The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-10-22
:TTCK IN THE KL0NDlKE'
FREAKS Of FORTUNE THAT HAVE
MADE THE ELooRA0o KINGS

WsharteyH Anderson's Odd Way OF stun n
) bling Into Riches-A Log Gougeu 1ut =
A Nugget, Thus Locating q Valuable !,
Claim-NIake a Stake Out OF DoSs' 4,
luck counts in the Klondike, and =
the man who will not work or hos no Z
luck will have to walk out OF sena I
home to his mother for money. Luck
made the "Eldorado Kings" When
all Bonanza was staked, relates the ,
| New York Press, the old timers looked
up the little creek that flowed into 1t !
and said: "Oh, well, as long as were
here and we've come 80 for to get here.
we might as we'll stake that blamed
pup" SO they steked the blamed pup
those that would 60 to the trouble.
And these we're called fools time and
again by the others. You could
work ten years and you wouldn't find
color in that moose PASTURE" cried the
dissenters. = "
A month afterward every man who
had stdked claim on Eldorado was
anxiousto sell his claim for anywhere
from $50 to $500. "5harley' Apder-
son, Of Minnee-ap- po-lees, Swode man
long time in Yukon, had $500 which
he had made by hard work IN the
lower country. The owner Of No. 20
,, Eldorado, with the aid Of accomp!lices,
cot "Sharley" under the influence Of
liquor and sold him'"No. 26 FOR his
:. little "pile." And thon this smart
schemer went about Boosting Of what
y clover man he was. "Sharley" said
a nothing but rubbed his head. Before
O either party to the bargain had been
long sober the first hole sunk on
c Eldorado reached bedrock. The dirt
5. showed from 81 to $500 to the pan.
's ."Sharley's" gold brick will turn out
8 about $500, 900 In dust, being one Of
g. the richest claims on the richest placer
,e creek in the world Men who found
y somebody to give them fifty for o
" claim on the "blamedpup" ore victims
It. Fof bitter regret, who expect others to
ne show them some respect in memory o.
IN what they might have been.
IN "Alec" Mcdonald, the King Of the
ar Klondike, got. his start by buying III
nj Eldorado claim for song. "ohariey'
he Anderson accepted his luck as suel
a. and asked his friends to share it witt
nit him. He gave them plots of grounI
a on his claim to work on shares, an
de they have cleared this year from $l5,
ILL 900 to 800, 1000 apiece.
be One day "Caribou Billy" was shoot
bic ing logs down the hillside above l
nd Eidorado when the end Of 10
gouged something bright out Of til
hillside. Billy picked 1t up, glance
o,n, at it, put it in his pocket and the
sri looked around to see If anybody ha
~ ~, boon observing him. Ho went dow
no to his cabin and showed the nugget
i; his good "pol," "Joe" Btaley, lie al
u, IT,, 900" dug hole Of the point whe
VI tho nugget had been knocked out
the earth and found only colors ofbe
u' rock, A new prospectot, just out
store in the East, probably won
not have given up discouraged. But $50
e. and "Billy" we're old prospectors a
'eet they knew better. They sank anoth
her hole some fifty feet above the first o
lay. and took $187 out Of their first pan
dis bedrock Their discovery claim
IKE worth $4,000. When his friends 8
ht." the discoverer Of Skookum bench 4
e.. ging hole in the hillside they asl
alb him why he didn't look for gold up
be Is tree. "Ihere's no telling where yo1
that find gold IN this country" was the
o 1t, ply. "But if you expect to find
css" you've got to dig hole somewht
hear and this Is near my cabin" Res
lgeye another $50, 900 claim, and good cla'
store for all Of the discoveries friends.
,n,pq Two young men from Mantle
Williams and Young, reached Dow
. lost summer when the rush to st
Claims on Sulphur on the rumol
rich discoveries there had just beg
n. ad' The men who sit along the river fl
para and chew tobacco, said they
known all about that creek for ye
" Sc and everybody was 1901 TO carr
pecu- pack for fvo days just to put q s
igno- down in piece Of moose pasture,
COM they had had their eyeteeth cut
Ines other stampedes. Williams took t
,,,i.o auYice' IOuu5 uluu't. lie vase
ln%no ayounsster Of twenty, but he ste
Wv ".lI %. ont with five days rations and
:" " blankets, and succeeded in -atnl
igor M 7 p trUSTUTy; It's Tol
'--- Whom he returned was 50 favor
COM that Williams decided to join the
lents ranks Of the procession. This sp,
y OF Young sold his claim for $780,
Com while Williams got only $4,000 for
l!ere One man made good stake Out
II "3o malamute dogs. lie came up
Oh is river from St. Michael with the ]
Of last year, and his boat was cat
it my in the ice at Circle City some Il
hat hundred miles from his destinat
Il. l He had never panned pan Of dir
spells his life; but his family originally c