The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-08-31
ROANOKE REACHES SEATTLE
BRINGS ABOUT FIVE HUNDRED
=. PASSENGERS.
Few Made Stakes, but Many Gain
Experience - The Lucky Ones
and Those Who Were Rob
bed of Their Ali.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SEATTLE. Aug. 3O-The steamer
; Roanoke arrived here to-day from ST
Michael, Alaska, with 45S passengers
and gold dust which conservative es.
innate places at 81, 500, 900. The bulk OF
II was the property of the Canadian
Bank OF Commerce and the North
American Trading and Transportation
Company. The amount credited to the
Canadian Bank of Commerce is $500,
O00. A majority of the passengers were
men who went to Dawson in last year S
rush. They have no gold, but lots OF
experience. The fortunate passengers
numbered about seventy five. OF these
probably twenty-five had over SO, 900
each. The amounts held by the remain
ing fifty ran from $500 to $4,000. The fol-
lowing is q list of the richest ones and
: the amount they brought out:
G. W. Jenkins, $50, 600; Theodore An
derson, $4,000; George Carmack $780,
600: Stick Jim, $S5. 1000; Tagish Charley,
sS5.0O0' Ike Powers. $4,000; D. Doane.
$4,000; f. Renaud, $4,000
These men We're among the first who
went into the Klondike. George Car
mack was the discoverer of the Klon-
dixie. He located the first claim on
bonanza Creek. Stick Jim and Tagish
Charley are full blooded Indians.
An unusual incident attending the ar
rival OF the Roanoke was the holding
and searching of her passengers and
their baggage for three sacks of stolen
gold dust Each Individual passe-l ger
was examined as he came off the
steamer, but the missing gold was not
found The sacks contained about
$4,000. The owners of the stolen gold
. were Albert Fox, whose sack contained
s14. 600; William FoImer, $4,000, and DR..
c. 4. Adams OF Chicago, $500. The gold
was taken from a Stateroom on the
ffostnoke While she was lying at ST.
Mlehael- There Is no clew to the thief
A search Of the vessel was made at St
Michael before she left, but with no
better success than was achieved to-
day
Another robbery is reported to have
occurred on the river steamer Cudahy
between Dawson and st. Michael Some
one got hold of sack belonging to
Stick Jim" an Indian, containing
$1,000 They dumped out the gold and
filled the sack with shot The substi-
tuition was not discovered until st.
Michael was reached
Conditions at st. Michael and Daw-
son have undergone no material change
sinoe last reports. People are arriving
daily at ST. Michael from up the river
in small boats.
The steamer Noyo, which left St
Michael two days before the Roanoke.
: relieved the congestion of stranded
miners by taking away about one hun
dred of them
DR.. Sheldon Jackson, United States
Commissioner of Education for Alaska
arrived to-day from st. Michael on the
steamer Roanoke. DR.. Jackson returns
from his annual inspection of the Gov
ernment schools and reindeer stations
on the shores of Bering Sea. The sec
ond week in August was spent on the
coast of Siberia, where he was success
.ful: in securing and transporting to
Alaska 161 head of domestic reindeer.
which were sent to Cape Prince of
Wales to replace in part the herd which
was taken last winter by the Govern
nent and driven to Point Barrow for
The relief Of the ice-imprisoned whalers.