Jim and Tagish Charley are full blooded
Indians.
An unusual incident attending the ar
rival of the Roanoke was the holding and
searching of her passengers and their bag
Each individual passenger was examiL ed
as he came OF the steamer. but the missing
gold was not found. The bags contained
about $4,000. The owners of the stolen
gold were Albert Fox. whose sack contained
81. 900; William Folmer. 5000. and DR.. c. F.
Adams, Of Chicago. 500. The gold was
taken from the stateroom on the Roanoke
while she was lying at st. Michaers. There
is no clue to the theft. A search of the
vessel was made at st. Michaers before
she .left. but with no better success than
was achieved to-day.
Another robbery is reported to have oc-
CURED on the river steamer Cudahy, be-
tween Dawson and st. Michaers. Some
one got hold of a sack Of gold belonging
to stick Jim," an Indian, containing 800.
They dumped out the gold and filled the
sack with shot. The substitution was not
discovered until st. Michaers was reached.
Among the Roanokes passengers were
DR.. Sheldon Jackson, United States COM
missioner of education for Alaska, and P.
B. Weare, of Chicago. general agent Of the
North American Trading and Transporta-
ton Company.
have undergone no material change since
last reports. People are arriving daily at
st. MichaePs from up the river in small
boats The steamer Noyo, which left st.
Michaers two days before the Roanoke re-
neved the congestion of stranded miners by
taking away about 100 of them.
The Roanoke brings news Of the loss of
the whaler Rosario last July, while en-
deavortng to get out Of the ice.
r. 3. Weare estimates the amount of
gold dust and drafts brought down on the
Roanoke at $4,000 900.
The steamer Portland was to have sailed
Tor San Francisco the day after the Roam
oke left st. Michaers. 1t was reported that
she would carry large amount Of gold.
the Canadian Bank Of Commerce alone
shipping over 81. 100000.