The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-31

they had shot him in the shoulder.
The boy heard the shot, and out he
| jumped with gun in each hand,
dropped two of the fellows that were
after them quicker than wink and
wounded a third. The fourth man was
so frightened that he ran away with
out firing a shot. Then the boy fixed
| the old man up little and came down
| into the town and told what had hap
pened. The boys got together right
away and went out to the old mans
| camp and brought him back to town
and fixed him up the best the camp
knew how, and soon found cut that he
was not badly hurt. After they made
| this discovery the kid dropped to the
floor as though he had been shot. We
picked him up and laid him in q bunk.
and then he found out that he was not
a boy at all, but girl-and as pretty
little girl as you ever want to look at.
AS l afterward got 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 girl. He wanted to come out
here and did not know what to do with
her. but she just said she would come
with him as a boy and made the old
man agree to her scheme. Maybe you
| don't think the boys were all stuck on
her and her father after the little cpl
sode 1 mention. There isn't anything
in Dawson too good for them. That
girl could marry any unmarried man
in town, and I have heard that she is
likely to take one of them before long.
one of the best boys, and We will all
be at the wedding"
If one goes prepared to withstand the
cold of the arctic winters he can live il
the Alaskan goldfields almost as COM
fortably as he can in Cripple Greek. 1t
seems to be a fact that many of the
stories of hardships and privations in
the klondike region are exaggerations
set afloat by old miners. whose motive
is TO tell something that will brighten
the public and keep hundreds from
rushing to the camp. But thousands are
now looking with longing eyes toward
this northern Golconda, and nothing
can deter them from going there. Lice,
mosquitoes, whirlpools. snowslides and
a temperature 20 degrees below zero will
not keep men from hunting for gold.
Hundreds upon hundreds of Gaspards |
are now camping on the overland trail
in the vicinity of Dyea. ready to cross
over the mountains 10 Dawson City ear
ly in the spring. Many of them will |
have consumed all their food by the
close of winter. and spring will find |
them destitute.
Others who have made their way to |
the Klondike without sufficient money
or supplies may have a hard time of il |
this winter. but those who go prepared |
need not suffer. Owing TO the lateness
of the season. those who start from tho !
states now will be compelled 10 winter |
1000 miles or more this side Of the |
promised land. and all Mount Nebos |
viii be most uncomfortable places for /
a commanding view on account of the I
binding snow.
The best advice from experienced men
Is. Don't start for Alaska now, but |
wait until spring"
But II is not only in the Tender
loin' district Of Dawson City that the
tenderfoot viii find that he has To 1
buck up against the tough element.
In that region there are not only tough /
men and women. but even the crit |
tiers are tough proposition. Men 60
ms 10 the hlondike must protect them |
serves against the fortunes inflicted by
a number Of pests. The louise. known
by the name OF -'grayback." thriyes
there. as il does in ali mining carps
IN TACT Lice last the year around. The 4