Fairbanks County AK Archives News.....Found Frozen in His Cabin May 8, 1911 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ak/akfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sherri Bradley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000051 April 17, 2010, 12:43 am The Alaska Citizen May 8, 1911 GEORGETOWN, March 22, -- On March 8 O.R. Mayben, Alex Frazier and Harrie Laurie, prospectors. William Young, trader and woodchopper and a native named Waskie, found the cabin door of Harry Jacobson standing open and his body dead ad frozen stiff on his bed inside. The prospectors had been at work on Nanzatatak river, and running low on food went to Jacobson's cabin to buy provisions. Jacobsson was about 55 or 60 years old, had lied two years in his late cabin and was a trapper by occupation. He was better known as "Scow Harry". He is thought to have had considerable money, but only $75 could be found on his person. Tow hotcakes with a piece cut out on one, and a cup of coffee were on the table. The candle had burned down ad scorched a wooden candle-holder, with last week in February out, hung on the wall but dates had been corrected in pencil up to March 5 on the under sheet. Coroner Heavey and Deputy Marshall Siebe went to the cabin, about 70 miles up the river, and brought the body and a number of valuable skis to this place. The body is being prepared for burial in the third row in Georgetown's new cemetery, on a high bar across the Kuskokwim. Whether death was due to natural causes or accidentally swallowing some of the poisons all trappers use, is not revealed. No realties are known. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ak/fairbanks/newspapers/foundfro40gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/akfiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb