Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1895-09-06

ions, took regular turns at cooking
and doing their chores and slept in
the same bunk.
Dan Nolan was member of the
camp that summer. de was young
and bOyish looking, but his manly
demeanOr, his ready wit, industrl
Gus habits and accommodating dis.
position made him a great favorite
with his companions. He was
brought up in Dublin and con-
sidered that city his home, as his
mother and only sister, to whom
he sent part OF each months earn.
Jugs, still lived there.
OF course he was not called Dan
Nolan, for miners find nicknames
for their fdvOrites as we'll as for
others, aud though not selected
with aGy regard for aesthetics or
euphony they are generally ex'
preSsive and often very apprOpri-
ate. So Dan was known by the
more alliterative name of "Dubln
Dan" His pard was called 'JOa
quin" Jones. When he first came
to the Bar, he SAID his name was
Jones, but as he had a copy OF
"Sons of the Sierras," which he
read and quoted from with great
freedom and frequency, he very
soon got "JOaQuln' as front n anne.
1t was rumored that he had his
tory in Arizona and was a bad
man when be reused. No one in.
quired concerning his real name,
since IN the far west it is often
taken as a personal insult TO ask a
man what his name in "the States
was.
The first time Jane came to
French Bar another squaw, a good
deal older and much less cOmely,
who afterward learned was her
mother, accompanied her. If she
had any other relatives, l never
heard of them, l did in some way
hear that she had attended the
Mcfarland school at Fort Wran.
gell, Alaska, but never knew GER
tainly whether the report was true
or not. Still, as she spoke English
pretty well, it is very probable she
learned 1t there.
The Suckeen Indians, the tribe
to which Jane belonged, claim the
whole Stickeen river region, ex-
tending back something like 90
!
miles into the interior, as their
country. But they do not use the
upper portion of it except the fish
ing, hunting and gathering berries
in the spring and summer, f)r in
the winter they reside on the
Alaskan ocean and the numerous
islands near the mouth of the river
in the vicinity of Fort Wrangell, +,
where they have permanent will
ages.
Most delicious salmon berries
and two or three kinds of buckle
berries grow in great abundance
along the river, and during the
time covered by this story a small
party OF natives were camped on
il a few miles above our camp, en-
gagged principally in picking them.
Jane and her mother were with
this party, aud almost every day
some of the squaws would bring
down berries in variety to sell to
the miners. One night soon after
Jane made her first appearance at
tue bar 1t raiued very hard, caus-
ing Beaver creek, from which we
took our water for mining purposes,
to rise unusually high and flood
our main fame to such an extent
that it broke. This stopped work
until the break could be repaired
Part of the men, therefore, went
up early in the morning to mend
the flume while the others lOunged
about the camp and the bar, talk
log, smoking and doing odd chores
waiting to begin work as soon as
they could get water for their
G slulcebOxes.
! Dublin Dan and four or five
I others were sitting OH large hem
b lock log near the camp, talking
! and smoking to kill time, wheI
J., Jane came along the path will
1 basket OF berries. AS sht
came in trout OF fellow known il
b camp as Jack OF Clubs, because 0
! supposed resemblance to tha
rather notorious knave, he sud
b denly put out his foot. AS 81
: was walking pretty fast she trippe'
:, add fell headlOng down a steel
+, bank seven or eight feet on L
t some rocks below, spllling th
S berries and smashing the basket il
r the fall.
" Now, | do otthink that Jack in
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