Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-07-07

city. He has been all over the world He
used to think that 900 would make him
independently rich for life. Now he has
annual income of about $1,000 and ne
never lets up in his work and plans to in
crease 1t. He has about s9O.6Cn invested in
gorgeous, up-to-date gambling halls and
saloons at Nome, Dawson and Skagway,
and has, besides. real estate and mines
worth about s175.OOO more. He recently
sent $4,000 in gold down from Alaska to
San Francisco to buy Oakland street rail-
road stocks. Five years ago he was
motorman In the same company in which
he Is now stakeholder. He went to Skag-
way with the crowd of men. wildly anxious
to get to the klondike diggings. in the
summer Of 1897. with less than 800. He
opened a saloon in log cabin. with pine
board bar. Financially his success has been
extraordinary. He introduced faro and rou-
lette gambling. and he had mint from the
hour of opening He went next to Daw-
son and opened the most palatial saloon
and gambling hall ever known there His
place was crowded day and night. Games
with stakes of thirty and forty pounds Of
gold were played many time. His daily
gross receipts for months were from So. 900
to 5000. On Christmas. 1888. he took in
at Dawson s.. 400. Everything he touched
seemed to turn to gold. He invested in
patent oil hea ter. suitable for hawng the
frozen gravel in the Klondike placer mines
He was advised by many men to keep out
Of the patent enterprise. But II proved a
success. and when the things had sold like
SIS. 600 or $4,000.
Peter Shares With Maggie.
Peter NJ Boggs. whose costly wedding at
the st. Charles Hotel In New Orleans, last
April. attracted wide attention, literally
leaped into the lap of fortune after years
of struggle and toll. severe that he says
he even contemplated suicide for weeks in
1896. He was born in Detroit Mich In
1860, and was chopper in a Michigan lum-
Der camp when he was twenty. He was In
jured by fall. so that he could no longer
work a wood chopper. He was a porter
at the Genesee Hotel in Buffalo in 1892
and went the Erie canal for few sea-
sons He was doing dock work in Seattle
when the Klondike boom began. and he
started for Dawson with about $50 capital.
He nearly died in Dawson and a friendly
miner, who took pity on the poverty-strick-
en-. emaciated fellow. paid his fare down
the Yukon to st. Michaels. There Boggs
worked for seven months in a salmon can
merry. In January. 1889, he and two other
gold-hungry men. Drawing a temperature Of
forty below zero. started to walk up the
coast from st. Michaels to Nome, SO as to
awful risk. One of Peter BOggs' compan-
ions frozen to death the first week Of
the tramp.
Peter located a claim on Snow creek and
he got the sirloin of gold-bearing gravel
He worked like fend from March till
October. He washed out golden nuggets
and flakes to the value of 5000 with a
rude rocker in two weeks Then he bought
a claim on the sandy beach at Nome for
S1.JOo. and hired men to work 1t for him.
He bought two other claims on Snow creek
last July, and when the last steamer came
down the coast in October, Peter Boggs was
aboard and he had with him three skin
sacks Of gold that he sold for exactly $l3.
600. Last January he was offered $4,000
| for his beach mine alone, and he valued
| that his cheapest property. He went
| to Fort Worth. Tex. and renewed his &C
| quaintance with Miss Maggie Flynn. who
| was employed at the Genesee Hotel when
! amorata 5000 to prepare her trousseau and
| swell wedding. For six weeks the Nome
, miner and his bride travelled in lavish style
| in California and down to the City of Mex
| leo. Boggs and his wife gave dinner
| at the Hotel del Coronado In San Diego
| that cost $40. He and his wife returned to
| the mines in May, expecting to be at Nome
| two or three years.
| Richest of All.
The very richest person in the Klondike
| is George Cammack. He is clearly worth
| from 81. 10000 to sl.JOo.UO. His rental-
! OF ground sites at Dawson, Skagway and
| Dyea alone yield him some $4,000 a year
| Besides, he owns three very rich placer
| mines outright, and has one-third and one
| half interests in several other valuable
| claims. Up to the time he was forty years
| old he had probably never possessed over
\ s-p at one time. ne was salmon nSher-
| man. and with his Stick squaw wife lived
In huts and log cabins like the unwashed
| lnnuts about him. For several years he
| fished and searched for gold along the
| many creeks that empty into the Yukon
| river. AT last he found gold on a rivulet
| that empties into Klondike creek. In q
| week he had panned over 100 ounces of
| gold The news OF Cammack's find on the
| klondike went far and wide. and in four
| teen months there were over 1900 crazy
| men in that region.
| Within year Cammack became a half
millionaire. Everything he bought or
| traded for straightway became extra valu-
| able He sold a great area Of previously
4 worthless swamp land near Dawson for
| $1,000. 5000 and even 5000 an acre. and
the whole tract had never cost him dol