The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-03-25
| CARRIER DECAMPS.
-.rss 10 SHOOT JOE CARROLL,
OF NOME, on SIGHT.
rvIer Writes of Conditions In
=. yorth-Fair supply of Provis-
...-Locations of the Winter
v,..t-Menrie's Long Journey.

\. carroll. private mail carrier, who
y o,srat,ng from Nome. Is accused OF
80 committed numerous thefts, be-
| ~ esolIecting 1890 which was to pay for
n aslsvery OF letters, and then decamp-
II is said that rifiemen went in pur-
u n him with orders 20 shoot him on
IA, but the man escaped.
~ report OF this sensational occur
y. vas received In a letter from Capt.
80 of the steamboat Robert Kerr,
I.tsn 10 Nome under date OF December
go charles II. Norris OF the ScanGina-
1.Amer1can bank OF this city. Capt.
~ says:
~. Carroll collected nearly $4,000 for
>ssss 10 be taken 10 Dawson. He ran
Z a. at Nome for provisions, sleighs,
X. promising to pay the. next day Be-
~ leaving n the night he collected the
111y. cot drunk, stole SIX dogs. left his
:<1ers and pulled out on the TRAN before
soIg1t. He left the trail and escaped.
xG1 think he viii make across country
Z 1otsebue and into the Arctic.
Sxbout 2e61 people are wintering AT
eS3o. typhoid fever has been very bad
(an. and several men have been shot
y Il considerable stealing. and gen
ei11ls rough camp. Among the shooting
,c11es. the cook that came down on the
Yo21sch on her last trip was shot and
id,s1 81 4 constable, while he was trying
& esospe after shooting a man In the
II geseral other shooting scrapes have
reported"
IA Tyler says that the winter nj
49, has been mild. the coolest temper
s2Ss being q below zero, but that the
e61 blows with terrific force for six
~ h the week He reports stampedes
I1.lsston sound and Cape York; but with
1&n0Wn results. He says a rich strike
s{g reported on creek thirty-flve miles
NJ Of Nome. below Penny river. on the
Nome side Of Cape Prince OF Wales.
Norton sound Is reporting 10 10 is cents
u ths pan. he says.
visions" he continues, and we shall be
sAort Of only few Injuries. Saloons are
selling whisky al rs cents and beer at 10
cents drink. Wood is ss5 to $40 a cord,
and coal is scarce at 800 ton. Flour
tftnes IS, sugar rs cents pound bacon
cream $50 and scarce. only l50 men are
working on the beach within radius
u twenty-five miles OF town, The Alaska
Commercial Company Ia going to estab-
ish on Norton sound and at Cape York
10 the spring"
Tbs captain reports most OF the Alaska
Commercial fleet on the beach In the blight
near the Alaska Commercial place, except
The Heiia, Leah, Hannah and Margaret.
Tbs Leah Is In Dali river. With all OF her
rev stampedod to the Koyukuk. The re-
a2indsr OF the Alaska Commercial feet
are At Andrenfski There are numerous
steamers In the canal near Nome They
an the Ridcout. Powers, Hamilton,
Weave. all OF the Empire fleet. Seattle.
Tacoma, Victoria and ct. Michael, OF the
Mersns. Wagons, the Empire three
stacker. the Alaska and Ave barges. Others
here arr the j. G.. Campbell Robert Kerr.
llgaarch and Capt. Conradfs launch.
Capt Hanson has gone up az far as
Earitax," continues the letter, ito look
4 coal mine, and viii return by way OF
AndreAfsh. He accompanied Stewart
nat far on his journey Menzie has TO
t1ks In tho Koyukuk country, making the
usli river portage. and calling at every
MI on the river. He will then so to
lawson"