Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-02
Many PrOSpectorS Have
Been Killed of Late.
THE ST. MICHAEL JAIL
Is Filled With Desperate Criminals
Who Are Charged With Many Dir
ferent CrimeS--Fate of the Members
of the Jessie Expedition. =

st. Michael. Alaska. Aug. IA. Via Seat
tie. Wash, Sept. 1.-Investigation into
the reported murder of the membe of
the Jessie expedition by indian at the
mouth of the Kuskowim river last UNI
mer has begun. The revenue cutter Corr
win. Captain Herring. left today for Nun
iNak island where r. G. Marsten, a ira
der says the members of the expedition
were ln~assacred will be taken aboard.
The Corwin will then go to the mouth of
party, which. besides members of the
crew. will include United States Marshal
/ ShOup. who arrived here several days
ago in company with United States Dis
! trict Judge Johnson. 1t is expected the
, the kuskowim and land an Investigation
investigation will last several days. If
any evidence of murder is found the sus-
pected natives will be arrested and taken
To SitlSa for trial on the revenue cutter
McCulloch. An incident occurred several
days ago hat strengthens the murder
theory. The schooner EoWhead, Captain
Cook. reports that on July II she put into
kuskoWim bay with supplies for the Mo-
laNlan mission at Bethel. \ small GOAT
was aunched and put ashore in charge of
the first mate and two men. to secure
heip to lighter the supplies ashore. Cap
tain 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
bay two days afterNari and waited for
his men without success. He then sailed
for st. Michael and laid the matter before
the revenue officers. The small military
Jail at this fort is almost filed with pris-
oners on different charges. They have
all been remanded for trial at Sitka this
fall.
Among the prisoners are J. Homer Bird
Of New Orleans, who shot and killed two
companions at Anvil last winter. an In
dian named Azzurak, who killed Clarence
Boyd, a pIospectOr, at a village on the
DioEnere island in 1898. another Indian
named NubariOo, who killed a prospector
named Jenkins on kotzebue sound last
fall and Sablock alias Captain Jack. an
Indian in the Dromede island. who at
tempted 10 kill ". T. Doty. a teacher in
the government school at Port Clarence,
Another prisoner is Harry Temple of
Olympia, Wash, who attempted to kill a
shiptnate on the whaler Mermaid at Port
Clarence last July.
Another murder is reported to have
aiken place early in July near Hamilton
on the Yukon river.
Martin Eng~brechsten, a prospactor.
While sailing down the river from Daw-
son in a small boat With a companion
named Tokelson. was shot and killed by
"a aiN'io III " Gin Il llluIdl Has ilDl
been unprecedented. The murder was
probably to avenge some fancied wrong
inflicted in the past by a white man.
ttngbrechsten was a sailor, 40 years old.
He was possessed Of about $500, which is
in the custody of United States Commits
sioner Sheppard.
A veritable stampede has set in from
this place to Cape Nome not less than 50
employees of the Alaska Commercial com
pany and North American Transporta-
ton and Trading company leaving within
the past few days for the new diggings
THESE men. many of whom have been
working for salaries ranging from $50 te
SO {, month, have been erazed by the re-
ports recently brought over from Anvil
City by returning miners, everyone of
whom is loaded down with beach gold
Added to this is the demand made upon
the trading companies for quicksilver
copper plate, cyanide and other articles
used in rocking. Money is no object in
the purchase of these materials and II
is not an occurrence to see a
man 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 tho
news was circulated there was a wilder
rush than ever to secure rockers. Miner
working on the creek claims threw doWr
their shovels and demanded their time
that they might share in the good lucl
of the 800 or more men on the beach. As
a result a general advance in wages fol.
lowed. Two men in one day last week
rocked out 1925 and last Friday Mr. Wal
lingford took out SIS in one hour. Thi.
piece Of ground is about 10 miles from
Anvil City, showing that gold is to bs
found along the entire beach as far a.
Port Clarence. Equally as much excite.
ment as the finding of the SIG nugget OF
the beach was the finding of a 2O-ounct
nugget on Brystesen's claim, No. /. below
Discovery. on Anvil last week. This i.
he largest nugget yet found in the dis
trict.