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

panlons, overland, across snow and ice
Ior Nome. That has crippled his fortune
LOT ne is the king sport of Nome and
ne was more than Duplicating his Dawson
Wealth-getting at Nome last summer
When came away from Nome last DC
toper he was planning to spend some $50. =
VVO on a mammoth dance hall saloon and
gambling hall at Nome, when the sum-
mer season of 1900 opened.
Mrs. Danvers is probably the richest
woman either in Klondike or at Cape
Nome. She has made every dime of her
$3.50, 900 or $4,000 in the last four wears
and with her knowledge of Alaskan min
ing ways and business methods she is
gong to Increase her wealth during the
next rev years. She IS at Dawson CITY
Her husband was a steam engineer In The
employ of the Alaska Commercial Com
pahy, ana she and her husband lived at
ot. Mlchael two summer seasons return
ing to Sitka, Alaska, in the winter Mr.
Danvers was killed in an accident on the
steamer Weare at Circle City In 1896. and
MRS. DanVers was left practically penni
less at st. Michael. Starting up the Yukon
for Circle City to get the body of her hus-
hand, she heard of the finding of gold on
the hlondike creek. Dawson then con-
sisted of rude shanties and Iadue's saw
VIII She decided to stop at Dawson and
earn her living by cooking and mendinsy
Tor the miners who were f1ocking there
from ell the Yukon river camps. Her en-
thusiasm was infectious. She got s.. 200
worth OF pine lumber on credit from the
saw mall for boarding house, and she had
credit at the merchandise store for food
her boarding house was a success from
the day 1t opened for business. She had
three rooms twelve feet square and on
each of the four wells of these rooms were
flve pine hunks in tiers. These were fur
hshed with dry moss and blankets Mrs
q Ifrer- H.
Her charge for sleeping there was 81 a
night or s. week. For year mono was
ever vacant. After a few months she
Gdded few more. and they too, were al
ways occupied Her meals generally con-
sisted of stewed dried fruit, dry goldfish
herring salt pork, bacon, bread, oatmeal
and occasionally butter and eggs. She cot
II Tor each meal and she had more than
100 people at meal many and MANY a
time. She was one of the first in that gold
crazy and impetuous population of Daw-
son that saw possibilities in real estate
investments. She bought several acres OF
marsh land from Joseph Ladue for 81. 900 or
sZ.u0, ana she sold 1t a few months later
at nfteen times what she had paid for il
She started the original bakery in Daw-
SON. and she made thousands of dollars
there. Then she conceived an idea of a
dog team express company to deliver mer-
ohand1se food and mining supplies to the
Ineh IN the cabins out on the creeks of the
hiondike country round Dawson She
took two partners into her scheme and a.
company was organized that has been
Mighty profitable. Mrs. Danvers has been
sending regularly her spare capital down
10 the Seattle bank. 1t Is said at Dawson
that she declined more than 200 offers of
marriage during her first year Of widow
hood, and that she now has printed form
of declmation of matrimonial proposals
and that she hands a printed card to
each proposer."