The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-11
"sIAWAsH GEORGE"
He discovered the Wealth of the
kIOndiIxe.

If YOU see on broadway tdnky IMAM
f,uowed by a squaw, five or six half
tread children and two Stick Indians, who
are interested in the sights and in spend
ing $500 000-thats "Siawash George" and
The dependents of his aboriginal satrapy.
lie is the discoverer of the wealth of the
Klondike. He has reached Seattle, has
emded the confdepce men with native
cunning, and is bound to be with us soon.
II is ten years since he has looked upon
civilization. In youth, the discoverer was
George Carmack; and now he Is called
Carmack again by the dignlied prospect
uses of Klondike companies.
"Siawash George he was and "Siawash
George" he always win be to the old-tIm-
ers of the Yukon. He began life in the
Yukon as a prospector. and then he es-
t9btshed a trading post. He associat ted
entirely with the Indians, whence his
nj nickname. He hunted and fshed with
them, slept on boughs, never washed, and
ate moose meat with his fingers. Never
theless he was ambitious. He wanted to
be chief of the Stick tribe. With that
end in view he married Princess Alice. Wo-
men do not become chiefs, but he thus
connected himself with royal blood as
closely as a white man can.
Money counts in Yukon politics as well
as elsewhere, and the dream of George was
10 make enough in buying furs to bride
all the followers of the reignIng chief to
acknowledge him. The coup was to be
made at a great pot latch" or feast. The
foremost requirements of a pot latch, not
excepting syrup put up in Seattle, is whis-
KY and the missionaries have seen to it
that no Indian in the interior is allowed
to get whisky in any quantity. A white
man may buy all the whiskey he can pay
for,and George proposed to make the most
of his privilege by making every Stick in
the land SO merry that he would cry for
the GROWING of the white king on the
spot AT least this is the story as the
old-timers tell it. George is circumspect
since he became rich. And Georges mem
ory is hazy at best. He seems to have a
habit of telling the facts of the discovery
of gold on Bonanza a little differently in
every narrative. This is how he told it
to me when l, as representative of the New
York Press, met him in his native haunts
"Our folks Qndians) was fshin' down
the Klondike gettin' In a supply of salmon
for our winters grub when my brother-in-
law Stick Jim, who'd been trackin a
moose up country, came down without
the moose but rollin' his eyes to beat a
scared papoose. He showed me some COL
ors he'd scraped up about eight miles up
a little creek that flowed into the Klon-
dixie 'Twan't Bonanza then. 1t was just
a damn good moose pasture. We'd never
thought that anything that was good
moose pasture could have any color.
I'D been over that ground afore, and
sod lots of other fellows, lookin' for some
thin beyond without lookin' at our feet
But that moose Jim was a-follerin' had
kicked up a little muck in the right place
an Jim seen somethin' that made him
drop the trail there an then. l guess
that moose oughter be let live kinder out
of gratertude. Still, was kinder sorry
jim didn't get him, for I'd like to have
his horns over my cabin door.
Well, 1 went right back up the creek
with jim, an 1 seen what he seen, an it
was all right, an we staked claims an
here we are"
Altogether the Siawash George satrapy
got three claims on Bonanza Discovery
and the two next to it. These did not turn
out to be the best claims on Bonanza, or
nearly as good as the claims on Eldorado,
but they were of enough value for George
TO reach Seattle with 100000
Once the discovery was made, George
was certain that the throne of the Sticks
was to be his as soon as he could take
the necessary dust out of the ground.
Meanwhile, he built a cabin and brought
his bronze offspring to live there
But the lady who was to help him to at
tain to his ambition, it seems, has per-
suaded him to give it up. Princess Alice js
now beset with longings for civilized so
eiely. She is not quite the homeliest squaw
N+AN SOhiltASs 4Ol JUG IOWCIS COilSOIt
admittedly enjoys that distinction. Joe
cannot read and write, but he would share
MS last crust with you-particularly If
you would laugh at one of his jokes. His
own face. wears a continual grin in con-
temptation of them
his claim being only a quarter of a mile
from Discovery, he used often to take mis-
long pipe and go up to Georges cabin 10
SPIT, to smoke, to make jokes and to dis
euss the woman question. One of Joe's
iaVorite jokes is on Joe" Ladue, who
slaked out the town site of Dawson, but is
hot so celebrated in the Klondike country
Tor this as for other reasons.
Joe Ladue was just so damned mean"
SAID Joe Powers, that he would do him
self bad turn in order to keep his hand
IN and beat somebody"
Powers has fully made up his mind as
10 what he would do with his fortune.
Some of the boys is goin' in for soci-
GRITTY he said, ''but 1 amt. Now, how I
would look in socierty, wouldn't /? l can't
Jest exactly explain how, but it seems to
me most of the boys amt fitted for So
Cierty, either. We amt like Voss, of No
H. He's been to some college. Good fell
Ter, though. Makes the best fapjakes of
any man on the creek! For my part, I'm
soln TO buy ranch in Montany AM set
ne down. Yais, I'll leave my woman with
her people. She's more at home here. How
cue would look eatin' with a knife stead
CT her fingers! But I'm goin' to do the
square thing by her. III leave her $40, Oj0
ana that's a damn big lot with her peo-
pie"
But Princess Alice came of royal blood,
ana royal blood naturally asserts itself
She didn't propose to be left behind or to
re queen of the Sticks either. When l
Arst saw her her head was deep in bowl
nI syrup, and when l left the cabin an
hour later she was eating marmalade with
her fingers and scolding her numerous
progeny. She was wearing a gown of
calico whose colorng would attract at
lention in Bulawayo. She had heard that
on the outside there were sweets quite sur
passing anything brought to Dawson by
me trading companies, as we'll as colored
garments which would put out the light
OF the sun, and she determined to go
"here she might enjoy the treats which
wealth entitled her to.
mere was but one thing for her hus-
"auu TO do, and that was TO submit to the
royal wishes. The whole satrapy had to
80 forth and do civilization.
POSSIBLY the would-be King himself was
not loath to see the wonders that he could