Show DISGUSTED WITH NOME Joseph Lippman Discusses Conditions There I DIRT DELUSION AND DESPAIR Mr Uippman Says that the Steamship Steam-ship Companies and the Scuttle PostIntelligencer Mainly to Blame for Keeping Up the Fiasco Many Prospectors are Returning to the States Big Losses Will be I Sustained on Costly Machinery Taken OverSalt Lakers There I i Joseph Llppman returned yeslorday morning from Cape Nome glad to bu II back civilization once more He was L welcomed back by scores of frIends on the street who were so anxious to learn the latest from the beach and I to know all about it that he < < was i unable to reach his law ofllce until I late In the afternoon Mr Llppman left l Cape Nome July 23rd arrived at Seattle Wednesday morning and was not slow In hurrying home lie Is In I good health but thoroughly disgusted I I with Capo Nome and surroundings although he bays there is certainly gold in tho country only all tho claims of any great value have been taken up I by parties who went into the country I the previous year and by corporations Dirt delusion despair and disease I are a very unhealthy quartette of allllctlns whose sable and gruesomo ulngs are spread over the camp and neighborhood and Mr Llppman feats I for the worst as thousands of strand cd men arc becoming desperate and It i 1 I may not bo long before a reign of terror breaks loose I I PLACES TI1JT BLAME In a talk yesterday with a Tribune 1 representative Mr Llppman said I The parties mainly to blame for keeping I keep-Ing up this llasco are the steamship companies and the Seattle PostIntel ligencer The companies are charging 30 fare to the beach and 100 back and the PostIntelligencer persists in booming the beach and deceiving unsuspecting un-suspecting people There Is many a man at Cape Nome cursing Seattle on I this account and then Seattle Itself is full of sharpers and bad characters I on the lookout for victims I and eager to have the deception kept up I called at the office of the newspaper remonstrated I remon-strated against Its course and asked that tho truth be t told but the management manage-ment stated that this would be contrary con-trary to the policy of the paper ARRIVAL AT NOME After referring to the more noticeable notice-able experiences of his trip of which Interesting accounts have been already printed Mr Llppman said after stating stat-ing his arrival at Nome I got ashore onE on-E G Rognons naphtha launch which had como out to our vessel and I struck a sleeping1 place for thu night In Chicago Chi-cago Lodge a tented habitation with a boarded floor Thuro were candy and cigar stands In front other business arrangements and a lawyers ofllce further fur-ther back and bunks In the rear If we found our own blankets the tax was 51 per night If the landlady furnished them the tax was 2 the water to wash in came out of a barrel the towel was common property and if there was any I kick why you were Invited to get a move on yourself SCENES ON THE BEACH iI prospected the beach and after getting the extended experiences of scores of men concluded for the present pres-ent not to move to the beach the machinery ma-chinery belonging to J T Fulton and myself Moving was very costly it was 10 an hour and the streets were BO blocked with people that passage was dllllcult I found the beach on the whole a nonpaying proposition though some claims were paying the best ones being below the graveyard Everything was all huddled together on the beach for twelve miles There were machines of all kinds character and description such a conglomeration as the world has never before seen machines run by water by steam by hand by treadle by horsepower by gasoline sluice boxes amalgamators rockers and one man was operating even a windmill Women were working as well ns men and I stood aghast at the sight of so much capital locked up In that vast ag gregation of machinery LIjANy BIG LOSSES Some of the Standard Oil people had sent up 50000 worth of machinery capable handling 2000 yards a day but It could not bo set up for lack of facilities for doing that kind of work and the entire investment appeared to be lost There Is an immense amount of machinery that will have to be aban doned and it was one of the saddest financial wrecks the world has ever seen lhere are other wrecks there Many parties Invested in merchandise e to be bold at high prices which people could not pay and competition has brought down prices so thai these stocks are a loss Men also bought real estate at the most fanciful Ilg ures paying from 10000 to 30000 for lols on Main street and on which they cannot realize and Mr Lippman smiled as lie told of how a man wanted want-ed be real accommodating and was willing1 to let Mr Llppman have a lot for 21000 Mr Llppman might have given him S 21 for It WHISKY IN ABUNDANCE There was whisky enough at Nome to drown the town and beer enough to Tcpeat Ihe performance several times over such an amount in fact that It cannot be disposed of in two years There arc tw i home breweries on tho Snake river and the vile water is used In manufacturing the beer But people buy it because ILls cheaper than thc article from the Stairs I found E M Onion W W Stod lard and Arthur Smith In unwholesome unwhole-some accommodations with Smith on the load to pneumonia and aa there has not been a case of pneumonia sacd In the camp It required quick and careful work to pull him through particularly after two doctors had quarreled afterward over whether Ic was smallpox or chickenpox CRIME ON THE INCREASE Mr Llppman detailed tho robberies and other crimes that were on the increase in-crease and how so many people were dead broke that they actually Invited conflicts with the soldiers so as to be cared for as prisoners He llnally concluded con-cluded that the best thing was to get homo as soon as possible and he secured se-cured passage on the Senator The hardships experienced on the boat were almost unbearable and the cap tan when complained to coolly told Mr Llppman ho wan fortunate to setout set-out of Nome at any price and had no proper kick coming MANY UTAH PEOPBE THERE Mr Llppman said there were about 100 Salt Lctkc and Utah men ut tho Cape W F Mitchell Is working a claim on Dewey creek fifteen miles from Nome with J T Fulton Mr f Llppman is Interested with them in the claim Dr E W Whitney la working a goldsaving amalgamotor on the beach five miles west of Nome Dr T S Sharp Is I there also John Metcer formerly of Richfield who with Chares yolght Is working a gold amalgamator four miles up the beach and getting some gold Julius Slegal was working far up the beach J H Benbrook Is running a wheel and a bank and getting 20 per day Smithy Benbrook Is In partnership with a prominent Arizona politician named Freeze who Is returning home They were running gambling game In tho leading saloon there Bill Martin is at Nome City from Dawson so Is F Halght J B Rawllnga former coal mine Inspector has gone COO miles south of Nome to prospect Fred W Dennis reached Nome Her ninety eight day In a sailboat and is coming i home the same way Ed and Guy Gilman Gil-man and Pike Benbrook had been In Gojovln bay district hunting for quart and reported that they had found some OTHERS TO RETURN Mr Lippman met a good many other Utah people pursuing their way with varying fortunes and some ready lo return Among the Utahns there were G S Wcngard C S Horny T Billings Charles Obey Frank Brown John Henly Hugh Boyle Edward and H I B Trenholm B S Hubbard Andrew Peterson John Newman Dowltt B Lowe Dr Harvey Martin ILannan Joo Bush who Is coming homo nhdrtly O R Rognon J D Delaney Hank Smith C S Taylor C E Montgomery 33 D Waterman H F Mcnough G Bab bage William Rorick Joe Gresham Mrs John Hell Del Crane I FrankS Frank-S S Terrell Jlrs Nugent Fred Ayer Harry Schcnck Peter Burke J C DeKalb R J Nugent C P Hancock Dr Pons Mike Sullivan Ed Ncwton A ACalhoun Ed Buttcnvood J H Conrad Ned Clnrk A W Buck J IL Stratton J U Chllds PT Gonnoway who has a Job bringing him Jo per day Steve Klnalc R M Edmunds A Anderson Capt Hulaniskl J E Potter Pot-ter and others Mr Llpp nan Is content to remain In Salt Lake |