The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-01-21
FAR TRAVELERS
 FACE THE ICY WAY
Four ResOlute Women Here en route to Dawson Alone.
ONE WILL GO TO NOME
Party win strike The Trail With one Horse and one OF, and Do Their own Cooking.

Four resolute members of the gentler sex have arrived from the states and are at the Bay View hotel awaiting the inst opportunity to start for Dawson over the hundreds of miles of intervening Ice and snow of the great hypobOrean winter high way.
 At least one of them intends to go through to Nome in the spring
 They are travelling alone. and feel con- fident they can make the journey safely and triumph .ntly. They have no sleep ing outfit. but will put up at the road houses from night to night. Their only beasts of burden are a large dog and horse. They will do their own cooking along the trail.
 The party comprises Miss Belle Dane<e and Miss Mabel Ryan, of Los Angeles, Cal, Miss Amey E. Howe, of Rapid cltv, South Dakota, and Miss E. J. TarboN, oi Portland, Or.
 All are attlred in furs or other heavy northern garb and wear short skirts They seem as perfectly at home in the attire as Dr. Mary Walker. AL save Miss Ryan, have been in the interior before.
 Mss Daneke was one of the pioneers oi Skagway arriving here during the great 1897 rush. While here she was engaged in the restaurant business.
 Miss Daneke and Miss Howe have min ing interests in the Klondlke and have been proprietors of laundry and coffee house in the famous camp. They came out several months ago. Miss Howe hsd typhoid fever when she came out, and she went to her Dakota home and remained there until well.
 Miss Howe plans to go to Nome in the spring. She is woman that keeps her eyes open as to the general situation In the country she traverSes. and has contributed considerable to the eastern press, notably the Omaha Bee and the Omaha World Herald. While in- the states -is'ess-she made arrangements with the World'Herald for special contributions on the northern country. and will hereafter pay particular attention to securing matter that will inter est the readers of the central states as well as edueat them on the great and bud ding empire within the Arctic pale.
 .The people of the middle states, found," says Miss Howe, "have a poor idea on the whole regarding Alaska and all this northern country. Whit little they have heard or read of the region they have pi .tured to themselves in widely ex- aggerated manner. Even with al this lll information lodged Tn their minds, It IS hard to get an opportunity to write good' true descriptive and instructive matter to the press. The country has been written LID. and written up, and, yet, l am sorry to say, much of what has been written was not true and conveyed no adequate Idea of things as they are"
 Short, sturdy and of determined features is Miss Howe, she talks of her trips into the great Yukon valley with as little ado as would some women of a trip across the states in a car. Last January she went from Hootalinqua to Dawson alone with team of four dogs, and during the same winter made a tour of perhaps 400 miles along the creeks of the KIondlke and to Eor,v Mile creek and return to Dawson. She received great courtesy, she says wherever she went. She went to Hoota- llnoua last winter to write up the projects of the Lewis River Dredging Company She says the only machinery taken into the country by the company was small ,,,asbsr and that that has been sold.