| Show IN I THE NORTHERN GOLD LAND Plenty of food In the Klondite Country is the Latest Report VIA Vn1deitl Wildent IVrp1l Turning let lAI 100 ite n bring I eoP CI Skagwny Alaska March 12 via Seattle Se-attle Wash March 117Hen Atwater i arrived lure last night from Circle city and Inwnon N W T bringing 100 pounds of mail from the above places Atwaters former home was In Morri son Ills He went to the Yukon country coun-try In 1886 and has resided there ever since Atwater accompanied by 1 C Pet tit of Snohomlih Wash left Circle City January 10th and Daw son on February ith with dog teams The trip up the river and lakes was a hard one the weather being bitter cold Atwater says theie la I food enough In the Klondike country to last the present pres-ent Population IWO year Aa I conse queries of the food scare the output of the mines will be curtailed He estimates esti-mates It at about JS000000 Atwater pays that marli cialins hth were considered to Iu only wildcat propertlei oil various crecks are turn Inpout will Dominion Is paving finely and will have I big cleanup next spring Sulphur nnd Hunker are also good and so Is Indian Quartz ledges have been found on the latter creek which look well There Is I quite a settle melt nt the mouth of the Stewart river but no reports have as yet been received from the prospectors who went up the river early In the winter On Walsh creek five miles below the big salmon dirt has mi found which yIelds 76 cents a pan A stampede occurred from Circle City Cly about January 10h to American creek about 300 men leaving for that section ecton Atwater met 300 or 400 men from Dawson Daw-son making their way to American creek American creek Is fifty miles from rorty Mile nnd about twentymo miles blow the International boundary on the Alaska side The reports from Mlnok creek are very encouraging A courIer lrm Mlnok arrived al Circle City just before Atwater left that Place with about fifty Imindsi 01 mail This Atwater bought out Tin courIer had with him I quantity of gold tram Mlnol erek anti he stated thai the prospectors had struck It lich In that section Atwater says there are but Iv cases ot scurvy fit Dawson The hospital contains but thlrlI Inmoleo ana thepe have elthfr mt with accidents or nre ulerln from chronic dlqeusem The general health of the People Is I road An I result ot the AgItAtIon here gainst the PuriethIng men lood I hy Sonpj Smith United States Comml one Smith and Deputy United State farsbal Mclnnl closed nil tho gambl Ing houses on WednJoy night I Is I split that an rnmenl woo mnde m hereby the gambling will be restrictPo to socalled legitimate game i and all surethlng or bunco games Will bb pro hlblted The surethlnir men are leaving Ih town In twos and Ihr The weather for the past week has been mid and prlngllke and the arm month 1fnd end the sun tire Playing hnvD with the winter trail which for loirm the liver for O distance of eight elh mi Hln reo i of people are making their wy or tho leld however un deterred toy the wind or weather Snow has entirely dlOlper1 tram the street hlch are muddy beyond conceplon The strike of the longshon mn for 75 cents an hour has ben declared off by n vote of the local union The wages paid now Is I t cents an hour the steamship steam-ship companl i uretn not to emplo docka Indians In hauling freight on tile I Torrlcr AIpnopmATJ I Senate Allen A Iraponlitr to 1 Spend Another MIOOOO Washington March 17Rentor AI len has proposed an amendment to Ills postofHrp tippruprlatlon bill appropriating appro-priating JldOOOO for continuing nary n-ary and special facllltl on trunk lines train Chlcoo to Omaha and Lln oln Neb and Denver Col and points Aet thereof No part ot this apprprlton Im I to Ie cxtpnltd un lens I the postmaster general hal deem It necessary to the postal service old In any contracts under the provision It I A to bo expressly stipulated that all through mall arriving at Chicago ant bound west shall be carried In the car In which It I shall reach Chicago or be there transferred on Irk from one cor to the other without being hauled by carts viagons or otherwise from one Ia lon to anothe gross let crillr London March 17A special disPatch dis-Patch from Home today says the Italian gave rn merit has old the o mored irultier Varez to Spain A sleavairr Airrolead Philadelphia March 1Th steamer Illinois which Palled yesterday for San Francisco Is ogrould on the weBI vide 01 the channel below Iorks Hung She will probably get oft at high tldef |
