Show Y EONS ICE BOULDERS Present Great Obstacles to Proposed t Federal Relief I Seattle Wash Dec 2GAmong the passengers v pas-sengers of the steamer Rosalie which ar f L v O r r rlved4here from Skaguay andDyea Alaska Alas-ka were six men who recently left Daw on City bringing advices up to Nov 2 The men are Frank Ballaine John Lindsay Lind-say Tom Storey R G Wino W B King and P 1 Holland Conflictlns statements as to the food situation in Dawson are made by these men Lindsay asserts with great Iposltive ness that want already exists at Dawson and that unless food is taken into the campfrom the coast men will suffer from hunger Bailainp Bradley Gwinn a udf1 Holland say thattHerc isfaiore alarm outside con cernlr = the Dawson people than Is felt by the residents of that place They agre that there is no food to be bought in Dawson except where a man Is found coming out of the country and with more grjib than he could use onthe way up the river They say however that ex cert for the fact that some of the men will be put on short rations thereby di minishlnir the output of the mines this winter the shortage of food will not bo felt the exodus ot men from Dawson to Fort Yukon and to points on the coast Assisting materially the situation at Dawson Daw-son Between Pelly river and Dyea the party passed hundreds of camps where snow I and icebound Klondikers have camped for the winter Many of them were well equipped with provisions and by paying r fter pound it was possible f6r them top to-p flour and other necessaries ert cef g I From Fve Fingers the Yukon is a frozen mass of ice boulders cunning as high as 12 feet blocking the canyon from wal to wall and making travel difficult This it is asserted will have to be cut through by any government or other relief re-lief expedition that expects to reach Daw son rom the coast and the belief ex I jVrv ecl by Ballaine was that this task would practically make futile almost any effort yutToith by the government at Vashing1on to relieve the American I miners in the Klondike PeDorts from Skaguay and Dyea browrht down by the Kosrtlie are to the effect that swindlers operating under the guise of Canadian customs officials are tleecinjj the newcomers at Lake Linder I man demanding payment for duty and giving a printed receipt |