The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-20
GOLD FROM KLONDIKE
NEARLY TWO MILLIONS WORTH ON
THE STEAMER ROANOKE.
List of Miners who Have Returned
with FOrtunes-JOaquin Miller
Among the Passengers.

SEATTLE, Wash, July 19-The North
American Trading and Transportation Com
pany's steamer Roanoke arrived here this
afternoon from st. Michaeps, Alaska. with
$40 passengers and between 81 10000 and ST.
100000 worth of gold. OF this amount the
Canadian Bank of Commerce had 5000
ounces and the North American Trading
and Transportation Company 10000. Prob
ably so per cent of the returning miners
have fortunes averaging at least $4,000
each. This is a list of those having the
largest individual amounts:
VIM. Sloan, $4,000; N. Berrette, $4,000;
Alexander Boudette, $4,000; Geo. N Belden.
s51, 900; H. G. Anderson, $4,000; Frank Con-
rad 1000; Jas. Ladd, SAC. 900; Edward Mon
ahan, $500; L. Spencer, $4,000; A. ID.
Gray, $4,000, Joseph Chronister. $4,000; w.
F. Cobb, $1,000 Asa Mcintosh. $1,000; j.
A. Miller, $1,000; ole Olsen, $4,000; Swan
Peterson. $4,000; j. S. Opdell. $4,000; Frank
Smith, $500; H Lackman. $1,000; Robert
insley, 5000; Edward Thompson, 5000;
Chas. Welsh, 5000; Robert C. Walker, So
CvJ, Z. h. Cheatwood, $4,000; Jack Shay,
$4,000; W. H. Dryden, $780, Frank Leslie,
$S,OOO ]. Merritt, 5000; John White, $1,000;
E. Singleton $3.OOO Chas Allen, $780, J.
c. Stewart, $3.50; Thomas Beverage. 81, 500;
VIM. Briggs, $1,000; w. j. McAlpin, $1,000;
David Peneckons, $1,5OO; Alex. Little $1,5OO;
Jas. Reed $3.50.
The miners are reticent about the amounts
they brought. The reason for the observ-
arce of such secrecy lies in a desire to
evade the payment of the 10 per cent. roy
atty exacted by the Canadian government.
Not in every case have the miners paid roy
atty on full amount taken out of their
claims. and many of them have smuggled
cut larger sums than they will admit.
Joaquin Miller the well-known poet, who
was among the Roanokes passengers, brief
ly expresses the general tenor of the stories
told by the Roanoke's passengers as fol-
lows: The Klondike mines are certainly
the richest ever found on the face of the
earth, but this gold is ten-fo.d harder to
get than In any camp have ever seem"
1t is said that the shipment of gold on
the Roanoke would have been much heavier
had those in the interior not felt some APP
prehens1on of an attack at sea by priva-
teers. The North American Trading and
transportation Company, it is stated, ship
most of their gold on later boats. Some Of
the wealthiest miners will come out later in
the season.
The schooner Samoa has also arrived
here from ST. Michaels with thirty
six Klondikers, who brought with
them from $4,000 to 100000 in gold dust.
The Samoa left ST Michael's July 6. Among
her passengers was Thomas G. Austin, of
New Whatcom, Wash Mr.. Austin states
that the cleanup on Eldorado Bonanza and
bunker creeks, in the Klondike district,
this season. will be S10,OO00O0. This, togeth-
er with about $5,O0O,O coo of last seasons out
put will all be shipped out this year. He
confirms previous reports that no impor-
tant new discoveries have been made. Sew
eral passengers were from MinnoOk creek,
where they worked all winter with but little
success. When the Samoa left st. Michaels
there were many people there who had de-
cided not to go to Dawson and were waiting
an opportunity to come back.
One misfortune after another seems to
have befallen the craft which started in
tow for st. Michaels, and up to the time of
departure of the Samoa not one of the
numerous river craft had arrived except
those taken by the steamer New England.
The steamer Connemaugh, which left Sc
attic early in June, with a river steamer
and barge in tow, when more than half way
on her voyage, encountered heavy gale
and lost both the river steamer and the
barge and came near going to the bottom
of the sea herself. She was thrown on her
beam ends and in this condition she wallowed
in the heavy sea for forty-eight hours. Her
crew and passengers had about given up in
despair, when the storm abated and she
righted and succeeded in reaching port in
battered and dilapidated condition. The
steamship National City, with the river
steamer Jane Frey in tow. also experienced
heavy weather