The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-09
is ON THE HOG AGAIN
Oney Gagan Writes Another Let
ter to Sol Levy.
HOW THE PLAY CAME UP
Some Miscreant Entered His Cellar and
Stole All of His Gold Dust-Noth-
ing Was Left Him but
Bootjack.

ter to Sol Levy. Oney is ION the hog
again." to use his own words. 1t came
to pass that one night while Oney was
attending smoker some one went into
his cellar and stole all of his gold, and
when he returned there was nothing
left in his cabin but his bootjack and
an 1896 calendar Oney tells his troubles
in the following lines:
Dawson City, Alaska, November,
1S9S.-Dear Friend Solomon: | call you
Solomon because l am sad; when l was
gay l always called you Sol I'm on
the hog again, old man, and this is the
way the play came up: Twas only
day or two after l wrote you last when
some magpie-hearted rhinoceros-
skinned, hyphenated black sheep enter
ed my cellar and carted off all of my
gold and provisions, and left me moth
ing but my old bootjack and an 1896 cal
endar l don't know now whether it's
Sunday or some other day and won't
know anything about dates until | get
new calendar. Please send me one.
I've inquired every day of a different
man and they all tell me that it's Sun
day. | haven't yet found a man who
said that it was a work day.
This is the --LATEST town on the map.
Not man in Dawson has done tap of
work since away last summer They all
say that they won't work on Sunday
and they all tell me every day that
1T Is Sunday. There are hundreds Of
men here too lazy to eat, and it has
been so long since they ate that they
can't remember the date of their last
meal. They're too lazy to remember
Last summer Bill Smith sat down in
Big Petes saloon and crossed his legs
and they've been crossed ever since
just because he is too lazy to take the
cross out of them. Esquimo Tom fell
into his fireplace last night, and rather
than get a hustle on he actually let
himself roast to death. Big Pete's bar
glasses are all on the bar because Pete
is too lazy to wash them so whenever
a geezer wants a bracer Pete just tells
MIN to drop a half into the knot hole
and reach over and help himself. One
old duffer was too lazy to pour a drink
out into glass, so he up with the bot
tie and drank the whole works and then
Pete snot him down in his tracks, and
that kind of walked the town up.
I'VE are having an open winter, wide
open. Everybody is welcome to all he
wants of it. There is nothing backward
about our winters. | like them for the
enemies they make. A committee of six
regulators went out the other day to
meet a norther, and they game back in
an iceberg. Y #-
Since I lost my gold there has not
been cent in town. Tobacco is money
now. A plug is worth 10 times its
weight in gold. We chew one piece I'M
til it won't hang together any longer,
then we smoke it and save the ashes to
use in lieu of snuff. l would have
starved to death if it hadn't been for
plug OF tobacco that l had in my pocket
when my gold was stolen. l gave a no.
telkeeper chew upon his promise to
board me until next summer So | am
eating regularly two or three times a
week.
"One of the boys fell sick a few days
ago and doctor told him to diet him
self. The shock killed the poor fellow.
Two tenderfeet from Helena showed
up last week and applied at a store for
work. The boss set them to work, and
| when he told them that their wages
would be SIS day in trade they almost
tainted. They worked for two DAYS and
asked for their pay. The boss gave one
of them a pair of suspenders and the
other a cake of soap. They asked him
how long they would have to work to
earn suit of clothes and he told them
one year. They threw up their jobs and
Joined our Sunday club.
Inefe was masquerade ball over in
the hotel few nights ago. One thought
less young man appeared in a Chinese
costume and that sealed his DOOM A
committee of regulators cut a hole in
the ice and chucked the fellow into the
river Excellent music was furnished
by an orchestra composed of combs and
thin paper.
'Dischargng firearms outside of a
saloon is prohibited by the law and or
der league. Last nights stiffness was
broken by the loud report of the ice
cracking in the river. Seven men froze
to death in searching the town for the
man who fired the gun
Some of Ayers army canned meat
has found it's way to Dawson At the
ball the other night the hotel boss OPEN
ed can and pulled out piece of cow
hide with the brand u. S. on it, 1t mad
the right color, but was awfully tough.
I must close for this time, for a com
mittee has just returned from a trip
down the river and announces publicly
that party of emigrants is coming up
with load of grub and tobacco. We
must fix up the proper kind of a recep-
'tlon for the cargo, you know"