The San Francisco call., 1898-09-29
Mad InfatuatiOn of a Married Woman for a KOtzebue
 Gold Hunter.
Mrs. Hermann Slowed Herself Away on the Northern Light and Is Now Cook
 for Her Sweetheart

The bark Northern Light got back from
 kotzebue Sound yesterday. She is tho
 first Of the fleet to return that left here
 for the gold fields on the Kubucls River
 five months ago, and the people who
 came back on her bring all kinds of
 news. There are tales of disaster and
 tragedy, of blasted hopes and good for
 tune; Q love story with a problematicoI
 ending, and many sudden deaths. of the
 1590 people who rushed to Kotzebue in
 search of a fortune twenty-nine are said
 to have lost their lives In the treacher-
 ous waters of the Kubuck River. Strange
 to say, not one of the men who came
 down on the Northern Light can tell
 the names of those who perished All
 they can tell Is that launch was sunk
 in such and such a place; landslide
 covered boat at another point on the
 river, while yet another launch struck
 snag and went down with all hands
 Those who came back on the Northern
 Light were: A. O. Lindsey, C. E. Cor
 don, G. w. Pickett, J. G. Williams,
 Charles Gleaves, c. T. Le Mare, Dr. E.
 A. Robinson. H. Mather, W. Scott, J.
 Blumer, J. F. Larkin, T. Johnston, c. A.
 Haehl, c. E. Watson, W. L. Rockwell, A. l.. Vincent, B. s. Gutierrez, L. E.. Easton, W. W. Gurgles, Captain w. F. Johnston of the schooner Louisa D, L..
 w. Johnston and Walter Johnston. Of these Dr. Robinson and T. Johnston went up on the Northern Light. They did not Ike the prospects and returned. The other passengers GAS all told) decided to remain and try their luck. Mate Triton Of the Northern Light asserts that not more than seventy-tive gold hunters out of the l5Oo who went up will return with the rect Color was struck in a num- Der of places, but nothing great. While the Haynes party from Los Angeles were awaiting the arrival of their provisions they bored down into the soil, and at the hrst attempt brought up a nugget.
 However, the love story comes first. Charles ". Baumann was formerly a member of the Pacific Coast Cooperative Cigar Manufacturing Company. While formed the acquaintance of Mrs. Her mann, handsome young married woman. She fell madly, in love with Charley" and finally made his life miserable with her attentions. In order to escape her he sold out his interest in the cigar fac- tory and quietly took passage on the bark Alaska for Kotzebue. Everything was kept very quiet, and Charley got away without Mrs. Hermann knowing any thing about 1t.
 A few days after the Alaska had sailed Mrs, Hermann discovered the flight of her lover. She went to Captain White side of the Northern Light and with tears in her eyes told of her husband having deserted her and their little child IT OiucI lO ledCH the new Ill DOrdCO. She told of the sale of his business and light on the Alaska, and begged for a passage to Kotzebue Captain White side made some inquiries on the outside md refused the lovesick lady passage. He was not to get rid of her so easily, however
 Three days after the Northern Light got to sea it was reported to the captain hat the vessel was leaking. The pumps were sounded, and Capain Whiteside ,ound the bark was making water fast The story of the three auger holes in the DOW of the ship and their location by Mate Triton has already been told exclu- 'ively in The Call, but his other ind has lot yet been made public.
 Slowed away in a snug little nest among he cargo was Mrs. Hermann. She was we'll supplied with food and water but nearly dead from seasickness and her ,ramped position. She told Captain when brought on deck that she would kill herself if she was not taken long. Once when Baumann tried to dis ard her she nearly killed him, so she aid, and twice she attempted suicide be- ause he would not love her with all his leart and soul. Life held no pleasure for Ter apart from Charley, so whether he