I was typing up my grandfather's 1898 letters from the Klondike. While he was up there, he met and joined a group of 9 Germans and 1 Swede from Minnesota. (He met a lot of Germans while he was up there.) Everyone had nicknames, one person was Schinder Hanes and my grandfather was called Kisor Rot Pahort. The spelling in English was pretty bad, so I imagine the German was too. The letters were written on very thin paper (tissue paper) and he wrote in pencil because the ink would freeze, so I had some difficulty reading them. Any idea what these two names mean? I asked a German speaker who suggested Schinder Hanes was a character in a German story/play but she couldn't remember exactly. Does anyone know? Thank you, Sue Schafer