Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-01-28
ALASKAN NUGGETS.

WV people, ltit seattle In one day,
this week. for Alaska.
The Olympia boys" at Dawson
are McClclland, Curtin, the Milroys,
Barbec. B0landcr and White.
Niger Jim" apparently turned up
" schcn' and "clcbcn" several Times
during his prospecting tour in the
NOrthland.
There will hardly he any cut in
passage rates To- Alaska whilr all the
ships hang up the sign -. T.. o.
before they sail.
" Niger Jim" has already been inn
portuncd to subscribe for the building
of church in Olympia. The end
Justltics the means" you know.
Preparations for the relief cxpcdi-
ton go steadily ON, Notwithstanding
reports that supplies are ample at
Dawson. 1t is well enough To- hc
sure.
klondike slcds are managed differ
emily from ordinary slcds. Two shafts
project from the rear, by which thcv
are stecred, somewhat after the man
ner of n pillow.
In December, daylight at Dawson
continued only from 10 4. VI. till 3 p.
NJ, about > hours for labor. leaving 10
for rcfreshmcnt' but it is not of the
most cXhlleratlng nature.
1t is said TO be an indisputablc fact
that outiitters for klondikc can obtain
their supplies in this city from ten To
twenty-five per cent cheaper than they
can III Seattle or Tacoma.
There are more than three score
of Elks ut Dawson, but while they
cannot institute n lodge without a,i-
thority, they have formed club. and
lately gave the first bail ever held in
camp.
Curtin and Bolander, of this city,
are workings clay" that is part of
another mans claim. As they have
not yet struck bed rock they do not
know whether it will "pan out" any
thing or not.
Wood sells at $40 per cord at Daw-
son City. Teams can make S2j per
cord hauling it and clear up 800 per
day, as the haul is only II miles.
Most OF the hauling is done by dogs,
rs there are not over n dozen horses ut
Dawson.
klondikers are advised To carry
balls OF cloth saturated with coil-oil to
start fires. 1t is fearful ordeal for n
man to remove his mittens, with the
at 40 to GO below to strike a
match, to say nothing OF securing II
blaze from damp and green wood.
Fifteen hundred citizens gathered
at the depot at Stanford, Conn, last
Monday to witness the departure of
a party of 60 Nutmegs" for the
Klondike. They will come directly to
the Sound, and sail Feb. 4th, BY the
specially chartered steamer Moonlight.
for the North.
MIR. White writes from Dawson, un-
der date of Dec. 10Th, that the temper
allure has been GO degrees below and
one man was frozen to death on the
trail. He says that reports of phe-
finds continue to excite the
miners. One find on Sulphur Creek,
just received, is $500 to the pan.
w. J. White, now at Dawson, writes
to his family in this city that al
though craftsmen get SIS per day
wages, he would advise everybody get
ting $3.50 per day to hold on to his Job.
Although he is making the former
sum ironing sleds he says he would
come home if assured of steady EN-.
ployment at even ~.
A party of twenty-five destined for
klondike lately arrived Mt Seattle,
from Colorado. Four of the party
were womeo-two widows with little
children dependent upon them for
1t is indeed a pathetic in
stance of desperation which drives
frail women to endure hardships which
men shrink to encounter.
Seventeen of the reindeer that we're
being shipped to this country from
Hamburg on the British ship Glanton
were executed by hanging during
storm at sea. The animals were tied
to staunchiOns and when the ship
rolled they were literally suspended by
the neck. This shipment were not of
Uncle Sans band, but belonged to
Klondiker, who believed he saw money
in a shipment of the animals to the
land of gold.
Tom" Parker, OF this city, who
came down from the Klondike a short
time ago with "a pocket full of rocks"
met with mishap on his way up at
Lake Bennett, his boat having over.
turned and much of the outfit lost.
He saved that which was stored be-
meath the thwarts, however, and sold
it for enough to return to Seattle and
secure full outfit, and was a passen.
ger on late steamer on his return to
the gold regions.
Niger Jim" is emulating the
brilliant record of Coal Oil Johnny"
who. when he found himself immense
ly wealthy from the product of Ma.
lures reservoir, broke the record of
proliigate expenditure wherever he
Travelled. Jim is doing the same
thing at Seattle. He lately opened"
$500 worth of wine as a greeting for
friend he sent hundred dollar bill
to " Uncle Bill" Williams, the boot
black, and gave handful of nuggets
to a friend who was coming to Olym-
pia to e" show" the boys that he had
" struck it rich" Whether his ex-
ploits will have the same ending, ut
ter restitution, or not, is a matter of
conjecture; but Jim will find, in any
event, that fair-weather friends cling
closer than a brother.
Mrs. ]. T. Wills, who has made
fortune in Alaska, is well known to
many of the older residents of this city.
She kept restaurant on Main street,
between Second and Third, near the
old Pacific House, early in the sos,
and was woman of indomitable will
power and bustling energy. She made