The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-08-14

ming for coaaty auditor. was fortunate
enough 70 be among the frst 20 get Ia On
Sulphur ard Dominion and claims 10 have
made money enough 20 go out and start
inso business FOR himself.
Ton D. Rockwell has promising claim
on Sulphur with claims on other creeks.
He also is SAID 10 be doing well.
Mr. Jirks who was connected with the
Seattle fire department, IL said 70 De max
ing barrel OF money running = saloon
and working several mines.
Morris J. Sagle. deputy Ia the county
clerks once. who got n last fall IS work
ing a lay On Bonanza and has several
claims Of his own.
Dan r. Abrams ex-county assessor. has
q Jay on 3 Bonanza, below discovery.
and has several claims on creeks not de-
veloped
c. ". Bowhey. q druggist. who came in
last fail. located . claim on Henderson
and worked lay" on BONANZA He ex-
poets 10 so out for a stock OF drugs for
q store IN this place.
Al Oise. gripman on the Madison street
line. who has been in here two years. has
good location on Sulphur.
M Seabart, also OF the Madison street
line. who came in las; fall. is said 10 be
well settled on Sulphur.
Riley W. Mccoy. of the Model dairy.
who came III last fall and located on Lee
ota creek, g working a lay on Hunker
Jesse Bowman the wholesale FISHERMAN.
also has a claim on Leo,a. IN the KIon-
dixie district. and IN working a lay on
Hunker
Al Dalton has been IN here three years
and has No. above discovery on Hunker.
He worked No Is on Eldorado last win
ter on a lay.
Harry Gould. OF the Washington dairy
has undeveloped locations on Camel gulch
Henderson and Baker creeks and inter
ests on Moose Hide creek. He punched"
q dog team al! winter.
c. o. Wolcott has claims on Henderson
and Baker and worked on Eldorado AL
winter
Herman Shatz. who came In last FAM
worked on Eldorado last winter, but was
laid up for some time with the scuryy.
w. A. Obar, of the Everett Land Com
pany. passed last winter on his claim on
the Henderson.
Ex-senator Range and son went down
shortage in provisions. He is still below,
and nothing has been heard from him
since.
Roy Davis, with the Model dairy, who
came in last fail. has secured locations
on Henderson creek and the Stewart river
and Is actively wrestling for more
A Rough Experience.
Jesse Cochran. so well remembered in
the political and Masonic circles of Seat
tie, and for many years member OF the
board of public works. who left Seattle
August q OF last year. landed here after
remarkably quick run Of nineteen days.
He has not been very successful and ow-
ing TO an accident that injured his back
he Is now incapacitated from hard work
and expects to return home soon. Mr..
Cochran does not object, ike a woman, to
having his age known. He is past rs
years OF age. q fact no one would credit
to look at his erect, we1l-preserved fig
ure. While his stay in the Klondike has
been short, II has been eveu;fuI and full
Of hard experience, his worst being his
Erip over the ice in mdwinter from Circle
~ to Dawson. On his first arrival in
wilson he remained three weeks, during
that he earned $500 sign writing. After
of A leEent 10 Circle City on the strength
who said from former workman of his.
him. His had good proposition to offer
cially the relerience on that trip, espe-
able for endure on the Ice, was remark
into considerable when his age is taken
by himself: The story is best told
Il had a chance l.
to Circle City on theTo down from here
day and my board. wittare' getting -
down on account OF the '.idh "Ho "ei,l
| however. left six months'Vo scare L.
| Dawson. which I found all sapViA"hs III
turn. three months later. l land. my re
Gle City the last day OF Septembth III
the ice running pretty thick and win
The friend I went down 10 find had Ey.
TO Fort Yukon, so had my trip for no;e
ing. / then concluded 10 stay until the
| freezing of the river. and come back 10
Dawson over the ice, a distance by sur
vey OF 400 miles, but which by trail and its
many difficulties app AIRED to ne TO be
about 800 miles. I looked around for A
Sled on which 10 haul back some things
and the provisions necessary for the trip.
Failing TO find one, ! shoulaered my ak
| and went % the hills for birch tree, and
on my return I found from eighteen inches
| n 80 tSr' II snow. | put in three weeks
building my sled. my only tools being a
f"nIdx and jackknife Next
| with needle and thread and skins, / GU.
| and i. td= me pair OF moccas.ns, and
after mending my stockings and clothes
| l found myself in pretty fair shape TO
make start Up the river. My treasury
| was low. but I bought box OF candles.
| which / understood were selling in Daw-
| son at 500 a box, and with my clothes
| blankets and provisions Y had about 80
| pounds on my SEED, which you VIII admit
| was pretty heavy load for man of my
| age 10 pull over 400 miles with the aid Of
! dogs and over an unbroken. rough trail
| I started November s. with four other
| men. the temperature ranging near the
| ffties below zero. and then commenced
/ one Of the TOUCHES. trips l ever made In
| all my life. We had neither tent 10 shelter
| us at nigh. nor stove 10 cook or warm by
Case of RouxhtnG 1t.
| 1T was roughing Il In the extreme We
| made our beds every night In the mos,
| sheltered spot available. and cooked by an
| open fire il the weather permitted. Al,
| times II was so intensely cold that Il was
not safe 10 lie down for fear Of freezing
| 10 death In our sleep. and many nights
| nave had 10 walk around the camp fire TO
Keep UP 4 proper circulation / had bean
on the trail only one and a half miles
when my breath began TO freeze on my
rnu7tache, which. being very long. became
unoearabie and caused me much pain and
suffering Having no scissors ! took by
| knife and hacked OF my goatee and mus