The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-13
TIE PASSING IlR0Ie

saek OF the Seattle Athletic Club foothaW
team. returned yesterday fresu AlAntm
ana expects to return on ThsEsday.
HiAnck left Seattle II FeA91ary with
Prof. +. Z. Green. formerly physical AZ
rector. and O. T. Hall, formerly aSststan9
secretary of the Y. ~. c. 4. To 4 ~
/ porter YESTERDAY Mr.. Bianck eaid:
Our party has reached Lake Taxian
and we have q boat built la readiness T..
so down the river Just as soon a. the 10
breaks Both Green and Han are IN
splendid health and the three Of ~ stoolD
the trip to Lake Tagish we'll. Thc peo-
PIE seem TO be Booked at Lake Bennete
AID Lake Ltndeman and have muci1
trouble in obtaining lumber with which,
/ 20 build their boats. At Lake Tagish,
however, lumber 10 more plentiful and nas
suraiy not as much dttsiculty is encoun~
tered In getting tho boats in readiness.
Many az the gold-seekerS are taruium
back, but their absence from the ranks.
Of those who are on the ram and AT the
lakes Is hardly noticeable. 80 great q the
crowd L met Seattle people everywhere
and man from Seattle has no chance to
become homesick or lonesome
Blanck suffered greatly on the trail from
teothache and his face during The cold
/ weather of February WAS swollen 10 twice
its natural size. He came back pure:y
| ON business matters and will return just
| as socn as he gets the work before him
completed. Han and Green send word
| that they will SO through 10 the Elou~
dixie and spend the next two years Oe
their lives In hunting for nugxets.
a. ID. Spiess. financial agent Of the Enc
gtish syndicate which IL to send La had
Of cattle 10 Dawson over the Dalton trail,
arrived In the city Yesterday from New
4 York. and II regfstered Mt the Hotel Hut..
Ter. Mr.. Spiesx in an Interview with .
III l~<S
The syndicate 1 represent Is composed
of English and Manchester capitalists and
they have other UNDERTAKINGS besides uend>
| Ing cattle TO the Kiondike. We have 5ust
| purchased the steamer Skocl<um. which u
known on Puget sound. and two Canadian
| Pacific steamers. now at vanc0uver.
4 and we uiA Use the three. together With
several barxea. TO take the cattle to Alas.
| Ia. We will afterwani send the bOats to
| the Yukon by way OF -. Micfael, and en-
| gage In the trading business.
The syndicate also has nniuanx pFOpessys
and we. A It's representatives. ara eWpoW-
cred to secure options on any Desirable
claims We may find in the market.
The lao head OF cattle are now at
| Yakima. and can BE- loaded on the hoatn
at any time. We arc nov holding hack
| until we find that the trail h in rood cou-
dition. and when we receive such newA
the cattle and men who are to talko care
| Of the large herd will be SAINT north nj
| once. We shall send q sutficlent number
0f men 10 land the stock at Dawson IN
|. good condition. and we have no doubt bait
/ that the beef will pay good txure. We
now figure that between 500 and as viii
| be required TO land each head IA Dawyons
| md that Estimate does not Include the aAi-
4 aries Of the men who are to have charge
| d the expedition
/ j. G. Potter. a Nevada miner. Is stopping
1 a ~t..f. ard afa al oya1
next Monday for kotsebue sound with -
! PARTY OF twelve other miners. To 70
| porter yesterday Mr.. Potter said:
| Our party was organized by Frank B.
1 Porter. of Ogden. Utah, ana We have with
| US miners from the gold fields Of AfrtrA.
! old Mexico. California, Colorado and
| washington We are al oid-timers and
| are going to Kotxebue sound rs the Inst
chance Of lifetime to make stake No
| have entered into contract with one Az
other TO divide our earnings equally. and
IL is cur intention TO remain IN Aias84
| eighfeen months.
Mr.. Potter gays that business In Salt
| Lake City II very quiet and viii not Inc
prove until through railroad kue b con-
strueted from there TO I>os Angeles such
q nne would result in the opening e =
least q dozen mining camps and the exec-
ton Of several smslters.
1 Tom O'Rrien. y Dawson man. has re.
turned to Seattle after making trip
| through the various states on the Pacific
1 coast and the provinces OF Canada. ana
! IL among the guests at the Hotel Negth-
! ern. U'Rrien is numbered among the
| Kiondske winners. and has been travelling
about the coss-try on business and
/ pleasure combined eser since his arrival
from Dawson last February. He r. now
making preparations to return to the lana
i Of geld and does not expect 70 make nm.
| other "trip TO the United States for y least
two years The principal object ~ Mr..
| O'Brien's "trip TO the United Stntes WnN to
/ place his little son in q Ca.ifornia school.
| The boy WAS horn at Dawson and was the
yeunEest person TO make the trip fsoan tho
Kiondike.
Joseph Farrell dry goods merchant or
Dyea. came 10 9eattie on the Navarro re-
Gently and expects 10 return In ten days.
| Mr.. Farrell said yesterday:
While business In pyea IL not bocmfng
! have no complaint TO make ~ there VIII
| always be enough frAve: to and from
Alaska 20 make Dyea good town. Two
| hundred passengers came down on the
| Navarro. bat they were people who never
intended to go through to the Klcndfke.
but only went to Skagway Of Dyea In
search OF employment"
NJ T. Roche. travelling passenger aRent
4 of the Rio Grande Western railway. with
headquarters at Portland. was II the city
| yesterday.
J. J. Devereaux. general agent az the
Santa Fe route. In in the city. Mr.. Dev-
| efeaux makes his Headquarters ct Pert
lard
PersOmn1a.
Frank Fredson. OF Port Blake.ey. \ q
the Ddier.
W Waiter. Of Yakima, Is stopping &C
the Hotel I3ler.
Mrs. +. r.. Neishbor. Of Fan city. n
/ guest OF the DiIler.
! J.. c. Eaton. q prominent mining man Of
/ Ka~io, IL a guest al the Hotel Northern.
1 Miss sseiIa Gum OF index. IN ytsitsng
| In the city and n stopping ~ the Dl1beT.
/ STEAMER "Rosaitps vii leave for
i Aissks ports Monday. May ie. =. n.
| Dnice under N. r. Ry. cor. Yesaer ana
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