Show ALASKAN HEROINE WILL BE HONORED plan statue of angel of tho the gold rush days seattle loved by the hardy alaskan prospectors and gamblers as one wo woman man who remained pure and white as the snow during the gold rush days ot of 97 and 98 08 mollie bell will live again when her friends erect a bronze statue of her at skagway Sk agway alaska the laughing eyed irish lass honored by all on the trail andin and in camp was the belle of the north she was a comrade and tenderhearted tender hearted pal to the unkempt men who plunged into the wilderness to seek their fortu fortunes neiL lei wooed and lost loaf one of her closest friends was packer jack newman who wooed and lost her he be has had a bronze image of the famed alaska belle molded for a pedestal to be placed in a skagway park dedicated to her memory far different than the dance hall ball girls mollie bell was the angel of the camps and her name is still spoken in hushed reverence irence by the old timers it was she who cared for the sick and friendless who grubstaked grub staked prospectors who lent a helping hand wherever she could mollie went north while she was in her early twenties and opened a grub shack near lake bennett packer jack met her first when he stumbled into her tent one night suffering from a frozen hand she administered aid to him as she had to others and a romance began married another packer jack became a bit too sure of himself however and when alike bartlett began showering attention on mollie pack ordered her to forbid bartlett entrance to her grub tent mollie married bartlett mollie gradually drifted away from her direct contact with the trall trail and in 1002 she was living in seattle with her husband her brief life ended in october of that year when she was shot and killed bartlett was acquitted of her murder when adjudged temporarily pora rily insane now mollies Mol lles going back to alaska to take her rightful place on the skagway trail a perpetual reminder that there was at least one girl of the trails who was not a dance hall lou |