The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-12
FROM LAKE TESlIN.
Mosquitoes Are ~ Pest-The STANDARD
Brought News of the War.

Mosquitoes Are ~ Pest-The standard
Brought News of the War.
Missoula, July 11.-Miles Mix has re-
ceived a letter from his son, Ed. writ
ten at Lake Teslin, June 10. M let
ter states that the boys of the party
are In good health and are not suffer-
ing from any inconvenience except from
the mosquitoes. These are terrible ami
everybody wears a net about his head.
The boys nave supplies enough in
camp to last till october and have
contracted for the delivery OF a years
supply by Sept. /. Provisions of all
kinds are high In price at Teslin. Flour
Is sold at $1.25 a pound and is hard 10
get at that price. A city is springing
up at Teslin and there will be a store
there i'm a few weeks. so hat the mar
ket Will be eased a little by that time.
Ed writes that the first ehnite news
that they received OF the war was con-
tanned In a lot OF Standard clippings
sent them from here. On the night
that they were received Ed read them
aloud from the front of his tent to a
crowd of 100 Klondikers, and all of
them cheered until they were hoarsa.
The boys. even 81 Taylor and Wallace
Mix, have blocked out Vandyke boards,
and are called the Vandyke party by
the men on the trail. There are two
women at Teslin. but they are having
- Ahh' ~ anu olt Vi lHtI1 Will
cave for her former nome in the East
in a short time.
There are reports of big strikes at
Salmon river and the Vandyke party
was preparing to leave for those dig
gings when the letter was sent. They
will remain till Sept. l and will then
come back to Teslin, where they will
establish winter quarters. They have
whipsawed lumber enough to make two
good boats. When Mix and Taylor got
back from their last trip to Telegraph
Creek, when they sent the last letters
that were received here, they found
that the other boys had finished the
lumber and had the boats nearly COM
pleted. They were successful in get
ting the boats and cargoes down
through the rapids to Teslin. Many
outfits have been lost in these rapids.
When this happens the man whose sup
piles have gone to the bottom OF the
river has to take the back trail for
Telegraph Creek and stock up again
or else go home. Many have done this.
A second letter, enclosed in the one
from which the above is taken. SAYS:
Our party found a little point going
out into the lake and. on account of
the win hitting 1t, the mosquitoes did
not bother us there. 1t was not long.
however, until the Klondikers found
our retreat, and they came in worse
than the mosquitoes. 1t was proposed
that we lay out streets, elect city off,
GERS n thereby have order. The
plan carried and the result of the cleo
ton was that j was elected mayor,
Wallie and 81 are members OF the city
council, Lou is police magistrate, Frank
is street commissioner, an ex-sheriff
from Minnesota is city marshal and we
have police officers all down the line.
We had great sport making the new
corners Observe the street lines. but we
now have a pretty respectable looking
place. The name OF our city is Van
dyke"
Ed writes that there have been many
men lost along the Stickeen river this
spring. whose names were not known
and of whose death no information has
ever been sent TO their home people.
He writes of one young man, named
Walter =. Boone Of Charleston. Mo,
who died near Teslin of heart dis
ease. He had no friends. and the BOYS
Of the Missoula party ooh care of
him.. When he died they whipsawed
lumber enough for a coffin and gave
him a respectable burial. The funeral
services We're crude, Ed writes. but
they were sincere. The poor fellow got
the best that they had They after
ward carved a headstone for the grave
and left 1t i'm good condition. They had
not the address OF any of the relatives
of the poor boy, and the only way that
they had of letting his family know IF
his death was To request the STANDARD
to give notice of IL.