The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-28


young Engiishman. resident OF Hud-
dersfield. England. in Windy arm OF
Lake Tagish, on May IA, reached this
city yesterday in a letter from a Post
Inteiligencer correspondent now on Lake
Tagish. The letter also says that the Ca
madam mounted police a. Lake Tagish
have been making the prospective klon-
dikers take out another free miners Ii
cense. claiming that the one they pur-
chased In Victoria is not good In tho
Northwest territory.
Shaw broke through the ice while cross
ing Windy Arm on the afternoon OF March
II. and was drowned. He was in the en-
ployment Of the Clifford Mil Company.
and was on their business at the time.
He was working to pay for lumber used
In constructing q small boat IN which he
proposed TO take his outfit to Dawson.
A rescue party. composed OF Zack Hiek-
man, /. N. Hooper, c. A. Johnson and II.
4. Clough. went out on the Ice at great
risk to render him assistance. They were
TOO late. as the man had disappeared un-
der the ice pack. HIS body was not re-
covered.
While the rescuers were on the Ice they
saw two men break through the ice about
three miles down the lake. They vera
frsr obse wed running towards shore, when
suddenly the Ice broke through and both
were swallowed up. Their identity was not
learned, and the bodies are uncovered.
In regard to the alleged grating"
scheme of the mounted police at Tagish,
the Post Intellgencer correspondent
writes:
srrhara hos haar oons;aara hIo ,rn,,bf. So.
tween the prospective Kiondikers camped
here and the Canadian police over the
question OF miners licenses. All Of the
campers have licenses purchased In Vic
terra, emitting them to miners rights In
the Dominion of Canada. The police hera
insist that the Victoria licenses are good
for British Columbia only. and that an
other must be purchased for the North
west territory. They demand $40 for the
license, and stop men cutting timber un-
I'll they pay over the money.
&c. A. Cunliffe, OF I0l7 Main street. Sc
attic, said he would pay for thu license
IL the officer insisted, but told him that
he would go up to Lake Bennett ut cnce
and see Maj. Walsh about II. The oiii-
ce- did not press him further"
Mrs E. w. Howe, Of Potsdam, N. Y.
died at Lake Tagish on May 5 Of lung
trouble. She was 60 years OF age. and
Dr. w. +. Howe. Up to the time " her
last illness she had been an exceptionally
strong woman. and had found no diffi-
Guilty In getting over the passes and down
to Tagish.
George NJ. Allen, well known In this
city, who il bound for Dawson to edit
the Klondike Nugget had q narrow es-
cape from death while hunting mou7tsin
guat IN the hills near Lake TagiSh. He
slipped while moving across the top OF
peak and started sliding down the noun
tain on the frosty crust Of its snow COW
ering. He went the distance of 500 feet
in less time almost than it takes TO tell
ii. His companions expected to find his
body among the sharp rocks In q small
ravine that had been uncovered by a re-
cent slide. He struck a chunk OF ice about
100 feet from the bottom. which broke
the force OF his slide, and ne escaped with
q severe shaking UP.
The story OF saltwater Biz Gates
drowning evidently came from narrow
escape he had on Lake Tagish early in
tie month. The Gates party was camp
ing on the shore of the lake, and on the
day OF the accident had just learned OF
American victories in the Spanish war.
'Swiftwater'' is a patriotic citizen, and
started in 10 celebrate. He got very drunk
and In company with two men or his
party, went out on the ice. All three
broke through. and had not a rescue party
promptly gone out from shore, would have
been drowned. The story OF Gates mar
row escape was magni!ied into a drown
ing by the time 1t reached Lake Bennett.
Under date OF May co. the Post-IntelIi-
gencer's correspondent gives the following
list OF Seattle people encamped on Lake
Yax
Green, James Daugherty. Win Chamber
lin. Col. j. II. Mclaughlin, Robert Bur-
nett. Edward Williams. DR.. Albion, James
Sanders. Hamilton, Alexander Ander-
son. Wick Sill, Thomas Anderson. Mr.
ana Mrs l. Walker. David. Charles
Ward, r. Mcintyre. G. A. Cnnlfre and
Msssrs. Iund Mcknight and Thompson.
formerly employed on the Madison street
line. At Giffori's mill. on Windy Arm.
the following are enesmped: NJ E.
Clough. c. A. Johnson, Edward Herring.
l. n. Hooper. George NJ. Allen. lack
Edward Rrart