Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-12-02
FROM THE KLoNDIKE.
Interesting Letter from Dawson City
from j. D. Treholme Formerly

Interesting Letter from Dawson City
from ]. D. Treholme Formerly
Of Bathgate.
The Bathgate Pink Paper prints an
interesting letter from j. D. Trenholme
a former resident of that city and who is
incorporating an electric light plant at
Dawson City, as was stated in a letter to
a resident of this city part of which ap-
peared in the TRIBUNE a few days ago.
Trenholme says:
Dawson is to be a city, that is. if the
powers that be a be persuaded to
grant a charter. This once done there
will a wide open town here this winter;
as it is, the N. w. mounted police patrol
the city day and night and order cannot
be better in. any eastern ,cities. But
once a city the police jurisdiction ceases
and law and order will be with the mayor
and aldermen, after that await develop
ments. There will probably be one
hundred saloons to license, dance houses
and other girls to be regularly fined,
brewery to be regulated, ferry licenses
to be arranged for in two different
places, main street to be paved, the river
water front to be leased, ETC., etc. I
could mention many others, all well pay
ing enterprises. A Doodle alderman
here would be the biggest boodler on
earth, no question about it. just
/. alleged Doodle deals that you use to
glory in turning over az stated intervals
would be the moral side of the question
here. Corruption among the officials
under the present organization is bare
faced, but wait for corporation. The
town is a good one; every enterprise
Observation-Disclosures churches, restau-
rants and clubs. Senators are often met
carrying home a couple of potatoes for
dinner, which cost about Is cents a
pound. Lawyers, especially American
ones (they cannot practice here on ac-
count of the rigid examination put them
by the Canadian barr can be seen daily
on II streets, some carrying cabin logs
up the hill, others acting as long shore
men. .Noblemen there are in abundance
English chappies with their knee
breeches and long stockings, also old
men and women in dotage and last, but
not least, the girls. I think I wrote you
that George M. went out to Seattle with
money to buy two $50 light dynamos.
He is due here nov and I look for him
every day as he was accompanied by a
guardian who keeps straight ahead; they
were last reported from on the Skaguay
trail, each riding a mule; a gentlemen
whom I met today met them there on
his way in and he said they were making
the race of their lives. If they get here
before it closes up we will have a slick
plant. I am all prepared for him; 1000
cords of wood in the yard, engine and
boiler are in place and the two dynamos
we have will be in operation next week.
We are selling lights at Is and 50 cents
per night for 16 candle power, according
to number taken. Mat and John Probst
run the engine and fire and Jack Nc
Lean is river man. Mr.. Fee is master
mechanic while Geo. Lithgow cooks
when he is able to be up and not work
ing. George Carl and John Maloney
with Bill Birch have a lay on a claim
and are settled for the winter, Geo. H.
McPheran of Mimic is running a store:
A. B. Guptill of Fargo and WI Perkins
of Bismarck, are spectators. Archie
Shelp does nothing, though he has a
couple of good properties not yet
developed. Dominion and Gulph creeks
are expected to show goodrich diggings
this coming winter. Everyone expects
to hear great things of those two and
other creeks are equally rich. The
creek claims can only be worked in win
ter and the benches Or hillside claims
are the summer diggings.