The San Francisco call., 1898-04-11

up the Mackenzie River one hundred miles, when his route \. ould turn to the westward, reaching Fort McPherson, on the Red River Here he would prob ably gain the first intelligence of the gold strike on the Klondike. some twenty-five miles to the westward ne would reach La Pierres house. At this point his routes were open to hlm, one leading down the Porcupine River to Fort Yukon, thence along the 1u- kon River to Circle City and Dawson. The other route would lead him Tn al most a direct line toward the coast, crossing the Yukon at Fort Cudahy, striking the headwaterS Of the CoHee River and bringing him to Orca, trao- ing post and canning estaoilSnhlehl controlled by the Arctic Oil Company. By a reference to the map accompany ing this article the two routes VIII plainly appear
 1T started witt two Indian guides, but they were so badly frozen that they could not make the entire trip. l had to drop them at Point Hope i and get others, two Of Whom' Hickey and his wife kauyoaha, are with me here. 1 have travelled as long as twenty-seven days at time with no other company than these h. | dians. and I did not know their lan- | guage when we started, so l had 10 draw pictures in the snow to let them know what I meant. l have learned their language pretty well now, how ever. and I am explaining to them the wonders of cities, elevators in tall buildings, and trains of cars, which 1 they think are houses moving by the aid of strange ghosts.
 One of the strange features of the Journey concerns Mrs. Hickey, the loss
 t,y,rv n Lieutenant Jarvis On January the mate and his guides started early and had travelled nearly five miles when they missed Mrs. Hickey. She had lost her pipe and gone back after it. Soon after this it was noticed that two men were running toward the party, waving their hats and throwing their hands up as if to ask for an interview. They were Lieutenant Jarvis and Dr. Call, who would have been missed but for the fact that Mrs Hickey loved her pipe so well that she forsook the party to reclaim it.
 Those who saw Mrs. Hickey yesterday as she wandered through the parks of the city, or hurried along the streets gazing with open -mouthed wonder upon city scenes, could not overlook the fact that she carried her pipe in a buckskin sack.
 Well, I should state that there was a great deal of dissatisfaction among the men when we left Point Barrow. If Lieutenant Jarvis gets through all right he will be welcomed to take charge, as things need direction. When I left they were hauling fuel 20 miles with a sled, and provisions were so short that there was already some wrangling over their distribution"
 When Mate Hilton met Lieutenant Jarvis the latter had 2000 miles ahead of him before he could reach Point Barrow. It was his intention to go to Port Clarence, which Is a reindeer station, and try to drive 3oo relnoeer to the men threatened with starvation un- less relief comes by July. Lieutenant Berthof has taken a band of Lap landers and natives to help him drive the reindeer to Point Barrow.
 Consulting his notebook again and again the man who achieved the won derful feat of making a voyage that most men pronounced impossible, said
 Do not ask me for dates, for I was too busy trying to keep alive and make the tourney to try to keep run of the days. I tried it once and found that had lost two or three days so gave it up. But I will stick to it that we left Point Barrow on the Fist of October; and that we have figured out that we made an average of about twenty miles a day. It Is hard to say how many hours we travelled daily, for sometimes we had to lay up all day and take ad- vantage of the good weather of the night. and at other times we could run for eight or ten hours. Sometimes the storm ragged so at our backs that we had to rope ourselves together to keeI from being lost and separated from one another Blizzards ragged at our backs that we could never have faced.
 "The first thing of note that occurred after we left Point Barrow was at Point Hope station, where there was some serious trouble among the natives which resulted in the murder of one of them who was acting as a revenue agent for the United States.
 T was within fifty feet of the mur- der The dead mans name was Wa shock, and he was formerly an inter preter on the Bear. AS I passed a point within fifty feet of the assassi- nation I saw two natives firing as fast as they could at Washock who fell al once After he fell one of his mur- derers ran up to him and shot him in the head. although he was already dead I had my rifle loaded and could have killed the murderers, but it was not within my jurisdiction, and it would have been bad policy anyhow, for the natives would probably have taken re- venge by murdering some white men
 snThe man they murdered was carry.