The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-02
Cause Stampede From ST. Mich
ael to Cape Nome.
PEOPLE ARE G0LD-CRAZED
CHUNK WEIGHING AN OUNCE
FOUND CIs THE BEACH.
One Man and His Partner Rocked Out
$725 In One Day-Took SIS From
One Pan-Wages Go Up-Jails
Full of Observation-Disclosures Are
Awaiting Trial.

st. Michael, Alaska, Aug. Il via Sc
attic, Wash, Sept. D.-A verltaple
stampede has set in from this place TO
Cape Nome, no less than fifty en-
ployees of the Alaska Commercial COM
pany and North American Transports
ton & Trading company leaving With
in the past few days for the new dig
gings. These men, many of Whon,
have been working for salaries rang
ing from $50 to $I5 a month. have been
craZed by the reports recently brought
over from Anvil City by returning min
ers, every one of whom is loaded down
with beach gold. Added to this IS the
demand made upon the trading COM
panies for quicksilver, copper plate,
cyanide and other articles used in
purchase of these materials, and 1t is
not an uncommon occurrence to see a
man offer SO pound for quicksilver,
and as much for copper plate.
A nugget weighing an ounce was
found last week on the beach, and when
the news was circulated there was a
wilder rush than ever to secure rock
ers. Miners working on the creek
claims threw down their shovels and
asked for their time, that they might
share in the good luck of the 800 or
more men on the beach. The result
was a general advance in wages.
Noble Wallingford of Seattle and
partner, in twenty hours work Ollie day
last week, rocked out SIPS, and in one
pan last Friday Mr.. Wallingford took
out SIS. This piece Of ground is about
ten miles from Anvil City, showing
that gold is to be found along the en-
tire beach as far as Port Clarence.
Largest Yet Found.
Equally as much excitement as the
finding of the SIG nugget on the beach
was the finding of a twenty-ounce mug
get on Rryntesen's claim No. !, below
Discovery, on Anvil, last week. This
is the largest nugget yet found In the
district.
The schooner Bowhead, Captain Cook,
reports that on July Is she put into
Kuskowim bay with supplies for the
Moravian mission at Bethel. A small
boat was launched and put ashore in
charge of the first mate and two men,
to secure help to help lighter the sup
plies ashore. Captain Cook waited two
days for the men to return. On the
third day a gale caused him to put TO
sea. He returned to the boat two days
afterward, and waited for his Elen
without success. He then sailed for s..
Michael, and laid the matter before the
revenue officers.
The small military Jail at this fort
is almost filed with prisoners on diff
ferent charges. They have all been re-
manded for trial at Sitka this fall.
Murders In Alaska.
Among the prisoners are Homer Bird
of New Orleans, who shot and killed
two companions at Anvil last winter;
an Indian named AZzurak, who killed
Clarence Boyd, prospector, at VII
lage on the Diomede island in 1897; an
other Indian named Nubarloo, who KILL
ed a prospector named Jenkens on
Kotzebue sound last fall, and Sab
lock, alias Captain Jack, an Indian Of
the Diomede island, who attempted TO
kill w. T. Doty, a teacher in the gov
eminent school at Port Clarence. An
other prisoner is Harry Temple of
Olympia, Wash, who attempted to Kill
a shipmate on the whaler Mermaid at
Port Clarence last July. The Indian
prisoners and Temple were gathered to-
gether by Captain Jarvis OF the Bear
during a recent trip to Port Clarence.
Another murder is reported to have
taken place early in July near Hamii-
ton, on the Yukon river. Martin Eng
brechsten, a prospector, while sailing
down the river from Dawson in a small
boat with a companion named Tokel-
son. was shot and killed by an Indian
in canoe. The Indian has not been
apDrehended. The murder was prob
ably to avenge some fencied wrong in
flicted in the past by a white man.
Engbrechstea was a sailor, 40 wears
old. He was possessed of about $500,
which is in the custody of United States
Commissioner Shepard.