Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1897 — ATE THEIR BOOTS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ATE THEIR BOOTS.

Privations of Fugitives from the Fam-ine-Threatened Klondike. A party of prospectors who went to the gold region lust August and ufter seeing the onagers of arctic winter returned to Vancouver, B. C., toll u pretty hard story of their privations and sufferings. When the party left Dawson City they had only thirty pounds of provisions, all the citizens’ committee of safety would allow to be taken from the general store. The snow had obliterated all traces of the trail, and tbe fugitives from the faminethreatened city staggered blindly onward for day*, their lust ounce of food gone.

After fasting three days and dragging out a similar period with an owl as rations for the entire party, they were reduced to the necessity 'of boiling and eating a piece of rawhide and the tops of their boots. At the river several dog salmon were caught by the Indians. When they reached Dalton's camp two were mad from hunger. Dalton had gone, but a note on the door said that starving men could enter and take enough to relieve their sufferings. Thus the danger of death was removed. “To ndd to the misery of the position,” says one of the party, "every day sees the terrible satire enacted of 200 or 300 new arrivals.”

BREAKFAST ON THE TRAIL.