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Show Dlc.l Hatklnr. Ilolil, Seattle, Wash., Aug. 23. A party of forty-eight prospectors who have arrived ar-rived hero from Kotzcbua Sound, Alaska, toll a story of terrible hardships hard-ships suffered whllo on their way overland over-land from tlio ICowak river to St. Michael, their spokesman declaring ho personally knows of the death of nine ty-threo men from ecurvy, drowning and starvation. Ho says 030 people, went up the ICownlc river last year, in' search of gold, nnd that tho death rato has been simply spoiling. |