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Show THAT l'HAT03I Cm. AN ALASIvA JIISEK t HO "iSSBTS THAT IT JS A KEALITV. Thestoryof the phantom city in Alaska Is again being revived. A yeara,ro the report of the discovery of such a city among the- Icy sttfpes, whettTer-realora mirage, attracted wprld-wlde-attention: George H Kerehon, an oil California miner -Who had arrived of Tacoma from the frozen north after a two-years sojourn, givesa rorresiundentof the at Ixmls I'epubhc a graj hie story of his exiicrienie in its vicinity. fJlilrg via Juursu fUC the regular ealtKr heanSfrve txrmranions-liuill a &O0P alfd " prOi'ecBCd-' Uf the VuU'ii. About (K) mlUfl us, Kvr-idtim Kvr-idtim engaged tw u Indiana andean Indian cauoe. and iroceeded up a fork he u&s anxious to explore. Several we.ks passed br, and, snow 4-onuug.pti, JCcnbou determined bi -cam(t for t!tu.,water. Jjooklug-. for game one day won afteru iro'bi-proceeded iro'bi-proceeded on foot up the frozen river. Climbing into the foothills of a broad plateau and thence to-a high mountain to, look for t-heep be had a wondcrful-vlew. "But the strangest thing," said, he, "wain city in one of the valleyB below. It was a city, sure enough, an I. determining to fee more of it, I commenced to work downward, rfie J ndian w ho was with me taw it aim, but- was not afraid, faying that lie had seen it UJ fore. .After -everal hours ol hard work Treaclied tlie outskirts of the'mysterloug city, and found that it-was laid out in regular stnets, with buildings re-Ft-mbllng towns and mcg0es. Tn city ap-ieared entirely of ice, and thebuildings glistened like.beeaU-ful like.beeaU-ful silver temples. A few "blows with a hatchet, however, destroyed tbe illusion, for Uie aiscovery was then made that the bulldiues were of wood and only sheeted with Ice. "An awful stillness reigned about. There was not the slightest Bound anyw here, and the clljr seemed Jiku a great graveyard, .In places huge blocks, of ice almost Impeded progress. It was'a large cftr, and I amlnlrressedwIUltbe belief that it was not so many jr ago Inhabited. In-habited. After spring bad broke 1 mstre.someBooi.ttrfl.es In nugget gcldnear theXiopr-BlJ nnallyi worfieil my way down the river to Vokim again. rTha. vtM-tne last of "" " 1 ' ' " i . "; .i.ul H'c -rt August. In ,ta. tntli S Juneah, and tlu-n I s.t- uv. w,n3, accounts of the mirage at iluir glacier. Ialld not theti- -make, tny allusions to my'-'owat-atritnge experience, ex-perience, kuowlnfttople would Im; slow to believe tniy txil X; am. positive posi-tive that thu-Muirglaeletmlrage U the reflection bfixjisdllfrizten cilji found try me." dt iat mxs , |
