The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-08
BEGGING FOR BREAD.
That's What Wen With Gold Are De-
ing at Dawson.


Men who jingle gold in their pockets
are begging for bread ia the Klondike.
This IS The news that Bar aey MCGEE. the
best known railway man between SCAT
tie ard ST. Paul sends 10 his friend James
GIN. Of this city under date OF November
=, from Dawson. The letter arrived yes
terday morning on the steamer City Of
Seattle and is in part as follows:
The miners are out on a strike ever
since came here and il Is not yet set.
tied. Their bosses VIII only pay 81 an
hour and the men Will not work for less
than sl-5a. You have TO pay s. cents per
pound IL YOU get your freight packed up
70 the mines and il YOU have no grub
YOU cannot get meal FOR less than $40.
\ man cannot work over eight hours
now. SO YOU see where he would get of.
There are 3.1so men IN town doing moth.
ing only eating up their little grub.
There IS only one restaurant and that
is q branch Of the Royal. run by Iks
Rosenthal. and he will close in about 4
month for want of grub. If he could
run all winter he could not carry all tho
money he would make, but he can't, nor
any one else.
THE saloons are doing we'll. but they
will all close before spring for want Of
rooze. Half Of them are making their
whisky now. Good booze Is ST a drink:
everything else. so cents. Ore drink OF
what Thagcard or Pete Mcdonald makes
would knock you silly. Pete has the best
layout in Dawson. He has the dance hall
ard his receipts run sloa a day. He has
six men working. Johnny Doyle. OF Ever
cit. and Tom Nash are his head pushers.
Thaggari and Billy Emerson are In to-
geiher and are doing well. but they viii.
have 20 close up. all of them. for want
of booze and candles sor coal oil. There
is going to he lots Of suffering here be-
hN IN lure
Il think myself. Bob Morgan and Char
lie Cole viii get through ali right. al
though there is not day that some one
does not come to the cabin begging for
bread. and they are all willing TO pay
for it.
About 1000 went down the river TO
where they could get some grub. Poor
Fitzgerald fthe ex-constable OF Justice
Caidwell's couro and German had to 20.
Old Jesse Cochran and Tom Marshall
went, too. Oh, lots Of the boys had TO
go. Jim. they think more OF meal
here than they do of $1oo outside. and oh.
how they watch their grub. People In
tents keep a man on watch all night, and
there is a good deal OF stealing for all
that.
We'll jim have not made any money
vet When We got TO town we had 20
build a house TO live in. Bob Morgan
went to work for the Alaska Commercial
Company and Cole went TO tend bar. so
I built the mansion. It Is 14xls. Matt
McElroy helped HE. When we had it
done got fifty feet OF ground to work
for half and / had 10 20 and build an
other shack about twenty miles from
here. so am ready TO go TO work now.
I have Joe Clark for a partner. We may
get something and We may not. but God
knows we ought to after what we went
through. II Is fearfuliy cold here.
f1I~ aHd pa
working fifty feet close 10 us and Judge
Osborn and his son have fifty feet also
close 20 us Mortimer O'Connen has
fifty feet. He sunk three holes 20 bed
rock but got nothing He Is talking OF
going out this winter. John Boyle has
fifty feat. Most all the Seattle men are
working on shares. w. Il. Goodrich and
all the Madison street cable boys are
close to me. Archie Hughes is working
a claim OF his own. Capt Jensen and
Morris Maggie are not doing anything yet.
They both got claims. Big ex-Poiiceman
Bates Is sick. Capt. Hogie and Ben
Thompson and Sam Crawford fall ex-
policemen are working On shares. Billy
Mcmahon has struck = cents TO the pan
on Mike Keily's claim. There is no tell
ing at this time what we mag all get
later but there is one thing sure and that
Is you will see lot of Seattleites back
next fall. Col. Dan Gleason and Charlie
Philips are working hfty feet Ian says
she Is rich. Mike Nolan and Nike Lahey
and one Kelley are also on good ground.
Johnny Reckwick and Matt Duffy and
George Woods OF the Great Northern.
are prospecting for themselves All OF
the boys are well only Scotty, the hack
driver He has been in the hospital for
three weeks with fever. He Is coming out
all right
II have not heard n word from Seattle
since August 1. They throw the mall
away coming In and going out II gets too
heavy for them There are lots of fell
lows going out. but hair OF them will
rarar GET ant -