The San Francisco call., 1898-12-10
VOLCANO ID
 ORDER, WITH
 TRIMMINGS Yellow Journals Lat est Product. WEIRD TALE FROM ALASKA NIGHT TURNED INTO DAY BY
 GLOWING LAVA.
WEIRD TALE FROM ALASKA
Fabrication Credited to Denver Cap- italist, ssho Now Is Looking for an Imaginative
 Correspondent.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

VICTORIA, Dec. 9.-On the morning of Wednesday last the people of San Francisco who read the Examiner were regaled with wonderful piece of fiction-telling of the breaking out of a volcano in the Atlin country, which, in the brilliancy of its illumination, was said to rival Vesuvius. The story was told in detail and afforded scope for a column article from the pen of the imaginative Victoria correspondent of the yellow paper. In default of other and more interesting news from the north the modern Vesuvius story was made to do daily duty and was sadly overworked.
 Considerable interest is taken in the fable of the smoking mountain by a gentleman now in Victoria, for it has been circulated on the strength of his name and he is anxious to locate the enterprising news vender, who ascribeS the origin of the story to him. He has no desire to cause his friends at home such poignant grief as they will be sure to experience when they find a story of such palpable extravaganza associated with his name.
 This gentleman is Dr. Kinsloe of Den yer, who, with J. H. Jones, also of Colorado, and Colonel Hughes of Ross land, has been spending the week in Victoria, they having arrived from the north on Tuesday last.
 The story the three gentlemen have to tell does, however, deal in part with a volcano, but so far as lava pouring from the Alaskan crest" as the Ex- aminer has it, is concerned, they give 1t a most emphatic denial.
 The three left Teslin some time ago and went to Atlin over an unusued h. dian trail. Soon after their arrival they set out in search of the Lost Rocker mine, the secret of the location of which Is said to have died with it's In- dian dicoverer. The information on which they made the search was given to them by an Indian, who claimed to have obtained it from his tribesman. Near the location of the lost mine a long extinct volanco was said to exist.
 The two searchers found the volcano and from a thorough examination of the crater's mouth found that 1t had not been active for a considerable number of year. They failed to dis cover any trace of the Lost Rocker
 Another imaginative correspondent who is responsible for the story of the Atlin volcano having been given pub- licity, is the Tacoma correspondent of the Associated Press. He credits his news to Dr. Kinsloe. but as neither the doctor nor his associates have been in Tacoma, 1t seems that some ambitious sensation monger in Tacoma has elabo- rated the tale out of the exceedingly scanty and unsensational statement they made in reference to the so-called volcano.
 Apart from it's improbability in other particulars, the yarn told by the Ex- aminer bears the stamp of impossibility upon 1t, for it describes in graphic language the aid which this perpetual illuminator gives the miners in operat- ing their claims, and how they are en- abled to work by the powerful light which it sheds by night as we'll as by day. The fact is that the mining close season is now on in the Atlin country and the miners who cannot work by day are not likely to attempt to do so by night. Far from circulating such story as is credited to him, Dr. Kins- Toe pronounces the whole statement false. There is no volcano, extinct or active, in the Atlin country, and the one discovered by MT. Jones beyond Long Lake is so ancient that its last serious effort must have been concur rent with the wandering of the ten tribes
 Should pr. Kinsloe meet the fabri- cator, he says, he will teach him that volcanoes are not the only things that are active