The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-10-30

| jumpers came The boy was asleep
! and the old man was on watch Before
I the old man knew what had happened
! they had shot him i'm the shoulder.
The boy heard the shot. and out he
Jumped with gun in each hand.
dropped two OF the fellows that We're
after them quicker than wink and
wounded a third The fourth man WAS
SO frightened that he ran away with
out firing a shot. Then the boy fixed
The old man up little and came down
into the town and told what had hap
pcned The boys got together right
away and went out TO the old mans
camp and brought him back to town
and fixed him up the best the camp
knew how. and soon found cut that he
was not badly hurt. After they made
this discovery the kid dropped to the
floor as though he had been shot. We
picked him Up and laid him in bunk,
ana then he found out that Ne was not
a boy at all. but "A girl-and as pretty
little girl as YOU ever want TO look at.
las / afterWard got the story, the old
man was in fearful hard luck back
east, and somebody told him about THIS
place. His wife was dead, and hd only
had one girl He wanted 10 come out
her. but she just said she would como
with him as a boy and made the old
man agree TO her scheme. Maybe YOU
don't think the boys were AN stuck on
her and her father after the little cpl
.sode ! mention. There isn't anything
in Dawson too good for them. That
girl could marry any unmarried man
in town. and l have heard that she is
likely to take enc OF them before long,
one of the best boyt. and we will all
be at the wedding"
II one goes prepared to withstand the
cold 90 the arctic winters he can live j.
the Alaskan godfields almost as com
fortably as he can in Cripple Creek. II
seems 20 be fact that many of the
stories of hardships and privatiCns In
he Klondike region are cXaggeratlons
81. aaoat by Old miners, whose motive
Is tp tell something that VIII friEhten
th' public and keep hundreds from
G' hing 90 the camp. But thousands are
now looking with longing eyes toward
this northern Goconoa. and notf 0g
can deter them from going there Lice,
mosquitoes. whirlpools. snowslides and
temperature 30 degrees below zero will
not keep men from hunting for gold.
Hundreds upon hundreds Of Gaspavds
in the vicinity OF Dyea. ready tO cross
over the mountains to Dawson city ear
~ in the spring. Many OF them VIII
have consumed all their food by the
close OF winter. and spring viii find
them destitute
Others who have made their way to
the Klondike without sufficient money
or supplies may have a hard time Of 70
this winter. but those who go prepared
need not suffer Owing 20 the laterosg
OF the season. those who start from thC
states now will be compelled TO winter
1000 miles or more this side of tho
promised land, and all Mount Nenos
viii be most uncomfortable places for
commanding view on account OF the
binding snow.
The best advice from experienced mon
Is. Don't start for Alaska now. but
wait until spring"
But 10 rs not only I'm the Tender
loin' district of Dawson city that tho
tendeifoot vii ind that he has to
buck up against the tough element
I'm that region there are not only tough
mon and women. but even the "cri.-
ters' are tough proposition. Mcn gu-