KING THURMAN WAS
VICTIM OF BROWN BEAR
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One of the most awful tragedies of
Alaskan life was the death of King
Thurman, as told, to the Seward Gate
way by William Austin, who found
the body in the cabin on Chickaloon
flats. Mr. Austin brought to Seward
a scrap of paper which carries a few
words written by Thurman, showing
the frightful agony of the poor fellow
before he brought his gun into play
to end what was left of life. The last
words of Thurman were written on a
paper at the top of which was a notice
of location. As the right hand had
been torn by the bear, the poor fellow
evidently had to use the left hand. The
letters were printed laboriously and
some of them were illegible. They
were written up and down the page
like a list of names, and were as fol
lows: "Have been tore up by a brown
bear. No show to get out. Good bye.”
letter Thurman evidently tried to write
again, but his suffering was too great.
“I’m sane but I’m suffering” he printed
and then came some printed letters
: that could not be deciphered, and his
j last effort brought out the words, "the
I-of death.”. Mr. Austin and J.
' Wik found the body on March 4. When
| the two men went to bury it they cut
J open the clothes. The whole right side
I was torn and chewed up from the
shoulder down, and the ribs were
loosened from the backbone. The left
hip was also torn up, as were the right
arm and calf of the right leg. Mr.
Austin believes the bear must have at
tacked him about a hundred yards
from the cabin. Thurman hardly ever
went unarmed, but In this case he had
evidently left the cabin to get a bucket
of water. In the cabin was also found
a diary kept by the unfortunate man.
The last entry was dated July 25. This
entry was, "Came to cabin last even
ing.”
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NOTES
When the steamer Delta sailed re
cently, hound for the lower river, it
took a barge from Chena, carrying
about one hundred and fifty tons of
antimony ore. This ore Is the first
shipment by Si Scrafford to the
smelter at San Francisco in accor
dance with a contract entered into by
him last winter when he was outside.
Antimony is demanding 28 cents per
pound on the outside now and the
shipment made by Mr. Scrafford will
mean a net return of thousands of
dollars. The ore will be shipped out-|
side by way of St. Michael. Antimony
ore will he shipped from the mine on
Chatham creek to Fairbanks as rapidly
as possible and other shipments will
be made from time to time during the
summer.
Hugh Molyneaux, commissioner or
public highways fop Northern Hritishl
Columbia, who passed through Skag
way on his way to the Rainy Hollow
country brought word of a rich placer
strike that had recently been made on
Wilson creek, in the Atlin mining dis
trict by Wm. McDonald, Lurry O’Con
nor and Rack Molloy, all oldtimers in
that section of the country. Wilson
creek was staked in the early days of
the district and many of the claims on
it have been re-located and abandoned
several times since. It is situated 22
miles east of the town of Atlin and 8
miles west of O'Donnell river.
VALDEZ.—Colonel W. L. Steven
son, who has a contract from the gov
ernment to cut 2,000,000 feet of lumber
on Portage bay, and who is understood
to represent large eastern capital, has
located eighteen trading and manu
facturing sites on the shores of Pas
sage canal. The tracts vary in size
from twenty to eighty acres, and sur
veyors have completed the work of
marking the boundaries. That the
. lumber to be cut for the government
at Portage bay Is to be used in the
construction of the railroad from Sew
ard or Ship creek is doubled by per
sons posted on the expense of cutting
and handling lumber in Alaska. It is
claimed that lumber can be shipped in
barges from Puget Sound, when the
shipments amounts to 2,000,000 feet,
cheaper than the Alaska product can
be lightered to the westward.
The central part of the Kuskokwim
basin is the only portion of Alaska
where, up to the present time, .lode
deposits of quicksilver that have at
tracted serious attention have been
discovered. That there were deposits
of quicksilver in this region has been
known since 1880, but not until the
summer of 1914 were they visited by
members of the geological survey. At
two localities on the Kuskokwim—
the Parks prospect and a prospect near
Kolmakof—some quicksilver had been
produced and sold to the gold miners
of the adjacent region. The Parks
prospect was visited by Philip S.
Smith and the prospect near Kolmakof
by A. G. Maddren. *
JTTNEATT.—A mining interest whicli
may become important in Alaska was
given an added impetus recently when
E. I.- Dailey announced that he and his
partner Gudmund Jensen, made a rich
strike in platinum on their properties
at Windham bay. Mr. Jensen, working
with A1 Rowe and Fred Yates, both
well known miners, has also uncovered
several god ledges of free gold and
expect that they have brought to light
some valuable properties.
Kake Is becoming a center for farm
ers and homesteaders, according to J.
E. Stewart of that place who is some
thing of a farmer himself. Six home
steads have been located on Big John’s
Ray, and there is other land available
for location there and nearby. Fapt.
Peter Madsen, who sails the E. A. Hegg
to Kake. says that place Is one of the
chosen spots in Alaska. "Not only can
they raise everything in the way of
vegetables and grasses there, as well
as they can anywhere, but they have
the finest fishing and bunting that I
know about. Bear, deer and water
fowl are abundant.”
Geo. G. Reis brought with him from
the westward a copy of the first issue
of the Nome News, which was estab
lished in that city in October, 1899, by
J. F. A. Strong, now governor of the
territory. It is an interesting early
day souvenir and will be presented by
its owner to Governor Strong to place
with the Alaskan collection which he is
gathering for the government library
building at Juneau—Skagway Alaskan.
One of the biggest cleanups ever
made in the north was made this
spring on the Mascot association group
in the Ruby district, when $100,000 was
taken from the sluiOe boxes at one
time. A considerable portion of the
gold was in nuggets ranging from $2.50
up. The dump was taken out last fall
and was known to be rich but it sur
prised even the owners. Lack of water
prevents continuous working of the
ground.
ESCAPED JAIL; WAS DROWNED.
The body of Axel Tanner, a Pin
lander, was found In Baker slough,
near Hot Springs last Thursday and
the circumstances indicate that he was
drowned while trying to cross the
slough after having escaped from Jail.
Tanner was serving out a $.r>0 fine for
trespass. Deputy Marshal Anders, of
Hot Springs, notified Deputy Marshal
Long that he had escaped from Jail
and requested bis arrest in case he
should appear at Ruby. Thursday
Marshal Long was hotificd of the find
ing of the man's body. He had evi
dently drowned in trying to make good
his escape.—Ruby Record-Citizen.
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Nugget Mining Edition is progressing
nicely. It will undoubtedly be more
interesting than any previous editions
and will contain many subjects other
than mining—in fact a magazine de
picting the entire peninsula. An in
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year and there will probably be enough
for all, but to Insure receiving your
copies it would be best to send in your
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