The San Francisco call., 1898-04-21
MARTIAL LAW AT SHEEP CAMP Colonel Anderson Takes Action to Preserve
 The Peace.
Packers Tramp Over Bodies of Victims of the Dyea
 Avalanche.
News of Double Murder Brought From Fort Wrangel by the
 Del Norte.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SEATTLE, April 20.-The steamer Humboldt arrived in port to-day from Skaguay, having left there on Friday last. The most interesting information brought down is that on March 14 a declaration of martial law at Sheep Camp was made by Colonel Anderson, U. s. A., commanding the District of Lynn Canal. This action was an after math of the Chilcoot horror Of April 5. During the days immediately following Colonel Anderson saw enough to sat1sfy him that martial law was the only way to hold the mob of eager Klondikers in check.
 Several of the scenes following the disaster were disgraceful. For two days after the slide the packers kept off the trail, but they soon began to get uneasy and started in to pack, con- trary to the orders Of the citizens committed This seriously interfered with the work of the army of rescu- CTS, who were digging into the pile of snow to recover the buried bodies. A collision between the friends of the dead men and the packers, who per sisted in pushing their way through, was narrowly averted. Threats of lynching were freely made, but wiser counsel prevailed. Fake embalmers ap- 
 designs had been exposed the excite ment ran high.
 Gambling at Sheep Camp has been continually on the increase and sure thing men are beginning to get in their work.
 These are among the reasons that caused Colonel Anderson to declare martial law. On the day that this or der was issued a detachment of thirty cr6 military camp. They assumed control and all was quiet when the Humboldt left. The order has the support Of the better classes.
 The latest arrivals from Walsh and Lake Creek districts are l.. A. Davies and R. R. Reed. They left the former stream on April and intend to return l very soon.
 They say there are forty five loca- tions on Lake Creek, which Is four miles long and is staked from the mouth to the summit Walsh Creek is l fifty-five miles long, and is staked Tor | thirty-five miles of that distance. A l good many of the first ones to stake on l the Walsh Creek took up 1OO-foot claims only, but since learning that l they are entitled to 250 feet, they have now been given the right to go up 1 stream \and stake 150 feet more. MT Reed says that he believes that the ice will be out of the river about April 25.
 During the recent heavy weather Peter Anderson, a boatman, was drowned while attempting to bring z passenger from Dyea to Skaguay. The boat was upset and both men swan around for a time, until Anderson final ly went down. The passenger, who was a commercial traveller, caught hold o1 the upturned boat and clung to it untf 1t fioated ashore.
 The bark Mercury still lies on Its beam ends in the water at Skaguay 1 Much of her deckload has been taker off on lighters. Many believe that the Mercury can never be raised.
 On April 14 a small snowslide on the trail. near the summit of White Pass demolished the Ford Hotel. No one was in the building at the time.
 The steamer Del Norte, which ar rived here to-day from Fort Wrangel Alaska, brings meager particulars of { double murder on the Stickeen River The names of the murdered men were Burns and Henrickson of hilliwhacl They were killed by a Swede named Glow, who has not yet been appre hended.-
 Other fatalities reported are the kill ing of a man by the name of Collins O. Los Angeles, Cal, by the falling of {
 tree, and the drowning of a mar
 named Black of Iowa in the biz ooOv0n