The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-30
River Navigation Al an Ind for
the Season.
TIA GLENN EXPEDITION FAILS.
Government Surveyor Find Shushtt-
ma River Route Impracticasie-
Almost Insurmo anrabie Barriers
captain Aoercrambie Making
Splendid Progress. on the Coz
per River Military Road.


ONE hundred and thirteen passengers.
principally from Dawson. Atlin. Copper
river and Lynn canal ports, arrived yes
teraay n The steamship Al-kl. SIX days
from skageay. Geographic ady!ces re-
ceivsd at skagway from Dawson aad IN
ternediate points announced that aavt-
CATION Of the yukon river had ceased
that floating Ice. particularly IN the
heaAzatsrs 81 the main streams, render
ed IL unsafe FOR steamers. TIE Al-his
k!ondIke passengers Jeff Davson ocfo-
Der 3. though a number attempted 20 get
ssph Clossett, Clara and Anglican. which
left Dawson for White Horse October
10, I3 and Is. respectively.
Arthur .. Wheeler. a Dawson p2ssen-
ger stated that a telegram received az
Bennett City announced that the Afghan
AID Closet. owing 10 Host ice, had 10
tie 10 al Se.~ynn, 80 miles above Daw-
son. bu, that X was expected that the
Clara would pun through. And il nay
have been that all three succeeded II
reaching White Horse and that their
passengers failed 10 find lake transpoTta-
ZION. thus preventing them from making
SkaGway IN time 10 connect with ne
/ : Kennedy an Attn passenger II the
Al-ki SAYS Car!boo crossing was covered
with Thin ice Sunday night week ago
when he passed thai point He also Cd
served many scows AMI baTges tied Up
on account 81 he ice
WORK on the Trails.
Copper rtyer arrivals report me failure
q the Capt. Gem government exPeai-
ton. which undertook 10 establish a trail
from the hesdwsiers OF Cook Inlet 10 tne
Yukon IL ne vicinity II haE.s tttE- On
the other Aand Capt AbercroIrh1o IS re-
ported 70 haze succeeded admirably with
Or military road from Topper riv-r, on
he COST. 10 Fort EEber; the United
States army post on The Yukon az Eas.s
CIV When the attest passengers left
Abercronlbie had built ssyenIy-Ave miles
II trail. over half The distance, making
i suitable Tor wagons
Repeatedly during the summer four
horse teams we're driven over the rrst
ihfrty-nnjle stretch Il the highway. Next
season II !s AherCrom tieE intention 20
drive the trail thirty or thirtvtlye miles
farther u the k}utenu river. coUpist-
INK TIE most difficult portion 81 the route
~ p from the se7 % ne Yukon a. Fort
bridge are 70 he constructed aver swift
small stream. intervening between the
klDtenu and Mentsstu pass, md farther
~ II, sokic apt Ts,.n. both large Wv
Cart Glenn ieaaor If the Cook inle.
exreiftt0n q m -do-ai he proposed route
only after = had been reported az i'm
practica bic b. the governments rop0-
graphical surveyors They Ind pushed
IN up the Shgsht'ra. finding barriers
which they claim makes II next 10 i'm
general purposes. Finding this state 81
affairs capt. Glenn returned % Cook
inlet with the expedition. which consisted
= Ffrean pr twenty men. twsHtT~rYs or
fh{rtv horses beeves sheep and ten or
etteen tons - provisions and there took
a steamer for Copper river. whore ne
joined the Abevcrombis forces.
Nal Carrier Holman 3e.t Port VaIdes
October 20 with about thirty pounds ~
mali matter. which h VIII carry over
Fa~F "a Eagle CITY ana other Yukon
~4.,Ss ~ s-asN 49, I've
- Cart Richard Chilcott. ~ this city
who has the con,rac, for carrying the
NATL over re Cocr"r river route
Many Leaving Atlin.
The. AXIS A'lin passenger, think
less than 100 peopls wii pass me winter
IN the district Many are Fastening out
They say but very little work wii be done
IN the camp during the winter. and none
outside n Pine, spruce. Willow and Nc
The desth % an aged miner named Alb
bott l. reported by l. :. Kennedy. An
bot died Thursday week ago II
On Pine creek
V y Mcconnell :. well known Klon-
dixie operator. returned on The AK. from
the ketchikan district, where ne rAcentiy
MADE some important purchases and is
developing the property.
The Al-Ki had Fargo ~ thirty tons
~ canned salmon and about fifty tons ~
TreaGweN con, entraIes. Her frst-class
passengers we're
! FaT0"- h burnett. ltr- 7 2. Trough
ton y. Carmichael. { l. Minor. : 9
Fesbee. r. Rose = Van orden Gov
Pendergast ] Airport. Robert Low. J. i.
NuUoney. A Riok~ith ~ Ranks. Fl
+ pockra0. =. " Blanchard. " No
Ian r Morrtseev : NJ olsen. r
pavie Colt tr George Johnson. Ms
Johnson. George Robson N-s Robson
Pert Robson Ella H0hzon capt Mar
tinaau. arf wife r " Watson " II
Mcconnell A uonnuEh. 9 Fi~re.
ard wife " ~ Brook Z. " Chapman.
7 u Rosr and wife + r-a~Sa "
60 yob- Nm = og,f-a = ~ -.
g GefAn Capt. William Dohler
Thomas Myers = Martin. " " Ely.
n J Wnoele-. ) :. Turner. AMI sixty
ore stecfaEe