Show HAROSHlrs GOLOSffKtRS DISASTROUS EXPEDITION TO KOTBUE SOUND i Opening of Bering Sea Will Witness I Exodus of the Last White Min Irom That Country Skagway Alaska May 5 via Seattle Seat-tle Wash May 12F A H Fysh ind W Williams reached Dawson April 15 on foot from Kotzebue sound Fysh and Williams formed two of a party of eighteen who left Iowa last summer and joined the big rush which landed 2000 people on the various rivers of I Kotzebue sound The party established winter quarters SOO miles up the Ko walt river rer After untold hardships and labor they decided that there was no gold in the country On Feb 19 Fysh and Williams Wil-liams struck out over the divide to the Koyukuk thence to Dawson a distance of 1500 miles Fysh reports that Kotzebue sound Is thickly peopled with a intelligent race of Indians closely resembling the Japanese Jap-anese in habits and physique The principal diet heretofore has been dried salmon but the abundance of white I mans food last summer was the cause of laying away less than half a crop of salmdn The result this winter was I that the ills nourished natives have l been dying off like sheep He says the opening of the Bering sea will see the exodus of the last white man and only a scattering of cabins will mark the scene of one of the most disastrous goldhunting expeditions since Cortez landed on the coast of Florida W 1 Siegle a United States mail carrier arrived from Dawson today with 165 pounds of mail matter from points on the American side of the Yukon Yu-kon commencing at St Michael He I made the trip in fifteen days He broke through the ice several times having i many narrow escapes He reports re-ports gf large mails I from Dawson I hung up at Selkirk Hootalinqua and White Horse will have to wait the opening of navigation The Yukon and its tributaries are fast breaking up Thirtymile river is free of ice and Fiftymile river is open from WhiteHorse White-Horse rapids to Lake Marsh The Skagway chamber of commerce last night sent official invitations to President McKinley the secretary of the interior and the American members of the high joint commission to visit Skagway this summer to study the boundary question and the need of some sort of selfgovernment Norman Kant exgold commissioner of the Atlin district who arrived from Victoria today brings an order from Minister of Mines Humes to the effect that the opening of the mining season is to be extended from June 1 to July 1 He also brings word that Humes would come up before the end of the month I with a commission of arbitration before I which all controversies about ownership owner-ship settled of claims in Atlin district are to be seUle I |