NEWS FROM KLONDYKE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8055, 2 November 1897, Page 4

NEWS FROM KLONDYKE.

FOOD SUPPLY SHORT

AND STAKVA-

TION EXPECTED.

Dn Dawson', of the Canadian Ucological Survey, predicts that the output of gold at Klondyke will exceed in value 50,000,000d0l a year, and adds that Upper Yukon will prove one of the most profitable districts in the world. The steamer Cleveland brings to New York serious, though not unexpected, news from Klondyke. According to this the food supply at Pawson City is already exhausted, though the winter has just begun. ' Hundreds of persons are thus doomed to starvation. In spite of all warnings, however, fortune-hunters are still preparing to make their M-ay to the mines. It is reported that the steamer Nevieh has been caught up in an ice floe and sunk, carrying with her as many as 50 men bound for the mines. The steamship Excelsior, carrying ],000,000dol worth of gold from Klondyke, has been compelled to put in to Unalaska for repairs. Another gold-laden vessel was seen Hying signals of distress, but shortly afterwards disappeared. It is believed to lie lost.

An expedition from England, consisting of 50 picked men, and a number of them hailing from the tin mines cf Cornwall, have just reached Vancouver, British Columbia. Writing on August 25th from the Poland House, the organiser of the party says : — " We have made every possible enquiry, and we hear so much about the gold to be got that we are 01113' too anxious to get on. However, we are advised that, fully equipped as we are, and, as you know, not lacking funds, we ought, not to proceed further at this lime. We are, as a fact, a little divided in our opinion, and although it is quite understood I hot I have sole control of the party, I find it dillicult to hold the men in hand. i\ly idea is that it would be nothing less than a foolhardy tiick to attempt to force the passes in the winter, and I am hoping to persuade the boys to try their luck at prospecting in the Rocky Mountains. There seems to be plenty of gold there, and if nothing comes of the deal we shall at all events be just as advanced towards Uawson City in the spring."

SOME MATRIMONIAL STOi:li:s.

It is unnecessary to Kay that the following stories arc sent by an American correspondent : — Miss (iussie Lamorc, formerly of Juncau, has made the most desirable marriage from a pecuniary point of view. It is a fact that " Swift ' Water Bill" was so smitten with her charms that ho called on Miss Lamorc thu same day of her arrival and wooed her with 50,000<1015. of gold-dust in a coal-oil can. The next day she became Mrs "Swift Water Bill." -Swift Water Bill," whose real name is not known to any of the McKay party, went to the Klondykc early in the rush. He did not have a dollar or enough grub for a square meal when he arrived. He located one of the richest claims, and is now a millionaire and a bridegroom. His claim is 13 Kldorado. Violet Raymond, a variety actress, formerly of San Francisco and Seattle, is now a princess and rich at Dawson City. She married an Italian, who found fortune. He is called Prince Antoiue. He made his bride a

present of 10,000<lols. Miss Raymond and Miss Lamorc went to Dawson City together. There is but one lady in the town who is not married. She has refused every single man in Dawson, and they have knelt before her with uplifted hands lull of gold. She wears short skirts, carries an umbrella, and wants to vote.