The San Francisco call., 1898-11-07

|
 reached here from below during the
 season. Very many of the DIE
 boats brought barges = one oi
 them the Louise Captain Dlxon,
 bringing two barges with loVO
 tons. Not less than 5000 boats nave
 come down the river, including nar
 boats and barges, and their average
 would be at least two tons each: There
 are about 5000 people who will win ter in the city or vicinity ana there
 will be plenty of provisions at rates quite reasonable, as compared With
 those of last year. Flour, for instance,
 Is $8 a sack, beans 15 cents a pound, | bacon 50 cents a round These are
 the staple of staples. Canned meats
 are 75 cents per tWo-pound cans. Fresh
 meat, of which there is just now plenty,
 averages $1 a pound. Sugar IS 0o cents,
 cents and $1 per can. Butter is scarce and brings $1 50 pound. Window 1 glass is almost as hard to get as 1t was
 last year, and $2 is readily paid for a i small pane. Brooms are also not 10 l be had. although there is considerable 1 demand These are few of the short
 ages. The stock of sheet iron for stoves and pipe is not large and the prices | of these things are higher than last year. Generally speaking, there is an 1 abundance of everything needful ana very many of the luxuries of the outer
 
 candy and silk dresses and electric
 lights come approximately high.
 There has been during all the sum-
 mer and there Is still a great deal of
 sickness in and about the city, al- though not nearly so much as has been
 made to appear by alarmists. Reports
 have been continually circulated here
 and have doubtless reached the outside
 to the effect that funerals take place
 nearly every hour of the day, and that
 the superintendents of hospitals falstfy
 their statements as to the number of
 deaths. A late report was industrious
 ly repeated to the effect that smallpox
 was raging here but that the cases
 were being concealed. l have made a
 canvass of the doctors in the city, the hospitals and the undertakers and have
 counted the mounds in the graveyard. There Is or has been no case of small- poX in the city. Typhoid fever has been prevalent during the summer and is still so.
 Almost every individual has suffered more or less from dysentery, which has in many cases proved fatal This is chiefly caused by the water, the com plaint being accompanied in almost all cases by symptoms of arsenical poi soning. Scurvy also still has it's vie- tims. Withal, however, the death rate has at no time exceeded an average of one day. The population here, it is 1S3f ranged from 20,000 to 30,000. There are now in St. Mary's Hospital 135 patients, 1 in the Good Samaritan 30 and in pri- | vate hospitals 20. The sick, however, 1 are to be found in tents and cabins | everywhere throughout the town and | the entire mining region, many in | wretched discomfort. It is easier to | lose ones health in this country than | to find the fortune they are all seeking. | The dead or disabled are to be seen every day being carried on stretchers | through the streets or over the rough trails from the mines to the hospitals or burial grounds of the city. For all this, however, the death rate in propor ton to the population is not excessive. Since my last report of the deaths in the city the following have died: Bishop of New Brunswick, Frank Miller of Aberdeen. Wash; Mrs. Waddell, for merly of 135 Page street, San Fran cisco, all at the Good Samaritan Hos pital; E. Palmer, August 20; James Reyes Of San Jose. August 2e; John Cameron, South Bend, August 27; James Sheehy, August 2S; Patrick Cha rette, September 4; John Price. Septem- Der 5; Sam Neal, 9th; Thomas Duggan. 10th; J. s. Jacobson, 11th: = Samkou- sky, 18th; F. A. Neale, 18th; William Cobleigh. 14th; Olof Isaks, 18th; George Hogel, Seattle, 20th; Frank Roy, 21st; Norman A Bennett, 22d John Dixon,  Bornke, 2Sth-an at St. Mary's Hospi- { tai. William Murray Mizner, formerly 1f California died at No. p Bonanza 20; James Ryan, formerly If Astoria, Or, a one-time prize fighter, lied September 8; Al Kineston, former y of New Zealand, September IT; Will fam McArthur, formerly of Victoria, 3. C., sick and discouraged, blew his brains out with a rifle September 20; Mme. Coutou, p years of age, died september 23; William Meredith was drowned at the Klondike 'erry September 21; Paley T. Brown. Grass Valley, Cal, died September g; = Wittrup of Seattle died September 70.
 The little steamer Willie Irving, which carries this dispatch. as far as / White Horse, advertises this as her last l rip before seeking. winter quarters. She las made nine round trips since the 1st Z if July Her master, by the way, was married only two days ago, the bride ,eing pr. Lucia Day, formerly of Chi ago. The ceremony took place at the Fairyiew, Dawson's swell hotel. Mrs Mcconnell was for six years superin- ( endent of the Metropolitan Railroad ! Hospital, and came to see Dawson dur I ng a years leave of absence. She has ince resigned.
 The following have arrived since my ast report, arriving by the Philip B. !. low September 25: Joseph Swift, T. l [. Donohue, P. Vathon, H. c. Sumner, ! Id Waymire, Mrs. s. W. Wall Mrs. H. ' V. Myer. Mrs. A. Wilson, Mrs. A. Hill. z Dr. Mosher, Miss Mosher G. F. John- | ton, Mrs. Bergstrow, F. Britt, L. D. . ,oper, A. H. Brenner and wife, F. Han . ey, L. A. Mason, John Collins l.. T. | 'itlow, N J. Cunningham, M. Dasnan. T T '. George, M. Proudlock and Charles !, fletcher. !.
 By the Governor Pingree. September q 5: M. Bafly Jr., Henry Kent, Lizzie . srewhes, L. Hoffman, A. G. Koppsgut- v :, CT, J. F. Ducks Robert Nisbit, F. Me Iahon and wife, Miss Sutherland, Will z am Turner, Benjan''- Feed, J. J. Cav . nder, c. H. Sweavers, Lieutenant . owe and party of three employees and !, h ames D. Watson. = By steamer Victoria, September 28: . Irs Mitchell, s. Saunders, M M. Nor . ell, J. A. S. Evans, D. A. F. Hennlich, ti ;, E. Kerch, A. Van Horn, Vic Nelson, z ; H. Crowe, J. McNeff, J. Carleson, H. - V :. and F. A. Schmitz, Con Mayer, E. |; [. Grove, w. E. Delaney, James Cook e e l. c. Heiss, S. Allen, G. Jamieson, S. o tougher, Mrs. Jennie Moore and Mrs. b rene Pearce. -