Show STARVING IN KLONDIKE the land of fal 1 WIth and ing people seattle nov kov 20 29 twenty five men inch arrived here today on tile the city of seattle direct from dawson city they were divided into two parties the last oue one of which left dawson city october 6 agolig the party were thomas magee mai I 1 sr thomas magee macce jr of sau san francisco swiftwater Swift water bill gates joe boyle william Ilu skins F eckert n H robertson 11 raymond isert bert nelson neison john W brauer W 11 II chambers E IV rond pond E ash and others they have in drafts and gold d dust all tell stories of a food shortage in in dawson dawhon that is almost a famine the last person to leave dawson was jack dalton when dalton left the steamers alice and bella had reached there loaded lightly it is said that the bella s cargo con consisted consi of whisk N and billiard balls she brought no pro visions the canadian mounted police char tho the bella and gave all who wished e d free transportation to fort yukon the bella is reported to have left about oct 12 with men according to statements made by members of the dalton party there is ili liable to bo be trouble ot of the most serious kin inn dahis winter in dawson men alen were gathered in groups grotius and cursing with might and main the new comers that I 1 were constantly coming into the klondike loaded with scarcely any provisions the mounted police were offering f free rec tran transportation sport ution to the grub piles I 1 further down the yukon but to countless hundreds who had labored hard all through the summer accumulating a grubstake grub the prospect was uninviting to say the least these men figured that it would take all their savings in gold to pay pa their living cx c expenses x at rort fort yukon during the winter I 1 and that in the spring they would not have enough gold 1 left eft to pay their passage money monek back to dawson to say nothing of purchasing enough food to subsist until they could get started again to these poor fellows the offer of the mounted police nas w as no better than the prospect at A dawson of being compelled to H minter inter on half rations until the supply boats could reach the diggings in the suring john IV W brauer the united states mail carrier who left dawson september 27 said there is only one salvation for miners who are now at dawson davson city and that is for them to undertake the awful winter trip from dawson to fort yukon a distance of miles there is food at fort yukon there is none at dawson and just as sure its as the stars shine terrible suffering will bethe lie the fate of the dawson miner unless he leaves there before spring I 1 will make my statement conservative I 1 and say that when I 1 left dawson the men had on an average four months food supply some had supplies for only one month virile others had enough for four or five the last restaurant closed the night I 1 left it had been selling nothing but beefsteak for which the hungry paid when the people realized that tilt boats would not bo be up the river they knew that starvation threatened them and the great stampede began thu the first to lea leace e went to fort yukon I 1 guess there were about ten in the party part that left the first day one boat came up from fort yukon with several beveral newspaper men aboard among them being correspondent sam wall anil and a I 1 mr SIc Gilvra they brought the news that the IIa mllton had unloaded d all of cargo and tried to get over the bar I 1 light ight anti and failed in her efforts though she drew but two feet of water this news increased tha he excitement and made the rush toward food centers all the greater |