Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-04

ool WdS NldleHCe perry. lie had been mar
RED just before he came to the Klondike,
and he brought his wife with him. Mrs.
Berry is said to have poked out several thou
sand dollars worth of nuggets from the
dumps OF her husbands mines. The two
went back to the United States rich. An
other wealthy woman of Puget sound turn
ed the windlass and raised the bucket which
carried the earth out of her husbands mine.
Some brought money with them and made
more by investing in gold properties. One
woman had $4,000 when she left Vancouv-
er, and she had doubled and quadrupled it,
when She was cheated out of her fortune by
unscrupulous men. She then took in wash
ing and baked bread for the miners with the
Hour they brought to her. She opened q
roadhouse at Selkirk, and later on made
money and saved it. That woman came
from Idaho. She is said to be quite we'll to
do.
The daughter OF former governor of
Kentucky was living in Portland when the
first news of the great finds in the Klondike
reached there. She had several thousand
dollars and she brought this with her to
Dawson, where she invested it all in town
lots. She sold and rebought and resold
property in he business part of the town,
and sent back home money to the value of
thousands OF dollars. Lots for which she
paid $500 were sold for $4,000 and up
ward, and IN one single transaction she is
sad to have made as much as 100000.
Another woman who took in washing
and made money came north from Juneau
where she had been working in laundry
She was blond, As years of age, but so stout
and rugged that she pulled her own sled
weighing $50 pounds, from Lake Lindeman
through to Lake lie Barge and made her
way on down to Circle City She started
a laundry and bake shop and sold her bread
tor from SO cents to $1.O0 a loaf Later on
she came to the Klondike and staked out a
claim on Eldorado creek. from which she
realized $30O,OOO
The women of that time did all sorts Of
things and underwent every hardship to get
to the gold mines Many were stranded at
SkagWay or Dyea, the ports at the foot of
the mountains over which the trails led
to the gold camps. There was one old wo-
man at Skagway whose story was told me
by Elmer J. White, recently American con-
sui at White Horse. Said Mr. White:
The woman was over Is years of age
but she had enough nerve to come north
with the rush. She had no money to get
over the trail, so she started in selling news
papers at from rs to so cents each. the cur
rent prices of those days She was so old
that she aroused sympathy, and a rich min
er would often give her SIS for paper and
tell her to keep the change [ knew her
well. was then editor of paper at Skae-
way and she would bring her money to me
and ask me to count it, She would some
times have $40 or $50 from the sales of 4
few days. She kept her saving in bag. and
when she lett she had about $1,000 All
this time she was sleeping in piano box in
a little cabin across the street from nv news
paper office. | feared she would freeze dur
ing the winter, and | got her people in Mon
tana to write her to come home | sent her
money there and arranged for her passage.
OH might think that a woman of that
kind would be unsafe III mining communi-
~. She was not Every one was ready T..
protect her, and Soap Smith. the desperate,
was ono OF her best customers. ] remember
one day she came in and told me certain
man had insuted her. ! thereupon informed
the deputy marshal, who is now senator
in the Alaska legislature. He went to tie
man and gave him "a hours to leave town.
He departed instanter"
The old type OF roughly dressed frontier
woman is rapidly passing. The mining If
The rich camps is going into the hands of
aroe csnital and there .ra L,. g.. -