The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-08-18

STANLEY WILL WRITE A BOOK.
Successful Gold Hnnfer 90 Tell at His
fps and Downs.

w. NJ staniey. one OF the returned boz
nafxa kings who holds o Is1fsei IN the guscf
III the 9osd-iincd Bonanza and hidofsao
camps In the Kiondlke district. and who re-
turned on the Portland with i've sacks OF
gold. Il writing a narrative Of his travels.
Mr.. Stanley. when seen b. representative
OF ths Posf-fnfeiigenesr. recently said
yes: | will not deny that have some
literary ambition. In fact. this weakness
seems to run with the name. Henry NJ,
Stanley, the great African explorer. yield
ed To II. Al 81. Miehaies I met another
Stanley, who represents a syndicate of
newspapers and who wrote the first &C
counts published Of the rich cargoes OF the
steamers Excelsior and Portland lie wrote
II 4; 81 Michaels ana sent II 20 San Francis
co by the steamer Excelsior, which left the
north four days earlier than the Portland
and arrived In San Francisco only few
hpurs before The Portland reached Seattle.
The Portland also brought copy of this
account and had she been but few hours
earlier the first news Of the wealth Of the
Klundsxe would have been put on tie Assoc
clated Press sire AZ Seattle instead Of San
Francisco.
s.My ambition. however. IT 20 answer the
thousands OF questions that pour In 60 me
dassy through the mails and by telegraph.
had TO come osit here 10 get away from
the thrcng. At my home I'm Seattie there
was always q crowd waiting when ! arose
In the morning. and when l retired at night
] closed the door on one equally as large.
In short / had not time 10 eat and sleep.
my time being wholly occupied in enter
tanning callers. Under these circumstances
I could not find time 10 dictate replies 10
these communications, even had / been dis
posed to employ two or three stenograph-
era. Many of these messages were from
men when had worked with In the gold
fields Of the Black Hills Colo, Montana
and California. Their inquiries were TO the
point and were perhaps addressed TO me
In preference 10 others because they
thought my experience In placer and quartz
mines In different parts Of the world would
lead me to note the rccuiiaritirs OF this dis
frsct desire TO answer the questions OF
these men in particular and take this means
Of doing II.
"A complete narrative OF my trip Is per-
haps the PROMINENT feature Of the work.
Leaving Seattle. we vera shipwrecked en-
route and nearly persisted The difficulties
of the trail, disasters on the way. the rag
Grd edge OF famine and finally success.
even beyond my most ardent dreams. are
fully detailed
II will never forget how the Posf-Inteni-
sencer representative bearded us froFn a
special tug about o'clock I'm the morning
way OUT in the Straits. He erummed Us
out Of bed got cur names. sized up our
piles. and then away as quickly as he had
come When we got of the Portland on
her arrival az The dock. the first words we
heard were 'posf.fntslligeaeer special All
about the tons az gold aboard the Portland.
and. sure enough. cur folks had heard our
rfarieS and IN sorae cases had even been
shopping or thu strength OF them hours
before We landed. It's the banner paper up
On the Yukon"