Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-10-29
MRS. JOHN MARTINS ACTIVITY.
A Woman Who is in Training for a KlOndike
Campaign Next Spring.

Mrs. John Martin has wooed fame and
fortune for many years in numerous
gulses. She has now found the road for
which she has been seeking and in the
frlgid north expects, next year, to at
tain her life's ambition; name that
Will ring to the ends of the earth-ard
$l,000,0OO.
She admits having contracted the
I<londilSe fever, but not In the form that
would induce her TO attempt the pass
age of the Yukon In low water or
through ice or tempt her TO cross the
Chiicoot. or any other old pass, iii the
face OF approaching winters ley
breezes and their inclement accom-
panimcnts.
She has gone TO the Trinity mining
district; is now staying at Carrville,
where she is training for neNt-year
journey to Dawson City and, Incident
ally searching for California I'll Do
RADIO that will give her good start In
life In the lnnd of two-dollar meals.
Her dreams OF fame on the boards
have been dispelled, her taste for liti-
cation has been satiated and the
pleasure OF her achievement on the
painters scaffold has been dried up
with the two coats OF Naii-cOlOfeu
lead and oil she spread on her oak
land cottages.
MIS-. Martin uetldTeS llltN SltNVVtu"V
is necessary for her happiness and FOR
the carrying out Of certain schemes
for the elevation of mankind, on which
she has set her heart. She has read
OF Klondike, thought of klondike,
talked of IflondilSe, dreamed OF klon-
dixie ever since the first shipment Of
yellow metal reached San Francisco.
In KlondllSe she saw a solution of her
life's problem and to Klondike she has
determined to go.
When she goes, which will be in the
early part OF next year, she VIII take
her little son John and her Chinese
cook and she will go by route re-
vealed to her by a now deceased
Alaskan guide known to her alone.
She VIII take supplies for the members
of her party and provisions ana other
goods for trading purposes; Will build
a warm house and fit 1t up with all
modern conveniences, and, while snow
ing the world what wmoan who un-
dorstands her business can do in the
way of wrestling from nature her
hidden treasures, she will give Klon-
dikers a practical lesson in being COM
Portable when the mercury freezes.
Meanwhile, however, she is prepar-
ing for her struggle with nature as,
when she goes to Alaska, II is her in
tention to do her own prospecting and
when the rich spot she knows she will
find is discovered to WELD pick and
shovel with her own hands.
The Graves brothers discovery in
Trinity county attracted Mrs. Martins
attention, and she Is now in Carrville
seeking gold as a starter for her mil
lion. Clad in the same boomers in
which she climbed painters ladders
when decorating the outside of her
Oakland cottages, her feet protected
by n pair of stout, knee-high miners
boots, and her head adorned with n
sI.a a,
morning soon after daylight and re-
mains in the mountains until darkness
drives her home.
she has located seven claims and
declares that she will show the Trinity
county miners the way to look for gold.
She is not going to be disheartened If
her pick does not turn up nuggets at
the surface of the hillside, but Will run
hundreds and hundreds of feet of tun-
nels, north, south, east and west, until
she finds exactly what her claims con-
tain.
81 did not come here TO scratch up
the grass roots" she declared the other
day, II am n miner and pretty good
one, / believe, and | intend opening
these folks eyes to what they have
been walking over for years and years.
Even If ] find nothing by the time the
weather il favorable for my Alaskan
venture, my muscles will be strong and
/ will he in every way ut to tackle any
manual labor that may come along In
the Klondike."
Mrs. Martin, II the truth must he
told, is not exactly popular at the hotel
she makes her headquarters. She Is
too energetic and when, In the morn
ing, she saddles her horse and rides up
In front of the veranda, there Is a gem
eral disappearance of tine men folk
who are all suddenly too busily en-
gagged with important matters to
- saa 1asaWa ...as 1.
pilgrimage up hill down dale, through
creek, river and canyon.
Mrs. Martins custom is TO ride Just
as far as possible and then to stake out
her steed and pick and shovel on her
shoulders, to Chamber over the hills un-
til darkness sets In. During the first
part Of her visit several of the male
guests of the hotel We're gallant enough
to act as her escort; they only went
once, however and any reference made
to the trip afterward caused shudders
and visions Of aching bones caused
next day by the unwonted exercise
one young man succumbed to the
charms of the fair miner and was
dragged to the top of Bollys peak. He
returned n wreck, and after two days of
rest was taken to san Francisco by his
friends. Another innocent, who had not
ridden horse for many years, started
out under the impression that he was
going for little gallop az a sort of APP
petizer for luncheon. Mrs. Martin gall
Hoped gaily up TO the hotel about
O'Clock ut night. Three hours later a
voice was heard in the darkness:
Somebody come out and lift me down:
I'm dead" They had been up to The
Nash mine. over twenty miles of a
steep, rough trail, and he had been
riding n horse with gait stlll
rouEher, He, TO, returned to San Fran
cisco.
These experiences have increased
Mrs. Martins contempt for mankind,
and she declared again and again, "If
such miserable creatures az these can
reach Dawson City. can live through a
winter and even fird and dig gold all
10y themselves, a woman might own the
whole country In n few years. want
just q million dollars. When | get IL
viii, FIRST of ali. right few wrongs
that have been done me and then, with
my little boy ] win renew my ac-
qunirtance with some OF the dear old
cities of Europe, and when John is
grown up he and I win go to India and
hunt tigers and elephants, expect to
start for Europe in about three years"
San Francisco Chronicle.