OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1917.
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LIFE IS REAL ON THE YUKON
RIVER
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WEEK
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over which travelers, miners and
prospectors mush in and out during
the long winter months.
The upper river Indians live iouay
as they lived before the first Rus
sian ever came up the Yukon they
exist. They care nothing for the
white man's gold salmon is what
they want, fish for their bellies and
the dogs' before the long arctic
night sets in. So they build fish
wheels of logs and poles, anchor
them near the shore at a point where
the fish are likely to "run" and the
wheel never stops turning while the
summer lasts.
The 'fish are dressed and dried.
You will see hundreds of the red sal
mon hanging from poles. When
thoroughly dried they are stored in
caches on the top of a framework of
poles, six or eight feet from the
ground, where the dogs and bears
cannot get to them. The Indians
trap some in the winter and if they
can catch more fish than they need,
they sell the fish and furs to the river
town stores, or rather trade them for
the few supplies they need.
The most of the Indian villages are
very old. The log cabins are rotting
down and vegetation grows a foot
high from the dirt roofs. They live
in horribly filthy conditions. The
boats never stop at the Indian towns.
The purser told me that the boat
would go through Five Finger Rapids
and Hell's Pass at about two o'clock
in the morning, so I set my mental
alarm clock for that hour and was on
deck. I wanted to see these two
dreadful spots where so many men
lost their outfits and lives during the
mad rush down the river to Nome,
when news of the big strike came up.
It was light at two' o'clock in fact
it is always light above Dawson in
mid-summer and I stood at the head
of the steamer (we were pushing a
scow) and had a fine view of the rap
ids before we reached them.
They are rightly named, for they
spread out like the fingers of a hand.
Four of the channels mean rocks and
wreck. One of them, the thumb, is
safe. And I thought of the days
when gold-mad men came down the
river in a continuous string, riding
frail boats, rafts anything that
would float. And they carried with
them their all, the grub stake and
the few necessary tools and bedding.
Few of them knew anything about
the dangerous rapids, few even knew
they were there until they were onto
them, and then in a minute they must
decide on which channel and take
the chance. However, the most of
them instinctively saw that the
thumb, the big channel, was the saf
est pass, and if they got their boats
full in the current they were safe.
If they did not, they were dashed
against the rocks, and they tell me
few ever came out alive who were
overturned.
Then came Hell's Pass a place
where the Yukon runs down hill for
a short distance. It was a scarey
rapids to look at even from a steam
er's dock. There were no dreaded
rocks, but I marveled that any small
boat could go through this whirling,
foaming race and not capsize. But
they did, thousands of them.
And after I had seen these two
rapids (and by the way, the only
dnes between White Horse and Nome,
2200 miles) I quit finding fault with
the mosquitos and the slow eight-mile
speed of the boat. '
About every twenty-four hours the
boat tied up at a wood camp for
wood, and it takes a long time for
the deck hands to carry enough of
the four-foot sticks on board to last
to the next camp.
At Woodchoppers' creek, about 50
miles over the line in Alaska, we
stopped early in the morning to
"wood up" and wait for the fog to
lift. I was about the only passenger
up. The captain told me the boat
would be there for two hours at least
and if I wanted to stretch my logs I
would find a good trail back of the
wood pile that led to a deserted cabin
half a mile down. I hiked.
It was a miner's cabin, logs, with
floor of whipsawed lumber. The old
stove was there, the rough benches,
table, bunk and other odds and ends.
It was at the end of a draw, where a
little stream ran down the valley and
emptied into the Yukon. The desert
ed mine was back from the shore and
I did not have time to go to it.
And now for the story the captain
told it to mo. Two prospectors struck
a prospect in the summer that looked
good, so they built the cabin, caught
fish and prepared for winter. It was
late in summer before they had win
ter preparations made, and could go
on with the prospect hole. They
struck bed rock at 12 feet and found
a wonderfully rich pocket. They
worked it out, thawed down other
holes, but never another sign of color,
then one of them, being taken sick,
they abandoned the place and went
down the river on the ice, and the I
sick man died before they reached
Fort Dawson.
Now for the rest of the story or
rather the other version.
As the boat passed the deserted
cabin, a lady pointed to a peculiar
- looking cache on top of a platform
just below the cabin and asked a
miner what it was. In the fog I had
not noticed this when I was at the
cabin. It looked from the boat as if
a kyaek (skin canoe) had been put
up there nnd wound with a tent. But
the miner said it was a dead body,
now only a skeleton, and had been
there four or five years. He said
the sick man died in camp, his part
ner put him on the meat cache nnd
beat it down the ice.
I afterwards asked the pilot if the
story was true. "That's the tale: I
don't know. But it is the truth that !
you can't get an Indian woodchopper
to get anywhere near the cabin," he
answered,
I have no doubt but that it was
true, and that under the old canvas is !
the skeleton remains of a man, and
that some father or mother outside is
waiting and hoping for news of a
venturesome boy news that will
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never come-. Alaska is full of such
tragedies.
Anywhere there is a white man
the boat will stop that is if he has
sent out for a box of freight grub.
Often his cabin will be where the
river is shallow, then he has to row
out with a boat and get it.
At one place we stopped and tied
up to put ashore a little bunch of pro
visions. There was one lonesome
'cabin, new, a half dozen "husky" dogs
and the usual meat house. A man
and his wife lived there, and they
were mining right on the river bank.
He was about 45, she about GO. They
had cut down a piece about 30 feet
square to the water's level. They
had a rocker and a sluice. The dirt
was shoveled in and then water dip
ped up from the river and poured in
one of the hardest and slowest pos
sible ways of mining.
I asked the old lady how it was
panning out. "Oh, just fair," she re
plied, but it is worth $18 an ounce."
And then she looked at me a min
ute and exclaimed: "Oh, it is so
lonesome, so lonesome here." And if
ever I felt heartfelt sorrow and sin
cere pity, I experienced it when the
boat pulled out and I saw this pitiful
old lady standing on the bank with a
great wish in her heart a yearning
for her kind.
Five years ago rabbits were so
thick all over Alaska one could kill
them with stones. Today not a one
will be seen in a week's travel. Why,
none can tell. Some say they were
all frozen to death. And with the
disappearance of the rabbits, tho owls,
eagles wolves and other animals and
birds they preyed on for food, have
disappeared, and with tho exception
of the bear, the North Land woods
are silent of animal and bird life
silent of any kind of life, depopulat
ed, dead.
The next letter will be from Fort
Yukon, north of the Aivtic Circle, in
the Land of the Midnight Sun.
Marriage License
A marriage license was issued
here on Saturday to Marie Wigmore,
of Clackamas county, and James T.
Campbell, of Vancouver, Wash.
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Suitcase Full of Home Brew Would
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With a suitcase full of home-made
beer, Melvin Mahlun, a young farmer
living near Canby, was headed under
full steam toward the county fair
dance at the Canby band auditorium
on Wednesday evening, when he ran
afoul of the law. In Justice of the
Peace John N. Sievers' court Thurs
day, the young man pleaded guilty
to transporting liquor and was let
off with a $20 fine upon his promise
to refrain from again engaging in
the brewery business. Motorcycle
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He found Mahlun wandering toward
the dance hall with his cargo of li
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Summons
In the Circuit Court of the State of
Oregon, for the County of Clack
amas. Lillian Irwin, Plaintiff,
vs.
John M. Irwin, Defendant.
To John M. Irwin, the above named
Defendant:
In the name of the State of Ore
gon you are hereby required to ap
pear and answer the complaint filed
against you in the above named suit
within six weeks from the date of the
first publication of this summons, and
if you fail to appear or answer said
complaint, for want thereof, the
plaintiff will apply to the court for
the relief prayed for in the complaint:
For a' decree dissolving the bonds of
matrimony now existing between
plaintiff and defendant.
This summons is published by or
dtr of the Honorable J. U. Campbell,
Judge of the Circuit Court, which or
der was made on the 27th day of
September, 1917, and the time pre
scribed for publication thereof is
6 weeks, beginning with the issue of
September 27, 1917, and ending with
the issue of November 8, 1917.
J. J. FITZGERALD,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
Sues to Recover Hotel
Cassie Evans Fuller brought suit
Thursday against S. J. and Florence
Vuughn, asking that the court force
them to restore to her possession of
the Cottage hotel property at Canby,
of which they are the present operat
ors. Mrs. Fuller formerly conducted
the hotel. She asks in addition to
the restoration of the property,
which she charges the Vaughns are
withholding forcibly, $75 as damages.
Boers Charges Cruelty
George E. Beers charges his wife,
Ethel Beers, with cruelty in a divorce
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complaint filed here Wednesday. The
couple was married at Vancouver,
Wash., on December 24, 1914. Mr.
Beers says his wife kept late hours
and many times was absent from
their home without explaining such
absence.
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Miss Walker Meets the Great Charles
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special teacher's training course at
the Art institute of Krotona. There
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pleasantly spent at tho moving pic
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Hollywood. At such places she en
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Mary Pickford, Theda Bara and
Douglas Fairbanks. Miss Walker
will resume work with her piano
classes this winter.
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Joint Grange Meeting
The Clackamas county Pomona
Grange will meet with Central
Grange at Beaver Creek on October
10.
YOUTH JOINS FLIERS
Former Oregon City School Boy Goes
to Aviation Camp in Texas
The list of energetic young Ore
gonians who have enlisted in the avi
ation corps of the United States
army was recently lengthened by the
addition of the name of Elmore A.
Johns, of Portland, who has been as
signed to squadron 66 of the aviation
corps, stationed at San Antonio, Tex.
The young birdman enlisted on
August 1. He is 21 years of age,
the son of Mrs. M. B. Johns, of Port
land. He was born in Oregon City,
and received his education from the
schools of this city. Going to Port
land six years ago, he has been cm
ployed as a shipping clerk with the
firm of Clossett & Devers. Young
Johns was widely known and popular
among the younger folk of the city.
MANY CARS SAVED
Loral
Agent Party to Competition
for Espee Company
W. E. Satchwell, local agent of the
Southern Pacific, has been notified
that, as a result of the car loading
competition in which he and other
agents of that company are partici
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