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Show ing for tho trip have been sold, and it may be that all orders put in by the old miner last spring cannot be filled. "Tho cheechacoes, or tenderfeet who get into that country this fall have all they can do to keep alive, even if that is possible. There are some moose and caribou there, but few white men have patience to hunt them as do the indiane, lying for two days sometimes for a show of moose. There will bo hard hunting and hope must rest with the old miners, who sent in their orders in the spring and have had them filled. They will have to cut up their supplies, and 1 as they are the most liberal people Jin the world, they will face 6uffer-iing 6uffer-iing with the improvident ones." . Faireaven, AVorld. 1 1 m KLONDIKE. ! William LeGrande Cannon, of Helena, Mont., who arrived on the1 Excelsior Thursday, says that no: amount of money can purchase for! a hungry man anything to eat atj the stores of the two trading com-i panies on the Yukon, and the1 result will be that when the mem now on the way into tho country J do arrive without enough provisions, provis-ions, they will ba met by a com- inittee, who will show them that it is impossible to feed and care for them and they will be advised to get out Many will not accept this good advice or the greatest suffering must follow. "I was assured by the leading men of both companies", said Mr. Cannon, "that they would posl at tho doors of their stores, as soon as the men now on the way over the passes and up the river arrives, notices that there are no provisions to be sold, and advising the men to return re-turn to civilization while they have yet enough to live on. As it stands now, all the eatables which will be brought up the river by the boats now at the mouth prepar- |