The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-13

By way Of LAka Heaness ThoueanAx Ut
horses hare died Ia Juaeaa, while yea
can buy any number of Yekan dogs theFe
for - cents each The Dasson trait has
rot ~ yss BEEN very mnsh used. Also
M +. $500 ssssss..y 's "a al d. css-
koot pass consisted OF several Sights -
stairs Thai It started from Juaean. In
stead os Dyea. and was most used by way
Of Lake Bennett were. Of course. god
geographical points
The day this yoaxug man wrose heene
happened to be the Sunday on walcA
Bradley shot ard killed Scheidsrups This
evidently excited him. ard probably az
counts for the following paragraph.
About an hour ago there WAS 4 duel
IN front az my window. Three shots were
fred when one man fel- shot through the
heart, and died In few minutes. Mr..
Graham. my comrade. held his head unsfl
he died No ones life Is safe. Tor there
are murders here every night. Every one
carries ssx-shooter and one dare not
SO ous alone after dark
The only reliable part Of the whole set-
ter - the lass paragraph regarding Seat
lie, IN which he sAySSsctstts ccn-
dorfui supply station Prices here are
thing"
Another man from Sharon, Pa. has ~
turned home after spending a few months
In this city trying TO get enough courage
to 50 north He says In tho Pfstsburx
Post OF . recent date: There viii b
30.edo people 80 into the gold fields slass
year. Of which. the old miners say. bur
500 will make expenses.''
Like the young man from Troy. Re has
exaxgerated ideas Of noSthern conditicns.
for he says:
s'At skagway men are dying at the rate
Of thirty-five per day. and at Lake Lin
deman iN Is the average death rate a
day. The mysterious disease which has
caused 50 many deaths il spreading.
Sometimes a. many as thirteen and NJ
teen dead bodies are brought down on
steamers 70 Seattle. and II Ii hard TO say
how many are buried In the frozen land
OF the Kiondike. 1t u horrible death.
the victim suffering excrlciattug pain be-
fore the end comes. read In the East
ern papers that three returned Klondikers
had arrived in Seattle with $4,000 each.
There has no one returned this winter
with any gold dust 1t - simply impos-
slble to persuade the tenderfeet fren GO
ing over the passes. They are Wild with
anticipation OF making their fortunes.
and II Is almost sure death to those who
are not used to the terrible cold. and =
blizzard blowing at los miles an hour.
This OF course. IL all news to Seattle
people. The idea Of 100 deaths per day
at lonely Lake Lindeman Is about an pre-
pcsterous as a blizzard blowing at the
rate OF ns miles an hour. The fact that
he Is positive that no one has returned
from Dawson this past winter with dust
suggests that he must have searched each
returning Klondiker as the latter came
down the gang plank. Jones closes by
saying that al. the mines In Alaska are
taken up as far south as Juneau. and
there is nothing left for any one In the
north.
III. A Fry. of Portland. who came out
from Dawson on March 81. is at the Hotel
Northern. Mr.. Fry Is in Seattle on busi-
ness pertaining to his mining property
located in the Indian river district. and on
tributaries of the Bonanza and Dn~-inion
rivers and of Swedish creek. 1Ae Yukon.
er. in expressing his observations on the
difference between Seattle and Portland.
said:
Seattle Is away ahead OF Portland in
every branch OF business. 1t would be inn
possible TO see as much hustle and activ-
ity In Portland In whole week as Is, seen
in Seattle In one day. 1t Is acknowledged
that Seattle secures about eight-tenths Of
the Kiondike trade. while the other two
tenths goes TO Portland"