The Cushing Democrat (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 21, 1911 Page: 2 of 11
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CHAPTER |V^-Con«lnu«tf
In ibe meantime there •" »»•"•«>*
to .bow for It but bunch But It *»■
romia. A. b. would .Uke hl. l..t
ounce on a food I**" hand, so be
.tnk.d hi* life and e ffort on the hunch
that tb. future held In .tore a big
■•tike on the Upper River 80 be and
his three companions, with do*., a
■ led*, and snowsboea. tolled up the
frozen breast of the Stewart, tolled
on and on through the white wilder
nes. where the unending stillness was
never broken by the voices of men.
the atroke of an ax. or the distant
crack of a rifle Oold they foun<. on
the bara. but not In paying quantities,
and In the following May they ra
turned to 81xty Mile
Ten day* later. Harper and Joe ua
due arrived at Sixty Mile, and Day
light, atrong to obey the bunch tHat
had come to him. traded a third In-
tereat In hla Stewart town alte for «
third Interest in theirs on the Klondike
They had faith In the Upper Country,
and Harper left down-stream, with a
raft-load of supplies, to start a small
post at the mouth of the Klondike
"Why don't you tackle Indian River,
Daylight?" Harper advised, at part-
ing "There'a whole slathers of creeks
and draws draining In up there. aDd
somewhere gold Just crying to be
found That's my hunch. There's a
big strike coming, and Indian River
ain't going to be a million miles
away." , ...
"And the place Is swarming with
mooBe," Joe Ladue added "Bob Hen
derBon's up there somewhere, been
there three years now. swearing
something big is going to happen,
living off'n straight moose and pros-
pecting around like a crazy man.
Daylight decided to go Indian River
a flutter, as he expressed It; and lin-
gered a ffw days longer arranging his
meager oUtflt. He planned to go in
light, can ylng a pack of seventy-tlve
pounds and making his five dogs pack
us well. Indian fashion, loading them
with thirty pounds each. Depending
on the repo t of Ladue, he Intended to
follow Bob Henderson's example ana
live practically on straight meat_
When Jack Kearns' scow, laden with
the sawmill from Lake Llnderman.
tied up at Sixty Mile. Daylight bun-
dled hla outfit and dogs on board,
turned his town-site application over
to Elijah to be filed, and the same day
was landed at the mouth of Indian
River He continued down Hunker
to the Klondike, and on to the sum-
mer fishing camp of the Indians on
the Yukon.
Here for s day he camped with Car-
mack. a Bqvaw man. and his Indian
brother-ln law. Skookum Jim. bougnt
a boat. and. with his dogs on board,
drifted down the Yukon to Forty Mile
Then It was that Carmack, his broth
er-ln-law. Skookum Jim. and Cultus
Charlie, another Indian, arrived In a
canoe at Forty Mile, went straight to
the gold commissioner, and recorded
three claims and a discovery claim on
Horanza Creek After that, tn the Sour
dough Saloon, that night, they exhibit
ed coarse gold to the skeptical crowd
Daylight, too, was skeptical, and this
despite his faith In the Upper Coun
try. Had he not. only a few days be
fore, seen Carmack loafing with his
Indians and with never a thought of
prospecting? But at eleven that night
sitting on the edge of his bunk and
unlacing his moccasins, a thought
came to blm He put on his coat and
bat and went back to the Sourdough
Carmack was still there, flashing bis
coar&e gold in the eyes of an unbe
llerlng generation Daylight ranged
alongside of him and emptied Car
iacb into a blo*er Tbl. ue
Then, from
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mm eaab '• adeaaaa. lo pt>f O
• tfeouaaad pooada of grub*~
Curl, Pmrsoaa aad aaotbe*. Pal
Uoaabaa. arcapl»4. aad. alii M w»
iu«af7 speed f«ayll«bt paid tbem
'hair »ag»e la ad.aaea and arranged
lha purrbaaa of tbe supplies. though b*
•rapt led his sack la doing ao Ma »M
leaving ibe Soordougb, whan ba sad
deal* toraed back lo tba bar from tba
d«»or
Oot another buocb*** waa tba
q'>ary
aura have." bt ansaeraa
"Flour's aura gulag to ba worth what
• man will pay for It tbla winter up
00 tba Klondlka WboU land m«-
mm* mooajr?*'
Oo tba Instant a score of tba man
who had declined lo accompany blm
on the wild gooee cbaaa were crowd
tng about him wltb proffered gold
sacka
"How much flour do you want.
asked the Alaaka Commercial Com
pany's storekeeper
"About two ton."
The proffered gold saehs were not
withdrawn, though their owners ware
guilty of an outrageous burst of marrl
ment
"What are you going to do with two
tons?" the storekeeper demanded.
"I'll tell you-all In simple A. B. C
and one. two. three" Daylight held
up one finger and began checking off
"Hunch number one: a big strike com
Ing In Upper Country. Hunch number
two: Carmack's made It Hunch num
ber three hain't no huncb at all. It's
a cinch. If one and two Is right, than
flour Just has to go sky high. If I'm
riding hunches one and two, I Just got
to ride this cinch, which Is number
three If I'm right, flour '11 balance
gold on the scales this winter."
CHAPTER V.
Still men were without faith In the
strike When Daylight, with his heavy
outfit of flour, arrived at the mouth of
the Klondike, he found the big flat as
desolate and tenantless as ever. Down
close by the river. Chief Isaac and his
Indians were camped beside the
frames on which they were drying sal-
mon. Several old-timers were also In
camp there. Having finished their
summer work on Ten Mile Creek, they
had come down the Yukon, bound for
Circle City. But at Sixty Mile they
had learned of the strike, and stopped
off to look over the ground They had
Just returned to their boat when Day-
light landed his flour, and their report
was pessimistic. But an hour later,
at his own camp, Joe Ladue strode In
from Donanza Creek. He led Daylight
away from the camp and men and
told him things In confidence.
"She's sure there," he said In con-
clusion. "I didn't sluice It. or cradle
It. I panned It, all In that sack, yes-
terday, on the rlm-rock. I tell you you
can shake It out of the grass-roots.
And what's on the bed-rock down In
the bottom of the creek they ain't no
way of tellln'. But she's big, I tell
you, big. Keep It quiet, and locate all
Xou can It's in spots, but I wouldn't
be none surprised If some of them
claims yielded as high as fifty thou-
sand. The only trouble Is that It's
spotted "
A month passed by. and Bonanza
Creek remained quiet. A sprinkling
of men had staked: but most of them,
after staking, had gone on down to
Forty Mile and Circle City. The few
that possessed sufficient faith to re-
main were busy building log cabins
against the coming of winter Car
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If this describe# your
condition, then you
ire, indeed In bid ship©
ind in need of help.
Juit get 1 bottle of
HOSTETTER'S
Stomaeh Bitter*
todiy and see how
quickly your heilth
will improve. It re-
stores the ippetlte, per-
fects digestion and
tones the entire system.
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i'UnlfxfioM
J^tSho'ePolisheS
FINEST QUALITY l-AROgl
nacks
river. Dan McGllvary, Dave McKay.
Dave Edwards, and Harry Waugh
They were a quiet party, neither ask
lng nor giving confidences, and they
herded by themselves. But Daylight,
who had panned the spotted rim of
Carmack's claim and shaken coarse
gold from the grass-roots, and who
had panned the rim at a hundred oth-
er places up and down the length of
the creek and found nothing, was cu-
rious to know what lay on bed-rock.
He had noted the four quiet men sink
ing a shaft close by the stream, and
he had heard their whip-saw going as
they made lumber for the sluice boxes.
He did not wait for an invitation, but
he was present the first day they
sluiced And at the end of five hours
shoveling for one man, he saw them
take out thirteen ounces and a half or
gold. It was coarse gold, running from
plnheads to a twelve-dollar nugget,
and It had come from off bed-rock.
The first fall snow waa flying that day,
and the Arctic winter was closing
down; but Daylight had no eyes lor
the bleak-gray sadness of the dying,
short-lived summer. He saw his vis-
Ion coming true, and on the big flat
was upreared anew his golden city of
the snows Gold had been found on
bed-rock. That was the big thing.
Carmack's strike was assured. Day-
light staked a claim in his own name
adjoining three he had purchased with
plug tobacco. This gave him a block
two thousand feet long and extending
In width from rlm-rock to rlm-rock.
Returning that night to his camp at
the mouth of Klondike, he found in It
Kama, the Indian chief he had left at
Dyea Kama was traveling by ca-
noe. bringing In the last mail of the
year In his possession was some two
hundred dollars In gold-dust, which
Daylight immediately borrowed. In
return, he arranged to stake a claim
for him. which he was to record when
he passed through Forty Mile. When
Kama departed next morning, he car-
ried a number of letters for Daylight,
addressed to all the old-timers down
river, in which they were urged to
come up immediately and stake Also
Kama carried letters of similar import,
given him by the other man on Bo-
nanza
"It will sure be the gosh-dangdest
stampede that ever was.' Daylight
chuckled, as he tried to vision the ex-
cited populations of Forty Mile and
Circle City tumbling into pollng-boats
and racing the hundreds of miles up
the Yukon; for he knew that his word
would be unquestlonlngly accepted.
One day In December Daylight filled
a pan from bed-rock on his own claim
and carried It Into his cabin. Here a
flre burned and enabled him to keep
water an fro ten In a canvas tank He
squatted over the tank and began to
wash Kartb and gravel seemed to fill
the pan Aa he Imparted to It a clr
bottom showed as If covered with but-
ter. Thus the yellow gold flashed
up as the muddy water was Altered
away. It was gold—gold-dust, coarse
gold, nuggets, large nuggetb. He was
all alone. He set the pan down for a
moment and thought long thoughts.
Then he finished the washing, and
weighed the result In his scales. At
the rate of sixteen dollars to the ounce
the pan had contained seven hundred
and odd dollars. It was beyond any-
thing that even he had dreamed. His
fondest anticipations had gone no
farther than twenty or thirty thousand
dollars to a claim; but here ^were
claims worth half a million each at tba
least, even if they were spotted.
He did not go back to work in the
shaft that day, nor the next, nor the
next. Instead, capped and mittened, a
light stampeding outfit, including his
rabbit skin robe, strapped on his back,
he was out and away on a many-days
tramp over creeks and divides, In-
specting the whole neighboring terri-
tory. On each creek he was entitled
to locate one claim, but he was
chary In thus surrendering up his
chances. On Hunker Creek only
did he stake a claim. Bonanza
Creek he found staked from mouth to
source, while every little draw and
pup and gulch that drained into it was
likewise staked. Little faith was had
in these side-streams. They had been
staked by the hundreds of men who
had failed to t in on Bonanza. The
most populai ot these creeks was
Adams. The one least fancied was
Eldorado, which flowed Into Bonanza.
Just above Carmack'B Discovery claim.
Even Daylight disliked the looks of El-
dorado; but, still riding his hunch, he
bought a half share in one claim on it
for half a sack of flour. A month
later he paid eight hundred dollars for
the adjoining claim. Three months
later, enlarging this block of property,
he paid forty thousand for a third
claim, and, though it was concealed
In the future, he was destined, not
long after, to pay one hundred and
fifty thousand for a fourth claim on
the creek that had been the least Uked
of all the creeks.
In the meantime, and from the day
he washed seven hundred dollars from
a single pan, and squatted over it and
thought a long thought, he never again
touched hand to pick and shovel. As
he said to Joe Ladue the night of that
wonderful washing:
"Joe, I ain't never going to work
hard again. Here's where I begin to
use my brains. I'm going to farm gold.
Gold will grow gold If you-all have
the savvee and can get hold of some
for seed. When I 6een them seven
hundred dollars In the bottom of the
pan. 1 knew I bad seed at last.'
The hero of the Yukon in the
younger days before the Carmack
laa.e. children s boots -and jhlDc.
wsm £«»
' whT-i^tkmore BROS.*©o.,
.26 Albany «t.t Cambrld" M"
ered With Butter.
studied lor a long time
bis own aack. Into another blower, be (
emptied several ounces of Ctrcla City t
IT<I Forty Mile gold Again, for a loag , ^ck aad bl. Indian relatives w«ra oc
.in-,* be .r.dSrtl «o4 con pare^ Flaaj , la building a sluice bos aod
fc<ke-e«i bis own *14 relumed getting a bead of watar Tbe tori
Sta. and he'd op bl. b.o«l for .u ak>« for tbay had to aaw tfcalr
.unbar by band from tbe standing for
e«L Bat farther dowa Konawa aara
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v - the pan as u« iuiy«. ««n. — < strike. Burning Daylight now became
I cntar movement, tbe lighter, coarser , the hero of tbe strike. Tbe story of
Th« Whole Bottom Sho^eo as it Co* washed out over tbe edge hls hunch and bow be rode It was
At tlmaa be combed tbe surface wltb ; told op and down tba land Certainty
hla flrger. raking out handruIs of I be bad ridden It far and away beyond
gravel Tbe contenta of the pan dl bo.de.i_ .'or oo Jive a# tbe liickleet
_ — bfjd tbe value ta cJaime that be bold
ETuSsrssi
Shoe Polishes tn the World.
Why Rent a Farm
«nd be compelled to pay to your landlord mo.t
of your hard-earned profits? Own your own
Secure a Free Homestead In
Manitoba, Saskatchewan or
Alberta, or purchase
land in one of th.se
districts hank a
profit of SIO.OO or
$12.00 an acra
every year.
Land purchased 3
years ago at $10.00 an
acre has recently
changed hands at
$23.00 an acre. The
crops grown on th...
land, warrant th.
. You can
Become Rich
by cattle raising.dairying.mixfd
farming and grain growing In
the provinces of Manitoba,
Saskatchewan and Alberta.
Free homestead and pre-
emption areas, as well a. land
held by railway and land com-
panies, will provide homes
for millions. . . ,
Adaptable soli, healthful
climate, splendid school,
and churches,rfood railways.
For settlers' rates, descrijptlT.
llterature"Last Best West, how
to reach the country and other par-
ticulars, write to Stip t °* l™™1"
cration, Ottawa, Canada, or to the
Canadian GoYertoinent Agent.
W. H. ROGERS
125 W. Ninth St.. Kantss City, Mo.
Please write to tbe agent nearest you
Make the Liver
Do its Duly
Nine times in ten when the liver fa
right the stomach and bowels are right
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Genuine must bear Signature
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