The Philipsburg mail., 1899-10-27
A NEWSPAPER STORY
PUBLISHED BY A WOMAN IN
YUKON REGION.
Printed on a Typewriter~-Makes Its
Appearance Monthly, Sells for
Dollar Copy and Is in Great
Demand. q

Tie ulSClnctlOn or being the only female
editor and proprietor of a newspaper
throughout the length and breadth of
the great Yukon region-that land of
snow and ice, of hardy pioneers and of
gold. says the San Francisco Examiner.
But Clara E. Wright, just past 80 years
of age, bears her distinction modestlv.
lts just matter of business she
says. Il find it pays, now that have
passed the experimental stage with my
publication, and money is what | am
alter. And such a unique publica-
ton as the Rampant City Whirlpool is!
lts motto, I'VE amt SO warm!" gives
an indication of the paper and it's pub
llsher Established in January of the
present year, as a tWelve-page monthly
publlcatlon, it's advertising business
mas increased to such proportions that
The energetic publisher had to just dou-
Die the number Of pages while the ciA
culatlon far exceeds the total popula-
| tlon OF the place of it's publication.
men, women and children-a circula-
t1on that no other journal in the world
can boast of. And this, with the pa
for term riptions-and the over
worked publisher unable to supply the
demand at that. Did you ever stop to
consider the labor involved in getting
ost an ordinary newspaper, with it's
almost human typesetting machines its
corps Of -gatherers and editors.
ana its lightning presses that turn off
many thousand copies in an hour? IF
you have, make another pause and give
thosght to the labor devolving on this
undaunted California woman, with not
soul to assist her but her daughter
mere is not single type in Rampant
city; printers stick" would be a
curiosity, while there is cot even
clder press, much less a printing press
anywhere nearer than Dawson, some
hundred miles away. A plain ordinary
typewriter makes the WHIRLPOOL. with
the manipulation of Mrs Wright and
her daughter Doris In the old days in
San Francisco Clara Wright supported
hersef and little Doris after tho death
OF her husband, ten years ago, by stem
osraphlc work, and when she went TO
Alaska in June of last year she took
along the machine that had long been
the means of her livelihood here That
machine is now proving a satisfactory
substitute for presses. Advertisements
and reading matter, editorials and
headlines are all the same, capital let
ters doing service for all display type,
while small ads and reading matter
go in the lower case letters. Being |
business manager, advertising solicitor,
circulation clerk, managing editor. CITY
editor, local staff, ,compositor and press
woman combined, it is no wonder that
the Rampant Whirlpool is not published |
more frequently than once a month.
weekly publication under such sir
cumstances would be almost an impos-
slbil1ty; daily issue would mean men,
tai and physical collapse. Not in the
least elated over her multiplicity of
titles, not crushed by their weight, Mrs
wright sets about her daily tasks with
dauntless courage and rejoices over the
fact that with the growing business the
days have heightened prOportionately.
for every advertisement, every news
Item and each new subscriber means
Just so much more lingering of the
typewriter When the rush to the
klondike set in she determined to go
to the new Ell Dorado. 1t was not until
June, 1898, however, that she was able
to make the start, and then against
the advice of her friends. and unac-
companied save by her ten-year-old
who had been left fatherless
almost from the time of her birth, Mrs.
Wright started for Dawson by way of
st. Michael Arriving there she en-
countered so many people returning to
the states, with most wonderful tales
of the klondike region that she deter
mined to cast her lot on the American
side of the boundary line According
ly she went to Rampant City, the CEN
ter of the vast gold discoveries on the
Minook and its tributaries. No thought
Of starting a newspaper entered the +
adys head at first She had gone to
that country for gold, and the pre-
cious metal lay buried deep in the 7
ground. She made personal nspec- 6
ion Of the different creeks and gulches +
IL the district and located several ,
claims, while she acquired an interest +
n several others that had been located !
After the streams froze up and deep r
NOW covered the ground, Mrs. Wright J.
made frequent long trips to the claims. h
nduring perils and hardships that n
many strong men shrank from. v
Mrs. Wright conceived the idea of
tarting a newspaper upon her return
rom one of these trips, when the in
ensely cold, dreary, sunless days af- ;.
orded little opportunity for a woman II
f her energetic temperament to do II
oMething." So in January of the X
resent year the Rampant Whirlpool d
egan its career under circumstances a
S unfavOrable as those usually attend II
1g the establishment of rural publi- n
ations. But it has prospered even be- IN
ond the hopes of its protector and II
ach month since then it has made it's pl
DOearance repular1V Tho firct nup, II