The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-04-01
DAWSON NEWS.
Breezy Information Conveyed in the
Yukon Sun.
(Anaconda standardl


CAnaconda Standard.)
The Yukon, Sun of Dawson prints q
large volume of news every week and
the style of the paper is q gem of
originality in one sense. The make
up of one page especially attracts at
tention. The page is made up OF seven
columns of brief news paragraphs, a
heading that extendssacross the page
reading: "A chiefs amang We takin
notes, an faith, he'll prent it, a Scotch
quotation. Under this heading are ar
ranged sub heads" over the seven col
umns, the first being News of the
Week, f" People in Town.. etc. Under
the heading Strange Truths is printed
the line;
Fresh eggs by the case at Meeker' s. -
Under the caption, Good News, are
ranged these bits of news:
harry Grow had his hand severely
scalded on Tuesday while employed in
the kitchen of the California restaur-
ant"
"A man, whose name could not be
learned, fell from a sled on the Hunker
road on Tuesday and was badly in
jured."
Another piece of Good News" is
given as follows:
"A valuable young pup belonging TO
the Log Cabin hotel was taken with
d oCNClG dNldCh u IdDltS ana was
promptly shot. AS far as known the
pup had not been bitten or near any
other dog, which makes the case
strange one. The pup had been Feceiv-
ing good care, so the cause cannot
be lad to exposure or want of food or
water"
Under the head of Fact and Fancy
is this note:
"A. Johnson excavated a hugh mann
moth tusk on Tuesday. The ivory is
in almost a perfect state of preserva-
ton. 1t weighs in the neighborhosd Of
300 pounds and is thirteen feet long"
Says an editorial: a feNv days more
and then the electric lights and other
Illuminating agents of Dawson Will go
out of business With their day shifts -
Noting the progress of it's esteemed
contemporary, the Sun remarks editor
tally:
And now Dawson has a Mergen-
thaler type-casting machine, which is
OF the best on earth. It Will help to
produce the Dawson Daily News In
the march of progress the newspapers
lead the way, even though at the
cleanup when the prizes are distrib-
uted, 1T does seem as though the papers
share in the allotment is the distinction
OF being permitted TO publish the names
OF the other fellows-the winners. We
envy the News its mill and will emu
late the News example in that respect,
and that at very short date
by way OF encOura cement to the
many men UP that way who are there
solely for the purpose of picking up
gold from the wheeIbaprow tracks, the
editor hands out this bit of news, which
in Butte might be taken for a pipe:
E w. Parks of the Log Cabin hotel
is at present well pleased with himself
and the KlOndike country. During the
auction sales of claims last fall Mr..
Parks purchased a hillside claim oppo-
site 43 on Hunker for So. His object
in purchasing was to use the claim for
a cabin site, as his property near that
point was not as favorable for build
ing purposes Two weeks ago on level
ing the ground for the cabin he noticed
signs of gold. He did some prospecting
and found the ground TO run from 50
cents to st to the pan. He secured a
rocker and carried water up the hill
and by this crude method rocked out
$500 in several days and then sold the
claim for satisfactory figure
The newspapers of Dawson send the
encouraging word to the states that
there is less restitution and. hardship
in the Yukon country now than since
the boom days of four years ago The
women are finding employment and the
salvation army, that has done more
that all other humane agents. reports
that there is less call for assistance at
the barracks.