The San Francisco call., 1898-01-11

to walk on in that condition They were soon frozen. He found suffering all along the river. He says they passed
 one or more boats in the ice every day of their trip. MT. Miller is in excellent
 spirits, despite his severe experience.
 He is stopping with Captain Hanson of the Alaska Commercial Company and is getting thoroughly rested up He had intended going out over the ice at once, but has been persuaded not to think of such a thing for some time at least.
 Mr. Miller's companion on the trip up was Harold CanOVan of Ottawa, lately attached to the coast survey MT. Can- evan suffers from a frozen knee
 Captain Geiger of Puget Sound ar
 rived the same day with MT. Miller in company with two Indians, Kitka and ZuriSka, the discoverers of gold in the
 Circle City district. Both the Indians had their cheeks frozen. Miller and his
 companion left Circle City for this
 place on the morning of the 27th of
 October. They were unable to buy dogs, because of the great scarcity of the animals and the large demand for
 them for freighting. They offered fancy prices, but were compelled to start away pulling their outfit on a lit
 tie sled by hand. They fell in with
 freighters soon after their start and
 secured assistance from them. They
 also hired Indians with dogs to help them on from camp to camp. The story of Mir. Miller's trying experience I will tell further along under the date
 of his arrivel here, when he tells it to me
 The steamers Bella and Weare, old
 liners, and the little new steamers Vic
 toria and St. Michael, are at Circle City, frozen up in a slough for the win ter The latter two were caught there on the way up by the ice and the other two on their way to Fort Yukon from this city for another cargo of provisions and could get no further.
 Nothing has been heard of the May 1 West, the steamer built at St. Mich ael during the summer, and which started up the river loaded with pro- visions by the passengers of the EX- celsior-San Francisco people. MT. Miller started to go to Fort Yukon in small boat when his steamer stopped at Circle City, but the boat was caught in the ice fifty miles below Circle City and he and his two companions re- turned to that town. It was after that that 100 men were sent there for lack of provisions in two barge loads, the last in charge of Captain Ray of the United States army, the officer sent here with power to act for the Govern ment When the Weare stopped at Circle the "Pirates,' as they were call ed, protested and urged the captain to
 go on. He thought it unsafe, however, in the condition of the river, and
 ran the boat into a slough where she
 was quickly held fast by the ice.
 Then there came spell of warmer
 weather, the river being free of ice and
 the boat was chopped out and the
 pirates declared if the captain didn't
 go on to Yukon and attempt to bring
 more provisions they would take pos session of the boat themselves and run her down. That night before any move could be taken by anybody, the mer-
 cury dropped and the boat was frozen in fast. Captain Ray then set himself
 the task of getting the surplus popula- tiOn to Fort Yukon. He sent the first barge of sixty men with the promise
 that he would himself follow in the next barge. He did so few days later with forty men. Nothing has been
 heard of them since then
 Mr.. Miller says they have plenty of
 moose and caribou in the vicinity of
 Circle, and he insists there gan be no fear for lack of provisions.
 A great deal of feeling has been aroused in this city and district in the
 matter of the commission of three dele gates to carry the miners memorial to Ottawa protesting against recently adopted mining regulations. One of these delegates is the representative of the EXaminer-Journal, F. J. Livernash. He was appointed by the committee of
 ten, as the others were, but bitter op- position to him has been active among the miners from the. beginning. He was openly and strongly opposed when