The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-04

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 a wide 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 Klondike. The daughter of a well-to-do settler on Puget sound, she had married and be- came widow with three little sons at 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 to the gold mines She was almost penniless when she landed in Alaska, and when 8 miner came to the steamer to hire cook for his camp she asked for the job and got It. She did well there, and later on became the cook for a boarding house, where her sour dough fap-jacks and soda biscuits soon became famous. She saw that big money was be- ing made in freighting goods over the mountains, and she sent her first savings back to Seattle and brought in six horses that were still left of those on her fath- CTS farm. She also imported a wagon, and then started freighing over the trail. She drove the horses herself making her customers load their own goods. She got high rates of freight, and was soon clear ing $25 a day.
 
 At the end of the first season she was $1000 ahead, and this gave her enough to build a cottage and start a hotel of her own. From that time on she has been able not only to live well and make money, but to give her children as good an education as our country affords. The boys went to school in Skagway, where they worked at odd hours and during vacation to help their mother. Later they were sent to the United States to college. One of them was the first ap- pontee from Alaska to West Point, and another graduated at the University of Washington, and Is now a mining en- giEeer connected with the big dredging operations in the Klondike.
 The boy who went to West Point made a remarkable record. When he first came he was nicknamed ''the Eskimo;" but he made good in athletics and became cap tain of the football team. He stood es- pecially well in swordsmanship and sportsmanship, and the horse he rode was one raised in Alaska and sent to him by his mother. When he graduated he stood fourth in his class and he is now one of the professors of the military academy.
 In those early days all sorts of wom- en went to the Klondike. Some tramped iE over the trail, wearing short skirts, boomers and boots that same to their knees. Some came with their husbands and aided in prospecting and in getting gold out of the frozen earth. Among them was the wife of Prof. Thomas c. Lippy, who had been secretary of the Y. M. c. A. at Seattle. He began his mining along the upper Yukon in Alaska, and left his wife there when he first came to the Klondike. A few months later she followed him and the two made a large fortune.
 Another Puget sound man who became a millionaire through his mines near Dawson was Clarence Berry. He had been married just before he came to the Klondil1e, and he brought his wife with him. Mrs Berry is said to have poked out several thousand dollars worth of nuggets from the dumps of hers hus-