The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-03
I|IRs FOR HERON.
q GLENN Is SURE THAT THE
PARTY Is SAFE.
Z .svs Have Penetrated Into .
s.trx From which No Word
E. osne for Many wseks-Dis-
.Slts story Already Pubiishsd.

ii. y,a.natch to the Post Intelligencer.
q 1}5rnfJVER. WASH. Jan. Ain the
~ - cant. Edwin +. Glenn, u. 8. A.,
II ~ "A syery probability that the part OF
Y ..sssnd III Alaska under Lieut.
~ 4 Herrcn il safe. Capt. Glenn
ii ~ mai grave aprrehensions have been
Z :s.S ~ newspaper report t at Lieut.
sen'a party may be lost.
= relatives and friends OF the mem
II The party are naturally alarmed
f each Statements, and Capt. Gienn y
Snxfous that this state OF affairs
s.-S u changed to correspond with the
He says:
~. rnc facts are that Lieut.. Her
3. I'M DR.. Carter, two packers, two
~ man and two indians, were disem-
III A fhe Keechatno Itver.a tributary
a. 3 ye ~ he sushitna river, emptying
fssok inlet at It's head. on the S0th day
\ ri ySne 1874 They were to start upon
~ Snilowirg morning upon their journey
- that .pcins TO Fort dinnon. s. Inc
Al that time the party was In ex-
eIssnt health and spirits and was sup
\ s6Sd With everything. that past. experiences
! 7cated as being necessary for me ac-
3spishment OF the work In hand eek
sN5{1rl aid for the health Of the men.
4 instance, they bad fifteen pack ami
3 III. rations to include October 81, 1893,
snd smn until, , fCr both IN large tc and
y NJ Direct News Resolved.
3 &N0W, / have not heard directly from
4 ID barty since that date. although about
n M I'M a. last August his two Indians
S1lnrned to Sushitna station. reporting
J III they had left the party In good shape
~ the Kuskokwim river. We do not know
III where they were or how far they had
5{iysled, simply because II Is Impossible
n Indians. o any one else. g give even
n unknown to the listener. and then.
n "a, the indian has no conception Of dis
+ ~ d We understand It, since they ex-
H. their ideas Of distance In Sleeps
s11ne Of which are very short and some
sIs very long, as we have. good reason to
Eoov The agent Of the A. C. Company,
e 1ushinta station, who talked with thesA
Z - IndIans, thought that the party must
rShably nearly through the mountain
m1Se that they had TO cross. II true, they
ut have accomplished nearly half OF
IN journey early In August And IL
i1sf1ey 4 the same rate Of speed. would
ulch Fort 0ibbon some time early in Sep
tenber. They had not reached that point
Nhen another detachment Of my command
a gS s on nG 3Ser H ssr dns s END q 81 e
nicheel. Now. II the Heron party failed
q reach their destination before the 10th
y Eth Of september last. which Ii more
tim probable, 1t 10 far from likely that
iIsy would be able to secure transporta-
uon out Of the country either via the
nsuth of head Of the Yukon (the only out
lets where boats can be used until next
JASON That being true: their only
make uee OF dog teams and come out on
~ Ice formed on the Yukon. This time
very uncertain. because the river
hee1es over at its mouth some time be-
Me i does at it's source and this renders
~ frozen stream a very rough one by
r!ason Of the immense jams that occur
above the mouth. The result IL that
tIsvel y impracticable over this ice until
w. that are formed.
nast Wait for some Time Yet.
Under these conditions, it will be i'm
practicable to hear from or of this party
Nn8A February. and possibly; AZ late as
Hafch or later. do not think that we
~ % g "a. able i to hear from any member Of
Hcfion OF country in which believe them
y % located Fort Gibbon district), before
re end OF next February and possibly not
men y y because we do not and cannot
near from them that the relatives and
friends become 30 anxious about them. In
@nsequence. reasoning from conditions
ana circumstances with which they are
lot familiar, they draw conclusions that
Ions that should be drawn and which I,
nth others familiar with conditions in
Alaska, naturally draw as to the welfare
and Afety of the detachment. NY own
urn conviction Is that they are now at
ror Gibbon or some equally safe place on
ne Yukon river, and that we will see or
~ me.
No Reason to Relieve Them Lost.
20 course. II one is 80 disposed, he can
MaW AL sorts of conclusions as to con-
muons that might exist and lima CINE that
sn sorts OF misfortunes and disasters have
Wer!aken the party, which would apply
Wualty az well II they were in the states
instead Of being in Alaska, but we must
sason that they have done what others
~ nave Deen In that section have done.
~. AnoW tnat they were and are intelli-
snt men of experience, and If so, that
ney must have done what was reasonable
oaa necessary to be done under the cir
ssnsLances that have confronted them.
s snu y We DO this we will conclude that
uley are safe and In all human probability
y rort Gibbon. Even IL they failed to get
,ulnaayusn with their stock. which is not
aassliy tney could still get to a place Of
fs lst4 For they could take their back
* fsa 10 ~ Tyoonok;. they could float down
could strike the Tanana or one OF its tribi.
,ai'es and float down to their destina ton.
n ~ sny event, we would not hear from
s'ein until the time mentioned above
Uould Live on the Country.
= nav nave even figured upon the contingent
y ~ lnelr having lost everything that they
n w and still think that thew could have
euusisted upon the country long enough to