The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-03
Her Parent Died on a
River Steamer.
NO ONE WANTED THE TOT
TAKEN TO KoTzEBUE ON THE
BARK HAYDEN BROWN.
Meanwhile Her Father Had Given Up
Gold Hunting and Was Search
ing All Over the Country
% for His Child.

Captain George A Hatfield of the de-
funct Alaska-Juneau Transportation
Company is back from st. Michael. He
went up there early in the spring 10 look
after the company's interests, but with
the loss of the river steamer James Eva
the troubles of the concern began and the
gallant old shipmaster was In hot water
from morning to night He finally got
everything Strengthened out and returned
to San Francisco last Saturday. The Brit
ish ship Lancing, of which he was for
merly master and part owner, Is now on
her way here in command of his son-in-
law and the chances are that he will re-
sumo command of her when she arrives.
st Michael is a very healthy place.
said the captain Yesterday. over 20VO
people will winter there and nearly three
times that number lived there for time
during the rush and yet there are only
three graves in the burial ground. In one
of them the mate of the river steamer II.
A. Barr was buried. He committed sui
eide bv shooting himself through the
head. In another We placed the remains
of a gold hunter who was returning from
Dawson 10 san tranclsco IN search ,Si,,o o.
health and in the other one we placed
the remains of q wife and mother.
LAS near as l could get at them, the
facts Cf the woman's death and the wan
behring's OF her year-old child are about as
follows: c. Z. SchultZe went TO the
Klondike to make his fortune. His wife
accompanied him. \ year ago she gave
birth to q little girl, but never fully re-
covered. When the river opened last
June Schultze determined TO send his wife
TO San Francisco in the hopes that the
for st. Michael on the river steamer
Hamilton, but that vessel broke her back
on sandbar and all the passengers mad
TO be transferred TO the ?. b. Weare.
This aggravated Mrs. Schultze's illness
and on July last she died.
when the news Of her death reached
"a mi tbP they
raised a purse for the child and the eX-
penses of the funeral. The body was
brought to St Michael and buried. Then Then
the question of what to do with the child
arose The women at St Michael were
nearly all bound for the gold fields and
no one wanted to have anything to do
About this time the bark Hayden
Brown arrived in port and as the mate
was laid before that lady. She took a
great fancy 10 the little one and at once
agreed to adopt it. Accordingly, when
the Hayden Brown sailed for Kotzebue
Sound the little girl went along as the
adopted daughter of the first mate.
In the meantime the news Of the death
of Mrs. SchultZe had reached Dawson
and the husband came down the river
post haste TO claim his child. On his ar
rival he found her gone and also found
that United States Commissioner Shep-
hard had entered into an agreement with
the mate and his wife by which in the
event of the child being claimed they
were TO get $I0 a month Tor the time they
took care of it. The husband was mad
clean through and told Commissioner
Sheppard what he thought of him In very
forcible language. He vowed vengeance
and swore TO have justice If it was to be
found in the courts of the land. He
pointed out that there were plenty of
funds available to provide for the child
while he was being communicated with
and that II was high-handed proceeding
to give his child away to the first person
who wanted 1t.
well. the end of the matter was that
the commissioner paid the mans fare to
Dawson and he left intending to settle up
his business and go out over the ChilcoOt
Pass and await the arrival of the Hayden
Brown at Seattle.
"A couple of days after Schultze left St
Michael the Hayden Brown returned to
port The little girl was hale and hearty
and everybody was glad to see her. The
condensed milk gave out on the passage
up and at KOtZebue an Indian woman had
mother. The Indian woman took quite a
fancy to the child and tried to steal it.
She was gone nearly an hour before her
flight was discovered and then everybody
on the ship started out to look for her.
She was finally run to earth at Indian
village ten miles away and the child was
brought back in triumph. The commits
sioner decided to leave the child with the
mate of the Hayden Brown, but both he
and his wife agreed to give the little one
UP as soon as it was claimed.
There are over 10000 tons Of provisions
stored a ST. Michael, so there will be
no starvation there this winter. If the
gold hunters on KotZebue Sound are not
Successful l expect great many of them
down in the spring. AS soon as the river
opens next year all the goods stored on
the island will be rushed up to Dawson.
There are two large hotels at st. Mi
chael and they did q land office business
during the rush. AS for me, L have had
all the klondike l want.