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THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 15. 1897.
VOL. VII.
NUMBER 42.
DISTRESS AT DAWSON
A Terrible Tale Brought by
the Steamer Cleveland. ,
LAWLESSNESS REIGNS SUPREME
Frorialons Sufficient to Supply the
Camp' Cannot Possibly Be Taken
In Before the Closing of
the River.
Sas Frakcisco, Sept, 10. The Exam
iner prints an extra edition containing
the following news from Dawson City :
"Otter Point. B. C, Sept. 10. The
steamer Cleveland has arrived from St,
Michaels, bringing with her from the
Yukon gold fields a story of distress and
disaster. The miners she has on board
and officers in charge of the ship tell a
story of disorder and distress at Daw
son.. Winter baa set in at the mining city
of the frozen north, and the two great
stores of the place have closed their
doors, for they have nothing to sell.
Those who have been seeking gold most
now seek for food or ttarve. v
While there may be a tendency to ex
aggerate the actual conditions of affairs,
there can be no question that famine
threatens all the venturesome men and
women who made their way to the
Klondike.
Hundreds of nnrnly spirits are flock
ing to Dawson. Threats of violence are
being made on every side.
Enormous prices are now being paid
for food at Dawson, and it is impossible
that more than foor vessels with provis
ions can reach that camp before the riv
er freezes.
Indignation meetings, heavy with
murmured threats of. vengeance, have
been held at St. Michaels by those who
see no hope of advancing up the river,
and less of getting back to civilization.
The first signs of winter are apparent
on the river Ynkon , which is beginning to
freeze, and in a few weeks will be closed
against ail navigation. A mishap has
come to the Excelsior, and from the
frozen north cones the story of another
disaster in which forty-two men lost
their lives.
On the Cleveland there are thirty.
eiebt passengers who have come from
Dawson City. There are few miners
in
this party that are able to tell
perity. Most of them wish to
of pros
exagger
ate their possessions, and if one were
to
believe the indefinite stories they tell he
would say the treasure ship with which
they come carried $3,000,000. Captain
Hall, ot Cleveland, says he has (100,000
in his safe. The purser believes he can
account for (150,000 on board.
The Cleveland left St. Michaels August
29th. She has some of tBe passengers of
the P. B. Weare on board. The Weare
left Dawson City in time to connect with
the Portland had she not met : with
mishap and stuck on the flats above Or
. cle City. '
The miners from Dawson report that
on Jnly 25th the stores of the Alaska
Commercial Company and . the North
American Trading & Transportation
Company closed their doors, and an
nounced they had no more food to sell
When the announcement was made con
eternation seized upon the people of
Dawson, with gold-seekers crowding in
at the rate of 20 to 30 per day. Drunk,
eness and dieorder, gambling and . idle,
xiess were rampant.
At St. Michaels the condition of affairs
is also the cause of gravest concern.
There are not enough structures iu town
to accommodate the crowd, and scores
of people are living in tents. Shortly
before the Cleveland left St. Michaels
two expeditions, those of the National
City and of the South Coast, held indig
nation meetings, threatening dire . ven-
geance upon those who had brought
them there and then were unable to
carry them further.
On August 26th the Excelsior left St.
Michaels with a large number of miners
and a large quantity of gold. Reports
were current that her treasure amounted
to a million dollars. Soon after 'leaving
St. Michaels the Excelsior was caught on
the dangerous flats of the Ynkon and
broke two blades of the propeller. When
the Cleveland reached Ounalaska she
found the Excelsior undergoing repairs.
It is probable she left Ounalaska last
Monday.
Shortly before the Cleveland left for
Seattle on hei journey home the United
States revenue cutter Bear put into St.
Michaels to tell another story of death
and disaster in the ice-bound - Arctic.
. The Bear had on board Captain White
' side, his wife, the first and fourth officers
and fonr seamen of the steam whaler
Nevach. They are all that remain to J
tell a terrible story of death in the Arc
tic. The Nevach was caught in an ice
pack. Of her crew forty-two were lost.
Thirty-one were crashed in the ice
and ten were frozen to death. The
Bear saw the' vessel's signal of distress
near Point Borrow, and went to ber as
sistance. The Captain, his wife, two
officers and four seamen were persuaded
to leave the crippled ship, bat nine
others positively refused to ' go. They
were left in a desolate field of ice, and
it is feared perished with their comrades.
The terrible' tale of suffering told by
Captain Whiteside and his officers forms
but an incident in the story that the
Cleveland brings. It was believed after
she had left St. Michaels she was to
learn no more of the Klondike, its dan
gers and disasters, but " the Cleveland
bad hardiy gone 35 miles when she
passed a vessel that told of evils to come,
of dangerous spirits ready for any out
rage, of excited and angry men who
have left a black record on the coast on
their own pathway to the Yukon.
The Cleveland and Humboldt had
met, and new stories of tne abandoned
adventurers the latter vessel is convey
ing to the gold fields were sent back to
the world.
When the Humboldt stopped at Ouna
laska on ber journey to St. Michaels, the
passengers were in open rebellion. They
began to realize that it would be impos
sible to reach Dawson before next spring
and they knew that misery awaited them
at St. Michaels. There were open
threats against W. D. Wood, organizer
manager of the expedition, and it is
feared he may lose his life at the hands
of his passengers.
UINEBAL NKWS.
It is unofficially announced that
Dr,
Andrews will insist upon the acceptance
of his resignation by the Brown univer
sity.
' By the explosion of 120 quarts of nitro
glycerine in a gas well at Cygnet, Ohio,
six persons were killed and many in
jured.
Joseph Simons, town marshal, was
shot and killed at Almosa, Colo, Tues
day night by O. P. Brown, who mistook
him for a burglar.
Customs inspectors at Laredo, Texas,
have found an unclaimed grip on a train
containing $200,000 worth of diamonds,
jewelry and other valuables.
A Philadelphia & Beading wrecking
engine crashed into a wagon at a grade
crossing at Frush Valley, a few miles
above Beading. Pa., Tuesday night, .and
three lives were lost.
W. P. At well, commercial agent' of
the United States at Bobaix, France,
says the United States and Canada will
be called on to export from 120,000,000
to 130,000,000 bushels of wheat more
than they exported to Europe last year,
Secretary Wilson predicts a further
advance in the price of wheat, due to
the fact that there is not only a short
crop abroad, bnt also because of the
fact that, according to his observation,
the crop will not be so extensive in this
country as has generally been antici
pated.
Indigeston is often taken for con
sumption. The word ' consumptoin
means wasting away, and dyspeptics
often waste away as badly as consump
tives.
The reason people waste away is be
cause either they don't get' enongh to
eat, or they don't digest what they do
eat. (
If the latter is your trouble, take
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help you to digest your food and stop
your loss of flesh.
Shaker Digestive Cordial is made
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by the well-known Shakers at Mount
Lebanon. It possess great tonic and
digestive powers.
Shaker Digestive Cordial has cured
many supposed consumptives (who
were really dyspeptics), by simply help
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thus giving them nourishment and new
strength.
Sold by druggists. Trial bottles ten
cents.
My boy came home from school one
day with his hand badly lacerated and
bleeding, and suffering great pain," says
Mr. E. J. Schall, with Meyer Bros.' I
Drug. Co., St. Louis, Mo. "I dressed
the wound, and applied Chamberlain's
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n a remarkably short time it healed
without leaving a scar. For wounds,
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know of no other medicine or prescrip
tion equal to it. I consider it a house
hold necessity." The 25 and 50 cent
izes tor sale by Blakeley & Houghton.
Cash In Your checks.
All county warrants registered prior
to March 12, 1893, will be paid at my
office. Interest ceases after Sept. 7,
1897. C. L. Phillips, i
County Treasnrer.
THE STRIKE ENDS
The Miners Have Accepted
a Compromise
RECENTLY MADE BY OFFICERS
They Will Return to Work Soon--
Twenty-one Corp.es at Haz
elton, Pennsylvania.
Columbus, O., Sept. 11. The miners'
strike, which was declared on Jnly 4th,
was brought to nn end this evening so
far at least, as ' Western Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana and West Virginia are
concerned, by the action of the conven
tion of miners, who have been in session
since Wednesday.. Alter a day of voting
and wrangling, the convention voted to
accept the proposition of the Pittsburg
operators. The vote was 495forand317
against, accepting the terms of settle
ment, and eleven votes were not cast
The delegation from Illinois, which had
250 votes, was unanimously against the
settlement, and Indiana and West Vir
ginia voted solidly to accept the propo
sition, but there were scattering votes
among the Ohio and Pennsylvania men,
against it. The resolution is as follows:
"Jtetolved. That we, the miners of
Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, In
diana and Illinois, in convention as
sembled, do hereby agiee to accept the
proposition recommended by our nation
al executive committee, viz : sixty-five
cents in the Pittsburg district, and all
places in the above named states, where
the relative price can be obtained, to
resume work and contribute liberally
to the miners who will not receive the
advance, over which the fight must be
continued to the bitterend.
"Retolved, That the officers of the ex
ecutive board and the district president,
act as advisory board for the purpose of
providing ways and means for the carry
on of the strike where necessary, pro
vided, however, that no district resume
work for ten days, for the purpose of giv
ing the miners in other districts time to
confer with the operators and get the
price if possible."
While ten days is provided for the
miners to resume work, it is probable
that manv Ohio and Pittsburg mines
will be reopened on Monday. The Illi
nois men will be called in conven
tion at Springfield, on September 19th,
to determine what shall be done in
that state. A resolution was adopted
denouncing the action of the-deputies
in firing into the striking
miners
at Hazelton.
The Wounded and Dead.
Hazelton, Pa., Sept. 11. Twenty-one
corpses lie tonight in the frame shanties
scattered, about this hilltop town. Forty
maimed, wounded and broken figures
are lying on the tlie narrow cots of the
Hazelton hospital. Of these it is almost
a certainty that five will be added to the
death list before another day dawns.
Such was the execution done yesterday,
by the deputies sheriff, armed to the I
teeth, upon about about 150 ignorant
foreigners, whose total armanent con-
sisted of two . little penkniveB. These
facts are undisputed. .
A Proclamation.
Harrisbubo, Pa., Sept. 11. On a
count of the horrible slaughter yester
day afternoon at Latimer, in the coal
region, Governor Hastings tonight is
sued a proclamation, calling on all good
citizens to preserve peace.
MORS GOLD PROM ALASKA.
Steamer South Coas, Has Returned With
a Crowd of Lucky Miners,
Seattle, Sept. 11. The steam schoon
er Soath Coast, from St. Michaels, ar
rived this afternoon. She brought down
twenty-six passengers, but most of them
went ashore at Port Towneend, and took
boats for different sound pointe. Cap
tain Zaddart places the amount of gold
brought down bv the South Coast, at
(350,000, but from information gathered
trom miners, returning here, it is be
lieved that this amount is to high by at
least (200,000. The miners will not say
how much their clean-UD has been, but
it is safe to place the amount aboard the
South Coast, at less than $100,000.
The most imoortant news broueht bv
the South Coast, is the safe arrival at
St. Michaels, of the river steamer P.
B. Weare, which stuck on a sand bar for
over two weeks below Circle City. The
arrival of the Weare will be good news
to the people of Dawson City, who are
threatened with a famibe this winter.
When the South Coast left the Weare
was loading supplies,. and it was expect-
ed8he would leave up the river in a day
or two, with a 500-ton cargo. Her voy-
age up should not consume more than
twenty-five days, which would put into!
Dawsqn City by September 25th. 1 he
Weare's cargo consisted almost entirely
of provisions and the 500 tons she will
take in, will materially assist in reliev
ing the threatened famine. .
C. T. Bnpel, one of the South Coast
passengers, brought down (8,000 in dust
and nuggets. J. H. Light (18,000.
Bupel says, not one man in a hundred.
of those who have gone in this season
will get claims as all the country is
staked off. One of the passengers on
the South Coast was J. T. Lea. of this
city. Speaking of the amonnt of money
which the South Coast bronght down he
said: "
"The actual amount has been greatly
exaggerated. I am acquainted with
every man on board, and bad a good
knowledge of what they brought back,
and I am certain the total amonnt is not
over (60,000. There were not four men
on board who had as much as (5000
each. In fact, the most of the passen
gers were men, who had worked small
claims, and a majority had from (300 to
$1000 in ?old."
A Small Craft.
Pobt Townsexd, Sept. 11. At 7
o'clock this evening the schooner Janus
an eight-ton cralt from Astoria, tied up
at the wharf here. She carries twelve
men and seven tons above ber registered
capacity of provisions, and is bound for
Copper river. The passengers all hail
from San Francisco and Oakland, and
are outfitted with provisions for a two
years' stay.
The Eliza Anderson Safe.
Seattle, Sept. 11. Captain J. B. Lib-
by, manager of the Paget Sound Tugboat
Co., today received a letter on the South
Coast from Capt. Frank W. dinger, of
the tug Holyoke, who has in tow the
barge Politofeki, bound for St. Michaels
The letter is dated Dutch harbor
August 31st. Begarding the sidewheel
steamer Eliza Andereon, which was in
company with the Holyoke and reported
to oe in distress, tne letter says: "lne
Anderson reached St. Panl harbor in
perfect safety, and ber detention is oc
caBioned by ber taking on coal there."
THE EUrOBIA TRAIN WRECK.
The List of Victims In the Wreck Num
bers Sixteen.
Ehpobia, Kan., Sept. 11. Tonight
it is believed that the number of deaths
doe to the train wreck of Wednesday
will be sixteen. Engineer Frisbee died
in the hospital at Topeka today. To
night, a force of 100 men engaged in the
work of removing the debris of the
wreck, recovered the charred remains of
two more bodies. They were found not
far from where the body of a woman
was found this morning. Owing to the
stench coming from the wreck, it is
thought more bodies mav be there. One
0f those found today was burned beyond
identification, but with the other body
was found a short bosom pin and a stud
This is thought to be the body of an en
from the East who was riding in the cab
of the westbound train.
The Grandest Remedy.
Mr. B. B. U reeve, merchant of
Chilhowie, Va., certifies that he had
consumption,, was given up to die,
sought all medical treatment that money
could procure, tried all cough remedies
he could hear of, but got no relief ; spent
many nights silting np in a chair; was
induced to try Dr. King's New Discovery,
and was cured by the use of two bottles
For past three years has been attending
to busines, and says Dr. King's New Dis
covery is the grandest remedy ever made,
as it has done so much for him and also
for others in his community. Dr. King's
New Discovery is guaranteed for Coughs,
Colds and Cosumption. It don't fail.
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How's This!
We offer one hundred dollars reward
for any case of Catarrh tbat can not be
cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.
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We, the undersigned, have known F.
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West & Truax. Wholesale Druggists, To
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Testimonials free.
1-5-9
NOTICE.
To Holders op School Warrants :
All outstandings warrants of this
school district (No. 12, city) will be paid
on presentation at the bank of French
& Co., The Dalles, Oregon, on Thursday
Sept. 9, 1897. Interest on outstanding
warrants ceases after Sept. 8, 1897.
By order of the board.
Geo. P. Morgan,
e8-4t. District Clerk.
ANDERSON NOT LOST
The Ancient Side-Wheeler Is
Safe at Dutch Harbor.
A SERIOUS CRISIS AT DAWSON
PrcTioos Reports Regarding a Short
ate of Provisions Confirmed
Details of the Anderson's
Perilous Voyage.
Seattle, Sept. 13. The steamer Hum
boldt arrived this morning, eleven days
from St. Michaels, and brought news
tbat the Eliza Anderson is safe. The
Anderson is anchored in Dutch Harbor,
where she arrived on the 4th inst., and
where she is now detained by revenue
officers. Her passengers have bv this
time entered Behring sea on the schoon
er chartered for that purpose.
Two passengers' of the Anderson were
so frightened that they gave np their
search for gold and returned south on
the steamer Humboldt. '
The Humboldt brought back fourteen
passengers and about (15,000 in gold.
Mayor Wood, who chartered the Hum
boldt, is still at St. Michaels, but letters
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receiveu irom mm inaicate tbat all is
well with him and tbat stories of dissen
sion and strife on the part of members
of the expedition are untrue.
me uumDoiat ormgs back news
which reiterate the stories of the untold
wealth of the Klondike and Yukon, and
verifies the previous rumors of a short'
age of the food supply in the interior,
"There will be privation, sickness, star
vation, scurvy and death on the Ynkon
this winter" is what returning gold hunt
ers say.
Only seven of the passengers on the
Humboldt have money. It is impossi
ble to get them to eay what they have,
but the purser of the Humboldt who
knows about the amount of gold brought
back, gives the following figures:
G. A. Wagner ( 900
E. Turner 500
J. F. Crieder 2.000
W. Urquhardt 900
J. D. Koeers 2.000
D. F. Atkins 4.500
Captain J. Whitesides 4,200
CONDITION'S AT DAWSON.
J. N. Secretan, who came back on the
Humboldt, and who has but very little
cash, says he came out to avoid starva
tion at Dawson. He said :
"Thus far upwards of 1500 men have
pushed their way over the passes from
Skaguay and Dyea, and have arrived at
Dawson City. The influx of miners
over the passes has frightened old-timers
in the interior, and all tbat can com
mand money are coming out to winter
in the states, and thus avoid what tbey
believe to be a winter of hardship, suf
fering, perhaps mnrder and thievery.
A SERIES OF MISHAPS.
"We left Dawson on July 26, on the
the steamer P. B. Weare. At midnight
on the 27th the steamer ran on a bar be
low Circle City. After waiting seven
days we were transferred to the steamer
Healy, and arrived at St. Michaels on
August 25.
"On the next day we took the Excel
sior for San Francisco. on the morn
ing of 27, the Excelsior went aground in
ten feet of water in Behring sea, twenty
miles from land. The passengers moved
twenty tons of coal from ' her hold . to
lighten her, and af midnight she floated,
having broken two wings of her propel
ler. She reached Ounalaska on Septem
ber 1. On the 2d they tried to beach
her, and on the 3d encceeded. On the
4th they took off her propeller, and on
the 5th put on a new one. On the 6th
she sailed via TJoger for Dutch Harbor,
where we took the Humboldt for Seattle.
'On the way from Dawsen City I have
paid three fares. First to the N. A. T.
& T. Co.. (150 for passage to Seattle,
then (120 to the Excelsior, and again
(75 to the Humboldt. I cannot say too
much for the Humboldt. It is by far
the best ea nipped steamer on the route."
the akdersos's voyage.
W. B. Price, of Danville, 111., who
went op on the Eliza Anderson, and who
left the vessel at Dutch harbor, returred
on the Humboldt, and is in this city.
He said :
The entire trip was one series of mis
haps. The third day out from Dixon's
entrance bad weather came on, and the
wind blew terrifically. The waves would
lift the guard up and leap under it.
During the first night after the storm be
gan the rudder chain broke five times.
Of course after this broke there wa9 no
controlling the boat. Every minute it
seemed that it would go over. The pas
sengers were thrown ont of their bunks,
and it was possible to stay in bed. The
crew was insufficient to man the pumps,
so the passengers toik the pumps in
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of the pumps. I divided the passengers
up into squads of four men each. Each
squad worked two hours. - I aleo did
sounding to see how much water there
was in the hold. We kept this up for
48 hours and d nring that time the boat
drifted back 100 miles.
"The second day of our trcuble the
other boats of the fleet were in eight.
Then the Merwin, which was being
towed by the Holyoke along with the
Bryant and Politofikv, broke loose and
the captain of the Holyoke turned about
with the other two boats in tow and
picked up the Merwin.1
NO COAL TO BE HAD.
"The next place we reached was St.
Paul, on Kodiak island. We should
have taken on coal enough there to get
her to Dutch harbor, but could not get '
it. After leaving St. Paul the sea was
very heavy and we were forced to cruise
along the ' shore. We got within 160
miles of Dutch harbor when the coal
gave out. We were rigging a small boat
to send out for relief when we sighted a
small fishing smack with one man in it.
He told us we could reach at, abandoned
cannery- about twenty miles distant,
where coal bad been lying for five or six
yeais. We just had about enough coal
to reach that point. All day long the
passengers worked in a drizzling rain to
take, on coal. ,
"Finally, on September 4th, we
reached Dutch harbor. Captain Cooper,
of the Northern revenue squadron,
boarded us at Dntch harbor, and seeing
the unseawortby condition of the An
derson, forbade her to go further. It
was not necessary for him to go below
deck, but immediately upon seeing tbat
we had an insufficient number of life
boats, he gave the order to tie up there.
The passengers , of the Anderson, with
the exception of George Scott and my
self, raised (1000 to charter the schooner '
Barinoff, to take the passengers from
there to St. Michaels. The conditions
of the trip of the Anderson from Dixon's
harbor cannot be pictured too vividly!"
. It was a remarkable statement that
Captain Chiicoot, one of the incorpora
tors of the company which runs the An
derson, made to Captain Bonifield, of
the Humboldt this morning. He said :
"We knew the Anderson was nnsea
worthy, especially for an ocean voyage,
but we were bound to get ber there any
way. We put her in charge of one of
the best sea captains on this coast,
Captain Powers. If anybody could get
her there he could."
the humboldt's passkngebs.
. There were ocly two passengers who
went np on the Humboldt who decided
to return and make the trip again from
Seattle in the spring. Tbey were Dr. A.
C. Posey, of Oakland, Cal., and J. A.
Williams, of San Francisco.
The Humboldt's complete passenger
list is as follows : Dr. A. C. Posey, Mrs.
E. Cronister, G. A. Wanger, E. Turner,
J. F. Crider, W. Urquhardt, J. F. Will- .
iams, Captain J. Whiteside and wife,
W. B. Price, George Scott, J. N. Scretan,
Mrs. Woodward and five children. J. B.
Rogers, D. F. Atkins, Mrs. A. Clark.
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Houghton's Drug Store. (2)
Andrew Keller has just received a
shipment of fresh oysters, which he will
serve in any style to his customers.
From now on oysters can be had at his
bakerv and cafe. . 7-2t