The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-12
WAY UP N THE KLONO|KE
News That Has Just Circulated
Down From There.
ONE IMPROMPTU STAGE
Side OF . House Pulled Down to Accom-.
modate the Performers-Mayor Nc
LAughlin's Party Is Quitting
at Edmonton.

Great Falls, May 11.-Major George
B.. Mclaughlin and his party are at
Edmonton Quitting for the trip to
Stewart river. They have 60 horses
forming their pack train, and have two
government packers to look after them.
n expect to start in a few days on
the trail.
Another party Quitting at Edmonton
Is the Peterboro Klondike Mining COM
pany, to which Alexander Monk
man Of Butte is mineral ex-
pert. h party will take with
them two carts. which they claim are
historic. The first bore Louis Riel
as a prisoner from Batoche to the Re-
gina Jail, n the other was the tri-
umphal chariot Of Chief Poundmaker
on his historic march to Battleford.
One would Judge from the statement
that in the reconstruction OF these and
other carts and harness used, it re-
quired 400 pounds of wire and six hides
of Shagganappi that all of them had
reaches a respectable old age
hat all of the amenities of civiliza-
ton have not been lost in the rush for
gold is evidenced by the fact that re-
Gently a concert was given i'm the open
eft Of an old trapper who had become
incapacitated for work by throat
trouble. To furnish a platform for
the performers, the owner of one OF
the houses in Bohemian Row pulled
down one side of 4, forming a stage.
The programme, which was as follows,
shows that the population of the Land
ing is quite varied. and possibly in
cludes considerable talent: Mr.. Hof-
Manu., zither, waltz; G. Hestor, song,
The Woodpecker"; Mr.. Carmuse. COR
net, Robin Adair" and Goodbye.
c. H. D.- .~l Mia
LilRe. song. The Blind Girl; Mr..
stephens, banjo. march; DR.. Buck and
Mr.. Kelly, vocal duet. "Larboard
watch: Miss Struthers, violin; Mr..
Kelly. song. THE Bohemian Girl; T.
$. Cowan, recitation. The ~Fffty-pound
Club; Mr.; Holman either. The
mandolin. God Save the Queen" cor
net accompaniment by Mr.. Carmuse.
An interesting letter from a member
of the northwest mounted police now
in Dawson City indicates that all is
not happiness on the Klondike. and that
the Canadians are beginning to OBJ
Ject to the dog-in-the-manger policy of
the Canadian government in regard TO
miners and mining claims. He says:
Judge Mcclure has been here for a
month He only tried two cases yet.
one for stealing four and one for steal
ing $40. 900 in gold dust. He gave them
each five years hard labor, and you bet
they saw lots of fire wood. This Is
the country where you pay for your
luxuries-s50 for a common drunk. The
whisky that is sold here would Kill In
dams. The principal ingredients are
water and chewing tobacco, but the
better brands are blended with spruce
gum and alkali. There will be a great
many disappointed people leave this
country unless I am mistaken. and If
the government keeps tinkering at the
mining laws they will drive a great
many miners out of the Territory and
into Alaska. where the laws ars much
more favorable. 1 asked a miner the
other day how he was doing, n he
said: oh. working for the govern
ment and boarding myself explaining
that after they took the royalty and
he paid the wages. there would not be
enough left to pay himself"