The Seward gateway., 1922-08-22
PIONEER DAWSON MAN PER|SHED IN
 YUKON BLIZZARD
PERisHED ON RETURN
 FROM FUR BUYING TRIP
Experienced Traveller Overdoes His Strength-FaithfuI Dog Remains
 Beside Body of bead Master .

DAWSON-Jimmy Kingston pioneer Klondiker, whose body was found on the Crow River near the Arctic slope recently was frozen to death in an un- expected blizzard and snowstorm.
 News as to the manner of the death of Kingston is brought by Neil McDon- aid, of the well known firm of fur trad CTS of Mcdonald & Moses, of Crow River Mr. Mcdonald arrived here from Crow river via Fort Yukon on the last steamer from the lower Yu- kon.
 sKingston," says MT. Mcdonald, "met his death in a most exceptional and unexpected snowstorm and bliz- gard that had occurred about May 10. He had been to Herschel Island on the Arctic coast, with a team Of dogs, buy ing furs for T. H. Burman, the Fo" Yukon trader. Ii was just by the mer- est accident that his body was found. It was stumbled up by my patrner, r. Moses, who had been over to Herschel Island. Peter had run out of smoking tobacco, and could not wait for a smoke, so he mushed 150 miles from Crow River to Herschel to get few pounds of tobacco to keep the old pipe going until we could get in our stock this summer Peter was on the way back, and was in practically track less country at the foot of Crow Moun- tain, on the Crow River Flat, in the Porcupine watershed, but not far from the Arctic divide The trail was ob liberated, but the travellers there had followed the general direction, and il was at that place that Peter stumbled on the body of Jimmy, stiff and stark in the snow One might have travelled the same route many times without finding the kody.
 ''Nicks in the small trees near the body indicated that the man must nave been too exhausted to cut down the trees, so he had built a smail fire with willows. He must have undertaken to travel further than wise, before mak- ing camp as there was plenty Of good timber for a long stretch where ne must have been travelling before he came to the end of his life's trail. Jim my was a great musher, with years of experience and that he should meet such a fate seems strange as most old timers know when and wnelse to camp. Possibly the blizzard threw him OH his bearings, and disconcerted him. The blizzard ragged for about week in the early part of May, and it must have been somewhat near May 10 or 15 that he perished. It is rare excep- ton for a blizzard or snowstorm to. occur in that region so late in the sea- son. Two Eskimo natives, known as Huskies, had accompanied Kingston half way on his journey and returned to Herschel and left Kingston to plod on alone, thinking he would have al safe journey. They did not know he was lost until Moses got> to Herschel on his trip after tobacco.
 Strange to say, Kingston's dogs were taken out of the harness and were made fast to the sleigh, and when found were reduced to skin and bones. One of the dogs was loose and was near his masters body, and was also emaciated.
 Not far from where the body was found Moses also found the 300 skins which Kingston was bringing with him. They were in bundles.
 Constable Frost of the R. N. M. F., went up from Rampant House and nj vestigated the case, and buried the body at Old Crow where found. Jack Kingston, brother of Jimmy, went up the Porcupine from Fort Yukon in our launch June 8, and Dan Cadzow, was to take him the rest of the way up to Old Crow. Jack was going up to get his brothers body and take it down to Fort V,1kon in coffin for hI1ria