The San Francisco call., 1898-10-02

force. in the Gold. Commissioner office and the postoffices It was thought that
 this had been corrected in the post office, but the long line of impatient men takes it's daily place in front of the door now as before. There has been no Interruption in the nuisance at the Gold Commissioners. The habit of fleeing the
 policeman on guard at the side door
 by way of gaining adnIittance has grown until it is next to impossible to get in any other way. This is the com 1nonest and pettiest of the 'briberies that make a part of nearly every transaction with: the Government of fees, insomuch. that Canadians confess to a sense of shame in being Cana dians. Within the past few days no tices have been posted about town: to the effect that exclusive facilities and
 privileges have been granted to. a
 company for securing mail from the postoffice, and that this company will
 deliver mail to individuals promptly at S6 per quarter and to business firms at $10 per quarter. It would seem to one who had grown accustomed to the methods here that this was only a re- adjustment of the old plan, a transfer of the required fee from the plain, yellow-striped policeman to the favored corporation. 4 corporation has the right to place booms at the mouth of the Klondike, and so no individual has the right to so much as stick of drift wood in that river. A corporation has, or several corporations have, the right to the timber on almost all the islands, and for miles and miles along the shores of the Yukon, so that individuals are warned against cutting cabin logs, and any who do so take great chances of having them contiscated upon reaching Dawson. Arrived in Dawson the individual is confronted with the big townsite corporation holding its building lots at figures impossible to the average prcspector. He is warned off the wide stretch of level lands that is the toWnsite and compelled to build his cabin on the distant hills, where it will be almost a days job to get water during the winter.
 American doctors and American law yers are forbidden to practice here. The lawyers in many cases effected a compromise by associating themselves with Canadians: the Americans doing the office work and the Canadians go- ing into court and appearing solely as the counsel of record. This worked very well for both parties. to the. ar rangement, for the great majority of the population are Americans, and the American lawyer is thus reader at se- curing clients. With the doctors it was different, there being no necessity for relying upon the Americans, and an edict absolute was written against them. One prominent doctor, continu- ing to attend a patient after notice was served; was thrown into jail. The patient died and that was another scandal No American doctor is per mitted to put out a sign that he Is such.
 In the meantime the hospitals are crowded with patients, and typhoid fever has become epidemic. The grave yard, now almost in the heart of the rapidly grown town, gives almost con- stant occupation to. the grave digger. There are eighty three patients in the Catholic hospital and forty In the re- gently opened Good Samaritan, more than either has proper provision for. The capacity of the Catholic hospital is being doubled as fast as men can construct the addition, private hospf- tals are being opened and sickness. is to be found in cabins and tents in every part of the town. There is no public records of the deaths or burials. Since it opened a short time ago there have been two deaths at the Good Samaritan Hospital-Albert Smith, German. and Duncan Bertram, a Frenchman. There have died at the Catholic hospital since my last report: G. G. Sparks, on the 14th inst. of scurvy: Lewis Arsenault. on the 18th, of typhoid; Otto Wlilner. on the goth, typhoid; Achille Butan. 23d, typhoid: Thomas Tennent of London. England, 24th. typhoid; James Sheehe of Virginia City, New, 26th. pneumo-