The San Francisco call., 1899-09-02

SEATTLE, Sept 1.-Two steamers ar
! rived from Alaska to-day bringing about
| 800 miners, fortunate and unfortunate.
The Laurada came from st. Michael and
the Humboldt from Skagway. The total
! amount of gold dust they brought down
| is estimated at half a million. The re-
ports from the Cape Nome district are
still conflicting, but the fact remains that
| considerable gold dust was brought from
there by passengers on the Laurada. The
| dust is very fine and has to be amalga-
mated.
S. NJ. Warren and H. o. Roberts Of
Denver brought out $4,000 from the Eagle
| City district. ]. Dickinson, who has been
in that district six years, had $4,000.
From the Klondike came ]. II. Ladd
with $40 900, E. McGrath with $4,000 and
! Charley Anderson with $40 900. One stall
wart miner struggled toward the assay
| office this morning with a sack Of dust
! fifteen inches long and was asked where
| he came from. Eagle City, sir; ana
that's on the American side and L m an
| American miner, and don't forget it. He
| seemed to take as much pride in the
| latter part of his statement as he did
/ in his sack of dust.
! MANY hard luck stories are told. T. c..
! Martin of Chicago lies in Providence HOS
! pital and his old partner, Thomas Cragle,
/ of the same place, is dead on the barren
! and inhospitable shore of Kotzebue Sound.
! Martin went in two years ago and is
! physical wreck, glad to have escaped
with his life He says the terrors they
! experienced were awful and cannot be
| described He had to be helped OFF the
| Laurada and into and out of the convey
Lance by a friend named Kyle, who TOOK
! him to the hospital.
P. ]. Peterson of chicago, VINO came @
! back on the Laurada, said he has an iron
constitution and does not seem TO De
worse off for a long, hard winter spent th
| in the kotzebue country: was was r,,he ttie
! pitched camp that was able when the ice
! broke up to walk out on straight legs.
Peterson wintered about zoo miles up 5oa tne
Kobuck River from the mission on Hoo
! dunn inlet. r..
Mike Daily and two Frenchmen from
r. r. th Are c0uhr 20
Their bodies were found this spring.
DR.. Groves of Redding, Cal, died in the
Koyukuk country of spinal meningitis;
! The Bering Sea was swept by terrlhc
! wind storm on the 18th, Wth ana Zst OF
August that made all shipping, caught
out in it struggle hard to live. The BRIT
/ ish gunboat Pheasant, the United states
cutters Rush and Corwin and the Laura
da were all caught and had hard time
to live it out. All escaped, however, but
the Pheasant lost two of her lifeboats,
which We're smashed by heavy seas WASH
ing her decks. The huge waves that broke
over her piled down into the forecastle:
UIlNIIIS every JAIN al ~ ON4AOA EN-N
The Rush and the Pheasant after the
| storm put into Dutch Harbor, where the
was caught by the hurricane one day this
side of Nome at about 10 O'Clock on the
night of the 18th. 1t came up from the
until the 22d. The Laurada was heading
into 1t and shipped but few seas. Sailors
of the cutters said it was the worst storm
! they had ever encountered.
! ST MICHAEL Alaska, Aug. IA, via
! Seattle, Sept. 1.-The investigation OF the
/ reported murder of the members of the
/ Jessie expedition by Indians at the mouth
/ of the Kuskokwim River last summer has
begun. The revenue cutter Corwin, Cap
! tain Herring, left to-day for Nuniyak
! Island, where r. c. Marsten, trader
/ who says the members of the expedition
were massacred, will be taken aboard.
The Co1win will then go to the mouth OF
! the kuskokWim and land an investigating
party, which, besides members of the
crew, will include United States Marshal
Shoup, who arrived here several days ago
in company with United States District
Judge Johnson. 1t is expected the 1nVes-
tigation will last several days. If any
evidence of murder is found the suspected
natives will be arrested and taken to Sit
ka for trial on the revenue cutter McCul-
loch.
An incident occurred several days ago
that strengthens the murder theory. the
schooner Bowhead, Captain Cook, reports
that on July 10 she put into kuskokwim
Bay with supplies for the Moravian mis-
and put ashore in charge of the first mate
and two men to secure help TO lighter the
supplies 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 men. with
out success. He then sailed for ST. Mi
chael and laid the matter before the rev.
The small military Jail at this fort is al
most filled with prisoners. They have all
been remanded for trial a Sitka this fall.
Among the prisoners is Homer Bird of
New Orleans, who shot and killed two
companions at Anvik last winter ana an
Indian named Azzurak, who killed Clar-
ence Boyd prospector, at a village on
the Diomede Island in 1897 and an Indian
named Jenkins on Kotzebue Sound last
fall, and Sablock, alias captain Jack, an
Indian of the Diomede Island, who at
the Government school at Clarence. An
other prisoner is Harry Temple of Olym-
pa wash who a9temp5eq TO 5i T9P PORT
Clarence last July. The Indian prisoners
and Temple were gathered together by
CaRti trin 'a5Vs fd PoFt Gl he curing
Another murder is reported to have
taken place early in July near Hamilton,
stem a prospector, while sailing down the
river from Dawson in a small boat with
companion named Tokelson, was shot and
killed by an Indian in canoe The In
dian has not been apprehended. The muir
der was probably to avenge some fancied
wrong inflicted In the past by a white
man. Engbrechsten was sailor, 40 years
old He was possessed of about $500,
which is in the custody of United States
Commissioner Shepard.
A veritable stampede has set In from
this place to Cape Nome, not less than
fifty employees of the Alaska Commercial
Company and Northern American Trans
portation and Trading Company leaving
within the past few days for. the new
diggings. The men, many of whom have
been working for salaries ranging from
$50 to SIS a month, have been crazed by
the reports recently brought over from
Anvil City by returning miners, every
one of whom is loaded down with beach
gold Added to this is the demand made
upon the trading companies for quick
silver, copper plate, cyanide and other
articles used in rockering. Money is no
object in the purchase of these articles.
and 1t is not an uncommon occurrence to
see men offer So a 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 rockers. 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 500 or more men on the beach. The
result was general advance in wages.
Noble Wallingford of Seattle and part
ner in twenty hours work one day last
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