The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-31

for 81, 600 to change hands on the turn
of a card. OF course it is that much in
gold dust, for real money is a scarce
article out there. Every man has a
sack of dust, money being used but in
few cases. Men buy, sell or gamble by
the ounce or fraction of that amount
The dancing halls are lively places.
There are lots of women in Dawson
City; not the kind you would want 10
introduce your sister to. These women
have gone there from San Francisco
and Seattle. Altogether there are about
$500 people all told, and they can make
enough noise for twice that number.
There is not much killing going on in
Dawson City, as one would imagine
from the class of many of the people up
there, for they do not think very much
of bad men, up there. The vigilance
committee takes care of them, and has
planted about a dozen of that class
in the past few months, and that has
had the effect OF keeping the tough ele-
ment quiet.
The Canadian government early rec
ognized that it would require a man
with iron nerve and of great force Of
character, besides being well acquaint-
ed with the class of people, to govern
the Klondike. Nor could a better choice
have been made than that of Major
Walsh, who was recently appointed
governor of the Klondike. On Oct. 2
Major Walsh with 100 picked men of the
Northwest mounted police left Victoria
on Fl. NJ. S. Quadra for Dyea. His plan
is TO proceed overland to Dawson City.
Major Walsh is not the man to be turn
ed from his duty by the intimidation of
numbers.
After the massacre OF Custer and his
men. Sitting Bull and his 5000 warriors
crossed into Canada, and it was Major
Walsh WHO promptly rode into the In
dian camp and notified Sitting Bull that
he could only remain upon Canadian
soil so long as he obeyed the laws. He
worked the bluff so well that soon Sit
ting Bull and his men decided to get
over the boundary again.
Lots of queer people have got money
ZIP there, or. as they call it. have struck
it rich. One kid from San Francisco
that everybody knows by the name of
Wild Dick went there recently-no one
knows how. He secured some old tools
and d pan and went TO work. He is just
Is years old and is as tough a kid as
you ever saw. but he has cleaned up al
ready $1,000 for every one OF his years
on earth. and now he lis goin back to
Frisco Wild money to burn" He said
to friend. When I'm goin to so back
say Gully. I'm goin to wear nothin but
glimmers on me mitts when l gifts back
10 town.
man in the employ of one of the
big companies in Dawson City in a re-
cent letter TO friends in the United
States gave the following picturesque
incident which well illustrates life in
the great mining region and exempli-
fies TO a remarkable extent the two
kinds of people 10 be met there:
IF the papers print half Of the queer
things l see up here. il would be bet
ter than any book. About three weeks
ago there was an old fellow came from
back east. and he had with him q boy
about > years of age He was one of
the incest boys | have seen i'm this
country. He and his father staked out
q claim Just east OF a claim right on the
river that the boys called Blue Rich
ness. ] think the old man said he came
from Massachusetts. He was a quiet.
peaceable old man. minded his own
business and paid no attention TO any,
body. but after he commenced work on
his claim a few days ago il got around
that every pan he washed out had s.
worth of gold in il. There are a LOT OF
mean sons Of guns up here. and when
they think a man that has good thing
can be run off they just get together
and try 10 run him of. SO one night
two or three OF these fellows went 10
the old mans tent, showed their guns in
the face OF him and his boy and told
them II they did not get off that claim
within "A hours they would set shot.
The OLD man wouldn't say anything to
them at al. so one Of them afterward
owned up, but Just lay there. and the
boy kept quiet too
"Anerward the old man, whose name