Iron County register., 1899-09-07
BACK FROM TIE KLoNDIKE.
Gold Seekers Who Were SGccrssfu2
and Many More Who Failed to
Make a Strike.

Seattle, Wash, Sept. 2.-fwo steam
ers arrived from Alaska yesterday
bringing about 500 miners, fortunate
and unfortunate. The Laurada came
from St. Michaels and the Humboldt
from Sllagway. The total amount of
gold dust brought down is estimated
at half million.
Among the Lucky Ones.
The reports from the Cape Nome
district are still conflicting, but the
fact remains that considerable gold
dust was brought from there by pas
sengers on the Laurada.
The dust is very fine and has to be
amaIgamated. S. \. Warren and ..
II. Roberts. of Denver, brought out
$50, 900 from the Eagle City district.
] Dickinson, who has been in that dis
trict six years, had S25,0OO.
From the Klondike come j. ii. Lad,
with 100000; f. McGrath, with $50,-
600, and Charles anderson, with $40,-
900. One stalwart miner struggled
toward the assay Office yesterday
morning with a sack of dust, Is inches
long, and was asked where he cane
from.
Eagle City, sir; and that's on tie
American side, and I'm an Americ; II
miner, and don't forget it," he re-
piled. He seemed to take as much pride
in the latter part of his statement, as
he did in his sack of dust.
Hard Luck Stories.
har,I I,,nI- nj tnlsI
L. c. Martin, of Chicago, lies Ia
Providence hospital, and his old part
ner. Thomas Cragie, of the same place,
is dead on the barren and inhospitab.e,
shore of KOtzebue sound. Martin
went in two years ago and is a physica
wreck, glad to have escaped with his
life. He says the terrors they eN-
perienced were awful and can not pe
described. He had to be helped off
the Laurada and into and out of til. :
conveyance by a friend named Kyle,
who took him to the hospital.
Considered Himself an Exception.
=. j. Peterson, of Chicago, who c;;!aC'
back on the Luarada, does not seem
to be much the worse off for Il long.
hard winter spent in the Kotzebu@.
Il was the only one, though, out of
81, who pitched camp, that was abs.
when the ice broke up. TO walk out
Oh Straight legs" he said. Peterson
wintered about 265 miles up the k0-
buck river from the mission on Hoo
dunn Inlet.
Perished i'm the Search fOT Wealth.
Mike Daily and two Frenchmen from
I 70 hat-
died last winter in the Koyukuk coun-
try. Their bodies were found this
spring.
DIR. Groves, of Redding, Cal, died in
the KoyullIk country of spinal merlin
gifts.
4 Terrific WindstOrHl.
Behring sea was swept by q terrific
windstorm on the 10Th Goth and 21st
! of August, that made all shippin.
caught out in it struggle hard to live.
The British gunboat Pheasant, the
United States cutters Rush and Cor
win ard the Laurada were all caught
out, and had hard time to live it
out. All escaped, however, but 4 In"
Pheasant lost two of her lifeboafs,
which were smashed by heavy seas
washing over her decks. The hug.
waves that broke over her piled down
into the forecastle, driving every jack
tar to the different parts of the ship.
Description of the Storm.
The Rush and the Pheasant, aftec
the storm, put into Dutch harbCr,
where the Laurada saw them. The lat
ter vessel was caught by the hurri
cane one day this side of Nomine, ~
ten o'clock on the night of the 19tn.
1t came up from the southwest and
blew with terrific force until the 22d.
The Laurada was heading into it and
shipped but few seas. Sailors of the
cutters said it was the worst storm
they ever encountered.