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Leonard Shaw Loses His Life in Windy Arm. BREAKS THROUGH THIN ICE. Rescue Party Makes an Unavailing Efort to Render Him Assistance— Body Net Recovered—Two Other Men, Unknown, Are Swallowed Up While Trying to Reach Shore —Trouble Over Miners’ Licenses. News of the drowning of Leonard Shaw, a young Englishman, a resident of Hud dersfield, England, in Windyarm of Lake Tagish, on May 14, reached this city yesterday in a letter from a Post- Intelligencer correspondent now on Lake Tagish. The letter also says that the Ca nadian mounted police at Lake Tagish t have been making the prospective Kron dikers take out another free miners’ li cense, claiming that the one they pur chased in Victoria is not good in the Northwest territory. Shaw broke through the ice while cross ing Windy Arm on the afternoon of March 4, and was drowned. He was in the em ployment of the Gifford Mill Company, and was on their business at the time. He was working to pay for lumber used in constructing a small boat in which he proposed to take his outfit to Dawson. A rescue party, composed of Zack Hick man, J. N.Hooper, C. A. Johnson and M. E. Clough, went out of the ice at great risk to render him assistance. They were too late, as the man had disappeared un der the ice pack. His body was not re covered. While the rescuers were on the ice they saw two men break through the ice about three miles down the lake. They wer frst achserved running towards shore, when suddenly the ice broke through and both were swallowed up. Their identity was not learned, and the bodies are unrecovered. In regard to the alleged ‘grafting’ scheme of the mounted police at Tagish, the Post - Intelligencer correspondent writes: “There has been considerable trouble be tween the prospective Krondikers camped here and the Canadian police over the question of miners’ licenses. All of the campers have licenses purchased in Vic toria, entitling them to miners’ rights in the Dominion of Canada. The police chers insist that the Victoria licenses are good for British Columbia only, and that an other must be purchased for the North west territory. They demand $10 for the license, and stop men cutting timber an d they pay over the money. “G. A. Cunliffe, of 1017 Main street, Se attle, said he would pay for the license if the officer insisted, but told him that he would go up to Lake Bennett at once and see Maj. Walsh about it. The offi cer did not press him further.” Mrs. E. W. Howe, of Potsdam, N. Y., died at Lake Tagish on May § of lung trouble. She was @ years of age, and was bound for the Klondike with her son, Dr. W. F. Howe. Up to the time of her last illness she had been an exceptionally strong woman, and had found no diffi culty in getting over the passes and down to Tagish. George M. Allen, well known in this city, who is bound for Dawson to edit the Klondike Nugget, had a narrow es cape from death while hunting mountain goat in the hills near Lake Tagish. He slipped while moving across the top of a peak and started sliding down the moun tain on the frosty crust of its snow cov ering. He went the distance of 500 feet in less time almost than it takes to tell it. His companions expected to find his body among the sharp rocks in a small ravine that had been uncovered by a re cent slide. He struck a chunk of ice about 100 feet from the bottom, which broke the force of his slide, and he escaped with a severe shaking up. The story of “Swiftwater Bill’ Gates’ drowning evidently came from a narrow escape he had on Lake Tagish early in the month. The Gates party was camp ing on the shore of the lake, and on the day of the accident had just learnéd of American victories in the Spanish war. “Swiftwater” is a patriotic citizen, and started in to celebrate. He got very drunk and in company with two men of his party, went out on the fire. All three broke through, and had not a rescue party promptly gone out from shore, would have been drowned. The story of Gates’ nar row escape was magnified into a drown ing by the time it reached Lake Bennett. Under date of May %, the Post-Intelli gencer’s correspondent gives the following Net of Seattle people encamped on Lake Tagish: Jay Woodin, Will Woodin, Ed Green, James Daugherty, Win Chamber lin, Col. J. H. McLaughlin, Robert Bur nett, Edward Williams, Dr. Albion, James Sanders, — Hamilton, Alexander Ander son, Wick Sill, Thomas Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. S. Walker, — David, Charles Ward, R. McIntyre, G. A. Cunliffe and Messrs. Lund, McKnight and Thompson, formerly employed on the Madison street line. At Gifford’s mill, on Windy Arm, the following are encamped: M. E. Clough, C. A. Johnson, Edward Hering, J. N. Hooper, George M. Allen, Zack Wickman, William Burke, Edward Brant, Ray Foster, Louis Dizard and others.
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
Seattle, Washington, US
Sat, May 28, 1898
Page 11
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