The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-04
Topeka ALASKA ADv!CES.
RETURN OF MANY PROMINENT
NoRTHT.AND OPERATORS.
steamer Dora Arrives Mt juneau
From the westward-Extens
Railroad improvements at Dyea
InoIudinG s2B, ono wharf Terminal

Steamer City OF Topeka, Capt. Jansen,
arrived yesterday at noon with forty-five
northIand passengers. having completed
an unevcntful voyage from Lynn canal.
She sailed from Skagway prior to the de-
parture of the City of Seattle. which ar
rived Saturday night, and from Juneau
November g. The Topeka had no Klondike
passengers though she had several from
interior points among them Jack Dalton,
the intrepid Alaskan explorer and builder
of the famous Dalton trail. Dalton has
been In the north since early last spring.
most OF the time in the Porcupine district,
whore he IL extensively interested in min
ing. He left that camp several weeks ago.
having tarried for some time at Skagway.
Another Porcupine operator Is w. H. Eli
son. who returned on the vessel
Gen. c. w. Turner. formerly OF this
city and now one OF Skagway's fore
most citizens and professional men, was
passenger on the Topeka, as also VIII A.
Steel after an absence OF ten days at the
Sea Level mine, Ketchikan, OF which he Is
one of the principal owners. Edward Me-
Connell a pioneer Klondiker. left the To-
peka at Departure bay to visit Nanaimo
friends
Henry Ide Wiley, mining expert Of
note, returned from Southeastern Alaska.
where he has been investigating quartz
properties for some weeks past in the In
terest of New York capitalists
The Topeka's officers report the arrival
at Juneau. Just before their departure, of
the Alaska Commercial Company's steam
er Dora, which has been running to the
westward as far as Cook inlet and with
occasional trips down the Aleutian chain
to Dutch harbor. as a mail carrier and
supply ship for the operating company's
mines and trading posts in that section.
The Dora has made her last trip for the
season and she Is now returning for the
winter en- route, by way Of Seattle, to San
Francisco. her home port Superintendent
Gandall, OF the Alaska Development Com
pany. is a passenger on the Dora as also
Capt. o. Lathrop, owner Of the local steam
err l.. G.. Perry. Capt. Lathrop reported
that the Perry had gone into winter quar-
tiers at Cook inlet. Another Dora passen-
ger en- route to Seattle is DR.. Gunneson.
manager of the Mamma Placer Mining
Company. Of Homer. Alaska.
The Dora's Cook inlet passengers stated
that the Kyak coal fields on Cook inlet
developed during the summer far beyond
the expectations Of any one and Capt. Lath-
rop says he was informed that the operat-
ing company would employ 400 men next
summer
The contracts for some magnitude incl
dental to the construction of the Chilkoot
electric tunnel railroad were let In juneau
a few days before the Topeka sailed. One
Company to Alex Ross & Co., for the con-
struction OF a dock 60 by 300 feet, LOO feet
Of rock work along the mountain side and
the approach $500 feet long for. consid-
GRAFTON of $25, SIS, 900 cash and the balance
in monthly payments of 5000 each. The
contract provides that the piles of the
approach are to be sixteen feet high with
Gaping and heavy cross stringers ready
for the laying OF the railroad ties and for
the completion OF the work by March
Another contract calls for a 50.e0O hem
lock and spruce tie supply. the ties to be
8xS inches and eight feet in length. Twen-
ty-five thousand dollars is the considera-
ton named In this award.
:, And In connection with these awards and
the main enterprise II IL said that another
is soon to be made for spur extending
from the road proper into the Rainy Hol-
low copper mining district
The Topeka's Douglas island passengers
say Gus Bergman an employe, was killed
by slide in the Seven Handed mine the
evening of November "a
Mrs. Bird, wife of A. III. Bird. now on
trial at Juneau for double murder, COM
mitted on the Yukon over a year ago, ar
rived at Juneau November Is.
The following first-class passengers ar
rived on the Topeka:
Charles A. Haryman. Mrs Mcconnell