The age-herald., 1902-03-09

lost great deal, and then 1t was that she determined to go to the Klondike.
 She left Seattle early in the spring of 1898 alone, and she has been alone in her adventures ever since. She travelled without aid, did her own sledding with her own reindeer, shot the swiftest rapids of the Yukon and other rivers in Indian canoes, did her own prospecting, staked out her own claims and then guarded them against depredations with rifle which she knows how to use as well as the best marksman of the frontier.
 It being necessary to do a certain amount of work on each claim in order to hold it. she called to her aid two men. one of them an Eskimo, and the three sunk shafts and prepared for placer mining. From the first her fortune has been of the best. When she began to pan and to dig she struck gold in enormous quantities, and when she left Cape Nome she brought with her nearly $200,000 in gold which she either banned or secured by digging. She left behind her four claims, and has been offered while here $100 900 for a half interest in one of them.
 The baroness Is a charming woman, upon whom four years of life in the Klondike has had little effect. She talked in an entertaining manner of her adven- lures, and declared that although life in a metropolis is pleasant, she prefers the ruggedness of the ice-bound country of the northwest.
 "I left for the Klondike only a year after the great rush started" she said. 'I started from Seattle and went to Skag- way by boat. I walked half way through the Chilcoot pass, and after two days of awful trudging I reached the Summit hotel, which is nothing more than tent which keeps out little more than the wind. This point marks the divid- ing line between the United States and British Columbia I left the Summit hotel on June 6 and went from there to Log Cabin, a distance of eight miles, in a driving snow storm. We started at o'clock in the morning, but we did not reach Log Cabin until o'clock in the evening.
 Everybody in the party was tied to a long rope. so that none would be lost. The ice gave way on the small lakes and several broke through. It was nee essary after that to sit down, pull off the rubber boots and change stockings. Log Cabin is where the British custom house Is situated. From there the party went to Bennett, and then I crossed Lake Bennett In a sixteen-foot boat. My companies were three men who were as eager as I to make rapid progress. The wind began to blow fully thirty knots an hour shortly after we started and 1t suddenly became extremely cold, the thermometer falling far below zero. The rudder was broken, and we were com peled to steer with an oar.
 "We finally reached the Yukon and drifted until we came to the White Horse rapids. There all boats are stopped and the women are compelled to walk around. because of the danger. I managed to hide in the boat, though, and shot the rapids. a very foolish thing, because we came near being capsized. Only one woman ever shot the rapids before me, and none have done 1t since. l went through hid den under a tarpaulin After we were fair ly started the mounted police saw m and 1 was arrested after we got through.
 'I would not shoot the rapids again. though, for all the money in Klondike. I walked around Five Fingers, another rapids because of lack of courage. After reaching Dawson I remained two months, and then when the stampede for Nome be- gan joined in. There I staked out eight