The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-06
RUSH INTO NEW FIELDS
STAMPEDE FROM DAWSON THE La
TEST NEWS FROM KLoNDIKE
Two New Creeks Discovered Where
There Is an Abundance of Rich
Pay Dfrt-DGubIe Murder at Ska
quay With the Prospect of o.
Speedy Lynching to Follow.

| VICTORIA, B. c., Feb 5.-A STAN
pede from Dawson City is imminent
The news was brought out by a party
OF about dozen men who reached
| Skaguay on Jan. %, several of whom
had reached there by a small steamer
the evening Of the same day Among
them were George McKenna, Of Doug
las Island, who had been in the Yukon
Tor TWO years. He also states that a
number of very rich new strikes has
been made. This is the very latest
from the Klondike, as four men in the
party left Dawson as late as Dec. Is.
A party of twenty-four men left
Dawson on Dec. 10 for st. Mary river
They intend to prospect the Stewart
river up it's course to and into the
Rocky mountains. Gold has always
been found in the bars of the Yukon.
For years the sand banks of the
Stewart have produced gold, and in
some places there has been a rich
yield to the. pan.
AS much. of the gold in the Yukon
came, doubtless, from the Klondike,
and its unequalled rich tributaries
Bonanza, Eldorado, Hunker and other
gold in the Stewart river bars may
come from the same situation, and
from deposits equally as rich.
Two new creeks have been discover
ed. One is in the Klondike district.
Here the ground shows forty cents to
the pan, with seven feet of pay dirt
to work. The richest creek is in the
Indian river district in the same vicin-
1ty. Eighty cents a pan was found in
this district a few inches below the
surface, with bed rock many feet be-
low. This is said to equal anything
found at first on Bonanza or Eldorado.
Ihere was stampede to the Indian
river district as soon as the discovery
became known.
The steamship Coquitlan, which re-
Gently struck on rock near Mary ISL
and, off the southwest coast of Alaska,
while bound north, has arrived direct
from Sk2guay, bringing news of affairs
in the northern territory.
The news that many strikes had
been made on the Big Salmon, has
been confirmed by a party who came
out for supplies. Pay dirt yielding
thirty cents to the pan has been dis
covered in the gravel above bed rock,
which at last had not been reported
On Henderson creek, five miles below
the Stewart, good strikes have been
made. It is likely the stream will
prove rich in gold.
Latest reports from the interior Of
Alaska are especially encouraging
MinOOk river and it's tributaries. as
region, promise to surprise the world,
says a returned prospector, in the next
year. and all the United States will
rejoice
1t is now generally conceded that
the winters cleanup will not be more
than $10,000,000
The steamer City of Seattle has ar
rived, having on board seven miners
from the Yukon. They brought about
$4,000 in dust and some drafts.
shooting scrape occurred at Skag-
uay in the Klondike saloon. Ed Fay,
the bartender was mixed up in rob-
berry. Andy McGrath, accompanied by
United States marshal, went to OBJ
tain satisfaction. Fay shot them both
when they entered. McGrath first and
the deputy marshal. whose name was
Rowan, afterWard, both the men dying
almost instantly. Fay was given up
to the citizens committee to have JUS
i. tice meted out to him, and will, in all
probability, be lynched
A fire occurred at Juneau court
house. and the Jail was burned, all
records being lost. No one was in
jured. Fourteen prisoners We're re-
leased by the fire.
Maj. Walsh was not expected to
leave Big Salmon for Dawson until
April /. He paid 81 per pound for pro-
visions from men going down.
English HIOndiEera.
SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. 5.-The first large