The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-27
CHlLK0OT PASS MYSTERY HAS
 BEEN SOLVED

Something like twenty-five years :" ago lonely trapper@ burrowed be- meath the drifts of snow along the Chilkoot Pass; in the heart of Alaska, and salvaged tiny bundle of hu- manity--at<live baby. By it's side lay the bodies of four persons, three men and woman, who had given their heavier clothing that the baby might live. ~' ? 1'.
 And now a young man known as David Schmidt, somewhere in ais twenties," has come out from those barren wastes of the Klondike to take his place in the world. He entered this semester in the Univer- . sity of California at Berkeley, and for the first time the story of the mystery surrounding his origin has been given to the world.
 It reads like fiction.
 For some days in that late Alas kan summer twenty odd years ago a snowstorm had ragged. Along with the snow came biting winds from the north and the mercury dropped precipitately. In a solitary cabin near the pass one hundred and fifty miles from Dawson, that gateway to the cold, bleak country, a fur trapper named Schmidt browsed in few books that he had carried in and waited for the storm to abate that he might venture forth to care for his traps After many days the fury of the storm lashed itself out and Schmidt left his cabin warmth.
 Not many rods from his hut he paused. Near the trail, drifted deep with snow, were several snoW-clad nummocks of peculiar shape MT Schmidt paused, brushed the snow aside from one of them and stood erect, startled It was human body. Quickly the trapper plunged into the . other three heaps-eacn nroved to be a human body, frozen One was that of a beautiful young woman. All were lightly clad. Not ono was wrapped in the furs or sklh
 o+, ,sna11v carried by travelers who dared the pass
 Schmidt stopped to eXamlne the fifth bummock It proved to oe d huge bundle of furs, oVercoa'S anu b1ankets Apparently the en'iie ,yarmth-giving clothing of the ouVl'' had heen Diled there, layer on layer' and the trapper wondered why 'n9 +,roo men and the woman had chosen daa+h when they had coats and blank cts to protect them from the Icy winds.
 While he wondered he worked Ill tho midst of the big bundle Schmlot cana nDon a lively baby boy, warm and snug and sound asleep. The covarings had been so arranged as to leave tiny opening for air,
 Schmidt picked the baby up with some of it's trappings and hurried hack to his cabin. There being no milk, a hurried preparation of bear meat broth supplied the infant hour- ishnent when it aWOke.
 And thus 'David Schmidt" came into the world-a baby Of the Nlon- dike
 From that day until the young man arrived in Berkeley to enter the en- cheering department of the GniVer- sity of California, the story s one of devotion and sacrifice on the "art of the fur trapper.
 None of the four bodies supplied clew for identification of the child. The trapper buried them as best he could and then turned to the de- volopment of the boy, Through the long years he taught him as best he could, yersed him in the ways of the wilderness and of the outside world as well. Maybe a woman could have done these things more eff ciently, but no woman could have done them more affectionately.
 That Dave was brought up right is proved by a variety of facts. The outstanding fact is Dave himself. He is a big, husky fellow, though not so big as to look awkward. He stands erect and wears, even at Berkeley, the khaki mountain outfit popular with outdoor men in the warmer season of the great Northwest.
 For more than twenty years the hoy lived alone with the old fur trapper. Long evenings were spent in his education and longer days were spent in tending the traps and enjoying the great North country.
 Last year, however, scbmidt's knowledge ran out He had taught 4,o ,,onth everything he knew and