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Highlights of History from The Whitehorse Star

The Whitehorse Pioneer Cemetery

Dateline: January 6, 2026.

The Daily Evening Star (Whitehorse, Yukon) - Saturday, August 5, 1905

    Of Mr. and Mrs. Kruger who passed through Whitehorse this week on their way to the outside the Dawson News had the following to say:

    Notable among the passengers who left on the White Horse are Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Kruger, two industrious life partners from Lovett gulch, where they have hammered out a snug fortune for themselves the last few years. Their son also leaves with them. Mr. Kruger has sold the claim for $14,000 to Mr. Tiedeman, formerly with the N. A. T. & T. Co. in Dawson. Kruger takes with him not only the proceeds of the sale but another fat poke which he and his industrious wife coaxed from the frozen gravels.

    Strong of arm and robust of girth, Mrs. Kruger was an artist with the wheel barrow when it came to putting the pay dirt with its glittering load of wealth on the dump. Mrs Kruger was a man when it came to doing a man's work. Few are the women who have come to the Klondike who have descended into a shaft or followed a tunnel hundreds of feet into the frozen gravels of the earth and toiled with men for the elusive nugget and the evanescent dust.

    But here ia a woman who deserves the encomiums of the highest for being unto her husband a most vigorous partner in the toils that are most exceptional for those of the fairer side of humanity.

    "Hoch zu Keogers und dem kaiser."

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, Washington) - Monday, August 14, 1905

    Dawson, Aug. 3. - (Special Correspondence.) - Not by smiles alone has it been decreed that woman shall win her share of the gold of the great Klondike. Mrs. C. H. Kruger, of Lovett gulch, is a living proof. She has the brimming pokes.

    Strong of arm and robust of girth, Mrs. Kruger was an artist with the wheelbarrow when it came to putting the pay dirt on the dump. Mrs. Kruger was a man when it came to doing a man's work.

    Few are the women who have come to the Klondike, descended into a shaft or followed a tunnel hundreds of feet into the frozen gravels of the earth and toiled with men. But here is a woman who deserves the encomiums of the highest for being unto her husband a most vigorous partner in the toils that are most exceptional for those of the fairer side of humanity.

    Husband and wife left here Friday with thousands they took from their claim and $14,000 for which they sold the ground. In the Russian ports of the White sea and at some other places in the world women do manual labor, but this case is an exception in the Yukon. Mr. and Mrs. Kruger are sturdy Germans.