The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-22
JOURNALIST FOR THE KLoNDIKE.
Features or n Newspaper or which the First
Number Has Just Appeared.

And now comes Klondike journalism. 1t lisa
small, pale yellow four page paper. printed in
large type, and called the KionGike Morning
Times. The number which has come TO THE
SrNis"Vol. One No. One; Buy One price per
copy $3.50; $3.50. 900 a year. 1t is dated Daw-
son City. July 80. 1897. md may have come
down by carrier pigeon. Every page Is repIeto
with news and information.
First comes the greeting :" Here we are. Now
say It to our face" followed by an apology for
the rolor OF the paper.
1t is due to our readers to say that we hope
to be able to print on white paper next spring.
The Indian who tried 20 carry our paper over
Chilkoot Pass had the misfortune to stub his
toe. which started him tobosganing down q do
cIivity OF seven miles into Death CaLon. He did
not reioin the party. We are indebted to Soap
inc Sam. our genial grocer. for the loan OF a
realu OF wrapping paper on which TO print this
issue. We request our subscribers to return
this paper 10 Sam after reading il. as he needs IL
for wrapping canned peaches. OF which he has q
fne brand for sale al remarkably low prices"
Following the editorial comes the column OF
Personal Nuggets This informs a gaping
public that a half interest in Thirsty Willie's
claim has been sold for 10000 that Scarfaced
Sam OF Indian Greek has been suffering from ILL
ness on the part OF his dog that Cincinnati Char
ley took Out 81 AGO il one day; that iced tea 10
sold al the Greyhound restaurant at the NOM
inal price OF 80 cents a glass; that a prayer
meeting at Amazing Grace Chapel Is in pros
pect; that Col. Barnes is getting out logs for hs
new opera house. and that Z" two gents from Boz
nanza Creek came into town on sunday, and
aft er shooting all the windows out OF the Hoo
Num- Der saloon went away without leaving
their names; together with various other inter.
estin u items. The rest o. the page is taken up
by "A picture and picturesque advertisement Of
d.. o. b. Deadeasy, whose patients sleep in
every graveyard from S;tKn TO ST. Michael"
DO not despair" cries the adycTtlssmens
tion for a square meal. Thi, eminent physician
holds out no false hopes TO any one. II he can:
promptly Kick you down stars. Write to-day for
his specific for gold fever, hunger and homo
no cure. Bring the dust. Once hours 10 10
1880 a. n. oihce over Dirty Dos saloon. Daw-
The second page seems to have been intended
for the ,I;torini p'ye, as I Is nea1tI Win me
in You have 10 read this PAPER quick or you
by certain cfusions which. from the arrange
mont, night lie Taken 10 be poetry. Then come
the market quotations., which are worth quot
THE Markets.
Corrected Weekly by the Aurora Borealis commiS
sion COMPANY, : Art'ic squars. Dawson city.
f r"Ta ap% per Us FOR IS.
"A''-vy fk rT SS 41ti-:tS:
Per half drink-35c.
~Mcats-Markst steady; beef ruling a trInc higher than
less than 81 81 a pound. cafiSoo steak, s5c. Mule
outlet. tlIu. Dog teuderlo. n. $50.
Dried Apples-6Oc. n grab.
bcaus-Gc each.
Coal Dll-llc. a smell.
LcinuLs-C2 each, 3 for H5.
salt-lc. per pinch.
Next comes an announcement that the RtoH-
dixie Morning Times aas The uisgest circulation
IN Dhn son Guy, and tnht its books arc open 10
AZ. FOLLOWED by an aCSOunt OF - popular move
ment to secure water power from the * on like,
1T WAS the general sense OF the mretina."
concludes the article, =" that the kIoAIike DO
damned.
Certain For sale" and WANTED" adver-
ti>ements appear. A boy Is wanted TO carry
water ut S6b u week; also a bartender at the
High Ban IhIrst Palace i-aDrl hu4rs ami no
cash register; likewise four men al u "a v mill.
whore there IS nothing TO TO but work.' for
SO u day and three drink. In The " For sale
g. uLnn there Is an entry by "a gentleman who
wants to sell n half interest in u claim and go
AOme on the next boat 10 get something TO cat
There Is Also AN offer ~ an ice cream freezer
cheap. The Iap!oc4 House advertiscs "L0de-
in I, 81; with bai, So
Ths local page concerns itself with "A highly
ornate saloon hight, the building OF "A railroad.
and the prospects Il "a hAuN. Tn The last PAGE
one discovers where the k'OHIIkC NorRtn0
7 mes is really. published. It isn I IN lawson
City but in ~. LOUIS, and IS put ont by a com-
pony which has a GUIDE 10 The klondike" TO
SCI. ipr IL cents.
"Nuu don't nave 10 believe all you see In the
Times, ID the last paragrnIt in the paper, . bup
the book IL straight goods from cover to cover"