Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-09-02
Klondike Newspapers.

NlVllVlhe NCWSP0pcIS.
Copies of Klondike newspapers,
printed at Dawson City, have begun
to circulate through the United States,
and show that nothing escapes the
energy of the newspaperman. One of
the papers, the Nugget, is managed in
the business department by an old
time Bismarck boy, Tom Church,
son of former Governor Louis K.
Church. The other paper is the Mid
night Sun. The first issue of the Sun
is dated June IL, 1898, and the Nugget
made it's appearance on the 10th of
the same month. There was a race
for Dawson with printing material.
and the few days difference in the
dates of the papers show that the race
was q close one. The Sun people
were in the printing business at
Juneau, Alaska, and two lines at the
head of the editorial page says:
Branch and foreign office: Alaska
Mining Record, Juneau, Alaska. ;"
The proprietors of the Nugget went
from Seattle, and they announce that
their papers is published every Thurs
day by the Metropolitan Printing and
Binding company of Seattle The
materials for both papers were carried
over the pass from Skaguay last
spring to the head of navigation,
and went down by the lakes and river
as soon as navigation opened up.
The cost of transporting the material
from the coast to Dawson was Is cents
a pound. So, small though the out
fits were, transportation added greatly
to their value.
The subscription price of the Weekly
Sun both papers are weekly is SIS
year, or so cents single copy.
The Sun sold over 1900 copies of its
first number, and kept it's half-medium
Gordon jobber going night and day
to supply the demand. The result was
that the second number did not make
it's appearance until nine days after
the first. Both papers have liberal
advertising patronage; and both
Offices do job work. They charge $35
q thousand for printing letter-heads
and bill-heads, and other work is in
proportion. They have all the work
they can do at those rates. Printers
working on those papers are paid 81
per thousand ems when they work by
the piece, and the job printers get S1.5C
per hour. When the Midnight Sun
opened its Office thirty printers ap.
piled for work. Notwithstanding this
surplus of labor, the above prices
were fixed, owing largely to the fact
that with few exceptions the printers
are members of typographical unions
| in the states and Canada.
Although published in British terri
tory, it is the American spirit that is
reflected in both parers. The un-
utterable Spaniard is aayed alive in
the editorial page OF each sheet. The
editor Of the Nugget says: IT cannot
be said that many of US came to Klon-
dixie to escape enlistment in the army.
Most Of us wcomers were on the trail
before hostilities began" !" The Nugget
boasts that there are not many news
paper offices where type can be set
twenty-four hours each day without
the aid Of artificial light. That con-
dition now, however, exists in the
office Of the Klondike Nugget. It is
not the result Of any special brilliancy
on the part Of the staff, but must
rather be attributed to the kindliness
Of Old Sol. The sun follows the es.
tablished order Of things In this region
and does nothing by halves.
The Nugget chro ronicles four weeks
thirst in Dawson, and tells how it was
relieved by the arrival of the first
steamer the May West, on June s.
Five thousand men, !, women, and
Emslamute dogs, z says the editor
slined the banks Of the Yulkon as she
LANDED and asked each other that all
absorbing questio on, Has abe any
whisky on board e To the relief d
all it was learned that sixteen barrels
OF the unctuous Juice Of corn were &C.
IFtaally in the hold and that at las
ltempo porsry relief from the four weeks