The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-31
Miss Lulu Inman of Kansas City,
Kas., Makes a Fortune.
Returns From Dawson City
With $4,000 in Nuggets.
is A VAUDEVILLE STAR
Has a Claim Which Is Valued
Easily at $4,000.
Her First Breakfast Cost Her.
self and Chum $18.25.

Kansas City, Kas, Aug. 31.-Miss
Lulu Inman, contortionist and variety
actress, has returned from Dawson
City and Cape Nome, bringing with her
$4,000 in gold nuggets and a clear title
to claim she believes worth $780, 900, to
spend the summer with her parents. Mr.
and Mrs. David Inman, who live at $50
Splitlog avenue, Kansas City, Kas. She
had but $40 when she landed in Dawson
City. The gold is in the form of a mug
get belt worth $4,000 and jewelry made
from nuggets of the yellow metal. The
claim is on O'Brien creek, sixty miles
from Dawson City. 1t cost her So
For the past eight years Miss Inman
has been on the vaudeville stage. Be
ginning in Omaha, where she made her
bow to the public, she Travelled through
all the principal towns in the western
states, arriving finally at Seattle. One
year ago last spring she Joined a COM
pany of thirty-eight people, known as
the BoStOnianS, which started for DaW-
son City, May Is, 1899.
I'VE had the usual experiences on our
trip and some unusual ones as we'll,
said Miss Inman last night. we went
by boat part of the way, then by rail,
then walked over snow and ice, and
finally went in a scow from Bennett to
Dawson City. That was the greatest
experience of all. The scow was IL
by So feet and in it were the thirty
eight members of our company, fifty
three trunks, $500 feet of lumber and
nine dogs. We were so crowded that
we had to sleep in shifts.
Dawson City is changing rapidly and
will in few years be a modern town.
The railroad now runs to within 800
miles of it, and this gap will be closed
in time. A telegraph line enters Daw-
son now. Some modern business houses
have been erected on the water front
in that part burned down last winter
Pricesrof everything are getting down
nearer a business basis. An order of
ham and eggs which used to cost $3.50
at a restaurant now costs 81, and
half spring chicken can be purchased
for SO. But all kinds of liquors are
expensive. Beer is 81 a glass and 50
a quart Whiskey, 81 a drink and wine
s. a pint.
7 shall never forget my first meal in
Dawson We had had little to eat on the
scow and so were awfully hungry when
we arrived. My chum and /, with $40
apiece, all we had, FASTENED to a res
taurant. We ordered heavily, not think
ing anything about prices When we
finished our bill was $1S25- We had to
borrow from our manager in order to get
breakfast.
Are there many gambling houses in
Dawson? Well, a good many. can re-
member the names of fourteen in two
and one-half blocks in the river front.
Three vaudeville houses furnish amuse-
ment for the people Several variety
companies that have gone there have
gone broke, but our manager took plenty
of capital and made $21,000 in three
months.
.'sWhat do think of the chances for
making a fortune there? Well, that de-
ponds on several things. In the first
place, it is a sort of gambling game.
You may strike it rich and you may not.
For a practical miner or one who under
stands mining there is q chance around
Dawson City. Other people should stay
away from there. Cape Nome is a fake.
City is anxious to return. When left
the place there were $50 cases of small
pox and the people were in an awful
condition. There is little or no gold on
the beach, though the people went crazy
over it for a time. And some strange
walking in the streets sitting the sand
under their feet, and others doing equal
ly absurd things
Miss InTnan secured her claim for SO
from a miner who had drunk UP all he
had made.
MY foreman tells me it will be worth
$50 900 in the spring. Maybe it will and
maybe it won't. / have taken $500 out of
it already, and if it doesn't pan out
won't lose much
Miss Inman will return in December,
for she likes the country She will go
back in the fall, in order to make the
trip by sled. Besides her nuggets she
brought back furs and robes and a two
months old Malanut puppy, as it is
called there-a species of animal that is
half native dog and half wolf. Miss In
man is a decided brunette of medium
and is much more modest and refined
than would be expected in one who has
lived in a wild mining country. She is
% years old