| Show STARVING IN KLONDIKE II I I The Ind or 1shuluus 55 ealth and ruhh Ina 1euplc Seattli1 Nor Twentytiro men arrived here today on the City of Seattle Seat-tle direct from Dnwson City They were divided Into two parties the last one of which left Dawson City October Octo-ber fl AmoliK the party were Thoinks Magee Ma-gee sr Ihomus Magee jr of San Irancltco Swlflwatcr Illll dates Joe Iovlc William llusklns F I Ilckcrt H Itobertson M Ilaymond Item Nelson Nel-son John W llrauer W II Chamliors IX W Pond 11 I Ash and others They hare fWOUO In draft sod 1 gold dust All tell storms of a fowl shut tago In Dawson that la I almost n famine thin last I person lo leave Dawson wa Jack Dalian When Dalton left Iho strain era Allen snit Hells had reached there loaded lightly It It I said that Iho Itellat cargo contlstnd of whlsln I and t tII tu billiard balls She brought no pro rlslont The Canadfnn mounted tollce char tern 1 the llella and nave all who wished wish-ed 1 free transportation to Port Yukon The hells Is I reported to haro left about Oct 13 with too inn According to statement made by hirmber of the Dalian parly thyme It liable to bo trouble ol clue most serious kin ilthls winter Dawson Men were gathered In groups and cursing with might nail main the new coiner that were constantly coming Into thin Kloi dike loaded with scarcely any pro vlilons The mounted police were offering free transportation to the grub pile further down the Yukon hut 10 count < less hundred who had labored hard all through the summer accumulating a griibtlnku the prospect was mil riling lo say thus least These men i figured that It 1 would lake all their savings In gold to pay their living ex lenses at Port Yukon during the winter win-ter and that I In the spring they would not hare enough gold I left to pay their paste ge money back to Dawson to say nothing of purchasing enough food to i subsist until they could get started gain To these poor fellows thus offer of the mounted police was no butler than thin prospect at Dawson of being compelled to winter on half ration I until the supply boats could reach Iho i digging tn the inning I John W limner the United States mall carrier who left Dan sou September Septem-ber 37 sushi 1 Thero him I only ono salvation for the miner who are now at Dawsou City and that In 1 for them lo undertake tide ajlrlul winter trip from Dawson to tirt Yukon a distance of 400 mile Tyro Is I food at Port Yukon there Is I n puns at Dawsou and just na sure at tho stars shine terrible Buffering will bo the fate of the Dawson miner unless ho leaves there before spring I will ee I tnaku my statement conscrratlru i and any that nhcn I left bnw son the men had on nn average four month food supply Some had supplies for only ono month while other had enough for four or lire Tho last restaurant closed 1 tide night I loft It had been telling nothing noth-ing but twufsteak for which the hungry paid JM O When the people realized that thin boat would not lie up the river they knew that starvation threatened them and the great stampede began Tho llrst to leave went to Fort Yukon I guess there were about ten In the party lhat left the first day One boat came up from Port Yukon with several newspaper men aboard among them being Correspondent Kant Wall and n Mr Mitlllrrn They brought tho now that the Hamilton had unloaded all of cargo and trlnl to get over the bar light mid fulled In her efforts though alto dmeso hunt Iwo feel of wnlcr Till news Incrcused the excitement and mailu the rush tonard foodrenter all thu greater Hrnuttlnii In 15 hit mill Srliixi i I Shelwygiin Wit 1 Nor 30Qulte k sensallon has developed In public school circles In this city through ono of III professors who had been pro tlclng hypnotism on school children Professor leorge M I Pcrguson Instructor In-structor of drawing In this public schools Is I charged with taking eight or ton pupils from one of thus ward school and using thorn oa subjects fur nn uxhlbltlon Mr Ferguson dues not deny this charge but ustvrtt In hit defense that nn Injury was done to the I children sad that he did not Imagine there wmtld be any objection on till part ot the parent 1 The school board lint liven asked tn dlsmlst this professor nnd a special meeting was held to hear Iho case Professor Ferguson has been In I I SheboyBan rcrnl jcars lie Is I an arllsl unusual talent and htuillei In Varlstn pursuing his tart similes I |
