The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-08

and went out to the old mans camp
and brought him back to town, fixed
him up the best the camp could af-
ford and found that he wasn't so very
badly hurt. After they had found this
out and told the boy that his father
was all right the kid dropped to the
floor like he was shot. They picked
him up and laid him in a bunk and
then they found out that he wasn't
boy at all, but a girl, and as pretty a
girl as you want to look at.
las 1 get the story, the old man was
in fearful hard luck back East and
somebody told him about this place.
His wife was dead and he only had
one child, this girl. He wanted to
come out here and he did not know
what to do with her But she just said
she would come with him as boy
and made the old man agree to 1T.
Maybe you don't think that the boys
were stuck on her and her father.
There amt anything in Dawson too
good for them. That girl could marry
any unmarried man in town she wants
to. and 1 hear some talk that she is
likely to take one of them.
Lots of queer people have got
money up here, or as they call 1t, have
struck it rich. One kid from Frisco
that everybody calls Billy Jeans got
here, nobody knows how, but managed
to get some old tools and a pan and
went to work. He is just sixteen
years old and is as tough lad as ever
you saw. But he has cleared up $4,000
for every one of his years, and now he
is going back to Frisco wild money
to burn He said to me yesterday
when l was asking him about it: Say,
Gully. I'm goin to wear nothin' but
glmmerS on me mittS when l gifts
back to town..
Il remember, old man, that back in
New York we used to thing that fell
lows were in hard luck that had to
eat beef and beans, but you are in
great luck to get them out here, par
ticularly the beef. Everybody has
beans. Beans, coffee and soda biscuit.
That's the bill of fare seven days a
week. OF course there is lots of
canned stuff, but you get awful tired
of that. There is a man here going to
try to raise some garden truck, and If
he does it all he raises will be worth
its weight in dust-gold dust.
Il tell you, partner, this is tough
country. It's all very nice to think
about the gold that's in the ground
and what you can do with it If you
can only get it out, but I wouldn't
take all this country if anybody would
give it to me, if it wasn't for the gold.
1t gives you the blues just to look out
doors. When it is cold here you think
you are going to freeze sure, solid.
When it is hot, you know there never
was any place on earth any hotter,
and there isn't any between. 1 would
not give it all for an acre of ground in
York state.
1--WE hear that people are going to
come up here by the thousands, but
I tell you if they don't get plenty of
provisions in here, there will be hun
dreds of new graves before next spring.
I'm going to stay in over another win
ter, but you can bet your bottom dol
lar that I'll have provisions enough
so that I will not starve. 1 haven't
made a fortune up here, but 1 have
made good money and I'm going to
keep hold of it, too. If more people
would come up here ready to work
and go into business, instead of hunt
ing gold, they would make a lot more
money than they will prospecting