Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-11-24
LUCK IN THE KLONDIKE.
FREAKS or FORTUNE THAT HAVE
MADE THE eLDoRAbo KINGS.

o Nugget, Thus Locating q Valuable
Clsim-Make Stake Out of Dogs
Luck counts In the Klondike, and
the man who will nov work or has no
luck will have to walk out or send
home to his mother for money. Luck
made the "Eldorado Kings" When
all Bonanza was staked, relates the
New York Press, the old timers looked
up the little creek that flowed into it
and said: "Oh, well, as long as we're
here and we've come SO far to get here,
we might as we'll stake that blamed
pup" So they staked the blamed pup
Those that would go to the trouble,
And these were called fools time and
again by the others ''You could
work ten years and you wouldn't find
color in that moose PASTURE" cried the
dissenters.
A month afterward every man who
had staked claim on Eldorado was
anxious to sell his claim for anywhere
from $50 to 5000. "Sharley" Ander.
son, of minneapolis Swede man
long time in Yukon, had $500 which
be had made by hard work In the
lower country, The owner Of No. 20
Eldorado, with the aid of accomplices,
got "Sharley" under the influence OF
liquor and sold him No. 20 for his
little pile" And then this smart
schemer went about Boosting Of what
o clever man he was. ''Sharley" said
nothing but rubbed his head. Before
either party to the bargain had been
long sober the first hole sunk on
Eldorado reached bedrock. Tho dirt
showed from 81 to $500 to the pan
tSharley's" gold brick will turn ont
about $500, 900 in dust, being one of
the richest claims on the richest placer
creek In the world. Men who found
somebody to give them fifty for o
claim on the 'blamed pup" are victims
of bitter regret, who expect others TO
show them some respect in memory Of
what they ''might have been.
"Alec" Mcdonald, the King Of the
Klondike, got his start by buying an
Eldorado claim for song. ''Sharley"
Anderson accepted his luck as such
and asked his friends to share it with
him, He gave them plots of ground
on his claim, to work on shares, and
they have cleared this year from $15,-
900 to 800, 900 apiece.
One day "Caribou Billy" was shoot
ing logs down the hillside above II
Eldorado when the end Of log
gouged something bright out of the
hillside. Billy picked it up, glanced
at it, put it in his pocket and then
looked around to see If anybody had
been observing him. He went down
to his cabin and showed the nugget to
his good "pal, " "Joe" Staley. lie I'D
"'Joe" dug hole 1t a. POM Wnefe
~ ,,,c+o,of - Ueen knocked out of
W. nu vi and found only colors Of bed
t0ck. A new prospectot. just out Of
q store, In the East, probably would
have given up discouraged. But "Joe"
and 'Billy" were old prospectors and
they knew better. They sank another
hole some fifty feet above the first one
and took 8197 out Of their first pan on
bedrock. Their discovery claim Is
worth $4,000 When his friends saw
the discoverer Of Skookum bench dig
ging hole In the hillside they asked
him why he didn't look for gold up q
tree. '"There's no telling where you'll
find gold in this country" was the re-
ply. "But if you expect to find it
you've got to dig hole somewhere,
and this is near my cabin" Result,
another $50, 900 claim, and good claims
for all of the discoveries friends.
Two young men from Manitoba,
Williams and Young, reached Dawson
last summer when the rush to stake
claims on Sulphur on the rumor of
rich discoveries there had just begun.
The men who sit along the river front
end chew tobacco, said they had
known all about that creek for years,
and everybody was fool to carry O
pack for five days just to put o stick
down in piece of moose pasture, for
they had had their eyeteeth cnt by
other stampedes. Williams took their
advice. Young didn't. He was only
youngster of twenty, but he started
out with FIVE days rations and his
blankets, and succeeded in stalking
No. Below Discovery. His report
when he returned was so favorable
that Williams decided to join the rear
ranks Of the procession. This spring
Young sold his claim for $50, 900,
while Williams got only $4,000 for his.
One man made good stake out Of
malamute dogs. He came up the
river from st. Michael with the rush
Of last year, and his boat was caught
in the ice at Circle City some three
hundred miles from his destination.
He had never PANIED d pan OF dirt in
his life; but his family originally came
from Connecticut. Circle City was
deserted, the people of the hith-
erto busy camp having gone to
the new diggings. But they
had left their malamute dogs be-
hind. Connecticut studied up the
malamute dog question, and he con-
Guided that Dawson needed. malamute
dogs just then more than anything
else in the world How else could
the food and supplies for the claims
be transported up the creeks? Con
nactiout invested oil 1o HI - .,.a1