The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-30
INDIAN RIVER S1AMPEDE.
~swyrrwArER BILL" GATES TIPS
NEWS or A BIc STRIKE.
Late News From Dawson-wireless
TelsgrapAy Down the rukon-
karl Hamelainel Killed-Utiiity
q Reindeer to He Tssted--strikss

Two prospect0rs named Ropefs ahu
oRourk. owners Of claims on Lovett
gulch. have been prospecting on tn,s
bench for the last two months. they ran
an open cut into the gravely bench ana
1t the face sank hole twenty feet IN
depth. Planning from the gravel at the
bottom OF the hole showed from to 10
cents returns per pan. As they return
"a to Dawson to make q record they left
word with the two men In charge OF w.
c. Gates hydraulic plant concerning the
value and extent Of the strike. These two
men went up to the ground and staked.
The following day they brought down
about forty pounds the gravel to swift
water Bill'' at Dawson for him to test.
Swift panned the gravel and his eyes
began to scintillate, as the returns looked
good to him for a hydraulic concession.
He communicated the news to few OF
his most intimate friends. They took the
hint and started. Among them were par
ties for John Nelson, Stauf q lilly, Harry
Numford and Jack Smith.
The news Of the strike leaked out at
last and another party got map OF the
cut-off and blind trail to the cut and
shaft, and his friends were on for the
snap. When last heard from saltwater
Bilr' was ten miles this side OF Indian
river. delayed by broken sled. and ten
men ahead Of him who had got on the in
side, possessed with the intention Of stalk
ing ten claims in q string up stream and
TO tie on to the original four claims To-
Gated by the discoveries and two OF
.'swiftwater Bills'' men.-Dawson Week.
Kari Hamelainel, an employee Of the
Matheson brothers on No. 10 above Sui
phur, met with a sudden and shocking
death on Saturday morning while at
work In the mine. The dirt Is lifted from
the bottom of q fifty-foot shaft by steam
power acting on windlass. wheel
and carried to the top. emptied and run
down again. Hamelainel was. stationed
at the top of the shaft. where he gave
lit was operated. 1t was his business to
receive the barrow when 1t came up.
empty, return 1t to the carriage. etc.
BY some misdirection' acco rrn 70 one one
body in this morning, the chair upon
which the lift Is caused to rest when It
reaches the top did not fall into place
properly, and in his effort to make II
do 30 Hamelainel lost his footing. fell
under the carriage and down the shaft
fifty feet to the bottom. He struck upon
BIZ back and head and was Instantly
Hamelainel Is a native Of Finland, 80
years of age, unmarried, and has no re-
try. He came from California, where he
Is said to have some mining interests
Dawson Daily News, Dec. 4.
Joe McCarty, Ed Marion ana Cnauncey
Duffy have arrived at Dawson from the
Koyukuk river and Circle City. The Daw-
son Daily News says they brought cor
roboration Of the story of the big strike
kuk and that many men bound for Cape
Nome were diverted to the Koyulkuk. The
trail to the newly discovered diggings
takes to a portage of 225 miles, striking
the headwaters Of the Porcupine river
and thence over a divide to Koyukuk.
The utility of reindeer In Alaska Is to
be put to a test on the lower Yukon this
winter in carrying the mails.
. Dawson Is agitating the question of
! operating wireless telegraphy with Forty
mile and on down the river to st. Mich
ael II the first experiment is successful.