The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-11
FROM CIRCLE TO DAWSON.
Brings TO the kiondike Discouraging
News From Down the River.
Steamer City Of Topeka Arrives FrouA
Alaska with Fifteen KIonaikers
and 100000 in Gold and Certia-
cates-Special Correspondents w.
Dawson December 9-GoId Output
and Fifty Tons-MininG Outlook
Promising Despite Food Shortage.

Promising Despite Food Shortage.
Fifteen Kiondikers with Sleo oo0 in gold
terday on the steamship City Of Topeka.
several of them having left Dawson as late
as December 9. William j. Jones. special
correspondent or the Pos;-lntelligencer
Alaskan News Syndicate. was among tne
passengers. being among the last TO leave
Dawson. Sorting news was brought
down concerning the spread of the food
shortage 10 Circle City and. IT is believed.
even 10 Fort Yukon. Since For. Yukon
has been depended upon as a base of sup
plies for Dawson, the situation in the
klondike is seriously complicated by this
new development. Joaquin Miller. the poet
OF the Serras. reached Dawson from Circle
City before Jones left. and brought the
first reports received from down the river
for some time. With all the impending dis
asier consequent upon lack OF supplies, tho
outlook for the gold mines grows more and
more promising.
The suffering of Joaquin Miller in the
journey from Circle TO Dawson illustrates
mos. forcibly the intensity of the cold and
the hardship of travel on the Yukon. In
telling the story Mr.. Jones said:
joaquin Miller arriy<. from Circle City
December 4 at II o'clock. He was very
badly frozen. having lost a part OF the
great toe of his left foot. his left ear
sloughing of, and both his cheeks frozen.
He left Circle City thirty-hve days before
in company with Herald Canovan, of OF
tawa, late of the coast survey. They start
ed from Circle City without dogs, having
been unable to purchase them, because OF
their scarcity. They pulled their outfit
on a sled. In an interview Mr.. Miller said:
I'VE got along all right until near For
ty-Mile, where We encountered a blizzard
that was like confronting a bsyonet
charge. We were, at the time within
mile and half of a cabin, the location
Of which We knew. and We were eight
miles beyond FortyMile. Rather than
face that wind for the mile and ha.f.
team that had kept with us turned back
over the eight miles, Canoyan. shortly
after we met the wind complained that
his knee was freezing. saw the dogs in
the other team turn back. | knew that
Canovan could not walk that eight miles
and so / urged him TO go forward. We
pressed on and with the turn of the river
saw the smoke Of the cabin.
Tried 10 Keep Him Back.
"'We left Circle City before the river
had entirely closed up but shortly after
the ice jamned. Reports came In of peo-
pie being frozen in the ice between Cir
Gle City and Dawson. and miners meet
Ing was called 10 protest against my try
ing to come up. ] told them TO go 10 the
I...-tl h..
happening on the rivet the more necessary
IL was for me 70 go ahead. The body Of
a man who had accidentally shot himself
In his boat on the way down, the beat aft
erwards being caught In the fee, was
brought in. His party had been compelled
20 leave him and come ia Circle City. An
other party went back and found 'Se body
doubled up In the boat They were COM
PEELED TO chop II out OF the ice Another
man was brought In 10 Circle City. a miner
well known there. named Ryan. so badly
frozen that his feet had 70 be aInputat ed
" Coming up we passed q great many
people, all OF them suffering. more or
less. from the effects OF the severe wealth
er We struck our ars; trouble at the
whirlpool below Forty-Mile fell on the
ice there and bled freely from the lungs
rs a result. young trader named Al
Thayer fell at the same place twenty MIN
utes later and fractures: three OF his ribs
We were both treated az Forty-Mlie
remained there three DAYS From Ferty-
Mile came on With trader named Mon
taaa. 1t was the first day out from Forty
Mile that we encountered the blizzard I
speak OF We rested TIP couple OF DAYS
at the little cabin. and then came on 20
Dawson without other serious rnishaps.'
MFR. Miller will remain in Dawson a
month AZ least he said. and may not at
tempt 70 90 out until next summer He
was stopping with Capt. Hansen Of the
Alaska Commercial Company"
Jones Quick "Trip.
Jones left the Kiondike ~ noon en- De-
cenber and arrived a. Dyea January 2
having stopped two DAYS on the way 10 re-
pair the sled. He was accompanied by
Alex Calder. one of the partners Of Alex
Mcdonald. the millionaire miner Of the
k'ondike. and y. y. stewar, formerly
superintendent Of the Jualin mine at Per
ner bay. Mr.. Calder has been in the Yu-
hon for three years. mined In the Birch
creek and FortyM!ie creek districts. and
Is ere OF the few and most successful
miners in the Klordke. Afr. Stewart re-
signed his position at Berner bay last
spring and went 10 Dawson. where.
through location ard purchase. ne beca me
the owner OF some very rich properties.
He and Mr.. Calder after whom Calder
gulch vas named and which is one of the
richest guiches in the Kloudike, have
come dosn 10 the coast 10 purchase min
Ing machinery.
These three gentlemen comprised the
Post-Inteligencer party. ard. equipped
WITH a team os FIVE large dogs and a wire
constructed basket sleigh, they broke all
records and reached the coast In twenty
three travelling days. The distance is 600
miles. but owing TO the rough condition
Of The tee and the necessity OF crossing
and recrosSing The river 10 avoid Jams.
the distance IS fully o8e-ssxta greater.
Several Newspaper parties started for The