The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-08-15
STORY OF NORTHERN LIFE.
As WILSON TIBBETTS FINDS TT
FROM EXPERIENCE.
Letter From sulphur Creek. Giving
Random Incidents From the
Career Of Checarco in the In
terror OF the Great Gold Region.


received In this city from Wilson Tibbetts,
sen OF Gen, George w Tiahetts, who IS
an Sulphur creek. Ii is full OF incidents
OF the life OF newcomer In tho interior.
Among other things Mr.. Tibbe,ts. under
date OF July 10. says:
1t Is just the commencement of spring
Ice here in the creek is FIVE feet thick vet
ana ny the time spring is we'll under way
TIE STOW commences 10 1y. so a person
DENT see very much of summer Ii = not
near as hot here as they say. | don't
think Il goes over "a or - in the shade IL
froze ice here night before last as thick
as window glass and that is pretty good
Tor the first part of July. As you get up
on the creeks you will see more OF the
mosquitoes. l have not had my mosquito
vel over my face more than a couple of
times since have been here and the mos
qaito season is more than half over now
Inc old-timers say about the time the
mosquitoes leave there is 4 small sand fly
that botners some.
There * not very much work going on
here in the country this summer. OF
course. the summer is the poor season IN
here The sale OF claims has slackene<i IN
Ike erything in the last ten DAYS. hu,
every body thinks Ii will open up in the
course or TWO or three weeks again. Claims
were selling here on Sulphur creek for
from $4,000 to si5,tro but at present there
is not much demand. and it is the sam.
all over the country.
The Monihan boys did not sell their
property on Dominion. They were asking
SH.Vn but will not come down on the
price bit. and they viii get il after
awhile. VIII Goode wants to sell Qua and
get out OF the country. He says ht. has
got enough 70 do him and says a person is
a fool to stay here after he has got what
- nd hn l. oh,
Jim WooleEy on the 9Th OF July at Daw.
son: he has been In about a week He
seems to think the country Is all right
Tor ne says when "a person can see lots Of
money all around him he ought to be able
10 get some OF ii. He said he would h..
glad 10 get job like / have If he could
but told him he would not he any good
TO build a cabin and 10 bach and live
alone out about fifty miles from nowhere.
lie said he was here To make money. and
that he would do things here that he
would NOT do in Seattle. / guess ne is all
right, for he knows how 10 work
Il will Tell you a little Of my experf-
ence as q 'Checarko,' as the newcomers
are called In this country, going out OF,
n creek to represent Well, | started ont
from the Last Chance roadhouse. which
is twenty odd miles from here with about
ninety-tive pounds actual weight (which
nobody but a 'Checarko' would start out
r.
ing about the trail or where | was going.
Il is like going from Gilman UP over
Mount Garfield and then right through the
hills and brush for about twenty miles
where you do not know anything about the
lay of the country. I got up on the d.
vide; that Is & range OF hills between Indian
river and the klondike. and then | went
down into the wrong crCek-th4t meant
about six hours hard climbing up AMI
down hill. BY the time / got up out OF
that scrape it was : o'clock y. N. ! had
started a. a. m. and had been five hours
without water.
Il struck little spring on the divide and
| put in the night there. ] started a fire
and cooked my supper and went to bad
ana did not know anything more until
O'Clock next morning when got up had a
few bites To eat and resumed my old
long search for Sulphur creek | sp.ed
another creek and thought II might be the
one so long looked for and after about
four hours hard travel l got TO the right
place, pretty tired and a whole lot wiser
than when | started.
IL found fellow there with n tent and
stove. and so ! stayed with him fer about
ten days and then Mr.. Law. from What
com county. and / got A tent and stove
ard have been staying together I have
been to town twice since. but have had
good luck and found the trail all right
Am getting so ! can walk with any OF
them ana pack Just as small a LOAF. for
that Is what they pride themselves on w
here.
we have some pretty good meals here.
Yesterday for dinner We had rs follows.
Potatoes and onions fried together. moose
meat fried. light bread and butter. cornaei
beef. horseraIjs beans vinegar plum
dufT ana coffee-but II does not come LII, 10
our home meals and don't YOU forget H.
Ron Crawford is doing Yre,iS wei in
IA 81 IN 10
1t viii soon he a common thins FOR peo-
pie To come out OF here busted There are
lets Of fellows here that sold everything
they had cut IN civilization 50 TREY coulf
ge, into this country. They thought they
would make their stake in a very short
time ana 20 back They have been sadly
disappointed and are going out wlt1ou,
anything. They say they would ius: as
soon be out there in the penitenfiary "a In
such a country.
There Is a fellow that know - here
that cam" IN and stayed around Dawson
for a Few days and said he guessed he
would @Q GUt anf E@t 4 little god a. Ne
did not have any HE took a llttIe grub.
4 pick. shovel and gold pan and started
CT; for the 9IEGiugs.
When he got 90. about 8vs miles ga
IT.. some fellows ard asked them bow far
Il was - where he would be allowed n Jig
some gold for himself and whether thev
he was a newcomer N tr- country AMI
did not have any .no1.y he said tnat he
thought he had better get Some ara was
Ia. used 70 the Laws 81 regard 70 tuirtng
Well rat is the w-av with lofa ~ s1a pogi
fools that come Up nere. they don't know
what they care for. ANY cra car stand
the rip coming 81 here. bat tire climate
* what hofhers ther1. i wants - te
good hale hearty person so come g here
although "A fssble person rn3grt get taToGga
All right + would not advise any cuH 10
come in na<e AZ present. Tel Fra5 = bs
nas rot the Alaska fever go take abogt
af:v rounds IN his hack and th@n Go over
10 Newcastle ard back around ~ MAJ
creek - &c, his dinner. rest "A ajie. ard
then sake TIA sane kin ~ Trip hack
again and then i Sc mas ssiil GOT ;A@
fever lust frpazina g il ab9uf twice "a
-al1xh trail ard zboUt ten lines IS u1any
hills and a coed deal sleeper and then -
cap il ali cook MS own meas and nave
4 soft bed made - few poles wIth 3 few
yrr,vAs th~r.xr oyer fhexv TO sleep or. and