The Nome nugget., 1903-10-14

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 the meeting or the presence of the white men in their camp. ] ''They were told that the slightest disobedience of his commands would result in swift and terrible punish ment; that he, the greatcot medicine man on the Yukon, would make medi- cine that would ferret them out wher- ever they went, and bring disaster upon them, and an awful and lingering death by plague.
 Greatly frightened at the threats of the medicine man, the tribe departed that night, his squaw alone remaining to keep him company.
 "Soon after the departure of the tribe the camp of the white men was visited stealthily and the surroundings carefully noted. When the survey was completed it was found that the men were sleeping soundly, and the Indian stealthily crept to striking distance and stabbed one of them three times with long knife. In the struggle which ensued the surviving white man tance into the bushes before he died, where his body was left prey for wild beasts.
 "The Indian then returned to his first victim. After cutting off the arms and legs, first the trunk and then the dismembered parts were thrown into the Koyukuk river.
 "Everything was then removed from the boat and cached in a convenient place, and the boat taken well into the slough, where it was scuttled and then sunk.
 "After the heat and excitement incl dent to the perpetration of crime of such enormity and tiendishness had somewhat subsided, and the medicine man had time for cooler reflection, he was somewhat troubled with remorse. The disappearance of the white men was sure to be noted and searching investigation instituted, and the medi- cine was not strong enough to allay the growing fear of the white mans ven geance. He remembered the fate of one of his tribe who luthlessly mur- dered white man at Nulato in 1897. He met a short shrift at the end of rope.
 "Between musings and misgiying~ the Indian and his squaw worked their way down to Nulato and joined their tribe, where, on the morning of July 26 the dismembered body of the mur- dered miner was discovered floating down the Yukon. The matter was re- ported to Mr. Muchman and his two companions, who, at that time were the only civilian white men at the viii lage. They proceeded to the place, about mile above NuIato, and recov- cred the body, which was afterwards turned over for burial to detachment of soldiers stationed there. The body had laid in the water nearly a month, and was badly decomposed.
 "The medicine man was greatly agi- finally, in the fear of detection, con cluded to make Il clean breast of the matter, which he did. He was advised to give himself to justice, and he did so, with the statement that the white men had pointed u gun at him and threatened to shoot, when in sheer the invasion of his only heritage, he fired and kept shooting until both men were dead. He did not mention the mutilation of the body, nor any of the other details. But the facts came to light through his relatives, one of them confding the whole story of the crime to the white men.
 "Meantime the medicine man was told by his friends that he would un doubtedly be taken to Nome for trial, and hanging would be the result. This so wrought upon his nerves that he committed suicide by hanging. On the morning of Sept. ? his lifeless body was found hanging to spruce shrub.
 "The murdered men were well known along the Yukon, where they have spent several years mining in the diff ferent camps.
 'The medicine man who committed the horrible crime was pGralyzed in his lower limbs, and travelled about upon two round stones which he held in his hands,"
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