Show SHE mU lm ALASKA OFlliSSED LIKE A MAN IN BOOTS AND TROUSeRS rlirllllnic Into at lle Hem Wife ot e tel TtoT l Yar III I theIhl else There flower nd know Mark tlm HMiuni j fi I MONO TIIK HK H cent arrlrata hereon here-on the alenmer Her 1 lha from Alaska was Mr 1 T N lllentimont of Port jYunkon the fist white woman whoever who-ever creased the pee rlloua Chllkat Ia says a Ran Prancli co dltpalrh Mrs 1 I eaumont Iu the II Ire ollho post trader at Fort Yukon anti went Into the lid of that aectlon four yearn ago In order to crow thin Chllkat fax she had to don nienB apparel The scow was fearfully ileep and aa oho had to walk with the men who were drawing 1111 RM loaded with frolsht there was no other nay that the could dress and live Sir Deaumont has put In two winter nl Port Yukon and inn at Rampart Houie near the boundary line between Alntka and Drltlih America She la n raodeal lttlo woman looking now to bo acarcely over twenty year of nile Prior to going to tho far Interior by tho Yukon route she and her husband had lived In tbo larger cltlea of tho rnntern slates She Mya however that nt no time Alhee RoltiR to tho Yukon hai ahe felt lonesome lone-some though there wero no other white perioni than her huabnnd and children within many hundred ot mite 8omcllm too shin 411 left alone for week whllo her husband went down the river lo gt more Rooda for hla post At smelt Slum the Yukon Indiana awarmed around comlnn from the further fur-ther wilds to exchange theIr fura for auppllM Mr lleaumont carried on the tradlnK having no far ot the Indiana She myi they never attempted to molest her and Ohio wna ao busy with tie dllllee of thin post that the Idea scarcely entered en-tered her mind Only ono while woman had prevlouily brue tho wild of the upper Yukon and aho was tho wife ot an Hncllih mlantonary It waR In March 1102 that I started with my Inubaml to Kort Yukon nail Mra Ileattmont Aa no other white woman had over crowd tho snowy Chllkat 1aaa It wna deemed n cry hazardous undertaking I was not lionover afraid In any way and I Rot through with ontlro ifcty In fact I rather enjoyed It Tho allow wag very deep and part of tliu lima It was cry cold but I put on ono of tho native coat which ha > A hood for tho bead and bolt through which to too Vo had plenty of bed clothing carried on tho ledges which enabled ua to keep warm at night To tell Ins truth I enjoyed the experience I ex-perience though I could not do It again deco I time tho children My experience experi-ence al Port Yukon hia been cry pleasant Tho goat la I In the edge of tho hllla a little way from tho Yukon and on Ian wet bank In aummer there were A great variety of wild flowers among which aim race blue bell yet 1 low How era of all klnda and many oilier until they fairly catpetxl tho i entire rIOll1l411111 In wi tht snow wsa very deep but I woe JO r II to tM eoklog sewing atteadlog 4rcm and wllk the 111111 or h Id work that I did not thInk Dlllril g toot It Our trade has been almost If1 17 Is I with the Indiana We are a tortf lance from the developed gold stlatt U t n so I saw little of the miners I er dlans brought In lynx otter flBer mink and other akin and for all fen ° we exchanged such thing us weJ1 rode Theftf In stock for the Indian four or five families I of Indian thaB o almost continually the vicinity 01 he fort hat many time nil many airy It I Indiana would come In from loni h Ing trips These Indian nevsr erect me though I was IiOltlotllllflror weeks left alone while my liusbant as compelled by his biislnes too Jnt himself down the river Last winter wo went up to Ilaifrar lloiia on Iho boundary wllh na g ef I Koodl Ihlnklllg 1 II w01l1t1 be 0 BOO < co to trade for A while It la tOllrlrc 11 Journey by boat from Fort Yuko antt t lie ice rall ell III coo Ill1abl I lee bill we through IIIfrl Wo AnI however when IVO got back I the spring hot the rnllnnA had brok Ilnlo the fort and eloien qullo on nOI 1111 or our gooI f We were Rind 10 Ion nt Iort bon once more There la more game AN IIlh there than nt the Itnmpart littler which la on the Porcupine branch 01 l the Yukon On the Porcupine wo conlJ get plenty of moose and deer mcil t and t white nnd spotted dog nah but wt could 1 not get any wild fowl tn rpeak of except ex-cept grouse AB wild meat la very ca t g iwntlil In that country wo felt the need of a variety I At Port Yukon we could J not only get moose and rlll In abund nneo but here were alto ilucUs gear widgeon grouse and other fowl There was also a much greater arleiy of food ash M I > htisbind wean the flrnt nun to sue ceHfull open and continue aa American Ameri-can trading poet nl Port Yukoa though two or three othcra had attempted l It e The Hudson Day company had for snore time conducted a post there though that t was befoto Alaska won purchased bt flue t United State Wo have got along very I well with It and nro entirely sslUflod t w lib our experience on tho Yukon My husband was for itomo yearn with tbo 11 United State Coast and leoJellc Surrey Sur-rey In Alaska tin went then aith bin tc J i Mcdrnth four yearn ago soil was entirely familiar wllh Ibo opporluoltks for trading I am A native of nelglum and 1101 there I first met my husband and where wo worn married We hived afterward for n time In New York then In Duton and then In Ran 1rnncbcn wsathllo wo were living In San Pranclico that my husband Joined the Coast and Geodetic I Geo-detic Survey which led to our eventually eventual-ly going north to live In tbe wlldl of the Yukon Fort Yukon where wo arc stationed I Is eighty miles I above Up couth of KortyMllo Creek rand only oinxjpllea r from Circle I City the new csmpntsrlho Arctic circle where from fA to 700 miner aro expected to wlDtcr thla I year earMr Mr lleumont will remain here during dur-ing Iho preeent wluter Skeet uonl panleil by her youngeot child a bouncing bounc-ing native ot Port Yukon aged sixteen months I I I h 7 c IllS 11IUUMONT THADINO WITH TilE NATIVUB OP A14SR1 AT POUT YUKON = c |