Show 9 THEY GET STARTED I Perfect Weather and the Ten Days Pass Agreeably t Coirespondenco Tribune On Board the Ohio En Route from Egg Island to Nome June 26th Although I left Salt Lake City May 10th and It is now June 25th I am sllll I not at Nome We have been quarantined 1 quaran-tined for tho past ten days off Egg Isl land about ninety miles from Nome on account of two cases small jiqx During the time weererquarautincdt I another ship the Santa Anawns I also placed In quarantine she having had two cases of smallpox aboard All tic patients were placed onEgg Island where they will remain till they arc better They are all gelling along splendidly and only one ot them will be badly pitted No new cases developed I1our ship while in quarantine and last night we were given a clean bill of health and today wo are sailing away for Nome We hope to land this time without any trouble The ten days have passed remarkably quick although at first we all thought It was a gross outrage to quarantine us we finally became resigned to our fate and took it philosophically Almost every evening we have had some kind entertainment We have had several sev-eral evenings of music and song one evening we had n mock trial In which I took part two evenings we issued a newspaper a gentleman named Gilmore getting out the first edition and I the second edition The passengers talk publishing both papers at Nome and It they do Ill send you one Wahave had wo Sunday services and the music and song have been excel lenu l We huvc played cards and chess and alo and smoked and enjoyed as grand weather as mon ever saw out doors I cannot believe I am In Alaska ItJs the perfect June day of Utah we are enjoying only it is tempered by the sweetest breezes from the sea that ever caressed a humans check Each one of the ton days we have been in quar antine wo have enjoyed the sunshine and tho fleecy clouds the blue sky and the pure atmosphere and we have won dered whether our friends at home were not Picturing us as nil dead or dying with the smallpox while we were en Joying ourselves to our hearts content Wp probably J have been unfortunate In being delayed but If the rumors we nave heard concerning other vessels be true we have not been so unfortunate after all We are told that the M Charles Nelson has not been heard from at all and may have been cru3hed In the Ice that the Caroune which had a largo number of passengers stove I a Hole In her bow near Unalaska and was completely disabled by striking on the rocks the Rosencrnnz1 a Govern ment transport was wasstrandeu near the mouth of the Yukon river and had to be pulled off l bv the Valencia that the Slcoolmm a vessel we saw as we I lett Dutch harbor and which had o on itan Immense ityan amount of cattle horses I Hheer lumber and other freight caught fire at Dutch harbor and I was a com plete wreck Of course welmvc not been abe to verify these reports as we have been so completely Isolated from till outside world neither being allowed to send any mall from the boat or receive any on it We have heard that there is considerable lawlessness at Nome three men having been killed In two days last week We alao heard that quite a num berof people havo sold out their outilts and arc returning to the States How ex er I shall I I know more about the PlaCe I by thc end of this week and If I find a Placebo livo atl time to write I shall writc ypu again BhWtiy JOSEPH LIPPMAN Arrived at Nome Later Jun 26th We have arrived atjvomo and I mall these letters l from hqrenot haylnc had the opportunity tosend tlujm before JOIPIr LIPPMAN |