The morning news., 1897-08-29

perhaps 20 years old. She came there with
the Johnson party from Oakland, Cal She
was the only woman in the party.
Lottie Barnes also is well off. She
came over the divide two years ago and
settled i'm Circle city. That is the fur
thest north of the mining towns. She
kept a boarding house and did well, She
is a woman dbout 40 years Old, and came
from Seattle.
There IS a Mrs. Yeager at Dawson who
formerly conducted "a boarding house at
Circle city She did not run a boarding
house at Dawson. She was there with
her husband, who was a packer at Daw-
son They had a packing train. She Is
a woman about 30. She came from Colo
rado. She made her pile first in her
boarding house in Circle city; ana then
In Dawson selling cooked things, pies and
cakes. She sold her mince pies for 81
each.
There Is also a Mrs. WINS who has done
well
She was at Juneau. where she had been
working in the laundry. She is about 40
years old, a blonde, stout and rugged.
She pulled her own sled, Weighing 250
pounds from Lake Lindeman through to
Lake Labarge, about 700 miles.
There she did laundry work and mend
ing and finally drifted down to Circle city,
where she found she could charge a man
s. as easy as 81.
believe the laundry prices were p cents
apiece for everything. We had no coin
Jess than a quarter. Towels and blue
shirts were 25 cents apiece.
Addie French is another Circle city heir
ess. She came from San Francisco with
two dogs pulling her sled. She had $40
pounds of baggage. In the load was a
sewing machine. When she reached Daw-
son she began taking In sewing" and
charged 25 cents yard for her seams,
measuring them off with her arm and nose.
She got so much money together by spring
that she migrated to Circle City and opened
up a sewing establishment. She now lends
money on speculation, one-half the find to
be hers.
Mrs. Brainard does nursing in Circle
City and gets 500 per week. She can mix
medicines and carries a case OF instru-
ments and drugs.
The women's syndicate of New York
city, with Helen Varick Boswell as presi-
dent, has sent out here to get an accur-
ate map OF the Klondike gold fields. They
will send out a 'wOman's colony" very
soon, but this Is not at all what the Klon-
dikers want. They want women TO come
in and be one of them and live in their
town. They extend best wishes to Miss
Boswells sixty women, but say they
would much prefer sixty less wealthy
ones. Miss BoswelPs women will take
tlement, but what the Circle city men
want Is women to do the cooking. They
are tired of a man cook. They want
mothers ginger snaps and mothers pies.
Circle city and Dawson city both wish
II to be known in the states that every
inducement Will De made to women TO
come and settle with them. They can
own houses, practise their professions. II
they have any, and he as enterprising as
they are In any state in the union.
When told about this Womans Trans
portation Company, Miss Edith j. GTis-
void. the only woman patent solicitor in
the United States said: 1T seems a very
good thing to me, and do not see why
women VIII not take advantage OF II for
free transportation. If they do not want
TO enter any of the beaten fields let them
branch out Let them become patent so
iicitOrs, for instance. The miners viii
constantly invent new tools, which
should be protected. and a patent attor-
ney would have her hands full. She could
look into the new steam apparatus for
melting snow. She could take note Of the
action of the little dynamos upon the Ice
and probably secure more patents than
any other patent attorney In the world.
Her opportunities would be greater.
NO. / do not want 10 go. but / think
1t would be a good place for a woman in
a profession or out"
The present address Of the Transporta-
ton Company is Yukon Center. or a let
ter to Circle City reaches them. They are
well known, and the result Of their enter
prise Is awaited with interest. II they
succeeded in getting the women they want
others will try H.
TIonrv II Entthv