Show IMrRSO fD IN I ICE AND SNOW I HAPLESS LUCK OF A PABTY FORTH FOR-TH YUKON I Left Chicago For the Gold Country and Selected the Way Through the Northwest Territory i Chicago Dec 7Five Chicago men are imprisoned in i the ice and snow hundreds I of miles beyond the last point of civilization civiliza-tion in the northwest territory The condition con-dition of the men Is1 precarious in the extreme A relief expedition provision for which was madel in Chicago today will undertake to rescue and bring them back to civilization The names of the I men are W H Best F L Stevens Moses Bemen John E Enright and Robert wen I The news of their predicament was brought by Frederick Menwether an old miner who left here With the party and who when they became stuck in the snow turned back for help The men to whom relief is to be sent left Chicago early In September Their intention was to go to the Yukon gold country by the water route by way of Edmonton Meriwether says the great boat which the party had built at Athabasca Landing I Land-ing struck a rock which stove a hole in Us bottom after less than O miles of I the journey down the Athabasca river frpm the landing had been completed I I Water rushed in says Mr er wether and spoiled part of the provisions pro-visions I is my belief they have provisions pro-visions enough to last them until nelp can reach them if they can withstand the weather conditions I |