The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-08-14
Seventy-fve Per Cent. Of the Pop
ulation From Here.
LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF LIFE.
Checkered Fortune Of J. ID. Chase
His Youngest Son Knocked Int
the River and Drowned-Series Of
Miafortunes-GOod Luck Comes 1t
Last-Jesse COchran's Rough Ex-
perfence ON q 400 Mile Trip ON lee.


DOD many friends at home would |
like TO hear OF the movements
md prospects Of as many as can be Sc
;Ired- The list OF Seattleites here is too |
eng TO secure IN full. as IL is estimated
hat fully 80 per cent. OF the present popu-
alton halls from the Queen City OF the
West / have gathered the names OF as
many an could in the brief space OF time
md give them without any attempt at
George Wilson. q carpenter OF Ballard,
Who ief, his wife and babe three years ago.
expects to go out in the spring with $500
Is a reward for his early migration to this
nnospitable country.
Among the lucky locators on French
Eulch on the Eldorado is Carroll NJ. Coe.
brother of DR.. Cos. Of Seattle, who also
has promising lay On ~ below on Bo-
nanza.
Ron N. Crawford, member of the firm OF
crawford and Harmon. and brother OF
IN l.. Crawford. is In the real estate
in 2ess here and is a prominent figure
sanitQwn. He took great interest In the
mer aroeondition Of Dawson last sum-
in conjunctng the fever epidemic worked
giving relief with the gold commissioner.
them out OF ten the afflicted and getting
into f1oored cabiEer moss-soaked ground
COL Z. +. Treat as Mr.. Crawford, with
nfst miners brokeralartner, opened the
ana Tor months was anoffice In Dawson
10 the Old miners. INFECT OF curiosity
Wen satlsned with his succsawford Is so
coitenpIates sending for hSere that he
making Dawson his permanent Smily and
w. r. wilson, eX-superinteDdae.
wafer WORKS and ali-around politicpf the
came IN last June. was laid up BY sitwho
the greater part OF the winter. althousess
succeeded In locating promising claim
Hunker.
Among the well-fixed men here is Charlie,
Deohey' or Tacoma, who will be remem-
wharf in the City of Destiny. Three vaars
ago Charley worked himself into a gona
position with the Alaska Commercial
company. and secured. besides, seyer;t]
good holdings. He expects soon 10 resign
and go into the brokerage business.
harvey I. Harmon. who came in the
spring CT 81, has been sufficiently success
iul IN real estate transactions to want TO
stay mere. He will go out soon and snens
next winter with his family in Seattle.
then return In the spring of go His mart
ner Is Ron NJ. Crawford of Seattle FOR
merry deputy clerk Of the old United states
court Tor many years and under various
clerks.
Lights and Shadows.
The checkered experience of J. D. Chase
illustrates how fortune and misfortune are
blended in lights and shadows on the Yu-
kon. The death OF his wife In Seattle last
year started him with his two little bows
Tor the iukOn. Soon after his arrival his
younger son, while playing on the banks az
the Yukon under a bluff was struck on
.he mead by a falling rock. knocked SENSE
less INTO the water and drowned Several
months later the body was recovered on
Oar far down the river Fer some time
after series OF fnisfortunes seemed TO ar.
tend Chases every effort He took a
iay' ana although the claims above and
neiow ms ground were panning out rich
MS own proved worthless At last. thor
oughiy disheaftened, he went up on a hill
side. north OF Skookum guch. on the no
Hahza, 10 ouild cabin. While digging out
moss ard dirt sur the roof he <0nnd mar
ticies OF gold. He at once staked out a
bench claim 25x3o and soon had S. 500 worth
OF gold III coarse nuggets. Washing out
the small dump he had taken out he Sc
cured from 1t sl2 900. He then marketed his
~.oHAi' sSttlh8 s4b,rc additional III cash TO
the gold already taken out.
Men are not alone in scoring suecesees
and II is mistaken idea that all women
In here are questionable. Many good
faithtu! and energetic wives have follow
81 their husbands in here. sharing the
priyaiions and hardships Of the trail In
many cases better than the men Among
me successful women in here now are Mrs
j w. Mcdonald. OF Seattle: Mrs. J. Ferru-
son OF Tacoma, and Mrs. Frank Fancher
OF San Francisco. All by their efforts and
goo1 Judgment have materially added tn
the success OF their husbands revenues.
Mrs wills. OF Tacoma. three years ago
left an invalid husband at homo and came
70 the Yukon 10 tempt fate for fortune.
She drove her own dog team over the
trail and was the first white woman in
Dawson. She went on down TO Circle
City. where she started a laundry. which
proved SO profitable that she was able 20
grubstake several young men and start
them up the river At the time OF the Kfon-
0ike excitement. In this way she became
interested IL sone Of tho best mines IN
that district and she Is now said tn he
among the we9Itaiest citizens here. r. is
needless 70 say she no longer washes
clothes far tie n ners
bar Well Represented.
The Seattle bar is well represented here
Arthur L Griffin. an attorney who was
defeated for superior court Judge By rea-
son OF the state stamping 20 the Pops i
here, member of the firm OF mining
brokers ot Martin. Jos.in & Griffin. Josiah
Collins. an attorney AMI a society man, Is
q member OF the broker firm az F'airchud
Collins 4 Peiley. II. A Fai-child. % this
arm, was formerly from Whatcom. AL
2AeAS hyers, also an attorney. is working
4 lag on the Bonanza: Frank Knowles
IS representing a claim on sulphur. and ]
l-ir1ieY Green, who secured some notorietv
"a Seattle through The publication in the
t&ost-fn'eN! geucer. verbatim az his wonder.
rally constructed letters during w9r,iv
controversy over the Craemer case. has
lust arrived from the Five Fingers. H..
prefers pick and shovel 70 Wig and gown.
TAP hoSIe t5e ex-captain of tbe Seat
ie police, = doing contract work and mas
also secured several mining locations.
sidney HaasaT3 wei renaln heref among
IA swell young society people and long
'oanected with the First National bank
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