The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-02-17
STEAMER HUMBOLDT
REACHES THIS PORT
AFTER ROUGH TRIP
Passengers From the Interior Tell
of an Amusing Stampede From
Dawson in Search OF Cole Greek,
Led by "NiGger Jim" DauG htray.

The steamer Humboldt. Capt. Bonefeld.
arrived in port last night about SD o ctocA
from the north after an exceedingly rough
trip She left Seattle February .. and;
win the exception % one night. was forced
10 lay TOO every night Of both the up and
down trips.
On the ap trip the Humboldt ran on a
sunksn rock OF reef near St Mary ISL
azd Sae could easily have run Of. but
Capt. Bonefield thought tina, blade OF the
propeller might strike the rock or reef ana
b., broken. As the tide came in Capt
BoDefeid pulled her of. and the only injury
10 the boat was the tearing of Of about
twenty feet of her shoe as she was dragged
over the reef.
Five passengers from The interior came
down On TIE Humboldt. They were john
l.. Reese. editor OF the Midnight Sun, the
government organ III Dawson; {. ". The
DO. purchasing agent for the Pat GAVIN
Company: r. ). Heath. fuel agent al DAN
son for the Alaska Commercial Company:
J. Mcintyre and ]. Hanley. The last three
men made the trip from Dawson in four
teen and a half days, They left Dawson
January % and reached Skagway Febru-
AIRY &. thirty minutes too bate 10 catch the
city Of Seattle down on her last trip.
Mr.. Reese came out In the interest OF his
paper. He VIII &C East in few days
and make ARA ngements for an Illustrated
edition. Mr. Thebo will make arrange
mengs TO take In more stock at the earliest
possible time Mr. Heath tells of an anus
ing stampede from Dawson IN search OF n
Few discovery called Cole creek. The stam-
peders lowed along IN the wake of Mig
ger Jim Daugh:ray, known as the mean
est man In the kiondike. one day pros
pector came into Dawson and told friend
of his that he bad a golden opportunity.
He drew a map showing the location OF an
alleged new creek. Then Niger I'm
Daughtray got the news. He told several
Of his friends and they in tl!rn told several
others January 10 Daushtray started for
the new discovery. He Went To Twelve
Mile creek, eighteen miles below Dawson,
and then over the divide ii. search OF Cole
creek
Following him were several hundred peo-
pie who were keeping track of his move
fnents Finally Daughtrdy became dis
gusted and returned to the bunkhouse at
Twelve-Mile creek. Mr. Heath was just
coming up the river and reached the same
point when the stampeders got there. The
bunkhouse had accommodations for only
twenty people. but al around Il In the
10 make a move unless forced 10 do so by
Daughtray. After two days Niger Jim
started back 10 Dawson and the rest fol-
lowed him. Another effort Will be made
to locate the creek this spring
The Humboldt had to go 10 Juneau for
water. as the water pipes leading to the
docks at Skagway and Dyea are not pro-
tected from the cold and became frozen.
The main pipes ot the town are yet open,
being laid deep In The ground. The Hum
boldi arrived al Skagway February II and
left there the mex; day. The Al-ki WAS
passed going into Skagway when the Hum
bolfs was on her way to juneau.
The Humboldt mad the following passan-
gers for this city; J. f1aniey. Jennie
Brown. Mrs NJ. F. Thon- 9son. 5. III. Deppe.
Kate Nj. Foitz. Charles Petersen. G. W
Thebo. J. l.. Reese, j. J. Price. j. Nc
Intyre. Fred Barkerson. +. y. Kil|en, r.
s Heath Charles Harrison. and nine sec
ond class.