The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-07-21
Stranded Americans Sent Down
the Yukon to Other Camps.
PREPARING FOR NEXT WINTER.
Expert Dunham. OF United states LS-
bor pepnrtment. Raises n Serious
prohlem-No QnestioD About the
kIoudtke's Richness, But the
u. Man Has No Place There
Government Aid May BE Needed.

The prospect OF a food shortage in Daw-
san NEXT winter is even this early as!ta;-
ing the minds Of many men familiar WIN
ire situation in The interior. The raci max
the Canadian government is TOW taki;S
measures 70 send Americans stranded N
Dawson down he river 10 the American
camps below is significant. and Statistical.
Exnqrt Samuel c. Durham. OF the Unit
ed States labor department, goes 80 TAR
as 10 state his belief that the governments
viii We. have to furnish transportation out
OF Alaska 10 INDECENT prospectors. MI
Durham vas a returning passenger On
the Roanoke from Alaska. When the ex-
element concerning mines OF the Ner.h
first developed Ae aas delegated g so
north and investigate the opportunities
for American labor and capital. A reEie"
Of the report ne prepared While IN AliskF.
vas recently published in the Post-tnJtis-
gencer Mr. Durham il now en- rou g 10
Washington city 10 report In Headquarters
and while there i is highly probap.e ne
will call on President Mckinley and N
form him personally of the exact cotidi4oh
Of affairs now existing on the YUKON ea
he American side. Mr.. Dun1am mcr 60
J. u A. 1
Dawson. y w. T.. al st. Michael Tne
Officials conferred together and i - eer-
tatntv mat impositionS on Americans N
The Northwest Territory ~Ll he eaecht d
col NcCooh Is man q fixed determine
ton and will see that a. subIects 81 the
United States are properly looked AFTER.
Information even 20 the American consul
hv MIR Dunham Vas invaluable. 10 a
PaSt-Intolligencer reporter yesterday Mt
Durham said:
4 am no, 81 liberty TO give You aav +
ncial information Rat will say that 81
ha j. a very ri IN country. There are
many people il Alaska. ana don D Eve
here viii be god tor everybody IN Iaot
I think the or.2inal idea or the 'oss In
telligencer WI nave to be carried rnt and
trat TN government vii he obliged TO
send for stranded leopse who are no" %
Gated in various parts Of tie country.
The government may not br o. -" 20
~.ud provisions hut 1t Is certainty tEft
4 viii be required to furnish traF9p MA
tfen TAc British goyegnme:tt te4.H-s re
fact and Is uow engaged IN sena'uS Al
stranded Amer rr> roW at aWson
through 10 Fort YukoJ. and Gree ''.ty.
THESE points are on American t@rriierX,
ard th,. unf0rtuuates vi therefore he a.
I'd Tor 10y our government. or, at l. as
i think taat they wli.
i drIaly bele.e that Alaska IS one OF
the richest countries III the ~ofd, but Al
the same time | viii also say that many
people there are stranded tor the reason
that they were MT financially ~ pared
10 60 through the experience when they
icft ht M.
CAPT. Healy and Capt. Hanson inform
ed ME before / left Dawson that the sea-
sons output would not be less than H0.-
ca0 600 You may also inform the pioAe
through the Post-Intelligencer that news
.ba raoorfp1 STRIKE. TT jefferson Creek
Is not true. ana that | would advise al
peopie to refrain from buying property
there
MIR Durham Will leave today for San
Francisco. and from there he Wi! so to
Washington.