The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-10-21
THE LAND OF GOLD.
As Promised, the French Bride is First
0ut" This Week.
THE FOREIGNERS HAVE ALVEY TINE
With Their Luggage and the Bride is
Brought Suddenly Down From
Her Perch.
TACOMA, Oct, 10 1897

The French bride was to be first
out She was afraid Adolph-her
hEsband-wouldb be attacked by the
| Indians. She also feared the red skins
| would steal the Frenchman' $500 out
| fit, which included olives and case
of wine from the gay French metrop-
oils. So madam sat upon the pack
ages at Dyea as the outfit was afi-
| loaded Each time a wagon load OF
| truck was brought up from the scOw
there are no wharves at Dyea-ma
| dam would climb higher and higher
as the possessions Of the bride groom
| this French couple had just been
married and the wedding tour was
! tour to klondille0 We're piled up in a
! great heap. Finally madam was en-
| throned eight feet high on Adolph's
outfit 1t was a curious picture. A
! French woman, fresh from Paris, seat
ed on the top of a pile of boxes and
| bags and Indians and miners on all
| sides, and a steamer, a muddy beach
and delapidated shacls in the back
ground.
Adolph was called away to parley
with the Indians about packing his
outfit over the mountain to Lake Lin
derman, twenty-seven miles away.
The boss Indian demanded 40 cents
per pound, and AdOlph refused to pay
over So cents. Finally, before com
promising upon 3S cents, they became
pretty noisy, and handled Adolph
roughly. He did not mind it but ma
dam did. She thought hubby might
be scalped. All might be killed. She
shouted to Adolph to come to her, but
alas. at that very instant the bargain
with the Indians was concluded, and
they, on being notified by the chief
that the Frenchman's goods were
ready for the packers, made wild
rush for the big outfit. 1t was like
street urchins scrambling for pennies.
Each Indian was anxious to secure
the bag or box THAT weighed the most,
and which could. at the same time be
handled easily on the back of the
packer. One hundred Indians at
tackled madan's throne of boxes and
bags.
Presto change!
In a iiffy the boxes and bags were
all gone and madam was on her back
with her heels in the air screaming for
AdOlph.
Hell p. Police! Adolph. Murder.
But it was all over in thirty seconds.
Madam was dazed for thirty seconds
more, but Adolph's presence quoted
her. He explained it all. The In
dams scrambled for the choice parcels
and gave no thought to madam with
her heels in the air. They were not
robbers but merely packers. They
took the boxes to the weighing stand
and not to their wigwams. AT the
weighing stand each received a piece
of paper with the weight of the pack
age marked upon it together with the
Frenchmans name. At the lake the
bearer OF the package would have the
slip of paper marked 80. X. and when
! he brought the check back to the
weighing stand he would be paid 3S
cents of Adolph's money for every
pound he had carried.
There was no need of help for mad
am. no necessity for police and no oc-
casion for screaming murder Did
madam understand? Adoph asked
the question and madam replied in Il
flash:
"Oui, oui, OF course, of course, but
why not tell me that before. Then
would not scream! Stupid Adolph!''
The next morning the French bride
and groom, the Indian packers and
our party moved forward, stopping at
Sheep Camp that night and arriving
at the head OF Lake Linderman the
next night Madam carried hand
bag and an umbrella all the way and
did nOU feel exhausted when the lake
was reached. so the frenchman and
his eXcitabie wife are at Dawson now
unless they turned back on account of
{ the reports OF starvation and u short
age of supplies at the diggings
: This is only one of Il dozen amusing
: incidents on the journey from Tacoma
to Lake Linderman, but the narrative
brings out the important fact that
+ people who have money to pay fol
= packing can get over the passes with
Z out trouble. Here was q Frenchmar
who spoke little English accompanied
t by a tot of wife, who had never beer
t hundred miles out of the great city
t of Paris in her life, getting over the
: Chilkoot pass with comparative com
: fort inside of fortyeight hours. The
' Frenchman simply paid the Indians
t for packing his outfit over and he ant
: wife walked most of the way on foo
and enjoyed the scenery.
But that is the Pullman car rout,
compared with the struggles of the
: poor devils who undertake the pack
:, ing over of the outfits without any
u knowledge of the packing business
u Take, for instance, a man who die
l. not know any more about packin!
! than Adolph did. They would ge
their pack Oh the horse in lop-sideC
fashion, and when the horse foun
II dered in the mud and fell all the cincl
r ropes had to be cut or the horse hat
O. to be abandoned. Then there wer
. men up there who charged the ten
= derfoot S. to show him how to max
Il the diamond hitch and, if you d.
Ie not know what that is you probabl
is will not find out until you shit tn
- trail The old-timers split thei
8 sides sometimes laughing at the effort
y of the bank clerks and artists to cine
1t up pack and construct a damon
Il knot. All their knots were of til
'four-in-hand or bow knot VARIETY
- Five dollars day for a month woul
not make them proficient in nut+iu