Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-04-20
selNcARNATeD VIKING.

first ships came home TO lOhuoh lToiL
California. That was in 1850, think
1heir sailors verb men worth looking
urop. Great raw.boned, hefty fellows
In red shirts and great top.boots With
silver spread.caglos ornamenting the
tons. There were warm times around
III, docks when those boys landed.
Those are the days when the sailors
,J the California bound vessels used
tn sing:
Down the river hauled Yankee
clipper,
And its blow, my bully boys, blow.
She'd a Yankee mate and Yankee
skipper
And it's blow, my bully boys, blow
Blow We winds, heigh.ho
For California;
For there's plenty of gold,
I So I've been told.
On the banks OF the Sacramento.
Rest assured that was not long
IL. being smitton by the gold fever ana
/ went to California. landed in the
End OF gold on June 10, 1851.
ONE LIFE is BUT A CHAPTER.
We'll, my California experiences
r,aily make another story, but it's
ard to divide my life up into chapters.
won't attempt to do it. It's all one
/ chapter to me. One lie Is but one
chapter Some chapters hay" passed
/, cause some lives hav" passed. Some
chapters are yet to come, because
! srmc lives are yet to conc. You see
believe something along the line OF
the teachings OF Madame Blavatsky
| nd Annie Bcsant.
u was on the Frazer river in 1855,
! IL the following year ! was win a
! IuCktrain at the forks Of the Thomp
son. In 60 went to Williams cr""b
IL Caribou, u. c.. and was cookinl
liz Il rack.train with Jack Mccormack
. "Ih"n I went trading along tn
coast in schooncrs. oh, was dom
everything. cant begin to tell NOR
than a few incidents. sold whiske.
10 the Indians and did a lot OF SNUG
Sling. made trips TO Alaska and thu
Ncutinn group. went to the Aleu-
tIHns in the schooner Harriet, will
Long Tom Coffin. The Harriet be
lCLEed To Nantucket. Long Tom aft
~ wards went to the Siberian Island
n the schooner Discovery with Geo
Nichols Sam Montgomery and Be-
Spain. They went To raid the rocker
T LIT and were never heard Of again
They wanted me 10 go, hut had on
q my lucky spells on and refused tn
offer.
uIsCoVERED GOLD IN ALASKA
"Mny do they cRIl me 'Stickecn'?
, 81 will tell YOU. am the man VIII
first discovered gold In Alaska. II wa
| ~ 1867 had little money an
bought the schooner Ino. She ha
, rIst come from Fort Simpson and ha
, been looted by the Indians. fitte
the schooner ont. took a dozen goo
4 men into my confidence and sailed fc
I Suckecn river. We landed on II,
}. dlor's Dar, Well. TO cut long stor
I short until some other time, went u
- the river and put my hands on II
Il gold ! got the tip from an old India
Grief. Since that time have alwa,
q been known as 'StiCkecn.'
Talking about Indians, reminds II
II OF a young English clergyman wi
X was sent out there among the Indiar
J 10 convert them. Well, he did sple
, IA worn. hut the time came whe
America bought Alaska from RUSS
rnd the same kind Of n question aros
{ about the English cicrgyman's juri
!, diCtlon as arose here In Honolulu co
= corning the field Of labor of Bishc
=, Willis.
c CLERGYMAN OWNS ISLAND.
e They sent an American ciergymf
% M there, but the American Cover
; nent gave the English clergyman ,
r island for his own and be moved b
: churches and his mills and his congr
ls cations on the island and is living the
d today Tor all know, in a little wor
~ himself, A whole island forev,
Z md he's the shepherd of a good iloc
Is too, and has worked hard for ever
IT thing he has. lie deserved what
Is rot, say I.
"By the way. that islands full
II minerals, There some gold thei
he too. Dut the English clergyman, nc
y n old man. Is king there. guess.
% Then was down in Nicaragua
NJ time Of the boundary con;rovcri
We been all over California and II,
f. GO and Nicaragua. In my time /
h "un coffee houses, saloons, gambll
70 '6lls, and 50 forth. But I've rcfor
ed now. That's right! took soy
AT rhppers 10 church with mo last S,