ADAM AND EVE '
BAREFOOT J
Portland Me.: Adam and Eve are
shivering In the 9now In the Maine
woods 1
They’re barefoot and bare shoulder
ed, but they’re cheating Just a wee
bit. They’re wearing deerskin Jackets
against the blizzard.
Adam and Eve in city life are Mr.
and Mrs. Walter F. Estes, but for the
duration of their forest exile they have
taken the names of our Biblical fore
bears.
A few weeks ago they entered the
dense forests to act out the sort of
existence which must have been that
of the real Adam and Eve when they
were the only two human beings in
the world. And, tush! When they
started they wore practically nothing
at ail.
To all intents and purposes, the
Estes, like Adam and Eve, are alone
In the world, too. Except for a
courlcQ, wlC> brings word of their
safety now and then to Portland, they
see no human being from week to
week.
And, undaunted by the wintry gales
they Intend to continue living alone
by their wits and their woodcraft until
the middle of December, bitter ns he
1 weather may become.
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Estes has long been famous in his
home town of Gray Me., as u woods
man. He believed that, lost in the
forest, without so much as a match
t»r knife of civilized manufacture, or
a slued of human clothing, he coulf
not only survive, but actually enjoy
life. Mrs. Estes took the dare to try
the experiment with him.
And In unison they declare that their
forest experiment has been tMe hap
plest period of their married life.
"Our first Job on entering the w iods.'
said Estes, recounting their experi
ences, "was to cover ourselves. We
took big leaves and wove them to
gether in long strings with grass. Then
we tied them about our shoulders anil
waists. Later we made suits of bin : 1
bark, covered with leaves and when j
we finally caught a deer in a trap wej
were able to make the suits of skin
which we wear now in rough weather
' “The next task was to build a tire
It took me about 20 minutes rubbing
two logs briskly together to set a
spark from which 1 could light y dry
leaf. Mrs. Estes slept that night on
the ground in a downpour, while !
stayed up and struggled to keep a
lire going
“The next dit> we gut our shelter
built, and since then there has been
no hardship about our life, it is easy
enough to get food. We howl ovei
rabbits and porcupines with rocks, >\
catch trout in the streams with a
birch bark trap, there are scores
edible roots and greens, and i.licoV
our bread."
“How in the world is bread mad*-""
“It's an odd sort of bread," lie an
swered, "but it is good. When w<
caught our first deer in the dead1. 1
we sayed his blood in a bark pall untif!
It Jellied. Then we pounded up la.ot
with it and baked it in loaves Ton'll
find it tasty at lunch."
The Estes use sharp siotn- i n
knives. It was with one of they.
that Mrs. Estes' locks u ere ch.r p- off
against a tree trunk when sin p, .
they annoyed her 11
husband's tangled Titian hair i v
longer than hers
CONVICTED FOR mi
LAW Vi
Reports received at the governor’s
office from the various game wardens
in the territory show several recent
convictions for violation of the fed
eral law.
On November 4 Game Warden
Ericksen, who Is stationed at Mc
Carthy in the third division, arrested
a man by the name of Bryson for ex
ceeding the legal limit in the kill of
game. lie was tried before the
United States commissioner at Mc
Carthy. where he entered a plea of
guiltj A fine of fifteen dollar,-* was
imposed and the carcasnea of two
theep were confiscated.
Game Warden Baughman, w ho
makes Seward his headquarters, ar
rested a native boy November 1 and
took him before the commissioner at
Seward on a charge of exceeding the
limit on moose The boy plead guilty
and a fine of $00 was imposed ,een
tence being suspended however on j
condition that the defendant observe j
the provisions of the law in the
future.
James Sturgill of Clear creek, Fair
banks district, wa« arrested Novem
ber 17 by Game Warden McDonald
on a charge of killing four moose A
hearing was had before Cubed S; ■ -
Commissioner Brown 01 I' ilrbanks
and Sturgill was found guilty ir.d
fined $2u and costa. The meal t
confiscated.—Chitlna Leader
Urder your calling ends for the New
Venr at the Nugget office.
STAMPEDE OF HUNTERS
The big caribou run continues on
the Qlacier trail, and several dT"n
men ha^e town every dav to try the!'
hand in the contest. A number of
teams have gone out along tho trail
and have picked up quite a little busi
ness bringing in the game for the
hunters. Herb McDonald’s big freight
teams from Glacier creek arrived last
night with six tons of caribou sent in
by hunters, says a Dawson paper.
The first caribou are killed in tht
vicinity of Ten mile house, ten miles
west of Dawson, and the belt extend
out toward Glacier many miles. Thf
best animals are reported numerou
from the Twenty four mile house on
Nellie Razee’s roadhouse at the Ten
mile and Mr. and Mrs. George Van
Cleave’s roadhouse at Twenty foul
are packed every night. Men sleep
on the floors, on the tables and under
the tables.
Miss Razee has been working day j
ind night for more than a week cook-,
lng boilers full of beans, caribou, spuds
and mulligan for the famishing hunt
ers. One weary wayfarer nominate..!
her the queen of the caribou trail.
:>ast week she stepped out to the roau ,
n front of her hostelry and shot j
jnough caribou to feed the steamped-1
'rs two days.
Mrs. George Van Cleave also shares
n the laurels of the trail. One day
rho shot three caribou from the door
step of her roadhouse.
Two French hoys, who mushed Ir
••e8terday from California creek, a
.ributary of the Sixty mile, report j
that the caribou went down the valley
of the creek In a phalanx three miles,
long and half a mile wide. After the!
herd had passed evreythlng in Its vake
THE VALUE OF
ELECTRICITY
Electricity is to the average person
a familiarly mysterious something that
obeys when one touches a button.
Knowing that Is not knowing much
but It suffices for practical purposes.
Men not very aged can remember when
an electric light was a novelty. Here
are some intersting facts:
The per cent of our population derive
their living directly or indirectly from
electricity.
Investment in electrical industry, in
cluding telephone and telegraph, Is
$7,999,862,157.
Estimated daily business of electri
cal Industry Is $2,000,000.
Annually $730,000,000 Is spent for
new electrical equipment
Ten cents today will buy 1076 per
cent more electric light han the same
sum would buy 20 years ago.
And We are mltas this side of the
ultimate limit of electricity’s use foi l
man. There are city suburbs nota
bly one outstdo of Glasgow. Scotland
—where the houses have no chimneys
electricity has succeeded these ineth
ods of cooking and heating needing
chimneys. You can heat, cook. wash,
clean,—do almost every tiling by elec
tricity—if you can afford it. Hut for
the present cost, electricity would be
in universal use for thousands of
things. And utlltnately those uses
will become universal. The cost is
going down. Effectiveness is going
upwards. It is the most progressive
material force for man’s benefit in the
word today.—Boston Record.
Ca'I or ring Main 46 when you have
job printing to be done. The Nugget
has the most complete stock for all
occasion*
was trampled as hard us a avemetil
The snow everywhere in that reeiont
a foot or more in depth
The high bald hills from a point
three miles beyond the Tea mile hon.’
I to far beyond the Twenty f<> r m.'Y
house are trampled bard. Several po
lice are In the district to see that
none kill more than the limit
STRANGE SHEEP S^OT
IN THE PEEL COUNTRY
< Dawson News, i
A number of Peel River Indians
arrived yesterday and brought in a
large quantity of 'mountain sheep and
caribou on toboggans drawn by dog3.
Among the sheep Is one specimen
which is the most unique ever seen
here. It is exeeedinglv large ard has
a dark back exactlv Ilk* that f a
( • !b.i. . Tie* iMic- puns -su of the
customary white Nearly everyone
on first avenue yesterday who went
up to see what the Indians had
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brought in thought at first on looking
at the big black mountain sheep that
it was a caribou. The head was ob
scured from the quarter from which
approached as though It had been ei.t
iT. hen the spectator stepped
U the from he quickly discerned the
usual large sheep head and the massive
horns. The big sheep was killed and
f raught in by John Martin, well known
member of the Peel River Indian tribe
It was shot near tlip head of Hart
river, a tributary of the Pee!
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oral manager of tin* White Pass and
Yukon railroad, according to an article
l" i cmly puni shed in the Chicago Her
ald is nursing a very sore head and
bruised face. He attended a dance
while in Chicago and one of the ladies,
complained to her escort tlicit Dicken
son had attempted to get fresh with
her The escort caught Ole before he
escaped from the hall and he was
taken direct to the hospital
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