Show tuc IN K mlJ til19 Account Of he if tethering o 110 Th am Seattle Wash April I 1ExMayor 1wF11II0iuVd23hwi Alol 751 try01 M D Wuu rT3r here today from the lower Yukon river having made a re trig if over 1300 Miles over Ice nnd rp ovc the thermometer now with a dog team with mometer BUW ranging from 10 to C3 degrees filowzero No embir lilh Mr Wood And 1 W Cm started up the Yukon from the mwTth ot the Tanana river They stopped at Fort Yukon and Circle City or tmral dale and arrived at Dawson February 12th Oa February 21th they tatted from Don to this I cltyheys n dava out from Dawson they met the Canadian mounted police wllh a large amount of mol which haa I been eagerly expected at t Damon all winter IJverythine was quiet at Dawson Mr Wood says that from Investigation made by him he estimates the spring cleanup In the Klondike district will run between ten and fifteen million dollars The greatest sensation of the winter U Between hits been the discovery otc ot-c gold on the hlllsldeH between Ilonanu and Kl I Dorado and between the lilt and Little Skookum gulches The largest nugget ao far found S536 wu found on this high ground llln tn seem at n loss I to account for this deposit on ground that Is I from twenty to 300 feet r above the bedrock of adjacent adja-cent creeks It Is not yet known uhtther such deposits ore general or merely local The Talent stampede from Dawson wu the one that occurred February Klh lo Swede creek all miles above Daocoo In the rush four men vvhoao names could not Va learned perished from I he cold vhlie tn route from Tanana river to Dawson Mr Wood paid particular attention at-tention to the mineral district on the American side of tile line and his ob servatlons have made him enthusiastic ovtr Its prospects There has been u great deal of prospecting along all the conks from the lunanri to Tortymlle crick this winter and the results obtained t ob-tained are very encouraging There seems to he a general I movement a I Irosirectors to this section The lower Rampart and the Key u link are es leclally promising There Is a revival In Interest around Circle CRY Before Mr Wood left Dawson Jack Can the well known Trial carrier had arrived thfrebringivic mail from St Michaels and lower Yukon points This la the first word to be recoiled this lfiltar from St Michael It inould reachtho coast In a few days 1artlcuUtr Inti crest attaches to the rlnl of Mr Wood owing to it feet that fee-t he am the orgualzer of the exPedition ex-Pedition hich left lore last August for Dawson City but owing to the lateness of the season only me ched a Point out tie All St Michaels I V11 went Into Winter quarters u was reported several limes that Mayor Wood was In danger i It personal violence from his dip pointed followers He Haj there was not the Ica4t foundat oil for such we is To Ila Alaka March 27Via Seat tie 1 aedw April ICol T AI Antler on In command of the Federal troop I A avetheltotern Alaska has BU aside I It of land claim 4 by the Talla Klondike TLU ccripany asa as-a military reserve slid Its put men toO to-O rt 1 to build a permanent TV o I I lit Ime I Lar hot for fortiflealtynsfid The boric Seminole hall arrived A TIAlenA 11091n mitt the hi rd of relndi er Since March 1st T MS people he a states rl ed at TnlU anti Skneuay Train the Pero it laopbot Daver Colo April 3 John J IItz Ireland anti 0rg 41 Dalltill emlw fawe 1 I holea erk handball trionde elicit tho worlds homplno Ifessrs Cally In Dull III lllqkIi N I her this Afternoon most setting icrewra ntewt The ft to a At 11 tery IhIlartare I he locl play ere I I ill OU Brooklyn learn Capt Case after the thereYuvInatoted gnme that there as 11 In the country that oculd t he Don ver men I I LO11Ittift InKfaill April 3The 1110111lon In unfilmn I that It was the erto aw stamer Itagnot fan f-an beech tile he 1lon to M11 c 11 M It 10th In collpilon air lab hard flllhfilll o 1111h the British bark nrlh IT eir Capt Scott from LOU The cAptoln re that the llllznct rank almost nediatily and that thl Ittn of ter crew m drowned |