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KANATAK BURIED
UNDER TEN FEET
OF NEW SNOW
KANATAK. April 20.—-The Stan
dard Oil company’s camp on the
Pearl Creek Dome is smothered by
the heaviest snowfall reported in the
hills since the present stampede.
With nothing visible of the bunk
houses but the smoke stacks the road
grader was pulled out of the snow,
and for two days the caterpillar pulled
the grader round and round the bunk
house in an effort to clear away some
of the snow. About ten feet of snow’
is reported on top of the stables, and
the horses are being quartered in the
warehouse and wrorkshop. The snow
has not interfered seriously with the
drilling as the rig is located on top of
a windswept ridge. The drills are down
3375 feet and indications are that when
3500 feet are drilled an oil flow will
be encountered.
Johnny Kalmakoff has returned
to Kanatak from Ugashik.
Dolf Smith, of the Blue Goose road
house at Becharoff lake, was a recent
visitor.
Clifford Sharp of the Pearl Creek
dome spent the week end in towm.
Peter Anderson and Martin George
son have returned from the Cold Bay
and Kargulik districts. They brought
in a fair catch of fur.
Mrs. X. B. Jones of Ugashik, who
has been in Kanatak awaiting the ar
rival of her husband, returned to
Ugashik when his death was reported.
Fred Henton has returned from Ko
diak where he was superintending the
repairing of the lighter Blazer.
John Lewis and “One-Eyed Mike”
have returned with the largest catch
of fur brought in this season. They
were trapping near King Salmon riv
er north of Becharoff lake.
Jack Gillis has returned from a trip
to Kodiak.
H. B Loof, with the Bureau of
Fisheries, and assistants, have return
ed to take charge of the bureau’s op
erations at Becharoff lake.
Charles Fisk has returned from
Wide Bay. He was trapping at the
lower end of the bay and reported the
largest catch in his neighborhood.
Hilbert Anderson has returned from
Kodiak.
Sid Anderson who spent the last
few months in Seward and Anchorage
has returned on the Starr.
Jack Wadman will leave on the
Starr for Kodiak.
The Kanatak Lighterage Company
is overhauling and repairing all their
scows, lighters and boats, getting
ready for an expected rush.
Frank Otis left on the Starr for Ko
j diak.
OLDTIMER MEETS
HORRIBLE END
LONELY CABIN
KANATAK, April 21.—Mike Thomp
son, an old and respected resident of
the Alaska peninsula, was found dead
in his cabin on Dog Salmon river last
week. The investigation conducted by
a deputy marshal showed that he had
frozen to death. The body, clothed in
a parka, was lying across the bed, the
weight resting on his knees and el
bows, muscles rigid and tensed, show
ing the intense suffering endured as
the end came. Fox skins were wrap
ped around his feet and hands, and
one was also wrapped about the body.
Removing these, his hands and feet
were found to have been frozen and
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badly mortified, the flesh peeling off
before he died. A bald spot on top
of the head had al6ft been frozen.
Thompson had built a fire in his
cabin, but his wood was all gone. He
had an oil burner on top of a box, but
it was empty, as well as his kerosene
can. A nut closing the opening of the
burner was found lying on the floor,
perhaps his last attempt to secure the
life-saving heat. With, feet and hands
in such condition he could not cut any
wood, so was forced to await the in
evitable end, with perhaps no short
cuts available.
After building a five his feet and
hands had thawed out. and the end
to his suffering came when his fuel
gave out.
Thompson’s dogs were chained up
outside the cabin, so it is presumed
that he was out on a short trap line
near his cabin, and was caught in one
of the blizzards with extreme low
temperatures which prevailed recently
for several days, in a barren, deso
late country, devoid of land marks,
missing his way and perhaps remain
ing out all night Or he may have
fallen in an overflow. Arriving home
he was not able to hitch his dogs to
the sled and drive to his nearest
neighbor’s, or perhaps unable to force
them to face the intense blizzard.
Thompson was well known on the
peninsula, and his untimely end is
deplored by his many friends in this
section.
NOME MARSHAL
DEAD AFTER A
LONG ILLNESS
NOME, April 22.—M. W. Griffith,
sixty, born in Washington, D. C.,
United States Marshal of the Second
Division, with headquarters at Nome,
died here today after an illness of
seven months from stomach trouble.
He had undergone an operation, but
obtained no relief.
CAPTAIN J. H. FOSTER IN
TOWN FROM NUKA BAY
Capt. J. H. Foster, connected with
the Alaska Hills Mining Company at
Nuka Bay, arrived in town the latter
part of the week from the property,
having been absent from Seward for
about a year. Mr. Foster is on his
way to Anchorage to attend a stock
holders’ meeting, and will leave on
Thursday’s train. He reports much
snow at his camp, and a bad winter
in general.
Capt. Foster said that much activity
prevailed in his district, a number of
fine properties having been developed
the past year. The vein on the com
| pany’s property while small, and wid
ening with depth, runs about $135 to
; the ton, and is very rich. Captain
Foster declares the region is handi
capped by a lack of roads and trails
and believes that by building a mile
and a half of good trails much trou
ble could be saved operators in the
district, as several loads of supplies
have been lost by poling boats being
X.B. JONES FOUND
DEAD BY NATIVE
UGASHIK RAPIDS
KANATAK, April 18—The body of
X. B. Jones, an well kjiown old timer
of this district, was reported found ly
ing in the river near his cabin on tin*
Ugasbik river rapids. Johnny Kalma
koff on his way to Kanatak from
Ugashik, stopped at the cabin for the .
night. He found no one at home, so
prepared his camp outside. As he
went down to the river for water he
found the body lying in about seven
feet of water. He immediately broke
camp and headed for Kanatak.
Mrs. Jones had mushed into Kana
tak with the dogs several days previ
ously where she had expected to meet
Jones The U. S. Marshal was noti
fied and Harry Lohr and Fred Hoye
have returned with Mrs. Jones to re
cover the body.
Jones, who is said to have been a
native of Kentucky, came north with
the gold rush in 1897, and never re
turned to the States. He was well
known along the Yukon from Nome
to Dawson. Of late years he has
been hunting and trapping along the
Alaska peninsula. He leaves a widow,
a native of the Y’ukon territory, whom
he married 26 years ago.
Join the Chamber of Commerce.
TO ALL COMRADES OF THE
SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
A campaign is on to unite all
Spanish American War veterans as
members-at-large, where there is no
organization of the United Spanish
American War Veterans. There are
no camps duly organized in Alaska
as there are not enough veterans in
any one place to form an organiza
tion. Hence all veterans of the
Spanish War are requested to become
members-at-large, thus becoming as
sociated with the order and receiv
ing the benefits of the order and in
a position to help other comrades to
those benefits. The organization is
doing good work for all veterans and
it behooves all veterans who are not
affiliated with the order to do so as
soon as possible and help with this
work. Let’s get together and show
our strength in Alaska and have a
large membership-at-large to help the
National organization. The under
signed will be glad to furnish all in
formation and blanks.
W. C. SNOOK
National Aide-de-Carap
Unga, Alaska.
swamped. A quantity of machinery'
was moved up the river by this meth
od, a slow’ and laborious w’av of trans
porting freight.
Mr. Foster w’ill ask the local cham
ber to assist him in securing a road
for this rich district, lying directly at
Seward’s doors, and believes that by
co-operation there will be little diffi
culty in securing the money.
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