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In The News
The Klondike Nugget
Dawson, N.W.T.
Vol. 1, No. 9
Wednesday, July 20, 1898.
Page 1.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Friends of Louis Lang took charge of the body and interred it at the
cemetery on Sunday.
The mill of J. W. Williams was shut down on Tuesday from a scarcity of
logs. Dawson cannot afford to see her mills shut down at this time of
the year and it is hoped the rafts on the way down may not be tied up
much longer on the bars.
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Page 3.
TOOK "NUGGETS" OUT WITH HIM.
Mr. Zach F. Hickman, one of the proprietors of the Nugget, has gone to
the outside in the interests of the paper. He will visit all the large
cities of Canada, including Ottawa, and also many of those in the United
States. He carries with him a complete files of the Klondike Nugget and
before returning to Dawson in September will see to it that this paper
is known from one end of the land to the other. The foreign circulation
of the Nugget will be supplied from our Seattle office. Mr. Hickman left
on the Ora on her last trip.
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A NEW THAWING APPARATUS.
T. W. Allenby is going up to the mines to test a new contrivance for
burning the ground. There have been numerous appliances put on the
market for dealing with our auriferous frozen gravel; but heretofore
they have been singularly unsuccessful, one and all. The antiquated
method of building a cordwood fire in the shaft or in the drift, and
after the fire had burned _____ and the smoke cleared of removing what
dirt had been found to be thawed, has not been improved on up the
present time. The time last in waiting for the fire to die out and the
smoke to clear has been avoided in summer, in some sections, by using
the fire at the surface to heat large rocks which were afterward thrown
down the hole.
The apparatus Mr. Allenby is designed to overcome these difficulties.
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DEATHS ON THE RIVER.
Frank E. Ware, a member of the Masonic Fraternity, of Crookston, Minn.,
died June 29th, on board the steamer Ware, between Rampart City and
Tannana [sic]. His remains were interred at Port Adams.
The body of Louis Lang was picked up in the river at Dawson on Friday
last. It will be remembered that the deceased was one of a party wrecked
on Indian river on June 28th. Mr. Lang was from San Francisco.
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POLICE COURT ITEMS.
In another case of disturbance Alerbt E. King was let off with the
costs.
R. Burns labored hard for two days for taking firewood from W. J. Berry.
N. Norinek paid $15 and costs for assault.
F. McCabe paid just $5 more for the same offence.
Ruben Marsh, charged with making a disturbance and fighting on the
streets was discharged.
F. C. White accused C. G. Caldwell of non-payment of wages and the
defendant paid a fine of $50 and costs.
H. McCloskey was drunk and disorderly, but his fine was suspended as he
wanted to start for home and did not have enough for steamboat fare and
fine also.
In the case of Chas. Jones, charged with assault by Mrs. Christine
Thomson, he is bound over in the sum of $50 to keep the peace for one
month and is to pay the costs.
The Seattle Yukon S. S. Co. settled out of court with W. N. Westcoff.
His charge was non-payment of wages. The similar case of E. Morgan is
not yet disposed of.
There were ten drunks disposed of and five cases of committing a
nuisance within the town of Dawson. The fine for the last offense is one
dollar and one dollar costs. Two refused to pay and served two days in
prison.
Last week was a busy time at the justice courts. B. Henson accused W. H.
Straight of unlawfully taking a gold sack, but failed to appear and
prosecute. Fred Sehenchyer also failed to push his charges against A. H.
Jose for non-payment of wages.
On information furnished by F. S. Belcher, a verdict was returned
against J. L. Tam for having liquor illegally in his possession. Tam
paid $100 fine together with the costs the informer getting one half of
the fine money. E. Tam paid $50 and costs for the same offense and
Belcher gets half off that also.
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Page 4.
PERSONALS.
Mr. Thomas O'Brien has gone to St. Michaels to hurry up the new stock
for his Klondike City store.
Frank F. Leeds, special Alaskan correspondent for six or eight
middle-western newspapers is in the city seizing things up.
Messrs. Harry Frutig, A. Leipsett, Ed. Manning, and Wm. Haley, all of
San Jose, Cal., arrived in town Sunday after an extended exploration of
Salmon, Steward and Pelly rivers.
Mr. C. Leavitt, the well-known circulation agent for many years of the
Seattle Times, has just arrived after a detour up Stewart river. Mr.
Leavitt is probably one of the best-known men in Seattle.
Rev. J. Turner served at the Presbyterian church last Sunday. He just
comes in over the Lake Teslin route. His mission here is to organize the
Methodists and see a church built. He is quite eloquent, and we believe,
destined to become quite popular.
Mr. F. H. Browning arrived in Dawson Monday to the great satisfaction of
a host of friends. Mr. Browning and party were wrecked on Lake Bennett,
but had gotten near enough to shore being swamped by the storm so that
all made the land in safety besides saving some of the outfit. Mr.
Browning is president of the Hyea Land Co.
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PERHAPS IT WILL COME TODAY.
Mr. W. B. Churchill, agent for the Columbia Navigation Co., will give a
first-class passage ticket, including meals and berth from Dawson to
Seattle, free, to the miner who first reports to him sighting from
Dawson the first steamer of the company from the outside to arrive here.
Mr. Churchill expects the "Monarch" or "Sovereign" to be the first of
his company's fleet to arrive.
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