The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-10-23
LATEST OPEN WATER KNOWN
YUKON AND UPPER LAKES STILL
ENTIRELY FREE FROM ICE.
City of Seattle Arrives From Skag-
way With an Interesting Budget
of Dawson News-Reporta as to
Smallpox Are Very Conflicting.

On the steamship City .. Seattle. which
arrived from Lynn canal az noon yester-
cay. wsrs important adyiCes from the
north. This is sad 20 be the attest open
season n the history % the YGkon tnere
Tot being reported a sign Of zee n ne
lakes or rivers UP % The tir1e the Seattle
left Skagway ana Dyea, and il was be-
neved interior navigation would oe open
al least two weeks more.
The steamer had 20 passengers. half Or
whom were from Dawson. They lef; there
on the steamboats, ". X. Merwln, Florence
:. and Ora. which sailed from the k-on-
dixie city September .. % and 81, respec-
lively. Ice had been reported rs moving
down the Salmon river / few days before
the river steamers were there. but they
saw no sign OF 4. There were not even
heavy frosts The Wlie Irving was sc1ed-
u.ed 10 leave Dawson October /. and the
Flora, which was on he way down. WAS 10
make another trip out # there was no ice
N the Pelly river when she passed Fort
Seik.rk, where il emp,ies into the YUKON
Conflicting reports are brought oGt pY
he passen gers relative 10 he existence or
smallpox at Dawson, some saying that
there are cases there and others denying
II In speaking Of the subject yesterday,
several passengers said that III few N
stances a species OF rash lad broken out
On fever patients. which once or twice had
required an examination BY several phys1-
cans before Il was known net 10 be small
pox. This rash had been reported as be-
ng smallpox before the examinations were
made, and several times there was IA
all over the town that the plague hau
broken out.
Up 10 he time the Ora left there was TO
abatement OF the fever. and ptope wer>
dying al the average rate Of seven day.
II is said that the deaths n one day num-
oered seventeen.
Pilot w A. Council. who was on tht
trip OF the Seattle says that they passed
the wrecked Brixham at O'Clock on the
afternoon Of October l6 on their way up.
She was then living well out OF ne water,
fires on the beach Of Blashke Island. and
when passing IN the night on The home trip
the Seattle did not so near the wreck.
Various Wild runors are n clrcu alton at
Wrangel and up LYNN canal as 10 the
BriXh ANS fate, one bsing that her engines
had dropped out and that all the cattle
aboard were drowned. The Utopia, which
will probably arr We today, went TO the
Brixham and took aboard some OF the pas
sengcrS and crew.
Ii is reported that Tagish Jim. who came
out with George Carmack and later re-
turned to the north, was robbed at Dyea
of S9.o0 in nuggets and 500 in cash, which
Wera taken from his trunk. Other rob-
berries are said 10 have occurred there.
DR.. V. MCAlpDe of Ono. was passen-
ger down from Wrangei He saws that
Only so men reached Lake Te-l n this sea-
son OF 3. 100 who went up he StiCkeen river.
and were taking every means Of getting
back.
The. total amount OF god brought on the
Seattle was probably SEQ 01o. The purser
mad charge OF $500. Capt. Anderson, OF
Arizona, IS said TO have had $1,000 in dust.