Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-02-04
Nothing but First Class Matter
Received from Below Dawson,
SCURyY PREVAILS AT NOME
Wonderful Accounts of Koynkuk Dis.
turb some Vcfy Large Nuggets
Are Picked ~.

seattle, req d.-lnc llSt malS 10 az
rive from Nome, 81 Michael Council
CITY Rampant and other points In
northwestern Alaska We're brought
down from ,he north on the steamship
Dirlgo, which arrived this morning
Mail came on the Dirigo from Nome as
late as November H. from Council city
as late as November :, from &c.
Michael as late as November q. from
Rampant as late as December Il, from
Eagle as late as January s. and from
Dawson as late as January %,
Nothing except first class matter
was received from points below Daw-
son, as the mail contracts do not pro-
vide for the handling Of other than
letter mail via that route. 1t is ap-
parent from the time required for the
carriers to make the trip that they
must have had very severe time OF
H.
Two months and two days were
required to make the trip from Nome
TO Dawson The contract time for the
carrying Of the mail Is sixty days for
tie Zip, and II IL probable that this
sine VIII be made without serious diff
Guilty after the winter weather Is set
tied and the trail Is in better oondi.
ton,
Seuryy is prevailing In and about
Nome TO an alarming degree. There
were but few potatoes left In the dis
| tiict, and 4 great lack Of all kinds OF
fresh vegetables was apparent. Many
OF the poor prospectors who were I'M
abl, to get out In the fall are "hiber-
mating In their cabins, and II Is among
| this class that the most pronounced
cases OF scuryy are found.
IN, poor of Nome are proving a
heavy tax on the charity of the camp.
Tlcte have been no adyIces from the
outside since navigation closed The
winter was mild and an early breakup
was looked for
Tra1d over the country was greatly
| inpeded by the mild weather. In
many places the tundra had been too
soft 50 bear up the travellers and COM
municatlon with outlying camps was
| cut of
Ad,lces from Rampant give some
WONDERFUL accounts Of the new Koyu-
| kuk district, OF which Bellies city Is
at present the commercial center. The
| four creeks In the district have at
tracted great prominence from their
rich returns. They are Lane Olson,
HOghnd and Glen. OF the four Glen
| ls the most noteworthy, one miner
! there picked out nugget weighing
S6Ol, and other men are taking out
pans averaging from 81 TO $40
Baker fats, on which these creeks
are located II Is claimed, viii prove
as rich as Klondike, and the pay streak
IN Glen creek has been traced as far
as twenty-eght miles below Eureka.
Adyices from Nome state two girls
committed suicide by taking carbollc
acid. Dependency Is ascribed as the
cause They were known as the Carlisle
sisters, but their real names are un
known,
The Nome Gold-Diggers OF Noyem-
bcl 49,, has the following; United
St0tes Mail Carrier JacOg Walden, who
left on the first Of the month for lsak's
Point with the mail, may be lost In the
tangled underbrush and thick timber
which lies beWeen GolOvin bay and the
Point. August Nelson, one OF the party
that reached Nome from Norton bay
on Sunday, being the first musher-
over the ilc from that district this
winter says that they saw the mall
carrier when they were crossing Colo
vim bay lie states that Walden was
alone and was making very slow time,
as his sled was heavily loaded and his
six dogs were IA very bad shape and
he learned altCrward that Il took hun
five days t. reach Chnik.'
Permanent telegraphic cOmmunlca-
tlon between Naldes and Eagle Gifts
viii he established by next July Capt,
Burnell. Yho left Naldes early last
month to complete the line stated thar
he estimated that the remaining dis
lance would be strung with wires With
in six months.
X. u. ODE, lander, salesman at Forty
Mile for the Northern Commercial
company, sutcumhed TO the cold while
struggling though drilted snow on the
.iver trail trying TO make his way
from Dawson TO Forty Mile with a dog
team with the temperature SO degrees
belo: zero. lie became exhausted anu
then beNumDed with cold. Hunters dis
covered him and by prompt work saw
I'D has lie
BY spring II is expected that 1900
tons OF coal viii be ready for shipment
from the n.wly-discovered mines at
Five Fingers, near here The vein is
-four feet ,hitk
The ernbalmed body OF Charts Watt
newspaper man from oregon, who
died twenty-five months ago still lies
In the storage-room Of Dawson un.
1ertaker.
a letter IRON Koyukuk under date Of
October u, says the output OF Gold
creek OF the Koyukuk for this season
is placed at $4,000 II places the out
Put OF the entire Koyukuk camp for
the season AZ $4,000.
Word has been received here that
MAJ. Primrose Of the Northwest mount
I'd police. recently In charge Of the
Dawson division, who went east on a
vacation, has resigned from the police
service and accepted q commission In
the contingent just formed for South
Africa and that he also has Just mar
rled.