The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-09-16
rife and revolver and for days sae sat
the sole guardian of her claim.


Her possession was finally recognized
and several OF the men who disputed
her right of occupancy are now work
ing with or for her. and it is estimated
that she Is not worth less than So .0OO,-
coo. The young woman said recently:
II was in Chicago five years$ago after
my father died. Then Twas COM
monplace restaurant waiter or dish
washer and no one cared for me. Now
am worth perhaps $2.000.000 in money.
and am being constantly followed BY
young men Of good families who would
be glad to take wife. might as well
say now that Lam not marrying at this
time. i do not know when shall 70
back to Alaska. 1 may never 60 back,
for / dom mind saying that I have had
an abundance Of the kind of living they
have in that country. My mother and
lean live now wherever we see at, and !
want to tell you that we shall not have
our rooms facing in alleys, as we have
been compelled to since father died..
"fhe copper mine in which am tho
principal owner was all my own find.
The funniest part is that found it less
than quarter of a mile from where we
were making our headquarters. There
were indications that others had dis
covered the presence of copper ahead
Of me. but the gold fever must have had
full possession of them because they
passed it over, l secretly prospected
my find for month before anyone else
found it, and then three men claimed
prior ownership. Then I had to make
a personal defense, and this 1 did. I
never had to fire shot, but would
have done so without hesitancy.
mo; I would not advise any young
woman to 60 to that country who has
not had some experience with miners
Or who is not prepared to defend her
self and undergo the severest hard
ships. In that country self-preserva-
ton is truly the first law Of nature.
Men forget all their chivalry and. al
though women are scarce they are not
curiosities and do not seem to awaken
any special interest among men.
Alaska miners are not sentimental.
They are looking for riches and they
do not care how they get them"
An evidence of how the law is admin
istered in the Yukon country is given in
a letter received at Victoria, B. C. A
packer named Rice contracted to take
mans outfit over the Skaguay trail if
the man went to work on the trail. The
man went to work, but when it was
finished Rice refused to fulfill his con-
tract. When Rice's train reached the
summit with load it was seized by the
mounted police and vigilance COM
mittce. and was unloaded. Rice will
not be allowed to do any packing until
he fulfills his contract with the man
who worked on the trail.
The first letter mail to be dispa tched
from this country to the Klondike re-
gion under the new reciprocal arrange
ment~with Canada, effected by estab-
fishing an international exchange be-
tween Dyea, Alaska, and Dawson City,
will be forwarded from Seattle by q
steamer leaving there September II.
From that time forward letter mail
will go over the new service regularly
once month. The last opportunity
to send newspapers and reading mate
rial generally into the gold region until
next spring was afforded by the paper
mail,' the last of the season, which was
forwarded by steamer leaving San
Francisco September S.
A bit of good news for the miners has
just been bulletined by the North
American Trading and Transportation
company. It is to the effect that full
quartz mill sent by them into the Klon-
dixie country had arrived at its destina-
ton in excellent condition.