The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-02-02
WAS NOT RELIES DRAFT.
O'BRIEN. WHO WAS ARRESTED AT
TAGIsH, DID NOT HAVE 1T.
News of what Is BeinE Done In
the North to Clear Up the Mys-
tery-skagway IL Much Excited.

The man who gives his name as O'Brien,
under arrest at Tsgish, suspected OF being
implicated in the supposed murder OF the
Clayson- Relfe party did not. as has been
reported have In his possession a draft
payable to Linn Relfe, one of the supposed
victims.
This important statement was contained
In a letter brought by the steamer Topeka
yesterday, 1t comes from VIII Clayson.
a brother Of Fred Clayson. who Is missing.
VIII Cisyson returned from Tagtsh about
January "a, where he went to make an In
yestgation. He says he learned the fol-
lowing facts:
Telegraph Lineman Olson. on his trip
prior 10 December "A. reported to the
mounted police that he had seen two men
near a camp off the trail and about five
miles this side OF Mimic. He suspected
them because one of them had a pair of
field glasses and was scanning the river.
man has been arrested and is in Gus
tody at Tagtsh who gives his name as
O'Brien. He is known to have formerly
gone by the name OF Miller, and had a
partner who was known as Graves A
man supposed to be Graves has also been
arrested and is held at Tagish. When ar
rested. o'Brien had with him two revolv-
ers. one Remington rife and a pair of field
glasses. He refused 10 talk. and Is being
held upon charge of stealing merchan-
disc from scows down the river. About
the time of OBrfens arrest an examina-
ton OF the camp where Olson had seen the
two men was made by the mounted police.
II had been abandoned. and its former oc-
cupants had left supplies and one Reming-
ton rifle.
VIII clayson did not go farther than
Tagish. He states. however, that the
mounted police and others are making
inquiries in various directions. He can
not. he says. entertain the idea that the
party could have gone on n stampede
Fred Ciayson had bicycle, and II seems
TO DO well settled that there were only
three in the party--ciayson. Olson and
Relfe. The two men under arrest at Tag
ish were seen BY VIII Clayson, but he
does not know them. nor anything of
their history. He is satisfied that the po-
lice are doing everything in their power
TO get at the truth of the strange disap-
pearance.
Clayson says that the very day on which
he expected mis- brother TO arrive at Skag-
way man who gave the name Of Sylyes-
ter Widmsn came into the store and stated
that he had seen Clayson at Selkirk and
that he would be out sometime before
the snow goes off" The man had only q
minutes time 10 spare, and immediately
took the Ai-Ki. which lief, skagway Janu-
airy or for Seattle. An effort viii
be made in this city TO locate Widman.
Cla}son says he looks upon Widman' =
oall as being somewhat mysterious.
1t IA proposed TO have the open holes In
the river along the route Travelled by the
disappearing party examined. In the hope
OF finding Ciaysons bicycle.
$, VI. Irwin. auditor Of the White Pass a
Yukon railway. who returned on the To-
peka. says: The recent triple murder on
the trail is all the talk in Skaxway. No
one believes other than that Clayson.
Relfe and Olson were murdered Mai
Wood and Capt. Strickland. OF the North
west mounted police. are using every en-
deayor to run the criminals to earth. The
Arctic Brotherhood. Of which Ciayson was
a member. has issued an order for every
member TO leave no stone uniurned 20 aid
ia the Investigation"
Henry G, MacCauley. A msFuier az thu
Arm OF MacCauley Bros merchants ~
Dawson. arrived yesterday on his Wv
East He EFF Dawson January 4 corntng
out on horseback. He was acauatrte !
with both Cisyson and Relse, ana il Arm
In the conviction that both men and line
man Olson were murdered on the trail
south OF Mimic by the two men who oer5,.
pied the tent Just on The trail between
Mimic and Hootchikoo. He Is vel a.
quAinted with the mounted police off9e.rs
and paid much attention 10 the case
There Is no doubt tina, the men we're
murdered FOR their money" he said yes
terday and their bodies thrown into the
river IL - the general belief TINT fhe
mounted poace have the right men. ana
that they are the same who occupied the
tent tnd deoamped Just before New
Years
20 Brisn- under arrest at Tastsh il b.
lieTed 20 he a member 81 the Old ssarv
smith sang, which operated ia skaxWay
pT Hornsnay. physician FOR the RED fars
Transportation Company AZ Wait. Horse
who knew the Smith gang there. - nov
en- route 20 TAsish 20 iasnafy CFBrieu. II
Il Is the same fellow. be has bat recently
concluded iaii sentence in Dawson