Show a 4 ii IF AA go freyr I 1 D dc awson city filled ibid 11 I 1 1 army 0 gola seekers it ail maa WA L L laa III I 1 aai i it A A A A A ILIA olt olton 4 the tb hot host which started for 1 lawon aboon last spring from 30 to if 35 have arrived and like those tho who bo cave save up the th battle on a roof they are beginning to conr wonet why by they they bate bars roughed it over tho the tou et eat of trail they bare bale been leorr boat builders doc dog driver drivers corua only to be called Thou Alt wre war used as a compliment tbs th very 0 o aad of this word if Is enough to make a mia min sad ad if it oot not tired it cornea comes with a 11 smile and a enter saying oh what a lot you bays to larni learol the tbs old timer timers borrowed the th word from the indiana Ind lani and literally it meane means a newcomer not until you hare bale ertil spent one winter in live th country and you have een seen thelca be ice in the rim river break are you an old timor timer to be a u you must have bale been in inthe the country before the treat great strike wa was made in the klondike district the Yuko Yu koner ners bare have formed an aristocratic society oc lety something like the son of t the revolution at borne home and on gr areat at oc rulon they wear broad blue cart going over the ice to dawson aa an I 1 did write writes frederick palmer I 1 panned the thirty itald o 0 on le trail and I 1 law saw the old dawson before it was a transformed rani if it dawon dawson in ita its superiority of anelons fri trim 4 te fass rl tte nd L 1 ta im the tho LL t grims had bad the satisfaction of liter ally swamping dawson ker dawon demean li Is only a few low lox log cabin cablas sitting on oil a mad mud flat afons the river front lait vinter winter the resident population waa was not more thin a thousand the remainder of the people in the country four thousand iund in all being at work ork upon the creeks when thirty thousand people fell remd tented la in front of i saloon loon or road made a counter of tbs be bow of a boat or of a it piece of canvass laid on the ground round by the th water front booths and nd cloth building buildings sprang up la in act profusion that tir the only thing to dla atte 9 your mind the fact that you were not at a country fair wui iq that plak plot lemona lemons le was go 60 gina dot not a cents a glass abe r with their citan clean ups up ar of the thoice wages for their winter winters work la in tl ali tit gold ban bags drank pink Te monads sampled ever athing lo 10 the edible and drinkable line llo displayed I 1 in a the th booths and then had bad to to to 1 I be doctor to settle atle these pit erlma now in dawon are like aa an army of 30 generals gerali ne rali seeking akin to conquer a coultry thy they walk up and down the streets loiter jolter in the saloons and gambling xam blinK places and ask K one another if it thy they know where there Is I 1 any ground worth taking they are lowly find ang ln out that they haven I 1 reached the place where the kold gold await awaits their min lag but a place where they may pro pros hect for cold there are 8 claim claims staked in the klondike mining die dis brict of these the only COO 00 are of an proven value 1 more than thin a nominal speculative aum sum and the nominal speculative aum sum la Is fait fast colof going down be ral ft t wa n t ig 0 CI C at D bicz trac f tb tte ta L aku I lec uuie the smaller Olal irr the to boom claim alb were prospected still sell but one ones on creek crooks do not everybody Ettry body ta la waiting to cee see whether or net the canadian Cani dlen soy coment to I 1 going to rescind the royalty whether or not ottawa is I 1 going to end send an hon bon ft eat tet set of official officials whether or not any new now around ground will be adli owed by the pilgrim pilgrims what la Is to be the rate of freezes cir time the water ater will run lo 10 on hit his free meanwhile he be must lit sit ID to big hi tent and nd wait very fw tow ct ef the pilgrim bay bare yet tons one to work for wane wages the demand demands of new enier emer arises ht have perhaps employed an ad dit lonal iOnal thousand meu men who are get t tine ting from 76 75 cente cents to 1 a day a fall of bout about 20 per tent over winter wice wages most of or the feel real that it worth orth a while to work for leu less in 41 u uch c h a country at least they frel feel to 10 now for most of th them em rime came I 1 la a to me k 6 a fortune la in short order and if they tnt alt milks it they say ay they might jutt just as a well return to a more habitable babl tabe coun try men with trades who ame time tor for the purpose of for wages wie went to work at one once the m mar asa the for tune seekers ee kera thoe those whose ambition are bound up in a lucky M wt watch the few build cabins and prepare p pare for winter if it the number who bad already built or aches caches for their food were any criterion of or the number who will stay la in the country eoj coi then not more than 3 will remain A thousand had old sold their outfits and started out C rf the country by july I 1 dut but for pride two third thirds of the lot would already bare tous cd sit suit it L 11 0 ly up iw iv tulu tw to juu vu awu with less lei than you bad when you started particularly bard to explain to your friend friends why alaska Is a failure when its it golden olden harret harvest seems eem bound to increase with every year doggone Dog tone it mid said a young missourian 1 I m coins going back to the old farm fam with a thou dommi itani dollars 1 I 1 bad had that when I 1 left if it I 1 have to tay stay in here ten beare o 0 itt I 1 green though when I 1 reached el 1 I 1 2 a jre f I 1 lra 10 A t I 1 A F jk a 8 I 1 y 4 L 0 7 wool I 1 1 az at I 1 t 1 av 41 F I 1 49 Z 4 k 1 I cr 1 V I 1 L I 1 ft 4 IL 16 9 4 q t 4 V I 1 4 I 1 I 1 cc av I 1 a I 1 11 I 1 0 o OF loped 41 4 er 1 cajoto I 1 1 wr ia f 1 1 Z as I 1 t 4 r pon IM 1 0 I 1 majr 96 V t 11 6 ffoyd ml 1 I 1 Z ki I 1 al ta C pa 5 Z P L VW 16 1 1 LL 4 6 V II 11 W 7 it I 1 I 1 or M ce a pl 12 IS 7 f 1 I I 1 aw 4 14 6 Z i 4 I 1 i 1 I 1 11 aa t I 1 akil ikil I 1 4 I 1 aw 1 I 1 Q tr 11 r 40 A 5 1 I 1 A t q 4 r I 1 F I 1 1 p z SCENES EN ROUTE TO KLONDIKE 1 upon thia this little aning camp it U WM was 1 ak lost 10 like a piece ot at cheese under a cloud ot at filea flies it the we never exiled called them by any other name expected much from dawon dawson dawson expected a food good deal from the I 1 hawkos the loon keeper keepers wanted capitalists wanted to see the ark ct of labor go down and k ry body wanted fresh rea eggs tree freal beet beef cigars to ama new tow pair ot at boote boots thea these chinee the c give ua UIL that is 1 those at 0 the who were clever 1 enough to take in goods aul edible to sell ell thus allowing somebody the sold for lot them in ea ot digging tor for themselves then miTe Tes these ware aure sure ot of a faerk fair and perhaps a baloMi ta Troi lt ta to a titer apropo f r atlon than baking one chance out ot of a r thousand Lua on an anding a claim the to arrive had built big hi boat x g tbs th toot foot ot at le darce barge lie waa was from seattle and be to told us u to 0 o as a oon soon aa as he waa was in hitting distance la in dawson it Is U hard to escape cape the lon lion that seattle to a district depre seating an area of at about one halt of at th united state states this th seattle man bat had eggs w and lemon lemons to sell ell and he sot got ps a cosea tor for both the first boot boots to come down old sold for or 15 a pair the tbs first potatoes 2 a pound fint first orange oranges lit 18 doxen dozen fret bananas ba U 1 apiece first broad brimmed hau hats 25 apiece first fresh ment 2 a pound first in u far air 1125 a pound fint arst better butter tw 1 60 ft pound art t condensed milk a can first syrup IS 5 ft a gallon llon and ltd first canned pache 2 3 a can but the market tor for such price prices I 1 Is more or lese halted aad with the increate increase ot of sup up ply which followed the opening ot of the whole chain ot at lake lakes three week weeks later than the opening ot at the river 1 below le 14 L bre prica went down considers con sidera lly in tn the tbs cae case ot of fresh beet beef which waa was held hold at tl 1 50 a poun L 11 L tea ten thou thousand Band dollar dollars waa was cleared up lip t L ar on min who brought a lock stock of 0 harr find and of fine clothing to the port of lo 10 barge with four our oxen the P onon be put on a raft adank aoa with the 1 I 1 soa leoee aad boroughf them to dawson lv ebore te to sold old them on the boot boat to ft a P batcher latcher tor for 13 it waa was most important wriz of all that those w with rood goods to eil should pitt them en on the market at it 1 ea w the new mad ft a abare tar out ot ft a tent tank anz 4 k t I 1 1 a a L 2 A wages in do which way the cat is 1 going to jump aaa the pilgrim being the cat or largely tbs tb cat eating tating tat at bacon rhen when the thermometer Is at to waiting on ats it own part tor for the cat to jump in his bean heart the th jump he want wants to biake himself la Is over tho the mountain mountains and the glaciers gla clera to the land where there are ar strawberries and cream to go with them it waa was a fairly well tl distributed tact fact a year ago though the pilgrim could think only of the tory story of tit VA SC a pan part on eldorado that all th fire creek creeks now demon str grated attil to be rich el euarado EU lorado orado bonanza Don ansa honker hanker dominion and sulphur were staked take by men who were in the klondike or started for or the klondike before tte tto world received the newa news which w wa as responsible for the first great rush no fortune fortunes BO no considerable um sum ox except by peculation speculation bai has yet ben been cde by other than thin the old timer timers who hare have been in the country from two to ten year years all the sew tow creeks creek which mean means every creek in the neighbor hood of at dawon dawson were staked on faith and not on prospects these cloema must bye the legal three month months worl don done on them this thi winter or be lot lost to their owner owners I 1 bars faith that ome some of at them will turn out well but even then it will be another year or two year years before the owner owners can reality from them except by aale Ws unless there Is I 1 more work done than pre used there will not be employment een oen at reduced waxes for one ons fifth of the SO 30 there are numerous tun tunstle ittes tr prospect claim claims lor for halt hill of what I 1 Is in them but if it they turn tum out blank blinks then the lay man will have bays nothing when summer conic comes hating having eaten hi his torel stores during the winter the average pilgrim ha has food for not more than alz SIX month this means that he be aut must buy more before the rear year to in out ac As a rule be b is I 1 broke broken and in many instances Inn tance he has ha old sold ome romis ot at ht bt outfit to get got a little pending spending money it he be does not go to work for tor an other he be must go so prospecting in ae AS territory that moans taking hij his food many azailea up a tributary electing selecting a little creek crock and burning a hole to bedrock if it the first arst one fall falls he must try another and so 0 o on he cannot PrOs Pact until the k 4 A e 9 seattle I 1 d seen any fold gold ald L I 1 thought you could got et it easy once you were here herband and dohron itt by your troubles have jut just begun rt those pilgrim pilgrims who remain la in the coltury coi some will to to work for ome some will hang around dawson dowson aid watt for somebody tome body to mike make a stalk and the valiant few will to go out up the creeks thawing hole holes through thirty feet of ground eaklor seeking for strikes of their own ant ii two third thirds of the win will spend christmas at home in the states alala alaka Is richer la in sold gold than the expert experts who went into the country expected to r and 14 it IL but retting the sold told it 14 like extracting an elephant elephants tooth wt with th a pair of tweezers twee zere as a the newcomer sees ee it the no terror deszo we off with experience and the K condike hai has nei neer er teen been so habitable a as it will be thi this winter |