KLU-TUK, BANDIT NATIVE OF
NUSHAGAK SECTION, FOUND
DEAD IN HIS LONELY CABIN
_ {Anchorage Times.)
Klu-tuk Is dead. Long sought by
officers of the la wfor the murder of
a number, of .natives and white trap
pers in the region .about the head
waters of the Nushagak river, where
he long reigned supreme, the “Man of
the Mountain” was found dead recent
ly in a cabin .near- the headwaters of
- the Mulehatna -river, a tributary of
-the Nusha&ak He, apparently had
died a natural*, death.
News * of', the .discovery, which will
be glad.tiding^ to natives and whites
alike throughout, that vast wilderness
extending from Bristol Bay to Sleit
mut, on the upper Kuskokwim river,
■..•-"was brought,to Anchorage this week
». by Pilot Mdtf. A. Nieminen, of the
Alaska Airways, who learned at Mc
Grath that- Stanley Nichols, deputy
United States marshal, had found the
~ body, and determined almost to a cer
■ tainty that-the remains were those of
. Klu-tuk.
Klu-tuk-was a full-blooded Indian,
,. born.in .the Nushagak river district
about-38.years, ago. He first became
- notorious in- 1919, when it is said his
. - career, of-erime started, by killing two
. natives and announcing that he would
. kill two -more. Subsequent events in
t. dicatedUhat he did not stop at that.
Fro mihat time until death rel
i moved him he had the entire upper
1 Nushagak district under his control
Through some system unknown to the
whites, he kept himself constantly
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in touch with what was going on I
throughout the district and beyond.
He seemed to know when any man,
entered his territory and he resented
all such intrusions. Disdaining to use
the weapons known to civilization for
his own needs, he shot his game with
bow and arrow; but he packed a 30.30
rifle for his human prey. A small
dog was his only companion, travel
ing with him wherever he went and
acting as his trusted guard while he
slept. He is reported to have placed
arrows in front of his cabin as a
warning to keep off his trail.
On severa liccasions, in response to
appeals for aid in ridding the country
of the crazed bandit, the federal gov
ernment sent parties into the district
in quest of the Man of the Mountain,
1 some going in from Dillingham, oth
ers from the Kuskokwim, but Klu-tuk
cleverly avoided them. It is said he
had the other natives so greatly in
fear of him that they informed him
of approaching danger and refused
to give any information regarding
his whereabouts to the officers.
About April 15, 1927, Harvey Sak-'
rison, an American white man, to
gether with Charles Anderson, a half
breed, born on the Nushagak river,
went up that river to trap beaver.
They landed about 35 miles from
where the Chuchitnok river joins the
Nushagak, at Jack Aho’s cabin. They
; trapped up to and until the 22d day
: of May of the same year, having
marked off the calendar until that
I time, then left a note on the table for
Jack Aho and Ole Wassentry, and
left for their trap line. They previ
ously had made arrangements with
Aho and Wassentry to meet them
\ there at the cabin about that date
and go down the river together.
! On the 25th day of May, Jack Aho
i and Ole Wassentry went to the cabin,
found the note and took the dogs and
heavy stuff and started back to Snag
Point, so as to be on time for the
fishing season. They expected Har
vey and Charles to follow as soon as
they had taken their limit of beaver.
However time passed and they did
did not show up, so on the second day
of July the case was reported to the
authorities. There was not enough
evidence for the officials to act on, so
i the local men took it upon themselves
to act.
| Butch Smith, a prospector, and Ole
, Wassentry took their own boat and
started out to look for the missing
men. After traveling 245 miles and
; searching for several days they found
Harvey’s body in the river about two
miles from Aho’sc cabin. The body
. was caught by a sweeper and only the
j shoulders were visible. Smith and
his companion had been instructed
that if there was sign of foul play
to leave the body where they found
j it and report to the commissioner.
| They secured the body to the shore
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and left to search for the other miss
ing man. The search was unsuccess
ful and so they returned to Dilling
ham and reported their find to the
authorities. The commissioner au
thorized a party of five men to go, up
and bring the body down. This was
done, and after the body Was taken
from the river one man took aboown, ■
while the remaining four continued |
the search for the partner of the dear'
man. They continued their search
for five days and then gave up iird^ -•
spair. They reported to the comnmi
sioner, and the case was dropped, for
the time being.
About the 1st of September, 1182V,
Andrew Kalvik and Fred Peterson,
white trappers of the .district, hired
Butch Smith to take them up the rivo
to 20 miles above the Tic-chik river.
They arrived one night at about- I‘5
miles above the Tic-chik and camped
for the night at a place called Harris
creek. Mr. Smith was awakened at.
2 a. m. by a mu?ed noise. He got up
and looked out the flap of th etent
just in time to see a small dog ap
pear fro mbehind a clump of willows
growing on the bank of the river
about 20 feet away, and no sooner
had the dog appeared than a hand
reached out and pulled the dog back
from sight.
Mr. ismun awaKenea tne otner two
men and together they kept watch for
another sign of life. It was nearly
an hour before a sign appeared, and
then it was a head or the top of a
head as though he were going to look
over the top of the willows. As soon
as the head was seen Smith gave a
yell and jumped and made a grab far
the man. He was successful. He
caught him by the forearm and pulled
! hi minto the tent, where a light was
struck and then it was they knew it
| was the crazy Indian Klu-tuk.
! He was not armed at the time, his
rfifle being in the skin boat about
feet away. He was held in the tent
I until morning. The three had decid
ed to leave one man to watch the na
j tive and the other two to take the
provisions on up to the trapping
| ground, which would take about four
hours. Harvey Kelvig decided to stay.
| He was cautioned to keep good watch
and not to let the native get to his
gun. The other two left and were
gone about five hours. Returning
about noon, they landed at the place,
and Smith shouted “Here we are.”
However, they received no answer,
and things began to take on a very
dierent aspect. They got out of the
boat and went up to the tent, and
there they found Kelvig shot through
the arm and the back of his head cut
open with an ax.
Evidently the native had got to his
gun and shot at Kelvig, creasing him
across the chest and knocking him
down and finishing him with the ax.
The native had fled and had taken
matches, his gun, ax, grub and a few
traps belonging to the trappers. How
ever, he left his skin boat.
Neither Smith nor Peterson were
armed, so they returned at once to
report tot he marshal. Smith swore
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TWEEN NEN ANA AND FLAT
Miles
Nenana . 00
Tavern Roadhouse ..... 17%
Knight’s Roadhouse . 28%
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse_68 ..
Diamond Roadhouse__76
Roosevelt ....... 89
Lake Minchumina ___116
Trappers’ Cabin ... 132
Lone Star Roadhouse _ 166
Telida Roadhouse.. 169%
Slow Fork Roadhouse_187
East Fork Roadhouse _) 206
Berry’s Landing Roadhouse_227%
Big River Roadhouse_241
McGrath ...268
T&kotna ..........280
Bill Goss’ Roadhouse_291
Ophir_809
McCafferty.306
Brown Creek shelter cabin_316
Fritz shelter cabin _ 833
First Chance shelter cabin_346
Schermeyer R. H.___366
Iditarod....376
Flat __384
Bonanzza sheler cabin, 12 miles
from Flat.
Crooked Creek shelter cabin, 19
' miles from Bonanza.
to a complaint and the commissioner
and marshal, together with a coro
ner’s jury, left at once for the scene
of the murder. The inquest was held,
and the jury decided that foul play
of some kind was the cause of his
death and that the crazy Indian was
most likely responsible for the death.
Kelvig was buried where be fell.
“Doctor,” asked a lady of color,
“Ah come to see if .yo’ am goin’ to j
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plasters .ag’in today?”
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“Well, he says to ax yo’ kin he
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Patient: “I believe I’m a little bet
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breath.”
Dr. Killyum: “I can stop that
completely after a few more treat
ments.”
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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT.
Estate of Joseph Lewis, deceased.
Mattie Crosby has been appointed
and qualified- as administratrix of the
estate of Joseph- Lewis, late of Kus
kokwim Precinct, Fourth Division,
Territory of Alaska, deceased.
Dated at- Napamute this 6th day of
June, A. D. 1913.
GEO. W. HOFFMAN,
Probate Judge of said Precinct,
lsfc.pub. June 27; last, July 26.
j Frank J. Guskey J
. Notary ;Fublie J
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