Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-03
BACK FROM THE KLONDIKE
Passengers on the Corona Tell Of Situation in
Alaska.
Confirmation of Reports Regarding
the Food SuppIy-Intensely Cold
Weather-GOId Brought Down.

SEATTLE, Wash, January 3-Forty- five
kiondikers arrived here last night on the
steamer Corona, from Dyea and Skaguay.
They brought no late news, as all of them
left Dawson previous to November %. In
reference to the food situation, they con-
firm the stories of last weeks arrivals that
there will be no famine this winter, al
though provisions are scarce. 1t Will be
necessary, however, they think, to send
supplies in the early spring, as the stock on
hand will be pretty we'll exhausted by the
time the Yukon opens for navigation.
The returned klondikers say that the
weather at Dawson is extremely cold, the
thermometer ranging from fifty to seventy
degrees below zero. The Ice all along the
river is piled up as high as fifteen feet, and
only the best dog teams can get over it.
Many outfits which started down in boats
were met along the river, frozen in, where
they will have 10 remain until the ice goes
out. A party of mounted police, with six
teen horses and twenty tons of provisions,
We're net at Bennett Lake, on the way
down to Big Salmon, where Major Walsh
is waiting for them.
The town council of Skaguay has adopted
a set of resolutions protesting against the
abolishment of the support of Dyea. The
resolutions set forth that the duty collect
ed since the establishment of the port
amounted to S3.Uuu. ard the revenue to be
derived the next twelve months will prob
ably exceed 10000. People are pouring in
to Skaguay and Dyea on every steamer.
Hotels and lodging houses are taxed to
their full capacity. If the influx continues
at the present rate. accommodations Will
be out of the question within two weeks,
it is feared
The trails across the mountains are not in
good condition at present owing to raw and
warm weather on the coast and deep SHOWS
on the summit. The estimates of the
amount of gold brought down on the Co.
rcna. differ widely. They rarge all the way
from SlCo0nO to sJ00,G0. DR.. Van Zandt
of Peoria. H.. and party of eight are said
TO have brought $4,000.
brought Down S1..OO.OOO.
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal. January "A
Chronicle special from Port Townsend
Wash, says: There was SGT 800 in gold
dust and nuggets on the steamer Corona,
which has arrived from Alaska. .Ie treas
ure the steamer was carefully guarded
on the trip down by two watchmen day
and night. Some of the nuggets weighed as
high as fifteen ounces. man named j.
Davidson. who says he halls from Cripple
Creek. Colo. has a nugget that weighs tif
teen and one-half ounces. One of the
drawers in Capt. Carrolrs room was packed
with nuggets of all sizes. In addition to
this amount there was considerable more
carefully tied up in sacks among the re-
turning klondikers. From a careful csti-
mate 1t is safe to say that in drafts and
gold dust there was about 81 1,2UO.OO in
wealth aboard the Corona.
f. Harmon Mcconnell of San Francisco
was one of the returning passengers. He
verified the estimates given that over
81 100000 was brought out by the miners
In his opinion, that was a conservative es-
innate.