The San Francisco call., 1898-08-07
Return of the LeelanaW
 Almost Bare.
BROUGHT NINE PASSENGERS
HUNDREDS OF MINERS HELD
 AT ST. MICHAELS.
The Overdue Steam Schooner Del Norte and Her Tow of Five Barges Are Safe at
 Kodiak.

The Alaska Exploration Company's steamer LeelanaW arrived from St. Mich- ael yesterday with nine passengers. Very few people came down the river while she was north and very few went up The Brixham, ProgreSo, Rufus E. Wood and a number of other vessels had their pas sengers still aboard when the Leelanaw sailed and the prospects were very poor for any of the gold hunters getting to Dawson this season. Hundreds of men were stranded in and about St. Michael. According to their contracts with outside companies they should have been carried to Dawson. but owing to the. fact that nearly all the river steamers that started from San Francisco, Portland and Puget Sound for the Yukon have been wrecked there is no means of fulfilling the agree ment. A few of the gold hunters have gone up the river on the steamers of the Alaska Commercial Company, North American Trading and Transportation Company and Alaska Exploration Com pany, but the great majority are hoping against hope that something will turn up by which they may reach Dawson with out further expenditure of money.
 Among those who came back on the LeeIanaw are Mrs. and Mrs. Qusenberry The former went to Dawson last fall and his wife went north on the Leelanaw and met him at St. Michael MT. and Mrs Tod Smith met at St. Michael under ex- actly the same circumstances as Mr. and Mrs Quisenberry. w. A. Cummings has spent fifteen years in Alaska. He and ms partner, Charles Wooge, brought down $25, 900 in dust with them.
 l.. L. Hemmingway and w. W. Turney went in over the Chilkoot Pass and came out on the first steamer that went down the river. One week in Dawson was all they wanted. MT. Turney says there will not be work for half the people that nvl hi hardships will be very great
 The river steamers and barges that T. r. h. NhltelaW went north on the Sin the Leelanaw was at Dutch Harbor. They to tow them to St, Michael on her next ran heet of ten stern wheel steamers since | they were spoken in distress in Yakatat Bay. The people at St. Michael never ex- PecI to see one of them. They were all | badly strained and many of them unsea- | worthy, according to the officers of the |
 When two days out from St. Michael the Leelanaw passed a water-logged | stern wheel steamer. What vessel it was | and what steamer lost 1t could not be $a&scertained. & The old bark Huaier, which ! left here June ' for Kotzebue Sound, had | ttr atrriped at St Michael and was to con- tinue her Journey on July 23.
 The steamer Del Norte, which left Seat | tow, is, all right. Neither steamer nor a and they were almost glver up for lost | They put into Kodiak on July F, and | after filling the water tanks were to pro- | ceed to either Sand Point or Kings Cove 1 for coal before venturing into Boring Sea. The first part of the journey was un- eyentful, and the captain of the Del Michael with his tow in safety
 If all goes well the miners on the Blon- dike will be able to eat chicken on the Leelanaw Dominick Robarts will ship 1200 chickens and 300 turkeys. The fowls are going north in specially built coops, and a man Is going with them to see that they are fed properly. Chickens that are expected to bring *1O apiece on the Captain J. c. Blair, who has for years been connected with the Alaska Commer-. cal Somipiany is going, to take a well getting the Yukon steamers away Is over Captain Blair Is going to Byron Springs for fortnight.
 The following report of Purser Futile of the Leeianaw gives an accurate idea of the condition of shipping at St Michael when the steamer left for San Francisco:
 St. Michael-Arrived. July H. steamer Pro- greso from Seattle; to sail about August | sou Juiy N, steamer Brixham from Seattle; to July r. steamer Elihu Thompson from Seat tie; to sail August l,
 July 2l. steamer Laurada from Seattle; to
 July 2S steamer South Portland from Seat tie. 10 sail about August or 2; steamer Ma tonaI City from Seattle, to sail about July 26
 July IS, steamer Alliance from Seattle to sail about July 24; steamer Dlrigo from Seat hence June 12 to sail about July 24.
 July 20. steamer Albion from Astoria, to sail about July 22 steamer Noyo from Seattle. to tie. llth, and British steamer Danube from Victoria, to sail about July 29.
 July l; steamer Conemaugh from Victoria, July IS, Norwegian steamer Tordenskjold rom victoria to sail about July 24.
 July 2. ship Elwell from Nanaimo, to sail July g, bark Rufus E. Wood from Seattle to July 1. bark Highland Light from Seattle. to sail about August 2
 July 10 bark Alex. McNeil, to sail about July l, bark Hayden Brown from Seattle, to sail for Kotzebue Sound about July 23
 July 23. bark Hunter hence July I. to sail for Kotzebue Sound about July 23.
 July l, brig Geneva from Seattle, to sail July 3. brig Harriet G.. hence May Q4. to sail about August l.
 July 5. schooner Inca. hence May 22 to sail about August ?.
 July 10, schooner w F. Jewett, hence June 10: schooner J. NJ. Colman. hence May 1s: schooner Mildred, from Seattle; schooner Ban hence June 8; schooner Chetco. hence May 2s; schooner Lyman D. Foster. hence May 2s; schooner Novelty. hence May 2e.
 The Yukon River Steamboat Companv from the Johnson-Locke Company and will send her to St: Michael in place or the Grace Dollar. The North Fork was fitted out to carry soldiers to Honolulu, and will make good boat for the Klon- like trade. She will get away either to- night or Monday, and will connect at St Michael with the river steamer AlV1so.
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 It's Efforts Appreciated.
 Hugh Craig, president of the Chamber