CORRESPONDENCE
Jfews of tjie Camps to the Westward.
Shooting at KenaL Schooner
Wrecked.
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Phot Hi* Chiun.
pNlil Correspondence to the Pnourrcron.
Kenai, Alaska, December 3d.,'
1903—I do not know how cold yon
are having it down there, but it is
fritrid enough here to suit me, al
though I must say it has been very
pleasant with all it lieing 26 and
28 below.
The Kusiloff and Kenai rivers
are aliout frozen over, so we ran
ex|«eet some of the boys down with
their sleds.
The Inlet is showing the result
of these cold snups by having small
ice floes, and it makes boating rath- ]
er risky.
We were greatly^ disappointed
upon the return of .lie mail carrier
to hear that no steamer carrying
mail had iieen to Homer nt the
time lie left, which wason the26th.
He returned without any mail so
as to go r'ghi hack with the outgo
ing mail, hut I think the majority
would have preferred to have him
wait and thereby bring the incom
ing mail.
A sad accident occurred amongst
the naliyes on the 8th. of last:
nonih. Quite a numlier started
out hunting and during the time
oi course, had to have something
to eat, so two of them said they
would try and get a ltull moose.
They stayed so long that the others
got iir.-;l wailing undsiarted hcnne.
W h le on tiie road they thought i
some sho s were fired, but so dis
tam ilia they could not i* ain.
Towards evening they came to a
camp evidently made by the moose
hunters, so concluded to stay over
night there. Just after starting in
the morning, they distinctly heard
some tiring and going to some high
ground returned the shots, when
they perceived a man stagger out
of the woods. They at once ran
towards him and hardly reached
him when he fell. He was one of
the two who had gone after the
moose but at once could not tell
them what had happened. When
recovered sufficiently, he said that
he had shot his companion and
chum. As he had not had any
thing to eat since it happened,
which wns two days before and had
been travelling all over the coun
try in quest of them, lie was
about off his base, so they had to
wait until he had had some tea
and bread, when he recovered suf
ficiently to take tiiem to the scene
of the accident. It seems that
they started a moose, at which
they shot, they only wounded hint
and the moose started into a strip
of timber. They both followed,
one on each side of tiie timber; one
caugiit sight of the moose and fired
wounding him again and still fol
lowing the wounded moose, heard
his companion yell, so turned hack
to sec the trouble, when lie came
upon his chum with a shot through
his breast. He was still alive and
asked his friend to go for help,
which he at once did, after making
a grass IhkI for him, hi t when he
got to his fro nds it was too late as
the shot boy bad joined the silent
majority.
The vonng fellow’s name who
was killed was Laruska, one of the
best natured Indians here and al
ways willing to do what he was told.
The other boy’s nauia is Ivan Sal
way. U. 8. M
Schooner Wrecked.
Sjw*r1«l <-ntr-.pnml»TW lo th- T..*,
Coal Harbor, Alaska, IW. 12.—
Wm. A. Tad more and Fwl
'•rick Edmund* arrived lure over
land yesterday, from I nga, and
report theniselve* as pnssencers
with ninet'-cn others,-on the sinuil
Kodiak schooner “Lottie” bound
from Noun to Wilder. After Iwimr
out thirty-five day* they encoun
tered severe storms and were driv
en ashore in Haverdeen t»ay on the
north side of tiie Alaska peninsula,
where all hands, save the captain
and the other half owner left the
vessel then, partially wrecked.;
hard and fast on the heach, and j
traveled overland to Portage bayj
on the Pacific side of the peninsula.
All of their inaripe disaster* they {
attribute to too much wind, whis
key and poker chips.
These men confirm the previous
report of the loss of a large three
masted schooner; salmon laden, at
Ilenheck bay, adding that three
parties, essaying to reach the shore
in a dory, after the vessel struck,
were drowned. The other members
of the ships company arrived safely
at Dutch Harbor. The name of
the schooner is not known.
The Prospector is received here
and reud with pleasure. Valdet
now being connected with the out*
side world by telegraph, ia easily
the most important town in North* |
ern Alaska.
H. S. T.
Cold at Resurrection.
Resurrection Bay, Jan. 7th. 1903. •
—The first overland rnnil arrived |
in Sunrise Dec. 22d., having ls*en '
delayed by heavy snowstorm on j
the Resurrection side, where it1
snowed five feet in one night and !
then turned into ruin and made!
traveling very bad. So far it has!
been a hard winter, stormy and!
cold. On Dec. 29th., it was 20 In-;
low zero at the Forks and 40 below
at Lynx creek and much colder on
Bench creek summit: Probably 50
or fv> below, when we crossed on |
the :tl«t of December.
Kenni I.nke froze on the first day
of January, as far down as the Is
land and is prolwbly tight and
solid hv this time. Mr. To and I
wife, wtio have spent the winter :i1
Cnojier, intends to spend the
remainder in Sunrise for which
phut they will start as soon as
good traveling is to Is.* had.
t'hss. Hides and wife, also ofj
creek, will go to Hope. H. •
A. .Smith, Poftinustcr at Sunrise
and Mr. Pedeilin, Postmaster at
Ho)m;, came over the mail route to I
Resurrection; where they will tako
the steamer for the states. They '
will return when navigation opens
in Cooks Inlet. Mr. Smith ia a
“crackerjack” trail-breaker. «
James Wallace with wife and
father mid three-year-old eon ar
rived at the Bay on the Sbeiikof,
and took tbe overland trail for Ber
tha creek in the Sunrise district,
where he intends to put in a hy
draulic plant the coming season.
Mr. Wallace Sr. is sixty-nine years |
of age, but is hule and hearty as a ,
boy of fifteen and an eighty-mile
trip in tbe dead of winter has no
terrors for him.
Mrs. Sbuefer, of Latouche, is vis-;
iting her folks at Resurrection Buy. I
Wm. Lowell got a New Years
present in the shape of a ten pound
girl, and is all smiles.
The Kenai Mining Co. is busy
sledding several tons of provisions
from Kenai to their property on
the upper Kenai river, where they
will o|<-rate extensively next sea
son.
Fred Woderman arrived on the
Shelikof and took the overland
route for his home at Hope.
The corner stone oi the Resur
rection National Bank has nut been
laid yet, as the population is not
large enough to justify it, there be
ing only twelve soul* here, most of
whom arc children. A. Ku>k.
The best and largest assortment
of heavy and light wool socks at
wholesale prices at the Lion
clothing store.
Ask "tm” if we are capable ni do
ing vour work. King t White.
Mrs. M. Gregory wishes to enlj
the attention of her |*»trnns to the
fact that she is now settled in her
new quarter* on the reservation.
McKinley St., and is prepared to
•hi ail kinds of sewing and dress
making.
Kinx .v: White.
I *i
Bread Umt never sours and
fit for '!>* <I«K for «)« ar
Vild^i Of#\
You can’t br-xin to writ.- » |r,,„
to the old folks or the wif,.. ,lrt
I will convey half th- inform
, tin- PKoaerxrvH dm-. s, i,-l ,,
| them.
Copper River
Draying Co.
Freight and Passengers to
! all parts of the Interior.
General Trucking,
w. s. any. ed. wood
McKinley 8t. Between Broadway and Keystone Ave.
C. DKBORD J. GRIFFITH STEPHENS
Copper River Trading Post
AND FERRY.
at the Junction of Copper River and the Tormina River. RO.\D
HOU8F. Prospector’s Supplies and Storage. The most c< ntrsllv lo
cated Roadhouse and Supply Post in the Copper River Watershed!
The Wayside Inn t :
At Foot of Summit on Rout* to Interior. Best Ac
comodations for Man and Bea?t. Freighting to all
Points Contracted for. Address Vaidet,
21 Miles From Vaidet.
WILSON, DAVISON A LITTLE, PaonurToits.
AMO PEER SKIMS
McMillan fur x& wool go.
EXPORTERS AND IMPORTERS.
200-212 First Ave. North, Minneapolis, Minn.
WWHto for Our Circular snd too the Prices We Pay.~k;