The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-02
LAST MEN FROM kLONNKE.
TWENTY KLOyDIKERS ARRIVE ON
THE STEAMSHIP DIRIG0.
Left Dawson October 1O-Yukon
River Soon to FreeHe-B0ats Re-
ing Laid Up for Winter-RepOrts
Of sickness in Mines Exaggerated

The last men 20 come directly from the
Kiondike to Seattle in 1888 arrived on the
steamer D.rigo early yesterday afternoon
There were nfteen or twenty OF them They
left Dawson on the steamboat Flora Octo-
Der To- and were eleven days reaching
White Horse rapids, being Kept back ny
fields OF running ice. which gathered III the
tributaries and WAS being carried down the
Yukon. putting an end to the season >
traffic.
The Yukon river VIII probably be fro
zen within a week or two. After then IL
will he two or three weeks before it can
be travelled on. which will bring the next
people out no, before the end OF the year.
The passengers on The Fora made up
purse OF $lLU and presented II 10 Capt. Nj.
Nartineau. Col Rourke, Of Winnipeg, made
the presentation speech. The boat passed
between ninety and leo boats and seoMs'
loaded with provisions. feed. dogs. etc.
with an average of five men to the boat.
The Ice was causing much trouble with the
small boats but most OF them were getting
along satisfactorily.
The boats which viii tie up at White
Horse rapids for the winter are the DOM
vile, Princess, Clara, Goddard. Gold star
and Clossett. at Selkirk, the Anai'an ana
Columbian; at Hootahnqua. the Canadian.
aud below Seikirk. the ]. p. Light and Sc
attic No. had been run upon the shore.
The following passengers were on the
Flora:
DR. Milne. Victoria; G. Y. Fraser. Van
Brown. Dyea; G. r. Creighton. Seattle, ;.
A. Kline, Seattle; w. G. Fisher, Big TIM
ber Mont: s. n. Word, Portlann; =. u.
Tenant; Sioux City; J. F: o.s Zen; sk asi
Seattle: Capt I. 81 Hubbard. San Francis
co; J. j. Miscall, Los Angeles; A. M Hi
gore, Seattle; w. l.. Moore. San Francisco;
c. A: Macomher. San Francisco; +: sun
X. Burke. Los Angeles; ]. stephens, Sc
attic. j. G. Lawrence Montreal: M. L.
LenQuith, Seattle; G. E. Church. Seattle.
Capt. c. I. Harris, Bennett cry: w. n. y.
Olive. Bennett City; Capt. M Nartineau.
Portland: T. st. Cyr and party. Ottawa
T. D. McFar,ane, Canada James M'tcnei,
Nova Scotia and A. II. Clark. st. Jonn
Latest Strike ON Thistle Creek.
According to Frank Sullivan. who arrived
on the Dirigo, the last strike that has been
made lately was On Thistle creek Inc
find was a good one and OF sufficient guar
prospectors, who will spend the winter on
the creek Bed rock is reached at depth
of twenty feet, and little gold Is l9nn ss
twenty miles above Stewart RIVER anu
empties into the Yukon.
C. A. Macomber one of the arrivals. said
at the Butler yesterday that the reports OK
sickness at Dawson had been greatly ex-
aggerated. II went to ST. Mary's hospital
with a sprained ankle early IN september
and was the only new patient there tnat
week" He continued: There were oniy
ninety-two patients at the hospital then.
although there was room for over iVo.
There is no doubt in my mind that many
Of the dead you have heard or were NOT
dead at all. Ny cabin is so situated that l
had a plain view of the cemetery from 1t.
and I know that the number taken 70
burial was far less than has been reported.
When man Is taken sick ne IS gencraiiy
put on a stretcher, blanket thrown over
him. and carried 10 the hospital The out.
lit looks for all the world like funeral
procession on its way to the cemetery. ana
many think 1t is one"
where Does Fawcctt Stands
Mr. Macomher says he heard from a Can
adam official on the way down that Gold
Commissioner Fawcett was not going to be
removed and that the man given out as be-
assist him. The new man had not arrived
at Dawson up to the time the Flora left.
The D!rigo passed the Brixham wreck ia
the night, but brings reports that the
steamer Is still on the reef near Blashke
island, there having been no severe storms
since she struck the Dirigo left Skag,
way the afternoon of October q, and HAD
heavy head winds and rains all the way
from Juneau TO Mary island. The weather
was unusually bad in the vicinity OF Me,la-
katla.
Among the prominent passengers were
l.. II. Gray, traffic manager; p. G. Haw-
kins. chief engineer. and DIR. +. II. Whit
ing, surgeon, of the White Pass Yukon
railway; George A. Bracket. of Skag-
way, and G. d. Fahnestock. general agent
of the Empire Transportation Company.
w. Il. Marie made special trip as freight
clerk on the Dirigo. and was considered
model officer by all who met him. The Di-
RIGGS passenger list follows
A. c. Seaburg. Mrs. A. G.. Seaburg. 8.
Van Burkirk, j. A. Wilson. J. w. Nee. G.
w. FUR. John King. ]. s. Williams. Mrs.
J. s. Williams. James Warthan, L. A.
James, Al Williams, c. +: Niles, o. Morris,
Annie McKense. Hugo Schneider, J: c.
George A. Brackett. f. C. Hawkins r. III.
Whiting. Bart Robinson, Frank Bracket,
L. Fl. Gray, NJ. NJ. Morrill,. g. d. Fahne-
stock, y. Allen. Miss Hazel Palmer. L.
Garrison, Z. H. Ferguson, II. Morgan, T.
F. Muir A. Doe, Mrs. Blanchet. Mrs. Leo
nase, Miss Leonase. O. w. Smith. f. G.
Murphy. J. A. Klein. c. ]. Mccain. G. #.
Graf, J. II. Gran. L. Bianchet. NJ G..
Ioinas. j. r. Steffen, W. l.. Moore. II. Lott.
j. Murray. Frank Sullivan, c. A. Macon
Der. w. G. Fisher: ]; J. Miscall. J. Il.
North. X. NJ o'keefe; 7. Barrett. s.
Grasse; II. Mark. A. johnson. W. ]. Whit
Kelley. Jack Wey. j. McConahan. Her
man Moe. ID. p. Stoker. J. w. Mccarthy.
j. Hawiey. James Cook, VI. Matson, A.
johnson, Y. Barker w. s. Ritman. 4. An
derson, r. Hogan, r. George. w. ID.
Boone. J. l.. Gray. ". b. Swcnsen. J. Ken
nedy, E. Persons Hubbard - Ian
caster. Cal Barnes. Joe Hamblett, Miss
Hamblett. Miss Benson. Holmes, Mrs.
Hallway, J. Peterson and seventeen second