The Nome nugget., 1903-11-18
FROM DAWSON Unpaid EmpIoyes of the
 Government REGISTER A KICK
Old Stewart River SOurdOughs Who Have Been in the Country for
 Years Sheer at ChechakOeS.
(From the Dawson NewS.)

EmplOyeS or the DOmlnlOn puDllc works department in Yukon territory have not been paid for their services for more than two months. First it was the telegraph employees of the Do- minion telegraph line between Ash croft and Dawson: next it was the Northwest mounted police of Yukon and the Dawson Rifles. Now the public works men have their inning at living on nothing in land of high costs or paying big interest for borrowed money. The public works department also embraces in way the telegraph department. So it may be said the pub lie works department is getting its share of neglect.
 Stampeders returning from the new Clear creek district report finding q number of genuine old sourdOughs in that region who look upon those who came here with the lS91-9S rush as be- ing among the verdant cheechacos of the north. One old timer was encoun- tered who had not seen this place since the time when solitary cabin stood on the present site of the city. He knew but he had never seen it. When the first stampeders began arriving in the Clear creek district he was surprised to see so many whites.
 Fairbanks is to have a telephone sys- tenn. It will be installed this fall. N. | A. Fuller, president of the Yukon Tele- phone Syndicate, operating in Dawson and on the adjacent creeks, and three others have formed a company and have supplies en route. MT. Fuller owns the greater interest in the com pany. He says the company has cap ital of $50, ,000, and is ready to pay up at any moment.
 | In less than two weeks the summer season of the local hothouses will be at an end, and homegrown fresh vegeta- bles will be out of the market with the exception of some lettuce. Nearly all the hothouses are beginning to pre- pare for the winter and next week will store away their stocks. Some of the houses will have lettuce up to Christ mas. The vegetable is allowed to grow to fair size, when the tops are trimmed off. After that the light is cut off from the. lettuce. This arrests their growth and they are in good condition for the Christmas season. The Foichats tried this experiment last winter and it was successful. Celery is put away green and keeps bleaching all winter in the store houses.
 Since the water has been so low in the Yukon the last few weeks, the reef near Fortymile, made famous as the graveyard of the old pioneer Yukon steamer Arctic, shows up plainly. The Arctic was not allowed to remain on the reef. The hull was blasted out, but the place where she rested is plain ly visible. The Arctic was wrecked
 
 ago.
 When the two owners of No. "A be- low on Sulphur found huge mastodon tusk while drifting on their claim, each wanted the curio and they solved the problem by cutting it in two. Each took half. Though their find was robbed of all value as curio they were satisfied. The tusk was found on bed rock at a depth of thirty-fve feet. Be- fore the owners sawed it in two it's | length was nine feet. It is eight inches | in diameter. It was of great weight. The spelling of the tusk recalls the stories of the trail during the first rush. In those days when partners disagreed they divided their outfit, even going to the length of chopping their stove in two and each taking half.
 Two hundred cords of wood were re- gently lost by the sudden rise in the waters of the Klondike. The wood was swept down the river into the Yukon and when last seen was heading for St. Michael. A few cords, it is believed, were saved by different people along the Yukon shore.
 In speaking of the enforcement of the export tax law, Ma jor Wood, commands ant of the police in the Yukon, points out that the police are given no latitude in the matter. Dust found on person leaving the territory and unaccom- panied by 8 certificate that the export tax has been paid must be seized. The police, he states, are not allowed any discretion in the matter. The police