Mr. Robert Hall, acting agent for the Klondike Corporation at White Horse, while standing in front of the Savoy hotel at that place Friday at 11:30 a. m. was suddenly stricken by valvular disease of the heart. He was taken into the hotel office where he breathed his last in about 15 minutes, being fully conscious until the end.
Through the kindness of Mr. A. D. Lewis, local agent of the company, we
are enabled to give the following particulars of the deceased gentleman: Mr. Hall at the time of his death was 62 years of age, and was born in Yorkshire, England, where he leaves a grown daughter, his wife having died several years ago. He has been with the Klondike Corporation since the spring of 1898, previous to which time he was engaged for many years with various transportation enterprises, being at one time on the staff of the Great Western Railway, England, and was well known io London and Victoria. He had a premonition of his sudden end and on several occasions told his friends that in the event of anything
happening to him they would find written instructions how to proceed, but a careful search failed to reveal any such document. Awaiting instructions from his daughter, his body was laid to rest at White Horse at 5 p. m. Sunday.
The public administrator at Dawson has been informed of his death and will settle up his private affairs.
The news came as quite a shock to the residénts of Bennett, where Mr.
Hall had made his headquarters for the past two years, and where he had by his uprightness and integrity, as well as by his open-handed and genial manner, made hosts of friends who greatly deplore his sudden taking off.
