Norwich bulletin., 1914-09-03
Special Correspondence
 WASHINGTON, D. C.,

USY VI most hidden val leys of the new cold land knew the camp gleams of prospectors who gutted the beds of whispering virgin creeks and then founght their way "out side'' with their precious dust and nuggets, through storm swirl and disease and madness three men Of political destiny were among that arctic brotherhood.
 Today all of mA"Sourdoughs, Alaska pioneers. to the very bone-are contemporaneously. in Congress.
 They are Senator Key Pittnlan tof Ne vada. Senator Harry Lane of Oregon and Representative George White of ohio-to say nothing of James Wickersham, dele gate from the big land up yonder who got to Nome in 1900 just in time to off1ci- ate, as district judge, in the final rout of the grafters which Key Pittman, as first district attorney of that troubled settle men, had so well commenced
 The present Gentleman from Nevada and the "Gentleman from Ohio, both brought out tidy golden stakes from the wilderness. 'aThe Gentleman from Ore gon. did not
 But all of them brought back "pokes, fuI or rich experience, paid for in muscle. toll. daring and starvation, disease and peril They still dream dreams of bacon and beans, placers. bench claims high above Discovery creeks, and of the long gone Dawson days, with it's sin and blaze, and the town all open wider'
 Tales they can tell of the long, slow. danger-ridden mush inside" when an sled leader: of team dashes to new strikes through man-killing Yukon nights; of tented towns where the bIare or the sramophone drowned the click of nervous roulette and the slap of cards from the faro dealers hand, and of Midas months, when the Argonauts of the north had nothing to eat-save gold.
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 Key Pittman's experiences alone vorld Ill volumes. Every phase of gold-canp life is a familiar story to him. for ba r.r, the gamut of all the wild new land had to oner in adventure and peril and TO- nance finally bringing away with h;n, wire. She was Miss Mimosa Gates ~ho made the famous dog-team dash run Lawson City to Nome, across aon mics or frozen wilderness. short1,, has- her marriage 'is oe1ore When Senator Pittman. uha
 laW neor iS ane unsuccessful practice or once equipment. and, with an ontf.y May ms cnased With practically his last n.pnI. pur- su nasss TOT skagway, Alaska, a steeraS Ss four years old io9'' ne was just twenty spent Tn his unsuccessful atten,nt tot es t~aonsn ~ clientele. lay behind bi7s, ahead. III proHnse, lay SKagway, ChiIcoot pass and tha ,one srall 10 Lake Bennett gave the vonns his hu'en.urer % little trouble, until he ana HIS partner, one Jim Isashua found +hai, barge one night at the head of WIFI aorse rapids. And that was where Ksv f1ttman's northern fame began for ;n h le morning, s, needless of fe1low-travelers
 
 boats, the young lawyer and his partner sayN snoVed on and headed for the 1rothing death pool. lne roar Of the water rushing into the gorge enectually drowned the warning crles, which were sent from the bank put both the young men caught the i'm port of the yells.
 I'll tote no more outfits on landp, young Pittman growled
 inats the way I feel about it,' Lashua replied. and then they were in
 The foam began to fly It was soon so thick l could not See the bow of the boat" Senator Pittman declares. "Jim would shout back directions to me "A little to right or hard left" and I oiinoly obeying, working the steering oar, blindly guided the barge.
 inc boat swept to the rim of the ~0PAS. IL pouSSu IOI an instant. Sha Eioo as dog shakes when he comes from the water. Then 1t took the seyen.foo, plunge over the first of the rapids like a diver. My oar snapped. But by that time we were well out of danger. and for the first time 'Chechahko'-tenderf had run the rapids"
 Walking back up the shore Pittman and his partner repeated the performance half doben times, bringing other boats through at profit of about S75 fo1 each trip.
 But in spite of the money he had made the young lawyer had only lonely ten. cent piece in addition to his half ton o1 grub when long afterward he arrived ir Dawson City.
 Drinks were a dollar apiece, too. said the senator. recalling his plight That's poverty
 For the next two years young Pitt man attended strictly to placer mining after having gotten a start by choppine wood at $50 a cord. His mining proved successful. He staked many claim. which paid well, and one of them he solS for S15,OOO
 But the joys of placer mining paled and he finally started for Nome 2 2O miles away. over trails that would turl