Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-07-28
Returned from KIoadike.

After an absence of nearly a year
in the frozen gold regions of Alaska,
Fred Painter returned here last Fri
day evening and Immediately went
out to Mrs. Hills ranch. Mr..
Painter was interested with Captain
Hill, before his death, in sheep rails
ing and was rapidly accommodating
wealth when, last summer, the
Klondike fever seized him and he
and Matt Judge joined the throng
of gold seekers then hurrying to the
Klondike. r. P. Chattin, Jake
Ottenheimer, T. r. Stevenson, Geo.
w. Hill and H. c. Hubbell jointly
made up purse that enabled Matt
Judge to start we'll equipped for the
perilous voyage. After long, tire
some and dangerous trip, Painter
and Judge arrived at Dawson City.
in which section they remained and
prospected until the oath of June,
when Mr.. Painter started on his re-
turn home, arriving here on the 22d
of July.
From a hurried interview with
Mr.. Painter we gathered the follow
ing information relative to former
residents of Gilmore county:
Scott Myers died at Dawson City
on May 81, from scurvey. Mr.
Myers was we'll known in this coun-
ty and also on Wood river, where
he has many friends who will regret
to hear of his death.
Antoine Alexson, formerly of
Rocky Bar and partner of Scott
Myers, is at Dawson and financially
we'll fixed.
Matt Judge is not in good health
and fortune has not smiled upon
him. When Mr.. Painter left Judge
was engaged in logging" on the
Yukon river.
Sam Kincaid located a claim on
one of the benches of Bonanza creek
that is yielding him good pay in
gold. He has several miners en-
ploved and is realizing from $25 to
$50 per day to the man with rock
ers. Kincaid sent about $40 in
handsome gold nuggets to his son
Emmett, in this place, by Mr..
Painter.
Hon. jeff Bogard, formerly of
Rocky Bar, who went to Alaska
with AL Oliver about four years ago
and worked in quartz mine near
Juneau and also at Fortymile on
the Yukon river before the discov-
cry of the Klondike diggings, came
down on the same steamer with Mr..
Painter. He went on to San Fran
cisco, but will soon return to this
county, his arrival here being daily
expected. Mr.. Bogard was more
fortunate than thousands of others
who have endured the hardships of
the frozen north for years and has
brought back with him the snug
sum of $4,000 in Klondike gold.
MIR. Painter tells us that Jeff carries
pocket piece in the shape ola $40
nugget which he unearthed from
his claim on the Klondike.
Mr.. Painter says there are but q
few rich claims yet discovered on
the Klondike-say about rs in all
and when he left Dawson City
there were at least 10000 people
there, great many of whom were
destitute and unable to obtain en-
ployment. The hardships, the eli.
mate, the sickness, the mosquitoes,
are indescribable, and he advises
no one to go there, Notwithstanding
the glowing reports now coming
down from Klondike.
Single meals cost $3.50 at Daw-
son City. A piece of pie or a sand
wich and one cup of coffee $1.OO.
Flour was selling at $1,000 per
hundred, eggs $500 per dozen and
butter at $3.50 per pound.
A great many deaths occurred
daily at Dawson from scurvey,
caused from eating salty food.
Mr.. Painter has again turned his
attention to the woolgrowlpg bust
ness in Gilmore county and will not
soon contract another Klondike
fever.