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The Passing Of Greatest Mining Camp in the Wor

y AWSoN,, Capital of the Klondike, in
- 1916, Twenty Years After the Discov-
cry. of Gold-Hgh Prices of the Present
and Past-Eggs at SIS Dozen and Milk at
$1.50a Gallon-The Midnight Sun and the
Winter Darkness-Ideal Climate, 20
Degrees Below Zero-The Scene of Sam
McGee's Cremation.
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paid So as duty on lace received from
Europe by mall
"An amateur smuggler mailed a $40
gold piece in Boston, between two
squares of cardboard. This money. too,
was contributed by woman. In
deed. more women than men admit
their smuggling practices. The sums
received from men, however, are larg-
err Early last spring lawyer in New
York paid s4.s76 in behalf of client
the client being, it is fair to suppose.
an importer.
when men. 1t sometimes happens.
bring small articles into the country,
like embroidery. gloves and so on. and
get past the customs officers, their
wives or sisters, brooding over the mat
ter. become conscience stricken and
send money to the Treasury in Wash
ington. They never. of course. tell US
their names. or point out their Offend
ing relatives.
Honesty is not matter of sex; nor
is dishonesty. A man In South Dakota
bought some oatsefrom United States
soldiers stationed in that part of the
country He knew that the oats be-
longed to the national government. The
spoke to his wife about 1t. mean he
told her, to repay the government
But he died suddenly of pneumonia.
The wife. however. sent Secretary Nc
ton and s12.
1T was a woman, too, an Office
holder in Washington. who returned
$3.50 to the Treasury as restitution
for days sick leave to which I was
not entitled Another woman, once in
office. sent Secretary McAdoo three
one-dollar bills. which, she wrote. Is
in payment for such stationery as I
may have put to personal use
Forty years ago a workman at a
navy yard took some nails home from
time to time. The nails caused trouble
with his conscience-forty years Of
trouble, perhaps. I have always been
poor he wrote, but l now inclose $25
that my mind may be at peace
"A man In Kansas bought a govern
ment horse for $40 from three desert
ers. who had been locked up at Fort
Leavenworth. He sold the horse for
the same amount. but the money tor
mented him day and night. In January.
this year, he paid 1t into the Treasury.
The adventure cost him $40 and no end
Of mental agony. Even the theft Of a
small apple tree from the grounds at
Fort Sheridan, near Chicago, so both
cred the conscience of another man
that he sent US a dollar bill.
Cheating the post Office" Mr.. Cook
sey went on to say, has brought sor-
row to hundreds of men and women
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DAWSON IN 1915. THE YUKON IN
must take an amount that equals a
quarter in value. Ordinary patent
medicines that cost IS cents outside
bring fifty cents here. That Is so of
all toilet preparations. We have no
shaving soap for less than so cents a
tube, cake or packet; and no tooth
brushes under that price. Our people
do not object to the prices, but they
insist on the goods being first class,
so we buy only the best.
But these prices are small compared
with what we got when first started
business" the druggist went on, Il used
to charge a dollar for a mustard plas-
ter, a dollar for a two-grain quinine
pill and so cents an ounce for castor oil.
l sold my seidlitz powders at dollar
apiece. and f1axseed for $32 a pound.
The latter was used largely for coughs
and colds. which were common during
cold weather. The miners made a tea
of it, and served 1t in one way or an
other"
Speaking of the old-time prices, I
hear stories everywhere as to the enor-
nous cost of things in the days of the
gold rush. All timed goods were sold
at IS per can, no matter whethersit was
tomatoes, canned corn or canned beans;
canned meats were traded for at a
third of an ounce each in gold dust or
nuggets.
At one time the universal price for
all sorts of supplies and provisions
was 81 per pound Mr.. William H.
Fairbanks, now vice president of the
Northern Commercial Company, tells
me he once bought an outfit in Dawson
for $500. 1t weighed 500 pounds, and
was charged for by the pound. 1t con-
sisted of provisions and supplies of all
kinds. and shovels and nails brought
the same amount per pound as corn
meal and rice. At that time flour cost
$50 sack, firewood. $40 a cord. and
hay from $500 to $500 ton. Nothing
was sold cheap.
A man was telling last night of Jack
McQuesten, who lived at Forty Mile, a
camp on the Yukon. McQuesten's store
was in log cabin and he had goods of
every description. One day miner
came in and asked for a needle. He
was handed out one, and told that the
price was rs cents. The man took the
looked hard at it, and then asked Nc
Questen:
Say, pard, amt you mistaken. Can't
you make it a bit cheaper. That's a
hell of price for needle"
NO" said the storekeeper, I'D like to
If could. But, man, just think of the
freight
l am writing this in midsummer. We
had a foot ball match here last night.
1t did not end until after 10 o'clock,
and moving pictures were taken about
the close of the game. Since I have
been here it has been so light that
could read print out of doors at any
time during the twenty-four hours.
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living in all parts of the United States.
The letters received from some of them
tell of minds racked with pain and re-
morse.
Writers of such letters often say
that they wish to be right with God
From a town in Michigan. this year.
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P lst Of May $4,000 Had Been Sent ConnceSk PerFnd
- Now $50OO-t Was Started 1911
Humorous Related by
Members of "Unce Sans
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Year for "Conscience Fund"

The sender proba bly, lives somewhere
else. Last summer 10000 in currency
was mailed in New York. The writer,
We were informed in penmanship that
was clearly disguised. has paid double
to the United States the amount he
stole, yet his conscience is not salts
fed. and here is another payment
Still another letter, containing So
900. has recently come from New York,
though the person who wrote 1t may
be a resident of Buffalo or Boston.
man tormented in his mind for forty
five years, so he told us. sent $1,000
from Chicago. whereas he Is living,
possibly. in Cincinnati or Indianapolis.
An old person with trembling hand
a man. no doubt-placed $3,70O in
long white envelope and mailed it at
Racine. Wis. Please credit he wrote
on a small slip Of paper, to the con-
science fund His home. likely as not.
is in Milwaukee or Minneapolis.
Usually there is unbounded faith
although letters from the largest con-
tributors' sometimes registered,
under false names. Of course, or sent
by special delivery. One person. how
cut eight one-thousand- dollar bills in
two. He sent the half of each bill to
the Treasury with the statement that
the other halves would follow when ne
read in the newspapers an acknowl-
edgment from Washington. The ac-
Acknowledgement printed and he
promptly made his word good.
The second largest sum ever re-
ceived. s1S,599.60, was sent to the COL
lector of customs in New York. In
this case. IL was plain, some one had
brought goods into the country and
had swindled the government out of
the tariff. British clergyman, sew
erai years ago. gave the United States
consul general in London s14,22515,
saving that member of his church
had cheated the government of this
country out of that amount. This. too,
undoubtedly was a customs case.
"A great many persons, repenting of
their smuggling performances have
sent money in little and large sums to
the conscience fund A woman in Bos-
ton. who spent last summer at York
Adoo. in payment of the duty on goods
she brought over from Europe twenty
years ago. The tariff, she said would
have amounted to ss7. The s233 extra.
she thought, would be fair payment
for the interest lost meanwhile by
the government. She closed her letter
with congratulations to you and Pres
ident Wilson on the averted war
II saw a letter not long ago, written
on the stationery of an exclusive club
in Chicago. in which the writer. a rich
man. no doubt. confessed that he had
struggled watch that he had pur-
chased abroad. the duty on which, he
thought. would be about 500. He
sent the money with he observation
that he would never be satisfied until
the debt was paid.
Seventeen years ago, woman trav-
cling from Ireland to California, hid a
tablecloth and a dozen napkins among
hn~ rl hi
ago she sent SIS to the conscience
fund. with the statement that she
wanted to escape further self-reproach
Another woman. only the other day,
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fcopyrishted 1915, by Frank G. carpen.er.)

copyrighted. 1915. by Frank G. Carpenter.)
DAWSON. Yukon Territory.
0WRITE of Dawson. the capital of
northwestern Canada, the metrop-
oils of the Klondike mining region.
a and for years the richest mining
camp of the world. 1t is just about two
decades since gold was discovered on
Bonanza creek. and now s1S0.0o0.o00
worth of that precious metal has been
/. thawed out of the frozen earth within
few miles of where | am writing. The
first discovery was in 1896. and the
camp reached the height of it's prosper
ity about Ave years later. Its gold out
put that year was over S22 900, and
it has annually produced millions from
that time until now. The product last
year was about s5.OO0.OOO. and they will
be getting out that much for some years
to come.
The first mining was done by individ-
uals. Stray miners. prospectors and
fortune hunters rushed in from all parts
of the world. Each had his own pick
and shovel, his gold pan and his fire.
brand He dug down into the icy gravel
and thawed it away as he looked for the
rich pockets of gold. Within seven or
eight years the cream of the camp was
SKINNED off and the small miners left.
Then came great companies with mill
lions of capital and the finest of mining
machinery. They have been working
the low-grade ground of the valleys and
have been washing down the mountains
to save the sprinkling of gold dust left
in them. Great dredges. which cost hun
dreds of thousands of dollars apiece,
now do the labor of hundreds of men,
and rivers of water, carried for miles in
pipes over the country, are dashed
against the hills to get out the gold.
The age of machinery has replaced the
age of pure muscle and men, and Daw-
son suffers in consequence.
The Dawson of the past had at times
more than 10000 citizens and in the re-
gion about were more than $4,000 in
habitants. Today the city has less than
5000 and the outlying districts one
third much more. With the gradual
exhaustion of the gold the population is
decreasing and 1t is only a question of
q few years when the precious metal
will all be carried away and the chief
reason for a city here will have disap
peared. One of the great hopes of the
people lies in the discovery of rich
quartz mines or the mother lode from
which all this loose gold has come.
With this view the hills have been pros
pected in every direction. but so far no
such find has been made.
The location of the city is just where
1t started when gold was discovered.
The houses still cover the mouth of the
valley of the klondike river and the
east bank of the Yukon north of where
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BY JAMES B. MORROW.

u y,
lMMI remorseful way to the CON
HHII science fund" in the Treasury,
v. passes over the desk of George
R. Cooksey. private secretary of Mr.
McAdoo.
Sympathetic and Imaginative, and a
newspaper writer by profession, Mr.
Cooksey can read the mental torture in
the briefest of scrawls and the fear,
pride and penitence in the longer let
tiers that are often feigned in penman-
ship and purposeiy misspelled.
More money is now being received at
the Treasury from men and women
who have cheated the government than
at any time heretofore. The total for
the year, to the month of May, was
$4,000. In all the conscience fund
amounts to 100000. 1t was started in
1911 with an anonymous repayment of
IS and has grown by fits and starts
eve- since.
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and go miles OF good country road mas
been made by the government in the
valleys nearby.
The town looks shabby when you first
enter it. 1t has been burned down sew
eral times since the great rush. There
are vacant lots here and there, covered
with the charred remains of the build
ings. Most of the stores are of one
story and log cabins of all sizes are
interspersed with frame houses as COM
Portable as those in the larger towns in
the states. Scores of the homes have
little gardens about them, and not a
few have hothouses. in which veg
etables and flowers are raised under
glass
Dawson has some pretentious build
ings. The administration offices of the
Yukon territory are in a frame struc-
ture of three or four stories. surround
ed by a lawn smooth and well
kept that of the White House at
Washington. The residence of the gov
ernor is great frame mansion painted
bright yellow. 1t looks out upon the
Yukon river, and it's lawn has beds of
beautiful flowers. 1t has panses twice
the size of a dollar, sweet peas that
grow to the height of your shoulder,
California peoples and other wonderful
mowers. Another large building is the
public high school, and a third is that
which contains the post Office and Gus
tomshouse
The Dawson of today has none of the
life of the Dawson of the past. 1t is
now Sunday school town with a dozen
odd churches. a city library. womens
clubs. sewing societies and afternoon
teas. There are still some saloons, but
all kinds of drinks. hard and soft, have
fallen to rs cents a glass; and the pa
latial bars where beer cost SO bottle
and champagne $50 pint have long
since disappeared. The songs of the
dance halls have been driven out by
the hymns of the Salvation Army.
The order on the streets is good
as that of any town in New England,
and educationally and socially the place
is the equal of any of its size in the
states. There is still large proportion
of miners. but most of them are con-
nected with the great dredging and hy-
draulicking operations, and the indi-
vidual prospectors are few. There are
many business men and officials. Daw-
son is the capital of the Canadian ter
ritory of the Yukon. which is one-third
as large as Alaska, and it is the resi-
dence of the commissioner or governor,
and the headquarters of the courts and
the mounted police. There are plenty
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MAIN STREET IN DAWSON.

that river runs in. They climb the sides
of the hills and run far up the klon-
dixie to where the mountains of gravel
upf1ung by the dredges begin. The
town is laid out like a checkerboard,
with its streets crossing one another
at right angles. The streets are wide:
they have roadways of solid earth and
sidewalks of boards. The roads are
smooth, and the traffic includes auto
mobiles and heavy draft wagons. There
are more than fifty automobiles in use
and $50 miles of good country road has
been made by the government in the
valleys nearby.
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came two ten-cent pieces in payment
for the use of Cancelled stamps The
coins were inclosed in a little church
envelope on which were printed the
words. Weekly offering for the sup
port of the pastor
"a young woman was the writer of
The Benson signal., 1916-05-27
PUBLIC AUCTION SALE
STATE SCHOOL LAND
STATE LAND DEPARTMENT
Phoenix, Arizona, March Is, l9

STATE LAND DEPARTMENT
Phoenix, Arizona. March Is, 1916.
In conformity with the provisions OF the Pub
lie Land Code of the State of Arizona, approved
June 26, 1915, notice is hereby given that the
State Land Department will, on Saturday, the
10th day of June, 1916 al 10 a, m. at the County
Court House. Tombstone, Arizona, sell at pub
lie auction the following described school lands
in Cochise County. Arizona and also certain
improvements thereon viz:
All Sec. Is, r. 16 S., R. % E.. 64O acres more
or less. Land officially appraised at $192O.0o'
Improvements, claimed by David A. Adams,
officially appraised at $758.l9.
No bid for less than the appraised valuations
will be considered. Rental arrears, If any, to-
gether with such interest as may be due there
on, must be liquidated in accordance with the
requirements of the said Public Land Code.
Full information concerning the land, improve
ments and sale conditions may be obtained
from the State Land Department. State House,
Phoenix. Arizona.
STATE LAND DEPARTMENT.
by w. A. MOEUR.
State Land Commissioner.
Date OF first pubn March %, 1916
Date of last pub'n June 8, 1915.
The Benson signal., 1916-05-27
Prizes Awarded

Prizes Awarded
The following prizes were award
ed by the School Board at the clos
ing exercises of the High School
last Friday evening:
Highest S tanding in English---A bound
volume Of Mrs. Browning Poems. Miss
Ada May Etz.
Highest Standing in the Commercial
Departmental academic dictionary Of
the English language. Miss Ethel Gribble.
Highest Standing in Domestic Science
Observation-Disclosures Mckenzie Hills "Prac-
tical Cooking and Serving" Miss Ada
May Etz.
Highest Standing in History---Ceneral
Frederick Funston's Memories Of Two
Wars" Harold Holcomb
For Best All Around Scholarship---A
copy of The Poets Lincoln" Miss Ada
May Etz.
The Manual Training department
awarded saw to Jos. Scott Of Pomerene.
for pro6ency in his work, and Baudelio
Martinez was awarded the Underwood
efficiency test prize by the Typewriter
company of that name for writing fifty
three words per minute for ten consecu-
tive minutes.
The Benson signal., 1916-05-27
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
United States Land Office at Phoenix. Arizona,
May 9. 1916.
NOTICE is hereby given that Emisah s.
Nichols, of Benson, Arizona, who on Nov. 81,
1912, made Homestead Entry No 030O30, for
E1a NEa. Sec. 90; VIZ NEA, NW94, Section q,
Township II S.. Range 10 f, G. & S. r. Meridian,
has filed notice of intention 10 make final
Three Year proof to establish claim to the land
above described, before H. g. Brown. U. S.
Commissioner, at Benson, Arizona, on the 2snd
day of june 1915.
Claimant names as witnesses: d. c. Naegle
Marion Naegle, VIM. Jarvis and r. L, Mccall
all of Miramonte, Arizona.
THOMAS F. WEEDIN, Register
First pub. May 13.
The Benson signal., 1916-05-27
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

OCl483
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
United States Land Ofice at Phoenix, Arizona.
May 9, 1916
Notice is hereby given that Bernard s..
Weller, of Dragon Arizona, who on March
II. 1913, made Homestead Entry No. 02l483 for
NJ NE14, Sec. ll W1s NWA. VIZ SW u, SEN
SW4, Section H. Township is S, Range 22 E,
g. & S. r. Meridian, has filed notice OF inten-
ton to make final Three Year Proof, to estab
lish claim to the land above described before
L. " McCourt, U S. Commissioner at Wilcox,
Arizona, on the 18th day Of June 1915.
Claimant names as witnesses: Frances w !.
Adams, John w. Westfall. Aleck Adams and
George Brown, all of Dragon, Arizona.
THOMAS F. wEEDIN, Register
First publication May 6, 1915.
The Benson signal., 1916-05-27
0@2ss

02023e
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
United States Land Office at Phoenix Arizona.
April 49, 1916
Notice Is hereby given that Claude L. Rucker.
of Benson Arizona, who, on December z, 1912,
made Homestead Entry No. 0S0238, for EM
SWA, VIZ Sc II, Section 90, Township l6 s.,
Range 20 e., Gila and Salt River Meridian,
has filed notice OF intention to make final
Three Year Proof, to establish claim to the
land above described before II. @. Brown, U. $.
Commissioner, at BENSON, Arizona, on the 5th
day Of June. 1916.
Claimant names as witnesses L. +. Wei
gand. James Roberts, w. l.. Patteson ana
Frank Treat, all Of Benson, Arizona.
THOMAS f. WEEDIN, Register.
First publication April 90, 1915
The Benson signal., 1916-05-27
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

O22753
Department OF the Interior.
United States Land Office at Phoenix. Arizona,
May 10, 1916.
Notice is hereby given that George w. Scott,
OF enson, Arizona, who on June l6, 1913, made
Homestead Entry No. 022753 for Sc n, Sec. q,
Township l6 S., Range 20 E., G, & S. r. Merid-
ian, has tiled notice of intention to make final
Three Year Proof, to establish claim to the
land above described, before II. G. Brown,
z. s. Commissioner, AZ Benson, Arizona, ON the
28th day of June 1916.
Claimant names as witnesses: NJ, p. Tryon,
L. T. Cons, John Cosby and W. F. Johnson
all Of Pomerene Arizona
THOMAS f. WEEDIN, Register.
First pub. May 20.
The Benson signal., 1916-05-27
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
O2Ol2l

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
United States Land Office at Phoenix, Arizona,
May Is, 1916.
Notice is hereby given that Robert L.
Mccall, Of Benson. Arizona, who on Nov. e.
1912, made Homestead Entry No. 02Ol2l, for
VIZ of E1s, E4 Of VIZ, Section 22 Town
ship II S.. Range 10 E.. G g. S. r. Meridian,
has filed notice Of intention to make final
Three Year Proof, to establish claim to the
lanu above described before H. G. Brown, U. S.
Commissioner, at Benson, Arizona. on the
28th day of June, 1916
Claimant names as witnesses: E. S. Nichols
D. C. Naegle, William Jarvis and Howard Mar
tineau all Ga Benson, Arizona.
THOMAS F. WEEDIN, Register.
First publication May 20
The Benson signal., 1916-05-27
NOTICE
To Whom It May Concern:

Notice is hereby given to any and all intend.
Section 10 or the N. w. 4 OF the s. w Il. of Sec.
IL of Township II South, Range 20 East. Gila
and Salt River Meridian, in Cochise county,
State of Arizona. That the sale and transfer OF
all or any part of said property is restricted by
and must be made in accordance with an agree
ment and option entered into between Juan
Cruz and j. M Castaneda on the 18th day OF
March, 1900; which said instrument Is Of record
in the office of the County Recorder Of Cochise
county, State OF Arizona.
Dated Benson, October 2Jth. 1912.
nj. +. CASTANEDA,
Administrator of Estate Of J. M. Castaneda.
The Benson signal., 1916-05-27
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
United States Land Office at Phoenix, Arizona,
May 9, 1916.
NOTICE is hereby given that Ruth Mary
Christensen, formerly Ruth Mary Plumb,
of St David, Arizona, who, on April 5,
1919. made Homestead Entry No. O2l962, for
SW II. Section IS, Township 16 S., Range 20 E.,
g. & 5. H. Meridian, has filed notice of inten-
tion to make final Three Year Proof, to estab.
lish claim to the land above described. before
H. q, Brown, U. S. Commissioner at Benson
Arizona on the 22nd day OF June, 1916.
Claimant names as witnesses: Walter Sher
man. Nels Lofgreen, Merriam Tryon and M.
Powell Cosby, all of Pomerene, Arizona.
THOMAS F. WEEDIN, Register.
First pub. MAY 13.
The Benson signal., 1916-05-27
NOTICE foR PUBLICATION
OWt7

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR;
United States Land Office at Phoenix, Arizona.
April Is, 1919
Notice is hereby given that Arthur +. Hunt.
OF Benson, Arizona who. on November TO- 1912.
made Homestead Entry No. o2ool7, for Eh
NV II, VIZ NE ~ Section %, Township IL S.,
Range 10, Il Gila and Salt River Meridian,
has filed notice Of intention to make Anal
Three Year Proof, to establish claim to the
land above described. before H. g. Brown,
L. s. Commissioner at Benson, Arizona, on
the 3lst day Of May. 1915.
Claimant names as witnesses Horace E.
Hunt. William Campbell, Fred Fischer and
William Hunt, all Of Benson, Arizona.
THOMAS F. wEEDIN, Register.
First publication April %. 1915.
The Benson signal., 1916-05-27

IF your horses teeth are bad they
cannot eat properly. Have them
attended to. See O +. Gillett, VINO
is graduate veterinary dentist, ST.
David, or leave word with Signal.