The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-02

A copy Of the Nome Gold Digger.
brought out overland from Cape Nome
by passengers who arrived on the steamer
Bertha from Kadiak last night. gives
the story OF the finding Of the body OF
Oliver Woodruff Scott the third, IL not
the fourth victim Of the terrible Norton
bay tragedies of which the Post-lntelii-
gencer last winter published full details.
Herbert Murray found the body Febru-
airy 10. while camped on Alder creek,
about forty miles from the mouth OF
Ungatulk river. The Gold Digger says;
MIR. Murray arrived here yesterday.
The body OF Scott was found In a too
puck, or half completed fishing nut OF
boughs and small trees. The bones mao
been denuded By foxes and other wild
animals Murray made "A funeral pyre
OF the bones. pling on wood old clothes
ana other possessions Of the dead man.
John Hengster was with HIN, but besides
the two prospectors there were no VIII
nesses to the gruesome funeral.
"Ecott was afflicted with scurvy, as
shown by his diary. but the record drops
spirits, and Mr.. Murray believes the same
man who murdered W W. Wright and
was alleged to have wounded sa,,o ans snn,,
while he was lying sick In his lonely
toopuck. One other thing that makes
him think 30 was the hnding OF part OF
eyeholes in II like mask. In the branch
of a tree not very far away
story of the Crime.
ID. A. A. Keyser, as will be remem-
hered, was one Of the quartette who died
rnysteriously while only Haines. the
fourth partner, Is known to be alive. and
he. whic here last fall. prior to sail
ing for Seattle on the Cleveland. openly
charged Scott with being the murderer
OF Wright and the cause, indirectly or
otherwise, of all the other crimes. Strange
10 say, however, Haines never reported
the tragedies to the authorities here.
as shown by the odd things he packed
around. Strangely enough, he had no
mess box, and not a knife, fork or spoon
could be found. All he had to eat was
flour and beans.
He had. Mr. Murray says. white shirts,
cuffs and collars, dictionary. a. Bible. a
book on Masonry and IA Jack plane and
SAW notwithstanding this he had two
sacks OF -four, sack OF beans and prob
ably i5o pounds Of old clothes and rifle.
revolver. etc, all of which he dragged on
n little sled. In his diary he mentions no
troubles with his partners-in fact barely
refers TO them but once.
AFTER leaving Wright and Ilaines, he
went eastward, crossing over some divide
into Ungatulik river. Once there he pro-
ceeded TO prospect. lie evidently took
good deal of pleasure III this work for he
frequently made rude sketches of-his diff
ferent camps and maps of the river lie
went up the river about htty miles but
dropped back to Alder creek, where he
apparently intended settling and was
there FRUSTRATED with scurvy.
THE last record entered in his diary
was June 8, 1899, but previous to that.
while evidently knowing he was very Ill,
he scanned to entertain no fears of fatal
result
his diary:
Dying Mans Diary.
March %. 1sa9, clear and cold q. warm
and windy. snow melting; %. clear, warm
in daytime; 70, stormy, wind, snow; n.
moderated cold
'Hs records nothing but the weather till
April u, whan he notes:
In toopuck ON Muckout, Cngatulik
river
ION the top Of another page he records:
March n, started for East rtver-32
days hardships before settling; on trip
bad weather and sick.
MAY le-Atr cooler and sun warm;
geese are coming here tG good numbers.
l am on MuckOut, UngRtulk river. fiat on
my back with sCurvy, all alone. Unable to
do a thing. hard job ia getting wood and
water my knecs seem To- fcVpr me all
over. whom l try TO walk my heart palpi-
tates 50 fast that fali 10 the ground In
a second, soon get over ~ fully again
and again. Heat OF today does nue. much
good. and II We have some weather like
this--ths Lord wiling can get ush ami
game and changeahlo food and this win
help me out. This awful siege has lasted
"a DAYS In a half completed toopueg-oth-
erwtse " would not have been near so
hard on me.
"Aay g. Cloudy and damp, creeks get
ting pretty high. great siege OF diar-
rhosa
MAY "a So fearful damp and cold that
] postponed going out for wood and wa
ter.
May 2a-GreAt siege getting water. at
ter / sot buUketful neariy go camp IL
dumped out,
"Iuuc Damp and cold
This la the last ouftN
Mr.. Murray brought A lot ot short
hRsd notes the tihe revolver. diary. s. ,a
In coin, aud other effects here. and VIA
today make formal report 20 the au-
liberties
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