The new age. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1902-190?, 1902-08-09

A humorous story is told Of skas.
way one of the leaders Of the Saliva.
'ioh army was here endeavoring to
start post, or barracks. One of the
men Of the town started off his sub d.
scrlption with a hundred dollars tell.
ing MIN all he lacked soliciting he
would furnish. The Salvation army
leader canvassed for about two weeks
and then went back to Slim" Smith
with about $3.50, whereupon Smith. in.
stead Of subscribing the remainder.
Just made him hand over all of IL to
nim' getting his hundred likewise. So
much for Skagway.
August 2-Today there came near
oeing no Napoleon of copper and the
great hghter against the Amalgamated
copper company, had it not been for n
wise Providence, would have crossed
the great divide, and he and
Mr.. Whitmore would have been
discovering the great apex vein
to heaven. They had gone on to White
Horse, and | had stayed behind, fol-
lowing in the morning with the lug.
gage. meeting them there preparatory
TO going up the Yukon river to Dawson
and other points. The Yukon and
White Pass railroad is one of the great
marvels of railway engineering in the
world, as well as the most dangerous.
Just as they were crossing one of the
high trestles, over the great divide.
in turning point one of the cars
jumped the track and swung the whole
train on one rail, hanging over a preci-
plce 500 feet deep. Fortunately the
coupling gave way, that car tumbled
over to destruction, but the car that
Mr.. Heinze, Mr.. Whitmore and other
passengers were in remained Just al.
most hanging over the precipice. There
were only two in the car which rolled
over. Both jumped and one received
broken leg, and the other, at last
reports which came up town. was not
expected to live. | go over the same
road tomorrow.
After a pleasant but uneventful trip
to Seattle over the North Coast Limit
ed, we took very pleasant stateroom
on the Cottage City steamer, of
the Alaska Steamship company,
After touching at Victoria, the capital
of Vancouver, and visiting the pala.
tial parliament and other public build
ings there, we started on a trip up the
channel of the Alaskan coast on a
trip the grandeur of the scenery and
the remarkable incidents of which are
almost impossible to describe in a linn
tied newspaper article.
The first stop of any great import
ance was at Ketchican, and we visit
ed there the great Totem Poles and
the immense burial ground of the
Southeastern Alaska Indians. Here
the gambling spirit of the Butte con-
tingent was aroused and as luck would
have it, it almost took saks to bring
the money on shipboard, the copper
kings closing up one famous roulette
club entirely.
The grandeur and sublimity of the
mountain scenery, the peaks all snow
capped and the green trees and shub-
berry at the base standing out in vivid
contrast, the little Indian and salmon
fishing settlements all along the banks
with some of their great canvas fully
mouned, all the way. Such was the
scenery, which one nev0 tires of, all
the way to Douglass island. The
great Treadwell gold mine-the great
est stamp gold mine in the world
where they are blasting in the side Of
a huge mountain in a hole called
GLORY Hole" because so many men
are killed in it and they go right on
to glory-with Indian natives working
hundreds of feet under the sea, naked.
Ii would take a whole article to de-
scribe the wonders of this mine, which
we will do in a later article upon our
arrival home. if fate so DEGREES. All
our way up Lynn Canal, we went by
and through huge icebergs and hoat-
ing ice. seeing on each side of us
mountains of huge glaciers Of solid
ice. In some spots. that were expos
ed to the angry billows of the Pacific
our little boat was a mere toy rocked
and pitched; but | managed to pun
through without an attack OF seaslch'
ness. Well. as the boat when thls
letter must 90 on leaves at once
must close. hoping the Age readers
will pardon this informal letter. "hich
has been hurriedly written. 1omorro"
r,orrinp start for White Horse,w where
ioininr Mr.. Whitmore and Mr. Heinze'
= ,rsb on TO Dawson-then up the
vnkon river. away into Canadian terri
tory and pass the outposts OF clviliza-
- II Is a great trip. Everybody
= feeling fine. and / will also as soon
aeI get out Of Skagway.
CHRIS DORSEY.
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