The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-13

5000 miles. The past week Shep
started for the Klondike again.
Shep does his fifty miles a day walk
ing without any trouble, if his feet
are all right, and if pulling a sled ne
goes from thirty-five to forty miles.
His allowance of food while doing this
work is three pounds day of rice,
oatmeal and bacon, carried on the sled
for the purpose and just what his
master eats, though both of them have
more than once, through the vicissi-
tudes of fortune, been compelled to
travel far on much less food. A sled
team varies from three to eight dogs,
according to the amount to be car
ried, and on the allowance of food
given above each dog is supposed to
pull 100 pounds.
snow when the thermometer is just
right to freeze it between the toes.
In this case a green dog tries, at every
halt, to pull the frozen snow out from
between the toes, and when it comes,
hair and skin come with it. Most of
the trails are on the frozen river beds.
If these are covered with dry snow
the travelling is good, but when the
snow melts and a freeze follows the
path is covered with sharp little points
of ice, which cut like glass, and then
there is no alternative but to put moe
casins of caribou hide, or anything
else that may be had on the animals
feet. This, Of course, makes travel
slower
A great many of the dogs used in
the Klondike for shedding are of Shops
breed, and they seem to be good for
the work. The husky" which is the
dog invented by the Hudson bay peo-
pie and originally used for the purpose,
is q hpt Wppn the NaXxrfO1t Ia N
dog and the wolf. They are some
what larger and stronger than the
collieS, but of not much greater en-
durance If the latter be acclimated.
Things in the KLondike Changed.
Mr.. Woodward went to the Klondike
with his brother, c.. H. Woodward, in
1897 Both were unmarried and both
were stenographerS. When the news
of the big strikes reached them here
the temptation to travel proved too
strong and they started. They have
been up there for six and a half years
and returned just recently for a short
visit only, as they now have interests
in and around Dawson that require
their attention. During these years
they have Travelled extensively through
the Yukon territory and Alaska and
could fill several volumes with their
adventures and the ups and downs
they have met with.
Had Mr.. Woodward known the sit
uation as we'll as he does after six
years of study he would have taken d
typewriting machine with him, for in
Dawson in the boom days a stenogra-
pher and typewriter made from $50 to
500 a day without working overtime
As it was, Mr.. Woodward secured an
old machine once while in Fairbanks
and got out one issue of the Fairbanks
Miner-a popular name, as may be i'm
agined, for very many of the papers in
that part of the world. He printed
fifty copies of this paper on the type
writer and sold them for 81. so per copy,
Now there is print shop in Fairbanks
and a paper is printed from the regular
newspaper type. In 1898, not to mem
ton other times. the entire town OF
Dawson ran out of print paper and the
Nugget was printed on the brown
wrapping paper used by butchers, OF
which there happened to be just enough
for the edition. During this stringency
grants for mining claims and similar
important legal papers were written
on the blank side of tomato can wrap
pers or anything of the kind that could
be had.
But such days of stress have gone
for Dawson. 1t is now in touch. with
civilization Faro dealers who got $1I
for a shift of twelve hours have de-
parted, chased out by the authorities
and along with them have gone the
| thea rical shows. at which a bottle oil
beer served in the boxes cost IS ano
champagne from SIG to $50. and much
else that was picturesque If costly