The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-04-09
HE II THE sON OF A s.LORD..,
II. Campbell Nelson on His Way To shoot
Bear in Alaska.

When the train arrived from the South
yesterday a tail, gooi-iooking young
man. with a wsie, white sosnhrero. ac-
cosnpazlied by AN o2d-appearing dun cod
ored dog. aiighted and was taken 40 the
Northern hotel. where a few minutes
later he modeStly registered as III.
Campbell Nelson. London. England" The
young man Is the eldest son OF an Eng
lssh ford. and Is on his way 10 hunt bear
in the wiEds OF interior Alaska He IS
the owner of a large cattle ranch in
Southern California, and mas been on the
Coast for rifree years. and talked readily
about his intended trip. He says he has
hunked bear and noun rain sheep IN the
moun ;aals OF Oregon and California, and
he thinks the Pacific coas, Is far superior
go any country ne has Yet been IN. with
reference 10 the climate. Said he:
1T beats Australia and New Zealand
Down there man freezes for nine
months In the year and then in the other
three he is roasted TO death. Why, down
there horses are sunstruek in summer.
and in winter Ii Is hard TO keep them
alive because of the cold. California is
funny place, don't you know. Some OF
those who have lived there all their lives
think the sun rises and sets In California.
They think San Francisco is the end of
the world and they live from one year to
another in the hope OF being able the
next to make a trip to the city. When
they die they think they will go TO San
Francisco-that will be heaven enough for
them and that is all they pray for.
"But in the East and In Europe II is
different. The Eastern people and some
OF those who live across the water think
that California Is a wilderness of gold
mines and forests with riches waiting for
the daring ernigrant TO come out and
claim. But they no more think or coming
out than they think of making a trip to
the moon or Mars: they imagine that
such trip is always for some one else
20 make tt has never occurred 20 them
that it would be possible for them TO
come and I suppose II is Just as well
that they don't come. Some people in the
East are lust as blasted big fools as some
OF those ! have known in England. don't
you know. They imagine that bears and
cougars run wild on Market street and
that there are shooting scrapes in the
streets every day between the desperate
men who live there
However, Mr.. Nelson likes California
just the same, and when some day his
father dies and he becomes an English
lord he will have a good word to say OF
this country, providing he does not
change his mind. This is not his first
trip to Alaska. He was there year
ago and spent two months hunting in
the interior OF the southwestern part of
the territory, near Mount st. Elias. His
two uncles who were with him went
further in, and one of them made the
three thousand mile trip down the Yukon
river TO st. Michaels. from which place he
caught a steamer and called home. When
he reached England and told his story
his friends thought he was a blooming
liar" as Mr.. Nelson expressed IL.
Next fall the young man will hunt In
the mountains OF Eastern Oregon, and
next year he Will hunt In the Olympic
mountains. He would very much like 20
climb Mount Rainier, but he does not
know just when he will have the oppor-
tunity.