The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-08-14
RULED BY THE VIGILAHTs
Order i'm Dawson City Regulated
by a Committee.
BAD MEN PROMPTLY PLANTED
An Eastern Man Writes of the
"wide-DpeI." Shaniy Town-A Co.'S
mopolitaD Locality Where Dark
ness Il Unknown Lively Dance
Halls aud Constant Clatter.

New York, Arg. 14.-The Evening Tel
gram OF yesteitIa had n dispatch from Ia
coma, Wash, which says
up-tc-,late description of Dawson City,
tie principal town ia tie Klondike region,
int, wht.h thousands are resting in Their
greed fsr goil, is given in letter fron'
New YORK state man received here The
folio sing is an abstract
Perhaps you would like TO know what
sort Of town this is. and VIII tell YOU
You have heard of Nide-open towns This
is enc of thega Everything goes here, Tie
saloons never close, gamhliRg gees on :
all hours. in fact nothing IN Tie way OF
dissipation is ever checked at all.
There il nn city government in this
place OF tents and shantles. but We rave a
vigilance or..tnittee, which takes the place
of toi h government and TIE la s,s. hOa see.
this is British country up here. and most Of
us are Americans, 30 We do not know n.nch
about what the law II that governs this
part OF ,hetountry This Icing The case we
run the place a. We think we Orght 10. L
don't mind telling you, / an ere of The
vigilance committee.
Il wish You could take a trip around
town here and se these things Tor YOUR
self Why. it is nothing at ali for $1,000
20 change hands on the turn of card
luean that mach in gold dust. Tor real money
is a scarce article out here; every man has
q sack OF dast. and he buys or gaulbles by
the ounce or traction thereof.
"The dance halls arc lively enough. too,
fSr tbera are a lot Of women up here, such
az they are / reckon there are 4,500
people here. all told, but they can make
noise enough for twice that many
There is not as much killing going on
here as you would think. for we 90 lot
think nsacI. OF ad men up here We have
planted about dozen of those in the last
two months and 1t has had the effect of
keeping ;he tough sort quiet
Il would write about the nights, but
We don't have any nights here. Nou - =.
the sta sets aboat . p. N. and rises ai3ut
3 a. m but it never gets dark You can
read 4 new SpSpeT out of doors at niida.S'lt,
So Won see il doesn't make much difference
wheH you sloep. The result is that the peo-
uIe don't have regular time for sleeping or
eating at ALL They just live A. they
want t..
You see all kirds of people here he
3eve that every nation that we ever heard
ii M New York has got soIs4ebody he;e who
aelougs Lo IT, Everybody is as good asev :ry
hody else IL dnn't make any diffcren e
whatever who he is.''
There is one old fellow that USED "a be
A. 4 sc -lh.,.aFs
pelt He came up here with a fleightinS
outfit and did not have any idea of gettiag
to the gud fields, but when he didget there,
old a. he was, he got the fever
s.lIe Staked out claim, and You ma Y be
lieve il or not, but tire old darkcy has
cleaned up $40 100 in gold dust. Houuueht
10 hear him tax about what he is going to
do with d His name. he says, is St John
Athpr1ur urs. and he comes from down la
Georgia, Just piece out Of Atlanta he
SAYS He says that the daughter of the
man who owned him during the war Is liy-
ing there yes on the old plantation, and
very nDur The old man is going back, &c
Gays. aud going to buy that plantation.
Then h. Is going to have this woman 90
nothing bat 1--we like lady the rest OF her
life believe the old man means just wlrat
he says
About three months ago there was an
old man who came from back East and had
with him a boy Of fifteen years. H. and
his father sIaked out a claim just east OF
one right on the river that the boys called
Blue Richness - think tie old man said
ne cane IN m Massachusetts. His name
was Harry Williams.
lone night claim jumpers came 20 his tent
and shot the old man in the shoulder. The
boy. who was asleep, heard the shot. and
Jumped ND with a gun ia eacl. hand, drop
ned two Of the fellows, and was after them
quicker taan q wink, and wounded an
other
sThe fourth man was so scared he ran
out away without firing shot. When the
bows hca ri of they weHtout and fixed the
old man up. When they tcld the boy That
his father W asn't badly hurt, the Kid tainted,
dropped to the floor like he wa sh5t, and
then they found outhe wasRot A boy at all,
but ? girl, and asprettya girl as you'd want
TO look at.
sThe old mans wife was dead and he
had only one child, this giri. He wanted to
come out lsere, aud he did not know what 10
do with her. but she just said she would
rome with aim as a boy and made the old
man agree TO it.
II reE,er.ter old man. that hack in New
York W ~ sed TO think that fellows W weretn
hard lack tina tn ad to eat beef and beans. hut
here, We areiRlUck 10 get them particularly
the beef. Everybody has beans. coffee and
soda biscuits; that's the bill Of fare seven
days IT. week.
'sof course. there is lots OF canned stuff,
hut you get awful tired OF that. THERE'S
man hero going to try TO raise some garden
truck, and is ne docs it, all he raises viii be
worth its weight in gold dust.
DESTITUTE IN THE WOODS.