Show KLONDYKE N 11 II Profil abla efat effat on oa th Basins JS ss Inte interests 0 seattle and abc dust on eibi r hili 1 n on money being freely e 0 for o or K ake outfits hotel rl billed ild e beigh 1 II 11 undrea if passengers on ti the wil I 1 in gold du dah lie in this sack froni from klond ay iy 17 1897 aw L so reads the tic on a early canvas bat ba af i which has the pipa city I 1 think of holding about 2 abu n d a of flour and wili clil is is ex alt e d i n one of tile large windol window ocr the k pot ali office ce 3 u jew elers window a lew door tle on are some real nuggets aft I 1 virgin A gold some as large as ag hs h 8 eggs and some come little bits of allo allows ace D no 0 larger than Pie cea icea pie art purt part 0 dative pellets Pel letB or a four fou morphine pill eed ud a litt paste board box filled with pil 6 jain of gold in anis window beard announces nn ounces that miners ad fr dyke cin can obtain the high for fir either nuggets or dust u S ug bests that they call i in anil n 3 investigate rife a s i before disposing of t th arara irara 6 ure then in that 1 bank a way a large window aign t e i the returned gold seeker thai aej ay wll will advance him money on dign ments of dust arid and nuggets R mint in san fr wnm A 10 L ua r t P r 1 cash aseal all the go gold 1 I 1 ibi ana ali iwler re r 44 v aul wul trl bring but he be will bellais Bell his mine mice or form a company for himi or trade him shadrea i in other lilies for an interest in his come down to the water front and I 1 will show your you great large outfitting outwitting out fitting establishments where during the last month thousands of prospectors have been outfitted for from one to five hundred undred li dollars each I 1 will take you you where a dozen dra drag loads of numerous supplies all packed ached and wrapped and marked line hoe the front of one store waiting to be hauled tu to the quay tremendous business for a mouth seattle has had as miny man y people within her gates as salt lake lak e haj had duril during 0 the jubilee and for the most par part t these people have b been een spen spending spendin din money with a high and reckless hand every hotel has been filled so that at times limea it has hab been a matter or of impossibility for people to obtain beds and notwithstanding scores of lodging houses have sprung up to meet the demands of the hour hoar many ft a man mantles has had his first ni lit in seattle in an arm chair or w walking alk the street bebau because eft with plen plenty ty of money money in his hia pockets lie he could not proc procure ure a bed I 1 every day or so s steamers loaded to their fullest ca capacity pacify L hip their great loads and swing swin fout out into the sound bound for laaka a ala ports alei freighted bated with th ho hopes Ps and great reat expectations of dundr as and hundreds of men arid and ever eve train from tile the east et steams eams int ink the seattle station loaded with others who have the one motto klondyke Klon Uon kyke or bust men from tie t ie east cast and south who have left families and homes and overath ag g dear and have turned their reary eyes tc the klondyke as a last chance to pay off the mortgage and other oilier cankerous debts thit have for months arid and years been sapping their lifes blood a arrive ari ve every daa da of course many that come are of another class miners who have been lavishly staked by y capita capitalists lits I 1 and who during stay in se seattle at tle not only purchase the best of outfits but outspend pend spend money mo eyon on lumur les iea they bey have never before enjoyed enji s si i neely as though it were water these are old timers imers who have been on the frontiers all their lives and are used to roughing it they have no family ties to speak peak or of a happy go lucky crowd that manage to get staked for every gold excitement that comes along then ragain there is ia the kid glove element from the bait who dont tant know know a pick from a saw mill roid nud whose hands hand jeweled and white are as strange to hard work as a login logan p olic emans or a county officials they davodi have the e t ff they dres dreos in and h hish h i t top 1 boots and swagger along the streets with an air that says look al me coe get on to my shape I 1 am tou tough h and am bound for the klondyke it is this class that have made the tenderloin district of seattle fairly howl luring during the last laptew few weeks it i ii their money or the tha money of or their rich dads that has jingled more than any other on the polished is bed birs bars of the city thit finds its way into tho the sporting houses on the of the dead line many of this class will get as far as st michaels or to juneau an and no farther thu tho people of this class are not they who will brave the dangers and hardships of chilcoot pass few of this class claes but what will turn back before they tramp 75 miles milea from the paw to 0 the lakes through all almost aniio t trackless snow the novelty nov elty of gold hunt ing will I 1 am quite sure be lost sight of by taia class beaure they leave the crowded steamers on which they make the first part of their voyage i the S S willamette sailed an hour ap ago and I 1 was down to t th wharf to see heroff her off P is igers on i card ME at ah V C I 1 r cl 14 a V port on putt puget audd 1500 tons or 0 freight and and anti is idof of course bound t for A as a she will steam to dyea from which port her passengers passenger 0 with horses and 1500 tons ions af tr freight eight will commence the long dreary march by the skagway route rouie to the gold fields the wharf and boats in the harbor were lined by hundreds and thousands of people to wave them a godspeed god speed and wish them luck lack many of their bones will be left in dreary alaska some out of 0 their otheir number will wander back in a few years to waiting aang wives and children broken in in health to die while others other will w come laden with gold with which to pay debts and make bright and happy homes home god bless them for their grit and determination I 1 for one wish them every success and believe it il is better to be ba found trying to meet death in the wilds of an unexplored country while battling for what an all wis wise e creator certainly intended his children to have and enjoy by far better to meet death in the feverish hunt for gold than to starve and die with a broken heart in a land of plenty surrounded by a heartless and coid blooded nineteenth century civilization at home among friends who not so eo as he is down and his hid pockets are empty I 1 I 1 con consider hider that every every young man who is ii blest with good health and and grit enough to take the chances offered in the klondyke stands stand a better belter show ten to one in in that country at this time tha than nhe he would in any civilized and populated part of the world when men with ability will gladly work year in in and year out for from 25 to 50 per month something is wrong arid and the sooner half or even i lees ees of the earth s popi population shu ile off tile the better it will wil I 1 lie be for the earth and the half who remain remain neither free nee silver nor free trade nor a high biah I 1 tariff and a gold standard will help the starving masses of the world half as much as war co continued on oneth page EXCITE KEENT continued from page 1 pestilence and famine and better than all is the klondyke klondike gold old excitement cit ement where the poor man ma n with god given iven health and d determination stands at least a hance chance of making a stake that will permit him in turn to press the crown of thorns down upon the brow of labor for such seems e to be mans most natural desire despic and though the hardships that the fortune seekers in alaska must encounter are such that they will bear many to the earth where unattended they will die it is a god G od send in that it holds out an inducement which promises unbounded access to at least a few and I 1 wish I 1 were one of the on the willamette when she sailed today they were a happy hopeful crowd and they numbered some of the best men of the union many were old miners while many daily others were lawyers doctors bookkeepers and clerks and possibly a dozen of them were women they laughed 0 and joked with thair friends w acting on shore to see them off and one slick a man who had been there before yelled to his friends ye see I 1 ba going away away in my overalls ove ralle but ill come b back a ck in thirty dollar pants NOD KESSL M seattle aug 9 1897 |