Show h N h WW WWi I n I i ALASKA SQUAW MEN lome omo Great Fortunes With a String to Thorn Thom Does It Profit a Man to Bo o n a Millionaire 11 if Ho Havo an Indian Family on His Hla Honda Hands Hold In Contempt by White Mon S Suu 5 Correspondence orrt pO EUw June 24 Tho recent death d ath tf ho acquired n a great fortuno fortune iu h th d Klondike region eels me think just read rend In jn a paper printed la b tt Ibe Culled States a I story stor tall nily history how he was a I poor t lad loving o n 0 maiden poor as us how his love of or his life that i l the writer miter puts him u 5 it ii t herculean exertion In the frozen how he ho kept It up for twelve jan when success crowned his cf ef tot f He Us found himself a millionaire Ties flu he be returned to the United States ad a tided the maiden who hati hac walt wait tl m for tor r him im Then alas through tho the of his constitution while tor fo his hta sweetheart he ho died Just t fter w tie th rues rates of or earthly carthy y bliss hiss had P 4 U te lira It U Is a pretty story but Mt tet HI iii the t story The rest of It is III that rUt MI the man lIun was making his athe t the Yukon he be had an Indian wife a ii ro so senile gentle and devoted devo l that she shen re n the thi r respect sp ct even of at the white min mm 2 ell C la is thi th Klondike told geld old country co men now seon orn of ot a comrade that takes an nn rii Is When these theBe tUi the millionaire WitS ns on his histo hI hIT T beak k to tho the old haunts after mar the sweetheart of at his hl youth they ma nile threats that they would deal with willI him He lie had simply elm ply gone pone T 1114 left the native wife deserted ter er nit tl rIat of ot violence were welo never nover d but tait ut prophecies s were freely treelY r rUt l upon Ulon the tile air that list no good would Oe ni to the Inn nin No good did come C me to tn lie He lost lose much of or the tho wealth ho he to 41 1 ic acquired 4 and then ho he died There er je IS a n whole holi row of ot rich men In he tar far northwest est who have married IU sat women woman and not one ono I know kno fets I sn satisfaction out of at his life lito li JL er ill III his hi wealth An ev evil fa fate hangs er ef U them n all them right fop fot to Into an en Inferior InterIor race the th orl Perhaps It 11 does docs d s but their Is heavy ILS s one OM among the thc first gold goldat at Dawson He lie lived with wi e and ana two brown skinned helped him h win his wealth and shared It He lie took the children to tho the States to be educated I saw sass the whole batch of ot them as nn the they were starting for San Francisco the tue thelow thelow low brewed shrinking Indian wife try tryIng tryIng Ing lug to look like a white woman am and falling tailing miserably the thc wild little halt half halfbreed breed children dodging hither and thither the man standing by them like n a man but looking worried and asham ashamed ed cd not a n chum or n a 1 friend among white while men who know knew him Ho lie said raid he lie would put his children to school then he lie would return to Dawson and live IIvo with will his brown vItee people I know he lie said Raid that she would never be received In society In tho the States State If It that fellow rellow with the wife comes cornell In III here on the trip down said sale the sturdy engineer en Ill turn the hot water on him I There too was that white man at the i Yukon trading post pORt who had nn Eskimo wife wire The wife wore silks but she was wan a n drunkard and carried d on wild orgies with her Indian mates mate The hus hue husbands hands bands financIal Interests lay la about the post pest so 80 that he ho could neither run away from his hili wife nor his business There Thero lIe he staid there he says SIS transformer transformed Into a n man of at fierce temper soured to all 1111 races and like others who have done ns nil he did despised by his fellow white men I know not what It Is III but there Is something Implanted by nature In the soul of ot n a white person that re rc revolts revolts volts against u herding with narrow foreheads ds It must bo be natures safe sate safeguard safeguard guard for or the preservation of at the su superior superior superior race face There Thero Is yet another case to my mind the this most moat melancholy of ot nil all At another trading post poet po t Is a n white bUe man of ot eat est education and culture In a n fit tit of r desperate against society one day daylie daylie lie be ran away awn to the northwest While the nt fit was on he took an Eskimo wife Perhaps he lie thought to revenge himself on society t when poor wretch he was only revenging roven society on himself He lie behaves himself as ss a 4 gentleman he has hils manners that would grace r ce any court he lie line has the singing voice of ot an nn angel ho has hos ample means meRna but buthe he has also the Indian wife and the halt half breed chil chith children dren He lie can cnn never neer return to his hll own them for tor or days for tor they Are sure elite of at nt least three good meals of at mule per Iler diem The Thc vessels euel nf ot the lI t make the dIstance to Cape eRM ape Town In twenty eight days daI Uy By U this time line many of ot tho lie lor Imor creatures from standing still so no lung with not room to turn around are aro too tou stiff to move and have to be lifted out of ot the stalls They soon recover rt coer those not too far gone and when they realize that hint they art are again on terra term firma they jump and buck with joy be ha beyond yond yoni control Hut nul It U b i simply simp giving them another taste tute of ot life liCe before the this slaughter for or fever Insect and aM bullets make short work vork of ot them Occasionally OO storms torms are encountered that toss the tho ship sluts about so 80 that many j ot tho twists are nic maimed 10 1 crippled b y recovery recover or killed outright rho Tho CorInthia encountered a game gale that blew I her upon n R arc In January 1300 1000 After Alter five days work vork In jn attempt attemptIng Ing to float her she chic was given ghon up More than luau a thousand mules were vere taken up on deck and after their noses had hod h d been pointed toward land hand so 10 that they thel might see nee and sc scent nt It II they the were low how lowered lowered ered seed overboard Pour Four l our hundred the distance The others were Yere unequal to the effort after fter being pent up so long longor or spent their strength In vain valli efforts to get aboard the lie ship and tug boats about abou titer liar her Of Ot late the percentage of ot loss hoes los among the tho animals nan has been growing less At lint first any mule from thirteen to fourteen hands high or horse from fourteen to sixteen sound lOund of limb anti and In good goad con dillon dUlon after thus three days rest reet to tl recover leCO r from the railroad journey to New Or Orleans Orlenn Orleans leans lenn was wag wa loaded for Cape CUlle Town Now only an 81 animal with a 1 tried constitution constitution tion Ion ts is a sent The whole workings of or ortho the thc department are now complete In Kansas City St 51 Louis Dallas Dallos Hous Ilous Houston ton tan corrals for or collection are att main maintained tamed To these recruiting stations candidates are brought Any t that lint tho t pow pass be they one or fifty are retained until the number has baa grown large enough to warrant the chartering of ot a train Then TIlen they are shipped to New Orleans where stables table that will wiil accommodate nearly 1008 are aN operated hero Here they are lire sorted and gotten fatten into condition for shipment The first assortment la is lathe the sick lek anti and bruised from the well Tho The former are IUt sent nt to the hospital depart department moat ment They are lire exercised dolly dally and anti fed up tip for the journey journe Each Bach ani sal animal mal Inal Is vaccinated Then they Ule are re as IS assorted sorted for fitness for tor the various ser Mr services vices lees Bach Pah Is numbered on the lie hoot hoof and lid marked with a broad arrow It Ir for heavy hea artillery and Ind a double cross cress M for forthe forthe the tM cavalry Those Th simply numbered number W go O Into the th pack trains or ot are re assigned to some eom other routine work With the muleteers the qualifications have hue ton crown less leN rigid At first at nt tim tho offer eter of or free tree transportation the esaki pick picie their men inca All the dl charged Spanish Span I war soldiers who ap all applied applIed plied were chosen Hut lut particular care esro WM wig aM taken that they should not got Get set sear near neara seara r a 8 recruiting station Finally Finan when n nhe l hi he South African enthusiasm to wane vane WR the be price had to be I ral d re return return return turn transportation was wu w added Later Liter return transportation antI and lit 1 nut But New NI Orleans was wa drained Now hobos hobo an and l are enlisted from a say v r old Tier TIler net tiet et free t transportation on on on tho the theto tops to ot of the stock trains from as far faraway away as a Chicago and the are arc scratching harder f 11 r them hm than they aw are for tor mules It is an and 1 pathetic to see the animals shipped sad awl 1 It Is 11 and ludicrous to In Inie eo re the tM motley n of rags 11 bowls what covert cAvers OV Ms his hi hl hla hid hida a It r red I handkerchief over hit his generally contains cont ln the Ihl worldly world outfit of 01 the th Amt Americo ric muleteer of ot today toda ach RO goes S with the Iho Intention of If letting the light strike him only at meal times and l lying ln In the tho hay Ita under the shadow hadow of a mule all 1111 tho the thore thor re r rest t of ut the tM day da lath Iton thinks ii h ne l Pt H to 10 fIde vade the fOO kney bON bass seth ml 11 has hu the th ides Idea that his hi 1 Ina tied tion Is 18 a land of free tc gold goiti slid and diamonds meets easeLs m a II Hidden lUcid anti and sot see awaken awakenIng lag Ing l when ones one on J ship Th Tb fINo 11 were fOrt tery fOl ry much mach agitated the other ether day dar after one on of the Mal l itt tl to se ee the t th name Samuel lamaI Pearson on en th the list lIat of at It U dIdt dIdat seem that Ihal It uld bo be their arch enemy the th hoer general Yet t tM thiS y wre were prepared to ci C ear almost from hoer trat y and a they were lire Indeed r h when wI the tM ship lid ar arrived rived at lit the other end fOnd safe ff A hobo had hid hidI I pe I In III Un a I i Angeles |