The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-03-03
LUCKY LADS.
There Are Several Seattle Boys who Have
struck it Rich in Alaska.

There Are Several Seattle Boys who Have
struck it Rich in Alaska
There are several Seattle boys on-th
Yukon that are making money, ant
some of them will return rich, perhap
yet this season, and perhaps not untr
next year. One street Arab who form
erly sold papers here and who started
in on his Alaskan career by going e.
Cook Inlet on the Lakme more than
year ago, is reported to have dug quit
a sum out of the golden sand bars on
Ell Dorado Creek, and is now taking
of coming back to Seattle. He proposes
to make things Interesting for his from
er friends of the Newsboys' Union
Bert Bertrand is his name, and man.
Seattle people remember him and nE
brothers, He was a heavy-set. CHUNKY
fellow. and capable of doing plenty Q
hard work Some way ne did not ge
along well at the Inlet, and finally the
miners made up purse of sig and sen
him back to juneau. This was toward
the end of the Summer last year. AZ
Juneau he met a man who was going
into the Yukon, who agreed to take hin
along for what he could do packing
According to a letter that has come on
Bertrand took up claim in his friends
name and it proved bonanza. He wa.
offered large price for it, but Is hold
ing for raise. The Seattle newsboys
are awaiting his return eagerly, for il
means a SWELL banquet of some kline
and nugget shirt studs such as Trilby
Collins has been sporting since he re-
turned from Swauk for every one.
Another Seattle boy who is reported
to have made a barrel of money is
known here as Little Willie His
people are well-to-do and influential
here but Willie" was inclined to be
a. sport, and had a fondness for the
Tenderlion. He selected his friends
from the cream of the shady part OF
town and those whose day is night, and
the hours that they live are the ones
between the two suns. There was
nothing particularly bad about the boy
except his fondness for the kind OF
companions described above This was
too much for his family, however, and
Little Willie was sent to Spokane.
This was about year ago and it
did not take him long to learn the ropes
at Spokane. He went from bad tc
worse, and finally was arrested by one
of Spokanes, fly cops and the charge Of
vagrancy placed against him at the
station house. He rallied a few influ-
ential friends, who knew his relatives
in Seattle. The latter were commune
Gated with and sent a ticket for his re-
turn to Seattle On arriving
there his father. pointed out
to him the folly of the life he wa lead
ing, and offered to send him to Alaska
He agreed to this, and last Simmer, in
company with a steady man of some
experience, started for the Yukon. They
finally drifted into Dawson They got
good claims. and letters recently receiv-
ed say that Little Willie" has lots oil
money and is one Of the characters OF
the new camp.
He will be back here next year, and
if his old inclinations are still with
him there will be a big lot of money
burned with the sporty set in Seattle
They say, however. that Willie has re-
formed. and that ON his return he will
settle down and become a good citizen
Hard work and experience in the. North
have changed him wonderfully. His
real name need not be given on account
of his connections in this city, but
Little Willie" will receive as warm 9
welcome whether he returns good OF
bad. for he has money and money
works wonders. Seattle Times.