The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-10-07
BAD REPORTS FROM NOME
MUCH SICKNESS AND DISTRESS
IN THE NORTH.
United states Government May Take
bers of the Mining Community

PORT TOWNSEND, (WashD, Sep
TENDER 26-The steamship Senator ar
rived from Nome today, bringing near
ly 800 passengers and over 100000 i'm
treasure. The Senator experienced good
weather until about 200 miles off the
Vancouver coast, when she encounter
ed terrific gale, which lasted several
hours. A minor accident occurred To
her machinery, and while repairs were
! being made the steamer rolled fearfully
as she had no freight or ballast
The Senator sailed from Nome Sep
| TENDER 10th. Out Of a large number of
passengers not one Of them brought out
as much money as they took with them
All speak i'm high terms of the country
as a mining section, but say that the
laws are such that it will be years be-
fore the country will open up. They
I say that not one new claim has been
opened in the vicinity of Nome this sea-
son for the reason that when prospect
ors find pay diggings some one comes
along and claims it by right of urior To-
cation, and IL is then tied up i'm court.
one of the largest nuggets ever found
in the north was taken out of Anvil
creek on September IA. 1t weighs
ninety-seVen ounces and is valued at
$l552. a rich strike is reported at the
| head of Grouse gulCh. The pay streak
is seventy-five feet deep and is of un-
known extent. The claim was bonded
for $50 900 and the bond had lapsed but
a few days before the strike was made,
The sick and INDECENT people at Nome
have reached such large numbers that
the question of what shall be done with
them is the main tonic. This year there
Is no Government transport on which
they can be sent south, as was the case
last year, and the outlook for them Ia
exceedingly gloomy. The hospitals are
taxed to their utmost capacity. Just
before the Senator sailed a mass meet
ing was to be called for the purpose of
raising money to send that class out on
the last boat.
Captain Patterson reports that he did
not see anything of the steamer Nome
City, which sailed from Dutch Harbor
September 18th for Nome with disabled
machinery but thinks she will reach
her destination all right, as the weather
was good.
News comes from Dutch Harbor to
the effect that the killing of seals on
st. Pauls and at Georges Island has
caused the seals to look for new quar-
ters. A japanese schooner found a new
rookery in the Aleutian group on an
island called Douldyr and made a raid
on it, killing most of the seals. Probably
over $500 carcasses were found there by
Captain Peterson of the schooner Chal-
lenser, WHO reported it to the cutter
Manning.
The Manning started out looking for
the seal poachers but failed to find them
She picked up a boot with three Japa-
nese sealers who had been lost and took
them to Unalaska and turned them over
to the United States authorities.
WASHINGTON September 26-The
War Department is investigating stories
which have reached Washington to the
effect that there is danger of much suf-
fering at Cape Nome unless steps are
taken At once to relieve the destitute
members Of the mining community. The
departn Mt has issued instructions that
the transport Egbert be put in readiness
for immediate service, but sailing orders
al" withheld until the officials can sat
i-'y themselves that the Government ls
not being imposed on in the matter.