Show I LIEUT CASTNERS ADVENTURES I I Army Officer Narrowly Escaped Death In Alaskan Wilds I Seattle Wash Feb IS Advices received re-ceived tonight from Dawson say that Lieutenant Castner of the Fouth United Unit-ed States Infantry who started almost a year ago from the southern coast of Alaska to explore the interior and find u possible an allAmerican trail to the Yukon has arrived there Finding the trail they had believed to exist impassable impass-able Lieutenant Castner and two companions com-panions started to reach civilization They put their provisions guns etc on a raft and set it afloat on the Ta h ct 1 nana river The raft was wrecked the second day and all the provision rifles axes etc were lost All that t r r o k P + + + + T + + T + + + + + + + + + e was saved was a coil of rope With the ropes another raft was built and for six days the three men floated down the rher living on berries and rose apples They were without shoes or I moccasins their feet being covered by canvas tied by strings and just as hope I was almost gone the party drifted into an encampment of Tanana Indians Here they were hospitably received and fed and after resting were guided to a camp of white men a hundred miles up the stream where the party rested until a boat could carry them to the Yukon Lieutenant Castner found all maps to be Incorrect His barometer failed to work and in consequence he was unable un-able to measure the height of the mountains moun-tains or the passes The lieutenant says however that there is a feasible II route for a trail or a railway from the I coast ot a point on the Yukon below Circle City but lack of provisions prevented pre-vented him from taking the time to I I map i out |