, 1923-02-22
CONTINUED from last week.

CONTINUED from last week.
The other day q lady asked me II
I knew her uncle. She added that
he had been in Alaska from the early
Klondike days and when l said mo"
she thought 1t strange. 1t reminds
me Of a story where a youth had
left his home in the northern part
Of the State OF New York to carve
his fortune In New York City. Be-
fore leaving he had promised his
mother that he would write fire.
quently which he did. He went to
the General Delivery Post Office in
New York and asked, Have you a
letter from my mother?" A day or
so before the youths inquiry a letter
reached the Post Office addressed in
this manner: ITO My Son. New
York" The clerk being a bit of a
humorist gave the boy the letter
and 1t was from his mther.
There are men in Alaska like every
other country who give up trying to
get a fortune and follow the lines
OF least resistance. They work for
sixty days during the summer months
in the mines and their wages give
them enough with their hunting and
fishing to keep them q year. They
have lost heart and hope and have
slipped to the point Of s~lothfulness
and indifference; they have forgot
ten civilization and loved ones. There
reached the stage Of the following
story: "A farmer asked a man did
he want a job digging potatoes"
The man said he did II the Job was
digging them out OF gravy.
The HO1d alta mnada In tho KlOn.
dixie took place during the fall OF
1897 and the spring of 1898. I. a
Babe In the Woods youth OF nine
teen. Joined the merry and opti-
mistic stampeders In the spring of
1898. reached Dyea In March
and Joined in partnership with Dave
McChestney, . man old enough to be
my father. He had been through
the Caster. British Columbia, gold
excitement and wa empirically wise
t. every angle Of the game. He
dubbed me kid" and I called him
Dad" Twelve miles from whore
the steamer landed the motley crowd
the Canadian border vas marked.
There the Canadian Mounted Police
would not permit any Of the gold
seekers to pass ON TO the Klondiks
Gold Fields which are in Canadian
territory. unless they could show .
years provisions and $1,000. A
cue OF men two miles long packed
their outfits in relays over the Chill
coot Pass. With . pack Weighing
sixty to one hundred pounds from
oue to three days would be con-
sumed in reaching the summit. Hun
0utfits and returned TO the States.
ARfoR - haA AaakAA Ane e~N ehnms-
and pounds to the top Of Chilcoot
Pass. which never-to-be-forgotten
10y took ua thirty three days, Dad
noticed that I was limplnG. He told
me- to take off my moccasins. He
found my feet blistered. He told me
to stay In camp and cook up q lot
Of grub. said in the beginning
that I was the Babe In the Woods
and the following In Just one incl
dent where ! proved the appelIation.
Cook up a lot OF grub" were magic
words to me. After going through
the outfit I fished out some rice.
filled . pot and poured . little water
on Il and before that rice Was cook
I'd had every utensIi Including a.
0tetson hat belonging 70 Dad brim
full. When Dad returned in the
evenInG. after looking around tho
tent and seeing every pot and pan
Including his hat filled with rico.
naid: "Cheer up Kid. I always did
like rice"
would like 10 stop here and
tell you OF tho character Of Dad. a
mar OF rough exterior but with 4
soul and patience of . loving mother.
] would like step by step to take you
tho four years Of u p~artnership
with novel = cross word or . thought
Of splitting the stove In two. How
We built our boat to shoot through
White Horse Rapids where no many
of tho gold seekers lost their lives.
Our entrance into Dawson, our loss
BY fire Of all our outfit. the sensa-
tion Of being broke with ham and
sg9a At five dollars an order. A
year's experience In the mines Of
the klondike. The leaving Of Daw-
- n 1895 for Nome. tho nav
e1ggtass located on the Bcring Sea.
1870 o!e3eing experiences while pull.
Ise tne beoe two thousand miles down
- vusoe With hardly enough grub
20 kee0 bo1y ed soul together. Tho
iaa1lng II Meme dnrtng The summer
OF 1888. Ths Beach dlegines. Tho
landing Of forty thousand gold seek
81 % tie tleesh Of Nomo during
the suu0og e. looo go 20 skip
ever two anl . hAle yeass q Nome
aAd tel yoo ~ ~ 0oeot . lfaft on
tAs Nevada NattoNAl Doat IT. oioo..
80 n tAe IAN e 1893. NJ p6Ptlne
q tho WAN n - 4SaoNoooo. Dad
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