The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-05-31
DON I HURRY AWAY
10 BENNETT YET
You Will Have To Wait
There Several Days.
LAKES ARE Mt OPEN
Steamboat Agents in the Natural
Energy of Their Business Are LA
BILE To Mislead You-Read the Re-
ports Daily In This Newspaper,

r. Clark, who is staying at the Pacific
hotel, Yesterday received the following
letter, written at Bennett Wednesday by
his friend w. Vinet:
"Evervthing the same and water a few
inches lower this morning. Boats cannot
get over sandbarS bevond Caribou, except
small boats and scows. which are leaving
every day. Two men were drowntd three
miles down the lake YESTERDAY.
"NAvigalon is wide open between
White Horse and Dawson. Don't leave
there vet, unless YOU wish to make ar
engagements for travelling by scoW4 to
White Horse"
The following general notice wes last
evening issued by the White Pass & Yu-
l<on management:
Arrangements have been made by
which all parties now in SkagWlv hold
ing through tickets for Dawson or White
Horse reading over the White Pass & va.
kon route can leave here by train at $50 q.
m. Thursd ", MAY 81, connecting at Clri-
bou with train for end of track; leaving
Caribou at o'clock a. m. June +; pasSen-
gers will be taken BY team from end of
track to White Horse. Light baggage
only can be taken on this trip. but ord-
nary baggage will be checked to follow
later on.
In explanation of the foregoing. one OF
the local officials last evening said:
at is to be distinctly understood that
the arrangement as announced in the fore
going is only for the benefit of those now
holding through tickets, and said tickets
b? the railroad and the Canadian Develop
ment steamers. The steamers of that line
and the railroad arranged some time ago
for the sale of through tickets, the same
to be effective on the opening of naviga-
ton on the lakes and rivers. 1t appears
that navigation will not be entirely open
for five or six DAYS, but rather than see >
congestion of business, we have arranged
for those who care to go forward with
light baggage by taking the train on the
railroad extension as far as ii runs, and
from there going in wagons of the Red
Line to White Horse, We have suspend>
ed the sale OF through tickets from Skag-
way bv our line until we can positively
give through uninterrupted connections.
This will probably be in a few DAYS.
"Our steamers Victorian and Columbian
are within mile of White Horse, and
either or both are available for the trip
down the river to Dawson with the first
thrush of passengers.
st is somewhat unfortunate some have
rushed forward with hopes of getting
down the river right away, and have been
urged forward by certain transportation
men. We do not care to sell more tickets
or rush any through save those now holds
ing through tickets ard DESTROYS of push
ing on.
"As to the accumulation f freight in
the interior, the railroad desires to help all
traffic move forward without the least de-
lay, and when business routed BY our boats
through to Dawson cannot all be taken by
them we will be glad to have it taken by
any other available craft
E. W. Pollock, the newspaper man, made
visit to Bennett Yesterday, and reports
that the steamer Mabel F. NAV now he
making trips into Atlin from Caribou
Crossing. However, he is not certain.
He says the Mabel F. left Bennett this
week for Atln with forty passengers, and
hoped after making the first trip in to then
ply only between Caribou and Atlin, not
returning to Bennett. The Mabel f. is a
small steamer, and could easily cross Carl
bou, perhaps, when the larger steamers In
the Dawson trade could not expect to get
over.
It was reported here on good authority
Yesterday that the steamer Nora. of the
Klondike Corporations fleet, which start
ed from Lake Marsh, had grounded on a
sandbar in Six Mile river. Nothing was
heard as to when the vessel was likely to
get off.
| A large number of people, probably 100
or more, left Skagway YESTERDAY to go to
Bennett to take the steamer Cleaner for
Caribou, with hopes of being transferred
at that point to the Nora, which, accord
ing to the scheme of the steamboat agents,
was to take them through to White
Horse. Some said the Nora would not be
able to make the connections because she
had gone on the sand.