The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-06-16
U. $. MARSHAIS AND NORTHWEST MOUNTED POLICE COOPERATING
 IN SEARCH FOR MISSING MEN
JIM AN OLDTIMER.

Jim 1aSen arrested at ShuShana & few years ago for killing Louie Shonburg. He was tried at Valdez and cleared. Jack Kingston have known for twenty years. both in Dawson and on the outside He is a good pros- pector and hard working man. If these men don't return in the spring the Huskies have probably done away with them
 MT Jackson. a fur buyer for T. H. Burman. on his return from the Arctic in December, met some Illus. kies who were going over to the head of Old Crow to trap and these In. dians reported that they had met other Indians who reported that they had been down to Boundary Line cabin and that there was lot of grub cached there by some white men They also said that they had found a note left in the cabin which invited the Huskies to come and see | them. The Kingstons, they said, i''' put oul lidIS LII lilt tTdDllne duu in the territory claimed by the Illus. kies. This note is said to have been given to the R. N. w. M. P. at Ram part House. Deputy McGuire's latest report says that this portion of the story is untrue,)
 POLICE PARTY OUT.
 Sergeant Tedd. who is in charge there, sent out Constable Taylor and Archie Linklater. an old guide and interpreter for years for the Hudson Bay people and the Dawson police. They have not returned yet, but were expected back before the break-up CThis is the party which was halted by overflows twenty miles from the Boundary cabin.) They were seen by Jimmy the Turk. native. but gave him no information.
 NOT SEEN BY ANYONE.
 "The Kingston brothers have not come back to Fort Yukon. as they would certainly have been seen by some of the natives or white men trapping in the district All the trap pers but one man have been in Fort Yukon this winter. but none report ed seeing the men. The Chandlar winter, nor have the Fort Yukon ma. tives. and all of them knew the Kings tons. Most of them have been in during the winter and spring as we'll as the Christian river Indians. know them all. about one-half of them speaking English, and they have not seen the missing men on their trap lines and say no white men have been trapping in their territory.
 KILLING UNcoNFIRMED.
 "I have thoroly investigated the ru- nor that two men were killed over on the other side of Christian river by Zias Simons' two children last fall. Fish camp, where Zias' wife and two children were camped last fall drying meat is on the divide between Chris tian river and the east fork of the Chandlar, at the head of Big creek. This is above timber line and there is no wood there except brush and will lows.
 "The children mentioned are a boy 12 years old and a girl 14 years of age, who is frail and weak They went out to pack in some meat to dry, distance about three miles from camp. While on this trip a fog came up. Returning, they had their dogs loaded with meat, they said that the dogs saw the bushes move The boy stated that he had single shot .22 rifle with which he fired two times into the brush, after which the dogs quit barking and the children ran home.
 When they reached camp both were crying and said they had seen two brush men. When they asked other natives about the brush men, they took back their former state ment and said they had only seen the brush move. No men were seen there.
 "This place is about 200 miles from Boundary Line cabin in the direc- tion of For Yukon, and the Kings tons could not have got back to it even if lost without some of the trap pers or hunters out at that time of year seeing them. They were at the head of Old Crow river and on Firth river the year before"
 It is the opinion of the deputy that the Kingstons probably went into the Firth district early this spring to do their proposed prospecting, and that unless they were wiped out by the Huskies they will show up shortly after navigation opens in the side streams in the northern country.
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