The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-24

ing that the Northland was anything save
a poor mans mecca. So he cast about
him in search of quick harvests. Be-
tween the beach and the passes were
scattered many thousands of passionate
pilgrims. These pilgrims Montana Kid
proceeded to farm. At first he dealt faro
in a pine-board gambling shack; but dis
agreeable necessity forced him to drop
sudden period into a mans life, and 20
move on up trail Then he effected cor
ner in horseshoe nails. and they circulat-
ed at par with legal tender, four to the
dollar till an unexpected consignment OF
a hundred barrels or so broke the market
and forced him to disgorge his stock al
a loss After that he located at Sheep
Camp organized the professional pack
ers and jumped the freight 10 cents
pound in a single day. In token of their
gratitude, the packers patronized his faro
and roulette layouts and were mulcted
cheerfully Of their earnings. But his
commercialism was of too lusty growth
to be long endured; so they rushed him
one night, burned his shanty, divided the
bank and headed him up the trail with
empty pockets.
Il-luck was his running mate. He en-
gagged with irresponsible parties to run
whisky across the line by way of preca-
rious and unknown trails, lost his Indian
6NiAtSi dllu 0d0 the very AllSl Oubllb COh-
hscated by the mounted police. Numerous
other misfortunes tended to make him
bitter of heart and wanton OF action, and
ne celebrated his arrival at Lake Bennett
by terrorizing the camp for twenty
straight hours. Then miners meeting
look him in hand, and commanded him to
make himself scarce. He had a whole
some respect for such assemblages, and
ne obeyed in such haste that he mad
Vertently removed himself at the tall
end Of another mans dog team. This was
equivalent to horse stealing in more
mellow cline, so he hit only the high
places across Bennett and down Tagish,
and made his first camp a full hundred
miles to the north.
NOW it happened that the break Of
spring was at hand, and many of the prin-
cIpai citizens of Dawson were travelling
south on the last ice. These he met and
talked with. noted their names and pos
sessions and pasesd on. He had good
memory, also fair imagination; nor was
Feracity one Of his virtues.
II.
DAWSON, always eager for news, beheld
montana KIDS sled heading down the
hukon, and went out on the ice to meet
nun No, he hadn't any newspapers;
u'uh know whether Durrant was hanged
sel' nor who had won the Thanksgiving
same; hadn't heard whether the United
Slales and Spain had gone to fighting;
Si1h know who Dreyfus was; but
oHen? Hadn't they heard? O'Bslen,
S, NY ne was drowned In the White Horse;
silha Charley the only one Of the party
VINO escaped. Joe Ladue? Both legs
.olen and amputated at the Five Fingers.
1HIu Jack Dalton2 Blown up on the Sea
a-,on with all hands. And BEETLES? Wreck
~ on the Carthag gina In Seymour Mar
ssD.ms-twenty survivors out OF 300. And
snItwater BIZ? Gone through the rot
~ zee Of Lake LeBarge with six female
,~,'lDers OF the opera troupe he was
ar Dying. Governor Walsh2 Lost with
a. hands and eight sleds on the Thirty
DeVereauxg Who was DevereauNy
Marsh.
80 It went The word was passed along
~ hhouldered It to ask after friends
M paftaers and IN turn were shouldered
49, 100 stunned for blasphemy. BY the
ne Montana Kid gained the bank he
~ 'utfounded by several hundred fur
ta miners When be passed the bar
hf was the center ~ q procession.
ne opera house De- was the nucleus
~t 'A'lifd mob, each member fffuf-
s' iof chance 90 ask after some abb
~ .'nfaae. o. every sido hf was be-
An. fiitQ 10 drink Never before bad
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