The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-20

to Philadelphia, where he got chance to
work in a Swedish boarding house for his
board and lodging. In a year or TWO ne
and another Swede walked to MIME Rp rs
where Young Anderson worked in lumber
mill. He was converted in a Lutheran MIS-
sion there and resolved to be a missionary
among the Indians. Then he was wiper
in a railroad locomotive round house IN
Minneapolis, and at night he studied for
his missionary labors. The Lutheran
Church of Minnesota helped him get 10
Alaska in 1886, and there he began his la
bors among the Innuits or natives at cape
Prince of Wales on Boring sea. HIS sal.
ary as a missionary was never more imam
S275 a year. and for four years II was less
than $500 His field was up ana DOWN the
coast of Alaska from Cape Prince OF
wales to Sitka He was frozen in at some
desolate, disheartening camp OF EsquinauA
on the coast winter after winter, ana one
who has never known how filthy, debase1'
ignorant and intractable the Berlhg sea
Esuuirnaux are can have no ldea "hdt
fearful. what blighting environment ana
savage nriTnftiyeness a white man must
endure in a long winter in an EsqulmaN
settlement l know a lot of men VINO
think they are pretty tough ana herotc'
who would just about go mad during sew
en- or eight months amid sucn eohoItlolls
and environment. But Anderson eluuieu
all that for thirteen years.
"a wear ago last October Anderson
sola worldly possessions might have been
boueht for about $75. Last OCTOBER Wheh
saw him he was worth about S5OOOOO ana
7 believe that he has real estate at Nome
| that is going to raise $4,000 higher during
This wear. He was one of the five orig
snal gold dfggers at Cape Nome and ne
had his pick of the richest placers IN thS
virgin gold field. He had gone to 81.
Michael 10 spend the winter and 90 ms
sbonary work among the whalers ana IN
nuits when it was whispered about that
sbe natives on Cape Nome had found gold
nuggets a few months before. Anderson
organized a party, and although ~ was
late in the season, and there was dahgeF
of being frozen in the ice miles iroiii o.
Michael several eX-Klondikers accom-
nanied the Lutheran missionary across
STar+or, sound TO Cape Nome. The party
found the benches of the Cape Nome
creeks more literally strewn with GOO
than they had imagined, and they Woulu
not risk a chance location of placer clallls
there when they had departed 1or D.
| michael, So Anderson and his party stay
~, r,oh+ on the scene of the find all win
tor Thev lived in tents amid snow ana
| Zee endured a temperature of sixty De-
| low zero for weeks and subsisted ON iroz-
| an balf-cooked food for six months, I'M
| IN snring came and they could go ABOUT
digging nuggets and hakes OF goio AioAA
OSAANA@~'
Anderson happened to claim the TWO
r,obae+ e-,ots on Anvil creek. He got over
| / O0O ounces of gold, worth at Nome ABOUT
| SIG 20 an ounce, from one claim I'D GWEN
| tv-tyo days when he had the sIulces IL,
| onera ton there last summer. he clalnred
seven acres of land in what is now the
| heart of Nome. and his claim pelhs
| LEGAL he has sold some lots, 30X7O rect
| for S5 900 each, and many for $500 and Sl,y"
| each. 1t is generally understood that An
derson will stick to Nome until ne gets
a half million of dollars. Iheh ne WIN
| Give a lot of 1t to the Lutheran Church
| of sweden, for in spite OF his enormous
business activity he is always rellglous'
| he viii build a $4,000 Lutheran Churcn
| at Nome this year or next.
"'Jim Grady, who is the King OF the
| sports Of Alaska, was sallor on ,ne
United States cruiser FhllaoeIplila IN us
wears ago last January. His income was
! fhen about s160 year and found. he
80 on income nowadays of about $SOV
month. It is difficult to gauge the
| actual wealth of sport like crazy put
| he must surely be worm SI'VVoV. ne
| owns the sirloin OF business P iopslS
| Dvea. Dawson and Nome Besloes' .oa ne
- tnrea saloons that would sell for 80
| ooo each and he owns one-half the Len
| roan mine on Snake creek at NOME, anu
tbat Is a good gold producer. Grauy was
n boothlaclk in Baltimore twenty years
| aoa He came lTOuA u pOSA
Family He ran away TO sea ana mas peen
sailor on a dozen craft. lie hearo III
January 1897. that an old sailor ehuIn Vi
~ VOC running a saloon at SkagWay'
| hIas,"s He forthwith got discharge
go, The United States navy and went 10
LIE with no other idea than TO Visit
81 friand He helped his friend run the
- THE TSlondike boom came on. Ihou-
sands of thirsty men with money pouree
throuph Skagway and over the Nhlicoo'
nass ~, the way to Dawson. Crazy en-
baked with 500 in the saloon business at
Dyea He introduced faro and roulette
lrsroh,,rr and he had a mint from the
| hour OF opening. He went next 90 paw
| go, ord onened the most palatial saloon
| sod gambling hall ever known there. his
riace was crowded day and night. Games
with stakes Of thirty or forty pounds OF
| old we're played many a time. His dally
cross receipts for months were from $1,000
| 10 "a 500. On Christmas, 1898, he TOOK
IN 81 Dawson $500. Everything he
| touched seemed to turn to gold. He In
vested in a patent oil heater. suitable for
thawing the frozen gravel I'm the Klondlke
nlacer mines. He was advised by many
| men TO keep out OF the patent enterprise.
| But Il proved q success, and when the
| things had sold like hot cakes, he sold
| The patent at a profit OF $4,000 or SIS 000
"He got wind that rich strikes had been
| made at Nome. which is some 1870 miles
| west OF Dawson. and he started last
March with several dog teams and COM