Show T ienir T FOR S 0 N boy vanished from seattle wash about year ago admiral john A rodgers going to alaska in effort to locate lad letter from far north tells tella of mysterious young man seattle wash rear admiral john A rodgers in command of the navy yard puget sound will soon go to alaska in search ot at his lost sop cop alexander rodgers who was last heard of a year ago when he was planning to go down tho the tanana river on a rait raft admiral rodgers la Is impelled to make the trip north himself by a letter from bethel alaska which has just come to hand it Is written by dob bob hunter to a friend in Br emerton whose name the admiral does not wish to reveal according to the letter hunter was building a power boat at bithel ba thel last month for toa trip to the Idl Idi A young man applied to him with the proposition that he should earn a trip up the river by helping build the boat hunter goes on to say aay that the young fellow worked nard hard but adds that privations which he suffered had apparently affected his bis mind for days he would not say a word and would then talk disconnectedly of a father alfather in the south who had 2000 men working for him all of his namo nama that hunter had discovered was alexander hunter goes on to say that he be la Is taking the stranger along with him to the new diggings because he be is such a good worker and Is going to give him the Br emerton mans kit which hunter huntar was keeping in bethel hunter closes with an urgent request to his Br emerton friend to join him in the north because he la Is not sure that al ex ander andee will prove a good working partner that admiral rodgers t elleves believes gob bob H hunters companion Is his bla son eon la is shown by his visit to tho the schooner P J abler which will soon boon sail for the admiral rodgers handed to capt E H B D hoffman skipper at 0 the abler 60 letters addressed to dob bob hunter which are to be distributed throughout district in the lopes hopes that one of them may come into the hands of tho the right party they describe alexander rodgers as twenty two years old 5 feet 8 inches high weight pounds blue eyes blonde hair fair complexion nearsighted wearing glasses classes when he left home the letters which are signed by the admiral request mr air hunter to wire any information from the nearest office admiral rodgers was accompanied on his visit to the abler by john rodgers an older brother of the missing roan man who has recently returned from a fruitless search lit in alaska A long consultation was held in tho the cabin of the P J abler between the two naval officers and A J dorn born owner of the abler and captain hoffman as to the methods of the search when the abler ti stopped topped at bethel on june 17 there was no such person as bob hunter there bethel is a little lithe indian andall the white people know one another by name the letter was dated june 27 and hunter states that he Is handing it to captain johnson johnson a known as tho the skipper of a small sloop which runs between nome and bethel the bremerton brewerton Br emerton man received the letter in cordova and brought it down from alaska mr dorn born cannot account for the shortness of time between bethel and cordova the only explanation ex Dlana Is some mistake in the date line of hunters letter |