The daily Alaskan., 1904-08-08

! nh. i.nss..r gold excitement, some twenty years
 | bernre. Nith O.C Ol the natives we opened
 fire, The goats were beWideFeI at hIat @ ullu ulg
 not run away immediately, In hall au 3o9r we haI six lHrED goats aud lltllC lam1 l]lht | dfaU Tho rest made a wild stampede lhIouEn ho willows and uuderbrush, across the creth and uL up the mountain. 10 boiul Jht toulll ! of Tury We uult work Co dress the goats, Alter | s4 Hing a lot 0I the meat, the weather bcluE | very warm. We took the balance To the uealI l at Dyca who were then our nearest Whlle uelbh- ! T5rs. none others living within fifteen miles
 We nave always believed that the wolves had ! rau these goats do 'n from the mountains yo | tnC Hlt though have since understood lhat thrrg are times of the year that thee goats come down tD eat a certain Sea-Weei on the | benches. on a subsequent occasion, when re- turning from trip across lhe ChuhHtr we % %saM many r1ut tracks Ou the beuch before the tue have seen bear up the river, but none on wha. Is now tle town site though am aware tHat they had been over near the river catching salmon by tls enormous tracks | have seen. Oue day U tbc summer ot lNg2, Wh!le bouIN ! for Halues Mission. with man named MufPhl and s,SE1C lum Jim, of klOudlke Tame the lal. | rnr srrarrrHpf in getting two bear, one Ire rrnrGgu- brown one and me other % tWo-i nltNS ] grown black. Jim killed them some two lhtea | from here up in the gulch, where lhe cTeeE l flows from Lake Dewey Into the CauuI ne hou nearly Hu uf his clothes torn Oh when ne got back After killing Che black and Wouh4lnE | fnn brown bear. he ran out ul cartridges. me . .rHH.T beast NHIAHA N.I AtlllH oAA tAi'H 'tthNa running tne muzzle ot his gun down the beast 8 l throat fought him Co a huisa. He showed m | fIaggs on the bears head where he had hlt hlm ggFfH heavy stones aud the butt end or hls rihc. Since thaI day have always felt aS JhouEh ] | had never lost any live bear lt took the three ! IF -. fr ralI aud druE the brown bears carcass | r1 rna rea.pr and load lt into Che boat. Both | bears into Che boat, we ran up the Chueoot ln- | rrr about four miles from HalueS Mission, al ] r..r.s rsrnu.f Co dress them on the beach and stow rHC hides under the lore-deck ol my sloop, linn rNu.a.uel that being an interior Indian. Inc natives Ut the coast would make nm pay ! The vr.ra uf Che skins or give them up. We landed hem aI ChuE8tt instead of Huiues dur ! fnr rHn evening. linn sold them for tOrty-uyc dollars. Go Mv. Wilson, who had branch store ! rneru for UebIy, ot Dyeu.
 l 1 rrnllu position for three seasons at Pgin- GaNrer's CGuueIy, at ihukaiL, as uTtmuur uuF. ! ing tUa fishing season. and st9rtAgtper ana general gure-tuSgr Oi the works during the winter months. meantime visited and worked ! af my home whenever ] could. To the lNll ui T.1g went Co Juneau BeruCrs bay aud Douglas ! To g-rr, tn the quartz mines and saWmi.lS. On . wrnfUa.r Q, 1895. | returned here and remained permanently with my family 8t that time con, s.-riu- uf my wife, Benny and Gertrude, Who had accompanied me on many winter trips m small boats, thC children at that tune DO Ng g.rv small On this return trip ] induced seven young men from California Che First par fr of mi Iuur- ever tU cross the pass with seven . tons of freight, Go take this White Pass route into Juu Yukon, instead ul going by Dyeu and fHa U#IsnDt pass, by assisting them up Co the mouth uf the first canyon, about -Four mile, . from h Ic. ! hgUtet their outfit up thc canyon .NIrn TWO horses chat had been brought over | from uEea on raft Tor that purpose. ] also . Hnt n train some two miles in length ever . ridge. touguId Che falls at the junction ot the u.n.r and luwgrCauluus.
 | In rnu spring Ul lsIHI l engaged men Co work | here. HrI brought iu horses. wagons, cows. pigs . fowls and lumber Later on had au OLHCul survey made uf my location of hundred and sixty acres, by Charles Garslte deputy United State. surveyor ul Juneau
 In ruIEuI che same season, ] carried Che mail | from Juneau Co Dvea by sail boat. thence Go ! Elr-gruiIe creek by way ui the Chtlcuot pass #nH ul~-Jt r.C mouth ui hlUuUEkg river uu my sr.rr out a few days before the great placer mines wgTe-truck. ] returned here alter this second trip Co Che interior in The fore part Oi september with outward mallr which conveyed ! Co Juneau by sailing boHImakng the run down there .u fourteen hours.
 From rHe spring uI the fan of lSg5 We em- nTHrat some fifteen mem constructing the ulL pack tail along the left hluE 0t the river and ...rrrn- crossing ard reCru>siug further up ! Ur bridges and iuruiug the river ahout half 90 . .m"e.r.ye here We also made more improve uau-s nu fhe homestead. including saWmL'f | We commenced tH rebuild our wharf with a uaug r.Ig-Ir.vgr, ut first, and later got tlc Use . Many O. the arst stampeders. some oI whom . ] n.HggeHrH among us yet, assisted and worked
 hard on Che old trail iu completing lL from 1 where we le.t 0t Co Bennett
 Dr u-v -U, l induced Capt Carroll Co run . back here from DTga with the steamer queen, and he landed some two hundred pussguggls .auH I-r lH., ui freight on our at that tune, small dock, This was Che first large steamer Ian crowd .f passengers with freight thut Was ! land dhese Next came tho iu-igted Islander ! G August Later ile George W. lItr, Ml.ta- mLrra and other steamers as many know, that
 also landed passenger. by t1s hungreuS on
 lighters and lu small bOlLsr The Willamette brought Che largest .Ist Oi gllr b ylug left the sound, believe WI.h some enc thousand two . hundred messengers. and reached here with not many less. No doubt there are many ui |u- um mu remember the burning of the steamer NrrH.aw, OHflu thn bay, and the loss many | sustained iu having their entire outl.s de- | s-s,a.g-u-a- Ssagla, as 1t used to be spelled Uu a-l .He old maps and ch1Tlss without the . and y. that were subsequently, inserted iU the ure... way ul spelling lJ Is, oi course. an lu- U.aT name, the meaning m uglai. would take
 lg0 long To exp. in. But lRe name or at least rEH explanation 't ll, would require our En- .Lf-n word called "WIDd Co be used frequently -HagWHg Is a name very typical 0i place
 Haar. tag same afr eau never on breaJheu twice.
 remember however, when this place used | Co be Nuuwu by many Olt-LimCrs iH Juneau as . -ETu1ru-vsUe' It wrs asu referred Co by the . a--s newspaper, Free Press, edited by Mir ~aaEEaE.
 Mv father snI were the first resi- dents that Mr E C. Hawkins and Sir Thomas Taukred called upon on their arrival here iu the interests of the pres ! sut railroad company, early in 1898, before ue first preliminary survey Was | made, Evsu ai CT quantities of railroad | .es and Iars were landed here and ! lied up near the sawmill. and aitCv . traCk-layirg yas commenced, there were mluy people who would not believe . the railroad wgult ever Ie put through, ] Many nuatms at that time made as l high a5 a hundred dollars a day by in- duGug sam reders Co take their outfits ! 10 Dvea and arOtler crowd to return | here. aEd SO ou back and forth, Later
 the Dyea tTamway and Slickeen river route proved quite menace to this |r1s'e gi the former was taken over | Dy tle railroad company and the latter | was 10 lud0ned aner several hundreds ! Of thousands of dollars were expended ! at Wla gle and for fine riyer,steamers 10 ] ply Ou the StiCkeeu.
 ! 1T John Lqumeister, our first butcher, | were present l would a k our toastmas- ! ter Co call 0u h'm to tell about the mov- ling of our old bunk house to the mill | site, and of the crow bar and his torn | trousers i95 v hjch he charged up SIX l |d.ilus on my fttheI's meat bill, and | w,tl the CirCums. .snCes of which sev-
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 ] On our very urst visit here. and sub | scgu-at.y, many, many times oyer, my 1 father would tell me and numerous olh- | CT people iu Juneau and elsewhere of