The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-27

rated potatoes. GRADUATED, evaporated
vinegar, 200 pounds coffee Is pounds tea.
tnlngs like soap, spices, candles beeswax,
Iallow, etc.. and much / cannot think Of
not 10 mention fifty pounds OF smoking to-
Dacco and ten gallons of whisky for snake
DiteS. Our sleeping bags, fur robes and
blankets Will weigh three hundred pounds
t Issues. All tqlo, counting hardware and
of goods. s'-'7
No doubt you have formed an erroneous
luea or the reported terrific cold weather
we have here. Do not allow that to worry
you While the thermometer has run down
as low as ", yet 1t has much oftener been
~ and even below. When 1t Is not worse
than 30 one. can work on top of building
orlving nails, as we have done time and
time, again. OF course. one has to be fixed
clothing no heavier than used TO wear in
Canfornia and Washington, summer and
winter, except that the chest and back are
double, heavy blue shirt, heavy sweat
er and Mackinaw coat. For our lower
limbs, drawers and heavy Mackinaw trous-
ers. Of course, head, hands and feet have
to be protected. For the head we use cap
OF fur, with flaps to turn down on the neck,
covering ears. and flap to let fall over
the nose. The hands require either silk or
very fine merino gloves next to the skin,
and either good wooden or fur gloves over
those. We adopted the silk, as they are just
as cheap and are warmer. For the feet we
use good WOODEN German-socks. a pair of
white felt boots, over which one can slip
q heayy moccasin, or two or more pairs of
WOODEN socks and moccasins. l froZe both
my heels slightly just after Christmas by
perspiring too freely while hauling logs,
and sitting down too long for rest. was
wearing arctic rubbers. Thirty-five degrees
below IS just nice to work out in; If you
Keep at something you will keep warm all
right, We had eleven days straight when
the thermometer was only s to Il degrees
below, with a bowling north wind all the
time. The fourth day of that storm 1 went
TO Sheep Camp. had not been in the hotel
than hour a
and said a squaw and little twelve-year-
old girl of an Indian party had frozen to
death at the Stone House, about ~ miles
above Sheep Camp. Such was found to be
the fact. A squaw with a twelve-year-old
girl and a papoose on her back had fallen
behind. and, sitting down to rest, the little
girl had, being thinly clothed, frozen to
death. When the squaw saw the girl was
beyond help, she stripped her of most OF
her clothing and wrapped it around the lit
tie one on her back. Then, becoming NUMB
probably and feeling sure she, too, would
die, she took all of her clothes, wrapped
them about the little one, and lay down
and died beside the girl. Such a token of
motberly love and devotion from poor
savage brought tears to the eyes of many
Of US when we were encasing her body in
a rough box at Sheep Camp, preparatory
to sending it to Dyea. The same day three
men were frozen to death on the summit of
the Skagauy trail, which is twelve miles
long, and the following day seven men
We're frozen on the same summit, one of
whom lived long enough to tell his name
after resuscitation. There is no doubt that
when summer comes more than one poor
unfortunate'S body will be found on these
same treacherous submits. On the Dyea
summit. though, one cannot get lost, for it
keeps the traveller busy keeping out of the
ropes of the various tramway companies
who have them there to hold right of
way.
Money, unless IN large sums. is not
much of q temptation here; in fact, it is
the last thing one thinks of wishing for.
1t Is provisions and something to vary the
monotony of bacon, beans, rice and desic-
than money Wei say we, for | am the
secretary of the vigilance committeeman
to whip and drive out of town two men,
and send another to Seattle in irons for
stealing. Since then we have had model
community until yesterday. when ! was
who had jumped a lot to get off. Hot words
passed They assaulted me. one with
shovel, the other with pick handle. Some
how I got hold of that pick handle, and
now-well my mirror doesn't show me any
marks, but you should see the ear and nose
of one, and the general makeup or the
other.
1.-The town here is growing fast. Saloons.
hotels restaurants and bunk houses are
springing UP like mushrooms over night.
Meals are quite reasonable in price, all
things considered. Good meals, with butter,
ordinary at $1.25. A short-order restaurant
will open soon, where one can get anything
he asks for-if they have it-and all you
want for 81, but ] think they Will very soon
stop that kind of business. Ross and are
a sawmill ourselves. We get out from 100
to 125 feet-lumber measure-in a day. with
a whip saw. We sawed 5000 feet ana got
81 200 for it. but had to take two boats at
$500 EACH in part payment We can easily
get $500 for them when the lakes open.