The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-07-24
GOLD STORY TRUE
THERE Is A KLONDYKE AND IT Is
PULL OF GOLD.

PULL OF GOLD.
Mrs. Chas. LulIng OF this City Concern
ing the Stories of the Fabulous Wealth
of the Great New Gold Fields in Far-on
AIaska-says IL Ii All True and That
Former wichita BOY Came Back With
SI57,5OO-NothlnG Else Talked of in
Seattle for Months.
Mrs. j P. Burwell Of Seattle, Wash
ingion, has written TO Mrs. Charles Lu-
Ing OF this city and mentions at some
length the klondyke fever there. Since
there are a good many people in Wich-
ita who &c not know whether 10 believe
the Alaska gcld story or not, the letter
is given herewith:
Sunday, July IS, 1897.
My Dear Mrs. Luling-Here / am writ
ing to you wnen / ought to be talking
your arm Oft When sat in church this
morning and looked around, IL seemed
70 me that every one l knew almost had
company with them. Maybe it didn't
make me homesick and lonesome. Oh,
nc. Just sort OF desperate like. The
weather is perfect, too, for visitors
cool, and the sun shining its brightest.
All the mountains in their best white
.ircss in full view. But that does not in
terest Seattle very much now. as moth
ing is of interest 10 any of the Seattle
people but the Klondyke country. Act
ualiy You hear it everywhere. On the car
going 10 church this morning all was
klond.ke business. I send by tomor-
rows mail some of the papers for Alec
70 read. The account Of Prof. Lippy's
gain is really true; also the arrival OF
the Portland with almost a million on IL.
I was at the grocery store last evening
and one of the clerks put his hand in his
pocke; and handed out six or eight mug
gets OF gold and said a fellow miner
gave them to him yesterday for nothing.
He had come down on the Portland with
$4,000. How's that? If Charlie Luling
and j. p B. would get ready by spring
to go uD there l believe they could find
enough to make themselves comfortable
the balance of their lives. If 1 had $500
today / would grubstake a man and
ing. But every cent we have is out and
we won't have a penny in before Sep
tember. II makes me sick. Just think.
Mrs. Lippy washed out $1,000 herself.
say, excuse this CAB that does not inter-
est you. But I'm so tired of this grub
bing along, living in rented houses, NOV
ing about, etc. Just think: MIR. Burwell
nasn'; been home since May, and then
only making bread and butter; but I
must qllt growing or We will have what
little we possess taken away from us
Unto him that hath more shall be CIV
en-; unto him that hath nothing. nothing
goes"-that's my rendition of the old ad-
age. Sui another: Nothing comes to
HIM mat waits; f.you want anything go
Klondyke. Now tell Charles to read
these papers 1 send him sure and do a
heap Of thinking about il, too.
Among the Seattle newspapers Mrs.
Eurwell sends to Mrs. Luling is the Post
in which is an account of
The Seattle people who got wealthy in
the find.
Frank Ware, who used to work in the
New York store for Morris Kohn here,
rolled in with $177,5 Mr. Ware went
from here 70 Sedgwick City, where he
ran dry goods store for year or two.
From Sedgwick he went 20 the western
part Of the state and finally to Seattle.
From Seattle he went TO Alaska and at
last struck it rich