The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-19

toriety for running down the Dalton gang
of train robbers. After all had been cap
tured or killed except Dynamite Dick there
was reward OF s., 500 offered for him. Can
ton followed him for more than a year.
finally landing him in a Jail in Guthrie
After about month in Jail Dick broke out
releasing twelve other prisoners, and he has
never been recaptured. He was last heard
of in Oregon, and Canton has reason to be-
lieve he will find his man in Alaska.
SOME WONDERFUL TENDERFEET.
The experienced people here are viewing
with considerable awe, mixed with the APP
prehension of an undertaken, a couple of
boys. neither over eighteen, who are known
as John Walker and John Fraser. They
were passengers on the Cleveland and their
reticence about their personal affairs,
coupled with their extraordinary ideas of
the country they are going to, have served
to excite considerable comment. Evidently
they have been accustomed to many of the
Injuries of life, which lends credence to
the theory that they have run away from
home, for no sane parents would ever send
youths thus equipped to a place like this.
They have made no provision whatever for
the severe cold they will encounter and
seem to be ignorant of the real situation
boy outfit and both have wide sombreros.
The only tangible evidence of a display of
forethought consists of a stock of yellow
covered literature, which apparently has
been their inspiration. The only pair of
shoes one of them has with him are the
shoes he is wearing, which are of the
pointed-toe, patent-leather variety These
ingenious babes may not freeze to death,
but it will be only through the charitable
Intervention of Others There are many OF
this class at ST. Michael's, who have con-
tracted the gold fever and have hurried to
the alluring spot with no comprehension
of the elaborate preparations that must
first be made. These are the people VINO
will draw from the stock of the more pru-
dent and thus do much to make general
suffering more widespread. youth VINO
has been christened "Colorado"-his other
name is not material-has an outht con-
sisting of two guns and three pistols ana
nothing else worth mentioning. lie struts
about St Michaels telling what he INTENDS
doing when he gets to Dawson, basihs ms
talk largely on the dime-novel literature
which he has freely imbibed. His finish VIII
be rapid if some one does not take pity on
him and send him back home
OLD MINERS ON THE TRAIL
But the tenderfeet are not the only Argo-
nauts One party here consists OF nVe
miners from Butte, Mont. Each IS an eX-
perienced digger of the precious metal.
Early this season a friend named John
Hesspool went from Butte to Alaska, ana
early in July wrote to his former comrades
from Dawson city. He told them he had
located a claim and in twenty-eight days ne
had taken out $22, OOO and the dirt was con-
rio This spread
RAPIDLY in Butte and resulted in general
exodus of the old-time miners who could
raise the price Twenty-four left immedi-
ately for Alaska by the overland route,
and this party of FIVE under the leadership
Of Charles H. King, came by steamer. 1t Is
the intention of the five to pool their issues
and do most of their prospecting on the
American side of the line, where Hesspool
declares the gold can be found in abund-
ance.
Henry G. Faulkner of st. Joseph Mo-,
farmer of fifty, has his son with him, and
both are thankful they have got as far as
St. Afichaers They QUILTED extensively
FOR the trip across the pass from Dyea, put
when about ready to start they got caught
in the crush, and realizing the impossibillty
of ever reaching their destination this Win
ter by that perilous route, they sacrificed
their pass outfit and took the steamer. They
nredict a harvest of death along the over
land route and say that half has not been
told of the suffering that the foolhardy
tourists must endure who seek to make the
land journey before spring.
Cleanliness has not been regarded as one
Of the cardinal virtues of the gold country
but then it is only fair to explain that II
has never had a reasonable chance. Nobody
has had any time. inclination or talent Tor
laundry work. But three San Francisco
Cinnamon have decided to work this mine
ar trv it. and unless Wong Lee, Sin Lee
and All Wah catch the yellow fever this
winter, residents of Dawson will be able
to revel in clean clothes These enterpris-
ing Celestials have a laundry outfit with
them and they don't seem to care who gets
the geld SO long as they get the washing.
The cosmopolitan character of the winter
colony at Dawson will be enlarged by the
addition of Lieutenant Corder, Of the San
Francisco branch of the Salvation Army.
He has been working in the purlieus OF the
golden gate for about a year, and was re-
garded as one of the most promising con-
verts to the cause. But the Klondike fever
proved too much for him, and he deserted
the drum to try his luck with the pick. He
frankly admits that the work of saving
souls in San Francisco is hazardous, and
he will see if he cannot be more successful
in garnering a few nuggets. Ii his pros
meets in the golden way do not come up to
his expectations he intends establishing
branch of the army IL the gold fields.
A party of four Assyrians, headed by r.
B. Sleen, of Washington, D. c. is headed
for the gold fields, where the men intend
to dig with the rest. Sleen is a naturalized
American, and was educated at Columbia
College. He and his companions appear to
be well fitted out with money and prepared
to stand a long siege.
State Senator f. z. Davies, of Montgom-
cry W. Va, started out with an idea of
merely looking over the ground, but the
fever developed in him so rapidly that now
he announces his intention of going straight
to the gold fields and dig irrespective OF
weather conditions.
Charles H. Roehrig, of Colorado, has
great faith in the new country, and as he
has been interested in mining for the last
fifteen years his judgment is accepted as
above the average. He was president of
the Victor (Col) Mining Exchange when
Colorado was booming, but he is going out
this time to get the stuff direct from the
earth.
FIRST GOLD FOUND AT DAWSON.
There are variety of stories current as
to how tho first gold was found at Dawson,
but the one most credited here is briefly
as follows: A squaw man had been pros