The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-01-12
Hardships Endured By the
 Early Pioneers.
TwODAwSON STAMPEDES
aIeac ned Bones Found oeeasion- any, Hut usay Pioneers Have Disappeared Completely.

railroad ,st summer was pointed out the hue of the old tta'l, Of which they had read such terrible accounts To the cufs,ry glance ,f tae tourist u sr,uiyd a very hstmlr.s Wiadiug la,h, and induced him relieve that those stores of hqrdship must hfve been very much extycer.ted. There are many of Us here, however. Who know all about that trail; who 10 the fall of '97 spent weary weeks iu getting a small stock of supplies over those h'lls to Bennett. and then only to find that it vas too late 10 start in a boat for D,~Son.
 When one thinks for momen, Of the early hsrdShip. of travel 10 Ihe n'eu who made trips to the interior before the Klcndike discovcTie.. it k actually diff hcult to realize what such men did uu- drrgo in the ordinary course Of the jour ney. There was Jimmie Jackson, for instance, the famous Indian guide. In 1893 he left Juneau, via the rsku rou'e, for Circle City. A'aska, then new mir- iug camp. Two white men accompanied him on his pvrilous trip ofwhicn nothing was ever heard until last winter, when their white bones were found not far from Atiu. The white men became separated from Jackson. who pushed on aud leit them Co perish of starvation.
 t..tf .t that ftuna Ex- cry traveller (,ud they were few) had 10 break his own trail. Jackson by pushing on arrived at Lake La Barge after many days travelling. wh, re he run short ot provisions. By the time he arrived at Little Salmon river he was out Of pre- visions altogether. The nearest post where be could get anything 10 eat was Fort Selkirk. Le kille one Of his dogs and ate it, and with a quar, of Hour which he mixed ss a batter and drank, he succeeded iu reaching Fl. Selkirk, after ten days ;ravriiug, almost dead.
 L. $. Humes, of Seattle, has gained the reputation oi being famous Yukon trayeler, and has made many hazardous trips 10 the interior. la tS56 he was with two companions tEe first Co leave Dawson pulling their owa sled. They had 10 drag on 1t aE their provisions, stove, tent and blankets, there being no cabins, except at S-,kirk. from Dawson to Brnueu. That uip consumed foity d.ys, and a remarkable story was told of theu at the tune ol their being saved from freezing ,o death by sirgle match.
 Hunes was the first Co carry American mail to Dawson, and was the youngest one who ever pulled his slod from Dawson ,o the coast. He made record breaking trio out las, May wiIh goyern- meu, di,pa, Les aud tae exc.u,iye news oi the I,st greet DaNso. f'rc. He made the rouui up q om D .N-ou, 9 rt.y over the ice aud put.y oyer ,h- mountains. Co Seattle su return thty-liue days.
 lack C,rr is another lamOuS treveltr who he, m,de many pciilous trips 10 D.Ws n aud the lower rivvr.
 Windy Jun wa, he iirs; white man to come over the ice irom s. Michael 10 Sksgway.
 Jim Mckay has probably made the mos, rips 10 and from the interior. Ev' cry w,uter sees him on the trail with bis thor, uyhbre,l huskies. Mr. Mckay aI one tune owne,l over 100 huskies. Mrs. Mckay was the first woman to come out over the ice from Dawson, winning the sIooo Examiner p'ize.
 The trip over the ice to Cape Nome Is atti acting great deal of attention now. The trip has never been made Ia the winter ueiore. Casey Moran, an old sour dough, was the first 10 leave this year with mail, etc. His progress IS eagerly watched and many are speeulatiug on his ability to reach Nome and return by the date fixed. But it Is believed that Casey is quite equal to the occasion.
 Many astonishing hardships were en- endured, too. on the stamPedes from Dawson 10 distant creeks, which were of frsaueut occurrence du ing tEe early ex' ci,ement around the Klondike. Speak ing of this a few days ago, au old-iime' waiting at the Occidental hotel for the trail 10 be broken, said:
 "I was a steady stsmpeder for the pe- riod of three months in the winter oi '97. A friend would eonfidentially put me next" 10 a good thing. and the early morning would find me with my sx and pencil mushiug out 10 some creek or "pu," thirty or forty miles away. Blankets and provisions have 10 be packed on the back. and some times |. would consume three 10 four days to reach the point designated. When there' YOU looked around to see ard pick out the best piece of ground. Alter you had s,aked, you would start back to town and proceed 10 the recorders othce to record your "claim," which invariably uecessita,ed a wait of from three to seven days; and sometimes after your long wait you were ehagrined o find that some uuo"T m Nnl