The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-07-04
Five Young Canadians Return
From the Klondike.
THE YUKON RIVER is NOT LOW
Much sickness at DRwsOn-The
Death Rate Is HiGh-Four 81 Day
the Average Catholic Church
Burns Down-Fl0Od Also Does
Much Damage Dan saunders
the First Man to Make a Caean-t Il.


| foot boat. made the fastest trip of any of
/ the parties who returned on the New
| England, ana bring the latest news from
| Dawson. The men are Albert Meikin.
| Jack Ross, John Wilson, q. W. Heppie.
| Ben Woobunk of Nanaimo B. c.. and J.
X Graham. OF Danvile. Ill. They left
/ Dawson on the evening of June and tif-
/ teen days later they reached ST. Michael
| with a few hours 10 spare. They speak OF
/ their trip down the river very easy
/ one with the exception Of the long stretch
| from the mouth OF the river 20 ST, Michael.
| hut say they would rather pole up the
| river than be tossed around on the ocean
! As they were coming down.
! Position of River steamers.
| There will be no doubt" said Jack
! Ross of the party. to \ observation-disclosures
reporter yesterday afternoon, but that
| the river steamers will reach Dawson this
/ year. The river is eight feet higher than
| it has been for years and Dawson as Hood
| ed. We paid particular attention TO the
| position of river boats passed on the down
| trip. On June 6 We met the May West lou
| miles down the river from Dawson. she
/ was heavily loaded with passengers who
! had spent the winter on her and We're go
! ing to Dawson with their outfits. her cap
! tain said he was making twenty-five miles
| IN twenty-four hours. against The mighty
flood that was sweeping ont to the ocean.
| Tho Victoria, rapidly reeling off the miles
! that separated her from the golden capital,
| was passed the following day lS' miles
| ~ M t-aG high
! and dry on a bar about twenty miles above
! Circle City. There We're 10 Dawson bound
j passengers aboard who were more than
! dissatisfied at being hung up a second
| time We took one of them back TO Circle
| City in our boat. He said the pilot got
| into the wrong channel, otherwise they
would have gone through all right.
1.-The Gov Stoneman with a number OF
| passengers was Seen on June ashore on
/ a bar at Fort Yukon. They expected 10
/ float her the next day. Forty miles below
| Fort Yukon we passed the steamer Hattie
! b.. of San Francisco. also hung up on a
! bar. They had been working on her sew
! eral days and she was almost into the
! channel.
| THE river boats of the Zig companies
! stood the ice breakup in good shape. The
! Bella and another steamer had been forced
| up on an island opposite Circle City. but
/ had been skidded into deep water and
/ started for Dawson. The steamers Alice,
! Thomas Dwyer Margaret. Weare and
/ Hamilton were on their way up the river
/ and making good time. The st. Michael
! and the Heaiy were on the lower river
! bound up.
sickness at Dawson.
| 1.-THE hospitals At Dawson were full of
! sick and dying men when We left there
| Scurvy was claiming many victims and a
! large number were sick of pneumonia and
| typhoid fever. There had been some sick
| Tess a. Dawson during the winter, but ii
! became much worse WREN the sun melted
| the snow AMI stirred up the refuse that
| piled up around al the buildings. The
| miners out on the creeks Were In much
| better health than those in town. although
| some Of the scurvy victims were miners
| who had lived on poor and improperly
/ cooked food Three or four deaths per day
! was the average at Dawson.
! On the Golden Gravel Hanks.
| 'The miners OF the Klondike have been
| swearing and praying for rain. Water Is
! needed to wash ont the big gravel heaps
. that have piled up slowly during the long
| winter Bonanza creek has been running
! very well but the hundreds of siufces have
! taxed the supply 20 the utmost. Etiorado
+ has for some reason or other been lower
! than usual and there will he some dumps
that viii not =. worked out this year.
/ Very iit.le cleaning up is being done on the
newer creeks, with the possible exception
Of Dominion. where the dumps are show
ing np wonderfully We came into Daw~
! son several days before starting down and
considerable gold was being brought into
/ camp Much of II has been disposss,i Of
! 10 the transportation companies and drafts
taken for the amount. Dan Saunders, who
/ owns a claim AT the 1uncture Of French
| gtch and Eidorado creek. was the first
/ man 10 finish his cleanup. RE was one Of
/ the first to start and worked a number II
men. He took out thousands Of dollars
/ One thing that has developed this spring
IL that I number Of the Claims located on
outside rivers do not pay to work. All Of
/ the claims these creeks do not carry
I gold as do the claims on the two old tim
| ens. We left too early TO get the full de-
/ tails from thess creeks. however
Hundreds Coming Out
Hundreds Of ola miners and t4n ierfeet
! will take he FIRST boats down the river
some with gold and some without. Many
ot the old Ijrnerz Will leave their unfinished
/ clean ups In the hands % employees or
| partners and com" out with the god taken
! out iasst year. Marty all WHO have fin
isaef work Will leave for the summer
Then there are many new corners who
have been unable 10 >Astre claims ard are
more than glad 10 get ogg 81 the country
They will have some grea; stories 10 tel
hut there - nothing strange about that
for. while the klondike District Il big and
rlrh. there are not claims enough for
every one
Fire and FLOOD at Dawson.
THE Ice begsn 10 go 0uf on May ana
went very rapidly As the ice "a ssesi down
the Yukon began TO RISE, slowly VI Arxt
and then with more energy. The ,ast few