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In The News
The Klondike Nugget.
Dawson, Y. T.
Vol. 1, No. 27
Wednesday, September 21, 1898.
Page 1.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
The sale of dogs advertised by the sheriff for Monday was called off by
a brother of the loser in the suit of Daniels v. A.D. Nash. The
gentleman appeared on the scene just in time to pay up the costs and
save the teams.
Mr. Eswege has organized a syndicate which has secured a number of
promising claims. It is the intention to work them on a large scale, the
opening up of, having encouraged them to this point by showing $1 to the
pan.
Mr. Livernash, for years on the editorial staff of the Examiner and
special correspondent of that enterprising paper for this section during
the craze for news last year, has returned to his California home, and
the paper is represented here by Mr. R. C. Kirk. Mr. Kirk is also
considering a return to a milder clime for the winter.
G. B. Berg, has sold the business and buildings of the Arctic Meat Co.,
to Mr. Faron, the gentleman who lately came in with several hundred head
of sheep. Mr. Faron is a careful and enterprising business man, and is
also a member of the Northwest Council. Mr. Berg is looking around for
some other business as he fully intends staying on all winter.
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FOUND HIS FRIEND DEAD.
Mr. Bear came in from Forty-mile on Friday and decided to go out and
spend the night with John McArthur, a friend, who owned a cabin near the
mouth of Bonanza creek. In town, Mr. Bear had found that his friend had
been to Dawson and that afternoon had paid his bill at the Klondike
hotel and gone up the creek. It was about 9 o'clock in the evening when
he arrived at the cabin and he found everything quite dark. On the floor
he found the body of McArthur quite dead and stone cold - the top of his
head completely blown off with a rifle which he still held in his hands.
He had evidently rested the butt end of the rifle against a nearby sled
and holding the barrel in his left hand close to the left side of his
head had shoved the trigger. The top of the skull was blown completely
off and rested on the bed several feet away. The brains were scattered
all over the floor.
McArthur had several pieces of mining properties and
besides had $1,000 in dust at the time he killed himself. The mental
strain of mining operations if too much for some men. The alternating
elation and depression of the spirits coupled with more or less
ill-health, as in the case of McArthur, brings about an unhealthy
morbidness of the mind, and the only wonder is that suicide is not much
more common that it is.
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Page 4.
AN EARLY MORNING "FLARE UP."
An Overturned Lamp Wraps the Occupants of a Cabin in Flames.
A Stranger Locates the "Pay Streak" Immediately Upon the Dying Down of
the Fire - Disconcerted By a "Cave-In."
About five o'clock Tuesday morning fire totally destroyed the "Welcome,"
a sumptuously furnished cabin on Third street, east of the old Pavilion
theater. The cabin was occupied by Belle Mitchell and the girl known as
"Tony," both of whom lost everything own had, even to their sacks, and
escaped in nothing but their night robes. A setter bitch and six pups
were left behind in the cabin and were burned up. The cabins on either
side caught fire. The one on the east was occupied, and the occupants
were hastily dispossessed. The unoccupied cabin on the west was readily
torn down.
There were others than the women in the cabin when the fire broke out
and the first man to escape had received an injury to his hand; which
covered it with blood, giving rise to a rumor that there had been a
lamp-throwing contest. However, the facts appear to be that a lamp was
overturned and the heavy curtains with which the cabin was luxuriously
hung readily caught fire and in an instant everything was in flames.
Nothing was saved except the sign outside. The wardrobes and gold
belonging to the women together with the furnishings of the cabin were
easily of the value of over $2,000 and the cabin could not have cost
less than $700. The next cabin, the "Hobby," was damaged about $300, and
the contents either lost or dumped into the mud, cannot be replaced for
$1,000. The total loss was easily in excess of $4,000.
There being no fire department in town there was no organized effort to
subdue the flames, though plenty of men stood around ready to do all in
their power. Charley Kimball had a pail of spring water in his place a
few doors away and liberally donated it to the good cause. He also had a
barrel of vinegar handy and he hurriedly stove in the head and proceeded
to use the contents on the fierce flames. However, just at this time
someone happened to think there was plenty of swamp water in the ditch
in front of the burning building. This is, probably, what saved
Charley's whiskey, for he might next have devoted that previous scurvy-
curing liquid to the quenching of the roaring flames.
Charles Kimball's wife donated some clothing to the shivering girls, for
the night was sharp and frosty and then Belle proceeded to save as much
of her property as she could reach which was the "Welcome" sign outside.
The flames were so quick and fierce that the dogs never made a whimper
and nothing remains but the charred bones.
Hardly had the fire died down and the heat been reduced with buckets of
water when a man appeared with a gold pan and proceeded to deliberately
pan the ashes. He was working carefully toward the pay streak under the
burned gold scales when Belle Mitchell observed him and took him such a
stinging slap on the side of the head that he hurriedly dropped his gold
pan and sought the dreary solitude of his own cogitations in private. He
probably thought some of the hanging logs fell over on him and is
probably "cussing" yet, that a "cave in" overwhelmed him just as he had
located the streak.
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POLICE COURT ITEMS.
E. J. Linchan, nuisance, $10 and costs.
J. W. McCarty, "d and d" $20 and costs.
Louis Pelze proved himself not to be a "vag" and the charge was
dismissed.
M.M. Thomas contributed $25 and costs for fighting an obnoxious friend.
James Ferrit created a disturbance in an argumentative way and left $25
at the police court for safe keeping.
George Fletcher looked upon the wine when it was red too often, which
was the cause. The result was $20 fine together with the costs.
T. Kruzener was ordered to pay the $500 he owed John Doe for wages and
to contribute to the cost of the establishment, which he did.
John Mooney became uncommonly noisy from the influence of "hootch" and
"dug up" $25 and costs upon the peremptory order of the justice to do
so.
Carrie Boyle thought she was all right, but the street is not a wise
place to stop over night. Her judgment in that particular was proved by
$10 fine and costs.
"Bebe" Martine, a denizen of "Paradise Alley," was asked to stand on the
same footing as her 67 sisters who were fined last week. No demure. Fine
$50 and costs.
Thomas Oleson imbibed the forbidden juice of the grape until he could
hold no more, and because of his lack of capacity had money enough left
to contribute $20 and costs.
John Nodine was a disturbing element in the peaceful community
established at the forks of Eldorado and Dominion. The abstraction of
$10 and $5 costs from his sack is expected to work a cure.
In the case of J. E. Ferris, the captain of the Domville, he was ordered
to pay Ross the full amount of his wages, $65, but immediately got back
at Ross by having him fined $5 for refusing to work on the boat when
ordered out to cut wood.
J. Munroe, drank to excess and kept talking with his mouth all of which
is reprehensible and contrary to the statutes in such cases made and
provided so he helped out the good work in the morning by a contribution
of $20 and costs.
Carrie Miller, Cary Field, Vinnie field, Jane Ray, Anna Walker,
Marguerite Martin, Kitty Ashworth and "Babe" Wallace were ordered to pay
$50 and costs a piece for being "miners; playthings" out at the forks of
Eldorado and Bonanza. They didn't mind so much having to "produce" as
losing the time walking to town.
Thomas Hennnan is one of the gentlemen who took a shot at the flying
geese Sunday last. Someone told him he had broken the laws, so being a
very law-abiding citizen he presented himself to the justice to pay his
fine. It appears that the discharge of the firearms within the city is
"contrary to the peace and dignity of the community" and being on Sunday
had "dboule shot the turn," by breaking two statues at once. Hennan was
cautioned by Justice Starnes but allowed to retrain his sack.
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