The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-02-20

the time OF the discovery to claim, with
the soberest and most strenuous INSIST
ence, that he was the man who did IL.
Verbal and written controversy of greater
or lesser warmth has accordingly been
Instituted. and the unconcerned listener
and reader Is still as much in the dark as
II Nome never was found
Story of Linderbe,g.
Jafet Lnderberg Is one who claims tina.
he was the man, and has been interviewed
and written himself about It, until in the
minds of many he has established an in
disputable claim to the distinction. in
one of his recent communications Under
berg soliloquizes thus:
Late in the summer of 1928 my part
ners, Mr.. Bryntesen and Mr. Lindbom.
and myself left Golovin bay and started
to do some prospecting. Hitherto we had
had very poor luck In our mining adj
ventures, 80 we proceeded without any
very definite idea as TO our destination.
We had not the slightest inkling that there
was gold to be found In and about Cape
Nome. II was on the 18th Of Sep
tember 1898. that we panned out our first
gold dust on Anvil creek. The first pan
produced S. Sizing up the situation at
n glance we saw that we had made
strike indeed. After hurried ccnsulta-
ton we decided to return To Golovin bay
with all haste. stock ourselves out with
provisions, get two other men. and form
a district in the new region. We lost no
time in our return trip to Golovin bay,
where we were joined by DR.. Kettelsen
and @. w. Price Having the requisite
number to form a district we left imme
diately for Cape Meme. where district
was formed and claims were staked OF.
when we came TO Golovin bay directly
after our discovery the news of our good
luck proved too good TO keep. our
..F tln.. ff.ft
and Its auriferous possibilities was ade-
quate enough TO fire hundreds with the
desire to drop everything and go
Claims were staked out everywhere re-
gardless. In very short time the whole
place had been appropriated. and the bar
rem waste which we three had seen on
the 18th OF September changed into
IA fairly civilized community We were
absolutely ignorant OF the collaborating
quality of the sand on the beach We
were content to conhne our operations to
the rich creeks which abonnded there.
We arrived at Cape Nome the second time
october a."
foregoing account does not claim the dis
tinction himself cf having discovered the
Riches Of tho Cape but leaves the reader
% guess who IL was Of the three that
panned out the FIRST shovelful.
What Brostrori Says.
History" records another claim. which.
In tho words OF Ivan Brostrom. one OF thu
early Nome operators. IL given as follows.
the credit of the discovery Of gold IN
the Nome mining district belongs 60 4
swede by the name of +. O. I4inablom. Tn
the spring Of 1875 MIR Lindhlom leti san
Francisco as one % the crew OF the whaler
Alaska Life on board this vessel was
most dlsagrceablc 20 him. and whom the
bark anchored az Port Clarence TO take on
board "A new supply Of fresh water Mr.
findhlom grssped the opportunity TO leave
the ship. without anything to eat aud
with only the clothes ne had on his back
he struck out among those barren mount
aims in search % an Indian camp.
Late on the evening OF tbs second Iay