The herald., 1898-10-20
MEN FROM ST. MICHAEL
OF GOLD DUST
THE SEASONS MINT RECEIPTS
Will Show Ten Millions Dug From
Alaskan1ines-Ko Miners
in Hard Luck
Associated Press Special Wire.

ASSOCIATED FresS special Wire.
SEATTLE, WASH, Oct. ls.-The exodus
of miners and gold from Alaska by way Of
the lower Yukon river practically closed to-
oke from st. Michael. The Roanoke left
ST. Michael October 9th. At that time there
were only three steamers in the harbor,
the Portland, Protection and Garonne,
which were to sail in day or 80 for San
Francisco, Seattle and Victoria respectively.
They had only a few passengers.
An of the Yukon steamers had gone into
winter quarters.
The Roanoke brought down about $50
passengers and gold dust estimated at 81
100000. About 81, 100000 was the property
snd rsdns h
Canadian Bank of Commerce and the Bank
of British North America.
! The gold was contained in twenty boxes.
The total amount in the possession of indi-
yiduals is estimated at $500, 900. F. Belcher
is credited with 500, 900, A. w. jackson $40,-
900, X. Langlon $4,000, A. G. Alexander
$4,000, j. Laurie $4,000.
| Among the passengers was Captain j. j.
Healey, manager of the North American
| Transportation and Trading company at
Dawson, and Pat Calvin, a well known Klon-
diker. The Roanoke's passengers for the
most part left Dawson as early. as Septem-
ber l4th and have no late advices. The trip
down was uneventful.
The Seasons Receipts
! SEATTLE, Oct. l9.-The receipts of the
Seattle assay office and the San Francisco
mint of the cleanup of this seasons output
of Klondike gold are $8,O0O00O. Superinten-
dent Wing, of the former said that his office
has taken in "a, ,400, 900 and the San Francis
co mint, $4,000 Besides this, it is esti-
mated that dust equaling 100000 was sent
to Philadelphia, Denver and Helena. The
assay office has advices of a single consign-
ment of S6630O0 now en- route here.
| Hard Luck Stories
TACOMA, WASH, Oct. 19-Charles
Farnsworth Of Massachusetts has returned
i from kotzebue Sound, where he went last
April on the schooner Marion from San
francisco. He says her voyage north with
fifty seven men on board was something
+. terrible. Farnsworths party became dis
gusted with prospecting late in August and
returned to Kotzebue where they found 800
hungry and for the most part penniless
prospectors living in tents.
| Farnsworth says not one in ten had money
to pay his return passage and not one in
fifty had supplies for the winter. He be-
lieves that before this time starvation ex-
lists among these argonauts. Among them
were several dozen women and children who
were suffering for food. One family had
been living on rice and picked pork for ten
days. Farnsworth thinks the Red Cross
Society or the government should send
steamer to Kotzebue and rescue these un-
ifortunates.
/ A Mourning Miner
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. &c. B. Mon
tague returned Klondiker, has reported
to the police and railroad detectives that
he was robbed of satchel containing $l2,-
600 in gold dust some time during last night
while on the train bound from Portland,
Ore, to this city just when or how the
robbery occurred Mr. Montague does not
know, and it is probable that the robbers
made their haul and escaped long before the
disappearance of the satchel was discov-
cred.
Andree Forgotten
| VANCOUVER, b. c., Oct. ia letter
has reached here from st. Michael saying
that the balloonsts sent out to search for
| Andree were there. They have given up
their balloon trip and staked twenty-five
i claims