The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-03
more SUCKERS NEEDED
A New Crop Wanted in the DaW-
son City Country.
,ADvICE OF 0NEY GAGAN
sBol Levy Presents Photographic Evidence
OF His Alleged Immaterial but
Highly Interesting
Friend


ssue, reproduced letter written by
sOney Gagan of Dawson City to Sol
Levy Of this city and printed in the
I Standard. The Independent is Of the
sopinion that Sol himself wrote the letter
land that Oney Gagan is myth. In in
stroducing the letter the Independent
.goes into a little Of Soils political his
tory which will be Of interest to the
friends of that worthy official. 1t says:
I'VE republish from the columns of
the Anaconda Standard portions of a
letter to Sol Levy, written by his dear
= friend Oney Gagan Of Dawson. Every
one who knew Sol when he lived In
Quincy will, upon reading our reprint
of the letter, suspect that Sol himself
is Oney Gagan. Sol Is a resident OF
Butte, Mont, and a fellow of infinite
Jest and humor.' 1t may be remem-
bered by some of our readers that he
received the nomination for coroner and
public administrator from Plumas
county democratic convention, and in
thanking the convention for the honor
how he expressed his willingness to at
once hold inquests and bury as many
republicans as possible before the cleo
tion. This declaration, though made
X with apparent earnestness, was met
with laughter, for Sols heart was ten
der as a child's."
When asked yesterday If he were
elected, Sol replied that there were no
republican funerals before that cleo
ton. In regard to the quantity of Oney
Gagan, Sol wanted the Plumas county
people to understand that he was the
real, genuine Oney Gagan who years
ago used to drive a water cart in Quin-
cy. Later Oney and Sol went to Labra-
Il how fal o., For
Iceland, where 1t was proposed to start
hog ranch. Sol said the whole town
of Quincy turned out to give him and
Oney sendoff. He marvels at the Woe
full '.miniscomprehensib of the mi
crobatic vehemence bearing upon the
=" fragmentary indissolubility of the mi
grafton of the visionary hallucination
= Of the Quincy man who thinks Sol Is
Oney
Sol produced letter from Oney, writ
ten only few weeks ago, and, handing
it to reporter, asked: Does this look
like me?" The letter bore Dawson date,
was signed "Oney Gagan," and the post
on the envelope. It was written by
Oney. OF that there can be no doubt
1t is in part as follows:
II received your welcome letter and
the bundle of Standards. The only lit
erature l have had for months We're the
labels l tore off of chest of Japan
tea and the tags on my overalls. l read
them all but the tea label and that was
too deep for me.
THE weather is not cold here now,
but it was last month, For while we
all thought that we could not live
through it. But it is very dull here. l
think it will get duller, too.
I'll see by the dispatches in the Stand
ard that large shipments of gold have
gone out of Dawson and been received
in Tacoma We called mass meeting
to take action In the matter and 1t was
agreed that the dispatches We're in err
ror. we don't think we let any gold get
. away from US. recovered my gold that
was stolen two months ago. Instead of
my cellar being burglarized and all my
stuff carried away I had merely gotten
full and went into an abandoned cabin
and supposed that / had been robbed.
1t turned out all right and my cellar
is still full of gold. am the only man
in Dawson who has dollar. The rest
of 'em are flat broke. If you run across
anybody who wants to come up here to
make his fortune urge him along. We
need more suckers. Don't encourage
him il he hasn't plenty Of money. We
have too many of that class here now.
It's moneyed geeZers we want up here,
not gold. The boys like greenbacks;
gold nuggets are too cumbersome; be-
bar you get bigger drink for it than
you do for a nugget worth twice as
much
"All Of the faro banks have closed
here and gone down to Skaguay, where
they say business is better There the
tenderfeet make break for the banks
as soon as they leave the boat, expect
ing to win enough to buy good out
fit to take them into the interior. That
may not be true, but it is a fact that a
great many men do not get any further
than Skaguay, and there are some fly
dealers in that camp Unless they sup
press gambling in the camps along the
trail to Dawson this place might as
we'll go out of business entirely and
move down into a warmer country.
Take away our saloons, faro banks and
suckers and there will be nothing left
worth living for up here. The gold you
read about being found up here Is not
all gold. Much Of it is imagination.
There is gold here but it is hard to get"