The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-10-28
SEARCfiERS GIVE UP; ALL HOPE OF RECOVERING MISSING BODIES
 ABANDONED; CAMP IN SORROW

The search for the missing launch Flyer and it's passengers has been abandoned, and all hope of ever re- covering the bodies of the ill-fated craft has been given up. The last of the Fairbanks searchers returned home late Saturday night and yester. day Hawley Sterling returned to Ne mana after spending the entire time since the reported sinking of the boat at the scene of the search. He still has the conviction that after the freezeup and the water clears away from the silt that the missing launch will be located through the ice by mechanical means. After the freeze up he will outfit party and try out his scheme, and the entire camp is hopeful that his idea will be the means of locating that for which the best river men in all Alaska have been searching for in vain for the past two weeks.
 THE SEARCH.
 Ever since the sinking of the craft was established and the location as certained where it disappeared from view, large party of the best river men in the interior nave been en gagged in searching for the missing boat All known devices for grap bling wrecks and flotsam have been employed, but without success. All the available launches. polling boats and a steamer aided in the search together with nearly fifty men. but the united efforts of all of these could not recover either the launch or the bodies.
 THE ONLY cLEWS.
 The only clews as to the drowning of the passengers and the sinking of the launch, besides the evidence oI Norman Hadley, the last man to set the launch either afloat or in a sink ing condition, was the finding of the body of Mrs. Charles Craig with z life preserver tied on her back, the handbag of Mrs. Sterling, and George Coleman's notebook. The finding o the body establishes beyond doub the fate of the balance of the pas sengers.
 THE MISSING.
 George A. Coieman-Mr. Coleman was born in Fort Madison, Iowa January "A, 1867. He came to Al aska during the early days of '98 1T company with Samuel R. Weiss anC Bert Smith, locating at Dawson, Y. T. engaging in mining and prospecting For time he was engaged in busi ness on Dominion creek. He came to the Fairbanks district in 1904 and with Capt. c. B. Sproule and Bert Smith financed the building of the steamer White Seal. In the yea, 1905 he entered the employ of the Northern Commercial company here as manager of the hardware depart ment, in which position he continued for years. In September, 1911, he was appointed manager of the Fair banks agency, which position he fill ed up to the day of his death. Or September 2, 1911, he was united ir marriage to Mrs. Essie Moffat, the ceremony taking place at the home of the brides sister, Mrs. E. H Boyer. Mrs. Coleman and brother E. P. Coleman, of Quincy, Washing ton, are the only immediate surviving relatives. During his residence iI Fairbanks the deceased acquired g large circle of -acQuaintances anG friends, who deeply mourn the de parture of a man in whom they hae the utmost confidence and whose business integrity was above re proach.
 Mrs. Hawley sterIino-Mrs. Sterl ing before her marriage was Mar garet Young, daughter of MT. ane Mrs. Frank Young, Sr., of this city She was welded to MT. Sterling or April 15, 1917. She was born 1T Seattle. April 10th. 1898. and came north with her mother to live. hel father already being ct Dawson. IT 1906 the family came to Fairbanks which has been their home evel since. During her early girlhoot days she attended the Fairbanks pub lie schools. As she grew to woman