The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-08-19

Special Correspondence Post-Inteiligencer
wv ONE CITY, July A-In June
NM Nome was booming 1t was the
AM biggest stampede on record In
July. what with the hordes Of
people on the beach "a good many OF
them rogues) unprovided for and helpless.
and what with pneumonia, smallpox
and the continued absence OF rain, creeks
drying up and slrictng more and more
difficult you were told on every hand
thnk "the Nome boom had busted, and
busted bad" You heard Of people who.
IN Juns, wsrs refusing 5000 for town
lot. trying now 70 ind purchaser for
Q.b0o-and failing. One of the big saloon
kcepers shook his head dolefuliy few
days ago and said. ut win never be again
what II was for those three weeks In
June. / knsw It couldn't keep UP. II
hadn't had 4 psrdner ia have sold and
1T out before the drop"
Two Nonites are women who walked
over the ChiIcoot pass two years ago and
came down tho river last autumn. They
have been here through the winter and
have been put 20 all sorts Of trouble and
expense to keep their lot from being
jumped. -Four weeks ago they refused
20 sell It . price that seems fabulous to
the newcomer. Now they cannot get an
Offer 1t any dgurs. They say they viii
probably have to put IN still another win
ter. with the hope that things here may
improve.
The cry from the creeks IL for rain,
rnin."-thousands Of people out Of work
and the short. precious summer gliding
by. 1t II characteristic Of this topsy-
turvy land that the great curse OF the
brief summer was said to be the cease
less soaking rains. You were prepared
TO 60 about cased IN rubber and racked
with rheumatism, and II turns out tho
longest experience you have had In your
life Of continued drought.
some Mining Gosng on.
That all mining has not been prevented
II manifest. not only to those who, like
myself. have been present Mt big clean
ups (n some cases arrived Mt by all sorts
for si,iicing). but from the amount OF gold
actually shipped from here. They say
that three millions have gone out already.
and the season, dry and interrupted. not
half over The manager OF the Cape
Nome bank IL just dIspatching $4,000 In
dust 10 the First National bank OF Sc
attle making 10000 he has shipped in one
month. and that II. Of course. only a
fraction OF what has gone out. He has
IN hand 10000 worth. brought from the
neighboring creeks. Anvil. Dexter etc,
and new strikes on every hand are cred
IDLY reported. saw a man yesterday
from tho Casadepaga country, which he
IN this part II the world. His accounts
Of what he md seen there were capped
by the stories Of man who had just
come In from the last strike on Anvil
high up on the divide overlooking Dex-
ter He was easss not to sell but to
get back Those men who first went
prospecting there we're the laughing stock
10 he much too far up 10 be any good
! have myself talked with q man who
saw the results Of one days Worlg--"three
men with ono rocker cleaned up t600''--
and the water 10 do the work carried
half mile. In some cases the indis-
pensable element n carried even greater
distances. no that the brief summer work
Ing time may not be shortened for lack
OF rain. Friends OF mine on Penny FLYER
are working very good pay. and from
Topkuk comes word how four men with
chiua pump took out 500 In one run
Of ten hours
Mtnsrs Defy Uncle sam.
In any case tho ground is so rich that
ita nttractiveness has induced several
hundred minsrs to defy Uncle Sam and
his soldiers rather than refrain from
City This trouble II the elimination OF
Z contest hctwes:. tho creek claimants
at No. 1. OF which there are two factions
Ono contends that II located its tundra
claim In December last. tho other that
because tho initial monument OF the first
faction was set up on tho beach and not
on the tundra. II was not . legal location.
and was "iumpable-" II Is now main
tanned BY the miners that the ground thus
left apen was properly beach ground. and
workable by anybody. and that because
eome ono connected with the Alaska
Commercial Company tsoms one who
seems 60 have acquired an interest with
a tpu ~ m M
sure hns bean brought 60 bear on the
military 60 foros the stoppage OF all work
exccpt theirs along the beach fronting
their particular claim. About a week
ago, over = hundred miners wera forced
lhy soaier~ landed there from the United
Etases transport Seward 10 stop work. A
miners meeting was held aud tho men
decided 10 defy government orders. ON
ahe morning Of the nth they returned 20
work. The soldiers were mustered out
an the beach. with hsyonsts nsed. and at
tempted 10 force the men to leave, but
The miners held their ground. Finally.
. pafiey was called, and thirty or forty
miners submitted 10 arrest and were put
under guard. but others Immediately took
the place 81 the arrested AMI were them
selves placed under guard until the sol.
dIcrs had more on their hands than they
hargainsd for. II Ia said that they sim
ply cannot look after ~ many. The
the workmsn II the necessary s. er S.
per DAY per maa Is not Forthcoming 20
feed the arrested miners, the soldiers
with - ovsrpowered Gen. Randall in
command hare when seen to-day. said
that he had ten men In the Nome Jail
whom he had brought uP from Tapknk
with the intention Of givins them a
severe lesson on the inadyisha,lity OF
treating the orders 81 the military an-
thorttir@ with contempt. as well aa TO
punlah them en- she original charge 81
claim tampsnx. u they are found guilty
ss1s s~rtos. Lswiessaess.
No end et petty thteelng has ecan re-
ported ia thu las, few days. and within
the pas, twenty-fear hours there have
been instances % mere serious iawisss-
ness Tho sc~as 81 enc ~ the attempts
at rocket pacAtng was the passage near
tho Maiden house esfcc, II was tusk
hers that tao pedestrians were held AZ
their pockets turned cut ard Some inalg-
ratiea sSy~wsssd that only SIS could ~
found. When the thieves AaA allowed
the man TO SO thsy fell 20 considering
IN af A.. mt