The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-08-21
Persisted
IN KOTzEBUE
DISTRICT
List of Dead Furnished by
W, A. Hayne of Santa
Barbara.
DISCOURACING NEWS
A Party Which Left Hotham Inlet
for Cape Nome Is Reported
by Indians as Lost.
DISCOURAGING NEWS
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SANTA BARBARA, Aug 2o.-Ex-
Supervisor w. Aston Hayne, who, with
a party of Santa Barbara people. has
been in the Kotzebue Sound region all
winter. has written very discouraging
news home. The letter received to-day
was dated July 81, on the Arctic circle
and 500 miles inland from Kotzebue
Sound. He has completed list of the
miners who entered Kotzebue Sound
and persisted there. The following is a
correct list:
J. L. ONDERDUNK, last residence
Portland, Or. died at Spring Gulch
from overwork
Z. c. MEAD, Sumner, Wash, e..
JESSE LUE, black leg.
CHARLES A. LEONARD, Cleveland,
O., 40, Stony Camp; heart failure.
SABIN HARRIS, Oakland, Cal, 70,
Reilly Camp; black leg.
7. T. TRUSLER, San Francisco, 90,
Nugget Creek; dropsy.
F. SNYDER, Seattle, So, Reed River;
spinal meningitis
c. r. HAY, Lawrence, Kas., So,
Amber City; scurvy.
H GROSS, Kansas City, 50, Amber
City; scurvy.
G. E. MILLER, Iowa, As, MiIlers
Pass; drowned.
a. c. BREED, Buffalo, n. Y, 20, Pick
River; black leg.
J. J. MURRAT, Los Angeles, 90, Kogo-
luktuk River; scurvy.
NJ. NELSON, Hammond, Ind, 40,
Monolook River; black leg.
J. BERCHEY, Lecome, Wash, Ko-
buk River; black leg.
J. CHRANDER, Healdsburg, Cal, g.,
Kotzebue Camp.
d Oh
River; black leg.
CAPTAIN c. SMITH, Blakeley,
Wash, Salawik River; scurvy.
ROBERT BECKER, San Francisco
50, Pick River; suicide.
F. KUDDER, Bay City, Mich, sala-
F. JOHNSON. BiakeIey, Wash, sala-
wik River; scurvy.
D. MCCALL. Velit. Wis, salawik
River; scuryy.
]. MESSING, San Jose, Cal. As,
steamer Agnes Boyd, heart failure.
PICKERING BROTHERS, Prince
ton, KY, Salawik River; murdered.
w. i. SIMPSON, McDermot, New,
80, Monolook River; scurvy.
c. BENJAMINSON, Grand Harbor,
n. D., 80, Reed River; scurvy.
GEORGE Mccoy, Montana, Noatak
River; missing.
CHARLES DEADTRICK. Spearfsh,
S. D., Salawik River; missing.
FRANK ROBINSON, Utah, SO, Noa-
TAX River; scurVy.
MIR. TRIESTE, California, 40, Noa-
tax River; scurvy.
s. H. DOBINS, South America, Noa-
tax River; scurvy.
JOE STEARN, Butte City, Mont,
Noatak River, scurvy.
A. NJ. FARBILL, Texas, As, Hotham
Inlet (mission); scurvy.
MIR. MARTIS, Santa Rosa, Cal, As,
Noatak River; missing.
F. HOWARD, Fall River, Mass,
Hotham Inlet; drowned.
J. HOWARD, Fail River Mass,
Hotham Inlet; drowned.
J. GRAHAM, Fall River, Mass,
HOtham Inlet; drowned.
S. WILLMOTH, Fall River, Mass,
Hotham Inlet; drowned.
JOHN MORRIS, London, England,
Escholtz Bay; drowned.
UNKNOWN HOtham Inlet; drowned.
J. FREEMAN, Seattle, Wash,
Escholtz Bay; accidentally shot.
PETER NELSON, Fairhaven, Wash,
55, Salawik River; scuTvy.
MR.. BENZ Bay City, Mich, 81, Ko-
goluktuk River; scurvy.
L. J. BERNHARDT Seattle, Wash,
46. Escholtz Bay; drowned.
MARITIME BORALLY, Italy, 80, Ho-
than Inlet (mission); scurvy.
S. F. MULLER, San Francisco,
KOtzebue Camp (Konoker); drowned
This list does not include thirty-six
who were drowned when the Jane Gray
was lost. Neither does it include the
last reported deaths from drowning of
the men who left Hotham Inlet for
Cape Nome. The Indians have reported
the boats lost and the men drowned.
Robert Becker, F. Kudder, F John
son, D. Mccall and Captain Smith.
mentioned in the list were on steam
schooner No. l.
The two Pickering brothers are said
to have been shot by Indians, whom
they ill-treated.