The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-05-06
ALASKA'S SUDDENLY RICH.
PEOPLE WHO HAVE LBAPED IR0A
POVERTY TO WEALTH.
UsAsrty Was Q Tramp Bour Tears Ago;
. Now He Has $500. 900 and Moro Conins
-Fsrtune Of . swedish Missionsry Mrs.
Danvers's Boarding House q Gold Mine.

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Perfume OF sweonn "'so"s'. ..."
Danverss nosroins """' ~"
Los ANGELES. Cal. May i-sAo George
y Fisher, when he came down the coAt from
Alaska the other day: Tho most interesting
things I found In my year OF travel IN Alaska
and the Aleutian Islands were not the ekus-
ordinary golden plaoers. but ms men
who have leaped from poverty mo hrse
wealth. Ana the way 'ho h"Niy,nAu0 ~"
men up In Alaska i've ana speno 'n'n mon's
is. in some instances, even more interesting
than the ways they cams quickly 10 nave
pnncsly incomes
For instance, there IS SANDY fIaher'y' 'ne
king OF the placers on DOMINION ,'~A III '"e
Klondiko country. | suppose that any one
In Dawson wouh say that osHu' wont"
Is upward Of 10000 and Is increasing oy
s6O.0oO a year four years ago " was VI "
chain gang on the streets OF on'aha' Nep"
and three years ago ne was trhupS oa' On w"
Barbary Coast OF San frHhoIsco s wafer i'ont'
lie told me IN o"'an the sto's VI m ~ :"
worldly riches one day last summer AZ Dawson
He never knew VINO MS paen's ".o 10
was left. when a baby a lew weeks oln' N ,h'
steps OF a county "nns"oiso y "ooe'i', "o'
That was In 1850 An olu pahp' woman VI
tne aifnshouse naHeu siay r""''s ,oo" p',
on tne wall ana askeo 7" De ~ ~ m"'.'.
DO the ch'id became known ~ "a"u' r""e'''
because OF MS SANDY mar he was po"''onD
lao until no was ~ years "''' "h'" i" w"
taken oy . c.alHahe' VINO "an''u . y ~
90 cnores anu ea'u'r'nS '" ne 'o"lu "D1
siotooe' inoio INC 10Y e"r"ou " 20 -
vrite ny n's'ucuon > Nv 80
ana elSht-year-opn Dove '"'',@" ""V -
sne home was o'oheh Ny, VI" ra" "' "
set a nav pla'e 10 "",n
in a "o'o oah", r'a"' Co.
constant ro"uu VI 'o"''"' ~" ~
poverty LOT '"e"'''"' u
srampeo LOT wv" .earS Wv ~
iowiy ""'hs Oh ~ rom w ~
was arrested " 'nhu"a i" assam " '"O
and WORKED Two weeks j" ,ne '"""' gus ~
peat hS WAY y SCAT. ' 49, w"
hah-oreeu o'"a7n i""a'H '' 80
Dy nshihs auu cooh'"s v " ''np W ~"
men he orn'eu uo"n u va" w Il "'
cisco ana thefe NE l'l' III WIZ" so"" """"'9
VINO were aoon' !" al -" "' menus Wv
Arctic seas on a year '''"''' 7anuN r"-
herty jumped al the 'hah'e W so "ious u
once in his NE Ne Wa sure ol 4'eauy "ml'"N-
ment ana sure boaTu ana 'outi"t i' '"'N"
successive months "" '"l" h' '"'' summer
that the happ'es' uaN ne h'u h"o"" S',' '''-
Hest youth was "neh eSo""u "u' t"'ousn
the Golden Gate me "Hil'r t'u''t" Ano"'
the Aleltlah Islands, ana May ls'" 'ou'neu
at 81. Michael flaheIH ""N s''Io"NN Ill
with typhold leN'r ana ne was 'eI' '"e'' "p-
parently 10 de, II was Nv" GAYS aI''' '"e
whaler hhd sailed b'ore he re'"N'I'u enough
from delirlum to know where ne wa ana ina
he had been left behind al aG"dlor>akeh wh"l-
inc nor, n, the mouth of the Yukon River
'"e ~ ~ - 49, ,.,rn, h.
Esauinaux fishermen, he began 10 look around
%, any sor, of work tn earn money to c,, back
U "ns ~
TO tho STATES, Suad'hl' 'h' news '"''r """h
had been struck IA the klondke
u'SS'ns' " Y .N a. 49,
creeks, at the OF The l"koh' \
score of men at ST, Michael started al once
IN a ''e mn ~ '"' wv -, w." 90,
herty was among 'hc'h "e nHu DIV y
In his pocket and the clothes on his bGCh when
hs started for III. Klondlko uold field. lie
cooked for his comrades ahn olu general WORK
to pay his passage Arrived AT Dawson. SANDY
EIohor, o. On, n ioh as cook In n rorah sawed
Pine barn that answered as boarding house.
His nav was 500 a week and his own board
ara L1dsing ons If m. men who cgme 70
y" ''us,"s o n,oaL, nas an nranaI
Klondlker. lie had two claims on Dominion
Cr..L ono dav he had drliriun tremens
~ -, h.oI,h r., ror,rd
and SANDY aursed nm 10 healIl' 10 reward
Sand the old fellow gave him the poorer of
hs ,Uo cl,,m. sand gave M his lob as
"' wv "" - -. ,nna lo~.
COOK ana Oeghh Sols INNING we n'A' u"H
He worked day and night, scarcely stopping
ia sIeen Two hours on, Of twentv-four, so anx-
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