Evening star., 1898-09-06
Each Weighs Over $50 Pounds and
They Are From Alaska.
ABOUT ONE And 4 HALF MILLION
Lucky KIondike Miners Returning
on the Portland Are Few.
RICH STRIKE REPOR RTED

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, September g.
The steamer Portland. just arrived from
St. Michael with about one million and
half dollars worth Of gold dust and mug
gets brought six boxes Of the precious
metal belonging to the Canadian Bank of
Commerce and three boxes for the Alaska
Commercial Company, each box weighing
over go pounds.
The lucky miners on board were feC,
Charles Andersen. John Lee, E. Nelson,
VIM. Young and Jas. McMalon being among
the fortunate ores. Anderson is said to
have cleared UP $4,000.
The Portland brought news of rich
strike on the Yukon in American territory.
The headwaters of Kayukuk have panned
out rich. AMI HOO men are digging there.
and twice tnat number are waiting to
siedge there this winter.
kayakuk is about 1,000 miles from the
mouth of the Yukon, and is about 69o miles
in length. 1t is this side of Minook and
from ths latter place, Fort Hamilton and
SlrcIs City the prospectors will go in this
Winter.
Two miners recently were shot by In
dians in Lake Tagish. One was killed and
the other wounded. The criminals have
been placed on trial at Dawson.
James Murphy, one of the Portland's pas
sengers, says:
1T is going to be a hard winter in Daw-
son and all along the river. Provisions will
be scarce and then the trouble will come
Out of thirty river boats, at least twenty
OF them will be frozen in. The majority of
the boats will get no further than Circle
CITY, If they get that far"
Placer Diggings short Lived.
Captain John dcCafferty. ex-collector of
customs FOR Alaska, and a mining engineer
by profession. has arrived here from Daw-
son City. His summing up of his expert
enc4 is that the gold placer diggings in
Alaska are short lived, and that there are
no true fssure veins in that territory, be-
cause the country is much broken up and
because the geological indications are such
as to warrant tke conclusion that there is
no gold-bearing quartz in the place Large
broken deposits of gold or bonanzas may
be found there. but they will be of the ma
ture of pockets. and will not last.
The most surprising opinion expressed by
him is that the placer diggings are the
point of being worked out, and that many
had barely paid expenses
CHICAGO. September ga special to the
Record from Victoria, B. c., says:
klondikers who arrived by the steamer
Amur tell OF the rescue of Arthur Parry,
Seattle man accused Of stealing 1880 from
Alexander Mcdonald, from an officer of
the northwest mounted police by Col
Iector Of Customs Ivey. The affair has
caused great excitement at Dawson City
dent.
Trouble Over a Prisoner.
According to the miners Parry mort
gagged claim belonging to Mcdonald. Nc
Donald swOre out a complaint against him
and the police went to arrest Parry
Parry, however, had fled down the river
An officer was dispatched after him, de-
spite the fact that he was in American ter
ritory. The officer overlook and arrested
Parry, who had $4,000 in dust At Natal.
when the Columbian came up. the police
man and his prisoner took passage on her
for Dawson City.
When the Columbian reached Eagle CITY
Collector Ivey went aboard and demanded
the prisoner and the money. The Cana
dian officer demurred, when Ivey drew a.
revolver and threatened to shoot unless the
prisoner was given up. Finally Iyey push
ed the officer aside and took the prisoner
without giving the officer receipt for the
prisoner and the money.
On the affair being reported at Dawson
Clty Grown Prosecutor Wade and a de-
tachment of police took passage on the
steamer Powers to pursue the prisoner and
retake him at all costs. The captain and
officers of the Columbian have all made
afhdaF1ts as to how the prisoner was Sc
cured There is much discussion over the
matter and fuller report has been sent to
Ottawa