The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-01-13

out q regular hre department.. l.
saw an old Jew crying, and Won
dering what had happened to the
old gentleman, said: care you
hurtw He replied "that so much
provision had been burned that he
was crying for the people" "Have
| you lost much?" eyes, everything
even my butter" The air being
quite frosty, the tears had formed a
regular glacier on his face, SO |
told him he had better 60 in and
| warm himself. Was told the next
day that he had been trying to get
a corner on butter.
Jack Galvin's dream the night
before he left Dawson for his home
| in Ellensburg, goes something like
this:
Backward, turn backward, o time, in
thy flight;
Feed me on Cruel again just for tonight.
/ am so weary OF sole-leather STEAK
petrified,
vulcanized cake, oysters that sleep in a
| Butter as strong as Goliah or Gath.
Weary of paying for old grub l can't
eat; NJ. :.
Chewing up India rubber, and calling it
meat.
Give me whack at my grandmother's
: jam,
Let me drink milk that has never been
skinned;
Let me eat once again-haye an old
fashioned pie, =.
Then III be ready to curl up and die"
At this writing am laid up with
a bad cold, the first since came.
SO found time to record Jacks
dream.
1t seems that some one is trying
to start a rumor that grub will be
| short, but l cannot see it that
way. From June 9 to October 4,
1882 tons of freight came up the
river, beside the steamers arriving,
! above noted. No account is taken
of the up-river boats, but clear
ances have to be made on their
part, and the records show forty
clearances for White Horse rapids
! and Bennett. Dawson is suffering
to great extent, the effects of a
"boom." With the advent of the
first treasure ship to the sound,
something over year ago, avaric-
| ious and sensational journals
seized the opportunity to "hawk
their wares" broaoc cast over the
;; land, inducing thousands in all
conditions of life, many indeed, to
leave lucrative positions and with
outfits sufficient and insufficient,
! hasten to the land pictured as
simply glittering with gold. The
result is known as one never before
equalled in the worlds annals
Disappointment, disaster and
degradation have come to hundreds
led falsely through the very acts Of
sensationalism. A certain amount
of labor can be employed, but no
! more. Finding gold on the hill
claims was fortunate thing, as it
gave work to so many unemployed
men.
The Yukon river at Dawson is
in the shape of horseshoe, and
the town is situated in the bend at
the right side. 1t greatly resembles
a swamp or marsh. The water has
washed the sand in on the fiat
when the river was high, so left a
kind of bank which the river sell
dom runs over.
The sanitary conditions now pre-
vailing in and around Dawson are
very poor. The number of sick is
increasing at an alarming rate.
Hospitals are crowded, and an un-
known number of persons in var.
ious stages of illness are scattered
around the city in tents and cabins.
While it may be true that great
deal Of sickness is the result OF
hardships and privation met on
the trail, it is undoubtedly fact
that Dawson, as a place of residence
at the present time, is anything
but healthful. This is partially
due to the character of the area of
land composing the townsite. The
marsh between the water front