The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-03
BROUGHT Half 4 MILLION.
Steamer Corona Arrives With
Forty Returning Miners.
lust OUT FROM DAWSON.
yellow Metal In the Captains Room
In D0st and NuGE~ts Saiues at
1636y Trip From the
lnteS1Sr . Hard One, and Many OF
the AincFs Coming Ont snfer
Tsom Exposure 60 the Bitter Cold

The steamer Corona, Capt. James Car
roll, arrived at 10 O'clock last night from
Dyea and 6kaguas. bringing some forty
I'VE returning KtondikeTs. ard treas re
estimated as more than half 8 nsllIioA cob
lars.
The Corona's total passenger list nuns-
b<red 1G3. OF these from the Interior none
left Dawson later Than November >. and
consequently they brought ~ news later
than that brought or the Al-Ki
BY special Invitation Of Capt. Carroll az
Associated Press representative a. Port
Townsend visited the captains roosn. a.sa
As q result OF his yisit he wired tbs POST
Intelligence. that hs had there seen god
valued at s52s.eog in dust and ni1sse;s
which belonged e passengers aboard ard
which ws.s placed 81 he cariaia's eaEe fer
safs-keeping. TIE geIs3g natal @ss ~
strong canvas hags wlth tia owasr
names on paper glued On the o..tssae tle-
sides the captain and another effiess OK lie
boat who assisted In guarding taa T4ena
intence OF such aH amount al E1ld. Al
lcaxt dozen OF the returning Da*FaoIltg"
Here asked 10 give an 0pist0n IS 20 tlse
amount OF gold brought out. and Hes Ete
placed the amofa5 a. more thar hsa .
One party atone. headed by pF VA
6ant, es Peoria. and consisting Of Giant
men. are said 10 have bfsdshi tb.e@i, o
that the aggregate afIIoufli b:#a2ht ~ lav
for..y nacfi niia1f hs seFs sargf.
The mtn agree that pfGylSlpns III iiaw y
are not JUST as psssitsiui a. tissy miso -
and that waiis there Is no sntsleaiAte g $
sf famine. before snrsnk sasae VII SAFE
10 20 on short rations 'fhefe has ieea
consider bic exodus. wiiie TIE sffofiilf -
Of food ard candles viii greatly ie SCI { =
output. suae recently discovered suta-s
which ATE expected 80 tafn o3st vel :. III
nst lie worked this winter on this aee g =
considerable monsy has been taksa 81 ,
Icing Invested In ciatfss. aaa rs ~. ~
cases purchasers are eoHH.ss Out u ne
coast 10 endcavpr 70 sell these Ga u
most az them hardly developed. at a. Aa'
vance.
Fire at Dawson On November u ass{tat :
ed tie church ard the laAgs1g house Gel
n Rodgers laslng their provisions and ei.f-
FITS. On November y another lire deasf5y
"a MciDnpald 4 MaeAufsy's and th7 ia
lntnj5n saieons. a meat shop and aao ii =
bp.sdsag TAs loss by sHs NO Ores y s>s3-
mated at So, eAs.
The trip oat wss MAIDS very hard ~
reason Of extreme gold the ibsrma.nesff
Ranging 20 10 20 below afl NJ take iAf' =
several PARTIES were caught IN a sfi'"
.sorm and had 10 make their may ihfo"sh
saft snow 10 the eoast Ice aisng tue sisrF
Il uiiesl lp A. high az iifieen fsei and eslf
me tsst dog teams can get oxer H. Many
oatf,p which started doan is boats "tre
met aiuaEg the river. beins frozen e where
tbrv will have ia remain until the Ecs IS @ea
out. A party Of police. with sixteen fatees
and twenty tnfs az provision were h'sA
nj Lake Benneit on THEFT was uo@n %
Biz Salmon wheFe Mai. Walsh Was Wit
Ing fer shefn Men coming out say tae TO-
,iee cannot get through with hoFss@ aud
provisions al ths msrn Oh the CoFeaa
WIRE more nr lasa ffosthitsen. and others
who started with them e0uld not ceatnas
The trip aud we're left st stations along }ae
route, T.tere viii not b. MANY more ~ II
out tlow nntii after the aAh-up.
Among tho Carona's passengers wet' \.
Il. MURPHY and lsnes +. Kelly, of Heb
esa. who have with taem a team Of {! r.
aags for which they paid 81 @0 in
baws0n One ~ the dogs Bob ~ zsial-
mons by nan.e. In kenwn in Dawson IA tse
best iesaar IN the camp. The dogs ssIl' ST.
taken ~ iIeieEs until the Owners rel rfs
Ia DaNs0n wnieh viii DE early In Nag "a.
Murphy Is ex.ehlsf % police Of Helena
AngouE thn RETURNING kiaii3skeFi size
came in OF the Corona w3s Eaes q. t.
nam. Of the Metropolitan Fgiutta~ a
1slndlng COMPANY 81 this eity AiT, J. K
mar left Eealiie OK ,he .u,y tslp N ,5s 81.
sated sicsiec and has hesE #oae fras -.
allie little short 90 s.S mantas
Atr, Hickman was ssen by 1gst-frte He
gsaerr reporter last eseau~ rEd la
viewed With regard - h3e ;gta In 4uB e.i.
and she prsstr; eag,ltioas ana pfasrtcss
OF the fslgld ks district lie said
sfT" tcii ses y ftorT worth REPEATING 7
shsalG ttstn ~ tlfs hesinR'as / caHr.lt
the fever when .Ac Portland lansgrt 4er
burden az gpll here last Iulv ant lc,R 1se
A. seassl North an which coda vc.4ra
.rans-pnfta.icn C3fottonately. rffs.ak
the Sksgliav trail whigh at that tir7e hsa
beginning. hut 10 cue auC 3, taap
siSiy-.tvS DAYS ef 1857 aHa hleeartfets ~
i,laee our Eeeas on lake psuust. 81 , p
which we rei S9sl en tfst nhsf Il I SOS e.s
for Aiphsns ETeTs, thc aNyer ~ -sss
city. = ny naf;n5 - faY aa e,e-ttr -.se
en- the Tykou arc eor~erur3 w N-rs ts,@
fn starting ard hHa asiv f*7rs ~ r.-c
Dawson IN isaT bat one rr7w -t-..slt... s..
fnsr Iacn from sAe n3ver mta "a. z
nisd ourselves bad rT7~a Grek..s- E -
hraSs3 tbs storms nE .as laA7,- rtr .s
eauyan ara shot laH Y-A Fl. N.~es r....5.
! want - ada '3shi sere tA7f s-.,t,
er have nsis se3 the entire t,1n jSa~ &. "a
missed the rShit4rs{jpe PA steer,ssf..
ride through the rsntoa ars ~a~tt+ 70