Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-16
Celebration in Dawson over
This Fact
PAN OUT WELL
Unusually Long List of Accidents
During the Winter--JOe Juneau,
a Pioneer of Alaska, Dead--Large
Piles of Gravel Taken Out.

Seattle, Wash, June 15.-The first news
from Dawson and the interior of Alaska
to be received since travel over the trail
closed about six weeks ago cached here
today. 1t covers the period between the
big fire April 26 and the opening of navi-
cation May %. A revised estimate of the
losses incurred in the fire places the total
amount at half a million, about one-half
the amount of previous estimates.
The Yukon broke away it's icy letters
in front of Dawson May II. or nine days
later h last year. The steamer New
York was carried ashore by the ice and
nearly destroyed. The wheel of the
Willie Irving was crushed. The ice
damned at the foot of Third street and
blocks of ice were piled mountain high.
For a time Dawson was threatened with
a flood. After a short time the ice broke
with a crash and everyone knew that the
river was open for good. The breaking
of the ice marked the graduation of the
cheecharkos or tenderfeet into the ranks
of the sourdoughs or old timers. The
event was celebrated with the firing of
guns and a general rejoicing. The Flora
was the first steamer to arrive from the
outside. She was followed in a few hours
by the Bonanza King. Reports had been
received from all of the creeks and every
thing was satisfactory. There was no
evidence of a shortage of water which
caused so much trouble last year.
On Bonanza and Eldorado hundreds
of men We're at work sluicing out gold.
The benches are showing up well. Some
enormous dumps Of gravel were made
during the winter. These are now be-
ing washed out and are panning much
better han was expected. Dominion
and the other creeks on Indian river
are also being lean up with more
than satisfactory result. A great deal
of summer work will be done this year
on Eldorado if the flow of water will per-
NIT.
Work is going OF night and day on
many of the big claims. The Berrys are
working three shifts. They will be among
the first Of the big owners to complete
the cleanup. There have been a num-
Der Of sales during the past two months
and prices have held up wonderfully Well.
a large number Of big and peculiar mug
gets have been found. One valued at $142
was recently taken from 80 below upper
Dominion. The first week in May saw
the commencement of the collection of
the crown royalty of 10 per cent. Every
effort is being made to compel the miners
to pay up the full percentage.
The list of mining accidents is UNI
usually long. Frank Juberti was crushed
to death on May % by a cave-in on claim
II below Bonanza on Maget gulch. His
partner, Cesarra Pusatta, was badly in
jured. l.. Avrie of st. Louis, Mo-, was
suffocated by gas in his shaft on claim
II, Gold Run. A German miner named
Hecht of San Francisco was s%uffocated
in his shaft near the Cliff house on Gold
Run. Andrew Nelson had a narrow es-
cape from death in a shaft on "a below
on upper Dominion. He was taken out
unconscious. A miner in a Gold Hill shaft
became almos suffocated from gas. He
signalled his partner to pull him to the
surface. He just reached the top when
he swooned and fell back into the hole
head first. 1t was 40 feet to the bottom
and death would have been sure had not
a spike caught in his trousers and held
hin, after falling a few feet.
There have been a number of narrow
escapes from drowning in the Yukon
by reckless parties attempting to cross
On thin ice.
Gilbert Anderson of La Crosse, Wis,
has reached Dawson after a most ex-
citing trip from the Copper river coun-
try through the dead of winter. He
brings news of the safety of a large
party of miners who started over the
divide into the Tanana country and
We're believed to have been lost. An
derson "a that one or two Of the party
were frozen in the mountains, but that
the majority are building boats on Forty
mile river to continue their journey. He
does not give the names of those who
persisted.
The climax in Dawson's water front
controversy occurred on May IS. The
tenants h would not obey govern
ment warnings to secure leases or
leave We're elected by a band of police
under Sheriff Harper. f. G. Allen, one
of the proprietors of the Klondike Mug
get, is being tried on the charge of GRIM
inal libel before United States Consul
McCook.
Joe Juneau, one of the pioneers of
the Yukon, after whom the town of
Juneau was named, died at Dawson
May Is of pneumonia. He made and
lost several fortunes in Alaska.
Arnold Brehmer of Seattle was killed
May II by William Bennett, a fellow
workman in the Dawson brewery. They
quarreled and Bennett hit Brehmer over
the head with a beer bottle, inflicting
fatal injuries.
A deposit of limestone has been found
near Sixty-mile and Dawson people are
rejoicing over the possibility of having
plenty of disinfectant.
After an exciting trial before Gold
Commissioner Ogilyie. Messrs. Wade,
McGregor and Norwood were acquitted
of the charge of accepting brides and
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