New-York tribune., 1900-04-23
NORE RICHES At CAPE NOME.
MUCH GOLD FOUND ON BOTH SIDES OF
THE ORIGINAL DISCOVERY-PER-
Ills OF PROSPECTORS

Seattle. Wash. April 22-The steamer Cottage
City has arrived from Skaguay. She brings five
men who left Cape Nome on January "a ten days
after the latest previous information They went
overland 10 Katami. thence by steamer TO Sitka,
where they transferred to the Cottage City They
bring story Of new strike the divide one
hundred miles east of Nome. The strike was
made on small creek. The first several pans ran
about S25 10 s35. AS bedrock was scraped the
amount reached $40. Great excitement followed A
stampede has taken place from Nome. but only
those who foot-loose took part in it, the rest
believing that they had good property as they
wanted
Mr.. Morgan. Of the passengers on the Cot
tage City. said to-day: Cape Nome and the
contiguous country richer than people est-
mated. II will be this summer the greatest mining
camp the world has ever seen" c. B. Dam. well
known in Seattle, says that other discoveries
of gold have been made at Bonanza twenty-one
miles this side Of Nome. which promise outrival
the great gold camp. He says there is enough
gold to warrant a big stampede from the States
Nome is quiet and orderly, and seems to
anticipate any trouble with claims this season
Nome newspapers of January l3 which reached
here to-day, contain story OF a sensational mur-
der and death from starvation in the Norton Bay
country. D NJ Kaiser and William w Wright
with two partners named Scott and Haynes left
Seattle May q, 1898, the bark Highland Light
went TO st. Michaes. and in August started for
Norton Bay. The men quarrelled from time to
time. According to the testimony of Esquimau
River. The men went up the river about two
days travel Wright and Scott said TO have
fought and Scott killed Wright. Scott is then said
10 have disappeared divide. presumably
making for the Yukon River Wrights body was
sewed up by Kaiser in a sleeping bag and buried.
On April 16. 1893 Kaiser who it appears was then
alone, was attacked by scurvy and died Haynes
later showed up at Nome and is said have told
the story that Scott killed Wright and then skipped
out and Kaiser died while he Haynes) taking
him 10 St Michaels.
Deputy United States Marshal Crowdy has re-
turned 10 Nome from Norton Bay, where he in
Nestigated the entire and succeeded in finding
the bodies OF Wright and Kaiser The natives also
gold him that in the fight between Wright and
scott, HAYNES had also been shot and killed. The
fact Of Haynes's death Is denied by Nome people
VINO say positively that he worked on the beach
last summer and later Is believed have returned
70 the United States. The Nome newspapers 20 so
iar iar az TO advance the theory that Haynes had
hand II the murder Of Wright. and say that Scott
naNlng disappeared Haynes may also have killed
iilm. wright and Kaiser from Coyington
Va, as the represen tatiYes of the Virginia Alaska
Mining Company. Scott from San Francisco
Late arrivals from Alaska report the probable
murder by the same Chilkat Indians who killed
Mr.. and Mrs Horton Of four prOspectors The lat
ter went up the Cnilkoot River. where they disap-
peared They We're followed by the Indians who
returned and acted in mysterious manner. The
names Of three OF the men Anderson Sam
and "Cleve. The other is not known.