The San Francisco call., 1898-09-29

liked it or not Captain Whiteside had to
 Now, the Alaska, although she left
 before the Northern Light, had to stop
 at St. Lawrence Island to build river
 first to reach Kotzebue Sound. When
 CharIey stepped ashore, therefore, at the
 new Fl Dorado Mrs. Hermann was there
 to greet him. Absence must have made
 the heart grow fonder, for when the
 Northern Light left the Sound twenty
 eight days ago Mrs. Hermann had been
 installed as cook of Charley's camp, and
 au went merry as a marriage bell.'
 Mrs. Hermann's husband and child are still in San Francisco.
 Mate Hilton of the Northern Light is
 the man who performed the marvellous feat of walking across Alaska in the dead or winter with news from the imprisoned
 Whalers at Point Barrow In talking
 Nearly all the people who went up
 there will remain all winter. About seVenty-hve men have got cold feet and
 will come back with tales of hard luck,
 but l believe that many of those who
 have remained behind will strike it rich
 The Haynes and Lane parties were satis- the Tallant Banking Company and a party of six went up the Buckland River and think will do we'll MT. Tallant was in good health.
 "A boat from the bark Mermaid, con taining six men, capsized, and the men were lost. search party was sent out, put all that they recovered was the boat and some of the mems clothing. Two men from the steamer Grace Dollar were making their way up the Kubuck River in a boat when landslide came down ana covered the small craft. One of the men escaped by jumping overheard, but the other was buried One launch was run ashore and wrecked, another sank and her boilers were pulled out in trying to raise her. Three or four were swamped owing to o'-erloading and in every in stance the loss of the boat was attended with the loss of life: Captain Weeks got tired of the Mermaid venture and is com ing down on the Jane A. Falkenberg, and Captain Johnson of the Louisa D also 'reneged' on the game and came back The Jane A. Falkenberg, Catherine Sud- den. Mermaid, Alaska and Louisa D were all at kotzebue when we left but were getting get t re ready for start. Captain Cogan not. get home until November The Mer- maid was to go to St. Michael and the other vessels are coming to San Fran cisco The natives who came to San Fran cisco from Point Barrow with me are on their way up the I<ubuck River with party sent out by the Liebes. Tiki was and should be valuable to his party.
 on our way down we ran into a ter rllic lsc storm, and the vessel was hove to un- der der goose winged lower maintop sail for several days. Many of the passengers thought their last day had come. but inc stout old ship never took a pint of water
 
 Peter Lafiin, purser of the Northern Light was left behind at Kotzebue sound He went ashore to attend to some private business. and a fair wind spring ing up Tn the meantime the captain put to sea without him. Whiteside says that under the same circumstance he would not nave waited for his mother Lafiin Sudden. tii0 The passenegers. who came down on the Northern Light say that there is no gold m the Rotzebue Sound country. Every body, according to their statements. Is coming bacn. and provisions are cheaper Sn Sn the ro beach up there than they are in ost their outfits in the swamping of their 1 coats VIII be short of provisions during 1 the winter. but the others have enough for all. The river steamer John Reilly | vent vent thirty miles beyond Fort Cosmos | VII with her passengers, but had not taken l Fl lll who went north on the Alaska and | Northern Light up the river when the lat 1 CT vessel left. The other vessels got thatr | oassengers to their destination. but no EorK had been done and nothing will be | or certain about the country until neyt spring. HoAI