The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-04
OFF FOR THE K1oND1KE.
One North Haven Man Who Found
 Wealth There.

WGoiNi
 John A. Johnson, who has been stop ping at the residence of his sister, Mrs. F. J. Hawley, Hough avenue, Bridgeport, since the first of October, left yesterday for the KlondIke region for the fourth time during the past three years, The Bridgeport Post says:
 MT, Johnson as b Tn and truught up in North Haven, Conn, and went to san Francisco about fifteen years ago. When the gold region in the hlondike was heard of three years ago, he start ed out for Dawson City and staked out claim. This proved successful, he being the first on the field apparently, as there were only three men esides himself there at that time. He would return to san Francisco after being there one year and then go back agaln and stake out another claim This was continued lor three successive yaaes. until now he is a man of independent means.
 When he left the Klondlke for San Francisco three months ago there were thirty thousand inhabitants around Dawson City, all having arrived there in three years time. It Is quite diff ferent looking place from the time he first set foot in the city and now. It has the appearance of genuine old fashioned city in every sense of the word and the reason why 1t is not a modern city like Bridgeport is because it has no asphalt streets Mir, Johnson thinks that this will come later.
 I.o,r t.(, he will not go direct to the Klond ke, but will stop at San Francisco till the first of March, at which time he will go to Dawson City to straishten up some business he left unfinished while there. He has been successful in getting all the wealth he requires, and Will not brave the hardships of the gold region any longer when he gets his business straightened out.
 His wife will accompany him in March, as she did twice before. She is all taken up with the country and says that the people in this country think that there is nothing but snow and ice d0y"n thee. It g a mist kefor tnere l:e summer months that are quite warm, during which time a large collection of beautiful wild flowers can be gathered. The river freezes up about the first of October and the winters are very se- were.
 MT. Johnson tells some very interest ing stories about the hardships experi- enced while going up into the gold re- eions, but none are S bad as told by others that have gone there to seek their fortune and have returned with out a penny in their pocket
 In reeard to living expenses there, MT. Johnson says that everything has been very high, but 1t is not go at the present time. Companies of every de- scription have been organized in San Francisco, that take food and clothing to the frigid zone, until now there is such competition that prices have gone down just about half what they were previously.
 MT. Johnson told a Post reporter when he first went there that an ordi- nary box of candles cost eighty dollars. Eggs were eighteen dollars'a dozen and beans were one dollar pound. Things l have changed materially, until now l these same articles can be purchased 1 for one-quarter the amount.
 l The laborer fares about the same as 1 he did when gold was first discovered He still gets fifteen dollars a day. and l the way they spend it for drink is won l derful. One ordinary glass of whiskey l costs fifty cents. This is how great l many go there and come back without | having cent In their pockets. l MT, Johnson has another sister in this city, Mrs, William Nothnagle wife 1 of the furniture dealer on Main street There are no other relatives in the state l of Connecticut. with the exception of the ones that are in North Haven. His 1 father and mother are dead and be- sides a few cousins scattered around l through the state, and the two sisters in this city, these are all the relatives l he has.
 I MT. Johnson is one of the successful ones that went to the Klondike and be- ing an early bird, he caught the worm