Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-06-20
FROM THE FROZEN NORTH.
\ Newsy Letter from J. H. Lee. Which Tells of the Doing of Some
 Arizona Boys.

Arizona Boys
 Jas. Howey has received letter from ]. H. Lee. at Dawson. formerly of the American ranch. near Prescott. dated May 1. from which the Journal-Miner is permitted to quote the following in teresting information from that far away country:
 II have been suffering all winter with rheumatism in my knees and ankles so that it pains me to walk I had 10 come down to Dawson IL took me two days to come down. My hotel was burned down on the 3lst of March
 The police authorities arrested a Mrs. \. J. Showers. She is to be tried for arson tomorrow The evidence against her is very damaging. but whether we will succeed in convicting her or not is more than I can say She had q sixty days lease and option on the house At the expiration of the time she could not raise the money to buy. I sold tO another party and at she time of the fire he and l were Tt Grand Forks. a litle town. making out the papers. when his wife sent a courier to him. announcing the house was burning. In twenty minutes more I would have had my money
 This fire leaves me in bad fix only S34 in my pocket and $50 il debt and not able to work. l had a good deal on my books. but my books and in fact every thing else. were burned. except the clothes that l haG ,n and some underclOtheS I had Ovel 70 the laundry I had two beautiful i fur robes worth S150. All my letter: and private papers: also Arctic curioS views and great many things tha were of great interest 10 me were burned.
 Il can't tell how long We will b' i here ill town on this trial; these Ca nadianS are very slow
 The winter broke here early il March and since then there has beel no very cold weather It got q littl warmer. up to about the 20th of April when it got so they could sluice in tn afternoon. It still freezes q littl every night but the days are very lOni and pleasant I think the sun set about D. III. \ month later you cal read q paper all night The ice k go | ing out of the Klondike. and 1 thinl | il will start in the Yukon in fey days. After you see the ice go Ou ] YOU are a sour doe and no longer 1 Che-Chanco-
 The output of gold this wash-u will he far greater than last, owin | to improved methods
 II often see the other Arizona boys but if they are doing any good fO themselves I don't know it. JOhnn
 Webb k working lay on Hillside 5popsite No Il. below on Bonanza Ben Blackburn is running q harbe shop at Forty-AIile. ffty-two mile down the river Horace BOwdrie an l Peacock are on lower discovery 0 Jack Wade creek Tom Lawrence on Dominion and also George BallarC Frank Edwards is working on No. his claim. No. II. on EO1 for S40.OO0. and started fo Nome. He told me he got S13.OO0 oU of Big Skookum in '9S. Ernest. hi boy. went back to Cripple Creek. COl' radO. Charley Myers and Ben Butle
 went to Nome last fall.
 Il think l will go down 10 Nome a
 soon as the river opens l am nor living on my claim on fourteen. Eld' radO. left limit There is not one goo
 claim here in q hundred The claim
 that are rich are very rich l do nc
 dislike the country so much, only tI
 cold. dark winters: although 1 do Il, think the cold here as bad as the hes in some parts there. When peOp
 want to go anywhere here they ju: . 20. that's all Over a thousand peopl
 went down the river on the ice |
 Nome this winter, 1250 miles by tf
 KaStag cutoff. and to go up the rive
 to Bennett 600 miles. that WAS plea
 are trip A Mrs. Mahony went frOl here to Chicago in twelve days. fOT
 days and twenty hours to Bennett vi : dog team
 We have daily ana weekly paper
 telegrams and telephones up all tl
 creeks. We get telegraph news frol
 the South African war 10 Skagwa. Alaska Say. Howey. I want yO
 and all my friends to pray for th Boer success. and don't you forget i
 No. I don't like the laws her, There is too much gFafting for q fire born American citizer. 90 I am goin -o Nome So when you answer thi letter address it Nome. Alaska
 Tell Steve COndrOn he sold hi claims, one above and one belOV Loner. on Dominion. too cheap N, ?. below LOner. left limit. sold las week for S10.O00 Tell him. also. tha sulphur is fine. FOrty-siX. above that I refused to pay 5000 for. ha ! been offered S1OO.OOO on fl and Tt fused"