The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-02-22
TIMES ARE LIVELY At DYEh.
THE TRAIL NEARLY BLOCK AIDED
BY MINERS AND PACKERS.
sued and One Kills HimSeIf-Seapy
smith Running >kagway-Several

VANCOUVER Il. c. Feb. I-Threa
steamers, the Danube, Thistle ana Tees.
returned today from Skagway, each VITA
few Dawsonltes on board. There WAS
very little god on board and less news
Passengers from SkagWay bring news Of
blockade u the Dyea trail by miners
and packers. VINO have resisted the rl.nt
OF detachment of United States troops.
who demanded the right TO 20 over tie
trail before them. 1t IS feared at Dyea
that trouble Will arise over the affair.
Another item OF news from the gateway
city tells OF "A shooting ARRAY IN front
OF the Pack Horse saloon. Tom Ryan.
enc OF Skagway's bad men. shot and
wounded a newcomer. whose name was
not given. RyaI. was promptly arrested
and taken TO Siska for trial
From Skasway news Is received that
Mike Qulnl9n. VINO for twelve years was
head Of the detective force of Minneapo-
lis. Mimi, has been appointed deputy
United States marshal Tor Alaska and mar
shat Of Skaeway. a jail is being provided
and strenuous efforts are being made %
break the ring rule of ''Soapy' Smith and
his gang. Ii is said that Soapy cleared
$4,000 last fall by his ''shcll game" on me
TRAN, and 50 far. in spite Of elections and
appointments, he runs SkagWay 10 s.!.
himself
Two men. names not known. were detect
ed IN ro5bing 4 cache at Sheep Camp, and
one Of them While trying 10 escape turned
and fired AZ his pursue.-s. who also re-
turned his iire and dropped 20 the ground
Thinking that he had killed them. the fu-
sitive turned his revolver on. himself ard
sent bullet through his brain. The 9th T
man was taken back to Dyea, where he
was paraded through the streets with a
placatd on him setting forth that re was
i thief He was afterward lodged in jail.
Complaints are being made at Skagway
III relation to the number of men arriving
there by each boat without the means OF
subsistence.
1t is said that the Islander had no less
than forty of this class on her last trip.
and that sixty arrived on the Queen
Among the returning Dawsonites is
George Belden, one of the last men to so
up the Yukon last fall He is one Of
syndicate which purchased a little steam
er from the Greek mission for $1,000 and
made an attempt to reach Dawson, but
getting only to Circle City. where the boat
stuck in the ice. Belden made his WAY
by dog sled TO Dawson. and thence to the
coast. remaining long enough in Dawson
20 secure several claims. one of the syn
dicate having bought the interests Of the
other members. brought the boat from the
mission. which is being fitted up anew
and viii ply on the Yukon this year as
passenger steamer. Belden is TO enter
SUIT against the owners oil the Cleveland
for damages sustained by him consequent
upon their failure to fulall their contract
to convey him to Dawson, placing the
amount at A0ep.
Delay in the receipt of mail at Dawson
Is. according to passengers on the Dan
ube, the cause of many coming out TO
the coast They say no mail has been
received since last fall, and business Is
consequently paralyze in many Instances
". J. Beau arrived from Stewart river
He says there is lois OF gold there. bat
+, is too expensive TO get provisions up the
river II is reported that steamers win be
placed on the river next summer in which
case a large amount OF gold will be taken
ont OF there.
The steamer Thistle stopped az the wreck
OF the Corona and found that the wreck
ing expedition which was sent up on the
steamer Maude had arrived the day pre-
Vious and Just begun preparations for rais-
ing her. As Diver McHardy had not been
down the condition OF the Corona's hull
Was not asceriained. but all the wreck
ers are confident Of success.
Close upon a thousand miners licenses
win be issued mere today. four steamers,
the Pakshan. queen. AK and Faralon.
sailing fer the north. The city Is stil full
of miners waiting for boats that sail dur
ing the week Another large steamer ar
rived from Honolulu today 10 join ;he Alas
kan fleet. She will accommodate 60 pas
sengeTs.
Harold Scott young EngliShman OF
means who lives on one Of the adjacent isl
ands. and Fred Smedley, employed by him,
were drowned on Saturday by the capsiZ-
ing OF their boat.