El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-03

4 rail was laid OF any excavation made
| sac had put up tents for eating and
! lodging down on the flats. Her sleep
| ing tent was equipped with hunks one
! over the other like those OF q sleeping
| car. and each bed brought her dollar
! a night When the new site for An
| chorage was chosen she built a frame
/ hotel on the main street. and she is
! doing so well that she will probably
/ have to put up a larger building in the
near future.
Mrs. PuIIen Makes Good.
Another woman who has made good
in Alaska is Mrs. Pullen. OF Skagway.
VINO, by her kindness to the old miners
the title Of Mother of the North She
has beautiful hotel at the head of the
Lynn canal where the glacial SkaS-
way river flows in The place Is sur
rounded by mountains that reach to
| the clouds, and II Is not far away from
the mighty ice rivers of Glacier bay
LIS Pullen has recently bought a farm
which covers the ground upon which
Dyea was located, and she Is stabling
her stock there in houses built by the
miners and traders when that place
was wlde-Open city and the golden
clouds of Dawson covered the sky.
Mrs Pullen came to Skagway at the
time OF the gold rush to the Rlondike.
The daughter of a well-to-do settler on
'uget sound. she had married and be-
come widow with three little sons Al
the time gold was discovered Her
father had died some years before
leaving her plenty of money. but she
had lost this and decided to go 20 the
gold mines
She was almost penniless when she
landed IN Alaska, and when a miner
came TO the steamer to hire a cook for
his camp she asked for the job AMI
got it. She did well there, and later
on became the cook for a boarding
house. where her sourdough fIapjacks
and soda biscuits soon became famous.
she saw that the big money was befn,
made in freighting goods over the
mountains. and she sent her first say
inSs back TO Seattle and brought in six
horses that were still left of those
on her fathers farm. She also i'm
norted a wagon, and then started
freighting over the trail She drove
ne horses herself making her Gus
o1lers load their own goods. She got
high rates of freight. and was soon
clearing S25 a DAY.
Son Goes to West Point.
At the end OF the first season she
was $1,000 ahead, and this gave her
enough TO build a cottage and start a
Motel Of her own From that time on
she has been able not only to live weil
and make money. but to give her chill
dren as good an education as our coun-
try affords. The boys went to school
IN Skagway, where they worked at odd
hours and during vacation TO help
their mother Later they were sert /
TO the United States to college. one |
or them was the first appointee from !
Alaska 10 West Point, and another !
graduated at the University ~ Wash D
lngton. and is now mining engineer
connected with the big dredging opera {
tions in the Klondike /
The boy who went 10 West Point !
made a remarkable record When he 4
first came he was nicknamed the
Eskimo; but he made good in athletics I
ana became captain of the football 1
team He stood especially well in
Workmanship and sportsmanship. and
the horse he rode was one raised IN /
Alaska and sent TO him by his mother.
" hen he graduated he stood fourth IN i
his class. and he is now one Of the pro
fessors Of the military academy
Help Husbands lake Fortunes
In those early days ali sorts OF
women went TO the Klondilse- Some 4
tramped in over the trail: wearing :
came TO their knees Some came with |
their husbands and aided in prospect
ing and in getting gold out OF the
frozen earth: Among them was the
wife OF Prof Thomas G. LipDy. who !
had been secretary OF the y n G \
AZ Seattle He began his mining along
The upper Yukon in Alaska, and left
his wife there when he first came to .
the klondike 4 few months later she {
followed him and the two made a large
fortune.
Another Puget sound man who be /
came = millionaire through his mines /
near Dawson was Clarence Berry He
had been married tust before he came
TO the klondike, and he brought his
wife with him Mrs. Berry is said 70
have poked out several thousand dol !
ars' worth OF nuggets from the dumps
IF her husbands mines. The two went
back to the United States rich An
other wealthy woman Of Puget sound
turned the MINDLESS 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 prop !
critics. one woman had 100000 when she
eft Vancouver and she had doubled
and quadrupled il. when she was
heated out OF her fortune by unscru-
1ulous men She then took in washing
md baked bread for the miners with
the flour they brought to her She
lDened a roadhouse at Selkirk, and
alter on made money and saved 1t That
woman came from Idaho. She is said
% be quite well 70 do.
The daughter Of a former governor OF