The San Francisco call., 1898-03-20
NEWS FROM TIE YUKON.

ID far the most comprehensive and most detailed h account of affairs the Yukon and the condi- AO ton of the miners and other adventurers there which has been received since the winter set in is that which has just come from special correspondent, Sam w. Wall. His report covers the whole of the region along the river from Dawson to Fort Yukon and gives information only of the district generally, but of the individual and women who are, wptering at the various camps or posts from Dawson down to the Fort.
 This information was not gathered at second hand. MT. Wall, in whom journalistic enterprise is in stinc and the search for aspiration akin to that which prompts the man of science to dare all dangers and take all risks for the sake of discovering truth, started from Dawson in the middle of the Arctic winter to make the journey to Fort Yukon for the purpose of finding the condition of the people there and making it known through The Call to their friends in all parts of the Union.
 This dangerous task willingly undertaken marks the difference between the newsgatherer and the faker. It would have been much safer and more comfortable for Mr. Wall to have remained at Dawson all winter wrapped in furs. It would have been easier to write rumors of the lower river and construct fakes than to go down the frozen stream and find the truth He chose the hazard the difficulty the discomfort and the danger for the sake of learning the truth and the result of his efforts is that The Call has been able carry many anxious hearts of their loved ones from whom they have not heard for months.
 Mr. Wall reports, with notes of what they are doing far he could obtain the information, the names of all persons registered at Fort Yukon. at Rampant City Minook, at Circle City and at Woodwork. These fill than two closely printed columns of The Call. They constitute the great bulk of those who caught on the way to Dawson by the freezing of the river or who went down to the Fort to escape the danger of famine at Dawson when it became known there would be a scarcity of food at that place if all remained there l This journey in midwnter to Fort Yukon is the second notable feat accomplished by Mir Wall along | the Yukon. The first when he made his way up the stream in the fall to carry to the people at Daw- the that the water in the river was low and that the expected would not be able to bring full cargoes of food to Dawson. That journey en- time for many of them to get away and thus averted the threatened famine The second feat accomplished by the journey down the river is hardly Jess useful since 1t gives reliable of the snowbound adven- turers to their friends at home.
 | At the time The Call dispatched Mir Wall to the | Klondke it announced that 1t would be represented | in the gold fields by a newspaper and not a | faler or a word monger The promise of The Call to its readers has been than fulfilled It is 1 journalism, and consequence its reports are worth more to the general public than those of any other paper and to the friends and relatives of the men and women who made the rush last fall they are | invaluable.