The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-27

4 wsnan's A~dventursus Voyage In TIE
Angry Wsteu 81 the Kloadike Region.
Miss Laura Evans Of Oewego has
performed the feat of riding the terri
BILE White Horse rapids. between Daw-
son City and Bennett. In the Klondike
country. She In In Portland, and. In
speaking OF her p~erilous trip. said:
The day before I % the rapids
eight boats had been wrecked. and In
a number of these cases II had been
blamed entirely on the women, because
they got excited. made the men ner-
vous who were rowing. DC that they
lost control of. the o Colonel Steele.
head of the mounted police. therefore
mad q rule that no more women or
children SHOULD go through. They must
go around by land. as most of the peo-
pie had been doing right straight along
on account Of h great peril of the
trip.
This new rule was made the day I
arrived there on my trip to Dawson
from Bennett. When i heard of II 1
told the Indian pilot TO bring the boat
down and land where there was a big
eddy. this side of Miles canoon He
tied the boat there. as I had directed
from the brush. When there was no
one looking l Jumped into the boat.
Inc though the Canadian police are
mighty clever. they are not clever
enough to stop a boat after II Is once
started to go owe the falls. Besides
myself there were W men to row
and the Indian pilot.
1T would be a long story to tell OF
my sensations during the next 10 or 20
minutes" said Miss Evans. and her
black eyes twinkled with laughter at
the remembrance. After the boat was
united IL fioated along smoothly; then
all at once II was snatched from that
oddv oS fhornh a. had haan shot from
a annon The water seemed to be
going up n the sky seemed to be
coming down. We were dashed from
one side to the other against the rocks.
This was Miles canon. and II took us
two or three minutes to go through II.
a distance of a mile.
After another smooth eddy. we were
again snatched up in h same way as
before. the -ilot working over his oars
like a a This In what made n
nervous. for 1t looked as though he
a lost control of his boat.
Then, after passing his second can
on, we struck h queerest place, bob
bling up and down n rolling over
side ways. until 1t seemed as though
we would all turn a somersault. This
was Squaw rapids. the most dangerous
place in the White Horse. for there
were loose boulders on the bottom.
which keep turning over, SO that IL
NV nv e.At ~ 49, ny 49,
the next. The pilot never knows
whether ne is going to get through
alive or not.
when we passed these rapids the
pilot told us to look at the White
Horse. Sure enough. there seemed TO
be ahead of us a whole herd of white
horses. their tails and names all fly
ing. As we started to go through
them the boat tossed and tumbled ev-
cry way, the waves washed over US.
we were drenched. the boat half filled
with water. Suddenly the Indian threw
down his oars and shouted: Look
outi'
THE men rowine. when they heard
this. threw down their oars N gave
up completely. One OF them W
under the seat.
But this. II seems. was only a joke
on the part of the Indian. who. like
all Indians. had a queer idea of hu-
NOR. He knew that II the boat was
once started all right over the rapids
II would come through safely. H:
takes pride in telling that / sat per-
| fectly still. The fact is. / was n
ing just where the wreck would take
place."-Portland Oregonian.