Show RETURN OF JOE BUSH Reaphed Home from GoldFields Fields Yesterday SAYS NOME IS OVERCROWDED Mr Bush Reports that There isnl Abundance of Gold at Nome but that the Place is Overcrowded Bi Rain Ho Says Would Sweep Town Away How Esquimaux Are Robbed by Schemers mid Arc Dying Dy-ing of Exposure Visit to Siberia Coast Salt Lakers Now at Nome Joe Bush the wellknown Salt Lake detective and miner returned last night frorn a trip to nomc whither he went about the middle of last Iay with the Rognbn brothers and C WV WIT Hams of Eureka Mr Bush traveled extensively over he northern country while away and returns with the belief be-lief that there is much good mining ground there but that the thing is i much overdone and overcrowded Mr Bush says ho does not Intend to return re-turn there feeling just n trifle too old for the hardships Inevitable In mining or prospecting In the arctics A youm man thoroughly conversant with ml nlng and of robust constitution who Is prepared to undergo great hardship might do well to go to Alaska Mr Bush thinks CONDITIONS BAD Conditions In Nome according to Mi Bush are very bltd The place it much overcrowded and filled with hundreds of people who have nothing to do and have no means of getting out of the country Mr Bush believe that It will be necessary for the Gov crnmcnt to bring a least five thousand thou-sand people out of Nome this fail When he left there he says the small pox had been pretty well stamped out but there were plenty of pneumonia cases there and much sickness from other causcso man Mr Bush says no matter how vigorous he Is car withstand more than two or three years of that climate Crime Is rapidly rapid-ly Increasing In Nome and when the dark nights come on as they will lawlessness will Increase As It Is now Mr Bush says the soldiers there under command of Gen Randall are doing police duty patrolling the city regularly and doing what they can to preserve order The party of which Mr Bush was n member took a trip In Mr Rognone gasoline launch around the coast 24C or 250 miles iJthln sight of the Slber Ian coast visiting and prospecting many rivers the Kougarok Cassade iaga Took Sook and others The Government Gov-ernment geologists have correctly described I de-scribed the formation of the country I here Mr Bush says as the country for hundreds of miles Is composed of i mica schist Mr Bush brought back some samples of this schist which contain con-tain considerable free gold The country coun-try northwest of Nome contains much good mineral he says but it will require re-quire much money to develop the country coun-try For forty miles at least lumber for mining would have to be carried In on the shoulders of men as there 13 1 not n stick ot timber around where the gold deposits are Mr Bush says he was much nur irlscd at the climate north of Nome The temperature was comfortable and ho trip around the coast would nTtVG liV been n thoroughly enjoyable one but for the clouds of mosquitoes Flowers In abundance were found along the rivers with many species of berry such as dewberry raspberry and huckleberry and even honey bees were to be seen ESQUIMAUX GET WORST OF IT There Is much distress among the Esquimaux there Mr Bush says Mis lonarlcs and traders have prevailed upon the simple natives tp part with heir furs for gaudy calico and noisy vhlsky and as a result the natives are natves flying in swarms from complaints duo to exposure The Government au hor ties are doing all In their power to alleviate the condition of the natives In connection with the miseries of the natives consequent upon the expo sure which they are subjected to hcough want of clothing Mr Bush re lated one Incident that was horrifying In Its nature Ho said that the party met two prospectors who had with hem a little Eskimo girl of about 8 year She was according to the story of the men who had her the sole survivor sur-vivor of a family of eight HEEDING ON WOMANS CARCAS The attention of the prospectors was ailed to the case by the little girls requesting them to come and see the doss eating her mother Entering the place where the family lived the man wie shocked beyond measure to find the savage and famishing dogs devour lag the childs dead mother The rc lalning sb members of the family hail l already died and been eaten by thc starving animals The prospectors took the little girl and when they were met by Mr Bushs party the men were en route to Nome where they hoped to find some place where the child II chid could be taken pare of The selling or whisky to the natives has HO dcmoral Ized the men Mrjiuli says that they arc getting too lazy to fish enough to enoush provide food frfr thdlr families and many are dying of simple starvation strvnton Mr Bush was severe In his dcnunci alien of the Seattle press which he avs has deliberately misrepresented ondltlons In Nome As an Instance he cites i story to the effect that 200 men were Working on Blucstone river ta Icing out about 51500 worth of gold per day From personal Inspection Mr Bush says he knows that there Is not a sluicebox set on the entire river and he cites several other Instances where things havo been misrcpre ented RAIN WOULD DESTROY TOWN I Is fortunteMr Bush thinks that here boa been little rain at Nome A onslderable downpour he says would sweeT the town away as tho place Is buIlt directly under the tundra which 1s frozen a few Inches below the wur face and the water from a rainfall vould now directly down upon tho town and wnsh it away Mr Bush says he found the country as good a mining locality as he expected expect-ed but ho was surprised at the manner In which It was overcrowded The country would be all right for 4500 or O men he believes and he thinks hat In time when the rush is over It wl be fOund to bo a good country not so richas the Klondike probably but u good country l FORMER SALT LAKERS THERE Mr Bush mentioned several former Salt Lakers who are there They are all enjoying good health he says Among them were Bill Martin once a ellknown figure on Salt Lake HtreeLv tMiFQ Sullivan a former utrcel 113111 I Eddy who achieved fame some years ago by his connection with tho I < jowandarrow game here but who Is now J u steady business man in Nome gd t Waterman and DeWItL B Lowe The luttur Mr Bush says has got hold or a lot of ground and will probably make cOnidthztble out of It Mr ftuRh impeded to remain north longer but became sick and felt that he had lot ter come home before he cot worse He has now almost entirely recovered entroly I his health and hopes to be quite well again In a few days He came down on the Oregon accompanied by E M Onion of Salt Lake who remained for 0 few days in Seattle and Charles Pence a brother of Lute Pence who went on to his home In California Messrs Rognon and Williams will probably stay In Nome all next winter Mr Bush says |