The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-31
A MILLION AND A HALF
The Roanoke Brings Gold Dust
From Alaska.
SOME OF THE LUCKY ONES
The Discoverer of the Klondike Has
s35.ooo-Three Sacks. Containing
$4,000. Stolen From Miners.
Back From Inspection.

Seattle, Aug. 30.-The steamer Roam
oke arrived here to-day from ST. Mich
aels. Alaska, with ASS passengers and
gold dust which a conservative esti-
mate places at 81. 500 900. The bulk OF II
was the property of the Canadian Bank
Of Commerce and the North American
Trading and Transportation company.
The amount credited to the Canadian
Bank of Commerce is $500 600.
A majority of the passengers were
rIen who went to Dawson in last years
rush. They have no gold. but lots OF
experience. The fortunate passengers
numbered about 15. OF these probably
p had over $4,000 each. The amounts
held by the remaining 50 ran from $500
to $4,000. The following is a list of the
richest ones and the amounts they
brought out: G. w. Jenkins, S53, 900:
Theodore Anderson. $50 600: George
Carmack. S35.0O0: Stick Jim, $4,000:
Tagish Charley. S35000: Ike Powers.
$4,000; III. Dnane, $4,000: +. Renaud
$4,000 These were among the first
who went into the Klondike. George
Carmack was the discoverer of the
klondike. He located the first claim on
Bonanza creek. Stick Jim and Tagish
Charley are full-blooded Indians
An unusual incident attending the
arrival of the Roanoke was the holding
and searching Of her passengers and
their baggage for three sacks OF stolen
gold dust Each individual passenger
vas examined as he came off the
steamer, but the missing gold was not
found. The sacks contained about S24-
COO. The owners of the stolen gold werA
Albert Fox, whose sack contained fli-
O00; William Folmer 50 900. and DIR. Q
+. Adams of Chicago. 5000. The gold
Fal-
Roanoke while she was lying at St
Michaels. There is no clue to the thief
y search OF the vessel was made at St
Michaels 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 cut the gold and
filed the sack with shot. The substi-
tuition was not discovered until 81.
MiChaels was reached.
Among the RoanoKe's passengers
We're DIR. sheldon Jackson. United
States commissioner Of education for
Alaska, and Portus Il. weare of Chi
cago. general manager of the North
American Trading and Transportation
company. Conditions at st. Michaels
and Dawson have undergone no mater
ial change since last reported People
are arriving daily at ST. Michaels from
up the river i'm small boats.
The steamer Logo. which left St
Nichaels two days before the Roanoke.
relieved the congestion of stranded
miners by taking away about 100 Of
them.
DIR. Jackson returns from his annual
H. rspection of the government schools
and reindeer stations on the shores of
Eering sea. The second week in August
was spent on the coast of Siberia.
where he was successful In securing
and transporting 10 Alaska 16l head Of
domestic reindeer, which were sent to
Cape Prince Of Wales TO replace in part
the herd which was taken last winter
hv the government and driven to Point
Barrow for the relief OF the ice-im-
prinsoned whalers The reindeer herds
received a gratifying increase by the
birth OF a large number of fawns.
DIR. Jackson also established the
OF the Laplanders at Tn
alaklik, whence they will be sent to
various parts of Alaska. where their
services may be needed in carrying the
nail with reindeer. Many Of these |
Laps have already taken out their first |
papers looking to naturalization.
Or. II. X. Cambell. NJ. D.. of Iowa. |
has been appointed government physi- |
,lan at the reindeer station at Unalak- |
Iik.
w. F. Doty Of New York. a graduate |
of Princeton university. has been ap- |
pointed teacher at st. Lawrence Island. |
IN place of V. c. Gambell who went /
down with the schooner Jane Gray
DIR. Jackson reports that the steamer /
one of the fleet that wintered |
n the ice off Point Barrow, was al Port /
Clarence Aug. 5, taking on supply Of /
'oal and provisions. preparatory to re-
urning TO the Arctic.
The whaler Rosario was reported 10 /
lave been crushed in the ice east of /
Point Barrow last July. The captain
VI the Belvidere said that his was the
,nly one OF the fleet that had gotten our |
II the ice up 10 the time he left. but he
believed the remaining ones would get
,ut all right. Nothing had been heard
Y the revenue cutter Bear. which had
zone to the relief Of the whaling feet
,ut she was daily expected at Port
'larence.
=. b. Weare estimates the amount OF
,Old dust and drafts brought down on |
he Roanoke at 81, 900 600.