The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-03-25
FOLLOW ED HER LOVER &
MAD INFATUATION FOR KOTzE-
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San francisco, Special: p The bark
Northern Light got back from Kot-
zebue sound yesterday. she is the first
OF the feet to return that left here
for the gold fields on the Kubuck
river i've months ago, and the people
who came back on her bring all kinds
OF: news. There are tales of disaster
and tragedy, Of blasted hopes and good
fortune;. love story with profile
NAUTICAL ending, and many sudden
deaths. OF the $500 people who
rushed to Kotzebue in search of for
tune. Twenty-Five are said to have lost
their lives in the treacherous waters Of
the Kubuck river. Strange to say, not
one OF the men who came down on
the Northern Light can tell the names
OF those who persisted. All they can
tell is that a launch was struck in
such and such a place; landslide
covered a boat at another point on
the river, while yet another launch
struck snag and went down with all
hands.
The love story comes first. Charles
w. Baumann was formerly member
OF the Pacific Coast COOPERATIVE Cigar
Manufacturing Company. While liv-
ing at the. New Washington hotel he
formed the acquaintance of Mrs. Her.
mann, a handsome young married
woman. She fell madly in love with
"Charley" and finally made his life
miserable with her attentions. In or
der to escape her he sold out his in
terest in the cigar factory and quietly
took passage on the bark Alaska for
Kotzebue. Everything was kept very
quiet, and Charley got away without
Mrs. Hermann knowing anything
about it.
A few days after the Alaska had
sailed, Mrs. Hermann discovered the
flight of her lover. She went to Capt.
Whiteside of the Northern Light and
with tears in her eyes told of her hus-
little child in order to reach the new
Ell Dorado. She told Of the sale Of his
business and flight on the Alaska, and
begged for a passage to Kotzebue.
Capt. Whiteside made some inquiries
on the outside and refused the lovesick
lady a passage. He was not to get rid
of her so easily, however.
Three days after the Northern Light
got to sea it was reported to the cap
tain that the vessel was leaking. The
pumps were sounded, and Capt. White
side found the bark was making water
fast. The story of the three auger
holes in the bow of the ship and their
location by Mate Tilton has already
been told exclusively in the Call, but
his other find has not yet been made
public. ~ 49,
Slowed away in a snug little nest
among the cargo was Mrs. Hermann.
She was we'll supplied with food and
water, but nearly dead from seasick-
ness and her cramped position She
told Capt. Whiteside when brought on
deck that she would kill herself if she
was not taken along. Once when Bau-
mann tried to discard her she nearly
killed him, so she said, and twice she
attempted suicide because he would
not love her with all his heart and
soul. Life held no pleasure for her
apart from Charley, so whether he
liked it or not, Capt. Whiteside had to
take her along.
Now, the Alaska, although she left
before the Northern Light, had to stop
at St. Lawrence island to build river
boat. So the Northern Light was the
first to reach Kotzebue sound. When
Charley stepped ashore, therefore, at
the new Ell Dorado, Mrs. Hermann was
there to greet him. Absence must
have made her 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 "all went mer-
ry as a marriage bell" Mrs. Her.
mann's husband and child are still
in San Francisco.
Mate Tilton of the Northern Light is
the man who performed the marvellous
feat Of walking across Alaska in the
dead of winter with news from the
imprisoned whalers at Point Barrow.
The passengers who came down on
the Northern Light say that there is
no gold in the, Kotzebue sound coun-
try. Everybody, according to their
statements, is coming back, and pro
visions are cheaper on the beach up
there than they are in San Francisco.
A number of people who lost their out