The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-31


Transportation company of the arrival
at Seattle OF their steamer Roanoke.
from the Yukon. with 100000 in gold
dust from the Klondike.
Seattle, Wash, Aug. 30.-The steamer
Roanoke arrived here today from st.
Michaels, Alaska. with ASS passengers
and gold dust which conservative es-
innate places at 81. 100000. The bulk OF
it was the property of the Canadian
Bank of Commerce and the North
American Trading and Transportation
company.
The amount credited to the Can;sian
Bank of Commerce is 100000. A ma
jority of the passengers were men who
went to Dawson in last years rush.
They have no gold, but lots of eXDer-
| fence. The fortunate passengers num-
bered about IS. OF these probably 25
had over $4,000 each. The amounts
| held by the remaining 80 ran from $500
to $1,000.
P. B. Weare estimates the amount Of
gold dust brought down on the Roam
Oke at $4.000.000.
The steamer Portland was to have
| sailed for San Francisco the day after
the Roanoke left st. Michaels. 1t was
reported that she would carry a large
! Commerce alone shipping over $1,000,-
| Geo.
THE RICH ONES.
The following is a list of the richest
| ones and the amount t/1y brought out:
G. w. Jenkins. $50, Gu; Theo. Ander-
son. $4,000; George Carmack $50, coo;
Stick Jim, $500 Tagish Charley, $780,
900; Ike Powers, $4,000: n. Doane, $15,--
900; +. Renaud, $4,000.
f7a wi M.
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-blooded Indians.
THREE SACKS STOLEN.
An unusual incident attending the ar
rival of the Roanoke was the holding
and searching of her passengers and
their baggage for three sacks of stolen
gold dust. Each individual passenger
was examined as he came off 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 contained
$4,000; William FOlmer, $4,000, and DIR.
C. f. Adams of Chicago, $500. The gold
was taken from a state room on the
Roanoke while she was lying at st.
Michaels. There is no clue TO the thief
A search of the vessel was made at ST.
AIichaels before she left, but with no
better success than was achieved to-
day.
Another robbery is reported to have
occurred on the river steamer Cudahy
between Dawson and st. Michaels.
Someone got hold of a sack belonging
to Stick Jim," an Indian, containing
$1,000. They dumped out the gold and
filled the sack with shot. The substi-
tute was not discovered until st. Mich
aels was reached.
PEOPLE ARRIVING DAILY.
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 & Transportation
company. Conditions at st. Michaels
and Dawson have undergone no ma
terial change since last reported. PeO-
pie 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 a hun
bred of them.
JACKSON AND THE REINDEER
DR.. Jackson returns from his annual
lHSpeCllOn VI Tic oNAOOAo
and reindeer stations on the shores Of
Bering sea. The second week in Aug
ust was spent on the coast of Siberia,
where he was successful in securing
and transporting to Alaska 161 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 Barrow for the relief of the
ice-imprisoned whalers. The reindeer
herds received a gratifying increase in
the spring by the birth of large num-
Der of fawns.
DR.. Jackson also established the
headquarters of the Laplanders at I'm
alaklik, where they will be sent to
various parts of Alaska where their
services may be needed in carrying the
mail with reindeer. Many of these
Laps have already taken out their first
papers looking to naturalization
Dr. II. K. Gambell, NJ. D., of Iowa,
has been appointed government ply
stefan at the reindeer station at I'm
alaklik.
W. F. Doty of New York. a graduate
of Princeton university, has been ap-
pointed teacher at ST. Lawrence island,
in place of Mr.. V. c. Gambell, who
went down with the schooner Jane
Gray.
WHALING FLEET.
DR.. Jackson reports that the steam
whaler Belvidere, one of the fleet that
wintered in the ice off Point Barrow,
was at Port Clarence on Aug. 5, taking
on a 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 fleet 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 fleet, but she
was daily expected at Port Clarence.