Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-11

In fact the price of almost everything
can be gotten at by figuring mems
wages at SIS a day. A team is $50 a
day, lumber $15 a thousand, wood $40
to $40 cord, hay $50 a ton. Mr.. De-
Lorge thinks Dawson City better sup
piled with food this season according to
population, than last season and fears
no shortage.
The Yukon river breaks up about May
22d, but like our own Red river breaks
up at the head waters first with about
thirty days difference. This will give
those who go via the Dyea route some
advantage over those who go by boat
around by the river. Coming out with
his dog train. Mr.. DeLorge left Dawson
December 7th and came through to "salt
water' in twenty days. He thinks he
can go back the same route in sixteen
days. Mr.. DeLorge left Thursday for
Seattle where he has an outfit waiting
for him. He will be accompanied by
his wife, and son Willie who is now II
years old.
"Miners law" is the unwritten but
very efficient rule. NO lawyers are
needed or wanted. AS Mr.. DeLorge ex-
presses it, the miners select "the most
sensible man" in the camp for Judge and
a jury of twelve similar men and each
itigant tells his own story. The ver-
dict is never disputed and there is no
appeal. Mr.. DcLorge says that in this
kind of court "seems as if a man was a
liar before he came, who must tell the
truth out there" AS an example,; last
winter a man stole a sack of flour. The
flour was found with him and the evi.
dence was complete. However, the man
had no food. He was given a sled
some food, and sent alone to a point
fourteen miles from camp. He was
told if he would chop wood it would be
bought from him and he could support
himself. The fellow was industrious
and not only made a living but made
five or s x hundred dollars during the
winter; but the first boat in the spring
took him away and he was told never to
come back again.
AS a rule, men in the mining camps
are Square" On one creek last winter
were a number of miners dwellings in
none of which were less than $50, 600 in
dust, and yet no look was on any door.
One man in the camp buried in the moss
a deerskin sack containing $500 in
dust. One day a miner came along and
kicked something heavy in the snow,
he attempted to left it, found i; heavy
with gold and just stood there and
shouted until the owner of the tent
came ont and asked what was the mat
ter. On investigation it was found that
a hungry dog had found the buckshin
bag and dragged it out, trying to chew
it to satisfy it's hunger.
AS to the luck of the "tenderfeet" now
going or preparing to go in, Mr.. De-
Lorge thinks that nine out of ten of
those that have money will either. turn
back at once. or will come back before
summer is over. The other man will
stay with a fair prospect of getting
something before he returns. There
will be a large number who will have
just enough to take them there, because
these will per force have to work and
struggle, Mr.. DeLorge thinks a larger
proportion Of them will be successful.
AS to the amount of work and wages,
it is hard to prophesy, as so much de-
ponds on future circumstances. So far,
there has not been men enough. Out
side of mining, the most work has been
that naturally attending the building of
towns in what was an absolute wilder
ness, and is principally connected with
getting out lumber in it's various details.
Mr.. DeLorge does not advise everybody
to go to Alaska, but thinks that any
man willing to work, who is willing and
able to stand the necessary hardship
and privation can certainly make a
living and possibly gain a fortune.
The Greater includes the less. Hoods
S~arsaparilla cures hip disease and
scrofula sores and it may be depended
upon to cure boils and pimples and
humors Of all kinds.
Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets,
Candy Cathartlc, cure constipation forever.
loc, s5c. II {. &C fai.., druggists refund money.
Precautions Against Diphtheria.
Adam Carter, three year old son of
James Carter, died this morning of
%diphtheria. The disease was manifest
in a malignant from, and although anti
toxin was administered, the disease had
progressed too far before the admin
stration to admit of a successful action
of the medicine. The boy had been ill
for three days, the symptoms of
diphtheria first making themselves
clearly manifest last night. The resi-
dancA has haan ~nnarantinaA