Chester Pullen, third and youngest son of Mrs. H. S. Pullen of Skagway,
met his death in a mysterious manner at Ketchikan last Sunday night while enroute from his home to Seattle to re-enter the Washington University in which he had been a student for the past two years.
It seems that when the steamer City of Seattle on which he was a passenger tied up at Ketchikan about midnight young Pullen went ashore for the purpose of visiting the cold storage plant which is busy at this season of the year in freezing fish. As the walk to the fish plant lies some distance from the wharf and is reached by a walk which extends over the tideflat, it is supposed that he fell from the walk in the dark and was drowned, as the body was found early next morning, and when the water was out, lying on the tideflat.
Chester Pullen was nearly twenty-three years of age and was a young man of great promise. His eldest brother, D. D. Pullen, is a first lieutenant in the United States army and his other brother, Royal, is a mining engineer in the employ of the Canadian-Klondike Mining company at Dawson. The bereaved mother is one of the best known, as well as one of the most popular women in the North and to her will be extended the sympathy of all who knew her.
The body of the unfortunate young man was brought to Skagway from Ketchikan on the steamer Jefferson for interment.
