The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-09-08
MILLION And A HALF

The Roanoke Brings Passen.
gers and Gold.
A BIG ROBBERY ON BOARD
Return of DR.. Sheldon Jackson-Re-
port Brought Down Of tho Loss
of the Whalcr Rosario.
Seattle, Sept. 1.-The steamer Roam.
Oke arrived here today from st.
Miohaels with 468 passengers, and gold
dust which conservative estimate
places at 81, coo, 900. The bulk Of It
was the property of the Canadian Bank
of Commerce and the North American
Trading & Transportation Company.
The amount credited to the Canadian
Bank Of Commerce is 100000. A
majority of the passengers were men
who went to Dawson In last years
rush. They have no gold, but lots Of
experience. The fortuAate passengers
numbered about 70. OF these proba-
bly, % had over $4,000 each. The
amount held by the remaining so ran
from $500 to SIS, 900. The following is
list Of the richest ones. aud the
amount they brought out:
q. w. Jenkins, $53, 200; Theodore
Anderson. $4,000; George Carmack,
&35. 900; Stick Jim, e85, 600; Tagish
Charley. $35, 900; Ike Powers, SIS, 600;
H. Doane, $4,000; F. Renaud. $15,.
900.
These men were among the Hrst 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-biood Indians.
An unusual incident attending the
arrival of the Roanoke was the holding
and searching of her passengers and
their baggage for three sacks of stolen
gold dust. Each individual passen-
ger was examined as he came of the
steamer, but the missing gold was not
found. The sacks contained about
$24. 900. The owners Of the stolen
gold were Albert Fox, whose sack con-
tanned $4,000; William Folmer. $9,-
900, and DR.. G. F. Adams, of Chicago,
5000. The gold was taken from a
stateroom on the Roanoke while she
was lying at St. Michaels. There is
no clew to the thief. A search Of the
vessel was made at st. Michaels before
she left with no better success than
was achieved today.
Another robbery Is reported to have
occurred on the river steamer Cudahy,
between Dawson and st. Michaels.
Some one got hold OF sack belonging
to Stick Jim, containing $1,000. They
dumped out the gold and filled the
sack with shot. The substitution was
not discovered until st. Michaels was
reached.
Among the Roanoke's passengers
were Dr.. Sheldon jackson, United
States commissioner Of education for
Alaska, and Portus b. Weare. of Chi
cago, general manager of the North
American Trading q Transportation
Company.
Conditions at st. Michaels and Daw-
son have undergone no material change
since last reports. People are arriving
daily at St. Michaels from UP the river
in small boats.
The steamer Noyo, which left st.
Michaels two days before the Roanoke,
relieved the congestion Of stranded
miners by taking away about 100 OF
them.
DR.. Sheldon Jackson returns from
his annual inspection OF the govern
ment schools and reindeer stations on
the shores Of Behring sea. The SEQ
ond week In August was spent on the
coast of Siberia, where he was success
full in securing and transporting to
Alaska 1911 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
government and driven to Point Bar
row for the relief Of the ice-imprisoned
whalers. The reindeer herd received
gratifying increase in the spring by
the birth OF large number OF fawns.
DR.. Jackson also established the
headquarters OF the Laplanders at Un-
alakik, whence they will be sent to va
rious parts of Alaska, where their eer-
vices may be needed In carrying the
mail with reindeer. Many Of these
Laplanders have already taken out
their first papers looking to naturaliza-
| ton.
DR.. Jacksn reports that the steam
whaler Belvidere, one OF the feet that
wintered in the ice of Point Barrow,
was at Port Clarence, August 5. tax
ing on supply Of coal and provisions
preparatory to returning to the Arctic.
The whaler Rosario was reported to
have been crushed In the ice east OF
Point Barrow last July. The captain
Of the Belvidere said that his was the
only one of the feet that had gotten
out Of the Ice up to the time he left,
but he believed the remaining ones
would get out all right.
Nothing had been heard OF the reve-
nue. cutter Bear, which had gone to
| the relief OF the whaling feet, but she
was daily expected at Port Clarence.
| P. B. Weare estimates the amount OF
gold dust and drafts brought down on
the Roanoke at q, o00. 900.
The people Of Hawaii bought last
year IS, 900, 600 worth Of goods from all
parts Of the World, and over % per cent
| of this was from the United States.
Builder ~ Names Engincs.
Chicago. Sept. Henry Mason
one az the best known engineers ii tho