The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-18

a red letter edition OF the paper. II WAS
Il great day and Capt, Baekhoi,E says no
other vessel was ever SO heartily wei.
coined anywhere. They were treated
royalty.
TERRIBLE EXPERIENCES.
Officers ot the Alpha say that the north.
ern trip was the most awful experiences
they ever went through. Time and agaiu
they were hemmed IN with the lee that
stretched in boundless waste soo miles
down the sen from Cape Nome. They
would run along In narrow loads noe
more than 100 feet wide and all the way
on either side was Ice piled as far ps ons
could see. IL was not fuansod feia ite.
but moving foes. and 10 be caught in ir
meant instant destruction for the iit,is
vessel.
The experience ~ one night that ths
captain relates IL hat sample of many
others. He says: we had been travel.
ing down lead all the afternoon 1t hal
narrowed down 60 sixty or seventy feet
ana was very crooked. thought n WAS
field ice and felt that We were safe -
we anchored for the nlght. At i.s0 In ,ha
morning. was called and came on daNs
90 the dImiy iit Ice waste of She Ar,iis
morning. The lee was moving. BEHIND
us II began 20 come together and tho
roar was terrific. We pot under way as
quickly as possible. Around us the ice
had previously slid out of the water ms
II came together in the crush and had
raised Itself nifty feet Ia the air
TWAS HEIg.. SAYS THE CAprAIv.
1T was doing the same thing 81 tho
river behind u.s. The only thing that
saved us was tho crnokedness u ne
path wo had tfavrraed for the prononter-
les ct rough ice had FIRST Ia "a crushed
before the foes came togsthor. We rush.
81 ahead full speed ana ~ O'clock wers
clear.
Ten piaates' delay wanid have
meant the last OF the steamer
aud the passengers. who slept
unkaowinsiy all throa.h ~,
would have been I.rky "a get
safely on tho tce neia with two
days provisions. tell yoa "a
wa. hell. woaid not take a
hundred Thousand dollars and
make the trip sEaia at thst .ea-
.oa. ~ wa. ~. Arctic pteai..
"Gn the way back We ran IN q wrdHs
of iea NJ ~. Matthew islAna Thu iea
narrowed ard narrowed pgiii more uasti
We we're totally surrounded Ns stayed
there fer four DAYS. and thAn had 80
hatt against 6mat fee for another csug,8s
% Gays. and feI, iaeky i8 xrt ous AZ att.
The breaking lee miles assay would souftd
nse distant thandeY Thrn ws reached
open water AID aaj3ed saMY for Van.
couveF. with a woather sye aut far ths
Hear. nut the N9m- Tanapie treated ma
~ nicely that we were n0t much &ffalf
~ her"
Jack XIII. ot seatiis. - the fnast IN.
seynstinx ~ tHs Aipha'e pnhseuErrs lfa
took a shiuu.ent of fresh heef uafsh IN
the ssesrtf. hut previously owned 4
large nam0er ~ claims IN sha district.
Ife sa4s fse town row is gultt 10 Is ths
tiuaa - the year wheu thefe nre fsw
clssa-ups, aaa the nIheru iaid 90 en-.
/ trelY daring the caia snap Mr. Km
haa wrtas faith m the bench claisns. anf
thlnks that wlih ma hia@rY great Eealih
eau te taken pas 20 than. Gt was eYly
by a special Intervention - FfUvlAener.
ae says. that Nome which han gfown Ia
single year 20 be- topa fwo miles IN
length. was not swept a~sT ~ IRE a
dozen times during the winter Tha
buildings are ail shsl affairs. and would
have ross az ia smoke ia a few minutes.
+se-ssH@FF 4N t&s'tfftAtAfFt4Hs NAtFf Qf fhg
people VITO came a9wn from Dawson hAi
a good deal ~ money. and tblngs aurin..
the winter we're fairly nveiy. A eouplo
of shooting serapes details os whiei
have come down On previous boats. oe-
CURED shortly after Christmas
WASHING or MICH GOLD.
XII saya that al over the country
rnen can sash cut 10. Is and s cents 10
ihs paa II gold. Ha bE0gsAs . saasa