The Saint Paul globe., 1898-10-23

moreover, a damned "pup'-Which is
their word for small creek which ia
supposed to be of no consequence. Ell
Dorado, with it's rolling hills and mar
rCw valley, was the most unpromising
Of places to find gold, according to all
traditions. Those who had staked claims
there offered them at one time as low
as $50 and 800, and what made them
n1illionaires was the fact that nobody
took them UP.
Now, as the story goes, Charley
Anderson was "perty fulP' one night,
and the owner of No. 29, on Ell Dora
do, which was regarded as positively
too far UP the creek to be of any
value, even If the other claims were,
found out that Charley had some
money, and made up his mind to get
1t. So he induced Charley" to give
him $500 for No. 29. The next day the
original owner went around the town
boasting Of the great bargain he had
made. Charley naturally was hopping
mad. But keep dot claim he said.
maybe it fool somebody, yet" And
it did. It will produce nearly 1,000,-
900.
Charley" is one of the leaders of
society in the Klondike now. He has
the reputation of treating his work.
men better than any other employer.
He has become affable and diplomatic
and ambitious, in sharp contrast to
the Charley" of the old days. The
one way to lose his friendship Is to
hint that he did not exactly know what
he was doing when he bought No. 90
He has now purchased number Of
other claims on the new creeks-Do-
these are turning out we'll: Nothing
stands in the way of his becoming a
multimillionaire-and all because he
drank wisely and we'll, if the generally
accepted account of the timers be
true.
Little Anton Stander is perhaps the
most amazing and amusing Of the
lucky ones. You see such fellows as
Anton on the emigrant ships from
Southern Europe. He is a small Aus
trian with the back Of his head
straight up from his spinal column, a
pynamidal-shaped head. black hair
and black eyes, widely separated. He
drifted into the Yukon country along
with other debris of humanity before
the great strike. On the whole, his
intelligence is not above that Of the
average person of Latin lineage who
swings a pick in the section gang, but
he had the luck to strike one Of the
claims on Ell Dorado and the stub
bornness to hold it-qualities that ex-
ist without a college education. You
find the college men In the Klondike,
as a rule, working for men who, If
they can read and write, cannot read
and write we'll enough to become shin
ing lights in literature. When Anton
found out how rich he was, he immedi-
ately assumed the airs of an aristo-
crat.
He has already acquired the habit of
the rich man Of considering every one
who addresses him as trying to do him
out of some of his wealth. He is eX-
tremely liberal with his money in graf
flying his own whims, but not other
wise. Last winter he fell in love with
one of the inmates of a dance hall in
Dawson. She was not beautiful and
she was not proud. But she set
value on her company, for Anton gave
her, I am told, $4,000 to be his house
keeper during the winter, with the
strict understanding that she was to
cook for no one else. Now Anton is
to marry her, or, perhaps, he already
has married her, and when he has
worked out his claim they are going
OF a tour of the world together. 1t is
safe to say that he will not cross the
Atlantic this time in the steerage.
Near Stander's claim, and as rich as
his, is Pop Stanley's. Pop" in his
day kept a tiny book store in Seattle.
He is middle-aged and something of
a cripple, In the spring of SO he start
ed for the Klondike and packed his
own grub over the Chilcoot pass on
his lame old shoulders. He first went