The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-11
MORE GOLD FROM THE YUKON
TWENTY MINERS COME BACK
WITH $4,000.
Death of ex-Consul Maidhof and Ter
rible Sufferings of His Compani-
On, Who Was Rescued By Indians

San Francisco, July 1O.-Twenty miners
from the Yukon placers at Manook. Cir
Gle City and Dawson arrived here today
on the schooner Hattie 1. Phillips from
St. Michael The returning prospectors.
who bring about $4,000 with them. have
: been in Alaska from one to 70 years. Half
of the party will return to work their
claims.
These Yukon miners include j. H. Ellis.
Chicago; Z. E. Halter, Detroit; w. F.
Plnkharn, Boston; Joseph Bird. Baltimore.
and p Haruie. Wiliiamsport, Pa. The
that the output of Dawson will run far
over Sl5,000.0N0. Manook viii produce not
! less than 5000, 600. Circle City will also
contribute in no small degree to the total
product from the Alaska placers.
The Yukon is said to be higher than
has been known for years, and overlooked
its banks at Manook, where number OF
miners cabins were washed away by the
flood
/ One of the passengers from Manook.
Ernest Claxton of San Francisco, reported
that word had reached Manook that the
little river steamer Governor Stillman
had been totally wrecked at Kuskequem.
and her passengers had lost all of their
provisions and outfits in the disaster. For
36 hours after the boat was wrecked the
passengers were compelled to remain in
the trees lining the river banks until the
Hood subsidized enough to allow them 10
reach place of safety. At the time the
were lying at st. Michaels ready to re
ceive the outcoming miners and loaded
with gOld-seekers who are ready TO take
their places in the river camps.
HARDSHIPS AND DEATH.
The schooner Hattie l. Phillips, from st.
Michaels today, brings the sad news of
the death on the Manook trail of Victor
f. Maidhof of New York, who was United
States consul to Annuburg, Saxony, dur
ing the first administration of President
Cleveland. Maidhof attempted to cross
the portage from Unalaklik to Kaltag.
bound for Manook. in company with II.
NJ. Morgan. correspondent of the ASSo-
ciated Press. Deserted by their guide,
they lost their way in a binding snow
storm. Their provisions were exhausted,
their hands and feet frozen, and after
subsistinc on dog meat for several days,
Maidhof died and was buried in a snow
drift. His companion, Morgan, became
snowblind and was found by party of
Indians after he had lain four days in
his sleeping bag at the point of death
Morgan was resuscitated at the Unalaklik
mission. although some of his toes had to
be amputated.
The miners speak very bitterly of
the way q few capitalists in Dawson
attempted to corner the provision mar
ket and charge exorbitant prices for
flour, beans, etc, but their scheme
failed, as miners with more provisions
than they needed sold their super
fiuous stock to old residents at cost.
The price of flour has now fallen from
SO to So a sack.
Gold dust is now being sold in Daw-
son for SIS an ounce.
]. r. Watson. formerly of Portland,
Ore, predicts very hard times in Daw-
son. There is no credit system there
and without cash man may starve.
All the men agree that it requires the
hardest kind of work to get ahead on
the Yukon.