Show QUEENS QUEEN'S PARTNER Olaff Olsen Oleen made up his mind he her heI r I would go to the Klondike It took him hima a a. long time to make up his mind It ok took him a longer time to get to the f.- f. Klondike In the first place he made madea f iw a a. mistake He lie selected the trail from if over the White Pass to Lake Bennett Dennett Now that was bad but not bad He would 1 s so as his bis next error 3 tr not give it up and go by the Chilkoot PMS Pass though he heard Chilkoot was lt much easier But Dut that does not say r 4 J much for tor the Chilkoot Pass r. r No said eaid Olaff Olaf I started to go over I IT HP K- K v ML i g. g g the White Pass and ond I is goin to make maken fr n i ii It over the White Pass i r F ti Olaff Olat had a hard time on the trail r v r 0 though he didn't Know it That Is to y 1 K Kt say any other man would have thought t- t r 5 t It a hard time but Olaff Olat expecting bad it if things had no kick as he expressed 17 It against adversity r n nv 4 Olaff was an exceptional man on the ther r.- r. J r 7 t f trail trail phenomenally phenomenally exceptional For Fora Foron r on a II trail where each man had one oner r j r partner at least and most many Olaff Olal I 1 r preferred having no partner besides i. i man in the party 7 mo me wont won't du he said I might 4 0 t l-t want to do one thing and him t. t br besides I dont don't want no pardner not nor no no- t r how always means trouble r. r The experience of many men on the I trail confirmed the wisdom of Ola Olaff's f's views Nothing discouraged Olaff Olal r When misfortune overtook him he be set setto l l' to work to do what he be could for the ti he cooked il best Up before daybreak y a 4 substantial breakfast for breakfast for he believed be be- ri-o ri in feeding himself well well and and with fifty pounds more on his back than any other man could carry started 1 r I i off on the trail climbing over rocks jt and wading through mud keeping at atit atit k it all day with a short interval for lunch lr It took took him ten days to move his j outfit from station to station Difficulties r C too great for tor other men never v If prevented Olaff from moving forward t 1 y If he could not make ten miles he 2 e. e made five If not five he made two But he always kept moving forward When some of his provisions were stolen sto sto- ten len he rustled as he called it ft and M t worked for others until he had earned i 4 f enough nough to replace what had been stoC sto sto- C r len lea Then he moved on his own out out- yv p t- t I fit When at last he reached Lake Bennett he built a boat and calmly 1 5 t u set sail without any of the excitement if which others exhibited Men wanted to buy a passage in his boat and assist P f E him to manage it but Olaff Olaf said t No I dont don't want no passengers and andI I guess uess I can handle handle- the boat myself t I. I At the Tagish Lake Custom House HouseS S- S SF F Olaff Olat worked four days to pay for the i 5 S duty on his goods and went on his without the delay ruffling his tem- tem i j way Tray per par He sailed his bin boat around the L r- r point at Windy Arm when thirty t other ther boats hauled up on the beach i n. n I Ij j M C 0 If I i It it 1 itt of it r t ro k eAla tit it 1 L r I- I I. I KEEPING AT IT kt Approaching Miles canon men shouted a- a to warn Olaff to land Jand and lighten his s boat and wait walt for the pilot 5 5 i L tho the canon they shouted I Miles canon j- j I Is It IU said Olaff Ive been watching watchIng watch- watch 4 Ing for it all day And he took his Y t boat through and on through the White 1 Li Horse Rapids without moving an eye eye- r lid But Dut now floating ice began to l Impede Olaff's Olat's progress Ill keep going coin till she freeze up he said eaid And j. j he lie did She froze up when Olaff Olat had a i. i i f t got to Five Fingers and Olaff went In InI ina Into inN In- In N I lit to camp He lie built a shed and ato ate up 4 his grub until ho he had left what he d t. t y r cou could Id P pull u. u II IId T i d About Christmas Olaff Olaf started for N t f. f Dawson on the ice with more on his i I II t sled than any two men could pull lIe He Ii made slow low progress prop but he said q l i I shall c come mo there some time If I ir keep moving Four miles a day doest seem much but if persisted in It counts up and nd at 55 last Jast Olaff arrived In Dawson I Ho lIo immediately moved up the creek and went to work prospecting To his r surprise a l pencil lead-pencil prospector f jumped jumped his claim Olaff moved to It I another location found good prospects and recorded Then he built a a. cabin i and settled down to work lIe He put In InI I eleven clevon solid hours a day His claim i wf was 3 COO feet foet an and l as ho he looked around he felt pleased lIe He had all tho the gold goldi i 1 ho lie wanted he thought t and it was all I l Il I Ij j f 7 4 his own lie He congratulated himself dally daily on having no partner Some camped one night at Olaff's Olat's cabin and discussed the minIng mining mining min min- ing regulations Yukon are aro strange Yukon mining regulations are still stranger Olaff learned to his dismay that half of his claim did not belong to him It belonged to tho the Queen the said Olaff was mightily troubled He lie stopped workIng workIng working work- work Ing and thought over the situation Then he went down to Dawson took his bis place in line behind some hundreds others outside the commissioners commissioner's office office office of of- fice and waited patiently for tor admit admit- tance The thermometer regi registered waned 53 63 degrees below but Olaff Olaf wanted to see the guld and that was wasa a detail he be could not remedy After Atter waiting two hours and a half he got InI in inI in I want to see the guld commissar said Olaff to a worried-looking worried man seated behind a roughly made desk and some gold scales I am the gold commissioner was the reply what do you want I want to know the Queens Queen's address ad ad- dress said Olal Olaff always s wanting to know something said the commis commis- What do you want with the Queens Queen's address Well said Olaff Olat the Queen and me is on a claim up the creek and I dont don't want to be So I want to write to the Queen to know if shell she'll buy my feet teet or sell her feet to me I dont don't want no and anyhow the Queens Queen's not putting any work Into the claim The commissioner advised Olaff Olaf not notto notto notto to write but to wait walt and see what the future would bring hinting at possible changes In the law Olaff Olat went back to his claim but had no heart for work It worried him to have a pardner pardner pardner pard pard- ner more especially a lady and one of oo so exalted rank Tank But Dut Olaff found It hard work thinking and idling were strange to him so he ho gradually drifted Into working regularly on his claim as ashard ashard ashard hard as ever As time went on n Olaff sized up matters matters matters mat mat- something as follows and grew contented I dont don't want no p pardner but my pardner's never here to bother me She doesn't put any work Into the claim but then she's a lady and I wouldn't let her work even if U she wanted to If a man must have a pardner he cant can't have no better pardner than the Queen She's all right as a pard pard- ner Is still working on his claim and the only thing that troubles him Is whether his partner will come for her share of the dust after the wash up or whether it will be his duty to take the dust to her But Olaff Is determined determined de de- de the Queen will get her share for he says saya a good pardner pardner-Ex pardner Ex |