The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-17
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I'VE had . narrow escape near Sixty
MIie and nearly went through the ice.
BY rare good fortune We only went down
about two feet. We were then obliged 10
abandon our sled. cooking utensils ard
blankets. ard travel over the bills with
our dogs until We reached the foot OF Lake
Marsh, where we secured another sled
and then pushed ahead toward Dyea-
The ice On Lake Bennett and Lake Lin
dernsn y very rotten and 50 dangerous
that travel has now been entirely ahasi-
doned.
Il met ex-Cfty Detective Roberts about
sixty miles south OF Dawson and he was
travelling fast So as to be able TO reach
Dawson before the ice would break. I
also met George Noble ten miles below
ssikirk. Many Seattle people are al
Mnnook creek, pu. no startling Information
has been received from that territory, and
1 did not hear OF any rich strikes. Law
and order Ii maintained In Dawson and
Judge Mctiu!rs has dealt with convicted
criminals 70 severely that there are very
few Yiosat.ons OF the law. Murder and
robbery are unIae3rd OF and a more or-
derry settlement than Dawson could hardly
b. found anywhere.
Mtshaps ON the Trail.
IT believe that out OF the number Of
people who are trying 10 reach Dawson.
without stopping seventy out OF every
eighty I met below Selkirk will be sue
ctssful. Many people on the trails are
dying OF spinal meningitis. but ! did not
hear OF any from Seattle who were among
the victims. There are many Seattle peo-
pie N the hospital at Dawson and seventy
per cent. of all OF the patients are suffer-
ms
caused by drinking 10 much Ice and snow
water. which does not contain enough
IRON There are also number OF typhoid
fever cases, and / predict much more
sickness the coming summer Many ms
haps occur at Thirty Mile and nine
iwelfths or all people. who run any
chances have trouble and lose their out
hts on account of the water being too
low and the stream being so RAPID and
rocky. Many people shoot the White
Horse rapids and At the present time,
about sixty boats. owned by people who
went through are anchored below the dan
gerous places. I believe thsre is going 10
be q building boom at Dawson this year.
as the four saw mills which are now in
operation are unable 20 furnish One-Quar-
ter enough lumber.
X met Miss eastman. a novelist. who
was la Seattle for some time. north OF the
hair way mark o. the trail. With two
male escorts she was making good time
Miss eastman Is known on the trail as
Nellie Bly, and she has become popular
with everybody. ] met representatives of
the Bank OF British North America be-
tween the canyon and the White Horse
rapids. and the representatives of the Bank
OF Commerce, which is TO handle the Yu-
kon business for the Dominion were seen
at Lake Bennett. Major Walsh is now on
the way out and he expects TO reach Lake
Lebsrge before he is obliged 10 come to
a halt. ] have no faith h the Big Sal
mon. lost four days prospecting in that
territory ana located four claims, bur did
not think they were OF enough value to
register them and l abandoned them all
Washing on the Eidorado. believe has
commenced By this time and think that
the miners have begun 10 make the an
nnsl cleanup.
There Is plenty OF provisions in Daw-
SON aud on the trail Prices are high
People on the tran bellows that provisions
VIII bring a high figure In the interior
and they refuse to sell meal out of their
supplies"
Mr.. Wilson was one OF the shipwrecked
passengers on the Corona II is his In
tention 10 return TO the Klondike on June
>. lie viii 20 over tbs Dyea trail and
upon arriving ut Lake Bennett Will take
possession OF boat he is having con-
structed there.