The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-28
Mother of the Klondike" Returns
to Civilization.
MADE a FORTUNE IN MINES
How One shrewd Woman Took Adj
vantage of Her Opportunities In
the Frozen sorth-she Talks In
terextfngly of Her Adventures
Took the First Bicycle to Dmw SON
VIII Return 5u the spring.

An important arrival in the city yesser-
Cay WAC Miss Lotta Burns. who is famed
a. the ~M0they % the Klendike, haFing
been the first white woman to I've at
Iaws1g She has come cat 10 spend, tf's
winter tn Seattle, and viii 90 north again
III ire spring. Taege are many "pinsa
WIG have gore TO the Kiogdtke. bal she Is
one OF tas few unmarried who have gore
there aione and entirely by their own e.
forts become rich. she owns ;atsres.s n
several valuable claims. principally OF NE
American part OF horty-Asie creek ana
brought out considerable gold DUST On the
steamer t.aronus, by which she returned.
Miss Burns first went 20 Alaska IN the
: spring OF Isss. She mad mother 10 sup
poes. and firing OF the aard work she V as
compelled 70 do boldly struck cut for
Alaska 20 geek a fortune, leaving hs.
mother III good care In Montreal She mad
u listie money. aEd WENT 10 Cae,e @1y.
where ste invested Ia town lots. Sac ~ss
a sf,rewa WOMAN and by careful mauipu-
laiions succeeded in getting few nous
and dollars. This she Invested In mining
property. buying mostly from owners VINO
had gasabfed away their earnings and were
willing 10 sell interests IN their Gains Ae
small prices.
Then the great discoveries Of the kIon-
dixie were announced, ard this intrepid
young woman gathered up her belongings
and FASTENED 10 Dawson. she bought some
town lots and pat money into otner zen
lures, until she had raised considerable
money. Tnen she came Qua 10 her mother.
whom she placed in comfortable circum~
stances for the rest Of her life. she rc-
turned TO the North on the steamer Lahrne
las, summer. reaching Dawson again early
In August.
Miss asil.ns took her bicycle with her on
her last trip, and had no sooner landed
in Dawsan than scofas OF miners were
bidding for IL; The ofyers went up until
they reached 500, when a young man
the frst wheei ever seen in the Klondike.
Miss Burns says that Indians are dying
by the score OF the lower Yukon, Tney
have a peculiar hacking cough, indicative
OF consumption. and are seen by passing
Boats sitting on the banks of taa stream.
thin and miserable. They have no care
and are subjected TO much :nistrea tment
By white mea which MAKES makes, Their eond I,
.r v sas nS sns hs a a. shg are V o
CURING every day Nobody knows all who
de, for there is no way Of finding out
Scores of tents and ca ons stand on every
block without regard 10 symmetry and It
q almost an irnp0ssibility 10 find where
Your friends live. Deaths are so frequent
there that questions ara not asked about
Miss Burns says that saltwater Bni'
Gates Is as much in evidence at Dawson
as he WAS before he went there. lie has
been extensively advertised by a sister-in-
law. she says who Is playing In vaude-
vale performance at the Combination re
sort. taking the part OF Bills wife, whom
she Numerically burlespues. Bin never
goes rear the show. and Is ioked every
LIME he appears GA The stfNSts.
This young mining woman does not think
much of the way laws are conducted On
the American side Of the kiondike.
They have no system at ALL" she says.
zone party of miners holaS a meeting and
elects "A recorder. Then they record the
claims they have staked out. Pretty soon
another party comes along. holds a meet
ing. elects different recorder and jumps
All the claims of the others. There have
been several narrow escapes from serious
trouble, but the questions have been set
HiUDlsn4G = ts ~
no particular benefit tn tie allowed l. $40
feet tor Mining claim. as they are on the
American side, Tor If your claim is a good
one 800 feet Is enough, and II not good any
Is too InuSA''